My Children Have Forsaken Me

I know you are enduring patiently and are bearing up for My name's sake, and you have not fainted or become exhausted or grown weary. But I have this [one charge to make] against you: that you have left (abandoned) the love that you had at first [you have deserted Me, your first love].

Remember then from what heights you have fallen. Repent (change the inner man to meet God's will) and do the works you did previously [when first you knew the Lord], or else I will visit you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you change your mind and repent. ~ Revelations 2:3-5 (AMP)

Sunday night as I was praying with my prayer partner, God spoke to me and said “My children have forsaken me.” And this heaviness came upon my heart. He showed me how we have forsaken our first love. We have gotten away from loving God, our thoughts have turned to “things” and off of God, and even though we may raise our hands in worship and pray, and we believe, and love God, we have taken Him out of His rightful place, we’ve forgotten the first commandment that Jesus gave…

And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment. ~Mark 12:30 (AMP)

God desires us to get back to Him, to our first love, we don’t have to worry about “things” they are already given to us, they are a byproduct of the blessing. By worrying about “things” the church has begun to blend with the world and the world’s desires, not that we shouldn’t desire the best, because we should, but the difference is focus. “Things” are not our focus because all of those things are already given to us. We are supposed to be separate from the world, not be the same as the world. Remember the people of the world, aren’t looking at us “the church” to provide them with money or material possessions, the one thing they need from us is the one thing the devil won’t and could never offer them… the Love of God. It is that love which will heal their emotional wounds, it’s that love which will show them that they are precious and important, it is that love which will wipe their every sin away. But how can we give them that love, if we’ve fallen out of love with our Creator? He desires our love to be like when we first got saved (as we see from the above scripture), when we sang to Him out of our hearts, when the first thing we did in the morning and the last thing we did at night was speak to Him, when we said “Your will Father”, “I surrender to You”, “I’m fully submitted to You”, “What’s on Your heart and mind”, etc. That’s what time it is people of God, if you’ve found yourself in “religion” or set in tradition, or just going through the motions with God, then it’s time to make a change. Ask God to refill you, to refresh you, surrender your heart, your soul, your everything to Him.

There is a song that’s been playing over and over in my heart and I’m continually signing it to Him. Will it be your song today?

Jesus here I am your favorite one
Tell me what you’re thinking
Tell me what you’re feeling
I need to know

Cause I’m after your heart
I’m after your heart
I’m after you

Tracy Houston
Kingdom Vizion Ministries