Micah 5:13
Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion,
for I will make your horns iron
and your hooves bronze,
so you can crush many peoples.
Then you will set apart their plunder
to the Lord for destruction,
their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
(HCSB)
Month: June 2015
Safety is definitely not the absence of danger but the presence of God
This following entry was posted on 10/10/2012 in this blogger’s blog:
The watchman has waited for a book like this for a long time. It came out recently and it is entitled “God’s Final Call for the End Times” by Pastor Susan Tang. The book is a must for all serious intercessors to read many times over and take heed.
__________Some powerful excerpts and quotations from the book:
PERSONAL WORD (by the author)
“Yes, God’s mandate and God’s call for every believer is that we fight for our set apart and apostolic faith, without which we can never overcome the world. (1 John5:4)”
“The book of Jude has so impacted me that I know I must be apostolic for if I am not, I may end up an apostate. I cannot be ambiguous in these end-times days.”
“Indeed NOW is the end and the END HAS BEGUN NOW. This is why we cannot be ambiguous, we must either be apostolic or we will end up as apostates.”
“I keep hearing our Lord’s warning so clearly and consistently. This is the reason why this book is written: “watch therefore and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:36)”
“We must know that every form of crisis nations of the world…are all a buildup or prelude to the unspeakable destruction ahead of us.”
“If we do not live in awareness of the end, then our present living is nullified and meaningless –we all live as others live…for self and to please self.” (Jeremiah 8:7)
“If we do not have the end in view, we will just flow with the present antichrist culture;” “Jesus did not need to go to the cross,” “Is Jesus in the culture or is He above it?”
“We must live in awareness that society today is not just influenced by education, industry or technology. It is shaped by demons…sin has given them so much influence over the human race, including the Christians. Technology like the mobile phones, the computers and television (which the prophet Jeremiah called ‘windows’ in Jeremiah 9:21) had indeed admitted the spirit of death into so many lives, especially the lives of our youths.”
“Like Daniel, I must possess both the tenacity and the intensity to pray and pray and pray even though I do not feel like praying at times.”
“Daniel, the end-time prophet, mourned and travailed until a breakthrough came into the heavens, a breakthrough which affected him, his nation and the nations of the world.” (Dan.10:12-14)
“There are so many troubled Christians. Is it because our faith is not an apostolic or set-apart faith?”
INTRODUCTION
“Why must the church engage in PURPOSEFUL AND INTENSIVE intercessory prayers in these end times called the ‘beginning of sorrows?’ Because God has called us into it and this may well be the final call to prayers to evict the enemy …just before the great tribulation.”
“If we are the true church we will have the apostolic distinctive of knowing that the end, or the DAY OF THE LORD is near. All universal shakings and meltdowns now are just birth pangs of the coming kingdom of our Lord. There are calamities, upheavals, crises and great stirrings on earth now because there is war in heaven!”
“More and more we can feel it as these present evil days…”
“It is sad that many Christians are still in denial”
“”The prophets of old saw visions of these dark and foreboding ‘tribulation’ days…” (Ezekiel 21:7; Zechariah 13:8-9)
“The purpose of this book is to call you to return to your basic duty -return to your priesthood and be that house of prayer that God wants (Isaiah 56:7).”
CHAPTER 1 -have we missed the vital signs of the Messiah’s second coming?
“Learned high priests like Caiphas and Annas could stand in front of the Messiah and not discern that He is the One.” “Many who are made to rule in God’s house do not know the Lord nor understand His word.”
“All the vital signs of Christ’s second coming (in heaven and on earth) are pronounced today and yet we carry on as usual; not wanting to make preparations for these coming evil and devastating days that we may be ‘counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:36)”
Jesus Christ warned us that the day of destruction will come to us like the days of Noah…when people carry on as usual.” “Their time was never deliberately prioritized for God.”
“also days when Nimrod arose in defiance against God to form his ‘one world government’ and to build his high towers and monuments.”
