Tag: righteousness

Prophetic Preaching A. W. Tozer

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If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half, there must appear a new type of preacher. The proper, ruler-of-the-synagogue type will never do. Neither will the priestly type of man who carries out his duties, takes his pay and asks no questions, nor the smooth-talking pastoral type who knows how to make the Christian religion acceptable to everyone. All these have been tried and found wanting. Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be of the old prophet type, a man who has seen visions of God and has heard a voice from the Throne. When he comes (and I pray God there will be not one but many), he will stand in flat contradiction to everything our smirking, smooth civilization holds dear. He will contradict, denounce and protest in the name of God and will earn the hatred and opposition of a large segment of Christendom. Such a man is likely to be lean, rugged, blunt-spoken and a little bit angry with the world. He will love Christ and the souls of men to the point of willingness to die for the glory of the One and the salvation of the other. But he will fear nothing that breathes with mortal breath. This is only to say that we need to have the gifts of the Spirit restored again to the Church. And it is my belief that the one gift we need most now is the gift of prophecy.

I am not speaking of the dime a dozen prophets of today, but holy men preaching the Word! Today’s prophets want to tell the future, the future is written in the Bible. Prophetic preaching is of two kinds, foretelling (predictive) or forthtelling (declaring the Word.

  • Proclamation over Prediction: addresses the immediate situation
  • Exposition from God’s prospective
  • Strengthen, encourage and comfort
  • Brings a vibrant and holy church, rooted and grounded in the Word of God

I pray God raise up holy men and women of God to proclaim God’s Word in a world of confusion and deception. Standing for righteousness with a holy boldness. If God says it, I believe it and declare it. Amen Rh

Joel – A Prescription for Revival

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Below is a short devotion in outline form for the need and the steps that God proclaimed to the prophet Joel to bring revival to the land. Anyone can plainly see America is on the brink. We need morality and Godliness in our nation. God is so merciful to hear and forgive out sins. Please take a moment to read and pray through the devotion. Remember mercy is not getting what we deserve. 

    A Call To Repentance (Joel 1:13-15)

Warning

a. Gird yourselves and lament, you priests: Joel called the religious leaders to lead the nation in repentance. He told the priests to gird yourselves for repentance, the idea being “prepare to do the work of repentance.”

i. Joel also told them how to do the work of repentance.

· Consecrate a fast: Make getting right with God so important that even eating isn’t significant.

· Call a sacred assembly: Call for God’s people to come together and repent.

· Gather the elders: Bring the elders together to lead in this act of repentance.

· Into the house of the LORD your God: Come to the place where you should meet together with God.

· And cry out to the LORD: Finally, simply cry out to God and trust that He will respond in mercy.

Joel 2:12-17

Action

a. Now, therefore…turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning: Because they heard the warning of judgment, God’s people should repent. It doesn’t make their repentance less valid because they had to be scared into it. The important thing is that they turn back to the LORD in sincerity, and God tells them how.

i. Sincere repentance is to turn to God, and therefore away from our sin.

ii. Sincere repentance is done with all your heart, giving everything you can in surrender to God.

iii. Sincere repentance is marked by action (with fasting) and emotion (with weeping…mourning). Not every act of repentance will include fasting and weeping, but if action and emotion are absent, it isn’t real repentance.

Rend your heart, and not your garments: One expression of mourning in Jewish culture was, and is, the tearing of the clothes. It was a way to say, “I am so overcome with grief that I don’t care if my clothes are ruined and I look bad.” Joel knew that someone could tear their garments without tearing their heart, and he described the kind of heart-repentance that really pleases God.

Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not give Your heritage to reproach: Joel puts a rich prayer of repentance into the mouths of God’s priests. It’s as if the priests should pray with the thought, “How can we persuade God to have mercy on us?”

i. Spare: This implies that God’s people deserve judgment, but they plead for mercy.

ii. Your people: This reminds God that they belong to Him and provides another motivation for mercy.

iii. Do not give Your heritage to reproach: This tells God that mercy to His people will bring Him glory among the nations and that judgment may bring His name into discredit.

Joel 2:28-32

Result

It shall come to pass afterward: After the restoration Joel spoke of previously in the chapter, there will come a time of ultimate restoration and blessing. This latter time will be marked by an outpouring of God’s Spirit on all flesh – not only selected men at selected times for selected duties. Rh

I Still Stand…Until Proven Wrong

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As a born-again Spirit filled believer I understand what it means to stand and walk in faith. I understand that we have the power to come against principalities and power according to Ephesians 6:10-13. I also know that Jesus said in Mark 11 that we could speak to the mountain and it would be removed into the sea.

I am also a man that lives in the real world, and for whatever reason sometimes our prayers do not work. Is it not in the perfect will of God? Is it double mindedness? I don’t know. Saying all that I truly hope that the videos and words sent to me from good and Godly people come true, I pray everyday that God would move heaven and earth to accomplish our prayers for this nation. Normal Americans are appalled at what the ruling class politicians are attempting to do. Stolen election and stifling the 1st Amendment is truly scary. Lockdowns, shut downs, forced vaccinations and thought police roaming the internet taking away our fought for freedoms. That is enough to keep one awake at night. What scares me the most is that God is sovereign and His will trumps (no pun intended) ours. If our hope is not realized, we need to understand we are in a battle for our very lives and way of life. It will be a Warring Church that leads us out of this chaos we seem headed for. To God be the glory. Either way…

We stand with Christ and His Word.

Healing

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It is time we Pray for healing in our Nation.  2 Chronicles 7″14 If my people…. we must pray for the mercy and grace of God for America.  We were founded on Christian freedom and liberty.  Lets’s get back to the basics.  Let’s look at events in the prism of Godliness.  Blessing to all and be safe.

Lord Jesus Heal our Land.