Greetings,
I have marked 25 Scriptures that tell us of God's nature toward us due to our response to Him. Some of these reciprocal responses between God and us are blessings: for example --
James 4:8, 'Draw nigh unto Me, and I will draw nigh unto you';
Malachi 3:7, "Return unto Me, and I will return unto you"
but there are others that are horrifying and sounded as a warning for us: for example ---
Deuteronomy 31:16 - 17, "They will forsake Me; therefore I will forsake them"
Ezekiel 23:17 & 18, "their minds were alienated from Him; God's mind will be alienated from them"
Zechariah 7:13, "Therefore it is come to pass, that as He cried, and they would not hear; so they cried and I would not hear, saith the Lord."
With the increase of the prayer movement, I am wondering just where we are in light of such bible verses. God births within us these desire to pray and to cry out to Him. Yea, it is one of our greatest witnesses of Him, that when we 'called unto Him, He answered us and showed us great and mighty things which we knew not." The other day in pray, worship time, I began the prayer unto Him, of Himself, 'when I remember what You have done. . ." and following came forth a flood of answered prayers, provisions, blessings, salvation's, Divine encounters with God that flooded the mind, heart and soul of great honor unto Him. But then again, how many times has He called, directed, spoken and we did not hear Him, or we did hear Him but disobeyed Him.
One of the things that has become ever so alarming is the increase in the remedial judgements on our nation. That which is happening in other parts of the world, should be a learning as well of what may be for us. But we have seen so much in these 18 years, this century thus far, that should humble us with where we are and what's going on. Yet I don't hear these reciprocal verses of God's response to us, due to our response to Him. I believein order for us to understand how the prayer movement can increase, for over 40 years and still see so much evil come upon us; so many remedial judgements is that our prayer movement is not acceptable to God. Is that a hard saying? I know it is; I know it may not be the answer, but in light of these verses and the response of God, it should at least be considered. For this much I know, the rise of evil is not God's fault; and it is not simply because Satan is stronger or more influential; then it is upon the church and their response to Him. Perhaps its time to examine what we are doing and why we are doing it. Did God not condemn Israel in these passages of Zechariah that when they fasted, offered and prayed it was not to Him? People become so defensive that they are praying, they are serving, they are doing ministry; but what if in doing these things it is not unto the Lord, but out of self and duty?
If its not God; and its not Satan, that simply leaves us. The church is not surrendered to be endued with power of the Holy Ghost; not filled with the desires of the Lord to read, to pray, to speak, to go, to do; not as deep in prayer as we should be; fasting is increasing but still I would suspect that it is limited to the level that the body should be in these days of evil. For I firmly believe that with the rise of evil on our watch, we should have gone deeper in prayer than ever before. the church should have been more militant to war a good warfare; we should have turned to Him for help like never before. And all the while these evils were happening, He was calling to us, beckoning to us, giving us time and opportunity to prevail with Him. And only a small remnant got it. Now as the walls are crashing, the foundations of the nations are crumbling, the church is deteriorating, families are all but extinct, the church is seeking to rally and crying out like never before, or at least unlike we have seen in recent decades.
This rose when the threat of Hillary was possible the next president. But for the greater part after the election, a vast majority returned back due to fear of her being elected. Yes, it is a reprieve, but if you think they are stopped or going away, you are gravely mistaken. OUr greatest battle lies upon us now. These agendas of evil have captured so much of the minds, hearts and ground of our nation; we are not taking it back like we should. and the whole is swallowing up what remains in the church.
It is all but certain that the next and new wave of remedial judgements are coming upon us. God in His mercy sends and allows for these remedial judgements to come, to cause His people, the church to respond rightly to Him. The failure of the church to rightly identify our high offense against Him has caused these horrible happenings. the nation is sinking into deeper sin, and is now on a pace for self-destruction.
Here is something to consider just how much has happened to us, as a nation, in this century thus far:
--April 20, 1999 - Columbine school shooting; a year before the century began, but it has been the initial warning of what was to come;
--December 26, 2004 - Christmas day earthquake & tsunami - 9.1 earthquake and 250,000 killed; This was another awe moment of seeing and knowing how quickly disaster and death can come, in one event. Natural disasters.
