As I'm sitting down at my computer, it is Monday, November 7, 2011 and it's about 12:32 AM. I was just out walking and trying to get a very severe pain in my hip to ease, when I felt the Spirit of the Lord and He began to speaking to me in a way that He never had before. There was a real sense of urgency in His voice, like nothing I'd ever heard before. I didn't finish my walk, I came straight back into the house and went to my computer to write this blog.
As I was walking, I heard the Lord say to me, "Tell my people I'm coming. Don't mince words, don't tell them I'm coming some day, tell my people I'm coming back soon. I want my children to know that the day is upon them when I will come for them and I want them to be ready. I want them to begin spreading the word and preaching the gospel with a real sense of urgency. No longer can they speak in relative terms, no longer can then speak as though my coming may be months or years down the road: I want them to spread the word as though I were coming any minute and to continue until I call them home." Needless to say, this was an eye opening word and feeling I had.
As I'm typing this up, I feel like there is something about to happen that will trigger the remaining things that need to happen and set up the Church's exit from this planet. I feel like the things we've been seeing in the news, the words that have been coming forth in church service all over the world are a warning to us. Folks, the Lord's return is at the door and I've got a feeling, to put in the only way I can think of, that the Lord has His hand on the door knob and He's about to turn it.
You and I have not got time to play religious games or spend our time on things that don't really matter. We've got to spread the word that Jesus is about to come and plead with our family and friends to make a decision while they still can. It is up to you and me to find a way to explain to them what is about to happen and get them to see that Jesus is about to shake this world up like it's never been shaken before.
As I said earlier, there was a real sense of urgency in His voice like I've never heard before. It made me stop dead in my tracks from the stunning nature of His voice. IF you could've heard the voice I heard, there is no doubt in my mind that it would have shaken any of you to the very depths of your heart and soul.
I am begging you, if you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior; if you're someone who's been playing some sort of religious game or someone pretending to be a Christian: no matter your circumstance, I'm begging you to make sure that everything is right with God and that you're not playing any games. Each of us gets one opportunity to make the right decision, one chance to accept Jesus as Savior and if we miss it, Hell is waiting. There is coming a time, in the very near future, when being a Christian, praying to God or having a Bible will be a capital crime and the punishment will be death. There is soon coming a time with the Antichrist will require everyone be marked or suffer the penalty of death. You don't want to be here when God's fury is let lose on this earth.
I'm begging you, please, make sure your heart is right with God and that you're doing all you can to live a life acceptable to Him. Please, make sure you're praying, tithing, helping those who need help and sharing a witness in this lost world. We've not much time, we've not much time at all so please, make every second we have left mean something for the kingdom of God.
Blessings and peace,
Dave
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Chosen Generation
At 12:10 AM on Sunday, June 25, 2011 the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me to write this Prophetic House Call message. As most of you know, I don’t write anything that I am not one-hundred percent sure, that the Lord gave it to me. This is very much in line with other things He’s given me over the last few months and I feel that it is a wakeup call to the church and Christians everywhere.
This is what the Lord gave me to send out to you who read this blog and, it will be put out on my radio broadcast as well.
“Speak these words to My people and warn those who are lukewarm and those who don’t believe My Son will come again. Warn and comfort with these words and speak to them with compassion and love.
This is what the Lord God has to say to all those who will hear. The time of My Son’s coming is closer than many of you believe. Look around you at what is happening in the world. Do you not see the television news; do you not see what is happening all around you? Can you not see the fulfillment of My prophet’s words coming to pass before your eyes? No other generation has ever seen what you are seeing and yet, you sit there and ask Me for a sign? Look around you and read the words of My prophets and you will have no need for any further sign. You are the Chosen Generation!
It is recorded in My Scriptures that when you see all these signs in a single generation, that that generation will be the generation to see the return of My Son. My beloved Israel is now a nation once more; My holy city of Jerusalem is once more the capital of My nation; the children of Israel that have been scattered among the Gentile nations are making their way to the land of their fathers; the land of Israel, which was once desolate and barren is now flourishing and sending her bounty around the world and the nations of the world are once again plotting to destroy her.
