Glory

I once had this dream. I was standing next to this encredible building. It was multiple stories high, was brick and had a bell tower. When I looked at it more closely I realized that it had huge gashes in the brick, and was crumbling and torn. It looked like it had been riddled with bullets, and other explosives. When I looked at the building it was as if I was standing in a black and white movie. The building had no color, nothing that would set it a part from another building. The curtains hung torn and stained out of the windows. The glass was broken out. The building looked like it housed many people at one time, however no one lived in it because it didn't look sturdy. The beds that the people slept in were falling out of the building and everything that once might have been bright and beautiful was now being overtaken by the earth. Vines grew everywhere, and they smothered anything that once looked bright and brilliant. The bell tower was still intact, but the bell itself appeared to be missing. As I looked at this building someone spoke these words to me so powerfully that it awoke me instantly and resounded in my ears and heart, even after waking. "You are no longer an orphanage, I will make you a kingdom."

I had forgotten this dream until today. Can I just say this. As Christians we ARE deserving and worthy of Christ's love, of his grace, mercy, justice, peace, and of fullness. We ARE worthy because he has made us worthy. It's time that we stop living in this mindset that we're just a bunch of orphans adopted by a king who live in some old burned out, beat up building because we deserve no better. We aren't beggars at a table eating scraps off the floor of our King. Yeah, we need to be humble and contrite in spirit, but we needn't beat ourselves over the head with sin and shame that isn't ours to claim anymore. It says in Colossians that we were KILLED and BURRIED with Christ, and now, ours is to live and be raised with him. We are slaves to righteousness, hidden in Christ, the Holy of Holies, we are one with him. As soon as we start realizing that we are Kings and Queens of the Most Holy One the better. Demons tremble at our prayers. They shutter and groan in pain at the sound of our words. The enemy is torn down, the principalities of darkness are destroyed at our command. Do you know that we will judge the Angels? The Most High God himself delights in us and calls us sons and daughters. He rescues us, FOR HIS OWN SAKE, because he freaking likes us a heck of a lot. What is this crap about not being good enough? What is this about not being worthy? We are apostolic messengers and the world fears ones as these. In Jeremiah 2, refering to rebellious Israel, it states "they have exchanged their Glory for worthless idols, and have become worthless themselves." Its interesting to note that Glory is written with a capitol G. Glory, as in the Glory of the Most High God. Glory, not of a little slave boy or girl, but real Glory, the kind that is perfect, the kind that comes from righteousness. As far as I know, we have been made righteous by the blood of the lamb. Therefore we aren't worthless, but we are beings having the imprint of God himself. If we don't believe this, how are we to believe anything? How are we to believe that our prayers even profit? How are we to believe that we will be trusted by God if we do not believe that we are ones that God would even entrust anything to?

Come on. Lets raise up Glorious people of the Most High God. Lets claim this inheritance, lets stand as priests, lets claim this kingdom, lets take it by force.