Diary of Revival (6) A Chosen People

Anointing and Works of the Holy Spirit

Michelle Mangold

February 7, 2012

                                            A CHOSEN PEOPLE

I stayed up most of the night wondering what to write. I remember the first time I read the bible I thought to myself, how does the Lord put up with us? I have been looking all morning for a passage in the bible that says, “as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist how I long for my people to cling to Me!”

The first time I read that I cried and continue to cry whenever I think of it. After I had been to church for about a month I remember the Lord saying to me,” just because your in church doesn't mean that everyone is worshiping me”! I fell to the floor crying! He LONGS for HIS people to LONG for HIM! That echo’s in my spirit all the time.

I know the heartbreak of watching your child grow up and reject you, reject your beliefs, your ideas, everything about who you are and what you believe in. I know the heartbreak of seeing your children reject one another because their wants and dreams are different than the others. I have known the pain of family members and close friends who turn on you when you won’t let go of God. Although many heart aches I have known, none compare to the heartbreak of a heavenly father longing for His children to long for more of Him.

I kind of know a little bit of what it is like to have an influence on people’s lives that I don’t know you. But, to be the creator of heaven and earth, of all things and have the apple of your eye not really know you?! What I am saying is He longs for more. He longs for all of His children to long for him. There should be no greater heartbeat, no greater longing, no greater passion, no greater prayer or petition than the prayer for Israel. We should love these people with an everlasting love. We should pray for them like they are the first among many, like they are our brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers. I will pray for them always and may they long for the one who longs for them to long for Him!

May our eyes be open to the heartbeat of God. May we run and not go weary in doing His will and speaking His words. May we be wakened in the night to pray, to seek, to explore the very nature of who He is and know His plans for us and others. May we embrace all that we have been given, never turning to the left or right, holding tight to His truth and His truth only? May we all know and long for Him more and more and more and more, never feeling satisfied with what we know or have become. Israel let us cry for you, let us weep for you, let us be burdened for you. May you know your Lord, your Messiah, Jesus Christ the risen one! May you always cling to Him in all that you do! Israel COME HOME! Amen!