First of all, I break the power of every spirit of blindness and deafness that has tried to come against you that would even begin to try and hinder you from receiving the Truth in what you are about to read.
In that place I speak eyes to see and ears to hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying and doing.
With that said…
You can throw away applying that whole “if my people” verse to your life and to the character of God in the new covenant.
Everybody quotes that to try and back up their ‘praying for revival’ meetings…completely ignoring the context of the verse.
The “if my people” is the second part of a sentence.
Religion only quotes half a verse.
See for yourself:
***”When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, ***
…if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” – 2 Chron 7:13-14
God doesn’t shut up the heavens or command locusts to devour the land or send plagues among people in the new covenant.
Sorry to burst your bubble but you’ve been fed religious lies and traditions of man that make the Word of God of no effect (Mark 7:13) and that set aside the commands of Christ to go and BE revival to the world around you (Matthew 10:7-8, Luke 10:8-9, Matthew 28).
In the new testament,
- He has ALREADY forgiven our sins (1 John 2:2)
- He always hears from Heaven if we ask in His name (John 14:14)
- We don’t have to seek His face because His face is Jesus (Hebrews 1:3) and Jesus lives in us
- It is now OUR job to heal the land (Luke 10:8-9)
If Jesus is the expressed perfect will of the Father (Heb. 1:3)…
…and He said “follow me” (Matthew 4:19)…
…and if we really are like Jesus in this world (1 John 4:17)…
…and if He never instructed the disciples to go and hold massive prayer/fasting campaigns BEFORE they went out and reached their world with the authority, love, and power of Christ…
…or SO THAT God could pour out His Spirit (considering He already did in Acts chapter 2)….
…and if God commanded US to be the ones to DEMONSTRATE justice, SHOW mercy, and SHOW compassion (“This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.’ – Zech. 7:9)…
…why are we asking God to SEND justice and HAVE mercy?
Why do we do all these things?
Because that’s what we were taught to do?
Because that’s what the vast majority of Christendom does?
Because of a dream that “God” gave someone?
Or a vision?
That for some reason doesn’t seem to line up with the New Testament’s model of reaching out to the world?
The vast majority of the world was taught and aggressively believed that the world was flat until someone came around who could prove it was round.
People did not get angry because the world was round.
They got angry because the world WASN’T flat and they realized that which they had believed was false.
Someone came along who was able to prove that the overwhelming majority had been duped.
The same way that Martin Luther was able to Scripturally prove that the Catholic church was steeped in error.
And the murderous persecution that arose because of it, regardless of the proclamation of Truth (in both situations) was absolutely crazy.
But am I the only one that seems to think that something is off with the way that most people think of how we are supposed to do life as a Christian?
Or how we should go about seeing ‘revival’ in our nations?
Awaken, Church of Jesus Christ.
Take off the blinders. You have been duped.
Should we, or should we not, model our lives and ministry after Jesus Christ, who Himself is the Chief Cornerstone (Eph. 2:20)?
So is it, or is it not safe then to say that to add extra-biblical commands to Jesus’ methods of doing things is dangerous, deceptive error?
There has been built a church culture focused and centered around sacrifice (prayer/fasting/worship).
God doesn’t want your sacrifice.
He doesn’t like all the festivals. He doesn’t like all the conferences. He doesn’t like all the meetings. Why?
Because the church culture has created an environment that is meeting-centric and revolves around them, rather than actually taking action and doing what God has called us to.
He wants US to demonstrate His love and power to the world. He wants US to show justice and mercy to the world…not to keep asking Him to do it for us. That is extremely irresponsible.
Don’t believe me?
“I hate, I reject your festivals, Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies.
“Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them;
And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings.
“Take away from Me the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.
“But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
- Amos 5:21-24 (NASB)
And a more modern translation:
“I can’t stand your religious meetings.
I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions.
I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals.
I’m sick of your fund-raising schemes, your public relations and image making.
I’ve had all I can take of your noisy ego-music.
When was the last time you sang to me?
Do you know what I want? I want justice—oceans of it. I want fairness—rivers of it. That’s what I want. That’s all I want.” – Amos 5:21-24 (MSG)
He wants your life. He wants you to go out and re-present Jesus to the world. Not to huddle in prayer meetings and listening to messages from pulpits on Sundays and Wednesday nights.
There is no “coming great harvest and revival”. It’s available NOW. We just have to go reap it!
Jesus addressed this:
“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? (i.e. ‘revival is coming…’)
I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. – John 4:34-35
The only time Jesus prayed from a place of lack was here:
“Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” - Matthew 9:35-38
And here:
“He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” - Luke 10:2
Now before you say, “That’s what we’re praying for!”, look at the next verse:
“Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.” – Luke 10:3
He told them to pray for harvesters to be sent out. And then He sent them out too.
No need to pray for Him to come.
He was here before you got here.
You have no more excuses.
He wants your obedience, even though that’s almost like a curse word in most “Christian” circles (John 14:15, Hebrews 10:5-8, 1 Samuel 15:22, Luke 11:27-28, John 14:21, John 14:23, John 15:10, John 15:13-14, Matthew 7:21-23, James 1:22).
Time to change the world and set people free!
Wakey…wakey..
