The Lord’s Army

Posted by adamlepp in Heaven Bound, Hope

This, the vision I saw:

I saw an army, a great army.  They charged forth against the enemy.  I watched as they ran into battle with their armor on, but no weapons of any kind.  No swords, no axes, no shields, no maces – no weapons of any kind.

This army, this magnificent army was no ordinary army.  It was the army of the saints.  Every saint was at war against the evil one.

Every Saint.

As they charged forth, without their weapons, the outcome became obvious to me.  Because I was wrong – they had a weapon greater than any hand could forge.  Now I could see it.  I could hear it.  It was the sound of power.  It was the sound of strength.  It was a song of redemption.

It was the song of Jesus!

Scripture of the day

Posted by adamlepp in Heaven Bound, Hope, Identity

I was reading this today and wanted to share it with you.

Isaiah 61

¹ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
² to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor,
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who mourn;
³to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified. Read More…

West, sounds good to me

Posted by adamlepp in Heaven Bound, Hope, Identity, Life

But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish.

Ah, good old Jonah.  I love how Jonah is never running away from some thing, or some place.  But he is always seems to be running away from the LORD.

I like to run from the Lord.  I don’t think I do it on purpose, or even consciously, but I find my self running from God all the time.  This last month or so has once again been one of those times.

Thanks to the help and love of some great friends, I started to dive into my running.  I didn’t even know why I was running.  I had even less idea how to solve my problem.

And to be honest, I think it was/is the same stuff that was depressing me before.  It was just masking itself differently.

So, what is this answer I seek after?  I don’t know entirely.  If there is one thing I’m convicted of though, it’s this:  I need to fight for what I believe is Truth.  I haven’t been.  It’s scary.

So, please pray for  me, that I would have strength, and courage, to always fight for Truth.

What is the Gospel?

Posted by adamlepp in Questions

Many of you will read this title and move on to the next thing, but I’m really hoping you didn’t.

As many of you know, I work in ministry, and it’s easy to get caught up that ministry.  Today, I pose a question that I hope you can help me out with.  It would be great if everyone who reads this would leave a comment answering my question.  I don’t care if your a Christian, Buddhist, agnostic, or an atheist; I’d love to hear your insight.

Question:  What is the Gospel of Christ Jesus?

We Need to Pray

Posted by adamlepp in Heaven Bound, Hope

I am so convicted of this right now.  We have forgotten how to pray.

You know how it goes, we open in prayer and we close in prayer, but how often do we spend that time asking God what He wants us to do?

Instead our prayers look something like this: “God we have this thing we are going to do, please bless it.”

God is moving – are we moving with Him?  are we even listening?

It’s my prayer that we would become a movement of people that pray like it matters.  That everything we do would be saturated in prayer.  And that we would ask God where He wants us to go – and then go there.