Back to the Basics
Friends,
I have been preaching about standing. Several years ago, I was in a near air tragedy—I was in a commuter flight between two large Northern cities. As we were going in for a landing, wind shear caught the plane like a giant hand and threw it. It was a rapid descent until the plane was out of the grip of the wind. Behind me were sitting two stewardesses “patching through” to another flight. One screamed hysterically; the other shouted, “Oh, God, this is it!” I turned around and looked at both of them and said, “Thank you so much for instilling confidence in me! Would you please remember your training?”
I get so many calls and letters, folks standing in prayer lines these days: the following lines would be the gyst of all I am hearing and know is true, “ I am a Christian who loves Jesus with all my heart. I tithe. I give offerings. I pray. I have never made a decision without seeking God, getting counsel, praying and fasting. My whole life is falling apart. My marriage is suffering. My children are not walking with God. I don’t know what’s wrong. I don’t know what to do. I am desperate for answers.” My word for you and me, is to instill confidence in other believers, and to remember our training.
This nation is under judgment. Everything is being shaken. Our present economic circumstances are the result of several decades of break neck debt and political chicanery in our nation. To everything there is a season. See what is shaking in your life and stand on the Word of God. Jesus never fails—these are not trite words. He is our only provision, sanity, and foundation. He cannot be shaken.
I have told folks for years, if the ship is sinking, grab what you know will float. Our parents and grandparents saw much harder times than these. The old folks told me stories of the Civil War, of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic. They told me how they lived through The Great Depression, WWII. I watched those before me live through humanly impossible hardships and personal struggles. They drew close to family, faith in God, to good friends. They worked hard and did what they had to do. They did not give up.
I believe there is a great anointing of Hope, Faith, and Godly Resilience for His children in this hour. However, this will not be imparted to us and in us without seeking Him and seeking Him as never before. We are going back to the Bible, and to Jesus for a foundation check and a new anointing. God wants us to get back to basics, and decomplicate our lives in this ever more complicated and hostile world. We must seek from our own works and center on His. It is time to rest.
I have particularly been praying for the safety of shopping centers, malls, public gatherings, sports events, churches, schools, and college campuses over the last few days. The insane spirit of hatred, murder, and mayhem is stirred up. It is so plain that Satan hates this nation and that we have opened breeches in our spiritual defenses with our national obsession with thumbing our noses in God’s Face!
Many mature believers and ministers are experiencing deep depression, and even feeling suicidal thoughts. I believe this is the oppression that hangs over this nation. I am encouraging believers to take communion at home regularly; many are doing this daily. I believe for Christians today in America, communion is as significant as the first communion of Passover when the Israelites were about to leave Egypt during the great judgments.
Get ready to see the Lord as never before. We will see the days of heaven on earth in the Harvest of the Ages. We will not be able to discern between the voice of weeping and worship. It will be the best of days and the worst of days. The Kingdom of God will soon be readily discernable. Don’t mean to sound “preachy”, but someone reading this is being healed of osteoporosis. Thanks for praying for the safety of these public places during the Christmas shopping season and beyond—pray for the Super Bowl as well. We are targets in our free and open society.
Vaughn Clark
Psalm 94
Good word, Vaughn.
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