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"The Towers have Fallen and We Missed the Message"
-Pastor David Wilkerson.

Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the twin towers of New York City were destroyed.  Five
days later right outside the door, you can still see the smoke pouring out of the ruins.  I
looked out my window because when I prepared this message in my study I overlook the
whole scene and the smoke this morning was drifting over the Statue of Liberty and all over New Jersey.

I stood there last night weeping and begging God for mercy.  Mercy for the grieving
families who lost loved one.  Mercy for those still digging in the ruins, retrieving bodies
and mostly body part.  Mercy on the workers - the police, the fireman, the volunteers
who openly weep at the indescribable destruction.

Times Square Church was given a site at ground zero.  Pastor Carter tells me that the
tents were put there - this church was the closest to ground zero and to the disaster.
Workers were working and are still working 24-hours around the clock and still working,
feeding and ministering and being there in this time of horror.

But you see, Times Square Church  was warned a calamity was coming.   We are now in
the seventh week of a visitation of the Holy Spirit and if you have been coming to this
church you know that even weeks before that the Holy Spirit moved on the pastoral staff here
to cancel everything.

We cancelled the Mission's Conference, we cancelled the Youth Conventions, we
cancelled every speaker.  We cancelled everything to come and call this body to prayer.
We started with two weeks of prayer and those weeks of meetings continue this week
again - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and stopping only when God says to stop.

But something indescribable has been happening in this church in this past seven weeks.
Every service, as you witness today, a holy hush - a silence from the throne has come to
this auditorium.  There was one night when we sat for one hour in total silence and
nobody could move.  I remember putting my hands on my knees to stop them from
trembling because of the awesome presence of God.

As the pastors began to pray and you remember if you've been here, you've seen the
pastors weeping and wailing.  I've seen pastor Neil laying here crying out to God.  We
were repenting.  We were crying out to God and then the Holy Spirit spoke clearly that it
was happening because a tragedy was coming - a calamity was coming to this city and to
the nation and we didn't know what it was.  Suddenly a calamity struck the nation and
especially here in New York City.

One network anchorman said this, and I quote him, "Just think of it.  Our two symbols of
power and prosperity have been smitten in one hour."
 
He didn't know he was quoting from Revelation 18:10, ".Alas, alas, that great city
Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come."

One of the police officers from this church who is working at this site spoke with us, the
pastors, on Friday night and he said his fellow officers who know he's a Christian are
asking, "What's this all about?"

Police officers and fireman are sitting down and just weeping and crying like children.
Others are being asked now, "Where is God in all of this?  Where is God?"

There's a lady from this church who moved to California, she was active in this church, I
know her by name.  She's been gone about two years, she attends a church in California
and she called this week, yesterday I believe it was, to a sister here in this church who
then called me and said, "Please tell the pastors of the church to keep on warning and
preparing the people because since I sat under ministers who were warning I was
prepared and ready.  Everybody in the church where I attend now is losing it.  Everyone
is weeping and they are going to the pastors saying, why didn't you warn us?  Why didn't you prepare us?"

She said, "Please don't stop warning."

Now understand where God is in this calamity.  You've got to absolutely believe in this
book.  You have to put everything - all your faith in what God says in His book.  Not
experts, not those who are called. the talking heads on television or radio.no, what
God's word says!  If you are ready to hear that we'll begin to understand where God is in all of this.

I can assure you God wasn't taken by surprise.  I can assure you that every thought of
man is known by the heavenly Father. He reads every thought.  Every ruler, every desk
spot, every terrorist - God knows when he sits down, when he rises, he knows where they are at.

Very soon they'll be in hell because God deals with them. He knows every thought.
Nothing on the face of the earth is done without His knowledge, without His permission and even
sometimes by His doing.

Years ago, in 1973, God gave me a prophetic word called, The Vision.  I distributed it in
a book and when the Lord gave me that vision is was so frightful I begged with God,
please, I can't deliver this word without some hope.  You've got to give me some hope.  I
feel hopeless by what I see coming.  If you want me to. you have to give me something and the Lord did.

It was five words, "God has everything under control."

Having received that word is the only way I could release the
message.  I say again today, God has everything under control.

Now if you are a praying, Bible believer, you know instinctively
in your heart that God is
trying to speak to this nation and the world through this.  God
is trying to send us a message.

Theologians and pastors all over the country even around the
world are saying to their
congregations, "God had nothing to do with these calamities.
God would not allow such a thing to happen."

Because of that thinking and because of that preaching, we are
quickly losing the
message and missing what God is trying to say.  We are missing
it.

Beloved, we need a word from heaven.  I've wept and grieved just
as others have but
deep within I've experienced this week a deeper grief than just
those who have been lost
in this catastrophe.  I'm going to show you how God weeps.  I'll
show you how God
grieves over it and I'll show you how God has no pleasure in the
death of anybody.

It's the grief that if we miss the message He's trying to
proclaim to us, if we turn a deaf
ear to what God is loudly proclaiming, much worse is in store
for us.

I found the word of God, the prophet in Isaiah spoke directly to
what is happening today,
right now.  He spoke clearly to this experience.  If anyone here
objects to my using and
Old Testament story as an example of God's work today then you
need to be reminded of what Paul the apostle said.

"Now all these things.(in other words, everything that happened
in the Old Testament,
happened unto them for examples). they are written for our
admonition upon whom the ends of the worlds are come."

Isaiah went through a similar experience in his nation.  So
similar that it's similar yet we
get from it how God moves in times like this.

For nearly 250 years God patiently dealt with Israel.  Patiently
wooing and sending light
afflictions, as they were called at first.  Light afflictions -
trying to woo back into his
blessing and into His favor and into His love.

They were called to humble themselves before the almighty hand
of God.  All the
prophets came to them speaking the same word, humble yourself.
Turn from your
wickedness, turn from your wicked ways.
But the scripture says instead they served idols.  That the Lord
testified against Israel and
against Judah by all the prophets saying, "Turn ye from your
evil ways.  Keep my
commandments and my statues.  They would not harken but they've
hardened their necks."

This chosen nation, this so blessed nation of God, was called to
repentance.  Instead they
began to mock their prophets.  They began to follow vanity, they
became vain, they left
all the commandments of the Lord their God.  They sold
themselves to do evil in the sight
of the Lord.  Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel.

