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torsdag 23. mars 2017

As The World Darkens: This Is What God Wants YOU To Know Right Now


WHAT DOES THE WORLD LOOK LIKE, WHEN WE’RE LOOKING WITH OUR SPIRITUAL EYES?

A world aligning with the words of The Bible, given to us for thousands of years ago, about the end times, so that we should not be afraid when it happens?


God is in control, even when it does not look like it. He will make the enemy fight each other.

Remember: As we see evil arise around the world, God is also increasing His empowering of "His workers for the great harvest".



 


JUST NOW GOD IS SHOWING YOU JUST HOW AMAZING HE IS; THAT HE WANTS TO BE CLOSE TO YOU, AND WORK WITH YOU

God showed me this as I wrote a comment to >> a Fox news video about Newt Gingrich on Nunes' surveillance revelations, and I started to write about how God is in control even when it doesn’t look like it, as shown in the start of this article.

I was just writing down the words that came to me:"..His workers for the great harvest", and God has learned me to take things like this serious.
“The great harvest” is a well known concept in the Bible and among Christians.
It is talking about a great number of people who in the last days, before God is putting an end to all evil, will learn to know God, and be saved from the wickedness of the world, together with all who believe Jesus Christ is Lord and King, and want to be with Him.

 

HOW OFTEN DO YOU SEE GOOGLE SEARCH RETURN WITH ONE- 1- RESULT?
Well, that happened now.. 
Rock City Ministries, an evangelical church south of Seattle

I did the search because I know that not everyone knows what "The great harvest" is. When you are aligned with Gods Heart, He may "speak" to you in the weirdest ways. When that becomes the regular, you are either a psychiatric patient, or you have tapped into something that makes life very interesting.;)

(Yes, Christians talk to someone they can't see, hear things no one else hears, and get messages in their dreams. ;) )

So when this search return with only one result, I chose to see if they have some good words about "the great harvest".
The search result is from a Christian children's group, and that fits great, because:

There is one thing that is important, Jesus tells us, when we shall learn to know The Lord and His Kingdom: 
We must be like children, Matthew 8:3:

"Verily I say unto you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."

 


This is not a treat, it’s a statement. He wants us to pursue Him, as He pursue us.
There is no room for God within the tiny human mindset. 

We must trust Him to take care of us, not only in the physical world, but also with our hearts and souls. 
The words of this Christian children's group, shows how this look like.
Here is devotion, commitment, trust and brave hearts. 

The web site has Bible verses that support their words, taken from all of The Bible, and not just from the New Testament, like many of today’s churches.

 

THESE WORDS ARE JUST WHAT YOU AND THE WORLD NEEDS:
  • "We believe that our kids are the church of today, and not merely the the church of the future.
  • We see a young generation that doesn’t “do” religion but knows relationship (Ephesians 3:17-18).
  • Children 100% sold out for God, CONVINCED that what He says is true (John 14:6).
  • Our hearts long to see a generation convinced that they can do all things through Christ, taking God’s word at his truest and simplest form (Philipians 4:13).
  • We see passionate worshipers (Exodus 34:14), prayer warriors (Luke 18:1) and people of grace and devotion at a young age (Titus 2:11-13).
  • Our hearts long to see a young generation, truly surrendering all they are, for the cause of the cross (Galatians 2:20).
  • A young generation unashamedly sharing the truth of Jesus (Romans 1:16)."

WHAT WE SEE:
  • "Teachers whose hearts are dissatisfied with mediocre Christianity (Revelation 2:4).
  • Who are ready to equip and encourage the children to know the reality of God, and to fall in love with him for themselves (Luke 10:27).
  • Teachers who are truly chasing after God’s own heart and letting him pour into them as they pour into kids (1 Kings 8:10-11).
  • We believe God has anointed and brought up leaders who have a radical passion for this coming generation (Jeremiah 1:5).
  • God has chosen and is preparing His workers for the great harvest (John 4:35).
  • We see Yakima Evangelical Church bringing up Radically Obedient Christian Kids who are uncontrollably in love with God (Romans 2:13)."

From Rock City Ministries, south of Seattle, near a big Indian Reservation.



