Today I am
posting a prophetic word given two weeks ago by one of the prophetic voices in
our church. This particular word lines up with words that was given to us late
in 2013 and where the Holy Spirit is leading those who will follow. The word late last year increased our
ministry emphasis on praise and worship this year. I feel like the Lord is
drawing us into a higher and deeper level of engaging Him in praise and
worship. Jesus said that God is Spirit and ‘His worshipers must worship in spirit and
in truth’. (John 4:24) I believe this has prophetic application beyond
our local church. As you let this
scripture and the word below saturate your very being the Holy Spirit will
bring revelation into your life.
"First, I
heard the Spirit speaking about psychological and emotional healing as opposed
to only physical healing: There is hurt in the soul that needs healing, and God
wants to heal that at Crossfire as much as the physical pain. When God speaks
of healing happening in Crossfire, He's referencing to healing in the soul and
the body.
Next, I
discerned in the Spirit something similar to a word I had at Crossfire a few
weeks ago about separating our needs from God. The Spirit showed me that it
would be wrong to always approach corporate worship through the filter of our
pain and need for healing. It's good to lay down our needs before God, but that
is not meant to be a constant, conscientious action. It's important to address
our hurt and needs sometimes by meditating on them in corporate worship, but
it's also important to be able to worship God without frequent thoughts about
specific healing needs that we have.
I heard the
Spirit say that part of pursuing Him is about giving him focus without regards
to our needs, and this requires trust that He knows our needs and has plans to
meet them. When a corporate body pursues God in worship without regard to
individual needs, but only with regard to whom and what God is, they can
receive revelations about His splendor. By putting away personal healing needs
and focusing on God, we view Him objectively, but if we pursue God in the scope
of our needs too much, we won't have an appreciation that He is bigger than our
needs. In other words, God exists apart from our needs for Him, and we won't
appreciate how big He is or His desire to help us without acknowledging that
fact. Seeing God through the scope of our needs too often can cause us to
perceive that He is smaller than He is.
I also heard the Spirit say that by pursing Him strictly to
honor who and what He is, rather than who and what He is in relation to our
needs, we will be opening the doors in our hearts wider to receive His Spirit.
This will lead to closer, more powerful encounters with His spirit and His
healing, because we'll be submitting ourselves to His character, ready to
respond to His initiative, rather than having a plan to see a specific outcome
based upon our hurts. God is who He is regardless of what we need from Him, and
when we pursue Him without an emphasis on our needs, we allow Him to reveal His
heart toward us so that we are surprised at the purity and the depth of His
goodness. And we realize that, though He doesn't owe us anything, and though He
is a very big God, He cares for us more than we care for ourselves. The
splendor of God is the coexistence of His limitless size and His unchanging
love, and a revelation of that requires an objective pursuit of Him."
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