June 9, 2020 Quiet Before the Storm

There will be a quiet moment before the storm
There will be a quiet moment before the storm
There will be a quiet moment before the storm
The storm is moving from the east to the west
The South will be confused
The North is still raging
But My Spirit has risen above the storm
You cannot see because you have not looked
You will not know because you have not sought
Because you have not sought you will stay blind
But the quiet before the storm, the quiet before the storm
 
Read Luke 4:9 – 13

Something is on very top, the pinnacle of the church. The church has been blinded, the church does not know which way is going. So God is saying, there will be a quietness, a quietness. His voice will go quiet, but we have to seek Him. And when we seek Him we will find Him. And when we find Him we will get understanding and directions.
It was the enemy that took Jesus to Jerusalem. It was the enemy that took Him to the pinnacle of the temple and said to Him, “If you throw Yourself down from here…” Pride over the church will cause the greatest fall of the church in the midst of the storm. Pride will cause the greatest fall in the midst of the storm. That we do not try to prove ourselves as a church, that we radically, totally trust and depend upon Him. Totally, totally, totally depend upon the Lord Jesus Christ for everything. Pride, is brought in two different places. He told us humility and brokenness is where we must stand in the gate of redemption. We must pray against pride in this country, we prayed for salvation on Sunday. Salvation for our nation, salvation for souls. But it is going to be pride when the storm comes those who are trying to stand upon their own, those who are trying to preserve their own lives, those who are trying to heal themselves, those who are trying to provide and preserve for themselves. Self is the great falling away, and pride is the darkness that feeds self.

There should be no fear in the house of the Lord, none. If the house of the Lord is radically depending upon God, there is no fear. If the house of the Lord believes in God’s great healing, there is no fear. If the house of the Lord believes in God’s great provision, there is no fear. Fear is going to produce pride, and pride is going to try to preserve itself. That is going to be the greatest fall of this time. Self-provision is trying to protect yourself, to try to heal yourselves, to try to preserve yourself from death, preserve yourself from falling, and preserve yourself from sickness - that is the greatest fall.

And Jesus did not buy into it. He did not let pride test His Father. If God says God is, then why do we not believe the banner that we raise up of His Name that He is, “I am who I say I am, that I am”? Do you not believe in the Great I Am? Do you not believe that He will provide? Do you not believe that He would heal? Do you not believe that He will preserve? Do you not believe that He will stand? Would you not believe that He will fight? Do you not believe that He is who he says He is? He is I am!
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In the greatest storm, in the greatest pressure of life He will preserve His people. In the midst of disasters we must believe in our God!