A Prophetic Word to the Church

A Prophetic Word to the Church

DEDICATION:  
It is the heartfelt prayer of all of the Toward The Mark Team that this blog will serve to—in a big way—encourage, preserve, and ensure the role of Godly integrity in the lives of all who read it.

Dr. Myles Munroe once made this very sobering statement: 

“Wouldn’t it be terrible to wake up one day and realize that you spent forty years pastoring a church when you should have been driving a bus for a living? Or how about waking up one day after driving a bus for forty years to realize that you should have been pastoring a church?”

Please, never accept a leadership position in God’s Church for the pay or the recognition. Accept it only because it is your divine calling! God always provides for the fulfillment of His vision for our lives! This is especially true for those who have been called by Him to love and to feed His sheep. Based on the present condition of not only the church, but also the massive amounts of people that are going unreached in this country, I am of the opinion that about 95% of those occupying leadership positions today should be doing something else with their lives. As harsh as that may sound, here is why I say it. America has within just the last 30 years made the tragic transition from being a Christian nation to becoming a religious and an extremely materialistic society. This situation can only turn around as the right people, folks who are operating inside of their gifts and callings, assume church leadership. But how are we to know the difference?

In 1990, totally grieved about the treatment that I had seen so many of God’s people having to endure at the hand of “professional religious leaders,” I began to earnestly fast and to pray for them all. While in prayer, I received a timely word from the Lord. Remember, this Word came to me back in 1990. This is what He said:

“Be encouraged; it won’t be long now. I am dismantling the Church as you have known it, and am raising up a new breed of leader. The pruning process that is occurring even now will yield a fresh, new, and abundant crop of men and women who love and seek Me with their whole hearts. Their affection will not be divided! They have both seen and endured the painful wrath and tormenting flames of religion’s harsh taskmasters, and through it all have emerged victorious. This will be that generation that will be called My Bride. They will walk in purity and will be without spot or wrinkle because I will remember their sins no more. Untainted any longer by sin and the terrible stench of religion, they will be a sweet-smelling savor to Me and all who receive them. I will take pleasure in all of their exploits and will bless all they put their hands to because I know them intimately and because they know Me intimately (Because I am in them and they are in Me). Just as I called forth Lazarus from the grave, I will soon call these forth from the factories, from the job sites, from the kitchens, from caves, home offices, and all four corners of the earth. I will call all of those who have endured deafening loneliness for My Name’s sake, and while I have had them hidden in caves, they have trusted in Me, rested in Me, and waited on Me without fail. These are the joy of My heart and will be easily recognized by all who see them. They will be girded about in the spirit with the towel of loving and selfless service to others!”

*Find this Word to the Church, along with more of what we find when we look between the lines, in our book, "THE CRISIS OF ERODING INTEGRITY."  More info and availability @ Toward The Mark's website.  In Christ Jesus, Keith & Brenda Shealy

"I am dismantling the Church as you have known it, and am raising up a new breed of leader." - Keith Shealy

"But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."  (John 4:23-24)

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A TTM MILITARY CALL TO PRAYER

They need God and us... like never before!

 "The spirit of lawlessness and outright hate for all things godly is subtly, methodically, and torturously eroding away everything our brave military has fought for and died to preserve!" Keith and Brenda

Christians are called by God to stand in the gap on the behalf of our armed forces men, women, and their families. Do not exclude yourself in this calling, thinking the task of helping this precious community of people is too large for any one person to tackle; The opposite is true. No matter how bad things seem, God Made us this promise, "If my people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”  (2 Chronicles 7:14)

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The dramatic rise in military suicides is being reported by the Associated Press, The New York Times magazine, and many others. In 2013, there were reportedly 479 suicides by active duty, Guard and Reserve personnel, and there is an average of 18 military veteran suicides per day. This is especially heartbreaking because these military men and women defend, or have defended our freedom on a daily basis, dealing with trauma at a level that most of us will never know. As easy as it is to listen to statistics like these, and simply view each person as a "number", it would be a terrible mistake. You see, each one of these individuals have families (both immediate and extended), friends, comrades in arms, and, in the case of Guard and Reserve members, they have coworkers back home.

Given all of this, it is surprising the responses we frequently receive whenever I mention the needs of our armed forces personnel and their families. It is my opinion that many in our churches tend to view them as second-class Americans, or as they are “out of sight, out of mind.”

If our troops and their families have ever needed us to better understand them and their many needs, it is now. The spiritual and psychological well-being of our military families is not something we can ignore any longer.

Folks, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is not only induced by experiences on a battle field. Funding to our military is continually being cut back, taking place from the top down, even as our precious men and women in uniform are being marched into the jaws of crippling depression and worse. The spirit of lawlessness and outright hate for all things godly, is subtly, methodically, and torturously eroding away everything that our brave military has always fought for and died to preserve. And it all began with those brave fighters who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to stave off the tyranny that rose up to abort God’s plan for this great Nation.

You see, our troops are being forcibly subjected to social experimentation. They are proving grounds for the rest of America - guinea pigs, if you will! The poison of secular humanism is being forced down their throats, and our young men and women are expected to relinquish their God-given rights in order to accommodate the minority of the morally bankrupt among us.

Our troops and their families are being held hostage by the “do as we say, not as we do” lawmakers in Washington, DC. They are requiring our military personnel to live their lives and perform their tasks at a level of excellence, without incident, that those lawmakers would not lift a finger to uphold in their own lives.

“And he [Jesus] said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchers. Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.” (Luke 11: 46-52)

Sadly, in record numbers our lawmakers and judges are using the law that our forefathers had designed to protect us, for their own evil gain. In short, they are using the law to obstruct justice!

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” (Proverbs 29:2)

Christians are called by God to stand in the gap on the behalf of our armed forces men, women and their families. Do not exclude yourself by thinking the task of helping these precious men, women and children is too large for any one person to tackle, because the opposite is true. No matter how bad things seem, God made us this promise:

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14)

Please pray for our military service members and their precious families; because they need God’s divine intervention now, more than ever before!

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~ Keith's "Between The Lines" Podcast channel, and

~ "Sharingwith you the Secrets God Whispers to me" monthly message on the website, and

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