--August, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina; most powerful, deadly, and record costs setting storms in US history;
--2007 - 2008; economic collapse due to greed in banking system; world wide affects from this housing bubble;
--March 11, 2011 - Fukushima earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown; this was a major earthquake of 9,0 that triggered a massive tsunami. 19,000 deaths from tsunami, the Pacific Ocean is all but filled now with the release of the cooling water from the nuclear plant;
--July, 2012; aurora theater shooting - 25 killed;
--December, 2014; Sandy Hook school shooting; 28 killed; another moment in our history that stopped us and we see the evil of men and the judgements upon our nation;
--2008 - 2010 - 2013 - Prop 8 voted in California to not allow same sex marriage; overturned by 9th Circuit court; Supreme Court allows same sex marriages, thus destroying marriage instituted by God and the allowance of evil, now legalized and judicial edict to permit evil in our land openly and in direct defiance against God and His word and ways;
--August, 2017; double hurricanes over the gulf coast; an historic moment of destruction; Again an heightened increase in natural disasters on our land.
--October 2017; Las Vegas mass shooting; record number set in this evil unleashed unsuspecting people.
I do this historical unfolding so often that we are reminded of these events that shook us in the moment, but quickly passed and we right back to our way of life. A response from the heart that was only slightly toward God for the moment; it is not an enduring, lasting response of surrender to the Lord. Our response was not as in Zech. 1:4 'turn to Me, and I will turn to you'; but we would not turn to Him with the whole heart. Our failure to turn to Him in our hours and moments of needs are what causes this in Zechariah 7. "I called for you, but you would not hear ME; now you call for Me, and I will not hear you."
the prayer movement may rise and escalte in participation, but what good does that do, if the Lord will not hear us due to our sin and neglect of Him. Let the wrongs be made right; let the sins be confessed; and then plead for revival, for His help; for Himself to come among us. To do this right, someone will pay the price to be broken and contrite over these things, recognizing them and rehearsing them before Him for our shame and remorse. But this is a hard thing to find, when so many are so defensive when confronted about our position and plight. this Scripture is dismissed, for the Scriptures that say, 'God hears all prayers'. But the reality is that there is a greater depth of the prayer movement needed to beseech Him for this hour and prevail 'in wrath to remember mercy'. For Him to help us, and Manifest His Divine Presence to us. Our time is growing to a close, will we leave it as such to the next generation? We can't afford to that. Too much is at stake and we need to strike now, while we still have time and opportunity. I plead with you, don't turn a defensive ear to me, but let us go before the Lord and plead with Him, 'for who knows if He will turn and leave a blessing behind Him?'
PRAYER TARGETS:
--ISIS/Boko Haran; their evil and death and destruction continue;
--drugs; legalization, practice, deepening of affects are nearing tipping point of no return; Not only that which is on families and lives and society; but erasing a generation to repopulate and systemically bring us to the point of ending our nation;
--war; It is becoming clearer that war is nearing, and with each day and week more pressing that it will be this year. gas in Syria again; Russia/China alliance; heightened political fallout on governments;
--Supreme Court rulings are now the next thing to wait and watch and the affects on religious freedom-- sometime in June for rulings to be released;
--murder-suicides; Youtube shooting, attempt at more deaths, and took her own life; mothers and children over the cliff in CA, 6 dead; Deuteronomy 28 judgements;
--cops shot another unarmed man in NYC; as any officers that have been killed, this has been also the other side of this condition;
--LGBT agenda is not going away; they have swelled in numbers and great gains, and the church has largely allowed it and is not seeking much to take back the ground; they will not stop but continue til the church is silent and removed or given to join their hellish agenda of evil;
--school shootings have been thwarted and stalled now for weeks;
--economy; huge swings on DOW; debt continues to escalate; its all coming to a head soon;
UPDATES:
--bible reading - up through the end of Acts; roughly 14 days left in 48th time through;
--started new blog posts for each book -'The Activity of God" slow going in early chapter of Genesis, because almost every verse has the action of God; Just the first 2 chapters done;
--24/7 prayer; You are greatly needed to join and help us in this hour of need; http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090945a4aa2da75-broken
--A Word blog; have developed a better routine of this and have hit every day this month except 1 & 2; up through Isaiah 51:17, almost 1/2 of these are finished;
--sermons from Easter & Good Friday uploaded to youtube; 4/8 services uploaded: Keyser Church -Zechariah and the response of God due to the response of men; Fox's Hollow - the Activity of God found in Genesis 1;
Started: April 7, 2018
Continued: 4/8;
Finished:
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