The Box In the River

The Box In the River

by Ruth Johnson

Transcribed from the original recording; may contain errors.

I love CFO. And it’s probably got one of the most unique business meetings of any kind that you can attend. Because there’s such a flow… I mean, business is kind of a sidelight when we all get together. You know, it’s the emphasis of Jesus and fellowship and our love for one another. And it’s just beautiful. And the other thing I like about CFO is there’s no strangers. There’s just no strangers. And it is truly a weaving of a multitude of different people that, in the eyes of the world, should never be able to blend together and be so one as they are.

And, you know, CFO has kind of been for me. I grew up as a Christian. I grew up in a home where I was taught about God. I was taught about His Son. I was taught about salvation. I was taught about the Holy Spirit. I was taught all of those things. And even experienced them to a degree.

And I knew all about them. And I knew Jesus. And the first time I attended CFO, I knew Jesus. I was walking with the Lord. He was my Savior. But you know what CFO did for me? I think of it like a river bank for God’s river to flow through. And I thought of myself as this box in the river. You know, I want to put God in it. I had God in this box of how He should be, what He should do, how He should move, who He should move through.

I grew up Pentecostal. And any of you that have been around Pentecostals have probably picked up on it. They think they have it all. No. And… I don’t think that anymore. In fact, I’m beginning to think that we have less and less than what we thought we did.

Not from the Lord, you know, in our own minds. But that box, I was like that box in this stream. You know, I had God all figured out and packaged in this box. And the stream just flowed through and it began to melt the cardboard on the box and soak it up until it just disintegrated. And God can’t be put in a box. And He moves in many ways and He flows in many ways and He uses all of us in various ways. And I think that’s the beautiful part, the beautiful blend of CFO, is that there is such freedom in the Spirit and acceptance to be who you are. Because you accept me, I am free to be who God intended me to be. And because I accept you and love you, you’re free to be who God intended you to be. You’re free to fit into your place in His body. I’m free to fit into my place. And then we can begin to function together as a mighty body, as a powerful body, as a healthy body, and a strong body.

The scripture that I read from John 14 this morning in meditation is really my text for today. The verse that I want to key on is when Jesus said, “Greater works than these shall ye do.” “Greater works than these shall ye do.”

When I read that verse, I said, “Lord, how can I do greater works than You did? What greater works can there possibly be than a blind man receiving his sight, or a deaf one receiving their hearing, or a child being raised from the dead, and being made whole to live out a full life, or a lame man made to walk, or a woman with an issue of blood who suffered untold agony healed? What greater works than these can there be?” As Christians, the greatest thing I look on is, I mean, don’t we get excited? Aren’t we just amazed when God performs a miracle? When we see a tremendous healing take place? No, our spirits soar. What greater works than these can we do? What greater works can we do than You did while You were here on earth, Jesus? And yet Your word says, “Greater works than these shall ye do.”

And the Lord just dropped in my heart this thought. There is nothing greater than the change of a heart. There is nothing greater than when a heart is set free, and a spirit is free, to be united with the Lord, to have expression. When their heart is changed, when the renewing and the changing and the transforming of our inner person, there is nothing greater. It even surpasses a physical healing.

A changed life. I rejoice. I rejoice. And I believe our Heavenly Father rejoices. When I hear testimonies, when someone can say, “Because of what happened in my prayer group, I am no longer addicted to alcohol.” That’s the greatest miracle there is. If you’ve lived with someone addicted to alcohol, then you can rejoice in the freedom for that person, and rejoice in the change and the freedom that brings. It’s absolutely the greatest miracle. It’s a greater work than blind eyes being opened. Because, you know, a blind man, who hasn’t his physical sight, can have spiritual sight that gives him greater freedom than all of us with our ability to see.

And a deaf man, who cannot hear, can have spiritual ears, and be in tune with a God that gives him a greater freedom and joy than we have with our ears that can hear the sounds down here. See, spiritual awakening, spiritual eyesight, spiritual hearing, the inner wounds of our spirit made whole, so that we are set free to be all that God wants us to be. Those are the greater work. And we’re seeing them happen in abundance. It’s happening. It’s happening. I just did a women’s retreat in Hamilton, Montana.

