Thursday, February 3, 2011

a life wasted

I was browsing around IHOPs site today, specifically some of Mike Bickle's teachings and I came upon a note he had written.....

  "In Oct. 78, I had a supernatural encounter in which Jesus said, “You are saved but your life was wasted”. I protested, “You have the wrong person.” The thought came that it is impossible to manipulate the Man Christ Jesus. I cried, “Can I have another chance?” The next thought came strongly that it is appointed unto a person to die once then comes the judgment (Hebrews 9:27). I wept with a profound sense of loss and regret. What matters most about our life is what Jesus thinks when our eyes meet. I fear “regret” more than anything else in my life."

He wrote how when he came to he was kneeling on the floor weeping instead of lying in his bed.  
Can you imagine?  Coming face to face with God... His beauty, majesty, glory... and hear him say to you... "you are saved... but, you're life has been wasted"

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.  For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,  I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
 
“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing

  “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 
For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
 
 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
“He will reply, 
‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
--Matthew 25:34-45 


Learn to do right!
Seek justice,
   encourage the oppressed.
Defend the cause of the fatherless,
   plead the case of the widow. 
--Isaiah 1:17


Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world
--James 1:23-24



 

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