What happened this past Saturday at Blazing Fire Church was what I live for. We’ve had nights somewhat similar before and, by God’s grace and design, many more are on the horizon. So what happened?
The way our musicians tell it, their practice time before church did not go well, but the moment the first chord of the first song in worship hit our ears, something had shifted. Heaven was already partnering with them. But it started with a worship leader, Todd Lout, who determined in his heart, “I’m going for it—worshipping You with reckless abandon, Lord! I must experience You—Nothing else will do!” And it required a worship team that would follow his lead and want the same.
But even that would not have taken us to the place we went together last Saturday. There was a whole room full of people who had that same hunger and desire for the sweet and transforming Presence of God. So many more of you than usual were actually there at the start of worship—almost as if something (or rather, Someone) had pulled you there with anticipation in your heart. The worship team would say later that they could feel your full, willing participation with heaven.
Our worship to the Lord with longing hearts for Him was a sweet smelling sacrifice. Heaven noticed and joined in. We entered into Revelation 4:8, “Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come!“
Holy…holy…holy…the room was transforming and many of us were glued to the floor with a reverent awe of the Lord, all of us transfixed by His overwhelming beauty.
Then prolonged sweet silence. As if the Lord were saying to us, “Shhhhhhh…let your heart marinate in what it longed for. This is True Love’s embrace.”
Eventually, a word from the Lord came. “Everything you need is there for the taking.” In heaven’s realm where we live right now, there is no lack (Psalm 23:1). The Lord is showing us what it means to live in two realms at the same time, which is what He’s always invited us into.
While on the floor, I told Papa, “I don’t need to preach. This is what we came for!” Those kinds of decisions are ones we all need to make—to lay aside certain things which are good in order to take in His best. Don’t get me wrong, preaching God’s word is important, but there are times when He Himself supersedes our plans and agendas to say, “The Living Word is in your midst! Open your mouths wide and receive the nourishment I have for you.”
In heaven’s environment that was in the room, healing broke out! George, a man who was in great pain with metal throughout his body due to many surgeries and unable to walk for 20 years, was prayed for by Diana, a young woman who was at Blazing Fire for the first time, and he walked to the front of the room, beaming with joy and wonder, to give his testimony of the extreme goodness of God!
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