Ones coming from the depths, through the flames...

“I believe what God is doing right now in His Body is greater than we can know. I believe He is causing His people to have to make deep, tough decisions about our devotion and our walk. He is circumcising us...offering to cut American Christianity off of us.... to all those who will submit to the blade. These are some of the hardest times and longest enduring struggles we have faced…..but I interject that it may seem so "hard" and "unbearable" because our roots are so steeped in the false and the temporal. God is trying to re-direct our focus back to Christianity 101…off of the "feel good" – "have it all" – "become a millionaire so that people will know you are blessed and turn to God" American Christianity. God is causing the rubber to meet the road and is freeing us… For we are not here to LIVE…(to LIVE IT UP)! But to die so that others might live! And in that dying to self, we find true life! But the surgeon's blade is sharp… and our impulse is to get off the table! But what is happening now is such a MAJOR BLESSING for His people! May all in His Body embrace the Master’s plan and submit to his mighty hand. He is roused. And he is not playing games any more. He is ready to take his people at their word and ready to perform His! So now as we embrace this circumcision, we are Josephs. The ones coming from the depths, through the flames, to be put on the world stage to snatch from the fire all those coming behind us."