[revival] DAVID WILKERSON SHOCKED

GOD TOLD ME SOMETHING I Was NOT EXPECTING to HEAR!
-David Wilkerson - Oct 20, 2010.

One night during a prayer meeting, God told me something about
our church I was not expecting to hear.

The Lord whispered to me, “This church needs shock treatment!
Too many have grown satisfied and complacent. You feel safe and
secure from all the winds and waves of false doctrines sweeping
over the land—but you are not prepared for what is coming!”

Beloved, the message of having the Spirit’s witness functioning in
you is not a request—it is a matter of life and death! If you don’t
have the witness of the Holy Ghost in these last days, you’re not
going to make it! You’ll give in to the coming spirit of the Antichrist!

You need the Holy Spirit witness every day—on your job, at work,
at school. You need to rightly judge politicians and leaders so
you’ll not suddenly be sucked into the antichrist system.

This is what Jesus was trying to tell us about the foolish virgins
who ran out of oil for their lamps. They had a supply of the Holy
Ghost—but they didn’t have his witness at the final moment.

Don’t end up a foolish virgin! If you are running out of oil—trusting
your church or your pastor to keep your soul—then repent! Humble
yourself and search your heart! Cry out to God to rid your soul of
all anger and bitterness. Confess your sins and forsake them.
And depend on God once again for everything!

Get the peace of God in your heart, so you can have a Holy Ghost
witness. And ask the Father for a greater enduement of the Spirit.
Invite him to be your witness and guide in everything!

We face a cost of going all the way with Jesus, but we also will
receive a reward: It is simply the blessing of having Christ stand
with us. There are many other rewards as well (see Matthew 19:29),
but I mention this one because it is all we will ever need.

When Paul was imprisoned in Jerusalem, the whole religious
system wanted to kill him. They accused him of polluting the holy
place and preaching false doctrines. His life was in danger; even
the soldiers were “fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in
pieces” (Acts 23:10). So they took him by force and locked him
away in a castle. The next night the Lord himself spoke to Paul,
and what a word he brought: “Cheer up! There’s even more trouble
to come!”

The cost of following Christ was clear in the lives of these men of
God—and if we are going to be like our Master, then we must
embrace this cost as well. Enduring it becomes a joy because
Jesus promises to stand with us in every situation. And we can
face anything or anyone when we know the Lord stands with us.

So count the cost and know that your reward, in all things, is the
precious presence of Jesus Christ.

SOURCE - http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/node/10279

I truly don't know why the brother would be shocked over that. He's preached on numerous occasions how complacent and indifferent his Church is and the Church in general. I have a hard time believing that the brother would think that he was safe from the winds of doctrine as they get all kinds of people in Times Square wanting to give a word from God about something. People come in from all over the world to go to his church to declare some thing that they got from God. The use of the word "shocked" doesn't seem fitting here. It's not my intention to steer away from the original exhortation, it's just hard to accept that it's shocking. I have great respect for Brother Wilkerson, so don't misunderstand the post.

Follow up: I bounced this off to a Sister on SI and she had a different take. David was shocked by the fact that for all that he has done in preaching the gospel and warning his congregation and the Church in general that what God showed him was basically it's "not enough, it's not cutting it", 'your still complacent'. From that angle, I can understand how someone would be shocked. It's like doing everything thing you can do to live a godly life and have God come along and say, "your too complacent".

When hearing that, the road gets harder.

I mean, if David Wilkerson is too complacent and his congregation relaxed and satisfied, then I must conclude that I (we) are still in our sins. I mean this is a great man and I (we, or at least some of us) are the bottom rung.

Now I can understand what Peter meant when he said,

1 Peter 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?