Asked of all Pastors, Apostles, Evangelists, Prophets, Teachers...anyone who has a Ministry of any kind. Anyone who has a church large or small. God is asking this question this morning: "Are you willing to lay it all down, to give it all up, to place it on the altar for burning until there is only ash left, nothing recognizable if I ask you to? Are you willing to bring your Issac to the altar if I call? Will you be offended if everything you have worked for ends up falling into the sea and is destroyed? IF the price of global awakening is the destruction of all you hold dear, are you willing? If the only thing left for you is MY Holy Spirit living in you and the word of God on your tongue, if all else is stripped away, are you prepared to be MY Man or Woman of God? Before you reply, you will be required to give up everything to be called of me. Are you desperate enough for awakening, (no longer calling for revival), to pay any price, go any where, do anything I call you to do?"
Bob Jones said about the years to come:
I believe that 2013 will begin the greatest harvest of all time, which will continue to increase. By 2017 I believe there will be a harvest so awesome that man has no idea how to comprehend what it will be.”
He is right on...but the harvest will come out of a great desperation. To the standing wheat and corn the harvester looks like pain and crushing. It is, but it is what must happen for the harvest to come in. To harvest Corn and Wheat, first the stalk must be cut of at the root. Giving up your church and ministry to be part of this will be more painful than many will be prepared for.
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I've been reading Isaiah 9, (prompted in part to hearing of The Harbinger), and I read of the devastation to come. But there was a key phrase that gripped me "Yet His hand is outstretched still".
Just one sampling from vs 18-21: Surely wickedness burns like a fire;it consumes briers and thorns,it sets the forest thickets ablaze,so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
By the wrath of the Lord Almighty the land will be scorched
and the people will be fuel for the fire; they will not spare one another. On the right they will devour,but still be hungry;
on the left they will eat,
but not be satisfied.
Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring: Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh;together they will turn against Judah.
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still outstretched.
In my meditation, I could hear the Lord speak: When people become fuel for the fire, could you still see my hand outstretched still? When man feeds on the flesh of their offspring, will you still see my hand outstretched still? When the fire becomes so thick and the land becomes scorched and hunger is never satisfied, will you still see my hand outstretched still?
If we are complaining now, how will we survive then?
"If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan? Jeremiah 12:5
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