Look at what the Scriptures have said and see that they are coming to pass in your generation! Look at what My prophets foretold and then see that these things are coming to pass in your generation. This generation is the most blessed generation since the days when My Son walked among you. This generation will be the generation that will see the gathering together of the saints, the tribulation and the Second Coming of Christ to this earth. Look around you and see. Are you blind? Are you deaf? Have you hardened your heart so much that you cannot see what is plain before your eyes? Have you allowed yourself to be drawn into another gospel so deep that you cannot be reached with the truth of My Word?
Look before you and see what is to come next. Look to the city of Damascus and know that soon it will be no more. See how the heathen is gathering as though they were going to war against My beloved, the apple of My eye, Israel is her name and she is my betrothed. See how that Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia and Babylon are coming together as a mighty army. Look to the land of Rosh and see how they have made allegiance with the enemies of your God. See how the waves are roaring, the earth is shaking and the powers of the deep are churning. See that all I have spoken of is now coming to pass in your generation just as My Scriptures have said it would.
Open your eyes and see, open your ears and hear what is being said by My prophets in your own day. O you who are lukewarm, you who have strayed from the truth of My Gospel and have turned your hearts to lies and deception. Come back to Me now before you are left behind. Set aside your petty differences, your theological disputes and those things that divide My church. Set aside vain debate and pointing of fingers against My ministers, My prophets and those sent in My name to teach you and warn you. Come together as My children in love for one another.
I am the Lord your God and I am sending My servants forth to warn you and to prepare you. You are the chosen generation that will see the return of Jesus the Messiah. You are the chosen generation that was spoken of from long ago. There is no stopping this, there is no delaying this: you are the chosen generation! Come to Me while you still can and repent of your whoring, you’re trusting in another gospel and your idols. Do not wait for the tribulation to come for many of you will not be strong enough to endure that time. Turn back to Me now, for I am waiting with open arms to receive you again to Myself.
These are the words of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, Creator of heaven and earth. Hear My words and live.”
More on this word from God will be discussed on my radio broadcast this coming week. You can keep up with when I will be speaking on this subject at www.blogtalkradio.com/christiannewsreview or www.davelillardministries.org
God bless you and keep you,
Dave
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Prophetic Warning
This word came to me this morning and as it did, I could hear the mournful tone in the Father's voice. I could tell that, as He spoke this word, He was already grieving for those who will refuse to accept words His word, and others that will soon come. I am afraid that there are many who will continue to put off coming to the Father to ask forgiveness, many who will continue to play church or hold on to things in this world. My friends, there is no time to waste, no time to play the games many play.
I'm asking you to pray, then read these words and make sure that your heart is right with God. Please, make sure that all your sins are forgiven and that you have no unforgivenss in your heart. The terrible day of the Lord is at hand, please make sure your sins are forgiven so you won't be left behind.
I'm asking you to pray, then read these words and make sure that your heart is right with God. Please, make sure that all your sins are forgiven and that you have no unforgivenss in your heart. The terrible day of the Lord is at hand, please make sure your sins are forgiven so you won't be left behind.
May 31, 2011 @ 1:20 AM
“Why don’t you heed the words spoken by My prophets, or the words contained My Holy Scriptures? Can you not see that My Son’s return is even at the door? Look around you and see the signs of the times, signs that have been prophesied thousands of year ago by My prophets and even by My Son.
Even now I am showing you things that have been foretold in My Word, signs that should make your rejoice and humble yourselves before Me. Signs that should stir your heart and soul to repent and to worship Me for you should be able to see these signs, and know that the time of your departure is close at hand.
Why then do you still bicker and fight amongst yourselves? Why do you participate in vain debate and wander from Me? I have given you the signs, I have given you the signs of the season when the Christ will return for His bride and yet, you do not see and you do not hear.
Thus says the Lord of host, think not that I will delay the return of My Son; think not that His return will be delayed past that day that I have set from the beginning. Is it not in My Word that I knew the end from the beginning? Do not think that I have delayed His return, for that day has not come: but woe to them that do not heed My words.
