I am on my rock of prayer singing a crazy sounding yet heartfelt song of praise.
My favorite praise songs are the ones I can’t sing publicly because they are tuneless strings of random words thrown together like kids do when they are singing a song that they just made up.
You would consider it very unprofessional for a grown human to be singing like this. Haha.
My lyrics in this case are ‘Jesus is awesome, awesomeness, awesomeness. Holy Spirit is awesome, yeah awesome. Father is awesome, awesome, yeah yeah…’
I sing and dance upon the rock with a few combinations of the Australian haka and native American fire dance moves, a great combo to get your body into the flow of the spirit of joy.
While I am ‘busting a move’ I notice that the spirit of might is doing his own ridiculous dance off to the side and (to my utter shock) the friendly man dances next to him.
I suddenly feel awkward and stop my ridiculous dirge to watch them with my mouth agape.
The moment I stop singing they both turn to look at me, the spirit of might laughing heartily and the friendly man smiling brightly.
They walk over to me and the friendly man speaks first.
Friendly man:
“David used to dance and sing like that you know.”
Might: (laughs)
“Completely undignified and oblivious to the thoughts and judgement of man, that’s why I like you Courier, you are like a big child!”
Friendly man:
“I enjoy excellence when you gather together corporately because it unifies the room in worship. But when you are alone I love it when you are yourselves, just being creative and silly like children.”
Me:
“Haha Lord. I call this my ‘chains must fall’ dance.”
Friendly man:
“I know. You usually do this particular combination of singing and dancing when you are under a lot of pressure.
This kind of concert certainly draws my attention Courier. But you have not made any requests, you have just been singing and praising. What is it that you need?”
Me:
“I don’t quite know how to express all my requests without sounding like I am grumbling Lord, but I shall try.
My greatest personal need is a working toilet and shower. We got halfway with that project and then our funds had to be diverted to different things. It affects me more than I realized. Cold showers in winter while the financial weight of a multi million dollar vision hovers above my spirit and new relationships crash into each other around me as the vision picks up speed. Then I find out ten days before month end that a big sponsor is having a rough month and we need a miracle just to cover our monthly expenses.”
Might:
“And the toilet and shower situation makes you feel like a slave who must carry a heavy load while your own basic needs are ignored?”
Me:
“Wow. I did not realize why it was bugging me so much but yes, that hits the nail on the head.
Each day consists of twelve hours of prayer, problem solving and ministry in every gap that is not prayer, counselling and encouraging people around me almost nonstop, constant (huge) financial pressure – all easy to handle because my faith is in heaven to make this vision a reality.
Something as small as the need for a working toilet and shower discourages the heck out of me though. Nine months of struggling with something so basic is crazy.
I have tried to laugh through it but winter is quite a different story. Icy drops of water land on me in the mornings from frozen condensation on the roof of the bathroom. Each drop feels like acid on my my emotional drive. I feel like heaven is happy to provide for this vision but my basic needs are completely ignored.
It has no effect on my loyalty or resolution but certainly affects my morale.
It sounds so petty and silly when I say it out loud. There are people starving to death all around the world and I am complaining about a shower…”
Friendly man.
“It is not petty, I never want any of you to feel like your work is more important to me than you are.
Let us hear a report from the responsible angels to find out what is going on.”
Builder and Gatherer appear beside us, heads bowed in reverence to the friendly man.
Friendly man:
“Peace upon you sons. Let us hear a summary of progress on this vision. Where is the delay?”
Builder:
“With pleasure my lord.
The spiritual advance of the vision is on schedule but we have challenges with follow through on instructions for the physical infrastructure.
We have been at an impasse for three months. Specific vision needs are not made plain as requested so we are unable to maintain the flow of materials.
There are attacks upstream on sources of provision but we have managed to keep resources flowing in for basics from different sources while the Courier works on rolling out the business strategy.
We are pushing him beyond normal physical limits with only two hours of sleep each night but the spirit of might is carrying him.”
Might: (grins)
“Light as a feather.”
Gatherer:
“I have appeared to three wealthy believers in a dream instructing them to pay off the land so that legislative authority can be absolute, but all three have rebelled, one even sent word to the Courier to get his hopes up and then changed her mind. The enemy has thrown considerable resource to stop the manifestation of this vision.
Only the most loyal and obedient of believers are contributing. Those who would usually easily sow into missions are coming under heavy attack the moment they become aware of this vision.
We continue to seek out those who would sacrifice, but Builder’s business strategy seems like the most powerful way to advance the vision. We will have to subjugate the mountain of finance forcefully so that the enemy has no effect on the river of provision.”
Builder:
“The need to salary rural ministers is critical. Currently there are over a thousand in the united network who are sacrificing the food out of their mouths to help their members who are in need.
I have the Courier fully focused on the business strategy so that we can advance on multiple fronts simultaneously.
We need to build two thousand churches with creches in the next two years to stay on schedule.”
Might:
“So, while you push the Courier, how about you push his toilet and shower at the same time?”
Builder:
“Same challenge sir. The attacks upstream frustrate our efforts to get any special equipment for the courier. We have to completely dominate the financial mountain so that mammon is on the defensive. Right now he is on the offensive.”