God sent wake-up calls to Israel.  One of the first was the
Assyrian invasion of two
provinces - Zebulun and Naphtali.  Only the coast was touched in
two places.  This was the first wake-up God gave to Israel.

Suddenly Israel lost it's sense of security.  It had never
happened in this measure before.
But it was limited damage.  Their heartland wasn't touched.  It
was limited to two places.

But in it, God was speaking to Israel and Israel missed the
message.  Israel was given a
second wake-up call and this one was very damaging, very severe.
 Isaiah makes it very
clear, and I'll show it to you in just a minute where it's
located, that the enemies of Israel
- they were called the enemies of Israel, Assyria and the
Philistines - combined their
forces and suddenly attacked Israel.  The attack is said to have
come from before and
behind.  From the east and from the west.

Now we come to the heart of what I want to talk to you about.
Where was God in the
sudden invasion of his chosen land of Israel?

I'm going to go to the word and I'm going to show you from the
9th chapter of Isaiah, the
prophet Isaiah.  I want you to look at verse 8 with me please.

In the midst of all of this - turmoil and chastening by the hand
of God - verse 8.

"The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon
Israel."

Look at me please.  Never in the history of mankind has God left
his people clueless
during a time of disaster.  Never.  He's never left us clueless.
 He's never left us trying to
figure it out on our own.  He's always given an understanding.

God spoke to his people in a time of calamity.  Even now while I
stand here God is
raising up prophetic messages today in pulpits all across
America and around the world.
They are preaching just what I'm preaching to you this morning.

I received a call from a pastor, a friend of mine from the West,
last night.  He said,
"Pastor Dave, I have to deliver a message tomorrow to my people
and I'm scared to
death.  It's so against what everybody seems to be telling
people today.  I'm scared to
death and I want to run it by you."

When he ran it by me I said, "Well my friend, that's what I'm
preaching tomorrow."

All over the country because these men have heard from God and
they weep and they
grieve, they repent, but still they know that they have to
proclaim what God's word says
and to bring the message home to our hearts.

I'm going to give you a word that I don't think.  I really don't
want to hear, in my flesh,
and most of you don't want to hear.  It's going to sound
heartless to some and cruel and
untimely and like unkindness in a time of grieving.

But if we don't hear it, if we don't face it, the nation is
doomed.  Absolutely doomed.

 "Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin
against him, and join his enemies together"  (Isaiah 9:11)

"For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, netiher
do they seek the Lord of hosts."  (Verse 13)

The Lord himself set up the adversaries.  The people did not
turn unto him that smiteth.

Now let me tell you that God uses. For Israel during Isaiah's
time God used the
enemies of Israel to rod, to chasten and warn them to repent.
God had to use it as a last
resort to bring them back into his heart.  To bring back the
blessing and to destroy their
enemies and to put up walls of protection.

You read Isaiah 5, he said because of the sin God let the walls
down.

God used Assyria - let me read it to you - as a rod to correct
Israel.

 "Oh Assyria, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand
is my indignation.  The
weapons in their hand are my indignation.  I will send him
against an hypocritical nation,
and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to
take the spoil, and to take
the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets."
(Isaiah 10:5, 6)

He said, I'm going to take an evil nation and I'm going to use
it as a rod, as a last resort
to bring my people to repentance and to my heart.  That I make
provisions and I provide
for it and I protect it but they've turned their backs upon me.

As soon as he was finished with Assyria, he destroyed it.  Now
let me tell you what is going to happen to the terrorists.

Please look at chapter ten, Isaiah 10, verses 12 through 15.

God is saying, yes, now you've lifted yourself with pride and
now I'm going to destroy you.

I can assure you that it won't be long until everyone is in
hell.  God is going to do it.  God
himself is going to deal- in some miraculous way he will deal
with all these adversaries
and the terrorists.  You can mark it down - God will deal with
this.  God will deal with it.

Suddenly as the Assyrians come and God in his love is chastening
Israel, suddenly the
buildings are collapsing.  The Bible says in chapter 9, verse
10, the bricks are falling
down.  Look at it, "The bricks are fallen down.thy sycomores are
cut down but we will change them into cedars."

In fact, the forests were on fire, buildings were on fire.
Israel was in flames.
 
But I ask you a question, now listen to me closely please.  Did
Israel repent?  Is there any
national acknowledgement that God was warning?  Did any of those
who were rulers seek God in the calamity?

No, because it's very clear from the scripture the initial fear
gave way to a flood tide of national pride.

Look at verse 9:  "And all the people shall know, even Ephraim
and the inhabitant of
Samaria [you see, this is the heartland] that say in the pride
and stoutness of heart."

The word "stoutness" there in Hebrew is "a sense of greatness".

A sense of greatness in their pride and a sense of greatness of
heart and they are saying
the bricks are falling down but we will build with huge stones.

"The bricks are fallen down.thy sycomores are cut down but we
will change them into cedars."

Here's what they were saying by their actions and listen closely
please.  These calamities
are just fate.  An unfortunate disaster that can't be explained.

Aw, but we're a great people.  We're a mighty nation unbending.
We are proud people.
Let the world know we will build it up bigger and better.

Where there were bricks we will rebuild with impregnable stones.
 Where there was
cheap construction destroyed, the sycamores will build with
better materials. We'll build
with cedar.  We are a blessed nation - proud and powerful.  We
will come through this trouble better than ever.

But you see, no one was asking, "Is God saying something to us?
Is God trying to speak to us?"

Does this sound familiar?  God himself sent a covert
chastisement on Israel to wake them
up and to bring them back to himself to protect them but they
don't even once
acknowledge His working in it.  They don't heed the message.

But they use this disastrous occasion to defy the very thought
that such a proud, great
nation could ever be humbled or chastened by God.

Now folks, I thank God for a moral President.  We prayed for him
before this happened.
Remember we were pleading and interceding, "God give wisdom to
this President.  God
something is about to happen.  Give him wisdom."

We have prayed and interceded for him.  Thank God for the
Christians in high places.
Thank God that, at least temporarily, there is a turning to
prayer around the nation and around the world.

Do you remember the Gulf War?  Do you remember how packed all
the churches were in
New York?  Do you remember a whole three days of prayer?  Then
the next week New York City came apart with parties?

Do you remember?  A whole nation called to prayer.  Thank God
President Bush, Sr.,
spent the night with Billy Graham on his knees and that's
probably why it was successful in that occasion.

