Journey to see God: "Dress yourself for work!"

The watchman was led to take a five days’ journey in the end time of the year 2012. He had to do a prophetic act. He took a bus, traveling for eight hours including a lot of walking and waiting. He was put through a number of ‘end times tests’.
A test on physical and spiritual stamina
He was put to test physically as he chose not to take a back-pack. Thus he suffered. He had to carry a heavy sling bag with two Bibles (an English Standard Version and a Bible in a tribal language), with water and provision and another heavy traveler bag (with no roller wheels). He only managed to sleep about four hours on the previous night before the usual 5am meeting before the Lord.
He was further tested in having to move and stay in three different places within four days. For a watchman intercessor this is no news. He obeyed and experienced watching the spectacular panorama view of the city and the spiritual midnight and dawn sky, while praying and interceding in the Spirit and in understanding as led by the Spirit of the Lord.
He walked hours in the daytime, woke and slept at short intervals at nights. He was given conducive and non-conducive external environment to watch the signs and pray. The spiritual environment was challenging and with another intercessor they broke through.
Journey began with a Message for him personally (which he only knew on the last day! )
The first day’s bus ride was comfortable. He was led to read Jeremiah 1-9. One verse struck him specifically, Jeremiah 1:17 (ESV) spoke to him specifically, “¹⁷ But you, dress yourself for work; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them.” (He did not know then that this was the key theme of this journey at this time!)

A dream of his late brother: the time is urgent!
On the second day’s early morning, by 4:30am he woke up from a dream in which his late brother was trying to tell him something. He knew it was about the urgency of the next morning’s appointment with a nephew of his. He noted the message. The brother repented and had his life transformed a year before he passed away peacefully without sickness. The message was: “tell the 23 years old nephew that while he is still young he should respond now to the Lord’s calling ant not hesitate, as no one knows what happens tomorrow”.
The TEACHER appeared and discoursed about Law
Then he was led to read Mark 1-4, all about Jesus being a divine teacher. He teaches the truth of God’s word, as He preaches the kingdom of God. The way Jesus teaches is different from others. He looks at the intents/motives behind a principle or a law. He sums up His interpretation and application of the Law of God in this verse,

Mark 3:4-5 (ESV) And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. ⁵ And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart,

The Law kills. The Spirit gives life.
The watchman noted this truth: that unlike the religious leaders who talk only of ‘lawful’ or ‘not lawful’ regardless the purpose or effect -causing harms or even death, the Lord Jesus talks about ‘doing good to people’ and ‘saving people’s lives’. The Lord has shown that the true purpose of God’s Law is to do good and save life. He was even angry with and grieved at the hardness of heart of the religious leaders, who were motivated by evil and murderous intents: jealousy and envy. They were not concerned with the healing and deliverance of a dysfunctional man. He attended their synagogue but they could not heal or save him. Jesus healed and saved him.
This confirmed what the Lord had earlier forewarned the watchman to beware of this religious snare in his previous journey of faith. Galatians 3:10 The Righteous Shall Live by Faith “¹⁰ For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”
A vision of an eye in the open sky
When dawn broke the watchman was led to take a few pictures of the sky. The pictures showed the capture of an eye in the opening of the sky (in answer to his sudden prayer asking to see the unseen).
Intercede for children and descendants
For a considerable part of the four days, the watchman was led to read Isaiah for prayers for children. For example, he was led to read 1:2b, “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.” 30:1-2 ““Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin; 2 who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my direction, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!”
66:13 “As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.” “23 They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord, and their descendants with them.”
A prayer call for God’s Way (painless and grace without limit)

On the third day after midnight, the watchman was led to a prayer that opened by itself: 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” 10 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.
A Second Dream: Lord, what about their souls?

He went back to sleep and dreamed of a big place like a religious place he previously attended. It had a big garden compound and many people dressed well and in white attended the activities. He did not know anyone. Like other dreams he always inspected back rooms which no-one bothered much. The doors were faulty. The washrooms were filthy. The kitchen was run down. There were rooms cluttered with broken furniture and useless old stuff, rubbish and cobwebs. He knew the people were not spiritually clean. When the Holy Communion was served, he saw a brother carrying a tray with an idiotic look on his face (like he was charmed under a spell). So the watchman ran away, whilst knowing that he was being singled out for persecution.. When he woke he heard himself crying out, “What about their souls?”
Then he was led to read 2 Peter 1:1-11. Verses that spoke to the watchman included the following. The verse 11 is crucial as it tells how how an entrance into the kingdom of God is made, through the eight qualities.