Might:
“Yup, if we were building a church, money and manpower would have been flowing, but a vision that focuses purely on unity and prayer is ground zero.
All who read what the Courier records must take special note:
Many among you will feel the call to duplicate what is being done here. Do not be afraid. Count the cost, prepare your heart and go to war.
Watch carefully, learn, take note of what must be overcome to bring unity.”
Friendly man:
“Only the most faithful are able to overcome their doubts and sow generously into the advance of the kingdom. Most of my body prefer to be led by a man.
Listen well Courier:
You and all who trust you must advance the strategy that Builder has given to you with all your heart.
Close your ears to all who criticise the need for unlimited resource. You are a river. Be a river. If you obey Wisdom and Builder, the unlimited provision of heaven will flow through you.
I will send the Holy Spirit to speak to more people who might sacrifice greatly as you sacrifice greatly. Many will work beyond human limits as you do to advance unity in the kingdom.
You must take note of all who contribute so faithfully for they have made their ears deaf to the arguments that set themselves up against the knowledge of God. Pray for them and give thanks for them. Speak their names out loud so that it may be repeated in heaven. No effort, no prayer, no contribution in resources must occur without you speaking their names out loud.
Surely I tell you this:
All who work among the children, the widows, the orphans and the poor have my heart. And all who do not, do not. I shall return when my Father releases me to do so and when I return, I will pass over those who are not about my Father’s business. Those who work and do not sow to missionaries who work among the poor break my heart.
Ministers who insist on pandering to the rich are false prophets and hirelings. You are anointed to go the poor, so go to the poor. How could you possibly think that you are filled with love if you ignore those who are in need? And how could you possibly think that I abide in you if small children who suffer mean nothing to you? Don’t mock me with your own selfish greed, don’t test my grace. I know your deepest thoughts and my words are clear on what I expect of you.
False teachers ignore my word at their own peril. I come for those who love me, those who keep my commands. It will be as it was with Noah. People eating and drinking and going about their business as if I do not exist. And suddenly, too late for them to change their minds, I shall take up those who call me their husband. I come for my bride, those who submit to me as their authority, those who build my church with love and sacrifice.
To teach things that I never said and to believe things that I never said is no excuse. Those who are offended by my commands are offended by love itself.
If you think that spirituality without compassion impresses me you have another thing coming. I want you working together as one to advance my kingdom. Only those who selfishly rebel against love would ignore my request.
If I have to use one obedient man in each nation to do my will, I will use one man. But woe to you who know what to do and do not do it! Woe to you who are impressed with the sound of your own voices and ignore mine.
Woe to you who speak against unity. You are a thorn in the side of heaven.
Read every recorded word in the gospels. Read my words. Stop listening to the lies of people who would win you over with buttered up theology. They pour honey into your ears to justify their own rebellion. They hate work, they hate sacrifice, so they teach fallacies that justify laziness and rebellion.
If you love me, you will do as I say.
Take my cloak of humility. Take my sandals and go to spread the Gospel of peace in peace.
Listen well:
If you do not go spread the gospel, if you do not speak it, fund it, encourage it, you are not walking in my shoes.
As I gave everything, you must give everything.
How can you possibly, remotely, even by a long shot, think that you will reap what you have not sown? If you want heaven, you must sow heaven. For heaven is the harvest of the righteous and you cannot separate righteousness from generosity.
I was very clear when I spoke to Nicodemus about the requirements to enter heaven. Go and read it again so that it may dawn upon you.
To be born again is simply to see my kingdom. Not enter it. You are still flesh and driven by flesh.
To enter you must have a renewed spirit so that you are driven by my spirit. You must be born of the spirit.
You remember that man upon the cross beside me? He recognized me immediately and his entire spirit changed in an instant. If he had been allowed to live, he would have been one of the greatest among my believers.
It is logical is it not? There is nothing complicated about it.
Heaven is heaven because those who are there are filled with love.
How would it be heaven if it was filled with people who rebel against love?
Do you think that you somehow change your priorities when you get there?
No, just as Lucifer took love for granted, those who rebel against love on earth would take it for granted in heaven.
If you have no compassion on earth, you will have none in heaven.
But who needs your compassion in heaven? Nobody. For there is no suffering in heaven.
Your compassion is required on earth where my sheep are hungry and harried by wolves.
And there is no suffering in heaven because I keep the wolves out.
On earth where strong shepherds are needed most to keep the wolves away from my sheep, most of the strongest shepherds become hirelings. They become obsessed with their own fame. This is why we want to keep you under wraps as the courier, so that you don’t become a brand as the devil so eagerly desires.
Where a man allows his name become the brand, my name is pushed aside. And when my name is pushed aside, my heart is pushed aside with it.
When my name is pushed aside, the poor, the widows, the orphans and the prisoners are ignored because what glory is there for man in dealing with those who cannot pay him for his time?
Do not be misled by these smooth talkers who quote everyone in the Bible exept me. If you want to know my heart, know my words.
If you know my words, you will know love. For I am as my Father is and my Father is Love.
