Your King is Calling

The Spirit calls. Today I am so thankful. The Holy One reminds me that for most of us in the U.S.A. our boundaries have fallen in pleasant places. We live in a protected land, with blessings too numerous to count, established on a Biblical foundation unlike any other nation, and I am grateful.

The persecution that our brothers and sisters around the world have faced for their belief in Jesus Christ hasn't yet risen to the level of life and death here in America.

While our freedoms are being being casually legislated away, the real persecution has been more circumstantial and simply an invasion of our comfort zones. Our enemies are the faceless phantoms who have provided busy schedules and distractions galore so we will not take up arms against them. These represent the "persecution" of our faith....and the anesthesia to keep us from being a threat.

The Spirit is calling to the Church, "wake up from your slumber, Your KING is calling"!

The Holy Spirit reminded me that Jesus told Peter, about His Church, in Matt 16:18"The gates of Hades will not overcome it." The Spirit is calling, "Your boundaries have fallen in pleasant places but now it's time to take the fight to the enemy."

He showed me a picture of the gates of Hades. From our side they are like splintered, dilapidated wood. But from the inside, where people are trapped they look like impenetrable walls of bronze. If we do not storm the gates, which we have the power in Christ Jesus to do, then many will be lost forever to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Compromise, appeasement and apathy all create a lukewarm church, a sleeping church, a "dead" church. The only One who can wake the dead is the Holy Spirit. He is the Fire from Heaven who will burn up the sacrifice...(you and me, as the "Church") and change our apathy forever. We each have a role to play in storming the gates. The battle is raging, the time is short and we need to wake up.

I pray the Spirit's fire will descend upon the church in America so we will be remembered at the end for having gone out in a "blaze of glory" in honor of our King, Jesus. What is your part to play in these end times?

The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?