“also be like the days of Lot” “when fire literally fell out of heaven suddenly!” “Iran and Israel also have nuclear bombs pointed at each other and should one go off, the entire world will be affected.”
CHAPTER 2 –The end has begun and the beginning of the end, (‘the beginning of sorrows’) is already here
“Today, we too, have talked much about the end times but unfortunately we have also failed to discern that the time is now -it has now come upon us! The next change will be terrible, for almost without warning, the ‘tribulation’ days will come upon us.”
“Why couldn’t they discern? Because their hearts were not right. Ambitions and ego-centrality have often robbed men of spiritual discernment. These ambitious men seem to have enough spiritual light to prophesy and sit in their position as the nation’s spiritual leaders (John 11:49-53), but they definitely did not have enough light to carry themselves through to salvation!” “Caiphas prophesied accurately that Jesus is the Saviour but he himself remained unsaved!”
“There are many modern Caiphases and Annases today” “They have enough light to teach others and to prophesy but they do not have enough light to acknowledge their own sin so that they can be saved.”
“The light that comes from one’s scholarship, study, degrees, etc., must be tempered with the light that comes from our prayers, revelation knowledge and personal experiences with God which must result in self-denial, humility and servanthood.”
CHAPTER 3 -Intensified prayers from the remnant will evict the enemy out of the heaven
“Since Israel as a nation, did not want to keep their distinction as God’s people…the prophet Daniel and his three undefiled friends did it for them.”
“May God, in His mercy, in these troublesome and turbulent days of much spiritual upheaval and natural disasters, also raise up a ‘Daniel-like’ group of people who will remain distinct and whose spirit and intercessory travail will be of the same pattern, in order to reach out to God.”
“Deborah proclaimed that when there were leaders (leading by examples) then the people would willingly offer themselves (Judges 5:2). She was commissioned and she was willing so she just got in there and led by example! And people were willing to follow her. Do you want prayer groups set up? You need to lead by example.”
“The time to pray and travail is NOW, not later when the heat is on because our ability to stand will come from the sum total of the times we have spent in the presence of God.”
“Israel went after God when they were in the wilderness because they had nothing. (Jeremiah 2:2)” “You may find this hard to believe, but God is definitely going to bring both the church and Israel back to the ‘wilderness days‘ again.”
CHAPTER 4 -Halt the enemy’s activities to accelerate God’s work in the spiritual realm
“It is vital we pray with prophetic declaration to declare what God Himself has already declared in these end times.”
“We need to do what Ezekiel did -speak directly into the situation (Ezekiel 36). “
“Such is the power of God’s word! Jesus taught His disciples to speak to the mountains, not pray, if they want the mountains to shift.” (Matt.17:20)
“We puncture these times of great deception, desertion, depression, darkness and desolation with God’s spoken words, God’s declarations that are true and right!”
CHAPTER 5 -To know the end we must know the beginning
“We have no excuse of not knowing the end because God has taken the end and hidden it in the beginning!”
“To me, the key that unlocks end times is found in Isaiah which says: Remember the former things of old…there is none like Me; declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done…” (Isa.46:8-10)
“EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED IN THE BOOK OF DANILE WILL BE REPEATED IN THE END TIMES”
CHAPTER 6 -Intensified suffering means intensified miracles, signs and wonders
“As Daniel travailed in prayers on earth, angelic activities prevailed in heaven!”
“The ‘open heaven’ coming our way when God’s fullness is experienced is as sure as the coming of the days of tribulation!”
“We must recognize that Daniel symbolizes a corporate group of God’s people who must rise up in these end times to engage themselves in purposeful and relentless prayers.”
“This is why God told us to be a generation of priests -why have we forsaken our destiny? If the church is not a kingdom of priests ministering to God and apprehending His fullness for the nations of the world, what then is the church?”
