07 December 2008 10AM
Prophet Nola Pelser
You need the eyes of your understanding to be opened, so you can understand what we are busy with and what the body of Christ is, and what church is. If your eyes are not open, you have to be dragged to church, you have to be pushed, you have to say: “when are you coming to church?”. When you are part of a body, because you understand that Jesus created the church, as a safe haven, and as a place of refuge, as a place, an ecclesia, that is called out. You are chosen, and you are holy.
If you read in the book of Revelation, if your name is not found in the book of Life, you are going to be subject to the plagues that come over the earth. You have to have a spirit of understanding, the eyes of your understanding must be enlightened, because if it's not you walk in darkness, you stumble, and you can't see clearly what is important. Your view is marred, you only see a part of it. It's almost like when you want to look at a panorama, but there are things blocking the view. It's vain imaginations. Things that you think are important. The way you think church is, the way you talk about church, the way you talk about the things of God. These things are barriers, and obstructions, so you can't really see the bigger picture.
The devil would like to keep you bound in the flesh realm, where you see everything with the 5 senses. You need the Spirit of wisdom, and you need to pray for it and ask. You need the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened, that you may know God, and the hope of His calling. That you may know the power of God that is within you, and that you may know that riches that there are amongst the saints. You need the Spirit of wisdom to see that. There are riches in each child. There are blessings and gifts. Therefore it's so cruel. God hates slander. The slanderer will not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Why? Because the slanderer is seeing by the eyes of the devil, the accuser.
Who are we in Christ? We are chosen, holy, and dearly beloved. We are set apart. It's an awesome thing when your eyes begin to open and you begin to see what you are part of.
That is why God hates slander, because it doesn't say what He says. It means that your eyes are blinded, and that you are just looking in the natural. When we begin to see one another through the eyes of Christ, and we begin to see what church is all about, we'll see that it's the safest place on the face of the earth. It is part of the kingdom of heaven that is already established here on earth. Here, in this place, God wants to send His saints across the earth with good news, and with love. The world doesn't know love. It's full of anger. That is why it swears all the time, but God wants you to love, and say: “Jesus loves you”. Jesus loves, and He has empowered you to be a witness. That is what the Holy Spirit is for. Sin is going to cause death. Do you know that sin causes death and death and death and death? Many times in ministry, we are sitting with the results of sin. People have been destroyed because of lack of knowledge, because of mothers and fathers that didn't do the right thing because they sinned. It causes death, but those who live in Christ, and Christ lives in them produces life. You produce life to your children, you produce life to those around you. Jesus came that you might have life, and it more abundantly. If we understand what this is all about, we will have our priorities right. We won't have our priorities skew. The world is into vanity and pleasure. You can either serve God, or you can serve mammon. When your eyes are open, you know exactly what goes for what. May we walk in this road that Christ has for us. Don't let us turn to the left or to the right, let us walk straight, because it's going to produce life. Let us walk straight so that we will open a way, and so that our obedience will open a way for many others to follow.
In Revelation there is a plague like there has never been, that will shatter cities and mountains. But those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life, those who have washed their robes clean will enter into that new City. It's a reality. To build a church is vitally important, so that people can get saved. It's time again that the earth hears, like in Israel, the heaviness of worship in the Spirit that will shake the earth. It will shake people to fear God again.
Do you know why the crusades never worked? They were fighting for an earthly Jerusalem. They should have read the book of Daniel where it speaks of the abomination of desolation that is going to come, because the Lord said that there is new order that came – the New Testament. There is another new order coming.