Inspired Word September 03, 2008

INSPIRED WORD

September 3, 2008

SHARING

As we were having our computer difficulties, I was thinking about my computer and how I was complaining to my husband again that it was running slowly. He said, “You need to re-boot it.” Sometimes throughout our week we start to run slowly and we come here to be re-booted. We come here to be refocused and to dump all the junk and viruses of our life and to be reloaded. The other thing that came to me is that sometimes when you load the new program, you have to do a restart. Tonight we heard about a new gift and we come here to be restarted to load that into our system so that we can be open to it. We then allow that program or that gift to work in us. Through praise and worship we get rebooted and become free through the Holy Spirit, as that gift works in us. We become encouraged by those around us to trust that gift and to allow it to work in us.

VISION

.....last week and I have prayed over it this week. I know that God wants me to reveal it this week. After that song ‘Freedom', I had a vision of a huge steam train, an old 1880 steam train. It is the Freedom Train – Jesus' train. Then I see lots of white smoke coming out and that is the Holy Spirit. Then I see sparkling things and there are diamonds in there and everyone here gets a diamond of healing – the healing that God wants to give you. The track is God the Father leading Christ His Son where He needs to go on this huge steam train and the puff of white smoke is the Holy Spirit. There were sparkles in the smoke and they were diamonds for each one of us here. The train is going very fast and the bright light in front of the engine is the light of Jesus.

IMAGE

I should have come up last time, I am not going to lie, I feel crazy. But last night as I was praying the Rosary, I had this strange image of a hexagon (like a stop sign), but it was made of steak. If anyone has an idea of what that might mean, please confirm it.

SENSE

I think that image refers to the part of the Gospel - and maybe someone here might know where that is in the Bible. It is where it is said that we are no longer infants, that we need to leave the milk and go to the meat . ( Hebrews 5: 12-13 : For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic elements of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food; for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the world of righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use, have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.) I think God is calling us to use the Charisms in a deeper and more serious way.

SCRIPTURE / SHARING

The first reading during Mass this morning was from 1 Corinthians 3: 1 – 9: “ Brothers and sisters, I could not talk to you as spiritual people but as fleshly people as infants in Christ. I fed you milk not solid food because you were unable to take it.” In regards to your vision of the hexagon, the Star of David came to mind. If you connect all the points it makes a hexagon.

SCRIPTURE

Isaiah 53: 4 – 6: Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered Him stricken by God, smitten by Him and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

CONFIRMATION

I confirm that. I had opened my Bible a couple of songs ago, and it says, “Wash away my guilt, from my sins cleanse me.” (Psalm 51:2)

SCRIPTURE

It was like ‘Lord, talk to me' and the Scripture that popped off the page was about the lost sheep. If God has a hundred sheep which are all out in the field and as He brings them home, one of them becomes lost, He will leave the ninety-nine to go find the one, to bring it home. A great rejoicing will happen at the finding of that one lost sheep. (Matthew 18: 12 – 13) He takes our iniquities upon His shoulders because of His love for each of us. We are ‘the one', each one. In God that is not impossible! That's the glory, that's the glory!

TEACHING

Faith is not a vague religious sentiment, but a living vibrant faith in the living and real God. Jesus came for our salvation. Salvation is reconciliation; it means we are saved, but we are saved from what? We are saved for what? We are saved from a separation from God, from the consequences of our sins, from paying the price for the consequences of that sin, from eternal death, permanent separation from God – in other words Hell. We are saved for something also. We are saved for a relationship with God, for eternal life with Him in Heaven, for life beginning with Him here now, for becoming a sun in the Son, an adopted child of God and a member of His family forever. That is what salvation is and that is what we put our faith in – that living vibrant faith in the living and real God Who loves us each individually, and as a family together.

SENSE

I believe that what CeCe just read to us, God wants us to experience in this place tonight, so that we may know with our hearts the truth of those words. I don't know if we are to repeat the song or if there is another song the Lord is placing on our worship heart, but it is a song of surrender, saying, “God, I hear those words, now make them real in my heart and in my experience.”

SCRIPTURE

Zechariah 13:7 – 9: “ Awake, O sword, against My shepherd, against the man who is close to Me!”, declares the Lord Almighty. “Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones. In all the lands,” says the Lord, “two-thirds of them shall be struck down and perish; yet one-third shall be left alive. I will bring the one-third through fire; I will refine them like silver and I will test them like gold. They shall call upon My name and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,' and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.'”

SCRIPTURE

Revelation 3: 20 : “Listen! I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear My voice and open the door, I will come into your house and eat with you, and you with Me.” Listen! Listen! I stand at the door and knock; if any hear My voice and open the door, I will come in.

CONFIRMATION

I confirm that. My Bible is open to Isaiah 55: 2 – 5: Listen, listen to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to Me; hear Me, that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, My faithful love promised to David. See, I have made him a witness to My people, a leader and commander of My people. Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations that do not know you will hasten to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for He has endowed you with splendor.

SCRIPTURE

Matthew 5: 3 – 6: Blessed are the poor in spirit, the reign of God is theirs. Blessed are the sorrowing, they shall be consoled. Blessed are the meek, they shall inherit the land. Blessed and they who hunger and thirst for holiness, they shall have their fill.

PROPHECY

Do you see? Do you see how I love you? If you are lost, I will come and find you. If you ask for Me, you will find Me. I am here to nurture you and to love you, to care for you and to provide for you. Seek and you shall find! Ask and you shall receive! Knock and the door will be opened! I am here always for you! I am the same yesterday, today and forever. I love you so much and I want you to come in to be with Me! I want you to love Me and I will continue to love you. Seek Me, please!! Seek Me, please!! I am here for you!!

PRAYER

O Lord, we cry out for You! O Lord, we cry out for You!! Hear, O Lord, the cry of our hearts!

SCRIPTURE

Psalm 80: 14 – 15: Turn again, Lord of Hosts; look down from heaven and see; attend to this vine, the shoot Your right hand has planted.

SUMMARY / EXHORTATION

I just want to say, “Wow!” Then I want to reflect back a little bit. How did it all start tonight? It started very simply and very slowly and the Lord did something very unique. Margie got up and said that she sees images in everything. I want to thank this young lady here because it probably took a lot of courage to stand and say that she had an image of a hexagon (like a stop sign ) and she did not know what it meant. And she asked that if anyone knows what it means, to tell her. What happened? God told us about all of the images that the hexagon really meant. So what does it really mean? Do we really know? Barbara told us in her talk that sometimes the Lord does things to get our attention. Maybe the hexagon was His way of having us reflect and get our attention, because right after that simple image, people focused, not so much on the hexagon, but on the One Who gave us that image. As we progressed to the close of this prayer meeting, God simply told us in many ways and through many people, “I stand at the door of your hearts and I knock!” If that door has a stop sign on it, then lets take it down! We want to look, listen, respond and to open that door; we want to see every vision, image and promise that the Lord wants to give us. Through the simple little sign of a hexagon, He turned this night into a powerful night of praise and worship. God wanted us to focus on Him! He did it through a hexagon – a stop sign. He wants all of us to stop, look, listen and to reflect on what He has told us here tonight. If we have a barrier, then tear it down, open that door and let Him walk through that door. He walks through that door with arms filled with love for each one of us! We know that because He told us, many times tonight, that if one of His sheep is lost, He will go and find it! God has made it clear tonight that we are not to reflect so much on the stop sign as all the other images that He has for us once we tear down the barrier.

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