Hi Folks!  

 

At the very end of last year just before the turn into 2010 the Lord spoke to my heart about a new order for our local Church. Being a Pastor I am always interested in what the Lord has to say to me concerning the people I am to shepherd. Now, I do realise that what He may be saying to us could be different to what He desires of other Churches. Also I understand that some things the Lord may be speaking to other Pastors about may be different in some ways to what He is speaking to me about. We are corporately the Body of Christ, not only here in Australia, but in every nation of the World. If we could all see and understand all that the Lord was saying to all the people in all the Churches in all the World, then we would see the whole picture. But while we are here on Earth we will all only see in part, none of us will see and understand the whole picture this side of Heaven. This is why we all need to be hearing and listening to what the Lord is saying to us individually, and also corporately in our local Churches through the ministers.

 

If each of us in the body of Christ does his or her share then the Lord will be able to build His Church as He desires. Jesus knows what He has called me to do and what he has called our church Living Word Fellowship to do. We may not know and understand what the end will look like in LWF but He does. Our part is to follow the Lord’s leadings and instructions one step at a time, then He will take us all the way with Him until we arrive at where we are called to be. Faith and trust are both involved if we are to follow the Lord in this way. We may not understand why we are to do what He is saying at the time, but if we will trust and obey, and believe that He is taking us where we need to be, then we are sure to arrive at the correct destination.

 

What I heard in my heart is that we need to do more praying as a Church family in 2010. Not necessarily longer times of prayer, but to come together more often to pray. The new order was to not only pray, but to pray and praise, with the praise happening first. So this is what we have been doing, coming together more often to pray and commencing with praising God first. Those of us that have been coming together have to admit that these times have certainly been a blessing to our lives. The anointing has been getting stronger in our midst and the Lord has been speaking to us and showing us things to come. As our Scripture says today, that before the new things spring forth, He will tell us of them. God wants you and I to be in the “know” of what is about to happen in our lives.

 

“However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. John 16:13

 

If we could see what was coming up in our life then we could prepare ourselves for it. But as we can see through the Scriptures God will show us what is ahead for each of us. The job “we” have is to position ourselves to hear. And this is what the Lord has been endeavouring to do in our midst in LWF... through praise and prayer, we are actually positioning ourselves to receive from the Lord. The Lord is always talking to His children, but are they always discerning what is being said? The Devil is always talking also and wants to deceive the Lord’s people. We need to tune out the voice of the enemy and tune in to the voice of God. Much more prayer and praise will make it so much easier for you and I to be in place to hear what God is saying.

 

It is God’s will that we pray more...

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you 1Thess 5:16-18

The Lord longs for our praise. He deserves it you know!

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord Psalm 150:6

Do you still have breath in your lungs? Well keep on praising the Lord then, for He is worthy to receive “all” the praise, honour and glory both now and forever more.

 

David