And it was so exciting to see the Holy Spirit move in the lives of people and to receive the letters back sharing what God did. One lady had had her hands, she said, all her life, she had pain in her arms where she couldn’t pick things up. And it hindered whatever she tried to do, and she never understood it. And she felt like no matter what she tried to do for the Lord, there was this hindrance, this restraint.

And during the seminar, I don’t know, I just feel like I’m supposed to share this with you, but during the retreat, at one of the talks, I saw the Lord sending in His angels to minister freedom and release. And He went to this woman, and she had her arms strapped to her side with bands, and He loosed them and set her free. And she said, “Indeed, I am free.” She said, “The little things that I do now are so much easier. It’s just so much easier to do what God wants me to do.” That’s a great miracle. She’s been set free. And it says, “He who the Spirit sets free is free indeed.” We are free to do and to be all that God wants us to be. And I know that all of us here represent various CFO camps. And we have loved ones and friends we’re bringing to that camp because we want them to experience the same freedom that we’ve experienced, the same joy, the same liberty, the same victory, the same awareness of who God is and what He is and our position in Him. The same joy, the same hope that says, no matter what’s happening out here, I can live and I can rejoice and I can be full of life because I abide in Christ because Jesus is my Lord and God is my Father.

We want them to experience that. You all, God wants you all, as channels for that to happen. In order for us to be that channel, we need to abide in Christ. We need to abide in Christ. The whole chapter 14 of John is talking about abiding in Christ. And what does that mean? How do we know if we are? Where is that abiding place? When can we abide there?

Can all of us abide in Christ? Is it for all of us or just a select few? Why do we need to? You know, I think of an abiding place as where I live. It’s my home. It’s where I dwell.

It’s where I’m at ease. It’s where I feel comfort. It’s where I feel security. It’s where I can go to be alone. It’s where I can go to be totally myself. That’s ideally what home should be. And you know, that’s really ideally what our abiding place in Christ is. It’s a place of complete security and comfort within. Within.

There’s no threats there. There’s no concern that I will be kicked out. I am secure there. In Jesus. And He says in John, that it is through believing and trusting in Him that we enter into that abiding place with Him.

“Believe in me, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me.” Believe. Believe. Trust. It’s through faith that we realize that we are seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. See, we are in Jesus. We dwell in Him. And He’s seated at the right hand of the Father. So we’re seated at the right hand of the Father. We’re in heavenly places. My prayer this morning is that you would know from the depths of your being your position as a child of God.

Your place as a child of God. Because out of that knowing, you’re liberated to flow in Him and to flow in His Spirit, and not be distracted, or dismayed, or discouraged by what you see down here. We are seeing many terrible things rising up in our nation. And they could strike terror and fear in our hearts, and they will strike terror and fear in our hearts if we do not know our position in Christ. And if we do not recognize where we are seated, and who we belong to.

He said, “Don’t be dismayed. Don’t panic. Don’t be troubled. Don’t come unglued. You’re seated in heavenly places. I’ve gone to prepare a place for you. And when I’m ready, I’m going to come and I’m going to take you there.” But you know, I believe… I believe that’s for now. See, I am taken and seated in heavenly places when I come into Christ. Not when I die and go to heaven. I’m there now in the spirit. Eternal life begins the moment you accept Jesus. It doesn’t mean your physical body won’t die, but that eternal life, that victory, that flow, that vibrancy of eternity, and His Spirit flowing through us, that begins when we accept Him.

I experienced an experience at a CFO camp, and Montana people, bear with me. I remember it so clearly, because it was a transforming experience. I had been sitting… Tim Ruthven was our speaker, and every time he got up to speak, I’d cry. And I didn’t know why I’d cry, but I’d sit there and the tears would just flow down my face. And I’d say, “God, I want what he has.” And I didn’t know what he had that I didn’t have, because I thought I had everything. Ooh. You know how we get, you know. I was Pentecostal, remember? No, no. I’m kidding. But I’d say, “He’s got something I don’t have. And God, I want what he has.” And he’d come, he’d finish speaking, and I’d leave, and I’d feel embarrassed because I’d cried all the way through it. And this went on every one of his talks throughout camp. And one day, toward the end, while he was talking, and I was sitting there and weeping, and I think, “God, I want what he has, whatever it is. I have to have it.” And I had this vision. And this cone of light came down out of heaven toward me, and it was just a white, intense, beautiful light. And it went out and spanned toward the heavens.

