The Sword of the LORD

A few weeks ago I had a dream.  At least that’s what I would have to call it.  It was actually more like an interruption of a dream.  You know, like one of those public service announcements that come on the television in the middle of regular programming to warn of an imminent weather threat or an Amber alert.  I was dreaming about something completely unrelated (I can’t remember what) when a voice spoke to me in my dream and said, “ All things are possible to them that believe .”   In my dream state, I remember being both surprised and inspired by the statement and being filled with faith at the possibilities of such a promise as this.  My excitement was so great that it woke me up and made me want to run out and apply my faith to everything I could think of!  Instead, I pondered over what I had heard and what God was speaking to me. As I thought about this experience, I was reminded of two places in scripture that I believe relate to what I had heard.  The first was in Mark 9 wher

“For who hath despised the day of small things?” (Zechariah 4:10). God is always working.   Even when it seems like things are not moving along as quickly or as effectively as we would like, God is still working just the same.   As wise King Solomon said, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1).   This is as true in the lives and fortunes of men as it is in the natural world.   Through the ups and downs of life, the blessings and the disappointments, the joys and the tragedies, the successes and the failures, God still has a purpose and a plan for those who love Him and have been called and chosen in Christ Jesus His Son.   We cannot always judge the “greatness” of a work by some notion that we have of what “great” should look like.  Everything that God does is great.  Major Ian Thomas, who was an English author and founded a worldwide missionary fellowship, wrote, “Which of these things in the life of Jesus is more spi

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.   And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.   And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men , and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God .   And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” (Revelation 21:1-4). A study of the Jewish Tabernacle of God in the Bible is a fascinating one to be sure.   Hidden within the blueprint of God’s House are mysteries relating to the spiritual growth and maturity of God’s people who are the true Tabernacle of God and Body of Christ. God was very particular about the construction of the tem