Woe to those who rely on Egypt~Isaiah 31

 

 

RECENT VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE - STIMULUS SERMON

Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see the pews crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get into God's Word. Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will, to the 47th chapter of Genesis. We'll begin our reading at verse 13, and go through verse 27.

Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us? ... (reading) ... Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray. So we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt, and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again.

So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock - their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey - to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only took them through the end of that year. But the famine wasn't over, was it? So the next year, the people came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own lives. "There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh." So they surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain.

What can we learn from this, brothers and sisters?

That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard times only leads to slavery? Yes... That the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master?

Yes. But look how that passage ends, brothers and sisters! Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt , in the land of Goshen . And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly." God provided for His people, just as He always has! They didn't end up giving all their possessions to government, no, it says they gained possessions! But I also tell you a great truth today, and an ominous one.

We see the same thing happening today - the government today wants to "share the wealth" once again, to take it from us and redistribute it back to us. It wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken control of education, and ration it back to us, and when government rations it, then government decides who gets it, and how much, and what kind. And if we go along with it, and do it willingly, then we will wind up no differently than the people of Egypt did four thousand years ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to our leaders.

What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no different from what Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same. And a lot of people like to call Mr. Obama a "Messiah," don't they? Is he a Messiah? A savior? Didn't the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh"? Well, I tell you this - I know the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of mine; and Mr. OBAMA IS NO MESSIAH! No, brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh. Bow with me in prayer, if you will...

Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on You, and You alone. We confess that the government is not our deliverer, and never rightly will be. We read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people of what a ruler would do, where it says "And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day..."

And Lord, we acknowledge that day has come. We cry out to you because of the ruler that we have chosen for ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation. We pray for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters. Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect Your people from the atrocities of Pharaoh's government. In God We Trust...

 

 

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Heavenly Father, Master of the Universe, Creator and Provider of all good things...we THANK YOU for all of your blessings.  May we never forget where these blessings come from.  We REPENT of the many times we have looked to government for our provision when we should only be seeking You.  We are beginning to see now, just like in Isaiah 31, the horrible consequences of relying on fallible mankind.  Please forgive us and redeem us from the clutches of our sin.  We REPENT for ourselves, our families and our nation.  We ask this in the name of Yeshua, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords under which every knee shall bow.  ~Amen

Isaiah 31

Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt

31 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,
    who rely on horses,
who trust in the multitude of their chariots
    and in the great strength of their horsemen,
but do not look to the Holy One of Israel,
    or seek help from the Lord.
² Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster;
    he does not take back his words.
He will rise up against that wicked nation,
    against those who help evildoers.
³ But the Egyptians are mere mortals and not God;
    their horses are flesh and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,
    those who help will stumble,
    those who are helped will fall;
    all will perish together.

Was Mandela a Christian or an Avowed Human Secularist?

Here's the Poem that was posted on the back of Nelson Mandela's Funeral Program.  It was his FAVORITE poem.  Information in Parenthesis are interpretations of the verses:   

INVICTUS (Means "Invincible" in Latin or "Unbowed"---UNREPENTANT)

Out of the night that covers me, (Satan hidden in darkness)
Black as the pit from pole to pole, (the pit of hell darkness brought to Earth)
I thank whatever gods may be (notice NOT God Almighty but thanking "gods")
For my unconquerable soul. (defiance of God's Word refuting any punishment for sin)
In the fell clutch of circumstance (all is random, saying God is not Sovereign)
I have not winced nor cried aloud. (refuses to cry out to God)
Under the bludgeonings of chance (everything is "chance"--Atheist position)
My head is bloody, but unbowed. (refusing to repent)
Beyond this place of wrath and tears (Earth)
Looms but the horror of the shade, (HELL)
And yet the menace of the years (all his earthly life)
Finds and shall find me unafraid. (DEFIANCE--no fear of God)
It matters not how strait the gate, (doesn't follow the straight and narrow road)
How charged with punishments the scroll, (scroll of God's Torah)
I am the master of my fate: (God is not his master, he claims the HE is)
I am the captain of my soul. (ultimate Human Secularist/Atheist position)

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"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
~Matthew 7:15

~Posted with permission by Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly

Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly is the author of Repentance—God’s Strategy to Bless a Nation and Zeal to Repent!—A Key to Personal and National Restoration

–Both are available for FREE at The National Day of Repentance website:  www.dayofrepentance.org

or by emailing him at

jdalylaw@aol.com

Nelson Mandela Antichrist Bracelets for Sale

This will blow you away:

They are selling "bracelets" to support Nelson Mandela's legacy.  The foundation is called:  46664.  This WAS HIS PRISON NUMBER!

This number means = "For" (endorsement of) 666 (# of ANTICHRIST spirit) OR

surrounded by 4's on each end means the FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH

Interpretation:  Bracelets indicate bondage or subservience or linkage to a Master.  This # indicates Mandela's legacy to spread the spirit of the Anti-Christ to the four corners of the Earth.   

