This is the audio from a sermon interview that my good friend Michael Rowntree and I did “podcast style” in front of his church, Wellspring Church in North Richland Hills, Texas, this past Sunday.
I believe this is a critical time for our nation, and this word is critical in its timing and importance. As God’s people, we must rise up and let Him hear our cries. America has never faced an hour like this, and I believe everyone needs to hear this message.
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Darren, that was the clearest expression of these things written or spoken on this understanding I have heard from you. One of the hallmarks of the God’s prophetic word is that as the time draws closer. His insight and authority in it get clearer and clearer. If you don’t mind me saying that you may have to go through this recording and start snipping. One of the understandable traits of the pastoral is to “soften the blow” but now is not that time and the pastoral ministry needs to step aside at this time and allow the fullness of the things God is speaking to His church to come forth and have it’s way in and among us.
Paul, thank you for the encouragement, it means more than you could know.
I do believe we are in a very critical time for the church to respond to the Lord. It is going to be one of the most challenging times America has ever faced, but I believe it can be one of the greatest explosions of grace and supernatural authority the church has ever walked in as well.
I believe to walk in that fullness, we as believers must walk hand in hand in humility, submitting ourselves one to another. I am responsible to what the Lord spoke to me, and by His grace I will proclaim it boldly. My friend Michael will answer to the Lord for how he shepherded his church, so I honor his desire to shepherd them wisely.
I truly believe that in humility and love the lost around us will know that we are Christians.
I believe we need to be careful declaring that the Lord is judging any nation or people at this time by His own active intervention and power. His wrath and judgement cannot be poured out until the fullness of the time promised to mankind is fulfilled (6000 years promised in Genesis) and the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled (2000 years or the two prophetic days Jesus mentioned) after His death, which brings us to the translation of the Church and the Tribulation, which God Himself said would be His wrath poured out. Secondly, God’s relationship with mankind was entirely changed from Old Covenant times by Jesus redemptive resurrection. God did actively intervene under the Old Covenant (at the Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Noahic Flood, etc.) in order to protect man from himself, ie.: cut out the cancer of sin that, left uncontrolled, would destroy mankind and God’s benevolent purpose for creating mankind would be thwarted (Is. 57:16). God clearly stated that the imaginations of men’s hearts are only evil and then in the Revelation said that unless He shortened those days all life would be destroyed. What is occurring is that the US in particular and mankind in general has been moving further and further away from God and therefore also His blessing on obedience and surrender, and into the sway of satan and the kingdom of darkness. Satan is still constrained, again, by God’s principles as defined in the Jewish laws and times defined in those laws concerning God’s appointed times (the moed). People need to know the correct source of their blessing and cursing, and not be like some of the people Jesus spoke to that were blaming God concerning the tower in Siloam that fell as judgement for their being greater sinners. One of satan’s tactics is to get God’s own people blaming Him for the evil that occurs in the world as a result of mankind’s own rebellion and sin and satan’s destructive purposes (Jn10:10). Father God wants us to see Jesus and Himself as the source of our redemption and salvation and deliverance from the evil one (Col.1:13). Lets not be afraid to give satan his proper evil repute even though it may go contrary to the tradition of men to blame God for everything (Calvinistic doctrine). Lets identify the true enemy and then run back to the One who created us and loved us and redeemed us for Himself by His own blood.
Wier,
I agree with you that Satan deserves the blame for much of what’s going on (I believe that was clear from my second dream). And I definitely agree that we need to run back to the one who has redeemed us by His blood. I also agree that it is foolish to wily-nilly proclaim God’s judgment on things because of sinfulness. We’ve all seen that done ad nauseam. If God is judging something, I don’t want man’s opinion about it, I want to know that God has clearly spoken it.
I do not speak my own opinions about this, I speak what the Lord spoke directly to me. Whether you choose to believe that is your own business, but I will one day give an account for what God gave to me, and I want to represent it faithfully regardless of how unpopular it may be at times.
With that said, the same Old Testament God who judged nations for wickedness still judges nations for wickedness. He will ultimately, in the final days, judge the wickedness of mankind with the fullness of His wrath, but that doesn’t preclude Him from releasing judgment beforehand. His reasons today for judgment are to bring people back to Him, not solely to punish.
I appreciate your comment and I think that our only way forward is to turn our eyes and hearts wholeheartedly to Jesus, but my message is one of heart preparedness, not hopelessness. We need saints who are prepared to weather the coming storm so that the lost around us will see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven. If you are commenting on this article without listening to the audio, I encourage you to take a listen and hear what the Lord spoke to me.