Last week my mom, my pastor’s wife, and I prayed over the new building that my home church is finally worshiping in. Let's just say that we encountered the living God and also tore down some spiritual strongholds. Also this Sunday, I felt God leading me to give the congregation a word bidding the church to come to God because it is time now to surrender to Him. It has been now for too long, and the church has done nothing while the devil goes on a rampage. The church is like a warrior with no armor or sword or shield and no hope of survival. What is this? This is the church that God said would not fade away! Yet we forget that there are other Christians in other lands, and they are coming to America to do the American church's work! Jesus said the Harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. How true this is for America today. We have so much that we don't wish to give up and we give only a scrap of ourselves to God. Jesus said that it is impossible for a rich man to come to salvation. Knowing this and that we are such a rich nation, no wonder people have such a hard time giving things up to God. His statement is so true. The problem is (for the Church) that we are in captivity to materialism. We must learn to give this up, and we can. There is salvation even for the rich, if they give everything up to Jesus Christ and don't hold anything back. The chances are, if you are reading this, you are one of the very few rich people in the world. Not even a quarter of the people, or even a fifth of the people on the planet have the money to own a family or personal computer. In fact you're probably in a ten percent category or even less (I don’t quite remember the statistics). The church is too rich. It’s time to give up, and give in to God.
sorry so long