tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25635043.post5179255594683418414..comments2024-02-27T10:27:03.841-05:00Comments on The Double Edged Sword: Glory Chaser vs. Glory IndwelledJoel Spencerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02474230869182287895noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25635043.post-62953108254489731252008-05-07T09:01:00.000-04:002008-05-07T09:01:00.000-04:00I am more challenged to realize the urgency of our...I am more challenged to realize the urgency of our King's coming. I am challenged to realize that there is only ONE who will come again and I want to know the ONE who will come... not the things of HIM. Great post Joel and great comments. -kori-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25635043.post-78792697493082801332008-05-07T07:05:00.000-04:002008-05-07T07:05:00.000-04:00Justin - Thanks for sharing your personal experien...Justin - Thanks for sharing your personal experiences and viewpoints. I too was all about "breaking the mold" but, looking back, I now see that I didn't even know why. We must make it ALL about Jesus and remove ourselves out of the picture. Great comment!Joel Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02474230869182287895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25635043.post-83645084001561501602008-05-07T01:57:00.000-04:002008-05-07T01:57:00.000-04:00A timely observation. Our God is so gracious, true...A timely observation. Our God is so gracious, true & sovereign. Christ is the most beautiful, captivating & decisive Man; His reign is forevermore. It breaks my heart to know how often I reject this One, this Consuming Fire--but there is nothing like His love when He calls me as a son unto obedience. O, what a mighty God we SERVE. He is Life.<BR/><BR/>Our local body is small in number, & has swelled (quite modest swells, mind you) up & down over the last few years with souls who want an ethereal, "spontaneous" & flippant deity--& are dumbfounded at the suggestion of community & perseverance. Repentance is a dirty word & the fear of the Lord is harsh & "legalistic," or "your God is mean." These are not unbelievers or spiritual daytrippers--they are worship leaders & pillars in their peer groups. To myself, raised in the emotion & "passionate" experiences of Charismaticism, those concepts were violently foreign as well. But the successful Christian I was then had no relationship, fellowship, dependence or knowledge of Jesus. I was corrupted by whims & opinions, very much thrown about by the winds of my own doctrine & had a famished diet of the scripture. I had no authority & was buoyantly defiant about the suggestion of leadership influencing me. & to the vast majority I looked perfect. I was a standard amongst friends & family. I was so short of anything like a wife to Jesus it still shocks me. <BR/><BR/>My flesh still hates those things. Abhors them. I'd love to chalk everything up to a magical, "hey, I'm not going to box" God. My heart is impulsive, undisciplined & full of wrath. I'm nothing. I bring nothing to the table. He provides the feast. He first loved, He is JESUS. I'm capable of each & every of the blackest debaucheries God allows. But I'm chosen. It's just absent from the Holy Spirit to forget the humility & response afforded to us.<BR/><BR/>The Lord has grown such fruit from the gardens of IHOP, Lakeland, Brownsville & such--but if Christ is not given His absolute due, those seeking "glory" will find another delusion, another vapor of life & never come to a knowledge of the truth. The location is in hearts. It is the sacrifice of every square inch of ourselves that yields our salvation. It's daily repentance granted by a loving Husband who knows our devout need of Himself. It's un-American & decidedly not post-modern--which is so masterful: finally we have something obvious to die to. We have the standard of Christ, who learned obedience through suffering. It's either the Jesus of the Word or it's something else.<BR/><BR/>"Give unto the LORD, O you mighty ones, Give unto the LORD glory and strength. Give unto the LORD the glory due to His name; Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness."<BR/><BR/>Sorry, you caught a couple of blogs in my heart. I think it's shameful to post a link on here, so I dumped on you.<BR/><BR/>Bueno, bro. Keep after Jesus.