Here is the
fourth prophecy of this series. The church (the true believers in Jesus in all
churches) are at a fork in the road. Down one path is business as usual. The
other path will restore the mission and vision of God from before the
foundation of the world. It will restore the pristine gospel. It will radically
affect the culture just as it did in the first century when it was written that
these men have turned the world upside down.
The fork in the road offers choice and one of the choices will shake the
foundation of the world. It will bring to pass the words of a prophet in a
dream that my wife had some years ago… He simply said, “the world as you know
it will never be the same.”
Rev
12:10-12 “And I heard a loud voice
saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our
God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down,
which accused them before our God day and night. (11)
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their
testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. (12)
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to
the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto
you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”
The accuser
of the brethren (brothers and sisters) who accuses them day and night before
the Father is cast down. You can read that he came to Job and also to Joshua
the High Priest in Zechariah 3. What are his accusations? They always have
something to do with telling us that we are not right with God. We don’t pray
enough, we don’t really worship enough, we don’t act right. You will hear
statements like this… you aren’t really serving God… you’re not really a man or
woman of God. They are designed to drive a wedge between us and our
relationship with Father. They are meant to discourage and tear down. Satan can
do this to us with our thoughts, but he can also use other well-meaning people to
make these accusations. When they use scripture to back them up they add a
level of authority that seems hard to overcome. Remember however that Satan can
quote scripture with the best of them. He can use our brothers and sisters in
authority to his purpose and can disguise himself as an angel of light.
I learned
an interesting fact in an advanced prophetic course that I took from Prophet
Russell Walden over at Father’s Heart Ministries. He taught me, correctly, that
the New Covenant Prophet should encourage. He said this on the authority of 1
Cor 14:3… I like the way it reads in the NLT 1Co 14:3 “But one who prophesies strengthens others,
encourages them, and comforts them.”
So that
begs this question… why do so many modern day new covenant prophets sound like
the accuser of the brethren? Why do so many Sunday morning sermons work as
accusations? Why is there so little encouraging, comforting and strengthening?
These are interesting questions indeed!
A big
part of moving into a *world shaking stance* is to begin to question the path
that we have taken so long. There indeed needs to be a complete paradigm shift…
I don’t want to be insulting, but in case you do not know what paradigm means
let me provide the definition: “a pattern of thinking and acting.” We need to
shift our paradigm when it comes to the things of God. He is providing us a
shift and we must embrace it…. more to come tomorrow!
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