Jill Austin: "AN INVASION OF THE GLORY AND THE CRY OF GOD'S HEART"

February 4, 2007

Jill Austin: "AN INVASION OF THE GLORY AND THE CRY OF GOD'S HEART"

"There needs to be that cry in us for the Lord to invade the very places where we live."

An Invasion of the Glory of the Lord

What has been on my heart is the glory of the Lord, that we could have more of His presence and more of Him in our midst. II Corinthians 4 tells us that we are earthenware vessels but the treasure--the glory inside of us is the Lord!

Everyone is running for the gold! Nations prepare for the Olympics and they don't want the silver or the bronze, they want the gold. I feel that the individual cry of our heart is: "Oh Lord, we want the gold!" We want His glory, to know Him better. "Lord, let Your presence and Your fire dwell within us."

When we speak of prophetic evangelism, we are talking about being living vessels with the fire--the glory of the Lord moving around us everywhere we go. It isn't enough to only have His glory in our Church, home, or renewal meetings. The Lord wants to invade our very lives and the lives of everyone around us, so we can literally begin to be His hands, His eyes, and His feet to a hurting and dying world.

The glory of the Lord is such a burden on my heart. Do you want a visitation? How much fire, how much of the anointing, and how much of the presence of the living God do you want in your life?

Church Renewal and Meetings

We are moving in a level of renewal right now as the Lord, the Captain of the Hosts, is moving all over the nations. For example, we've all heard about some 7,000 Churches moving in renewal in England. It's a miracle that the living Christ, the King of glory, is moving across all the denominational barriers between all the different races, colors, and tribes.

I look back at times where it wasn't just the laughing and the sweet gentle touches of the Lord that we so often see in renewal meetings. It wasn't the foam at the beginning of a wave, but glimpses of the deep swells of the anointing and the presence of the Lord moving in our midst.

When we look back at what God has done in our midst, it ruins us for life. We can never again live only in the shallow end. We have seen people healed and His presence move powerfully in our midst. How can we go back or settle for less? We are talking about renewal--about how the Lord is moving in most of the nations and cities. Our cry is that God will bring us revival.

There have been conferences in the past that were so wonderful. The people had a high faith level; people were healed, delivered, and radically touched causing us to go a second or third week in that same city. When we would walk into a meeting, the whole atmosphere would be charged with the holiness of God. It wasn't the normal conference "safe level" where we believed God would simply meet us, but we knew Jesus was in the atmosphere. It was like "walking under water" when we entered the room because of the depth and heavy weight of the glory of God.

The manifestations often offend people, but as earthenware vessels, we shake and tremble when we touch the Throne of God. We have found that as it goes from renewal to revival, there is less shaking.

It is like the Psalm 46:10 that says, "Be still and know that I am God." When you feel the heavy weight and glory of the Lord, and it begins to move on people, there is stillness. The glory gets saturated into the depths of who we are. It is incredible!

There is a cry in my heart for us to want more of Him. Even though there are 7,000 renewal Churches right now in England, it could easily become a dime-a-dozen to us. It could become "seeker friendly renewal meetings." In other words, the message can become an invitation to "Come, and we won't shake too much. Come, we don't want you to be threatened. The Lord is moving in our midst." But there needs to be that cry in us for the Lord to invade the very places where we live.

The Cry of the Lord's Heart

"We need a divine hunger put into the depths of who we are."

I feel the Lord is crying out for us to be MORE hungry for Him. It's so easy to get into programs and meetings. Even during the time of Moses, it was very easy for them to fall into a form of religion without having a hunger and a fire for the presence of the living God.

There is a cry in each one of us to not be an empty shell. We so need His fire in the depths of who we are!! We need our bones to burn because we love Him so much. We need our blood to boil, so to speak. We need a divine hunger put into the depths of who we are. We need the Lord to grab a hold of us and shake off apathy and complacency until there is a fresh love for Jesus Christ our Lord.

Do You Remember When You First Met Him?

We can never hear enough about returning to our first love. We can never hear the voice of the Bridegroom enough and that He is coming. Do you remember when you first met Him? Do you remember that passion you had? Do you remember when He would barely whisper and you quickly responded?

Will you let Him ignite a burning passion of first love in the depths of your heart once again? Is there a void and emptiness in you, even though you know how to pray for people, even though you move in leadership, and know how to train and equip people? Will you come back to Him, to your first love? Is the fire inside of you like the Shekinah glory of the living God? Is there a resurrection anointing and the fire of Jesus touching you?

I feel the Lord is constantly saying, "I want you to want Me more. I want you to be more hungry for Me." As soon as you start feeling that you have arrived, you start to lose your cutting edge. We somehow begin to be satisfied with the shallow end, and there is no longer those deep cries and remembrances of when the gold came, when the Shekinah glory, and heavy weight was in our meetings. We forget about the healed minds and healed bodies. Lord, help us not to forget Your Presence!

His heartbeat was not just to have His Shekinah glory in the Ark of the Covenant. You see, when He died on the Cross, it rent the veil so that we would be living temples with the Ark of the Covenant, the Shekinah glory, inside of us. We can take out Aaron's rod and proclaim that yes, we are made out of wood, but because of the resurrection anointing, our lives have budded and flowered.

You may have gone from religion to religion, trying to fill that empty place inside of you, but now that you have the bread of life--the Word of God with fire and revelation on it, you are full. The Lord is asking if you remember WHO He is.

There have been meetings when the heavy weight of the Lord was there and eyes would be opened and people would begin to see in the eternal realm and weep as they saw souls literally going to hell. They would see Jesus walking as a living fire in a room touching people.

All I know is that when we get touched by the Lord, when we get glimpses of eternity, it ruins us for life. There is that cry that says, "We have to have more of Him!"


Jill Austin
Master Potter Ministries
www.masterpotter.com
Email: info@masterpotter.com

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Jill Austin's Upcoming Itinerary:

February 8, 2007
Open Heavens, Discerning the Season Conference
New Hope Family Worship Center
804 South Lincoln Avenue; Corona, CA
Contact: lanzi@newhopefwc.com or http://www.newhopefwc.com/ 

March 1-4, 2007
Passionate Love Hunger for Jesus
The Father's House
Diamond Bar, CA
Contact: pastorsjohnandmichele@fathershouseministries.org or
http://www.fathershouseministries.org/ 

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