In The Last Days Discern The Times

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This is the Truth Network welcome to running with horses just to inspire you relationship with all that empowers things you never thought possible. Shirley Weaver wants to take you and now yesterday's episode you heard me say before that we are leaving in the last days of reference. Those scriptures before me just tell you what this is all about what I'm talking about this podcast.

Our whole ministry, really.

And by the way a clear trumpet.org eclair trumpet.org is where you can find us this ministry the way we pray the way we teach everything we do. The example that we intentionally lay out concerns Genesis to Revelation. 1/3 of which by the way is prophecy and the reason I don't think I'm all on what I'm about to tell you is that Jesus ministry was a lifestyle of the unusual.

It was an expectation and expectation of the miraculous.

There were demonstrations of divine interventions. God revealed the destiny that belonged to his son in the way that the ministry the earthly ministry of Jesus was carried out, and in in that example we see so much.

For example, Jesus did not come and go from the presence of God. He was not in and out, up and down sometimes on sometimes not clearly his expectation was God's intervention in the lives of his creation. The people God created he loved. He cared about, and his heart. The heart of the father. Think about that the heart of the father was to heal their bodies to bring them out of darkness into light to deliver them on a personal level. Everything from a personal level all the way up to national deliverance prayer. The function of prayer, which by the way, prayer is a covenant function. We couldn't pray unless we were in covenant with the Almighty God. It included restoration redemption recovery of things that are lost were lost. And so the discerning of the times becomes a prophetic function that belongs to the people of God and I believe comes to us as a result of right teaching again Genesis to Revelation. A clear portrait.

The story is obvious to me that we are taught from God's word to expect the miraculous divine interventions. It's not a rare thing. I do think that it is rarely recognized and just to expound there a little, I think that humanly speaking we are on positive outcomes as something we did our calls are rightly deserved. You know, when in fact God intervened in your life and brought to you healing, deliverance, redemption, restoration he brought to you the ability to pray, he gave you the benefit of teachers to give you right teaching right teaching at the right time. He even gives you profits to help you to discern the times so you and I are blessed this way to have the example that Jesus gave to us his lifestyle was like this. He lived this way he taught this way. He walked this way and he believed God for the presence of God to bring to the people. The light that swallows up darkness. Now, whatever that looks like to you. You could call that miraculous.

I don't know what you call that I believe that the light of Almighty God swallows up the darkness that the enemy intends for me for my children my grandchildren for this ministry for those I care about for my community for my nation. I believe God's light swallows up the darkness that is assigned against any of those categories every minute of every day, and yes to me that is miraculous. It is divine intervention.

And I don't think that I would consider our ministry a healing ministry. Although I have friends who are in quote the healing ministry" and they have demonstrations of miracles of healing all the time. I highly regard and respect them. I don't think we have a healing ministry.

I do think that God has called me and therefore those who are a part of our organization. Those who partner with us in a supportive way to believe him again Genesis to Revelation.

To see the demonstration of the word of God in our lives daily as a lifestyle and let me just speak to the issue of when things don't go well our women. There is loss because we all can speak to that because we've experienced that I'm not dismissing that at all in the storm and the crisis in the loss. The word is clear. Look up look up that is not God's final word that is not the end of the situation. It's not so you need to get your thinking aligned this way. I believe it's right.

I believe it's a righteous and as I said, I don't believe I'm off and projecting this possibility and to say this is the hope that I have because it is the demonstration of the life and the ministry of Jesus Christ and the reason that we can say these things, so depending let me just segue a little bit here and say depending upon how much you understand about the importance of Israel, the nationstate of Israel, the Jewish nation state of Israel, together with Bible prophecy which includes about one third of the Scriptures you and I everyone really we are responsible on a personal level to discern the times that the Bible term to discern the times. How do we know that we have this responsibility will first of all, Jesus rebuked his generation for not discerning the times in Matthew 16 we read that he referred to his generation, particularly the religious leaders of his generation as hypocrites. For this reason, he said you cannot discern the signs of the times.

That's hypocritical because you can discern the time of year it is. You can discern the weather, but you're not discerning the times he went home to refer to them as they read a wicked and adulterous generation strong words. This is the rebuke that Jesus gave for not discerning the times. Also, the apostle Paul admonished all believers and this is in Romans 13 he said do this knowing the time.

Knowing the time. Wake up away from your sleep right now. Salvation is nearer than when you first believed. So both our Lord Jesus and his apostle Paul taught the importance of discerning the time so what do we discern what are we to discern the will to name a few. And I don't think that this is exclusive to any area or nation. Globally we are experiencing a culture of lying, deceit, without consequence without impunity. It seems whereas years ago. Earlier in my life. There was a consequence for lying for being deceptive on unintentional and unintentional way that is not the case anymore. Also, where discerning lawlessness where discerning propaganda. The use of words to change the truth change the truth and to alter the understanding of the hearer where discerning the persecution that is growing worldwide against Christianity.

