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Does
God Cry
(Heartache
#1)
Did
you ever begin a project to which you were totally committed and there was no
possibility of quitting once you began.
Like a bull rider once out the chute finds the challenge greater than
anticipated, yet he must follow through for there is no way to
quit.
God
created all things including mankind.
He made man as himself in order for him to have a family. He loved man with extreme love. Man was the crowning glory of his entire
creation. All the host of heaven
marveled in amazed wonder that the almighty Creator would make a creature so
much like God himself. God saw that his creation was excellent and he loved
it. He still does. Man was free to love or to hate. Love must be free or it cannot be
love. Love forced is slavery. The choice is that of man. God desires your love more than anything
you have to offer. To love God is
to obey him. Disobedience is
rejection.
Man
made the wrong choice and loved himself and chose his own way. This disobedience has led man down a
long journey of pain, suffering, grief and sorrow. Farther and farther down the trail of
deception and darkness. It became
so bitter in the eyes of the Holy Father that he actually wished he hadn’t even
made man. Listen as he shares his
great disappointment. Genesis
6:5-6, “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had
made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” Does God cry? Grief is what your heart experiences
when it’s broken.
(Heartache
#2)
As
God beheld men’s hatred, his corruption and violence, he had only one man left
that loved him, that was Noah. He
told Noah of his desperate grief and his planned remedy. I will destroy them. Build an ark for I’m sending a flood
that will engulf the entire world, and destroy every living thing from off the
face of the earth. Noah and his
family were saved by his obedience to build the ark of safety. All else was
destroyed.
God
was committed to his project and began all over again. Noah and his three sons replenished the
earth. Once again their evil
imaginations and inventions led them away from God after many generations. There was one man that truly loved God
and walked with him. His name was Abram.
God made a covenant with him and changed his name to
Abraham.
God
chose him and his descendents as the ones to whom he would give his
oracles. Hoping that they would be
an example to the world and could restore all nations whom he loved so
intensely, but who had forsaken him.
(Heartache
#3)
Once
again his descendents, the children of
God
did everything he could from blessing them to cursing them in order to turn them
to him. He sent prophets who spoke
about coming judgments if they would not repent. They killed the prophets and would not
keep his commandments. He sent
pestilence and sickness and disease and the sword of the enemy in order to drive
them back to himself. Nothing
seemed to work. His grief was now
almost unbearable. Again in his
justice judgment he was being forced to do what he longed not to do. That was to allow them to die. Ezekiel 18:23, “Have I pleasure at all
that the wicked should die?” saith the Lord God: “And not that he should return from his
ways and live?”
Have
you ever loved someone that didn’t love you? Did it hurt, did you cry? Ever loved someone who loved you but
with the passing of time fell in love with someone else and left you broken
hearted? Did you cry? Did you ever lose a baby or a small
child that was dear to your heart?
You did weep much! You have
a heart which is a container of one of God’s most prevalent attributes,
love. God is love, love, love beyond human comprehension. His is a Holy love undefiled or diluted
by sin and hatred and death. Even
his righteous judgments which he must execute are done in great love and
compassion. He desires to show
mercy much more that judgment.
God
dearly loves his creation. God is
radically in love with you. The
waywardness and hatred and strife and bloodshed and selfishness of mankind has literally broken God’s heart. We are his offspring, his children whom
he created for the purpose of fellowship, love, intimacy, honor and
respect. Yet we have turned our
backs to his merciful kindness and ruled him out of our lives. Does God cry? Listen with your heart to his
heart. Drop all your prejudices and
preconceived ideas that you hold against your heavenly father and open your
heart as he speaks now through one of his prophets.
Jeremiah
Would
you have liked to just been able to forget it all when love failed? That broken heart and tears of pain
could have been fixed for at least a little while if you could only find a place
to run away to and just start all over again. A place where you didn’t have to listen
to the old songs about streets called loneliness and loveless mansions,
heartbreak hotels, candy kisses and take these chains from my heart and set me
free. But no, it wasn’t possible to
escape because love is love, and it will never change. So it is with God. He is love and he cannot change, neither
can he escape. Listen again to
these words from his heart, “Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of
wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them!” (Jer.
9:2)
What
about your children? Have they ever
taken you for granted? All the work
and planning and effort you expended in their behalf. Did you always get a great big “thank
you,” a hug and a note of appreciation?
Me neither, says God. I give sunshine, rain, flowers, food,
protection and all things that are.
Yet I must search to find any notes of praise or songs of thanksgiving,
except from the sparrows and dove.
They know me best as a God of love.
Isaiah 1:2, “Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord hath
spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against
me.” Ever try and try to bring
correction with the rod of chastisement out of a heart of love and the result
was only a more obstinate and determined spirit of rebellion? Me too, says
God. Isaiah 1:5, “Why should ye be
stricken any more? Ye will revolt
more and more…” Ever feel like it’s
hopeless to try and restore a broken relationship? The kids won’t listen and what do I do
next? Me
too, says God. Ever seem like the
kids just scorn your wisdom, your years of experience and your understanding of
the consequences of their self destructive ways? Me too, says
God. Jeremiah 13:15-17, “Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud; for the Lord hath
spoken. Give glory to the Lord your
God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark
mountains, and while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and
make it gross darkness. But if ye
will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine
eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is
carried away captive.”
