Filmed this week at the base of the mighty Lochnagar, I’ll let this video do the talking: The LORD God Almighty is confronting His people…
Confronting His People
Why We’ve Stopped Eating McDonald’s & Shopping w/Amazon?
I recently had a significant conversation with a dairy farmer, Edward, while he milked his cows. Edward opened up about the inordinate pressures that he and his family were being put under by the godless government of the land which now means that a bottle of water is more expensive (of more worth) than a bottle of milk. But what does this have to do with eating at McDonald’s and shopping with Amazon?
Do you recognise prophetic censure as well as prophetic promise?
To reach the ultimate heights of the prophetic promises of Yahweh’s redemptive plan for His own glory, the covenant people of God today must urgently recognise that prophetic censure is a non-negotiable part of that realisation.
The presumed innocence of churches and church leaders who boast “sound doctrine” amidst the quagmire of spiritual adultery (any form of idolatry whatsoever) is arguably the greatest obstacle to this eschatological timeline (depth of censure—height of promise) progressing. I fear that, as the chaotic Church today, undeniably mirroring ancient Israel/Judah, we are chronically stalled, falsely secure and spiritually strayed.
The motivation is not to be our sanctification and fruitfulness but, rather, His incomparable worth and glory.
Hear as though for the first time Jeremiah’s anguished outburst to Jerusalem,
“…how long will it be before you are made clean?”
Jeremiah 13:27
Please don’t wrongly assume that this anguished cry of the prophets is at odds with Jesus’ words pronouncing our cleanness of new spiritual birth, (John 15:3). In fact, our obedience in eagerly desiring the gift of prophecy (the testimony of Jesus), as those who have already been made clean by His blood, includes following Christ’s example of anguish for the ultimate prophetic promise of the parousia.
“…within a thawing sense of ultimate spiritual reality coming to eclipse all our eviscerated professionalisms…”
Then, and only then — within a thawing sense of ultimate spiritual reality coming to eclipse all our eviscerated professionalisms — will our true spiritual state emerge in our sobered national psyche. As the LORD bit by bit increases pressure upon His people, as the Church faithful begin to stir in their soiled beds from extreme drunkenness, will there be a determination to hear His shocking rebuke?
The motivation for radical reform will not be our selfish sanctifications and fruitfulnesses, (nor will our desperation for fresh spiritual air suffice), but rather the all-consuming zeal for His incomparable worth and glory.
When Reproofs Prove Ineffectual?
Rarely do I read a blog that requires my simply forwarding it on. Please take the time to carefully read Greg Morse’s blog here.
Continue reading “When Reproofs Prove Ineffectual?”Will Church Leaders Wake Up? (PART 2/2)
Greetings All!
In today’s episode of Into the Pray, Mairi and Nick provide a follow-on from this YouTube a few days ago that probes the general response of church pastors to the prospect of radical change. Please leave your comments on the YouTube video.
In short, what are the dynamics that cause the disconnect between good, godly men whose doctrine is sound…and the radical change that is urgently required?
After an intro responding critically to a T.A-Sparks devotional, Mairi and Nick go through a list of thoughts that is just the starting point of this urgent conversation….
What of Your Church/Pastor?
The baton has certainly been dropped over many generations. This generation (mainly the children) are paying an unknowable price for such irrelevant spiritual slop plastered over with the Name. It’s right to think about “going back to the start” (i.e. the ancient ways of Jeremiah or David in Psalm 139) but I do not think that it will be a question AT ALL of looking to the establishment of any kind. We need to stop thinking in terms of entities/establishments and begin recognising that individual sheep of His flock are grazing in many different fields. I believe that they are each, by name, being called out from all contexts of spiritual filth into a purity of doctrinal clarity that is very basic but entirely incompatible with the relativist approach of the denominational circus. Like Paul, we need to have more men, women and children who are consumed by the glory of God and the faithful taking of fatherly responsibility to have their churches in good shape.
Continue reading “What of Your Church/Pastor?”Will church leaders wake up?
That Which Is Currently Hamstringing The Body of Christ
EGALITARIANISM is one of several key demonic strongholds currently hamstringing the Body of Christ.
Continue reading “That Which Is Currently Hamstringing The Body of Christ”We Need Prophets (A. W. Tozer)
A prophet is one who knows his times and what God is trying to say to the people of his times.
Today we need prophetic preachers; not preachers of prophecy merely, but preachers with a gift of prophecy. The word of wisdom is missing. We need the gift of discernment again in our pulpits. It is not ability to predict that we need, but the anointed eye, the power of spiritual penetration and interpretation, the ability to appraise the religious scene as viewed from God’s position, and to tell us what is actually going on.
Where is the man who can see through the ticker tape and confetti to discover which way the parade is headed, why it started in the first place and, particularly, who is riding up front in the seat of honor?
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present. Learning will enable a man to pass judgment on our yesterdays, but it requires a gift of clear seeing to pass sentence on our own day. One hundred years from now historians will know what was taking place religiously in this year of our Lord; but that will be too late for us. We should know right now.
If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation it must be by other means than any now being used. If the church in the second half of this century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half, there must appear a new type of preacher. The proper, ruler-of-the- synagogue type will never do. Neither will the priestly type of man who carries out his duties, takes his pay and asks no questions, nor the smooth-talking pastoral type who knows how to make the Christian religion acceptable to everyone. All these have been tried and found wanting.
Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be of the old prophet type, a man who has seen visions of God and has heard a voice from the Throne. When he comes (and I pray God there will be not one but many) he will stand in flat contradiction to everything our smirking, smooth civilisation holds dear. He will contradict, denounce and protest in the name of God and will earn the hatred and opposition of a large segment of Christendom.
Such a man is likely to be lean, rugged, blunt-spoken and a little bit angry with the world. He will love Christ and the souls of men to the point of willingness to die for the glory of the one and the salvation of the other. But he will fear nothing that breathes with mortal breath.
We need to have the gifts of the Spirit restored again to the church, and it is my belief that the one gift we need most now is the gift of prophecy.
-A.W. Tozer (‘Of God and Men’ published in 1960)
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It Is Better To Be Divided
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude.
Adrian Rogers
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