John Wesley, Charles Finney, Smith Wigglesworth, and David Brainerd are some of the men of God of the past couple hundred years that have so kept me driven to be like these men. There are times in history when God looks over the Earth and wants to find a person that he can release Holy Spirit Power to, in order to change the environment of a region or city and the course of history. When I read the biographies of these men, I was gripped with the power that they had on their lives, from just spending hours in prayer, reading and living a life of fasting and great devotion to God. Charles Finney would preach and the people would feel the weight of their own sin so heavy, they would fall out of their seats and cry for a savior. He walked into a factory in the mid 1800’s and just stood there and the power of God that was on him made the workers in the factory tremble, cry and repent, and he never said a word. Smith Wigglesworth was just on a train not saying anything, and the man next to him said, “Who are you sir?  You convict me of my sins”. There was something released into these men’s lives that made them carry the Holy Spirit in their words and presence. 

     I have never wanted to be a preacher, have a pulpit, or really do anything in a church that people would even see or hear me. But, I have wanted to carry and embody the power of God so the people in my workplace could be changed. So that God could use me to turn it upside down and even use me to turn this city upside down. For people to have a simple conversation with me and God back up what I say with power that totally changes them. Not that I would have anything to do with it, but like TJ had wrote in an earlier blog, “making myself available to God.” God speaking though me.

     God doesn’t use people that try to break down doors by themselves and manipulate situations to gain the praise of man and acceptance. He uses people that are FAITHFUL. He sees when you say “no” to the world and “yes” to Him. He sees your faithfulness even if no one does and when you don’t even see it yourself. God told me audibly in a dream that He’s “about to release a John Wesley / Charles Finney anointing”. Now “about to” could be a while for God because he’s been here forever. But my question is, “When He does release the anointing to take over a city or a workplace or your group of friends, will He find that you were faithful for years and will He use you?” Not saying you won’t go through dry or distracted times, but over the course of your life, will you be found faithful and available? Faithful in your love for him, faithful in prayer, denying yourself and saying “YES” to Him? I want you to have a vision for something more than you have right now. I want you to have a vision for something from heaven, given by God to the faithful and the devoted. If you’re a worship leader, then have a vision for God singing through you and changing the atmosphere of worship. Or, if you just work at Kmart, get a vision for God speaking through you in a little conversation here or there. The majority of people used in the Bible were “nobody’s”. Nobody knew them or thought they would be much in life. David, Mary, the disciples, and Abraham were all nobody’s as far as the world knew but they were faithful to God.

     If you want a vision for this, ask God for it.  Be faithful.  I recommend that you read the biographies of men and women of God of the past.

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