All is peace. All is balanced.

YHWH is teaching me.

All is peace. All is balanced. There is no chaos, there is no unbalance.

There is only YHWH. YHWH is peace. YHWH is balance.

What seems to be chaos and disorder is only a small part of God's balance and peace.

You see, YHWH is eternal and He holds time in His hand. We are bound by time and are forced to flow through only a part of it. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says "He has made all things beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end." We are eternal, but we only see a small picture of eternity. However, then we shall know Eternity just as we are known (1 Corinthians 13). I say all is peace because, looking at eternity as a whole, it is balanced and peaceful. Only, what we see as balance isn't always what YHWH sees as balance. We assume that balance must be equality, i.e .5+.5=1. This is balance, but so is .7+.3=1. They both end in one whole, but if you only see the means, you cannot possibly understand the end. YHWH sees all and knows the whole, but we only see some of the parts. So what seems unbalanced ends in goodness and peace, but man cannot find out what He does from beginning to end.

That's all kind of deep and complicated. Maybe one of these days I'll get it better and be able to explain it more simply. What do you think?

Raise up a generation!

The LORD has been stirring up in me a passion for discipling youth. One night while in prayer for revival to finally come to the downtown eastside, the Lord began to speak to me about times and seasons. There are different times and seasons in the church and just as scriptures tell us, there is a time for all things. The Lord showed me that night that this isn't yet the season for a great harvest, but a time to raise the harvesters. This is a time for raising up a generation.

Something is happening in the Church. People everywhere are feeling it. The people that don't feel it can see it, the people who don't see it are definitely hearing about it. Something big is coming, and right now YHWH is doing something with the youth. Kids are getting passionate for Jesus. I keep hearing stories and seeing evidence of youth getting saved and getting passionate for the Kingdom in real and often tangible ways.

I feel like God is giving the Church a generation to take raise up for Him. In the West we have a whole generation of hurting kids. Some people call it the Fatherless generation. Kids are constantly becoming victims of divorce. A lot of kids just don't have parental figures to look up to at home. The only place they have to go for help and support is their peers who are struggling with the same problems. The result is younger and younger kids struggling with drugs and sex and different mental health issues. YHWH's heart breaks for each of them and He longs to touch them with His all powerful love. He is sending us, the Church to reach out to them, to love them, and to bring them to Jesus. It is time for some sincere discipleship. We need to put some effort into our kids and teaching them solid truth of the gospel. Then they will be able to go out and bring in the sheaves. And we will all give the glory to God as we see the greatest harvest the world has ever seen!

That being said, let us raise up a generation of harvesters! Praise God!