söndag 13 september 2009
Uppehåll
lördag 12 september 2009
Gå omedelbart när Herren eld kommer!
Juni 2008 - Herren talar genom en faktisk händelse
Förra sommaren var jag för första gången inbjuden till en kyrkoherdeinstallation i en kyrka på en ort i Södra Sverige. Det var en ganska strikt tillställning men samtidigt fanns en viss andens frihet. Under nattvarden tog någon spontant upp bibelkören, ”Inte genom någon människas styrka eller kraft ska det ske, inte genom någon människas styrka eller kraft ska det ske” osv. Och flera andra hängde på, det var mäktigt. Efteråt fick jag veta att det var första gången detta hände.
Gudstjänsten fortsatte enligt ordningen, men under den avslutande lovsången (psalm 15) började plötsligt brandlarmet ljuda!! Och det lät högt i den gamla stenkyrkan!
Alla tystnade och tittade som förstenade på varandra och fattade först inte vad som hände. En kyrkvärd reste sig dock snabbt och sa lugnt: Alla lämnar kyrkan omedelbart, sidogångarna öppnas och ni kan också lämna kyrkan den vägen.
Gudstjänstdeltagarna samlade utanför vapenhuset på kyrkogården och kontraktsprosten som ledde gudstjänsten improviserade och hoppade upp på kyrkomuren (!) i full ornat och därifrån bad han ut den avslutande välsignelsen. De som stannade kvar inne i kyrkan och sysselsatte sig med att ta reda på orsaken, vilket i och för sig var vällovligt, missade därför att bli välsignade.
Senare på kvällen 15 mil därifrån upptäckte jag att min plånbok var borta och det blev fruktansvärt jobbigt. Jag fick med ett viljebeslut lägga denna oro vid Korset och be Jesus hjälpa mig att hitta den igen. Och friden infann sig. Men sedan började jag oroa mig igen och ringde till församlingens kh och berättade att jag troligen glömt plånboken i kyrkan under kalabaliken. En stund ringde han och berättade att kyrkvaktmästaren hade hittat den precis på den plats som jag trodde att den fanns.
Herren talade till mig genom denna situation som blev en profetisk bild av det som kommer:
- Sak. 4:6
- När Herren eld kommer så kommer en signal att höras, en basunstöt eller ljudet av en silvertrumpet. Signalen kommer överraskande under det att lovsånger sjungs. Först kanske vi inte förstår vad det är för ljud vi hör, vi behöver lyssna på dem som känner igen signalen.
- Gå omedelbart när Herrens eld faller! Tveka inte!
- Gå under lovsång.
- Det är när vi rör på oss och reser oss upp från våra sammanhang, vår församling etc och går ut bland ofrälsta, namnkristna osv. (= de ”döda”, jmf med de döda på kyrkogården) och bär med oss Herrens eld dit som vi får ta emot välsignelsen. (Min kommentar: Vi kan får ta emot välsignelse i andra sammanhang också, men så uppfattade jag denna bild)
- Ifrågasätt inte Herrens eld, vad den beror på, på vilket sätt den kommer, vad som orsakat den etc, utan gå förbehållslöst. Gör vi det kommer vi att bli välsignade. Självklart ska vi dock pröva om det är Herrens eld eller främmande eld.
- När det gäller den borttappade plånboken så la Herren till: När elden faller får du lita på mig som Försörjaren när du bara går. Och när plånboken kom tillrätta så förstod jag att detta är sant löfte.
fredag 4 september 2009
Behåll fältet
Stand your ground
There are many discouraged, disillusioned and dismayed warriors in the Kingdom of God. Every one of us is called to a different ministry and rank in the body of Christ but some of you are folding under the pressure. You may have a very significant calling, which is the reason why the enemy has released some vicious attacks against you but whatever the circumstance is you must learn how to be strong in the face of adversity. For those of you who have been doing the right thing and pressing in to God in prayer although it seems like the heavens are brass this is the word of the Lord for you – Don’t get weary in well doing because the time for what God created you to do is approaching and your season for His plan for your life is about to unfold. Weary, wounded, and worried Christians can not be effective in the Kingdom of God. Graham Cooke once said, there is a difference between soldiers and warriors. Every Christian is called to be a soldier but spiritual warriors are different. They are on assignment specific to God's command against the enemy.
I understand that some of you are in very difficult situations right now but we serve a God who can turn any situation around instantly. If you are walking in Jesus' plan, no man or situation can change His plans. His plans for you can NOT be thwarted.
Job 42:2, Job replied I know that you can do all things; no plan of Yours can be thwarted.
I heard something that I want to share with you from a minister named Kris Valotton. He said this:
"The greater the destination, the longer the gestation. Adversity is the mother of invention. The journey is as important as the destination. Sometimes adversity is what leads us into a new purpose and destiny. Sometimes we get frustrated with the process. You can’t lose comfort or courage in the process. Once you get someplace you don’t get to stay there so long before you get to another destination. Sometimes when the journey seems long or un-purposeful you have to just keep your vision. It is vision that keeps our pain a purpose. We can’t lose sight for the purpose. Forget about what happened in your past. If you continue to look back you will never see where you are going.
