In this time spiritual maturity comes at a high price and great sacrifice. We as the men and women of God have to stand up for his Word and his way like never before. God is being disrespected and disregarded by men, women and children 'just like before'. The things that are going on in this world now are nothing new to God but for those of us in this season during our pilgrimage on this earth, we are being tried like never before.
People of God, we must cover ourselves for battle in this season like never before ! We must read, study and learn like never before. We must train our children up in the way to go like never before. We must be peculiar people like never before. We must watch like never before. We must discern like never before. We must spend time in prayer like never before. We must be honest , humble and repentive before God like never before.
We must run unto him and hide in him like never before. We must intercede for others like never before. We must encourage our ownselves just as David did like never before. There is so much out there that is not of God ! We must look with our spiritual eyes and hear with our spiritual ears like never before. We must not be tricked by the enemy. YES. God is love,but the question during this season and during this hour, is not whether or not God loves us , but do we love him ? If we do, we must show it like never before !
So many of us are quick to point out God's love for us but we forget that even though he loves us and wants no man to perish, he will still put you eternally where you choose to go. If you choose to live your life like their will be no judgement then you will receive the consequences of that choice . People of God we must speak this into the atmosphere like never before ! We all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God and have done some foolish things in our youth BUT for God's Grace and Mercy we could have been dead and gone and at the point some of us were in our lives, HELL would be our home but God gave us time to come to our senses and to come to him.
God has Mercy and Grace but who knows for how long because no man knows the day nor the hour when the Son of Man will return so you do not know when he will come and you do not know when you will go so we should repent and be ready ! Christians we must tell it to a dying world like never before! Many of our young people are OUT OF CONTROL,which means they are living in disobedience which means they are under the spirit of witchcraft ! Disobedience and rebellion towards their own parents and other adults. We must speak to that spirit of rebellion that is trying to overtake all of our young people. We must look it in the eye and speak the Word of God to it like never before !
The men and women of God are being tested in this season in a manner that may seem, 'Like Never Before.' but it has come before and many have kept the faith and gone thru. Many have trusted and prayed and waited and he has come thru. We must hold on like never before and believe like Abraham. He had faith and it was counted unto him as righteousness ! We must strive to be righteous even in the test we are going thru ! They are test like never before but GOD has to come thru and show himself ! He promised he would do it for us ! He did it for Moses, Joshua, Rahab, David, Issac, Job, Hannah, Abraham, Lazarus, Elijah and so many more before us. God is going to bring us out of the fire without a burn !
We may come smelling like never before, tried like never before, pushed like never before and scraped up like never before but we are coming. This time in our lives finds us in miry clay thick like never before but he will put our feet on a solid rock to stay ! He will open up the windows of heaven and open up the doors no man can shut like never before. He will blow a mighty rushing EAST WIND like he has done before into the lives of his people and he will do it in the presence of everyone. He will do a thing that will cause the very ears of those that hear about it to tingle like never before ! Our spirits will grow like never before !
I am personally being stretched like never before so I have no choice but to seek his face because I am believing him to do AN AWESOME thing in our lives like never before when he brings us out as a family. As a wife, he is purging me and molding me spiritually and making me stronger in him. He is growing my relationship with him like never before. He is making our marriage even stronger like never before..our latter married days will be EVEN GREATER ! I stand as a prayer warrior by the side of my husband. If I stumble or fall while I am protecting him and going forth with him he leans over and picks me up and I do the same for him.
Sometimes the enemy shoots his arrows but we are growing spiritually so we speak a word to that thing like never before and he does not succeed. We are believing like never before, we are praying together like never before and we are believing like never before ! We stand in the deep , deep valley together side by side NO SPACE between us ! We stand like never before against the enemy and his hollow attempts to shut us down ! We stand carrying the armour to do battle like never before because we are fighting for our faith like never before !
'Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: -Ephesians 6 .
God wants his people to stand for him like never before ! I am going to end this message with a scripture that my son Phillip learned a few days ago and it really blessed my soul and Jason's it was a much needed word at this time in our lives as we keep pressing and waiting on the manifestation of his deliverance of us out of this place ! AMEN !
'Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. ' PSALM 102:1-2
