CHURCHWARNINGS 10

Churchwarnings 10

Word recieved 4.4.06Typed 14th & 15 April.06

First sent out 15.April 06

UNGODLY WARS AND UNHOLY ALLIANCES

Eat this Word:John 7:24 KJV: judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgement.

(N.I.V.) Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgement.

BEWARE WHOM YOU TEAM UP WITH
BEWARE MAKING FOOLISH COMITTMENTS
BEWARE WHOM YOU ENDORSE
BEWARE FIGHTING WARS GOD HAS NOT CALLED YOU TO
BEWARE INTERFERING IN THE JUDGEMENTS OF GOD

2kg 3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.

Jehoshaphat was totally unequally yoked with the likes of Jehoram, the son of Ahab, King of Israel, and no doubt at Jehoram’s invitation, along went the King of Edom.Jehoshaphat very rashly committed his war machinery to fight a war he did not seek God about.Beware also about whose help you will seek in going to your own wars. The covering of Favor that was upon many of those ministries/persons you readily called on for help in the past, is lifted. It is no more.

2 kings 25 7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
8 But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.

Like Amaziah, you may already have committed a great deal of resources, financial and spiritual, to yoking with those with whom God is not. Do not lament that loss, let it go.THE LORD IS ABLE TO GIVE THEE MUCH MORE THAN THIS.

In the coming days many Christian leaders will have to prayerfully, rethink on the alliances and affiliations they have made, either for their ministry or their work place.It will be crucial that they do not rashly commit their resources and assets.Do not seek a word from God, after you are halfway to the impending loss, but adhere ever so closely to God’s Principles and do not align yourself with strange mixtures. Pray for guidance in all matters.

As the false teachers, prophets, fellowships are exposed, leaders who are genuine about ‘tearing down false altars’, will look in horror around them. It will seem there’s few they can associate with. In that case, in the absence of specific instructions from God, rather remain alone or silent, till God so otherwise specifies.

Leaders, if you will trust God, spend more time in prayer than on phone calls, worthless ‘assemblings’, and fruitless travels, and seek the Lord earnestly, for if you seek Him, you will surely find Him. He will give you the wisdom and discernment for the times.

In the coming days, situations will arise such as you could not have fathomed, in all your years of ministry. All your God-Given skills need to be sharpened.Many, many leaders have been used as the ‘gate that was ajar’ to usher in the doctrines of demons. Constant onslaught of unchecked flows of ‘guest speakers’ have weakened our defenses. Sickness, lethargy, harlotry, seductions, poverty of the spirit, has crept in undetected through our gates.Leaders, repent. Before God and before the congregations.Having done that, call for a corporate repentance and deliverance.Also, rebuke of disorders at the Lord’s Supper. Let us eat and drink in a worthy manner, let us judge ourselves, that we may be chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. (read 1 Cor. 11:31,32)The message of the Cross is all we have and all we need, let it not be diluted or polluted.As we participate in a worthy manner, many deliverances will take place.

God did warn that even the very elect would be deceived if that were possible.God wants to deliver you and the sheep placed under your stewardship. He wants to pull out from the root, and cleanse from you the very dregs of seduction.
Let the shadow of His wings hide you from these spiritual pimps.

In the days ahead…..

On the one hand, those who are serious about walking right with God will be hidden in the Wisdom of God. On the other, an unprecedented manifestation of absolute foolishness will be on ‘public display’ in those who are loathe to walk the godly and righteous path. A spirit of recklessness and sheer stupidity will manifest, particularly amongst those who were once considered ‘mature Christians.’‘How could he do such a foolish thing? He’s a leader/mature Christian/ he worked miracles!” This is a question many baby Christians, amongst others, will ask. ‘Even I, as a one-day old Christian know that is wrong,’ is what the new borns will say. Prepare to be astounded by the foolishness that will abound.

In some matters that are visible, God-serving leaders will make a clean breakaway from ungodly persons/works/ministries, though even that will prove heart-wrenching, due to the equations involved.In matters where your spirit has not understood the nature of surgery required, in the malaise before you, God will help you postpone it, but not put it off indefinitely.Beware, postponement does not mean that the dilemma has left you, only that God will give you ‘specifics’, with a revelatory knowledge of your problem, and the appropriate solution.So continue asking God in prayer, about those pending matters, don’t burn the file. The matter has to, and will be dealt with by God, through you. There’s no escaping that.If you are genuine about walking right with God, He will help you overcome.Ministries you once looked up to will come crashing down. That will not be a pretty sight. You will incur criticisms and the wrath of men. So determine now that you will die to self, that Jesus Christ be glorified.Determine now that you will not look back longingly to times gone by.Remember Lot’s wife.

