This weekend, The Killers, an American alternative rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, will jet into South Africa for two highly anticipated gigs in Johannesburg and Cape Town. With this in mind, The Killers have a song called "the river is wild" and another which contains the lyrics "the river is deep, the river is wide" and this got me thinking about the passage in Ezekiel 47:1-12 which speaks about the wild, deep and wide river that flows from the throne of grace.
Go read it...then go read John 7:38...
The River of his presence is flowing and he is saying “put on your board shorts boy!”
The river is increasing…what-ever you have experienced, no this with an absolute certainty...THERE IS MORE!!! Not ankle deep limits, not waist deep limits but more and more and more!
there is always, always, always more to him!!!!
It's holidays for some already, nearly holiday for all and that means time will for once be on our side...if you're going to do one thing over the next 5 weeks of summer holiday, make sure that it's plunging yourself deeper into the river of God. Sometimes it can feel a little difficult, so that's why I've taken the liberty of typing out a few helpful hints which are helping me get a little "wetter" as I continue pushing out into the deeer parts of this river:
*Why is it difficult:
- don’t be in too much of a hurry...learning to swim with your feet off the bottom doesn't take 5 minutes...
- We feel unworthy:
When we realize who he is, we then will know who we are (remember that the only way you can come to dad is through Jesus! Plead the blood of Jesus! (I feel crap but I’m not coming in my own name!!!!) - as you pray you are looking for the help of the Holy Spirit/ We pray to the father, through Jesus, seeking the power and the anointing of the Holy Spirit…he’s the one who gives you the strength and liberty
- The word of God
-If God promises you something in his word and you are not seeing it, turn the promise into prayer! (“but you said, and you don’t lie”)
LAY HOLD OF GOD! (read Genesis.32:22-32) - Practically: EVERYONE IS UNIQUE…I struggle to sit still (I draw what God says, I write, I dance really crazily, I waltz with my dad, I Lie on the floor with music in my ears weeping…I have a pen and paper to write down thoughts etc…Turn your bedroom into a fortress but don’t be confined there)
- Get God conscious…Quiet times no more/LOUD times/every times
my prayer is that before the clock ticks to midnight on december 31st and the calendar moves onto 2010, that I would have pushed into deeper waters, to a place where my feet no longer touch the bottom, where i have discarded my water wings and to where I am in wilder, deeper and wider parts of his river.
The safety of the shallow ends or the adventure of the depths...it's up to us!