WHAT TO DO WITH THE WORD

Take the words with you in your heart.
Read the scriptures mentioned.
Know that He wants to know just YOU, that He needs YOU in the spiritual fight against the evil of this world.
Your faith and your prayers occupy the atmosphere around you, and even if we don’t understand it fully, this is very important.
God has chosen, as we can see through out the whole Bible, to work together with us. 



Speak to Him, and listen to what He tells you.
He never stops.
Our spiritual ears gets weary, but He never stop speaking to us, as long as we have a sincere heart, and give Him our time.
That is the greatest sacrifice you can give Him today.
He will show you "greater things", John.14:12:



"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." 

This goes hand in hand with 2.Chron.7:14:

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 


As a joyful answer to the question:”What do intercessory missionaries do?”, Stuart Greaves says with a smile:
 
“What we do is this — we sit in blue chairs, don’t eat, talk to an invisible person, hear voices and we expect Him to split the skies and rule the earth. Don’t they medicate people who talk like this?”

No, to be a Christian is NOT boring.

To start a relationship with God, is the most exciting relationship you will ever experience. Ever.




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torsdag 7. januar 2016

Millions of Muslims are leaving Islam as they watch the extremism of Iranian & ISIS leaders



The famous writer and speaker Joel C. Rosenberg is presenting his friend in Iran, Dr. Hormoz Shariat, a man he calls the “Billy Graham of Iran” because he is preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to millions upon millions of Iranians through his 24/7 Farsi satellite television network
 
 Shariat is a former Muslim who came to faith in Christ himself in the early 1980s. Today, Dr. Shariat is one of the the most prominent Iranian Christian pastors and evangelists in the world.

Here he shares his important insights in what is going on in the muslim world today - and it is huge. 






AN ANALYSIS OF TREND-LINES IN THE MUSLIM WORLD


By Dr. Hormoz Shariat.

1. A growing number of Muslims are coming to faith in Jesus Christ because of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and ISIS.

The extreme actions and rhetoric of Iran’s government and the ISIS leaders have caused many Muslims in the Middle East to start thinking, asking questions, wondering if Islam could really be true.

This is a major spiritual breakthrough. For a person raised in the West where approaching any issue logically and objectively is the norm, this fact may not be appreciated. “Question Everything” is a cultural virtue in the West. But Muslims living in the Islamic world are not allowed to question their faith at all. Those who do are considered weak in their faith, and sometimes are punished by lashes.

Muslims are oppressed by a spirit of fear. They are afraid to read the Qur’an objectively, or even ask sincere questions about it. Islam is based on total obedience to Allah, without asking any questions.

I have had fascinating conversations over the years with Muslim scientists with PhD’s. We have discussed everything objectively and logically until the subject turned to Islam. I could see a spirit of confusion and fear would overtake them. They could no longer discuss things based on reason. They had stopped thinking.

What has caused Muslims to start questioning their faith? For Shiites, it has been the action of the IRI. For Sunnis, it is what ISIS is doing. I see similarities between the spiritual journey of Iranians for the last 35 years (leaving under the fear and oppression of Khomeini and Khamenei regimes) and a growing number of Sunnis in the last two years, since ISIS became powerful.


Here are the steps of how their thinking changes during their spiritual journey away from Islam and towards Christ:



First, they start thinking the Islamic leaders in the region are not really “True Muslims” 
 – This is often the first reaction of Muslims to the Iranian Government and ISIS. Muslims look at what IRI and ISIS do and say: “Islam is good and perfect; it is these extreme leaders that are the problem. They are giving Islam a bad name. What they do is not true Islam.”


Next, they start wondering, “What is True Islam?” 
 — Both the Iranian regime leaders and ISIS leaders claim that what they do is based on Qur’an, and examples from the life of Prophet Mohammad. They certainly claim to be true Muslims. They challenge all Muslims by saying “What is it that we do that is outside Islam?” This challenge causes Muslims to take another look at the origin of their faith—that is, the Qur’an and the life of their Prophet Muhammad—in order to disprove IRI/ISIS actions and prove that Islam is true and good.