See attached photo and see this link.  The devil is not even SUBTLE anymore! 

http://www.46664bangles.com/website/content/index.php

The slogan for this campaign is "46664---It's in our hands."

(It's in our hands???--are you kidding me???)

And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,~Revelation 13:16

John Strummer (fittingly from the band called "The Clash") and U-2's Bono co-wrote the song "46664" for Mandela as part of the campaign against AIDS in Africa.  It is a subliminal SATANIC message reinforcing #666.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFYr4U07kuQ

Let him who has understanding count the number of the Beast

~Revelation 13:18

Revelation 13:18

Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹⁸ Here is [room for] discernment [a call for the wisdom of interpretation]. Let anyone who has intelligence (penetration and insight enough) calculate the number of the beast, for it is a human number [the number of a certain man]; his number is 666.

13=Apostasy

18=Bondage

Let us be aware and not deceived.  The spirit of Anti-Christ is one of MARXISM under the nice sounding, politically correct term of "Socialism" or "Social Justice."  It is nothing more than a re-vamped Communist agenda which promotes the FOUR abominations that will take down entire nations:

1)  Innocent Blood-shedding/Abortion

2)  Sanctification of Perversions within the Temple/Gay Marriage

3)  Removal of God from the Center of Society (Human Secularism, Atheism, Man's Reasoning)

4)  Opposition and Hatred of Israel 

This week Belgium approved by a wide margin of 50-17 to EUTHANIZE CHILDREN:

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/12/belgium-senate-approves-measure-allowing-doctors-to-euthanize-children/

While the world worships this week at the feet of EVIL leaders, let us not unknowingly join the chorus but SOUND THE ALARM. 

These are FACTS (easily researchable) for Nelson Mandela:

1)  He put into place the MOST liberal abortion laws in the world in 1995 for South Africa

2)  He is considered an icon and trail-blazer for the LGBT community

3)  He refused to ever renounce his terrorist activities which killed innocent women and children

4)  He was a Marxist and a Communist

5)  He was a Human Secularist

These are QUOTES/FACTS about "Bishop" Desmond Tutu:

1)  consistent opposition to actions and policies pursued by Israel  (direct quote Wikipedia)

2)  In July 2013, Tutu said that he would rather go to hell than a homophobic heaven:^[121]

3)  He accepted the full legalisation of abortion in South Africa, in 1996, despite some "personal reservations"^[123] 

4)  "God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.”~Desmond Tutu  

It's WAKE UP TIME! 

~Posted with permission by Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly

Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly is the author of Repentance—God’s Strategy to Bless a Nation and Zeal to Repent!—A Key to Personal and National Restoration

–Both are available for FREE at The National Day of Repentance website:  www.dayofrepentance.org

or by emailing him at

jdalylaw@aol.com

Prophetic Warning to Democratic Christian Nations

This message is from a dear sister in Australia: 

I have had a strong sense all along that one of the problems that Christians still tend to leave references to God’s Word out of their arguments against abortion and same-sex marriage.  We express many “educated opinions” about children’s pain, the importance of family, “tradition”,  and other “human logic” reasons based on science and psychology, but we rarely argue as Christians ought: by standing in the authority of Jesus Christ and on the only absolute Truth of God’s Word.  

 

Romans 10 is so relevant here.  “Brethren, with all my heart’s desire and goodwill for Israel, I long and pray to God that they may be saved.  I bear them witness that they have a certain zeal and enthusiasm for God, but it is not enlightened and according to knowledge.  For being ignorant of the righteousness that God ascribes and seeking to establish a righteousness of their own, they did not obey or submit themselves to God’s righteousness (vs 1-3)....they have not all heeded the Gospel; for Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?  For faith comes by hearing (the message), and hearing through the Word of Christ.” (vs 17).

 

There is really only one reason why we should reject homosexual marriage.  And that is because, “God says!”  .

Jer 11: 3:  “Say to them, “Thus sayeth the Lord.” “

If we were willing to humble ourselves before God and man, we would be saying this.

 

We are admonished in Mark 8:38 not to be ashamed of Jesus and His words: “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels”.  I believe the Lord is wanting to convict me, and dare I say all nations, that it is time to let our faith “shine forth as the sun” and to begin to publically speak - TESTIFY and DECREE - the Truth of God’s Word in the name of Jesus Christ.   I can see that some Christians (as a cultural group) generally still carry an immature and cavalier “convict mentality” of being afraid to be seen to say and do what is Very Good and Christian.  In our prideful mentality, most will cringe visibly when the names of God and Jesus are spoken in a serious context.  And we shun being told “the right thing” to do by an authority figure – unless, of course, it’s a famous sports figure!

