A Prophets Pen
By Michael Plemmons
I am continuing to place chapters from the book I have written on my blog today. My prayer is it will be a blessing.
Chapter One
The call of the hungry
In April of 2007 I began an intense
time of seeking the lord. I was not seeking wealth, fame, or spiritual power.
My heart was consumed with a desire to know him. I had by that time known him
for forty-seven years. Yet I knew in my heart of hearts there was more. I was
not satisfied with where I was and longed for a revelation of the heart o
Jesus is and has been my life, the
reason for my existence for as long as I can remember. It was during a time of
intense prayer on my face before him that I was caught up in the Spirit and was
given this vision. A vision which answered my questions for the moment and gave
me the revelation I needed to continue my search.
A large crowd of servants gathered before the
Lord seeking an audience with Jesus. They approached him with urgent petions
for the Lord. They were there seeking to be used of him. The vast majority
desired to be the vessel on which his anointing hand would rest. Their greatest
desire being to see the hand of God move and that they would be the vessel he
would use. The master looked at them with great sadness and bid that they move
to one side that their request should be heard.
When this huge crowd had left there
were a meager handful left behind. Jesus asked them, “are you not also here to
seek me for my power to rest on you?
This small enclave of believers
answered” no Lord.”
Jesus looked at them lovingly and asked “what
would you have of me.”
One of the nameless stepped forward
and said, “we have but one great desire and that is to know you. We long that
you would reveal to us your heart.”
At hearing this Jesus smiled and said, “from
ages past to this present day there have been two types of ministries in the
earth. The one that the vast majority hungers for is to be used in power to
build a large ministry that they may be used and seen as the great power of
God. Yet their motives are not pure, but tied into their own human ambition,
and so many slide into corruption and compromise, for all must be sacrificed
even their integrity for the sake of the dream.
You
however belong to the second group, whose ambition it is to know me. To you
shall I show my Fathers kingdom. Those who have walked in, tasted, and seen
with the eyes of their hearts his kingdom have by experiencing it forever
purged from them any desire for a kingdom of their own.
I shall show you the wonders of the ages to
come. As you experience the wonders of the age to come your desire for this
world and its seductive desires are forever lost and in knowing and following
me the realm of Heaven shall become your reality and your hearts desire.
To know my heart is to experience our
glory. You must learn to lose yourselves in that holy union of Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit. For to know my heart is to know our heart framed in perfect unity
with each other and with you. For as you experience our glory and see us that
way you will lose any desire to just be the vessel on which our power rests.
This holy union allows us to show ourselves as we are, and those human spirits
so privileged to experience us, will only be satisfied by Fathers hand reaching
out to others through them. They will long to see others transformed by our
presence.
Finally my children do not despair
though this process seems long and arduous. Paul spent 14 years seeking my face
in the desert; David fled from Saul enduring the shame and ridicule of so many
who mocked the man who would be King and the vagabonds with whom he lived. Yet
he was a man after my own heart.
Many shall one day stand before me and have
their works tried by fire to see if their works shall stand. Others are tried
by fire in this life to prepare them for the task I would have them do. For
though it may seem others are advancing while you seem to be standing still it
is not so. They have an anointing and by and large have launched themselves.
You have learned to do nothing without my direction and wait on my will and
guidance. Those whose desire is to know me are not so readily released, but
when they are they change the world
As
the vision ended I found myself stretched out on the floor face down weeping
before the Lord. I realized that my motivation to walk with him was the key to
what I was seeking.
I began to pray “Lord cleanse my heart and my
hands Lord of any worldly ambition. It is not my desire holy one to be an
anointed vessel of power, but rather my Lord that I might receive a revelation
of your heart and ways.”
The vision had given me a new sense of purpose
and a hunger to press on in the pathway he was calling me to.
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