Wednesday, March 30, 2011
END TIMES READING PLAN: Ezekiel 40
SCRIPTURE READING
Mark 3:17 “To James the son of Zebedee, and to his brother John, He gave the name ‘Boanerges’ (that is, ‘Sons of Thunder’).” (HCSB)
The Bible character that had the greatest revelation of the Bridal paradigm was the apostle John (don’t confuse him with John the Baptist, they are two different people). The apostle John was the man who wanted to call down fire from heaven on cities that didn’t attend his meetings. He rebuked people who cast out demons because they weren’t in his group and he asked Jesus to let him sit at His right hand forever. Yet, he was given a prophetic name by Jesus; he was called a “son of thunder”. What does this mean? I can imagine Jesus saying to John: “I have called you to be a son of thunder in the Spirit. I want My love to thunder in your spirit, and I want your love for Me to thunder back to Me,” because that is what John was to be known as in the years to come. He was known as the apostle of love. He was the one apostle above all the others who understood the thunder of God’s love for him, and his life was so devoted to Jesus, it thundered back to heaven the love that the Spirit worked in John’s heart back to him. John was the great lover of God.
PRAYER & MEDITATION
1. It took time for John to become a great lover of God and it will take time for you too. Are you willing to pursue God over the weeks, months or years? Are you willing to wait patiently for Him to transform you?
2. Ask God if there is a specific step of obedience that you can take today in order to walk out the love that He is growing in you.
3. Spend some time asking God to reveal to you the thunder of His love for you. Ask Him to pour His love into the very core of your being so that you will never be the same again, never held back by fear, hurt or doubt because His love thunders in your spirit.
