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| Nations wait for the people of God to do this. |
LISA
GREAT
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Everything
that has come down was put within us. Now we are waiting for it to come out of
us.
Jesus instructed His disciples to wait in Jerusalem
until they were endued with fire.
Acts 1:8 says it this way, "But you shall receive power
when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you shall be My witnesses..."
What
came down was the Holy Spirit, in the form of tongues of fire.
Those
tongues of fire are in our mouth.
They
are not coming down again.
Jesus said in John 16:7, "Nevertheless I tell you the
truth: It is expedient for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the
Counselor will not come to you. But if I go, I will send Him to you."
Just
as the dove came down and rested on Jesus at His baptism in Matthew 3:16, the
same Holy Spirit came and rested upon people in the upper room in Acts 2, but
in the form of tongues of fire.
Many people are looking up, waiting for something to
come down.
We pray out of Matthew 6, "Thy kingdom come, Thy will
be done," as though it is something outside of us.
We
are looking up for God to send something down, but the Lord is looking down,
waiting for something to come out—of us.
I
wonder if the reason we are not seeing a breakthrough is not because something
has not come down, but rather because something has not come out.
In the past season we would sing, "Holy Spirit, rain
down," but I believe the song of this season is, "Holy Spirit, break
out."
Break
our walls down.
Christ
in you, Christ in me, is the hope of glory! He must come out from us.
While I was in worship on Sunday night at Bethel
Church in Redding, CA, the spirit of God spoke to me and said, "You
have been given tongues of fire. Your words light up the nations!"
The
Lord has given us tongues of fire and in the midst of darkness, our words of
life bring light and truth to build up the nations, not tear them down.
The very next thing I saw was choirs of nations,
singing, "great are You, Lord."
It
was a picture of whole nations lifting up their voices in one song to the Lord.
I
was calling to the various nations, to join in the song of the Lord.
Isaiah 60:1-3 says, "Arise, shine, for your
light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon
you. For the darkness shall cover the earth and deep darkness the
peoples; but the Lord shall rise upon you, and His glory
shall be seen upon you. The nations shall come to your light and
kings to the brightness of your rising" (MEV).
I believe now more than ever before, we have a mandate
from heaven to let our tongues of fire out, so the nations can sing "great
are You, Lord."
As
we speak life, we light up people's lives, we light up nations with hope, peace
and joy, and we bring healing through the fire of our words of life.
We
have been given tongues of fire.
In
the past many have used their tongues to burn up what they deemed wrong, but
today we are being commissioned to use our tongues of fire to light up the
nations with the light of the life that comes out of our mouths.
You
have tongues of fire. Light up the nations!
Lisa Great is an author, speaker and
blogger with Mouthpiece Ministries International. She has been in ministry for
over 25 years, she has a BA in Youth and Family Studies, a MA in Education. She
can be reached at 
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