Thank God for people who are sober and beginning to re-think
their lifestyle.  And we're
to pray for our leaders and thank God we live in a land of
freedom but still we're missing the message.

We have moments of silence and we call that repentance?  We see
politicians on the steps
of the government building singing "God Bless America" and we
call that turning back to God?

We applaud the NFL for calling for a moment of silence at
halftime and we call that a
spiritual experience.  Is that all that's going to come out of
it?  One moment of silence
and back to the painted faces, back to jugging beer and
screaming for their favorite team?

Back to sitting in front of the television laughing with Leno?

This morning I turned on the radio to hear what was happening
and they were re-playing
as the the Senators and Congressman on the Congressional
Building steps were singing,
"God Bless America, stand beside us, lead us, guide us."

I wept and cried, I could hardly stand it because God was
saying, "David, don't you
understand?  There's only a handful that believe that.  These
are the same men that have
ruled me out of their society.  They are trying to remove my
name from the school books.
They have aborted babies.  And now they're singing God stand
beside us!"

What hypocrisy!

These politicians pontificating about God now.  The very ones
that are protecting abortion rights.

You see when a nation is under divine correction it will do one
of two things.  It will
humble itself as did Ninevah or it will give God lip service and
then turn to it's own
strength and power to rise above the correction.

The cry is rising now - "We have the strength and the power, the
ability, the resolve to
endure any disaster because we're a proud and great nation."

Now thank God for patriotism.  Thank God for the American flag.
I thank God for the
temporary national unity and folks, that's what it is.  It's
temporary.

I thank God for the incredible heroic efforts and sacrifices
we've witnessed.  The world
wonders at the fortitude and love of the New Yorkers in this
time, and the Americans in
general, in Washington, D.C. and everywhere.
 
But folks, we face now the same danger of missing God's message
as did Israel.  We're
at the same crossroad now that Isaiah spoke of .

If you and I lived in Jerusalm and Judah at the time of this
prophet, I have a sense that
many of us would have walked out on him.  We wouldn't have
listened.  We wouldn't
have heeded it because the nation refused to believe that
Jerusalem, their favorite city, or
the nation of Judah could be brought low.  And here comes Isaiah
preaching while all the
false prophets were preaching peace.

He said, "Shall not God as he has done to Samaria and her idols,
so do to Jerusalem and her idols?"

He said, What makes you think you're exempt Jerusalem?  Don't
you know that I have
just destroyed nations all around you for their idolatry?  This
same idolatry that you are practicing?

And he comes now with this message, "Shall not God as he has
done to Samaria and her
idols, so do also to Jerusalem and her idols?"  What makes you
think your nation is exempt?

All across America now we hear of prayer and remembrance
meetings.  Prayer and remembrance.

Now folks, we've got to remember those who died.  That's
scriptural, that's honorable.
Thank God for what's happening.  But why do we find it so
impossible to call for prayer and repentance meetings?  Why?

Is it remembrance and revenge?.. . this has to be dealt with.
I'm for that 100%.

But where is the call for turning back to God in America?  Where
is the call?  Where is anyone hearing the message?

Let me give you the message God is trumpeting.  Time is running
out.

I've sent you prophets and watchmen.  You've been warned over
and again.  I prospered
you above all nations.  I endured your worship of gold and
silver.  I endured your
shameless sensuality.  I endured your mockery, your continuous
shedding of innocent
blood and murdering of babies.  I've endured your timeless
efforts to eradicate my name, even from your history books.

Now I've stricken in hopes of saving you, that you would repent
and turn from your
wicked ways so that I could heal your land and I will destroy
your enemies.

Now folks, show me where that's not scriptural.  Prove to me
from God's word that He
will not judge America as He's judged Sodom, Rome, Greece and
now Russia.

I just returned from Russia a few months ago and walking through
St. Petersburg and
Moscow I was shocked at the total depression.  The average wage
is $50 a month.
Nothing but broken down infrastructures.  Everywhere men are
laying on the streets
drunk on cheap vodka.  Drug addicts everywhere now.  Such
devastation.

I broke down in front of the ministers and wept and wailed.

We met at a hockey arena in Moscow because they tried to out
rule God out of their
society.  They went down the same road we're going down and God
said, that's enough.
 
Russia is under severe judgment.  He's turned it into a Third
World nation.

Here's the message from the prophet Ezekial.

"Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have
transgressed.  Make you a
new heart, a new spirit, for why would you die, oh house of
Israel?  I have no pleasure in
the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God.  Wherefore turn
yourselves and live."

Folks, God knows the pain and sorrow of the death of the
innocent.  Who could be more
innocent than his own son?  Who is more innocent?

God laid the sins of the whole world on the back of his own sin
and let wicked men kill
him!  So don't tell me that He's not a feeling God.  That He
doesn't feel pain.

He said, "I take no pleasure in this."

And I'll tell you why God bottles tears because they are his own
tears He's retrieving.
He weeps through those who are His beloved children.  Every tear
you shed as a believer
in Jesus, and lover of Christ, those are the tears of God.
Jesus is still a man and he weeps
and He weeps through His children.  It's the only evidence He
can give.

I tell you now, Jesus has been weeping.  God pity's and He weeps
but his justice and his
righteousness force Him to restrain his pity and carry out
righteous judgments as a last
resort.  His justice demands that He lay these sins on His son
and that an innocent son of God would die.

Oh yes, so many innocent people have died.  Not that there was
personal judgment on
them.  Many righteous died.  But God's trying to save a nation.

Now what's going to happen if this nation misses the message and
we don't turn back to
the Lord?  The window of opportunity is very short now.  What's
going to happen if
abortion continues and we end up killing born babies for
research purposes?

If we continue rubbing the precious name of Jesus out of our
American history?  That's
what they're trying to do now.  All of the school books are
being re-written, the majority
of school books are being re-written to remove God's name from
American history. Right now.

What happens if we re-build bigger and better only to enrich
ourselves even more?  And
all the talk I hear now is that somebody is going to build the
towers bigger and better than ever.

What's going to happen if we don't trust God now instead of
trusting our armed might?
Let me answer that question, not out of my own heart, not out of
speculation, but the
word of Isaiah clearly tells us what follows the rejection of
His call to repentance and
turning to pride and boasting of greatness.

