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MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Making peace
• With my inner demons
• By making them
• Disciples of Jesus

Immanuel Approach Memo

Concluding from 4/17 IAM: Exalted/Newsong

I am…
We are…
Burning.

As a lion cub
I led the hyenas
On feasting on the body of Jesus
Whom they had killed
Then forming the Body of Jesus
From His bones
Using the Newsong of Our Father

But as we approach Him
To kneel in obeisance
The purity of His Presence
Consumes us

We stagger
And fall

I look for Jesus.

And only then
Do I realize
My folly and error

I had let the hyenas
Make me the head
Of our Body

We all just assumed
Or reverted to
The natural order

That
Is what is killing us

I look to my hands.

My right
And my left

As my final command
I tell them
To pluck me off
And cast me down

They are terrified
(So am I)
But we are in agony
Desperate

And we dare not run away
From Our Father
Again

So they obey

I look to His body

From my fallen position
Which has become a front row seat
For the miracle

The headless Body
Gropes toward Our Father
By pursuing the path
Of greatest pain

The burning
Becomes more intense
Yet somehow more freeing
As the impurities burn
And divisions melt away

The Body collapses
Prostrates itself
At the feet of Our Father

He whistles
And a white dove comes
And makes His nest
On the empty neck
From which I was removed

I see The Body of Christ

Stand up
Still headless
Except for the head of the dove
Just barely visible above the nest

But now perfect
Unbroken
Unscarred
United
Unction

If I could stand on my four feet
I would be tempted to bow in worship

Instead
My right hand
And my left
Gently pick me up
And set my feet on a solid rock

With my hind feet
On high places
And front feet
On a staircase
That leads to eternity

From there
I can see the next level

Of darkness
Of glory
Of hyenas
Waiting

Waiting
For me
To lead them
In becoming
The Body of Christ

I let loose a roar.

Which shakes
The heavens and the earth

I am surprised
To discover
I am no longer a cub
Because I am no longer fatherless

Our Father
Has claimed me
Matured me
Grown me
Filled me

I am His
He is mine

I see Our Father

As My Father

And that the Father I know
Is just a shadow
Of One who awaits
At the next level

And the Newsong
Is just an echo
Of the Song of the Redeemed
That my heart
Longs to sing

With Him
With you
Forever

Amen.

Finit
(For now?)

Reflection

I feel…

• Glorious
• Whole
• Healed
• Hopeful
• Holy
• Human
• Ready

Scripture

“You who are far away, listen to what I have done, and you who draw near to me, acknowledge my power and strength!
Sinners in Zion are afraid, and the godless are gripped with panic, saying, ‘Who can dwell with such an all-consuming fire? Who can live in the presence of the never-ending flame?’
Only those who walk with integrity and speak what is true, who despise even the thought of cheating the poor, and do not accept a bribe, nor plot violence, nor contemplate doing evil — they will live safely on the heights and make their safe place the mountain strongholds, with bread in steady supply and water assured.”‭‭

Isaiah‬ ‭33‬:‭13‬-‭16‬ ‭TPT‬‬