Paying the Price To See God Move

I was reading an article written by Joe Joe Dawson in which he was given a dream by God.   In  his dream he was at a restaurant eating and it came time to pay the bill.  He took his ticket to the counter and paid the bill in full.  The waiter then looked at him and said, "Sir, you need to pay the bill."  He replied, "I have already paid the bill in full."   Three more times in the dream he was in a restaurant eating and paid the bill only for the waiter to ask him afterward to pay the bill.   When he awoke he realized the Lord was showing him that there is a price to pay to see the Lord move upon our lives and often we have not paid all the price we need to pay as Jesus said for us to lay down our lives, take up our cross and follow him.

As I began to meditate on this dream the Lord began to show me more revelation in the interpretation of the dream.  For instance each time he had already paid the bill, the waiter showed him there was more to pay.   Yet, he is looking at the price on the ticket and the amount he paid and they are the same.   What this means is that we are often unaware that our commitment level to God is not great enough to see the things happen that we want to see happen in God.    Would this not be the fault of the waiter?  After all, when we go to a restaurant we count on the waiter to write our items and to total those items up for us in accordance to the price of the meals.  We seldom add those cost up ourselves, we depend on the one serving our food to tell us the price that should be paid.

In the church it is the Pastor's and leaders who serve up the food.   They are the ones that wait upon us and nurture us and lead us into the things of God.   I am telling you today that the current leaders and Pastors in the church are falling short in preaching to us and making us aware of the full price and sacrifice that it takes to see a real move of God in our lives, our churches, our homes and our community.

If the leadership is not asking you to spend hours in prayer that does not mean this is not necessary to see God move.   If the leadership is not asking  you to visit the lost, pray for the sick, feed the hungry and visit the poor that does not mean that these things are not necessary to see the hand of God move.  If the leadership is not asking you to fast, act on the Word of God, and love your neighbor that does not mean these things are not necessary to see the hand of God move in your life.

We have had faulty leadership in the churches, that have cared more about church attendance and church offerings than they have about true righteousness and the move of God and it is time to realize that if we want to see more of the hand of God move in our lives we must go beyond what our leadership has taught us is the 'price' to see God move and actually live out the Words of Jesus and lay down our lives and take up his cross and follow  him.