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Kingdom Family God

I'm here in Kansas City. I'm came here to simply "come away" with Jesus, and listen to the beat of His heart, and hope that the rhythm of my own heart would beat in accordance with His. Spending more intentional time setting my mind on the things of the Spirit, letting my soul be deluged with the Word, and fellowshipping with passionate Jesus lovers, it seems that in all the soul searching and year-planning that I'm doing, the prevailing truth is that God is a Father who wants me to understand that I'm adopted into His eternal family. This is where my identity lies. Accepted, loved, desired, and HOME. So simple... but ridiculously deep. A truth so powerful, if but a few souls would apprehend and walk in it, we would see revival in a short amount of time.

I heard an interesting thing that I've heard countless times in my life, but for some reason it hit me like a wrecking ball. It was simply that "God sent Jesus"...then the Spirit emphasized that it was a Father that sent a Son. This was always God's plan for the redemption of the world. To send sons and daughters into the world who would call forth the lost and the wandering orphans to an infinite Father who's arms are open and eager to embrace His children. Nothing's changed, now as a son, I'm called to do the same thing Jesus did.

Sonship is understood in the context of a family. I'm finally "getting it". To bring an Awakening, there has to be children of God who first know that it's all about relationship. Love of a Father to His Children, who become vessels of that very love to every sphere that encompasses the lost and wandering ones. I think this is what revival looks like. Powerful, fiery, Father-love permeating the hearts of a world who have for too long wondered where they fit in.

Performance-based, love-responses obliterated by the simple receiving of God's Father love. Haha!!

There's so much that I want to write, but I promised myself I would keep my blogs to a minimum length this year.

Kansas City has been amazing... please check out www.kcboilerroom.com... this is who we are staying with, and learning from, they have become family.

Love
Andrew

Where the Heart is

I just returned from a round the world trip where I was privileged to visit the Awaken teams that were sent out in September. I'm in North
Carolina now at A Place for the Heart, and I'm en route to Kona. I'll be updating the blog with more details soon.

It's good to be home.

Beginnings

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” - Leviticus

Beginning again. I would say that I'm one to look forward - to notice a glow on the horizon and wonder what the new day carries. I sit here in my parents home in Colorado, on the verge of a world trip. Doubtless I will encounter many sunsets on different landscapes and become enamored with the God of creation, but it will assuredly lead me to consider the spiritual skylines as well.

I will visit 7 of the 12 teams that were sent out from the Awaken DTS in Kona, Hawaii.

Korea, China, Mongolia, Nepal, Cambodia, Uganda, Amsterdam and potentially other parts of Europe await a wanderer with evidence of a God who's on the move. I will be in each one of these countries over the next 2 months, and I can't wait to see and hear of the Spirit's movements.

Creation is longing for the revealing of the glory of the sons of God. The Planet's cry is starting to be satisfied as many are awakening to the Spirit of God within them, and becoming conduits of the Kingdom of God on Earth.

His mercies are new every morning, regardless of the darkness that seems to be so prevalent. Each day is a new day with potential of the glory of God to gain ground that will not be revoked.

Let Your glory cover the earth, as the water the seas.

Letting God

The LORD is good, and His steadfast love endures forever.

I'm realizing the goodness of God as I've really trusted Him with everything. A yielded life to the Holy Spirit will result in displays of His power. I long to be a pure and holy vessel, one of which is so surrendered to Him, that the Father could pour His love out, without any human agenda tainting it.

Pure flow. It has so much less to do with what I can do than I had imagined. O, what the LORD can do with a laid-down-lover.

I have seen more of the reality of that in the last week. In the Awaken DTS, we've had 4 speakers cancel. I believe the LORD has been answering prayers and setting us up for encounter. We couldn't find a replacement speaker, and so we cried out to God for His plan. In His absolute faithfulness and longing to reveal Himself to His children, He showed us that it was to be more about the presence than information.

Though there was much spiritual warfare over the week (including sickness, centipede bites, other ailments, disappointments, etc.), we pressed through, and really did begin to see the greater glory the LORD had prepared in advance for us.

I talked on the Presence of God (click to link to podcast), the first day and how that has to be our one pursuit, then we set the students on a pilgrimage of faith on Tuesday, followed by a time of the students preaching on Wednesday, into a 50-hour burn (unbroken prayer, worship, intercession) that lasted until Friday night. Astounding!!

God did it all. He glorified Jesus, and it was really just because we prepared the sacrifices of our hearts and waited on Him!! (Psalm 5:3).

The LORD is good, and His steadfast love endures forever.

Desire

I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the LORD Almighty. - Haggai

How do we deal with sexual temptation, and issues like pornography in our generation?

There’s a certain element of counting the cost to following Jesus. In the same way that you consider what a flame in a forest of trees has the potential of, you carefully weigh out action, assess prospective ramifications. However, I don’t believe that He ever intended us to think long or dwell on how grieved the Father would be if we weren’t able to uphold the righteous standard. In this case, to only think of the consequences is only a small (dare I say “very little”) part of the battle.

A dissertation that addresses what one’s learned in hindsight and vows never to do again is fine, but incomplete if left at that...

I feel the proper motivator is missing from this a teaching like that.

Are we curious about what we can’t do, or what we CAN do through the Holy Spirit’s empowerment?

The more we become enamored with the opinions of God, the less we will succumb to temptations of the enemy.

How do we become enamored with the opinions of God? Relationship! God and others in a beautiful, vulnerable, authentic expression of the church with Christ as the head - living out of the Spirit that flows from the head!

If our goal becomes less about what might happen if we lose sight of His grace for a moment, and more about pursuing the beauty and splendor and fascination of God through relationship with Him and others, we set ourselves up to win!

It’s not that our desires are too strong, but too weak!

If we truly and vulnerably give ourselves to the presence of God (His word and His Spirit), in the context of family, we’ll never lack power, motivation and accountability!

God, increase our desire, and give us revelation that You are truly the ONLY one that can satisfy!

Hope of Glory

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you... Is. 60:1

I've been thinking of that verse these last few days. We want to see God's glory - at least, most of us do. Sometimes I'm not really sure we know what we're asking for though...

While we are covered by the blood of Christ, and have access to the throne of God and can approach with boldness, I think we tend to think that we can bring our flesh with us. I sometimes forget that my human nature was buried with Him in the tomb and my spirit was raised to life in His resurrection. The interesting thing about the flesh is that it only has the authority that we give back to it. We continue, just like the Israelites coming out of Egypt, to return to a spirit of slavery - not realizing the beauty and freedom we have been rescued into.

I want the glory of God, I want revival, I want more... but do I want the blood without the cross? Am I thinking that revival will happen without repentance? God help us all.

The glory of the LORD is at the gates, and as it draws nearer in greater capacity, it carries with it the most brilliant light we've ever experienced. I'm finding myself uncomfortable in it's radiance. It's exposing the darkest parts of who I am. I'm finding that I have a choice to deny myself, or run to comforts - but the latter won't stand in the light of His face.

We need to be a people who embrace repentance, while keeping at the cornerstone of our minds and hearts that it's His amazing goodness that leads us to repentance, that beckons us to change. Repentance is supernatural in that we leave marked with a greater glory. Repentance is celebrated because it holds before it the promise of pleasures evermore.

Christ embraced the cross because of the joy set before Him - He now stands calling us to do the same, all the while He Himself is within us... the Hope of Glory.