I just read what I posted yesterday, the word of the Lord He gave to me yesterday. There was a portion that mentioned about the people we are not to pick and choose who will receive salvation. I spoke of the different people that you are suppose to share the gospel with, the people that may be around you. One category the Lord had me refer to was the person that sits next to you in church.
Tonight was a unique church service. After praise and worship Pastor mentioned the scripture he was going to share from tonight and then he asked for the Key of F from someone in the band. He began to sing an old timey song (I am guessing it is that for I never heard it before and then the anointing really kicked in as you heard the words he was singing and then they were placed on the screens for us to sing with him.) The reason I say it was a unique service is because most church services have an altar call at the end of the service. The anointing was flowing and he sensed it was time even before the preaching of the word of God to extend the prayer of salvation to those that wanted to not be lost anymore and to be found by Jesus. It was not the usual raise your hands, come to the altar and pray the prayer this was a bit different. The call for salvation was presented to the church and people that responded did raise their hands but we all prayed the prayer in our seats. Not the typical request when pastors ask you to bow your heads and close your eyes and then raise your hand it was just raise your hand. I happened to look to my right and the man sitting two seats over raised his hand. I silently thanked the Lord a million thanks for all those that gave their heart to Jesus that night.
Pastor preached the message and I jotted down a few notes in my bible tonight. Let me share them with you...don't despise the day of small beginnings or things. If you don't humble yourself you won't get anything from me (meaning God.) If the season you are in right now you feel it is insignificance but it is not insignificant. He wrote down to share with us to EXPECT SOME MIRACLES and you need to set a dream so high it will require God to achieve it.
The point being that Hat you seem to think where you are at right now or what you are doing or where God has you placed right now seems like insignificance it is not. Where He places you is the best place to be and continue to worship Him in your humble state or humble place of residence or humble place where you work. It is He and He alone that will take this season of your life and make it rich with His presence and hand turning it around to bring forth glory to Him.
At the close of the service Pastor asked us to pray for the person next to us. Before he ever mentioned those words Holy Spirit already began speaking to me to share with the man next to me about what happened when he raised his hand and prayed the prayer of salvation. I was simply to share with him that at that moment all the angels in heaven rejoiced over him saying that prayer and that his name was entered into the Lambs Book of Life and we will worship in heaven for eternity and it will go on and on and on forever. So Holy Spirit is already working on me and then Pastor asks us to pray for the person next to us...there is the open door to go forth with what Holy Spirit already shared with me. To God be the glory Amen. You see, my writing to some may be insignificant but to God it has significance.
This is how it works for me and how Holy Spirit flows through me. He gives me opportunities that happen in my life maybe a dream tossed in there somewhere and prophetic word that comes forth, etc. When the timing is just so right that is when He beckons me to write and it is Him at the helm of the ship directing it through me. I sit down at the computer or in my car or wherever when He prompts me to write. He then refreshes my memory of the experiences etc and as I sit down and begin to write He orchestrates the thoughts coming into my mind to bring it all together and He creates the most beautiful words through me. There are too many times that I cannot even count them anymore that I just sit back in amazement after the last word is written and I just tell Him how creative He is to produce such amazing writings. I could never come up with the timing of words, the timing of events to happen in my life to create what is created. God truly gets all the glory when He produces through me.
Sometimes I am just in awe when I sit back and read what is penned. At time it brings tears to my eyes as I think of His glory and grace and how creative He is. After all I say to Him you are the creator why does it amaze me what you create. I think that is the human side of me that had the opportunity to touch the heaven side of Him in all His glory and wonder and it never ceases to amaze me. Can you tell by my words that I love the Lord and I am most touched and thankful for Him allowing me to be open to Him flowing through me. I am most humble when I have these moments with Him and my heart turns to peace and beauty when His beauty touches earth through a vessel to bring forth His heart to His people. That is a very humbling place to be. I cherish these moments and each time I look back on one of "OUR" writings created it allows me to remember those intimate moments of fellowship with Him.
One that is coming to my mind right now is when I created a banner. It was one that I shared with you all once before. It had a navy blue background material with a crushed velvet brown cross with letters that stated "I shed my blood for you." There were crushed velevet burgundy droplets of blood on it also. It was in the assembling of this particular banner that Holy Spirit was teaching me to be sensitive to His direction. I drew the banner first on paper and then began to create/assemble it. I drew so many droplets of blood on the sketch and cut out that many to be placed on the banner. There were a few that each time I would press them on with the adhesive backing that they would just fall off. I attempted several times to iron them back on the banner and once again they fell off. After doing this several times I got the hint and then did not pursue ironing them back on. He only wanted a certain number of them on the banner and as I look back on that time it was as if the hand of God was touching earth and peeling them right off no sooner did I iron them on. The banner was complete once I realized that yes, there was a plan drawn but the real plan was the one tha Holy Spirit saw as the finished work of art. I may have shared this with you before, that very banner ended up playing a significant role in the home going of my father. I brought that very banner to the hospice house where he was for just a very few short days and then he went to be with the Lord. That same banner hung in the church for the funeral mass, it hung on the podium where the grace of God allowed me to offer Jesus to the people with sharing my fathers story of faith with them.
Holy Spirit had a plan all along I just had to get in tow with it. Who knows, my father was a man that was fascinated with numbers and maybe when I made this banner Holy Spirit already knew what my father needed to see in his final days here on earth. His home now will be his home for all eternity HEAVEN. God really is good all the time and all the time He really is good.
Share your faith with someone today for your "today faith" may be the very catapult to fulfilling the dream in your heart (given to you from God) for your life. Never despise your humble and simple beginnings when God is in it.
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