Each day God gives me something to write about. I have determined to follow the anointing of where God is leading. That is important and essential to our walk. Follow where He leads, not where you want Him to lead. In years past, I somehow felt that I must secure a spiritual prophetic position to impart by saying "Thus saith the Lord" or somehow to be added to some prophetic network or list, etc. to be part of the mix or gain credibility. Yet recently God is telling me to get out of any boundaries (even in the current prophetic environment) and invade the world with myself. What is in me, who is in me - He comes out so well in the midst of confrontation with the world's systems. So each day I look and listen and observe to see where God is moving and how He is speaking to me so that He may speak through me.
This writing is not started with any hype to try to prove I hear God by hyping up any surperlative language to make you want to read. I pray you do read and that you discern God is speaking through me as He wants to speak through you, in fresh and new and creative ways.
I woke up in Abu Dhabi this morning about 7 am. We live in the middle of a city of a million people, traffic, mosques, noise. Just felt compelled to have some coffee and watch CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera.................so I did. I am a Christian with a brain, and a spirit that is alive in Christ. I use it. I am not afraid to hear that which contradicts what I believe. I love it for I love confrontation. I know I have what the world needs. The question is "How do I make them see that?" Well I have to go beyond borders.
I kept hearing CNN's catchy phrase "Go Beyond Borders!" So that is my phrase for the day as they may have been speaking it but God was speaking through them to me. Go beyond borders!
That's a big statement to make for anyone. They claim to do that but they can't for they are of this world and are constricted by this world. We, as Christians, are not. We must have a Kingdom View or we will get swept up in the prevailing climate of fear and trepidation that is taking over the world. The world is like a house of cards - one little wind and it is going to crumble down. What will you do?
Now back to the statement. "Go beyond borders". You are seated with Christ in heavenly places. You are to set your mind on things above not on things of this earth. You are a person, as a Christian, of living physically in one realm while living in Christ in heavenly places. You are beyond borders. So why do we live like we are confined and constrained by the world's demands and dictates. Go beyond borders - soar in the Holy Spirit, see things as God sees things, hear things as God hears things, prophecy, live, love, challenge, confront, move, shake, disrupt, agitate......................that is LIFE.
Let fear go. Let anxiety go. Let apathy go. Let confusion go. In the name of Jesus. Wake up and move. It is time. Just move a little and go beyond the borders of your confinement and live in Christ. Don't ask me how. Ask Him and follow as He leads you out of yourself and into greater realms in Him. :)
See ya! Waiting for our car to come back from the shop so I can go to Marks and Spencer....quite British you know in Abu Dhabi......................:)
It's not about "joining in" it's about getting out! Out of the world and yes, out of our own safety zone. I'm learning the same thing......as an artist the creativity always leads you into places that you have never been, but outside the box is a great way to live. Never be confined to the expectation of others.......Holy Spirit is full of surprises and there is much anticipation each day to see them unfold.
ReplyDeleteAmen Marty.........have opened up comments for everyone. I am so blessed by what you wrote..........you are right...............getting out is the way to go led by Holy Spirit all the way.
ReplyDeleteYes, God has told me to just go..show up..Be available.."Take nothing with you"...He will speak thru us...it is not by anything we can do..not by might or power...but by Holy Spirit.
ReplyDeleteBlessings to you both...Drema
I am blessed by what you write daily, be encouraged that we are reading and learning and also being encouraged. God expand our borders and I pray for the direction in which we are to go and who we are to be!
ReplyDeleteWow, I am so encouraged!!! So often I think that I have missed the Holy Spirit somehow and that the things that I hear Him speaking to me are that of some kind of radical rebel of organized christianity. I guess to some extent that it is. I hear "get out of the box" quite often, the problem is that the minute I make a step towards the border, the same people are trying to hold me back. So as Peter once said; Lord if it be you bid me to come to you upon the water.
ReplyDeleteThought I would share some parts of an article by Ian Johnson about borders and boundaries seeing this has been the topic. ( I found it very helpful spiritually when I first saw it ).
ReplyDeleteBORDERS - BOUNDARIES - GATES - FOUNDATIONS
" DUET 32:8 When the Most High assigned lands to the nations, when he divided up the human race; he established the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of angelic beings.
ACTS 17:24 from one man he created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand which should rise and fall and he determined their boundaries.
The problem most belivers have is, they dont know how big their boundaries are. This is a season when the Lord is about to show you your boundaries. you will be surprized how big and broad they are. In seeing them you will be streched to understand how you can possess all the Lord has given you.
Its time to strech your boundaries to the place the Lord has gifted you. Time to enlarge the place of your tent and strenghten your stakes (Isa 54). Also a time to rest in what he has given you Striving outside your boundaries only brings war thats not yours to fight. Ask the Lord to define your boundaries today.
I’ve also been pondering the absolute necessity for obedience which opens gates or portals into the realm of heaven. The opposite is also true, that disobedience opens portals into the enemy’s realm...
"....The Holy Spirit is calling us to come as one new man in Messiah moving in apostolic foundations and gates of glory. In order to do this we must move from old ways and thinking and allow this reformation to be activated in our lives. This may require repentance from mindsets and attitudes that stop us seeing the heavenly pattern.
Rev 21 It was filled with the glory of God and sparkled like a precious gem, crystal clear like jasper. Its walls were broad and high, with twelve gates guarded by twelve angels.
This is what the Church is about to look like, reformation is at hand things are about to shift and change. This is Life from the dead."
IAN JOHNSON
( www.hisamazinggloryministries.org )