the living word of the Lord – Page 11

What Do You Hear the Voice of the Lord Saying?

Jesus’ first priority for us is to love Him by actually seeing people through His eyes. As we allow Him to get our attention, we will be overwhelmed by what is “really” going on around us…

Did anyone notice when you crawled out of bed this morning? I have a friend who likes to say, “The kingdom of darkness gets nervous when any Jesus follower wakes up“. We are the light of the world according to Jesus. He noticed and He longs to show you his heart in the middle of your “normal” life.

In Matt 9:35-38, we read that Jesus was walking in the middle of the same streets and the same crowds as everyone else. But, he saw things differently. While everyone else just saw the usual things, Jesus saw the crowds in a unique way and felt deeply for them. He saw that they were lost, directionless, wandering around like sheep with no shepherd!

With a heart burning with urgency and deep compassion for the people, He turned and told his followers to open their eyes to what He was seeing. Then He told them to pray for laborers. He is calling us to the same mission.

His first priority for us is to love Him by actually seeing people through His eyes. As we allow Him to get our attention, we will be overwhelmed by what is “really” going on around us. We will begin to sense that He is actually saying something and He wants us to listen. The massive heartbeat of the Father is to be up close with every person we will see today.

It reminds me of the prophet Isaiah and his encounter with God in Isaiah 6. As he was going through his daily routine of serving as a priest in God’s temple, the Holy Spirit grabbed his attention and Isaiah had an intense vision of the glory of the Lord. Isaiah desperately cried out for mercy and God sent an angel to purify his lips so that he would be clean. Then something revolutionary happened at the core of Isaiah’s being.

In Isaiah 6:8 it says;

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”.

How long had God been saying this? Was Isaiah hearing the passionate heartbeat of God in a way that he had never heard it before?

What about you? As you get up out of bed and live out that same old daily grind, God is trying to get your attention. Whatever you do, don’t turn away from Him because you feel unworthy and afraid. Isaiah felt the same way. But he stayed in God’s presence. He experienced the Fathers heart for people as he heard what the Spirit was saying.

What do you hear the voice of the Lord saying?

When you experience His deep love for people you will be swept up in His mission. He is still asking “Who will go“?

Let’s rise up and ask the Lord for laborers and with burning hearts cry out, “Here we are, Father! Send us!”

Heart to Heart “Stirrings”

It is time to bring your heart… your alabaster jar and break it open before Jesus pouring it’s contents out on Him as a gift of loving surrender to moving with His heart…

Getting ready for the day today I felt this stirring in my heart and felt that I needed to share it – but more importantly I need to find agreement with God on it in my own heart.

“The Lord is graciously coming to His people allowing us to perceive the rhythm of His heartbeat.
It is coming through many avenues.
It confirms His word and it is His word.
It is revelation and mystery together.
He desires to bring our hearts and lives into sync with the cadence of His heart.
Doing so is necessary as we enter the near future.
So invest yourself in reading His word in the place of intimacy.
It is time to bring your heart… your alabaster jar and break it open before Jesus pouring it’s contents out on Him as a gift of loving surrender to moving with His heart.”

– Posted using my iPhone

Here’s “What’s Happening?” With Me & My Place of Ministry – Eastgate House of Prayer

It was a little less than a year ago that I laid down my responsibilities as part of the pastoral team of our local church so that I could make myself more available to help with the development of Eastgate House Of Prayer here in the Saint John region. I am very grateful for the friendship and encouragement of Kings Valley Wesleyan Church in this process. I and my family love being part of this wonderful community of Jesus followers.

God has been so faithful in leading me along in this new chapter of my journey in following Him! Leading worship at EHOP (Eastgate House of Prayer) and working with it’s Director Kirk Smith and the rest of the leadership team has been such a huge blessing to me! In the process of serving with EHOP, the Lord has opened a new door of ministry for me.

I am thrilled to say that I am joining the EHOP Mission Base as a worship leader and Intercessory Missionary. This means that I will be serving on a full-time basis as we minister to the Lord in “Day and Night” worship & prayer. Inspired by His word and His passionate heart, we will be asking Him for a great harvest of people into His kingdom, for unity in His Church and for the preparing of His Bride for Jesus’ return.

We are part of a growing number of Houses of Prayer rising up in many cities around the world. For more details on the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, visit www.ihop.org.

EHOP invites participation by any individual or church that worships Jesus according to the Scripture, regardless of denomination, for the sake of bringing unity to the Body of Christ and for revival in the Saint John region, across Canada and throughout the nations.

I am especially excited about my assignment in leading worship and mentoring other musicians and singers serving with EHOP.

In my assignment as an “Intercessory Missionary” I will be committing myself to 30-40 hours per week in helping to lead Intercessory worship meetings, training other intercessors and serving in the administrative infrastructure. I will be continuing in the development of an active and rigorous prayer life including regular times of fasting and prayer as well as ministry through my local church to the local community.

As an Intercessory Missionary with EHOP I am responsible to build a team of supporters both in prayer and raising my personal financial support. I am trusting in the Lord that He is leading many to invest in my calling to mentor intercessory musicians and worship leaders who will minister to the Lord night and day for the sake of a great move of God in our time on the earth. An avenue for providing financial support has been created in order for me to pursue this calling. I would love to make myself available on a full time basis as soon as possible. I am asking the Lord to lead individuals and local churches to invest in the kingdom of God through supporting this mission.

