Hi, my name is David. Most anyone who reads this blog already is aware of that. But I want to make people aware of one simple fact. I'm not a very important person. I don't have a big title, I'm not head of any major company or ministry. I'm just me. I started to say that I'm just normal, but that's not at all true. I'm not normal by any means. I just work at Taco Bell, and I'm not even really important there. I just work in the drive thru. This might really bother some people, but I'm actually content with my life. It's not that I'm not motivated, I'm just not motivated by earthly things. I'm the only Christian at work. I'm the only light they see. If not me, who else? Not only am I really not an important person with a big title nor do very many people know who I am, I plan on keeping it that way. I have no intentions of becoming more "important". I have no plans to further my own name or influence in this world at all. I just plan to cultivate my relationship with my God, find how who I am, and continue living on.
In this blog tonight, I plan on sharing some important words that I feel like God gave me, I'm just me, but I am a friend of God. He speaks to those that walk with Him, but the thing is this. Every single one of you have the same access that I have. You can talk and hold conversation with Heaven. Because maybe you're like me. Maybe you're not important in this world by it's standards. But you are treasured in Heaven. You're a child of the Good Father. And you're important to Him. I'm saying all of that to say that anything I say or feel like God said to me, you can pray about it, ask Him about, and discuss it with Him. I'm not saying I'm 100% right, but I do believe that what I'm saying here is what I've heard or felt from God
This blog is going to have two major points. The first is my honest opinion of "doom and gloom" prophets and many of the prophecies that are out about the end of the nation and the end of the world. The second is a word I feel like I have about the times we live in and what I feel like might be coming.
So first, let me share how I feel about the "pro judgment" crowd. When I say "pro judgment" crowd, I mean people who saw Katrina hit New Orleans and were happy, and maybe even said "I saw this coming" People who saw that as an act of God. People who maybe saw 9/11 as punishment for our wicked ways. People who like to stand on street corners shouting out to random strangers "You're going to Hell" or maybe "God hates FAGS" or something like that. I think in general, those people are idiots. I think the exact term would be bastard. I don't mean that in a swearing way at all! I don't cuss, but I mean that in it's literal meaning as "illegitimate son" and I feel that I can say that with somewhat certainty because these people are acting like they have never met their Father. They bear their Fathers name, but they act nothing like Him. They have a Father who is love, yet they live in hate and criticism. These people misunderstand the heart of the loving Father that we have, and they actually hurt the Kingdom they are trying advance in some cases.
Fear is not a tool that we use to gain people into the Kingdom. We use love and peace. The Bible says in 2 Tim 1:7 that God has not given us a spirit of fear. So if we are trying to use a spirit of fear to gain control over people, where did we get it from? Fear does not motivate people to repentance. Romans 2:4 actually says that it's God's grace that is intended to being us to repentance.
Let's take a look at the the "Doom and Gloom" prophecies of the Bible.
We see the first one with Sodom and Gomorrah. Even here, we see the grace of God. Abraham kept pressing God, "what if there were this many?" and "what if there were that many" . And every time, God agreed that if there were that many righteous were in the city, it would be spared. All the way down to if there were two, the city would be spared. Now if you read it, it really seems like he could have kept going! It really seems like Abraham could have asked, "What if there is only one" And maybe Sodom and Gomorrah would have been saved? Who knows, and that is clearly just my speculation.
But we read in Exodus 32 that God was angry. He was furious with Israel and was going to destroy all of them. He did not say "If you pray, I will save them" or "If you repent" or "If you fast" He simply said He was going to wipe them out. He told Moses this. BUT Moses pleaded with God. Moses begged God. And the Bible actually says "The Lord changed His mind"!!!!!
This makes me ponder, what if all of the Old Testament prophets had done this? What of all the doom and gloom prophets were begging and pleading with God? God did not provoke Moses to plead, as far scripture tells. Moses did it on his own human accord, and God responded with grace. Who's to say that God would not have responded the same way to any Old Testament prophet? I do strongly believe that in a lot of the doom and gloom prophecies out today, there is a little bit of truth, if not more. But it's how we respond to the truth. Maybe God is going to allow evil things to happen to this country, it would indeed be surprising if He did not with the leaders we have put in place and the morals we uphold. But what should we, as the faithful, do about it? I say pray for one more hour. Pray for one more month. Keep praying. God's grace is beyond measure. And revival could break out. We could pray for revival that causes our leaders to repent and one that changes the heart of this nation. It's possible!!! God is alive and well and can move today!
Now onto what I feel. Last year I shared on Facebook and with many friends about a coming shift. I included that terrorism had a new face. It was going to start attacking movie theaters, elementary schools, and sporting arena's, and it was going to it us where it hurt. This was only a few day's before the shootings at the Batman movie, and it was a few months before the shooting at Sandy Hook and in the schools there. Obviously, that did happen. I'm not saying "I'm right, believe me" And I'm not saying that the fact that one single word happened to be right validates me in anyway. What I am going to point out is this. There have been no sporting arena attacks. But in the vision that included the other two attacks, I saw stadiums and coliseums covered in blood. I also feel that it was a live event, and a big one that many people were watching and that's what made it such a nice target. I believe that this is something we should pray against. The fact that the first two parts of that vision did come to past makes me feel strongly that I need to be praying for peace for our country, and over all the sports fields. I really feel like for this season we need to pray for two things. Grace, and readiness.
We need to be praying that the best will happen, but ready for the worst. At least that's how I feel on a personal level, and I would appreciate it if all of you who read this would pray about what God is telling you. As I said at the beginning, we all have the same Holy Spirit living inside of us and all can ask and converse with Him at any moment. He is ready and willing to talk with you. I have not shared anything with the goal of scaring you, nor with the goal of making my self more important in anyone's eyes. I wrote this post, as well as all the others I've posted, just to help expand our minds and to ask questions that aren't always easy.
I know many of my friends who will read this will not be happy because they are either doom and gloom or they are ultra grace and believe that anything happening is out of the question. I feel like both of those are extreme views, and I hold neither.I really hope that NOTHING happens, but I do feel that SOMETHING is going to happen. And I feel that we might be unprepared in some ways. But if I am to look honestly at our lack of preparation, I must look at God, who is able to prepare us! I do believe that in this moment we live in, God is preparing. He is preparing the hearts and minds for something. Something big. And I think it's revival. I think it's a big one. A never ending one. A great one. At least that's what I'm hoping for. But again, if I look at revival, I must say that the first verse to come to mind is in Exodus, The more the Egyptians persecuted the Hebrew's, the more they multiplied. I really believe that in this issue, it could easily be both "sides" or both opinions, are right in some ways.
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