The Light is Quickly Fading

[Praxeas]

Eze 9:3 Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his waist.
Eze 9:4 And the LORD said to him, "Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it."
Eze 9:5 And to the others he said in my hearing, "Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.
Eze 9:6 Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the house.
Eze 9:7 Then he said to them, "Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out." So they went out and struck in the city.
Eze 9:8 And while they were striking, and I was left alone, I fell upon my face, and cried, "Ah, Lord GOD! Will you destroy all the remnant of Israel in the outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?"
Eze 9:9 Then he said to me, "The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For they say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see.'
Eze 9:10 As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads."

[TalkLady]

Tomorrow - Thursday, May 3, 2007 is this year's NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER....Please pray for our country. Pray for our leaders. Please pray for our President and First Lady, our members of congress, state and local leaders, our military leaders, our educational leaders. Everyday should be a day of prayer, but pray especially tomorrow for the leaders of our land. It doesn't hurt to pray for those leaders in other lands, as well.

http://www.presidentialprayerteam.or...me=ndop_enroll

[Scott Hutchinson]

While we live in a dark hour ,I do believe revival is possible ,and a church full of The Holy Ghost can arise and make a difference in our world.

[TalkLady]

Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson

While we live in a dark hour ,I do believe revival is possible ,and a church full of The Holy Ghost can arise and make a difference in our world.

Keep the faith, Bro. Hutchison...Don't lose the vision for revival...We all know that we will perish without a vision. I'm trying to get my vision back. I've spent a little too much time running into brick walls or was that banging my head against the wall. My vision is a little blurry right now, but it can be corrected.

[Scott Hutchinson]

Talk Lady you are apart of Jesus's body are you not ?
Ok the gates of hell can prevail agains't the church ,ok how can the devil come in where the Holy Ghost and The Blood Of Jesus has been applied lest we let him?

[TalkLady]

People can't steal your Grace can they?....I wish someone would preach a message on "Thou Shalt Not Be a Grace Stealer"....or "Grace Stealers". My walk with God is not founded on what is happening around me... Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Right?...or maybe I need to think of it more like 1% what happens and 99% for the reaction. I'm just coming across some hard times spiritually, but things will be better. .........

I'm happy in the Lord anyway and it really doesn't matter what comes my way today,
I'm gonna lift my head up high and say,
I'm happy in the Lord anyway.


God is the judge.. Help me to pray for others. I do declare that I've never seen things like they are today. NOTHING would surprise me anymore about "chuch people"...THE END...NO FURTHER COMMENTS. I released all my frustrations in the above post.

[Scott Hutchinson]

Sister TL hang in there.

[rrford]

Bro. Strange,

What a thought provoking and spirit challenging post. I rarely try to post anything lenghty anymore but your words stirred me a great bit.


Jesus said in John 9:4 "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work."

Contained in those few words we find the Savior Himself giving us an insight into the motivation for diligently doing a work for God. For years I have heard preachers say that "we are racing the rapture and that the world is on a collision course with eternity."

The truth of the matter is that we are not racing the rapture. According to Jesus we are racing against darkness. The night is quickly coming when no man can work. Notice He does not say that the church is gone during the darkness, simply that no effective work can be done in darkness. This truth is further evidenced by the parable of the 10 virgins. While it was day they could prepare and work to be ready for the coming Bridegroom. But as night settled and He appeared, the time of work and preparation was past. No more oil could be bought and no more lamps could be trimmed.

Europe is indeed facing spiritual darkness. England now prides itself on being a post-Christian society. In many ways she has been the precursor to the immorality and liscentiousness that has made it's way across the seas and onto our shores.

Can one have any doubt that America is distancing herself from the glroious light of the Christian Gospel and is embracing the rose colored doctrines of humanism and hedonism? I think not. Twilight arrived several years ago and is quickly yielding to the coming midnight hour. The tragedy is that it seems the church is now in the twilight whole the world slips into utter darkness. We must realize that the words of our Saviour are still true: "The night cometh when no man can work."

Too many worldly preachers are ascending to polluted pulpits preaching a mediocre message to a Laodicean generation of Christians. A sinner cannot be found as we are all "just good people" that have problems. If the ministry cannot return to a passionate anointing then the pew will continue to dim the light of Holy Ghost power. When that light fades then where shall the world turn? Does not the Word say that "If the light that be in thee is darkness, then how great is that darkness?"

Preacher, preach! Return to the illumination of the Holy Writ and the passion inspired by a crucified and resurrected Savior. Saint of God, intercede! Rebuild the altars that brought tears of repentance and reformation into your own life. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.

"Even so, come Lord Jesus!"

[Pastor Keith]

Originally Posted by Brother Strange

How many times have you watched the sun set? Ever notice how rapid the decline of the sun once the bottom of the orb touches the horizon? I love to sit on a beach at sun-set to watch the sun as it slips very quickly below the horizon. Even after the sun sinks beneath the horizon, there is still some light for awhile as the horns of illumination rises up above the horizon.

I would ask all who know how to pray, to pray for our nation. The sunlight of freedom is sinking fast. Unless there be a divine act, to still the sun and to reverse it trek, we will soon be enslaved, as a nation, into total darkness, darkness worse than Stalin's Russia of the 1930s and 40s, worse than Chairman Mao Tse Tung's China of 1950s and 1960s. Life in Cambodia during the time of the Killing Fields can only compare for all who hold freedom dear and especially all who claim to be Christians.

The only preserving power is the power of the Spirit found in the church; a church that is alive and awake. Alas! Alas! The church in general has been deceived and rocked to sleep by blind leaders of the blind deceiving and being deceived who would rather have their ears tickled and who are gratified by ear tickling preaching rather than the clarion prophetic call from ecclesiastical iniquity.

Thanks to them, America, the land born of prayer, tears, blood, and righteousness, 'neath the mighty outstretched hand of God, is almost lost forever...yes, thanks to them. The voice of the Prophets, if there are any left, would not be welcome in the pulpits of this lusty prayerless age of instant gratification of self-loving leaders. They have been fairly well amputated from the body of Christ by fellowship loving, self-aggrandizing, deceiving leaders who themselves would not know how to recognize an Elijah or would they want to endure the presence of such a peculiar man of God. Don't expect to see one in the modern church's pulpit. They are not there. They are gone...maybe forever.

I beg all of you that have any power of prayer left in you at all...to pray. Call on your churches to pray. Call on your friends and neighbors to pray. Pray for this nation. Europe is already gone. There is no turning back for her. But there is still a little light left here. It is not too late for it to rise again, even from the Western horizon to shine again upon the land of the free. I have seen the sun ready to sink beneath the horizon of the distant sea...and I stood upon the sand of the sea.

In this pleasure mad, fellowship loving, itching ear church world, it would be impossible for you to comprehend the horrors that are soon to befall us all unless Jehovah-Sabaoth comes with his army to roll back the night that is soon to come. It would be impossible to imagine those pending horrors that are soon to come...soon to come. But, if God totally turns his back on us as a nation, seeing nothing worth salvaging, the zealots will come to try to save her, but like the zealots of Jerusalem during the time of Josephus as told by him, they will give their patriotic lives in death, but to no avail. You cannot imagine the horror that is upon us.

If you know anyone that can pray, call upon them to pray for our nation.

Bro. Strange

I think all the of the church within the church is feeling this urgency. My church that I pastored and started may not like me after Sunday, I feel such an urgency to preach conviction, repentance and living in righteousness. While I may not root up the tares, after Sunday they will do some soul searching to make sure that they are wheat. That is my duty and obligation as a shepherd.

[Sister Alvear]

Yesterday there were communist marches in the city where I live...