"A Call To Arms" Lesson 6

     This isn't "A Call To Arms" for guns or ammo, but is a call to God's people to pray, vote and put on the Armor of God.  We've been passively sitting on the sidelines for too long, while the enemy has undermined our nation and values.  This isn't simply a political thing, but is a spiritual thing.  We must pray, but also put what we know to do, into action.  God is raising up people who will put balance back into government and they need our prayers and vote.

     Satan never plays fair and his intent is to "steal, kill and destroy" what God has created.  We're not to be afraid of the giants in the Land, like most of the spies.  We're to be like Joshua and Caleb who "were strong in the Lord, and in the Power of His Might" and told the Israelites that our God can defeat the giants.  We've been given everything required to live in peace and victory through Jesus, if we will only use it.  The unsaved world is at the mercy of the spirit behind this onslaught.  God's Church though, has been given authority over it in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord , but we must use it.

     I know that I'm saved and am not concerned for myself.  I am concerned for those who do not know and have no recourse, other than to live under satan's bondage.  Parents and caregivers who aren't saved, need to have The Resource to stand against the ungodly things being taught in their children's schools.  God's Church has been Authority to stand against what's occurring.  Jesus told His followers in Matt.18:18, "What you allow on earth will be what is allowed in Heaven, and what we don't allow on earth, will not be allowed in Heaven."  We're not just to read Jesus' Words, but must put them into action.

     God still works through His Word and His people.  We've been given the responsibility to occupy, until He Returns.  We are commanded to "do all to stand, and stand therefore," in Eph.6:13(Amp).  The Bride of Christ, the Church, isn't wearing the long white gown and bride's veil, but the full armor of God to stand against the enemy.  We're not only standing for ourselves, but for the world Jesus came to save.  We, the Church, are the hope of this world through Jesus.

     This is the time of great Harvest and we can't be asleep.  Satan has overplayed his hand, which resulted in people who have refused to live under bondage and have turned to the Lord for help.  Like Queen Esther, the present day Church are to be the Voice of God raised over the noise of confusion and chaos, in this present world.  

     When we vote for people with Godly and Biblical principles, then we're casting seed and bringing Light into this present darkness.  The Israelites in the Wilderness, were disobedient to God, because they didn't action His Word and Promise, according to Heb.3:17-18(Amp), which says, "And to whom did He swear that they should not enter His Rest, but to those who disobeyed, who had not listened to His Word and who refused to be compliant or be persuaded. So we see that they were not able to enter into His Rest, because of their unwillingness to adhere to and trust in and rely on God; unbelief had shut them out."

     They didn't only need to hear God say that He "had given them the Land," but they needed to enter the Land.  We haven't been just called to pray, but to go into the land, in the Great Commission.  Voting isn't just a political event, but is our putting faith and casting seed for healing in our land.  Your vote is a voice.  God is intent on setting the children free from the perversions being thrust on them in schools throughout our nation.  If you believe that these evil things are "God's will," then you don't know the heart of the Father.  The children can't speak for themselves, but we can speak for them, by the Power of God's Word.

     We haven't been called to pull up the oars and let our boats drift with the currants, but we're called to stand in the gap and intercede for others.  If we drift with the currants in Niagara, then we're in danger of going over the falls.  This isn't the time to wait for the Trumpet to sound, but to keep oil in our lamp and do the things we know to do.  God is counting on us to do what is needful and advance against the gates of hell.  

     God will never surrender to the enemy and He doesn't expect us to do so either.  Things in this natural world look pretty grim, but we're not of this world.  There's always victory in God's Kingdom and we will have victory too, if we will proceed according to His Word.  Others will try telling us that "God's people aren't have no importance or place in this time."  God has always used people He can count on, so can He count on us to do what is needful, at this time?

"A Call to Arms" Lesson 5

     2Cor.10:4(Amp) says, "For the weapons of our warfare are not physical (weapons of the flesh and blood), but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds."

     Has the Church lost the Salt required to be a cure for the decay of this nation?  We've remained silent in the face of a demonic spirit, which has built a stronghold in our very presence.  If anyone tried to push students to be transgender or any of the perverted things in public school when I was a child, then that person would have been charged with a crime.  If a parent had done this back then, their child would have been taken.  How is it that today, they not only teach these things, but celebrate doing so openly.

