Who Am I Lord?

Who am I Lord that You would count me worthy to help build the House of Prayer?  What is man that you are mindful of Him? 

In all of our callings and dealings with Jesus we come across the question of worthiness, the question of who am I.  The Lord calls you worthy simply in the fact that He took the time to form you, to fashion you in His very own image and according to His likeness.  But I have dome so much wickedness you might say, how is it He would use me.  You are not so wicked that God can not turn you around and use you.  Remember the nations of Canaan, Israel had to go into captivity in Egypt for over 400yrs for the sins of those entire nations to reach their fullness before God was willing to destroy them.  Do you think you are so wicked that in your 70 or 80 years you can heap up enough wickedness to cause God to shut you out for good?  You can not!  You are thinking too highly of yourself if you think your wickedness can shut out Gods goodness in your short life span.  It takes generations of wickedness to bring the judgments of God upon a nation, and even in those judgments His hand is still stretched out to show you mercy.

Back to the question....Who am I?  You are the love of His life, the apple of His eye, the object of all His affections!  He is the Father who gives good gifts to His children.  He is not looking for an excuse to destroy you, on the contrary He is doing everything to rescue you from this perverse generation.  We must lift our chins up and remember who our daddy is!  Let the world do what it may to us, but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.

We are like prisoners of war who have been beaten so much that we have forgotten out royal heritage.  We wander around on this earth in this age scrambling for names and positions forgetting that we are fully in the enemies camp.  The whole earth lies under the sway of the wicked one.  He is doing everything he can to cause you to fall asleep and forget God, to stay numb to the presence of the Holy One, pursuing after worldly lusts.  Turn your eyes to heaven and forsake all for Christ, this life is but a vapor and then we are with Jesus.  When it is time to stand before Him, I want to already know Him, to be deep into our relationship, so that the transition from this age to the next is not a trial but a joy as I look to the Author and Finisher of my faith.  He is highly exalted and He calls me His bride! 

Who am I then?  I am His beloved bride.  I have been pursued and won by the One who has all authority in heaven and on earth.  Will you come?  Come Lord Jesus!

Hear God

  The Lord is speaking now and always.  He is not a silent and stoic God with nothing current to say to us.  He is not off somewhere conducting business for a time, we are His business.  Of everything created both visible and invisible we are the only ones created in His image and according to His likeness; we are His kind.  Knowing about God is not enough in the same way just knowing about your spouse is not enough.  Imagine if we treated one another in the way we assume that God is treating us.  None of our relationships would last if we came to a place of saying it is now better if I go away but do not worry or be sad because I have a book about myself.  Not only would my wife be very unhappy if I left her and said we will no longer have any communication, but I would likewise be unable to restrain myself from speaking to her.  God will not restrain Himself from speaking to the very object of His greatest affection...His bride.
  So take time to listen!  The number one priority of a believers life ought to be listening to the voice of God.  It is through the voice of God that everything happens.  Nothing happens unless He first speaks, either in us or in the earth.  Every response is a response to Gods voice.  But don't stop with simple listening, allow Him to work in You, submit to the voice of God...obey His voice.  As you obey His voice you will begin to know Him at a level far better than commandments, you will begin to know HIm and see Him as your bridegroom.  His love for you is much more passionate than you have realized, much more consistant, and not very tame.  Every longing, every desire contained in you has its true fulfillment in Him.  Its time for the church to wake up to the voice of God.

He Is Our Only Hope

If you could be godly, you wouldn’t need God.  You do not have anything original.  There is nothing new under the sun.  But God is exalted high above the sun and He is doing a new thing.  Do you want to know what it is?  Me too.  We only know about God what He has revealed about Himself.  Jesus said that He is the exact representation of the Father, so we can see Jesus in the bible, what He is like.  Whatever Jesus is like, the Father is like.  Jesus also said that it is better for us if He returns to the Father because then He would send us another Comforter, Holy Spirit.  Jesus said of Holy Spirit that He would guide us into all truth, He would tell us of things to come, and He would come in us and upon us.  Just as Jesus only did what He saw the Father doing, the Holy Spirit will only speak what He has heard from the Father.  God is revealing Himself from every direction; we must throw ourselves at His feet and worship.

He was in the beginning with God

He was in the beginning with God. John 1:2


“Before the beginning began You where there with the plan, You knew what You were going to do before You did it.”

When the earth was formless and void, You were there. When darkness covered the deep, You were there. When the Spirit brooded over the waters, You were there. There is not a time when You were not. And the voice of the Lord thundered out of the darkness, “Let there be….” You were there; The Word of God. In the beginning, the beginning, You were there. You were, and You currently are, and You will forever be. There will never be a time when You are not. You are already in my tomorrow and You are still in my yesterday and today You make Yourself known to me. Before I was You are. After I am You are. Your thoughts are ever on me, what am I that You would look at me? What am I that You became like me that I might become like You? O great and incomprehensible God, glorious and true, full of beauty and wonder, power and dominion is Yours. Speak kindly to me lest I be consumed by Your fire, for my frail frame cannot contain a glimpse of Your glory, yet You love to reveal Yourself to me.

Things Pertaining To The Kingdom

The book of Acts begins by telling us about a resurrected Jesus appearing to the apostles and speaking about things pertaining to the Kingdom of God for forty days. I would love to have heard these messages, what were they like? What would Jesus have spoken about? He would not have spent the entire forty days convincing them of His resurrection, which was taken care of quickly. What might these “things” be? Matthew 28 has the “great commission” which we have interpreted as getting people saved, but it appears that we have a “great omission”. We find that in making disciples of all nations, and baptizing them, that we ignore the teaching aspect of this commissioning. Jesus said to teach them to observe all things He commanded them.


On the road to Emmaus we know He expounded about Himself and how it was that He must suffer and rise again starting in Moses and going through all the prophets. The hearts of the disciples burned within them while He spoke.

He restored Peter on the shore of Galilee, calling him too feed the sheep, and to Mary, Thomas and the others He simply showed Himself alive.

His commandment just prior to His suffering was to love one another and believe that He was sent by God. His command after rising from the dead was to wait for the Holy Spirit and then be witnesses of His resurrection.

The message of the Kingdom is the King that was killed is now alive! The message of the Kingdom is that this King is in heaven right now, and is returning to take over the earth. It is the signs of power that accompany the message that prove the message.

Repentance is the automatic response of someone that believes. If you do not repent then you do not believe.

We have reduced the entire message of the Kingdom of God to the forgiveness of sins while eking out a pitiful existence. Repentance and forgiveness of sins is only the entranceway, the foyer so to speak. Hebrews tells us to not lay again the foundation of repentance from dead works and faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. It says we should leave the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ and move on to perfection. Yet we live as if these things are all there is, constantly living in the cycle of sin having dominion over us.

When He returns to the earth I wonder if we will have a clue as to who He is and how He does things or if we will be shocked and offended by what we see. Now is the season to learn of Him, who He is and what He is like so He can enjoy us and we can enjoy Him both now and in the ages to come.

Jesus is still alive, He is still speaking about the Kingdom, He is still returning. Give us ears to hear.