Tuesday, November 17, 2009

"The Whole Armour, is required in these trying times."

With all due respect, is anyone other than me curious about what God has to say about all of this enormous stress and hardship? I know we have spiritual leaders, teachers, and guides that have always told us of days like this. They have preached to us a wonderful Gospel of Jesus, the Christ. They have given us instruction on how to better our relationship with the Creator of all things. They use to be a rest haven for all of the ills that affected the citizens in the community and beyond. The church has always been a hospital that we went to for solace, comfort, fellowship, and worship. We have had wonderful things happen in the church to men, women, children, and families from generation to generation. All of this is good and grand. But, the time has come for us to start asking our spiritual leaders, teachers, and guides questions. Since they are representatives for Jesus and our Father, that means that they should be equipped with Divine answers to what is going on and where do we stand in our duty to bring in the Kingdom of God on earth.

“Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD : 8 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock, 9 therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of the LORD : 10 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.” (Ezekiel 35:7-10) This scripture reminds me of how important our pastors, reverends, bishops, and ministers counsel is at a crucial and critical hour that we now live in. It appears to me that God is demanding more than what we are receiving. It is evident that something unusual is going on in our (the sheep) spiritual lives. The wiles of Satan have reached an all time high. Everything is on the rise: violence, homelessness, disease, racism, floods, earthquakes in diverse places, wars, deceit, lies, divorce, under teen-age pregnancy, unemployment, suicide, mental illness, drug addiction, same gender lust, pollution, and death. Suffice it to say, we need a Gospel that would deal with all of these critical issues that are significant evidence that we have reached a different season in the bible. So if this is the point where we are, then we need a more current, clear, and precise Gospel of Jesus, the Christ.
Peace….

Many of our spiritual leaders and advisors may need to help us understand what is at hand. We need answers. We don’t need them from the top socialist, economists, political policies, laws, sports, and learned ones. We need you to make it plain for us. Unfortunately, we are not in the churches. So what can we do to get you to bring the Gospel back to the streets where the Sender intended for it to be? I remember reading that Jesus’ ministry began and evolved from generation to generation in the streets. His work could not be confounded to a building. We must ask why? Because Jesus did not come to minister unto the wise and prudent, he came to minister unto the babes, the oppressed, the confused, the sick, the lost. Well, it seems that we have reached that plateau. But, no one wants to minister in the streets anymore. So the light of truth and salvation remains dormant behind the confinements of concrete and steal. Because of this deviation from the path of Jesus, we are losing countless members of our families. The sad part about the precious lost of life that we are experiencing is, most of culprits do not believe in the Creator of all things. Therefore, worship is not a necessary tool for everyday life. I remember the song: “Onward Christian soldiers.” During the darkest days of oppression, we marched for justice, peace, and equality in the name of God and His Christ. We kept God the head of all of our endeavors.

Suffice all that to say, the children in the streets are not being ministered to. The homeless man and woman are not being ministered to, the mentally ill person is not being ministered to, the drug dealer, the prostitute, the fornicator, the adulterer, the killer, the atheist, or the lost sheep are not being ministered to. Is it because they can not afford to compete weekly with their contribution of tithes? Is it because, they don’t wear the right clothes, is it because they don’t believe, is it because they are sinners? Matthew 25:44-45 states: “44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee a hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