“Remember, as long as the hands of Moses, representing the prayers of the nation, were lifted up towards heaven, Israel has the upper hand over the Amalekites.”
“To watch and pray means we pray with the word of God into every situation and see all present situations as God sees them. We keep our spiritual antenna up and we are to be alert to present signs and world events.”
“Pray with intensity and pray fervently, which means your spirit, soul and body must be in agreement.”
CONCLUSION -we are now in the end times
“The end has certainly begun…twenty-four hours a day God’s ears are bombarded by the outcries of sin in the nations of the world but He wants to hear prayers, confessions, supplications but they seem to be getting lesser and lesser.”
“May God…also give you the courage to change and prioritize your time to pray, to be ‘thrown in’ together with this great network of intercessors spanning both heaven and earth.”
“You must heed the final call to fight, to enter into godly travail by praying, pleading, declaring…”
“So many people complain of being lonely…But when we are bonded up with God and threaded together into His prayer network and are aware that prayer has eternal validity, it will rid us of all loneliness.”
“Safety is definitely not the absence of danger but the presence of God, but this presence is not to be taken for granted. We need to spend time to be connected with Him and to bring His presence into where we are.”
what does today’s watchman do?
What does a watchman do today? He does not have a trumpet to blow. He does not stand at the high watchtower of a city and warn the residents of approaching danger if any. Today there is no necessity for such a job. Technological advancement has made such a task redundant. Of course we do have professionals who sit in the control rooms of nations and monitor the sky or sea or land by watching digital signals. Watchmen for physical threats to a city or a nation are unseen technicians today. But what does a spiritual watchman do?
Similarly, his or her physical activities have changed. He or she will do a lot of writing if given a space. His calling is exactly the same as those of old. The word of God has not changed. His target audience will be the same, those who need warning. He will obey the order of the supreme King, God. His source of signals is the Lord through the Holy Spirit who communicates to him in his spirit and in the word of God. Like the olden times watchman, his has to blow a trumpet. In this case he writes to his audience. The Holy Spirit opens a space in communication and his job is to write to the right people at the right time in the right word.
A watchman today does more writing than talking (blowing a trumpet). Writing is the way that God speaks to human being, as He does through the Bible. The writer (of a psalm) below states in words clearly why he has to write, for who he is writing and the contents of what he writes. He actually writes about events and testimonies concerning of human beings. Yet, the focus is on three themes: the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. he is writing for the children and the children’s children yet to be born. The purpose is that they can in turn teach their children about God. God wants His people not to forget Him and His wonderful works in their lives, “That they may set their hope in God,
And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments;” becomes a generation that sets its heart aright and is faithful to God.A watchman asked the Lord, “How shall I ensure that your audience read my writing?” The answer, “I ensure. You just see, listen and write.” He obeyed and stepped out in faith. Indeed, Doors have opened and he can not stop writing.
Here are the Bible verse received by a called watchman at midnight, Ezekiel 33 and Psalm 78. Please read the whole chapters.
~~~~~~~~~~~Ezekiel 33:1-6 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their watchman, 3 when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people, 4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will save his life. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’
~~~~~~~~~~~~~Psalm 78:1-8 Give ear, O my people, to my law;
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings of old,
3 Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children,
Telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.
5 For He established a testimony in Jacob,
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers,
That they should make them known to their children;
6 That the generation to come might know them,
The children who would be born,
That they may arise and declare them to their children,
7 That they may set their hope in God,
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments;
8 And may not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not set its heart aright,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
The Jesus Generation
Some years back, we read of people born in different periods being classified as generation X or generation Y etc. The social classifiers (mostly commercially linked) tried to put people into periods with distinct market related characteristics (for the sake of selling the right consumption products to each niche people market) by the chronological years in which they were born. This watchman did a bit of market-related study on such classifications then. Of course nothing of original note or unique worthiness came out of the study. Any serious researcher will admit that there are no fixed factors. One famous management saying at one time was, “The only constant is change.” Having been in the management scene practically all of my corporate years, I have learned this important fact and principle: “Do not attempt to presume and classify an individual.”
