What are we willing to pay for the price of Unity in The Church?

Are we willing to truly deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow The LORD in dying out?

What makes us think that it does not matter if we love one another or not?

There are so many even in our own Churches who walk past one another and act like we haven’t even passed by a human being.

If we are not careful, we can learn this same trait portrayed by those who are even in leadership. This should not be.

How can the world know us by our love, if we can’t even be sensitive enough within our own congregations to greet one another?

It does not have to be a hug or a holy kiss, but just an acknowledgment that there is someone that belongs to the same family right by us.

Oh Lord, I pray that you open our eyes and pour out repentance in these areas that we feel are not important.

Are we that busy, or have so much on our minds, that we can do this on a regular basis?

Father, open our eyes that we can see that we could be the cause of making our brother stumble by our own carelessness.

Today is the day of salvation. This is the day to make a choice who we are going to serve. Is it pride of man and idolatry that we choose, or is it humility in having a meek and humble spirit?

Another thing that displeases The LORD is when we look at one another in judgment and play The Holy Spirit in another person’s life.

We need to be so careful when we counsel one another. What we may think is the right thing to do for a person could be the opposite of what The LORD is leading them in.

We should know by now that God’s ways are not our ways or our thoughts His thoughts.

What would you think if The LORD told you not to go to your own mother’s funeral, because He had other plans for you to do?

These things are for real and there are times when He will lead us in a way that appears to be very unloving. But we need to trust Him and follow Him in all that He leads us.

We need to be open to The LORD delivering us of ungodly mind sets. Things that we have picked up from the world in our beliefs that are contrary to the word of God.

We need to have open and teachable hearts to be able to walk with The LORD to the fullest extent.

God wants to undo so much in our hearts and minds, but we need to be willing to let go of all that is holding us back.

The LORD wants to move through us mightily with signs, and wonders, and miracles of healing and deliverance, but if we are struggling with areas of unbelief because deep down we still haven’t let go of some things, then we cannot be used to the fullest.

We need to pray that The LORD will open our eyes to the areas of our lives the enemy has blinded us in. Be willing to accept that there might even be many areas we need to let go of.

Yes, today is the day of salvation, of freedom, of rejoicing, of coming into a new day, but we cannot embrace it if we hold on to traditions of man that are contrary to the word of God.

Be willing to let The LORD examine your heart so that we can embrace His truth to the fullest.

Be willing to agree to disagree in the areas that are personal convictions. So many have allowed pride to get in there and cause division over areas that should not matter that much.

We need to love one another and support one another no matter if we agree or not by committing them into The LORD’s hands and trusting His care over their lives.

Trust His judgment for He knows which areas are more important to work on than others. What we think we should point out to be helpful could cause much harm in a person’s life. I have seen this many times.

The LORD wants to move us into a new day but we need to be willing to change. We need deeper discernment and sensitivity to the areas The Holy Spirit wants to make us aware of.

These areas deal with the flesh and dying out to it. These are areas that call for humility, to be willing to be stretched, so that God’s love can truly flow through us.

Otherwise we are just going through the motions or taking on a false form of godliness and definitely denying the power of God.

Judgment begins in the house of God, and I believe He has been displeased with us as a Church.

There are just too much going on that isn’t of Him. There is much error and deception what we allow in our Churches to go on.

We need to believe that God will get a hold of the pastors’ hearts and point out the areas that are robbing the church of having the glory of God upon them. It’s the little foxes that spoil the vine.

When we ignore these areas, then we have trees of unrighteousness to deal with that have deep large roots that need to be taken out.

We might think this is being nit-picking, but these are the areas that we need to press in and intercede for.

These are the areas that rob us of having true intimacy with our Father and the brethren. These are the areas that are even preventing breakthrough of the river of God.

LORD, I pray that you will convict our hearts of any area that we habitually overlook as unimportant that grieve Your Spirit.

I pray that you open our eyes of any areas of our hearts that are holding us back. Any areas of sin, unforgiveness, error, deception, anything LORD, before it is too late to turn from them.

We want to be worthy to be called and used as part of your end time army. And I know you do not allow sin in the camp, so LORD, I cry out to you for repentance, for conviction, for revelation, for the strength to walk in what you show us.

In Your Name I pray!

 

~ Yolanda Ballard

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Yolanda Ballard of At The Father’s Feet website, shares with you, the body of Christ, the words she’s received quietly sitting at The Father’s feet. I believe Jesus set the example for us to follow. Whenever He could He would come apart from the busyness of the world so that He could quiet Himself before The Father, for that is where He received direction and strength to carry out His will.

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