“They climb into the houses; like thieves they enter through the windows.”
I had just challenged the students at Pneumatix about their journey with the Father. Two of them had recently told me they had been waking up at night and called to pray. My challenge was that others would be awakened to pray as well.
That very night at 2:09am the alarm at our home went off and obviously woke us up as it is very loud!
Thinking someone was breaking in I danced around the bedroom until Cindy told me to calm down. I waited for the Security Company to call as they normally do but no call was made. After a ten minute wait I decided to call them. I told the gal on the phone the alarm went off but we had shut it off and she said there was not indication on their system that the alarm went off. I was a bit befuddled but waited for the security guy to show up. He came and looked around the house and all was normal so back to sleep with no thought of what I had said to the students earlier that day. DUH?!
I woke the next morning and was on my way to our morning meeting when the Holy Spirit began to speak to me. Normally when I hear from God it isn’t when I am pursuing a word from Him it just seems to happen. He said to me, “Tom, sound the alarm!” which made me think of the verse in
“Blow the trumpet in
I got ready to share what the Lord had said and was standing beside Brent who told me he wanted to share a word he had for the students. I asked him to show me what it was and he went to Joel 2! It was then that it became clearer than ever what Dad was saying!
It was a short time after our morning devotions one of the young men said to me that he was awakened at the exact same time I was at 2:09am! Whoa! It was at that moment God said to me read
I thought about what the enemy could be stealing as he crawls through the window. At this point it came back to the intimacy with our Dad again. If the enemy can steal that he has won the battle. The warning of the Lord and the alarm that is being sounded is for us to return to the Lord with all our heart (Joel 2: 12). It is the same warning we get in Revelations when we read about the churches...RETURN TO YOUR FIRST LOVE!
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I will. Thank you.
Thanks Tom, I needed to hear that. God always keeps calling our name even when we are too busy to listen and some times it takes an alarm in the middle of the night to wake us up to pray. My daughter will come in our room in the night with "mommy, I'm scared, there's monsters in my room" and immediately we go to prayer and quoting II Tim 1:7, God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. I am reminded of our times in DesMoines when you had us come to prayer 15 minutes before youth group. That was the first time in my life I had prayed that long at one sitting. I believe that was the start of a deeper commitment and a call to intercession in my life. Keep up the good work. Mark and I love you guys. Thanks, Julie Vance
I get it. I just read this almost 2 months after you posted. I've been way to busy. God just stop me in my tracks when I read this.
I bowed on the floor in my bedroom and was broken before my Father for 30 minutes. As I type this my eyes are red and burning.
Awesome!
There is a whisper in the underground right now. God is on the move. It's exciting and fearful all at once. Pray! Pray for God to have mercy on us and give us more time!
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