The Lord is with you!

Outnumbered?
Facing giants alone?
People around you, doubting you all the time?

Turn up and meet the enemy head-on anyway! 
- because The Lord is with you; and that's all that counts in the end!

David

Honour

In our mandate for this year we are looking at the concept of Honour. What it is to Honour God and each other?

In looking at this it is good to examine how we can apply this in our lives. A good example of this can be seen in the story of the Exodus of God’s people from SLAVERY in Egypt. It is interesting to look at this, at this time of year, because we at Forerunners have been challenged to study various traditions and what just is involved. With this in mind we look at maturing in terms of being able to choose just what we do follow. We hope by now that we are able to discern between what is merely following man’s tradition and being free to Honour God. This is a difficult and, sometimes, unpopular thing. In this example and many similar ones, God seeks to gain the Honour and respect of having the final victory. God is a jealous God and will have the final word at the end of time. Indeed the victory He acheived was unpopular and disputed even now, but in the end... every knee will bow!

I WILL GAIN HONOUR (Exodus 14:17)

In this story we know there has been a struggle between Pharoh and Moses... God’s people were finally freed because He had the last word. The BLOOD OF JESUS was and is the final word, which satisfies and defeats the enemy. Because of this, we are free to discern and do not have to be slaves to the tradition of men.

Who will be HONOURED at the end of it all.  Indeed we have a choice, but what choice best Honours God and His people?

Daniel

We have toiled all night.

We have toiled all night.

Nevertheless at your word I will let down the net (Luke 5:5). We have worked hard in our own strength and become weary and some have fainted. We have struggled between flesh and spirit but God has been good to us. He is always good to us... yet we reap what we sow.  If we sow to the flesh we reap destruction. We are consumed by you O, God. We are saved as through fire.

LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP

It is not by power or might though many of us have relied on our ability. It is a time to rely totally on the spirit of God. Heal our divided heart. Broken from the beginning. Yet we long to please you. We cannot seem to do what is good. Help us should be our cry.

AT YOUR WORD. Don't rely on your flesh it deceives you. It’s nature is to indulge. It’s desire is for comfort. Yet I alone comfort says the Lord. Let me embrace you. Let me heal you.

Bath is the deep. Within it is buried gold. But it is as ‘Legion’. The bible records that night and day this man wandered the tombs. NO ONE COULD BIND HIM (Mark 5).

Do not rely on what you think feels right.

There is a wind blowing. To one it is fresh air that is a welcome relief and to others it is something to quench.

How He longs to heal us.

Daniel

A word for Forerunners UK

In the book of Jeremiah the prophet challenges God’s people to pursue the ways and words of God over and above what seems to be contradicting this at the time.

In the sixth chapter and verse 16,  he challenges then to pause and to find God’s ways. We too are at a crucial point. It is not popular to follow God’s ways and to do things according to His words of LIFE.  These people, as we are, are challenged about WHO AND WHAT TO WORSHIP. This is a huge theme in this day and age and at this time of year. Indeed we are asked equally... what are we going to worship. We worship and bow down to so many other things in this day and age.  Is it through fear?
What does the word of God say?
At this time what are we going to bow down to?
When pursuing true healing and wholeness in this life there are so many ways. We truly stand at a junction and crossroads, but there is a way that might run contrary to what is popular.

God is able to make a way where there is no way, but (for us), it is only by listening and acting upon what He says.

Jeremiah lived at a time when the people needed DEEP HEALING and they were not getting it. The answer lay in hearing what God said.

Our Father says that He longs to help us and embrace us. He sees the real unresolved issues and what is actually in the heart. He longs for us to break patterns and MOVE ON.

Daniel

Where are you?

Sometimes we end up in a situation that feels almost impossible to move on from. We can feel totally alone and discouraged. I think many people find themselves wondering how did I get here. We can feel that we did our best but a totally burnt out by life. I think many people have a similar experience and this writing is aimed specifically at those whose experience of life has led them to an understanding of God.
So its almost as if God has lost touch with us and somehow lost track of our lives. Its like everything has been stripped away. All our normal means of coping. I think the biggest temptation is to think that this is what life is really about and that it doesn’t get any better.

The bible says in Isaiah that even youths grow weary and faint (Isaiah 40) and it expresses the frustration that we feel when it seems that everything has failed.

COME OUTSIDE

There is a lot to be said for this. When we are in the place of utter discouragement we can tend to think that life is very small and its hard to do anything. There is a lot to be said for getting out into the fresh air. But it’s more than that. In Romans 1:20, its says that we are "without excuse" when it comes to believing that nature was created by God. There is often a pattern and a ‘stumbling block’, in our experience of life.

Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord... In the story of Gideon. Once again, in this favourite story of mine, it says that the people hid in caves because of the enemy attacks in their land... and so we find Gideon hiding what little he had. But the angel came to him and presented him with a choice. Will you vacate your cave or believe that you are loved by God and could once again be useful.

LISTEN

God said to Elijah in his cave... GO OUT AND STAND OUTSIDE and LISTEN
We know that God’s revelation came to him.
In this land in which we live and the boundaries of your life... WHAT WILL YOU CHOOSE?


Daniel Chuter

Push through (again)

“would you annul my judgement, would you condemn me that you may be justified, have you an arm like God’ (Job 40:7)

I disciplined you for your own good. I wanted to see which way you would go... self righteousness or my way.

As I have shown mercy so you must.

My servant Job was right in his understanding but wrong in his opinion of me... I allowed the hardship to come upon him but no ear has heard what I have planned in RESTORATION.

So too your understanding of my judgements is limited and distorted through your own experience. Job was surrounded by well meaning but short sighted people. They were wrong in their opinions. So too you have surrounded yourselves in the opinions of others. They only know part of the story.

I AM

Your distortion prevents you from fully seeing.

CAN I NOT DO ALL THINGS

When my people had a chance to enter the land, many of them only saw giants... What do you see. When David faced Goliath Saul’s armour didn’t fit him. Don’t allows others to put their stuff on you... what are you anointed for.

Job forgave his friends and prayed for them.

I addressed Job’s FEAR... fear can lead to the wrong choice. Job said..what I feared the most has happened. Let me heal this.

LET ME WASH ALL WHITE AND START AGAIN.

Push through!

Push through! There is gold in the rubble; diamonds in the rough.

The disciples said, “we have fished all night and caught nothing”; but jesus said, “go again”
The man that was born blind must have found it hard going and even stumbled when he arose and began to walk to the pool, as jesus commanded in John 9.

Don’t be afraid of their faces! But we say “I am only a child what can I do?”
You must speak what I tell you and go to where I tell you, says The Lord.

SEND YOUR WORD O’God... as the snow falls from heaven (Isaiah 55).

The Lord has heard the cries of His people. He has seen their burdens and oppression.  Who will go for me?

The wind picks up as we walk forward. The wind makes a way where there is no way. The wind is the wind of God’s judgement and His judgement is...

THE BLOOD OF JESUS WASHES WHITE AS SNOW.


Nb: The above was written 3rd Nov 2012. 
This was the scene out the window, in Somerset, the NEXT day:

Thank you Lord for illustrating the point.

Daniel Chuter