 

Sadly, even as Christians, we are ashamed to publically speak the name or words of Jesus Christ and we are ashamed to publically testify to the absolute Truth of God’s Word and to the absolute Sovereignty of God the Trinity.  We Christians too often rationalize (ie. rely on a lie or “ration-lies”) our reliance on human argument by saying that we will “put people off” if we are “too religious!”   It’s almost like we think the distance between people (in their sin) and God (in His Purity) is “too far a leap” for the average sinner – so rather than speaking about the Word of God directly we spend a lot of time ‘being nice’ and doing good deeds - but rarely ever stand in the authority of Jesus and pray or speak His Truth directly.  And so we permit ourselves to leave God out of the picture, believing instead in our own powers of persuasion (nice, intelligent words) or manipulation (kind acts) ..... And yet we must surely know that not a single soul – let alone a nation of souls – can be saved by human logic.

 

1 Peter 1: 23:  “You have been regenerated, not from a mortal origin, but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word Of God.”

 

Our rationalizations ‘justify’ our betrayal of our first love (Rev 2: 4) and our ‘tolerance of’ (and silence about) Jezebel (Rev 2:20).  We “are supposed to be alive, but in reality we are dead” (Rev 3:1), so that “what remains is on the verge of dying” (Rev 3: 2), and we have failed to keep God’s Word as we were instructed to do.  We need to willingly enter the Refiner’s fire (ie. walk obediently and by faith in the refining fire of God’s Word alone, as symbolized by Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; this is the only way to ‘shut the mouths of the lions’!!) so that we can ‘truly be wealthy, and receive white clothes to cover our nakedness and salve to put on our eyes so  we can see” (Rev 3: 18).   Zech 2: 5, “For I, says the Lord, will be to her a wall of fire round about, and I will be the glory of the midst of her”.

 

(I had a little revelation yesterday about Jesus using his saliva mixed with mud to heal the blind man...I realized that even Jesus’ saliva – something we would normally expect to be germ-ridden – was so pure. Plus of course His mouth is the Source of His words and of all Truth and Life.  And even mixed with the filthiest dirt, it was sufficient to heal and overcome blindness.  I felt it was a picture of the absolute purity of Christ overcoming the deepest darkness and sin of man.)

 

I believe that unless Christians begin to TESTIFY to their own personal belief in the AUTHORITY and ABSOLUTE TRUTH of God’s Word, and of the consequences of NOT FOLLOWING GOD’S STANDARDS, we will not see a Holy Ghost breakthrough in this land.   The supernatural Power and Authority of Jesus Christ can only be released by speaking and hearing The Word. (Rev 3: 20).  And “the Word of the Lord (divine instruction, the Gospel) endures forever”. ( 1 Peter 1: 25).  Our nation will not be saved through human arguments.  We must go BACK TO BASICS ie. speaking the Truth, according to and in the authority of God’s Word (and not by our own opinions or in our own authority or power as a human being or organization).   This is because God’s Word alone is sufficient!  We are wasting our time and energy using any other means, plus putting ourselves (and our nation) in peril.

 

Jeremiah 23: 29: “Is not My word like fire (that consumes all that cannot endure the test)? Says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks in pieces the rock (of most stubborn resistance)?    

 

We must understand and respond as if this is a SPIRITUAL WAR, not merely an intellectual or even a moral war between men.  The battle is between the supernatural powers of God and His enemy, Satan.  We, as Christians, are commissioned to “armour up” and raise the Sword of God’s Word.  No human methods, no intellectual argument, no philosophical logic or any form of human will, intellect, charm, power or force will win the battle.  These demonic giants will only fall by the supernatural power of our Sovereign God.  David didn’t slay the giant because he was great at using a slingshot!  The giant was defeated by the supernatural intervention and power of Almighty God, which was activated by David’s testimony, public decree, prayer and faith in God and His Word.   

 

We must also understand, as a Church and as a nation, that this battle is not about the single, moral issue being represented at surface level in that law.  This battle is about SAVING THE NATION. 

 

We must ask: “Can a nation be saved in a day?”  Yes, it can! But ONLY BY STANDING IN THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS and UNLEASHING THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT by humbling ourselves before God, repenting of our sin and turning away from it, and zealously wielding the Sword of God in the name of Yeshua Messiah.  The Word of God is what illuminates His Church, separating it from the darkness of the world.  The Light of Christ  is released when the oil (Holy Spirit) within Scripture (symbolized by leaves on the olive tree) is ‘crushed’ (chewed or meditated upon) and released (by speaking it with our mouths).  If we do not speak the Word of God then we remain in darkness and the world cannot see the error of it’s ways.

 

In Revelation 1: 13 we read of the Lord appearing amidst the light of the seven Lampstands, which are the churches.  But He gives warning to each church that their lampstand will be removed if they do not obey by adhering fully to the Word of God.  In Zechariah we read another reference to the power of the lampstand as coming from the oil of God’s Word.

 

Zechariah 4: 2 -7 , 10:  So the angel who was speaking with me answered and said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord." Then he said to me, "This (addition of the bowl to the candlestick, causing it to yield a ceaseless supply of oil from the olive trees (whose leaves are like the scriptures) to the lampstand) is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying, 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts. For who are you, O great mountain (of human obstacles)?  Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain (a mere molehill)!  And he will bring forth the finishing gable stone of the new Temple with loud shoutings of the people, crying "Grace, grace to it!....These seven (churches) shall rejoice when they see the plummet (God’s Standard - mine) in the hand of Zerubbabel”.

