“Blow the trumpet in
Zion, And sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of
the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming. Surely it is near” (Joel 2:1).
Hey Gang, In the
past couple years I find myself waking up in the middle of the night and let me
tell you I do not like it one bit. But then one day, or should I say
night, God sent a very special revelation my way – “You pray that I will give
you the words to send in the gramps morning thoughts that will encourage,
penetrate and be a refuge for people that are struggling. In the middle
of the night I have your undivided attention, something that is rare during the
busy parts of your day. I must admit that many of the thoughts that end
up the morning messages come to me in the middle of the night.
As an example, last
night I was thinking about yesterday’s blog and what God’s transportation system
in heaven might look like. I thought about David Wilkerson’s prophetic message
that God is preparing a very special elite special forces unit in preparation
for His return.
As I thought about
that I wondered if he would take an old salt like me? I mean I am 79 and as Granny Bliss used to
say, “my get up and go got up and went”. She also said, “I check the
obit’s each morning and make sure my name is not there; if not,
I eat my breakfast and get about the day.
I love the book of
Zechariah and believe it is a message for God’s children today. As to
whether or not I am too old to take up my armor and sword and join the ranks of
the King”s Elite Army, I find great solace in Zechariah’s words in 12:8: “In that day the Lord will defend the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house
of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord before them”.
In other words God
recruitment program covers all ranks, young, old, infirmed, etc. They are
preparing in their prayer closets for war. Intimacy with Christ has
molded them into mighty warriors that know how to fight in the spiritual as
well as physical.
Is it not neat to know
that they are feared in hell because of the restraint that we – the Body of
Christ - provide today. One day soon that restraint will be withdrawn and
the world will experience, in living color, what evilness really is. As God promised Joshua’s army, “No man hath been able to stand before you
unto this day. One man of you shall chase a thousand; for the Lord
your God, he it is that fights for you, as he hath promised you” (Josh.
23:9-10). Can you say
“whoooooopie” to that?
Sooooo troopers for
Christ, know this, for years now, Satan has terrorized God’s people. But
all along, God has been training his special forces units and He is about
to unleash them within His Church. His army within an army is in place in
every nation. Its activity may be covert for now, but soon we’ll see it
doing exploits in the name and power of Christ.
And how does one join
this army? “Paul gives us the process: “Therefore, I urge you,
brethren by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living an holy
sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your
spiritual service of
worship and do not be conformed to this world”. (12:1-2a).
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