biblereflections

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Jeremia 3:3

THEREFORE THE SHOWERS WERE WITHHELD,
THE SPRING RAIN FAILED. BUT BECAUSE YOU HAVE A HARLOT'S BROW,
YOU REFUSED TO BLUSH.
EVEN NOW DO YOU NOT CALL ME:
"MY FATHER,
YOU WHO ARE THE BRIDEGROOM OF MY YOUTH"?
WILL HE KEEP HIS WRATH FOREVER, WILL HE HOLD HIS GRUDGE TO THE END?
THIS IS WHAT YOU SAY; YET YOU DO ALL THE EVIL YOU CAN.
Jeremia 3:3

We have prayed sooooooooooooooooooo long: "let it rain, Lord!"
and we are beginning to wonder if HE is deaf or something... we keep trying to find ways to keep our faith, not to lose hope. And we pray and pray and pray.

Do not take me wrong- I AM AN INTERCESSOR. I pray a lot.
But last year when we lost the revival my eyes were opened to a terrible truth.
God will not give us a revival as long as we keep doing all the evil we can.
AND in the eyes of many people I was a spiritual woman of God.
BUT before God- my heart was full of indecent things, He was not about to walk in my midst.

God said:
"Bea, what do you think? That I do not want a revival?
I went to the cross for that revival.
I do want it.
But give me one, only one holy heart in which I can deposit my glory...
do you have it, BEA?
No, you don't. Do you know what would happen should I come down upon you,
Me being a HOLY, HOLY, HOLY God?
You would be killed instantly. And so would all the rest that keep praying, but
do not repent, do not change their ways, do not change their hearts.
Bea, I love you guys,;I want a revival not a massacre.
You guys get cleaned up. Then we can talk on what the next step should be."

BUT THIS PEOPLE'S HEART IS STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS, THEY TURN AND GO AWAY, AND SAY NOT IN THEI HEARTS, "LET US FEAR THE LORD, OUR GOD, WHO GIVES US RAIN EARLY AND LATE, IN ITS APPOINTED WEEKS OF HARVEST."
YOUR CRIMES HAVE PREVENTED THESE THINGS,
YOUR SINS HAVE TURNED BACK THESE BLESSINGS FROM YOU.
Jeremia 5:23-25

So, here I am feeling ever so small. I know of all the prayer movements and all the intercessors that are about. Yet I have no idea of how to reach them and how to point all of this out...
before we start telling the church to clean up. I think intercessors and church leaders should go before God and say:
"Father, test my heart"
this is where the revival will start.