The Bible says there will be devouring fire mounting to the
heavens, darkness over the
land, national disunity, a stricken economy, every man out for
himself to survive.

Now listen to the scripture.  "For wickedness burneth as the
fire:  it shall devour the
briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the
forest, and they shall mount up
like the lifting up of smoke.  "Through the wrath of the Lord of
hosts is the land
darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no
man shall spare his brother."  (Isaiah 9:18, 19)

It will be every man for himself.

"He shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry."

God's going to touch the economy.

".and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be
satisfied: they shall eat every
man the flesh of his own arm."  (verse 20)

That means he's going to protect his little world and God help
you if you try to get near the flesh of his own arm.

Let me read to you a message I delivered from this pulpit.  It
was September 7, 1992.  It's
entitled, "A Prophetic Warning to New York City".  Some of you
where here, perhaps, in
1992.  Let me read this.  This is from this very pulpit.

Right now, I believe God is speaking a warning to New York City
and I wrestled with
His severe word as I prepared this message and I prayed, Lord,
is this really going to happen?

Again and again I heard this still small voice,  "Preach it and
warn the people. Those who
want the truth will receive it."

    Dear Saint:

    This warning is not meant to scare you.  It's meant only for
you to
    take to the Lord and pray.  This is what I believe the Lord has
    shown me.

      Thirty days of chastisement will fall on New York City
such as
      the world has never seen.  God's going to let down the
walls.
      Unimaginable violence, looting, a thousand fires will be
burning
      at the same time throughout the city and it's burroughs.
 
      Times Square will be ablaze and the flames that ascend
into the
      heaven will be seen for miles.  Fire trucks will not be
able to
      handle it all.
      Trains and buses will be shut down.  Billions of dollars
will
      be lost.  Broadway shows will stop completely.  It will
cause
      businesses to flee the city in an unstoppable hemorrhage.

 
      The violence will be ferocious.  It will shock the whole
world.
      Our streets will be lined not just with National Guard but
      the militia.
 
      The Los Angeles fires were confined to a few sections of
      their city but New York will be ablaze and its burroughs.
 
      Such things are expected in Third World countries but
      not in a civilized nation like the United States.  Yet in
not too long a time afterward New York City will go bankrupt.
      The city's Queen city will be cast into the dirt.  A city
of poverty.
 
      You ask, when will all this happen?  All I can say is I
      believe I will be here when it happens.  When it happens,
no matter where we are, in your apartment or on the job,
      God's people are not to panic or fear."
 
I've been asked. so many calls in our Texas office.
"Brother Dave, the web sites are covering this all over the
United States.  Is this what you saw?"

My answer is, "No, it's not.  Not at all."

What I see is far more, far more severe.  The heartland won't be
spared.  Because you
see, if we turn away from God now, if we don't have voices
rising, then this is what
happened to Israel.  The whole nation came under economic
collapse.

You see, I don't like to hear this.  Folks, we didn't want to
hear it then [in 1992] and it's happened and now we weep.

You say, "Well can't any of this be avoided?"

Absolutely yes.  Yes!

If this President proves to be a Josiah, a man who sought the
Lord with all his heart
according to God's pattern or the tracks of the Holy Spirit we
may be given a reprieve for
as long as we have a godly man who does not turn to the right or
to the left but
completely trembles at the word of God.

Turn to II Kings and I'll give you that hope if you will.  If
you want to know what to pray
about, folks, this is it.  Pray that God will cause President
Bush to tremble at the word of
God, that he will stay on his knees and not be turned aside by
advisors.

God said, as long as you are in power, as long as you weep
before me, as long as you
don't turn to the right or to the left, as long as you tremble
at my word, you will not see
what is coming.  It will not come under your rule.  It will not
come in your time.

My prayer is that we would pray that desperately and event his
morning before we close
this service, to call this church to pray that God give the
spirit of Josiah in the White House.

Our Attorney General Ashcroft is a Pentecostal believer full of
the Holy Spirit.  There are
prayer meetings every day in the White House.  We need to plead
with God that the spirit
of Josiah, the same spirit that rested on him.

Folks, not that we should be afraid of what is coming but to
give us some time to
evangelize.  There seems to be a visitation of the Holy Spirit
that is running in parallel
with these judgments.  There seems to be God speaking all over
the land.

Churches in Dallas, churches in Denver are being packed with
people.  This is happening even before.
Prayer meetings. and these are the Christians, these are the
believers that are coming
together.  There's a temporary pull and call among those who are
not believers.

But folks, this is the hope and here's what the prophet
Zechariah said, "Thus saith the
Lord of Hosts, turn ye unto me, saith the Lord, and I will turn
to you."

... God said, if you will just turn.

We can't reach the world from this pulpit.  But you see, yes, I
pray that the nation
repents.  But my most intense prayer is for my own heart.

Lord, let me be holy turned to you.  Let me have a repentant
heart.  Let me judge my sins
that I may not be judged before the throne.  I'm not looking at
somebody else.

Folks, you can't find anywhere in this particular thing where
God blamed sinners.  He
didn't blame homosexuals, he didn't blame those.

He said, it's because of your pride and your cry of greatness.
In your troubled times and
in your grief you didn't turn to me with all your heart.  You
didn't come against yours
sins but you turned to your own strength and you turned because
you were wounded in pride.  Your pride rose up.

God says, if you will turn to me with all your heart I will
repent of what I had planned for you.

We can't repent for the rest of New York but we can repent for
ourselves and our
repentance this morning can rise to high heaven and touch the
throne of God.  We can
move the heart of God, I believe that with everything in us.

Folks, listen to me please.  We want to remember in prayer our
President.  President
Bush, when he was a candidate, one of his first speeches was
given at our Teen Challenge
Center in Lubbock.  We have a copy of his speech and he said, "I
was an alcoholic and
Jesus saved me not only from alcoholism but from sin.  I've
given my heart to Jesus Christ."

Now folks, we're to pray for our leaders even if they were evil.
 How much more for
those that have been placed in the power and such a strategic
time?  You may not agree
with his politics but folks, if you're a Christian, forget
politics right now and let's lay hold of God.
 
 
 

REST-- A DIFFERENT KIND OF WARFARE STRATEGY

               From: Ching Co, Cebu City, The Philippines
               email: ching@gsilink.com
June 16, 2001

Today, the Lord directed my mind to a particular group of people.

