This was an amazing weekend for us at Village. Ordinations, families, friends, food and faith. We had friends visiting from around the region. I want to say thanks to my church family for being one of the most awesome people on the planet!

During that time I felt the Lord speaking to me about family. I began to get this picture of two people, a husband and wife as they embarked on their relationship together. I saw the siblings show from time to time, the parents and grandparents as well. But the new life that was to be added to the family would come from them and their love for one another. In the natural they would develop friends and those friends would sit at their tables. But ultimately “new” life would come through them. There was dynamic working. And I was reminded of a vision I had on Saturday night.While at the ordination on Saturday night, for some reason I crossed my eyes. (Sometimes it helps me “see” better.) Instantly there was twice as many as I had first seen on the stage. The Lord began to speak to me about “crossed eyes” (We are no longer concerned about crossing our t’s but now we are crossing our eyes!) I felt a nudge “did you see how fast they multiplied? It is the cross!” Come on God I looked at my nose and they were added to. That’s not real multiplication…or is it? First as I look at my nose (Representative of discerning. You can “smell” something.) things begin to change. What senses do I rely on? Do I rely on God? Is my perspective of one of two?

Is our perspective of growth or is it of decline? There is not one bone inside of me that believes the church of Jesus Christ is in decline. So why when I look at something am I so “surprised?” I believe the “doubling” of our worship team was prophetic in nature. I believe our worship pastor, Scott’s biggest “problem” in the days to come will be “what do we do with all the people.”

We are in an amazing time where multiplication of food, resources and people are, well, right at the end of our noses. That we get beyond us we will see Him. That was Elisha’s prayer for Gehazi. “Lord, open His eyes!”

A healthy family in the natural will most likely have children. Bringing increase to their family and their community. The Lord said to “go forth and multiply.” In the supernatural there is an increase that occurs as well. As I look at our own fellowship I am assured that what we see in increase is happening in other places as well.

Our hearts are open to the “now” God who is ever present. (Even while His people are looking backwards or looking ahead.) He is right across the table from you.

A baby is the result of a now moment. The conception of a child is current and now though ordained from the beginning of time. In the church growth is the result of knowing the now of God. Of connecting with Him here in and now. Not in some time, somewhere, but here and now. It is what occurs now that brings multiplication to the table.

And with that the Lord began to show me healthy growth of family in our church homes is about relationship. (Even as I reached for my coffee a moment ago I felt Him say, “the Bible is not a book about religion but about my love for you. About our relationship together.”)

In America we do not “need” revival we are revival. The church of Jesus Christ is alive and well and dwelling in people. We have suffered the “paralysis of analysis” by well-meaning people, engaged in activities God never intended for, but it is this day that the grace of God, found in the person of Jesus Christ is moving in relationships towards others. Our simplest conversations are changing hearts. Yesterday as I prayed for a pre-Christian I saw the love of the Father wooing her.  He is irresistible when His people see the love He has for them.

I thought of Jesus as Mary Magdalene broke open the alabaster box as she used her hair to anoint His feet. I felt is that not the picture I want to portray. Do I not want to be the person who welcomes the sinner and has love for them that changes their heart?

Folks, how we look at things is truly going to change the world. What is the wildest, “craziest” thing you could ever imagine happening? Begin to position yourself for her. Develop a posture that sees the change and speak those things forward. When I listen to my grandchildren pray for “all the people in the world to be healed” or for those with bad hearts(pre-Christian) to get new hearts, I am like AMEN!

Change your perspective. Change your world.