What Does The Lord Want? by David Nelson

Posted: 2009-06-09 08:59:35

What Does the Lord Want?          By David Nelson           6-2-09

He wants us to know His heart. He wants to speak to us. The lukewarm Church has a lot of activities, but something is wrong. God is not in those activities. He is standing outside and says, If anyone will hear My voice I will come in and sit with them and sup with them. That’s what we want for the Lord to come in. He wants us to push aside all man-made activities (clear the decks) and seek only Him. How can we do this?

Imagine there is a haze over the Church where the full reality of God is being veiled. We see little glimpses of Him in nature(His majesty, His love, His creativity) in flowers (fragrance and beauty), the songs of birds, mountains, the day and night sky, and we see glimpses of Him in the church, but we want more of Him. What we want is for God to break thru to us more. We must seek His face, seek His presence, seek for God to manifest Himself and speak to us. This will be like fire coming down from Him, like bolts from above, like piercing rays of light that go deep into our hearts and spirits. I am looking for these shinny nuggets of gold and precious gems. For a long time I was longing for more in church services (whether they were small home gatherings or highly recommended conventions). Where is the Lord in all this we are doing? What does He want to say and do more in our midst? Are we letting Him come and say what He wants?

Here is what is needed and what He wants. If we stopped with our meetings and just said, “We are going to begin seeking the Lord. We want Him to come. We want Him to speak to us. We want Him to show us what He wants us to do. And we are not going to resume with our own agendas, ideas or normal routines until He comes to speak to us.” What will He say? How will we know when He speaks? We will know because His word is like fire and like a hammer that breaks rocks and He said if we seek Him diligently, with all our hearts we will find Him. Man’s words (not from the mouth of the Lord) make the people who hear them worthless. (Jer. 23:16) But who will stand in the counsel of the Lord to perceive and hear His word? (Jer. 23:18) Who has marked His word and heard it? I did not speak to these who prophesied, saith the Lord, yet they went ahead and prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel (and heard My words) and then spoke to My people My words they would have turned them from their evil (My words change people’s lives!) (Jer. 23:21-22) He who has My words let Him speak My word faithfully. Is not My word like a fire? Says the Lord, And like a hammer that breaks the rocks in pieces? (Jer. 23:28-29)

If we seek Him we will find Him and He will come and manifest Himself through whomever has his heart set to seek the Lord. And when He manifests Himself we will know, and hear a “Thus saith the Lord,” we will know that He has spoken and revealed Himself. That is all I want anymore. All our activities and words are nothing compared to one word from Him. I want no more meetings with substitute things while we wait for Him to come. I want only Him and His Spirit things. Even if in one hour of seeking Him only one thing comes from Him then that’s all I want.

This is what God wants and He is waiting for some one who will stand in the gap, desiring only these bolts of fire from His presence (sometimes it might be a still, small voice but it still will be fire). No more our songs, our sermons, our teachings, our Bible readings, or even uninspired prayer times. But the Lord will create all these good things and more as He directs. We must pray from the depths of our heart for one thing (or ask Him to help you pray for this kind of revival), for gatherings with one purpose, for meetings where God comes and speaks and reveals His manifest presence. Where His glory comes, where we see and hear Spirit inspired words and revelations and whatever is from Him.