Prophecy will not succeed until the work of intercession is done thru identificational repentance (IR). Prophecy belongs in intervention after incarnation and intercession. Prophecy brings the future into today. To do this the past has to be propitiated thru intercession. Enthusiasts for transformation may run ahead of reality without adequate intercession, confession & IR. Protagonists for repentance may keep old wounds resurfaced all the time. We need to know when the past is reconciled and the kairos time comes to move forward with dhavar word revealed & rhema word heard. With each gathering too, the participants have to clear their past – indictment against the other race, grudges, grievances, bitterness, court cases, all have to be cleared, if we are to move into the future. Sin of my race has to be confessed and pardon sought with brutal honesty. This is what does not happen in most reconciliation forums. We pussyfoot the sin of our race. So both races agree to play acting. Conference ends with no forward movement. For a nation’s healing, national level leaders have to do this. This needs political, spiritual, professional & business leaders at national level, if the Recon confab is to have national jurisdiction. There is a shallow jubilation in the Church with much criticism of politicians while real issues, bruises and wounds remain unaddressed. We must not be Job’s comforters to our nation.
It is not only for national issues that this is pertinent. A correct perspective is needed for our most needling personal issues. Many itinerant prophets, who visit assemblies, and others with a gift of prophecy, and sometimes those who are imitating the gift, will give far reaching prophecies without attending on the Marah ponds that have detained and deterred God’s purpose in the recipient of prophecy. They hang on to prophecy and look for more prophecy without attending on the inside. Often those who are attracted to prophecy are prophetic too. They try to move into the foreseen future without resolving their past issues, fatherhood fractures & grudges. The result is gradual disappointment with God who is not doing the needful. The needful to be done is in our hands. We need to get past our past. This is a call to return from captivity. Ps 126:6-9. Do not be a prisoner of your past – but be a prisoner of the hope God has for you. Yahweh yatsaw will fetch you from the pit & bondage and send you forth into the God promised land. Exod 20:1-4.
Bad Mouthing & Judgement
When we are disappointed we blame politicians, pastors and anyone lese in authority. A little Shylock residing in me exacts the pound of flesh from those who deserve just deserts according to my verdict – especially when they slight me. As a result, Church badmouths herself. We do the work of the accuser. We cross from light to darkness when we open our mouth to diminish our brother or sister. Satan has recruited us for his purpose. Christians unwittingly release warfare against themselves and wonder why trouble hit them. This happens when we fight others with our prayers.
We have a sense of right & wrong because the Lord gave us a regenerate heart. We feel righteous thru Jesus’ blood. Then we use that sense of justice to condemn errors as we see in our brother or sister. Surely Christ is grieved that we do this to another who also is under His blood. Surely He will rebuke us for condemning whom His blood has cleansed. Some believers feel good & self righteous when they can pick a hole in another or in a church program. This comes from condemnation and harsh judgement one received in childhood. Christ has freely promoted us. We do not have to demote anyone else to feel higher.
When we fear God we’ll be quick to judge ourselves and slow to opine on others. The flip side of this is that when we move from righting wrong to writing wrongs, we expose our errors to judgement rather than clemency. That’s how divine law works. Mercy to those who show mercy. Vengeance to those who invoke justice. Satan also gets hold of our wrongs and implements the wages of sin that our errors deserve. When we drag our brother’s sin from under Jesus’ blood cover into the open by bad mouthing we expose our own sin for wages. We are to confess our brother’s sin or the politician’s sin only to God and forgive him. But Christians freely speak of other people’s sins. The same happens with the sin of the other race or other person’s child. We hide the sin of our race or our child’s and expose the sin of the other. We violate the simple dictate of the Lord’s prayer, “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us”. When we have retold another’s sin, be assured we have not forgiven but indicted. The same will be given back to us, as we reap what we sow. Lk 6:38. We reap appreciation if we sow appreciation. We shall reap depreciation when we sow depreciation. When we bear up, others will bear us up. When we build up with words, others will build us up. When we break down others with our words, the same will be our return.
Why would we badmouth our brother or the Lord’s work? One reason is our disappointment that the Lord failed us. Such thoughts subliminally dwell in us. It’s under the surface.
