Sunday, July 19, 2009

God's Love

If you haven't already heard, let me be the first to tell you. God is moving.

God is preparing the way right now in Tuscaloosa, AL. And there is about to be a serious awakening.

Now, don't let this freak you out. You're going to feel uncomfortable. You're going to wonder if it's real.

It's real alright. In fact it's the only REAL thing in this life. God is raising up a generation of movers and shakers. Of healing revivalists. ("Whoa, Ellen! Healing? Revivalists? Ya lost me.")

Well let me explain. GOD CAN DO ANYTHING. And He's yearning to pour out His gifts on His people. He's longing for a generation who would walk boldly into His love and gifts.

As His children we know that God wants to give us everything (Matthew 7:11). I mean He has said He will give us the keys to the Kingdom! Whoa. Me? Really... you must not know me. You must not know what I've done, what I've said, the people I've hurt. If you knew God- HA. You'd never want me.

But you see, that's where we are wrong. God DOES know, and He DOES want us. He wants the sick, the poor, the hurting, the shameful, the addicted, the sinner and the saint. He longs to free your heart from the oppression of shame and guilt.

Who else do you know that would want someone like that? A sinner. A wild child, with a regretable past.

I'll tell you who... Jesus, the spotless lamb. He tells us time and time again that He not only loves us, but that HE IS LOVE.

"And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him." (1 John 4:16)
Good stuff.

So, I say all this to encourage you. I'm personally pumped about all the awesome things God is stirring up in Tuscaloosa... but it's happening everywhere! Right now, a prayer movement is sweeping the nation. And not by any coincidence either. Right now, today, we are closer to the rapture than ever. We all know God's coming back- soon! He has structured such a time as this so that revival can break out and He can truely reveal Himself.

Y'all! That's BIG stuff! The King is coming back for His people. That's HUGE.

And I want everyone I know to be comin with me. So I won't relent. I'm going to continue to interceed for my friends, my campus, my family, my state, and my nation. God is not content with a few. Christianity is not an exclusive club for the holy. Jesus himself hung out with the theifs and prostitutes.

I pray that His heart would be your heart. That you'd see with His eyes.

There are people all around you, everyday, longing for something REAL. For a love that's real. And as the beautiful Kim Walker once said,

"God wants to encounter you and wants you to feels His love, His amazing love...We're never the same after we encounter the love of God... And YOU WOULD KNOW! Because you'd never be the same. You'd never be the same after you encountered the love of God!"
Now that's real.

I love y'all. For real. Y