If there was ever a time that we need the move of God in America, and for that matter the world, it is now. I know that the Lord has already moved, in that Jesus completed his work here on earth in the body of his life, when he said “It is Finished!” Yet as believers, there are waves of power in the dispensations of God, and we must keep ourselves ready to receive from the Father in those outpourings. The Walsh Revival, Tennessee Revival, and Azusa Street Revival were moves of the great power of God. So too, in this last moment of time we are living in, we should expect that the Holy Spirit would again be poured out in a special measure to offset the darkness that is coming on the earth.
If we read Isaiah 59:1 we hear Isaiah say, “Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:” We know that God is able to deliver his people and we see that it is not the fact that he can’t hear our cry for deliverance. However, Isaiah goes on to say to the people, “But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.” America started out in its infant stage as a nation that was following the godly precepts of the Bible. As time has eroded this solid foundation, our nation has become steadily more and more sinful. When Jesus saw that there was no one to stand in the gap to save his human race, he came with a vengeance and with zeal. “And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak. (v16-17) If we are to be like Jesus, the next few verses goes on to tell us that we must separate ourselves like an island, fear God, and clothe ourselves just as he did, with zeal and vengeance. (v18-19), then the Lord will raise up a standard against all the evil that is coming against his people.
Most of you who are reading this have already received the two CD’s that our ministry put our concerning what we can expect to see happening in the world in 2012. If you have not, go to our website and request “A Word For 2012.” In those messages I share the hard things that are determined in the earth, but which are conditional on what the believers do. The Lord is calling his sons and daughters to cry out in this last day, and open their hearts to the Holy Spirit, who is about to do a mighty work. In Isaiah 60 the Lord continues on to tell us, “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.”
Arise shine means to “Get Up with Purpose.” As we get up every day with the purpose of being filled with zeal, and having a readiness to do vengeance to the devil, then the glory of the Lord will be seen upon us because he already has risen upon us. What we totally see here is a picture of Jesus and his power, the true pure church in her power and the end time revival that God expects us to have.
Darkness will cover and is covering the earth now, and gross darkness the people. When you read it in the Hebrew, it says that massive depression and terror and fear will be upon the people. BUT, the Spirit of the Lord will rise upon us and his glory shall be seen upon us, and the sinners of this world and even the world leaders will come to the bright glory of God in us, when we ARISE… Get up with Purpose.
I want to encourage you to be so in the face of the Father, that his glory will be seen on you. Clean your life up, walk before the Lord holy, and get so intense with the Father that you cannot be denied his presence.
Our lives, in this time we are in, depend on the power of an intense intimacy with our heavenly Father.
My prayers are toward God for you, as you follow Christ.
Christ’s Servant, Jimmy Alexander
Amen!