“I WANT that!”

I don’t know about you, but if someone has a gift or something special for me, I want it.  I can’t wait to unwrap it. I’m like a little child Christmas morning, eager with anticipation and full of wonder at what is in this beautifully wrapped box.

God has so much for us.  He has beautifully wrapped presents that are waiting to be opened.  I guess I wonder how often we look under the tree.  It’s difficult to be “as a child” again isn’t it?

Reading through Acts always energizes me.  :-)  I love this next passage of scripture in Acts 2:17-21.  There is so much tension isn’t there.  I mean one minute it’s talking about empowering men and women and the next it’s talking about blood, fire and clouds of smoke.  The Bible is full of this tension that is delicate, beautiful and full of wonder.   Let’s look at it.

17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, God declares, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels] and your young men shall see visions (divinely granted appearances), and your old men shall dream [divinely suggested] dreams.18 Yes, and on My menservants also and on My maidservants in those days I will pour out of My Spirit, andthey shall prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels and predicting future events pertaining especially to God’s kingdom].19 And I will show wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth beneath, blood and fire and smoking vapor;20 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the obvious day of the Lord comes–that great and notable andconspicuous and renowned [day].21 And it shall be that whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord [invoking, adoring, and worshiping the Lord--Christ] shall be saved.

When my daughter Kerrington was younger she would say, “I want that!”,  whenever an enticing commercial came on TV marketing some new fangled toy or doll.  

Well, “I want that!”  I want EVERYTHING God has for me.  I’m not sure when the church stopped looking under the tree but I want my sons and daughter to prophesy!  I want to see visions, and I want to dream divinely suggested dreams.  I want God to pour His Spirit with such power that our young men and women are predicting future events pertaining to God’s kingdom.  I WANT THAT!

This promise is for US, NOW…  in this PLACE!

I have been praying this passage over my life.  I have been praying that God would allow me to see visions, to dream divinely inspired dreams, and to prophesy.  And you know what?  I can sense something stirring in me. We only get what we go after.  We can only receive what we open our hands to hold.  I am asking that God show me ALL the gifts under the tree and that I’d have the courage to open the box!  :-)   My prayer is that you would too!

Pastor Tony

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~ by generation429 on May 19, 2010.