~Save the lost, show they I AM all they need!

     Yep, in my office now :) If you read the prior post from today, this is time I spent with Jesus in my office, after letting it all go!

      Our Pastor has a huge heart for the lost. He is always encouraging and exhorting us to be disciples, to disciple, and to evangelize. I will never forget when he told us he was driving threw town and started sobbing because he could see so many lost people, people going to hell.
   My prayer has always been to have the heart of Jesus....but, did I really want it? It is clear to me now that I prayed it but did not pursue it to the fullest. I do have a heart for people, for youth, for poor, for growing the Kingdom of God, but....I see a bigger picture... I don't zoom in....Stay with me a second here....

    So, this is the view from my office :), from the bluff overlooking our small town. I was looking it over and praying and praying. I prayed for my pastors vision of reaching everyone in our town with the Gospel, however that looked like, even if it meant stepping out of my comfort zone. I prayed that God would move in this town.

   I had just read a blog by Pastor Chuck Smith on Genuine Faith and he spoke about how you can feel the wind and see its evidence...I saw wind and then I could hear God saying, "I am moving in this town...I am at work here." I could see His hands holding our town. Amazing.....

    Here is the thing, God said "I"...and that really hit me. My core group had just taken cupcakes to a shelter and I said, "We are from Calvary Chapel" as I introduced us.....Better wording would have been "God sent us here with these for you." Because, it is not about our church, my church, your church, it is ALL about HIS church! It is about HIM and HIM alone! Our goal is to build HIS Kingdom, not ours. 

    Last night we were reading and read, Matthew and in chapter 13, there is a lot of talk about seeing and not perceiving and hearing but not listening....Oh Lord, let me be like verse 16 "But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear..." 

   So, now that we are thinking about the corporate church, HIS church, lets zoom in....lets not look at what I can do or we can do to this town, lets zoom in and see what HE wants to do through us....

      Now, can you see the cars....I didn't before, I saw a town...now I see houses, businesses, cars, people....life.......My heart broke. Most of these people do not know Jesus. My neighbors, my favorite McDonald's girls, my favorite cashier, my favorite barista.....they are lost, they are going to hell. I began to weep for my city...weep for these people I could now see through His eyes. Lord, break my heart for what breaks Yours!
   And He spoke to me, "Save the lost, show them that I am all they need!"
   I saw a group of ravens flying....my favorite verse is Luke 12:24 "Consider the raves for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?"  What a beautiful picture....He is all they need, the poor, the homeless, the rich, the mighty, HE is all they need and He was showing me in words I could understand! Thank You Jesus!!!!