Luke 1:34-35
34 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”
35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.
Extraordinary is NOT about what things happen around us but what is happening inside of us.
It’s the nature God has given us. When a prophetic word goes out, it is NOT about an event.
God is revealing His nature to us so we can move closer to Him. The extraordinary, the supernatural is for us. We must align ourselves with the supernatural.
Mary was ordinary but the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit came upon her.
Luke 1:41
And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
Look at Jesus; He came out of the wilderness in the power of the Spirit.
What about the 120 in the upper room? The extraordinary power of the Holy Spirit came upon them.
It IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE to walk in the supernatural. The Holy Spirit will take over our lives. And when He does, extraordinary things happen.
Eph. 3:16-17
16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
The purpose of the Holy Spirit is to reveal Christ.
I think we need to stretch our faith and enlarge our thinking.
Let’s think about the Universe, it spans a diameter of over 150 billion light years and is still expanding.
There are over 16 billion trillion stars in the universe and 1 million earths could fit into the Sun.
The Milky Way galaxy in which we live is only 1 out of 100 billion galaxies in space.
Each galaxy with 100 billion stars. Our human eye can only see 3,000.
He’s a big, extraordinary, supernatural God.
By The Way, a light year is 9.5 trillion KM.
We are ordinary, He IS NOT. But if the Christ in us can be brought out, we will become extraordinary.
When we read the Word it is not to put the Word in us but to bring Christ out of us.
When we bring Christ forth, ordinary will become extraordinary.
He who is in us is greater than He that is in the world.
Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
We must allow the Holy Spirit to take us through the doors to places we don’t want to go.
Moses had to go where he did not want to go.
Gideon had to go where he did not want to go.
We must allow the Holy Spirit to lead us. It’s time to allow God to break us out of our routines and cycles.
If we allow the Holy Spirit to lead us, He will always lead us to the extraordinary.
Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Own Your Thirst
Isaiah 44:3 (AMP.)
For I will pour water upon him who is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground. I will pour My Spirit upon your offspring, and My blessing upon your descendants.
Isaiah 41:17-20 (AMP.)
17 The poor and needy are seeking water when there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I the Lord will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the wild olive; I will set the cypress in the desert, the plane [tree] and the pine [tree] together,
20 That men may see and know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.
It’s really talking about a revival of desperation. Desperation causes people to do things they would not normally do.
That verse says the poor and needy are seeking water but don’t find any.
So the fact that it says the Lord will answer them means they were crying out.
Desperation does that. So often when we struggle or we are in a dry place we think we have done something wrong and we try to fix it.
But this verse talks about a desperation that causes you to CRY OUT!
And God answers, not by saying, “Come to me”, but by saying, “I AM COMING TO YOU!” He says, “I am going to change your environment.
Water is coming. POOLS AND SPRINGS of it.
Trees are coming.
Shade is coming.
And everyone will see it.
Those who said it was your fault will see it.
Those who said you sinned, they will see it.
Look at somebody and say, “God will help you.”
In Isaiah 44, it is not talking about an INPOURING but an OUTPOURING that is coming.
So do we crave that outpouring? And He says that He will pour it out on the one who is THIRSTY? Anybody! Is anybody thirsty?
When can and will this happen? Next week?
When I stop being dry or struggling?
NO, TODAY! All it takes is for your land to be dry.
I never listen to Beth Moore but she inspired me with this word. I heard her for five minutes and she asked, “If we own our thirst”.
Because if we would “own our thirst” the outpouring will happen.
Can we humble ourselves in this open door enough to say, “I am thirsty and dry for an outpouring of your spirit God?”
In Chapter 41 did you notice the “I WILLS” Not I may but I WILL?
Not when the time is right.
Listen, if we will own our thirst He says, “I will take the wilderness, AND change it, right where you are.”
Isaiah 41:20 (E.S.V.)
that they may see and know,
may consider and understand together,
that the hand of the Lord has done this,
the Holy One of Israel has created it.
Everyone will know that only God could do this.
Listen, if God has given you a VISION hang on to it no matter what your environment looks like.
If you will own your thirst and tell God how thirsty you are, and that you are desperate, He promises to send an out-pouring of His rain.
His rain brings His presence which brings His glory and then everything changes.
Now watch, He said, “I will open rivers.”
“I will make the wilderness a pool of water.”
Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong
For I will pour water upon him who is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground. I will pour My Spirit upon your offspring, and My blessing upon your descendants.
Isaiah 41:17-20 (AMP.)
17 The poor and needy are seeking water when there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I the Lord will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the wild olive; I will set the cypress in the desert, the plane [tree] and the pine [tree] together,
20 That men may see and know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.
It’s really talking about a revival of desperation. Desperation causes people to do things they would not normally do.
That verse says the poor and needy are seeking water but don’t find any.
So the fact that it says the Lord will answer them means they were crying out.
Desperation does that. So often when we struggle or we are in a dry place we think we have done something wrong and we try to fix it.
But this verse talks about a desperation that causes you to CRY OUT!
And God answers, not by saying, “Come to me”, but by saying, “I AM COMING TO YOU!” He says, “I am going to change your environment.
Water is coming. POOLS AND SPRINGS of it.
Trees are coming.
Shade is coming.
And everyone will see it.
Those who said it was your fault will see it.
Those who said you sinned, they will see it.
Look at somebody and say, “God will help you.”
In Isaiah 44, it is not talking about an INPOURING but an OUTPOURING that is coming.
So do we crave that outpouring? And He says that He will pour it out on the one who is THIRSTY? Anybody! Is anybody thirsty?
When can and will this happen? Next week?
When I stop being dry or struggling?
NO, TODAY! All it takes is for your land to be dry.
I never listen to Beth Moore but she inspired me with this word. I heard her for five minutes and she asked, “If we own our thirst”.
Because if we would “own our thirst” the outpouring will happen.
Can we humble ourselves in this open door enough to say, “I am thirsty and dry for an outpouring of your spirit God?”
In Chapter 41 did you notice the “I WILLS” Not I may but I WILL?
Not when the time is right.
Listen, if we will own our thirst He says, “I will take the wilderness, AND change it, right where you are.”
Isaiah 41:20 (E.S.V.)
that they may see and know,
may consider and understand together,
that the hand of the Lord has done this,
the Holy One of Israel has created it.
Everyone will know that only God could do this.
Listen, if God has given you a VISION hang on to it no matter what your environment looks like.
If you will own your thirst and tell God how thirsty you are, and that you are desperate, He promises to send an out-pouring of His rain.
His rain brings His presence which brings His glory and then everything changes.
Now watch, He said, “I will open rivers.”
“I will make the wilderness a pool of water.”
Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong
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