So maybe we really need, “that ole time religion”, when everybody mattered. We should go back to the days when we went into the world and searched for the lost sheep. We did not leave the Gospel at the alter. We built outdoor alters and revivals. As kids, would be playing on a weekday night, and we could hear the echoes of God coming from only a megaphone inside a tent. So God’s name was always in our sublime. We knew that if we act up, God, mom, auntie, uncle, grandma, neighbor, teacher, older guys in the neighborhood, were going to punish us accordingly. It even seems like yesterday when before we ate school lunch; we took time out to thank God for the meal. In other words, we used a form of prayer more times than not. The bible says, how can they know except they are taught, and how could they be taught, except one be sent.” Maybe we need to send ourselves to the streets, highways and byways. We need to be partakers in turning the hearts of the children back to the father’s. We can not continue to think that we are safe or saved because we attend service every week. God is demanding more from us now. The separation process is at hand, and he is in desperate need of laborers now, more than ever. Many are called, but few are chosen to be true Christian soldiers on the actual battlefield for the spread of the Great news of the true Gospel of Jesus, the Christ. We all can make it through these trying times, if we go back to the golden rule of Jesus, the Christ. “Do unto others as you would have them (others) do unto you.” So we should “want for our brother or sister, what we want for ourselves.”

If we want God to spare us, then let’s spare the nonsense of this younger generation and go back fishing. There are good fish, big fish, little fish, old fish, young fish, and stubborn fish in the sea. They all are hungry for truth and not deceit and lies. They want us to make God real and bring him in front of them. So let’s rededicate this precious life that God has given us to all be ministers of the Kingdom. We have to be a baby Jesus. We have his spirit within us to do even greater works than he did. We must start this process of saving our youth. If not we will be responsible for their ultimate slaughter. Pharaoh and Herod wanted to destroy the boy babies. Our boys are being destroyed for the lack of knowledge of God, self, and the actual enemy. If it is God’s will, I will explain the indirect effect of their slaughter in the next blog series. Suffice it to say, Jesus did say to the people, “suffer the little children unto me, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs” for the sake of it. So if it is theirs, we need to start qualifying them for it. Not only do we need to qualify them for it, we need to qualify ourselves.

We can not depend on the powers of this world to rescue us or them from the wrath that has come upon our communities. Revelation is here and we need to stop watering down the Gospel and let the people in the streets know that our Father, is calling us all to come out of her. The “her” represents the evil world of the opponent of God and his Kingdom of: justice, peace, and equality. Forget your errors, confess your faults, and let’s move in the direction of teaching more than preaching. We all have a matter in this, not just the spiritual leaders and advisors. It starts with that man or women in the mirror. Because if we continue to ignore that we are living in the most perilous times of this present world, than we will not be properly equipped to bring in the Kingdom of God and he will definitely find that one or ones who are worthy. It does not take a degree, it does not take a well-learned student of theocracy, and it does not take a politician. It takes submission to God and his cause. He will then direct you to the position he wants you to uphold in the hereafter. God is no respector of persons, he gives the Kingdom to whom he pleases and he takes the Kingdom from whom he has loaned it to. We are the heirs of his Kingdom, so let’s behave accordingly. Drop the divisions of brotherhood and sisterhood because of this thing called religion. Jesus said, no Greek no Jew, no male no female, no bond, no free; all are One with him and his or our Father. It takes one to make many. .“You think your hope is in this, your hope is in God.” The greatest deception that the enemy is practicing is to deceive you away from the promise of God for your great future. So let's make the change. Let's study and qualify ourselves for positions in his kingdom that await us.” (MLF, 2009).
Peace….

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for stepping up to begin to wake up the neighborhood which will begin to wake up the nations. People are very busy going to church to maintain an image but are not really present in the service. They don't hear what is said unless it pertains to them. They don't take it and share it with that person who is hurting and needs it. I used to be one of those people until I was awakened to the fact that what I go thru is not for me, but for the person that God puts in my path. That stranger that needs a smile, a hug or a simple word spoken to them. I don't think we need tents, those don't go with the times, but we do need people to take God out of the building (church) and let people see Him in their lives, hear Him in their voice and see His light shining thru them now more than ever. People have to step up and declare their belief in Him. Stop being ashamed of Him or He will be ashamed of them. This shaking of the foundation is very critical at this time. Hopefully your blog will reach those that are sleeping on God and help them awaken to their calling in the rebuilding of God's Kingdom.

    Great Job!! Keep it up, God is taking notes!! Luv Ya!!

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