     How have we allowed the enemy to build a home and kingdom, in this Christian nation?  This isn't a Democratic or Republican issue, but is an issue between Righteousness and evil.  Many immature believers today will say, "God works all these things for His Good."  Many believe that God is allowing the enemy to take over our children and nation.  Mature believers know Heb.5:14(Amp), which says, "But solid is for full-grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate  between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law."  No one can say that the things happening in our nation, "are God endorsed and we're to yield too."

     We know that when the Salt has lost its savor, then it is good for nothing.  There are warriors throughout our nation, who are in prayer and standing in the gap for what our God has Blessed us America with.  America didn't become a great nation by her own merits, but by God's Grace, guidance and His Blessing.  We see throughout the Word, how every time God's people were Blessed, they became slack in their walk with Him and allowed the enemy to take over.

    If you feel like it's too late for our country and her people, then read The Book of Hosea, where God's Love and Grace was in place for restoration.  We can't give up praying or voting, because we think it doesn't do any good.  Read Jesus' "Parable of the Sower," realizing that nothing grows without a seed.  We need to sow the seeds of faith and Righteousness, on behalf of our nations, trusting God for the harvest.  If you don't vote, then you're really casting a vote or sowing a seed for the wrong thing and the wrong person.  We are stewards over God's Kingdom and have a responsibility to our Lord, to occupy it until He returns.  

     There are many voices and turmoil n the land today, that desire to drown out the One Voice we're to follow.  I've found that the Father speaks to me on a personal level and I'm sure that if you'll listen, then He'll speak to you as well.  We are His sheep.  All who listen to His Voice, instead of the voice of a stranger, will follow the same lead.  The Good Shepherd won't call half of His herd go one way, while leading the other half somewhere else.  We're told not to follow the voice of a stranger.

     Many today are like those who comforted Job, saying it was "God Who was involved" in his calamities, when it was Job who was responsible for the things befalling him, because he walked in fear and didn't put faith in the sacrifices he made.  Don't allow yourself to get in fear for this nation, but pray and when you pray, pray in the Holy Spirit.  This prayer is faith and will be directed by the Holy Spirit, so that it works exactly where it's needed.

     Only God's Church, through the Authority and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, has the ability to to stop the attack of spiritual force in high and heavenly operatives.  Only God's Church, through the Authority given us by the Authority and Blood of Jesus Christ,  can defeat them.  The unsaved and the world will be moved into the Harvest, by the sweep of the Spirit of God, in this prayer.  We've been slumbering too long, like those God speaks to in Prov.6:9-11(Amp.), saying, "How long will you sleep, o sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? Yes, a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down and sleep-So will your poverty come like a robber or one who travels, with slowly but surely approaching steps, and your want like an armed man, making you helpless."

     The calamitous things happening in our country, didn't just start, but crept in slowly while we slept.  Now, like an armed man, it has come upon us.  We must walk in the Wisdom and integrity of the covenant.  I know that you and your family, like my own, are standing in the gap, but we must extend our understanding and grow our faith towards those who don't know.  God says in Hosea 4:6(Amp), "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."

     We can't be content with just being saved and remain as babies in the Land.  Many have never been taught about God's Blessing, the Redemption of His covenant, the Holy Spirit, the integrity of God's Word, the Power of the Blood, the Authority of the believer given through the Name of Jesus, and so much more that God's Grace has provided through Jesus Christ.  God says that His people "perish for lack of knowledge."  Many in the Church don't know who God has made us to be in this new creation.  These things all belong to us through Jesus, but if someone doesn't know about them or how to function in them, then they can perish for their lack of knowledge.  

"A Call to Arms" Lesson 4

     2Cor.10:3-4(Amp) says, "For though we walk (live in the flesh), we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons. For the weapons of our warfare are not physical weapons of flesh and blood, but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds."

     We read in Daniel 1:7 how the entire Tribe of Judah were enslaved by the Babylonians, along with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.  Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon, made a decree in Dan.3:11,29-30(Amp), saying, "Whoever does not fall down and worship [the statue made of himself], shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace."

     Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were the only ones who refused to bow to the King's idol and were thrown into the fiery furnace, which was so hot that the guards were burnt to ashes upon throwing them into the furnace.  Everyone was amazed, even the King, to then look into the furnace and see four men walking in the fire, without being burnt.  Nebuschadnezzar then said in Verses29-30, "Therefore I make a decree that any person, nation, and language that speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be cut in pieces and their houses be made dung hills, for there is no other God Who can deliver this way. Then the King promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon."

