Early September seeking the Lord for the message I was to present in October, I sensed a greater level of urgency about the Church not being ready for God’s plans. August 2018 God prompted me to write Prepare for the Harvest! Confidence in God’s End-Time Promises, which includes exhortation for Christians to prepare for the expected End-Time harvest of souls. We’ve been in a seven year period of preparation, (beginning 2012) and we still are not ready. God has specific plans for the Church (all true genuine believers) but the Church is not ready. With awareness of the times in which we live, God is prompting me to sound an alarm to urge God’s people to prepare the way of the Lord.
John the Baptist preached repentance stating the Kingdom of God is at hand. He traveled all the region of the Jordan preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, as it is written in the book Isaiah, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness; Make His paths straight. Every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight and all flesh shall see the salvation of God. (Isa. 40:3-5). If warning the people to repent was needed for Jesus’ first coming, how much more is it needed for His second coming when all opportunity to repent ceases?
Prophetic voices are speaking the importance for the Church to make herself ready. Jesus is returning for a Bride who has made herself ready (Rev. 19:7). With this revelation coming upon me, imagine how I felt when I read the September 19, 2019 prophetic post by Lana Vawser:
“The fear of the Lord came upon me strongly as I heard Him speak ‘The Church is not ready yet,
sound the alarm to make yourself ready through your yielding to Me, My Spirit and My way. I will make My people ready!”
Notice the exclamation point . . . God means business. The Bible teaches us to humble ourselves before the Lord and should we fail to do it, He will humble us. I’d far rather cooperate with God to humble myself than to have Him do it for me. Read what Jesus had to say to the seven church cities in the book of Revelation. Only the Persecuted church and the Faithful church were found to be ready. Five of the seven church cities were found woefully unprepared and therefore subject to God’s dealings, and forcefully urged to repent. Revelation chapters 1-3 provide us with a clarion call to repent before it’s too late. Notice too that Jesus is speaking to the Church, meaning people who have professed faith in Christ. Yet, five of the seven church cities were admonished.
We must somberly take spiritual inventory of ourselves, seeking the Lord to reveal where we are double-minded, have doubt, fear, guilt, have idols or anything that prevents us from being all in. With the great and terrible times the Bible reveals will occur in the last days, only those of us who are all in–completely surrendered to God through faith in Jesus, by the power and grace of the Holy Spirit–will prevail. Many Christians have a wrong understanding about the end times and live in fear and dread over the increase of evil. Yes, the Bible is clear all manner of evil and wickedness will increase in the last days. However, God’s plan is for His light to always surpass the darkness. This means Christians are commissioned to be the salt and light to overcome the evil. Prepare for the Harvest! God’s Challenge to the Church Today is the book the Lord has me writing at this time.
The popularity of a pre-tribulation rapture has increased. Who wouldn’t want to escape such terrible times. But is that what the Bible teaches? The father of all lies, continues to deceive people including Christians. What we believe determines our success and failures in life. We must make certain what we believe is based on truth. There is no provision for partial salvation, or partial sanctification. With God it’s all or nothing. Not because He is harsh. Notice how He offers the seven Church cities, opportunity to repent and get right with Him. God is not harsh, He is loving. He wants us to position ourselves to receive receive the fullness of blessings and success He wants us to have.
God works through His people, and we are called to be ready in season and out, so God can perform His good and perfect will.
All of my books are written to help us gain better understanding of God’s plan and be confident in our faith. Let’s be intentional about being wholly surrendered to God. Make sure your understanding of who God says He is and who God says you are, is based on truth. The father of all lies works day and night to deceive us. Unless we are intentional about what we believe and why we believe what we do, we can be deceived and not know we are. It is, after all the nature of deception that the victim is unaware of their condition. I welcome your questions or comments or questions.
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