Has Anybody Got a Trumpet?
Something about the trumpet sounds the very note of encouragement to the hearts of God’s people.
The Word of God and the Spirit of God are ever working to reveal the Eternal God to mortal human beings.
He is looking for our hearts, our whole-hearted, all-in hearts. That’s where great awakenings begin– with the ones who tremble not in fear but in awe of Him alone.
Our Father wants us to grow up into the deep likeness of his son, Jesus, anchored in his Word, animated by his Spirit, abiding in his presence, attached to his friends and activated in his Kingdom.
Anytime anyone awakens from sleep and rises up to follow Jesus beyond the cozy confines of domesticated religion, they must be encouraged; for the armies of hell will come against that person.
We would be well served to stop bashing the surrounding culture. We need to let judgment begin with our hearts and homes and houses of worship.
Here’s the good news: though it be seven years or seventy, it is never too late to tear down the altar to Baal and build a proper altar to God.
We want God to comfort us in our problematic life. In this frame, faith becomes more escape than engagement.
God has a plan all right– but it is not for your life. It’s just the opposite. Your life is for his plan.