About a week ago I was in a House of Prayer here in Milwaukee.
The Lord spoke of the days that are ahead for the Body of Christ. Days of such widespread lawlessnessl, they won't care who your God is, and they won't care how much you love Him. Please don't think ill of me. I truly believe that God is trying to send a message to His kids. One of the reasons revival has broken out all over the nation is because out of divine strategy, God is now moving and extracting His people out of an exsisting church structure that has long sense become ridged, and unflexible. My question to all of you comes from Galatians 2:19-21 which says.

"For throught the law I have died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God;
for if righteousness comes through the law,
the Christ died for nothing."

In this lawlessness, there will be those who wil try to disprove what God is doing in accordance to the "law".

Satan is looking to use our own Bible against us.

believers everywhere would rather go to the law for information, and the acknowledgement of the Holy Spirit will be negated.
Noone will walk by faith no longer, or thats how it'll seem. My message is this.

Balance out your time in the Word and time flowing in the Spirit. We must have a proper balance of both or we will fall prey to the doctrines of demons that are coming and in some senses already here. The Spirit alone is nothing without the Word and the Word cannot be made alive without the Spirit. REMEMBER THIS!

Satan is looking to strip all of us (but especially those between the ages of 15 and 18)
of our power and knowledge. The way we deal with this?
Do NOT rely on your knowledge of scripture alone but primarily rely on faith in Jesus Christ. Paul said himself that if we are atoned by the works of the law then we are ALL cursed.

prepare my friends, the very Kingdom of God is at hand. And we're fixing to have to fight for it.

Jace, I can bear witness with you on this.
The moment this revival started, I new why. God is getting his church ready, reviving it to its natural state, to stand in these coming days. We're certainly gonna need it.

Recently, just this last sunday (July 27th, 2008) The Lord knocked me down in church and i literally FELT the ground underneath me shaking. I didn't feel it in my spirit, but I felt it, physically felt the ground shaking. The Lord then spoke to me saying, "I am shaking it all. I'm shaking everything that can be shaken. The only thing that will remain is that which is not shaken." Then monday (I live in socal) I was in starbucks with my dad, and there was 5.8 earthquake. It wasn't typical. It seemed to roll more than tremble or shake.
Anyway, i found this to be interesting timing with the word He gave me.

Secondly, I was taking a shower today, and the Lord spoke to me and said, "Gale force winds."

I still don't know the meaning of this... but i looked up gale and it's basically a very strong wind, equal to hurricane force. I am still praying about what it could mean... But it seems to tie into earthquakes, things being shaken, etc. I know the winds of change were blowing a few months ago... So anyway.

(For the following, I'm not into bashing people, so I will word this as carefully as possible....)

I'm praying for a man named Rob Bell... He may know Jesus, I'm not one to judge that. But i can say this... his doctrine is off. It's very tied with new age teaching I have noticed... the message I get from him is, "let's all get along and be nice." one of his concepts is that God/the Word/Jesus/Christianity is like a trampoline or a bed of springs... it adjusts and flexes and it's very pliable.

Sorry, but the Jesus I know is a ROCK. A solid ROCK. and the word He preaches is black and white. "I bring not peace but a sword."
Jesus came to divide the grey area. To set the halves to black and white and draw the line.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but Rob bell seems to be putting it all into one boat once again... blending a little of the black and a little of the white, into one big grey thing...
If the word of God was so flexible, it could be bent. Not a good thing. Because the word i stand on is a solid word of truth and it is absolute.
I don't agree with his opinion that there is no absolute truth... saying that is an absolute truth statement.

And when his material starts to yeild fruit in loved one's lives which does not align with the word... that's when i question it beyond curiosity.
Since reading his books, my friend's father has felt much ablidged to proceed on with being gay while trying to maintain a relationship with Jesus. He believes that if you have faith that you're not sinning, then you're not sinning. Which is not true.

So anyway, I hope it didn't come off mean. But at the same time, i hope it was stern. We need discernment.

Believe me, I hate when bashing happens... when my brother in Christ, Todd Bentley gets bashed, I take it personally. So i honestly hope i have not bashed this man. i will continue praying for him and just hope he takes a turn for the better.

Stay alert, be attentive, anchor yourselves in God. He warns His children about future events. let it not catch any of us off guard. Let us be prepared for these coming days. And hey!! If nothing happens, GREAT!!! We were prepared though. But I would much rather prepare for something that didn't happen, than not prepare for something that did happen.

By the way, i'm not saying i don't believe this was a word from God. I'm just saying, it really could not hurt to be prepared. It's all scriptural too. Focus on the word, and the Spirit. We need both.

prpht4the1

my friend you've grasped exactly what i was trying to say
thats why i love ya haha!
but seriously, i agree with the statement you made at the end of your post.
the reality is we're not baby disciples anymore, (well some of us, not a bash, just a visualisation)
and as much as i love the call, the ramp, Lou Engle, and IHOP. Its time we as a more matured body of Christ need to step into our purpose. Even though these ministries are wonderful tools, we must prepare for when all this passes and when people do in fact pass on. Lou Engle himself said that even as Moses went to the mountain of the Lord, there was a Joshua who remained in the tabernacle. We must prepare. Because our calling is not just to relish in the love of Christ, but also to COMPLETELY sell out for a more righteous cause. because my only concern is this,

will we be able to take the torch when it is passed to us?

only discernment and preparation will tell.