 

 

Love and blessings in our Wonderful Yeshua, Who is LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS, NOW AND FOREVERMORE!

 

 ~Posted by permission of Pastor Jeffrey Daly

Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly is the author of Repentance—God’s Strategy to Bless a Nation and Zeal to Repent!—A Key to Personal and National Restoration

–Both are available for FREE at The National Day of Repentance website:  www.dayofrepentance.org

or by emailing him at

jdalylaw@aol.com

Are you a Wise or Foolish Virgin?

Half-Full or Full?

Not all Christians are alike—some have full oil lamps and some without… If you have ever wondered about the difference between the virgins with half-full oil lamps and full oil lamps here are some examples: Matthew 25:4 (KJV) But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Lukewarm Christian (Rev. 3:16)                                                           

Full Oil Lamp--Bride of CHRIST (Eph. 5:27)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Never pursued baptism of HOLY SPIRIT (Matt. 25:3)             

Full Oil Lamp--Pursues baptism of HOLY SPIRIT (Matt. 25:4)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Bible hard to read/stay with (Rev. 3:18)

Full Oil Lamp--Bible comes to life through HOLY SPIRIT eye salve (Rev. 3:18)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Has a form of godliness but denies the power thereof (2 Tim. 3:5)

Full Oil Lamp--Evidence of the SPIRIT within the person: Spiritual gifts (Acts 19:6)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Follows traditions of men (Gal. 1:14)                                         

Full Oil Lamp--Follows the teaching of the HOLY SPIRIT (1 Cor. 2:13)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Seeks self will (or enemy’s will) (John 8:44)                 

Full Oil Lamp--Fully in the Will of GOD (John 5:30)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Not interested in the LORD’s Return (2 Peter 3:4)

Full Oil Lamp--Watching, waiting, excited for the LORD’s return (2 Tim. 4:8)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Interested in works—approval of others (Matt. 23:5)                

Full Oil Lamp--Understands salvation is a free gift you can’t work for (Eph. 2:8-9)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Works FOR salvation (Matt. 7:22-23)

Full Oil Lamp--Works BECAUSE OF salvation (Romans 7:4)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Fights sin unsuccessfully with the flesh and frustration (Gal. 6:8)

Full Oil Lamp--Fights sin successfully by the Power of the HOLY SPIRIT (Gal. 5:24)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Attends a lukewarm church (1 Cor. 2:14)

Full Oil Lamp--Attends churches that welcome the move of the HOLY SPIRIT (1 Cor. 2:10)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Christianity is about religion (Isaiah 29:13)

Full Oil Lamp--Christianity is about relationship (Matt. 7:23)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Seeks GOD once or twice a week at church (Matt. 7:23)

Full Oil Lamp--Walks with GOD everyday as constant companions (James 4:8)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Prays only when crisis comes up (Psalms 78:42)                                

Full Oil Lamp--Prays everyday—throughout the day (1 Thess. 5:17)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Embarrassed by/indifferent to outreach (Mark 8:38)    

Full Oil Lamp--Can’t stop talking about GOD to others (Psalms 34:2)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Seeks the world for answers (Isaiah 31:1)

Full Oil Lamp--Seeks GOD for answers (Psalms 20:7)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Thinks talk of “hell” is too harsh (2 Tim. 4:3)

Full Oil Lamp--Thinks talk of “hell” is necessary (Matt. 18:9)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Makes many future plans (James 4:13-14)

Full Oil Lamp--Knows GOD holds the future (Rev. 1:8)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Uncomfortable with the “supernatural” (2 Tim. 3:5)

Full Oil Lamp--Comfortable that GOD IS “supernatural” (Acts 2:17)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Enjoys secular TV/Music/Movies (Rev. 3:17)

Full Oil Lamp--Hates secular TV/Music/Movies (1 John 2:15)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Trusts in 401ks; bank accounts (Rev. 3:17)

Full Oil Lamp--Trusts in GOD, period (Job 13:15)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Anxious about future (Judges 6:10)

Full Oil Lamp--Lives in peace and calm despite the calamity around (Phil. 4:7)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Seeks worldly knowledge (2 Tim. 3:7)

Full Oil Lamp--Understands childlike faith (Matt. 18:4)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Cares what people think (1 Cor. 2:13)

Full Oil Lamp--Cares what GOD thinks (1 Cor. 2:12)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Thinks we will be here many more years (1 Peter 3:4)

Full Oil Lamp--Knows the signs in the bible line up with the times now (Matt. 24:33-34)

 

Half-Full Oil Lamp--Believes no one knows the day or hour (Luke 12:39)

Full Oil Lamp--Believes THAT BECAUSE no one knows the day or hour THEY NEED TO WATCH! (Matt. 24:42)

~Posted by Permission of Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly

Pastor Jeffrey N. Daly is the author of Repentance—God’s Strategy to Bless a Nation and Zeal to Repent!—A Key to Personal and National Restoration

 

–Both are available for FREE at The National Day of Repentance website:  www.dayofrepentance.org

 

or by emailing him at

 

jdalylaw@aol.com

Who Will Stand?...

