Dare to Die?

I was sitting down, playing my guitar, singing to Jesus, and all of a sudden words and lyrics just started pouring out of my heart and mouth.
I was singing a phrase that I had just wrote,
"I still believe the rains are coming. I still believe the new song is rising. Voices are raising loud and clear, crying out, 'the Lord is near. Marantha.'"
And as I was singing this I was thinking about the forerunners that the Lord is rising up in the spirit of John the Baptist and in the spirit of Elijah. He is raising up end-time forerunners that will cry out with all that they are that Jesus is coming to return. They will be voices in the wilderness crying, "prepare the way for the risen Lord!"
I began to think about the price that these forerunners will pay. There is a cost. And the cost is great. The cost is death to the flesh, total abandonment for Jesus. But these forerunners that the Lord is raising up understand the cost and they see the effects it will have on them, and yet they run! And yet they cry out and they beg for boldness and truth at the feet of God. They beg to be equipped and they beg to be set apart. They see the cost and they joyfully beg for the mercy to abandon all for the sake of Jesus Christ.
As I was thinking all of this over and singing my verse I started crying out, "This is no sacrifice. This is no sacrifice. I am giving You death, You're giving me life, how is this a sacrifice?"
And then the two verses just merged into a beautiful prophetic word:
"This is no sacrifice (new rains are coming). This is no sacrifice (voices rising). I'm giving You death, You're giving me life, how is this a sacrifice (they cry out)." And over and over again I sang this, and I did not want to stop.
Do you see what the Lord is doing? He is doing a new thing!!! He is doing a new thing. And He is raising up men and women who will see the cost but will not stop. They will see beyond the cost and they will see reality. God is raising up men and women who will dare to relentlessly pursue His heart and His vision and His dreams. He is releasing a new thing on this earth.
And my heart is stirred within me by a new anthem. And I know that I am not alone in this vision...and to know that is so beautiful. There is a new thing rising up.

Oh Beloved, the King is enthralled by your beauty.