Greetings,
"And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept." II Kings 8:11
Are we not here children of God? Settle your countenance steadfastly upon them. Look into their eyes, their hearts, their souls and see how great the evil is within and bubbling out of their hearts. and weep!!
Elisha was being enquired of by the king of Syria. The man of God was enquired of, for the will of God. Do you see people coming to church today for that? I see them coming for entertainment and ease of conscience, but I do not see the coming for the will of God. His health was at risk, it was life and death that was upon his mind. And he would be healed and restored, yet, there was evil near. "and he knew not that evil was near" How many have fallen when they were unaware of what was getting ready to happen. And they were not prepared. My readings in Gurnall's 'Christian in complete Armour" warns, 'always have your whole armour at all times, for you know not when your adversary will come'. And the man of God is enquired of and God reveals who stands before him and what he will do in the days to come.
did any of us understand or see what was coming in our nation 30 years ago? Did we see that things would become so evil, that that which the Lord pronounced as abominations would be legalized, implemented and celebrated? The church is in an uproar over the NY state law of allowance of abortion up till delivery. Aghast that they applauded and celebrated in the murdering of babies. But did we not see? did we not fix our countenance upon them and know that evil is capable of doing anything and everything. A lost man is capable of doing any evil at any time for Satan owns them and directs them and controls them for his agenda.
The man of God gazed upon them as God was revealing to him inwardly what evil this man would do. He saw that he would butcher the children of Israel. He would rip up the women with child; he would slay the young and old, the woman and the children, he would be an agent for hell. Death and destruction are the two actions that reveal the work of Satan and hell. Any where that you see this know that Satan's activity is behind it. Now gaze upon our society:
--drugs; see how much death and destruction of minds, homes and society, and they continue to legalize it and promote it;
--alcohol; since it legalization in 1933, see how much death and destruction has been done;
--homosexuality & LGBT; see how much death from AIDS, suicides for their minds are evil affected and see the death and destruction upon a nation, upon homes, upon lives and upon our future;
--cancer; see the death and destruction;
--great evils of men in homicides, suicides, and murder-suicides; death and destruction;
Why do you not see these things? Is it because your so busy, you don't 'settle your countenance on the things of God and let Him reveal to you the things that are, and the things that shall be. Earlier this month another moment happened of this truth. Over the last several years, God has been doing this work in me of stirring my spirit when evil is coming. It is a process of learning for I do not understand it fully. But as this evil was revealed to Elisha, he gazed, he broke, he wept. God has stirred that an evil was coming earlier this month. It seemed to be terrorism. I sent out to prayer partners to pray towards this end. The next day headlines reported, 'Terrorists Arrested for buying a missile launcher and planning to attack White House." It was stopped and thwarted because God revealed, God's people prayed and wept and God was merciful.
Now Elisha revealed to this man what he would do and become. He denied it. But it came to pass. For he took the Word of God and used it for his own selfish and evil purposes and caused much death and destruction. Do you see it? Hitler -- roe vs. Wade & the Supreme Court -- politicians -- church (?) Why the church, because it has been revealed, but we would not respond rightly; our neglect is hell's advance of death and detruction.
The prophet wept. When and what was the last thing you wept over? At the close of this first month of the year, I shared that my 3 principals this year was - 1. holy; 2. broken and contrite & 3. weeping at every prayer meeting. I have not been faithful to this after looking back over 30 days. Does that mean one stops and quits and shoots for next year? Absolutely not. right here, right now, begin again. Brethren, the church needs to weep at the altars. After NY state votes, a lot of church leaders posted about running to the altars and praying for our nation on Sunday. Their mentality is one and done. Brethren, it must be every week, and greater if it is several times in a week. Our response does not meet the evil revealed.
"And he settled his countenance steadfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept."
EPIDEMICS:
1. Drugs & Alcohol;
2. Cancer; from the lists that I have praying over; 1 death; 1 completed radiation; 1 surgery; 1 got home after a year at Cincinnati children's hospital; I asked the receptionists down at Cumberland hospital how many they treated per day. And in our small rural area, she said 160 per day. I asked if it was rising. she said the last several months has seen a rise, but norm would be 150. Now within our area, surrounding, we have upwards toward high estimate of 200,000 people. I would estimate 2,000 with cancer. They estimate 1.7 million cancer cases per year; 600,000 deaths. They also say that it is on the decrease. And there are hopes of medical breakthrough for cure.
3. Great Evil; Suicides in headlines this month is off the charts. Schools have remained safe, DO NOT LET UP ON THIS IN PRAYER. Police officers still continue, no deaths, but several shootings. HOmicides still up. Quiet on murder-suicides, only a few, whereas we was seeing one every several days.
4. LGBT; Several advances as they continue with their evil agenda. church largely silent on it.
5. Children; with the approach of the Super Bowl, 4X increase in sex trafficking among children. 6. Natural Disasters;
Updates:
--bible readings - up through John; should finish in a few weeks, Lord allowing;
--The Activity of God - II Kings, up through chapter 9;
--A Word - few verses to finish on chapter 57, will be starting Isiah chapter 58;
--sermons from Sunday uploaded to youtube page; 2 weeks of cancelled services and I did not do any videos during that time;
Keyser church - "Power of the Lord" - Luke 8 & 9; Fox's Hollow - 'Went' - II Kings 4;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8eoVuXiyJE
--"Call to Prayer & church response" I did not send. After church pastors and leaders out cry over NY law, waiting to see response. but the super bow. is this week and they go back to their frolicking and neglect the battle for our lives is upon us. Their mentality is 'one and done', but it must be every week and several times during the week to prevail. We do not know what is at stake!
https://danbiser.blogspot.com/2019/01/call-to-prayer-response.html
Until,
dan
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