Other faiths are being prosecuted, persecuted, but no other time in the history of the world is persecution, so elevated, so cruel, relentless, and without exception, even in nations that have not known religious persecution on the level that they are experiencing it now. There is a freedom to isolate Christians to be mocked, scorned, ridiculed, and for their their livelihood, their families, to be disrupted and targeted in ways that are completely upside down completely wrong on every level, and this last term which is you need to discern which may be unique to my nation. This term Christian nationalism. In other words, if you stand for biblical principle.

If you stand for truth. According to God's word. If you practice your faith and expect your national leaders to do that in order to obtain your vote and to obtain your endorsement. You have are now a Christian nationalist is not a good term. It's not a favorable term. It doesn't mean anything other than great bigotry, racism, other things so these are the things that you should be discerning the culture of lies, lawlessness, propaganda persecution, these terms like Christian nationalism that are permeating every society really every society, every person is responsible.

At this time as we live in the last days to discern the times on a personal level. Well on a personal level. Everyone's situation is different and own a personal level you discern your situation. You discern your status that for you and those closest to you, but for everyone. Overall, listen to this. This is good news.

The prophets are speaking they are helping us to understand what is happening both subtly and below the surface and really out in the open because you know the gift of the prophets voice. Both Old Testament and New Testament is to defy the what some people have, you know, sort of a natural inclination to be shy and to be under spoken to be hesitant to speak up. Will prophets are not like that is part of their gifting to be a voice to be one who vocalizes and announces, promotes and trumpets. I love that word trumpets.

It's why we named our ministry a clear trumpet. We are always believing God to be a part of his prophetic voice to our nation and the world.

But the prophets are speaking. Listen wake up, wake up.

Don't get so buried in your own personal suffering are need that you are lulled to sleep about what's taking place in the big picture and I love the prophets message that tells me.

Surely you need to turn.

You need to turn your going wrong on this path, you need to adjust your course turn this way don't go right go left.

I mean I'm speaking practically here, but you know what I'm saying in a spiritual sense, and even not just turn but return because the Revelation tells us that for one whole church.

There was the need to return to the Lord. They had left him.

They had left him behind. They left their first love.

So the voice of the prophet is saying to me surely wake up you're missing something here. It their voice is saying to me turn this way go this way for the overall big picture and return to the Lord in these areas where you might have become dull.

You may be dull in some of those areas and so you know when the prophets are speaking like that, some just believers. Some believers just cannot hear you know why they cannot hear because they think it's a part of the noise. There's a lot of noise both inside the church and outside the church and they just are so tired of hearing so much noise that the voice of the prophet becomes understated and it becomes more faint and more faint until they really cannot hear it any longer.

I have experienced that in the Lord has been faithful to come alongside of me in a way that it is trumpeted in an expressway that I can hear it and it wakes me up summer like that they get lost in the noise and then the extreme, the far extreme and this could be a warning to all of us.

Ultimately God allows a delusion to those who are intentionally tricked into rejecting God just outright on any level or on every level that second Thessalonians 2 verse 11 and this is just this look at just two renderings of that verse that the new living translation, so God will cause them to be greatly deceived and they will believe allies the ESV English standard version. Therefore, God sends them a strong delusion so that they may believe what is false. This is the, the possibility this is where people are winding up again. It is an extreme place where God allows the delusion to calm to be visited and so as I started this podcast I said let me tell you what this is about.

I want you to understand that I don't mean particular instances of just amazing, supernatural, miraculous events, but your life as a believer should be an imitation of the lifestyle of Jesus Christ, and it can be. He said to us expressly these things and greater things will you do because I go to the father you understand I'm saying that's the plan.

That is our real calling. In essence, and so we try to write about it in our book running with horses which is a 365 day daily devotional which covers many things. Hopefully Genesis to Revelation with examples of and exhortations to this kind of lifestyle.

There's so much there you can find our book on our website.

A clear trumpet.org. It's also available on Amazon and other online outlets. So I just highly recommend that book to you.

And of course this podcast which is a great opportunity to speak directly to you so let's just pray a declaration really Lord everything that we have spoken today in this podcast for me personally for each of the hearers that you bring to this format that we say to you, this is what we want. This is what we want. This is what we want. We have not because we ask not. So we say and declare by faith, God, this is what we want and bath date we receive the possibility and are so thankful that you find us worthy to carry your mark and to represent you in the earth and our answer to the question, do you really believe that God moves miraculously in the lives of people today the answer is yes he does overtly and behind the scene not rarely, but as a lifestyle. God all our amazing father. The blessing of the Lord today that is on you is on me on our lives is that we have the word tells us we have the mind of Christ. That means the thought life of the king explicitly. If you enjoy this episode and you'd like to help support this project, please share it with others. You believe your reading and review settlement. Visit.org you can subscribe to Shirley's email list is you and produce your very own copy of Shirley's 365 devotional women with horses. Thanks again and we will see you next