30Mar2014 - Set Up and Undone

How you doin?  Be careful what you pray for.  Stacey and I received a vision over a year ago to have a place of worship, conferences, and retreats.  Since that time I've prayed about it everyday.  I've asked for vision and understanding of how to tap into the resources of heaven.  I continue to receive the same vision and dream.  Our place is a place of SOZO... saved, healed, delivered.  It's going to be a place that during certain times will house an unwanted and unloved people in our society.  A people imprisoned in deep darkness.  When I first received this vision, I like any good Christian, said "God you're at the wrong house".  Now, as any good follower of Jesus, I say "YES & AMEN!!!!!!!".  In my natural or human condition, I was hoping to minister to the "easy" folks.  The likable, lovable, functioning, and able folks, but that's not who Jesus came for.  He came for the sick.  So now I embrace the idea of ministering to and loving the unwanted and unlovely.  I believe we will still have conferences, concerts, retreats, and stuff that's AWESOME!!!!!!!  I DO NOT believe that the best way to minister to the imprisoned is to put them in another prison disguised as rehabilitation or "treatment for you're disease".  That's just what a broken person with no self worth wants to hear, "you are diseased".  Our ministry/rehabilitation will speak to the true identity of the person and it will love them into the Kingdom.  YEEEEEES!!!!!!!  Their treatment will be the "AWESOME stuff"... not telling them how bad they are.  I can tell you first hand that the last thing a broken person what's to hear is more bad news about themselves.  They need to hear some good news, and God is good news.  COME ON!!!!!!!

I haven't prayed for this place of ministry out loud for a while, nor did I pray in acceptance of what the Holy Ghost has shown me.  I was still trying to negotiate my deal.  Just for the record, negotiating your own deal never works.  It just causes God to go ask someone else.  There's no favor in that.  Any way, as I was praying out loud in agreement or acceptance or surrender to God's plan instead of my own, I saw/felt Jesus embracing me in His HUGENESS!!!!!!!  Needless to say I'm a mess.  I don't want to be fixed up.  I want to stay a mess.  The Holy Ghost's messiness is WAY better then my tidiness.  Receiving this type of breakthrough or verification is overwhelming.  I know it's just a matter of time before we have are place that will indeed be supported by the resources of heaven.  WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!  We did read Revelation 2 today.

Verse 7, 11, 17, and 29 really stood out the most to me.  They all say the same exact thing in the beginning, but have a different show of favor.

Verses 7, "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.’"

Verse 11, "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.’"

Verse 17, "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’"

Verse 29, "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’"

As if the vision in my prayer wasn't enough, there were a couple of wrecking ball verses as well.  Verse 10, "Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. ^[f]Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life."  COME ON!!!!!!!

Verses 26-28, "He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, to him I will give authority over the ^[o]nations; ²⁷ and he shall ^[p]rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I also have received authority from My Father; ²⁸ and I will give him the morning star."  HOLY MAC A LOLY!!!!!!!  The Lord has certainly rained down His glory here this morning.  Hear what the Spirit says to you today.