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Dear brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus, part of the growing repentance remnant, cleansing as His Bride, getting ready for His soon return as our Bridegroom-----
The spirit of "wokeness" is prevalent in many nations today, including in its blatant antisemitism and hatred for Biblical values. The Risen Christ knocks at the door of our hearts and minds to "dine" with us, to reveal to each of us how human thinking needs to be removed so that we can become overcomers and sit with Him, as He too overcame. (Revelation 3:19-21).
Wokeness is exposed as false in Proverbs 14:12 and Proverbs 16:25: "There is a way that seems right to a man but its end is the way of death."
This is also confirmed in Romans 6:15-23: "Therefore, what conclusion should we reach? “Let’s go on sinning, because we’re not under legalism but under grace”? Heaven forbid! Don’t you know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, then, of the one whom you are obeying, you are slaves — whether of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to being made righteous? By God’s grace, you, who were once slaves to sin, obeyed from your heart the pattern of teaching to which you were exposed; and after you had been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. (I am using popular language because your human nature is so weak.) For just as you used to offer your various parts as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led to more lawlessness; so now offer your various parts as slaves to righteousness, which leads to being made holy, set apart for God. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in relationship to righteousness; but what benefit did you derive from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end result of those things was death. However, now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you do get the benefit — it consists in being made holy, set apart for God, and its end result is eternal life. For what one earns from sin is death; but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from God, in union with the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord." ( Complete Jewish Bible).
"Wokeness" is human, emotional, scattered thinking that is death to the abundant Life Yeshua/Jesus gave us. Take time today to spend time with your Teacher, the Holy Spirit, to remove any residue of wokeness, so prevalent in the media, especially social media. Ask Him to give you a "clean slate," instructions on next steps, and complete obedience to His will.
One article on point is from Mario Murillo:
We can defeat Woke—God’s way.
Let’s dig deep into how to do that. There are three steps to victory over the greatest evil and worse threat America has ever faced. That is correct. The Woke agenda is the most toxic lie ever smeared on Americans.
Woke hatred is the only way these groups got together.
Look deeper. Have you ever wondered how Marxists and Hamas could have ever teamed up? They are total opposites. Woke hatred brought them together. It is insanely bizarre that the LGBTQ+ movement supports Hamas. Hamas would murder them on sight. Again, Woke hatred is the only way these groups got together.
Wokeism got its hatred from Marxism. Henry Hazlitt described Marxism perfectly:
“The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community.
“Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects—his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.”
Wokeism is a more demented form of Marxism. Wokeness breeds crime, perversion, and suicide.
Wokeness dominates the airways. It controls social media. But knowing its Satanic origin is a strange encouragement. It is Goliath and we are David. So how can we defeat it? We can defeat it God’s way. And there are three steps to victory.
1. The clean slate: Joshua is in a lonely place, staring at Jericho and pondering the impossibility of conquering the walls of Jericho. God was about to clean his slate—erase his blackboard if you will—in order to give him the means to conquer.
Joshua 5:13-15, “And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, “Are You for us or for our adversaries?”
“So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.”
“And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, “What does my Lord say to His servant?”
“Then the Commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.”
The commander is saying “I am not for your plan or theirs. I represent a higher plan. I represent the interests of the Kingdom of God.”
For 2 years God has had me comment on political matters. I still believe we must vote, expose the corruption of our elections, and oppose abortion. But something happened to change me.
My slate was wiped clean when God said to focus on tent crusades in impossible areas.
I began to see that we were losing sight of the Gospel and changing hearts. Some of the voices I trusted seemed focused on temporal solutions to a supernatural problem. Suddenly, they were connected to conservatives who did not even know Christ. Then God cleaned my slate.
How did Joshua come to have a clean slate? God gave him something impossible to do. It was so impossible that Joshua had no plan, no tactic or experience that would avail in taking Jericho.
He realized he was not in charge. There were purposes that were far deeper than his human concerns.
My slate was wiped clean when God said to focus on tent crusades in impossible areas. But at first, He did not tell me how to do it.
Now here is what happened to Joshua next. He fell before the Commander of God’s army. He realized he was not in charge. There were purposes that were far deeper than his human concerns.
I also fell before God and said that I would separate myself and surrender to the impulses of the Kingdom of God. That is when I received step two.
Instructions: Joshua was about to hear something that was totally outside his military training. It made no sense.
Joshua 6:3-5, “You shall march around the city, all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days. And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go up every man straight before him.”
This concept of getting instructions is reinforced in Proverbs 21:22, “A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the trusted stronghold.” Notice it did not say courage, faith or bravado brings down the city—it is wisdom! Joshua gained wisdom from beyond this world.
My staff wondered about me when I divulged the instructions on how to get tents, permits, choose cities, and make inroads to see vast crowds and miracles. I had my slate cleaned. I fell before God in awe. God gave me instructions on how to do it.
Oh, that God’s vessels who are weary and discouraged would only see the Kingdom of God. Just as Gehazi the servant of Elisha had his eyes opened to see the fiery chariots.
Reckless obedience: So, Joshua obeyed God. How ridiculous they looked to the people of Jericho. I know that looking ridiculous comes with the territory when you obey God. And so, we too obeyed God.
When you see Satan’s acts through natural eyes there is nothing but despair. But when you have your eyes opened to the wisdom, strategy and purposes of the Kingdom of God, you become indestructible.
It is this wisdom that will pull your ministry out of debt. By this wisdom, you will tear down the most trusted defenses of the enemy.
Imagine that moment when the strongest walls in the world collapsed before the shout of God’s recklessly obedient army.
Wokeism seems to have the upper hand in every way. But you know better. You know that God combs the earth looking for willing vessels who will throw off the glad rags of religion, take up the mighty weapons of God, and thrust the sword of the Spirit into the heart of the powers of darkness.
We can defeat Woke if we do it God’s way.
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We have this song from our brother Baruch in Israel to remind us of the power of Almighty God, and to return to Him:
https://youtu.be/oxH5cnj9vtM
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In the shaking that He promised [Hebrews 12:26-29] do you see that His Gift of repentance needs, all the more, from this time forward, to spread to all persons, everywhere? Doesn't it need to spread to all Jews who don't yet know Him, and to a lukewarm "church," filled with many who have not ever even repented? How can we "build the walls of Jerusalem" if there is no preaching of repentance?
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God bless you,
Pastor Jeff Daly
National Day of Repentance
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The Lord makes it clear: Luke 13:1-5, repent or perish. Here's two NDR videos on this key scripture: https://youtu.be/oT15XrDvv9c
https://youtu.be/ORbcxToKjp0
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