Start Those Engines August 5th Devotional

Read:

Jude 1:20

20 But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.

God is building us strong. The engine is almost complete and He is about to put a spark in the plugs and fire it up! Once the spark goes off our strong engines will start running, but coupled with that strength, he is giving us a softness, an anointed love to give away. He is going to love people through us, and they are going to feel His love so strong as the body of Christ. He is going to bring the hurting, the lost, and the forgotten to us, and He is going to heal their hurt through us. His love can abound in our hearts and it will be so much sometimes we might think we cannot bear under the shear delight of it. But the overflow will go to His hurting children. Your family can prosper in Love and can affect others around you. God will bring us those who need to be loved. He wants us to be fully His so that He can show His true self to those who need Him the most. We must work on not judging or believing the lie of the enemy, and we must not go by what we see on the outside of the person when God is concerned about what is on the inside. We are being called to do His work, and we are called to be separate from the world, and even separate from Christians who would try to stop the call of the Lord on our lives. We need to be totally focused on Him and nothing else. He will bring the ministry to us. We MUST be willing vessels and we are going to be strong in the power of His might, but we must trust Him and be willing to do whatever He tells us to do. He loves us so much and He proved it by dying on the cross for us and He is going to show that very kind of love through us. We are going to bring His hurting people into our bosoms and hold them, let them cry, let them be angry, and let them be healed. We can have such a powerful love anointing, such an agape kind of love that can only be obtained by God working in us. He wants to give us this love so we can give it to each other and to the hurting. He wants to embrace His hurting children, like any loving father would. He is going to do it through our arms and our hands. His love is going to abound in us for we are his loving instruments, but we must be willing to let His love flow through us. This means letting go of everything, every hurt, every pain, and every offence. We need to love a homosexual, crack head, or murderer if God sends us one. Let's pray in the spirit and build ourselves up in the name of the Lord.

Prayer:

Lord light the fire within us to touch the hurting. Help us to reach out to a world that doesn't trust any longer. We desire to be your hands, your feet, and we desire to do the same things you would do Lord. Amen

by Heidi Edwards