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16526862370991626817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25635043.post-18841870347734538902008-05-06T21:34:00.000-04:002008-05-06T21:34:00.000-04:00Thanks for the input and remarks jerry and anonymo...Thanks for the input and remarks jerry and anonymous (x 2). Your responses are some of the best that have ever graced these cyber pages. Thanks for sharing.Joel Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02474230869182287895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25635043.post-65505526400940097942008-05-06T13:29:00.000-04:002008-05-06T13:29:00.000-04:00So well written Joel, thank you. We live in a 'hun...So well written Joel, thank you. We live in a 'hungry' nation, used to quick fixes. It is for us to spend time alone with God each day. How grateful we are for the moments of ecstasy that Father gives to us in our ever developing relationship with Him. Most of the time, we walk on, as nomads in the desert. Less of me, and more of you. In our daily life and relationship with our Father, we let go of the world, for we are not of it. He Is the Glory, and ever present. By the Grace of God, what we may offer in prayer to His glory, is the greatest intercession of love we may give to one another, as we pray for one another... and for those and all that all may know that He IS; not for an 'electric moment', but Forever.<BR/><BR/>These things will fall by the wayside, but even here the Holy Spirit is at work. We determine in Trust of God alone to be good farmers, to be humble and diligent, to till well the soil and plant seed, just as our Lord and Master Jesus Christ taught us. <BR/><BR/>The Glorious Holy Spirit makes silk purses from sows ears, in Florida, elsewhere, as he does with each of us.<BR/><BR/>Much is coming, and in God we do and must always Trust.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25635043.post-24249712719771840072008-05-06T13:03:00.000-04:002008-05-06T13:03:00.000-04:00I loved your blog and I feel you made some very cl...I loved your blog and I feel you made some very clear and sobering points. <BR/><BR/>My husband and I minister and travel within this prophetic circle and day by day we have grown more and more uncomfortable and have experienced righteous indignation over what we see as a dishonoring and misuse of God's precious glory or weightiness. It's become such a "me, me give me more" movement, yet the Lord calls us to die to ourselves, serve and love others. When the Lord baptized me with His spirit I didn't receive "spirit light" He gave me ALL of His spirit and the word says we have ALL things pertaining to LIFE AND GODLINESS IN Christ Jesus and we have ALL POWER IN THE NAME of JESUS. Like you we experience the power and sense His pleasure and presence everytime I worship him or spend time with him. His spirit dwells within me and I have his mind too which means I can do ALL things through Him and I can walk in His power. As we are alive in Christ we carry revival in us so that we can minister and touch a dead world and bring living water and life to them. We live here in Fl. and I went to 1 meeting and got so grieved I couldn't go back. My husband played on the worship team for a few days but after seeing and feeling what he did he couldn't go back. <BR/><BR/>We're believing for a much greater revival of love that will overwhelm the world. It will come by way of the hidden remnant (a nameless and faceless tribe) who are revolutionaries and refuse to "follow the masses" or signs that sparkle, shine and glow. We have chosen to gaze upon His beauty and humble ourselves before our precious saviour recognizing that it's His love that touches, heals, delivers and imparts and it's never for us - it's for the lost. I've been unnerved by all the talk of angelic activity (healing angels, angels bringing balls of fire, angels going home with people from Lakeland - an angelic impartation etc.) The church has become consumed and obsessed with signs, wonders and miracles, gold and glory yet the Word warns us not to go after these things, for if we do, even the elect would be deceived. If signs and wonders, goose bumps and drunkeness is all someone needs to declare God's presence then how easy it will be for the Anti-christ to fool the masses. All he has to do is declare angelic intervention, do some parlour tricks, produce some signs and wonders and people would blindly follow. <BR/><BR/>Thank you for being sober, awake and watchful. God is revealing the deep things to you - keep listening. I'm encouraged to know that there are more young men/women, a hidden remnant that are watchers and will be used to bring a reformation and revolution that will lead the church into the true "winds of change great harvest revival". Blessings to you!<BR/><BR/>L.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25635043.post-46945357740973350882008-05-06T12:35:00.000-04:002008-05-06T12:35:00.000-04:00Joel great thots! I think there are times where w...Joel great thots! I think there are times where we look to different wells to drink from. We just need to remember the one with Living Water! Bless you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com