Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Im here looking for once person.... I love to see crowds burn but I know it can shape history if I could find just one person...... You hear people say often that if we could a thousand people united in prayer we could do it and get it fixed! Yeah maybe.... Maybe the prayer of one faithful usually would do it.
Anyone can burn in a crowd... I want to find a person who can burn by themselves. Anyone can burn in a movement. I wanna find the one person that would pray when theres no
prayer meeting called, That would get up in the middle of the night to pray when there's no crisis. The one person that gets their personal victory when noone else is looking. That defeats their lions and bears so that one day when they have their day against Goliath they have all the confidence in the world and it isnt arrogance.
Where does the water of the last outpouring go to?
In the natural when it rains in the mountains..... where does the water go? We talk about these mountain top experiences, where these explosive invasions from God happen.. And man don't I love it. But where do these waters go? They go down into the valleys! They go down to your lowest point...
God had concealed the rain for the last outpouring in the soil that you are standing on. The darkest moment in a persons life is the greatest moment to find promotion if they would simply turn the attitude of their heart from the dread of the moment to the impossibilty that God would abandon you to a season of dryness. In Psalm 84 It says they go through the
Valley of Weeping this place of dryness and barrenness. But listen to this! They turn it into a spring. They take the crusty soil their standing on and they realise "Wait a minute! God would not abandon me to dryness" He has put me into a place where I have to press past what is obvious to find what he has hidden for me, not from me.
He has hidden refreshing within reach. It is always within reach, Its always a step beyond convenience. It's a change of heart that says He would not abandon me to dryness. He is the God of extravagance and of abundance
And a simple turning of the heart that says I know that I'm standing on pregnant soil , I do not care how dry it is. This crusty soil that I stand on. And the bible says that person takes that valley of weeping and breaks through the crust of that soil and suddenly the water from the last outpouring starts to bubble up.It says as that spring starts bubbling up the clouds come.
A valley that was dry. A people that were crying out for a great outpouring couldn't get till they discovered the water they were standing on. They couldn't get it til they turned their heart to realise he is good all the time. He wouldnt put me in a place where there
is not refreshing available for me now. I will change the attitude of my heart. And I will stop the moaning and groaning and stop calling it intercession.
Extracted and compressed from a sermon by Bill Johnson
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