The Lost And Left
The Lost And Left
Last Friday I travelled by bus to speak in Thames. Well into the journey we had to turn back quite a distance to pick up a passenger who had been left behind. I was really frustrated and angry to be so inconvenienced.
When we got back to the bus stop, there standing on the side of the road was a a little Maori boy, plaintively clutching his bag and ticket. The sight melted this angry, hard heart in an instant.
Later on in the trip the Lord spoke to me out of Luke 15.3-7, "What man among you, if he has 100 sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the 99 in the open pasture (lit. “wilderness”!!), and go after the one which is lost, until he find it?"
I anticipate the following:
* A major "sea change" is occurring as God’s attention is massively and extravagantly beginning to fall in greater and greater ways upon "the one which is lost".
* We the Church (presently lying like a big baby in a warm cot) are going to have to learn how to "eat meat" according to 1 Corinthians 3.1-3. By so doing we'll be cut away from "mummy's" milky apron strings and enabled to get out with "dad" on the farm. There's work to be done!!
* God is now going to visit and gather New Zealand's Maori people to Himself through a sovereign, Holy Spirit revival, during which Jesus alone will truly receive all the glory. People reaching out and touching this “ark” (no matter how "pure" they allege their motives to be) will receive Uzzah's "reward". (2 Samuel 6)