“Our God will fight for us”  Nehemiah 4:20

 

I hope you’ll join many of us, ministry leaders and intercessors, now in thirty nations, during all or part of this next National Day of Repentance, set for November 29-30, 2013.

 

It’s called a “National Day of Purity and Humiliation.”   This bold call to the body of Christ first to Australia and now internationally grew out of a prayer to the Holy Spirit for His Wisdom after a Bible study in the House of Prayer For All Nations in Canberra, Australia on November 5.   Politicians in that Australian capitol had just voted for same sex marriage.   We saw this as a key breach in the wall, a spiritual attack on the Christian roots of Australia, earlier declared in prophecy to be part of the “Great Southland of the Holy Spirit.”

 

After prayer we were unified in believing the spiritual attack required the spiritual response found in the promise of 2 Chronicles 7:13-15.  The battle and the victory would be the Lord’s if we, His people, humbled ourselves, prayed, sought His face and turned from our wicked ways.

 

Compared to the Lord’s Purity we all are “wicked” --- as humans we all fall short of the glory of God.   But thanks to His Blood and His Name and His Love, He gives us the privilege of repentance because He loves us  (Revelation 3: 19-21.) He restores our souls; He leads us in His Path of Righteousness for His Name’s sake (Psalm 23:3) because we are made in His image (Genesis 1:27).

 

As Nehemiah pointed out, we pick up idols from the world; we need to “cleanse our rooms.” (Nehemiah 13: 7-9.)  When we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9.  The Holy Spirit chastens us for our profit so that we may be partakers of His holiness.  (Hebrews 12:10.)  And there’s then this blessing:  when we repent we have greater intimacy with Him; His wonderful joy follows repentance !

 

Personal repentance acts as a cultivator to break up the hard ground of secular disbelief in any nation.   It’s also like mortar. As we invite Him into our hearts (Revelation 3:20-21) to help us renounce the old patterns of sin, we build up the fullness of the Spirit of Christ within us and become overcomers. “Humiliation”--- repentance-- is a spiritual “mortar” to rebuild the wall of Purity that the Lord wishes to place around His body of believers all over the world.  We are to be in the world, but not of it.  

 

As thousands of us, maybe someday millions of us, join in a solemn, collective act of repentance on a given day, the lukewarm body of Christ will be rebuilt and strengthened.  No weapon formed against us will prosper; the gates of hell will not prevail against His called out ones.  

 

Question: As in Nehemiah’s time, will you take your place on the “wall?” As a living stone will you add your “mortar” to the wall to strengthen the body of Christ? As His servant will you join us—in your prayer closet, in a Bible study, in a local church service --- at some point during this National Day of Purity and Humiliation?

 

 If so, you and I can count on His promise: “The God of heaven Himself will prosper us, therefore we His servants will arise and build…” (Nehemiah 2:20).

 

God bless you,

 

Pastor Jeff

 
YES PASTOR!...I will pray, fast and repent during The National Day of Prayer & Humiliation (Sunset to Sunset) November 29th-30th. 

Go to:  www.dayofrepentance.org to sign up!

Is America Headed for a Major Earthquake?

Whoa...another powerful message.

 

We in Christian America are supposed to be like Rachel (she represents the Gentile Church). We need to give Leah (rightful Jewish Bride) the "secret sign"---The Holy Spirit who will reveal the Truth of the Messiah to them so they can complete their marriage to the Bridegroom.
 

Instead, we (American gov't) are doing this:
 

http://handwriting-on-the-wall.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-earth-will-tremble.html
 

This will cause the Earth to tremble. Interestingly, God gave me a word awhile back about the "New Madrid Faultline"
 

Recently, I've been studying the Four Blood Moons that correspond with the Hebrew Feasts/Festivals. The oldest one in recent recorded history was 1492 (Remember: in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue!)
 

What most people don't know is during the same exact year that King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella financed Columbus, they were also robbing the Jews of their inheritance, persecuting them and expunging them from Spain. Spain never recovered as a major super-power after this event and today they are morally and financially bankrupt. 
 

The U.S. is the "New Madrid"...our government leaders (Obama/Kerry/Hagel--the unholy American trinity) are trying to rob Israel of their inheritance, persecuting them and trying to expunge them from their rightful lands. We will never recover as a major super power as, we too, will become morally and financially bankrupt from this policy. 
 

Sadly (while I don't like to make "predictions") I humbly believe that if the U.S. is "successful" in forcing Israel into a bad treaty or into giving up "land for peace" we will be badly punished in our "heartland". Here's what Wikipedia says about the New Madrid Faultline in the heartland of the United States:
 

The 150-mile (240 km) long fault system, which extends into five states, stretches southward from Cairo, Illinois; through Hayti, Caruthersville and New Madrid in Missouri; through Blytheville into Marked Tree in Arkansas. It also covers a part of West Tennessee, near Reelfoot Lake, extending southeast into Dyersburg.
 

