Heaven Shaking, Blessing Releasing Obedience
July 7, 2008
On the United Revival website, I’ve just added another article talking about the kind of heaven shaking, blessing releasing obedience that we as Christians can walk in.
Let’s be honest, the whole idea of obedience isn’t a popular message. When was the last time you really heard someone talk about how being a Christian involves you dying to your own way of doing things? Honestly, I’d rather hear a message on how the Lord wants to open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing so big that I can’t even get all of it.
But there’s something stirring in my heart about a gospel of simplicity. A gospel where the basic, foundational (but mostly forgotten, often ignored and rarely spoken of) truths of the gospel need to be preached and emphasized as being crucial to our development as Christians.
It’s funny how we often run after and lift up the “new thing” that comes around (not that it’s necessarily wrong), and forget about or overlook the foundational values that we need, seeing them as being old, archaic and irrelevant. Where we think of character development, purity, righteousness, honesty, (and in the article I wrote) obedience are things that were for a previous generation, and don’t really apply.
But the Lord has been really impressing on me the importance and significance of the foundational (and powerful) truths of the gospel where we have neglected them for something that seems to be newer and more exciting. Or maybe I should say, more satisfying of our flesh.
Yup, I did just say that.
Truth can hurt, as the Word of God is a sharp, two edged sword. (I know, it’s cut me deep many times before - and often it is concerning what I’ve written about).
You can see this article called: Heaven Shaking, Blessing Releasing Obedience here.
