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Monday, May 8, 2017
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Tearing Down Our Idols, Part 2 By Mike McClung
Save me, O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your strength. Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors have sought after my life; they have not set God before them. Selah. (Psalm 54:1-3)What does it mean to be “vindicated” by the Lord? I have found myself praying the prayer of the Psalmist for vindication for several years now. There have been literally years of misunderstanding, slander, offense, etc, that I and Lionheart Ministries have been on the receiving end of. Some of what has been said is deserved, as many mistakes and weaknesses have been exposed over the years. But most has been accusation that is beyond plausibility for rational thought. This type of regressive warfare and stress (friendly fire) begins to take its toll on the spiritual, mental, emotional, financial and physical health of both individuals and a corporate covenant community. In light of these “momentary light afflictions,” one begins to cry out to the Lord, as the Psalmist did, for “vindication.” Is it righteous, Christlike vindication that one seeks? It is now my experience that what I thought it was to be vindicated by the Lord is actually the seeking of human retribution, at least at some motivational level. Such is the insidiousness and subtlety of the deception of the “idol” of self-preservation.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Tearing Down Our Idols, Part 1 By Mike McClung
Jonah 2:8: Those who
regard worthless idols forsake their own Mercy. (NKJV)
1 John 5:21: Little
children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
On June 7, 2011, right at the
beginning of the festival of Shavaot (Pentecost), I began to have serious heart
arrhythmias combined with classic symptoms of heart malfunction – shortness of
breath, chest pain, etc. I believe we are entering a new season where, if we
will position ourselves biblically, we will have a great refreshing, infilling
release of the Holy Spirit. This is to prepare us for a new season described in
scripture as the “season of the restoration of all things” (Acts 3:19-21). I
was expecting a great release of deep repentance and power to come. I still
have those expectations, but with the state of my heart problems at that time,
the Lord radically altered my conception of what is required.
Monday, February 6, 2017
Some Hindrances to Entering the New Season of Restoration By Mike McClung
Oftentimes, it is ungodly soul-ties with something or someone that prevent us from advancing. The Israelites were so “tied” to Egypt, they would not enter into God’s full promises. Ungodly relationships form one of the worst hindrances to fully entering God’s purpose for our lives. If we want to fully serve the Lord, we need to stay single. Why? 1 Corinthians 7 encourages the single life, unless we find that one person who is totally devoted to what God has called us to be and to do. We will be judged for what God has purposed and planned for us at the judgment seat of Christ. By marrying out of loneliness, sexual frustration, etc, we have chosen to disobey the Bible. Once we are married, God says that marriage covenant takes precedence over all others. If we are married to someone who is not called to our purpose, we will probably end up never fulfilling it! (We will still have to give an account before God for the gifting, calling and graces.)
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Impartation of Generational Mantles and Inheritance By Mike McClung
Remember the Law
of Moses, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with
the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before
the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. And he will turn the
hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their
fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse (Mal. 4:4-6).
Curses crumble when generations
are joined together. Curses impact
generations in a specific bloodline through a family, and they also impact
cultures or nations, through a tribe or people group. The cause and cure remain
the same. The generations must join
together, through the redemptive power of the cross and blood of Christ, or the
bondage, habits and mindsets of peoples and nations will change little. But…this is changing. When God begins to answer the cries of His
people for deliverance from bondage, he first moves on the “fathers,” or
leaders, to make the initial step for change.
Monday, January 23, 2017
Turning the Hearts of the Children
God, who at
various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the
prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed
heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the
brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all
things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat
down at the right hand of the Majesty on high… (Heb. 1:1-3).
I grew up without a father. My father abandoned my mother when she was
three months pregnant with me. He left
and never looked back. Any child growing
up without the blessing of a father knows the emptiness, rejection, and anger
that can accompany fatherlessness. We
are now living in a period where the majority of young people have grown up
fatherless, either by abandonment or neglect.
Since the higher courts of this nation escorted God out of public life
in the early sixties, several generations grew up without a true knowledge of
their Father in heaven. The toll has
been tragic, but hope lives, because the most unprecedented move of God the
world has ever seen is at hand.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
The Compassionate Father
In that day you
will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for
you; for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have
believed that I came forth from God (John 16:26-27).
Turning the hearts of the
children to the Father begins with the revelation and experience of the
Father’s burning passion for messed-up human beings. The average Christian sees a perverted image
of the Father. They base their
relationship with Him on a perception of Him being an arbitrary, untrustworthy,
aloof despot, demanding perfection before He can or will interact with us. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Being male and female, both sexes
reflect aspects of the glory of the Father.
There is a tender, compassionate heart at the center of the Father’s
existence that Paul describes as the kind of love and care a mother would show
for her children.
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