Greetings in Jesus' Name dear Saints by Whose BLood we are Saved.AMEN.
bro Robert said:
some time ago i was at a gathering where there was a time to worship our Lord. during it all our Lord shared some things with me which made me look upon myself and what was going on around me. i believe our Lord looks into the intents of our hearts and so i don't think that it is necessarily always a question of singing the old hymns (for one can do this and still be wicked, or do so with wicked intentions) vs new style worship. There maybe those among us who don't know any better but are worshipping God all the same out of the Abundance of Joy and Pure Intent of their hearts, the opposite is also true. i have been blessed by some of the newer lyrics, perhaps because some of them reflect things which God has been working out in my life. of course one must discern the difference between soul and spirit and the excitation of the 2 and which is from God and which is a phoney from the enemy. i believe most people are excited in a soulish way, emotionally by whatever means and this has to be repeated because it isn't an abiding excitation, if it is of the Spirit of God, there is a lasting effect which transforms the soul in a way that the soul isn't as liable to be excited by fleshly things. This is howcome sometimes we may be seen as dull or dreary, except when the things of GOd take centre stage, then we get all animated.
anyhow this is an account of what our did on 4/29/07 There were thousands of people there, perhaps 15000, i do believe there were many there that hadn't bowed to Baal.
[b]At the service, our Lord told me that i was not to stand but to set my face against what was before me. i was reminded of Elijah. He was one man who stood for God against 850 false prophets and one completely out-everythinged by them and the world’s standards. However only his God sent fire; i am as he was, one man among so many who seem to be standing for something yet are deceived. We sang “I am a friend of God” and He asked me,[/b][b][color=0000FF]“Who has shared in my grief, my sorrow and my anguish over my people? In who have i confided these things apart from you? Who has known of my anger against these my people? Did I hide from Abraham what I was to do to Sodom? I could not because he is my friend. Who among these is aware of what I have prepared in Judgment for this nation?” [/color][/b]
[b]What could i say except plead for mercy and that we be brought to repentance?
All seem so oblivious to what is coming. No consideration of the gravity of His glory and meet Him in that Ultimate Purpose. How can one be a friend of God without considering this thing? God is an acquaintance for so many and the coming judgment will soon expose this.
At the singing of another song, one of the singers said to lift up Holy hands and God retorted angrily,[/b]
[b][color=0000FF], “Holy hands?! Hands covered in filth! Woe unto those who call good evil and evil good and call that which is Holy profane and what which is profane Holy.” i saw the atmosphere of the Throne Room change to something ominous, as though His throne was ablaze with fire which seemed to be reflected in the structure and all therein. [/color][/b]
[b]At the singing of another song, “Lord hear our prayer.” He said, [/b]
[b][color=0000FF]“How can I hear the prayer of a people who has not reckoned with the gravity of their sin before me. I will not!” The word says in 2 Chronicles 7:[/color][/b]
[i][b][color=CC3300]14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.[/color][/b][/i]
[b][color=0000FF]“Set your face against this wicked people.” [/color][/b]
[b]So i did and asked God not to spare us His hand that we would come to repentance out of a true contrition from a realization of the gravity of our sins. To ensure that i would not get up, my legs would not move. i felt a deadness which couldn’t bear. Even if i wanted to run, i couldn’t. We have sown sins and will reap wrath. Not only have we sowed sin but we have misrepresented Him to the world and there is consequence for that. And i saw the Church, the Bride of Christ, worshipping at an altar of many gods. She was dressed as a harlot, looking ragged, looking very shabby wearing a garment not fit for a bride. Then i saw the Judgment of God which was as a flying eagle burning with flame bearing 2 swords of judgment, one for the Church and the other for the world. Then the Judgment of God became as an angel and appeared before the bride amid all her revelry and startled her. She was expecting another, not her husband else she would have been prepared. i saw the angel knock down every idol on that altar and smash them on the ground. He then struck her repeatedly with his sword, drawing blood and causing her to cry out. He continued to strike her and she continued to cry out and then he stopped. i beheld 2 angels coming down with 2 golden bowls of what i thought was water. They stripped her and began to bathe her and i saw the bowls contained blood mixed with water. As they poured the bowls over her, she was transformed. The marks and welts of her judgment were washed away as was her ugliness. She now looked as she should in order to be the bride of the Lamb. Praise God we are about to be cleansed. AMEN. [/b]
i believe that we in many cases have substituted what is Holy with what is profane, what is Spirit with what is soulish and we're largly unaware of the difference. The soulish requires repeated and increased stimulation of the senses with images, sound, touch. i find that such often leaves me rather disoriented and in need of periods of quiet time with Him lest i perish under the weight of such.
this is from 7/8/07
[b]i understood today why i dread Sundays. We put on our best front and treat one another differently. We fill the time with all sorts of sensual entertainment to titillate our soul because we lack the power of the Spirit of God to lift up our inner man. There is little silence in our worship is packed with something. Every Sunday is like the time when Titus entered the Holiest Place and found nothing. The Glory of God had been gone for God knows how long and no body knew. So it is in many of our services and fellowships, homes, lives and nations. God has long since been gone. Except God Moves, we are finished.
