Time to Choose: Are we in the right pews?

Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. ~ Acts 6:3 John C. Maxwell, Picking Your Team, August 20

Holy Spirit brought us to a very important line this past week. I watched the wolf in shepherds clothing come in and snatch a man’s dream right out of his hand, and then watched the poor man turn around to pet him. I watched as we separated ourselves by the very ruling of our own nature to take our place on either side of this line…

It is along this line that we see the rugged impatience of the Holy Ghost against unbelief. All our fears are wicked, and we fear because we will not nourish ourselves in our faith. ~ Oswald Chambers, Jesus Is Our Salvation

I could not possibly be more in love with my brothers and sisters in CLOTH who chose with a passionate conviction this week to stand on Faith for those who stand for the love of Jesus Christ.

Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. ~ Revelation 3:12

And on the other side are those we are sad to see who try to ride that middle rail, with one foot on cold, and the other on hot. They fear the “political and controversial” for having to choose a side and choose instead to subjugate themselves and their congregations to pews of willful blindness and ignorance.

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. ~ Revelation 3:15-16

So, while it was tragic to watch as the farmer went from taking his Revival cue from Holy Spirit to the counsel of Laodicea, it was amazing to see my brothers and sisters under fire, prove themselves before God to overcometh the ruse of the enemy in the 11^th hour. The attack on CLOTH by the Laodicea pastors only strengthened our resolve and commitment to serve the Holy Spirit. It also revealed the weak spots in our own walls which need mending. Whatever God is bringing, He will do it through those of us nourished and standing on Faith over those of us mired in quandary questioning in fear.

Revival, my dear brothers and sisters, is a matter of awakening the sleeping church. Imagine the Devil’s delight as he watched CLOTH attacked from the pulpit. But in the same attack he went after a woman of faith who advocates fearlessly “for the rights of her students and their families who fall prey to the criminal justice system,” a man of God who happens to be the abortionist’s greatest nightmare, and my mentor in the Faith who has dedicated his life to New York Faith & Freedom, and the truth of our duty to uphold both as citizens of the greatest republic ever blessed by God…if we can keep it.