Then the suddenly realize, “Oh my God! The leaders of Iran and ISIS ARE true Muslims!” 
– A growing number of Muslims who take up the challenge of disproving the actions of the leaders of Iran and ISIS come to a shocking conclusion: that what those leaders are doing actually IS true Islam. They realize that Iran’s and ISIS’s leaders are not fanatic Muslims, but deeply committed and faithful Muslims.


At this point, they begin to realize that there is something fundamentally wrong with Islam itself 
– This is the start of their rejection of Islam and becoming open to other ways of thinking and faiths, including Christianity.
So this is encouraging — millions of Muslims have started to ask questions about their faith. Ironically, currently in the U.S., one is not allowed to ask hard questions about Islamic faith. As a result of political correctness and an apparent government policy of appeasing Islam, many refuse to logically and objectively discuss what Muslims believe or even discuss Quranic verses. Most media personalities dare to even quote verses from the Qur’an.




2. Iran is fast becoming the first Islamic nation that is abandoning Islam and becoming a Christian nation.

Iran will be a Christian nation according to God’s promise for Elam (today’s Iran) in Jeremiah 49:38. This is happening even today before our eyes. It is no longer by faith that I say “Iran will be a Christian nation,” but it is by sight.

Islam is experiencing its greatest defeat in its history in Iran today. Islam is on the offense and is advancing everywhere in the world—except Iran. Iran is the only country in the world where Islam is on the defense and Christianity is on the offense.

Also, Iran will be the first country that fulfills Romans 11:11 in bringing the Jews to jealousy. When the Jews see that citizens of a nation who wanted to “wipe them off the map” increasingly becoming their friends and sincerely love, value, and have good will towards them because so many Iranians have received Jesus as the Messiah and Savior and been transformed by faith in Him, they will wake up to the fact that Jesus truly changes individual lives and even nations.

As the government of Iran continues to threaten Israel with annihilation, the people of Iran are gradually getting rid of their hatred for the Jews. Iranian Muslims who come to Christ and renounce Islam and start reading their Bibles become free from that hatred. They start getting the heart and mind of God for the Jewish people.

Amazingly, a growing number of Muslims are also losing that hatred, or at least the issue of Israel and Jews is becoming a non-issue for them. I see it all the time, and I believe the reason is that there is such a disconnect and distrust between the people of Iran and their government. When the government sponsors rally’s chanting “Death to Israel,” the people of Iran increasingly think, “If our government tell us that we should hate the Jews, it is a good reason that we should not.”

 

3. Signs, wonders, visions, dreams, and miracles are slowing down in Iran.

The younger generation in Iran (those under 30 years old) are increasingly experiencing fewer supernatural events—even though a growing number of them are coming to faith in Christ. I believe this is because they do not need miracles in order to come to Christ.

The Lord is so gracious. The older generation in Iran needs such miraculous signs because they are more oppressed by the spirit of Islam. They are, initially, very afraid to make a final decision to follow Christ, even when they are totally convinced of the truth of the Gospel. They are captives to the spirit of Islam, which is the spirit of fear. Therefore, the Lord graciously gives them supernatural experiences (visions, dreams, and miracles) to help them make that final decision.

The younger generation, however, do not need such signs and wonders. Most have been raised in a family where Islam was rejected and even ridiculed, or at least it was a non-issue. The majority of youth in Iran are coming to Christ after hearing the Gospel preached and the Word of God taught to them because, as they frequently put it, “I need salvation.” Their faith is deep even without these supernatural experiences.

Coming from a life of desperation and hopelessness, they greatly value the salvation and life-changing forgiveness offered by Jesus Christ. I am so thrilled and inspired when I talk to the young believers in Iran. They are fearless. They are neither afraid of Allah nor the Iranian government. Many say, “So what if they kill me, I was dead anyway.”

One young convert recently told me, “I am not afraid of them (the Iranian regime). They are afraid of me and my Gospel message. It is out of their fear that they want to put me in jail.”

These young generation are ready to live for Jesus and if necessary to die for Him. I believe that as we — the older generation of Iranian followers of Christ – set the foundation of Iran to become a Christian nation, it is this emerging young leaders who will finish the job of transforming Iran into a Christian nation.





 You can read the rest on Joel Rosenberg's blog.