Written Blog

Many are talking about their “Calling” is going to be fulfilled in the New Year, but who will answer the call to be holy?

To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:

1 Corinthians 1:2 (NIV)

Notice the verse say “those sanctified in Christ and called…”
Many will say I’m already holy because of Jesus on the cross, but here Paul is saying that sanctified is past tense, you are stilled called to be, being made Holy, by taking up your cross and the inward working of the Holy Spirit.

Many people want to find their life calling but fail to have a desire and understanding of a calling to be holy. The Idea of Holiness is to be set apart for a sacred use and no longer used as common everyday use. Just the Idea that God wants to use use is a starting point for us to be holy. God is calling us to be “holy” for His mission for our lives.

So to have a “calling” it must by definition start with holiness.

Is the Church to Drunk (not of sober mind) to pray? Is this why in the American Church we see on average that less than 10% and as low as 1% of a church will show for a prayer meeting. Most church members feel that corporate prayer meetings at churches are not a biblical imperative to participate in. In many regions of the earth outside of America people will walk for days for prayer meeting and church services. Why does the American Church have such a low value and dovation to prayer?

Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.
1 Pe 4:7 (NIV)

Why did Peter warn the church to be sober and alert as to not hinder prayer? Dunk and unawareness from what?

2 With a mighty voice he shouted:

“ ‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’
She has become a dwelling for demons
and a haunt for every impure spirit,
a haunt for every unclean bird,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.

3 For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”

4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

“ ‘Come out of her, my people,’
so that you will not share in her sins,
so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
5 for her sins are piled up to heaven,
and God has remembered her crimes.

Revelations 18:3–5 (NIV)

All of the nations are drunk from the Spirit of Babylon. She has made the Nation and leaders drunk on her riches and her perversions. Is the American Church not responding to pray without ceasing because she is no longer alert and sober? Has most of the American church become drunk and not alert enough to know that she has become part of the Babylon system?

Why does heaven call “My People” out of Babylon so that she will share in the judgement of Babylon? Are we more concerned about luxuries and things of this age than we are with the age to come and growing in our love for God?

If you think that the church is not drunk then how many in America do you think will show for a prayer meeting on the same night as the Super Bowl?

I ask you to pray with me for fresh fire of a revival of prayer for the church in America! All moves of God and the 1st Holy Ghost meeting in Acts 2 stated as the church was devoted to continual prayer. America desperately needs a move of God.

16 Rejoice always,

17 pray continually,

18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
1 Th 5:16–18 (NIV)

Many people in today’s American Church are saying that all we need is Jesus and to love people, and that doctrine is divisive and only offends the lost.
But what did Paul say about doctrine?

Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
1 Timothy 4:16 (NIV)

Why did Paul say that Doctrine will save? Only Jesus can save by the work He finished on the cross, which Paul taught. But if you don’t have right doctrine, which is right thinking about God, you are instead creating your own version of God and worship a God of your own liking. Many want the salvation that Jesus freely offers but don’t want the Lordship of Jesus.

“from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,”
2 Ti 3:15–16 (NIV)

When we are studying the Old Testament Scripture and New Testament Scripture which Teachings of Jesus and the Apostles, if the Doctrine of Jesus as he taught and also taught by his Apostles don’t change our thinking, rebuke us, make us uncomfortable, and bring a greater desire for righteous and holiness, your must likely doing it wrong, or not studying scripture at all.

Just remember scripture and doctrine, which is right thinking about God as taught by Jesus and his apostles, are to stand in Judgment of our lives and bring about changes in our actions and thinking, not for us to judge scripture and doctrine and change them according to our desires.