PROPHETIC ALARM: As The Day Draws Near

 My motivation for the things I am sharing:

- I fear God. (Eccl. 12:13)

- I will not cease to pray for you and tell you the truth. I’m committed to it. (1 Sam.12:23)

- I exercise myself to have a conscience void of offense towards God and men. Thus, if I truly love you and are interested in your welfare, I owe you the truth even if it is at the detriment of your liking me. (Acts 24:16)

I’ve been privileged to see into the coming days. What I want to share is applicable to you wherever you are based.

“In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes”. (Judges 17:6), “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes”. (Judges 21:25, see also 1 Cor. 14:33,40) As long as everybody does whatever is right in their own eyes, satan will take advantage and there can’t be progress.

This was the state of the Israelites, they did what they liked. There was no order. You can be born again but still living your own life. (Prov. 16:25)

Please note these points as I received from the Lord

- We have to deliberately prepare for the coming days because it’s getting closer and closer than we think. There are character and structures that cannot accommodate the coming days. You have to upgrade and improve.

- Don’t be taken unawares

- Don’t settle for regrets of what you could have done and being but did not

“…but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth”. 1 Timothy 3:15

From the above scripture, we can deduce the following;

- How you can function with or without supervision

- How that all your years of being in church and coming to church will not be in vain.

“For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established”. Romans 1:11

What is the way out?

“Trust and Obey, for there’s no other way, to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey”. The words of this song are very true and ever relevant. What you are facing is not the problem, the real problem however is in your attitude toward God.

- Trust, obey fully and willingly God’s word-the principles of scriptures, be committed to it without any reservation because God is faithful, reliable, dependable, follow the dictates of the Spirit

- The only place of safety, deliverance, salvation, preservation, is in Christ Jesus. Be deliberate in partnering with God, be intimate with Him. Don’t be selective (in obedience, participation), withdraw or compromise because that’s the easiest thing to do in these times. It is the time to walk with God and cooperate with Him.

- This is not the time to be independent or isolated but to be totally dependent on Him. Every time God allowed Israel to go through difficult and terrible times, it was for one purpose only, to walk intimately with Him.

Some practical steps as it applies to us

- When service or program is going on and you are not around. How do you feel? What you feel is a pointer to your state.

- What do you do when you miss a service or program? Do you get the message to listen?

We mustn’t lose sight of the real parameter to measure and what we truly are.

“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching”.  (Hebrews 10:23-25) As the day is getting closer, it will be getting harder and harder and becoming more difficult to gather but we must.

“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart”. As we are getting closer and closer to the due season, weariness will be setting in. (Gal.6:9, see also Matt. 24:12)

The system of this world was not designed to make serving God easy.

There are certain cultures we must outgrow now and those we must grow into and imbibe, such as;

- You cannot come to church only when it’s convenient for you. You mustn’t lose the culture of coming to church regularly and early. We must revive it. You have to forbid the spirit of Sunday, Sunday Christianity. Weekday service is no less important.

- Make attendance and punctuality a must

- Pay attention to the message, listen again and again. (Romans 10:17). If the enemy succeeds in stopping you from coming to church and listening to the message, He has succeeded. Fulfilling your destiny is tied to the message.

- Deliberately apply the message to your life. “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves… But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does”. (James 1:22-25) The blessing is in doing the work that the word demands of you. “Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all”. (1 Tim. 4:15, see also Acts 2:41, Luke 6:46-49)

To take what God is saying for granted is to take God for granted.

The focus, tenacity that this ministry is known for, should be evident in your life also.

“Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct”. (Heb. 13:7)

Thus, in running your home, life, business, who are you following?

- As a member of this Assembly, you have the liberty of participating in the Kingdom activities

going on in this house, the prayer structures, e.g. prayer watch, units etc.

- Where is your commitment in all the various openings in this house concerning giving? When you

are not giving to the things of God the way you ought, you are cheating yourself.

- It is spiritual to honour genuine men of God. In giving, let’s come to the reality of the work.

Don’t behave as if we are handling change here or that we are not doing anything here. The work

is growing. It demands some good money.

On the Issue of Tithing, if you claim not to believe in tithing and you are not giving regularly,

then you are wicked and hindering God’s work. But if you claim not to believe in tithing but

everything about your life is God’s and He tells you how to apportion what comes into your hand,

that is good. Give regularly, consistently and gladly.

We don’t levy because we are emphasizing spirit-led giving as it entails in the Bible.

The fact that we are not talking doesn’t mean there are no needs.

 “For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance

“For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" (Esther 4:14) If you will not rise and take your place, God will send help from another place.

“He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is

unjust also in much”. (Luke 16:10)

You are blessed to be a blessing and not to be comfortable. And it is on His terms not on

yours.

(Read Deut. 8:1-20, Mal. 2:1-2, mind what you are saying about your time, money, your

life.)

Every greatness has a genuine history.

Remember the ten virgins- five were wise and five were foolish.

God expects faithfulness from us. (Matt. 24:44-46)

Prayer

- May your testimony not be in the past

- May you not know a better yesterday

- And may another not take your place nor wear your crown.

(All of these scriptures is a call for us to serve God. Romans 12:11, Isaiah 1:19 & 20, Job 36:11,

Exodus 23:25)

"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor

about your body, what you will put on. Matthew 6:25-34- Amp) If you stay in obedience with God

today, tomorrow is taken care of.

Concluding scriptures

(Read Hebrews 3:1-19, Job 22:21-30, Acts 3:19, Revelation 2:4-5, 3:11,19-20, Hebrews 12:22-

29, Luke 12:45-49)

Prayer

I have ears and I hear what the Spirit is saying to me. Revelation 2:7