We attended a worship service this past Saturday when a simple hymn played. It’s one I haven’t heard since I went to Leah’s grams church probably a decade ago. I had this vision of little Leah as a baby in her carrier, sitting on that faded pink pew. The tiny church set at the bottom of a hill in a small town in WV.
I was flooded with the first time I remember being moved to tears in a church. It was that church. The Lord reminded me that in that tiny moment, in that little church, a very BIG Lord got ahold of my heart. I had no idea why I was crying in church. God did. It was then His Holy Spirit got ahold of me and never let go. He reminded me that He had ahold of me long before I thought He did.
Through this thing called the walk with Jesus, otherwise known as life, I’ve been led down roads of worship, deliverance, healing, missions and ministering in ways I never could have imagined. I’ve been blessed to see the world and how others live, but it always circles back to one thing. Coming home to Jesus Christ.
No matter where you go to minister or how far you travel, you come home. No matter how hard you worship or who lays hands on you during altar call, you come home. No matter what things look like on the outside, the inside is what counts.
Does your inside gather or scatter?
The Lord brought revelation to me on what’s coming with a vision. As I was praying in the car the other day, I felt that break in the sky, where it splits open. I saw the Lord come down and place a crown upon my head and a robe over my shoulders. I giggled in delight because God you’re so amazing and yet at the same time I felt humbled and unworthy. Scared of the authority this means I have to walk in. Can I do it, can any of us really do it?
I felt Him sit me at his right side and I felt completely uncomfortable there, like isn’t this what those brothers almost slap boxed over and told their mom to petition for? How am I seated here? I felt/heard/experienced the emotion of the Lord in a humourous way as if He wanted me to know He knew and agreed, but didn’t hold it against me at the same time, and loved me anyway, if that makes any sense. It’s so hard to find words.
The next thing I knew the Lord was getting so big and I was getting so small. It was like I was seated on a 50 lane highway backed up for 50 miles. Yet instead of cars, what I saw were others like us. Each of us crowned, seated to His right, with robes adorned individually. Crowns with individual jewel patterns. Touched individually by God. So unique yet so uniform at the same time. With Him being so vast and us being so small that we were technically all seated to the right of the Father in heavenly places.
I saw ahead of the traffic jam, ahead of being seated next to the Lord, were two to three small thrones at different paces fighting to get ahead of one another. Like they were racing to a finish line. I felt the Lord reminding me that striving in all things, especially ministry, gets us ahead of His will for us and out of the alignment of moving with the body of Christ.
Many trying to get ahead FOR the Lord will get ahead OF the Lord instead. (I’ve been there myself)
Discern the pace.
I saw the hand of the Lord outstretched over all of us to His right. He was shaking out seed like you would for Chickens. He said plainly He’s scattering seeds to gather the Saints.
As the seed fell down over us, like gold flakes, I felt the urge to scatter as much off my lap as I could. We all did. It was like the Lord rained it down on us and we all began throwing it around like a giant glitter fight. Trying to scatter as much as we could. There was so much joy in doing so.
I felt the Lord remind me that scattering seed (the word) is what gathers the Saints for the harvest.
Those ahead of the Lord, are focused on striving, they’re gathering seeds to themselves thinking they’re gathering a harvest, they’re “ahead” because they are ahead of the Lord.
Don’t let your heart be one that gathers. Don’t covet unto yourself what needs to be given away.
The scattering of the word of God is what willl gather the saints for the end time harvest.
A seed cannot be sown unless it’s scattered out of our hands.
It’s time for Preachers to scatter the word.
The gathering of the Saints depends on it.
GO OUT!
Colossians 3:16 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Romans Chapter 10
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Matthew 10:8 - Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Matthew 10:27 - What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
Mark 4:26-34 The Parable of the Seed Growing
26 And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. 27 He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. 28 The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
30 And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, 32 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” 33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. 34 He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
Revelation 20:4 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Matthew 28:19 - Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matthew 24:14 - And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Psalms 96:3 - Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.
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