Renew Your Vows 2015

Yes...

You and me again, my King.

Oh how kind you are.  Truly.

Just reading the past few posts and reflecting.  I learned so much through the last season.  Open Church/The Last Reformation.  Yes.  Haha!  Called to simple faith, simple obedience, simple worship, simple gathering and the profoundness of your presence and power.  Oh worship HIM!!!  ...not the production, not the man-made box church.  You never meant for humans to control Your Church.  We are to simply Be the church. And, I don't want to be owned by anybody.

Oh my Lord.  I love you.  I worship YOU.  Oh, it is amazing to be emancipated by Jesus Christ.  Set free from the stranglehold of religion.  I never realized how hard I worked for that system until it almost killed me.

 
You are the Lord of liberty and life and love, not death and control and productivity.  I thought I was working for you, but in the end I saw the reality.

God, I also want to thank you for freeing me from "watching."  I got pretty burned out with that.  Obsessively following the words of "watchers;" trying to stay ahead of what's coming.  So tiring...  Fear is a cruel master.

Oh, I am happy for the word you gave me today.  Thank you.

From "Come Away My Beloved" (pg.180-181)

"There is a day coming when you will say, "I have waited in vain for the Lord.  "You will wait for Me to speak, and you will hear only the whistling of the wind.  But I tell you now, I am never silent; you are deaf.  I am always speaking; but I do not find you ear attuned to listen.

You will sit alone in a desolate place and grieve in your loneliness; but it will not be that I have left you, but that you have become insensitive to My presence.  Yes, if you ignore My personal nearness and fellowship and if you do not return My overtures, you perceptions will become dull; you will not be able to discern Me even though I am near at hand -- even though my love for you is still as strong as before.

Do not be lukewarm, lest you be among those who are cast out of My fellowship.  "How shall we escape," it is written, "if we neglect so great a salvation?" (Hebrews 2:3).  But I ask you now:  How will yo survive in your private walk in the Spirit if you pay but faint heed to My nearness and do not respond in king to the affection I offer you?

You will not be able to meet the needs of others with anything short of this.  There is no cure for the ills of humankind but what is contained in the love of God.  You cannot give to them until after you have taken it from Me.

"I will not leave you as orphans" (John 14:18).  It is the intention of My heart to fellowship with you closely.  I am turned away by your unresponsiveness; by your preoccupation with things and with people; by your thoughtlessness and indifference.

Some have lost Me by the sin of rebellion; but I warn you that you may lose Me by the subtle way of inattention.  Confess your coldness, and draw near to Me; and I will make My personal presence real to you again.  I will hold you close to My heart, and you will hear My voice.

Renew your vows, and I will revive your ministry.  There is a life ahead for you into which you could not have entered before.  There is a work ready for you, and I have prepared you for it.  It is too wonderful to miss.  It will be silent but powerful.

I will cause the veil to drop, and you will enter a new area of experience.  You will be given knowledge in my Spirit that is not found in books (or on the internet.)  I will share with you My thoughts, and who can tell the sum of them?  You will partake of the Mind of Christ and of the Holy Spirit of God.  His eyes go throughout the whole earth seeking out the thoughts and intents of the hearts of men.

You will serve Me in ways you have never heard of before.  It is My work.  I have laid it out for you. Keep clear of man's work.  Stay free to do Mine.  You will not miss it if you keep close to Me and stay sensitive to My Spirit.

No one else can do what I have reserved for you; and be very sure that if you fail, it will remain undone.  Crucify the flesh, and let the Spirit thrive.  Redeem the time, for surely these days abound with evil.  

Bless Me.  I will bless you.