Tuesday, 20 November 2007

• Now God, Strengthen My Hands.

  Life doesn't peak in your late teens/twenties/thirties, and then just the slump towards being dead. You've been on the slump toward being dead since you were born, so get over that.
  
  I can't wait until I'm thirty. Or fifty, for that matter. There are some things that I am planting and sowing in this season that I will not see until a later season. I am pretty certain that I can speed the coming of the harvest, and that some of what is in the future can be gotten now [if not all]. For example, when the woman came and asked Jesus to cast the demon out of her daughter, and he said he couldn't give dogs the bread that was for the children, Jesus was serious. At that point, his ministry was for Israel. And I have no doubt that he would have not healed her.
  
  But the woman's faith and her desperation pressed pass the offense, and she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs under the table feed on the children's crumbs."
  
  And she something that was being withheld for a future time. Quite literally, her faith saw into what could be, and her faith saw who Jesus was, and she took hold of it and brought it into the now. Even though it was for a future time.
  
  Something very, very significant about me has to do with faith. And I can see the shape of things looming in the distance. They're very, very big. And so in this season, I am starting to sow and call those things out, and seek revelation on what to pray for and how to pray for it. And I'm getting answers.
  
  Faith, very, very simply, sees. "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."
  
  Faith sees what is not and calls it out as though it were, pulling something intangible into the tangible. And faith is now. "Now faith is-" It's immediate and it's the access point to the impossible. Faith commands a literal mountain, "Be thou removed and cast into the sea," and it will do it. And faith is built upon and received from the Father. You don't try really really hard to have faith. Faith is given to you as you are obedient and as you step out and see the Father confirm his Word.
  
  I can't wait for gray hairs. They just mean there's more harvest on the way.
  
  This is a time to lay foundation. It's not the peak, not by a long shot.
  
  I'm twenty, and I'm glad I'm twenty. Because I'm glad that my time is now, and my work is now- at age twenty.
  
  But the glory of the latter house will be greater than the former. What is built tomorrow will be greater than what is built today. The Kingdom is always expanding.
  
  They say that anyone can burn for God for a year, and it's true- I've seen that. We all have, seasons of burning and then somehow back to normal. I did that for a looonnngg time. But these three and a half months have been different by far from anything previous. Ask people who know me. Ask me. It's not the same.
  
  I've seen. And the fantastic things is, what I've seen is only the smallest, tiniest shred of what I'm going to see. And the only way that's going to fizzle is if I lose my focus. If I start looking at the problems, or the various aspects of what could happen and start to worry or doubt- no. He is my vision. If your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light.
  
  If your eye is single. If you have one thing as your focus.
  
  When I'm fifty, this fire will only be larger and brighter. That will be the true test of faithfulness, on my part.
  
  And I cannot wait.
  
  And I will stand, for God is able to make me to stand.
  
  Your humble servant,
  -Ethan
  
  

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