The Fire of Jeremiah that Burns in your Belly Till It Comes Out

By: Matthew Robert Payne
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:25:30
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It was 11.30 pm and I wondered if I was going to go to sleep tonight or stay up tonight and the Lord through the Holy Spirit had me see a News broadcast that said statistically Australia based on the little over a hundred recorded years of weather is facing the worst drought in a thousand years.

It was a statement that our Prime Minister tried to play down by saying it was not part of the Federal parliament members prepared statement for the day, but simply an answer to a question and mentioned that it is impossible to say that.

It was quite a statement and I knew God was angry with my nation over our sins, our rebellion and open idolatry in the church, and I knew that this current drought was bad, but is seems the worst we have had in a thousand years. That means God has Australia under judgment. It’s no freak of nature, it is planned and it is God’s doing, and sure global warming through man’s errors have contributed to the situation the world is facing now, but we as a nation are being judged.

Twenty minutes went by and the Holy Spirit took me to

2 Chronicles 7:14 (New International Version) 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. He then had me describe to our prime minister in a personal letter to him why our nation is considered sick by the Lord and why this drought exists and what needed to be done by the church to restore the health to our country spiritually and for Him to send the rain as like Elijah’s prayer did..

Six years ago when I was off my medication I believe that the Lord led me to send a ten page warning to our countries leaders and I sent an email to all the Federal members of parliament. I emailed them the warning and never got a response and I am sure I got logged as a crack pot.

Today as I didn’t want to write the letter, The Lord reminded me of a registered letter I wrote to a member of parliament once and how he responded to my letter and my questions and outlined how he was going to address them and promised to keep me informed. So I sat down for an hour and let the Holy Spirit take over and wrote something that turned out really quite easy to write.

The nervousness in my gut now, some half an hour after I have written it makes me want to be sick. Normally I will get this sort of sick feeling in my gut when the Lord wants me to say a prophesy out loud in the worship part of a church I am visiting. Now as I type I have this sort of prophet’s gut.

The essential message was that the church needs to repent from their sin, get on their knees and seek the grace of the Lord and turn from the wickedness found within it and its members and when the church body does that in a nation then the Lord will heal the nation. The prime minister of Fiji did this as a nation years ago and the Lord brought rain and healed their coral reefs and brought back fish to catch. The Lord is a God of promises but when we serve the God’s of other nations we cannot stay blessed as a nation.

As a boy I wanted to be an evangelist. All I wanted to share was Jesus with the people and today if I had of known what the Lord had planned for me to do I would not have ever wanted to serve the Lord full time in the ministry. But how could this be?

The message of repentance is not an easy message to bring. To bring a message that God is upset with the West is not a message I take pleasure in bringing to Christians as it causes me to step into the firing line. We all hate pain, but the Lord is sovereign and He gets His way in the hearts of the righteous and even us little guys have to do what the Lord says each day, to take the little steps before we take the big steps.

I must say, I do not know where God is going with this message I wrote tonight but I have done my part, and what response I will get from the five page letter I sent our nations leader is up to the Lord. All I know that the Lord has not called me to give soft wonderful messages all the time about peoples futures. He calls me to bring a hard teaching and possibly preach on something that isn’t popular these days, like obedience is better then going to church and singing praise and worship.

We all remember Saul offered up a sacrifice when He was King of Israel. He was ordered by Samuel the prophet to wait until he had arrived and because the people were growing impatient he made the decision to disobey and then win the favour of men.

Of course Samuel turned up and he was full of excuses and did not want to confess his sin of disobedience and doing something he was not told to do.

God has not changed. He hates sin. It’s time for the church to stop loving to sin.

Anyway, it scares me of our States leaders talking how water sharing and water buying is going to start happening in our country. How one State or one town will buy fresh water from other towns. The dam for Sydney is down to below 40% capacity. And when politicians are having meetings on how they are going to deal with the long term impact of this drought until it breaks, it really puts the fear of God into a person.

I mean it’s okay for Africa to be in drought and famine. That’s a country that’s far away and not on TV every night but the idea of famine and starvation in your own country puts the fear of God into you. I don’t know how people who don’t know the Lord feel.

