Lord Are You Crying? - Star Purswell

Lord Are You Crying?
Star Purswell

Lord, are you crying just now? We people who You have called out and separated to be Your own peculiar people, bought with the price of Your blood, are separated, warring against each other. We absolutely refuse to pull together to lift Your name on high, but rather we continue to fight against each other, comparing ourselves with ourselves. We are still yet carnal: for whereas there is still envying, and strife, and divisions, and we walk as men. {I Cor. 3:3}.

We can't come together, because we are all just to busy for You, and You know, Lord, that we have to press on to build our reputations. To build big buildings and make ourselves great ministries, and certainly we can't let any of the unlovely in or the prophets that You have sent to speak the truth from Your Holy Word. We just don't have time for You! How dare You walk into our meetings with Your shabby clothes on looking like a beggar off of the street and have the nerve to ask if You might say a word or sing a song, or especially that You might just want to be a part and be loved by us! We don't have time for You! We are looking for the "Proud Many", that would give us money, praise, prestige, and pump us up into something to be admired and praised by men! Why do You occasionally keep showing up at our meetings? We have made it plain that there is, NO ROOM FOR YOU! We don't like the way You look, the way You smell, the way You talk! Why don't You just go and let us continue to do our own thing?

We've managed to run all of Your little lost hungry sheep off and keep the rest of the body apart from ourselves, to let the world know that, we are right and we won't be tainted by the sinners and the rabble that comes our way, and surely we won't be swayed by the ridiculous Apostles, Prophets, Pastors, and Teachers that You have sent! Leave us alone! We are doing fine! We've successfully kept these trouble makers out of our services and continue to be on watch! We have our own doctrines, past down from our fathers, and even if we don't meet in a traditional church house, we still have our meetings in our homes and at our workplaces. You know that we just continue to keep ourselves separated from the confused, the weary, the hungry, tired masses of people that just don't
do things the way we do them!

Lord, are You still crying? Please forgive us, Lord. Please forgive me! We've sinned against You and You only! By sinning against others, we've sinned against You!

Please, Jesus, pull us together. Cause our hearts to unite, correct us, and tell us how we can all come together in Your name to promote the gospel and the coming of Your Kingdom. Cause our hearts to be soft and our spirits to yield to You. Help us to listen to others and to always remain teachable. We've been divided all of these years and still we remain stubborn, stiff-necked, and divided. Forgive us for leaving You out of our lives, our Christian meetings, and cause our hearts to cry after You.

Please don't cry, Lord! Reveal Yourself to us in a way that we have never seen You, and cause us to open our arms in love when we see the suffering and the outcasts, and cause us to know that it is You when we see them.

Help us not lean to our own understanding, and open our eyes, we want to see Jesus. Draw us by Your Spirit and we will run hard after You.

This is our prayer. Hear from heaven, forgive and do, Lord. We are all guilty of hurting and rejecting You and going our own way. We heartily repent and we ask You to fill us with the love of God, and to see with Your eyes, feel with Your heart, touch with Your hands and minister to the lost and dying. We have gone astray, but we humbly return and eagerly await Your presence. We are powerless because of our lack of Love.

Welcome Holy Spirit.

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