want to share
with you from my heart as the Lord leads. I pray that He gives me His words
and that as you read, that those words will reach the deep recesses of your
heart and cause a light to burn in you that perhaps has not been lit in a long
time. This article began churning within me when I went with my family to a
local restaurant to get burgers for lunch. As we sat, we had hardly received
our food, when I noticed my children glued to a television just out of my
view. I took a look to see what could have grabbed the attention of my 3 and 4
year old.
I was shocked to see Freddy Kruger ripping
apart a victim, blood everywhere, horror in the victim’s eyes. My stomach
went into a tight knot and an anger began to rise from deep inside of me.
While my husband was seeing to it that the television channel was changed, I
began to look around me, and my eyes caught witches on broomsticks and witch
dolls hanging from the ceiling. I saw a pumpkin here, a skeleton there, and
the heat from within my spirit began to rise even more.
The feeling in my stomach became so intense
I couldn’t eat. I was drawn into myself and I felt a groaning and an anger
so deep, that I could not comprehend it. I heard the words very clearly in my
spirit, "The bloodline has been drawn, choose this day whom you will
serve!"
I saw images in my mind of the Israelites
worshiping the golden calf and how the Lord’s anger was kindled towards
them. I felt the Lord’s words as He said to Moses, "Step aside, so I
can destroy them." I felt His burning anger as He looked upon His people
who prostrated themselves before other gods.
I felt His passion of jealousy as He looked
upon this world and saw His bride open herself to adultery. I saw how it broke
His heart, to see His chosen people celebrating and worshipping openly the God
of the dead, but yet how they kept His name secret, for fear of being
ridiculed. I felt His heartbeat in both anger and pain as He looked down at
this people who worship Him with their mouths, but whose hearts are so far
from Him.
Today is the day you are called to choose.
Today is the day you will need to choose which side of the bloodline you will
stand upon. Will you stand within the Ark of His safety, or will you continue
to scoff, rebel and be complacent, all the while drowning in His anger as the
waters rise to wipe away the world’s order? Today you must choose. What will
you choose?
Today will you choose to be looked upon by
men with favor, but all the while turning a blind eye to the will and heart of
your Father? Today will you choose to stand as His servant Stephen, prepared
to take every stone for His name? Or will you be complacent in your heart and
be like the Pharisees, who looked so dignified, but yet made as doctrines the
precepts of men? Will you choose this day? Who will you serve?
Today I feel the heart of my Father, my
precious Jesus, and His heart is grieved. His heart is kindled with fire
against those who spread their legs for the satisfaction of entertainment and
worldly acceptance. Do you not see what you are doing? Do you not see how you
are breaking His heart? This Halloween falls on a Sunday. Will you go and
worship your Savior in the morning, declaring your love for Him, and then this
evening run under the guise of fun and celebration, to sleep with a stranger?
Will you tell Him how beautiful He is in the morning, and then in the evening
slap Him in the face? Will you worship Him in the morning, and in the evening
celebrate Satan and evil, and all he has brought into this world to destroy
the Kingdom of Heaven?
Oh how blind you are! Oh how I wish you
could see, how the enemy has crept in and blinded your eyes. How I wish the
fire was kindled, that it would burn away the deception. Oh, how I wish you
could feel His heart and feel how it aches and burns for His people. How I
wish you could see that He requires your heart in full. The day you made Him
Lord and Savior, you married Him. You committed your spirit, soul and body to
Him. Will you this day give him your spirit, but take back your soul to give
to another, just for a day? Is it worth it to hurt and pierce the Lord Jesus
all over again for just a day? As Jesus hung upon the cross, He saw you and
willingly gave Himself up to the pain and torture.
He was torn and cut, and pierced and ripped
open for you, to save you, because He loved you. Yet to add to His pain you
pierce Him again by turning your back upon Him. You are driving the nails
afresh into His hands and pushing afresh the crown of thorns into His head.
And you know what? He will endure it for you. He will continue to have His
heart broken for you, because He loves you. That is sacrificial love. That is
the love of the Savior we serve.
Today I do not come to you with arguments or
logistics. Today I come to you with the heart of my Jesus. I come to you with
His blood and I come to you with His pain. I come to you and as I stand before
you I hold out His broken body before you. Can you see how He was tortured for
you? Can you not see His love for you? Why do you hurt Him? Why do you hurt my
Jesus? Why? What did He do to you other than give His life? If He could die
for you, could you not take this day on October 31 and live for Him?
Our God is a jealous God and He will see no
man replace Him. He destroyed every nation who thought themselves to be gods!
He destroyed the king of Egypt because he surmised that he created the Nile!
He destroyed Tyre, because they saw themselves as gods, thinking they were all
powerful. He destroyed Herod who took His praise, and He destroyed the nation
of Israel because they ran after other gods.
Yet today you do the same! And you bring it
into His church, into His body! You bring the defilement of Satan freely and
joyously into His Holy place. You smear that excrement on the very ground you
proclaim to worship His name on. Rightly did Jesus say to the ‘righteous’
Pharisees, "If you were the children of God, then you would do the works
of God, but you do not. You follow after your true father who is the Devil and
you do His deeds. You show the external appearance of righteousness, but yet
inside are as rotten as a tomb!"
The Lord is not bringing judgment on
America for the sins of the flesh. God is bringing judgment upon this nation
for the sins of the heart. For they proclaim with their lips, but inside every
evil work of bitterness and pride and strife is abounding. The Lord is going
to take your idol from you, Church of God! He is going to take from you that
which has replaced Him in your lives. He is going to take every spot and
blemish from His bride, and that spot will be the system you worship - your
American heritage and your pride in those things which are not of God.
For you honor and worship the system of this
world and the heritage of your birth, more that you worship Jesus. You would
sacrifice your Savior over and over again for the sake of your pride! But yet
you will point a finger at the one fallen in sin and look down upon him! How
Jesus would have wept over America as He wept over Jerusalem in His day.
"America, the country that stoned the
prophets, how I sought to gather her as chicks under My wing, yet she did not
want to know anything of it!"
Oh how His heart bleeds! Make your choice
this day, as to which side of the bloodline you will stand on. For the Lord is
indeed going to send His fire to consume, and it shall consume your gods - the
gods of your heritage and the gods of your culture which are ruling you. He is
going to take your golden calf and crush it in the waters and make you drink
its bitterness. Choose this day whom you will serve in your heart.
There is no more time for pretence, there is
no more time for pretty words. We are talking reality, we are talking getting
down to the roots. Today as you stand, are you hot? Are you cold? Or are you
lukewarm? If you are hot, He will gather you under those wings of love and
protection, calling you His Bride. If you are cold in your sin, He will
continue to woo you in love, drawing you with His tenderness, never relenting
until He has saved you. But alas! If you are lukewarm, cover your head and
lament in sackcloth, because then there is nothing that will save you from the
fire to come. There will be no place for you to hide, for He will spit you
from His mouth.
Today you must choose. On which side of the
bloodline will you stand?
