12 hours of Revelation

Coenraad — Fri, 07 May 2010 07:58:00 +0000

The last 12 hours of my life has been rather strange, and by that I mean strange in a good way.

Last night at worship team practise, a friend testified about what the Lord has been doing in his life the last 3 months, and how he just truly experienced God’s love for him. He has been turned into a walking preacher about the love of God, from a guy that didn’t speak when there was more than a few people around him. In his testimony he said the following, that hit me right between the eyes, even though I knew it.

If God wanted servants, He would create more angels. God created you for one purpose, and one purpose only, and that is to love you.

Now, we all know this, but we tend to add a ‘but’ after that line, saying something like…

…but I have to do this and that to really experience God’s love

When Jesus died on the cross for us, He wiped out all buts we can think about to add after the fact that we need to allow God to love us. There is nothing we can do from our side to earn His love, we already have it.

In any case, I can carry on for a while about this revelation, but this morning, during a care meeting me and 2 other friends have every Friday morning, God gave me John 1:1 in my heart.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

After reading this scripture, I just got the following from the Lord.

I am the Word, I am within you.

WOW!

I have forever tried to memorise scripture and to be able to ‘know’ the Bible, but the Bible is just a book. In the days of the early church (Acts 2 and 4 again) the Christians did not have a Bible as we know it. They had the Torah, and the teachings of the Apostles. The Bible was only written after that, and yet they were able to really grasp God’s love.

Why in the heck do we struggle so much today to understand God’s love?

I truly feel it is because we spend too much time reading the Bible as a book, which it is, and not reading it as the Word that is within me.

Believe me, from now on, I will read the Bible from a totally different perspective, since the Word lives within me.

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God’s Word

Coenraad — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:27:58 +0000

Hebrews 4:12-13

God means what he says. What he says goes. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey.

Nothing and no one is impervious to God’s Word. We can’t get away from it-no matter what.

Sitting this morning, thinking what God has in store for me and my life I got this scripture.

Now it kind of hit me between the eyes, as I am sitting at a place where I need to make a change in my life regarding my job as what I do with my time. I enrolled at the seminary a couple of weeks ago, and am going to do a certificate in Worship, and then carry on from there to do my pastoral degree.

I would love to be in full time ministry, just making music to the glory of our Father all the time, but I am also a realist, in that these things take time, especially when you have been in the work force for 10 years already. Now, if you know God has a plan for your life to make music, but you don’t have any options at this stage in life to simply make that move, how do you manage that.

My current job is sapping my soul, and I need to make a move, and I do have some options, but to stay in the same career. Is this what God really wants for me, as a stepping stone, to get myself in a position to really go into ministry, or must I take the plunge?

I ask all of you to please pray for me on this matter, please…

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