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The Idol Of Mammon
The Idol Of Mammon
March 30, 2010
by Terry Somerville
Over the last number of years the Lord has been putting us through the “MAMMON CHALLENGE”. Simply put, God is changing us to be like Him, to be useful for the masters house, to be ready for the next revival and every other good work. One of the preparations is to remove our idols and repent. First we need to see them. Remember, Israel did not see that her idols were a problem, despite the prophets warnings. God pressured them until there was repentance. Read the rest of this entry »
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Don’t Give Up, You’re Right At The End! by Lonnie Mackley
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
by Lonnie Mackley
MT 19:27 Peter answered him, “We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”
I just want to encourage many of you today who are at the end of your wilderness time but who feel spent, wrecked, swindled, and just generally like giving up. Many of you have sacrificed all to follow God’s call and you have lost everything in order to live a life of faith that has left you less than exhilarated at the end. You want to hang on and keep trusting God, but there is another part of you that feels like you need to just think realistically and to not get your hopes up because you will just be disappointed in the end once again.
First of all I want to tell you something, if God told you long ago that He was going to do something big in your life, then guess what? He’s going to do it, and you should not let go of this just because there is little grace right now and you don’t know what to do next. Now obviously this whole wilderness thing was not about us getting some big prize at the end, but God gives us promises in order to help us to keep our faith and to hope for something while we go through the tougher stuff of growing up and being fully purified and prepared.
Many of you have wondered whether or not you are just crazy for believing these things and for spending your life doing this. Some of you even feel now that you have wasted your life and that you just made a big mistake. But in your heart you have felt a burning to walk in God’s power in order to help people so they can know God and be saved, and you have seen a destiny where like Joseph you will help many people to know God and survive some tough times ahead. Like John the Baptist, you have been in the wilderness all of your life.
You see, this whole place is likely to go into the tribulation and a very anti-Christian world government soon, so God needs to flow through people that He can trust here and who will represent Him as He really is. The day of the hypocrite is over. God is the biggest realist there is, and if there are things that need to change in our lives then He will keep at it until we are truly ready. How many times did you think you were ready to come out of the wilderness only to see a year later just how much you really needed what God did that previous year? You see, just like a regular father God doesn’t throw His car keys to kids.
ISA 49:8 This is what the LORD says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances, 9 to say to the captives, `Come out,’ and to those in darkness, `Be free!’
God is about to move on your life with a series of miracles and finances to restore you, and you will go from just sitting in your tent all day, to being very busy getting everything ready to go into this last conquest fully restored. I guess the main thing that I feel that God wants to say to you is that what He has told you is true, so don’t let go of it! And whatever areas that you have gone as far as you can, but have not overcome in, He is about to give you that extra help that you need in order to fully overcome all the way. So don’t give up!
This whole wilderness thing isn’t really about us that much anyway, it’s about all of the unsaved people you see walking by outside of your house or at the mall. God’s mind is on them 24/7. We were once just as unsaved as them and don’t you think God wants to help them? They are His creation and children just like we are. If you were still unsaved wouldn’t you want God to do everything possible to save you? Well you are God’s answer to their need. We are all about to go forth and preach the gospel in power, love, and true holiness.
So try to hang in there for this last part of your wilderness, avoid grumbling, and pick your promises from God back up and know that the same God that led you into this has already planned from the beginning how to lead you back out of it. Take things as slowly and carefully as you can as the miracles come and don’t get ahead of God. You learned to live by faith and by God’s moment by moment direction in the wilderness so that you could do it effectively in your promised land life and ministry. Know this, your restoration and vindication is right in front of you, so stand up and look up because your redemption is drawing very near now.
LK 21:28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.
EXHORTATIONS FROM THE FATHER, January 17th 2010
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EXHORTATIONS FROM THE FATHER
[Reflections Of The Father's Heart]
January 17th 2010
JESUS:
+ The “spirit of ecumenism” promotes “peace” [one accord - agreement and unity] at all cost to My Word [Will] and Spirit through “compromise” – and it has made subtle [and not so subtle] inroads into the lives and ministries of some who “claim” to be truly seeking first the Kingdom. All things must be ordered by My Spirit, alone, in the midst of My people – for truly I say to you I did not come to bring peace [the false unity and one accord that is born of pride - and the self-serving "good intentions" that are its spontaneous fruit] but rather a “fiery” Sword wielded by a holy people that continually divides between that which is of the s[S]pirit and that which has its origin in the soul [old nature]. These are the days wherein ALL things shall become evident [1 Corinthians 3:10-15] and, thus, it is truly a time of perfect preparation for all those who love Me. It is a time when “pressures” [spiritual and otherwise] shall begin to increase greatly but truly I say to you, as the pressures increase so shall My Presence in the midst of My faithful ones, and they will ride the wave of My Glory right through to the end of the age [Isaiah 58:10-14] – far above the deep darkness [although they will continually "penetrate" that darkness in great power] that is even now encompassing the world [Isaiah 60:2].
“compromise” - a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment [modification] of conflicting or opposing principles;
….”Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword”…. Matthew 10:34 NASB
….”For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart”…. Hebrews 4:12 The Amplified Translation
So we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt…
(Article from another person, I can’t rememeber who..?)
RECENT VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE -STIMULUS SERMON Gen 47:13-27
So we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt, and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again.
