| Rick Joyner is a prophet for our times. A Christian prophet and he writes books, if you want to buy his books, that could be good. He has a lot of visions and such. He prophecies that the church is getting ready to cross the Jordan like the Israelites before they went in and took the Promised Land. So, during this time we're preparing and here's something he said:
"Because of where the church is about to go, and what we are about to do, for the next few years the church will become very familiar with the word 'discipline,' and we will begin to experience it on a whole new level. Because the Lord's army is a volunteer army, many will not endure it. This will be the time when the Lord said, 'And because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold.' (Matthew 24:12). The lawlessness in their hearts will not enable them to endure the discipline that will be required of those who possess the kingdom."
I'm not sure what you all think about prophets and such, but it's something you need to test each guy out to make sure he's not a false prophet, and if I thought this guy was, I would't quote him.
Rick Joyner says, "It is probably true that even today there are more Christians who have become disconnected to the body of Christ than are vital members of the church, which is not real if we are not truely connected to a local body of believers. We cannot be rightly connected to the Head without also being rightly connected to His body. I have heard all kinds of excuses and new doctrines about how the church is to include their fellowship at Starbucks as being a church, and though any such gathering can be and should be a gathering of the church, those who are substituting such relationships for true church life will tragically find out very soon how flawed this reasoning is.
Paul warned in 1 Corinthians 11:30, 'For this reason (not discerning the body rightly) many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.' When I inquired of the Lord a few months ago about how real the threat from the Avian flu is, I was given a dream in which I saw a wave of death that stretched as far as I could see and was almost upon us. The only safe place from this was in the house of the Lord that was the closest to me. I woke up thinking about the verse above, and though I have always believed it crucial to have a true local church relationship fro true spiritual maturity, since I had that dream I felt a whole new burden to sound the alarm for Christians who have drifted from the church to return, not superficially, but with a genuine commitment of heart."
That's all I have to copy of his for now. Go in peach or peace and try not to catch bird flu. |
