Listen. Certainly, God wants His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven! He wants to partner with us and show us what's going on in heaven, heaven's realities, so that they will be real on the earth, too. I tell you, when your partnership with God is at a level where you can co-labor with Him so that heaven and earth converge, your whole life in Christ will take on a whole new meaning. Ponder that!
We have a big, big God. He wants us to live our lives "out of the box" just like He does!How is the world going to know who He is if we don't look like Him?! Look. What captures the world's attention-witchcraft in books and movies, drugs and perversion, to name just a few-will continue if God doesn't get His chance to put on a big display about Himself through Christians a whole lot more than how it's currently happening! We need to get with it!! We need to find out what God wants us to do and really do it!
Take Moses. In his day the magicians had power, occult power, big time. Had Moses failed to recognize and walk in God's power, had he just tried to take on Pharaoh and his magicians with a "let's try and take a good stab at it" attitude, would the might of God's glory been seen? Would the fear of God come? Remember, God told Moses to tell Pharaoh that He was going to display His power so that the whole nation of Egypt would see that there was no other God like Him, that His fame would spread throughout the earth (Ex. 9:14, 16). Friends, how is the world going to see God's power and majesty, how will nations be won to Christ unless we-that's you and that's me-get serious and boldly demonstrate who He really is?
If this teaching is grabbing your heart, then today, I want you to "take it to the Lord." Maybe you need to get on our knees and get serious with God. The hour demands it! The days are evil, my friend! God needs you, and He needs me, fully equipped and ready for action!
My prayer for you is that you would receive a "holy hunger" for intimacy with God. I believe God is going to pour out this gift according to your measure of hunger, according to your desperation. Holy hunger goes hand-in-hand with God's desire to help you stir up and awaken your passion for Him. God deserves our love more than anything in this world. He is worthy. Listen, at his very moment, Jesus Christ is preparing a place for use in our Father's house. We're going to be with Him forever (John 14:2,3). Therefore, it's time to make ourselves ready, even as a bride would get ready for her wedding day and her husband-to-be.
What are you going to do when all the wells are stopped up? What are you going to do when all the wells run dry? If you're a well, if you're a source, you don't have to worry about it. You've got to be able to be deep enough that when the wells dry up, when there's no dew, when there's no rain, when there's no fountain, when there's famine in the land, when there's drought—you've got to learn how to be close enough to God. For those that are close enough to Him even in the time of famine, He's got a brook. In the midst of the famine, if you're close enough to God and you know how to be deep with God, He'll bring you to your own brook and He'll feed you.
You can either be a well for God or you can drink from the fountain. God is saying, "I want to make you a well." God has many different kinds of wells, and He wants you to be a well. I had a vision of a prophetic word that was given to me just a couple of weeks ago when I was in Mission. I was so filled with the wine of the Holy Spirit, and I was talking about dignity. I said, "Would you lose your dignity for the presence of God?" Then right in the middle of my message, I made this statement, "I don't just want to put my face in the well of God. I don't just want to drink from the well of God. In fact, I am getting so hungry and desperate for Jesus, I want to fall in the well. Then when I fall in the well, I want to swim down to the bottom of the well, and that's where I want to live. I want to be like Gideon in the winepress. I want to be at the bottom of the winepress."