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Wake Up Call - The Watch Letter


Several years ago, our Pastor, Chief Apostle H.C. Gunn, shared that God showed him through prophecy that one day soon in America there would be empty shelves, and also that America will one day become a third-world country. America has historically been a nation known for wealth, so to see empty shelves in a modern age should sound an alarm.


Today, as I was at my local pharmacy, which is always fully stocked, I walked past several shelves lacking baby formula and other goods. Access to some essential items for babies and families is becoming so scarce in some parts of the country that stores are having to put the stock they do have in a secure place and provide it to the customer as requested -- yes, we are entering a place where things are being rationed.


This is a wake-up call! We can no longer trust in things, people, and ourselves more than we trust in God. They, and we, can be here today and gone tomorrow. We are being brought to a place where God is humbling us to see that HE is our resource. He is the only supply that will never run out. His provision is eternal. We put our trust in everything that expires; Everything that can crash; Everything that can burn; Everything that can crumble; Everything that will fail us. Our lives are consumed with what we can gain, get, and where we can go. And we continue to devalue and belittle the God of the whole universe, the God who owns things and creates things we can never fully imagine - things that our measly money can never buy.


God showing Chief Apostle Gunn the revelation about the empty shelves is proof that God watches, hears, and knows all things. He has a plan for everything and everyone and wants to orchestrate our lives to give us the best of his storehouse. That's why he sends warnings and sends his word -- to give us his will, but we let that go out the window because it is not valuable enough to us. But we think what the world has to offer is far better. And we somehow think he is just a "man upstairs" waiting for us to pray so he can grant our wishes, and then we go about our business. Not so.

God is the master of humanity. He made every detail that makes us human. That makes us alive. His desire to detail our existence during the creation was not a one-and-done. He desires to have a continuous relationship with us where we allow him to detail our lives every day, just as Chief Apostle Gunn has taught us. There is a song our choir, Holy Fire, sings sometimes: Let it be you ..... in every decision and every choice I make." And that is why America is seeing empty shelves and we are on our way to being a third-world country. We as saints, and the general population, refuse to let it be God. We refuse to involve him in every decision and choice we make. We only want him involved when we think there's something we can't attain on our own or when we make a mess we can't hide or fix. And we prefer to deal in gray and lukewarmness instead of the specificity of God's will and word.

When we don't want God to guide us and lead us, we back away from him, and those who serve him, as far as we can. So, we can go make our decisions and choices on our own in a dark corner - aka backsliding. But as we are sliding back, we don’t realize there is a cement wall - called self - right behind us that can crack our skull and break our back. We all know what happens when a person's body hits something as hard as a cement wall. But, it seems that we would rather see ourselves destroyed and become spiritually braindead than let God have the final say about our lives.


Why? It's because of the wrong weight we are choosing to carry (and I am talking to me first). We would rather bear the weight of the world, and the weight of our fleshy ways, and let it consume us, so we can have our way, than take on God's yoke, where he leads us and guides us. And by the way, the weight of God's yoke is as a light of a feather. So, we continue to hold on to unnecessary weight all because we don't want God to touch certain things.


Matthew 11:28-30

28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.


Something that God showed about me yesterday was that I have let concerns and situations, needs, and wants weigh more than him in my life. What's heavier than God in your life? In the grocery store, the value/cost of food is determined by its weight. So, whatever weighs the most in our lives is what we are valuing above God.


Chief Apostle Gunn always teaches us to ensure that God is the whole of our life. Our lives should not just include God but revolve around him and be directed by him. Chief Apostle teaches us to pray every day in this manner: "Father I acknowledge you in all my ways, please direct my paths. (Proverbs 3:6)"


We should be like Abraham and move and live by God's direction. It's the safe way. The best way. The consistent way. The most prosperous way. The honorable way. The productive way. The detailed way. The only way.


If our relationship and love for God were put on a scale at the grocery store, how much would they weigh in comparison to the things we desire and seek after?


Almost a month ago today, I heard Chief Apostle Gunn say "if you want to find a place, first let God find a place in you." The things we value above God will never satisfy us. I am learning that for myself. If we want to make it to where God wants us to be in life, then we have to first let God be (completely) in our lives. There cannot be contentment without Godliness. And Godliness comes from letting God reign in your life from the inside out.


1 Timothy 6:6-11

6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.


Hebrews 12

1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.


 



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