And I was standing on the threshold of a door. And behind me was this long, long corridor with many, many doors in it, and they all were standing open. And the further back the corridor went, the darker it got. But I realized that had been my life. The process of coming down that corridor. And I was standing on the threshold of something, a place I’d never been before.

And I felt a presence beside me, and a voice saying to me, “Ruth, walk out into the light.” And I said, “No. No one else is out there. I don’t want to be the first.” It’s scary to do something when you don’t see another, a whole gang doing it. You know? And He said, “Yes, there are. There are others out there. And you will understand when you step out into the light.”

And this awesome sense of responsibility came to me. But if I step out in the light, I can never run back and hide back there where I was before. I can’t go back. I don’t know if I’m ready for that. I’m not sure yet if I… Maybe I don’t want to weigh out sometimes if the pressure gets too hard. And He just gently… This voice was gently urging me, “Go ahead. Go ahead. Step out into the light.” And I walked out very carefully into the light. And as I did, it was like I could see myself. And this light began to infuse me. And absorb me. Until I was totally… I disappeared.

And then I understood. There were a lot of people in that life that the light of Christ had absorbed until they disappeared. And it was Jesus that we see, that I see. And I felt, I literally felt in my body the infusion of that light. Just like it was just going through me, pulsating through me. And I went out and sighed and I said, “God, what is this? If this is You, Your word will bear it forth as being true. If this is from You, God, there will be scripture that will confirm what is happening to me.” Always confirm what is happening to you with the word. Because there are many lying signs and wonders in the earth. And they’re becoming greater and greater. Stronger. More and more. But the Lord just spoke to me and He said, “Go look up John 11:25.” And I had no idea what John 11:25 said. But when I went and looked it up, it said, “Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he may die, yet shall he live. And whoever continues to live and believe in me, shall never actually die at all. Do you believe this?” She said, “Yes, Lord. I have believed. I believe that You are the Messiah, the Anointed One, the Son of God, who has come into the world.”

“It is for Your coming that the world has waited.” But Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life.” See, we can live in resurrection life now. We can live in the victory of it. We can live in the freedom of it. We can experience release from all hindrances, any habits that beset us, any fears, angers, anything, that hinders the flow of the Lord through us. We can be freed up. And we can walk in His resurrection life and His resurrection power. And we can see the lives of those around us changed because we’re a channel of His love and His life and His light. And I know, I know that that’s the heart’s desire of all of you here today. To be free, totally and completely. To be a channel of the Holy Spirit. To be used of God. To carry out His plan and His purpose and His will. Now, for His glory. And resurrection life is there for all of us. If we believe. If we will cast ourselves upon the Lord. If we will come to Him with our hearts wide open. Crying out to know Him. Paul said, “I know nothing save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Everything else that I ever knew before is all secondary to knowing Jesus Christ and Him crucified.”

That is the single most important thing that we can know. And out of that will flow the issues of life. And liberty. And freedom. “I know nothing save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” Recently I was reading in Ephesians chapter 3. Another passage I read to you today. Where it says that Paul was praying that the people of Ephesus would be filled up with all the fullness of God. That they would be filled up to overflowing with all the fullness of God. And I thought, well, if Paul prayed that, I better pray that. I better pray that. Because my well does run dry. And my well develops holes in it. I mean, I have to be filled. Every day I have to be filled. Yesterday’s fullness isn’t fresh and new today. I need fullness. I need filling. I need Jesus. Fresh and new and vital and living in me today. What happened yesterday is not going to give me the manna for today. I need Jesus today. And so I began to pray. “God, I’m going to pray this prayer. Fill me up with all Your fullness. Ephesians 3:19, that I may be filled unto all the fullness of God. May the richest measure of the divine presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself.”

Can you imagine? And I said, “God, how would I know if that happened? What would that be like? I’m praying a prayer that is beyond my wildest dreams and imaginations. I cannot even fathom what being filled up with all Your fullness is like. I have no idea. Can it… is it possible? How can all Your fullness be poured into a person?”

Such an awesome God. And yet I pray, “Lord, I want to be filled up with all the fullness that You have for me.” And I prayed that prayer for several days in a row. Just… I would come back and… And I would read it again and I would… God! God! There is a mystery here. I don’t understand. I still don’t understand.

