Chapter 23: "From HIM"...Minute By Minute

12/16/1990

THE meetings will be stale if everything is not “from Him and through Him and to Him.” It can be conjured of course by masters of ceremonies with tricks up their sleeves, but that’s not what I am talking about. You may do something new and exciting, or new and improved, and it will be okay for a little while — maybe a month, two months, three months. But after the novelty wears off it will be stale and lifeless if times together are not “from Him and through Him and to Him.” We need Him! We must be continually responsive to Him, our Risen Brother, the Head of the Church who is present in the room where we’re gathering “in His Name!” Having a meeting FOR Him rather than WITH Him will quickly degenerate and rot. Worship and adore HIM — Vertically! Ask Him questions! You can easily recognize in five minutes whether a meeting is merely FOR Jesus, in His honor, (which may sound good, but alone is empty and wrong), or whether it is WITH Jesus (“from Him and through Him and to Him”) as the Head, living and reigning over His church and His meeting.

How?

Here is a question that I hope you will allow to sink deeply into your heart and mind. Don’t let this one slip by. See if you can answer it in your mind’s eye. “If Jesus didn’t come to the meeting (Mat.18:20), would anything be different? Would we notice?” Be honest. Would we know it if Jesus didn’t come to a meeting? Or would it not matter because He hadn’t been Head of the church and Head of the meeting all along anyway? “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God.”

Just food for thought.

“Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are confident of better things in your case.”

When Jesus is on the Throne, and His Priests are blowing away the enemy with Spiritual Weapons,66 any need can be met, any question answered — all things spiritual, physical, or emotional can be touched in an incredibly unique and powerful way by the Master!

Don’t miss it!

Wildfire

There’s a fire starting…

Mission clear

We know just why we’re here

And after all that we’ve received,

Oh, tell me how can we withhold

(Matt. 10:8; Acts 4:20)

There’s no way

Why not think and imagine bigger

Expecting Him to do far more
(Eph. 3:20-21)

If I’m gonna live

I’m gonna live my life dreaming

Always asking what could be

What could be (Mark 10:27) (Heb. 11)

Breathe and let this spark
(2 Sam. 22:16)

Ignite a fire here

Set these hearts ablaze for you

Let the news of your Kingdom

Spread far and wide (Matt. 24:14)

We’re crying out in the night
for a wildfire (Lam. 2:18-19)
(Psa. 130:5-6)

To rip through this town

Oh, that nothing and
no one can put out

Let these dry bones come to life
and walk (Ezk. 37)

Take the weak things of this world

And for your name, Lord,
make a mighty sound

A mighty sound

And if like the men of old

We just see it from afar

We vow to treasure this vision in our hearts (Heb. 11:10)

And if we die

At least we can say we died
with a dream (Heb.11:13-16)

Always asking what could be

What could be

Breathe and let this spark

Ignite a fire here

Set these hearts ablaze for you

Let the news of your Kingdom

Spread far and wide

We’re crying out in the night for a wildfire

To rip through the land

Oh, Until Your life is like a light s
et on a stand (Matt. 5:14-16)

We left our boats

To be fishers of men (Matt. 4:18-22)

“Your kingdom come!”
(Luke 11:2) (2 Tim. 4:8)

Is our cry to the end

We’re your eager volunteers

Ready to labor for you

So give us work to do

We beg you for laborers (Matt. 9:35-38)

And we’re consumed with the desire

to see you, Jesus

Expressed in every nation

A city on a hill

That the world may know that you LIVE!

We’ve heard it said

That prayer can change the fates of men

Call down fire (1 Kings 18:36-39)

And change a nation’s course
(1 Tim. 2:1-4)

So, if we fight

We’re gonna fight on our knees

Knowing nothing is impossible

If we believe

If we believe (Matt. 19:26)
(1 Jn. 5:14-15) (Rom. 8:25)

Breathe and let this spark

Ignite a fire here

Set these hearts ablaze for you

Let the news of your Kingdom

Spread far and wide

We’re crying out in the night for a wildfire

To rip through the world

Oh, ‘til you make Jerusalem

The praise of the earth (Isa. 62:6-7)

There’s a fire starting

See it burn!

Kindled for the King’s return

See it burn!

— Gabrielle

Footnotes

66 (2Cor.10:4-5) “For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons that we fight with are not the weapons of this world. On the contrary, they have supernatural power to the tearing down of strongholds.” Back

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