The Torrents of Religious and Political Posturing Vs. The Authentic Voice of God - Prophetic Exhortation and Insights

by Mary Lindow

 

We Are On The Cusp Of Probably One Of The Greatest Days

Of The Dismantling Of Religious Behavior And Abuse 

In The Charismatic Church

And Evangelical Church To Date.

 

In the days ahead we’re going to see many people hungering for that sacred time in worship where there is a waiting upon the Lord, and in the honoring of his name. Clearly we attract the presence of the Lord when we are focused upon “The Presence”, and not upon the performance.

 

We shouldn’t be surprised if like Jesus, we collide with torrents of political & religious and cultural expectations. So, on a daily basis, our purity of vision to move toward the Kingdom will also cause us deep discomforts that will ask us to set aside our preferences, and our convenience.

 

This  pressing towards the kingdom will ask us to say things that we’d rather not say, to go places that we’d rather not go, to give away things that we’d rather keep.

 

And in this discomfort, each time we have an opportunity to cry out to God:  

“Where did you go? Why does pursuing your kingdom of abundance and peace not always feel like abundance andpeace?”

I’d like to offer these possibilities to ponder.

In every way,

He’s purifying your heart.

 

WHAT IS THIS OBSESSION  THAT IS BEGINNING TO DRIVE PEOPLE AWAY

FROM RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES AND STRUCTURAL PROGRAMMING?

 

Is it fatigue from fleshly efforts?

Is it weariness with well doing?

Or!

Is it the beginning of a matter?

 

A. W. Tozer once said,

"Self Is The Blurred Veil That Hides The Face Of God From Us.

It Can Be Removed Only In Spiritual Experience,  Never By Simple Instruction."

 

The Lord is allowing man to have the joy and shock of coming to the end of his means of prodding and producing until he falls into a heap at the feet of the One who has the key to the place of hope and rest!

He. The King of tranquility and Divine Purpose has the place of Sanctuary carved out in a definite place.

 

THE PLACE OF WORSHIP

"But the time is coming--it has, in fact, come--when what you're called will not matter and where you go to worship will not matter."

"It's who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That's the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself--Spirit.

Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration.” That is all from John: 23-24

 

APOSTOLIC ORIGINS BEGAN WITH THE DEVOTED AND YET WEARY DISCIPLES OF JESUS COMING TOGETHER IN A "PLACE" OF WAITING, RESTING AND WORSHIPING

Those waiting in an upper room.

Hiding from the world and its pressures and threats!

Waiting.

Worshiping.

REMEMBERING the past things they had experienced while walking with Jesus.

They were asking the heart questions of,

"Why are we here?

What are we waiting for?

What is this all about?"

 

My Brothers and Sisters, We are Again...

...In the same place.

 

WE ARE SIMPLY RESTING IN THE KNOWLEDGE 

THAT THE LORD HAS BROUGHT US

TO END OF THE OF THE PAST WAYS

AND FORMS OF MAN.

 

He is preparing the way