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Topic: HEART OF THE FATHER AND PROPHETIC WARNINGS
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Loren Sandford
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Posted: 04/28/2010 at 9:40pm
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HEART OF THE FATHER AND PROPHETIC WARNINGS
The
Father’s heart:
I have not been alone in hearing from God and issuing a
prophetic word that God is moving his people from the age of salvation
to
the age of the kingdom of God, from focus on self, personal healing and
individual blessing into a focus on demonstrating the power of the
kingdom of God beyond the walls of the church for the sake of all those
Jesus came to save. But He has also been calling us deeper into His
heart – a message often lost. Sooner or later, power
exercised without the loving heart of the Father results in foolishness
and abuse, even when it’s heaven’s power. The
kingdom of God operates on the law of God and the order of God. He is,
after all, a King. His law and His order are the expression of His own
nature and character. In the days to come the apostle John’s
affirmation that “God is love” (I John 4:8) must
become incarnate in our lives and ministries at a deeper level than
ever before lest the power of the kingdom of God now being poured out
become a temporary manifestation mishandled and misapplied by those who
don’t understand its implications. Pastors and leaders
(whether women or men) must minister the Father’s heart.
Prophets must become shepherds in the Father’s heart.
Churches must be infused with the heart of the Father for the healing
of lives.
Prophetic warnings
for the days to come:
1) Beware the growth of strange theologies and subtle
twistings of the Scriptures as teachers seek to impress the body of
Christ with “new” revelation and as believers
hunger for the power they lost when they surrendered the simplicity of
merely being sons and daughters. Have you ever noticed how we moved
easily and simply in signs and wonders in the beginning of renewal and
revival, but now feel we must go to conferences and schools to learn to
do them? Thinking to become mature, we surrender the humble simplicity
of childlikeness which is a prerequisite for true heavenly power.
Unless we become as children, we cannot inherit the kingdom of God
(Matthew 18:2-3, Mark 10:15 and Luke 18:17). At heart this means that
only in the simple innocence of being children, sons and daughters, can
we truly walk in the power of the kingdom that has come to earth in
Jesus. After a lifetime of moving in renewal and revival circles, I no
longer aspire to be a miracle worker. I only want to be a son in the
confidence that as a son I’ll be a miracle worker. Jesus
healed people not because He knew HOW to heal. He healed because He was
and is the Son of God who knew His Father and moved in oneness with
Him. Ultimately we who have been adopted as sons and daughters through
Jesus will not do miracles because we’ve learned how to do
them, no matter what we might think. We will only continue to minister
the power of the kingdom if we’ve been rooted in the
Father’s love and have become one with Him as sons and
daughters.
To sum it up, in days to come we must be certain to
hunger after the right things for the right reasons. As a son of my
Father, I hunger to grow up to be like Him. This begins and ends with a
transformation of heart that enables us to walk in the height, depth
and breadth of His love that passes understanding. This is our family
heritage and inheritance. This is the source of our power and authority.
2) Beware those who teach the impartation and exercise
of kingdom power without the necessity of walking in the character of
the Father and the Son. This leads to abuse, foolish actions, bad
prophecies and inflated egos. When power and glory rest upon a
foundation built of
insecurities, fleshly ambitions, bitterness and judgments, destruction
results. Witness the tragedy of King Saul whose broken foundation
resulted first in disobedience, then in jealousy of David and finally
in the loss of his sanity when the weight of destiny came to rest upon
him. In recent years we have seen a long list of national and
international Christian leaders fall to immorality and other failures
for the same reasons that took Saul down. This must stop. Let this be a
season of the broken spirit and the broken and contrite heart that God
accepts as true sacrifice (Psalm 51:17). Too many godly approaches to
inner transformation in the Father’s love have been sown into
the body of Christ for us not to use them.
3) Beware the adoption of absolute statements put
forth by those who teach the transfer of the power and sovereignty of
God to human hands as if these were under our control to wield at will.
Not even Jesus wielded power by His own volition, but said instead, "Do
you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The
words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the
Father abiding in Me does His works” (John 14:10). The use of
the present tense in the Greek word “does”
indicates ongoing action in the present. As the Father moves, Jesus
moves. Heaven’s power does not flow at our beck and call. The
Holy Spirit does not obey us. We must rather obey Him. We must move as
He moves when He is moving.
4) Beware ever more popular teachings that in any way
deny the sovereignty and foreknowledge of God and place the future in
the hands of human beings. This may flatter our egos and fill us with a
sense of power but it reduces God to a being as bound by time as we
are. Time is a created thing. God is not. He knows the end from the
beginning because He spoke time into existence. As the Alpha and the
Omega, the beginning and the end, all of time is contained within Him
while He can be contained by nothing. In this we can rest while
continuing to take responsibility for our own decisions. We can believe
in the sovereignty and foreknowledge of God while holding to the
freedom of man to choose. We will never understand it, but God can
never be limited to our finite human understanding.
I see danger of shipwreck for the renewal movement in
all these things. Let us hold the course of humility and truth and seek
the depths of the Father’s heart.
Edited by Loren Sandford on 04/30/2010 at 3:06pm
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Jeffrey Stewart
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The Lord is giving real revelations - so it makes sense the enemy will come along and try to imitate them. ANY revelation that does not glorify Jesus and point to Jesus in some way is not from God. If it points to man, to the cleverness of man, anywhere else, throw it out.
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Posted: 04/28/2010 at 10:28pm
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I concur with this word! Thank you Jeffrey for bringing it to the table.
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Posted: 04/29/2010 at 4:12am
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Loren,
All I can say to what you have shared with us is AMEN TO THAT!!!!
God bless you,
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Posted: 04/29/2010 at 6:16am
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Amen 
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GOOD WORD!!
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YES!!!!!
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