Wednesday 4 November 2015

Awakening The Sleeping Church


Unto Him Who Sits Upon The Throne Be All Glory, Honor And Majesty.

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
  1. Sin is in the midst of her camp.
  2. She no longer prays and watches with her master
  3. 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 saysFor 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.
  1. 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!!!!

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