Life of the Apostolic: Cry for an Apostolic Sending

There are times when we go somewhere and do something because Jesus commissioned us all to go and make disciples. There are times when we are just living the gospel and God uses us in powerful ways. Other times, God may send us out to accomplish a specific task for a certain amount of time.

However, something that has been burning in my heart for a long time is the need for a corporate apostolic sending. I am speaking of a corporate move of the Spirit like in the book of Acts where 3,000 souls were saved in a day through the power of apostolic preaching. In Acts 3, John and Peter were at the temple gate beautiful and they spoke and a man was healed—resulting in mass salvation of souls.

Deep in my heart, I am a revivalist. There is a cry so deep in my heart for revival that I will never be able to let it go. We need another wave of the Glory of God to hit the church in America and in the nations to bring us even closer to walking in the fullness of all that God has for us.

Even though God can commission and send His people out anyway at any time, we should never stop reaching for the sudden in-breaking of His power.

Jesus promised that those following Him would do “greater works” than the ones He did (Jn. 14:12). I do not know about you, but I have never seen anyone walk on water, calm a storm, or raise the dead. However, just because I have never seen it, does not mean it has not happened or that I will not see it and do it myself. I never want to come to the place where I stop asking, stop reaching, or stop stepping out in faith. It is our inheritance to have revival and to move in greater works than what Jesus did while He was on the earth.

We need to continually cry out for the greater breaking-in of God’s glory. When God’s glory visited Isaiah, his first heart response was one of repentance—“woe is me, I am a man of unclean lips!” His second heart response was, “Here I am, Send me!” (Isaiah 6).

God, grant us repentance that the times of refreshing may come from Your presence (Acts 3:19-21). Release an apostolic sending on Your Bride that the nations may know the Glory of Your Son!

Reading the Bible thru in 72hrs: Day 1

Today's adventure is a 72 hour Bible reading I am participating in. There is a group of us from the House of Prayer reading Genesis to Revelation straight through in 72 hours, & recording it. We are cutting out everything we can in our personal lives to read as much of the Bible as possible between 6pm Thursday to 6pm Sunday.

To do this, I am sleeping on a classroom floor for a few days. I have slept on many church floors all over the place, & every time I have a cry in my heart to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life (Ps. 27, 84).

The story of Samuel always come to me when I sleep in a place of the Lord. I always ask Him to come & speak to me as he did with young Samuel in I Samuel 3.

We started with Genesis 1 last night & we are in I Kings 2 now. Oh Lord, come & speak & increase our hunger for You!