These were people of various giftings and talents---All have offered
their lives to the Lord to serve Him and His people.

But somehow they are finding themselves to be "out" instead of "in."
They are finding circumstances coming against them instead of for
them. It seems the very things they desire to do for God are the
farthest thing from what they are able to do this time--And the
opposite of what they have labored for seems to [come against them]
and upon them in great force.

WHAT'S NOW IN THEIR/OUR HEARTS

I heard these questions and thoughts hovering on many hearts and
minds.

"Have I missed the way?" "Is the Lord angry with me?" "Is there sin
in my life?" "Is the Lord punishing me?" "Is this the work of the
enemy?" "Oh Lord, time is passing me by. "Oh God, how many more
years? "Oh God, when will you come for me? When will I see the
fulfillment of Your promises for me? "Are all these impressions and
promises I'm holding on to really from the Lord or are they just
coming from my own imagination?

COMMON GROUND

The circumstances are varied and different for each one, but a common
place that they are finding themselves in is "STANDSTILL".

All plans, dreams, projects, works seem to be frozen for now. Nothing
seems to be moving--- as they have perceived them in their hearts
[that things would].

A DIFFERENT KIND OF WARFARE

The Lord impressed to me that people who are finding themselves in
this place are involved in a different kind of spiritual warfare. It
is a warfare with a prophetic tone and message.

It may not be active and may look passive but IT IS POWERFUL TO
DESTROY STRONGHOLDS and helpful and necessary to complement and
support the works of those who are now actively laboring in God's
field.

EXPOSING THE ENEMY

There is a spiritual onslaught that is coming upon God's people. I
did not receive any specific name but just perceived the nature  of
this attack.

I saw something like a small snowball that the enemy had thrown down
and as it began to move and roll, it picked up size and speed and
became bigger and bigger until it became so big that it toppled down
everything that stood in it's way.

TREADMILL STRATEGY

To help me understand better the nature of this attack, The Lord
showed me the vision of a person running on a treadmill. No matter
what the person was doing, his feet were constancy running that
treadmill.

Whether eating, reading, watching TV, talking with people, and even
sleeping. Yet I saw the person's feet continually working on the
treadmill. It was like this treadmill had become his life-line and
everything around him "will crumple" if he stops.

Another parallel picture given to me was that of a rat that was
running inside a circular wheel like what is seen in pet shop. The
rat was running non-stop inside that wheel.

NON-STOP MOTION

The enemy is using this strategy to weaken and trap God's people. In
everything that we do now-adays, we are being drawn to that need to
be doing something constantly.

There seem to be some force that wants to carry us into perpetual
motion---Even when we are not doing anything physically, our minds
never stop thinking or planning or strategizing.

This has created a lot of activities and movements (which are not bad
by themselves) but if we are not careful, they will become like the
small snowball that will roll over us, weary us and take us out of
the race in the end.

EZEKIEL'S INTERCESSION:

References:Ezekiel 3:24-27; 4:1-15

God has chosen a group of prophetic intercessors. Their lives will be
like that of Ezekiel. They will become God's spiritual weapons in
stopping the enemy's "snowball" from getting bigger and running over
the body of Christ.

THEIR LIVES BECOMES PROPHETIC SYMBOLS

By causing these people to be standing in situations where their
hands are tied, or standing in places of not being able to move,
they, like Ezekiel have become symbols that the enemy's plan have
been exposed and thwarted.

VIOLATING THE SABBATH REST

The enemy wants to set in motion something that will cause the body
of Christ to begin to overlook , ignore, and  not to take seriously
the importance of God's Sabbath rest and the purpose for which God
instituted this type of rest and the effect it has upon your lives
and the danger of violating it.

FOR THOSE IN THE MIDST OF THE ACTION

Even for those who are not in a place of standstill but are in the
forefront of God's work, there will be moments when you will sense
the Lord prompting you to break away from the flow of what's keeping
you busy this season.  Heed these gentle nudgings from the Holy
Spirit --for they are meant as your protection.

This applies not just to ministry  but to every area of our lives. Do
not fear taking those moments of break or rest.

JUST STOPPING TO REST

I saw scenes where people went to sleep or took short walks in the
middle of a busy meeting and planning sessions.

I saw parents joking, laughing and wrestling with their children in
the middle of their studies.

I saw women dropping unfinished household chores and just sitting
down to take a cup of coffee or tea or just calling a friend and
talking about nothing serious in particular.

Moments  like these are promptings from the Holy Spirit and not human
weakness as the enemy would want us to believe. But they are meant by
the Lord to be a method  of spiritual warfare strategy to prevent the
enemy from gaining inroad into our lives.

A WORD FOR THOSE WHO ARE ON "STANDSTILL"

Fear not for I have not abandoned you. Nor have I forgotten my plans
for you.

My recompense is with Me and I will repay you for the years and the
things that have been taken away from you.

You will find yourself like Elijah  running with the power of the
Lord (1 Kings 18:46) coming to the very places where I want you to be
when this season is over. You will not be left behind but will be
standing with the others as if you have never left.

My Spirit is overshadowing you and this has enabled you to stand in
these places. My Spirit will continue to overshadow and will carry
you through.

Continue to focus upon all that I have revealed to you. They will not
be in vain but will come to pass in it's time. Hold on to what I've
revealed to you for I Am adding more revelation to it.

As you continue to stand your ground. I Am preparing the groundwork
for you. Wait-- for it for it will surely come upon you as I've
promised.

PRAYER

"Heavenly Father, we know that Your ways are not our ways, but Yours
is better than ours. Thank You for helping us to understand the
significance of what is taking place in our midst. Thank You for
restoring our eyes of perception and aligning them with Yours. Thank
You for exposing the plans of the enemy and for not allowing it to
take root and prosper in our lives.

"We give praise to You for all that You are doing in our midst. Great
and mighty are You. Awesome are Your deeds. As You have move in the
past,  may You renew them  in our days. All these we speak by faith
through Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord and Savior who strengthen
us. Amen!"
 
 
 
 

Warriors for God in the Spirit
~ a prophecy recieved by Don Franklin

        For there are many voices going out into the world and yea, you
are hearing many voices.  There are many prophets and preachers speaking
today, but I want you to hear the voice of God your Father speaking to
you.

        There is no darkness in my voice and there is not hate and there
is no bitterness and there is no envy or strife or division within the
heart of God, within the realm of God or the Kingdom of God.

