Battle Stations Alarm----PLEASE PRAY
My Calling is to Cry Loud and Spare NOT, in shouting from the rooftops to beg you to PRAY
12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 And He said to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.
David's Prayer in Psalms 9
15 The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.
16 The LORD is known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten;
The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.
19 Arise, O LORD,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD,
That the nations may know themselves to be but men
Proverbs 1:7 tells us The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
All across the world "christians" are crying for God's Judgement to come..."surely its near, I mean Sodom and Gomorrah couldn't have been worse?"
And though the Cry is justified...
1 Peter 4 tells us
17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 Now
If the righteous one is scarcely saved,
Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?[f]
19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.
What does God's Judgement Look like? What would He do?
Well first let us realize "what is His House?"
In Genesis 27 and 28 we are told the story of Jacob and Essau
Jacob had stolen his brother's birthright and blessing ...and he was running for his life and was hiding
and in Chapter 28...
So he (Jacob) came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. 12 Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it. 17 And he was afraid and said, How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!
Jacob then made an altar and named that special place Bethel, which Mean House of God
So what we see is God coming to Jacob in a dream and what was Jacob's reaction....He was first afraid (The Fear of God is the beginning of Knowledge)....then he declared this revelation
SURELY THE LORD IS IN THIS PLACE and I didn't even know it!!
He then responded by making an altar
David Cried in Psalms 9
Put the Nations in Fear oh Lord, It was the Heart of God crying through Him....
It's God Desire that all men would come to saving KNOWLEDGE of Him....that None Should Perish
and He wants to reveal Himself through His Church
But His Church is asleep....we are hiding in our four walls ...we are hiding and "playing church"....we are merchandising the gospel, it's a multi-million dollar industry for some
we have "christian" tv channels covering the globe and "around the world" broadcasting messages 24/7
but Here's the deal......Their's a Famine In the Land....And God's Heart is breaking
In Jeremiah 23 we see a picture of Our Lord's Heart at a time very similar to these evil days
9 My heart within me is broken
Because of the prophets;
All my bones shake.
I am like a drunken man,
And like a man whom wine has overcome,
Because of the LORD,
And because of His holy words.
10 For the land is full of adulterers;
For because of a curse the land mourns.
The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.
Their course of life is evil,
And their might is not right.
11 For both prophet and priest are profane;
Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness, says the LORD.
12 Therefore their way shall be to them
Like slippery ways;
In the darkness they shall be driven on
And fall in them;
For I will bring disaster on them,
The year of their punishment, says the LORD.
13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria:
They prophesied by Baal
And caused My people Israel to err.
14 Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They also strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one turns back from his wickedness.
All of them are like Sodom to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts:
Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
They make you worthless;
They speak a vision of their own heart,
Not from the mouth of the LORD.
17 They continually say to those who despise Me,
The LORD has said, You shall have peace;
And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say,
No evil shall come upon you.
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD,
And has perceived and heard His word?
Who has marked His word and heard it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury
A violent whirlwind!
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD will not turn back
Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart.
In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.
21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in My counsel,
And had caused My people to hear My words,
Then they would have turned them from their evil way
And from the evil of their doings.
23 Am I a God near at hand, says the LORD,
And not a God afar off?
24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places,
So I shall not see him? says the LORD;
Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.
25 I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed! 26 How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart, 27 who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream;
And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.
29 Is not My word like a fire? says the LORD,
And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
JUDGEMENT BEGINS IN THE HOUSE OF GOD
Our Lord walked into the Temple, He began to overturn the things that brought Him anger and frustration....He turned things Upside Down...It was His Version of An Extreme Home Makeover
In His Judgement He spoke "MY House Shall be called a House of Prayer" He exposed sin...."You have made it into a den of thieves"
I want You to take special note that Jesus went to HIS HOUSE ...He Cleaned House and He brought testimony against His House
and Now I ask you this question
What is Jesus House?
Paul asked us this question too
"Know Ye NOT that You are Temple of God?"
Jesus is coming to you ...through this message...He's exposing things in your Life (His House) that need to be turned upside down
You know what they are......what would be His Testimony of His House? What would He say You Have made His House??
This is not to be condemning but Praying it's a wake up call!!!
May we like Jacob awake from Our sleep and say "surely the Presence of the Lord is in this place (Inside of Me) and I hadn't realize it"
Let's rend our hearts and not our garments
let's rebuild altars in our homes, at work, AT CHURCH
Prayer is not a religious exercise...it's the heart beat of God..who Jealously knocks on the doors of our Lives....
He's wanting to make Himself known in You and Through You
An Extreme Home Make Over will re-establish FIRST LOVE, It will priortize TIME....It will bring Holiness, it will turn your life upside down....
Your Prayer Closet will become a garden instead of a desert....
Jacob went to sleep in a dry and weary land, but woke up with a revelation He was in God's Presence
If I could shout through writing, If you could hear the cry that's in my heart
This is the prayerless generation...We MUST rebuild altars, we must wake up to the fact that in this day and time we preach thousands of message and see such a small harvest
YET Peter, after spending time waiting on God, Preached ONE message and 3,000 souls were saved
What is the difference??
I heard a story of a missionary who came to America....while he was here...he was taken from church to church and service to service
as his time in America was coming to an end...a curious brother asked the minister his thoughts on the church
"American's love to build buildings and have great services...the best music, fellowship and dinners..but they won't pray!!!!"
"Lord, Have mercy on us....wake us up"
Pastor's, I challenge you, no.... I dare you.....sunday morning, instead of preaching another message...call your people to pray....
turn the people to His Presence....dedicate the whole time...TO PRAYER
If your reading this ...hear the heart of this message...PLEASE HEAR
He's calling You and I...It's urgent..."the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous availeth much"
does the opposite of that ring true?
the lack of prayer by the righteous avails little?....
God in His Sovereignty has given us charge ...to Love Him with All of our Hearts, will all souls and with all our strength and through that Love it will produce love for our neighbors, co-workers and friends to be willing to lay down our lives in an effort to reach them for God's Glory
but it won't happen when His House had been made something other than what He said it was suppose to be!!!!



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