SPECIAL EDITION – TURN FROM WICKEDNESS!
Saturday – March 21, 2020, Adar 25, 5780
Repeat after me – Father forgive me and cleanse me right now in the name Jesus with His precious Blood for every sin I am committing with knowledge and every sin without knowledge. I receive your cleansing; I am clean and fit for your use Lord. Thank you, Father, thank you Jesus, thank you Holy Spirit for your faithfulness to cleanse me. Lord help me to guard my mouth so that I do not utter anymore blasphemies against you and your holy Word. Perhaps one is thinking they do not have a need for repentance. Without sounding impertinent, rethink that. Dear ones I see all kinds of requests for prayer to stop this Corona virus and for the earth to be healed of this plague. Everyone of them leave out the most vital step to that occurring which is repentance. Right now, and for many decades now the Lord has not been looking for the world to repent but He is looking for the Church to repent. How long will we rebel holding to our traditions and doctrines of devils?
Let me tell you what the Lord was talking to me about this morning which is not new but with a far greater urgency. The greater urgency has to do with the current and imminent suffering about to engulf the Church. Judgement (not wrath) starts with the house of God (1 Peter 4:17) and starts with the priests (shepherds). Not the remnant that is arising but those clinging to the traditions of men and the doctrines of devils. God is going to have a Church and it is going to be without spot (defilement – traditions of men and doctrines of devils) and wrinkle (inward focus). Our Lord Jesus, the head of the Church will have a Church that shows the glory, the goodness of our God. When it does people will flock to the Church for the goodness of God brings people to repentance (Romans 2:4).
Ephesians 5:25-27 (KJV)
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
In prayer this morning the Lord brought Hosea 4:6 front and center for me and with a message not just for me but the Church, more specifically the priests (pastors).
Hosea 4:6 (KJV)
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
I generally pray this from the position of asking the Lord to reveal to me any knowledge of Him, His ways that I have rejected, to show me the Truth and allow me to repent. However, this morning, He said; “David, look at the preceding verses, I am shining a light for you and others, tell my people.” I STRONGLY encourage every person to carefully read the whole of this chapter asking the Lord to open your understanding. I especially encourage those in leadership within their Church to read, meditate, and repent in sorrow with a commitment to stand in complete (100%) agreement with the Word from this day forward. I am not talking about agreement with mamma, a commentary, or your Pastors’ sermon but the pure Word of God. Let us all be exemplary Berean’s (Acts 17:11). I am going to share the first nine verses from Hosea chapter four from The Living Bible to bring this Word of the Lord into sharper focus.
Hosea 4:1-9 (TLB)
1 Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel. The Lord has filed a lawsuit against you listing the following charges: “There is no faithfulness, no kindness, no knowledge of God in your land.
2 You swear and lie and kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere, with one murder after another.
3 “That is why your land is not producing; it is filled with sadness, and all living things grow sick and die; the animals, the birds, and even the fish begin to disappear.
4 “Don’t point your finger at someone else and try to pass the blame to him! Look, priest, I am pointing my finger at you.
5 As a sentence for your crimes, you priests will stumble in broad daylight as well as in the night, and so will your false ’prophets’ too; and I will destroy your mother, Israel.
6 My people are destroyed because they don’t know me, and it is all your fault, you priests, for you yourselves refuse to know me; therefore, I refuse to recognize you as my priests. Since you have forgotten my laws, I will ’forget’ to bless your children.
7 The more my people multiplied, the more they sinned against me. They exchanged the glory of God for the disgrace of idols.
8 “The priests rejoice in the sins of the people; they lap it up and lick their lips for more!
9 And thus it is: ’Like priests, like people’—because the priests are wicked, the people are too. Therefore, I will punish both priests and people for all their wicked deeds.
Please, please read this carefully, this is not about someone else this is to each and everyone of us today. There will be no healing of the land until the priests (Five-Fold Ministry Leaders) have heartfelt repentance which brings a change of thinking, talking, and doing. They must then lead the people into repentance. Consider the following Scripture to guide your prayer of repentance.
2 Timothy 2:25-26 (KJV)
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Are we believing, thinking, saying, and acting upon things that are wrong, not what God said? Let me take the guesswork out of it we are! When we do, we are opposing ourselves and we need the Lord to bring the light to us in this area so that we can repent, change or mind, our words, and our ways. When we have done this, we will be released from the snare of the devil who has taken us captive at his will. It is a fool’s errand to pray for the staying, the healing of the land from this plague (Corona virus) if we have not had heartfelt repentance.
Until our next publication, as a Bible Teacher and Prophetic Voice I speak this blessing over each and every one of you, receive it, believe it, and speak over yourself and your family by faith in Jesus name! Quit asking God to bless you, you are already blessed, you have the Blessing, give Him something to do by the words of your mouth. Once you know the will of God, decree the thing (Job 22:28, Isaiah 45:11, Mark 11:23). (The Blessing is the Holy Spirit) We have left God way to long with nothing to do in our lives.
Numbers 6:24-26 (AMP)
24 The Lord bless you and watch, guard, and keep you;
25 The Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and giving favor) to you;
26 The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually).
By: Dr. David Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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