-- Jill Austin
(from the Elijah List www.elijahlist.com)Master Potter
Is Your Shadow Dangerous?
Acts 5:12-16--"The apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders among the people, and all the believers used to meet together at Solomon's colonnade. No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on the beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as they passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem bringing their sick and those tormented by evil spirits and all of them were healed."
Acts 19:11-12--"God did extraordinary miracles through Paul so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them."
Is your shadow dangerous? How much fire do you have inside of you? Have you ever prayed for your shadow to be anointed and dangerous? In
2 Corinthians 4, it says that we are earthenware vessels, but the glory, the treasure in us, is the Lord. In other words, there is a mystery. We are fragile earthenware vessels, but the glory, the fire inside of us, is the Lord.
You know the song, "This little light of mine, I want to let it shine"? It's not even scriptural. It makes it sound like Christianity is puny, and you hope God has enough lighter fluid to fill you up again. We are earthenware vessels, so how many of you would like to have a radius of His glory inside of you like a nuclear reactor? Or would you like more? Do you want a resurrection anointing so strong that when you walk into a restaurant, the glory of God starts to move through you to confront the darkness? How much fire do you want? How dangerous do you really want to be?
Do you realize that if you have a radical anointing, you could get kicked out of your church? If you are the Pastor, they could lock you out! Do you realize you could be martyred? Would you rather be John the Baptist or Elijah? How many of you would like to see the glory of God rest over your house and as people drive by, they see angels of revelation camped over your house? How many of you would like to walk into work and suddenly the glory of God just explodes out of you? Would you like to have so much of God's glory that if your boss comes over to shake your hand, that all of a sudden he is falling to the floor with the anointing?
Let's go back to your neighborhood. Let's say: a wife is bringing her husband home from the hospital, and he is dying of terminal bone cancer. The children of the sick father tell their parents that they keep seeing angels of the Lord at your house, and they believe that your prayers could heal him. The wife calls you and tells you that her husband has twenty-four hours left to live. She also tells you that her family understands that you are followers of Jesus, and that you love the Bible. She asks you to pray for her husband to see if what you preach is true.
So the neighbors come, put the husband on a blanket and carry him to your house. When they knock, you open the door, and they all come in, the family and the other neighbors. Maybe twenty people are there--watching to see if Jesus is real. Can we pray for the sick? Will He heal cancer? As you begin to pray, with all the neighbors looking on, color begins to come back into the man and the spirit of death starts to lift. He sits up and says, "I am hungry," and the Lord continues to heal him.
How many of you would like to have those in your neighborhood come and knock on your door for you to pray for them? The glory of the Lord would start to move through your neighborhood. How many of you would like to have ambulances parked outside of your door because people hear that the miracle power of Jesus is starting to move? How many of you would like to have hearses at your door as Jesus raises people from the dead? Even if they've been embalmed, God can give them blood! There's a radical cry in us--a cry where we start to say that we have a God who moves in our midst.
What is the difference between renewal and revival? I was in a conference meeting where the fire of God came with intercession, repentance, etc., and it was a wonderful renewal move of God. Then the next week, as I did a second series of meetings, I realized that the atmosphere was different as soon as I walked into the room. It was very different than the previous week's meetings! The atmosphere in this meeting was charged with the holiness of God, and the glory of the Lord.
As the meeting started, people were on their faces for hours as the heavy weight and glory of God came into the room, igniting revival. I have found that many people are looking for keys to unlock the Heavens and that includes the occult. Everyone wants power!
Yes, we serve a powerful God and He does come in power, but the only keys that unlock the Heavens are the blood of Jesus Christ and the Cross of the Lamb of God. The next key is passion for Jesus--that radical, militant, first love, face-on, full-on love that is like a radical "braveheart", pressing in to know Jesus personally and intimately.
What I find is that the more we move from renewal to revival, it's as though the governmental throne of God starts coming to the earth. The governmental anointing and authority of God comes to earth and says, "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven," and the apostolic and prophetic increase, and visitations begin with a fresh outpouring of the Lamb of God.
Jill Austin
Master Potter
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