Trouble Produces Prayer
Trouble produces prayer. Warnings of trouble in the Bible are invitations to prayer. Ignoring the warnings keeps you from the prayer, which then invalidates the promises for you...the ones the trouble was designed to lead the humble to. Ignoring what Jesus warns of is arrogance. Many arrogantly put the warnings on the "unsaved" and falsely claim the promises only obtained by responding to the warnings. This will be corrected in truth.
Continual trouble will produce continual prayer as the people of the earth choose humility...choose to see their need for supernatural help, rather than arrogantly believe mankind can fix the problems mankind has created (that was a quote this week at the UN).
If you respond to the warning voluntarily, you don't need the trouble to be your school.
Luke 21:34“But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.
35“For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36“Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
The cares of this life have made many drunk...they have produced a carousing heart in the church. Jesus has a plan to turn the heart back to himself before many miss out on the process of being joined back to God. Salvation is the beginning of this process, not the end. Many are blind to this fact.
Salvation doesn't make you ready to endure the process. You have to do something with the great power, authority, and wealth...access to the throne... Given to you at salvation. The ability to come into the Fathers presence is the inheritance Jesus shared with you, if you are "saved". Many prodigals are squandering their position with the Father. For many, it takes eating the fodder of pigs to realize how far we are from home:
Luke 15:11Then He said: “A certain man had two sons.
12“And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood.
13“And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.
14“But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.
15“Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16“And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.
17“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18‘I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,
19“and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’
20“And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.
21“And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
22“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.
23‘And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;
24‘for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.
Being a son didn't rescue the prodigal. Naming the name and being in the family isn't enough...going home in humility...coming under the leadership of his Father...getting in front of and talking to Dad...THAT is what restored the prodigal and made the Father rejoice.
We are in the hour that many are starting to taste the fruit of rebellion. Yes, they said the prayer...yes, they name the name...but do they make their lives about listening to Dad and obeying? Are they leading a community of the family of God to safety in continually coming before God? Do we squander the inheritance that cost everything to buy back for us?
There is great trouble coming to the Church, then the world. The trouble comes to the church first, so she could become ready to lead the world through the greatest trouble earth has ever seen.
The church is very confused about Jesus right now. You can see it as she celebrates the most humanistic, arrogant, and simply unBiblical promises of world and church leaders as though they are speaking for God. They aren't. When world leaders and church leaders offer the world the same solutions BEFORE Jesus returns, you are supposed to recognize the great falling away... Not celebrate it as hope for the children.
We are witnessing massive events that WILL lead to the most massive trouble earth has ever witnessed, so that the earth will humble itself and pray. Jesus knows what it takes to teach the world repentance and prayer: seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls.
It is coming... Soon.
Haggai 2:6“For thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land;
7‘and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the LORD of hosts.
8‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the LORD of hosts.
9‘The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,’ says the LORD of hosts. ‘And in this place I will give peace,’ says the LORD of hosts.”
Continual trouble will produce continual prayer as the people of the earth choose humility...choose to see their need for supernatural help, rather than arrogantly believe mankind can fix the problems mankind has created (that was a quote this week at the UN).
If you respond to the warning voluntarily, you don't need the trouble to be your school.
Luke 21:34“But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.
35“For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36“Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
The cares of this life have made many drunk...they have produced a carousing heart in the church. Jesus has a plan to turn the heart back to himself before many miss out on the process of being joined back to God. Salvation is the beginning of this process, not the end. Many are blind to this fact.
Salvation doesn't make you ready to endure the process. You have to do something with the great power, authority, and wealth...access to the throne... Given to you at salvation. The ability to come into the Fathers presence is the inheritance Jesus shared with you, if you are "saved". Many prodigals are squandering their position with the Father. For many, it takes eating the fodder of pigs to realize how far we are from home:
Luke 15:11Then He said: “A certain man had two sons.
12“And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood.
13“And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.
14“But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.
15“Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16“And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.
17“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18‘I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,
19“and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’
20“And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.
21“And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
22“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.
23‘And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;
24‘for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.
Being a son didn't rescue the prodigal. Naming the name and being in the family isn't enough...going home in humility...coming under the leadership of his Father...getting in front of and talking to Dad...THAT is what restored the prodigal and made the Father rejoice.
We are in the hour that many are starting to taste the fruit of rebellion. Yes, they said the prayer...yes, they name the name...but do they make their lives about listening to Dad and obeying? Are they leading a community of the family of God to safety in continually coming before God? Do we squander the inheritance that cost everything to buy back for us?
There is great trouble coming to the Church, then the world. The trouble comes to the church first, so she could become ready to lead the world through the greatest trouble earth has ever seen.
The church is very confused about Jesus right now. You can see it as she celebrates the most humanistic, arrogant, and simply unBiblical promises of world and church leaders as though they are speaking for God. They aren't. When world leaders and church leaders offer the world the same solutions BEFORE Jesus returns, you are supposed to recognize the great falling away... Not celebrate it as hope for the children.
We are witnessing massive events that WILL lead to the most massive trouble earth has ever witnessed, so that the earth will humble itself and pray. Jesus knows what it takes to teach the world repentance and prayer: seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls.
It is coming... Soon.
Haggai 2:6“For thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land;
7‘and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the LORD of hosts.
8‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the LORD of hosts.
9‘The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,’ says the LORD of hosts. ‘And in this place I will give peace,’ says the LORD of hosts.”
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