Your mistakes and wrong choices will not cancel out God's plans for your life but they certainly will delay His plans until you turn around and get back on that narrow road. All God is asking is for your heart to be right. Nothing can stop God’s plan from coming to pass in your life if you stay connected in Covenant and don’t get weary in well doing."
Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
Elaine Tavolacci
torsdag 3 september 2009
A Chasm of Impossibility
Hebrews 11:8-10
8 It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going. 9 And even when he reached the land God promised him, he lived there by faith - for he was like a foreigner, living in a tent. And so did Isaac and Jacob, to whom God gave the same promise. 10 Abraham did this because he was confidently looking forward to a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God. NLT
Vision:
I walked up to a huge chasm, similar to the Grand Canyon. As I stood there, I began to pace back and forth with a divine tension in me. It was not frustration, anger, fear or anxiety that I saw within me but a divine tension from God. He was watching me pace back and forth as I looked across this grand chasm. I saw a city in the distance on the other side and I knew that I had to get there. I knew it was something that I had been looking for my whole life. Yet I had no ability or strength or wisdom to get there to the other side. It was impossible to cross this CHASM OF IMPOSSIBILTY that was right before me.
I paced and talked to God. The divine tension increased in me because I knew that as much as I wanted to go to the other side, the only ONE who could get me there was God Himself. I was out of good ideas, tired of man's wisdom and without any strength left to stir anything up in myself to determine how to cross to the other side. Suddenly I saw these words in front of me:
Matthew 19:26
26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." NKJV
These words took the form of spiritual reality as I looked at the words and meditated on them. They took form in midair and in that form, they became reality to me as I reached for them and received them into myself. They formed faith in me to believe that nothing is impossible with God. Nothing is impossible with God. Nothing.
Suddenly before me there was a path - an excellent way that seemed to roll out from where I was standing. It began to unfold before me as a BRIDGE OF FAITH crossing a CHASM OF IMPOSSIBILITY. This bridge crossed over this chasm and presented itself as the only way to get across it. This bridge comes by faith from the hand of God when we truly believe that there is NO WAY that we can get to where we desire to BE unless God opens up the way by His hand and His hand alone. End of Vision
We have come to a place and now there is no way to get to where we desire to go unless God unfolds His excellent path before us to cross over. We are crossing over our defeat, our failures, our pain, our struggles and our trials. They all clearly are deep and imbedded in us but by faith we let them go to cross over in faith to the other side. Divine tension has led us to the brink of a precipice that is so deep and so wide. We have looked down and knew that we could not stay where we were but we could not get to the other side. It has been God's intention that we come to this place. We have come to the end of ourselves and in this coming season we are crossing over to a new place. We will not continue to wander but will walk to that city whose builder and maker is God on the other side.
He has the plans for the journey as we step out on this Bridge of Faith to simply follow where He leads. We have looked at our pride, our inability, our fears, our insecurities and so much else. The enemy has lied to many of us saying that we will never make it and the Lord has brought us so far to leave us at the brink, only to look down at our failures. But God has a better way before us.
By faith we walk forth to that which calls us. We have no particular plan at this point and have no great wisdom within ourselves. We have only Him to follow as He leads us forth in precision and accuracy. We simply follow Him, walking over our chasm of impossibility to the other side. What awaits us there is yet to be seen and yet to come for we simply follow. We walk forward in the power of the Kingdom to that city that awaits us.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. NKJV
John 12:25-26
25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor. NKJV
Matthew 10:38-39
38 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it. NKJV
In Christ
Debra & Marvin Westbrook
Rivers of Eden
riversofeden1@yahoo.com
Tack för att du ger till Herren!
Då är det gott att titta på den här videon, för svaret är: JAAA, det gör skillnad det du ber, det du säger och det du gör som är i linje med Herren vilja. Du kanske inte ser det här och nu och kanske inte ens på den här jorden, men i himlen kommer du att få veta! /Barnabas
Thank You For Giving To The Lord by Tammy Gibson
tisdag 1 september 2009
Bön- och möteshelg utanför Sävsjö
Välkommen till möteshelg med Jan Sköld och ”God is” i Betel i Hultagård utanför Sävsjö 25-27/9 2009!
Utöver undervisning av Jan där även Andens gåvor praktiseras kommer helgen att innehålla mycket bön och lovsång. Vi törstar efter mer av Gud och det vill vi ge uttryck för denna helg!
Schemat för helgen:
Fred 25/9 kl. 19.00
Lörd 26/9 kl. 11.00 och 19.00
Sönd 27/9 kl. 14.00
Margareta och Lennart Moberg, 0382-208 22, 0731-83 47 83
Anneli och Martin Rehnberg, 0382-131 14, 0704-94 14 96
E-post: anneli.rehnberg (snabel -a) savman.nu
Hemsida: http://www.visiongodis.se/ (här hittar du vägbeskrivning till Betel)