Radical Consecration will produce radical and permanent deliverance with lasting transformation that will lead to personal revival. Consider this example from the Bible. Paul, a former serial killer, was surprised, delivered, transformed and revived when confronted by Jesus Christ as he was on his way to kill more Christians. Through God’s grace, Paul became radically consecrated to the Father and His gospel. The body of believers today needs to experience this same revival and radical consecration!

Radical consecration requires us to soak in the all-sufficient, all-reliable and yes, all-delicious, Living Word of God, our play book, so we are enabled to pray the Word of God with boldness. 2 Timothy 3:16 tells us that the entire Bible is inspired by God, and it prepares us in every way for every good thing God wants us to do. We must know the Word of God in order to live the Word of God.

Jesus was radically consecrated when He came to earth.

He came primarily to vindicate the holy name of His good and holy Father. He was crucified in order to save us from the guilt of our sin. Consequently, we are required to be 100% consecrated, vigilant and super radically aware that at any moment, Jesus may come back. We must make every effort to be pure, clean and spotless when He returns to take us to the home He has prepared for us (John 14).

In Isaiah 6:1-8, we encounter Isaiah’s very painful yet marvelous, radical and glorious consecration ceremony. When he saw the awesome holiness of God, he said that he was undone, meaning that he had totally fallen apart because he was a man of unclean lips. God’s provision for Isaiah’s radical consecration was to have a seraphim take a live coal from the altar and touch Isaiah’s mouth and lips with it. This act took Isaiah’s iniquity away and purged him of his sin. Because of this, Isaiah was filled with radical consecration. When God asked who would go, Isaiah said, “Here am I! Send me!”

Please note two important practical applications and deep insights for us to immediately apply to our lives in Christ, as we compare Joshua with Isaiah in verse eight when Isaiah said, “Here am I! Send me.”
1. Isaiah, just like Joshua, responded with a radical consecrated response of immediate obedience, as he arose, fully prepared and ready to go when he said, “Here am I! Send me.”
2. Furthermore, in verse eight, we read that Isaiah responded with “Here am I.” He did not say, “Here I am.” “Here am I” is not only a geographical position like we saw in Joshua, but most importantly, it is also a personal consecrated position indicating that he is all in: 100% in!

Isaiah and Joshua were both totally and radically consecrated and devoted to fulfill Yahweh’s mission, not their own, without ever giving up, regardless of how hard, difficult or discouraging the mission became.

That is exactly the position we should be in. It is Jesus we utter out of our mouth and through our lips. Hence, like Isaiah, in order to cleanse our hearts, tongues, minds and lips, we need to experience the same radical, painful, yet glorious and marvelous consecrating ceremony.

Psalm 96:9 announces that we are to worship the Lord in the beauty of His holiness and tremble before Him. That requires radical consecration in every area of our lives, including our marriage. We are told in Hebrews 13:4 that marriage is honorable among all and the bed undefiled. It goes on to say that God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

We must be 100% radically consecrated to our Father.

Doing so will cause us to believe and behave with meekness as chosen by the Father, purchased by the Son Jesus, sanctified and set apart radically by the Spirit, to become exactly like Christ. We must then value, cherish, adore, revere, esteem, exalt, worship, glorify, sanctify and lift up real high the majestic, holy name of our great and good Father. This is accomplished as we bow our knees to Him with deeper humility, meekness, a gracious attitude and a burning love for Him and for our neighbors. Then we are enabled to fulfill His great commission in the context of the first and second greatest commandments for the greater hallowing of His holy name.
We read in Deuteronomy 32:44-47 that Moses spoke all of the words God gave him to the people of Israel and told them to make those words their life. He followed this up by telling them that God would bless them if they did so. We need to follow Moses’ instructions and consecrate ourselves radically by making the Word of God our very life, so we can pray the Word radically to love radically.

For God, our Father to surprise us with His wonders and unlimited blessings, He requires our unwavering and intentional, radical consecration to Him, with a commitment to obeying Him with a willing and grateful heart. Doing so will then make us realize our desperate need for radical, fervent, bold and specific Biblical prayer, to infuse us with the necessary power to make our Good Father happier as we do His will, not ours.

What did Jesus Christ do when He experienced temptations, trials, abandonment and betrayal by others?

We find in Luke 22:44 that when He was in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then in verse 46, when He found the disciples sleeping, He told them to rise and pray, so they would not enter into temptation. He was repeating His command from verse 40 which the disciples had ignored. They were to follow His example. Jesus asked the Father to take away the cup He was facing, yet He also said He was willing to endure the suffering if it was His Father’s will. He was willing to endure the suffering and not skip the cross. We must be willing to endure the hardship and suffering God allows into our lives just as Jesus did. This is accomplished through radical prayer and by staying consecrated fully to our Father.

Radical, Biblical prayer is not just one thing we do. It is what we are to do all the time. It is who we are. It is our devotion, culture and lifestyle! It is our very life! We exist, so that in every breath we take seven days per week, 24 hours per day, we aim at being consecrated to our Father, so we can be true to our commitment to make our Father happier.

