CHURCHWARNINGS 05

CHURCHWARNINGS 05
(Sent out 5th April 2006)

Many church leaders around the world, will realize that there is ‘some manner of deception’, but due to their haste and zeal and personal agendas, will race their congregations through a very shallow time of corporate repentance. Just as casually as dusting the surfaces of furniture.

They will prefer a repentance ‘catholic’ style. Chanting a few repetitious prayers.Pastors will fear that if they preach to the congregations to spend time with the Lord, and Hear from Him, many may not return. And many won’t, because the Spirit of God will take them away from the filth.

This is a time to put aside programmes and to be yielded to what God is doing, and it may well mean throwing out our programmes, and awaiting His fresh mandate. All this will seem ‘time’ consuming. For those in a hurry, please note ,

Isaiah 28:16,17.
Therefore thus says the Lord God:“Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation,A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;Whoever believes will not act hastily.Also I will make justice the measuring line,And righteousness the plummet;The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,And the waters will overflow the hiding place.”

We need to go to God with reverence, and abide there.

At this time God in His Mercy, wants us to submit the roots of the same repetitive, recurring sin, in our lives, to Him. This is the time for a great deliverance from deep-rooted sin patterns, wrong attitudes. If we submit now, to His call, in this season, to come and seek Him, our inner being will be cleansed.Areas of darkness, that would have taken years of struggle to even acknowledge, will flee, if we come before Him in fear and trembling, with broken and contrite hearts.

Those who linger in answering this personal invitation from God, because they are busy, will miss the implanting of the corporate and individual word, that God wants to give each and everyone of us.
Hearing second hand won’t help us one bit. Rather the danger, and imminently so, would be that we might miss the fire that He wants to ignite in us. We are called to the deep, but the disobedient, who ignore His call, will go into a deep freezing.

This is the time of Baptism by Fire.

If ever there was a time to say ‘If I perish, I perish’, for the sake of obedience to God, then this is it.
Jeremiah 48:10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth his sword from blood.

Sadly, many ‘busy’ leaders are going to make a ‘short work’ of the corporate repentance. Many will ‘pretend’ to examine their hearts but their eyes will be on their wrist watches, wanting to ‘hurry’ it through. Many among the congregations, not having spent any quality time with the Lord, or yielding to Him, will be impressed with the ‘quick work’ their pastors do at corporate prayers.

They will not deal with the real issues, but rather, they will paper over the wide gaping holes in the wall. No meaningful repairs will be done. Insecure pastors will make token, minor changes. So folks, it’s the same shop, same goods, just new colour schemes. Bright and cheerful. Because the people like to have it so!
Though many leaders will ‘receive’ the prophetic word, many will devise ways to make a ‘program’ out of the living prophetic word.

So few, it will seem, will cross over to God’s new move of the Spirit. God has hidden His remnant, who will be revealed, in God’s due time.Many others have, and will continue, to succumb to Egyptian / Babylonian afflictions / diseases. Yet there will be no understanding of ‘newness’.To many ‘new’ move would mean that for example: if they are presently holding a snake in their right hand, it’s a new thing to transfer it to the left hand, or wrap the snake round their neck and say, hey look, no hands.

That the message is ‘dump the snake’ won’t get through, to many.

The fear that God may call ‘their sheep’ to take some drastic action, hithertofore unheard of, unthought of, unplanned for , will cause church leaders the world over to get the jitters. The leaders who were meant to lead the sheep to the Lord will in effect be blocking them because for them large financial commitments/investments are at stake and that will color their planning.

They will want their plans to have supremacy over God’s plans.

The Spirit of God will call many believers/leaders away, far from the madding crowd, into hiding, to do His Will.
The old, the staid, the stiff , the corrupt sons of Eli and Samuel, won’t like it one bit, and will try to twist scripture, to keep their ‘sheep’ from following after the fresh new, exhilarating move of God.

But the bad news for such as these is, that the circus is coming to an end. The giant wheel at the fun and frolic church is coming to a halt. Many took paid ‘rides’ on this wheel, in the Christian amusement park, that leaders called ‘church.’ Remember nothing really is free in Amusement Parks. Though the wheel now finally halts, many will find their heads still spinning from the hair-raising rides. They’d paid good money to be frightened out of their wits.
Many have given birth to wind, and will be disillusioned as they examine the work of their hands. God will burn it as hay and stubble.

The cup of God’s wrath, against the disobedient, is filling up.

Many, when they realize that they were deceived, will feel a total disorientation, unbelief, shock, shame that they ‘fell for it,’ they will feel cheated, and then comes anger.

Many angry Christians the world over will want the leaders who led them into deception, to be exposed. There will be those who will take extreme drastic action and go to any length to nail the charlatans and scamsters.
Then there’ll be those, who will be so grieved, so shaken, so disillusioned, they will want nothing to do with Christians and Christianity. Many years from now, they’ll have to be re-evangelized.
Of those who rightfully go to seek the Lord, there’ll be some among them who will find the ‘pressure’ of ‘stillness’ before the Lord, too much. They will lose patience, waiting what seems to them, ‘endlessly’, for a specific word of direction.

