Why are you thinking that I said that? That is not what I said at all.
No one but the Father knows the time that Jesus will be coming back and all that will happen and does happen is within His will and within His time.
To you that means that I am saying that we should walk with the enemy? You should know me better than that, I am rather insulted by this insinuation.
What I said don't jump the shark was this idea that the sky is falling and that the end is not preordained by God. If we are His servants we all do His will.
Don't insinuate that someone else is not doing the will of God or bowing to the enemy just because I don't agree with you. Is that what this thread is becoming? You are getting way off course to what this thread is about. Is it to hear yourself talk or to get others opinions along with your own? And please quote me correctly next time!
Sister, I think you are misunderstanding what I meant by that comment.What you said was "When God is ready, things will happen." Correct? This thread is concerning the needed change coming as we all awake to what God has had for us all along. You did not mention the second coming, so I assumed you meant what many here seem to believe, that God's will is going to be done no matter what, so why sweat it? If that is not what you meant, then I simply misunderstood what you were saying, but please believe me that I meant no disrespect, and sincerely apologize if you took it otherwise. I was not attacking or insulting you, and if you took it as if I was, please forgive me.
I was simply reminding us all that we are told that when we draw near unto God, He draws near unto us. If we want revival, if we want to walk closer to God, if we want to see the church made holy as a witness to the perishing in these last days, now is the time to seek Him. It is our privilege to seek His face, but how many of us can say we have given all diligence in crying out for God to set us free indeed just as He said.
People will answer "But I am free. I am saved." But the question is.... are they
safe? This is how Jesus defined "freedom".
"He that commits sin is a servant of sin."
The freedom He promised was not just freedom from guilt, but freedom from the power sin has had over us since the day we came into this world.
You made your ending statement that said "If we are His servants, we all do His will." So the question we truly need to look at is "Are we doing His will, or our own?" God's will is that we sin not, that we know how to possess our vessels in sanctification and honor, that we walk out our time here as living sacrifices, that we love not the world, neither the things that are in the world, that we hate our old self ruling nature. But dear sister, as a whole we all know that is not the case at all, do we not? In fact we are taught that true full obedience is impossible, and if that is the standard it will discourage new believers. What we do not tell them, because we do not yet understand, is God will lift us up to make us live the standard, praise God! Do we not see it is past time for us to awake to righteousness, and sin not? God is waiting on us....not visa versa.
Here is the truth. The sky is not falling.....yet. But because we think we cannot lose what God has graciously given us, hw many are not watching in this late hour and the thief is coming to steal our treasure. It is time we all understood how far we are from the rest that remains for the people of God, walking as overcomers when the enemy comes in like a flood.
Please believe me when I say I was not singling you out at all, and ask your forgiveness if you took it that way. ALL have slept. Heck, I snored the loudest! And when each one finally sees the danger of that position, and heart cries go up to heaven for God to revive each of us again, God will indeed not fail us. Let our hearts cry out to be delivered from a life lived in Romans 7 and deliver us from evil, deliver us from the
power of darkness, not just its stain. Let us admit that we are not walking out the will of God, and in truth, do not even believe such a walk is possible. When we do, and with broken hearts ask Him to make us overcomers, victors over the world, the flesh and the devil, we will be more amazed than even the world at the transformation God performs in us.
Blessings, dear sister and again, my apologies for any misunderstanding.
Gideon