Jesus taught in Luke 11:2 that we should pray for the hallowing of God’s name.

When we pray in that fashion, big things happen. This is the prayer that drives every other prayer we pray. It is the prayer of priority. In order to hallow God’s name, we are required to be 100% consecrated to our Father as we value, cherish, adore, revere, esteem, exalt, worship, glorify, sanctify and lift up real high His holy name. It also requires that we bow our knees to Him with deeper humility, meekness, a gracious attitude and burning love. It is necessary that we be committed to obeying Him without delay.

If we are not consecrated to the Father, then we are consecrated to the devil. That is deadly!

Our Father is eager for us to get rid of all of our messes and all of our idols. He is zealous for us to ask Him to perform a deep power cleaning within our spirits, to hit all the corners and clean the entire house. He purchased this cleansing for us with the very expensive sinless blood of Jesus Christ. His command is for us to repent with godly sorrow. He will not approve our behavior that is not in line with His clear, specific commands.

We must not do the right thing in the wrong way like Uzzah in 2 Samuel 6.

God prescribed very specific guidelines for how the Ark of the Covenant was to be moved. Long poles were to be inserted through the rings on the Ark, and it was to be carried by the Levites. It was not to be touched. Instead of following God’s guidelines for moving the Ark, King David had it set on a new cart. The oxen pulling the Ark stumbled, and Uzzah took hold of the ark to steady it. God’s anger was aroused against Uzzah, and he died right there by the Ark of the Lord. He didn’t want the Ark to fall, yet he did not follow the precise guidelines of the Lord. An important lesson to be learned from Uzzah is that excitement and zeal for the Lord can never replace simple obedience. Our lack of consecration and our disobedience devalue the gospel. We must be convinced and believe that Yahweh means all He says, and then comply in obedience to all He commands.

What sin and idols in our relationship with Yahweh are preventing us from 100% consecration, so our Good Father will surprise us with His wonders and unlimited blessings? Let’s make King David’s prayer of confession and consecration in Psalm 51 our prayer as well.

God is eager to surprise us with his wonders when we pray radically to love radically. We need to pray with great anticipation, radical expectation and unwavering confidence in the finished redemptive work of Christ Jesus. Then God will surprise us saying, “Here my son; here my daughter. This is what you really need!” God expects us to be one hundred percent strong, real, set apart, consistent, resilient, obedient, humble, teachable and dedicated. This leads to a readiness to arise, go and be prepared to engage and lead others into any battle He sends for the greater hallowing of His name.

Joshua 3:5 does not leave any room for negotiation with God. It eliminates any excuse for bringing shame to our Father’s name or for hurting the people we say we love. It presents a very critical, urgent and super important message for today because the church is being defiled, the gospel misinterpreted; and America is in spiritual ruins.

The key is consecration to God.

The definition of consecration is to be set apart for a holy use, to dedicate to God our Father and to Him alone. It involves being sanctified and purified, to devote ourselves one hundred percent to our Holy Good Father alone!

Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, because the LORD will do wonders among you tomorrow.” This also is a personal invitation from Yahweh Himself to Christians today, and we must obey without delay. Yahweh means the God who delivers.

Yahweh is making you an amazing irresistible promise today. He wants to deliver you and free you from whatever handicap, slavery, addiction, oppression, falsehood, misconceptions or imprisonment you are experiencing.

He is offering to heal you from mental, emotional or physical handicaps by transforming the disposition of your heart, which is the central station or the control room for a Christian.

Yahweh delivers one time without any type of recovery program. Jesus came to make us brand new. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ (one hundred percent consecrated), he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17)

It is sad to see a great number of Christians allow their emotions to control them and paralyze them with fear.

In Ephesians 1:17-20 God tells us that He will open our eyes of understanding, so we will know that His power that raised Jesus from the dead is available for us. We have no excuse to live in spiritual paralysis.

We find the account of Moses leading the children of Israel out of Egypt in Exodus 14. Moses told the Israelites to stand still and see the salvation of the LORD (Yahweh.) When they crossed the Red Sea and saw the dead Egyptians on the seashore they believed in Yahweh and in Moses. How sad that their belief lasted only three days. Then they went back to their complaining.

For God our Father to bless us and to surprise us with His wonders time after time, we must consecrate ourselves to Him and to Him alone. He will not share us with the world or with the things of the prince of the world. It is either all or nothing: one hundred percent in or one hundred percent out!

Since God has offered us the help we need to live consecrated lives, why do we continue to live in the danger and misery of uncertainty and insecurity? We must stop bringing shame to our Good Father and stop being a double minded agent. We need to consecrate ourselves to Yahweh immediately, so we can enjoy His transforming powerful wonders. Ask Him to make you hungrier and thirstier for His righteousness. You do not need to keep faking it or continue to live in the dumpster. Take your mask off, surrender now to our Good Father, repent with godly sorrow and become real because Jesus is the real deal.