Month: March 2017

Here we go with a follow up to the last posting. This is what the Lord gave me. “My Children I have poured out on my people. I will continue to pour out on my people. What I pour out is still sitting there. Not as many as I desire are coming to me to receive what I have laid out. Even the trees know to drink what I have provided. That they may grow strong. That They may be rooted and established. Yet, my people hunger and thirst but don’t drink. you need what I have. For the time has come , days are short. Eat, drink and be well fed. My people go about and lack nothing. I have set you apart from the beginning. Go share my word with those who need it. Give all away that I have given you. Come receive more and go back out. But start now, partake in me and we will be together. I in you and you in me. Go forth in my name.” The first part of this is interesting. The notice of His people letting His outpouring sit there. God gives us abundantly and expects us to go and share His word and love to this lost and dieing world. So why don’t we partake of His outpouring? Is it because we are afraid? Afraid of failing? We have the habit taking it all personal. Its not us they are rejecting. Its our Lord Jesus Christ. Burt because its us sharing we take it all in. It the same manner we need to be careful not to take credit for Jesus’ work in someone’s life. He makes the difference not us. All of this is backed up with the example of the trees. Two things come from this. One is that the trees partake of what is needed. Two is that they may be rooted and established. Is this why some of us fall away from Him? Is this why some of us are afraid to share? You can’t give out what you don’t have.

After this is the call to partake more. Eat, drink and go about doing His work. For we are called to do “good” works in His name. But if we aren’t prepared we will find it difficult to do so. Leaving us to try to explain it away with the thought of “I’m not an evangelist,” or “I can’t just freely talk to people like that.” Yet we all have a life. We work, go to school, go to the store and other aspects of our daily lives. All we need to do is live a life worth living. People will notice that we are different. And when they notice it they may ask us why we are different. This is now the opportunity to share is love and didn’t have to go out and make cold calls to people. But first we need to receive what Jesus is laying out before us. Eat, drink and be with Him. It all starts with Jesus.

Be blessed, Ken

It has been awhile since my last posting. I have found myself doing more things on a personal level. More than I am accustomed to. This is a good thing and yet I know that there is more to come. Which leads me to this. Our Lord and Savior gave me a word two Sundays ago that I have been chewing on. This word has gotten to me. I have been taking an inventory of myself in answer to it. Enough said, here it is. “Take this word of mine and take it in. The more you take, the more you shall receive. Take this and all my words in deeply. Share these words deeply. The deeper you receive, the deeper you can share. Make this an everlasting ordinance in your life.” When I  was given this word I was thinking “wow, how simple and yet so deep.” At first thought one might say no kidding. Another may say yea so what. But truly this is a wow moment. Many times I have thought of why I don’t receive these long and drawn out prophecies. I have come to realize that God doesn’t need to use a lot of words to get His point across.In fact Jesus even talked about the pharisee’s giving long prayers just for show and making themselves look god and important.

So here we are. Lets look at the first part. The phrase “Take this word of mine and take it in” brings me to John 6:35  where Jesus said that He is the bread of life and whoever goes to him will never go hungry. Jesus is the word. The word that was made flesh. How much of His word do we take in? How often are we taking in this word? Do we hunger and thirst for His word? For His righteousness? We can only take in what we want to. So, do we really want to? Leading us to the second part “The more you take, the more you shall receive.” Where is our hunger? Are we happy with where we are at or do we need to be taking in even more? I’ll answer this by asking a question. Do you want to be used in the kingdom of God and if so how much? These are very trying days that we live in. We need Him more and more each day. But, so does the rest of this world. They are in need of Him even if they don’t think so. Many of them don’t even truly know of Jesus. Or know about Him. Yes, many don’t want to hear anything about Jesus. Yet they have eyes that see. Looking for us to make mistakes. We need to be living his word in front of them Right before their eyes.

Now that we have been taking Him in, how far is His word sinking in? Take this word in as deep as you possibly can. Meditate on it. Ask questions in your prayer time. Ask questions of your elders and pastors about what you have been reading. Or even of what you are hearing from our Lord. All of this will cause you to grow in Him. Then you will be able to share even more with others wanting more. With others who don’t know about Jesus. You will be better prepared for their questions. Make this a habit in your life. It doesn’t happen overnight. But if you don’t start now it will not happen at all. Take your time and take Him in. Start this day a work of understanding Him. You won’t be disappointed. Remember that God has all the answers and is just waiting on us to ask the questions.  Read and pray for this is a great way to go deeper.

Be blessed, Ken