Archive for November, 2011

We’re on the Verge of Something BIG!

November 25, 2011

There is so much happening in the Spirit right now.  God has been speaking to me about so many things that I need to get out – need to tell everyone – need to warn people about.  Even the Thanksgiving holiday has given me no reprieve on sounding the alarm!  The time is short folks!  We are on the verge of something really BIG!  I feel it in my spirit and I know it because I know His voice!

Others know His voice too.  When Rick Joyner came last week, he said he was almost “desperate” to get back here to Morningside and tell our listening audience “AMEN – it’s time to store food and water!”  Neither of us know precisely what is coming, but we know it is BIG!  We are pleading with people to get ready! 

We talked a lot about this nation and how it has turned away from God.  The scriptures are clear:  When a nation honors God, they will be blessed (Psalm 33:12).  When they turn against God, the scriptures say they will perish! (Deuteronomy 8:19,  Jeremiah 7:6, 25:6)

Rick had a lot to say about the condition of the nation and the church.  Here are just a few of the outstanding statements he urged our listening audience to pay attention to:

“Now there is going to be a time of trouble. There’s going to be a time of bartering in America. There’s going to be tremendous upheaval. We can come out of the other side better than ever.”

“Our future can be much brighter than our past. I’m talking about America.”

“The net worth of America is not measured in dollars. It’s the industry. It’s the initiative. It’s the people. It’s the freedoms that release these things.”

“I’m confident that if we will humble ourselves, if we follow 2 Chronicles 7:14, the Lord will not only get us out of this, it will be a reset. It will be like a Jubilee.”

“When a nation keeps taking stands against God and against Israel – it’s dangerous!  We don’t honor God as a holy God.”

“Our nation is in increasing jeopardy because of the way we treat Israel – and the way we treat the Lord is even worse!  Until 50 years ago, we wanted Jesus more than any nation on earth and since then, we’ve been asking Him to leave – we’ve demanded Him to leave!”

“We don’t even want the mention of Him in our history or in our public places… and He’s left!”

The ensuing meltdown is continuing and Rick believes we are in the worst jeopardy of our nation’s history!  This meltdown is the direct result of us turning from solid Biblical foundations, solid Biblical principles that He gave us as a nation!

The only answer is to get back to them.  You can go back and see it has been the departure from those founding principles that has led us to all of the crises we are now in.

 “Outside, people are saying now it’s July when everything starts unraveling really fast.”

“Some of our senators and congressmen said — they didn’t say it publically — but they said, “We’re now hoping to make it to January.”

“Our real debt right now is not just 15 trillion or 14 trillion. Add the entitlements on there… It goes way past 65 trillion.”

“The economic principles that are being used are counter-productive. They’re not just not working — they’re counter-productive. They’re unraveling things.”

“In the natural we passed a point of no return. In the natural there’s nothing we can do now and this is why they’re not addressing certain things. They said nobody has the answers and that’s why they’re not talking about it. So let’s go on, business as usual.”

“2 Chronicles 7:14 says: “If MY people.”  We need to understand that it’s us, not the heathen that needs to humble ourselves, pray, seek His face, and turn from our wicked ways so that He can come and heal our land.”

“We ARE a Christian nation:  83% of Americans claim to be Christians.  Nearly 65% claim to be born again!  Though 65% claim to be born again, only 6% have a Biblical world view.  We have been making converts and not disciples.  We would not have drifted so far from our Biblical foundations had we understood what was in the scriptures.”

If you know Rick the way I know him, he doesn’t alter his message or adjust it for anyone or anything.  He says what he means and means what he says.  I respect him for that and I know him to be a solid man of God with a prophetic voice you can count on.  He hears from God.

I can’t say this urgently enough:  It’s time for understanding of the Times and Seasons.  It’s time to be like the Sons of Issachar who knew the Times and the Seasons and had wisdom about how to prepare for them. There’s something coming – it’s BIG.  Get yourself and your family prepared.  Have something extra to give to others so that you can show them the love of God during hard times.  Do it NOW!

“If just the evangelical church would say, “Let’s get ready to take care of ourselves and just 10 percent more…” We could take care of 50 percent of the people in America.”

                                                                                                                               Love,

                                                                                                                                Jim

Woe is Me – Conclusion

November 21, 2011
It really saddens me when I think of the way much of the church is handling the Book of Revelation.  Though in verse 3 of the first chapter of the Revelation we are promised a blessing if we read and keep (to watch over, to guard) those things within it, there seems to be a reluctance to preach it even though we are right now experiencing it!

The denial of what is going on in our nation and our world as Revelation Day Events is unprecedented, and this denial will cause people to be unprepared.  We should be shouting from the rooftops and pleading with and warning people that this current age is coming to a close.  But before it does, there will be hard times in this natural world – followed by the supernatural return of Jesus Christ to earth!

