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“Come to me…”

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Just lately this verse has been coming up a lot:

Matthew 11:28-30 
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

I realised this afternoon that with everything going on over the last 6 months or more, I was weary. Not weary in body or mind, just weary in spirit. Being ill at the end of last year, dramas with allergies at the beginning of the year, then dealing with the Covid thing- it had all sapped my relationship with God. The passion was no longer there- I believe, and I love Jesus, but something was missing in me.

I read earlier this week that another prominent formerly christian musician has lost his faith. It no longer makes sense to him and he finds worship is boring.

In contrast I think of the passionate cry from the heart by Kim Walker-Smith on one of the Jesus Culture albums where she shouts out something like,”If you don’t know Jesus tonight, and you would know if you did because everything would be different.”

It’s true, just one touch from the Lord and everything changes.

But we get tired, distracted or discouraged, and gradually worship becomes boring, and Jesus doesn’t make sense any more.

So I realised I needed to reach out to the Lord. I sat in a quiet place and said “I need you Lord.” Then I just sat and received. I felt a tingling come through my hands and a new burst of the Holy Spirit. I was renewed again.

A fresh touch of the Lord is what we all need from time to time- a fresh encounter with the living Lord.

If you haven’t received Jesus into your life, make that decision today. And if, like me, you’ve been walking too long since drinking the living water, take time now.

Drink from Him. Receive His love.

Cindy Jacobs: The Lord Says, ‘It’s Time for a Renewal of the Holy Spirit’

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We all need renewal in the Holy Spirit, but this is not something mystical or just a thing for the men and women of God. It’s so simple, but we forget.

 

Cindy Jacobs writes:

 

Cindy Jacobs: The Lord Says, ‘It’s Time for a Renewal of the Holy Spirit’

If you want to win your battle, you must pick up your armor. (Pixabay)

Inside us is the Holy Spirit, and if we will let Him rise up, He can break any yoke, anything that’s coming against us.

We just have to learn to rise up in our spirit, and how do we do that? Well, we do it through quoting the Word, just quoting the Scripture. The Word of God is so powerful. I broke my foot and was really feeling bad, and the Lord just spoke to me, “Get up in the night and start quoting the Scripture on healing.” I know to do that, but I needed to do it more. I have begun seeing a real turnaround since I’ve done that.

Somehow, we forget to fight. In the middle of everything that’s going on, we get under it, but we forget to fight. We forget that if we resist the devil, he will flee from us. That we have the authority to overcome anything, but we have to take the authority. We have to take it, we have to rise up and use the weapons that are not carnal, but mighty.

I just feel like God wants to remind us this day, and the Lord says to you, “Look around you and see the things that you used to do, the things you used to know to do, but you do not do anymore. Look around you and recall the way you used to quote the Scripture, the way perhaps you used to worship.”

The Lord says, “It’s time for a renewal of the Holy Spirit. It’s time for you to come into a renewing where you take the things you know to do and pick up the weapons that have been given to you by the Holy Spirit.”

As I prophesied into this, the reason I started prophesying is this: I saw a table, we’re sitting at this big conference table in our office, but I saw all kinds of tools, weapons of warfare on the table, but we weren’t using them. We were crying out because we were being so attacked, and we were so upset that we were being so attacked, but we had weapons right there on the table.

Pick up your weapons, pick up your weapons and do what you know to do. If you will do this, I guarantee you will win.

Cindy Jacobs is an author, speaker and teacher with a heart for discipling nations in the areas of prayer and prophetic gifts. She and Mike—her husband of 43 years—co-founded Generals International in 1985.