     One might ask, "What does this have to do with 'A Call to Arms' for America and other nations?"  The entire Tribe of Judah had been enslaved in Babylon, but only three men dared to take a stand, which resulted in the deliverance of them all.  Many have surrendered to the godless rules of today, like those did then.  God's Church hasn't been called to surrender in the face of opposition, but we're called to stand and occupy, until He comes.  I don't know how many believers have accepted defeat to the ungodly regime, which is trying to take over our Nation, but I for one, will not bow nor burn.  I will chance the fiery furnace, rather than accept some other god.

     This is a Call to Prayer against a demonic spirit, which God's Church has power and authority over using the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ and His Blood.  This demonic spirit will overthrow this nation, without the King of the Tribe of Judah, Who is Christ Jesus our Lord.  We need to pick up the weapons of our warfare, which are "Mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds."  

     Will you stand with me in prayer and intercession for this nation and see God work in a Mighty way?  There are too many fronts for us to pray against and be ineffective against, so we must pray in the Spirit.  Rom.8:26-28(Amp) says, "So too the Holy Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance. And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the Holy Spirit (what His intent is), because the Spirit intercedes and pleads before God in the behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God's Own will. Listen carefully to this scripture and keep it correctly in your heart. Vs.28, "We are assured and know that God, being a partner in their labor, all things work together and are fitting into a Plan for good to and for those who love God and are called according to His Design and Purpose."

     The above scripture doesn't say, "All things, good, bad and horrible, are working together for our good."  Religion said this, not scripture.  It doesn't make sense to go to war against the spiritual forces in our nation, while believing God is going to overthrow America and give Her over to the enemy, for Her good.  We must pray in the Holy Spirit, when praying and interceding in our war rooms.  This kind of prayer is always in faith and without doubt or unbelief.  We pray the Mysteries of God, on behalf of America and the world, when we enter into prayer through the Holy Spirit.

    I don't believe God is done with America or His Church.  This is the time for believers to mature and "go onto the meat," not just the milk, like Paul said in Heb.5:13-14.  Some will quit and fall under the pressure, but many more will stand firm in prayer, refusing to quit.  Let's be one of those who refuse to quit.     

"A Call to Arms" Lesson 3

     2Cor.10:3-4(Amp) says, "For though we walk (live in the flesh), we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons. For the weapon of our warfare are not physical weapons of the flesh and blood, but they are Mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds."  

     Many believers today don't think we should be involved in politics, but when checking through God's Word, we find that Joseph, Daniel, Ester and many others were used by God to set nations free from captivity.  We were never instructed by the Word to turn our heads and allow the enemy to destroy a nation or a people.

     Many believe that the things happening in America now, are the judgment of God on this nation.  Some might be judgment, but there are many unsaved and ungodly persons here now, that God wishes to save.  Those exposing the helpless children to this ungodly reign, will be held responsible for exploiting them and causing their downfall.  The sexual perversion happening to them, though, is happening on our watch.

     Those who know God, His Word and His Spirit and are established in His covenant, won't fear for themselves.  This is a time of great panic in the homes and families of those who don't know Him.  This is the time of reaping the harvest of men, women and children into God's Kingdom.  Many have been Anointed into this very calling and many have been called to pray.  We need both of these things, in order to be a Light in this present darkness.  Joshua fought the battle, while Moses prayed.  When Moses began to tire and let his hands fall, Joshua began to lose the battle.  Finally, men held each of Moses' hands up in prayer, until Joshua won the battle.

     We've underestimated the heart and Grace of our Heavenly Father, along with the compassion He has towards the unsaved.  Even though Goliath might look big, remember that our God and His covenant are much bigger.  God isn't asking us to "hang on until it's over," but "attack the enemy by intercession and the Power of the Armor of God and the Blood of the covenant.

     Isaiah said, "When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Lord will raise a stand against him."  Our "Standard" is the Power of the Name of Jesus and the Blood of the covenant.  Psalm107:2(Amp) says, "Let the Redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has delivered from the hands of the enemy."  In the midst of the Tribulation, Rev.12:11(Amp) tells us that, "They overcame (conquered) him by the means of the Blood of the Lamb and by the utterance of their testimony."

     God has brought us forth into His Kingdom for just a time as this, like Gideon's Army.  If we will simply obey the Lord and stand in the gap, so He can do His work.  You might not be called to serve in a political venue, but we're all called to stand behind those God has raised up.  No person God sends into this battle for our nation, will go alone.  God goes before us and our victory is His.