        All that you see that is divisive, and strife causing, and bitter,
and backbiting, and low degrees of fleshly activities, these are the
operation of the kingdom of Satan.  Those who are involved in them are
being controlled by the devil even through they appear as Christians of
light, their control is of the enemy.

        I say unto you, there is coming a day when I am going to separate
these people from my people and they will no longer cause trouble in the
Body of Christ.

        But as for you, my orders to you are to march straight to the
Throne of God every morning.  Receive your orders from Him.  Receive your
mercy from Him.  Receive the cleansing grace of the Holy Spirit.  Have the
blood applied to your heart and life and go forth as warriors for God in
the spirit - warriors of light bringing the peace, the love, the joy, and
the gifts, and the fruit of the Spirit to all whom you encounter.

        Go forward as I lead you.  Go forward as I send you.  Do not run
ahead of Me and do not lag behind, but get in step with the army of God.
Move with the Holy Spirit. Trust the Holy Spirit's leadings. I am happy
when you listen to Him and heed his council.  Continue to walk in His ways.

        Solve your own disputes and quarrels among yourselves.  Forgive
one another; love one another with tenderness; be kind; be forgiving;
overlook each others mistakes and faults and come and let the Holy Ghost
fill you and you will find many of your quarrels just melting away.

        Many of your quarrels are caused by lack of communication with Me
and lack of touch with the Holy Ghost.  Be filled with the Spirit, singing
to yourselves in psalms, and hymns and spiritual songs and there'll be no
place for the devil to cause contention among you.

        Forgive one another for Christ's sake.  As He has forgiven you of
your sins, so forgive one another of each other's sins.  And go forward
and be lights unto My Kingdom, bringing peace and love and joy to all
those that you encounter.

        Do not attempt to judge.  Do not attempt to condemn.  Do not
attempt to punish those whom I have marked out for punishment.  For I tell
you, they are mine and I shall bring the rod of affliction upon them, and
I shall deal with them mightily.

        My word to you this day is ignore them as if they do not even
exist.  For in your eyes, and in my eyes, in the eyes of God, these
problems are a small thing, and they are not to hinder the love, and the
peace, and the joy that I want to flow through your lives.  I want your
vessels cleaned and sanctified and full of the Holy Ghost.

        And again I say unto you, conduct yourself as if these people do
not exist.  Ignore totally their foolishness and their strife and their
contention with the devil and let Me deal with them.  For I am the Lord
God of Heaven and earth; is there anything too hard for Me?  I give wealth
and I take it away.  I give health and I can take it away.  I am
all-powerful, all sufficient.  These people are not to trouble you.

        But let your trouble be being filled with the Holy Ghost.  Let you worry
about being filled.  Let you be concerned about being in the Word.  Let
you be concerned about doing good to those around you that you can help.
This is what I call you to.

        Your concern is to be filled with the Holy Ghost, to be full of the Word,
and to lend your hand to those around you who need help.  This I call you
to do.  This is my job for you, says the Lord.
 

Prophecy for Leadership: Trust the Holy Ghost
As received by Don Franklin

        This then is the message that I would have for you.  Walk in the
Spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.  For the flesh
lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh.  Do not attempt
to fulfill your ministry in fleshly ways.

        Do not believe that a certain person or church or denomination can
fulfill what I have called you to fulfill.  Only the Spirit of God can do
the things that I desire that you do.  Only the Spirit of God can heal the
sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, bring new people into the church,
fill them with the Holy Spirit of the Heavenlies and speaking in tongues,
give them peace, joy and love.  You are not capable of any of this,
neither is any man, any church or any denomination.  It is the Lord your
God himself who must do this.

        The basic requirement that I have for you is but this.  As my son, Jesus
Christ walked in the Spirit and obeyed His commands, so I call you to walk
in the Spirit, flow in the Spirit, move in the Spirit and you will see the
ministry that I have placed within your hearts and that I've called you to
come into in this world.

        Condemn not when you are condemned.  Judge not when you are judged.
Return rallying with blessing.  Return hatred with love.  Return all the
opposition that comes against you with the peace and the love and the
anointing of the Holy Ghost.

        Answer a fool in his folly lest he be wise in his conceits.  Yes, there
is a time for a sharp answer, but there is also a time for a loving
response.  The Spirit knows when to use either.

        Trust the Holy Ghost.  Trust the anointing and leading within you.  He
will answer for you.  When you are brought before denominational leaders
or councilors or kings or whomever, trust the Holy Ghost within you.  Do
not prepare any statements.  Do not think of what you will say, for I the
Lord you God know what ye should say.

        I in advance have prepared you.  You are specifically and perfectly
prepared for the duty and the ministry that I have called you to perform.
I will not stretch you beyond your limits and cause you to break as the
church would.  I will not push you day and night and exhaust you until you
can't even think straight.  I will not require things of you that are
impossible for you to do.

        I will give you peace.  I will give you gentleness and kindness
along life's path, if you will but do this one thing.  Follow the
anointing and the leading of the Holy Ghost.  Be quiet about things I
caution you to be quiet about and speak those things that I call you to
speak about, and you should be considered wise people.

        And your sins will be forgiven.  They will be wiped out of people's minds
as they see the anointing of God upon you.  Walk in the Spirit and you
will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.  Pray much.  Pray without ceasing
in the Spirit.  Constantly be bringing your heart and your mind to God for
cleansing and for filling of the Holy Ghost.

        Have a kind word for those around you.  Be sons and daughters of your God
like Christ who is in Heaven.  Be gentle and meek, for the meek shall
inherit the earth.  And allow the Lord your God to defend you.  Do not
defend yourself.  He will give you that which you need to say in front of
people.  Do not worry.  He will put the words within your mouth if you
will but listen to the Spirit.

        Follow the Holy Spirit.  Be kind and gentle.  Answer anyone who comes
against you with the Wisdom of the Holy Spirit and the Joy and the Peace
and the Love of God.

        You will be blest.  You will be called sons and daughters of God.  Pray,
pray without ceasing.  Stay in touch with the Holy Spirit.  Read my Word.
Continue to do good to those around you.  Continue walking after Me and
allow Me to guide you.

        My love is everlasting for you.  I will not forsake you.  I will remit
your sins when you repent and I will bless you and bring you into a good
land.
 