Because this is not a management blog, I will proceed to share of some recent testimonies of Christian individuals I have met who have lived a fruitful life in the Kingdom of God and have never fit into any ‘sociology-commercial’ or ‘pseudo-psychology’ categories.
I have been honored and blessed to meet with a godly couple. A medical (dentistry) doctor and his wife who used to be a professional nurse until she became a full-time housewife cum intercessor. When I listened to their sharing I was humbled and touched. The man (now in his mid-fifties) came from a Christian family and went through the whole journey of being in Sunday school, junior and senior youth in the church. When he attended university, he was exposed to and discipled by many Christian theological and Bible-focused scholars and practitioners. He was also given many opportunities to serve the Lord in various Great-Commission-oriented evangelical ministries. After graduation he heard from the Lord, “Give Me your best 25 years.”
He went back to his hometown, started his dentistry practice (as a ‘tent-maker’) and resumed serving as an elder in his home church. He continued this ministry for thirty years to date. When I interviewed him I perceived his unwavering and ever-burning zeal and passion for the Lord and the Great Commission given by Jesus to the disciples. His wife and his children (two medical doctors and one dentist) too serve the Lord actively. This is a family of disciples of Jesus. Their affluence and professional successes have not diverted them from their first love.
The head of the house shared how he was overwhelmed by the great love of God in the form of brilliant light twice in his life, comforting him at his depressed moments when he felt such burdens on his shoulder from the external environment in spiritual valley (family and church lives not being what he wanted them to be). He shared how the love of God changed his perspectives.
What generations are they? They are members of only one generation -the Jesus generation. The Child of God generation. They are timeless. They live the characteristics of the Kingdom of God people.
Hear God’s Voice (resources)
“Hearing the voice of the Lord is probably the single most important element in having a victorious Christian life after being born-again. The Lord knows all things and will show us things to come. There is no problem that His wisdom can’t solve. If we can tap into His heart by hearing Him speak to us, all would be different.” (Andrew Wommack)
This watchman has written two previous posts (03/02/2014 & 08/02/2014) on hearing God through the Holy Spirit (watchman’s life: hearing the Holy Spirit 1 & 2). here are some excerpts: One essential key to the watchman responding to God’s call is that he must listen to God’s voice. Hearing is an important key success factor. Hearing accurately and obey faithfully regardless of self. (I then used the life of prophet Samuel as one example) Yet, we do not hear God. The agenda in our own thoughts hinder us. What shall we do? Keep on listening. Listen until you hear Him inside you loud and clear, not audibly but in your heart (spirit). You will be surprised just as the disciples were surprised when they saw Jesus walking on water, calming the storm, wind and sea, multiplying physical resources, in addition to carrying out the simple routine like healing the sick and casting out demons. We have the Word. The Word is Jesus Himself. We can hear Him through reading His word.
I also posted on 02/07/2009 Andrew Wommack’s audio teaching on “How To: Hear God’s Voice By Andrew Wommack”
you can access and download at the following audio, video and article links:
https://www.awmi.net/audio/audio-teachings/?teaching=how-to-hear-gods-voice
http://www.awmi.net/extra/article/gods_voice
https://www.awmi.net/video/tv-archives/?yn=2004&wn=50&dn=4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Links to my former posts:
https://kzlam36.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/time-to-hear-gods-voice/
https://kzlam36.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/watchmans-life-hearing-the-holy-spirit-1/
https://kzlam36.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/watchmans-life-hearing-the-holy-spirit-2/
https://kzlam36.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/today-the-spirit-man-hears-and-speaks/
https://kzlam36.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/todays-verses-for-watchman/
https://kzlam36.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/how-to-hear-god-and-use-the-word-of-god-to-heal/
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