Sometimes we wonder if God is hearing our cries. It’s a human fear. It’s a relevant anxiety. But even in the darkest hours God is listening, God is leading, and God’s light is on. We learn that our human emotions can swing to extremes, but God’s simple truth is always reliable…
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What comes out of the mouth of this trio of darkness is dubious to the mind, dangerous to the soul, and destructive to the body. If you listen long enough to their speeches you will feel yourself begin to question things that were concretely driven deep in your heart. If you taste the temptation of their offerings you will begin to believe that holiness tastes nasty and rivers of living water are too bitter to drink.
So, you have to challenge these ancient spirits with a newborn experience. “out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength that thou mightiest still the enemy and the avenger.” To still the enemy is to silence his hateful, demeaning rhetoric. The Spiritual application here is that when someone opens their mouth as a newborn babe in Christ, the New Birth Experience; it mutes hell. It’s like every auditory nerve in the Universe suddenly goes deaf, and as if some ethereal sound producer is at the controls the evil words fade out. Huh? I can’t hear you. I’m too busy singing. Huh? I can’t hear you. I’m too busy quoting the Word. Huh? I can’t hear you. I’m too busy praying in the Spirit. Your New Birth Experience has more power than demonic exaggerations that try to intimidate you. They will boast weapons of shame. They will target your vulnerable areas. But your New Birth Experience has more power than demonic excavations. These are the things they dig up from your past. Bones of bitterness. Rotted flesh of failures. Decomposed bodies of sin and regrets. Skulls of old thoughts in the dirt of shame. But your New Birth Experience has more power than demonic exploitations. These are the disadvantages the enemy thinks you have; your weaknesses he can key in on; your failures of the past that he can try and capitalize on when you try to do something for God, say something for God.
Goliath threatened Israel in I Samuel 17 and the Israelites were weakened by what they saw in Goliath. But then came David. And David was strengthened by what God saw in him. God’s view of us is more powerful than our fearful view of the enemy. Listen now…
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I believe the Rapture of the Church is upon us. I do not believe the Rapture has to wait for any Biblical prophetic, End Time signs to be fulfilled. As we face the growing crisis in Israel, and as we understand Israel’s role in End Time Prophecy, the appearing of our Lord seems more imminent than ever. There are several reasons why the Rapture is our greatest comfort in chaos. Some of the following are:
1Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
1Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
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John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
It’s not a worldly peace. It’s not a peace that comes and goes. It’s not a peace treaty that eventually gets broken because it’s signed with false intent. It’s not a money back guarantee given by a slick salesman who doesn’t intend on keeping his end of the bargain. It’s a lasting peace. It’s an enduring covenant. It’s a something age can’t wrinkle, death can’t erase, thieves can’t confiscate, darkness can’t dim, humanistic ideas can’t produce, new philosophies can’t fade; it’s a lasting peace. Time can’t spend it. Seasons can’t wither it. Rust can’t touch it. Lies can’t reinterpret it. Hopelessness can’t redefine it. It’s a lasting peace. When panic has bled its last terror and fear has intimidated its last soul and when anxiety has tormented its last emotion; when dread has painted its last twilight; and fright has produced its last haunting; when sadness has squeezed out its last tear and sorrow has written its last mournful note, the peace account will still be full. It’s a lasting peace. An eternal assurance. Hope beyond hype. Listen now…
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