The day has come for you to put aside your vanity, your wantonness and to humble yourselves before Me. The time has come that My hand will no longer be stayed and will longer hold what is to come. Those who love Me will worship Me and they will worship Me in spirit, and in truth. They will set about to warn those who will listen that My Son’s return is even at the door.
Look around you, open your eyes to see that what I have said would happen has happened; open your eyes to see that the words of My Scriptures are fulfilled and the day has come. You who scoff at these words, those who do not believe that My Son will soon return for His bride, you have been blinded by this world’s trappings and its vanity. Hear My words while there is yet time, hear the words of my prophets and ministers and come back to me while you still can.
Harken unto the words of the Lord and you shall be saved. As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be at the end. They mocked My servant Noah, even unto the time when he and his family entered the safety of the Ark and I, the Lord God of the universe, closed the door behind them. Hear Me, My little children: the door of the Ark is set to close again before the terrible day of My judgment on this earth. Come to me while there is still time.
I, the Lord of hosts have spoken this. You have no more time to scoff and to wait… hear My words and live; heed them not and the fires of Hell await those who refuse My grace and forgiveness.
This is the generation that will see the Rapture of the church, the Tribulation of seven years and will also witness the Second Coming of Christ. Are you ready to meet Him?
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Spiritually Ignorant
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..." Hosea 4:6
This is an urgent message from the Lord God Jehovah. These are not my words, they are His.
" My little children, the time of the end has come, and My heart is grieved as I look to see so many who claim to be Mine, who know so little of My Word. I see so many who are walking around in a fog because they have no real knowledge of Me or My Word. They are being led into captivity, they are hearing false teachers and believing their soft words, their comforting words and accepting them over what is written in My Word, what it written in the pages of the Holy Bible.
Have not My prophets warned of this day? Have not my messengers, my true teachers warned that the day would come when people would believe the lie and depart from the truth? I am calling to you, I am calling to you who call yourselves by My name to stop believing the lies and to come back to Me. Lay aside the things that keep you from spending time with Me in prayer; lay aside the things that are keeping you from opening My Word and reading what is there for you. My words are there to give you instruction, to give you weapons to fight spiritual battles and my words are there to give you the knowledge that will save your soul from hell.
Why do you run from the truth? My Son walked among you and taught you well. He warned you that you should let no man deceive you (Matthew 24:4) yet, you believe the smooth words of man and have departed from the truth. Come back to Me and I will forgive you and will raise you up. Come back to Me in times of intimate prayer, in times of study and I will give you strength to fight the evils of this world's system and its deception. Do not from Me, but rather run to Me.
The day is soon to come when the powers of darkness will overtake this world and many will be led into the pits of hell itself. The day is soon coming when the evil one will be loosed and will draw many away from the truth. Seek the truth of My Word while there is still time. Do not allow the doctrines of men and the smooth words of false teachers pull away from My truth. Come back to Me and I will renew your mind, you spirit with My truth.
Hear the voice of the Lord of hosts: seek My face in prayer, in praise and in times of study so that you are not led into captivity, so that you are not destroyed by the lies of Satan. Hear now the words of the Lord, for they are good."
Beloved, we live in a day when truth has been set aside for lies. When live in the day when people lie for the sake of lying and even in the church this has sadly become so. We are living in the final moments of this age and there is a push to pull even the elect into darkness. There are false teachers and preacher spewing all kinds of lies and even going so far as to call God's Word (the Bible) outdated and out of step. It isn't the Bible that's out of step, it's man. God's Word will give you all the ammunition you need to fight these spiritual battles and to win. God's Word will renew your mind and will give you the truth so that, when you hear a lie or someone twisting the Word to fit an immoral or impure lifestyle, you can be prompted by the Holy Spirit and will know not to believe them.
I'm begging of you, heed this word and return to God. Come back and make the time to pray and to read that precious Bible. Don't allow yourself to suckered into something that is totally against what God said is right or to be swept away by some fake emotional device of men. Study that Bible!