I am in need of monthly supporters and/or one time financial gifts in order to be free enough financially to give myself fully to this ongoing ministry to the Lord in worship, prayer and service to the harvest. An income tax receipt will be issued for all financial gifts to EHOP.

If you feel prompted to connect with me about this, please reach out to me. My contact details:

dan@wastedtreasure.com
(506) 639-8961
403 Hampton Road, Quispamsis, NB, Canada, E2E4V5
Cheques please make payable to Eastgate House of Prayer.

Giving It All Away to See His Glory

Where are the ones who will take all that they cling to for security – mindsets, theologies, systems of belief, successes, failures… everything – and break it open to be poured out on loving Jesus?

There are a few people that I read about in the Bible that I would love to know. One of them is the woman written about in John 4.

She locked in to the right approach to Jesus. She grabbed what was probably her most valuable possession and journeyed to where Jesus was in order to offer something valuable to Him. Nobody around her thought it was a good gift or that it was even the right thing to do – other than Jesus.

He loved her gift and He declared that what she did was beautiful! Wow!

This is what God is looking for from this generation. Where are the ones who will take all that they cling to for security – mindsets, theologies, systems of belief, successes, failures… everything – and break it open to be poured out on loving Jesus? He is the one we want. His approval is all we need. Everything else is just details.

Will you trust Him with it all?

Are you willing to give it all away to truly see his glory in all the earth?

– Posted using my iPhone

Commitment to Sexual Purity

As a generation of parents, we haven’t done a very good job of living in joyful surrender to God with our sexuality…

This Thursday night, I will be leading a seminar/discussion for parents sponsored by KV Youth about living a commitment to sexual purity.

Sex is a beautiful and powerful gift from God designed and reserved for marriage. It’s pull on us all is intense and alive with desire. Our young men and women are the stewards of this fire and we need to show them a healthy way to surrender their sexuality to the Creator who designed sex from the beginning.

I am so humbled to be sharing about this subject in Thursday’s seminar. However, it does cause me to feel like Isaiah when he confessed his own unclean lips and that he belonged to a people of unclean lips in Isaiah 6:5. As a generation of parents, we haven’t done a very good job of living in joyful surrender to God with our sexuality. Often times we don’t make the connection between God’s blessing of an amazing life (including sex) and our obedience to Him. We live as if following Jesus is hard work and serious, while sex is fun and sort of just the thing we do.

There are children living with us that are counting on us to show them a better way… the way of Jesus’ kingdom. We can do this by His grace- but it is gonna take honesty, humility and an authentic surrender to Him.

Will you fight for a new generation of young men and women?

Will you fight for your kids?

Ne Cede Malis

I would love it if at the end of my earthly life my children would be able to say that I didn’t yield or give up in the face of trouble or adversity…

I dug around a bit today looking for the “Lamos family motto.”

It is found on our family crest. I discovered that it is the Latin phrase “Ne Cede Malis“. The translation is “yield not to adversity“.

It’s funny how a motto like that has a way of challenging me at a deep level of my identity. I would love it if at the end of my earthly life my children would be able to say that I didn’t yield or give up in the face of trouble or adversity.

Don’t Say You Are Only…

When Jeremiah the prophet was a boy, he had a life altering encounter with God…

When Jeremiah the prophet was a boy, he had a life altering encounter with God. You can read about it in Jeremiah 1:1-19.

At one point, God tells him that he is going to speak through him to challenge leaders in powerful positions of authority. Jeremiah raises the objection that he is only a boy. The Spirit quickly confronts him says “Don’t say I am only a boy“.

The thought comes to mind that I say all kinds of things that limit what God wants to do through me. It usually sounds a lot like… “but I’m only…”

Oh Creative God, teach me to fill my head with your thoughts about me and learn to echo what you say about my potential in your hands.

A Towel and Basin Revolution

If I want to change the world, I need to live every day looking for chances to serve just the way Jesus would…

I was thinking about what God ‘s plan might be to bring about change in this world.

I read that as a Jesus follower I should do all that I do in His name… to do things in the way he would do them… with the same attitude. Jesus showed his way of doing things by grabbing a towel and basin and washing his friends feet. Behavior like that could cause a revolution where I am from. If I want to change the world, I need to live every day looking for chances to serve just the way Jesus would…

God, help me to see my towel and basin every day as the best gift you have given me to change the world.

How Dare You Question My Love?

In ancient times, God tested His people’s love for Him. It is recorded in Deut. 13:3 “The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

It is a pretty typical human response to feel threatened by this, unless of course we are actually passionately in love with our God!

What if the only way to avoid sin and deception is to be deeply in love with Jesus? In reality it still is… It is only deep and real love for Jesus that will draw His people together and send us out to usher in His kingdom.

John 17:23, “So, allow Him to test us today and may it drive us closer in to His embrace.”

This Is Not about That…

Are we a good judge about whether or not our actions are selfish or selfless?

What does it mean when we say things like, “This is not about me” or “I’m really thinking about what is best for you in this…“?

Are we a good judge about whether or not our actions are selfish or selfless?

The other day I read something about a selflessness that is born out of a deep awareness of who one is and what they are supposed to do. I found the idea very intriguing as it seems that in many of our relationships, we often misunderstand someone who is secure about those issues as arrogance. I John 4:18 says, “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” It is actually self centeredness and pride that lead us to fear. When you and I are completely full of God’s perfect love, we are free to fully embrace who we are and we can live securely in the life mission He has designed for us to accomplish. We can then actually bring our best to our relationships and the mission we have been given.