Do you know what I saw today?

Greetings, friends and family of the eternal Kingdom of God!  The Kingdom that will never perish, that will never fade, that will remain unchanging forever, even when everything else passes away.

Today, was a beautiful sight from Heaven.  Today, a group of passionate people moved the very heart of God, as they exhausted themselves on the renovations of our small outreach center/prayer room.  It was beautiful!

As I was driving home tonight, I was thinking of all that we accomplished. I caught myself reflecting upon each person who poured their energy, minds, muscles and talent into "The Village House of Prayer."  I started thanking God, right there in my car and then something happened...He said, "Son, come up here, I want to show you what I saw today?  I want to show you what the view looked like from my throne room this afternoon.  I want to show you what the elders and the angels saw today.  Oh son, it was beautiful, it moved my heart!  I saw it...."

He said, "I saw a young man who left this little town 14 years ago, broken and alone, now leading an army of men and women.  I saw the same man who I rescued from addiction, bondage and sin serving and working along side this army of God to accomplish every little detail.  I saw the woman who was bound by an alcohol addiction 4 months ago, sweating, smiling, pouring her life out for the sake of others.

I saw the father who hasn't had a relationship with his son in years working along side of his son, instructing him, helping him, serving with him.  I saw the family who 2-3 months ago was separated and ravaged by the plan of the enemy.  I saw them holding one another in prayer tonight.  I saw the joy in their heart, I saw my love beaming from their smiles.

I saw the young man who didn't believe I existed 4 months ago, digging through the rubbish of rotten wood, rusty nails, dust and dirt, serving me with every piece of debris he threw in that trailer.  I saw the young man who just lost his family, who's been broken in every way pounding those nails out of that lumber, son.

I saw the Christian woman who was discouraged wondering if I had forgotten her, sweeping that floor, singing and exalting my name.  I saw that couple who 4 months ago was on the verge of separation working, serving, leading the charge son!  I saw that man who just came through brain cancer carrying those heavy sheets of sheet-rock, feeding that insulation blower.  I saw that woman who cries out for her lost son covering every scratch on those book shelves with Old English - making it beautiful again!  I saw that woman who has felt rejected most of her life, smiling, working, laughing.  I saw it son...I saw it all and I am so pleased.  You've found me son....you've sought me with your whole heart and here I am!"

You see, you're renovating a building, but I'm renovating a people.  You're renovating a building built with brick and mortar, but I'm renovating a temple where my presence will dwell.  I don't live in temples built with brick and mortar, but I live in every heart that will open that door to my steady knock.  This holy place where my spirit lives is being reborn! 

Just as you ripped out all that rotten wood, I'm ripping out all of those rotten childhood memories.  I'm ripping out every rotten piece of their heart son.  Just as they swept the dust and the debris son, I'm sweeping the very depth of their soul.  I'm sweeping every bit of dust off the shelf of their heart.  Just as they ripped down every warped, decayed piece of sheet-rock, I'm removing all warped, decayed piece of thinking that has existed in their minds.  You see son, you see things from the mind of man, but I see things from a realm you don't know of.  Just as, you hung every new piece of sheet-rock today, I'm redecorating them son.  I making them beautiful!  I'm conforming them to my image son.  I love them and it is my delight to heal them, it's my delight to reconstruct their broken lives.  It's my delight to restore, to renew, to remove every piece of death and replace it with life.

Son, I saw another scene today.  I was looking back and forth to that old building to the aisles of that shopping center where those moms and their children shopped for Operation Christmas Child.  I saw that woman son, who left that city where everything she knew was comfortable, as she walked down the aisle of that store shopping for those poor kids in a foreign land.  I saw each child she led today, as they combed the shelf for the perfect gift to put in that shoe box that would bless another needy child.  A child they didn't know, a child they've never met.  I saw those little kids as they picked each gift carefully, making sure that the child who would receive it would experience my love.  I saw it, I saw it son...and it moved me.

Today, Heaven and earth became one.  Today, you caught our gaze son!  Today, I saw every movement of your heart towards me.  I saw your desire to bless me son.  I saw it....and it blessed all of heaven!  I love you son, I love those beautiful people that worked so hard.  I'm with you son, I will never leave you nor forsake you son!