 
 
 

I was standing at my window yesterday here at home and looking at Gods beauty
outdoors...thinking how awesome He is...then all of a sudden I FELT...and
then SAW in my spirit a vision...it was the srangest feeling like things were
going a little side ways...I said Lord what is this..then I saw in my spirit
like a foundation, and it was shifting side ways..the Lord spoke and said, in
my spirit I am doing a shifting right now in the Body of Christ..this was so
awesome I could actually feel it! and see it!. so hang on everyone shifting
is happening!          luv you all Donna

this was given 10/25/99
 
 
 
 

A Servants Response
by Steve Morris
swmorris@herald.infi.net

     The Father says, through His Holy Spirit:
     There are many in My church whom the enemy has sent great forces of depression and
discouragement against in order to immobilize and paralyze them. Many have responded to this
state of mind and are even now considering and questioning that which is happening in their
lives.
     And there are others enduring the same attacks, who have seen and recognized them as
attacks from the enemy and have subdued their flesh and put it under and have cried out in their
spirits for guidance from Me.
     In the face of this furious onslaught of the enemy to discourage and dissipate the armies of
My church, many have become inactive and many others have become hyper-active, subduing
their flesh, putting it aside, and recognizing it as an attack from the enemy. And they have
become hyper-active in their spirit, and they have soared high in the heavenlies seeking the
source and the cause of this attack. And they have been successful in identifying those places,
those areas, and the powers behind these attacks.
     So I urge you who have been affected by this attack to also lay aside your flesh and look for
the source of it. And know that the powers that have rallied in an attempt to destroy you have
been overcome by My Son Jesus Christ through His work on the cross. And so in the same way,
you must die to self and you must rely upon your spirit man and the Holy Spirit within you for
discerning that which would attempt to destroy you.
     So look to those who have soared high for they are being uplifted by the wind of My Holy
Spirit and they are going long distances and their surveillance, their prophetic eyesight, is keen.
And those things that are out of order in the heavenlies they have been swift to attack and to
repel the destructive forces sent against My church. For it is not by might, it is not by power, but
it is by My Spirit, says the Lord.
     And there are many things that are continuing to occur that are forerunners of that which will
occur in the spirit realm. Do not look for stability in the things of the earth. All these things are
temporal and the only lasting eternal reality is that which is in the spirit realm.
     And you are My children and you are of My Spirit, not the spirit of this world and his
destruction. So know that you have the power to overcome these attacks that have been sent
against your body, your soul and your spirit. And by responding to the fullness of the Holy Spirit
that is within you, you shall be more than conquerors.
     And as the days of darkness increase in an attempt to put out the light so shall you shine
brightly. And those in the world, who are not of My Spirit, shall see that light. And many shall
come to you and they shall join that light and the brightness of My glory shall be revealed and
manifested to the world through My church.
     Truly did Isaiah say, Arise and shine, for the glory of the Lord is upon you. For in My glory
and in My power I have made every provision for My church to reflect that glory in the world
and to the world.
     Many are filled with doubt and fear which shall grow to panic proportions and much disorder
shall come upon your society. But My children must conduct themselves according to the Spirit
of Grace that is within them.
     For I have given you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions. I have given you power
over all the power of the enemy. And by your faith and by choice of your will so shall you
overcome, says the Lord.
     Know that the things that are spoken by My true prophets shall respond to that desire within
you to see the justice of your God in a world filled with evil that has been spawned by the enemy.
For I do not withhold My hand because of a lack of justice, but I withhold My hand in love
because I’m not willing that any should perish. And so shall you also likewise withhold your
judgement in order that My justice shall be fully consummated.
     For I am a God of love and I am a God of justice. And My mercy triumphs over My
judgement. So I withhold justice according to what I have spoken in My word until the
fulfillment of all things which have been written for your comfort by My holy prophets of old.
     And in like manner take comfort in that which is being spoken by My holy prophets that are
now upon this earth. For they shall birth into your midst those who will be great servants unto
you, those who are truly My apostles. And in the process of birthing, so shall My prophets and
My apostles become as one in spirit. And become even greater servants unto you because of their
most holy alliance with each other. And as you continue to rely upon My Holy Spirit within you
to teach you, you shall come to recognize the true from the false, says the Lord.
 
 
 

This  word is submitted by Bob Hazlett <Rhazlett66@aol.com>

-----

All at once...
you will see a change in my ranks.
Leaders that are not serving and training the troops,
will be removed from their places.
Some will become casualties of the enemy.
Others will be called home early.

All at once...
you will see new leaders emerging.
So many leaders at once, that it will confuse and confound the enemy.
But what will be most confusing is not the strength of their numbers,
but the strength of their weapons, strategy and character.

All at once...
leaders that have had powerful weapons (anointing)
but have failed to cover themselves with a powerful armor (character), will
fall.

All at once...
leaders that have had thick armor, but refuse (because of pride, fear or
jealousy)
to pick up my powerful weapons, will be called home.

All at once...my leaders will arise with powerful weapons and thick armor.
All at once...they will come from the North, South, East and West.
All at once...they will be summoned from the wilderness, the caves, the pits,
and the prisons.
All at once...from diverse nations, age groups, religious backgrounds.

But all trained by my Spirit,
all Focused on My Son,
all disciplined by My hand,
all empowered by My gifts,
all endued with my My character,
all equipped with My plans,
all encompassed with My glory,
all embraced with My love,
all enabled with My power,
all entrenched in My word,
all enthralled with My presence,
all emblazoned with My fire!

THESE ARE MY NEW LEADERS SEE THEM ARISE...
ALL AT ONCE!!!
Will you be one of them?
 

-Bob Hazlett
 
 
 
 

From: M. Adrienne Hawthorne [mailto:revmah@newlifebegins.com]

Are You Ready to Rumble?

Noel Woodroffe states that God is raising up apostles and prophets that
declare and decree His present truth. At times, it seems to me, there are
few here that are speaking of the new move on he horizon. It is like eyes
have do not see, and ears do not hear what the Spirit is saying to the
church. I preached a message: It's Time for the Church to Bust a Move! I
sense that, even more so.

This is some of what I believe the Lord is saying:

I envisioned a football game, in the last minutes of the last quarter. The
game was being decided in these final few minutes. There was a sense of
urgency as the clock was clicking. I sensed spiritually that there is a time
to overcome our Opponent, and the time is now. . .

