Promises

Another interesting thought from Bill Johnson:

Jesus does not lead us into praying for things that He is not ready to fulfill.
So when he directs us in prayer for the nations, it's because he actually intends on nations being converted. He doesn't ask the question "can a nation be saved in a day?" merely to entertain our fantasies or to put off into the millennium things that are too hard to believe for today. It's irresponsible to take the great promises of scripture and put them off into a time for which we have no responsibility.

It's way to easy to look through scripture and say that's for the millennium. But it doesn't say that. What it says is the the glory of the Lord will fill the earth, it says he will pour out His spirit on all flesh. There isn't a time slot mentioned it's just a promise revealing the heart of God and the potential of his effect on the earth and he's just looking for someone to adopt a promise and hover over it in prayer and find out if maybe, just maybe it might unfold in my lifetime.

The Goodness of God

Bill Johnson said something thought provolking last year, and I wanted to paraphrase it here:

God wants to reveal His goodness.

Moses met with God lots of times, but there was only one time his face shone. It was after he saw the goodness of God. Moses wanted to see God’s glory. God said that He would cover Moses in the cleft of the rock and then let all His goodness pass by.

Many past generations have trembled in fear of God. Fear because of His awesomeness. Fear because He is extreme in everything that He is. But I believe that God is raising up a generation of people that will tremble because if the goodness of the Lord.

I know as of late, I am constantly being reminded of just how good He is. I hope I get to see this generation.