Greetings,
I Kings 9:8, "And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?"
The Lord is doing a new work within me. I grieve over my obstinate will toward Him and what He is saying and doing. One part of this is something that I have studied, preached, and began numerous times to write, 'What have I done?' It is the question and/or statement found dozens of times int he Bible, where God or men asked 'what have you done?' This is such a spiritual question for us to look at today for our nation, church, family and our own hearts. God is driving me to write and get this done. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, pray for me. This verse is one of those phrases/questions to address.
Seeing where our nation and the church is presently; and knowing to some degree what is coming, we need to understand this question and employ it into our prayers. Time is critical here. All the remedial judgements that I have pointed out and shared are culminating now. And I believe, soon, the next one, beyond the regular ones will happen. Now whether that is war, pestilence, unlike we have seen before, or some other judgement to greatly humble and afflict us for our sin it is on the horizon. And soon, this question will be our worlds future question, 'Why has the Lord done this to this nation and to His church?'
this question is to some degree being asked now. Many are looking at these remedial judgements and trying to find answers. look for a moment at all the epidemics of suicides, drugs, divorce, pornography, debt, and the flip side of this as results of SBC baptisms drastically decreasing, greater evils, less holiness, prayer status quo, bibles largely unread and unknown, church attendance record lows each Sunday. such crisies on the streets, in the homes, and in the minds and hearts of men. Why has the Lord done this to this land and to His church?
The culmination of remedial judgements on our nation in the first 5 and 1/2 months is greatly alarming. Every fabric of society has been hit. These happenings and pre-cursor signs are warnings of our high offence against the Lord. And I do not see nor hear of any great shift away from our abominations, but only slightly by the church. I see the darkness still pervading upon the land and homes. I see the LGBT agenda continuing and deepening; affecting many of the next generation with such great evil. I see the drug conditions continue. I see abortion still in place and homosexual marriages blessed.
And the one thing that can make the difference, cause the shift that is needed is for the church to realize the great danger of our future that we are in and respond rightly. A realization of just were we are is needed. The emergency status of our day is not understood, therefore the fervency and urgency of prayer to prevail is not employed. The realization of our great sin against the Lord is needed and in each sin to be identified and confessed, mourned, and repented of. The change of the church's discipleship and move away from methods and means and move toward Bible reading/studying; greater prayer times privately and corporately and holiness in daily walk. Too much carnal, selfish, proud lifestyles of entertainment, ease and comfort are existing while our doom is pending. Soon we will hear, for those that survive, 'Why did God do this to this land and to His church?' And the answer: 'Because they would not humble thesmelves, they would not forsake the world; they would not die to self and live in the Spirit. And God judged them after decades of remedial judgements.' Woe to those that have to see such an end.
Brethren, while we have time; and time is rapidly decreasing, we need to resond. Call 2 Fall next month is a great means to employ for this. And even though it only seeks 5 - 10 minutes to be on our knees and pray, any church and group can go deeper and make it more. At Fox's Hollow we will be have a solemn assembly to spend 2 hours in prayer and supplication to deal with these things.
Fasting 2 x a month for sermonindex conference; this can be employed to pray for the nation, and church, and family to come to the Lord rightly and with surrendered wills' unto Him.
24/7 prayer chain join and use your time daily to be before the Lord over this. We have the 1's and the 2's each day; but we need dozens to be employed.
The reason you don't respond is that your too busy. You do not understand the urgency of the hour upon our fate and future. There is no time left, but a major response is needed now. For the next calamity is close. And what that will look like will be historic again; it will be awful and I fear for many of these that are slain during these things are not ready for eternity and they are ushered out without Christ into hell fire for ever.
I cannot convey to you how this question will soon be our epitaph. while we have today, renew and yield to make a difference and be much before the Lord.
