January 6th 2012,
In my prayer times for the last several months, this word keeps coming back to me. I believe this year we are going to see a furthering of the extremes. The Lord has been speaking this word to me for many years and I have been watching it unfold for the last 10 years. Each year I see it more clearly and this year will be a furthering of this. Extremes...extreme darkness and extreme light. There is less and less room for straddling the line, there is less time for standing in the fork of the road. This is a dangerous place to be in these times.
I was going through some of the writings I have saved, this one is on compromise as Christians...the very reason I began this blog. As you can see it was written June 2006 and actually was 5 more years prior (2001) that the Lord began speaking to me about compromise. As I reread this I can see so much more clearly the "in your face" compromise as a nation, and more specifically as Christians. I urge you to examine yourselves; if your thoughts don't line up with God's thoughts does that mean YOUR thoughts are above God's? Do you have a better way? has our God changed His mind on issues? The answer is no, so then the response should be repentance. Below are two things written one in March of 2006 and a follow up in more detail in June 2006.
March 13, 2006
We are living in a time where the Lord tells us to be discerning, we can sense the weather and we can see but are we being keen to what He is saying in the spiritual realm?
I was praying today and was thinking about the “great apostasy” that is spoken of in the Bible regarding end times. I thought about what that word means and it’s the great turning away. I look around and more than ever I see two things happening simultaneously. One is the amount of people coming in and being saved, also those returning to the first time they fell in love with Jesus. I also see many that have been Christians and what one may consider “mature” Christians turning away from the way of the Lord. I want to be very careful to NOT give the idea that I think somehow these ones aren’t saved, I believe the Lord is working in their lives. But this reminds me of something the Lord said to me awhile ago…which is, that we are living in extreme times. You see it in the natural and it is only a reflection of what is also happening in the spiritual. We have extreme styles, sports, beliefs and schedules and extreme-ism is also being reached in the spiritual realm. The Lord gave me a song almost a year ago about getting off the line. I believe He has been drawing this line and saying “know where you stand” what is about to take place will be very uneasy for those straddling. I am going to be bold and tell you that there isn’t as much gray area as you may think or what we have accepted from the world. There is godly ways and ungodly ways, (yes extreme but true) The Lord is getting ready to pour into the body of Christ souls; like that reaping. The greater the reward the greater the opposition is going to be.
If you find that you have turned away from your walk that the Lord called you to I believe that the word of the Lord is; return to your first love, Jesus, that simplicity in our salvation and the humble place we first experienced our Savior.(Remember it’s not simply the time that we have put in to being a Christian but the heart and the fruit that comes forth; remember Jesus Himself said in the gospels that “So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."
I believe the reason for the intensity is because He is training us. How can we be faithful in the big things (raising people from the dead, miracles, deliverances, etc) if we are not faithful in the small things (finances, prayer, basic needs)? We cry out for Him to send revival and He will, let’s be ready!
Lord, Thank you. Thank You for what You are doing, have done and will be doing. I thank You that You choose us! That You are faithful and that You don’t send us into battle without training. I thank You that You are not a gray God but pure. Lord, help us to be a people to be stirred to get off the line. Help us to be a people that will be bold and that Your truths will be less water downed in our hearts, make them concentrated and help us to be a people set apart from this world so that we can more clearly see the things that are getting ready to take place! Amen.
June 16, 2006
I have not written in awhile because I have been waiting on the Lord in my distress. I feel yesterday that He had shown me what He was speaking to me and brought it altogether for me.
I get the opportunity to see very closely what is coming up spiritually; I see this because I go to college where the young men and woman are the next to come into power in whatever careers that ensue. Get ready. The attack on your walk has been coming and is coming even stronger. The spirit of compromise is hovering and getting a foothold because of rebellion toward God.
I am not trying to come off this strongly but I tell you this is a warning. About 5 years ago the Lord began speaking to me about compromise and He has been developing my wisdom in understanding in this area. Last summer He built upon that by showing me that this is a time for His people to get off that line. Since then He has continued to show me the importance of not walking the line of compromise that sits between God’s way and the world’s way. He has shown me the “extremeness” in the natural is also what is taking place in the spiritual. The Lord is choosing Gideon’s army so to speak. To be in an army there is training that has to take place. In the last days there will be a famine of being able to hear the word of God. Obedience is crucial now to be able to know His voice later.
Amos 8:11 "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD,
"That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD. 12 They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, But shall not find it.
A few days ago I was in my medical ethics class. We had this big time guest speaker come to talk to us, he is has his Phd, teaches medical school and is the attorney that sues healthcare providers everyday for ethical cases. Long story short within 5 minutes of his lecture there he had told me that if I were on his ethics panel he’d kick me off. This was because I disagreed with him about intentions of the heart and assisting patients in suicide. (he was claiming that heart intentions don’t mean anything in our philosophical thought process…doesn’t the Lord look at our hearts? Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.)
How far have come as a nation for me to be “kicked off” an ETHICS panel because I won’t help someone kill themselves? I wasn’t offended by this man, I was amazed at the direction we are heading as a country. This bothered my spirit and I have been praying about it.
Yesterday (June 15th, 2006) I was praying for the Lord’s wisdom. He showed me a vision of a balance, on both sides was a platform, or foundation. On one side a man was on his face with the word “humbleness” above him, on the other side a man was running around building a tower (like the Tower of Babel) up to heaven with his hands, running around busy with his own agenda. I felt the Lord displeased with this service and he showed me the one man on his face in humility was being lifted toward heaven, God was drawing him close to Himself. The other man just got further and further away. Then the Lord spoke to me from His word:
James 4:7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
Then the Lord reminded me of Mary and Martha:
Luke 10:38 Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at *Jesus' feet and heard His word. 40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me."41 And *Jesus answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. 42 But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her."
People I urge you today to examine yourself and see if compromise has slipped in, what are we “ok” with that doesn’t line up with the Word of God. We are living in special times and more than ever we need to know that we are not compromising our hearing of what God speaks to us by ignoring His voice today.
Compromise and deception is sweeping over our nation but God is moving very strongly among His people and he is getting ready to pour out His spirit in a different way, are you going to recognize it?
