Greetings,
"Woe, Woe, Woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!" Revelation 8:13
In Revelation there are 3 sets of 7 judgements. The set of 7 judgements are the 7 seals; the second judgement is the 7 trumpets; and the 7th trumpet ushers in the last judgements of the 7 vials. This is literally about 1/2 way through all these judgements on man and the earth. 'God will bring every work into judgement, whether it be good or evil." And 3 times at the beginning of this sentence is the word of warning, 'Woe, Woe, Woe". Not only was it so bad about that which had already come, but how much worse of that which is getting ready to happen.
In the first 4 trumpets 1/3 of everything on the earth, and heavens were destroyed. And now the warning that 3 more were coming, and 'Woe, Woe, Woe' to those that would have to suffer through them. How much worse was it to be! We have seen a similar pattern, in the remedial judgements, things only get worse, and the cry goes out, 'Woe, Woe, Woe' to the nation, to our future for that which is getting ready to happen. Warfare is coming and it is an immediate need to pray for a spiritual awakening to happen to our men and women. Many will lose their lives and the church needs to understand these things.
As bad as it has been these last years, the worst is getting ready to happen. All that has happened has not humbled the church to the place of brokenness and contrition. It has not caused a major prayer movement to seek His face day and night. The prayer meetings are scarce, and the participation is even less. Most prayer meetings that I'm watching is all about entertaining music for 40 minutes and praying 10 to 15 minutes, and talking 10 or 20 minutes. This idea that entertaining music is worship is robbing us of true worship of Who God is, and praying in words, thoughts and adoration of His deeds,and words. Many will participate May 3, which is wonderful, but where will they be May 4?
Woe, Woe, Woe that I have not prevailed, that the church has not prevailed as these evils have increased, we did not deepen our resolve to war a good warfare and prevail. But our luke warm, sporadic, hesitant praying only emboldened Satan and he came in and robbed us of a future, robbed us of our next generation. We have to lose it all, before we will pray with urgency, fervency and expectancy. How awful! Oh, how heaven must shake their heads, and ask the Father, 'What's wrong with them?' We have to go through the 'Woe's' to feel the pain and sorrow and then rise up in obedience, and even then that is not a guarantee.
so if there is was this one thing I can share with you and ask of you, it is this: Understand that 'woe's' have come and gone through the remedial judgements that we have shared, prayed against and dealt with. However, the worst is yet to come, and we must be ready to meet it. Greater evils, greater persecution, greater sorrow and then the end. For through all this God will work His work and His will will be done. 'shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?' Yes, He shall. And In this, He has birthed a desire to pray and we have sought to do this to the best of our ability. Yet, there is still so much ground to cover, so much more to learn, so much more to do. And time is not favorable as it was 10 years ago. We must pray so as to prevail; for the 'woes' are coming.
while there is time and day, brethren, pray. For the night cometh when no man can work. My beloved brethren, how I thank God for you and your labors; let us all be resolved that in these days, 'I will give myself unto prayer'.
Prayer Targets:
--the usual woes have hit us this week again: school shooting Friday in Fl; injuries but no death; Two cops shot in Fl and killed; drug overdoses and deaths continue; also the Fl cops shot, the shooter killed himself - murder-suicide;
--May 3 National Day of Prayer; let us see if increase of activity may continue after the day of remembrance; a theme of unity and praying for much to be accomplished;
--Supreme Court ruling in regard are set to be released in May or June regarding our religious freedom; other laws, judicial acts are happening; all of which is an attack to stop the church;
--US pastor trail is underway in Turkey; remembering all the persecuted church and the increase assault against our brothers and sisters in Christ;
--war; lessening this week of saber rattling, but the pieces are still in place and set to escalate; war is certain, just to what a degree and venue and place it happens is unforeseen yet; asking for prayers for a mighty Spiritual Awakening for armed forces; a mass of souls to be saved, before war happens, where many of these will die and be ushered into eternity; pray now for their salvation before its too late;
--LGBT agenda, just will not lessen nor go away; church has allowed this; This is one of our main battle fronts for our future;
--more court cases and arrest of teacher/student sex; perversions, lasciviousness gets worse and worse;
Updates:
--1 day, 7 pages to go in Revelation and I will be done reading the Bible through for the 48th time; word study finished up this time is 'Destroy/Desolate/Devour";
Plans are to start again on May 1; already started 49th time through with 'the Activity of God' to identify and reference all verses, phrases in the Bible from Genesis, to Revelation of God's action, reactions, words, promises, power and deeds. this will take a long time to work through like my previous work of documenting my word/phrase studies in the bible, which took me just over 2 years.
But the goal is by September to be on my 50th time through for my 50th birthday.
--took on responsibility to help with prayer partners, points and participation for the Sermonindex Revival Conference; I sent this out to the prayer group earlier this week to ask for partners to join us. Also outlined a 5 point blog to help with speicifc points to bring before the Lord.
--24/7 prayer chain; this is one of the greatest needs, especially in light of what I just wrote above for the times we are in. Also, sent out this sign up for you to join us and help us.
--A Word - with everything mounting up, this was sure to be cut first; and it has. I was doing so well, but time and restraints now limit me from doing what I need to do for this devotional/commentary; Currently up to Isaiah 52.
--Sermonindex Conference in October 4 - 6;
--sermons from Sunday are uploaded to youtube page;
until,
dan
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