"When
God is So Close You Can't Touch Him"
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"How
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I SENSED THE FATHER STRONGLY SAYING TO ME. "I'M
NOT BUILDING MY HOUSE TO PLEASE YOU... I'M BUILDING IT TO PLEASE ME!"
In the Spirit I heard a frustrating cry of disagreement and murmuring
coming against spiritual leadership and pastors who were placed in
position this hour to help build the Kingdom of God upon the earth. Many
people in God's House were missing the true building going on by the Holy
Spirit who was using certain leadership over them to conform them not into
permanent pieces of "house furniture" but individually and corporately
into the image of Christ! We were His House He was building!
I saw a Jewish Carpenter sawing and cutting on church pews that were
holding many in a "too comfortable" position. Pulpits that pastors and
leaders were leaning on to get through their sermons were beginning to
split in half as this Carpenter was taking a sledge hammer and driving a
logging wedge through them! This unique display of carpentry work was
disrupting many in the House. From the congregation's perspective it
appeared that there was trouble in the pulpit regarding pastors and
leaders. From the pulpit's point of view the trouble seemed to be caused
by the restlessness and shaking going on in the pews. A cry of frustration
was coming up out of God's House. "Lord, this isn't making any sense down
here! I sensed the Carpenter saying... "It does from up here!"
Many within the Body of Christ began to look to one another and even to
their "intercessory prayer teams" to share their complaints concerning
things they did not understand. Their leadership and certain members were
doing things that seemed unusual or different to them. As confusion
increased, I sensed the Father strongly saying, "I'm not building My House
to please you... I'm building it to please Me!"
FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
"If I may inject my own personal experience of being in the same church
for 28 years... ( I'm not bragging, I'm boasting! ) Many times I have been
found guilty of not agreeing with what was going on with certain
leadership decisions and activities of some church members. I found out
the hard way there is a place that we can go to that handles complaints
and differences concerning the building of God's house... it's the Master
Carpenter who is in charge of the "blueprint" of His own House. I found
out that for so long I was going to the wrong source for complaining, for
the House didn't belong to any of us down here but it belonged to Him!
As I began to go to the builder whose maker was God, I would say to the
Lord... "Lord, this bothers me down here with what is going on in your
House. I don't agree with so and so. I don't agree with leadership. I need
to know what "you" think about it! Nine times out of ten the Lord would
speak to me like this... "That doesn't bother Me! I sort of like it! I
like variety - that's why I never get bored!"
I sensed the Father saying. "Please don't try to fix anything in My House.
Let Me do it!"
IN A FIX
We like to fix things. We like to feel we are sort of in control, which
can become a demonic spirit. We even try to fix ourselves. Listen... "If
you get in a fix and you try to fix the fix before God fixes it, God will
fix another fix to fix you... until you let Him fix it! Many of us feel
like we are called to fix everything. Most things we try to fix are meant
to fall apart so God can pick it up!
In closing I saw the Sword of the Lord moving across the front of churches
between the congregation and pulpits, cutting off every expectation that
the people had towards their pastors and severing the expectations that
pastors had towards their congregations! These were past, present and
future expectations that could never be fulfilled by man but only by God.
As these expectations were being cut off and falling, a new hope was
rising as "My expectation cometh only from the Lord" began to fill the
House with a fresh revelation of knowing "It's not by might, nor by power
but by My Spirit," says the Lord! "Know ye not, Know ye not, you are the
temples of the living God."
A huge offering basket was being passed in God's House. We were putting in
our hammers and nails that had become weapons the enemy was using against
us in God's building program. We were being awakened to know that "Unless
the Lord builds the House, they labor in vain that build it!"
