Stirred by the Lord

There is a difference between being moved emotionally and being stirred by the Spirit of the Lord. One may last a moment. The other changes the course of your entire life.

We are in a time when the Lord is not merely trying to get our attention. He is stirring His people with an urgency and a fire that demands response. What used to satisfy will not work anymore. What used to pass as obedience now feels dull and cold. Something inside of you knows it. You feel it in your bones. He is stirring you. And once the Lord begins to stir you from within, nothing else in life will be able to settle you until you respond.

The stirring of the Lord is disruptive. It confronts apathy. It disrupts comfort. It shakes routine. The moment the Spirit begins to stir a man or a woman, you can see it. They start praying differently. They stop being satisfied with average. They start questioning the noise of religious systems. They begin waking up earlier. Their appetite shifts. Their language changes. It is not emotionalism. It is not inspiration. It is a divine provocation from Heaven.

God is not calling us to feel something. He is calling us to awaken. The shaking that happens in your spirit when the Lord stirs you is not to make you emotional. It is to make you holy. It is to make you available. It is to position you for something greater than you can imagine.

When the Lord stirs a man, he stops asking shallow questions. He stops entertaining excuses. He loses his taste for compromise. The stirring of the Lord separates people. You will either run toward Him or run from Him. You will either burn or you will break under the weight of refusing Him. But once you have been stirred by God, you will never again be able to blame your environment for your lack of fire.

There is no passivity in the stirring of God.

Look at Moses. For forty years he wandered in the backside of the desert. Forgotten. Hidden. Waiting. Then one day, he saw a bush on fire that would not burn out. It was not the bush that stirred him. It was the fire that stirred the bush. And that fire carried a voice. Moses turned aside and heard the call. Remove your sandals. The place you are standing is holy.

That fire stirred Moses from a quiet life of exile into the violent obedience of a deliverer. He had no military. No political power. No experience in leadership. But he had been stirred by the Lord. That stirring was enough to shake Egypt and part the sea.

You do not need permission from Pharaoh to lead a nation out of bondage. You only need to be stirred by the Lord.

What stirs you reveals who governs you.

If you are more stirred by a movie than the Gospel, it shows. If you are more stirred by a business opportunity than a secret place invitation, it shows. If you are more stirred by prophetic words about promotion than by the convicting fire of the Word of God, then what stirs you has already exposed what you worship.

The stirring of the Lord will not always feel good. It will not always be gentle. Sometimes the stirring is a breaking. Sometimes it comes like a flood and leaves you speechless. But do not despise the stirring just because it unsettles you. Heaven is not trying to fit into your routine. Heaven is trying to make you holy.

When Jesus was baptized, the heavens opened and the Spirit descended on Him like a dove. The voice of the Father affirmed His identity. And then what happened? The Spirit drove Him into the wilderness. Not suggested. Not advised. Drove. Stirred. Pulled.

Because true sons do not just hear the voice of the Father. They follow the wind of the Spirit.

Being stirred by the Lord means you can no longer afford to live for the opinions of man. It means you can no longer tolerate casual religion. It means your secret life with God becomes more important than your public influence. It means your convictions grow teeth. It means you start praying for things that would make a carnal Christian nervous.

It means you start saying yes to impossible assignments because the stirring of God gives you a vision beyond your resources.

There is a shaking in the earth right now. There is a division between those who are content with visitation and those who have been stirred to become a dwelling place. The stirred ones do not care about conferences or popularity or religious politics. They want Him. They are not trying to impress men. They are trying to be possessed by God.

When the Lord stirs you, He awakens the deep places of your spirit. He opens up wounds you forgot you had. He exposes idols you thought you had buried. He challenges your comfort zones and calls you into deeper waters.

Stirring is not for those who want control. It is for those who want glory.

Too many are asking for revival when they have not even responded to the stirring. They want the upper room without the lifestyle of tarrying. They want power but not purity. They want miracles but not the wilderness.

Let me tell you something plainly. If you refuse to respond to the stirring, you will settle for religion. You will settle for routine. You will settle for survival. And you will call it faithfulness.

But the stirred ones will not settle.

The stirred ones walk away from opportunities that others would die for because the Spirit said no. The stirred ones wake up in the night trembling because the weight of eternity is resting on them. The stirred ones live with urgency not because they are panicked but because they are possessed.

What is stirring you?

Is it ego? Is it ambition? Is it insecurity disguised as ministry? Or is it Him?

Have you ever wept simply because He looked at you? Have you ever burned without music? Have you ever been wrecked in silence because the Word pierced you so deeply?

This is what it means to be stirred.

It is not emotional hype. It is not borrowed language from YouTube preachers. It is not Instagram Christianity. It is what happens when God grabs you and refuses to let you go back to normal.

I do not want to be normal. I do not want to be balanced. I do not want to be professional. I want to be stirred.

Paul told Timothy to stir up the gift that was given to him through the laying on of hands. That phrase stir up means to fan into flame. To kindle. To provoke. To bring life back to the embers.

Which means the fire you received can be neglected. It can grow cold. It can go quiet. That does not mean God left you. It means you stopped responding to the stirring.

When was the last time you wept on the floor until you had no words left? When was the last time you canceled your plans because He said come away? When was the last time you read a single verse and it wrecked you for a week?

We must return to the place where our hearts can be stirred again.

I am not talking about hype. I am talking about hunger.

Hunger will always respond to the stirring. Hunger moves Heaven. Hunger breaks pride. Hunger creates space. Hunger makes you desperate.

The reason many in the church are not stirred is because they are not hungry. They are full of religion. Full of distraction. Full of performance. And the stirring of the Lord cannot land on a full soul.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst. They will be filled.

But you must first become hungry enough to notice the stirring.

The danger of ignoring the stirring of the Lord is that your heart becomes hard and you do not even notice.

Hebrews says today if you hear His voice do not harden your hearts. That is not just a call to sinners. That is a warning to the saints. Because the more you ignore the stirring the more you build callouses around your spirit.

And eventually you will convince yourself that God is not moving when really you just stopped noticing.

The stirred ones do not wait for a perfect environment. They do not wait for the music to be right. They do not need a prophet to call them out. They have become so sensitive to the stirring of the Lord that the slightest whisper shifts them into prayer. The smallest nudge pulls them into surrender.

The stirring becomes their lifestyle.

I am stirred. Stirred to cry again. Stirred to give again. Stirred to go again. Stirred to believe again. Stirred to fast again. Stirred to preach the Gospel without apology. Stirred to stand in the gap for a generation that has never seen the real thing. Stirred to throw my reputation away if it means I get to burn.

This is the sound of a stirred man.

You can keep your safe Christianity. I want to be wrecked by the weight of His glory.

You can keep your polished religion. I want to be ruined for anything less than holy.

You can keep your shallow comfort. I want to be possessed by the God who still splits seas and raises the dead and visits broken men in the midnight hour.

I am stirred. And I will not apologize for it.

There is a fresh stirring happening in the earth. Can you feel it?

It is the sound of the watchmen waking up. It is the sound of the sleeping bride shaking off her apathy. It is the sound of the King drawing near.

Do not ignore it. Do not delay it. Do not silence it with entertainment or routine. Yield. Drop everything and yield.

Because when the Lord stirs you, everything changes.

And if it has not changed you, then it was never Him.

He is stirring again. Will you answer?

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