I felt like the Lord was reminding us that the next outpouring of His Spirit will not be on orphan spirits. He said, “I will be poured out on them that know that all that they have is derived from Me.” He showed me that there were many who were jealous for position, power hungry, thirsty for accolades, desiring influence, competitive and wanting to be first. No one man, woman or child will be first. A people would be first. A people who know who they are and who know that the Lord is their God. I wrote an earlier post April 2023 similar to this message here: Spectacle of Character: https://whispersoflove.net/prophetic-words/the-spectacle-of-character/
I felt like He is saying this: Set aside wanting to be the next grand influence that ignites the faith of the world. You’re not it. Route out this soulish desire. Call it out. Confess it, let it go, repent and fall down before Him. Receive His grace and be content with what you have.
He can’t be fooled by false humility and any devices you come up with to declare your motives are pure in this matter.
Relationship with Him is not a formula. It’s pure and honest. It’s humble. Humility in this matter can’t be manufactured. It’s created and inspired by Him. Heavens humility can only be imparted and not acquired by any means. It’s something that’s done to us and all we can do is to say yes.
We’re not so much as being winnowed as we’re being prepared and schooled by Him. He is our grand tutor growing us up to full maturity.
Give up being the next grand thing and focus on heart to heart with Him.
The next grand thing will be a simultaneous outpouring as if a switch was flipped to turn on a string of lights around the world. He has His hand on the switch.
He said that it was a futility to make it happen and to ask yourself what’s the real motive behind that. What’s really behind any noble, religious reason for it? What’s it really personally about? Ask Him.
Ask Him for wisdom and He will tell you if you are really willing to hear the answer. Sometimes the answer reveals lies, misconceptions, twisted motives, sorrows, selfish ambition, an orphan spirit or things hard to admit. Those things lead to healing, purity and peace when confessed before Him. He brings change when we do.
As an aside I felt like the Lord was asking me, what if I never experienced a powerful outpouring again as I’ve seen in the past. Would I be okay with that? Obviously I said yes and I believe I did because my intimate relationship with Him is enough. This is where our existence all hinges and it does in this deeply personal, eternal, holy union with Him and Him with us.
Stay tuned for Part II