Saturday, April 10, 2010

A Call For Humility

How can Christians who profess Christ be so divided and in opposition to the prayer of Jesus in John 17? Please don’t miss this point! Christians, for the most part, are not only not standing on a foundation of unity with one another, but are also not fulfilling the Lord’s Prayer for unity. Some will miss and/or even oppose this point because the devil has planted a wrong understanding of unity in their minds. The devil is a defeated foe while at the same time he is a foe to be contended with. Never under estimate him.

How can we be so divided? One of the main reasons is that many if not most Christians tend to lean to mental understanding, either their personal understanding or the understanding of others that they have adopted as their own or a mixture thereof. The natural mind can be religious, but if left to its own can not discern and comprehend spiritual things. As concrete hardens, the minds of many Christians, especially those in the United States, are stubbornly locked into various mindsets concerning certain aspects of God and His Word. One of the things that confuses Christians about this and other things is that they know in their heart that Jesus is real and that they love Him and He loves them. They also know that certain parts of Scripture are clear in their minds, but what they have not fully comprehended is that in spite of all of this and more too they can still be leaning to their own understanding about the Lord and His Word in certain areas, even in key areas. Always remember that a little leaven leavens the whole lump.

The devil is subtle and deceptive. He causes Christians to buy into a little leaven and then works to enhance their pride and stubbornness about their beliefs. He deceives them into thinking that they are being staunch and dedicated defenders of the faith that will overcome him eventually, but in reality they are holding on to things that make place for the devil. Specifically they are holding on to things that sustain disunity rather than bringing unity in the body of Christ. We are to be a unified body, a unified army of the Lord as it were. One can put a thousand to flight and another one can put another thousand to flight, but the two together can put eight thousand more to flight. Pray for the spirit of wisdom and understanding; please do not miss this. I do not want to frighten you, but more than you can imagine is at stake.

Will you ask the Spirit of God to clear your minds and hearts of anything that is devilish leaven? Will you humble yourself before God? Ask His Spirit to reveal the full truth of 2 Chronicles 7:14 to you. It means that Christians, God’s people, are to humble themselves, pray and seek His face and turn from their wicked ways and then and only then will He heal their land-be it the United States or any other part of the earth.

Some of you are so captivated and absorbed by and with various end times teachings of prophecy that it is hard for you to hear or fully hear God speaking prophetically. I do not mean to offend you. But while you are trying to discern the times please do not miss what God is trying to say to you.

Will you hear and heed this call for humility and then pursue what follows in 2 Chronicles 7:14? God placed me in the wilderness several years ago. He has spoken several things to me that I have tried to pass on to others. One of those was concerning restoration, revival and awakening- three key words. He then spoke, among other things, that there would be godly restoration or devilish storms. Then a few years ago, I asked Him to do something for me, but not to do it until I was what I should be. I did not know what would be involved, but I know that the Lord God is working to fully form Christ within me. I desire above all else to spend eternity with God and to know Him intimately while I live on earth. I want to love God and to love you; I want to always be humble, broken and contrite. I want to minister God and His Word of truth, be it a pastoral Word or a prophetic Word, but I want it to always be ministered in love. There is much more that I could say, but if you have hearing ears you will hear.

I love you; I love the Church and I love the world. It is my desire to be so given to God that He can love the world through me. I have been deserted by some and others have been like John Mark, but I pray that like John Mark was returned to Paul that we will all work together to fulfill our Father’s will on this earth. May His kingdom come and His will be done.

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