The meanings of these names are blood curdling.  In "West Tennessee" we have the town of "Memphis". Both "Cairo" and "Memphis" are straight out of the Egyptian geography pages.  The Egyptians were swallowed up from persecuting the Jews.  "Hayti" is another shadow-picture of an Earthquake devastation as "Haiti" recently had the most deadly earthquake in modern times.  "New Madrid" is, of course, a reference to Spain's Jewish persecution. "Marked Tree"!!!!!--Dear Lord please help us--we will be hewn down.   Blythe= lacking due thought or consideration : casual , heedless, blithe unconcern ...
 

Reelfoot Lake is noted for its bald cypress trees and its nesting pairs of bald eagles.
 

 

He cut down cedars, or perhaps took a cypress or oak.~Isaiah 44:14.  This is a repentance scripture. 

We had better repent or we will be HEWN DOWN.  Bald Eagles represent AMERICA.

In the early 20th century the Reelfoot area was marked by widespread lawlessness and "Night Riding."  Literally...God will "reel our foot" back in if we continue treading on Israel. 
 

As for Dyersburg...It sounds like "Die" but it more means "Dye." In the Bible, the word "dyed" comes up most often in reference to the waterproofed skins that were used to cover the Ark of the Covenant. Perhaps, this refers to the "dying and DYE-ing" that will take place in America as we realize the error of our ways after great natural tragedies and dye our garments in the Blood of the Lamb.
 

So....Will America literally be "rent in two" by our evil Israel geo-political policy?  If so, it will happen in our "heartland" on the "New Madrid faultline."
  

~Posted with permission by Pastor Jeff Daly 

National Day of Purity & Humiliation (November 29th-30th)

National Day of Purity and Humiliation

Friday – Saturday, November 29-30^th 2013 from sunset to sunset

Click HERE to commit to Participate

Declaration:

We declare that it’s time to seek God’s Purity for our nation.  We as believers in Christ join together in homes, churches and places of prayer, to worship and focus on the Holiness of our God. We acknowledge our deep need for His help in order for us to follow His righteous ways.

We recognize that the worldly culture has infiltrated our hearts and thinking, our homes, the Body of Christ and our nation. As God’s people, we humble ourselves before the Lord and seek His face and repent of; breaking covenant with God, immorality, bloodshed, lust of the eyes, pride of life, and not resisting the temptations of the evil one through entertainment and advertising. We repent of not living by God’s standards in His Word, including His definition of marriage, and of not partaking of His Holiness. 

We choose this day to turn back into covenant relationship with God, and to leave our old sinful ways behind us.  We seek God’s forgiveness and pray that God will hear from heaven, forgive our sins and heal our land, giving us grace to submit to follow Christ’s ways of Purity for His name’s sake, making changes in our lifestyles, through the leading and empowerment of the Holy Spirit.  We devote ourselves to sincerely follow His ways as Christ’s Bride, in preparation for His soon return.

Prayer asking for God’s Mercy, Redemption and Restoration

Heavenly Father, we recognise in your Word, your loving warnings to your people Israel, and also through Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, and the writings of the New Testament Apostles to the New Covenant believers, that there are serious consequences outlined in your Holy Scriptures for breaking covenant with you. We acknowledge our sin and pray this day, as we turn away from the world and repent of our fleshly ways, and we seek your forgiveness and desire for you Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, to purge and purify our hearts through the fire of your Holy Spirit, to bring us into a committed covenant relationship with you, to follow your ways of Purity, and to walk in the Holy Spirit as true sons and daughters of the Living God.

We pray this day that you will illuminate the darkened thinking of our minds, and open the eyes of our hearts and understanding by the light and revelation of your Holy Spirit through your Word, that we will heed the seriousness of this hour, in the Fear of the Lord and your wisdom.

Turn us back to be devoted to you, change our tastes, rewire our responses, and channel our passions into worshipping you alone we pray, so that we can desire to come to know you; our Holy and Pure God, and give us the grace to receive the love of your Truth that we might be saved. Open our spiritual ears that we might hear and obey your voice, before it is too late for you to turn back the flood of evil in this hour.

We pray for your divine intervention to heal and soften our hearts, that we might love you, confess how we have fallen short of your Word, and receive your forgiveness through the power of your sinless atoning blood that you shed at Calvary, Lord Jesus. Give us the grace to forgive ourselves for our foolish ways, and others who have defiled us, so that we might enter into the blessing of your joy and peace. Father, we plead your everlasting love for us and the precious blood of your Son Christ Jesus, and the blood of your covenant with us. May the blood of Jesus be precious in your sight on our behalf; please deliver us from the iniquities of our past generations, personally, of our cities and nation. Remember us for mercy. Reveal your might, your power and your goodness in our day, for the knowledge of the glory of God to cover our city, nation and the whole earth, as the waters cover the sea. We pray this in Jesus precious name, Amen.

