HOW SERIOUS IS IT???? something I wrote over 4 years ago

HOW SERIOUS IS IT??

There are times when our bodies give up under the strain and God sets you aside because you need to rest and in my time of rest this morning I was writing in my journal and it was as if God just took over my pen – this is what I wrote :

June 21^st 2009 - the longest day!

How can I get across the seriousness of what you want to do GOD at West End Impact? This is your church Lord and its serious stuff, you lead me to read Ezekiel 22v30 the other day where you saw a nation in ruin and you were looking for a man to STAND in the GAP and you found no-one who was willing to stand up against it and help fight the injustice, and wrong doing, and destruction that was going on in that nation, and to rebuild the ruins so you had no other choice than to destroy it.

Well my hope is that you will look down on Morecambe and see West End Impact you will see an organisation a church Morecambe Community Church, willing to stand in the Gap! I see and know that the government is failing and that has been a real heart ache for me to see good initiatives failing and in financial difficulty. You see organisations that are proud and just want to stand up and look good and say they have a monopoly on everything, but none of this will work, only YOU can make the difference LORD GOD!! Ultimately only YOUR people who are prepared to stand up against the wrong evil ways in this area willing to stand firm, make a sacrifice and get their hands dirty will see God’s plans fulfilled. Only those living righteous, upright God filled lives will see God working through their lives. Only those prepared to get on their knees before God regularly in prayer will see answers to prayer on a daily basis. Only those prepared to really serve God will experience His fullness. Only those who are prepared to make a difference will see a difference, only those wanting to see others blessed will be blessed. Only those who are truly giving, even when it hurts, will receive in abundance from GOD.

Those who want to carry on living their own life, their own way in their own little world will do exactly that, but don’t expect God to come into that world with you, because HE has bigger, better plans. He will surely pick someone else if you’re not prepared to follow! Don’t expect God to change your life if you want to build your own kingdom and carry on down the path of destruction, addiction, greed, self-pity, jealousy, apathy, or not even be prepared to trust GOD with your life.

Wake up! God wants you to step into HIS ways and plans – but YOU have to take action. GOD’s not going to force you to change your ways – but do you just want to sit their planning your own little selfish world, while the rest of the world lies in ruins? Or are you prepared to make a change to step up and step out, and make your life count in Jesus plan of Salvation in a needy world.

Think it through, don’t take it lightly, because it will mean, sacrifice, tiredness, feelings of helplessness, frustration, disappointment, desperation, feeling like the load is too hard to bare, times of weeping, anger and almost giving up, but its an amazing adventure of fulfilment, passion, knowing God’s pleasure, His protection, and His joy. Miracles are seen on a regular basis, and we see God’s plans slowly unfold and lives start to be changed, affected and transformed by the living GOD. We start to see the ‘dry bones get flesh on them and some are even having God’s breath of LIFE breathed into them’ (as in Ezekiel 37) We want to see more LORD, but you are looking for men and women prepared to STAND in the GAP.

When I look at some of the issues we face on a weekly basis at IMPACT it’s overwhelming, but I know with GOD’s help and much prayer it is possible to make a difference. Issues like addiction, people who have been involved in serious crime, homelessness, abuse, mental illness, bitterness, guilt, fear, debt, feelings of worthlessness and hopelessness, unemployment, people who feel everyone’s just out to get them, people who don’t trust anyone, loneliness, anger, people who don’t know how to be a parent because they never had any, people who’s lives are falling apart around them, people who don’t seem to have any problems but who are just muddling through the routine of a life full of material things and empty stuff and there is much more Lord. We are dealing with real life issues and only you GOD can truly breakthrough!! No government strategy, no new project or fancy plan, only GOD’s healing power and transforming work and that’s why we make IMPACT available for you GOD to facilitate that plan of Salvation, but we know GOD is looking for more people who are prepared to STAND in the GAP and make an IMPACT.