Two part word:
REDEEM AND REVIVE THE FAMILY AND THE BRIDE and AN ADMONISHMENT TO PROPHETS.
By Dionne White 10/26/2023
Many have served and served in the church or ministry until they were burned out, their marriage and families fell apart, their finances were drained, and their own time of intimacy with God was forsaken. The list could go on. Here me, serving is GOOD and for many it is engrafted in them as a GIFT or GRACE but when the life around you or your household is suffering then there is a problem, not with the serving but the focus and priority of things.
God is calling fathers and mothers HOME as much as he is calling prodigals home. If the parents aren’t “home” serving first and focusing first on family then where will the prodigals come “home” too. Yes, we must be about the Father’s business but broken selves, broken relationships, broken homes create broken churches, the very place prodigals and broken people are to come and find The Father.
Here me today, everything else can wait…. Even the “church”. God is able!
Examine yourself (I am too), examine your family life, examine your secret place life, examine your relationships.. What area needs to be prioritized?
It’s ok, God will understand if you need to take a sabbatical or if you have to say “no” to that opportunity or invite to serve. Make God - GOD again in your life and remove any other idols Holy Spirit may highlight to you. He is exposing hearts, motives and priorities in this season. He wants a family - a healed and whole one that can also be His mighty army. We must not idolize ministry or any gift, grace or “office”
HE has called us to and enabled us to do.
Because at the end of the day what is it we are really searching for?
What is it we are really doing it for?
What or who are we really serving?
Is it not for the next generation and the unity and redemption of His family?
~ Selah
Part Two;
A word of warning and admonishment to prophets…. Even though we are highly wired to see black and white, Justice, injustice, righteousness and unrighteousness etc …we must put on love, mercy and honor. We must live, breathe and think REDEMPTION, think kingdom FAMILY, think UNITY.
This should be our heart posture.
Let HIS love and mercy fill the hearts of His people and His prophets so that we may prioritize our lives rightly with Him. Let Holy Spirit do His job with conviction and may we welcome the reconciliation and redeeming power of Christ into our own hearts, families and churches.
It’s time to CAST OFF ALL FALSE REFUGES! MAY GOD BECOME OUR ONE AND ONLY REFUGE!
MAY GOD REVIVE THE FAMILY OF GOD! MAY GOD REVIVE THE BRIDE!
Our order should be
God, Family, Livelihood, Church, Society.
In Peace and Life,
Dionne
Pray with me;
Heavenly Father,
I confess even now if I have operated out of this divine order in any way putting ministry, church, or society above or before God and my family in any way. I confess if my focus or mind has been led astray or hijacked by distractions causing me to take my focus off of God and Your will — and taking the bait of distraction and frustration. I renounce both of those spirits and will not attend to their altars!
I recognize the tactics of the enemy and say that I will guard my heart and soul to keep my mind set on things above and commit to keep my priorities in a Godly, kingdom order even when those things try to invade. I will submit to God; resist the devil and he will flee!
I trust you Lord, as a faithful friend and I submit and trust Holy Spirit to help me remain in You and stay accountable to this order.
May I be healed as I recognize my areas of need and refinement, confess my weaknesses, temptations and shortcomings, and humble myself before you God - I even submit myself one to another for accountability and healing.
God, May You get the Glory and Your reward!
Thank you for realigning me and reviving me again in You and Your kingdom family.
In Jesus's Name!
Amen.
Scripture Reading and Meditation;
Hebrews 12:1-2 NKJV
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, [2] looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Colossians 3:1-4 NKJV
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. [2] Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. [3] For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. [4] When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
Romans 8:6-8 NKJV
For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. [7] Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. [8] So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 12:1-2 NKJV
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. [2] And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Psalm 46:1-3 NKJV
God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. [2] Therefore we will not fear, Even though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though its waters roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with its swelling.
~Selah
