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3rd May 2008
“WHATSOEVER HE SAYS UNTO YOU, DO IT……”(John
2:5)
The context of
this month’s prayer focus is The Hayes and the
Manchester Cathedral meetings. At The Hayes in
Swanwick, the LORD came down and offered Himself.
The challenge was, are we going to choose and
receive Him rather than material things? Are we
going to keep procrastinating our appropriation of
Divine encounters like Jacob? At the Manchester
Cathedral, the LORD continued by saying, in lives
that will count, “Only one thing matters…”. Men who
left their footmarks on the sands of times were men
of single eye, single focus, single mindedness. We
were confronted with the responsibility for revival
and invitation to bring unto the Lord a new cruse.
Our prayer focus
at the May 3rd 2008 Fishnet meeting then
was how do we see, touch and handle the Reality? The
scriptures that came to us were John 2:1-11
and Acts 10:9-16. Our clear instruction was:
“Whatsoever he saith unto you do it”. Now,
the LORD has come just as we have prayed for, and is
saying, “Rise, Peter, kill, eat…” Are we
going to be arguing and debating until this vessel
of grace is received up again into heaven? God
forbid that this open heaven closes up again. How
long then must we wait again for another? For Jacob
open Heavens (Gen 28:12) remained a dream for
several years because he didn’t know the God of
Bethel, for Nathaniel it was a Promise (John
1:51) when he met the Lord, but for Stephen (Acts
7:56) it was a Reality.
We observed that
if a commandment to lie prostrate on the ground in
worship, surrender and submission is given, it will
pose less challenge for the man who is already
sitting on the floor, than for the man on top of a
roof with no ladder to let him down. But God is able
to supply the measure of grace sufficient for the
need of each of us. We have seen the struggling
faith many of us have exercised in all these years
of Padan-aram, like Jacob. Now as we cling to Him we
plead for Mercy because it cannot be by sacrifice
alone, it must be mercy. Even if the mercy that we
require will be for Him to touch the hollow of our
thighs, for the Sun of Righteousness to rise upon
each of us. May He prune His vines for fruitfulness,
until our faith finds the rest that is in Him alone.
God will wait
until there is a man to till the ground before He
sends rain on the earth (Gen 2:5), but the man He is
looking for is the one who is broken and has come to
the end of his own resources and strength like Jacob
at Peniel. Except a grain of wheat falls to the
ground and dies, it abides alone. But if it falls to
the ground and dies it brings forth much fruit.
Something must die for revival to break out. We are
confident of this very thing that the Merciful
Father, Who has started this good work in our lives
will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ, our
LORD. But brother, sister, what are you doing about
what He said to you at The Hayes, and at the
Manchester Cathedral? “Whatsoever he saith unto
you do it”. And we will behold His Glory
in this land.
Shalom!
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