2010 October 24 « New Life For The Nations

Treasures from Psalms Pastor LaVerne

Psalm 118 was a great psalm that was sung following the Passover meal. Nearly a century after the return of the Jewish people to Palestine, Nehemiah engineered the reconstruction of the walls around Jerusalem in 52 days. This psalm was sung, a victory chant. Here at New Life the walls are being rebuild around our church and our pastor by your prayers. In the 52 days of reconstruction of the wall they worked 24 hours a day to get it completed. Keep praying–God is doing the rebuilding.

Psalm 118:3-17 (Message Bible)

Pushed to the wall, I called to God, from the wide open spaces, he answered.
God’s now at my side and I’m not afraid; who would dare lay a hand on me?
God’s my strong champion; I FLICK OFF MY ENEMIES LIKE FLIES.
Far better to take refuge in God than trust in people.
Far better to take refuge in God than trust in celebrities.
Hemmed in by barbarians, in God’s name I RUBBED THEIR FACES IN THE DIRT;
Hemmed in and with no way out, in God’s name I RUBBED THEIR FACES IN THE DIRT.
Like swarming bees, like wild prairie fire, they hemmed me in;
In God’s name I RUBBED THEIR FACES IN THE DIRT.
I was right on the cliff-edge, ready to fall, when God grabbed and held me.
God’s my strength, he’s also my song, and now he’s my salvation.
Hear the shouts, hear the triumph songs in the camp of the Lord? (at New Life)\
“The hand of God has turned the tide! The hand of God is raised in victory!
The hand of God has turned the tide!” I didn’t die. I lived.!!!!

Message for October 24, 2010

Hello Brother Gerald,
I want to share something that has been in my spirit starting the weekend we were with you. I have never done anything like this before and I have asked God to remove the images from my spirit for several days but they continue so I will just tell you what I see and hear and hopefully you can sift through it and find something of value. Ray and I love you and your family and church so much. We want the very best for you. We admire you and LaVerne so much and desire to emulate the ministry heart we see in you.

I keep hearing in my spirit, “It is time to be impassioned and to rebuild. It is time to remember the day the new sanctuary was laid out on paper and the vision for its use was fresh in your mind and heart and in the people’s hearts. The people are to rise up and build. This time not a physical structure but the True Church. The time for marking time and getting by are over. The Spirit of God is preparing to breathe over your region. The people have become weary because they have allowed their eyes to be filled with loss and defeat rather than God’s unchanging love and purpose. I keep hearing put yesterday behind you. This new day in which you are standing is filled with possibilities and power just waiting to be accessed. I hear you have felt that you ran your best race in the past and that there is now not enough strength to run again. But I hear that the Spirit is about to breathe upon you in a way that will ignite every cell in your body with purpose. HE says to me that in your area people can not hear a more sure word of God than they can from your lips. HE says prepare each message as if it were being cast to the thousands because that is the impact it will have in the lives of those who hear it. HE says remember, remember, the vigor you previously had as it is awaking in you again. HE says the best is ahead of you and that that is not just a phrase, it is HIS directive to you as you reach forward one more time and put your hand to a very worn plow handle and begin to till the soil for renewal and revival in your community. The LORD says the room was built with those dimensions for a reason and HE is not ready to let go of that reason.

You stand like a giant in the KINGDOM says the Spirit and you wield a mighty sword.