World condition today:
Pollution, poverty, devastating and incurable disease, crime, terrorism, civil wars and horrific acts of torture have hit the earth as never before during the past two decades
Pollution:
Our seas have been polluted continuously with oil spills, sewerage, and chemical waste.
Certain species of whales and sharks have become extinct and more are in danger of doing so. Many types of fish and crustaceans have been over harvested, resulting in endangered species. Vast forests have been destroyed, their beautiful trees chopped down, causing desert areas and upsetting the climate. These acts have also resulted in endangered flora and fauna as well as the extinction of many creatures.The O Zone has a tremendous hole, causing dangerous UV rays to affect multitudes with skin cancers and other skin problems.
Poverty:
Whole countries, but for a few extremely rich leaders, are starving: Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Congo, Sudan, Uganda and Rwanda, to mention a few. Even in this country, millions are poverty-stricken.
Disease:
Despite advanced Medical breakthroughs, devastating and often incurable diseases have spread throughout the world as never before: Aids, cancer, Yuppie flu, wolf bite, new strains of T.B.
Crime:
Criminals have never been so blatant, or as numerous as now. Murder, rape, hi-jacking, and armed robberies are every day occurrences. Life is considered worthless. People kill for kicks. Even children commit murder without a second thought. Serial killers and rapists are on the increase. Gang rapes and murders are the norm.Two children, 6 years of age, caught in the middle of a gang war, were shot on the way from school 13-03-2003. Since then numerous innocent children have been fatally wounded due to gang wars Motor vehicle thieves shot a disabled child for not vacating a school bus quickly enough.Child trafficking and human trafficking on the whole are the largest source of illegal profits, even surpassing illegal drug sales universally.
Civil War
Angola, Congo, Liberia, Somalia, Sierre Leonne and Ivory Coast are just some of the African countries involved in civil war, some of which go on for decades. Tyrants rule many of the African countries and the people are dying of starvation. Africa, South America and the Middle East have several countries continuously involved in civil war.
Israel is under continuous attack by Palestinians who want to rule all of Israel and want all Israelites eradicated. The Western countries have continuously sold Israel out, making her give up the land that God gave her. Although Israel won back this land during the Six Day War against humanly impossible odds, she has systematically lost land because of pressure by the United Nations to give what is rightfully hers to the Arabs. The reason for these acts is that the Arabs control the oil.
Terrorism and acts of torture:
Sierre Leone: People’s limbs have been chopped off by children, high on drugs, by order of the rebel forces.
Rwanda: Genocide. A million mutilated bodies filled and blocked the rivers, the streets, homes, businesses and even churches about two decade ago.
Bosnia: Ethnic cleansing. So-called Christians decided to kill off the Moslems in their country.
Afghanistan: Women treated as sub-human. They suffered inhumane torture, murders, rapes and starvation at the hands of the Taliban.
11-09-2001: Two planes crashed into the Twin towers in New York. Anthrax coated letters were sent by terrorists in an endeavor to kill Americans by chemical warfareIn Uganda, whole villages are wiped out, except for some children and teens who are forcefully abducted by the Moslems as slaves. Many of them are tortured and killed for crying. These children witness their entire families being massacred in horrific ways. They are not regarded with any compassion and dehumanized by their abductors. Ministries in the USA have purchased the freedom of thousands of these slaves from their masters. These acts of kindness, however, result in even more atrocities against the villages. The reason for these incomprehensible atrocities is quite absurd. The victims are Christians and therefore hated by the Moslems in that country.
In Ethiopia, women get stoned to death for adultery and fornication. If they are raped, they are found guilty anyway. Nothing happens to the men.
Millions of children are abducted and then forced into child prostitution. Many of these sex slaves are drugged or tortured to keep them in submission to their owners.
Children are sold into prostitution and married off at as young as 10 years.
Often their parents are responsible for selling them for a pittance, as they are living in dire poverty.
Child slavery still floods many African, South American and Middle East countries In Uganda, parents sell their children to unscrupulous buyers who starve them and make them do manual labour far beyond their years. Many of these children die from neglect.
Drugs:
Drugs addiction has become a plague that reaches into every society. Addicts prostitute themselves and steal and kill to obtain money to buy drugs, because they eventually become incapable of working. Many die of overdoses, or because their vital organs are destroyed. The drugs are readily available and children become hooked at a very young age. There was a time when drug users were the outcasts of society. Now it is the norm and peer pressure to partake is extreme.
The rulers of darkness control this world system. It is a dog eat dog world. Witchcraft and Satanism are now accepted religions. There are a dozen or more types of sexual orientations referred to as referred to as ‘alternate life styles’ and embraced by both society and the church world. It is illegal to speak against these acts in many countries Strippers and prostitutes, albeit male, female, bisexual, and homosexual, transsexual and sadomasochists, blatantly and proudly speak on T.V. shows about their sordid lifestyles. Married Couples swap partners at ‘swing parties’ to ‘spice up their sex life.’