Do you feel that offense building up in your heart as you read this? It is there because I am not your Lord. For those who love me, my commands bring fullness of joy.
Take note Courier:
You must continue to do as Builder instructs, work to dominate the financial kingdom from the faith kingdom. Invade it, subjugate it, move with Wisdom and Builder with all your heart.
The spirit of Might will be with you to strengthen you, and Gatherer will continue to work to move in the hearts of those whom the Holy Spirit shows him.”
The friendly man turns to Builder.
Friendly man:
“Let him sleep for seven hours tonight and then three hours each night until the property is paid in full.”
Might: (laughs)
“And do something about the poor man’s shower!”
I laugh with him and feel like a total idiot for moaning about something so small in the light of this massive vision.
I wake up seven hours later.
And now I shall go for a lovely, cold, refreshing face wash! Hahahaha.
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Surely I tell you this:
All who work among the children, the widows, the orphans and the poor have my heart. And all who do not, do not. I shall return when my Father releases me to do so and when I return, I will pass over those who are not about my Father’s business. Those who work and do not sow to missionaries who work among the poor break my heart.
Ministers who insist on pandering to the rich are false prophets and hirelings. You are anointed to go the poor, so go to the poor. How could you possibly think that you are filled with love if you ignore those who are in need? And how could you possibly think that I abide in you if small children who suffer mean nothing to you? Don’t mock me with your own selfish greed, don’t test my grace. I know your deepest thoughts and my words are clear on what I expect of you.
False teachers ignore my word at their own peril. I come for those who love me, those who keep my commands. It will be as it was with Noah. People eating and drinking and going about their business as if I do not exist. And suddenly, too late for them to change their minds, I shall take up those who call me their husband. I come for my bride, those who submit to me as their authority, those who build my church with love and sacrifice.
To teach things that I never said and to believe things that I never said is no excuse. Those who are offended by my commands are offended by love itself.
If you think that spirituality without compassion impresses me you have another thing coming. I want you working together as one to advance my kingdom. Only those who selfishly rebel against love would ignore my request.
If I have to use one obedient man in each nation to do my will, I will use one man. But woe to you who know what to do and do not do it! Woe to you who are impressed with the sound of your own voices and ignore mine.
Woe to you who speak against unity. You are a thorn in the side of heaven.
Read every recorded word in the gospels. Read my words. Stop listening to the lies of people who would win you over with buttered up theology. They pour honey into your ears to justify their own rebellion. They hate work, they hate sacrifice, so they teach fallacies that justify laziness and rebellion.
If you love me, you will do as I say.
Take my cloak of humility. Take my sandals and go to spread the Gospel of peace in peace.
Listen well:
If you do not go spread the gospel, if you do not speak it, fund it, encourage it, you are not walking in my shoes.
As I gave everything, you must give everything.
How can you possibly, remotely, even by a long shot, think that you will reap what you have not sown? If you want heaven, you must sow heaven. For heaven is the harvest of the righteous and you cannot separate righteousness from generosity.
I was very clear when I spoke to Nicodemus about the requirements to enter heaven. Go and read it again so that it may dawn upon you.
To be born again is simply to see my kingdom. Not enter it. You are still flesh and driven by flesh.
To enter you must have a renewed spirit so that you are driven by my spirit. You must be born of the spirit.
You remember that man upon the cross beside me? He recognized me immediately and his entire spirit changed in an instant. If he had been allowed to live, he would have been one of the greatest among my believers.
It is logical is it not? There is nothing complicated about it.
Heaven is heaven because those who are there are filled with love.
How would it be heaven if it was filled with people who rebel against love?
Do you think that you somehow change your priorities when you get there?
No, just as Lucifer took love for granted, those who rebel against love on earth would take it for granted in heaven.
If you have no compassion on earth, you will have none in heaven.
But who needs your compassion in heaven? Nobody. For there is no suffering in heaven.
Your compassion is required on earth where my sheep are hungry and harried by wolves.
And there is no suffering in heaven because I keep the wolves out.
On earth where strong shepherds are needed most to keep the wolves away from my sheep, most of the strongest shepherds become hirelings. They become obsessed with their own fame. This is why we want to keep you under wraps as the courier, so that you don’t become a brand as the devil so eagerly desires.
Where a man allows his name become the brand, my name is pushed aside. And when my name is pushed aside, my heart is pushed aside with it.
When my name is pushed aside, the poor, the widows, the orphans and the prisoners are ignored because what glory is there for man in dealing with those who cannot pay him for his time?
Do not be misled by these smooth talkers who quote everyone in the Bible exept me. If you want to know my heart, know my words.
If you know my words, you will know love. For I am as my Father is and my Father is Love.
Do you feel that offense building up in your heart as you read this? It is there because I am not your Lord. For those who love me, my commands bring fullness of joy.
Take note Courier:
You must continue to do as Builder instructs, work to dominate the financial kingdom from the faith kingdom. Invade it, subjugate it, move with Wisdom and Builder with all your heart.
The spirit of Might will be with you to strengthen you, and Gatherer will continue to work to move in the hearts of those whom the Holy Spirit shows him.”