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O, The Blessedness of those who mourn

Matt 5:4 “Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.”

Mourn: Grieve over loss. To grieve over lack of closeness to the Lord. To have sorrow because you’ve let other things take precedence over knowing Him better and over walking closer with Him.

Isaiah 26 talks about laboring but bringing forth nothing but wind. There’s no baby for all of our labor. Today, it’s too much of our plans, to much of our programs, too much of our agendas. We’re spiritual Israel and we are to bring in the Harvest. So what’s goin’ on? We need our spiritual eyes and ears opened. Help!

I began to mourn because what I had of Him wasn’t enough. The more I cried out to God, the more He revealed Himself to me. I began to see His plans, His desires and His wants. I started to see His perfect will for my life. He began to show me areas where I had some flaws. He wanted me to start doing business. In the natural, the closer something comes to the light, the more the flaws are revealed. Well, He’s the Light, and He began to show me things in the spiritual that had been hidden from me in the natural. His light will take off the “blinders.” Isn’t that what we want?”

We are here for the work of the kingdom and to bring in the harvest. Let’s do business. In Sam. 30:4 we read where Ziklag had been invaded. David and his men came back to camp and found their women and children gone. The scriptures tell us that David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no more power to weep. When they wanted to stone David we read that David strengthened himself in the Lord. The Spirit of God came and girded up David’s loins. David took courage and then took command over his men. When they finally set out they were going to be victorious. David’s brokenness and mourning resulted in him being able to trust the Lord fully. The battle always belongs to the Lord and when we give it to Him, He gives us the victory. Our choice, so let’s choose wisely. Sorrowing and weeping allows God to do a work and then to intervene on our behalf. We have the Holy Spirit all the time while back then He came in what I call “times.” They had the ebb and flow, but when Samuel anointed David, God’s Spirit rested upon Him. The Spirit was able to draw David to a place of Godly sorrow and then David could go forth in victory of spirit. So can we, so let’s set out to win the battles of life and have the ultimate victory. Let’s allow God to have His way and to work His will in our lives. Praise God!”

Jeremiah 9 tells us about the prophet and the people mourning. God’s judgment was coming upon a wicked nation and the weeping was long past due. Verse 17-20 tells it this way, “Consider and call for the mourning women that they may come and call for the skillful, wailing women that they may come. Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us that our eyes may run with tears and our eyelids gush with water. For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion, how we are plundered. We are greatly ashamed because we have forsaken the land, because we have been cast out of our dwellings. Yet, hear the word of the Lord, O women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth; teach your daughters wailing and everyone her neighbor a lamentation. For death has come through our windows, has entered our palaces, to kill of the children-no longer to be outside! And the young men no longer on the streets.”

Alcohol, drugs and free sex has stolen from us. Television and the computer has let the prince of the powers of the air come into our homes and steal, kill and destroy. Pornography is available at the touch of a button. The innocence of our children is being stolen at will. Let the tears run freely as we weep and mourn over the disintegration of the family. Sin rules! God cries “repent and cry out for mercy!” We need to determine that Satan has stolen all that he is going to steal from us. Let the tears scald our faces as we weep for the sick, the lost and the dying. God will turn the tide as we come together and comingle our tears. We will see a change begin to take place and we will see the harvest start to come in. Together! United! With one accord! His Glory will begin to fall and we won’t need to be afraid that we will be consumed. It won’t be a Mt.. Siani situation where we need fear for our lives. We will touch the Living Mountain because of our broken hearts and our weeping together and then His Glory will fall and the weight of it will cover us.

Church, we are being called to a time of fasting and praying and of weeping, and then, a time of rejoicing. Psalm 126:6 — “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” This is the Harvest. We will bring it in if we obey Him. The great harvest the Bible talks about and then His return. Joel 1:13 and 14. “Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; wail, you who minister before the altar, come, lie all night in sackcloth, you minister to my God; for the grain and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. Consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly; gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God. And cry out to the Lord.” Now let’s go to Joel 2:12-19. “Now, therefore, says the Lord, “Turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” So rend your hearts, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm. Who knows if He will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him — a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God. Blow the trumpet in Zion, consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly; gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children and the nursing babes; the priests, who minister to the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, “Spare your people, O Lord, and do not give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?” Then the Lord will be zealous for His land and pity His people. The Lord will answer and say to His people, “Behold, I will send you grain and new wine and oil, and you will be satisfied by them; I will no longer make you a reproach among the nations.

There is not enough weeping between the porch and the altar. The porch was the place of fellowship and the altar was the place of sacrifice, the place of repentance and the dying to self. There’s not enough tears being shed from the time of repentance for salvation to cause the laying down of our wants and our way of doing things. There’s not enough tears being shed so we can lay it all down on a daily basis and be closer to Him. The more tears, the greater our fellowship with Him. We won’t have to arrange our time so we can spend more time with Him. Our tears will enable us to move heaven and earth just to have more of Him. He’ll take over our thoughts. We’ll truly have the mind of Christ — it won’t be positionally, it will be experientially. The fullness of the World will be developed in us. Weep! Cry aloud! There’s a song that goes like this:

“All you who mourn in Zion, I have authority,

To give all who mourn in Zion, oil of joy that will set you free!”

“Put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness

Life up your voice to God. Pray in the Spirit and with understanding,

O’ magnify the Lord!”

Joel 2:25 tells us that the Lord will restore us the years the cankerworm has stolen. Verse 28 says, “And it shall come to pass afterward and that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions, and also, on my menservants and on my maidservants, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.” Hear His promise. We know what to do. If we’re obedient, His blessings will begin to flow. He wants to open the windows of Heaven and pour out blessings which cannot be contained. He’s waiting on us to weep between the porch and the altar. It’s time for us to do business with God. Let the tears begin to flow and let Him begin to heal and to restore. God bless you!

Remember that no one will love you the way that God loves you and I love you, too!

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