Viewing God’s mountain of mercy from the valley of dry bones.

When strength is gone,
When pride has vanished,
When self-inflicted shame
Has exposed our guilt
And wrecked our life,
When we can honestly say:
“I know that within me,
That is within my flesh,
Dwells no go thing,”
From that low place
We can view God’s mercy
As He runs as the Father
To embrace His rebellious child
Humbly returning home.

We need revival not just survival.
When we’ve come to the place
Where we’re willing to replace
The pride of group compliance
To a religious program,
With humble heart alliance
And genuine reliance
On the risen Jesus,
We’ll experience His glory
Not just hear His story!

When Christians gather for worship it’s a wonderful time to demonstrate radical reliance on the risen Jesus rather than reliance on a religious routine. The lack of direct ongoing reliance on the presence of the living Jesus creates a Christianity of religious pride, programming, and passivity.

Here are some keys to being the good and fruitful soil in Christ’s “Parable of the Soils” and to learning to rely on Him day and night:

1) Open your heart to God and keep it open all the time.

2) Let Jesus work deep within you.

3) Be a weed whacker warrior and keep all weeds and thorns out of your heart. (Weed whacker warriors remove the weeds in their life that interfere with their willingness to radically rely on the risen Jesus.) It takes humility and brokenness to be able to handle the truth and not deny it.

We humans can think up words. God can inspire words. Demons can inspire words. We humans need reliance on God’s discernment to recognize the difference and His wisdom to reject demon inspired words. It blows my mind that people who claim to be Christ-followers use words that are anointed by demons (commonly called profanity).