One
secret God seems to keep mostly to himself. “I hurt so deeply and weep so much, all
for you my people.”
Ever
hurt so much with an aching heart that you prefer that no one even come trying to console you? Me too, says
God. Isaiah 22:4, “Therefore said I, look away from me; I will weep
bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my
people.” Yes, God in his love tried
every possible means to turn his people back to himself and yet they grew worse
and worse. Just as a mother hen
gathers her little chicks under her wings when she sees danger, God tried and
tried, but they failed to respond.
(Heartache
#4)
His
unending love drove him on to make the final attempt to restore love. This leads to the most incredible story
ever told. The one event that will
forever bear testimony and witness to the fact – GOD LOVES ME AND
YOU.
God
sent his only begotten son, Jesus, to bear the sins of the whole world so that
we can be free from the destruction and consequences of the death penalty. He was a man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief. He came unto his own
(Jews) and they rejected him. The
first sermon he preached in their synagogue was met with such hatred they tried
to kill him.
After
three and ½ years of healing the sick, casting out devils, feeding the hungry
and doing good, he looked over to
Soon
after those words were spoken his own people crucified him just outside the
gates of the city he loved. Does
God cry? Would you, had it been
your Son?
(Heartache
#5)
At
Let’s
walk away now from the crowd. Look
at your own heart. How have you
responded to his love? Do you daily
come into his presence to worship him, tell him how much you love and appreciate
him? Have you come to know the
living and true God? Do you hear
his voice? You have within you the
ability to bring joy to the father, and all of heaven. There is more rejoicing in heaven by God
and the angels over one sinner that repents than many righteous who need no
repentance.
Isaiah 57:15, “For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits
eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also
that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and
to revive the heart of the contrite ones.”
The
following is a vision given to a young lady I’ve know since she was about nine
years of age. She is now about
21. She has a mighty ministry among
the youth and has been to
Listen with your heart to the vision of Jenny
Miller.
Does
God cry? Jenny Miller’s vision
(2001)
I
was in my Father’s house and there were many different rooms. I went into a room called intimacy. I loved it. It was inexpressibly beautiful and
extravagant. On the floor next to
the bed was a little wooden door. I
wondered why is that in here. So I asked the Lord, “What is
that?” He said, “Oh you don’t want
to go down there.” I said, “Well,
what is it?” He said, “Very few
people want to go there.” I said,
“What is it?” He said, “It’s the
weeping room.” I asked, “Why would
you put a weeping room right next to the place of intimacy?” He said, “Here’s where I spend most of
my time.” I said, “I want to
go.” He said, “It’s a long dark
stairway and it’s cold and it’s lonely and you gotta get really low to get in.” I said, “If that’s where you are I want
to go.” He started walking me down
and we had to get lower and lower to fit in. We finally got into this very simple
little room with one little window and one little
chair.
He
sat me down in the little wooden chair and I looked out the window. I started to see faces. Faces of people from
all over the world. They were in pain and sorrow from injustice and
abuse. They were screaming and
crying out to the Lord. The Lord
reminded me of all the happy rooms, like the wine cellar room, where so many of
my body want to spend their time.
But very few come down here with me. This is where I share my heart. It’s so lonely. It’s not fancy or fun, but it’s here you
find my heart. “Oh Lord”, I said,
“I want to be in this place.” Then
I saw in the wall another door. I
said, “God, what’s in that room?”
He said, “That’s the strategy room.” I said, “I want to go.” I knew that if I could just get in that
room God would download major revival strategies. I want to go in! But God told me basically that I was too
fat. “You won’t fit through the
door.” I said, “What does that
mean?” God said, “You have to spend
lots of time in this weeping room before I allow you in that room. Here things of self begin to fall off,
and when you’re small enough, you can fit through the door.” So I continued to sit and wonder, “Is it
time yet? When will it be
time?” I was asking God for his
heart as we wept and he embraced me and kept embracing me. I knew that no one gets into the
strategy room without going through the weeping room. There is only one door, and there are
very few who find it.
Finally God said, “It’s time, you’re gonna go
into the strategy room.” Suddenly,
the fear of God came on me and I sensed that this was a sacred Holy moment. There was a large desk and two huge
angels, one on each side of the desk.
They each had vials of some kind and God took his great big sapphire ring
and put it on my finger and said, “I’m giving you authority.” He looked at the angels and they stepped
over and started pouring the anointing oil out of their vials onto my head and
he said, “and I’m giving you power.”
End
of vision.
(A
call to be sober)
It
was the day we started the war with
End
of dream.
(*
In reality neither of us smoke.)
Interpretation
This
does NOT mean that Christ will return at the time we begin fighting
My
friend in the dream does this a lot, thus his cigarette is mostly smoked out.
I do it occasionally therefore mine has only been smoked a little.
The Amplified says (Silly and corrupt) talk, nor coarse jesting…. This does not mean we cannot in normal
conversation have humorous and laughable occurrences. But don’t go out of your way to do so.
Rather give thanks, which makes heaven rejoice
– not the carnal mind here. Lord, I repent, I’m guilty. Please forgive. Thanks.