Sacred Ruckus 2008
October, 2008

   During the summer, our team hosted its second “Sacred Ruckus” on a farm in central PA. Weeks of planning and preparation went into the event, which would consist of three days of calling out to God to cause a national repentance and of worshiping Him in Spirit and Truth. The question we were asking was not “Where is the God of Elijah (1 Kings 18)” but rather “Where are the Elijah’s of God? Where are the voices of Godly people that are to be calling out in love, power, conviction and Biblical authority to a rebellious people who have thrown off restraint and are running head long to their own demise?” As the first night approached and we were set to begin, something happened that we didn’t expect… no one showed up. We were expecting from our internet response and many phone calls that hundreds of people would be showing up, but that did not happen. We decided to start and as the worship team was singing I noticed I wasn’t singing as loud as I normally do, and a feeling of self pity started rising in me. Many emotions were going through my selfrighteous heart, and it was then that my Heavenly Father started to show me some of my own hypocrisy. It was as if He was saying “So my son, do you worship me differently when there are hundreds of people as you do with only a few? Am I any less the Great I Am? Do I deserve less from you, ever? Do I not sit enthroned as the Most High Sovereign King? Do your circumstances dictate how you worship me, because if they do I am not your God but you are then your own God.” Mercifully God was revealing truth, and repentance came.

There was an Elijah type calling of fire that came down and it was far more powerful than fire coming down from heaven, for that’s easy for God… but it was a fire that came to the soul and burnt up an alter of idolatry that had started to serve self.

We pray for you as we do for us, that there will be a continuing death to self and an aliveness to Christ alone, for this is living life on the Narrow Road.