My heart jumped in my chest when I learned Roe vs. Wade was overturned. I was overjoyed, as this is something I prayed for. I prayed it would lead this country to a great revival, God willing. And then I started crying because of all the children who never had a chance. And I also realize there will be backlash, both spiritually and physically. Homes and businesses will be torched. People will be brutalized, perhaps even killed. Because that is the spiritual darkness that is out there. Imagine being irate about the ability to not be able to kill your unborn child legally. I'm sure people will find a way if they want to. I think we should still be on guard and pray even more fervently that this will not in any way be used against God's people and the future of this nation and its institutions. Amen.
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As this article relates, it is all out war against Christians from the big tech sector. One might think this is fake news or a mistake on the part of Google. It is not. This is real. This is happening. And for no other reason than God is letting it happen. Christians — especially in America — have grown complacent and are unaccustomed to persecution. This is only the beginning. I am in prayer many times a day trying to push back on the inevitable collapse of western civilization (not an overstatement). Please join me. Pray for your country. Pray for your leaders. Pray for those in authority over you in your jobs, city, state, etc. Whatever God puts on your heart, pray about.
It's also important to clean up your life. Get right with God. Get all the sin out of your life. Get close to God. Regardless of what happens, you'll be better off. And, it just might be the thing that breaks the devil's back. The effective and fervent prayers of a righteous (right with God) man (or woman) avails much. Amen. Thank you for reading. And God bless. Right now, a supposed prophecy is spreading through Christian circles about a coming revival. As much as anyone, I would love to see a revival. But the prophecy I heard was a warning. Two revivals are foretold — one false and one real. Beware the false revival.
If you can get ahold of War on the Saints by Jessie Penn-Lewis (the full version, not the gutted one), what you find documented inside is the Welsh Revival. All revivals that come from God carry the same markers, which are those in Mark 16:17-18: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." If you come across what people are calling a revival and it does not bear those markers, it is not from God. It may be a counterfeit. I am persuaded that much of the Charismatic Christian church is meddling in some ungodly stuff. The messages are feel-good tripe, psychological nonsense, arrogant, tired old prosperity crap, and little else. They divert the energy of the people — many of them good, well-meaning Christians — into things the Bible never said to do and, in fact, said to stay away from. But, mostly, I thought they were harmless. Not so anymore. It appears the devil is trying to bring about a false revival in those pseudo-Christian churches. Kanye West's teachings as a pastor (or whatever he calls himself) are an abomination. I won't even get into that. He's a mind-controlled slave who received a message from God after his last programming session, so that was implanted in him. I wonder how many supposed Christian leaders are programmed to bring about a false revival. Stay tuned. Many of these false teachers will speak to God in a manner that would have gotten me slapped as a child if I had spoken to my parents that way. They speak to God as if He is some sort of blessing dispensary, an errand boy, or a churlish old man. Anyone who has spent any time with God would never, ever talk to Him that way, especially in front of a congregation eager to learn about the Living God. What arrogance! You don't speak to the Creator of the universe like that. You clearly do not know your place in creation. A pastor according to God's heart would lead by example, and that example includes humility. Many times I've been embarrassed by a preacher who spoke about God in the wrong way and walked away shaking my head. Though I don't want to speak negatively of God's anointed, it is clear these men wouldn't know God from a hole in the ground. They are in complete and utter error. Perhaps they are part of the false revival. The Bible has much to say about why we have false teachers; their job is to separate the fair-weather Christians from the rest, to divide the true soldiers from those who would abandon their posts. Their job is to lead many astray because of the hardness of their hearts. God gives His people, at times, a strong delusion. But, mostly, what is in our hearts is what leads us astray. We gather to ourselves preachers who preach the way we want them to preach because we have itchy ears. We cannot stomach what a real preacher of God has to say because it is hard and it often requires repentance! So that's a reason why we have so many false teachers right now. But that's part of God's plan. His math is better than ours. He multiplies by dividing and adds by subtracting. In our lives, God will often force or engineer a crisis. Sometimes it is a test. Sometimes it is designed to bring about a necessary change. From personal experience, I can say this is often not fun at all. But it serves a purpose. It drives us to Christ and makes us more impervious to the world and satan's lies. God has many ways to drive us to Him. It is safe to say the world is in crisis right now. What will the church do? To take it a step further, it appears many Christians are locked into apostate churches, churches which aren't even close to doing the will of God. They are a part (or will be a part) of the Great Whore of Babylon and must come out from among her and be separate. The picture we have of Christ's church is in the Song of Solomon, and the heart of the church is right before God. This apostate church is a perversion of Christianity, a whore, if you will, spiritually. She takes everything in. She never says no. Do we see that in Christian churches today? Of course. She doesn't look that much different from the world at all, and her congregants the same. While it may seem I'm simply bashing fellow Christians, that is not my intention. I want to correct them, much as I correct my son (in love) when he does wrong. I realize my opinion doesn't matter to these churchgoers, but something has to be said — by someone, anyone — about the current state of affairs. By doing so, I free myself of God's judgement. If I see someone in danger and don't say anything, their blood is on my hands. I'm certainly not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, and I have long prayed for someone to come and correct and teach me. It has just been me and my Bible for years. If we are looking for a revival, it has to follow God's template, which we see in War on the Saints. If you get the unmolested version of the book, you will find the things that happened in the Welsh Revival were the same as what happened when Jesus ministered to people. They believed on Him, they were healed, and demons were thrown out. The truncated versions of the book take out deliverance from demons and other "problematic" instances. Problematic for the devil, that is. In short, lives were changed for the better. Those markers tell us when we've found the real-deal revival and not the fake, soulish stuff the devil offers. The devil's version feels good, but it doesn't leave the congregants changed. It is important we make the distinction between what is real and false as believers, or, as the Bible says, to try the spirits whether they be of God because there exist many deceiving spirits in churches. Remember, revival is not possible without repentance. If a church is preaching repentance, they are on the right track. Repentance and sin should be talked about in a church seeking revival. No church does everything perfectly, but they should be doctrinally sound. Which leads me to something personal. Lately, I felt the urge in my spirit to attend church again. This is a big decision for me, as it has been many years since I've attended. I watched a Zoom session of a church I used to attend about 25 years ago last Sunday and was deeply edified. I missed it, but I'm also deeply dissatisfied with many churches. Still, I feel God is telling me I should attend a church. More prayer is needed. If any of this doesn't seem right, I ask that you pray about it, of course. If you feel I am in error, send me a message or pray for me. As always, thank you for reading, and God bless. |
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