Friday, 29 July 2016

Call To Solemn Assembly - Tough Times Require Tough decisions & Actions

Joel 1: 14 “Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. Bring the elders and all the people of the land into the temple of the Lord your God, and cry out to Him here.”

It time to sound the trumpet for ourselves and call ourselves or members to a solemn assembly. We are in very difficult or tough times indeed; challenges in every area of life - social, economic, religious and so on, and this is in almost every nation. To pretend like one has not noticed is to lie to one’s self because it is in our faces. These are definitely perilous times. There is only one hiding place - under the shadow of The Almighty. People leave home as they would normally, but some never return because they were murdered. Reports of mass murders, kidnapping are rife and in our part of the world, ritual killing is so common these days so that stories about the shedding of human blood now seem normal. Hardly a day passes that we don’t wake up to the news of some killing in some part of the world or the other. Things that were linked with uneducated and/or uncivilized societies are now a normal part of our world and perpetuated by highly educated people. This is not normal. It is all demonic and vile; instigated by satan whose agenda has always been to rule both mankind and the world and take as many as possible to hell. Sometimes, it feels like rapture has happened and we missed it but God forbid that it should be the case. Believers cannot continue like people who do not understand the times and as such do not know what we ought to do. We do not need any special gift of discernment to know what we ought we to do. It is time to draw closer to God and yield to Him so that He can reign in and through us.  

1 Chronicles 12: 32 “From the tribe of Issachar, there were 200 leaders of the tribe with their relatives. All these men understood the signs of the times and knew the best course for Israel to take.”

2 Corinthians 2: 11bamp “To keep satan from getting the advantage over us: fro we are not ignorant of his wiles and intentions.”

We cannot continue like we did in the past. Times have changed; nothing is like it was and to pretend like they are, is to lie to ourselves. We must wake up to the reality of our times. We must make definite choices and our choices must tell of whom we have elected to serve. It is time for those who elect to serve God to make their stance obvious; so obvious that no one who knows us is confused about whom we serve. These present times make no room for dilly dallying; we must walk in The Truth so that we may be who we ought to be and rightly positioned to do what we ought to do. If indeed God is our God then we have to begin to live in Him. There is no doubt that living in Him is warfare. Standing for Christ gets tougher by the day; the host of hell is obviously working assiduously to populate hell but we must resist the devil. It is time to expend energy resisting him instead of fighting over issues that mean nothing.  Let us cease to waste the grace that God gives for us to stand and go forward in Him on silly things. There is no time like this to put on the whole armor of God that He may through us demonstrate His power. We can’t be effective just preaching the word of God and not living it. We must take up to the challenge of living according to the faith that we proclaim. There is no doubt that rapture is nearer now than when we first believed so we need to be circumspect. We must be wise enough to stop paying lip service to loving Christ.

1 Corinthians 4: 20 “For the kingdom of God is not just a lot of talk; it is living by God’s power.”

1 John 5: 19 “We know that we are children of God and that the world around is under the control of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us understanding so that we can know the true God. And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God, and he is eternal life.”

The world is unaware of this truth that is revealed to us. This unawareness makes it impossible for them to understand what believers understand concerning God and even the times that we are in; we who understand must do what we need to do. We act like we are too busy to do the needful but a time is coming when it will be too late to do it and yet all the money one has accrued from all the busyness will mean nothing. It is time to fall on our knees, cry out to our God for ourselves and nation and take a stance for Him also.  We must stop seeking entertainment in church but instead fellowship together and with our God as we gather unto Him. We can’t afford to be like the virgins who forgot to put oil in their lamps because the bridegroom took a while coming. We are in a fight and very fierce one. The weapons we have for this fight are not carnal so we need to take on our spiritual weapons for a battle that must be fought in the spirit so we can increase our chances of partaking in the victory that Christ won for us. Don’t wait for someone else to call you to order; please call yourself or members to order.

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