Are YOU Ready?

Greetings to you all, it's time that we all had a Spiritual Checkup. If we don't challenge ourselves to go to the next level we become spiritually stagnant and aloof.

In Ezekiel 22: 30-31 it says " I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one. Vs 31 "Thus I have poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; their way I have brought upon their heads," declares the LORD God. The wall spoken of here is not made of stone, but faithful people united in their efforts to resist evil. This wall was in disrepair because there was no one who could lead the people back to God.

I can't tell you how many times I've heard a brother in the faith tell me how busy he was. He talks about work and everything else that he puts before the LORD. Understand what I'm saying, we must not put anything before before the LORD. Our God is a jealous God, He demands complete devotion and nothing in between.

Don't be looked upon by God as He once looked at Israel, as worthless dross with nothing good in you.

God loves us so much that He will forgive and or rescue us right on time. Whether we sin once or many times, out of rebellion or out of ignorance, our sin separates us from God and will continue to separate us until God forgives us and removes it. The Word of God records time in our history when the LORD was fed up and He destroyed the earth.

The earth was no longer the perfect paradise that God had intended for man. It is shocking to see how quickly all of mankind forgot about God. How many times have you put God on a back burner in order to satisfy a certain lust. Incredibly, in all the world only one man and his family still worshiped God. This man was Noah, God saved him and his family from a vast flood that destroyed every other human being on earth. While in the wilderness Gods chosen people fashioned a golden calf and worshiped it. Yet again man totally dishonors God and brings Him to the brink. "Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen one stood in the breach before Him. To turn away His wrath from destroying them."

"Stood in the breach" means that Moses served as the people's intercessor. This refers to the time when the Lord wanted to destroy the people for worshiping the golden calf (Exodus 32:7-14). Can you be the one to stand in the gap for a loved one, or for your friend or even your Pastor? Can you pass the test, can you be counted as a righteous man to stand in the gap for mankind? Moses and Samuel where two of God's greatest prophets. Like Jeremiah, both interceded between God and the people (Exodus 32:11; Numbers 14:11-20; 1 Samuel 7:9;12:17; Psalm 99:6) Intercession is often effective. In this case, however, the people were so wicked and stubborn that God knew they would not turn to him.

In Ezekiel "O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes among ruins. "You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the Lord." (Ezekiel 13:4-5).

Let's not be like the people in Ezekiel 22, again the wall spoken of here is not made of stone, but of faithful people united in the efforts to resist evil.

This wall was in disrepair because there was no one who could lead the people back to God. What the people really needed was total spiritual reconstruction! Don't use religion as whitewash; repair your life by applying the principals of God's Word. God Loves you and so do I.


Have a great day in the Lord, see ya next wednesday...