The church is in the last quarter, the last minutes of a game that she has
lost to this point. She knows how to play the game, and she knows all the
rules; however, she has lost her endurance, her fervor, and her ability to
strategize. Her Opponent now has the upper hand.

The church, in the finite nature of this specific game, in this specific
challenge, has only moments left. It's Time!

I am impressed that God asks urges and asks us:

It is your decision. Will it be defeat or victory? You may look outnumbered.
You may look like you will be overtaken; now look! See who I have dispatched
to aid and assist you. I am the captain of the team, I choose the players,
and I call the plays.

You have not listened, nor have you  harkened unto my voice. The final
moments
are upon you. The decisive moments. Will you choose life or death?

Will my Church choose to heed my voice for who I choose to call and who I
choose to use for this hour? My team is disunited. There are factions,
cliques, not a body of believers unified under one Head.

My players are out of position. Some of them do not know what there
positions are, nor the duties I have given them, nor the zones they are to
protect. As a result, My church has left itself vulnerable to the attacks of
the enemy. The watchman are not taking their positions. The walls have been
left unguarded.

Time is growing short and the seconds are ticking. The game for this
appointed time, for this season is soon to be over. Yet I have a remnant
church. I have those who have set on the bench, those who thought they would
never get a chance to play. My first string is tired, defeated, defiant, and
no longer has the life, nor the determination to win at all costs. Now I am
calling those who have been unseen, hidden, left behind, and those who have
practiced faithfully. I am calling those who listen for and hear the sound
of my distant thunder. I am calling those who can perceive and discern my
move! Now is the time for my obedient ones, now is the time for those who
prayed, who encouraged, who interceded, who served, to arise!

You are needed NOW! Assemble yourselves for this season, for this hour.
Assemble yourselves, take your position. I call you together. Come into the
huddle of My Glory! Those of you who memorized the strategy and plays of the
Opponent, I call you now into position!

This is the final play in this challenge, and time is drawing nigh.

Hut One - Get into position!
Hut Two - Look to the left. Look to the right. Look straight at the
Opposition. See that you are well able to achieve the goal.  I come for a
victorious church. My question unto you is are you who have sat in
preparation, are YOU READY TO RUMBLE!

HIKE!

Humbly submitted,

M. Adrienne Hawthorne
 
 
 

JIM RINKER

rinker@3dp.com
 
 

Fellowship With Jesus

October 1, 1999:

The Lord has a message for many of His children who are in a position of isolation. The reason why many are going through rejection and separation right now is simply because you have requested to know your Master on a more intimate level. In order to know Jesus He must be EXPERIENCED or PARTAKEN OF! It is one thing to know that Jesus suffered on the cross while it is completely a different thing to SHARE in that suffering. It is one thing to know that Jesus was rejected but quite another to experience first hand that rejection.

Isaiah 53: 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.  3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.  4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

So the word of the Lord is to EMBRACE the wilderness that you are in so that your faith does not rest in head KNOWLEDGE but rather in a true RELATIONSHIP and FELLOWSHIP with Jesus. Knowledge puffs us but love edifies. Knowledge is a gift while love COSTS!  Will you be one to give all that you own for love?

So do not lose heart because as Paul said:
2Co 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.

Love is being worked into you but it is a painful process. It does not appear that anything of value has come from the season you are in but the Lord IS INDEED building character , maturity, and fruit of the Spirit, which is His divine nature, within you. It is a treasure HIDDEN in earthen vessels which in due time He will break open the vessel and reveal the glory inside...as seen by analogy in:

Judges 7:16 And he divided the three hundred men [into] three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.  17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be [that], as I do, so shall ye do.  18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that [are] with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, [The sword] of the LORD, and of Gideon.  19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that [were] with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that [were] in their hands.

Gideon's army is symbolic of this. AT THE PROPER TIME the Lord will break the clay vessel and reveal the LIGHT hidden within it. Be patient!

There is one other work that the Lord is doing as you are separated or isolated from mainstream Christianity and is related to this picture we have of Gideon's army. The Lord is going to show that He is God and that He is the source of all provision AT THE RIGHT TIME. If you will allow Him to use you and be willing to WAIT on Him then He will get the glory. Many are getting restless, maintain your posture of WAITING!

The Lord needs those who He has called out of the church and into the wilderness to remain out of the church until such a time as He calls you back to the body. The reason for this is because He needs to DEMONSTRATE that HE IS ABLE and that He is the ONLY SOURCE of ALL PROVISION. The church is filled with much confusion as to who our provider is and many are placing themselves in the position of intermediary between God and man (and usurping Jesus authority) instead of leading His children to the ONLY INTERMEDIARY between God and man which is our APOSTLE AND HIGH PRIEST JESUS. If you were to be raised up WITHIN the church then MEN would lay claim to that work within you and take CREDIT for it and JUSTIFY the religious system as being able to raise up LIVING STONES unto the Father.

So He is going to use you as LIVING EXAMPLES and a TESTIMONY or WITNESS for His ability to HIMSELF raise up living stones unto HIMSELF. As the church sees these LIVING EXAMPLES then many will turn and RUN to (as many find for the first time) the true source of provision which is Jesus,  no longer being willing to eat of the husks (that which is devoid of corn or sustenance) given to them by their masters in the pig trough. This is were MANY, MANY will come out of MYSTERY BABYLON, when they finally realize that what they have been eating is not corn but husks.

A famine is ALREADY occurring within the body but it will take some time until the true starvation begins to occur. As this happens then the Lord will release His WITNESSES. His children will say "how are you so strong?" You will reply "because I ate right from the King's hand!"

At this PRESENT time your release would be unfruitful and in fact injurious. The light must be bright and the darkness dark for there to be a clear distinction between that which is of men and that which is of God.

Isaiah 60: 1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.  2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

The children in Egypt did not cry out to God until the taskmasters increased their workload and oppressed them to the point of making bricks without straw. They did not cry until their hour of DEEPEST DARKNESS. Many of His children today will not respond until the Rocks falls on them and they are ground to dust. This is His mercy and not judgment as many claim. Sometimes mercy HURTS REALLY BAD! Then and only then will whose who have truly been deceived be willing (have the proper heart position) to turn and return to their Father. The rest will be cut off and appointed their portion with the unbeliever.

Wait on the Lord and be patient!