Originally posted: April 2022
My question for you today is, who is going to stand when everyone around you turns the other way? We are living in a time where people no longer want to hear the truth of God's Word. The Bible tells us in
2 Timothy 3:1-5
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good. Traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures, more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
In no other time have I seen people rejoice over calling God's true men and women everything but a child of God as they do now. The respect for God and His people seems to have been thrown out the window. I have seen it all over social media. Some of the comments and views expressed are ruthless. So much so that I often take breaks from it. The Bible tells us that they will call right wrong and wrong right, the Bible is fulling itself right before our eyes.
Those of us that speak out against the things that are wrong are attacked for standing up for what God says. Personally, I have received messages from people that I don’t even know attacking me. They put angry faces and laughing faces on statuses that I’ve made pertaining to God. I’ve had people that didn’t agree with me make statuses about what I’ve said and come against it. Yet Jesus warned us of these very things. He told us that they would not accept what we had to say. I have witnessed other men and women of God being attacked for speaking what God had given them. People have called them witches, mentally ill, I mean the list goes on and on. There was a prophetess who knew that the Word that God had given her people would not like. She got on Facebook live and she was crying, saying she knew that people wouldn't like it but she has to speak what God had given her.
Another prophetess would be attacked, they were always commenting on her statuses coming against her as well. I guess the warfare had become too great because both of their messages had changed. Mind you I said their messages because God’s Word hasn’t changed. I can admit that when God first started dealing with me about starting the blog I was very hesitant. There were several reasons why I told Him no. Yeah I had the nerve to tell God no. We already know who won that because here I am. I came up with every excuse that I could think of. I knew that what God had given me was unpopular and that people wouldn’t like it nor accept it. I was worried about what people would think of me. I didn't want people to think that I was angry. I didn't want people to think that I had something against the church.
What God showed me was that people will think what they want to think and believe what they want to believe regardless. At the end of the day I was the one being disobedient, so I had to make up my mind to speak what God tells me to speak. The Church has become tainted. It's not about what God says but it’s about what the people want to hear. They have become more concerned about how the people feel and what the people think more than they are concerned about God. I am reminded of Paul. The thing that I love about Paul is that his mind was made up. It didn’t matter what they did to him, how they treated him, he knew that in the end his was reward was going to be great.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord
1 Peter 4: 12-14
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified
Somebody has got to stand when everyone else takes down. Who is going to stand against what God calls sin? Who is going to stand up for righteousness and for the truth? Who is going to stand for God? Are you willing to lose all that you have, even your life? It seems as if they are far and few between but I see people that are standing up for righteousness sake. They refuse to bow down, they are standing on the Word of God. I have to be honest it does my heart good to see it. Not everyone has conformed to the ways of this world. For us it is God or nothing.
There are those that are longing for the truth, longing for deliverance. I know because I was one of them. I didn’t want to hear about money, houses and cars because my soul was at stake. I went to church service after service looking for a Word from the Lord. Yet all I heard was everything but what I truly needed. So much so that I thought that God wasn’t hearing me, I felt like I was going to lose my mind. Yet I still kept pushing, she didn’t come in preaching about blessings and prosperity but she came in preaching deliverance. That's why my heart grieves when I see well known leaders purposefully leading people astray. We see the shape that the church is in today. They once preached the gospel but they have taken down. Those are souls, that is what people are failing to realize. Yeah you may satisfy your flesh now but where is your soul going to spend eternity? Then they have the nerve to get mad when we say that God is going to judge it. God is going to clean it up, however they continue to kick against the Word of God.
1 Peter 4: 17-18
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
What do you think that means? God is going to judge the church, even in addressing the churches in the book of Revelations, He judged them. He judged them and found sin in some. What do you think you think it means when it says that the righteous will scarcely make it in? God is not playing with us, you can say that God is love, good, merciful, but He is so much more than that.
God is looking for those that are going to stand firm. He's looking for those that are going to be all in. Those that are concerned about what God is concerned about. They're not looking to be rich or famous, they don't care about being popular. They are those that share what thus says the Lord and may receive two or three likes. Yet they continue to declare the gospel, they continue to give the warning. I know that sometimes it can feel like you are all alone but you are not alone, God still has a people. These are dangerous times and things will only continue to get worse. There will come a time where we aren't allowed to preach and teach the true gospel openly, so we have to declare God's Word now. Keep pushing, keep standing, God is with you.
As always I encourage you to get to know God. Spend time with Him, study His Word. We are going to need God more than ever, He is truly our only refuge. Remember that God loves you and so do I with the love of Christ.