Thursday, July 24, 2014

DMM/CPM: A Word Aptly Spoken

A Word Aptly Spoken

As we consider the launch of Holy Spirit led movements of households of loving-obedient worshipers of Christ, leadership development in the tough personal issues is a crucial component.

Proverbs 25:11

Like apples of gold in settings of silver is a word spoken in right circumstances.

The Message (MSG)
11-12 
The right word at the right time is like a custom-made piece of jewelry,
And a wise friend’s timely reprimand is like a gold ring slipped on your finger.


Suri tilted her head as she considered the pre-owned personally scripted answer which she guardedly embraced. Instead, she gave a potentially risky response to my question, “Suri, you look gorgeous on the outside at this wedding reception, but I wonder about the condition of the beauty growth process which God has planned for you from the inside out?”

Sure, she could have handed me the page from her script of self-protect and I would have spoken blessing over her, hugged her and moved on.

However, the Holy Spirit, unbeknownst to me brought Suri to the point of misery in her recent unrevealed bondage patterns of pornography, Face Book self solicitation of sex partners, cellphone sex talk, adultery, and other sexual sins. Thankfully, Suri chose to go toward freedom at that “right circumstance” of the Holy Spirit’s stirring.

Suri teared up. I offered to meet privately with her after this rather public meeting. She came over the next day. In that subsequent time together she relayed how she could not stop thinking of the brief words I had spoken to her. She kept thinking how much those words disturbed her yet, beckoned her at the same time.

Suri has now chosen to take steps toward healing in these areas. With the depth of darkness she has lived in for a period of time now, her pathway will be highly difficult. Thankfully, with the power of Christ and the hope of His healing hand there is a pathway to freedom, which awaits her. Importantly, the words of exhortation and the words of comfort went forth and the promise is that she can be transformed.

Indeed, God’s love is like that. He always calls each of us who are in Christ out to His higher ways. He calls each one of His children to these processes. Freedom is waiting. His perfect love is awaiting each of His followers who choose His face above all.

Shane and Shane sing words aptly spoken in the song entitled Your Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Agv--7tPk  
The chorus cuts deeply through the realities of the battle for the human heart as we yearn for His ways or not in our lives.

The Power of the Word Aptly Spoken

The power of a word aptly spoken with grace and mercy, in the authority and in the leading of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is incalculable in a life which longs for God’s transformation.

As I reflect upon this past year alone, I marvel at the words in which I can recall readily. The battle of words spoken to each of us in haste or regrettably launched from others or ourselves is at stake here. Do we readily assess our growth in Christ from the aspects of words spoken in both exhortation (skillfully done or not) as well as those words launched for comfort? Or do we assume and presume that only the words spoken to us which spur us on in comfort are of the greatest value? I submit to you that both of these aspects are two sides of the same coin. Let’s say, for the sake of this illustration, that intimacy/worship/obedience in response thereof to Christ is the coin. The two sides which can spawn great growth, then, could be said to be words of exhortation as well as words of comfort and encouragement.

One way to evaluate this past year, as you seek to get alone to listen to ABBA is to ask Him the following questions;

1.     Father, what words did You speak to my heart this past year which were words of exhortation/correction/training in righteousness of which I did choose to obey? Rejoice with Him in those areas. Give thanks.
2.     Father, what words did You speak which I chose not to obey? Talk with Him about these areas and repent where need be (I John 1:9), rejoice where need be, reclaim ground given over to deception (Satan’s lies) and choose to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit in those areas.
3.     Father, what words of prophecy or word imagery were spoken over me this year? Is there a word which inspired my heart in which I need to walk in yieldedness in order to appropriate these promises?
4.     Father, direct me by Your Holy Spirit to embrace the reminders of Your Word which You gave as banners to my heart this past year. Rejoice with Him in gratefulness, review those promises of His Word and presence which He gave to you faithfully this past year.
5.     Father, give me Your words for the themes or such which You desire to impart to my heart to embrace for these next few months. Write these down, record these and share them with those godly ones who will mutually hold accountable in grace and mercy.
6.     Father, increase in my heart the tenderness and wisdom (skillfulness) of when to speak, when to pray, and when to share words which could be aptly spoken “like apples of gold in settings of silver”.


Father, Your perfect love is PERFECT. Cause my heart to hear Your melody of love which can both tear me apart as well as put me together. I renounce the self-reliant thought that You are somehow are not looking for my best. Your goodness is my ground zero. You are good and Your mercies ARE everlasting. I give to You that which You desire, my total implicit unmitigated dependence upon You alone. Ramp up my heart yearnings for surrenderedness to You alone to have its way in my life. I offer you the totality of the vacuity of my heart in deeper ways still for You to reside, abide, confide in my heart because of my desire to fear only You, ABBA. Cause this coming year to produce the yield of fruit You promise for Your Name and Fame and Glory alone in my spheres of influence and to the ethne of the earth. Cause my heart to be faithful in making reproducing disciples who obey You because of their fond affection for the greatness of Your Name. In Jesus Matchless Name, I pray. Amen.




Wednesday, July 16, 2014

DMM/CPM: The Wind and the Waves (POP hunting)

The Wind and the Waves

As the waves swelled and roared around us, a Muslim woman on the passenger ferry boat grabs my arm and asks me to sit with her. As the boat is harshly pitched to and fro, the thought crossed my cranial space that this could be our last ferry ride. I plopped down with the next roll of the waves on the seat next to her. We talked. She shared how fearful she was of the waves…the Holy Spirit led me to share the story of Isa Al Masih and how He commanded the wind and the waves to obey His voice and be still.

I suggested that we ask in the power and authority of the name of Isa Al Masih for Him to calm the waves we experienced at that moment. With a palpable hunger for more truth of the straight and true way of Isa Al Masih she expressed, "From the moment I saw you on the ship I knew that you carried something with you that is the resource for life and that I should talk with you."  

Do we really grasp this reality that everywhere our foot trods, every encounter we experience, we are the glory bearers in Christ? As is our lifestyle of trusting God to see a DMM/CPM launched among these Muslim UPGs, I offered to meet with her family and share more stories of the greatness of Allah.

Without the waves of life, we know Him not as the God who saves. Without the winds, we know Him not as the Only God who is all authority and power to bring the calm. To those who dare to embrace the reality of His presence into every human encounter, there lay the promised discovery of the ones whom God’s Spirit is preparing. The Person of Peace (Luke 10, Matthew 10) is not a peaceful person, they are simply someone who is churned up to long for Kingdom reality in real time on God’s terms, His way. They are also ones whom will open their households up to the glory bearers.

A key intercession theme for UPGs could be applied here:


O God, bring on the wind and the waves of life which shake up the very foundations    of resistance in the hearts of the UPGs.  Show up in power, O mighty victorious God. You promise that You are stirring the hearts of the peoples of the earth. Do that now among the __________UPG, for Your glory alone. Lead Your glory bearers to Persons of Peace whom will be used greatly to launch massive movements of multiplying worshipers/disciples who know not life apart from loving and obeying You alone. In Jesus Name. Amen.