Greetings,
"And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath He brought all this evil upon them." II Chronicles 7:22
the consistency of God's nature, ways and attributes are consistent. Yea, one of the ost memorizing of His attributes is immutable. 'He changes not'; '"the same yesterday, today and forever' is immutable. Too many want to separate the God of the Old Testament and God of the New Testament; but He is One in the same. So when I read the last phrase of this verse, 'He (God) brought all this evil upon them" because they had forsaken Him, I am fully aware that He can/will/may do the same today to a nation, His church, a family or an individual.
We are in a time of great evil coming upon us in our nation. Now it is in all the world, but we se our nation, blessed beyond all others; great outpouring of God's favor, great preachers, Great Awakenings, ability to do much for the kingdom. Yet, all the while, in these last decades; in my lifetime, great evil has come to our cities, homes, schools, and streets; within the very minds and hearts of men great evil has come.
George Foreman, boxing champion of days gone by, over this past weekend, his 42 year old daughter committed suicide. In the first 2 1/2 months of this year, recognized celebrities are committing suicide in fashion with military and society. Young people, military and police officers are committing suicide 3X faster than years gone by. This is a great evil that has come upon us.
Now couple this with the drug and alcohol deaths and you have 150,000 deaths per year. A stat that will continue and I fear in great fashion.
In light of these great evils coming upon us, the church has identified a standard of 'praying after the great evil'. When a tragedy, death, calamity unfolds, you see it splashed on social media, 'Pray for . . . ". But what some have learned that there is the means to pray preventive prayers before the tragedy. Recently the Lord's Spirit moved to pray for a great evil was getting ready to unfold. Contact was made to prayer partners and cries and prayers were offered up for deliverance. The next day, the news revealed of the Coast Guard officer who had a hit list and was ready to kill as many as he could. Great evil was prevented. Time and time again this truth is being worked out, a much better resolve to pray than praying after the great evil.
We must begin to see the two fold ways that are upon us. The sin mentioned in this verse is that they had forsaken the Lord and all His ways. This is what ushers in the great evil upon them. The confession, repentance and restoration must be done by the church to cause this to cease. But because there is not a moment as such, greater evils have come upon us. God sends the great evil; or God allows Satan to cause the great evil. This is a fine line; hard to be distinguished, but it is there never the less. Understanding that the reason is the same, 'you have forsaken Me.'
The crisis hour is upon us because greater evils have been done by man; and God will respond with greater evils upon our nation. We now have continued advancement of the LGBT agenda in BOE, city councils, county commissioners and churches. We have laws legalizing infanticide and assisted suicide to the elderly. What an escalation in my lifetime is this of death and destruction!
Note the assaults of Satan in a few 'D" words - death; destruction; distraction and
All these are revealing that Satan is being allowed to bring great evil upon a nation, church, families and person(s). Our great warfare is to engage this spiritual warfare and 'war a good warfare'.
PRAYER TARGETS:
--Venezuela - major crisis for humanitarian needs as well as the spiritual warfare here; again death and destruction;
--North Korea talks have apparently broken down; the opportunity for oppression and freedom for Gospel and light in this darkness has been denied; prayers to open it up;
--10/40 window - churches under great assault but leading to greater response;
--Brazil - school shooting; Nigeria school collapses, 100's buried;
--EPIDEMICS;
UPDATES:
--since my last prayer blog I have started through bible readings again; up through end of Exodus;
--I have also began to tack some of my word/phrase studies that have spoke volumes to me in my prayer times and sermons and teacings; You can find these on my blog
1. "What hast Thou Done";
2. "Hear & See, H&S"
3. "Call & Answer, C&A"
--A Word blog - still working to finish all 14 verses in Isaiah chapter 58; 1/2 done; all verses started;
--sermons on youtube;
This sermon from Keyser church is the very place we are at for our day -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYHQaOaYl6Q
Until,
dan
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