"To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven..." Ecclesiastes 3:1
As I write this post today, I'm in awe of what God is about to do! This past Sunday night, a group of people (32 in fact) gathered in a small one car garage at a home just down the road to come together in worship, word, prayer and fellowship. After the last car pulled in the driveway and the families made their way into the garage, that had been made into a make-shift sanctuary, we began to fellowship and laugh and catch up on some lost time. As we sat in our "ball field chairs" and "plastic chairs" and enjoyed eachother's company, we began to get our mind on why we had gathered together.
I opened up "the service" with a prayer and some thoughts on what God was about to do within the group of people that had determind to gather, worship, pray, fellowship and seek God's face. We began to sing an old song by the name of "We have come into this place" which reminds us of "why we are gathered"... to gather in His name and worship Him...to lift up holy hands to worship Him...to forget about ourselves and worship Him...to concentrate on Him and worship Him. As that song ended, the Holy Spirit was already moving and impressed others to lead us in another worship song. We began to sing, "Lord prepare me to be a sanctuary" because we are in the process of realizing that we don't have to be in a man made sanctuary to worship. There we were in a man made garage worshipping Christ! What an awesome feeling it was. As I was opening up service the Lord impressed on me and reminded me that even our "Savior" was born in a stable and so we can worship Him anywhere, afterall, we are the sanctuary!
As we continued to sing, a presence of the Holy Spirit filled the room and there were crying, rejoicing, hands lifted high, and even some old fashioned "conviction" being felt. We had a young lady make things right with the Lord in this garage that we were worshipping in! Praise the Lord!! As the Holy Spirit moved and they continued to pray I was lead to just go ahead and preach a little bit so I did! The Lord reminded us that we are going to have to give something in order to receive something. In other words, an offering that doesn't cost us anything (not monetary), profits us nothing. But, when we realize that the offering in which we are to give to the Lord and the sacrifice we are to present to Him costs us then we will receive and profit from that offering with blessings and promises! Read 1 Chronicles 21.
So as it is, I believe history was in the making as it possibly was the official first meeting of LifeHouse Harvest Church. There is a field that is ripe for the harvest and we have to make every effort to go and be Jesus to a lost and dying world. To be continued...
