Nov 27, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

What’s been going on?

Have you taken a survey of your spiritual life in 2020? With all that has been going on, this is exactly what God has wanted you and I and everyone else to do who are called by the name of Jesus. God wanted us tried, tempted, and humbled—this is the working of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

As the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert to be tempted by the devil so the Holy Spirit is still doing His job in the members of the Body of Christ. We indeed have been tempted during the year 2020. It caught most of the Church by surprise and unprepared. Why would God do this to His people? This is what God wants from His people.

1. He wants us to repent—to experience repentance that not only cleanses us but changes us. We need to get all our sin out of our lives and to be healed from all the hurt and shame our sin has caused on others. The Holy Spirit is still calling us to this repentance. He is to wash us not just on the outside for others to see but also on the inside what the Holy Spirit Himself sees.

2. God wanted (wants) to bless you with blessings that you have never experienced before. Blessings of unity, of peace, of unfilled wholeness and love that comes only through repentance and through the struggle of keeping the unity in the Spirit. Have you felt the struggle in your spirit and soul—this is the working of the Holy Spirit in your life? We must find unity, not unity as the world gives us but the unity the Holy Spirit creates.

3. God made promises to many of you. Promises of ministry, growth in the Lord, and along with visions of things to come to proclaim to the Body of Christ. But the fulfillment of promises of God does not come without trials and tribulations. We must be tried and tempted in order for us to be confronted by Satan and his deception & lies. If you walked in faith and resisted the devil’s deception and works in this world, you will receive what God has promised and has willed to take place in your life. If you were patient and faithful the fulfillment of God’s words spoken to you through dreams, visions, and prophecy will take place. Be faithful and look to God doing what He promised to you.

4. God wants His Body to not only react to but to create history. We are in the last days and in these days either Satan fulfills what he wants, or the Church fulfills what God wants. We have a choice and in our choice is where we find the faith to stop Satan’s plans and the completion of God’s perfect will. We must find the purposes and action plans of God in this, our generation. It is the time of prayers of faith, it is the time of actions of faith, and it is the time for the unity of our faith being felt and projected upon this world. We must not and we cannot accept what Satan is planning or speaking in this world. It is God’s words that are to be spoken and these words are to redeem the time of Christ’s return.

5. There is a warning in this message from the Lord. If you have not forgiven others for them wronging you—stop and repent for not offering others forgiveness. Do it now! If you have any love for this world, love that is getting in the way of your love for God, let it go now! If you have been working and striving, thinking that the Body of Christ is a building, a program or a denomination repent of this now. The Body of Christ is people and only people. People need to meet together and minister to each other—we do not need another building, another program, or a service that is programmed and prepared days or weeks in advance. We need each other and to worship together. In togetherness, there is unity, praise, thankfulness, and prophetic prayer. It is time for what the Body of Christ can do with ‘unity’ not what we can do ourselves. Unity is found only in who Christ is and what He wants and can do.

What must you and I do? We need to say, “I’m sorry to God” for all the wrong we have done. We need to say, “Sorry” to all the people we have injured and sinned against. We need to be sorry toward and tell the Church “how we have failed” the Body of Christ. We need to express and change in who we are by loving God first and only Him by not allowing the world to receive the love God has placed in our life for Him—“Love not the world or the things in this world”. Last of all, we must begin now to find the unity of the Spirit through Jesus and through the Scriptures God has told and given to us. It is through repentance, loving God that unity will come upon us. And when this unity comes you cannot even imagine what God will do for you, through you, and in you.

(Please share this message with everyone you know and do not know.)

WWJWMTD

What would Jesus want me to do?

Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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