Intensity Of Spirit

Summary:

Today our world is filled with complacency, laziness, and a perverse violence that comes from a hopelessness. To combat this, the simple attributes of God that He imparts to us, focus, intensity, and violence of spirit enables us to speak His Word and be His channels in the earth.

Show Notes:

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  Because of the passivity and perverse violence that has filled the earth, God’s people must have an intensity and violence of spirit to speak His Word.

  
  


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  What is violence? It is something out of our spirit, out of our heart that is very focused and intense.

  
  


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  To stand as Christ did before those who are against you and not back down in who you are or what you believe is the violence of spirit we are reaching in for.

  
  


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  We must cry out to God to give us this intensity of spirit so that we can be those who speak His creative Word to see His Lordship established in this earth.

  
  

Quotes:

• If you haven't learned the difference between Spirit and soul, the tendency is to be very soulish, and call it Spirit.


• What is the opposite of violence? Complacency, laziness, I don't care - ness. And our world is filled with that. But our world is also filled with violence. And that violence grows out of complacency.


• ...to stand firm where you are in your walk with God, not be pushed away or caused to back down from what you believe. That is violence, of Spirit that we're reaching in for.


• ...God's men and women that are coming up now, when they speak, they're speaking a creative Word, that literally is framing or creating God's will in the earth…


• We have to ask the Lord the Holy Spirit to give us that violence of Spirit. That intensity of Spirit that brings down the enemy but also creates the kingdom on this earth. Creates in the hearts of men, the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

References:

II Samuel 16:12-23

(Read how David dances before the Lord)

Matthew 11:12

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

II Kings 2:23-25

Now he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the road, some young boys came out from the city and ridiculed him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”  When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two ^[a]of the boys.  He then went on from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

I Kings 18: 1-40

(Read the Story of Elijah and the battle with Ahab and Jezebel)

Mark 14:53-62

(Read how Christ stands before the Sanhedrin)

Matthew 22:37

And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind."

Take Away:

The Kingdom of God suffers violence and violent men take it force. This violence Christ manifested as He stood by Himself before the court, that is violence. He stood there standing firm, not to be pushed away or caused to back down form what He believed. That is violence of spirit. Are we to be any different with the creative Word that He has placed in our hearts?