Who said anything about safe?

Isaiah 61- about freedom to the prisoners– I’ve been hearing many people refer to the church. The religious system. Bound by a system by who they are in God.

Back in January, Michael Ratliff gave a prophecy about killing out the religiousness:

Luke 4:18 says, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me”.
The Spirit of the Lord is on this group. The Lord is using this group to kill out a lot of religiousness. Some of you will have dreams about it. The Lord is situating you in front of the religious.
You will bring life where there has been death.
You will be hated without cause.
You will offend the religious.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon you and has given you life and death is offended by the life you have.
As the Lord uses you, some of you will feel really inadequate, inferior, almost like rejection is about to get you but the Lord loves you. The stone that the builders rejected become the chief cornerstone. You are aligned with Jesus, the chief cornerstone. You will find yourselves on the other side of the equation. It may be hard as you will want to please man, look right and dress right. You won’t be able to get it right. The Lord is going to foil all your stuff, mess up all your stuff, make you clumsy so you can get some grace.
The Lord is delivering you from religious gymnastics.

There was also a prophecy of revival over OKC, much like the one in Pensacola and the Toronto blessing.

Graham Cooke said the following, listen church:

“You are your own revival. You don’t need to wait for anything. You need to learn how to live from the inside to the outside. Revival is not about thousand of people getting saved. That’s reformation.

Revival happens when you and I start living in the way that God wants us to live. You can’t revive something that’s never been alive.

So revival is not about unbelievers. Revival is about believers coming back to the place they should never have left. It’s about believers coming to live in the place, living the way that God intended them to live. And when that happens, you are your own revival.

Something flows out of you that starts to connect with humanity in a big way and nothing and no one can stop it. Because nothing can stop goodness..except fear.”

Which I want to continue talking about- how I previously operated much out of fear- this story illustrates my former life and current life- from the insecure to the unconditional love of Jesus. Ask anyone that knew me a year ago…particularly my family at Mars Hill church.

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Story about two brothers, and they’re talking and reliving things from the past.

One brother is insecure and inadequate. The other is really brash and out there. Both had their problems, reacted differently to things.

The guy who’s brash always wants to try things and is all over the place. The other guy is too insecure to ever think about doing anything or changing anything.

So, one day, the insecure guy is fed up and saying-
“Well, not everyone loves you, you know.” because that guy has had lots of girlfriends, and this guy has had one.

He goes on to say, “I remember that girl in school, you know the most beautiful girl in school. I’ve watched you talking to her one day, and being out there and doing all the stuff you do. And then you walked away, and she started laughing about you to her friend. You never knew.”

“Yeah I did. I knew that.”

“You did?”

“Yeah. I knew she was laughing at me. It’s not what you receive that makes you whole. It’s what you give out. See, I knew that I loved her, and no one could ever take that away from me. And it wasn’t what she gave me, it was what I gave her.”

And the brother who was weak and ineffective– you could see his whole heart just changing…because He lived closed off; His brother had lived open.

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Step up, spirit man! Govern my soul. Unconditional love. Jesus died to save our souls, and they need to be redeemed by the cross.