Saturday, January 26

see the sundial

This week in worship, God gave me a flash vision of a sundial on the earth which emerged in view as the sun (dawn, new day) rose on it. In this vision, I received a phrase: "Know the hour."

In the light of revelation, we can know what hour it is in God's schedule and the world timetable. This is the 2nd or 3rd time the Lord has said something to this effect in the last quarter. So it is probably very important.

Do you know the hour we're in? Are you prepared for what is about to come?

Tuesday, January 8

Myspace

Myspace is a wonderful place for networking with people with leisure time and the self-employed, but it is inaccessible to 98% of the 'real world' of working stiffs who sit behind a corporate firewall. This is the reason why I believe in preferring the openness of the blogging world.

Myspace is great for targetting that section of the population which doesn't have a job in corporate america, which is primarily students (mainly teens). This can give the illusion of participation, when in reality only a special fraction of your contacts have the leisure access to interact there. In college, most people migrate to Facebook, which was created to specifically cater to the needs of University students and alumni. But even Facebook is blocked at the firewall, and thus inaccessible to most of the people, most of the time.

If you want to reach the average man, you cannot stay within the walled garden of any social networking site. Your people deserve more than just a static web site and interaction on myspace; forums and especially interactive blogs are a great way to network and keep in touch.

Saturday, January 5

Fire, Order, Gaze

Tonight in worship I was given several visions. The most significant to me personally was the Lord's Light, the Dawnlight, shined through cloud and darkness upon me. This is the very same light from The Day of the Lord, which is yet to come. It was very good. Then He showed me this light shining upon waters, dark and vast.

I saw the Fire of God, coming upon the earth, well in places, not everywhere. The Fire of God is alive; it is God. I saw cities with blue jellyfishish shields to protect them from God. Our city didn't have a shield, but some neighboring cities did; one name which came to me was Beaumont. The shields are not good.

The Lord gave me the message that He might "shuffle the deck." He has mercy on whom He has mercy, and He choses whom He choses. He did once say "So the last shall be first, and the first last" (Matthew 20:16), with this same meaning. If anyone thinks his order in the kingdom of God is secured, think again. The Lord might be demoting and promoting sometime soon.

I also saw we attracted His gaze. He wasn't present and steady gazing as before, but rather the image of the Lion's Eye formed of dust of the air. The hunger and thirst for Righteousness had drawn Him.

Thursday, January 3

Rejoice!

As 2008 dawned across the city, I discerned a change in the spirit; I could literally feel the gladness caused by the rejoicing of all the people. Their rejoicing was in (the rememberance of the past year and) the anticipation and hope of a new year. Wow, rejoicing is a powerful way to effect real change in spirit.

I reflected yesterday that often the way we feel is not actually a result of events which are observable; sometimes, the way we feel is a result of spiritual warfare or other things which are not directly correlated to recent happenings of memory. This is why the Bible exhorts Christians to: Rejoice in the Lord always; I will say it again: rejoice!

There is great power to effect change by rejoicing. Don't just draw conclusions that the way you feel is a result of events; this is often untrue; I know all too often I make that mistake.

Let's lift our gaze, remember your Hope and Joy, and take up the shield and spear of the act of rejoicing.

1 Peter 1 gives our grounding for this:

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade, kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, 11trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.