Truth & Lies
Lies Float All Around. Politicians promise & do not deliver. Mechanics do shabby jobs. Doctors prescribe unnecessary drugs. We believe lies about the other race and find it hard to accept the truth about the misdeeds of our own race. We castigate politicians that they hide the truth and do not deliver. What about Christians who daily hide the most important truth that Jesus Saves and without Him our loved ones, friends and colleagues go to a lost eternity – which has a bad name, Hell. How much we hide the sin of our race – justifying and excusing while indicting and accusing the other race? When we hide the truth, how do we expect others to be true? How can unregenerate people be truthful? Our criticisms only point the finger to us – that we have failed to witness. Besides receiving new life from Christ, do we have any basis for others to be truthful? To say & do truth? Do we also make it out that even without Christ we loved the truth?
False Altars
We hear passionate warfare prayers against false altars asking God to bring them down while we have not brought one soul to Christ and we keep silent with our friends who go to such altars. False altars will come down when we become a cross incarnate – the altar people need to see and believe. No amount of prophecy, prayer marches, prophetic actions can bring false altars down, unless we preach the Gospel to everyone – one at a time. Do not curse the darkness, light a candle of gospel witness everyday. A believer asked prayer from a Christian doctor about cholesterol being high. The Dr said, “brother, this kind goeth not but by fasting & prayer!”.
My Skill Set & My Task
God has placed in my life the skill set I need to fulfill His call. When He calls us beyond the divine endowment, He will supernaturally interact with us. For this the leading of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential. Filled with the Holy Spirit, Led by the Spirit, in the Power of the Spirit – is Jesus Style ministry. Lk 4:1,2, 14.
It’s true that when I walk in the light those whom I disciple will walk in the light. Since much is at stake, we who disciple have to walk in an ever increasing brightness of the Saviour’s nearness, so that those who emulate us, will enter their inheritance. Each Christian will have to hold their ground for God, or else, antichrist will overrun your land. That will not be caused by the folly of your politicians, but by the lethargy of the Christians. In Israel ‘s 1948 war of independence, each kibbutzim held against the invading Arab cohorts.
Offence, Deception & Abounding Iniquity
Offence, Deception & abounding iniquity will trap many Christians into the great apostasia of the endtimes.
Mat 24:10 And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.
Mat 24:10 “At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.
Mat 24:11 “Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.
Mat 24:12 “Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.
Are you the offended type ? Offended types are quite zealous for truth. They only cannot see the truth about themselves. They see the moat in the brother’s eye very well. Do not harbour grudges. Confess and dissolve. Leave vengeance to God. If not you will talk like God. The deceivable ones will be those who have an affinity for the prophetic. They tend to like sound more than substance. They get isolated in their excellent revelation. They say, “I heard from God”. Do not isolate yourself from assembling together. Both these groups are religious. The third category of Christian that falls away is more carnal . They may be very likeable. But they also love the world in the name of “love”. They may not be offended. They may not be deceived. Increasingly they trade love for lust. Loving the wife of our youth and the Church is an antidote for this.
Marriage Exalts A Nation
Marriage is an institution of God. Even when unbelievers marry they honour God’s covenant. In every culture and religion there are human & demonic factors to denigrate marital covenant as given by God. In Asian cultures mother will fight to the death to keep her son. Usually the woman will be demeaned in rural families. On the contrary in the West and in urban cultures of the East, wife arrogates to herself authority violating covenant. Cast & dowry will diminish marriage. Religious ritual will bind marriage with demonic vows where husband & wife do not belong to each other but to those divisive vows. Polygamy & polyandry work against marriage.
Marriage exalts a nation & divorce puts it down .
These necessitated the church to strongly restore marriage
• Marriage unit is God’s governmental unit for holding society . Christian marriage advances God’s kingdom as it establishes God’s next governmental unit. God shepherds the world through the Christian’s marriage. In Christian marriage God exercise His rod & staff over the nation. When God’s order is violated in marriage by wife’s non submission or husband’s negligence & abdication, satanic warfare against life increases. Abdication by husband and arrogation by wife works against God’s government achieved through marital harmony
• One important aspect of marriage is for the husband to rule the wife as kinsman redeemer to rectify the sin of the Garden of Eden where Eve usurped. 1 Tim 2:15,16. Jezebel works to emasculate man even after marriage. Every circumstance that works against good governance of home & family becomes a door for satanic entry. Intrusion may come from post graduate study, work, sports, TV, interference by relatives. Third party, partying, socializing, boss, bachelor habits, or any number of other things.
