What do you hear the voice of the Lord saying?

Every day we mingle with crowds of people. Instinctively we know that every person is dealing with their own set of challenges. And we are painfully aware sometimes that we are in the midst of the fight ourselves. But, how often do we forget that the Spirit of the Lord is right there with us every day?

In Matt 9:35-38, we read that Jesus was walking in the middle of the same streets and the same crowds as everyone else. But, he saw things differently. While everyone else just saw the usual things, Jesus saw the crowds in a unique way and felt deeply for them. He saw that they were lost, directionless, wandering around like sheep with no shepherd!

As his heart quickly filled up with urgency and deep compassion for the people, He turned and called his followers to open their eyes to see things from His perspective. Then He told them to pray for laborers.

He is calling us to the same mission. As we follow the Holy Spirit today our first priority is to love God by actually seeing people through His eyes. He wants to change the way we see them.

As we allow Him to get our attention, we will be overwhelmed by what is "really" going on around us. We will begin to sense that He is actually saying something and He wants us to listen. The massive heartbeat of the Father is to be up close with every person we will see today.

It reminds me of the prophet Isaiah. You can read about his encounter with God in Isaiah 6. As he was going through his daily routine of service as a priest in God's temple, the Holy Spirit grabbed his attention and Isaiah had an intense vision of the glory of the Lord.

Isaiah cried out for mercy and you can read there that God had an angel come and purify his lips so that he would be clean. Then something revolutionary happened at the core of Isaiah's being.

In Isaiah 6:8 it says; Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
And I said, "Here am I. Send me!". How long had God been saying this? Was Isaiah hearing the passionate heartbeat of God in a way that he has never heard it before?

What about you? As you get up out of bed and live out that same old daily grind, God is trying to get your attention. Whatever you do, don't turn away from
Him because you feel unworthy and afraid. Isaiah felt the same way. But he stayed in God's presence. He experienced the Fathers heart for people as he heard what the Spirit was saying.

What do you hear the voice of the Lord saying? When you experience the His burning heart for all of us your own heart will be swept up in His mission. Will you pray with me as we hear His voice asking "Who will go"? Will you join with Jesus and ask the Father for laborers? Most of all, we pray, "Here we are, Father! Send us!"


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Heart to Heart "stirrings"

Getting ready for the day today I felt this stirring in my heart and felt that I needed to share it but more importantly there needs to be agreement with God on it in my heart... "The Lord is graciously coming to His people allowing us to perceive the rhythm of His heartbeat. It is coming through many avenues. It confirms His word and it is His word. It is revelation and mystery together. He desires to bring our hearts and lives into sync with the cadence of His heart. Doing so is necessary as we enter the near future. So invest yourself in reading His word in the place of intimacy. It is time to bring your heart... your alabaster jar and break it open before Jesus pouring it's contents out on Him as a gift of loving surrender to moving with His heart."


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Here's "what's happening?" with me & my place of ministry - Eastgate House of Prayer

It was a little less than a year ago that I laid down my responsibilities as part of the pastoral team of our local church so that I could make myself more available to help with the development of Eastgate House Of Prayer here in the Saint John region. I am very grateful for the friendship and encouragement of Kings Valley Wesleyan Church in this process. I and my family love being part of this wonderful community of Jesus followers.

God has been so faithful in leading me along in this new chapter of my journey in following Him! Leading worship at EHOP (Eastgate House of Prayer) and working with it's director, Kirk Smith and the rest of the leadership team has been such a huge blessing to me! In the process of serving with EHOP, the Lord has opened a new door of ministry for me.

I am thrilled to say that I am joining the EHOP Mission Base as a worship leader and Intercessory Missionary. This means that I will be serving on a full-time basis as we minister to the Lord in "Day and Night" worship & prayer. Inspired by His word and His passionate heart we will be asking Him for a great harvest of people into His kingdom, for unity in His Church and for the preparing of His Bride for Jesus' return.

We are part of a growing number of Houses of Prayer rising up in many cities around the world. For more details on the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, visit www.ihop.org.

EHOP invites participation by any individual or church that worships Jesus according to the Scripture, regardless of denomination, for the sake of bringing unity to the Body of Christ and for revival in the Saint John region, across Canada and throughout the nations.

I am especially excited about my assignment in leading worship and mentoring other musicians and singers serving with EHOP.

