Friday, April 30, 2004
Mark1:7 And he was preaching, and saying, "After me One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the thong of His sandals.
Some old thoughts:
The activity:
Preaching should be preparatory to people meeting with God in ministry time, or repentance and salvation, or healing, or prophetic ministry. “After me…”
What the Lord can do after the preaching may be more powerful than what the preaching did. “One … Who is mightier than I…”
The place:
Humility is the result of the wilderness, the fullness and leading of the Spirit. The wilderness tries our fears, our lusts, our ambitions, our motives. Only the wilderness could produce this type of prophetic voice.
The harshness of the wilderness – the quickness of bloom of desert flower and the transitory nature of the same equips and instructs the transitional man.
The person:
Blessed is the person who knows that he is a transitional figure. It is important for us to know when we are in a transitional time. Many of us get attached to “a time” or “season” of God’s moving and can’t move on. That is why the previous move always tends to persecute the immediate activity of God.
Blessed is the person, or movement, who honors the next move more than his own ministry when the next ministry actually arrives! It is one thing to prophesy it. It’s another thing to actually honor it when it is there and the emphasis of God shifts. Are we content, then, to fall into rank? Are we so attached to the message of the wilderness (the preparatory time) that we can’t make the transition?
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Some old thoughts:
The activity:
Preaching should be preparatory to people meeting with God in ministry time, or repentance and salvation, or healing, or prophetic ministry. “After me…”
What the Lord can do after the preaching may be more powerful than what the preaching did. “One … Who is mightier than I…”
The place:
Humility is the result of the wilderness, the fullness and leading of the Spirit. The wilderness tries our fears, our lusts, our ambitions, our motives. Only the wilderness could produce this type of prophetic voice.
The harshness of the wilderness – the quickness of bloom of desert flower and the transitory nature of the same equips and instructs the transitional man.
The person:
Blessed is the person who knows that he is a transitional figure. It is important for us to know when we are in a transitional time. Many of us get attached to “a time” or “season” of God’s moving and can’t move on. That is why the previous move always tends to persecute the immediate activity of God.
Blessed is the person, or movement, who honors the next move more than his own ministry when the next ministry actually arrives! It is one thing to prophesy it. It’s another thing to actually honor it when it is there and the emphasis of God shifts. Are we content, then, to fall into rank? Are we so attached to the message of the wilderness (the preparatory time) that we can’t make the transition?