Make time to be with God. Turn off that television, turn off that iPod, shut down that computer and that telephone and find a quiet place to lay before the Lord and to just talk to Him. Being a Christian isn't about religion, it's about relationship. You build a relationship by talking to someone and reading the letters they send to you. Well, God is waiting for your call and He's given us His love letter, it's called the Bible. Always remember, "if your Bible is torn apart, your life isn't."
In Christ's Service,
Dave
This is an urgent message from the Lord God Jehovah. These are not my words, they are His.
" My little children, the time of the end has come, and My heart is grieved as I look to see so many who claim to be Mine, who know so little of My Word. I see so many who are walking around in a fog because they have no real knowledge of Me or My Word. They are being led into captivity, they are hearing false teachers and believing their soft words, their comforting words and accepting them over what is written in My Word, what it written in the pages of the Holy Bible.
Have not My prophets warned of this day? Have not my messengers, my true teachers warned that the day would come when people would believe the lie and depart from the truth? I am calling to you, I am calling to you who call yourselves by My name to stop believing the lies and to come back to Me. Lay aside the things that keep you from spending time with Me in prayer; lay aside the things that are keeping you from opening My Word and reading what is there for you. My words are there to give you instruction, to give you weapons to fight spiritual battles and my words are there to give you the knowledge that will save your soul from hell.
Why do you run from the truth? My Son walked among you and taught you well. He warned you that you should let no man deceive you (Matthew 24:4) yet, you believe the smooth words of man and have departed from the truth. Come back to Me and I will forgive you and will raise you up. Come back to Me in times of intimate prayer, in times of study and I will give you strength to fight the evils of this world's system and its deception. Do not from Me, but rather run to Me.
The day is soon to come when the powers of darkness will overtake this world and many will be led into the pits of hell itself. The day is soon coming when the evil one will be loosed and will draw many away from the truth. Seek the truth of My Word while there is still time. Do not allow the doctrines of men and the smooth words of false teachers pull away from My truth. Come back to Me and I will renew your mind, you spirit with My truth.
Hear the voice of the Lord of hosts: seek My face in prayer, in praise and in times of study so that you are not led into captivity, so that you are not destroyed by the lies of Satan. Hear now the words of the Lord, for they are good."
Beloved, we live in a day when truth has been set aside for lies. When live in the day when people lie for the sake of lying and even in the church this has sadly become so. We are living in the final moments of this age and there is a push to pull even the elect into darkness. There are false teachers and preacher spewing all kinds of lies and even going so far as to call God's Word (the Bible) outdated and out of step. It isn't the Bible that's out of step, it's man. God's Word will give you all the ammunition you need to fight these spiritual battles and to win. God's Word will renew your mind and will give you the truth so that, when you hear a lie or someone twisting the Word to fit an immoral or impure lifestyle, you can be prompted by the Holy Spirit and will know not to believe them.
I'm begging of you, heed this word and return to God. Come back and make the time to pray and to read that precious Bible. Don't allow yourself to suckered into something that is totally against what God said is right or to be swept away by some fake emotional device of men. Study that Bible!
Make time to be with God. Turn off that television, turn off that iPod, shut down that computer and that telephone and find a quiet place to lay before the Lord and to just talk to Him. Being a Christian isn't about religion, it's about relationship. You build a relationship by talking to someone and reading the letters they send to you. Well, God is waiting for your call and He's given us His love letter, it's called the Bible. Always remember, "if your Bible is torn apart, your life isn't."
In Christ's Service,
Dave
Saturday, April 16, 2011
PROPHETIC ALERT -001
In the wee hours of Friday, April 15, 2011, the Lord began to speak to me about a coming storm that will rock the world. As He spoke to me I began to see many pieces falling into place and began to feel the anointing of the Holy Spirit coming into the room. I picked up my pen and began to jot down the message and search the scriptures for the verses God was laying on my heart.
In this blog, I'm going to give the brief overview of what I was told. Should you like to hear the full message, please go to my Internet radio program like and listen to the message. Again, this is only a brief overview of what God gave me.
