Thank you for the update CDs and ministry of books and papers. This is our feeding indeed. Being part of a ‘prayer cluster’ across the nations is especially a blessing, as we soon discover that we are on the same wavelength in the Spirit.
We have been sharing about the Heritage Ministry of Issachar and how looking back over the years we have watched events unfolding, by the actions of government and the church. We saved news cuttings and shared with our small prayer groups, watching events. I do believe that as individual members of the body of Christ that God was drawing us to the starting point for the years ahead.
I have shared recently with my prayer cluster, thoughts about ‘Heritage’. One of the aspects is that as the years have gone by God has always been speaking but how have we been hearing Him.
I was a newborn Christian in the early 1980s and went along to a local Church of Scotland, Steeple Church, here in Dundee to hear a talk given by Clifford regarding statistical changes in Britain and the threat to the young, with the breakdown of traditional values and its consequences. The words ‘immorality affects the economy’ is rooted in my memory. Your prophetic word that evening was a strong word from the Lord and it was worth you making the journey from London!
The Lord was speaking out, but who was paying attention? We see since then that the same Church of Scotland is not in agreement with traditional family values, but now inducting gay people into the ministry and allowing same-sex marriage.
As far as the importance of heritage applies, we now have the Methodist Church going against the Word of God, with defiance. To ponder upon the heritage of the Wesleys and now the devilish mandate of the leaders is too painful to think about. We must by faith, know that God is watching with us.
I have friends in the Church of Scotland, who are perplexed at what all the fuss is about.” It’s a broad church” they say. And “Our minister would never agree to same-sex weddings, so we don’t see a problem”. However, I try to explain that a mandate from the Presbytery Leadership filters down and affects the spiritual state of the church. Unfortunately, it is beyond their understanding and so beyond any hope of unity in the Holy Spirit.
This is why we need the prophetic ministry supplying ‘streams in the desert’. The prophetic word will continue to go out as we pray for a continued heritage. Someone is always hearing, like myself in Steeple Church so long ago. Wonderfully God was preparing me for prayer today, for the time now.. It may be that God will close down those churches who are wilfully turning against the Word and those that are hungry will turn to His prophetic word for food.