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May 30, 1999

Addendum

Revelation
       While in prayer I asked the Father, “What is Your present truth priority in heaven as of this moment for your church?” Over a short period of time He gave me the following alliterated words in the sequence listed below. I looked up the definition of each word and have included a short definition. I felt led to also look up the opposite meaning of each word. The words to the far right of each line are a one-word definition of the opposite of the words the Lord gave me.

Assembling—a meeting, or fitting together of different parts Dispersing
Assessing—to judge the worth of something Misjudging
Awareness—to realize or know something not known before Ignorance
Addition—something that increases a thing Diminishing
Assignment—something to be done Evasion
Amelioration—to make better, to improve Deterioration
Advancement—moving forward, advancing Regression
Accumulation—the act of bringing together Scattering
Addendum—something added; a book supplement Deduction
America—the United States of America

Interpretation
       From this I see a message for America, a message that is one of God’s highest priorities in this hour for His church in America.
       The church in America is not assembling, or meeting together and we are not fitting the different parts together. Instead we are dispersing ourselves and failing to function as the body of Christ. Retaining our autonomy and our self-centered desires to do the latest “thing” we have strained every joint and the measure of every part, making a decrease of the body unto the deifying of itself in stupidity and ignorance and crucifying the Son of God afresh, and putting him to an open shame.
       We are not assessing things we see and things we do and the things that we, ourselves, blindly follow in our search for acceptance by one another. As we fail to correctly judge the worth of these things, we are guilty of the worst type of misjudging. And that is the deliberate misjudging for ulterior motives in order that we may maintain the status quo in our personal, business, church and spiritual lives.
       Totally unaware of the pride that is gaining ascendency in the body of Christ because of our lack of awareness, we wallow in our ignorance of the centrality of the message of Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. And we fail to realize or come to a full knowledge of the truth but we are ever learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth. We have lost our concept of the Divinity of Jesus Christ and in our pride of life, declare ourselves to be “gods” and attempt to usurp God from His throne and operate in His power. And in our total and complete ignorance we fail to notice that nothing that we have said and nothing we have done has had any supernatural effect upon the things of this world except to make us look like fools.
       We are not adding to the church daily, nor are we even maintaining that which we have. Instead we are daily diminishing, and becoming fewer in number. Many have left the institutional denominations because of their [the institutional denominations] endorsements of man’s foolishness, which we cleverly call “wisdom” that is in fact, earthly, sensual and demonic. At a time when the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ should be preached in power, we are powerless. At a time when the Holy Spirit of God should be operating through the saints of God in power and conviction, we are not only powerless, but we have no words to preach through which the Holy Spirit can convict of sin, righteousness and judgement. At a time when we are to be totally dependent upon our Father in heaven, we continue to turn further to self, with its attendant pride and spirits of control, unteachableness and rebellion against the God Who has given us life, and life more abundantly.
       We should be on our knees each and every morning asking for specifics of our Divine daily assignment in utilizing our light and salt in being a sharp threshing instrument for Him Who has raised us from the dead and given us His Holy Spirit. Instead we practice evasion with increasing skill in order to pursue that which is most pleasing and which tickles our ears the most. How will you evade Jesus Christ on that day when you stand face to face with Him? And what do you suppose that He will have to say to you? “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Or will you hear “Depart from Me ...” and be led away from His Presence before you even hear the rest of the sentence?
       Do we really think that we are making things better and improving things in this world? By our lack of understanding of God and His Word, how can we apply biblical principles to our very own lives, much less help those who are still struggling in the darkness of the evil of this world? Our very morals have deteriorated to the point that they are no longer recognizable. Television, videos, movies, radio all make a mockery of that which is pure and good and righteous. The very fabric of civilization has deteriorated to a point of barbarian ethics that would make Attilla the Hun proud.
       We are not advancing, we are not moving forward. The cause of Christ in this “church world” of self, self, self and more self has regressed to a point that we are ridiculed for the antics that are reported in news media. Tell me, church, what is the difference between that which you teach and which proponents of “New Age” religious persuasion teach? What happened to the sovereignty and divinity and perfection of our God and His Son, Jesus Christ? Are we such fools that we think we can step into the sandals of Jesus and replace Him with our cunningly devised fables of our very own sovereignty and divinity and perfection? This is not a rhetorical question. Many of you have responded to that question with a resounding “Yes!” If you have faith in anything that emanates from yourself you are indeed a fool, and a complete one at that.
       We are experts at teaching how not to bring things together. Things like doctrine, practices, ourselves. No, we have become experts at scattering anything and everything that we can affect with our scatter-brained teachings based upon our favorite opinions of ourselves. What happened to our focus upon Jesus Christ, and His cross? And the faith once delivered to the saints? Do we contend for the faith, or are we too intent upon contending with each other? We should be scattering the devil and his forces. Instead we scatter our very own power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the four winds of opinionated doctrine which is of absolutely no eternal value. And very little earthly value.
       Are we adding something to the United States of America? Something of eternal value, which will change the eternal destiny of men and women, and boys and girls throughout this land? Or are we so immersed with our purposes of propagating our little fantasies of how valuable we are in our sovereignty and our supernatural power and our alleged “godhood” that we have deducted from the heritage of those residing in America and we have robbed them of their opportunity to have life and life more abundantly with their Creator for all of eternity?
Application
       The bottom line is that God has placed a priority on this wonderful country of ours. A priority that we, His church, has not placed on it. And He is speaking out to us, now. He wants to place an addendum upon that which has been judged by Him as being ungodly, unrighteous and uncaring.
       We as the body of Christ, must stop dispersing our different members, our different parts. We must stop misjudging the worth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. And stop misjudging the sovereignty and Divinity and power of the one true God. Our ignorance of the Bible and God’s love, grace and mercy for us must be replaced with an all-encompassing awareness of our need for our God to get us through the things that are coming. We must quit diminishing all that God is going to do and begin to add our contributions to what He is doing, not what we are doing. Ultimately, God will rule and reign in total power and sovereignty. It’s foolish to kick against the goads. We all have assignments from our God and Creator and we must stop evading them and recognize that we are His bond-servants because He has redeemed us and we are His. And everything we are, and everything we have belongs to Him.
       The deterioration of the things of God in the church are begging to be restored. And we are those instruments of restoration. We are to make things better, not watch them deteriorate because of our foolish human wisdom. We are regressing, moving backward from the front line of battle. We must move forward, confident that God will fight our battles if we are obedient to Him. We are to bring ourselves together and scatter the enemy. The enemy has scattered us for far too long.
       We must do all these things so that God will have an addendum to add to the judgement that He has already passed on America. An addendum that reads “Well, done, good and faithful servants.”
       For those of you who are not from America I ask you to pray for the church of Jesus Christ in these United States. And for our political, social and economic leaders.
       And as you pray, please pray also for the leaders of your own country. And know that God, in His priorities, will soon turn His attention to your country also.

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