There is coming a financial storm in America that will stretch around the world. This financial storm will lay the final pieces of the foundation that will carry the nations of the world out of their present financial system and into the Antichrist system that will rule the world, under the Mark of the Beast, for three and one half years. This will be the system forced on the world by the world dictator referred to in the Bible as the Antichrist.
God is speaking to many preachers and teacher who are open to hearing the prophetic word of God as He speaks to them. I am not the only one God is speaking to about this, I'm not the only one who has come out with a similar message to the church and the world. With so many ministers saying the same thing, people would do well to pay attention and, in your personal time of prayer, I'd be asking God to reveal His personal message to me. Here is what God spoke to me for you.
The Christian Church must repent in sincerity and totality. There are a lot of people out there who wear the Christian name like I wear Wrangler on my jeans. They aren't true Christians, they don't attend church, they don't pray, they don't live a life that looks anything like what the Bible says a Christian should look like. We've got to spend time in prayer and I don't mean 2 minutes and get up. We have got to repent and live our lives, in love, for God. See Revelation 2:5
Second, we've got to come back to covenant with God. God has never broken covenant, but we've broken it so many times that it looks like a broken glass. We have got to get back into covenant with God because, anyone who is out of covenant with God cannot be blessed of God. This is a financial storm coming so, Christians need to get back into the covenant and that starts with making sure that we are tithing as God commands. Tithing is so important and it is the foundation to God's blessing on His people.
Let me explain this very simply and, for those of you who want to read it, you can find it in Malachi 3:7-12. When a person doesn't return the tithe to God, according to God, that person is a thief. If a person does not take their tithe to their church, they are stealing from God. As a thief, a person is not in covenant with God, is sinning and therefore, their prayers will not be heard by God. Exodus 20:15 clearly says "Thou shalt not steal" so, it would seem really simple that to steal would be a sin.
According to the scriptures in Malachi 3, God states that people steal from Him when they don't bring the tithe to His storehouse so that there is meat in His house. Now, you need to understand this very clearly: God doesn't need your money, He needs your obedience. It isn't about the money, it's about our submitting to God and doing as He requires. When a person tithes that 10% to God through the local church/congregation, He will bless the remaining 90% so that it will go father than normal. To those who tithe on a faithful and regular basis, God blesses those people and places His financial blessing on them. When you and I are obedient to the Word of God, He will bless us. God even said that He would rebuke the devourer for our sakes and that He would see to it that "neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field." This means that He will stop the devil from being able to take our blessing, from being able to cause our ability to earn a living to stop before it's time, it means that God will put a hedge of protection around you and and your finances that the world doesn't have.
Folks, in this coming storm the world will hungry, the world will be out of work, the world will be looking for scraps of food to eat and losing everything it has because there is no money to buy food or to pay bills. Only those Christians who took God at His word and tithed, gave offerings to churches and ministries as they felt God was directing them to do; these people will be blessed with jobs, food to eat and money to pay their bills. These people who put their faith in the great God Jehovah and who trusted that He will do exactly what He said He would do; these are the ones that the world will look at with envy because they WILL be blessed.
You've got time before the storm to get back into covenant with God if you start tithing NOW. I should add that it will not be an instantaneous reversal either. God wants to know that you're tithing because you know you should and because you love Him. He will want to see your faithfulness to continue to tithe even when it looks a little tight. My dad, who was a wonderful preacher and a faithful tither, used to preach that we can't afford not to tithe. When my dad died in 2004, after being a faithful tither all his life, never once had a past due bill, never once had a need that wasn't met, never once did we go hungry and when he died, God had blessed him so much that he was able to leave enough money for my mom that she has never had to work or worry about anything.
Third thing is to get back to genuine praise and worship of God. We've got to make time to pray, to worship and to praise God. You and I have got to set aside time during our day just to give thanks to God for the things He's done for us and will do in the future. The Bible teaches us that God inhabits the praise of His people. So, instead of coming to God with a wish list of things we want, we should come to Him in praise and adoration. I promise you, when you begin and end your prayers with praise and heartfelt worship, God will be there. When you spend more time being thankful and worshipping Him than you do asking Him for things, I promise you that you will never have a need He won't meet. Instead of treating God like He works for us, we need to make sure we humble ourselves before Him and give Him our praise because He is the KING OF THE UNIVERSE and we are nothing. John 4:24 says "God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."
