DUE TO REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMS....

I’m confident, we all would admit that each one of us is seeking, wanting to be healed in some area in our lives – especially physically, emotionally and or mentally. WE NEED IT. With that in mind, how would it make you feel if you went to church, where you know God is present and Holy Spirit wants to move. He WANTS SIGNS, WONDERS, AND MIRACLES done on behalf of His people as well as unbelievers so they might believe. God shows up. His presence is obviously there but Holy Spirit is interrupted due to regularly scheduled programs. How would you feel? Knowing that you were that close to seeing miracles done on behalf of others, but Holy Spirit is interrupted due to regularly scheduled programs. 

I know, I will be shunned by saying this out loud – not that I do not already know such things has taken placed by some in the position of power and authority because God has already spoken about it and shown me who they are. But for over a year, God has told me to keep silent about such matters. To worship and pray and watch as He reveals and unveils some things. Watch as He opens my eyes to things that He sees and His people seemed to think He is blinded to the deception that flows in and out of their hearts. He instructs me to listen as He opens my ears to hear conversations that are taking place in the privacy of boardrooms in the name of Jesus. Yet they are profaning God’s name. 

So, I sit in silence, and disturbed in my spirit by the things God has shown me, allowed me to hear, that HIS PEOPLE are doing. All in the name of Jesus. The hypocrisy by some. My heart aches from the shame of all of it.

But recently something happened. And for days this thing lingered within me. And often when things in the Spirit lingers within my spirit, I know God is either about to speak out loud, move in a miraculous way, warn or act out in judgment. 

Recently, while attending a church service, the worship was thick. God’s presence was very heavy. This was the heaviest I have felt in a church service in a while. I mean Perry Stone Main Event with Lindell Cooley leading worship type of heaviest. If you have ever attended a Perry Stone’s Main Event, especially his worship service with Lindell leading, you know what I mean. During worship, I was praying for breakthroughs and signs and miracles. I learned later that my ministry partner, who was with me, was praying for the same thing. But worship finally came to an end – interrupted due to regularly scheduled programs. 

So, the speaker begins his sermon. And the sermon is just as energic as worship, I will admit. But then, about 10 minutes in, I felt heat coming from the left side of the room. This is no joke. I usually always have a jacket or sweater with me when I go to any church services because the sanctuary is usually cold. But on this day, I accidentally forgot my jacket. (Keep in mind, there is never any accidents with God, especially when He is about to show you something). 

As I was saying, the right side of my body was cool because of the normal temperature of this sanctuary. But the left side of my body was warm and was getting hotter. Then suddenly, I noticed my left thigh and arm felt as if it had caught on fire. So much so, that I actually looked to my left to observe what was going on. I didn’t notice anything out of place, other than, my ministry partner, who was sitting to my left, was still rocking back and forth from worshiping, which at that time wasn’t unusual to me.

So, I did what was normal for me to do when I don’t understand what is happening. “God, what is that? Why am I feeling this heat that feels like fire coming from my left side?” What God said next blew my mind.

He said, “You know My Presence is here. There are places that I do go where I AM always present,

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but I AM not allow to move on behalf of My people. What you feel is your ministry partner (He actually said her name) filled with My Glory, Authority and Power. There is enough power resting on her to heal the sick, cast out demons and break yokes. But I cannot move for My people.”

Do I need to say more? God’s people and unbelievers alike need more than head knowledge that “God is here.” Yes! We all know that God is here. But what good is God to His people if God cannot show Himself on their behalf?