All through history man has been trying to create his own image of himself without God. It is futile to try to be like God without God. If ever there was a generation where we should not bow to man's image of himself it is this generation. The greatest thing God can do for us is to come and smash every false image that we have created about ourselves from human intellect and human strength. God will begin to work in us by His Holy Spirit and transform us into the image of His Son.

God will allow us to go through fiery trials so He can purify us little by little. God tries the human heart and desires to refine it. It is in these trials that the Lord will reveal Himself to us as our covenant God. He is Jehovah Rapha - The Lord who knows how to heal us from all kinds of emotional pain and brokenness. He is Jehovah Shammah - The Lord who is always there for us, even when there seems like there is no one else around. He is Jehovah Jireh - The Lord who sees us and provides for us and knows how to take care of us. In these fiery trials we will see the fourth man in the fire.

This message is for Christians that have positioned themselves in the center of two different kingdoms. The Kingdom of God and the kingdom of the world, Coming to the house of the Lord with a seemingly holy devotion for God and leaving the House of the Lord and having the same devotion for the things of the world. This is the reason why there is such a powerless testimony and the church is becoming a non issue in this society. We cannot be devoted to the Lord and be devoted to the things that offend His holy name. God is calling His church to come outside the camp and come out of mixture and compromise to serve the Lord wholeheartedly. In every generation there has to be somebody that is willing to stand in the middle of the marketplace and bear the reproach of Jesus Christ.

Satan is terrified of the man or woman who has determined in his or her heart to fulfill the call that God has placed on their lives no matter what the cost. One of the final traps of Satan on these Christians is to bite our hands and infuse us with his poisonous logic. It's always been Satan's desire to either have man withdraw his hand from being extended on God's behalf, or to distort the image of God's hand as He is revealed through man's hand. For those of us whose hands have been bitten by the very people God has sent us to help, God is saying DONT GIVE UP. God is calling us to a militant forgiveness so that God's hands will be extended through our hands to reach a fallen world. The weakness in our hands will be strengthened by the resurrected Hands of Jesus Christ.

The most exciting truth we can read in the scriptures is that the Lord is building us into a holy temple for His glory. Christ begins to rule by His spirit inside of us. Wherever we go, regardless of any demonic activity, the Christ in us will take charge of that situation. God desires to fellowship with us. He desires to walk with us in kindness and gentleness. It is in this gentle fellowship with God that we will be snatched out of darkness and drawn into the love and kindness of Jesus.

America is being warned that a catastrophe is coming soon to change the way we live forever. Jesus warns that there will be a time of great distress and men's hearts will fail because of fear. When we begin to understand the times we live in, God will send His Spirit to wake up a lukewarm church. God is calling His church to allow the Lord to conform us into His image. The message to the Church is that we are to walk worthy of the Lord in all wisdom and knowledge. We are called to pursue intimacy with Jesus and to love one another tenderheartedly. Through faith we will conquer the devil and all his wiles. God will keep us standing tall in the midst of this darkness. The Just shall live by faith.

God in His mercy will begin to speak to us through pictures. Think of the images the Lord has set before us in recent times. Images of the towers in New York City - symbols of pride and commerce that America trusts in, and in one hour they came crashing down. The Pentagon - the symbol of invincible strength, burned by fire. There are pictures in society  and in the newspapers of people given to self gratification, addicted to drugs, obsessed with wealth, publicity and fame only to be lead to an early grave. Could it be the Lord is putting before us a picture of what we are becoming as a society. Thanks be to God that there are other pictures that God desires to use to show His society. If you are in a dungeon of darkness and despair God is preparing you to be a picture to this society. Pictures are developed in a dark room. God is calling the Church of Jesus Christ to come out of these dark places of despair to be the last picture of His love, mercy and faithfulness.

Only the Word of God has the power to create and recreate. Spiritual awakening is when God speaks and He has free course in our hearts and there is no resistance to His voice. When God finds a heart that does not resist His spoken Word the miraculous starts to happen. He speaks with intelligent speech and the power behind His words begins to shape and reshape our lives. If we are truly His and have given ourselves to the Lord we don't resist what He speaks into our hearts, but rather embrace it as the highest way of life. God is calling us to believe what He has already spoken and wants us to bind ourselves to His Word by faith.

As Christians we are left upon this earth to Glorify Jesus. We best glorify Him by allowing that which is the deepest embodiment of His character to be manifested in and through our lives. There is a longing in every lost person we come in contact with to come back to their Creator. Are our lives a manifestation of the heart of God? When we encounter people that God sends our way do they see and hear Christ in us? The purest measure of success comes when there is a true manifestation of God's love the individual people that God allows to come across our paths.