RUIN ME for This World!!!

May 18, 2011 By

weissministries.com

I heard this wonderfully anointed worship band minister about a week ago. They entered into the throne room and took us with them! As the guitarist ventured into spontaneous worship, he said something that blessed me tremedously. I am sure the saying is not new, but the way he ministered it was pregnant  with images and truth and possibilities. He said, “Father, ruin me for this world!” Can you see that!? This is what I saw:

  • Give me a glimpse of your glory that I will never settle for this world or what it has to offer.
  • Give we a taste of your love so that every bit of who I am longs for you!
  • Give me a vision for my life so that all other visions — of money, fortune, and fame — pale in comparison!
  • Give me a desire for eternity so that I will be compelled to tell every dying soul that there is a life greater than the one in which we live!

RUIN ME FOR THIS WORLD!

In Mark 1:24, Yeshua went into the synagogue to teach. As he was teaching, a demon-possessed man shouted out, “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us?” That word “destroy” in the Greek is not annihilate as we think of the word! That word really means “ruin.”  Yeshua did not seek to kill the demon. That will be done when satan and all his demons will be thrown into the lake of fire at the end of the age.

This is what the demon was asking Yeshua:

  • “Why have you come to ruin my party?”
  • “Why have you come to make me reveal myself when I could have just silently taken over this man and possibly the whole synagogue?”
  • “Why are you making me so unsettled that I have to be exposed?”

That’s what we ask of you today, Father, RUIN OUR PARTY! Don’t let us silently go through life doing things sneaky and underhandedly. Unsettle us in this life!

Father, we get so comfortable here! Thank you for the pleasures of this world that you have made for us to enjoy — the wonder of the ocean, the majestic mountains, a teeming forest — and so much more! Let us never settle for what we see! Ruin us for this world! In Yeshua’s Name. Amen.

If we want to be “ruined for this world,” this should be our single-most request: “Give Me Jesus” as sung by Jeremy Camp:

http://youtu.be/empiUulYcDs

Anne Graham Lotz puts it another way, “Just Give Me Jesus” but it’s all the same — “Ruin Me for this World”

http://youtu.be/xdbOw_4Crz0

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