5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 10 Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. 11 For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

One book with two messages: Jesus -the bright morning star; the messenger of God
He was then led to read Derek Prince’s “Power in the Name” and noted the two chapters that he was asked to read. The author wrote: “The morning star rising in our hearts refers to our inner experience -when we have come to know Him personally and through the revelation of God’s word.” (2 Peter1:16-18)
The messenger: “He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me, receives the One who sent Me.” (Matt.10:40) The author wrote: “God comes to us in the form of His messengers.” “He identifies with the one whom He sends to represent Him.” “To reject the messengers of God is a worse sin than Sodom and Gomorrah.”
Journey to see God in Isaiah (chapters 55-58)

1. Seek God’s Way and will succeed: 55:8-11 God spoke: take heed “My thoughts”, “My ways”, “My word”, “My mouth”, “Me”, “I purpose”, “I sent”.
2. With God all things are possible: God gives grace and favor to outcasts. 56:4-5
3. Do not seek your own ways. 58:8-13

Rather train yourself for godliness, Command and teach these things. He was further led to read 1 Timothy 4:6-16.
Journey ended with a prophetic Act: “dress yourself for work”
On the last night, the watchman was led to sleep with all his working clothes and socks on. He was led to pack his two bags and put them next to the exit door. He also had to put his shoes by the side of his bed. He had gone to bed in his sleep clothes but he heard the words, “dress for service’ (for the Lord). So he got up and changed and got everything ready as if he was a soldier or doctor on call, according to the command. He did not feel fearful or anything in the natural. But he knew in the spiritual realm the urgency was real. Only after he returned to his own abode after the journey he opened his little note book and discovered that on the first day, on the bus, he was led to read Jeremiah and wrote down this verse, Jeremiah 1:17 (ESV) “But you, dress yourself for work; arise, and say to them everything that I command you.”
The last day of this journey to see God, was a Sunday morning and he attended a worship service in a church. The pastor preached on “Be ready” to meet the Lord. The verses read and preached were among those he just read during the journey. The preacher/teacher of the word ended with the following: Luke 21:34-36 (ESV) Watch Yourselves
³⁴ “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. ³⁵ For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. ³⁶ But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

For this nation’s heart has grown gross (fat and dull)

The Lord says, " For this nation’s heart has grown gross (fat and dull), and their ears heavy and difficult of hearing, and their eyes they have tightly closed, lest they see and perceive with their eyes, and hear and comprehend the sense with their ears, and grasp and understand with their heart, and turn and I should heal them."

Amplified Bible (AMP) Matthew 13:1-23

13 That same day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting beside the sea.

² But such great crowds gathered about Him that He got into a boat and remained sitting there, while all the throng stood on the shore.

³ And He told them many things in parables (stories by way of illustration and comparison), saying, A sower went out to sow.

⁴ And as he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and ate them up.

⁵ Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they had not much soil; and at once they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil.

⁶ But when the sun rose, they were scorched, and because they had no root, they dried up and withered away.

⁷ Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them out.

⁸ Other seeds fell on good soil, and yielded grain—some a hundred times as much as was sown, some sixty times as much, and some thirty.

⁹ He who has ears [to hear], let him be listening and let him ^[a]consider and ^[b]perceive and comprehend by hearing.

¹⁰ Then the disciples came to Him and said, Why do You speak to them in parables?

¹¹ And He replied to them, To you it has been given to know the secrets and mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

¹² For whoever has [spiritual knowledge], to him will more be given and he will ^[c]be furnished richly so that he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

¹³ This is the reason that I speak to them in parables: because ^[d]having the power of seeing, they do not see; and ^[e]having the power of hearing, they do not hear, nor do they grasp and understand.

¹⁴ In them indeed is ^[f]the process of fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah, which says: You shall indeed hear and hear but never grasp and understand; and you shall indeed look and look but never see and perceive.

¹⁵ For this nation’s heart has grown gross (fat and dull), and their ears heavy and difficult of hearing, and their eyes they have tightly closed, lest they see and perceive with their eyes, and hear and comprehend the sense with their ears, and grasp and understand with their heart, and turn and I should heal them.

¹⁶ But blessed (happy, fortunate, and ^[g]to be envied) are your eyes because they do see, and your ears because they do hear.

¹⁷ Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men [men who were upright and in right standing with God] yearned to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

¹⁸ Listen then to the [meaning of the] parable of the sower:

^19 [h]While anyone is hearing the Word of the kingdom and does not grasp and comprehend it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the roadside.

²⁰ As for what was sown on thin (rocky) soil, this is he who hears the Word and at once welcomes and accepts it with joy;

²¹ Yet it has no real root in him, but is temporary (inconstant, ^[i]lasts but a little while); and when affliction or trouble or persecution comes on account of the Word, at once he is caused to stumble [he is repelled and ^[j]begins to distrust and desert Him Whom he ought to trust and obey] and he falls away.

²² As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the Word, but the cares of the world and the pleasure and delight and glamour and deceitfulness of riches choke and suffocate the Word, and it yields no fruit.

²³ As for what was sown on good soil, this is he who hears the Word and grasps and comprehends it; he indeed bears fruit and yields in one case a hundred times as much as was sown, in another sixty times as much, and in another thirty.

Watchman's Prayer:  Ephesians 1:17-23 Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹⁷ [For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him,

¹⁸ By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones),

¹⁹ And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength,

²⁰ Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places],

²¹ Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come.

²² And He has put all things under His feet and has appointed Him the universal and supreme Head of the church [a headship exercised throughout the church],

²³ Which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all [for in that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who fills everything everywhere with Himself].

End Times Watchman started a new post : GOD’S WAY

“GOD’S WAY” is the only way in this end time, the watchman discovered. He was led in his spirit to start a new blog in this name:
"GOD’S WAY"
http://citizenheaven.wordpress.com/
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