This strong fear of God in me gave me the compassion and the motivation to put away my fear of being locked in a psychiatric ward for warning this letter to my nation’s leader.

For two weeks it has been in my spirit that I was going to write a prophetic warning to my nation’s leader. The Holy Spirit gave me time to adjust to the fact that I might again be locked away for my faith.

Suffering mental illness makes people doubt that you hear from God. I struggled with this until the Holy Spirit opened the Bible to this passage for me once.

As manic depressive a maniac is a person who has been up for days or off his medication.

Hosea 9:7 (New International Version)

7 The days of punishment are coming,

the days of reckoning are at hand.

Let Israel know this.

Because your sins are so many

and your hostility so great,

the prophet is considered a fool,

the inspired man a maniac.

Some hard things I share in my writings are And what if you who practice the same sin each week or every two weeks and never fully repent of it and turn from your sin forever with the grace that only comes when a truly repentant heart meets Jesus at the cross 2000 years ago, would see you go to hell even if you were a born again Christian? Would you be a fool for saying those who practice these sins mentioned below with no real intention of giving them up are in real danger of the hell fire?

Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Wouldn’t that make me a fool? And since I am saying so many things contrary to your beliefs what if I said that you can stop all your sin with Christ if you learn to hate the sin and you learn to walk in the Spirit.

Galatians 5:16

I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. What if I said that you can be sinless or at least sin a lot less? 1 John 3:3-10 (New King James Version) 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.

7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

But you may say no one is perfect but the Christ for all have sinned. This same Apostle John agrees with you all have sinned but Christ.

1 John 1:8 (New King James Version)

8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. But if we confess with a heart that hates the sin and genuinely does not want to partake in the pleasure we get from that sin again and God sees our heart and knows we are serious. 1 John 1:9 (New King James Version)

9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

From how much unrighteousness? From all of it? Does that mean we take each sinful habitual sin to Him one by one and nail it on the cross?

Yes.

Can we be sinless? Do we always have to be stuck with this body of sin? Can we be free of sin like Jesus? Good news is this.

1 John 2:6 (New King James Version)

6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

Now would John have the hide to write this epistle if he wasn’t living up to this scripture?

Yes I am a maniac without enough sleep sometimes, and a fool that preaches on the net through articles that get read by roughly about 100 people each and some of my best ones are even posted on other web-sites and this little thing I do brings me much joy.

Am I right?

Maybe not!

But this I do know. I am going with what I feel led to say and write. Tonight I wrote to the Prime Minister and I am a little nervous about the response I will get.

Have you got insight into some scriptures in the Bible? Revelation that you feel the body of Christ needs to hear or would benefit from? Why not write an article for this ezine on your inspiration and revelation? Go on, be a fool.

Preach a little holiness

Dare to share the gospel with the people who need Jesus

Dare to make some Christians think

And one day, you might be writing a few articles like me and the Holy Spirit might give you inspiration each week, or month or each one at a time as often as you can.

Take a leap and share something really nice. Have a blessed day.

And stop sinning this week for a change, for Jesus said to the women caught in adultery, “Go and sin no more, and to the man he healed at the pool,. Now stop sinnig less a worse thing come upon you!” If they did it , so can we, one sin at a time!!

God bless you.

Do you feel called to be a prophet?. I’d be glad to share some stories that will have you chose another anointing. I’d be happy just to be a writer. Lol Let’s rephrase that, I am happy being a writer!

Let me pray for you

Father work on the spirit man of this reader and activate faith in them that they can get past that little or big sin the weighs them down. If I had a sex addiction for twenty years and you broke it, I know you can deal with other sins just as large or even little ones like gossip that sneak in. Help us Lord to read what you Word says and listen to what your Spirit says and walk in the Spirit so that we do not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. Lord I pray for the readers whose lives have placed lies over their life that say they are not worthy of good friends, or not worthy of good things, or that no one listens to them, or that they are not loveable and lead them all to a prayer counsellor that can help them find inner healing and break these curses.

I ask all this in Jesus name, with the faith that knows you will answer my prayer.

Amen

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