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An Open Heaven

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At times the Lord seems to give me an open heaven.  Not that I see anything or dream any dreams, but His Word just comes alive and is so real to me.  Revelation knowledge is flowing like a summer thunderstorm drenching me with insight and an ability to see and apply God’s Word.  Things hidden and just not seen become as plain as the noonday sun.  I may write or make outlines on various sermon and Bible studies.  It just comes so easy.  It just flows.  The Holy Spirit is so real and I don’t even have to try to get into the flow, it’s like I’m in the midst of a Holy Spirit river, moving at not my will or pace, but at His pace.  I love and cherish those times.  They are the “times of refreshing.”  I feel like a warrior, ten feet tall with bulging spiritual muscles. 

Unfortunately they often come after an intense time of spiritual battle.  Times of failure or having disappointments that allowed that depressive spirit to attack me.  Most of those times it was my failure that caused the attack.  I opened the door.  At times like that I feel lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut, but God is so gracious to break that spirit and because of His love, allows a fresh anointing to come and spark revelation and a sense of closeness that’s brings forth an inner depth of vitality in the Holy Spirit.

An open heavenly is seemingly a download from the throne room of God.  Oh how I love that time of study and insight that is given by the Spirit.  I believe it is the Spirit’s  way of saying, you made it through and victory is yours.  Fresh wine quenches the spiritual thirst, and fresh manna fills the spiritual belly.

Oh that I could live in that place of an open heaven.  Maybe that is what heaven will be like.  Rh

Destroyed for a Lack of Knowledge

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Originally intended for the Israelites, Hos 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,” speaks volumes to the present day church that is sitting fat and lazy in their cushioned chairs and air conditioned places of worship. Hearing sermons on their best life now and the 7 keys to happiness has brought a stupor on the evangelical church in America.  Knowledge is power, the saying goes, but if the pulpit is silent, then the laity are dumbstruck.  If  the church hears nothing on a Biblical World View, how will they ever understand they have the mandate to speak out on world issues that contradict a Christian World View?  If the Pastor never encourages or seeks to motivate the church to stand up and speak out on moral issues, will we ever see change.  Some of the most Godly men and women I know refuse to get involved in politics.  They sit and pray, which is good, but sometimes we have to face the giant not pray them away.  David could have prayed all day, but it wasn’t until he picked up the first stone that God began the miracle.  The issues of today are moral, not political.  We should be speaking out on these issues.  I lay the sins of America at the feet of the modern church.  We lost our voice trying to win the world through being too much like the world.  We should be different, and when I for one speak out on moral issues and I get more amen’s out of the church than inside the church…we have a problem. Reminds me of the Old Testament king who didn’t want Jeremiah to prophesy because he never had  anything good to say.  The problem was Jeremiah was speaking for God!  The modern church could use an Old Testament man of God today.  Silence is not an option.