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AWAKENING THE SLEEPING CHURCH
Ephesians 5:14 (Amp)
Therefore He says, Awake,
O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine (make day dawn) upon
you and give you light.
The Lord Jesus Christ
through The Holy Spirit is speaking to His Church to wake up from her slumber.
He has said that its
time the Church recognizes her responsibility in the world and wake up from
where she has slumbered.
Before The Lord, the
church has slept in various ways
- Sin is in the midst of her camp.
- She no longer prays and watches with her master
- She no longer preaches the truth of God’s word
She is in a
backslidden state and The Lord says to her “’Return to me,' declares
the Lord Almighty, 'and I will
return to you,' says the Lord Almighty.”(Zechariah 1:3).
Wake up Church.
They’re truths The
Lord Jesus Christ has spoken that we need to wake up to, which are stated
below:-
1.
Wake
up to the truth that I am coming back swiftly.
Behold, I come quickly:
blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
(Revelation 22:7)
The Lord Jesus as He spoke that He’s coming back, indeed He will. Many
have mocked His coming back saying, He’s not coming back and others say He said
He’s coming soon till now He’s not back yet.
But Church the word
says that
“The Lord is not slack concerning his
promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not
willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9)…………..for He’s granting
humanity an opportunity to receive His grace and be saved through His son Jesus
Christ, for He wills not that any man should perish but that all to be saved.
Behold He is coming quickly as He said, for all the signs that
were prophesied pointing to His return, behold are here, rumors of wars,
persecutions of Christianity, changes in nature, the rise of false prophets and
christs etc. (Matthew
24). Wake up to the truth that He’s coming back eminently.
The Bible says “For
as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
(Matthew 24:27)We sure
don’t know the hour but we’ve been given signs to keep us awake to His coming.
2.
Wake up to the
truth that God is a Holy God and all that profess His name MUST be Holy like He
is.
“But just as he who called
you is holy, so be holy in all you do;
for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." (1 Peter 1:15-16)
God is calling us to
live in Holiness and Righteousness for in this, the church prepares to receive her
husband (Christ Jesus)
We have so much
compromised the standards of God’s holiness thinking that the God of heaven is
deaf and blind but He says in His word, “Be not
deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that
soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
(Galatians
6:7-8)
Sin has become the
norm by which she lives and the sin in the church is stinking before The Lord
of all the earth and He speaks to us “Wherefore come
out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the
unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye
shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”
(2 Corinthians 6:17-18)
It’s
time we stopped living like the world lives and we wake up to the truth that we
are in the world but not of the world. (John 17)
God is a holy God and
He tells us in His word to be holy as He is…….without holiness no man will see
The Lord. (Hebrews
12:14)
The True and Holy God
is coming back to judge the sin of the world, it’s time to wake up and be separate
to the purposes and the Holiness of our God that we may flee the wrath of God
to come. The kingdom of God is at Hand.
- Wake up to the truth that the Gospel must be preached to all the ends of the world.
“And he said unto them, Go
ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” (Mark
16:15)
The Lord left His
church with the mandate and with a most holy commission to “GO”
The great commission has become the greatest omission in the church.
We need to wake up to the zeal and the passion for souls.
Souls of men are so important to God almighty, more worth than Zillions
of Dollars
Reaching the lost is a responsibility given to the church by her
master and if we love him as we really profess then we need to obey Him. We are
not only called to be a bride but to be a militant bride for this very reason
the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force (Matthew 11:12)
And we will prevail over the forces of evil as we win the lost to
our Lord’s kingdom, for there is a war over the souls of men in the earth.
It’s about time we woke up from our slumber, for the world is
running fast towards the end. Signs of the end are upon us, they’re visible, and
needeth no man show us. They’re bare before us.
We’re running so fast
towards and into eternity, for its either in hell or heaven. A burden is upon
us from the master to reach the lost and dyeing.
“For though I preach the
gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is
unto me, if I preach not the gospel!” (1 Corinthians 9:16)
Wake up intercessors, wake up His Prophets, wake up His ministers
and wail on his altar.
Maranatha!!!!
God Bless you.
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