DO YOU WANT TO BE PART OF THE VANGUARD THE LORD IS SETTING UP | KAIROS GLOBAL | PILOT ISSUE | 2017

Author : Dr. Jacqueline Michael

Intro : Discusses how to transform ourselves into the well - formed army of the Lord ever ready for His call.

Do you want to be part of the vanguard the Lord is setting up ?

If the answer is yes, then there is no time to wait. It is time to begin the work within you NOW!

In the words of Francis Frangipane:

“God is not looking at His watch; He’s

looking at His crop.”

Yes, we are His crop. The Lord is

instructing and teaching with passion,

those souls that are seeking and desiring

Him in openness and humility. For this

particular mission He reaches out to the

spiritually responsive, and carves out a

desire for His image and likeness in their

soul. Once the soul starts desiring this

spiritual transfiguration, the Lord begins

to feed, nourish, and prune it. He is the

diligent farmer tending the crop.

Now let us delve a little deeper into

this transfiguration.

The fulfillment of man’s created

purpose is ‘man in the image of God’.

This simply means that when the Father

looks at us, He sees the image of Christ in

us. This does not mean that we become

God, or that we take the place of Christ.

It simply means that we have humbled,

pruned, and loved, such that Christ is

visible through us and indeed if it can be

said so – that Christ has taken our place.

For this to happen, we should become

like the flute in the hands of the flutist

that renders the most mellifluous music

– where flute and flutist become one –

working together, delivering a taste of

Heaven. Like the flute and the flutist,

the Will of God should be able to course

through our veins, and find the most

beautiful expression through every pore

of our being. The Will and Glory of God

should be manifest in us, His beloved

crop. When the crop is mature in fullness

and number, then the reaper will come to

gather in the harvest.

Let us read the Letter of Saint

Paul to the Ephesians, to

illustrate this point.Ephesians 4:11-

13: “The gifts he gave were that some

would be apostles, some prophets, some

evangelists, some pastors and teachers,

to equip the saints for the work of

ministry, for building up the body of

Christ, until all of us come to the unity of

the faith and of the knowledge of the Son

of God, to maturity, to the measure of the

full stature of Christ.”

Here Paul talks of the gifts of the

various ministries that God has given

to build up the body of Christ, which is

the Church. He goes on to reveal the end

point of this building up, which is the

unity of the faith and knowledge of the

Son of God, to maturity, to the measure

of the FULL STATURE OF CHRIST. Christ

is indeed the real measure for us, the

sons and daughters of the almighty God!

I urge you dear friends to fall on

your knees and pray. Pray for a deeper

understanding and love. Pray for

cleansing and purification. Pray for

mercy. And last but not the least pray

for the Divine Will of God to be manifest

passionately and wholly in your life.

Pray also that your transfiguration is

so complete that the inner you has

disappeared.

Pray, pray, and persevere – knowing

that the likeness of Christ is the

raison d’etre of your existence. The

Lord will pour into you, every grace

for the attainment of your desire for

transformation. He will mould you, love

you, and transfigure you – all He needs is

a loving, humble, and desiring heart, and

you too can take your place in the Lord’s

vanguard.