Greetings,
"I have long time holden My peace; I have been still, and refrained Myself; now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once."
"I will make waste. . . I will make rivers islands; I will dry up. . . "
"I will bring blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths. . . I will make darkness before them. . . These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them."
"Who gave Jacob for a spoil; and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, He against whom we have sinned?"
"Therefore He hath poured upon him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle
Isaiah 42:14 - 25
The Activity of God, filled with the "I will's of God" (Over 2000 "I will's of God" in the bible, a blog posts from earlier studies). These passages reveal God's will, directives and plans for men; regarding His people and regarding the wicked. But why is it hard for us to understand Gods will in these things? Why are we so pressed to embrace God's grace, but reject God's wrath? Do we know God? Do we know His ways and attributes? When we accept the grace and love of God; when we primarily focus on the positive and neglect and reject the opposite side of this, we come up with a false image of God. We come up with horrible theology. And this false god, we carry into our churches, worship services and into our prayer times.
Do we know God? Do we know God and His fullness in all these many attributes, activities and 'I will's'? do we know what He is doing right now? what He is allowing, causing and foretelling us is to come? Do we see the handwriting on the wall of our nation, and the state of the church? Cannot we read, see and know that He has seen, known, hears and regards our choices, ways, practices and doings. He has justly weighed us in the balances of whether we be pleasing to Him or displeasing to Him. He has regarded us in light of the Scripture, His law and blesses us or curses us, depending on our obedience vs. our disobedience. And this is weighed in two measures; as a nation we are weighed and as the church we are weighed.
Do we know God - Our nation; we've never been further from God, and in more desperate need of God. Yet, a lost, wicked perverse nation will not and does not seek Him. They do not know Him, nor that which He has done to previous empires, kingdoms, cities that have forgotten and forsaken Him and His ways. He judged His Own people, Israel; He destroyed Sodom; He removed Babylon; He toppled Rome, all because they descended from bad to worse, from sin to perversion and from folly to decadence. And every act of invitation, of grace that was extended from God to lost, wicked sinful men was rejected and refused. Thus, the same God that extended grace and mercy, extended wrath and justice. His anger and wrath met them in their sins and folly, even thought He was willing to forgive their sins and remove their folly. Do we know God! If He is rejected and refused, He rejects and refuses(reciprocal).
Do we know God - His church; Every means offered to His people has been extended from God to us. We have church history; we have His Word; we have His works and deeds; everything needed to reveal Who He is, what He has done, will do and is doing. Everything given that we might know our God and His fullness. Through His Spirit to abide in Him, glean from Him, learn of Him and adore Him. Yet, His Own people having neglected all these venues to know Him, have become a generation of deception, misguided knowledge and warped hellish theology and doctrine of Him. "Oh, that we may know Him" as He intended. Which generally reverts to one thing, 'be still and know that I am God'.
But yet you ask the normal church goer, and/or pastor- teacher today and they could not fill one 8 1/2 X 11 piece of paper of the Names, attributes, and works/deeds of God. They do not know Him. they do not know this God that they say they love, worship and pray to. How is that possible? Easy; they make little time for Him to reveal Himself in stillness, or in His Word. And because they do not know Him, they fill that knowledge in songs, teachings, preaching with their own thoughts of God and what they have heard some other man share. And what is the product of this - a diluted God, severely lop-sided in the positive features, but lacking in the whole of Who He has said He is and what He will do. We do not know God.
This is why holiness is forsaken and no longer pursued or emphasized by the church. This is why so many questions as to why things are happening. This is why the power of God is absent from the church house, we have forsaken Him ,and He has forsaken us.
What do we do? 'Return to Me, and I will return to you' (another I will). 'seek Me and ye shall find Me'; 'draw nigh to Me, and I will draw nigh to you'. And on and on it goes, with God's invitation to His people to be what He always intended for us to be -- at one with Him. And the realization, as with every interaction of God, time is an issue. Urgency should be upon the church for the perversions and decadence of our nation, but it is not. Why? Because we do not know God. The church should be fervent, for His hand has already gone out against us, yet we are not fervent or zealous in our approach to God for souls being swept into eternity. Because we do not know Him. The plight of our nation is solely due to the status of the church. 'For as the church goes, so goes the nation".
Concerts of prayer are called for and employed to embrace. This is to worship Who God is in prayer; this is to deal with our iniquities and transgressions that have separated us from Him; and to plead with Him for mercy and restraint in His wrath against us. but how long will you turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to our plight? time is up; another lull of His wrath is upon us a the close of this month and entering the new month. 'While it is today harden not yourselves; but call upon Him, seek Him, and HE will be found of you
we are watching the destruction and devouring of our nation future, homes and way of life. WE have allowed this by our casual worship and service to God; we have allowed this by compromising with the sins of our families and within our nation. But God is listening and watching for a man, a remnant that will with fervency and urgency implore Him, 'in wrath remember mercy'. Make the most of today brethren.
The hour is late, the need is great; pray so as to prevail!
PRAYER TARGETS:
EPIDEMICS
1. Drugs/Alcohol - death - destruction - devouring of lives, homes and society; seemingly no power to bring light to this darkness; to bring deliverance for these imprisoned;
2. Natural Disasters - world news mostly directed Chinese virus, quiet on disasters; earthquakes quiet; Taal volcano - no new updates;
3. LGBT - continued advancement, acceptance and compromising with all these perversions; God giving us over to reprobate minds and lives. Impacting children and next generation. Warnings from all sides coming that POLYAMORY is next flood of evil; definitions - multiple relationships, accepted by all parties involved; VA law still seeking to pass for states to enforce against churches that will contest perversions;
4. Children - continued reports/headlines of abuse - sexual & physical; sex slaves; abductions; rendering and removal of children from what was intending, leaving a legacy of next generation continuance of evil; predators & perversions seeking to be legalized;
5. Diseases - Chinese Virus impacting world; why they haven't termed it pandemic I' don't know. IMpact is great, but death rates are very low compared to other viruses. IMpact on US coming and happening even now. More deaths from our earlier flu, which was more deadly than this one.
Still disease is rampant upon our society - cancer; STD's; etc. Physical and knowing that underneath is spiritual battle ground.
6. Great Evil - mass shooting at work place in Wisconsin - 6 dead, murder-suicide; Suicides are set to surpass 4000 for year tomorrow; Murder-suicides are at 83; well over 1 per day; 9 police officers killed, 44 wounded;
The battle with this in the minds and hearts of men; preventive prayers; However, cause of this is hand of God gone out against us to raise such evil that we have never known before. Herein our root cause is our sin and failure before the Lord as a nation and as the church.
UPDATES:
--bible readings - up through I Corinthians - T-11 days; word study - 'rise';
--The Activity of God - up through Isaiah 43;
--A Word - Isaiah 62:9 started; only 7 started and 3 finished for this month; 25% horrible! got to do better on this!
--sermons are live streamed from my facebook; latest glitch and hindrance is that I am unable to download to my computer and upload to my youtube page. Written and reached out for help; not a word.
--Concert of Prayer - fast is March 3, 1st tuesday of month; hour corporate prayer is March 1 for sunday School hour at Fox's Hollow; and March 7 Saturday night prayer time at Fox's Hollow. refused and rejected by SBC states only a few churches in WV participating.
Until,
Dan
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