Condoms are given out at schools, and public toilets. Instead of abstinence, safe sex is taught in schools. Virgins are mocked and treated as abnormal. How can such perversions be acceptable to society, while God’s Word is banned from schools? Nudist camps are prevalent. We live in a world system gone mad, where good is called evil and evil is called good.
The good news is that where sin abounds, grace abounds much more.
Through it all, God has kept His hand upon His children.
In the midst of poverty, the Lord God causes us to prosper.
In the midst of terrorism, crime and violence, our Almighty God protects us. He has promised us safe houses, prosperity and protection in the midst of chaos and famine.
In the midst of disease, we are healthy.
While others need drugs to get high, we get high in the Spirit.
While others need to go to clubs and parties to find momentary joy, we have joy unspeakable and full of glory because the Holy Spirit dwells within us.
[Q] Why?
[A] Because God sent Jesus to bring us salvation.
[Q] What is salvation?
[A] Wholeness in every area: spirit, soul and body.
Jesus came to do more than that. He came to take back the dominion that Satan took from Adam. What’s more, He took it back in order to return it to the saints of God.
Throughout His ministry on Earth, Jesus kept teaching us to seek after the Kingdom of God.[Matthew 6:33] But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
What things shall be added? Let us go back and read what Jesus was talking about.
[Mat 6:24] No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
[V25] Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
[V26] Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
[V27] Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
[V28] And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
[V29] And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
[V30] Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
[V31] Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
[V32] (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
What is the Kingdom of God that we must seek?
It is God’s way of doing things. Everything that God does is done by sowing and reaping.
What we need to do, is understand the power that is at work within us through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We also need to understand that not one of God’s good promises ever fail and that what He has said, He will do.
We need to walk in immovable faith in God. To live righteously, we need to love Him above all else. When we love Him with all our hearts, souls and minds, we will live righteously because we want to, not because we were told to. This is the kind of relationship that God is seeking with us. He created us to be His children. We were made the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus, not through our works, but through faith. Let us walk in that righteousness through love for the Father. As God’s children, we were told to subdue and rule the Earth. Let us subdue the forces of darkness that try to rule our lives and let us rule over illness, poverty, fear and all the rest of sin’s attributes.
Speak the Word, not the problem. If you want healing, do not keep saying: I am ill. I feel ill. Those are the facts, but they are certainly not the truth. [Romans 3:4] says: let God be true, but every man a liar. I do not mean that you must say there is nothing wrong with you. You can acknowledge the facts, but refuse to allow them a hold on your life. Proclaim the truth that by Jesus’ stripes we were healed. Facts change all the time, but truth remains forever. We do not walk by sight. We walk by faith.Do not keep proclaiming the problem. Starve it and feed the Word in your life until the healing comes.If you are in debt, do not keep speaking the problem. Say: I put myself into debt, but praise the Lord, God has plans to prosper and not harm me; plans to give me a hope and a future.Speak against fear. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of love, power and a sound mind.Speak Psalm 91 until it becomes a Rhema or Now Word in your life.For every trial and temptation, there is a Scripture to counter attack it.
Speak the Word, be instant in season and out of season [2Tim 4:2]
Instant: Gk. Word: proskartereo {pros-kar-ter-eh’-o}
Continue steadfastly; to be steadfastly attentive unto, to give unremitting care to; to persevere and not to faint; to be in constant readiness for Continue steadfastly speaking the Word in faith. Persevere in your faith, giving care to what you take into your heart through your eyes, ears and mouth. Be in constant readiness for that which you trust God for, to come to pass.We are no longer subject to the kingdom of darkness. We are children of the Light. Let u s walk in that Light.
[1 Thessalonians 5:5] Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
[Ephesians 5:8b]… walk as children of light
Do not waiver in your faith. Having done all to stand, stand. Keep sowing the Word into your heart, until it gushes out of your mouth. You will get to a place where someone says: ‘Financial difficulty’ and you say something like ‘Cast your cares upon Jesus.’ You’ll hear ‘Money’ and you’ll say something like ‘God delights in the prosperity of His saints.’ You will hear ‘I feel ill’ and you will say ‘God sent His Word to heal you. Let me lay hands on you to receive it.’It will become a way of life the way it was intended to be since the beginning Just keep sowing seeds and you will reap a harvest every time.
As for the lost in this world, they need our prayers more than ever before. They’re stumbling in the darkness and deceitfulness of sin and need a light to see. We are called to be a light in the darkness. The vilest of sinners is not beyond redemption. A repentant and contrite heart will not be ignored by GOD Who wishes all men to be saved. John 3:16 says that GOD so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. How will the lost believe unless they hear the Gospel, and how can they hear if nobody tells them? Freely we have received and freely we must give the Good News so that others might be saved.