Ezekiel 44:5 (New Living Translation) says, "And the Lord said to me, “Son of man, take careful notice. Use your eyes and ears..."
I read this in my devotions today and it really stuck out to me. God tells Ezekiel to take careful notice using his eyes and ears. In todays Christian church we don't use our eyes and ears to take careful notice of what God is doing. Our eyes are to busy looking at things they were never meant to look at and our ears are to busy listening for things that they were never meant to hear. You know what I mean?
Our eyes are constantly scanning the horizons for those things that satisfy us. They are trained to see everything that we want to see and trained to filter out everything we don't want to see. But as soon as someone passes by that's attractive or something passes by that we want, our eyes are drawn right to it. The same way with our ears. They only hear what they want to hear. (I know, because when Bethany tells me to do something around the house, I always seem to not hear her right.) Anyone admit to that? But as soon as someone else is having a conversation about so and so our ears perk up and can pick up the slightest change in vocal tone. It's all about what they are trained to hear. And it's sad to say that the eyes and ears of the people who make up most of our churches are not trained in taking careful notice of what God is doing.
Look at Jacob in Genesis 28:16, he says how God was in the same place he was and he was unaware of it.
Oh Lord, may our eyes and ears be attentive to the move of the Holy Spirit. May we not miss out on what You are doing. Let us all take careful notice of what You are doing here in Ford City and Kittanning. May we not miss the smallest detail that You change. Give us eyes that see into the Spiritual realm, that see what You see. Give us circumcised ears that hear in the Spirit, that are attentive to the smallest whisper of Your powerful voice. We don't want to miss a thing. I don't want to miss a thing. Do it in all of us Lord. Amen!
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The funeral today was powerful! It went on for almost two hours as a wonderful celebration of Gene Carver's life on earth. He was a very good example of someone who used his eyes & ears for God's glory. May each of us leave such a legacy when we reach the end of our earthly life!
He that hath an ear,let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.The army of the Lord must be able to glean His voice and discern the moving of His Spirit.
Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles;Prepare war,wake up the mighty men,let all the men of war draw near;let them come up: Joel 3:9
The church has enjoyed a period of relative ease in which it has become expert at cultivating and refining its methods and fields of service.God now issues a clarion call to take those "abiding"implements and turn them into weapons of war.
We declare war against the strongholds in this region!!!
It's time for us to rise up and fight!!
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