Bob Hodgdon's Blog
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Look Into Eyes Of The Lion
A few months ago I was given a vision of a lion lying under a tree in a small field by a river. This field was small and the tree the lion was laying under was the only tree in this field and this tree was about 15 feet from the edge of the river. The river flowed straight then turned to the left as I was looking at this scene. I was told to go, and look into the eyes of the lion. Not knowing what was going to happen I was a little fearful about this move but I believed this was a vision from God, so, I went down and kneeled in front of the lion. The lion just layed there and looked at me. The lion never stirred a bit. As I looked into the eyes of the lion I felt somewhat afraid but as I looked deeper I realized I was looking at something greater. I was I looking into the eyes of the Lion, God spoke to me and asked, “Why are you so fearful of the Lion?” I said, because this is a lion. God said to me, “Is not My Son, the Lion of the tribe of Judah?” God went on to explain to me – You should fear the Lion (My Son). Not because He is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah but because as the Lion, when He looks into your eyes, He see your fear, He knows your heart, He knows everything there is to know about you, whether you are going to harm Him or if you are His friend, He sees your soul. God explained to me that we, the church, fail to look at His Son with fear, with admiration, with gladness and with the Honor due Him. He said we should all look into the eyes of His Son that we might see Him as He sees us. We should look into His Son’s eyes that we may see His Heart. As the lion senses our fears, our intentions, the Son in like manner knows us but we don’t know Him as we should. LOOK INTO THE EYES OF THE LION!!!!!!
God then directed me to the river and told me to jump into the river. I gladly jumped into the river. As I was going deeper, I noticed that the river didn’t get darker, but in fact got brighter. I asked God why the deeper I went the brighter it got? God told me that the deeper we go into the River, we get closer to His Treasures. He asked me, How Deep Will You Go?
In summarizing the vision, God said to me – LOOK INTO THE EYES OF THE LION AND HOW DEEP WILL YOU GO IN YOUR WALK WITH ME. There are many things we neglect in our walk with Jesus. We fail to come to the knowledge of who we are to marry. Without knowing the heart and mind of Jesus, how do we walk about this earth and reason within ourselves that we are doing the will of God? Proverbs 29:18 says that a people without vision go unrestrained (perish). The word VISION means – dreams, visions, prophecies, a mental sight, revelation, an oracle – of God. We often times really believe we have the vision of God, but without knowing the heart of God and of His Son, we will perish and we will go unrestrained. This would explain why, we the church, are perishing in this country. We fail to see the Heart of God, through His Son. We do it the way WE think it should be because after all, God will understand. Times have changed and we have to do it this way because it won’t work like it did back then. The fact of the matter is, because of our pride, we have negated the will of our Father in our lives to we can appease ourselves. Ezekiel 34 speaks out against the shepherds of the flock. This prophecy is still true today. Read this chapter and see if you can the correlation with the church of today. Not all but it only takes a few to negate a mighty work of God. I pray we would have the Love and Compassion Jesus had for the people. God revealed to me some time ago that His Power and His Glory, His mighty works, come from His Love. When Jesus had compassion for… mighty things happened. But it all started with Jesus’ fellowship with His Father every night when He went off to pray. We want to know Gods Heart, and we want to know God’s Will, it can only be as we use the examples we are shown in His Word. The word is INTAMACY. Until we come to the Father as Jesus came to the Father and in likeness, how the apostles came to Jesus in prayer, then God will reveal His Will to us and we will walk in this vision, this prophecy, this dream, of God. With this will come the Love and Compassion of Jesus for His people, then hang on, mighty things will happen. We want to see the God in mighty signs and wonders, it’s in his Love, His compassion, which is a result of our willingness to become intimate with Him who provides His Will on this earth as it is in Heaven. Let us all come to our Father through Jesus Christ, His Son and our savior, and seek His heart expecting nothing in return except to know Him as He reveals Himself to us.
God then directed me to the river and told me to jump into the river. I gladly jumped into the river. As I was going deeper, I noticed that the river didn’t get darker, but in fact got brighter. I asked God why the deeper I went the brighter it got? God told me that the deeper we go into the River, we get closer to His Treasures. He asked me, How Deep Will You Go?
In summarizing the vision, God said to me – LOOK INTO THE EYES OF THE LION AND HOW DEEP WILL YOU GO IN YOUR WALK WITH ME. There are many things we neglect in our walk with Jesus. We fail to come to the knowledge of who we are to marry. Without knowing the heart and mind of Jesus, how do we walk about this earth and reason within ourselves that we are doing the will of God? Proverbs 29:18 says that a people without vision go unrestrained (perish). The word VISION means – dreams, visions, prophecies, a mental sight, revelation, an oracle – of God. We often times really believe we have the vision of God, but without knowing the heart of God and of His Son, we will perish and we will go unrestrained. This would explain why, we the church, are perishing in this country. We fail to see the Heart of God, through His Son. We do it the way WE think it should be because after all, God will understand. Times have changed and we have to do it this way because it won’t work like it did back then. The fact of the matter is, because of our pride, we have negated the will of our Father in our lives to we can appease ourselves. Ezekiel 34 speaks out against the shepherds of the flock. This prophecy is still true today. Read this chapter and see if you can the correlation with the church of today. Not all but it only takes a few to negate a mighty work of God. I pray we would have the Love and Compassion Jesus had for the people. God revealed to me some time ago that His Power and His Glory, His mighty works, come from His Love. When Jesus had compassion for… mighty things happened. But it all started with Jesus’ fellowship with His Father every night when He went off to pray. We want to know Gods Heart, and we want to know God’s Will, it can only be as we use the examples we are shown in His Word. The word is INTAMACY. Until we come to the Father as Jesus came to the Father and in likeness, how the apostles came to Jesus in prayer, then God will reveal His Will to us and we will walk in this vision, this prophecy, this dream, of God. With this will come the Love and Compassion of Jesus for His people, then hang on, mighty things will happen. We want to see the God in mighty signs and wonders, it’s in his Love, His compassion, which is a result of our willingness to become intimate with Him who provides His Will on this earth as it is in Heaven. Let us all come to our Father through Jesus Christ, His Son and our savior, and seek His heart expecting nothing in return except to know Him as He reveals Himself to us.
:: posted by Bob Hodgdon, 10:19 AM
