Greetings,
"Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit." Isaiah 65:14
What a contrast! The Lord's servants vs. those that are not His servants'. This should hold us in meditation on this contrast. Too many will simply focus on the first part for the 'singing out of joy of heart'. But God is always contrast - light & darkness; above/beneath; within/without; Alpha/Omega. We choose what we want, rather than what He has revealed about Himself and His ways. And herein is His ways. To his children, we have this blessing and we rejoice in this. But many will stop there, for they do not want to deal with the next revelation. Many have talked and shared about singing and joy of heart. But not many speak on the wicked and what they experience and shall experience.
Contrast: in heaven there will be no sorrow or vexation and there will be that abundant joy that only comes in Christ; but in hell there is weeping,wailing and gnashing of teeth, for there is no joy there. Cries and howls shall fill eternity, oh, woe is that place that too many of humanity is going therein! Should this not stir His church up to fight for the salvation of souls? Should we not be filled in our minds and hearts with the pangs of hell to stir ourselves up to be about our Lord's business. These are things to fill our thoughts and meditations with and to fill our prayer times with such things.
some will say, such thoughts will rob me of that joy in my heart. How can one think upon the mercy and grace of God, to deliver such as I, 'the chief of sinners'; and ever lose my singing from the joy in my heart? Too many mercies, to much amazing grace, to many testimonies of His saving power to erode or vanquish joy in our hearts. This is the balance of contrast, never lop-sided; never one or the other; but two halves that make whole -- just as God has declared of Himself. Why is this so hard to maintain and understand among the body of Christ?
Now allow me the pointed message for our day in this contrast. . . and what a contrast it is for our nation. A nation eroding, filled with desolation and destruction and nothing on the horizon for hope, except God. For a wicked, evil nation filled with every abomination that God hates, and all the while expecting all of God's love. "It don't work that way". For to do the things that God hates, is to invoke His wrath and anger, not His love. And to receive His love is to do the things that He delights in and to keep HIs commandments. 'If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.' But it seems the church and the nation have it in reverse, they expect God to favor them, when they have done things that are ill-favoured towards Him.
Note the cries of sorrow from the hearts and the howls for vexation of spirit all across our land today. In the cities, in the homes, on the streets, and in the hearts and minds of men. They are evil affected; 'given over to reprobate minds'. And the absence of God is the reason of it all. Having made an active choice to remove God, to forget God,now reap what you sow. All the EPIDEMICS, the corona virus, the shootings, the riots all happening and hear and see the cries and the howls of the wicked. Where is the cry of the church? Why is it only a cry of remove us from this tragedy Lord? Why is it not a cry of absolute need for God to intervene? to confess our gross abominations with cries and hows for how far we have fallen? Because its still about us - humanism, pride, self, is still god in the church.
I warned that we failed over the last 2 months to make the wrongs right. No advance during these days by church and prayer leaders to combat the sins & abominations that caused all this. And that God is not done judging us; now the riots come upon us. An upheaval of our nation, in our cities over the issues that have never been dealt with, simply swept under a rug. Now is God done? Absolutely, not. Get ready in June for the next wave of judgements. It may be greater anarchy, natural disasters, it may be another round of virus, it may be economic crisis; but until we keep bringing the issues, the fruits of these deeds, rather than the seeds that planted all these judgements, I fear nothing will ever be fixed.
And I hear whispers, 'don't pray for this people any more'. . .
PRAYER TARGETS:
EPIDEMICS -
1. Drugs/Alcohol - continued deaths, damage and destruction of homes, lives and society; pray for Deliverer to deliver and destroy this evil on men and our society;
2. Natural Disasters - still no 7 or 8 earthquake; continued due for one or both; was watching Japan region; tropical storms already hitting US; if newest storm is named, first time since 1951 that 3 storms named before season begins;
3. LGBT - continued fight and advancement in society, homes and minds and hearts of men to accept abomination;
4. Children - cases of abuse down, as out of school and no one to report or treat abuse at homes; dangerous calamity of being in homes with no safety, supervision or support;
5. Plagues - corona virus - world deaths over 350,000; US over 100,000; continues; new trends in this virus impacting children; unforeseen what shall be with this and other rounds; Dengue fever is moving world wide as much as corona; cancers, other afflictions;
6. Great Evil - homicides/suicides/murder-suicides - numbers are escalating; for May, murder-suicides may for the first time double in a month. for a long time it was several per month; then 1 per day, and for a long time it held at 1 and 1/2 per day;
All of these 6 EPIDEMICS that I have pointed out are judgements against our nation, homes and hearts. due to the failure of the church to respond to these judgements, we are closer to final judgement as a nation. I believe we are actually at another cross roads of revival or judgement, or somehow one in the same. But no doubt, our days of Josiah shall be short lived before God's wrath is poured out on us and the nations to finish end times. It's that close folks!
UPDATES:
--bible reading - up through Esther;
--The Activity of God - up through Jeremiah 29;
--a Word - much done this last month; probably one of my greatest months to get stuff done; up through Isaiah 65:14; 8 of these 14 versres are done; finished chapters 63 - and 64; 1/4 of chapter 62 done; wanting to keep pace with finishing chapter 65, nothing left undone; and finish chapter 59 - 62 of unfinished verses, under 50 to go; as I gear towards finishing Isaiah;
--Hour of Prayer - over these last two months, I have developed an hour of prayer on Thursday and Saturday nights; giving verses, prayer targets and helps to pray for an hour in our secret closets;
--sermons continue to live stream and upload to youtube page;
Until,
dan
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