Last, we have got to set aside ourselves and take on the nature of God. We have to learn how to put what we want aside and to be open to what He wants. We've got to step out of our comfort zones and put on His nature, His ability to love and to do things His way all the time. I've heard a lot of people say things like "up never know what God's going to do:" well if you just read the Bible and prayed, you'd know exactly what God is going to do. If we set aside our over sized self worth, which has nearly become self idol worship, and take on His divine nature, that will never happen. Go read Hebrews 12:1-9 and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
Look, in the grand plan of God, you and I are nothing. We can't grow one inch, we can't naturally control the color of our hair or even know the number of hairs we have, but God knows. In the grand scheme of things, we are little tiny flea-like creatures and God is as big as a mountain standing next to us. We, next to God, have the intelligence of an infant baby while God, He can calculate the planetary movement in His head. We have to get to the point that we know who we are, and know who God is. God is everything and if we will trust in Him, place our faith in Him and if we will consult Him before we make any major moves, He will bless us with His wisdom and His ability to see things more clearly. He wants us to ask Him for wisdom so He can grant it to us: that's part of His divine nature and it is also how you get closer to Him.
The storm is coming into view and we all have to ask ourselves if we want to ride it out as winners through God's blessing, or if we want to depend on ourselves and starve. We have to make up our minds to follow God and His plan or not. I promise you, if you decide to go it alone, you will end up like a person who fell off ship in the middle of the ocean and no one knew it. You'll be out in the expanse of the ocean with no life jacket and no one there to save you. Your choice, I pray you'll make the right one and follow God and His precious Bible.Prophetic Alert radio broadcast
In Christ's Service,
Dave
In this blog, I'm going to give the brief overview of what I was told. Should you like to hear the full message, please go to my Internet radio program like and listen to the message. Again, this is only a brief overview of what God gave me.
There is coming a financial storm in America that will stretch around the world. This financial storm will lay the final pieces of the foundation that will carry the nations of the world out of their present financial system and into the Antichrist system that will rule the world, under the Mark of the Beast, for three and one half years. This will be the system forced on the world by the world dictator referred to in the Bible as the Antichrist.
God is speaking to many preachers and teacher who are open to hearing the prophetic word of God as He speaks to them. I am not the only one God is speaking to about this, I'm not the only one who has come out with a similar message to the church and the world. With so many ministers saying the same thing, people would do well to pay attention and, in your personal time of prayer, I'd be asking God to reveal His personal message to me. Here is what God spoke to me for you.
The Christian Church must repent in sincerity and totality. There are a lot of people out there who wear the Christian name like I wear Wrangler on my jeans. They aren't true Christians, they don't attend church, they don't pray, they don't live a life that looks anything like what the Bible says a Christian should look like. We've got to spend time in prayer and I don't mean 2 minutes and get up. We have got to repent and live our lives, in love, for God. See Revelation 2:5
Second, we've got to come back to covenant with God. God has never broken covenant, but we've broken it so many times that it looks like a broken glass. We have got to get back into covenant with God because, anyone who is out of covenant with God cannot be blessed of God. This is a financial storm coming so, Christians need to get back into the covenant and that starts with making sure that we are tithing as God commands. Tithing is so important and it is the foundation to God's blessing on His people.
Let me explain this very simply and, for those of you who want to read it, you can find it in Malachi 3:7-12. When a person doesn't return the tithe to God, according to God, that person is a thief. If a person does not take their tithe to their church, they are stealing from God. As a thief, a person is not in covenant with God, is sinning and therefore, their prayers will not be heard by God. Exodus 20:15 clearly says "Thou shalt not steal" so, it would seem really simple that to steal would be a sin.