The return of Jesus to earth is a blessed event that everyone who is born again looks forward to with joy and great anticipation.  But, while we love the idea of seeing Jesus come, we want none of the discomfort or pain that precedes His return.  In the Bible, it says the days preceding His coming are like birth pains that increase in frequency and intensity.  These pains are going to come and they’re going to hurt, whether we deny them or not.

Anyone who has a measure of God in them, must be grieved by what they see in the behaviors of the societies of  our world.  Man has managed to either corrupt or destroy altogether, the plan of God for His creation.  We are certainly not a God-honoring society at large, and the Church doesn’t get a pass either.  Revelation 3:1 comes to mind:  “Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked…”

But none of this takes God by surprise.  He knew what would happen and He provided a Way out and that Way is Jesus.  Jesus came to earth the first time to suffer for the sins of mankind and to redeem them.  When He comes again, it will be with great Glory and Power to establish the kingdom of God on earth as we read in Revelation 1:15: “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!”  When that happens, there will be no more sorrow or grieving for the sins of the world, but there will be great rejoicing that Jesus reigns!

God gave us the Revelation to tell us about the time just before Jesus comes a second time.  He told us so that we could get readyHe told us so that all these things would not take us by surprise.

It reminds me of the parable of the ten virgins.  They ALL knew He was coming, but only 5 were wise and ready when He came.  They were the ones who were prepared.  They were ready.  They were not in love with the world – they were in love with the Savior of the world.

Revelation Chapter  8 tells us what will happen to those who are not ready when He comes:

“And I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!” Revelation 8:13 NKJV

Even so, come Lord Jesus!

Woe is Me – Introduction
Woe is Me – Part 1
Woe is Me – Part 2
Woe is Me – Part 3
Woe is Me – Part 4
Woe is Me – Part 5
Woe is Me – Part 6

Woe is Me – Part 7
Woe is Me – Part 8

Woe is Me (Pt. 8)

November 6, 2011

I have hundreds, if not thousands, of sermons in my files that I have accumulated over the course of my life.  Just last July, we celebrated my 50th year in ministry.  Over the course of 50 years, those sermons in my files represent countless hours of study and prayer and what is called “labor” in the Word.

I can say without hesitation, that I did get some of my sermons from others or copy them. We all did back then.  That’s how the prosperity message grew and spread.  In these last years I have gotten them by getting alone with God, study and prayer.

Before things came apart at Heritage USA and I subsequently spent 5 years in prison, my sermons comprised an array of topics as they should have.  However, some of those sermons needed adjustment and correction after I studied what Jesus really had to say about money, and I’ve talked about that extensively in my book “Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse.”

First, God made a major adjustment in the way I viewed prosperity.  Then, He taught me that His priority for my preaching was really the Revelation, because these are the Times of Revelation.  He infused me with compassion for lost and hurting people as well.

These Revelation lessons didn’t come from my pre-prison days or when I was on top of the mountain.  They came from those long days alone in a prison cell, the valley days when I studied the Words of Jesus from a different viewpoint.  When you’re up on the mountain, things will look much different than when you’re in the valley.

I can imagine the course of the Apostle John’s life and I’m sure that he dealt with many spiritual subjects, until God arranged the circumstances of his life so that He could get John alone and reveal the Revelation to him.

That’s what God did for me.  He arranged the circumstances of my life so that I would focus on those things He wanted preached.  An old high school friend wrote to me when I was in prison and she said, “Reading from the depths of your heart, I believe God is preparing you so when you are released, you will have a new ministry for which you will be especially prepared.  And upon your release, you will have a certainty of how God wants you to use your talents for Him.”  She was so very prophetic in her words.

Today, when I preach the Revelation, many people say “Oh Jim, why do you try to scare people?  Why don’t you lighten up?  Sure, things are bad and we can see the escalation of many things talked about in the Bible, but why do you have to remind us ALL THE TIME?

Here is the short answer to all my naysayers:

1 Cor 9:16-17

16 Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! NIV

That means also Revelation… the Now book! Some do not like tribulation talk, but it’s not the bad news!  Jesus is coming soon, to take us to our heavenly home.  It’s the most exciting time in the history of the world!  We should be watching, waiting and preparing for His return!

Revelation 1:1-3

1 The Revelation (Take the cover off, uncovering, unveiling, disclosure!) of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; (Shortly – Greek – Fixed, brief place in time – When happens will happen quickly or one right after another!) and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is(is not in Original text) at hand. KJV

God arrested my life and put me in a place where He could show me His priorities for the Last Days.  That includes the preaching of the Revelation, which is Good News to those who are looking for His return.

Woe to me, if I did not heed His leading.

Woe is Me – Introduction
Woe is Me – Part 1
Woe is Me – Part 2
Woe is Me – Part 3
Woe is Me – Part 4
Woe is Me – Part 5
Woe is Me – Part 6

Woe is Me – Part 7
Woe is Me – Conclusion