Greetings,
"When the enemy shall come in like a flood; the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him." Isaiah 59:19
Within the last week, and especially within the last 72 hours, there has been a substantial increase in evil and death across our nation. This letter is appealing to you to face this surge of evil in prayer.
There are two things that you pray: 1. things you pray for; 2. things you pray against. God has told us numerous times in Scripture of 'asking', 'calling'; these are things that we are allowed to pray for. God has also revealed what He hates, what He is against; what is termed in the bible, 'antiChrist'. A church, a Christian is to set forth to know the mind and heart of God as He reveals these things from Scripture to our current society. And we are to pray see what is to be prayed for and what is to be prayed against
God's Mind - "Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus".
God's Heart - "And it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart."
God sees and knows, not only the works and deeds of men; He also knows their intent. And in our present plight we see the evil of men raging. For they are consumed with darkness and evil of hell, consumed with sin and self. And the Light of Christ from the church, from Christians, burns dimly. Thus the Word of God, briefly, rarely shared; the refusal of men to go to church to hear the Word; pulpits refusing to preach the Word; has created a void within the minds and hearts of men in our nation. And Satan has been ever so quick to fill that void with evil. The only answer to this evil, is the Light of Christ.
Time has revealed that there are surges of evil that come. They may lie dormant for a while, but at certain seasons they flourish and multiply. Out of these have come some of our most horrifying, cataclysmic, awe-striking moments of history. God knowing all things of past, present and future; sets His people to resist evil; to pray against the flood of evil. This is the standard that God raises up, found within the above verses of Isaiah 59. Failure of the church, the praying remnant gives place to evil raging and surging more. Success of the church to pray against these things that God reveals, causes hell and evil to retreat. We have seen these moments all within our last 20 years or so:
--1999 - Columbine school shooting; a shock to our nation and one of our first mass school shootings;
--2001 - 9/11, terrorism that once again shook our nation;
--2005 - Hurricane Katrina - most devastating hurricane to hit;
--2008 - financial crisis; hours within world wide collapse of economy;
--2012 - Sandy Hook; mass school shooting;
--2017 - Las Vegas mass shooting;
Now there are other numerous moments that have stunned and horrified us. And the response of the church is generally, "Pray for. . . .". This call to pray is 'after the fact'. But this is not the full will of God. For God sometimes reveals when surges of evil are upon us, or imminent. And in these moments before evil strikes and hits. God moves His people to pray His mind and His heart for victory, deliverance, salvation. "Deliver them from evil (Evil One)". This does not always have to be after the fact, but is before the moment.
The warning has been coming since last year that evil was imminent. In the fall of last year (2019), during prayer times the Lord was revealing that upon the horizon for 2020 there is much that is going to happen. And this is not simply the election in November. Threats of war, economy collapse, huge natural disasters, increase of death are all upon us. But even as we turned the page into this new year, at the close of our 100 hours of prayer, the Spirit is still speaking of that 'which is to come'. Evil is surging right now and I fear this is only the beginning without a faithful response from the praying remnant.
Within the last week, there has been a huge swell of death and killing. Other destructions and judgements are consistent of daily happening, such as drugs and abortions, and other life threatening remedial events.
You are being asked to be a part of 'the standard' against this flood of evil. Here is what is being asked of your:
1. Recognize the flood of evil upon us; What is it?
Surge of evil is found in the following:
--66 suicides per day (avg.);
--continued drug overdoses and death;
--mass shooting/homicides/murder-suicides; the rise within the last week is red flag warning;
--police officers again being killed; 3 within last week;
--natural disasters increase threats of areas;
--first school shooting death in TX last week;
These just mentioned above are the symptoms of the disease. Next is the cause of these symptoms.
2. Understand that these remedial judgements and their severity is due directly to the abominations of our nation and the church;
--recent prayer blog/email; sermon preached at Fox's Hollow yesterday regarding God's severe warning, "cause them to know their abominations" against God;
--continued laws, judicial actions, daily practices, increased perversions provoke wrath, anger and fury of God;
---failure of the church to condemn these things, compromise with these things provokes the anger and wrath of God against the church;
3. Right response is needed by church. For as the church goes, so goes the nation.
--fasting and prayer; secret closet and corporate times to confess, repent, plead and seek God;
--daily and hourly cries to God for help, and deliverance;
--faithful, steadfast, unmovable, loyal, before God on behalf of men, who will not pray for themselves;
Brethren, I am asking that we undertake this warfare for our Lord in a greater urgeny. Souls perish in this onslaught of evil and exit from this world, largely unreached for the Gospel, and enter their eternity of hell for ever and ever. The horrors of hell should move us, just as much as the glories of heaven raptures us. See the masses, see our nation, see our future, God's wrath has gone out against us and He moves us to be the standard that will cause Him for His Own Name's sake to bring the invitation of salvation to the nations.
It is my burden, as I have shared most recently with many of you, that God has laid on me the battle against minds and hearts given to the evil of suicides. I am still struggling with this and all that it means. But I am setting forth what I have gleaned thus far in the hopes that you will join me.
God has given us His grace and mercy to seek Him, to find Him, to call upon Him for the sake of turning away His wrath against us. "In wrath remember mercy" is constant in our prayer meetings. Continue in prayer, and come along side of us in prayer against this flood of evil. See the perishing of the lost into eternity. Know that this is not God's will nor way for men to perish, but that all would be saved. Pray for time, opportunity and Divine favor for these days.
We continue the call for Concerts of Prayer each month. But realize that so much more is needed in these days, day in and day out for a constant prayer offered up on behalf of this spiritual warfare. This is my effort to respond to the Spirit pressing sore on me to pray against this evil and these evil days. I have given you my heart of what I see and hear. I am asking you to help me and join me in this call for fervent prayer.
thank you,
Until.,
Dan
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