Return to God’s Word!
““Behold, the days are coming,” says The LORD God, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of The LORD. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of The LORD, but shall not find it.” Amos 8:11-12.
These days are here — NOW!
The Church is lost — wandering around from doctrine to doctrine; listening to every false voice, every new whim, wondering where the truth lies.
Even challenging the prophets — “What’s going on? What’s God doing? What does He say about this or that?”
It’s that time Paul wrote to Timothy about in 2 Timothy 4,
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4.
The Church has forgotten that the Word of God does not lie, it doesn’t change its mind.
The Church has so set its course on man’s opinions, that it has lost focus upon Gods opinion.
All theology is based upon three words from Satan — “Did God say….?”
Every denomination is based upon man’s own interpretation of God’s Word — that’s why God hates denominationalism!
This is why there’s such a shaking coming to the Church and to the world!
Does God get fed up? Yes! He’s fed up watching us wander around, lost and floundering, looking for the next fad to follow, the next ‘Politically Correct’ movement, the next ‘Doctrine of Little Hope’ and even less glory!
As Leonard Ravenhill once said,
Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.”
This is a call to return to God’s Word, to ask and allow The Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth — however unpalatable it may be to us — to bring Spirit and Word together to a Church desperately searching for that which it already has — if only they’d believe it!
~ Chris G. Bennett
Chris Bennett came to salvation in 1962 but didn’t begin ministry until 2007 — a late-comer! Now mandated by The LORD to prophesy and open old wells of revival in the U.K., but especially in Wales. He has also operated Healing Rooms, and worked with deliverance teams, all with his wife, Linda. Happily now doing whatever The LORD asks of them! Founder, with wife Linda, of their ministry The Upper Room Encounter.
One of the best articles my brother I have yet to read. A most powerful Word of divine warning. God bless you.
I loved:”Every denomination is based upon man’s own interpretation of God’s Word — that’s why God hates denominationalism!
This is why there’s such a shaking coming to the Church and to the world!”
Let us arose and truly be the Church!
All glory to God, Joyce.
What a blessed encouragement
All glory to God, Joyce.
What a blessed encouragement
But surely going back to the Word will be pointless if you continue to read into it what you have been taught it means? Surely you have to somehow first entertain the notion that what you think you know is actually wrong?
I often wonder if children and young adults will lead revival simply because they don’t have this baggage to unlearn.
I asked someone to show me where to find scriptures for the evangelical beliefs about modern day Jews and Israel, because I could not find it in scripture myself. Having been given the verses, this still does not make sense to me. To me, it appears that an awful lot has been hung off a few verses and that it does not fit scripture as a whole.
I asked you about the second coming. You just dismissed the question telling me that the view that Jesus returned to the mount of olives at the sacking of Jerusalem does not stand up to critical thinking. So I went and looked up the counter arguments and found that they don’t stand up to critical thinking. So now I don’t know what to think. But I am baffled as to why Josephus is thought to be accurate, but not in this.
I am just trying to find out what the truth is. What scripture really means – by approaching it with an open mind.
Having said all this, I am finding “The Unseen Realm” by Michael Heiser very helpful in understanding scripture. This book examines the meanings of the original words. It is about the world view of the ancient Israelites.
Sometimes I am finding it difficult to get my head around it because it conflicts with my world view – and with what I thought I knew.
Amen so true