11-6-08 am
One of the things that I’ve been reading in the Bible, that the Lord has been giving me, is in the 2nd chapter of the book of Revelation. It talks about people that have lost their first love. Then He says to go back in time and remember when it was that you fell away from the Lord. What sin was it that you committed? Was it a picture that you saw? Was it some form of persecution or something like that? Then He says in the 50th Psalm to take heed to praise and thank the Lord for giving you this information in regard to how to get right with the Lord so He can bless us.
If there is sin on people’s souls, there is no way that He’s going to hear the prayers of the people. So everybody has to repent. The 2nd chapter of Revelation is talking about the church of Ephesus. It says, “Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place [I’ll take your church away], except thou repent” (Rev. 2:5). I started meditating and thinking of all the times when Satan did all this stuff to us. When he took away the church in Dyer, the people were unthankful, and they didn’t give Him glory. They started living a life of family. It’s all family, instead of giving glory to God. People are into family. I get a lot of letters, and they all talk about, “I can’t wait till you get back with your family,” but what people really need to do is get back to God because there won’t be any families if you don’t.
You can say, “Amen,” and brush it off lightly, but too many people are into their families and are not at all into the Lord. I don’t know if people are going to pay attention to this. I got discouraged and Susie got discouraged because people are into families, riches, money from different things that we did, then also the jackets. They started lounging around and not serving the Lord with fire, with zeal. A lot of people got their properties taken away from them, and they got thrown out on the streets. I just want people to receive what the Lord told me. People said, “Amen, amen,” but they got their properties taken away from them. So it wasn’t “Amen.” They were just saying, “Amen,” as a word, but they didn’t really mean it.
The 50th Psalm says, “Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver” (Psa. 50:22). Take heed that you don’t forget God because if you do, He’s going to tear this whole church to pieces, and you’re going to be out on the streets. It’s going to be really bad if you don’t get a hold of God, all of you. You’re praying to God as though you deserve something, but if you’re not giving glory to Him, you don’t deserve anything.
I was reading in the book of Exodus, at the Red Sea, where the Lord states, “Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord” (Exodus 14:13). In the book of Psalms, He says, I’ll show you the salvation of God” (Psa. 50:23), if you don’t have any sin on your souls, and if you’re not just thinking of family. “Family,” I hate that word because the family is actually the family of God, those who are fully in the Spirit and have on the full armor of God and protect themselves with the shield of God whenever fiery darts come at them. Anything that Satan is throwing at us is a fiery dart.