Preparing a People
Each person is individually responsible to God for having the proper attitude toward His word.
What a marvelous thing it was that God almighty delivered the children of Israel out of Egypt in such a glorious way. God raised up a man to lead them, and He put it in their hearts to move out when the time was right .
God never failed them in one of His promises. But the time came when the Hearts of those people turned away from the God of Israel; they forgot the days when God took them of Egypt. They forgot the pitfalls there and the sufferings that God had taken them around when He delivered them in such a marvelous way.
Many people today have sat under the sound of the Latter Rain Gospel .Many have known the power of the Latter Rain truth, have had the blessings,the healings, the joy of having their own hearts redeemed and of seeing their loved ones brought into the Gospel of the kingdom of Heaven.
Yet it has become easy for them to depart from the truth of God's eternal word and to make a lie their refuge.God is speaking to those in the world today. The spirit of truth is speaking to hearts.
God is calling for truth,righteousness,purity,honesty, and holiness. God is laying in the hearts of His people something
that cannot be removed. It is the truth of this wonderful Gospel.
God has permitted us to live in these days, to stand on holy ground. He has permitted our eyes to see the glory of God, and for many of us to feel the " floodgates" open in our hearts and lives. God demands that we stand true to Him so that He might find faith on earth when He returns. He is coming back! and He asks,
" When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" {Luke 18:8}. Many of the prophets and pastors today are not looking to the truth of God's word; they are looking to a code or doctrine that is born and frame by their church government. If it is according to the word of God, it will stand; but when any
authority of any church government denies a portion of the word of God, that church might as well be worshipers of Baal or the golden image, because they are lost --Eternal lost. God's word is true! You
mark it! You cannot change that word.
You complain and say, " My church is responsible," but you are responsible, individually, to God for your attitude toward God and His word.
There are many people who might apply to their lives the verse in Jeremiah 2:13, " For my people have committed two evils, they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water." Those people find that somewhere in their life they need to say, "
I don't have what God wants me to have . I am seeking to be more like Jesus, but I fail to get it. There seems to be a barrier somewhere." If they would begin to search their hearts, very likely, they would find that they have hewed out a cistern of their own. God wants you to have a vessel that has been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ,
a vessel unto holiness, unto righteousness that will hold the Living water that God sends down from Heaven.
In the Book of Zechariah, we read "Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the Latter Rain;so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them
showers of rain, to every one grass in the field " {Zechariah 10:1}. Truly we need that today. This old world is dry and parched and burning. Men's hearts are sinful and corrupt. God is calling for people to get down before Him and to be filled to overflowing with the spirit of the Latter Rain Gospel that they might be instruments to point sinners
to the Living One.
God wants us to get His Glory in hearts above everything else.
From a Sermon by Florence L. Crawford
Florence L. Crawford was the founder of the Apostolic Faith work. After being saved and then receiving her deeper experiences in the Azusa Street revival in Los Angels at the turn of the century, she became an undaunted leader whose message and ministry reached hearts and lives the world over.She led the Apostolic Faith work from 1907 until her passing on June 20,1936.