Our Lord called me out of our service and i walked to a place and He told me to sit. i sat in silence for 30-40 min and then He had me stand for about 10 min. He told me to kneel after that for about 15 min and then i stood up a while longer. For the whole time He said nothing except what i should do. There were ants crawling all over me and a bumble bee buzzing about. Then He said that we didn’t like being silent much before Him without singing or any other machination of ours. The music is oft so loud we tend to hide behind it, it drowns out what should be heartfelt praise. If we did go before Him in silence to simply wait, we would know Him as we ought. We don’t like to wait. Our lifespan is so short that we seem to feel this pressure to do and be lest the opportunity pass us. With God though, He holds time in the palm of His hand. Ought we not wait on Him to tell us when and what to do and be?
This whole weekend my senses were bombarded, images, sounds, sensations and so on. i was left quite disoriented and so i bless God for this time of quiet for it is much needed.
God said:
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[b][color=0000FF]My people rush headlong into folly. They rush ahead of me. My people will not wait upon My Spirit and so they invent all manner of guile and device to titillate the flesh and soul in the place of My Spirit. My people are drunk with the wine of soulishness! They are filled with strong drink and stagger unaware that they shall fall into a pit and a snare! They have substituted for spiritual upliftment soulish titillation which must be sustained and repeated. What is Spirit, indeed my Spirit I sustain by My Own Hand which does not tire. Lament; indeed take up lamentation for yourselves and your brethren, My people.[/color][/b]
[b]So i said to God, “if you do not move, we are finished. If you do not wake us up from our stupor, we are finished. Except you show us Mercy, we are ruined. We are perishing and don’t even know it, drugged by our drink. He led me to Romans 1 vs 18-32:[/b]
[b][color=990000]18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; [/color][/b]
And Romans 2 vs 1-16:
[b][color=990000]1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. 3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? 5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; F9 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: F10 11 For there is no respect of persons with God. 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience F11 also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.[/color][/b]
[b]This is not just and indictment against the wicked but against man also which includes us and we are without excuse (chapt 2 vs1) We have been given over to all kinds of wickedness and depravity so much so that we think we are above reproach but we are not. We have in many ways turned the Sacrifice of God, the Cross of Christ into lasciviousness. We indulge ourselves gorge ourselves on sin and titillation in exchange for the Spirit of God. We have exchanged the Truth of God for a lie and worshipped what has been created rather than the Creator (1vs25)
We are guilty!
So i sought God with much weeping. Moses pleaded with God when God was about to destroy Israel. He pleaded for 40 days and nights. He pleaded saying that surely God wouldn’t allow the nations to make fun of Him saying that He couldn’t save His own people. So i too sought God in like manner saying surely He would shown Mercy on us for His Name’s Sake and not let His Name be further blasphemed on our account by the nations. It is not because of our righteousness but for His own Name’s Sake that i pleaded with Him. We have no righteousness of our own but all we have is that of Christ which we have not put on fully hence the sins outlined in this section of scripture are found among us. “God you must Move and show Mercy and bring us to Repentance oh God.” We have failed to uphold commandment # 1 and so we flout all the other ones. If we can’t uphold the first, which is to worship no other God, which is foundational, we can’t uphold the remaining ones properly. We may not have Asherah poles, altars or temples to Baal as they were in the days of old but we have fashioned idols for ourselves that we may worship them and the result is a straying from God. We have so grieved and quenched the Spirit of God. We are like Israel in that the Shekinah Glory of God has been gone for only He knows how long. And we are to be Judged. In this Judgment, as when Titus sacked Jerusalem and burned the temple, and entered the Holiest Place, the truth will be exposed. This is God’s Mercy as He works to bring us to Repentance. AMEN.
When i came out there, He said to come out and meet Him. Now He said, “Let us go back.” He said He would show Mercy and I know He will. i saw a car with the license plate which had Zepheniah 3:17 and it was most encouraging, it reads:
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[b][color=990000]17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest F12 in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.[/color][/b]
Grace and PEace are ours in Jesus.AMEN.