According to the scriptures in Malachi 3, God states that people steal from Him when they don't bring the tithe to His storehouse so that there is meat in His house. Now, you need to understand this very clearly: God doesn't need your money, He needs your obedience. It isn't about the money, it's about our submitting to God and doing as He requires. When a person tithes that 10% to God through the local church/congregation, He will bless the remaining 90% so that it will go father than normal. To those who tithe on a faithful and regular basis, God blesses those people and places His financial blessing on them. When you and I are obedient to the Word of God, He will bless us. God even said that He would rebuke the devourer for our sakes and that He would see to it that "neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field." This means that He will stop the devil from being able to take our blessing, from being able to cause our ability to earn a living to stop before it's time, it means that God will put a hedge of protection around you and and your finances that the world doesn't have.
Folks, in this coming storm the world will hungry, the world will be out of work, the world will be looking for scraps of food to eat and losing everything it has because there is no money to buy food or to pay bills. Only those Christians who took God at His word and tithed, gave offerings to churches and ministries as they felt God was directing them to do; these people will be blessed with jobs, food to eat and money to pay their bills. These people who put their faith in the great God Jehovah and who trusted that He will do exactly what He said He would do; these are the ones that the world will look at with envy because they WILL be blessed.
You've got time before the storm to get back into covenant with God if you start tithing NOW. I should add that it will not be an instantaneous reversal either. God wants to know that you're tithing because you know you should and because you love Him. He will want to see your faithfulness to continue to tithe even when it looks a little tight. My dad, who was a wonderful preacher and a faithful tither, used to preach that we can't afford not to tithe. When my dad died in 2004, after being a faithful tither all his life, never once had a past due bill, never once had a need that wasn't met, never once did we go hungry and when he died, God had blessed him so much that he was able to leave enough money for my mom that she has never had to work or worry about anything.
Third thing is to get back to genuine praise and worship of God. We've got to make time to pray, to worship and to praise God. You and I have got to set aside time during our day just to give thanks to God for the things He's done for us and will do in the future. The Bible teaches us that God inhabits the praise of His people. So, instead of coming to God with a wish list of things we want, we should come to Him in praise and adoration. I promise you, when you begin and end your prayers with praise and heartfelt worship, God will be there. When you spend more time being thankful and worshipping Him than you do asking Him for things, I promise you that you will never have a need He won't meet. Instead of treating God like He works for us, we need to make sure we humble ourselves before Him and give Him our praise because He is the KING OF THE UNIVERSE and we are nothing. John 4:24 says "God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."
Last, we have got to set aside ourselves and take on the nature of God. We have to learn how to put what we want aside and to be open to what He wants. We've got to step out of our comfort zones and put on His nature, His ability to love and to do things His way all the time. I've heard a lot of people say things like "up never know what God's going to do:" well if you just read the Bible and prayed, you'd know exactly what God is going to do. If we set aside our over sized self worth, which has nearly become self idol worship, and take on His divine nature, that will never happen. Go read Hebrews 12:1-9 and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
Look, in the grand plan of God, you and I are nothing. We can't grow one inch, we can't naturally control the color of our hair or even know the number of hairs we have, but God knows. In the grand scheme of things, we are little tiny flea-like creatures and God is as big as a mountain standing next to us. We, next to God, have the intelligence of an infant baby while God, He can calculate the planetary movement in His head. We have to get to the point that we know who we are, and know who God is. God is everything and if we will trust in Him, place our faith in Him and if we will consult Him before we make any major moves, He will bless us with His wisdom and His ability to see things more clearly. He wants us to ask Him for wisdom so He can grant it to us: that's part of His divine nature and it is also how you get closer to Him.
The storm is coming into view and we all have to ask ourselves if we want to ride it out as winners through God's blessing, or if we want to depend on ourselves and starve. We have to make up our minds to follow God and His plan or not. I promise you, if you decide to go it alone, you will end up like a person who fell off ship in the middle of the ocean and no one knew it. You'll be out in the expanse of the ocean with no life jacket and no one there to save you. Your choice, I pray you'll make the right one and follow God and His precious Bible.Prophetic Alert radio broadcast
In Christ's Service,
Dave
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