A Little Time
I have to tell you this. I know I have heard the Lord. What I am about to say, I do not say lightly. The time to fret and carry on about the institutional church is over. It is over.
A friend told me the other evening that he used to gripe continually about the state of the church/churches until one day the Lord told Him, “My Body is robust. My Body is strong. Don’t you ever say that my Body is weak again.” I didn’t think too heavily about it at first. The institutional churches, Messianic congregations, etc., are not Messiah’s Body. Messiah is interested in those members, wherever they are to be found, who are His Body. And that Body is, indeed, robust.
The time for bashing the institutions is over. The Lord has spoken in my heart, “Live out of Me.”
The world has been judged. Yes, it has already been judged by every word out of the mouth of God. The sentence just hasn’t gone forth yet. Until that time, there is a little space to repent. There is a little time for the unregenerate to turn to Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world — but not much. There is a little time for the members of the Body to repent of living out of the “life” of the world (even of the life of the institutions) — but not much.
The Lord has spoken to my heart that this is a celebratory time for me — not a time of sorrow and mourning. He has challenged me to live out of His speaking and not out of the surface truth of what is happening in the earth. He will begin to deliver His people in this time. I have begun to celebrate in obedience, for the Lord knows what is to come — and it is good and not evil for those who listen. I have begun to light the candles and to offer celebration in my home.
As is my custom, I drove off in the early morning and prayed on the way to work. About three years ago, He told me to pray for His kingdom. I pray the Lord’s Prayer on a regular basis, and until recently, these words seemed to be highlighted: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” For two days now He has taken a “highlight marker” to a different part of that prayer: “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” I believe the Lord is going to begin to deliver His people in this time.
He wants us to begin to live out of Him now. Do not wait until you are overcome with tragedy to give up your natural life. Begin now. Look for His salvation now. Do not be entangled with the world’s thinking or the news or any reports you hear that tempt you to think that the Lord is not coming to deliver. Yes, bad things will happen. But this is not the Lord’s speaking. Whether in life or in death, the Lord is going to deliver His people who take up His life and refuse to live out of the vanity of the world.
I have nothing else to say on the matter. Whether in life or in death, we are the Lord’s. This is a glorious time.
A friend told me the other evening that he used to gripe continually about the state of the church/churches until one day the Lord told Him, “My Body is robust. My Body is strong. Don’t you ever say that my Body is weak again.” I didn’t think too heavily about it at first. The institutional churches, Messianic congregations, etc., are not Messiah’s Body. Messiah is interested in those members, wherever they are to be found, who are His Body. And that Body is, indeed, robust.
The time for bashing the institutions is over. The Lord has spoken in my heart, “Live out of Me.”
The world has been judged. Yes, it has already been judged by every word out of the mouth of God. The sentence just hasn’t gone forth yet. Until that time, there is a little space to repent. There is a little time for the unregenerate to turn to Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world — but not much. There is a little time for the members of the Body to repent of living out of the “life” of the world (even of the life of the institutions) — but not much.
The Lord has spoken to my heart that this is a celebratory time for me — not a time of sorrow and mourning. He has challenged me to live out of His speaking and not out of the surface truth of what is happening in the earth. He will begin to deliver His people in this time. I have begun to celebrate in obedience, for the Lord knows what is to come — and it is good and not evil for those who listen. I have begun to light the candles and to offer celebration in my home.
As is my custom, I drove off in the early morning and prayed on the way to work. About three years ago, He told me to pray for His kingdom. I pray the Lord’s Prayer on a regular basis, and until recently, these words seemed to be highlighted: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” For two days now He has taken a “highlight marker” to a different part of that prayer: “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” I believe the Lord is going to begin to deliver His people in this time.
He wants us to begin to live out of Him now. Do not wait until you are overcome with tragedy to give up your natural life. Begin now. Look for His salvation now. Do not be entangled with the world’s thinking or the news or any reports you hear that tempt you to think that the Lord is not coming to deliver. Yes, bad things will happen. But this is not the Lord’s speaking. Whether in life or in death, the Lord is going to deliver His people who take up His life and refuse to live out of the vanity of the world.
I have nothing else to say on the matter. Whether in life or in death, we are the Lord’s. This is a glorious time.
2 Comments
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Comment by Jeanne Smith on March 28, 2009 at 2:20am - So you have left us eh?? :(
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Comment by Kathryn Brogdon on March 28, 2009 at 9:49am - What??? I'm confused.
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