I've said before that music is the original time machine.
I've been listening to some Hillsong that I enjoyed as a youth. It's brought back many memories of church and worship. As I reflect on my youthful years, I'm glad I spent it the way I did.
I've been listening to some Hillsong that I enjoyed as a youth. It's brought back many memories of church and worship. As I reflect on my youthful years, I'm glad I spent it the way I did.
I want talk about something that has been on my mind for some time. It is something that was revealed to me in my time of prayer. The Holy Spirit said that the times of consistent prayer produces a compounding effect, the kind of way you would think of compound interests.
It's like each time we invest in the things of God, especially the personal things that are just between you and God, not so much the public things. Each time we invest in spiritual things is like putting a drop of water in a large bucket. It will take an insane amount of drops of water to fill that bucket, but if we continue, with time, it will be filled. Once filled, one more drop will cause it to overflow. It is at this point of overflow that we begin to see a shift. It seems like suddenly things begin to happen that did not happen before. Suddenly a simple worship session, nothing different from those of days past, produces a great outpouring of the Spirit of God, great manifestations in healings, deliverance etc. And you can't explain it, you wonder, why is this happening now? It's the overflow!
Sadly many of us never reach this point because we are inconsistent, or because we get discouraged by the sheer amount of time and effort that is required to get to this point. We give up or lose heart or both. Even for those who get here, they may get caught up in the new things that are happening and forget to continue. These manifestations are but the first signs; there is more to come if we just continue. But alas, this is where many people follow the signs and forget the discipline they have been on all these years - the discipline that produced these signs. They peg themselves at that level and never advance, or worse they begin to slide back and lose sight of God.
There are somethings to which it is better never to taste than to taste and lose. Some experiences should never be ours if only they will be lost.
The word I bring to you and to myself is to never slack, never ease up, never settle, never give up, no matter what you see or do not see. Continue, persist, keep pressing, keep demanding, keep insisting because everyone who dares to ask, and keeps asking will receive what they ask for. Everyone who seeks and keeps seeking finds and the door is opened to those who won't stop knocking.