     There is right now before us, the greatest harvest of people who need reaping.  Prov.6:4 admonishes us to "sleep not in the time of harvest" nor to "watch the clouds."  The clouds on the horizon appear ominous and dark, but we must not allow them to keep us from reaping the harvest.  You know this blog is titled "Christian Life Center-Boot Camp for God's Army."  Every soldier is trained for warfare and trained to be ready for whatever the enemy brings, in boot camp.  Many reading this blog have come from Christian Life Center in Chaumont, NY and are still training your spirit to fight for God's Kingdom, using the Armor of God and the Power of Jesus' Name.  You know who you are in Christ Jesus and you know your God and His covenant.  God will go before us and He will also be our rear Guard.

     I have peace in my heart, knowing that God isn't done with America yet, just like He's not done with Israel yet.  We're not done, until He is done.  If we don't quit, then God won't quit and if God doesn't quit, we win!  Remember, we're to "Having done all to stand, stand therefore," according to Eph.6.  God's Church isn't supposed to surrender to the enemy's onslaught or surrender the lost to the enemy,  The only thing God asks us to do in this time of turmoil and trouble, is to pray.  We can't turn the tide by our own might, but if we pray, God will turn the tide.  

     God only required Moses to lift the rod over the water and God parted the Red Sea, opening it for the Israelites to walk through.  They thought all was lost, because the Red Sea was before them and Pharoah's army was behind them.  God used one man and a stick to overthrow the enemy and save His people.  We mustn't sell God short, saying that "This is all God's will."  God's will is that, "All should be saved and none should perish."  There are still too many unsaved people, who need to see the Light of the Lord.  God says that, "His House will be called the House of Prayer," in Is.56:7.  We need to pray the perfect prayer of faith, in the Spirit.

"A Call to Arms"

     This "Call to Arms" isn't about guns and weapons, but prayer, God's Word and the Authority given to believers through Jesus Christ and the new birth.  We've said so much about Adam and how he turned the Blessing into the Curse and delivered all of his inheritance over to the enemy.  God's Church has done the very same thing. 

     God gave me a message titled "Return to Eden," several years ago.  God gave the First Adam complete dominion and authority over the earth and everything in it.  The Garden of Eden wasn't just a small portion at the edge of Creation.  It was all of the things the Father had created on and in this planet called Earth.

     Things aren't out of order here because of politics, but because the Church isn't doing our job.  The Last Adam Jesus took back everything the First Adam gave away and delivered it back to the family of God, to which it had been given.  We've done the very thing Adam did, in relinquishing this authority over to the enemy.  Matt.28:18(Amp) says, "Jesus approached and breaking the silence, said to them, "All authority, all power of rule, in Heaven and on earth has been given to Me."  Jesus prayed in Matt.6:10(Amp), saying, "Your Kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven."  He instructed His followers to pray and believe in this manner.

     Through Jesus and the Power of His Name, which has been given to us, we're to walk in His Authority and have dominion over the earth, like God intended from the beginning.  We were born of the seed of the First Adam into sin, death and bondage, but we were born again by the Seed (Jesus, the Word) into Righteousness.  We're once again the children of God, born into His dominion again.

     In Eph.6:10-19(Amp), Paul tells us that we're "the Redeemed of the Lord, who have Spiritual weapons, against our spiritual enemy."  Through Jesus, we've gained back the Authority and dominion God gave the First Adam.  Will we stand in this Authority or like the First Adam, give it over into the hands of satan and lawlessness?

     We've prayed for the Blessing to come upon us, when it came upon us when we were born-again and became new creations through Jesus Christ.  We're to be a Blessing to others, by the Power of Jesus' Name and we're to hold back the enemy, from others and ourselves.  The only power satan has over the Church, is the same power he had with the First Adam, which is the power of deception.  If we know the Lord, God's Word and His Spirit, then it will be difficult to be deceived.  The unsaved, the world, don't have the knowledge and the Name of Jesus to use against the enemy, so we're to hold the enemy back for them.

     We can speak Light into the darkness that has "blinded their eyes" to the Glory of the Gospel.  1Cor.4:4(Amp) says that we're "called to be Light and salt to the earth and the people."  The Church is called to be "a city high on a hill, to give Light to the world."  Why do we tolerate the ungodly ruling and reigning over us, taking our God-given nation into a Sodom and Gomorrah?  God didn't instruct only preachers to pray, but He called all who are born-again into full-time ministry, in Eph.4:12-13.

