This message is about the mercy of God. The voice of God is crying out to all His people who are in a spiritual slumber because of self seeking, soft religion. God in His mercy will prepare a trial that will lead us into a type of the sufferings of Christ. This crisis will cause us to be awakened to prayer, and in this time God will throw overboard everything that hinders us from His power. The moment we surrender and yield our life to God's purposes, His mercy will begin to flow in us and through us. The Holy Spirit will give us the courage to stand in the midst of adversity, and speak life into others around us who are perishing.

When we intermingle with the ways of the world, we lose sight of God's ways. We are not called to have the earth bless us; we are called to bless the earth. Our cry has to be "Jesus, touch us and cause us to see what you see and feel what you feel! Lord, cause us to have something deeper than sporadic bursts of kindness." Our eyes should be opened to the compassion of Christ and our hands should be committed to make a difference in society. When we move out in this direction, there is a divine power imputed to us for the work of the Lord.

Whenever a nation, church or person becomes aware of God's truth and refuses to yield to it, a deep darkness will overtake them. Idleness, abundance of bread, and pride is the sin of Sodom. It is the result of a people who don't represent Jesus Christ and His ministry to the fatherless, widow, the poor, and the needy. There is a diabolical message being preached that takes from the poor and leaves them in ruin. God says shall not the land tremble because of this? God judges and lays an indictment at the door of those who have the power to make a difference in this generation and fails to do so. The church of America must wake up and rise out of a self seeking pursuit of God and begin to understand again what the true ministry of Jesus Christ really is.
 

Before Jesus ever performed a miracle and before he started a ministry, He was led into the wilderness. There, Jesus delivered the devil a death blow and we have the ultimate privilege of entering into the victory with Him. When we are in our wilderness temptations, Jesus will remind us how He faced the devil alone so that we will never be alone in our hour of temptation. It's important to understand that Jesus triumphed gloriously over the devil before He set out to redeem us.

God is for us not against us. He Is determined to provoke us to deal with hidden issues because He knows what lies ahead of us and He desires to bless us. It is vital that we allow God to go after the sins that we have buried for years. The moment we get honest with God and call sin Sin, prison doors will open and the power of God will break through in our lives.

Jesus offers us not just a future hope but a present reality. Some of us have a present trust while we seek a future hope. God calls us to give up our present trust and walk with Him. What are you trusting in that keeps you locked out of the power of God's Kingdom? God's Kingdom is a NOW Kingdom and He beckons us to leave behind what we once trusted in, let go of all our baggage, and slip through the eye of the needle! It's the person who realizes he has nothing to offer God but a willing heart that slips through the Eye of the Needle. The issue is letting go and trusting God.

Can the person who seems so far away from God be miraculously saved so they never go back to their sin again. Can a person who once walked with God and has drifted away from Him leaving them in death and despair be revived again? Can these bones live? The answer is YES because God has determined to be merciful and forgive. God will begin to stir His people again and cause us to believe for a revival in Death Valley. When we remind ourselves of what God has done in the past, we can pray in faith believing Him to do the miraculous in the future.

There is a false revival on the rise. It is the rise of the angry watchman who will cast stones at those who have gone astray from the Lord. This false revival consists of ministers who have led people away from the truth through legalism and a misguided prosperity gospel. They will forbid and command prodigals not to come into the presence of God until you work your way back into His favor through human effort and religion. We must not remove the veil from the bride of Christ. We have a righteousness that cannot be taken away from us because Jesus is our veil.

There are forces of Satan, the world, and our flesh that cry out to us and tempt us to make choices against God. Satan has a plan for our lives and he is out to destroy us. There is another voice that cries out to us. This is the voice of the Holy Spirit sent by God to teach us His will and His ways. God has a plan for our lives and every choice we make can lead us closer to Him or draw us away from Him. Basically every decision we make is either for God or against God. What will you choose?

What kind of prayer would cause the Son of God to be stopped in His tracks? You will find many types of prayer in the gospel of Luke and the eighteenth chapter, but there is only one prayer that caused Jesus to stand still. This type of prayer begins in the heart of a beggar. It's a heart that understands its utter and dyer need. This is the heart that cries out in faith "Jesus Son of David have Mercy on me!" God's responds to this cry because His heart is filled with mercy and grace. We don't have to wrestle a blessing from God.