THERE MUST BE MORE THAN THIS

How many times has that thought crossed your mind?... "there must be more than this?!!!"
For me, it has been the constant cry of my heart since I was a teenager longing to see lives transformed for Jesus sake, yet struggling to see how the message of salvation could ever penetrate the heart of the average Joe.

Reading Jesus and His disciples, the ACTS of the apostles and the various other exploits of the early church I have often found myself aching inside to see such amazing manifestations of God's Glory today.

When Jesus was approached by John the Baptist's disciples to see if in fact he was the Messiah, or whether they were to wait for another, Jesus response was astounding.
“Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor."

WOW. The testimony speaks for itself.

Throughout Jesus Ministry life; from the time he came out of the desert after the forty days of fasting (having defeated Satan by rejecting his temptations) and his subsequent baptism by John the Baptist in the River Jordan; He was so full of the Holy Spirit that wherever He went to preach the good news of The Kingdom, miracles, signs and wonders would follow. Under the direction of the Holy Spirit, Jesus was able to do all the things Scripture had prophesied would happen.

Once when Jesus went into the Synagogue to read from God's Word he opened up to Isaiah 61 and read: "The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the LORD'S favour."
He went on to say... “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” And so Jesus went about demonstrating His good news message of salvation by interacting with society in and through the Power of God.
He healed the sick, cast out demons, showed mercy toward sinners, preached good news to the poor and demonstrated God's Authority in all kinds of situations.

And then to take the amazement to another level, He says to his disciples... "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these"

And so I stand here today looking around at the church I see before me and the cry of my heart is still there... "there must be more than this."
And there is! Because I know that God does not lie.

This cry in my heart has lead me, along with countless thousands of others who have the same cry in their heart, to seek God with all our hearts, to search the Scriptures and scour the Globe, looking for glimpses of God’s Glory anywhere in His church.

Fortunately, it’s not all gloom and doom for the church, as there are pockets of church life where the great Glory of God is so present that  whole communities have been transformed by His great love and power. Where even the land itself has been healed as we see in Gods promise found in 2 Chronicles 7:14, and mass repentance and revival has broken out amongst even the most pagan of people within these communities.

There is also a groundswell of church leaders around the World who having set out looking for the same things I have been looking for have found at least a  measure of God’s glory, and have seen some amazing transformations take place in the lives of the people they have been privileged to encounter in ministry.

In the following posts I hope to gleam from the many encounters of others who have blazed the trails before us, and my own journey of experiences and encounters to outline what I believe to be  "The Throne Room Protocol" which will lead us to a greater understanding of what we must do, and how we must act as God’s church, Jesus Bride, as we welcome His presence into everything we do, even our unsaved communities, and see revival break out like never before.

Taken directly from Scripture and tested over time in the fires of revival and community transformation, ‘The Throne Room Protocol’ is a set of principals set out by the Lord Himself; revealed in Scripture; to lead us (His Church) to a place of readiness for His Glory to be manifest in our midst.

Watch this space...