• Marriage & progeny are needed to pass on generational succession. Baton is passed on to the next generation. Do not delay child bearing. Satan attempts to run into every generation generational curses of the families. You must recognize swiftly when what diminished your parent’s house becomes operative in your own life.
• In marriage two can strongly agree together to shut hades & open heaven. If two disagree heaven shuts & hades opens. Your provision for family must be safeguarded and fought for. Many factors will work against family finances. Do not make work your god. The pressure of work will make husband to neglect his spiritual office. Sickness will come into the house. Mother having to work will also weaken the family boundary. Also pray strongly that you will have daily work & daily bread. In these days of global economic tyranny, prayer is needed for secure your family income. To keep your company of Government from falling a prey to global Nephilim. Gen 6:1-4.
• Procreation is God’s priority for marriage. Marriage for economic convenience will soon end up in divorce. Make your children your spiritual armour. Ps 127. Train them as spiritual arrows who fight the enemy at the gate. God can perfect warfare praise from the mouth of babes. Ps 8:4. Matt 21:16. Parents please do not try to run your races thru children’s achievements. Instead train them up as spiritual warriors who help you prepare in the day of battle. Psa 147:13 For He has made the bars of your gates strong; He has blessed your sons within you. Gen 22:17, 24:60,
• Multiply & subdue is Genesis mandate . Multiplying breeds parentage & sonship. Trying to subdue without begetting produces Pharaoh. Spiritual warfare & task will produce a Pharaonic order in the Church.
• Marriage defies extremes of feminism. It thwarts all forms of sexual deviation – homosexualsim, lesbianism, adultery. Marriage heals feminine usurpation
• Marriage provides for husband to be kinsman redeemer and be responsible. “She shall be saved in childbearing”. 1 Tim 2:15,16. Marriage provides for woman to be submissive and dislodge satanic authority from Eden . Marriage heals male abdication
• Suppressing children for a long time until convenient is an insult to God’s primary purpose for life for mankind. Beget after your kind in God’s image. Every child is confirmation of God’s miraculous & loving providence for a world that has rejected him. Increasing barrenness could be a sign that God is folding up earth project. Time is shortened. Just like the way the human genome is showing increasing entropy. Gene mutation and cancer are increasing.
• Nation must be seeded with children & vitality
• Christian percentage must increase
• Abortion is murder. From day one the zygote (fertilized ovum) is a new person under God. The new person is God’s property.
Tsunami & Judgement of God
Psa 58:11 And man shall say, Truly, there is a reward for the righteous; truly, there is a God judging in the earth.
Isa 26:9-10 With my soul I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. (10) Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he will deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.
2Co 5:11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. But we are revealed to God, and I trust also that we are revealed in your consciences.
When we fear God we persuade friends, relatives & contacts to turn to the Lord. We do not witness simply because we do not fear Him. We only present God if people have a need and ask us. Great Commission sank. Great permission of the felt need substituted as the false gospel. It is time to set this heresy aright.
The Gospel of unending grace of long suffering God preached so long, removed an urgent necessity for personal witness, namely the fear of the Lord. So we preached a felt need gospel of a Granddad who dotingly provides every whimper of the consumerist claimant.
“Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society’s own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.” – A.W. Tozer
Now for the past five months we have had one disaster after another, making worldwide headlines. Earth is aging. Tectonic plates are creaking. Earthquakes are increasing as prophesied. Oceans are roaring. Lk 21:25,26. Tsunami frequency is increasing. This is neither sad or bad but true news. In Noah’s day, global phenomena occurred. We are back in Noah’s day, we know, not only because of the moral pollution & violence, but also because of the scale of natural disasters. Both Asian tsunami & yesterday’s Japanese tsunami jerked the globe and caused a shift in earth axis. Main island of Japn has shifted 8 feet from its location.
God is awakening the fear of the Lord. That is the message of the natural disasters. At least these must tell us that witnessing to Christ is an urgent task.