revival.thirstysoul

It was during the last 30 minutes of theCall Nashville - a man came onto the podium and begin to explain some things relative to a period of time when the Church had gone thru a “Dark Age”. I remember studying this in college or something. The speaker then begin to explain how God brought the church out of this dark time period. He said that God used the “arts” whether it was music, sculpture, painting, science etc. The man then begin to explain that the word and spirit of God was catapulted into these different forms of art and what emerged from this, was a new era - it was called the Renaissance Era.

The man then begin to pray and declare that the church, especially the church in the West is going through a similar dark age, we know this by the divorce rate in the church, the abortion issue, the recent exposing of sexual immorality among leadership in the church and while he was praying I begin to see what I knew to be stars and sense the space atmosphere and I felt like I was beholding the galaxies of the universe. I was puzzled, but I knew that this vision had something to do with what this man was saying regarding the renaissance. I continued to see and sense light, stars, sounds and colors.  Everything appeared to look the same in terms of visual forms of everything, however the physical compositions of took on the composition of the atmosphere and star, it would be like looking at a cloud from the land, only to see it from a plane’s perspective and finding out that the cloud properties actually appear to you much different, and that you could easily fly right through it.  Well that’s how everything was…visually everything remained true to form, but in terms of the physcial makeup - everything changed!  I could see the stars and galaxies and sound and lights mixed into everyones skin and faces.   The sky was part of their skin etc…you get my point?

Afterwards I shared with very close fathers in the Lord this whole idea of “renaissance” and the arts and found out that Francis Schaeffer the great man of God who literally predicted a lot of the travesties and downfalls we’re seeing now - i.e.) abortion, decline of classical learning, humanism nearly 25 yrs ago, had discipled Jay Grimstead, who is a father in the Lord to my pastor and Bishop,  Wellington Boone so one of them said, “Darrian you need to read a book by Francis Schaffer ” they couldn’t remember which book it was that Francis had written, but said from the direction that they saw God leading me in, that the book would help me, in terms of providing a greater understanding of where and what part creative arts  played,  from a historical biblical perspective,  in todays modern Church and world.

I will conclude with this, as the man completed his prayer and declaration (and I’m paraphrasing) he prophesied that this is the generation of artist, (not exclusively musicians neither),  but whether your skill is in theater, economics, government, science or technology,  whatever, your “skill-set” is…  God is breathing again in you a creativeness to introduce, design and compose to a generation a new era of holiness, purity and integrity in the skill God has given you. No longer will God’s children become mesmerized by the theatrics of the world.   Quite the contrary,  these are the days that you will say to the world as Paul said “Follow me as I follow Christ” or said another way “Act like me as I act like Christ”.  The script has flipped and now we are the Artist and the world is the audience.

Bless you friends and stay thirsty…