THIS LETTER I AM SENDING TO PRECIOUS SAINTS OF GOD ON 5 DOVES.  My pastor called me after reading it, and said he had forwarded it to others as well.

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Dear Pastor,

 

This morning I feel led to send you this email.  Our days are very busy going in every direction it seems, so it is difficult for us to have serious time-consuming

discussion on things.  I hope you do not mind.

 

 

As I could, several months ago I started forwarding you articles you requested I do, that I felt important.  I know you don’t have the time I do to assimilate much of what is going on in our world that would affect us and our church---increasingly on a daily basis.  Nor do few of us.  But our Lord does not want us ignorant and undiscerning as we “see that day approaching”.  We do not want to be caught unawares and unprepared.  And He is revealing much through leaders and men and women of faith, to enlighten and inform us about these eventful times.

 

 

How do we prepare ourselves for this present onslaught against Christianity, our moral values and liberties?  Righteousness exhalteth a nation, that is what we DO know—but do we also know what UNRIGHTEOUSNESS does?  Exactly what we see happening, unless we have retreated into our turtle shell as a Christian believer---one who cannot walk, cannot see, and ends up turned over.  And like that turtle, even if we do come out of our shell and are able to turn over, we then find ourselves doing a perilous, slow crawl across a highway full of speeding traffic.

 

I am convinced of the situation and the soon return of our Lord, as are many of us.  For many years, the ‘church’ has been lulled asleep, enjoying the comfort zone of entertainment and prosperity.  It felt good to be living in this Charismatic day, with meg-opporunity to be on top of the world religious-wise.

We strutted our stuff, played the harlot, as the Laodicean church is described. But to remain some small-town log church, nestled in a community of pioneers, preferring to spend its income to further the Gospel worldwide to the unreached rather than building impressive temples of marble, earned us a reputation

as “not with it” or looked down upon as “old-fashioned”.  But this old “missionary lady” could not be more proud of its pastors and saints of God who are

the “stubborn-few” clinging to the old rugged Cross.  I cannot thank and praised my Lord enough for honoring me to be placed among you. 

 

At my advanced age, I cannot physically do things I used to do.  I try, but have difficulty even keeping my yard ‘up to snuff’ like I would want.  At 81, I know I have but a limited time on this earth---but so do we all.  Our times are in His hands, not ours.  We must use every moment to ensure our spiritual man is listening to and walking in the pathway He has before us, redeeming that time. He will never leave us, nor forsake us.  But we ourselves must continually battle the spirit of the world which would lure us away from it.  Nor spend our days consumed with thoughts of retirement plans and vacations.

 

As I spend these precious hours I have praying at home and listening to the Spirit, I see that the curtain is being drawn, as the evil spirit that has captured this generation worldwide, fufills its destiny.  Millions of Christians are being slaughtered, along with Jews and innocent children worldwide, as Islamic terrorism

spreads its tenticles, while  most Americans shrug their shoulders and enjoy their pizzas.  And as I see it, there will never be a replacing of what has fallen aside—the will to do so is simply not there.  The mad rush to enjoy the good life while we can dominates our thinking and motivates what we do or don’t do.

 

What will we do when our infastructure goes down, our economy collapses, when our tvs and cell phones no long work, gas pumps and fuel tanks dry up; groceries lock their doors, and transportation is non-existent.  That is exactly what will soon happen in this country.   There are also some who live in constant fear of these things, and are enslaved by it. Suspicious of this and that, alarmed and withdrawn, draining away the peace which Jesus gives us when we walk in His faith.  There is no safe haven, exept in the knowledge and trust we can have in Him, and as we go through the dark days ahead, we must constantly remind them and ourselves, of this fact.  It is our only hope.

 

I DO know this---the Holy Spirit was imparted to His church, so that we could glean, as a body, what the Spirit is saying; through dreams and revelations.  Too

long has the church failed to use these gifts, not wanting to be “too Pentecostal”.  How tragic this is!  We have even mocked and ridiculed one another when

one might speak openly or share, in hopes some other one present might be able to interpret.  The Spirit desperately wants full control, but is limited by what we refuse to allow.  The least among us cowers in fear of rejection and prejudice.  So the Holy Ghost cannot move freely and bless us as it wants.

 

If we are to survive as the remnant awaiting His return, we will never make it through the ‘lean days” ahead, nor be able to fight and win this battle with guns and ammo, stored-up rice and beans.

 

It was Joseph, able to interpret Pharoah’s dreams, who could lead Egypt to know what God was about to do for His people. Without the famine, Israel would not have come to a safe haven and prospered.  Without their enslavement, Israel would not have wanted freedom and have wated to cross the Red Sea with Moses.  Without a Joshua and Caleb, Israel would never have occupied their promised land.  We must stand, even when it appears others will not stand with us.  We have the Lord to comfort and guide us, to deliver us from all evil, to make a way of escape, to be a hedge about us.  And as a church body, we have each other.  We must remember that Saul was blinded and alone when the Spirit led Ananias to cast aside his fears and go lay hands upon him, with words from the Lord.  It was Philip who was led by the Spirit to Gaza and the Ethopian eunuch.  It was a praying Peter to whom the Spirit led to Cornelius.

 

Can we listen to what the Spirit is saying, though our dreams and visions? and even through those of others?  We must!  If we cannot, then we have shut ourselves into a dark prison cell, hoping to escape the mob outside and praying the jailer will remember to bring us food and water while we waste away.

 

If he’s still around.

 

MARY E ADAMS