WOE - prayer email April 28

Greetings,
"Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!  She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God."   Zephaniah 3:1 - 2
"Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:  And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God. . . "  Joel 2:12 - 13

"WOE", a word that is missing today from the church and from the prayer meetings.   I would venture to say, that most will never utter it, nor give regard to it.  The very reality of our last 20 years as the church and the nation should cause us to speak it, 'woe unto us'.   Even in the midst of these times, the hurry to get back, to restore our wealth and ease, to get back to our selfish lifestyles, is revealing that we have not understood just how severe our plight is.   We are in trouble, serious trouble, that cannot simply be undone because we are more online with brothers in Christ; or more prayer times being mentioned.   Have we done what God requires?   Do we even know what God requires? 

We are given clear, precise, directives from the Lord on
1.  what is happening?
2.  why it is happening?
3.  what are we to do?

The Scriptures are clear among our nation -- deal with the sin!  Make the wrongs right!   The instruction is a call and command, "turn to Me with your whole being; with weeping and mourning".   God has promised if you turn to Me, I will turn to you.   Do not continue in what got us here - our sins!   That is the sins of the nation and the sins of the church!   And yet, among the voices speaking for the church today, I don't hear the Word of the Lord; I hear the words of men speaking for self rather than speaking for the One Who called them to serve Him.   Without speaking the cause of all this, the effects will worsen.  And I will lament in tears and speak it, 'woe unto us'.   

To the question of what is causing this historic moment, to the church leaders and prayer leaders across North America; they are silent.   They are only seeking to ease men's hearts and minds amongst the times; rather than obey the word of the Lord.  This is not good for our future.  It would be better to not speak than to speak and give them false hope.   The lop-sided presentation of Who God is, is only pointing to what men can get out of God; rather than what God intended for His people.    The fact that this is happening, is a "woe" upon us.   The absence of knowing God, and knowing the Word of God.   Where is the 'thus saith the Lord'?   And "woe" to the ear that refuses to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church today.

We are being judged.   God is orchestrating the last days and times.   The physical things of natural disasters, diseases, plagues upon men and the nations is just one part.   The worse part is that God is getting ready to usher forth for the spiritual and mental part 'a strong delusion', 'a great falling away'.   Where so many are touting a world wide revival, a great awakening, I fear they are preparing themselves to believe a false deception.   Consider for a moment the imbalance of this concept. 
--we are so set for returning to our ways;
--we have created a false regeneration/salvation experience, based upon 'believeism' and 'decisionism';   this is void of repentance, confession of known sins and death to self and full surrender to the Lord;
--we base most in the church upon humanism and pragmatism;  all of which is self and "I";  rather than the absolute necessity of the Holy Ghost;
--we don't know the Word; so easily persuaded by those that hatchet the Word of God to fit their movement, theology and solutions. 

Woe to the people of God for not recognizing the times.   Woe greater for missing the moment that God gave us this month of April to renew our vows and consecration to Him.   And woe worse yet, for what is about to happen.   Because we missed God's mercy moment of invitation, He will come with worse vengeance upon our nation and the church.   I fear for the days to come, for how horrible it will look and be.   What might that be?  Warfare - economy collapse - food shortage - worse plague conditions - I don't know.  I just know that we have not done what God has required.   And there is a price to pray for that. 

Is there HOPE??   Always, for the Lord is gracious, long-suffering; and 'who knoweth if He will turn and repent and leave a blessing behind Him?"    Yet His response is ordained to be a direct answer to our response.  There is much hope for the National Day of Prayer to see a labor that prevails.  Now it should be a day not just of prayer; but of fasting, weeping and mourning.  A day given to the cause of our plight, not just a day to ease of our hardships.    And it should be a full day given to the Lord.   Not the days gone by where it is not a day of prayer, but an hour of prayer.  and most of the time not even that.   It must be the 'Woe' of our day. 

There was a comment regarding the Solemn Assembly for September.   'If we don't prevail in September, there's no hope.  this is our last chance.'    This is an urgent statement.  We are out of time; we are greatly in need of God.  And the ways of men's religion to get to God, or get out of God what they want, will not work this time.   It must be God's way, God's Word and God's will.   To finish the task is our priority; and we cannot do that in our own strength. 

The hour is late, the need is great; pray so as to prevail. 

PRAYER TARGETS:
EPIDEMICS:
1.  Drugs & Alcohol -  overdoses, deaths, abuse, continue; 

2.  LGBT - they are bent on subverting their abomination to the next generation; continue to push their agenda; 

3.  Natural Disasters - tornados/hail have been frequent for this spring season;  earthquakes are at record lows, into the 60's;   looking for a major outbreak and 7.0 and/or 8.0 soon;

4.  Children - neglect, abuse, raised without knowledge of God;

5.  Plagues - corona virus - approach 1/4 of million deaths;  over 55,000 deaths in US;

6.  Great Evil - mass shootings (4 or more shot and/or killed) 3x the amount over the last week;   murder-suicides are horrific and set to top 200 for this year;  suicides and homicides continue to fill the land and defile the land with blood;  minds and hearts are evil affected causing this - Absence of God;

UPDATES:
--bible readings, just finished Joshua, into Judges;
--word study - all the words that begin with "R";
--The Activity of God - Jeremiah;  up through chapter 6;
--A Word - Isaiah 63;  one more verse to start, verse 19 and then go back and complete verses started but not complete;  not quite 1/2 are started & finished;
--continued live stream for churches on Sunday; Monday night bible study; prayer times Thursday & Saturday;

Until,
dan

Started:  April 28, 2020

Continued:  4/29;

Finished: