YAHWEH'S MOUTHPIECE

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The King is Coming
In glory and in majesty
Every eye will see the King

Isaiah prophetically writes, “The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, ‘Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.’”

Before the Lord comes, there is an announcement that goes before Him. He commissions voices to herald His coming. “Behold I send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.” (Malachi 4:5)

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

We probably desire revival but are not ready for it. I’m surprised myself, but God’s emphasis seems to be on getting the hearts of His people ready for Him. That every heart may make room for Him. Because it can happen that He comes and we, His people, the church, who ought to be primary partakers of the glory experience miss Him, the King of Glory.

What God does then to get His people ready ahead of time is to send His messengers ahead to prepare the way (the hearts of the people) before Him. This is a way that a man by God pioneered and such an assignment and grace was named after Him. It is the man. It is the way of bringing the hearts of the people back to God. We’ve been seeking other things, but it is now time to turn again and seek the One who truly matters – God.

God is needing voices who will not be silent but will cry aloud, their voices being amplified by the Holy Ghost. They are voices that echo God’s heartbeat, the burden upon the heart of God causing it to resound to the ends of the earth.

When we look at the state of the world and even the church, God cannot but have men who will not in fear shut their mouths, but proclaim the word of God faithfully. These are men aligned to the heart of God and inclined to hear the rhythm of His heart. He says my son attend to my words and incline your ear to my sayings.

At such a time of decadence and iniquity, a voice arose, Elijah, to declare the counsel of God and bring the nation to repentance. “I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword…” As it was said in the first article, only burdened people can bring a change in their generation. We see a man burdened with zeal for the Lord such that he could not be silent in the face of such perverseness that pervaded the land. Jesus Christ was also burdened, the zeal of the Lord’s house “ate Him up” that He could not bear to stand the sight of a desecrated temple.

A point came in the life of God’s voice and servant, Jeremiah, that he thought to quit, but He couldn’t. “His word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.”

Part of the reason we maybe have a desire for change and do not see it is that we forbear. We refuse to speak the words and express the burdens God has laid upon our hearts. We will then have a share in the woes for God has set watchmen o give warning to the house of Israel and where they refuse to warn, He says He will require their blood out of our hands.  

God is constantly in search and asking “whom shall I send or who will go for us?” Ours is to sign up to be the vessel and the voice through which the word of God is communicated and spread across the earth till that the earth is filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

God needs voices to communicate His word of salvation to the ends of the earth. For “how shall they hear except there be a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent?” But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. (Romans 10:14,15,18)

It begins with a burden that God plants deep within our hearts. A burden that so consumes every fibre of our being, redirects our focus, realigns our pursuits, and rewires our desires. The disciples were burdened by the reality of the resurrection and stirred by the power of the Spirit of God that they proclaimed fearlessly the word of God till Jerusalem was filled with the doctrine of Jesus.

God intends to commission voices that will echo and resound around the earth. These voices can only speak the word of God and it comes from a place of deep fellowship with Jesus and hearing the beatings of His heart. Like Isaiah, their lips have been purged with burning coals from the altar and their lips have been touched and enabled to speak the words of God, like Jeremiah.

Dear Lord, we know you’re in need of voices to bear your sound and echo your heartbeat to the ends of the earth. We avail ourselves that you will make use of us. We choose to stay at the place of Your heart so that we may hear the things your heart beats for and align ourselves to it. The world is filled with noise and we do not want to contribute to the noise but to be your voice to communicate your word and your mind to the ends of the earth. Cause your words to be in our hearts as burning fire that we will not forebear but proclaim the words and burdens you’ve furnished in our hearts and upon our lips. Make us fit to declare your words by purging our lips with live coals from your altar. We are available Lord, make use of us and glorify yourself in us and through us in Jesus’ name. Amen!