Today is Veteran's Day as we of gratitude of heart honor Veteran's of war. I will say once again, this is of those involved in not only physical battle but spiritual battle as well. The unseen battles of the Spirit are some of most intense of all and unbelief of others renders counsel ineffective. If this is difficult to understand I challenge you to pray unceasingly for a Pastor and journal how your heart changes and seek what Honor truly means in the spiritual places. The Holy Spirit will honor your heart, prayers and feat in all you do and you will be blessed. I say this here because spiritual responsibility has rendered truth in this arena. A veteran servant I am as many of you are and long to be. Service to others, servanthood, battles fought and battles won is the grand walk of one of these. Love is the cornerstone of the heart of this one. An attitude of graditude is indeed one that is cultivated, being found rendered competent to do that which you have served for.
The election is over politically but the election of the lovers of God has scarcely began. Having been both in the trenches and nearly overtaken with excessive and inexpressible joy God calls me prepared. Prepared to love the church like I have been reared up to love from the pages of the Word. I tell you the love is so intense I truly don't know why or what could have thought it possible that God could be held back from the rich love so desired to be poured forth. He says this to us all...You who are a hinderance and not a help shall be no longer according to the Word of God.
Isaiah 41:10-13 Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. Behold, all those who were incensed against you shall be as nothing, And those who strive with you shall perish. You shall seek them and not find them. Those who contend against you shall be as nothing. For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, Fear not, I will help you.
You veterans will find yourself singing prose, no pun intended....singing pros! Because those who are evidential of the greatest gifts of love in the church are found worshipers in all certainty. Spirit and in truth! These are those that know how to love and are givers. It is love that flows upward. I am reminded of walking up to the top of the landing on the steps of a stairwell, sitting next to Jesus praying through until such estatic joy. This is when you know the healing has taken place. Division, loss, harming the spirit of a child is not the heart of a veteran. I commend those who are. I caution those who are not. God sees the attitude of the heart. Yes, be thankful!
I was reminded today of days of President Reagan. Regal honor, rightly and righteously poured forth to love others from what looked like a pulpit I saw in my church once. My point; bring back America to a place of glorious repentance and refreshing (Acts 3:19). When things look bleak and fiercely oppressed of the enemy ...the Holy Spirit is about to pour out a blessing to not be contained. There is a meeting on your knees that causes this righteous flood so to speak...of the spirit (not the weather). We have to gather round about, grab hands, pray through to the blessing. True veterans know who to fight for and who to hang onto. It is the household of faith. Amidst the battle, the church grows.
One day sooner than not, I call forth a divinely appointed time of fellowship that is going to wreck (in a good way) the church unto great blessing...those things that we have merely waited for, prayed in, stood up for and desired. There won't be a Jezebel spirit present because the blessing of God cannot be in the same place as this sort of thing. It is not planned gift giving. It simply happens. Those things spoken against you and against me had a short lived lifespan. God speaks good things to those He loves and the veterans know that the election is of the lovers of God....those that know love.
