Birthing a Burden in the LORD

The LORD has been speaking to you and wants you to experience personal revival.  Through your personal revival, the Mighty God in Jesus Christ wants to live in you and work in you through the Holy Ghost.  On that day of Pentecost when Peter spoke the first sermon ever, in the Christian Church, the Church of the Living God was birthed and a generational burden was birthed.

That burden is to 1) Preach the Gospel; 2) Baptize those called by God; 3) Nurture to maturity the new converts; and 4) Keep the mature Christians faithful and on fire for the LORD. 

If you have been moved to bend your knees before Jesus Christ; if you call Jesus LORD; then the burden given to Peter has been passed on down to you by the Holy Ghost!  Awake!  Stand up for Christ and answer the call.  Now is your time to birth a burden for the Gospel; to birth a burden to be one of the human tools through whom Jesus seeks and saves the lost.

Christianity is all about salvation in Jesus Christ!  You have now been given a spectator calling!  Now is the time to actively live for the Gospel and participate in the Church.

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob birthed their burden in the LORD at an altar of rocks not hewn by human hands.  Our burden in the LORD must be birthed at an altar of the rock not hewn by human hands.  That rock is Christ and that altar can be built in your heart, any time and anywhere.  Today is the day of birthing your burden in the LORD. 

This concept was share with me in a sermon by Sister Vicki Oliver in 2007.  It changed my life and it can change your life too.  God birthed a burden in Sister Oliver and moved her from an average church member into being an anointed evangelist; renown in children’s ministry.  Along with her husband, they have a gift for working with the youngest of children in the preschool through grade school age; as well as all of God’s children, even into their 90s!  They are the LORD’s anointed servants of the Gospel.

The night I first heard Sister Oliver speak, she said, “With birth there is noise, don’t be afraid to open up to the LORD.”  Through her, the Holy Ghost moved around 400 people to their knees in deep and emotion renewal, revival and recommitment to the LORD.  I was one of the 400.  Weeping and wailing before the LORD opens our hearts to the LORD.

After David sinned with Bathsheba; God revealed his sin through Nathan the prophet and David went to his knees in repentance and a new and clean heart was given to David as he birthed a new burden in the LORD.  He realized that the true sacrifices before the LORD are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart.  David’s new burden made him a man after God’s own heart.  Read about David’s birthing experience of repentance and renewal in Psalm 51; especially the following verses.

Psalms 51:10-19 KJV Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.  (11)  Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.  (12)  Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.  (13)  Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.  (14)  Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.  (15)  O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.  (16)  For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.  (17)  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.  (18)  Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.  (19)  Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

We all need deliverance from blood guiltiness; we have all sinned and the blood of our savior Christ the LORD was shed for our sin; to redeem us and reconcile us to God.  Zion and Jerusalem are symbolic of the Church and the Kingdom of God.  Once our heart is right; our sacrifices are acceptable to God and our prayers are sweet incense to the LORD.  Renew your baptism today!  Birth a new burden for the LORD!  Revival starts with you and with me.