Prayer Targets:
It is the middle of June and we have had several prayer targets come to a conclusion in these last weeks. And I want to thank you, to those that read these and set them before you to pray before the Lord. First, the Supreme Court case of Jack, the cake business vs. Colorado over personal, business rights to stay true to religious freedom. Years, I had been bringing this before you and we saw God answer us out of His great mercy. Secondly, this past week, the SBC convention concluded. JD Greear is new president; other issues SWBTS trustees and VP Pence speaking distracted largely the SBC. I feared that they simply wanted to get through this as much unscathed as they could; I guess they accomplished that. Greater moments and time of prayers have become more apart of the SBC.
--Cancer; never have I seen the numerous requests for the increase in prayer for cancer, treatments, diagnosis, surgery and recovery; In a usual setting of a moth, there might be 10 - 20 requests in and around people of the community, church, and family; Literally that number has doubled; When we read Deuteronomy 28, and the curses are poured out on the land for their disobedience, health is greatly attacked and removed from the population. Cancer is one of our remedial judgements. Now this does not mean that every one that gets cancer is a great sinner. No; but all of us are paying the price. This affliction is on the righteous and unrighteous. And it is everywhere, every family fighting this, every church fighting this. But understand for your prayers, the cause of cancer is the root of our spiritual praying - the sin of the land, the forsaking of the church against the Lord is the cause of the increase of this.
--mass shooting/murder-suicides; It is with certainty that i cringe of the news this morning. Reported this morning is of 2 separate posts on social media of a mass shooting being threatened. The posts of course, allows for law enforcement to respond and prevent it. But after all we have seen of the increase of this, 2 speaking publicly are found out and stopped. But it is the one that does not share and is even now creating and being used to do this evil. More historic numbers are sure to follow. Schools are largely out for the summer; but public venues, and churches can still be targeted. Again for prayer, ot understand why this is happening. Good removes safeguards of decency, moral, good, from society that such evil acts are allowed, permitted. God allows Satan to do his work because our nation has asked God to leave us; and He has.
--suicide; With the 2 celebrity names committing suicide, it is been made aware of the 30% increase annually of our nations death rate by suicide. Drugs overdose deaths for the last 5 years have increased from 20,000 to 70,000. suicides are now over 50,000 annually. Couple all these death totals together, and add in abortion, this is why are nations reproductive population is on the point of our nation becoming extinct. 'And I will remove you from the earth'. Too many seek an answer for by depression, mental health, etc. This is a spiritual demon allowed, caused and permitted by God as another remedial judgement due to our sin in provoking the Lord. God removes sanity, normal, behavior and thought process.
--Sermonindex Conference; The next major prayer target, as far as events is the conference in October. Prayer Partners continue to pray over:
--Dates - October 4 - 6; travel in and out, prayer time Oct. 3 that night; each session;
--Speakers - covering all 12;
--Simulcast receivers; tech, gatherings, prayers, edifying, and holiness upon those that will be viewing but not present at the conference;
--Church - Pastor Shane Idleman and his staff and people as they prepare to hosts Westside Christian Fellowship in Leona Valley, CA;
--natural calamities; Hawaii's and Guatemala volcanoes are a picture of tragedy that can be quick, and severe; Southwest of US in severe drought; east coast flooding (historic) hurricane season now; and it looked like next week 2 may hit at both ends of the nation, SW and south east; I don't know that that has every happened. at the beach - drowning from riptides, FL jelly fish of 100's; continued water tainted while swimming and contracting flesh eating bacteria; wildfires - Calif. Colorado and New Mexico; earthquakes have been limited and quiet, especially in severity;
Updates:
--bible reading; up through I Kings 20;
--The Activity of God - Exodus up through chapter 30;
--IBM has bought out Ustream and will close out free streaming; looking for another venue can you suggest anything apart from facebook and youtube?
--24/7 prayer chain You are needed to help us close out June. sign up today please for an hour, 1/2 hour/ 15 minutes;
--A Word - got a few started and done; but horrible month for June in writing;
--started new book - "What have I/You done?' made up of the questions asked in the bible;
--last Saturday of the month, June 30, prayer call with Dai Sup for sermonindex Conference; last Monady night of the month, June 25, prayer call with Edgar devoted to conference as
until,
dan
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