January 25th, 2017
VERSE: “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?”(Matthew 7:22)
EQUATION: Self-propelled activity for God is NOT equal to the Obedience of the Elect
ACTION: Time for more than a sound check. It is time for a spiritual gut check. We see this all the time. Church workers, in just about any church in the west, so busy “doing things for God” that God Himself is left out of the picture. Both men and women are guilty of this and sometimes you wonder if some of these people are truly saved, because it sure does not show in their actions, which while great and positive – from feeding or clothing the poor, to ministering to the sick – are NOT what gets a person into Heaven. Way beyond time now, to check yourself before you wreck yourself.
PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Prince of Peace, Who giveth the true peace which passes ALL understanding, we ask right now that if there is someone who thinks busy work in the best of bible-believing churches, and even worse – THEIR busy work is what Christianity is all about, Lord we pray right now that You convict them first of their deadly error and secondly, send a deep sense of their lost nature. Give them a true conviction to really know You and not ABOUT You, Lord. Give them the lasting overwhelming sense of Who You are – the Facts; that is is by Grace through Faith, that they are saved, and nothing they think they’re doing FOR You, even if they’re doing it with great flourish and are successful at it….and Lord, it is not what they FEEL that is critically significant, but it is by KNOWING YOU and not ABOUT YOU, they will avoid hearing these dreadful words as they pass from this life into eternity. Lord we pray for complete and real regeneration, a heart change, even as they work in Your fields here on earth, so that they may finally have a relationship with the one true God, the only relationship which will ever matter, and that is one with the Ever-loving, Everlasting one True God in Heaven, in Jesus Strong and Holy Name we plead and pray, amen and amen.
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January 25th, 2017
VERSE: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter”.(Matthew 7:21)
EQUATION: A person + Not born again in this Life = Eternally Separated from God on Judgment Day
ACTION: These words from Matthew 7:21, from the Great Judge Himself -Jesus- are, and will be the scariest words ever spoken. Make sure RIGHT NOW, that you or someone close you know, are NOT the one to whom they are spoken.
PRAYER: Oh great God and Father in Heaven, Who has given ALL men the means by which we must be saved, we cry out right now, first on our own behalf, that we are 100% right with You, that our sins are forgiven and that we have been accepted into the Family of God through accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Master of our lives. We pray now, for those who have deluded themselves their entire lives, and we pray that they, while there is still breath in their bodies, that they come to a realization of their lost estate before You. Lord we pray they have that moment, or they may even encounter someone who will cause a pause for reflection that if they were to stand before You and You would ask them “why they should be let into Heaven”, that the right answer will be given. Father, so many people think they are Christians or going to Heaven, because they prayed a sinner’s prayer or went to church on Christmas Day or that they were born in a certain country. Open their eyes Lord! Open their dark hearts that they may see themselves as they truly are, before it is too late for them and bring their first awakening of the spirit in the inner man, that leads to repentance and acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and ruler of their lives. We pray and cry out right now, in His Precious and Holy Name, amen and amen.
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