But You… But Paul prayed it. And I am going to pray it. And I am going to pray it for Your church, Lord. For Your people. For all Your peoples of this earth. That we be filled with Your fullness. That the world can see God through us. That their hearts will be filled with a hunger and a yearning. So when the world looks at me, they are not going to yearn after anything about me. But God, I want them to yearn. I want them to see You until they hunger and thirst for You. I want it to be You they want. When they look at me. And we had gotten a movie for our kids to watch. Just some… cute little movie at the Christian Entertainment Center. And we were sitting in the living room watching the movie one evening. And I got up to go down and do laundry. And when I walked down my stairway to my basement, I just felt like something just… impacted me. I mean, it was just like… And I took a deep breath. And I began to pray. And I began to pray in my heavenly language. And I thought, The Lord must want me to go pray. And I went downstairs and got on my knees. And I began to pray.

And I couldn’t stop. And it became so forceful. And it went on for an hour and a half. And I went upstairs to try to tell my husband what was going on. And tell him to put the kids to bed and pray with them. And just, you know… And no English words would come out of my mouth. I’ve never had that happen to me before. Ever. And I said… I started to say, “Don.” And, you know, no English would come out. And it wasn’t… It was like a fountain. It wasn’t something I could put a cap on. If I opened my mouth, it just flowed out of me with… I was out of control.

And I thought, What’s this all about? You know, I was rational in my mind. And I was trying to… “God, what are You wanting me to pray about? What’s going on? Who is somebody in a car wreck, you know?” And I mean… All these crazy thoughts were going through my head. And…

Finally… I mean, it was so intense. And I finally said, “God, I can’t take any more of this. Lift it.” And just like that, it stopped. And I said, “What was that?” And He said, “You’ve been praying to be filled up with my fullness.”

But He said, “You can’t contain it. You couldn’t stand it. If I poured it all out, you couldn’t stand it.” That’s how mighty and how powerful our God is. And it transforms and it changes our lives. Well, how does this apply to the everyday life? How do we make it fit that? Okay, that’s a great experience. But how does it apply to my everyday life? Well, we just went through putting on a Christian Ed seminar. And I don’t know if you’ve ever put on a seminar of that sort of thing. But, you know, it takes hours and hours of preparation and work. And so we were getting pressed and pressured. And our emotions were getting a little thin.

And getting a little bit of temper there. And I don’t have a temper, do I, Christian? Okay. Well, my temper, I have to continually submit to Christ. I have to continually remind myself. My temper that it’s seated in heavenly places and it can’t get out of hand. But I was getting really upset. And I went home and I was mumbling and grumbling and I was saying, “God…” No? You ever do that? Never. “That person… What am I supposed to do?” And… No?

I forgot about being filled up with Him. I’ve been preoccupied with all the things I had to do. But see, I could come right back and say, “Okay, God. Okay. It takes You in me for there to be any love. And particularly in this situation. There’s no love in myself. I have no love for anyone or anybody. I am utterly self-centered. Without the Spirit of God in my life. Without His transforming power in my life. I have no love.” But that’s just a comfort. Because then I don’t have to know something anymore. I don’t have to know any facts of feelings I don’t have. I don’t have to pretend something anymore. I just have to plug into Him. And let Him do it to me. And He does. He does. He does. The next time I saw this person that I had gotten so angry with, I remembered what He said to me. About what? Well, first of all, when He said that, I stopped thinking my aim of that. Because I started tuning in on Him being the source to give me the love. And the second thing that happened was when I saw this person, I wanted to go and hug them. I wanted to go and touch them. I wanted to go and let them know that the crisis we were having were over on my part.

I wanted them to forgive me for my obstinance, my insistence on doing it my way because I thought it was better. That’s how it works in our everyday life. That’s how it works when we face circumstances that are beyond ourselves. When we face things that we are powerless to change, powerless to control, we can do nothing about that. Then we can go to the Father.

I’ve gone and been in the face of very difficult circumstances. And will throw myself on the bed and pretend to cry out to God and just, “Oh Lord, help!” You know? That kind of cry. “What are we going to do about this? It’s impossible, God! Da-da-da-da-da-da!” No?

