Just got back from 'Boot Camp' - an awsome time of glory, physical and emotional healings, holy laughter, and salvations... just a regular Army camp :) Nathan Casey preached a powerful message on the first night about being light in darkness, and just as this call came there was a blackout! Seeing silhouettes of youth handing themselves to the Lord, followed by singing "Our God is an awsome God..." for almost an hour straight in the darkness will never be forgotten...all I could say was "God is here, and this is You!".
If you hav't checked out Andrew Bales blog ( http://beyondthebrook.blogspot.com/2007/01/prophecy-for-salvation-army-from-isaiah.html )
it is a must - read. Two days before Andrew posted the prophetic word the Lord told me something incredibly similar (17 Jan blog) : " However, along with uncompromising holiness, I believe it is humility that God wants to speak to His Army at this time: “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14). This humility is becoming the wagon as Christ become the horse, letting go of the reigns, having smaller heads and bigger hearts - less of us and more of Him."
Also, without knowledge of Andrews post, Kym (21 Jan blog) further supported its prophetic words: "Perhaps we ought to stop asking "is God speaking?", and start asking "are we listening?" and further speaks of 'less respectibility' and more 'irresistable conviction of the Holy Spirit'.
Amen - Paul.
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Unity thru intolerance eh?
An interesting idea.
I think I prefer the dream about unity thru tolerance and understanding.
MERCYPEACEGRACE, do you really think that God is most concerned about the sin of homosexuality and euthenasia?
"Our gracious Father is repeating this message to His prophets and people over and over again. He must mean it!"
Is he? Or are like minded people just airing their views?
Just because a christian person says "God Told Me" Doesn't mean it is true.
Teackles,
Oops, I posted the comment in the wrong place.....sorry!
Unity through love! Love is telling a child that the pretty warm glow on the stove is dangerous! People must be enbalmed in Christ's grace and mercy, God is a Loving Father first. He is a tender Father who binds up wounds and woos through love first and judegement second. Yet He is also the Most Holy Lord. Compromise with sin within the church and closed mouths to the world is the reason why darkness is encroaching on the world. Christ cannot fill His Bride with His Glory and Goodness while the leaven of sin runs through the dough of the Church. Homosexuality and euthanasia are symtoms of a deeper wound, and God reveals His heart regarding such things so that He may bind the wounds! He is gracious - He will not let His children follow paths that lead to despair, when one touch of His love will send His beloved running into His arms. A Big heart cares for the smallest cry for help, and sin is an echoing cry for help.
Grace, Kym.
Kym,
Thanks, for replying.
Although, you didn't really answer my questions.
I must say I found you reply a bit perplexing.
I'd love to hear what you really think not what you have read or heard in church.
Do you use this sorta language day to day?
(There are a lot of people who might read your blog who are interested in what you are saying but may be a little confused about what you mean...not everyone understands the jargon you are using)
Luckily I understand what you are trying to say though. (I think)
Really if you are trying to win souls you might think about not writing in riddles.
(just my humble opinion)
OK,
"Christ cannot fill His Bride with His Glory and Goodness while the leaven of sin runs through the dough of the Church."
I will try and translate this for common folk ok?
If we sin God won't bless the church.
Right?
You still didn't answer my original question.
"Do you really think that God is most concerned about the sin of homosexuality and euthenasia?"
OK, I look forward to your reply.
Cheers.
You're question, "Do you really think that God is most concerned about the sin of homosexuality and euthenasia?" is pretty unclear. 'Most concerned' in comparison to what? Yes, I do beleive God is most concerned with those things that result in leading people to bondage, crippling society, and destroying lives.
I often use parabolic language as it expresses God's heart in a way mere condemnation never could. As I said, God is loving Father first, and Righteous Judge second. Vilification is not God's way, but poetic languange can tap into people's hearts and help them ponder things in a way criticalness never could. I have seen lives changed because of this. This site is not primarily intended to 'win souls', but to be a prophetic outlet for the heart of God to His children and those who don't yet know Him. Your first comment suggested there was intolerance in the post, my response expresses therefore the Father-heart of God.
Grace, Kym.
Comparision to what??
In comparison to sins that really keep people in bondage and destroy live.
Sins that cause others to perish or suffer.
Greed, genocide, murder, social injustice...etc....things that really matter in my opinion.
I really don't see why many christians alway gravitate to homosexuality?
It is perplexing to me!
Is it really destroying lives and crippling society...like poverty for instance?
And euthenasia??
Who is it making suffer???
Is it possible that so many christians jump on these band wagons because they are sins that most christians do not have to deal with in their own lives??
It's pretty easy to stand up and tell the church that we need to be worried about a sin that we do not find a problem in our own lives.
As far as using "poetic verbose language to reach non christians.
C'mon Kym you can't be serious?
Most people (non christian) would not be able to follow what you are saying on your blog.
It is full of jargon that someone who has never set foot in a church would cringe at.
Did Jesus talk to people in a way that was over their heads, that only the biblical scholars understood?
Hey, but if it is for lifetime christians then that's cool.
re this:
"Your first comment suggested there was intolerance in the post,"
No that was my ineptitude.
I posted the comment under the wrong blog.
This is meant for "The Dream"
oops! Sorry.
Teackles.
The vast majority (perhaps all) of the bible is filled with symbolic and poetic language. This was intended so that only through the Holy Spirit could people truly grasp what was being said. As said, this is not a site intended primarily to talk to non-Christians, but where the Holy Spirit leads them to the blog, He will illuminate what is written, to them. People filled with the Spirit of God (not necesarily life-long church-goers)should understand this site with ease.
Jesus own disciples understood very little of what He said until He ascended to Heaven - then they understood what He said through the Holy Spirit. To quote Jesus in John 12:16:
"But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that,
" 'they [those not open to God] may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and ever hearing but never understanding".
I actually closely know some Christians who have battled with homosexuality and seen first hand the emotional damage it brings and the damage to relationships that results from it. I can't really enter into here the how and why of the damage such things as abortion, homosexuality and euthanasia bring about, but regarding homosexuality, check:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33068
and
http://logosresourcepages.org/Believers/homosexuality&.htm
The others are more obvious, they are actually the sins of murder. With those involved in euthanasia, eternal souls and grievous sin are at stake.
Teakles, thanks for your comment. I really encourage you to visit any subjects that interest you (including those mentioned) at http://net-burst.net/search.htm
Kym.
I took your advice and looked up the website you told me about.
Here what it said about homosexuality.
"These people are most worthy of compassion. That does not remove their guilt, but it magnifies our guilt if we were to point an accusing finger in their direction. We have no idea how poorly we would have fared had we suffered their background. We each have a thousand excuses for our favorite sin or besetting weakness. We usually have 20/20 vision regarding the sins of others but are blind to the one that has sunk its hooks into us.
As Bible-believing Christians, we are rightly horrified about the corrupting power of homosexuality upon society, and yet adultery and rebellion against one’s parents are two sins that corrupt society just as much, and in Old Testament times not only homosexuality, but each of these sins, attracted the death penalty. This does not excuse sin, but it renders us without excuse if we find ourselves hypocritically being more tolerant of some sins than others. We must remove the log from our own eyes, "
I guess it has said exactly what I was trying to say.
The church (esp in the US) seem to be preoccupied with homosexuality and I think it is for no good reason when there are so many sins that keeps us all in bondage that the church seems to gloss over.
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