Count the Cost

I have heard your cries for more of my Spirit. I have heard your cries to save the lost. My heart is to answer those prayers and yet you are not ready!

My Spirit is Holy and wants to fill purified and willing vessels who will be obedient to my voice. Who will step out and speak out for me? Have you searched your own hearts and minds as to why you want My Spirit? Are your motives Holy and pure?

You are the vessels I want to use, to proclaim my Gospel, to share my love, but have you counted the cost of speaking out? Have you counted the cost of sharing my love? Have you counted the cost of the changes I will bring?

Remember what it cost my son and remember those who have gone before you- what it cost them. Are you able to stand up against the flack? Are you able to hold your ground when people curse and revile you?

I will fill you with my Spirit to make you bold and strong but you will need to learn to hold your ground and to trust in the leading of my Spirit.

Activation: Sit with Father God and examine your motives for the prayers for revival you are praying. Do you really want to see lots of people saved, healed, and delivered? This will be a move that will cause much change in your church and fellowship. Or is it just the warm fuzzy feelings you are after? Ask Him to reveal any wrong motives and selfish thoughts. Repent of these ask for the Holy Spirit to create in you a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within you. Ask Him to fill you with love for the lost and strengthen you to stand your ground.

Ephesians 6:13-18 (ESV)

Therefore take up the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;  and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. 

1 John 3:3 (GNT)

Everyone who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure, just as Christ is pure.

Romans 10:14-15 (ESV)

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”