     Jesus said in Matt.18:18,10(Amp), "Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth must be what i already forbidden in Heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already permitted in Heaven."  Jesus spoke about the children and little ones, saying, "Their angels always look upon the Face of the Father," in Verse10, where He says, "Beware that you do not despise or feel scornful towards or think little of one of these little ones."  Do you suppose that the things occurring in our school systems with our "little ones" is what is already declared "forbidden in Heaven?"  Do you believe that we have a lawful right and the authority to bind these unclean spirits in Jesus' Name?  Why then, have we allowed these unclean things to be in our schools and government?  Like the First Adam, we've given away the Authority given to us through Jesus Christ, because we've been deceived by the enemy and the world.

     This is a call to arms to God's Church.  We must stop the work of the enemy that Jesus defeated for us, when He restored us back into Authority.  We are to "Pray and having done all to stand, stand therefore," according to Eph.6:13-14(Amp). 

     

 

"A Call To Arms"

      No, this doesn't mean we're to get out our guns and rifles.  It means we're to enter into prayer.  Paul reminds us in 2Cor.10:4(Amp), "For the weapons of our warfare are not physical (weapons of the flesh and blood), but they are mighty before God for the overthrowing and destruction of strongholds."

     Many Christians readily accept that "the end is here" and that it's "God's time to judge the earth."  Until God says otherwise, we're to occupy this earth until He comes.  The word "occupy," is a military term that means to "hold back any area that has been gained, so that it is not retaken."  Jesus gave a Parable about what we should pay close attention to in these times of trial, in Luke18:1(Amp), which says, "Also Jesus told them a Parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not to turn coward (faint, lost heart and give up)."

     I hear others say that, "God is done with America" or "It's over for us."  I don't believe that God is anywhere near done with our country, but I do believe that the Church has been asleep and the enemy has retaken much of the ground we were supposed to occupy, until His return.  We've been so busy trying to be nice and politically correct, so as not to offend.  We've forgotten that we're warriors who are called to be the salt and Light to this world.  This nation was founded and dedicated to God, by those who came before us.  We have surrendered it over again to the enemy, when we should have occupied it for God.

     The Church has tried fitting into to society and tried to blend with everyone else.  We have forgotten who we've been called to be.  We've allowed the world to take over our schools and children, giving back the ground that was given to us by those who prayed, fought and stood against the enemy.  Like Israel of old, we've become comfortable in our little camps, forgetting how we became safe and secure through God's covenant.

     We have truly been "redeemed from the Curse of the Law," but the Curse is still here and will dominate, if we don't choose differently.  We are "in this world, but not of this world."  We believed that if we're like the world, then the world would come into salvation.  However, the more we became like the world, the less we resembled God's Kingdom, so that the world sees no difference between the Church and the secular world.

     Our warfare isn't against man and the natural things we see, but against the spirit realm of darkness, which has fostered the chaos and evil things we see around us.  The Holy Spirit inspired Paul to write in Eph.6:12(Amp), "For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood (contending only with physical opponents), but against the powers, against the master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness (against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly supernatural sphere)."

     God may have called you into the ministry, but that means more than being behind a pulpit.  God gives us Gifts to do the work of His ministry.  The Gifts aren't as important to Him, as the people He bought them for.  God explains why He gave these Gifts in Eph.4:12-13(Amp), saying, "His Intention was the perfecting and full-equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), that they should do the world of ministering toward building up Christ's Body (the Church). That it might develop until we all attain oneness in the faith and incomprehension of the full and accurate knowledge of the Son of God, that we might arrive at really mature manhood, the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's Own Perfection (the measure of the stature and the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him)."

     Paul writes about the Armor of God in Eph.6:10-19(Amp), which is our prayer armor.  This is where the battle for mankind and the salvation of men is being fought.  It doesn't matter what kind of preacher we have or what denomination we belong to.  Without prayer, no ministry can stand.  Your pastor can only be on one place at a time and what he knows is mostly held to his/her flock.  We must take God's Light into our workplaces and neighborhoods, feeding those who don't know the Word and salvation.  We're to pray and intercede for God's Church, for the world and for our pastors, so we can restrain the enemy.  We need to intercede, so we can take back the territory God has gained through those who came before us, both in this nation and the world.

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