A few weeks ago I was sharing about a recent prayer time when I told God, I feel old. Sometimes physically but also spiritually. During my prayer times, I have been asking my Father to send His Spirit through me and blow out the old and bring in the new. I need not just a refreshing but more of a spring cleaning. I need Holy Spirit to do a work in me that only He can do. It’s not more knowledge of God or His Word (not that more of His Word isn’t essential) but something that transforms me and makes me new.

Lately I have been taken to the Book of Zechariah and finding more and more about myself. As a pastor, many times God will speak words to me that are for my church in particular and also for the Body of Christ in general. However, I must first experience God’s presence and revival in my life before I can ever speak on behalf of God. As the prophet Isaiah said when He encountered the presence of God, “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts.”

As I have been reading in Zechariah, he starts of with a call to repentance. While reading this and asking Holy Spirit to speak to me through these words, I could hear something becoming very clear to me. BEFORE THERE CAN BE REVIVAL, THERE MUST FIRST BE REPENTANCE. There must be a humbling of our will to the Eternal One before He can take me from where I am into where He wants me to be. God will not move in any of us unless He is given permission.

Some may understand this and some may not, but this does not happen by will but by choice. I can’t make myself change but I can choose to surrender my will to God and He can change me. I don’t have the power to change myself but I do have the choice to allow God to do a work in me. I can’t make myself better but I can allow the Spirit of God to invade and lovingly move through me to remove the dross.

Zechariah concludes his message in chapter 4 through receiving a word from the angel which says, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the LORD of hosts. He was told that it wasn’t through strength, might, ability, force, or human strength, but by His Spirit (imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power and an endowing with spiritual gifts). None of which are part of my natural, carnal state but a divine disposition of Him upon my life.

That’s what I need and that’s what we all need!

I’m asking you to humbly bow yourself before Father and ask Him something. Will you give Him permission to do what you can’t do? Will you allow Him to blow through your life and will you surrender your will to Him as He takes out what isn’t necessary or doesn’t belong.?

As most of you know, I love worship music. I have written several blogs on some Messianic/Hebrew worship that I have come to appreciate and enjoy. I was listening to a new rendition of a song written by Tasha Cobbs Leonard and performed by Shilo Ben Hod and guest Joshua Aaron called Not By Might/Send Your Spirit. There are subtitles in the video but just listening to it is so anointed that words aren’t even necessary. Once again this team has joined hands to speak the words of God to a generation that is hungry for something more. I encourage you to not just listen to the song, but listen to the Spirit as He speaks to you words of life.

My prayer for all of us is that we surrender our will to our Creator and allow Him to move and speak through us to bring the world to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ/Yeshua.