It’s hard to think it’s already been over a month that we have all been back. I thought it would feel a lot different than it has. It feels as if a year has been compressed into this small frame of time only pictures of this year give clarity to. Aside from the new stop light down the street and crack in the cement not much has changed. It seems we look for change yet find it staring back at us after a hot shower splattering toothpaste on the reflection we thought we knew. I hate writing so even writing this blog now just sucks so here I go.
I’m sure all of you remember the vision I shared with all of you about the orphans unlocking others with the keys of Christ. I wrote about it when I was in Cambodia so if your lost check out my dreams and visions blog at http://christelfer.theworldrace.org/index.asp?filename=visions-and-dreams.
Well the Lord continues to birth psalm 127 in my heart all over again. In Dondo, Mozambique as I read through it I felt the Lord call me to be a spiritual father to orphans who Jesus loves to play with. As I read on I saw the importance of the holy spirits power. For it says in verse one, unless the Lord builds the house they labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman keeps awake in vain. Unless I seek to establish myself in his spirit aside from the confirmations of the world, aside from cool little ministries or strategic ways in which to minister then it will be in vain. The Lord continues in verse three by saying, Behold children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Verse four says, Like arrows in the hand of a warrior so are the children of ones youth. Verse Five continues with saying how blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.
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The Lord is saying these children are weapons of warfare. They are key weapons in the armies of the Lord to battle in the spiritual. I think of an archer being a very meticulous person making each arrow perfect. I see him Sharpening the head, placing each feather with precision so when he aims he will hit his mark with accuracy and power, firing with confidence. The Lord is calling spiritual fathers and mothers into restoring the heart of the children. Malachi 4:5 says I am restoring the hearts of the fathers back to the children and the hearts of the children back to the father so that I may not come and smite the land with a curse. There are different harvests and I see a harvest of orphans ready to receive the Lords word and count the cost at a young age. We are dealing with nations where pagan and ancestral worship has gone on for thousands of years. We are called to fulfill the great commission according to Matthew 28 and the Lord does say in Matt 24:14 that the gospel will be preached to the whole world before his return. Now don’t get me wrong I’m not discrediting missions in the states. If anything we need Jesus here more than anything and Gods mission is to glorify himself and our mission is to glorify God. So if your getting upset about overseas missions I’m simply stating what the Lord has called me to and the revelations he has given me so chill out. We need to be on the same page here. Anyways if we expect to go into a nation which has strong spiritual ties we must take prayer and fasting very seriously rooted in the heart of worship and I feel these orphans are a piece of Gods plan. His word says he uses the foolish things of the world to shame the wise. I wouldn’t discredit the Lord using these orphans to fall to there knees and pray for their own nation breaking the chains the enemy has had for years allowing for the gospel to burn and claim the land.
I feel the Lord getting me back to the heart of prayer and worship. Love is a choice and I choose to stay grounded in his springs of life and choose Him. I want to encourage all of us and this is for me just as much as it is for you, to keep our eyes fixed upon Him and the visions and dreams in which he has placed in your heart. Proverbs 4:23 says to guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life. The Lord downloaded many supernatural plans to men of the old testament. He said,” Ok Moses these are the plans to build my tabernacle and build it on earth as it is in heaven.” K so that’s not word for word but Jesus did say pray the Lords will be done on earth as it is in heaven Do not let your tiredness, your un-confidence your family your friends, the world strip you of your inheritance. The word says those who are not willing to leave the things of the world are not worthy of Him. The violent seek to take by force and so we with holy anger should seek to hold on to promises he has given us with utter care and invest in them. I believe it was the man in Matthew 25 that buried his treasure the Lord cast out. The things he gives us are meant to be invested in and meant to have return in His Kingdom. For faith without works is dead. We seek not the works but by faith, hope in his love which burns us with passion to fulfill his will by the revival in our own hearts. I have never been so broken in all my life with so many things yet felt the Love of the father in the faithfulness of his word.
I will be leaving for India to visit a few orphanages January 27 so I ask all of you for your prayers. The Lord is calling all of us to stand up and take what he Has for us. One day the Seth Barnes’, Gary Blacks and Andrew Shermans will die and we will be responsible for the next generation. We will be responsible for raising up a prophetic generations in the heart of discipleship, not bound by the ways of the world but by the ways of the holy spirit to reach out to their generation. I want my sons and daughters to come to me and because I took my inheritance I can give them living bread. Do you want to give them a stone or a snake because you didn’t take what the Lord had for you? Inheritances are meant to be given away and I want to acquire all He has for me, and let me tell you it isn’t going to be any easier in five or ten years it will only be harder. It is time we stand up in brokenness and walk with the power of the holy spirit.
