Kehrli
... Today’s shallowness is not unlike those other periods of shallowness both in the Scripture and in the history of the Church. God, now as then, will not leave His name to be a joke upon the lips of the heathen. He will raise up a holy people who love Him enough to obey Him. God will build a Church which will bring honor to his name.
Years ago the Lord showed me that the shallow man-pleasing ministry that has been prominent in the visible Church was, in many cases, actually anointed by Him. He also told me that He was in the process of withdrawing that anointing from those Saul Church ministries. God revealed that He was looking through the small churches and the large churches.
He was looking at the flashy ministries and the apparently humble ministries. He was searching the pews and the classrooms. He was allowing each man to be tested so that his heart would be exposed. He was dealing with many individuals and trying them as a smelter of metals would try gold in the crucible. He heard the cries from the hearts of His people and TESTED the legitimacy of their words.
He was and STILL IS searching for men and women who are single-mindedly after His own heart. He is raising up prophets to challenge the false theologies and sins of His people and their leadership.
He will not stop until He has found a people after His own heart and He will appoint and anoint that people to love Him even more, live for Him without regard to their own well-being, and bear His life and His glory with the fear of the Lord and with the greatest concern for His Name.
He showed me that some in the Saul Church would be desperately convicted of their double-minded living and their people-pleasing ministries which so misrepresented Him, and that they would break away from these ministries.
He showed me that from some of the most self-advertising, gimmicky, cool, and hip rock-and-roll bands would come forth men who would become worship leaders in His great Church. Their music would still be loud and have the same beat in some cases, but not one note would be played to please the people.
Not one word would be spoken to attract attention to SELF. All would be done for God’s glory. He let me hear with my mind men who still played heavy-metal style music warning the people of the coming judgment of the lukewarm Church and the world.
There were no special effects, no attention-getting hair cuts or dress, no fleshly hand-clapping and remarks of how cool the music was; only a sense of AWE generated by the anointing of God through electric guitars and synthesizers that pounded out the message of a coming sentence of God’s judgment on an unrepentant Church and the who-the-hell-cares world.
The words of the singers were clear and easily understood. The crowds were learning the fear of the Lord. Some were weeping under the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Others walked out unable to stand in God’s presence.
No one thought of who was playing and the musicians and singers were glad because of this. God and only God was presented to the hearers and God and only God was being glorified. The music changed to soft music and even the style changed to fit what God was doing. No one was bound by style.
The style had become servant to the glory of God. Young people throughout the audience were on their faces seeking God’s forgiveness. Men and women stayed all night to pray to God and to praise Him from their hearts. The service, for it was not fit to call this ministry a concert, lasted until morning and many met the Real Jesus for the first time.
Many had been self-conscious attention-getting rockers from the Saul Church, but they had finally come to know the Real Jesus Christ through the awesome anointing of God.
They were becoming men and women with hearts like David’s heart. The admission was free but the people left understanding the cost. For the first time they realized the cost was their hearts and minds and souls. The cost was their own lives. But they were joyfully willing to wholly and completely give their lives to this awesome God of judgment and forgiveness; this magnificently Holy Hater of Sin and Lover of all who would come to Him on His terms only.
The David Church will be filled with many such men and women, musicians, preachers, ex-Christian television personalities, ex-stars, and ex-athletes; all manner of people whose identities are not defined by who they WERE but by whose they ARE. The David Church, like the Saul Church before it, is not a denomination or movement but really a shared attitude of the heart manifested both individually and corporately.
It is comprised of people who would gladly rather lose their physical life, possessions or earthly loved ones than lose His precious Holy Spirit. It is a people who sin and stumble into error but know that the way out is through an honest, excuse-free recognition of the fact that sin is sin and that sin is what caused the stumbling or the bondage.
They are willing to acknowledge every sin and turn repentantly away from each one, cutting off all avenues which would allow a return to that sin, regardless of what anyone else may think. They understand that complete forgiveness is in the Blood of Jesus Christ. The David Church trusts God like the Church of the Book of Acts. The David Church knows that it is not only unnecessary but evil to manipulate or bait people into following Jesus Christ. The David Church cares little for either success or failure.
This Church neither values The Big or the Little but only desires to do His will for His glory. The David Church covets the best gifts but only in obedience to Him, in His time, for the purpose of showing people the Real Jesus Christ and bringing glory to God.
The David Church is quick to defend God’s honor and trusts that when God is involved in an undertaking, He will take care of it without having His people resort to begging or bribing. The people in the David Church are uncompromising but merciful, persistent, and patient. Like David in the Old Testament, they are utterly and absolutely dependent upon God to save them from their sin, walk a holy life and minister in the power of the Holy Spirit.
The God of the David Church is a totally sovereign God who is in complete control of the destiny of His Church and this planet. This Church, like David, when judgment comes is quick to recognize their own responsibility and in no way blame the devil, men or God. They are quick to see the other side of judgment as they repent and ask for God’s forgiveness.
The David Church is utterly and absolutely dependent upon God. This Church trusts that it is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit working through God’s people that will defeat the enemy and establish the kingdom.
This Church understands that our part in this is to listen carefully and heed quickly, both from the Holy Scriptures and in our prayer life.
The David Church is God’s CHURCH for the last days!
http://www.cryfromthewall.com/chapter21AppointedandAnointedForGodHimself.html
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Kehrli Highlight
‘... they had finally come to know the Real Jesus Christ through the awesome anointing of God.
‘They were becoming men and women with hearts like David’s heart. The admission was free but the people left understanding the cost. For the first time they realized the cost was their hearts and minds and souls. The cost was their own lives. But they were joyfully willing to wholly and completely give their lives to this awesome God of judgment and forgiveness; this magnificently Holy Hater of Sin and Lover of all who would come to Him on His terms only.
‘The David Church will be filled with many such men and women, musicians, preachers, ex-Christian television personalities, ex-stars, and ex-athletes; all manner of people whose identities are not defined by who they WERE but by whose they ARE. The David Church, like the Saul Church before it, is not a denomination or movement but really a shared attitude of the heart manifested both individually and corporately.
‘It is comprised of people who would gladly rather lose their physical life, possessions or earthly loved ones than lose His precious Holy Spirit. It is a people who sin and stumble into error but know that the way out is through an honest, excuse-free recognition of the fact that sin is sin and that sin is what caused the stumbling or the bondage. ...
‘The David Church is God’s CHURCH for the last days!’
http://www.cryfromthewall.com/chapter21AppointedandAnointedForGodHimself.html