The Revelation of Jesus

On Monday, a dear sister in the LORD sent me a FB message of a Youtube video from the Christian worship team, Housefires.  The song is entitled Jesus What A Savior. (Kably, Kirby. "Jesus What A Savior". By Kirby Kably. We Say Yes. Housefires Music. 2107. YouTube). I know this sister hears from the LORD so it wasn’t just a FB message.  I am sure she was inclined by the Spirit of the LORD to share it with me. This song has such a sweet presence of Jesus on it. I listened to it over and over.  REPEAT. I have the heart of a worshipper so very rarely do I listen to an anointed song once.  By about the third listen, I had the song in my heart and had really entered worship. Before I even knew what was happening I was on the floor crying, sobbing.  I was praying from my heart because no words could even flow.  It was just tears and sobs.  I wasn’t just sobbing. I was feeling my conversation with Jesus inwardly.  I would think something and feel it and He would respond and I would feel it.  I kept playing the song over and over because He was there with me.  I wanted him to know my heart.  Then the sobbing increased because I realized I didn’t know his heart like I should.  I knew his heart for me but not for others.

Honestly, I have never really seen myself as a compassionate person.  I know people who flow in compassion and I know that I don’t operate at that level but I was feeling something inside myself that is difficult to describe.   As I worshipped and cried, I realized how much I needed his heart.  A powerful verse in the song reveals, “Your heart it knows no borders knows no walls. Your constantly moving towards me with open arms”. (Kably, Kirby. "Jesus What A Savior". By Kirby Kably. We Say Yes. Housefires Music. 2107. YouTube).  His heart has no borders-there are no walls.  This is His love and nothing can separate us from it when we are IN HIM.   (Nothing can separate us from the love of God found in Christ Jesus - Romans 8:39)  He is the exact image of the invisible God. You can’t know God outside of Him and yet He demonstrates His heart through the most simple and profound ways at the same time-so that we may realize our deep need for Him.  This went on for some time.

Then I realized I wanted to share the song.  I was being so impacted by this time of worship.  I shared it on social media and via private messages.  Then I went back to it again. I played it repeatedly.  I went back into prayer interceding for the President, the people of Texas, the nation, and the church.  I knew I heard Jesus speaking to me saying, “I need you to know (by experience) you are Christ (the anointed One) to someone every day.  Every time you go out to the lost world; you are Me to them.  I need your hands, your feet, your body and your heart to demonstrate our Father’s love.”  I am sobbing more as I think of how the people in Texas and all over that region are “loving” one another by serving one another through simple but profound acts that determine life and death.  SELAH. 

Then a random thought came to my mind.  I remembered when I taught history in a Christian school and we did a lesson describing a time of revival.  The textbook mentioned a novel by Charles Sheldon, In His Steps published in 1896.  It was the inspiration for the WWJD faith fad that was prevalent during that time.  Instead of just glossing over it, I decided my students and I would read his book.  The novel is about an challenge given by the pastor of a community church. He gave a sermon that turned into a movement. This  community with church members from all walks of life committed to seriously contemplate what Jesus would do with daily decisions in their lives for an entire year. During the height of the modern day movement you could find the acronym on everything. Today you can still find it in some stores or online.  I doubt that many people have heard of the novel, read it or knew roots of the phrase.  It is a simple but profound concept. It isn’t just the mental contemplation of what would Jesus do, a very westernized approach, but rather it is an action orientated experience of walking IN HIS STEPS. Jesus was talking to me about this experience of walking in his steps.  The words of the song and the images from the media coverage in Texas had stirred my heart so deeply.  I sobbed and prayed some more. 

I asked for forgiveness for my hardness of heart.  I knew that recent current events (Charlottesville and the protests) had created hardness in my heart.  My whole heart wasn’t hard but there were areas. The amount of hate and racism that is pervading the culture is unnerving. It is tangible. Really it is, sad but true.  (And then there was a hurricane named Harvey. SELAH).  Now I  felt the need for forgiveness.  I also felt a deep need to have Jesus’ heart.  I kept crying and saying “Lord, I don’t have your heart.”  Then he reminded me of some other things that I had done in obedience.  Things that aren’t public knowledge nor my current FB status. These were things that demonstrated His heart. I felt conflicted, but grateful that there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus.  In some ways, I did have his heart but I heard him saying, “I am enlarging your capacity for Me.”  It was a word that I had received from Him a few months ago: enlarge your tent.  I did not fully understand what He meant then, but I understood more now.  Not all, but more. 

You might be wondering, all this happened while you were listening to a ten-minute worship song.  Well, yes because it was worship and I had entered something spiritual. I played it over and over until He came and sat down in my worship.  Then I just sat at His feet.  Ten minutes had turned into a couple of hours.  Singing, praying, crying and sobbing.  I would stop crying long enough to sing and worship and then I would feel Him moving in my heart and I would just start sobbing again. 

In all that I realized many things, some of which I don't know consciously now but I know I received a revelation of Jesus.  It was a revelation of His love and heart that I had not known. (“The Jesus I knew was handing me the Jesus I didn’t know and was saying this is Me”. Bishop T.D. Jakes- Paradigm Shift).  The experience is a bit of  something that is still difficult to describe.  It makes me think of the first scripture in the book of Revelation. In the Amplified Bible, it reads:

This is the revelation of Jesus Christ [His unveiling of the divine mysteries] God gave it to HIM to disclose and make known to HIS bond servants certain things which must shortly and speedily come to pass in their entirety.  And He sent and communicated it through His angel (messenger) to HIS bond servant John. (Revelation 1:1 The Amplified Bible)

One day while reading this scripture, I got a revelation.  The Book of Revelation is not John’s revelation but Jesus’ revelation. He disclosed it to John.  He shared it with John to share with the rest of us.  We need Jesus’ revelation and perspective.  THE REVELATION OF JESUS. We need to see what He is seeing; what the Father is revealing. THE REVELATION OF JESUS. The revelation of all that He is, is constantly unfolding. It is perpetual. THE REVELATION OF JESUS.  A knowing of His heart and His love that compels us to act beyond ourselves and our security on behalf of someone else. THE REVELATION OF JESUS.

The Apostle Paul expressed it this way…” I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord….and be found in Him not having my own righteousness…that I might know Him and the power of his resurrection…but I press on that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.” (Philippians 3:8-12 NKJV.  I could have quoted all of verses 8 through 12 but this is already longer than I thought it would be!! I encourage you to read the passage in its entirety).

THE REVELATION OF JESUS.  Jesus is the Alpha and Omega; He is the beginning and the end.  He knew what his earthly assignment would require and He choose to love through death. His death gave us life eternal. No greater love. Jesus what a Savior.



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