The Final Quest

I just finished reading the 1st book of a series written by Rick Joyner. The book is called 'The Final Quest'. And though I feel like I'm about ten years behind everyone in reading this Christian classic. It had so much impact on me none the less. The book focuses on the final battle that will come at the end of this present age. The series of events that Rick Joyner saw were given to him through prophetic dreams and visions. Which maybe not all people can believe that the God of all creation still speaks to His people in this day with dreams. But when I read Joel 2:28, I read that this is actually a promise from the Lord in the end days that we are living in.

"And it shall come to pass afterward
  That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
  Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
  Your old men shall dream dreams,
  Your young men shall see visions." 

And since 'God shows personal favoritism to no man' (Galatians 2:6) this is something that we can all pray for because He WILL pour out His spirit.

Growing up I had several dreams of 'end time events'. I had a sense that I was created 'For such a time as this' but couldn't grasp the time in History I was really living in. After a year at the International House of Prayer where the mandate of this House is literally to raise up 10,000 prophetic end time messengers in the Spirit of John The Baptist to DECLARE the 2nd coming of Jesus, I feel that I am starting to finally grasp the times.

This book 'The Final Quest' has literally shaken me to the CORE. One of the comments made to Rick while he was in this vision was from Paul The Apostle. Rick asked Paul for a word to give to the end time church (us) and this is what Paul said: 

'You must recover the ministry and the message'..... Except for a few small places in the world where there is great persecution or difficulties now, we can hardly recognize either the ministry or the message that is being preached today. Therefore, the church is now but a phantom of what it was even in our time, and we were far from all that we were called to be. When we served, being in ministry was the the greatest sacrifice that one could make, and this reflected the message of the greatest sacrifice that was made- the cross. The cross is the power of God, and is is the center of all that we are called to live by. You have so little power to transform the minds and hearts of the disciples now because you do not live, and do not preach the cross. Therefore, we have difficulty seeing much difference between the disciples and the heathen. That is not the gospel or the salvation with which we were entrusted. You must return to the cross.'

'What looks good on earth looks very different here. What will make you a king on earth will often be a stumbling block to keep you from being a king here. What will make you a king here is lowly and unesteemed on earth...' 

This book reminded me that I am being prepped and prepared for a final battle that is to come, that many of us will see.  And that I am truly living for another age.   We put so much of our focus, time and energy on being 'successful' and known in this life. Recognition by man has consumed us. But is our level of success built on Earthly Standards or Heavenly Standards? Are we busy building Earthly names for ourselves that won't even be recognized in Heaven?

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"Take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. In this life you can fall from any level."