Divine Appointment

Have you ever asked yourself, "What would life be like if I believed 100% of what God said in His Word would happen in my life?" (That would be far from boring)  Have you ever walked past people in wheelchairs in the grocery store or your place of work and thought I should pray for them to be healed?(Most people don't even notice them)  Why is it that we walk by so many opportunities everyday to demonstrate the love and power of God to people and yet we are kept silent? People in the world are calling out for God to show Himself, yet the Body of Christ stays seated in their own little world.  God's Will is for His love and power to be shown to the LOST sheep. He is calling us to be His vehicle to them.  We are His portal into their life.  How much longer will the Church stay silent?  How much longer will we walk right past one DIVINE APPOINTMENT after another and miss our opportunity for God to flow through our lives?  Church today is our season, it is our moment, it is our time to be a voice in the darkness.  It is our time to preach the message of love, to walk out life with others, and to demonstrate the authentic Power of God through deliverance, signs, wonders and miracles.  Today it is my prayer that your eyes will see the Divine Appointments that are all around you.  To see with the eyes of Christ!  Now is the Time and You can do it!

We have an old upright piano that sits in our living room.  For a long time it served as a piece of furniture, rather than something used to fulfill its purpose.  However, Bailey has shown some interest in it and is actually using it.  Therefore she has been getting lessons on that piano so she can learn how to play songs beyond 'Chopsticks' and 'Mary had a little Lamb'.  Well the other day her piano instructor mentioned that the piano was extremely out of tune and the piano was not producing a sound that it was created to make.  So last week this man came to our door with his briefcase full of wrenches and tuning forks, along with a computerized gage that identifies the perfect pitch for each cord.  I watched as he would push the key and then turn the wrench ever so slightly until it was perfect. You could even hear the sound change as he turned the wrench. Now if you familiar with the inside of a piano you know that there are many cords and little nuts that need to be adjusted.  The Tuner patiently went through each cord and brought it back into tune. You see although the piano played the note it could not bring itself back into tune. That could only be accomplished through the hand, ear, and wrench of the Tuner.  When the tuner was finished that piano made a sound that it had not made in some time. As the man played a beautiful melody with every key sounding perfectly, it then made the tune it was created to make.  We are a lot like that old piano.  We were created to Worship God and to live a life that is in perfect tune with God.  However, there are all kinds of things that are pulling us out of tune.  Yet God like the patient tuner, patiently brings our lives back in tune when we allow him to open up our insides.  Now I know that there are many people who are content to just be a piece of furniture, filling up space in some basement. You would rather God just let you be seen and not heard or played.  Friend your heart has become disillusioned and apathetic because you have allowed Satan to bring confusion to you about your purpose.  Please understand God created you to make a beautiful noise, to be played, by the creator of the universe.  God wants to play a beautiful song with your life, but first you must let Him bring your life into tune. You cannot tune yourself any more than that piano could.  It needed the tuning hand and ear of a tuner, and so do you. Don't become a piece of furniture in God's house, rather become a Grand Piano that is has its ivory's tickled by the fingers of God every day. Every person must live with the knowledge that every time God makes a little adjustment in your life he is only preparing you to play a great masterpiece.

Matthew 9:8 "When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to men." When was the last time that we were so awestruck by God that we could not think about anything else? When was the last time we were so taken by his amazing glory and wonder that all we could talk about was about Him? Through out the Bible we see people who did amazing things, people who laid they're life on the line for the gospel and people that could not help themselves when it came to talking about Jesus. They wouldn’t stop talking about Jesus even if it meant for them being flogged or beaten. The church of Jesus Christ traded in their worship of a Sovereign God for the temporal glory of this world.  The sad part is that many people do not even recognize that their worship of pleasure has not only robbed them of God's promises and power, but of experiencing something that cannot be described or even weighed.  This is the awesome Glory of God.  Church, there is a worship, a level, an experience with God that can change your life in moment.  The disciples wanted to build a house in it.  Moses refused to go anywhere without it.  And John the Revelator ended his life experiencing it.  It is available to us.  It is available to you and to me. In order to discover these secret things you have to deny the pleasures of the flesh, the enticements of the world and connect to the Father through His Word, worshipping in Spirit and in Truth.   

God your first, the best of your praise. He wants your best.  Let's give God our First in every area of our life.