The YOUTH SPEAK OUT
Posted by: prophetic <prophetic@...>
our first Minnesota meeting but couldn't make the second one.
-Had a powerful time elsewhere!
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"The YOUTH SPEAK OUT"
-A.C.
Tues. I heard from some friends of mine, that they recently
went to their pastor, and they stepped down from the 'Worship
team ', because things were not good/God. So, the Pastor planned
a once a month night, for the youth to lead worship and minister
to the adults. Well, the youth said the leadership kept getting
involved/ controlling it, and leading, and the youth addressed it
again. So the pastors said this Wed we'll let you have it. Really, really.
So, I'm home Wed. night, kinda bummed I was not up at the MN
meeting with all of you, and my friends asked me to come over
to this meeting at this one church building in our area, to support
this kind of thing that the pastors were allowing.
I thought, "Well, the last place I want to go tonight is to a Wed.
night church service, but I'll go to support these guys". So when I
come in the door, the pastor comes up to me and said, "... If you
have 'anything' that you want to share tonight, anything, just
go up, say it, teach it, or anything. Be led of the Holy Spirit."
I thought, "Thank you, but I'm not gonna get in trouble with any
leadership here tonight. I also thought, "I don't think you would
'really' want to hear what I would say, and you probably wouldn't
ask if you knew." And I went to sit down, to mind my own
business and worship God. I just decided that "I'm gonna shut
my mouth, and I'm not gonna get in any trouble".
Well, one thing led to another and before you know it, I'm hearing
the Holy Spirit remind me of the one scripture about Paul saying
basically that he tried to tell God's people about Jesus but they
did not receive Him, so he said, I wash my hands of their blood....
from now on I go to the Gentiles. (Acts 18:6) I found out from a
friend where that scripture was in the Bible, and before you know
it, I march up to the front of the church.
I must have looked militant, cause I 'just so happened' to be
wearing my camouflage Army shirt. What a coincidence, huh.? I
just started preaching hard, and the look on the people's faces
were..... 'eyes big' and 'mouths just hanging open.'
I don't even remember all I said. but basically that God has been
speaking to His people, over and over and over and they are not
really listening and living it. And that He's going to go out in the
streets, to the Gentiles, if we don't listen, cause they WILL listen
to Him. I told them we need to REPENT of our sins, our hidden
ones and not so hidden, and we need to repent of our ways. And
I said that God needs EVERYONE to do their part and if God has
told anyone of them to talk to someone about Him or to do
anything and they haven't obeyed Him, "that the blood of 'that
person' is on Your head". Gosh, they all just stared at me, with
their mouths open, and I didn't have the mind to stop. I told them
that America needs a revival and it is time 'now'. I told them what
some of the revivals of the past were like, and said if we don't take
God seriously, we are going to miss our next revival!!! America will
go down, America has never been without the Lord's blessing like
other Nations, and do we want some of what we see in other nations??
I ended it with prayer... A fire-eeeee prayer of repentance for us as
individuals and for America.
It was fun while it lasted, while the anointing of fire was on me,
then I went to sit down and realized where I was, and saw the
pastor get up. And I sat in the pew and thought, "Wow, am I in
trouble". I thought to myself, well if I'm in trouble for speaking the
truth then that's ok with me.
The pastor said, "That's a woman of fire and a woman of revival,"
then went on to preach his sermon about how the church needs
to submit to pastors.
I'm actually a pretty quiet person, I prefer to sit in the corner and
not say much. I'm 'not afraid' to speak the truth, but I'll usually
wait for someone else. I know we haven't heard the end of what
I did and what I spoke, 'cause I could tell people were not used to
being challanged. I'm sure this pastor will be talking, and you
know what? I really don't care.
I spoke the truth... in love, cause I'm concerned about The church
and about our nation taking God so lightly. If that gets me in
trouble with the big pastors and leaders from our area, so be it.
I would rather be in trouble for speaking the truth, then to be silent
and dying. (In a pew or anywhere else you choose to die
spiritually). And if some Christians get mad, It will be sad to lose
some long time relationships, but I'd rather be around hungry
people -out of the church building, or on the streets, who really
want to hear the truth about God, and want to really live for God.
I'm thinking we all have to be more open to the Lord, to do what He
wants, and to speak where He wants, anytime, anywhere. Maybe
even in a church building. If He sees there is a door open, maybe
He will ask us to go through it. Maybe there's someone calling
out to Him, in a church, and He will send us to walk through a door,
speak the truth, then run. That's what Jesus did.
I have ministered to the homeless in Madison, Wisconsin's Capitol.
It was very dangerous at times and you need to use wisdom. But
sad to say, sometimes it's just as dangerous to speak the truth
in 'church'. Shootings do happen there. They just look different,
but they wound just as damaging as a physical shooting can
wound you. That's what happened here last week.
I will be back up to Mn. hopefully, on Labor day weekend.
~A.C.