May His Love Abound
God is renewing and recreating the face of His Church right now. I know, that sounds kind of different but it’s the truth. Since 2017 Holy Spirit has been speaking to me about His Church, the Body of Christ, and the shift. I spent many hours just writing all I heard and saw. In 2020 I put it in book form and published it. As expected, it wasn’t a ‘best seller’ to say the least. Why? Because much of the Church continues to be so tied up in idolatry and self-promotion that they are deaf to the true voice of Holy Spirit. They have their vision so set on how many seats they can fill on a Sunday morning that they’ve become blind to the vision of the Spirit. They are so concerned with not offending the sin in peoples lives, they’ve been mute to truth and only speak what pleases man. Over the last 100 + years the Church has become a structure full of agendas, entertainment, and ‘feel-good’ sermons. Very seldom are we reminded that sin is sin, and it separates us from God. Point blank! We see someone knowingly living in sin and we brush it off with false levels of grace. This is why God is recreating the face of His Church. Those who call themselves the Church, are no longer truly the Church, many are simply walking dead with a title of Christian.
In Revelation, the angel is speaking to John about the church in Ephesus. He says that their works have all been good, they’ve judged right, they’ve persevered well BUT there was one thing held against them… “They had left their first love.”
When we lose sight of God, LOVE,
we lose sight of His true heart for this world.
When we look around at the face of much of the Church today, we see religious works, we see man-made platforms, we see tons of knowledge being poured out but no revelation, we see those bringing hard core correction to the direction of the Church but they themselves are walking in bitterness towards the Church, there’s no love in it. When we look in the Church, we see hurting people being judged for their pain, so they don’t stick around. We see people who have been attending for 30+ years who have never changed. We see concerts, celebrity pastors and exalted leaders… but we do not see love on the face of the Church nor in the Body of the Church. This is not God, this is man working from the flesh and He is visiting His Church right now putting a stop to it all!
When He is done… His Church will be the epitome of Agape love! The lost will be drawn in to find salvation. The hurting will be loved and guided into wholeness. Sin IN the Body (the Church) will no longer be tolerated but because we love the people, they will be corrected, and the person will be led to the Truth and freedom. We will see the Church in action in the streets, the stores, and everywhere they go, because they love the person next to them enough to care about where they will spend eternity. The agendas of man will no longer matter…
His love will abound above all! Lives will truly be transformed!
We are in a time that God is saying, “Return to Me and awaken to My love!” When the face of His Church is renewed to His love and His Body starts walking in it, we will see shifting we never imagined. But, if we don’t return and wake up… well, let’s look at the finishing of the word to the Church in Revelation – God said, “You either return to Me, Your first LOVE, or else I am coming and will remove your lampstand out of its place – unless you repent.” There you go, He will pluck their little show right up and say “no more!”
This should grieve our spirit, it should cause us to be in a place of intercession for those who aren’t hearing! We should NEVER want to see anyone fall or fail, love says to pray for them.
This morning as I was in prayer for this exact thing, Holy Spirit began to speak to me about the churches in my hometown. He said, “I have planted a voice in every body that is in love with Me, who walks a life that desires to see the fullness of My kingdom on this earth, who desires to see My will fulfilled. They are there, but they have been muted out of fear.” This took me into a place of deep intercession for these people I don’t even know, but God does.
He continued speaking to me about what to pray and this is what we are going to pray now…
Father, I pray for all of those in Church leadership of any kind. In the name of Jesus, I bind the deaf and mute spirits that are influencing Your people. The deaf spirit has kept them from hearing what the spirit is saying to the Church and the mute spirit that has stopped the quiet remnant, not in leadership, who desire your truth, from speaking forth Your heart. I say to the ears, be opened and to the voices, be released! I bind the fear of man that has kept many complacent and in a place of insecurity. Father, Your word says that Your perfect love casts out all fear; so, as we pray this over Your Church I pray that we will begin to see more and more repent, return to You and awaken to Your love that is fearless, fierce and free to speak Your Truth! I pray that Your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and discernment, so that we may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless before You and before man until the day of Christ. Father, fill us with all the fruits of righteousness which comes only through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God!!! Selah!
Father, I say YES to whatever You want to do. Let me be a vessel of Your love! I am willing and ready to assist Your Spirit in renewing and recreating the face of Your Church. May we become a living, breathing organism of LOVE. Your Church was never meant to be a structured organization, Your Church is Your children! Thank You for revelation, thank You for freedom and love. In Jesus name, Amen.