Some Key Scriptures to help you discover God’s heart on the issue of Purity & His strategy for us to be restored- please explore as the Holy Spirit leads you during the day; we started at Isa 59:16-21-: 

Deut ch 28 & 29; 2 Chr 7:13-15; Neh 1: 2-7; Ps 23:3, 32, 45, 51, 66:16-20;  Isa ch 11:2-5, 9 & 29:11-13 & 53 & 57 & 58 & 59:12-21; Jer ch 6:16-19 & 10:1-11,14, 21-24 & 11:1-8, Dan ch 9; Hos ch 2 & 14; Matt 5:8, 27-32 & 19:7-12; Mark 10:2-12; Acts 3:19;Rom 12 & 13; 1 Cor 2; 5:1-6, 9-13 & 6:9-11; 2 Cor 6:1, 4-8, 14-18 & 7:1 & 11:1-3; Eph ch 5; Gal ch 5; 2 Thes 2:10, Heb ch 12;  Js ch 4; Rev 3:19-21

May you discover the goodness, mercy and blessing of our God on this day and see your prayers answered and Christ glorified,

In Christ’s Love,
 

Dr Hilary and Chaplain Paul Moroney
Canberra House of Prayer for All Nations
www.c-hop.org.au

 

and

 

Pastor Jeff Daly

National Day of Repentance
www.dayofrepentance.org 

Billy Graham's Dying Message and Warning to America

Here is a report from World Net Daily:

On his 95th birthday Nov. 7, the most famous Protestant evangelist of the 20th century will give what could be his final and most important message to the world.
 

In the months leading up to the unprecedented event, Billy Graham has declared in an exclusive interview with WND that signs of the end of the age are “converging now for the first time since Jesus made those predictions.” In his new book, “The Reason for My Hope: Salvation,” Graham wrote the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is “near” and the United States “can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.”
 

Now, in a trailer to “The Cross,” the primary program in the My Hope America with Billy Graham evangelistic outreach, Graham said that with “all my heart I want to leave you with the truth.” “We have been going down the wrong road for a long time,” Graham told WND. “Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.
 

“And yet mankind is also adrift morally and spiritually, confused and fearful because he does not know where he is or where he is going. He lives in a world dangerously torn by hate and violence and conflict, and yet he feels powerless to do anything about them. He also knows his own heart is driven by destructive passions and motives he cannot seem to control or change.”
 

“People need to repent of their sins, turn to God and “take the narrow road that Jesus talks about in the Bible. The narrow road means that you forsake sin and you obey God, that you live up to the Ten Commandments and that you live up to the Sermon on the Mount desiring to please God in everything. The narrow road is hard and it is difficult; you can’t do that yourself. You need God’s help and that’s the reason we ask people to come to receive Christ because when you receive him, the Holy Spirit comes to live within to help us live the life.

 

“Our world is desperately seeking answers to the deepest questions of life – answers that can only be found in the Gospel. That is the reason for my hope, that there can be changed hearts and a changed society as we yield ourselves to Christ.”
 

In what the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association describes as the largest outreach in its six-decade history, Graham will give a powerful pre-recorded message the week of Nov. 7. The “My Hope” programs will be available for viewing online, including on YouTube. “The Cross,” the primary program in the “My Hope” series, will be broadcast on the Fox News Channel, TBN, Christian networks and local television stations in a number of cities. [More information can also be found at the websites or by calling 1-877-7MY-HOPE, or 1-877-769-4673].
 

Participating individuals, called “Matthews” after the disciple who invited guests to his home to introduce them to Jesus, will open up their homes to people they have been praying for. At the gatherings, they will show one of the My Hope evangelistic programs and share their own personal stories of coming to faith in Jesus.
 

The outreach comes as a number of major evangelists – Graham, his son Franklin Graham, Reinhard Bonnke, Greg Laurie, Luis Palau, Banning Liebscher and others – are turning their attention toward America in the hope of helping to ignite what Graham calls a “fresh spiritual awakening.”

 

Heartache for America

The movement began after Graham, who provided spiritual counsel to every president from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush, released an open letter to America in the summer of 2012 titled “My Heart Aches for America.” In the letter, Graham wondered what his late wife, Ruth, would think of a nation where “self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.”
 

Graham compares America to the ancient city of Nineveh, the lone superpower of its time. When the prophet Jonah finally traveled to Nineveh and proclaimed God’s warning, the people repented and escaped judgment, Graham wrote, adding he believes the same thing could happen in America now.
 

Graham, who founded Christianity Today and Decision magazines, was reared on a dairy farm in Charlotte, N.C. Growing up during the Depression, Graham learned the value of hard work on the family farm, but he also found time to spend many hours in the hayloft reading books on a wide variety of subjects. In 1934, the 15-year-old Graham committed his life to Christ through the ministry of traveling evangelist Mordecai Ham. He was ordained in 1939, graduated from Wheaton College in 1943 and married fellow student Ruth McCue Bell, the daughter of a missionary surgeon who spent the first 17 years of her life in China. After college, Graham pastored the First Baptist Church in Western Springs, Ill., before joining Youth for Christ. He preached throughout the U.S. and Europe after World War II.

