Obstinately obedient Today.

There is a need to shake off the dust of complacency and contentment. 

A burning of bridges, a breaking of bondages. 

A putting of hands to the plough, with no looking back. 

A breaking of alabaster jars that cannot be restored or replaced.

A giving up of reputation and security for others' eternity.

For every place and every people, God is raising up his Jeremiahs that will stand in obstinate obedience. Those who would each day enter in to prayer to understand what breaks his heart and even bind their own hearts to his so that they break along with his. 

That in the place of prayer comes forth golden prophetic voices, because they are forged in the furnace of yieldedness and brokenness. 

"God, that you would take my life if it would save this nation!" Those are the intercessors God is calling forth. And they are rising up. 

He is not blowing the trumpet. 

We are blowing it on his behalf. 

Jeremiahs, arise! Let a time of mourning precede the coming rejoicing.

Harvest is ripening, but his children are forgetting.

Not to us, O Lord, not to us!

He says, "I am preparing you for the harvest,

not tomorrow, not yesterday. It's Today!"

Would you enter into that place? 

Would you hear the Jeremiah call? 

Would you stand for the truth as you kneel for his mercy?

Would you wield the sickle and the trumpet, both in your hands?

Forge on, God, forge on we ask

Let your golden voices arise 

Across the lands, over the sea

Every inch covered with your holy glory

He is fueling the furnace, fanning the flames

He's setting hearts ablaze, and bellies on fire

These will be men and women who would ask, "Who am I? They won't listen to me."

And He will say, "Even if they won't listen, what is that to you?"

Go!

Pass through, pass through the gates!

Prepare the way for the people.

Build up, build up the highway!

Remove the stones.

Raise a banner for the nations.

I know what it's like to feel the strong burden of the Lord and shy away from it. I know many people like that. It's painful to bear and costly to walk out. I also know that in our lives prone to mundaneness and wanderings, there is a yearning that comes out of a deep, deep place - you don't look for destiny; Destiny finds you. God is calling for those who would live out of the box, beyond themselves. Totally dependent, totally desperate. We pray that many more would be obstinately obedient to that yearning - be the prophetic message others need to hear. Choose to be that Today.