Eternity Over Yonder

It's becoming more and more clear that the Christian church is living in ways that makes God cry (if He could). But we seem to just live in sin thinking God will forgive, and also forgive the sins we commit in the near future. So many believer's, but so little change! God forgive us for thinking this way! What has happened to being transformed by the power of the Gospel? People are being saved, but still living like this world?

The Church is in a desperate state! The church of today needs a Revival! That she would be transformed for the Power of the Holy Spirit. That we would draw our hearts to God and not satan! Pray before we play with this world. Call me a radical, but the church needs to be real and not fake. Do we really care about the lost? When was the last time you shared the Gospel with someone?

I've been reading this book titled "Why Revival Tarries". This book was written way before I came to be, but seems to still ring true in our modern world today. God forgive us for not living Spirit filled lives. Christan's today care about as much for the lost soul, as the lost themselves care about themselves. Everyday people are being tossed into eternal hell and you would think no one cares, not even God's household. Sad, but true.

Maybe it's time to live life as if Jesus was standing next to you every step of our days! Maybe then we would think twice about the shows we watch on TV, the movies we rent, the nasty things that come from our hearts and flow out of the mouth. Maybe then we would fear God and obey His Word? If your faith has not changed you, then it would be fair to say it's not going to save you. It's like the quote "what would Jesus do", and I'm sure it's not what we as the Church are doing today.

In the book Harnack defined Christianity as "a very simple but very sublime thing: To live in time and for eternity under the eye of God and by His help."

Ravenhill continues by saying "Oh that believers would become eternity-conscious! If we could live every moment of every day under the eye of God, if we did every act in the light of the judgment seat, if we sold every article in the light of the judgment seat, if we prayed every prayer in the light of the judgment seat, if we tithed all our possessions in the light of the judgment seat, if we preachers prepared every sermon with one eye on damned humanity and the other on the judgment seat - then we would have a Holy Ghost revival that would shake this earth and that, in no time at all, would liberate millions of precious souls."

We have millions of Bibles, scores of thousands of churches, endless preachers - and yet what sin! It is passing strange that we are so "simple" as to believe that the Church is presenting to men the New Testament standard of Jesus by such a substandard of Christian living.

Why does revival tarry? The answer is simple enough - because evangelism is so highly commercialized.

Revival tarries because of cheapening the Gospel.

Keep pressing, Keep praying, Keep doing church in the shadow of the Cross!

Maybe it's time to turn our eyes to Jesus. Christ wants first place in our lives and He rightly deserves it! I think once we live with eternal things in mind, it will change the way we think and also live. Are you ready for the judgment seat of Christ if death were to come over you today? Are you ready to meet Him?

Have a great week. Thanks for stopping by.

The sleeping giant

This past service at church was on Mother's day, but was also the international day of prayer. Pastor Chris had talked about how the persecuted church has been praying for the American church. He called it the sleeping giant.

Most people don't realize how people everyday are dying for the name of Jesus Christ. The powers of this world are trying hard to stop the advancing of God's kingdom. God is always at work, even when it seems the hope has gone away. But during the prayer the song "while you were sleeping" from casting crowns came to mind. It's a song about a country with no room for it's King.

I have a passion for revival in the American church, that the sleeping giant would one day wake up. With all the chaos that is going on in the world, people need to hear the good news of Jesus Christ.

When I read in Romans about the birth pains of this world, and looking and seeing what is going on, sometimes you just have to wonder, we could be in the last days of this world. Praise the Lord for that, I'm ready for Christ to return before your done reading this post.

Below I've posted the lyrics of the song "while you were sleeping". It's time to wake up sleeping church! It's time to press on for God's agenda! We need to work hard to do the work of the Lord until His return. Keep pressing, keep praying, keep preaching the cross to this lost world. That's what I'm going to do.

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

Oh little town of Jerusalem
Looks like another silent night
The Father gave His only Son
The Way, the Truth, the Life had come
But there was no room for Him in the world He came to save

Jerusalem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
The Savior of the world is dying on your cross today
Jerusalem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping

United States of America
Looks like another silent night
As we're sung to sleep by philosophies
That save the trees and kill the children
And while we're lying in the dark
There's a shout heard 'cross the eastern sky
For the Bridegroom has returned
And has carried His bride away in the night, in the night

America, what will we miss while we are sleeping
Will Jesus come again
And leave us slumbering where we lay
America, will we go down in history
As a nation with no room for its King
Will we be sleeping
Will we be sleeping

United States of America
Looks like another silent night