Spiritual Climate Change is Coming

I read a story recently about tropical plant life found frozen in the ice of Antarctica. This story caught my attention because when one thinks of the frozen tundra down south, we have thoughts of ice flows and penguins, not tropical vegetation, but here was a scientist discussing some tropical plant they had found. Fascinating.

I also considered the Garden of Eden. When I think of the Garden I think of lush vegetation, a rainforest like land of sorts. Have you ever seen the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers? I don't know that I would consider it anything close to that sort of topography.

So when I recently watched a TV show on the cycles of the planets as far back as they can study them, I was fascinated. Turns out that where once great rain forests stood, deserts now lay across the expanse. Where tropical climates once thrived, ice now covers the landscape in thick sheets. I was wrapped into the show, and though I disagreed with some of the political implications of the show and perhaps some "scientific" conclusions they came to, it really got me thinking.

I think sometimes the spiritual condition of our world seems to go this way. We look around our world today and see the Spiritual Climate in some areas rapidly heating up, and yet, in some areas, we perceive rapid cooling.

Looking around the world you see areas of the globe that were once spiritual hot spots. I enjoy reading letters from missionaries who share about distant spiritual wastelands being opened up for Christ. Where once icy or desert expanses ruled, we are now seeing revival fires being lit and the Gospel spreading.

But then consider places also like Europe. Where once the soil was ripe for growth, and produced tremendous crops that spread around the world, we have now seen a hardening of hearts. A cold breeze has blown away the top soils, and we find the work in these fields now to be very challenging and at times it appears fruitless. This in a land where much of our theology came to light.

This week I was taken back to a message that God had for Solomon at the completion of this Temple in Jerusalem.

II Chronicles 7:13-16

"When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there."

Spriritual climate change is not permanent. God, who set into motion the physical changes and cycles of our world, also desires to change our spiritual climate as well. Where he finds hard hearts of ice, it's His desire to set them ablaze for Him. Where deserts rule and vegetation is non-existent, he desires to see fields of flowers stretching up to the Son.

How is this accomplished? If we as His people, will humble ourselves and pray. If we will turn from our ways of sin and seek his face. He says that He will hear us from Heaven, forgive our sins, and heal our land. This last week in Hungary, a place that seems to often be spiritually desolate, I found some flowers. In between rocks and sand, I found delicate vegetation growing for the Lord.

The Lord is really speaking to us lately about humility and prayer. If we're going to the spiritual waste land changed into a thriving tropical spiritual climate, we must be willing to humble ourselves and pray. We must seeks His face and His holiness.

I've recently begun a pray walk through the city ever morning. Will you join me in Spirit? I am passionate about the spiritual revolution that God wants to see here. I am expecting change lives, and a changed country.

This is our goal. Nothing short of this will make the difference that we all long to see. In Hungary the wind is starting to turn, please join our prayers and help us turn a light breeze into a strong wind of revival.

God Bless You,

Jonathan