October 7, 2010

End Times church countdown: how to intercede for lost churches?

The life of a watchman is not enviable. He rises at a time when everyone sleeps the sweetest. He talks to Someone who is invisible. He moans and sighs over matters which are not his own concern. He kneels and bows and prostrates before the invisible God. He sings and shouts and cries like he is not of his own mind. He takes risks which can be avoided. He looks like a man out of this world if someone gets to really know him. He has no life of his own. He is a hidden man. Where is he? He does not even know himself.

How to intercede for lost churches? This is his latest assignment.
Having just heard the testimony of two dreams about the Lord’s return ‘THE NEXT DAY’, he just sat on the floor and moaned. realizing the scale of the problem and the ‘set time’ being counted down, he could not see any possibility of interceding in time.
Sleeping church, church busy with meaningless activities, producing unbelieving ‘Christians’, having other altars (bowing down to other gods), church not believing in the redemptive and cleansing power of the blood of Jesus Christ, churches not bother with the imminent return of Christ…the list of defects is endless.
How to intercede for these lost churches?
Oh, oh, oh…He can only cry out in agony. This is too much to bear when the reality hits this poor man. What about his own family? Are they saved? Are they in any of the three churches? Is he one of them? He cannot help but shudder.
Yes, an intercessor once wrote, “the worship is fantastic, seems anointed, but there is no power for lives to be transformed.” Why? This is not new. This happened during the Old Testament prophets’ time. Sacrifices at the temple were carried out and religious life was booming. Yet, God spoke through the prophets/intercessors/watchmen and issued warnings after warnings. Alas, no one bothered. No one heard.
Thus, the kingdom was crushed. The temple burnt. The people was held captives and sold as slaves and scattered all over the world.
The previous exiles were allowed to return after a set time. But this time it will not be the same. The exiles are forever exiled, out of the kingdom of God.
Oh, how to intercede for lost churches? Please tell the watchman.

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