A few weeks ago. our pastors asked the leadership of our church to fast for three days and pray for the direction of the church for 2016. We were asked to write down what we heard the Lord say and present it to the church at our weekly Downpour service on Friday, January 1st.
Below is the word that the Lord gave me for our church and for myself personally:
As we come to the close of this calendar year, there are so many who don’t know Me. My Church, my children, are content to pursue their own goals and concern themselves with their own affairs. Please look up. Please pray for the harvest. Please pray for the laborers to rise up – to stand and be counted. Pray that a church-army will arise that will count the cost and pray the price.
Ask of Me, and I will refine you, purify you, strengthen and embolden you. I will help you and you will do things you can’t imagine in My strength, guided by My Spirit of wisdom and insight. Healing, miracles, deliverance and salvations are the hallmark of My appearing. Ask for Me to come. Long for Me. Yearn for Me.
Be vulnerable with one another and humble before Me. Position yourselves under the outpouring of My Spirit. This position is marked by humility, peace, and a broken and contrite spirit. Wave after wave of My glory will crash over you. The breakers of My love and acceptance will engulf you. I AM not small, or weak, or containable. At times, this Consuming Fire, and the magnitude of My Presence may seem to be too much for you. But I assure you that you can handle it.
Come up higher in Me. Don’t delay. Push every obstacle aside. Only My Kingdom is needful. Pray that My church, My body, will get in alignment and take their place in these last days.
Now you:
- Does that word resonate in your heart?
- If so, ask the Lord to reveal to you how you can act upon it. The Lord doesn’t speak just to hear Himself talk. He speaks his words to us in the Bible (the logos word) and through our renewed spirits (the rhema word). Every word of the Lord is important and carries it’s own ability to bring life. His word is a seed that will bring forth what God sent it to do (Isaiah 55:11 and Isaiah 61:11). Our job is only to let that word into our hearts and protect it with our faith. We can’t make His word happen – that’s His job. But we can value His word as holy and cooperate with Him. Valuing His word means that we take it to Him in prayer and ask Him what He wants us to do in order to cooperate with His will.
Cecily is a mother to one daughter and three sons and a step mother to two daughters. She is a native New Englander, who, while fairly-well traveled, has never lived anywhere outside of New England. She loves the beach, the mountains, good food, and football (she’s been a BIG Patriot’s fan before it was cool to be one!). She loves to cook and you will most likely find her scanning PaleoOMG.com or Pinterest for her next recipe challenge. She is an avid fitness freak, indulging in Spin, Kickboxing, and Insanity classes along with running and working out at home.
But Cecily’s greatest passion is finding hidden treasures and bold Truth in God’s Word and teaching it in such a way that everyone can understand and remember what they heard. Nothing thrills her more than when someone comes up to her and says that they have been changed by something she taught (especially when they remember the message better than she does!). Cecily is a late bloomer in the blogosphere as she was very busy raising 6 children, volunteering in their schools, starting her career as an Executive Assistant, being the Worship and Arts director at her church and then recently taking the directorship of the Women’s Ministry. Life with 6 kids in a blended family posed more challenges than the Apollo 13 team had to face, and has given Cecily endless messages and potential blog posts! Cecily speaks at Women’s Conferences and at her church as a guest minister from time to time. Her husband John is a stalwart supporter of everything she does and is her greatest cheerleader. Now that the children are grown (they keep coming home, though!), Cecily has more time to write and speak about these wonderful life lessons regarding faith, blended family life, financial and marital challenges and the joys of watching God show off His faithfulness.
Women identify with Cecily because she has survived divorce, single-motherhood, being in the trenches blending a family, loving an addict, the stresses of ministry and marketplace jobs, and the life change of children growing up and becoming adults. Cecily has not only survived but thrived as a result of every difficult and unforeseen circumstance. She loves to boast about God’s faithfulness and the importance that her day-to-day, intimate relationship with Jesus has made through it all. She shares keys and practical steps that encourage women (and men!) to pursue the Lord for themselves and not sell their ability to hear from God short. Cecily’s favorite topics to talk and write about are Hearing God’s voice, Journaling for life, and Myth-busting.
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