HALLELUJAH!

I've been having dreams in the past few weeks of storms [where at least one tornado is involved - sometimes multiple ones]. One particular dream, I was at some sort of camp or retreat it seemed.. there were tons of people everywhere. We were notified of a tornado heading our way. To make a long story short, the tornado passed directly by us, but we were all safe. After the storm had passed, I immediately went outside and began dancing [liturgical style] and praising the Lord. Another dream, there were multiple storms coming from different directions. I believe these dreams to have been prophetic in a spiritual sense.

The Lord has been dealing with me about being prepared.. that there are many storms in the making.. strong storms that are gaining strength.. and heading towards us. I taught a message recently on the storms of life and how we have to be prepared for them and stand our ground - fully relying on and trusting in the Lord.

I am a certified storm spotter so I know a bit about storms. From what I understand, the Beaufort Scale lists three types of "gale" force winds. There is "fresh gale" which would cause twigs to break off of trees. "Strong gale" would cause slight damage to buildings and shingles to be blown off the roof. Then there is "whole gale" which would cause trees to be uprooted and considerable damage to buildings. The thing about it is.. gale force winds all come before the category of "storm" or "hurricane" winds.

Just my thoughts.. but the gale force winds picking up means the ingredients are coming together for a massive storm to take place. I believe there are many storms about to come our direction in the spiritual sense. The question is.. where will we go for refuge? Will we stand still and be in awe of the storm.. long enough for it to sweep us up? Or will we take refuge in the ultimate shelter.. Jesus Christ?

Just my thoughts.. please don't take my words to be the Gospel truth. Pray and allow the Lord to show you the truth.

missprayerwarrior, that was definately the Holy Spirit.

I felt Him.

I was reading in my KJV bible, and I don't remember whre, but it said this, "...tossed about by every wind of docterine..."
I believe the day is coming even MORE so than it has been, that the church will no longer endure sound docterine, but will indeed be blown about by every WIND of docterine. I found it interesting that when Jesus made the parable of the weddingfeast and the 10 virgins, that 5 of them were left behind for the wedding feast. Those are ALL believers. And HALF of them got left behind... I see 1/2 so many times when Jesus is describing the end times. Two people in a field, one taken and the other left behind... etc.

I found the 'wind of docterine' thing interesting, corresponding to Jace's post. ANOTHER thing I found interesting was the different categories of "Gale."

(Fresh gale, Strong gale, Whole gale)

How fresh gale can snap twigs and blow them off trees...
Strong gale can do that and more, PLUS do damage to buildings and blow shingles off roofs
Whole gale, doing CONSIDERABLE damage to buildings and UPROOTING trees.
That's so prophetic and I don't know if you meant it to be.

there's a reason God spoke to me and said, "Gale force winds." And i have been learning more about it.

The bible parallels a christian's life as a plant with Jesus as the vine, and the believers as the branches...
Also, with believers building there HOUSES on the sand or on the rock with the WINDS blowing and the RAIN falling... sounds like storms...
If gale force winds are coming/here, branches will be broken, buildings will be damaged, full grown trees will be uprooted. You guys, we need to realize the serious gravity of this coming spiritual dirge. We NEED to find the ROCK and stand on it.
That is wisdom, to find the rock, build our house on it, so that when the winds come and the rain falls, our house will not fall. Woe to those who have their house built on the sand in these days.

branches(believers) will depart (be broken off) from jesus (the vine).
Even the full grown trees will be uprooted. People we have always seen as the "up there" pastors and believers in the Christian world, may indeed fall in the coming days.

Let us not depart from the WORD OF GOD for the coming storms. These seriously are the last days, and I'm not making any hype.
We need to be discerning of the time we live in and let us NOT fall asleep for this critical hour. Jesus' disciples made that mistake before His crucifiction in the garden of Gethsemane. They fell asleep when Jesus needed them to stay awake and PRAY for that one hour.
Let us not fall asleep for this critical hour, but to cling to the ROCK, and fix our eyes FULLY on Jesus Christ.

We're so blessed, God is warning us for coming events. He warns His children to duck. Let us hear His voice.

Prpht4the1

You are right on target with all you have said.

I don't know about your area, but where I'm at.. I have already began to see the "gale force winds" affecting people here. I've seen the winds shake the little twigs and knock them off their branches. I've also seen the winds take the strong branches (those ministers who are planted in the word of God) and cause them to fall. I'm seeing it happen here.

It's like one of the songs says that Chosen dances to.. Awake oh sleeper.. Arise! We must be on our toes. We must be standing firm on the Word of God. He is the ultimate protection from the winds and the storms.