In my assignment as an "Intercessory missionary" I will be committing myself to 30-40 hours per week in helping to lead Intercessory worship meetings, training other intercessors and serving in the administrative infrastructure. I will be continuing in the development of an active and rigorous prayer life including regular times of fasting and prayer as well as ministry through my local church to the local community.

As an "Intercessory Missionary" with EHOP I am responsible to build a team of supporters both in prayer and raising my personal financial support. I am trusting in the Lord that He is leading many to invest in my calling to mentor intercessory musicians and worship leaders who will minister to the Lord night and day for the sake of a great move of God in our time on the earth. An avenue for providing financial support has been created in order for me to pursue this calling. I would love to make myself available on a full time basis as soon as possible. I am asking the Lord to lead individuals and local churches to invest in the kingdom of God through supporting this mission.

I am in need of monthly supporters and/or one time financial gifts in order to be free enough financially to give myself fully to this ongoing ministry to the Lord in worship, prayer and service to the harvest. An income tax receipt will be issued for all financial gifts to EHOP. If you feel prompted to connect with me about this, here is my contact information: email: danclamos@gmail.com; phone: 506-647-1600; address: 403 Hampton Road, Quispamsis, NB, Canada, E2E4V5. Cheques should be made payable to Eastgate House of Prayer.







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Giving it All Away to see His glory

There are a few people that I read about in the Bible that I would love to know. One of them is the woman written about in Mark 4:4-11.

She locked in to the right approach to Jesus. She grabbed what was probably her most valuable possession and journeyed to where Jesus was in order to offer something valuable to Him. Nobody around her thought it was a good gift or that it was even the right thing to do other than Jesus.

He loved her gift and He declared that what she did was beautiful! Wow! This is what God is looking for from this generation. Where are the ones who will take all that they cling to for security including mindsets, theologies, systems of belief, successes, failures... everything and break it open to be poured out on loving Jesus? He is the one we want. His approval is all we need. Everything else is just details. Will you trust Him with it all? Are you willing to give it all away to truly see his glory in all the earth?


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Songs For a Revolution of Hope, Vol. 1 Intro

Commitment to Sexual Purity

This Thursday night, I will be leading a seminar/discussion for parents sponsored by KV Youth about living a commitment to sexual purity.  Sex is a beautiful and powerful gift from God designed and reserved for marriage.  It's pull on us all is intense and alive with desire.  Our young men and women are the stewards of this fire and we need to show them a healthy way to surrender their sexuality to the Creator who designed sex from the beginning.  I am so humbled to be sharing about this subject in Thursday's seminar.  But, I feel like Isaiah when he confessed his own unclean lips and that he belonged to a people of unclean lips in Isaiah 6.  As a generation of parents, we haven't done a very good job of living in joyful surrender to God with our sexuality.  Often times we don't make the connection between God's blessing of an amazing life (including sex) and our obedience to him.  In other words we live as if following Jesus is hard work and serious while sex is fun and sort of just the thing we do. There are children living with us that are counting on us to show them a better way... the way of Jesus kingdom.  We can do this by His grace.  But, it is gonna take honesty, humility and an authentic surrender to Him.  Will you fight for a new generation of young men and women?  Will you fight for your kids?       

update for family & friends

The past several months have been an important season of growth for me as I have been waiting on the Lord and doing what He has been putting in front of me to do.  During that time, I have been reconnecting with a friend of mine, Dwight Robertson, president of Kingdom Building Ministries located in Denver, Colorado.  As our families spent a very short visit together here in Quispamsis at the beginning of July, we began to discuss the possibility of me serving God's purposes with KBM in some fashion.  The doors have opened and I am very happy to let you know that I will be joining the staff of KBM as of November 1, 2010.  You can learn more about KBM at http://www.kbm.org/  As an equipping and empowering ministry, coaching/mentoring is a high priority with this organization.  I will be serving as a "Plan A Coach" and I will continue to be located here in Quispamsis as a representative for KBM in Canada.  My focus will be to help Jesus followers to embrace their design as God's "Plan A" laborers (Matt. 9:37-38) and especially to help pastors and churches activate these laborers into lives of service to Jesus' kingdom in these chaotic times. I am so grateful for all of the love, friendship, prayer and support that I and my family have received during this time of transition.  I will continue to keep you up to date as things develop.