The Great Love Fest

The last few weeks have been incredibly busy. I am sitting here trying to figure out how to write and publish a blog post in 30 minutes or less.

I have so much on my heart. The week of Awaken The Dawn was beyond what I could probably express in words. We were there-thousands of us representing every state. We rendered worship and prayer to our King together. That is the word: Together. It felt like we were more together than we had ever been.

It was like a big Jesus love fest; a huge family reunion. There are no words to describe how much of a connection Spirit-filled spirits can make without the use of many words. We would greet each other like long lost friends who are simply happy to see one another once again. We held each other’s hands, we prayed, we cried and we embraced pouring it all out, not knowing when it was the next time we’d lay eyes on one another.

Our worship times were filled with intense angelic activity. There is no doubt there was a rumbling in the spirit realm. Things were shaking. Things were moving. It was beyond shackles falling. It was the sound of entire empires crumbling. The Kingdom of Heaven was here, and no empire can withstand a united royal priesthood. At Awaken The Dawn, The Church became unshakable.

So many of us worshipping and praying to our Living God. So many of us loving one another and encouraging one another. I had many moments when my heart was so filled with literal bliss. I kept telling myself: "This is the way the true Church really is. This is the way heaven is gonna be like.” For a few days, we were a reflection of heaven. We saw in each others' eyes the way Jesus sees us, and then love happened.

I have no doubt that something incredible was conceived this weekend. It was like we went back to the beginning. We made it all about Him and about each other. We were whole the way we were always meant to be whole.

I was prayed for at least 10 times each day at ATD. Every word was an accurate and on-time word. Every hug, every look, every touch I received from every mother, every father, every brother, meant so very much to me. Awaken The Dawn was in many ways the gathering I had been searching for all of my life. It was my family. It was the family I knew I had somewhere. It was the bigest reunion.

And then just as my heart was filled with so much bliss, I would struggle thinking about the end. Why does it have to end? Can we not keep it going? My heart yearns for heaven with all passion. I yearn for heaven constantly. I seek it with all of me. I seek my Daddy and I seek my family. I need to be in communion with Him and her.

But then one of my sisters said to me: "But now we get to bring it back to wherever we’re going" And I said: “Oh... yeah, that's right.” It's always about the next. It's always about the lost. It's always about the one who hasn't heard the Good News. It's always about the one who hasn't partaken of the goodness of God, of His love, of His mercy. And I guess that's why we're all still here.

I forgot for a moment that this was not the end; that there are still many who have not heard and need to hear. That's why we're all here. That's why it's not time for any of us to go yet.

Awaken The Dawn was like heaven on earth. But what if the whole world was like heaven on earth? Can we do it? Can we possibly bring heaven wherever we go? I'm confident we can. Let's do it: Together 💛

Is The Gospel Powerful Enough To Unite Us?

Two weeks ago I was given a prophetic word about taking communion for an extended amount of days. At first, I thought it was an unnecessary act of faith. I couldn't understand the purpose of taking it so often. Jesus said we are to do it in remembrance of Him. But if I remember today, do I really have to remember tomorrow?

One of the reasons I didn't want to take it so much is because of the powerful significance of communion and my fear of letting it become ordinary. Communion has always been an incredibly emotional and powerful experience for me. Every time I take communion I can feel how crushed His body was for me and I can feel the holiness of His blood going down and cleaning me whole. I feel and experience all of the intensity of His sacrifice for me. But more than anything I also feel and experience all of the redemption that comes from His sacrifice.

I have been taking communion every day, several times in the day as I am led. I take communion every time I am sad and cannot shake off the sadness. I take communion when I am concerned and cannot shake off the worry. I take communion when there is something that I cannot do on my own. And after I take it, Christ deals with whatever I am dealing with immediately. It is incredible. I take all of my burdens to Jesus and He makes me whole. He makes my body, my mind and my heart well. And He proves over and over again that He is the only one who can make me whole.

There is so much that we want to do on our own. It is so difficult for us to really truly accept that it has been done and that He has really done it. Yes, God has really done it. Yes, we already have the victory in Him because He was made victorious for us. Yes, we are winning. But the question is: if we are victorious in Him, then why do we act as if we were defeated all the time? Why do we fight as if we we haven't been given powerful victorious weapons?

The sacrifice of Jesus is incredibly powerful. Incredibly powerful. And the more we try to do on our own and the more we try to complement the gospel, the more ineffective we are amongst ourselves and for the world.

The gospel does not need complementing. The gospel is complete. Jesus' very words were that it is finished. (John 19:30)

It is finished. It is finished.

All of that pain from your past, is finished. All of your insecurities and incompetencies are finished. All of your sin and the life you used to have, they are finished.

The gospel is so powerful. The more that we draw away from the gospel, the more trouble we encounter. We run into incorrect theologies. We settle for lives that are less than the kingdom that Jesus brought. He said that He came so that we may have life and have it in abundance. (John 10:10)

This is why unity in the Body of Christ is so important. Jesus' one prayer for the disciples was so that we may be one, as He and the Father are one. The word says that the Body is being built and the head Body is Jesus. (Ephesians 3:12-13) We are that Body of Christ. We are the redeemed, saved, sanctified, transformed Body of Christ. If we have really received and believed and embraced this powerful Gospel, then we are the transformed Body, and as a Body, we are together. A Body that has been healed, changed and transformed is not a Body that is missing limbs. The Body is whole.

So my exhortation to the Body is to get back to the very basics of the Gospel. How powerful is the gospel to us, right now? How much have we accepted and embraced of it? And if we have, why are there limbs missing?

Let's take it to Jesus. Let Him redeem us and unite us as individuals and as a Church.

If you have a deep desire and passion to see the church united, join us in Washington DC tonight through Monday. Find the information here: http://www.awakenthedawn.org/