GOD WANTS TO PLANT US ON THE MOUNT OF HIS PRESENCE

"And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of
the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways..."
(Isaiah 2:3).

"Them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of
prayer..." (Isaiah 56:7).

The message of the Holy Spirit today to all God's people is, "Get back to the
mount—get back into his holy presence." Many are now hearing that call and
making time for prayer and seeking God. Others, however, go about their way,
too busy with kingdom details to climb the holy hill.

Isaiah saw both the glory of an awakened ministry and the tragedy of blind
watchmen, asleep. While some watchmen shake themselves and go back to the mount
of God to hear a fresh word from heaven, others will be lost in endless
activities and self-advancement.

"His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are dumb dogs, they cannot
bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs, which
can never getting enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they
all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter" (Isaiah
56:10-11).

Isaiah said they got that way—self-centered and preoccupied with the works of
their own hands, interested only in what they are doing, spiritually
dead—because they "forsook the Lord and forgot his holy mountain" (see Isaiah
65:11).

Ministers of God, we had better listen to the warning of the prophet Isaiah
when he said, "The Lord [shall] call his servants by another name" (Isaiah
65:15). He will raise up unknown seekers to awaken his church.

The Spirit is raising up an army of "mountain men" who will spend time alone
with God, shut up in his holy presence, hearing his voice, getting new vision,
and returning with joy to deliver "those who wail because of broken spirits"
(see Isaiah 65:13-14).

Oh, yes! They shall return—but with power and dominion.

His refining fire is going to awaken new and godly principles in us. For too
long we have been dead to the godly principles needed to save the church from
chaos. No longer will the Lord be satisfied with a general good in his house;
he now seeks the fire of Christ in the heart.

By David Wilkerson