And He’ll say, “Calm down. Calm down. That’s okay. Remember where you’re at. Remember. You are seated up here with me. We can just talk about this. You don’t have to be so elething about it.” Don’t ever do that with your kids. They hurt their knee or a friend or a son. I mean, they come running in off the playground. They haven’t had their way. Somebody hit them. Somebody knocked them off the swing. They knocked somebody off the swing. But they don’t want you to know that’s what they did. And they come running in. “Mama! Mama! Da-da-da-da-da!” And you say, “Calm down. Calm down. Calm down. Now let’s see. Let’s see. Oh yeah, there’s a little blood. Let’s clean this up. Let’s take care of this. It’s okay. It’s okay. We’re gonna…” Even if it’s really serious. Even if they’re gushing blood. You still calm them down. You still tell them it’s okay. Once you get this taken care of, you know, you bring a calm. And you remind them, “God’s in control. It’s okay.” And they settled into your security. And that’s how it is with our Heavenly Father. And that’s what He has to do with me. “Remember who… Remember where you’re at. I’m your Heavenly Father. You’re seated in heavenly places with me.”

“This isn’t the end of your world. Calm down. And let me live with you. Let’s take care of this. Just feel it to you. It’s okay. You don’t have to sort it all out. You don’t have to get it all solved. Remember where you’re at.” And He’s resting in you. And He seeks peace in His suggestions. And there’s a liberty. And I don’t have to take on a deep wound. That I’ve been rejected. Or I’ve been forgotten. Or God doesn’t care about me. Or if He was really there, He’d do something about this. Then I have to lean into all of us. Because I’m seated in heavenly places with Him. And there’s freedom. There’s liberty in knowing where we are. And then we can get all upset and in turmoil about everything we do. And everything that’s going on around us. And this is happening and that’s happening. And everything that’s going on around us. And He’s going to say, “Look up here from my viewpoint.”

God does not want us looking at life through the eyes of the natural man. He says… He said in John… When Jesus said, “My Father will show you all things.” That’s what He said. Just see if I can find it.

He says… Yes, in verse 21. “The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who really loves me. And whoever really loves me will be loved by my Father. I too will love him and will show myself to him. I will let myself clearly be seen by him and make myself real to him.” If Jesus lets Himself clearly be seen to us and makes Himself real to us, that’s all we need to really know and understand what’s going on in this life.

The reality of Jesus is more real, more important than anything that we see in the earth. And it puts it into perspective. I read a magazine article, a story of a woman who was in a foreign country, and the government officials of that country took her captive. And they used and abused her sexually and physically. They did all manner of evil against her and her body for six months. And she was a Christian lady. And the interviewer in the article asked her, “How did you survive? How did you keep from losing your mind?” And she said, “I give my body, my heart, and my mind to Jesus as a guest.” And she said, “I told Him, If this is how You should get to use my mind and my body and my heart today, And Jesus, I’ve got to cling to You and rest in me.” And that’s how she made it through every day. And I thought, my God, could I say that? And she came out of that un-God.

Emotionally un-God. Because of Jesus. Because of Jesus. She knew what Jesus was positioned in Him. She’d given up all of her rights. All, everything she was or had, she’d given to Him. So it wasn’t her, but it was happening to her.

And she’s got a beautiful ministry. She, you know, her life did not end there. And I said, “Oh God, I want to be like that, but I don’t want to go through what she went through.” And He said, “Ruth, you put limitations on giving yourself to me.” God is very honest with us. There’s three elements of communication that are essential for a close, intimate relationship. One is trust. The other is honesty. And the third is vulnerability.

Vulnerability. Willing to be vulnerable. When I’m willing to be vulnerable with God, trust God, and be honest with God, then that releases His power to be totally honest with me. Be with first, vulnerable with me. He sent His Son Jesus to die, not knowing whether I’d accept Him or not. He sent His Son to pay the greatest sacrifice that He could, not knowing whether I was going to respond to His act of love or not. That’s what vulnerability is.

And when I’m willing to be vulnerable and honest with Him and trust Him, you know, and He said, when I said, “God, I want You, I want that kind of a relationship with You, I want it to be that way with you guys, but don’t, you know,” and He said, “Will you not trust me? My goodness is in your life.” He said, “Don’t put any conditions in me. That’s not being vulnerable and trusting.” I said, “But God, it’s being honest.”

