The ear that hears the rebukes of life will abide among the wise. He who disdains instructions despises his own soul. But he who heeds rebuke gets understanding. The fear of the Lord is instruction of wisdom, and before honor is humility, ( Proverbs 15:31-33).
Do we hear and see what is coming from the Lord? Do we see the handwriting on the wall? Or should we just blow the warnings and signs off like the people in the days of Noah?
Many killed the prophets, saying they were lying when they spoke of the coming Judge….. However, wisdom or lack of will be known in our fruits ripening in the future. Wisdom is the ripened fruit of understanding and humility practiced today…. Pride’s ripened fruit is ignorance of the knowledge and fear of the Lord. Pride’s fruit bears death and destruction as well as grieving the Holy Spirit…..Pride is death, as the second death will not be pardoned on that soul.
So the warnings of the Lord were ignored and soon the invasion came from hostile countries that imprisoned and put in bondage the country of God….. They turned their heads and hearts from following the commands of God. They called them grievous and burdensome…. They enjoyed partying and playing. They continued in the worship of their idols. As in the days of Noah………
The current scores of sports teams will not matter when we as frogs in a slow pot of water reach the boiling point…. The frog was lured into reasoning that all was okay, he was doomed to die not realizing what was brewing against him. The sales at stores or trends at the beauty counters will not matter when imprisonment of bondage has been manifested which has closed them down. The reason being???? Our freedom to worship our King of Eternity, our God, has been slowly allowed to be diminished first in our hearts, then our land.
May we wake up in this country and repent by turning our hearts fully back to the Lord. We need to be ruthless in getting the rights of our God back in this country. How? Grace, mercy, grace, mercy…… as the Lord endures forever.
When each heart repents and turns away from their evil ways…… and turns to a life of prayer or talking first to the Lover of our soul. Asking, seeking and knocking in prayer with our God…. He is waiting for His children to come and speak to Him. Let us start here with Him.
Are we willing to drink His cup? Are we willing to pay the cost? Willing to die to live? Are we willing to leave this country in this shape to our children’s children? For they will pay the hard cost if we do not….
Hear and give ear: Do not be proud, for the Lord has spoken. Give glory to the Lord your God before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light, He turns it into the shadow of death and makes it dense darkness. But if you will not hear it, My soul will weep in secret for your pride; My eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive, ( Jeremiah 13:15-17).
Is this scripture spoken over America in the heavenly counsels today as spoken to Jerusalem in Jeremiah 18:11-12?
Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying thus says the Lord: Behold I AM fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
And they said, that is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will everyone obey the dictates of his evil heart.
Let us remember, King of heaven rules yesterday, today and forever! God wins….. Shall we make sure we are known by the King and we know Him…. He knows whose house we are! I know where I live, don’t you ? So does the Spirit of God….
Shall we be diligent to welcome the winepress of suffering knowing it is our way of ascendancy and our trials are our ways of exaltation in Christ….. Let us live rightside up in God’s eye. Let us have our lamps burning with the oil of His Spirit sending our heart’s love before Him during the day and during the night.
Remember what is written in Hebrews 6:1: Therefore, leaving the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection (maturity or fullness of Christ), not laying again the foundations of repentance from dead works and of faith to God.
So we may surmise to go on to the fullness or maturity of Christ, there will be chastisement from our Loving Father…..but it is to bring peace and righteousness as also written in Hebrews 12:5-11, And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, do not despise the chastening or discipline of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him, for whom the Lord loves He receives. If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.
Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it…….
What wonderful fruit we will bear as we allow to our Father to steer us unto His fullness, growing and maturing to the sons and daughters of God. We have His Spirit within us during the corrections or judgments of the Lord. The judgments of the Lord on the world, they go it alone until they call on the name of the Lord….. But He is with us….. Let us be disciple’s of the Lord.
Remember to be okay with men, which is caring what people think, so we bow to their ways even when we are convicted that is against God and His ways. When we need to lie to gain friendship, jobs, increase of finances—- to bow to the spirit of the world. When we allow fear to rule our lives versus love…… We then live for men and not for God. We are then heading for death with God…..I learned this from a very humble man of God, if we bow, we will burn……
However, if we love Him and live for Him, we will rise in Him and to Him. We will be on the outs with men and their rebellion as was our Lord!…. The second death has no hold over us…..Can it be said tonight, if we will lose our breath, the second death holds us captive or do we hold life eternal in Christ with in our hearts where our faith lives?
Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against falsely for My sake, ( Matthew 5:11). Many have been going through this in the past and today. They are the heroes of our faith. Let us prepare to walk as they do….. If we hold in prayer those brave ones locked in prison today…..and for many days past….. As we pray for those hiding in horrible places because of their faith as they treasure the word of God as they share different scriptures back and forth with each other……..We pray for the strength to remain steadfast to our King during the coming days as those brave souls.
May we grow in the faith knowing that nothing will separate us from His love, may we turn from the deceiving spirit that says that God doesn’t love us if all this tribulation is upon us! The Lord warned us of trials manifesting in all different ways, but that we were to remain in Him and there we will find our peace- that is beyond all understanding…..
That is our walk of faith…. through the shadow of death, He leads us as He has led many other saints in His life and Light….. This is His way….. It is not comfortable to the flesh but we can know our God and do great exploits in His name because He knows us….. There is union with His Spirit from our daily walk in and out as we go through stuff…. We win, because He is with us and His love never fails! He delivers us from all adversities!
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor power nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, not any created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord, ( Romans 8:35-39).
Father, may we remain diligent before Your face – seeking You and Your ways in our hearts, so as the Seeds of a fragrant flower are sent spreading over the country by the wind of Your Spirit bring a rising of the Tree Of Life in the hearts of this country…. May our faith and tenacity in knowing You are a Rewarder of those who seek You be found pleasing in Your eyes. Extend to us the grace to know we live and pray only before You, our Audience of One.
Selah!