 

Test of time

“Billy Graham has stood the test of time, and where others have come and gone and others have had scandal, he has not,” said Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research in Nashville, Tenn.

 

Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said his father, even at his advanced age, hasn’t quit working or pursuing his lifelong mission to fulfill the Great Commission – the instruction of the resurrected Christ to his disciples to spread his teachings to all the nations of the world. “At 94, he hasn’t lost his vision,” Franklin Graham said. “At 94, he is still concerned about people being lost and separated from God and spending eternity in hell, and it’s a burden to him. I would just hope that others would see this and do likewise. We need to have that burden for the lost. And my father, even at this age, hasn’t lost that burden.”

Bonnke, an international evangelist whose ministry, Christ for all Nations, said Graham is a “true man of God, a wonderful evangelist.” “Billy Graham has done an outstanding job, and his family is continuing that legacy,” Bonnke said. “But we can’t rest and say, ‘It has all been done.’ We have to get busy to launch out and reach the present generation with the Gospel as well.”
 

Liebscher, director of Jesus Culture, an international Christian revivalist youth outreach ministry based out of Bethel Church in Redding, Calif., said he believes the nation can experience another “awakening,” and he’s greatly encouraged that the “Lord is speaking to some of these generals of the faith … because he’s really trying to stir hope in the church.” “One of the things that happens is we lose hope and we begin to become hopeless about the state of our nation and when we become hopeless faith isn’t able to grow,” Liebscher said. “I really believe God is turning the hearts of these leaders to this nation, and it’s going ignite hope in the hearts of people that God can do this.”

 

Liebscher said Graham’s comparison of America to ancient Nineveh – a nation that repented and escaped God’s judgment after hearing the prophet Jonah’s warning – inspires him that “God can still break in and God can still turn a nation.” “We read in history again and again that as nations would be in decline, moral decline, and there would be violence and sexual immorality and all this stuff, that God would break in, and he would turn a nation, he would turn the hearts of the people,” Liebscher said. “We see it biblically. We see it in history. I think God is speaking again and that hope is coming. Hope is alive.”
 

David Jeremiah, pastor of the 8,000-member Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, Calif., said Graham has watched the nation’s moral decline over many decades and understands the critical, existential point it is at now. “He’s seen it as we’ve continued to slide downward away from the very principles that our country was founded upon – now at an all-time low in all the years I’ve been doing this.” While watching the “Defining Moments” video, Jeremiah said it struck him that national repentance is the only hope America has. “We’ve tried everything else,” Jeremiah said. “There is no other hope. The political process isn’t going to make it happen. We’re not going to elect somebody who is going to immediately turn this thing back. We don’t seem to be able to coalesce as a group of Christians and get anything done together. The Gospel is the power that can change the lives of people, and I believe that’s what Dr. Graham believes in his heart, too.”
 

Best is yet to come

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, author of “The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that holds the Secret of America’s Future,” said one of the mysteries contained in “The Harbinger” is the parallel between the fall of ancient Israel and the fall of modern America.

 

“In this ancient template, the nation undergoes a metamorphosis in which those who simply hold true to the ways of God, to that which the nation as a whole once held to, now find themselves increasingly at odds with the culture around them,” said Cahn, whose book has remained on the New York Times bestseller since January 2012.

 

“The case of Billy Graham - reveals this dynamic. Graham is undoubtedly the most famous face of American and world evangelism. Thus his recent statements concerning America are all the more noteworthy. They are increasingly at odds with the direction of American culture and have increasingly taken on a prophetic tone. It is a sign of the times.”
 

Cahn, the senior rabbi at the nation’s largest messianic congregation, the Beth Israel Worship Center in Wayne, N.J., and a descendant of Aaron, the brother of the biblical prophet Moses, noted Graham has been known as the “pastor to presidents” and has prayed at numerous presidential inaugurations. “But had he began his ministry today instead of years ago, holding the same views he has always held, it is likely he would have been banned from praying at the most recent inauguration. This is a sign of how much America has metamorphosed in the past half-century – a sign of how great and deep is its spiritual and moral apostasy.”
 

Amid this growing immorality, Graham told WND that the greatest hope of the Christian faith is the return of Jesus.
 

“That promise will someday become literal history, and with God’s help we’re going to be a part of that history that is yet to come,” Graham said. “Only Jesus Christ when he comes back again is going to bring it. He will defeat every enemy. Sin will be eliminated. Death will be eliminated. War will be eliminated. Crime will be eliminated. The hope of the Second Coming of Christ generates energy and sacrifice and faithfulness and diligence and zeal. The best is yet to be. Heaven is yet to be, along with eternal life,” Graham said. “It is the hope of the Second Coming that “thrills me every day of my life,” Graham said. “I know that he’s coming again, and I know that he’s going to set up a kingdom of which there will be no end,” Graham said. “In Titus 2 it says, ‘Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.’ Our hope centers in a person, not in circumstances, not in a political party, but in a person.”