THE HEART OF GOD

THE HEART OF GOD

“The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations” (Psalm 33:11)

The "Sound of War" is Judah going before the battle with Praise unto God; prophetic singing from the heart of God. Our vision, our dreams is buried with us in our grave; His heart, God’s heart endures to all generations.

“His Heart”

Mary cradled the Life of God; she raised Him in the house of Joseph. When she began she was a teenager, when He began she was in her middle age. She lived a generation for the generation that would sacrifice it all.

Likewise, we cannot live to ourselves and for ourselves; we must too live a generation for a generation that will sacrifice it all. This world and everything in it depends upon it.

We must sing ----- dance ----- whisper ----- scream ----- write ----- gnaw the meat to the bone till we communicate the heart of God!

When we cradle the generations, when we develop and bring to maturity the generations; we have held the heart of God.

The house is the family extended from generation to generation. The sons and the daughters are looking for the fathers and the mothers that will show them the heart of God.

Your heart oh God is to all generations. From the beginning it has been Your heart to bring it to the end; it is the scarlet thread sewing the fabric of one generation to another as it burns in the sacrifice of the red heifer. You are the consuming fire burning in our hearts.

CELEBRATING HIS PRESENCE WITH THANKSGIVING

Psalm 100

Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.

2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

There are many different ways we can make noise; in physics noise is a disturbance, it is a presence that demands attention. Therefore, noise does not have to be a sound to determine its presence. We are to make a joyful noise unto the Lord; whether it is with sound or it is with our actions of determination, God desires that we cause a joyful disturbance. We are to make our presence known. We are here God; we acknowledge you and desire that you acknowledge us.

There are those that make their presence known by their disposition of anger and dissatisfaction. They do not have to make a sound for you to know they are there; you can feel their disposition as they make a clear sound in the atmosphere that they are an unhappy camper. This is a negative disturbance.

God is not interested in such disturbances; He desires that we make a joyful noise a joyful disturbance; He desires that we serve Him with gladness and that we come before presence with singing.

This is my story; this is my song praising my savior all the day long. My story is my statement and my song is the emotion expressing my statement. What are we trying to say to God and how are we trying to say it. God wants a joyful noise; He wants our presence to disturb the darkness and exhilarate the light, disturb the devil and his lies as we magnify the Lord God Almighty.

Many people live out their lives as though they are the creator and center of their own little world. This mind-set leads to a greedy possessiveness with the desire to control everything surrounding it. “Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. The message translation of the Bible reads it this way, On your feet now—applaud God! ² Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence. ³ Know this: God is God, and God, God. He made us; we didn't make him. We're his people, his well-tended sheep. ⁴ Enter with the password: "Thank you!" Make yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank him. Worship him. ⁵ For God is sheer beauty, all-generous in love, loyal always and ever.

Thanksgiving is actually a form of praise; a gratefulness that acknowledges the good fortune received in a relationship. Psalm 69:30 declares, “I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.”

THE CRUCIBLE

THE CRUCIBLE

Jeremiah 23:29

Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

Jesus said, "And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder" (Matthew 21:24). God dwells with those who are of a contrite heart; (easily broken) consequently, the presence of Jesus (the anointing) is in the breaking, the crushing. It is not until the olive is crushed that the precious oil is released.

The fire burns the steal until the fire and the steal becomes as one, then the steal can submit to the hammer. Once the hammer has shaped it's torso it is dipped in the water (the Word). The steal screams as it is permanently set to hold the edge it is destined to take. The prophet said it was like fire shut up in his bones: "...But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones..." (Jeremiah 20:9).

The precious oil in the alabaster could not be spent on the savior until the alabaster was broken. The very object that houses the anointing is the very object that must be broken. The anointing that is in us can only be released as we either, fall on the rock and be broken, or until the rock falls on us and crushes us to powder.

The crucible is Him, the "mercy-smith" placing us in the fire, the "mercy-smith" who swings the hammer, the "mercy-smith" who thrust us into the water with perfect timing. The "mercy-smith" serves us the "Sure Mercies of David:" "Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David" (Isaiah 55:3). "And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David" (Acts 13:34).