Their main concern will be financial supply from God. When that is temporarily on hold, because God is doing a new thing, they will panic. They will be constantly anxious, worried that they are under a curse because they left the deceptive group. Instead of examining their hearts and the word of God, they will check the declining graph of their bank accounts.

Their impatience will again lead them to works of the flesh. They’ll run with any fragment of word they may have received, but fall into grave error and frustration. Choked by anxieties and fears, these men-pleasers and money-lovers, will be back again at the doorstep of the deceptive ministries, they so readily had come out of.

2 Peter 2:22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and a “sow having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”

These returnees will be used and advertised by the leaders of deception, as testimonies, that really endorse and glorify their ministries. They’ll gloat over their re-converts, their little ‘prodigals’ home-coming.

Scripture will get further twisted, at their hands, and these returnees will go into a time of deep freezing.
Then there’ll be a great number, who’ll ‘draw their own confusions’ , who have learnt much about ‘balance’ and these will try to have a foot in both the old and the new. This won’t work. Will only lead to more confusion and mayhem in their lives. Neither side will trust them.

Then there are those who remain in the Presence of God. Spend time hearing God, loving the Scripture, that is now revealed to them in a new way. These will be in no hurry to leave His Presence. There’ll be problems, but also a great awareness of how God intervenes to solve the problems enough so that they never become a distraction, and quality time is spent at our Lord’s Feet. They have come from a long, hard and ardous journey, only to find that they are back to where they started. ‘Hey, this looks familiar, haven’t I been here before?”They no more want to go round the same mountain.

These sincerely repent. They allow God to peer into the darkest recesses of their heart and inner being, to see if there is any hidden sin. They allow God to yank out the ugly, from the root, and deliver them from generational curses, from hard bondage wherein they were made to serve cruel masters, in the past.
And then the joyful in-filling.

They are filled with healing, love, and the seed of God is sown on the rich soil of their hearts. They have submitted to God, welcoming His chastisement, and encouragement. God is calling them to make this, their private intimate walk with Him, their life -style.

What is to come has not yet been revealed. But as each of these is obedient to the Voice of God, there will be a ‘divine thaw’, the ‘snows will melt’, and the sweet fragrance of Spring will be in the air. God will supernaturally connect them with others who are being led by the Spirit. These will be divine appointments. God will gather his God-Spirited people who will only now, begin to understand, what it is to worship in Spirit and in Truth. God will reveal in marvelous ways, what Jesus meant when He talked to the Samaritan woman about worshipping the Living God.
As well as a better understanding o: John 3:8

“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit”.
Each will receive a ‘mission book’, (it’s not a physical book , nor is it these Christian best–seller books) This mission , specific to each person, will be engraved in the hearts of these believers, who are neither looking for riches, nor fame, nor position but just a place at His Feet to Adore and Worship Him. And to do His Will.

They are also seeking those believers who truly love their Lord Jesus Christ.World over, God will Give out His Fresh Mandate, and each, as it were, will have a different piece of the spiritual jigsaw puzzle. Though each seems different and some radically so, it will all have the Peace of God woven through it.

It will all be for the Glory of God, and in furtherance of His Kingdom.And soon the harvest.What once seemed like a long time, is now as Amos 9;11-15

Vs 13 “Behold the days are coming “, says the Lord, “When the plowman shall overtake the reaper.”

The leaders of deception, will continue to deceive and whilst many believers escape from their clutches, these leaders and their followers and supporters , will try to evangelize the New-Agers, and rather than convert them, they themselves will be so greatly influenced, that they will now grow into full blown unashamed cults. It’ll be a total delusion.

Those who are sincere in seeking the Lord will set their face as flint and be willing to die, if called to do so by the Lord. And the ever increasing fire and zeal for the Lord will show in them.
The Sanballats and Tobiahs will vigorously mock these as they humbly build for the Lord. But these God-Lovers will not be disheartened, they will build such as the Lord reveals to them according to His Plans, His Purposes, guided by His Living Word.

This is the time of God’s process of elimination, and man’s process of alienation. Those who want to maintain the status quo, for them, this is the time of the process of alienation. Slowly, without even realizing it, they will have drifted so so very far from the Lord.

Insecure leaders, as before, will as Jeroboam, build another golden calf, so their congregations do not go to ‘Jerusalem’ to worship. And there are congregations who will like it so.
Many present day fellowships that have been bungling along in this way will settle and function as the traditional churches.Such leaders will continue to steal meassages, prophecies, revelations from others and present them as.”I-have-spent-time-with-God” messages.

The present day church has gone into ‘evangelical mode’. The kitchens were used to prepare baby food, whilst due to the paucity of time, the grown-ups were handed fast food parcels.

Please consider this.Many are starving and eating out of thrash cans. In such famine conditions, during corporate ‘pot-luck’ intercessory gatherings, please ask yourself, what food can such bring to the table? Where is the strength to ‘stand in the gap ‘, how will we ‘give birth’? And what will we give birth to? We will bring forth the sick, and the abnormal.

Such are these present times to come.

The compromising will continue to compromise. The deceivers will continue to deceive. The call is to come to the mountain, to hear God. To step out out of the tent to see His vast vision for mankind.

Don’t stay in the Valley.

A new day in the history of the church is dawning.

Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.

Advocate Swarna Jha
Bombay-India