The Daily Word of Righteousness

God Has Needs and Desires, #9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (I John 1:9—NIV)

The contemporary idea that Christ came to screen believing Gentiles from His sight so they can enter the new Jerusalem by imputed righteousness is totally false. No worse, no more destructive distortion of God's holy Word could be imagined.

We Christians are in error concerning the operation of the new covenant, and as a consequence our nation, the United States of America, is being destroyed from within by moral corruption. When no moral light is coming from the Christian churches, the nation has no moral light! At the rate we are going we soon will be one of the minor nations of the earth—that is, if we survive at all!

The Lord Jesus is coming to His people today to bring us forward from Pentecost to the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles, to the place where the Father and the Son are dwelling in us through the Holy Spirit. God is getting us ready so He can move into His eternal home.

In between the feast of Pentecost and the feast of Tabernacles, as outlined in the Old Testament, is the Day of Atonement, or Day of Reconciliation. The spiritual fulfillment of the Day of Atonement requires that we cooperate with the Holy Spirit as He removes worldliness, the lusts of our flesh, and our self-will.

Much suffering and much glory are required if we are to be prepared for the coming of the Father and the Son to us in this new and fuller measure. The experience of the fullness of God is available to any Christian who will turn to God with his whole heart, ready to do whatever God requires.

The time to seek God is now! The age of moral horrors is on the horizon. The tares of wickedness are coming to maturity. Many of us will not be able to stand under the dark pressures that are ahead unless we are able to obtain more of Christ, more of God, than we have known.

God is ready to help us, but we must mean business with God.

It is time to stop thinking about how we are going to use God's grace so we can be prosperous and successful in this present world. It is time to seek God until we find out what God's needs and desires are.

God needs a house, a dwelling place, so He can dwell among the nations He has created. Those same nations today are destroying themselves because they do not know the Lord or His ways of peace and joy. God's plan is to use us to be the chariots in which God can ride so as to bring the knowledge of His Person and ways to the peoples of the earth, whom God loves dearly.

All that is needed for the implementation of God's plan is our willingness to let go of our personal ambitions and turn our life over to God to use as He will.

We have only this one chance in all of eternity to meet the needs of our great God. Are we going to satisfy God's needs and desires, and those of the peoples of the nations, or are we going to occupy ourselves with our own needs and desires, our own plans, our own heaven and earth that we plan to create for our own satisfaction?

God has helped me make the right decision. He will help you also if this is what you desire above all. (from God Has Needs and Desires)