BEWARE INTERFERING IN THE JUDGEMENTS OF GOD


2 Chronicles 35:20-24
20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

Here was Josiah, who had cleansed and prepared the Temple.But he lacked sorely in wisdom, at a most crucial hour in his life. He rashly and most foolishly wanted to ‘meddle with God’s judgments.’Judgment of God was upon Charchemish, and Necho was the instrument God was using.Josiah could not rein in his rash spirit. He died. His disobedience killed him.Leaders/ Ministries/work could come to a ‘sudden’ and seemingly premature death due to meddling with God’s judgments.

Leaders in the coming days be prepared for all manner of communications. Many will approach you to ally with them to fight certain situations. Seek God.Let your spirit be in harmony with God’s Word and discern wisely whom you are running to ‘save’.God is surely judging many at this time. Some of His instruments are the hands of the ‘world system’ (King Necho)

Tax Authorities, the Police, the Law of the Land, such will be used to bring appropriate justice upon those who have provoked God.You may not see the ‘Hand’ of God in it, and rush to their aid, in the presumption that a great injustice is being meted out to them.A ’multitude’ of Christians (all over the world) who have broken the law of the land are coming to the fore. They will be exposed.Do not operate beyond your God given strength. For the majority will be guilty of the crimes they are accused of, (only a very rare few will be falsely implicated, or more harshly judged than is merited under the law. God will surround the innocent with angelic helps.)
Pray for discernment for yourself in such matters.Let the authorities in whose hands they have fallen deal with it. Waste not your time, resources, money and reputation to be even linked to such as are getting their long over-due justice. Such will tug at your emotions, and divert your attention to Scriptures taken out of context.Those who run uninvited to ‘meddle in God’s affairs”, will themselves get implicated in those wrangles. Beware, for now you have been forewarned.

The devil is using some in your circle of influence to appeal to your emotions.Choose this day. Will you be a man pleaser or God pleaser?Many will misunderstand you when you choose the counsel of God. So be it.

2 Chr 19:2-3
2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.

We know from God’s Word, that both Josiah and Jehoshaphat were godly men. But their foolish allegiances cost them their lives.

Jehoshaphat just carried on doing his own thing.

In 2 Chronicles 20: 35-37 Eliezar prophesied against Jehoshaphat’s allegiance with Ahaziah who acted wickedly.37b Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the Lord has destroyed your works.Then the ships were wrecked so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

So though you may have made your peace with God, restored the right order in your fellowships in the days and years to come, ( for the corporate cleansing is surely a mammoth task) , yet, you could ‘miss’ God’s best for you by endorsing the false ministries, and allying and seeking help from those with whom God is not.

Many ministries you knew did for a season have a great anointing, but discern carefully, for the Glory of God has departed from many. They are simply going through the fleshly ‘motions, now. Go on, check carefully. Let your spirit discern.

But you, you who believe that you have made your peace with God, know that you have a long journey ahead of you. Many pitfalls still lie ahead, so therefore:Do not judge by mere appearances, make ye a good judgment.

Beware whose war you fight, and beware whom you recruit to help fight yours.Beware whom you endorse. Thoroughly check every ministry/person/s you support.Leaders are to serve choice food and help protect the sheep from eating trash. Don’t you usher in the ‘trash’ vendors.Do not think that by inviting false ministries, and ‘leaving it to the good judgment of the sheep’ to decide whether they accept the false teachings or not, gets you as leaders off the hook. There is no ‘democracy of doctrines’, where the most popular wins. You are to follow only the undiluted Word of God.

Be warned, for you will not escape by such deplorable attempts to ‘transfer’ the liability.So then what is the responsibility of Christian leaders?Yes, the sheep have their own God-given discernment skills, but you leaders cannot escape liability.Did the congregations ‘import’ the false ministries or did you?Did they not ‘enter in’ through your gates, under your ‘banner’?Did you not endorse them, encouraging all to attend and ally?

Leaders are trusted by congregations to know better. To check thoroughly the antecedents of those who bring in false doctrines.SHEEP TRUST YOU TO DO YOUR BASIC HOMEWORK.

Sheep come to you expecting that you will teach them the true word of God. Is this not a breach of trust?Lives are at stake here. You work so hard, to bring each sheep carefully into the fold, and false teachers you’ve invited, bring sin and confusion into the camp.Repent. Don’t justify. God will help you set things right if you’re truly sincere about walking in obedience to His Commands.

And if you haven’t yet eaten this Word, eat it and digest it now.

Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment. (N.I.V.)

Bombay-India
Advocate Swarna Jha