Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Hebrews 12:1-3 NIV
Day 16!
Hello, I just wanted to update you on how this fast is going, both corporately and personally down here! :)
Corporately the fast has been very good, I can feel us going deeper and deeper and pressing in more and more during this time of intercession and crying out for revival in America. The more people I talk to, the more I have realized that as a corporate body we are being purified and our hearts are being purged of anything that is not holy in the sight of Jesus. He continues to massage our hearts, His bride must be whole and untainted by worldly lusts and pleasures. He is returning us to that place from which we have fallen and even though at times it is hard, there is extended grace right now for His bride so that He can do the work that must be done in us.
Personally I have felt Him so near to me. He is drawing me away and enticing me with the pleasure that only can come from knowing Him and His heart. It feels so wonderful to know that He is really real :) and that He really looks at me and loves me even though I am so unworthy of His love. I am definitely feeling the purification process as He so tenderly scrapes the gunk out of my heart... and even though it should be so painful, I am finding joy amidst the pain because I know that everything He is doing is for love. And as this process goes on, I can actually feel my heart's capacity to love Him more expand. My biggest temptation during the fast is to eat chocolate or candy :) I have not caved and I know that even if I do it isn't like my life is going to end because I will put the chocolate right back in it's secret cabinet... lol. But for real, that has been the biggest temptation for me and every 'no' to that temptation I feel in my heart because I am putting my flesh under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and letting Him fill me with eternal pleasures that come from knowing Him instead of filling myself with worldly pleasures that satisfy me for 5 minutes and leave me wanting more.
If you are participating in this fast as well, I pray that you would have an increase of grace on your life during this period and that God would reveal Himself to you in new ways every single day!
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
Ephesians 1:16-21 ESV
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Crying out for God
"It will come about after this
That I will pur our My Spirit on all
mankind;
And your sons and daughters will
prophesy,
Your old men will dream dreams,
Your young men will see visions.
Even on the male and female servants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days."
Joel 2:28-29 NASB
Today is the first day of the nation-wide 40-day Daniel Fast. The focus of this fast is for God to pour out His Spirit on college campuses all over America (and the world) and that their would be a third great awakening that sweeps across the United States and the world. In the focus of our prayers is that God would tear down the powers and principalities of intellectualism and humanism that have an intensely strong hold on the East Coast schools (especially the Ivy league schools). The Ivy league schools, which were founded to be Christian schools of higher learning, have ceased to be what they once were. In fact today, it could be that there is not any school farther away from God than these elite schools. They have turned their backs on God in return for knowledge and wisdom of the world. Forsaking all knowledge based on biblical principles or the life of Jesus and turning to secular humanism and secular intellectualism. I believe that God's desire is to tear down these powers that are controlling the secular school systems all over the world. I believe that He wants to destroy the wisdom of men that He might raise up of the wisdom of God before all men.
"Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work
Among this people,
A marvelous work and a wonder;
For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”
Isaiah 29:14 NASB
"The wise men are put to shame,
They are dismayed and caught;
Behold, they have rejected the word of
the Lord,
And what kind of wisdom do they have?"
Jeremiah 8:9 NASB
“Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
Let not the mighty man glory in his might,
Nor let the rich man glory in his riches;
But let him who glories glory in this,
That he understands and knows Me,
That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness,
judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
For in these I delight,” says the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:23-24 NASB
Directly opposite to the disease of intelectualism that has quickly spread through colleges, is what these schools were first founded on...
Princton
“Cursed be all learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ."
-Rev. Jonathan Dickson (Princton's first president)
Dartmouth
School motto: “A Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness."
(This school's motto has not changed.)
Brown
Roger Williams founded the school “to train ministers and educate youth properly in the Christian faith.”
If you are crying out to God for a great revival to sweep across this nation, pray that God would grip the hearts of my generation who have been swept up in the wave of intellectualism. It has to start with us because we are the ones who have influence to set a standard and pattern for this generation and generations to follow. Ask God to have mercy on us, and to pour out His Spirit on us!! Pray Joel 2:28-29 over us, and pray that we would be filled with the Spirit and for the believers of my generation, that we would begin to speak with boldness (Acts 4:29-31) and proclaim the coming kingdom of Jesus to the earth. Pray that the 4% of my generation that claims to be Christian, would speak out and be heard as if they were the majority of my generation. Like John the Baptist, pray that we would be a voice of one crying in the wilderness and preparing the way for Jesus to come!
That I will pur our My Spirit on all
mankind;
And your sons and daughters will
prophesy,
Your old men will dream dreams,
Your young men will see visions.
Even on the male and female servants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days."
Joel 2:28-29 NASB
Today is the first day of the nation-wide 40-day Daniel Fast. The focus of this fast is for God to pour out His Spirit on college campuses all over America (and the world) and that their would be a third great awakening that sweeps across the United States and the world. In the focus of our prayers is that God would tear down the powers and principalities of intellectualism and humanism that have an intensely strong hold on the East Coast schools (especially the Ivy league schools). The Ivy league schools, which were founded to be Christian schools of higher learning, have ceased to be what they once were. In fact today, it could be that there is not any school farther away from God than these elite schools. They have turned their backs on God in return for knowledge and wisdom of the world. Forsaking all knowledge based on biblical principles or the life of Jesus and turning to secular humanism and secular intellectualism. I believe that God's desire is to tear down these powers that are controlling the secular school systems all over the world. I believe that He wants to destroy the wisdom of men that He might raise up of the wisdom of God before all men.
"Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work
Among this people,
A marvelous work and a wonder;
For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”
Isaiah 29:14 NASB
"The wise men are put to shame,
They are dismayed and caught;
Behold, they have rejected the word of
the Lord,
And what kind of wisdom do they have?"
Jeremiah 8:9 NASB
“Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
Let not the mighty man glory in his might,
Nor let the rich man glory in his riches;
But let him who glories glory in this,
That he understands and knows Me,
That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness,
judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
For in these I delight,” says the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:23-24 NASB
Directly opposite to the disease of intelectualism that has quickly spread through colleges, is what these schools were first founded on...
Princton
“Cursed be all learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ."
-Rev. Jonathan Dickson (Princton's first president)
Dartmouth
School motto: “A Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness."
(This school's motto has not changed.)
Brown
Roger Williams founded the school “to train ministers and educate youth properly in the Christian faith.”
If you are crying out to God for a great revival to sweep across this nation, pray that God would grip the hearts of my generation who have been swept up in the wave of intellectualism. It has to start with us because we are the ones who have influence to set a standard and pattern for this generation and generations to follow. Ask God to have mercy on us, and to pour out His Spirit on us!! Pray Joel 2:28-29 over us, and pray that we would be filled with the Spirit and for the believers of my generation, that we would begin to speak with boldness (Acts 4:29-31) and proclaim the coming kingdom of Jesus to the earth. Pray that the 4% of my generation that claims to be Christian, would speak out and be heard as if they were the majority of my generation. Like John the Baptist, pray that we would be a voice of one crying in the wilderness and preparing the way for Jesus to come!
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