23rd February 2011

Word from the Lord

I saw the Army coming into formation, and as they did all the weights dropped off them.

The Lord said “It’s not time for parties.  It’s not time for entertainment or fun gatherings.

It’s time to beat your plowshares into swords – Joel 3:10-16

It’s time to move into formation, into your platoons.  It’s time to put off all the things of the world, the things that hinder and stop you, let them drop off you, you need to make yourselves ready.

This is not a demilitarized zone!

It’s time for radical obedience to the Lord!

It’s a time for WAR!

We need to put on our armor, we need to take up our swords!

The Captain of the Hosts is Jesus.

We need to be in perfect formation with Him as the HEAD and we need to salute Him and say:

 “Lord, I’ll go where You send me, do whatever You want me to do, be whoever You want me to be in Jesus Name!”

It’s not going to be easy, it’s going to be hard, be ready, be ready, be ready.  It’s a time of WAR!  Jesus is coming soon.  BE READY!

I see hard times ahead, much darkness, that’s why we need to make sure we are ready and in the Lord’s Army totally focused on Jesus!”

SONG:

For the Lord is marching on.
And His Army is ever strong.
His glory shall be seen upon our land.
Raise the anthem
Sing the Victor’s song
Praise the Lord for the battle won,
No weapon formed against us shall stand!
The Captain of the Host is Jesus.
We’re following in His footsteps.
No foe can stand against us in the fray.
We are marching in Messiah’s band.
The keys of victory is His mighty hand.
Let us march on to take our promised land.

Requirements of Soldiers in the King’s Army

2 Tim 2: Amplified Bible

3 Take [with me] your share of the hardships and suffering [which you are called to endure] as a good (first-class) soldier of Christ Jesus.
   

4 No soldier when in service gets entangled in the enterprises of [civilian] life; his aim is to satisfy and please the one who enlisted him.

The Lord showed me that as a soldier in the King’s Army we are placing ourselves in the position of being the stench of death to the unsaved – persecution will come!

2 Cor 2:16

To the one we are the smell of death to death; and to the other the smell of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

The soldier often has to crawl through insect-infested places and sleep in dirty places, but he doesn’t care – he doesn’t look for comfort, he only looks to obey his Master, the Captain (of Hosts – Jesus!) 

He doesn’t look to his own needs, he looks to the needs of the whole platoon.  We need to do the same for the Church.

We have to not be so worried about our circumstances, even in the church, or about who did or didn’t do what I wanted, as long as the Lord’s work is getting done, it doesn’t matter!

Elizabeth