Word from the Lord through David P Griffiths, 11/12/11

WHAT THIS GREAT SUFFERING YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH IS ALL ABOUT

“Over the years I have seen thee cry & weep, saith the Lord. It is as if you have almost given up all to follow Me.

“What happens, because of thy commitment, is that a fear comes upon congregations in thy nation; for thou hast dug out the old landmarks; for example, the movement Jeffries founded is not in existence today, but rather a counterfeit shadow of what that movement was called to be.

“What you have done, is re-open that movement as it was; & thou art facing the onslaught of that split of years ago, in which the vision of Jeffries was replaced by the logic of man.

“Such as it is with you. You say, ‘What is in the Spirit?’ You say, ‘What is the intercession of God?’ You hear the intercession of God being revival, brokenness revival, as you put it; the word “brokenness” being used to show the key feature of revival, the brokenness of man to manifest the glory of God. But the people in their sin could not stand this. Their tradition has pre-eminence over My glory. They say, ‘It is Christmas time; we celebrate that.’ You say, ‘But that is not in the intercession.’ And what you do, is proclaim the intercession, which indeed is REVIVAL, not Christmas. It never has been Christmas, never will be Christmas. That comes from the flesh element of false religion; & whilst the coming of Christ, born of a virgin, is true, the phenomenon was never designed to be a festival of any description; for, as is witnessed, the festival itself has the pre-eminence. So the religious follow the flesh element.

“So, in effect they worship the coming of Christ to earth, rather than Christ Jesus himself. So, the event takes priority over the key Figure of the event; whereas, at this time in thy nation, I call for the brokenness of man, I find the celebration of flesh preeminent over what I have given through My apostles & prophets.

“You confess what you cannot do; they confess what they can do. They say in the event, ‘Oh, we can witness through the event; we can bring through people to be saved through the event.’

“But I say, “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord.”

“So you lie there, wondering where the resources will come from. Thou in effect have built offices & the media studio in line with what I called you to do through prophecy, through thy sister Standish.

“And you are now working with people whose worlds have been taken apart, to be at the centre of My will. But there have been those who want to hang on to their existing world. For, like Christmas, they place their security in flesh festivals, their flesh tradition, their being sin in their lives because their pre-eminence is not in Christ, but in events around Christ.

“You then place the attack which has been upon thee, the attack on Elim being to remove the Foursquare Gospel which I called that movement, & the one in America, to proclaim. And I have stirred up that mantle; you have looked to return to the purity of its founder. And around him came people like have been around you; the founder crying in his bed for his movement, the organizers taking his Rhema Word away from him; & as he lay in bed, crying out for his movement to return to the Rhema, rather than the flesh element, you remember wanting to call for revival, when My Spirit called thee to stop.

“And thou, thou hast a group of people prepared to place My instruction above the flesh tradition.

“Your stand has almost bankrupted thee – but not quite. You see, the flesh church goes for Christmas & what it can make out of it. The true Church dies to the tradition of what it “should” be doing at certain times of year, to what I am saying at given times. They cannot get their head around not having Christmas. They cannot get their head around a God Who does not keep earthly tradition. They cannot get their head around not singing Christmas carols, which you have exposed as being from the very pen of Satan.

“But you see, there is a major security zone in people’s flesh tradition. They go & sing the carols, despite of My prophet’s warning. For that brings a security.

“What you say is what the Lord is saying. You say, ‘Lord – what music am I to play?’ Whereas the flesh church puts on its carol singing services to kelp the security of the people; to make their sin comfortable.

“And thus we have Christmas, a festival of the needs of man, rather than the needs of God.

“So, consider Jeffries crying in his bed over the loss of his movement to flesh; so you have had those come in, looking to place your movement under the same flesh element, which indeed Jeffries had to endure those years ago.

“I have heard thy cries to Me. I accept placed upon Me, thy fears & isolations. I accept thy repentance of these things, to enable you to move in My strength, & fearless might. But the path you have taken has scared people to such a degree, that they have manifest the spirits of their flesh life against thee. In other words, you have rocked their boat; & in the context of you rocking their boat, they come to each other for prayer & ministry, for the god of flesh to comfort them, rather than take up the sword of the God of heaven, to move forward as Christian soldiers.

“So they feel a relief to be away from the convicting preaching of My Word, to come under the god of flesh, who comforts them in their sin, rather than convict them of it.

“So, you cry aloud the Word of the Lord, whilst they comfort themselves in their sin, the god of flesh offering them acceptance, whereas I offer them conviction.

“Remember My cry, ’Choose ye this day whom ye will serve?’

You have made your choice; they have made theirs. But their god lures them in through loving-kindness; a flesh love of acceptance; whereas thou offers the Father, Who calls them to forsake all to follow Him.”