It Is Time
Andy Sanders
New York USA
September 10, 2008
Now is the time to grow up. When you were a child you spoke like a child. When you were a child you acted like a child. Now it is time to put that nature behind you. It is time to be offended and offend for my name sake. It is also now time to break off relationships that are not pleasing to ME.
I have waited a long time for you to reach new heights and understanding. You are always saying that you are waiting on ME. In reality, I am always patient in waiting on you. I am way behind your schedule. The problem is not ME. The problem with your schedule is that it sometimes does not have ME in the center of it. You are normally way ahead of ME and my timing. I AM the God of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. I am always on perfect time.
I have been waiting for you to grow up. To become a person of God who is mature in MY ways, not yours. You have good ways, but mine are always better.
Before I formed you, I had plans for your life. Looking at you today, I still have plans for your life. Things of the past must be put behind you and you must embrace who and what I AM. I do not produce death. I create life. In ME there is life and life abundantly.
You say things like, “God is taking me through this hardship.” I did not create hardship. I created life and life abundantly. It is too often that I am blamed when in all reality it is YOU. You are the reason that hardship many times comes. It is because you have not grown up the way I need you to. You blame me for your heartaches, when I had nothing to do with them. You accuse ME of creating your disappointments, when I never created those. I created life. I created you. You create the messes that you get into, not me. Stop blaming me.
When I speak, make sure that you do not hold my words with contempt. Value every spoken word and I will always guide you on the best path. You must learn to fully obey, trust, and believe my words.
It is now time to grow up. Now is the time to discover a much fuller and deeper relationship with me. It is now time to grow up to me. Come up here and be with me. It is about ME. It is about what I wish to do in your life. The best way to know what I will to accomplish in your life is to spend time with ME.
Multiple Awakenings Are Coming To America
Andy Sanders
September 05, 2008
“I will pour out my Spirit on ALL flesh…”
This morning as I was spending time with the Lord, I was impressed to ponder all of the many hurricanes that are currently pelting this nation. Hurricanes come and go each year. For some reason, there is something symbolical about what is happening right now in the natural. The Lord impressed on my heart more than once through out the day these words.
“As there are multiple hurricanes from numerous directions, so will I awaken this nation (USA) in several areas!” So…more awakenings are coming right around the corner. Do not get caught up on “awakenings” from the past. They are gone. Get ready for the new ones that are right around the corner. We cannot live off of past manna. We must crave HIS daily bread every day. One mark of the next awakenings will be “shifts.” Be careful to shift what God tells you, even though it may not make sense. This is called obedience.
Hidden Oaks
Andy Sanders
Jeremiah 23:5, “"The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.”
Going into this women’s conference, I saw a vision of very young oak trees now starting to take shape. The sun shined down on them but was limited, due to all the other fully developed oak trees that offered shade and protection over the young and fragile oaks. For now, the young oaks are not noticed. The sun does not shine bright on them like the tall towering oaks that have wavered the storms, hails, rains, fires, and blizzards of the yester-years. They are having their moment now.
In this vision, I noticed, very slowly, one oak tree started rotting and before long cracked and then crumbled to the ground offering now light to those smaller oaks that have had to wait their turn, yet leisurely enjoy the canopy of the larger seasoned oaks.
In time, the older oaks were weathered out and their moment was gone. Room now caused the younger, less mature oaks to receive direct rays from the sun. This was wonderful for them because now their accelerated growing seasons had begun. In the same manner, now they are not under a canopy of taller oaks. They must learn and be forced to function in the do-or-die survival of the season’s often intense weather.
The vision is very clear. This is the season many of us are in right now in the Body of Christ. For many years, we’ve had the blessings of having solid and more mature oaks over our lives. They soak up the rays and every once in a while bend a little bit to allow some sun (SON) to hit our lives and cause us to glisten in the presence of the Most High God. At the same time, they have been a towering canopy to our destinies. A major covering that has weathered intense battles for our lives and those around us, protecting us from being prematurely broken by the dark and intense powers of this world.
The time is soon arriving that the younger oaks are now going to become the canopy for the entire forest, just like the older and more mature towering oaks. This season is evident and quickly becoming reality.
The smaller oaks will soon flourish, not because they have become great but because they are made grand due to the underground work of the former and more mature oaks. It was these oaks that bore into the ground and cleared the paths into the foundations of their lives and now deep into the fundamentals of our lives. When it is your turn to shine in the SON, make sure that you remember the roots that were broken through in the lives that went on before you. Without them, you would not be here.
A few things to note:
1. Younger oaks are more bendable, while older oaks are solid.
2. Younger oaks are far more vulnerable, while older oaks carry character.
3. Younger oaks are more immature; there roots are shallow. Older oaks are far more seasoned because their roots have bored deep into the surface and have surrounded themselves underneath with large hidden rocks.
2 Kings 2:11, “As they (Elijah and Elisha) were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.”
Think of it this way. Elijah was the tall oak to Elisha. Before long, Elijah was taken up and there stands Elisha. What do you do next? Well…you do what you were taught, but better. Elijah’s last miracle became Elisha’s first miracle- a double portion.
So if you are feeling a little “crowded out” and in the shade right now. Don’t worry; your time of SON shining is on its way. Remember, this also requires a severe testing and trying through learning how to weather the storms of life and ministry, just like the other taller and more mature oaks had to learn.
Your efforts are not unnoticed. Do not give up and do not lose heart. Major SON light will shine this fall in the Body of Christ.