Over the years I have been often described as ‘prophetic’. One group even called me an “apostolic prophet”
I like to think of these as service assignment descriptions rather that claim them as personal titles. As those of you who read my blogs know and those of you who have spent much personal time with us know even better, learning to hear (and obey) God’s voice has been our number one desire over the years.
In the light of this I would like to share with you the last three things God has said to me……… DRUM ROLL dadadadadada…..here they come……
1. “Phone the plumber”
2. “You don’t need that third cup of coffee”
3. “Yes dear!”
“Hardly worthy of the Elijah List!” you might think
Well this morning I woke with the scripture,
“Even though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love I am nothing.”(1 Cor. 13:1)
I just had the most scintillating conversation with a brother sharing the profound ins and outs of God’s messages in last Sunday’s Super Bowl played here in Minneapolis. We could have talked on and on. I confess I am easily distracted from the ‘matter at hand’ by the latest exciting revelations. The muscle I need to develop to avoid this tendency to ‘drift’ (should that be surf ?) is the “Stop and drop, discern, decide and do” group.
The greatest danger for those of us graced with opened eyes and ears to continually experience God’s messages in the unfolding of events around us is that we become speakers about these ‘heavenly’ things and lose contact with the earth Jesus walked on and sanctified by a life of seamless loving action flowing out of that uninterrupted communion with the Father who is “love”
1 Corinthians 13 was so emphasized to me when we first moved to the States that we literally wrote it with a felt tip pen on our restroom walls, so that when nature forced us to sit and think, these 16 facets of love would be the object of our ‘throne room’ meditation. The hope was that we would emerge from the ‘throne room’ manifesting his ‘glory’ in the very next word and deed of ‘love’ in this human time/space continuum!
The American immigration issue has been spun into one of giving ‘the dreamers’ the opportunity to make their dream come true.
In the iconic American movie “Field of Dreams” ‘crazy’ Kevin Costner builds a baseball field in his corn fields in response to the ‘voice.’ When at one point he is ‘feeling the cost’ of the venture, he blurts out to the ‘voice’.
“Yes, but what is in it for me??”
The distinction between the ‘Field of (earthly) Dream(er)s’ and the ‘Valley of (heavenly) Visionaries’ is the ‘me’ factor’
When Paul talked about being true to ‘the vision from heaven’ (Acts 26:19) he was referencing “the One” who he had met on the road to Damascus who said and still says to each of us through eyes of love, “Come, take up your cross and follow Me.”(Matt.16:24)
This ‘vision from heaven’ is earthy and practical. It is ‘The way of holiness’ (Is. 35) of self dying love that we can joyfully walk as we talk together, in the company of Christ.
I really should go now and phone the plumber and help Hilary move that box : – )