No, we can have, we need to have, that kind of relationship with our Heavenly Father. And it’s available for all of us. It’s the freely He has given to us. His fullness, His light, His Spirit. Let this time between now and your tant time be a time of prayer, that God will fill you up with His fullness, that you would know if you don’t know, that you are seated in heavenly places. It talks about knowing experientially the love of God.

May Christ, through your faith, actually dwell, settle down, and abide, and make His permanent home in your heart. And may you be rooted deep in love, and founded securely on love, on His love for you. If I know God loves me, then I can trust Him, no matter what. No matter what. That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints, God’s devoted people, the experience of that love. What is the breadth and length and height and depth of us? That you may really come to know, practically, to experience for yourself, the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience. That you may be filled, through all your being, unto the fullness of God.

That you may have the riches of the divine presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself, that the Father may use you to fulfill Isaiah, where it says that we are to set the captives free, to loose the bands of wickedness, to let the oppressed go free, to be used of God to open prison doors, and lead the captives out of captivity. We are the body of Christ. We are an extension of Him to the world. His Spirit multiplied through us, and flowing through us, manifesting Christ to the world.

He says, “Repent, and be baptized, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Have you ever thought about that? That’s being immersed in the Father, immersed in the Son, immersed in the Holy Spirit. That reminds me of a story. I’ve heard this little girl listen, as the minister was baptizing, in the congregation. And she went home, and a few days later, her mother saw her outside with her doll, and she was saying some words, and then putting this doll down in this hole. And her mother went out, and was bullshitting, trying to figure out what she’s doing, and she’s saying, “In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, go in the hole.”

And that’s what she thought, with bread. But we want to be immersed. We want to be immersed. We don’t want to go in the hole. We want to be immersed, in the name of the Father. We want to be immersed in God, immersed in Jesus, immersed in His Holy Spirit, that what infuses out through us is the love and the Spirit of Christ. And when the world looks at us, that’s what they see. More of Jesus, and less of me.

Let’s pray. Hallelujah, Father. Hallelujah. God, You are, You are, You are the great I Am. The I Am that is all that we could ever ask, or think, or need. Lift up our eyes, Lord. Lift up our eyes to focus on You.

Father, let Your Spirit fill and immerse us today. God, all our words are empty, and use us, without the empowerment and the unpacking of Your Spirit, to bring them to life within us. We thank You for Your anointing, for Your Spirit, for Your presence, Lord.

For Your visitation in our lives, for the hope You’ve given us, for the power of Your Word to bring life within us. One day, in prayer, I saw a wall. I saw the glory of God, shining, vibrant, living glory of God. And it came over the wall, and bathed in light the other side of the wall. But there was a portion where it was a shadow by the wall. And I saw God’s people walking in the shadow. And the wall was not a solid wall, it was a wall that was high in one place and low in another, and crumbling, and there was debris around the base of it, and that were falling out of place.

And I asked the Lord, “What is that wall that hinders Your glory completely, completely, sleeping, so where there are no shadows?” And He said, “That wall is the sins of my truth. Those things that they have not repented us.”

And I said, “Oh God, help us.” And He said, “Ruth, you have a couple bricks in that wall. What are you going to do about it?” And I realized that repentance has to begin with each individual heart. And then it will spread, and that wall will just crumble down. So Father, we just want to take a moment, a time, God, to repent before You, to turn away, to not reinforce those bricks in our wall, but to allow Your Spirit to chisel them out, and to throw them down, to cast down the vain imaginations that would exalt themselves against God.

Lord, to root out any desire left in our heart that is stronger, that is stronger than our desire and hunger for You. God, that we may go forth in Your mind and in Your power, as a strong, and honor, each one going, going to our various homes and camps, continuing to spread Your love and Your Spirit.

God, I just thank You, because I see, even now, bricks being taken out of that wall. I see a crumbling going on here and across Your nation, as Christians are turning more and more to You, and attending Your heart to You.

Father, I am so excited about what lies ahead for Your church. What lies ahead for Your people. We want to be a part. We want to be, used to be God. The rivers of living water flowing out of us.

Making us spiritually lame, to spiritually halt, to spiritually blind, to spiritually deaf. Feeling, releasing, send us forth in Your power, in the might of Your Spirit, Lord.