JOSHUA TIME 460

Welcome, Joshua, to the Prophet’s Chamber of Pastor Rod Parsley!
Joshua, I want to tell you a story about a modern believer who grew up in church and loved to sing praise songs and listen to great sermons ... and somehow forgot, or never learned, that there was a world in peril whose desperate cries never came to his ears, who never extended his hand in love to them, although he certainly loved God. Does this believer sound familiar to you? Do you sit next to him in church ... or could he be the one who looks back at you in the mirror? Seize this moment: Take this message and make the shift from status quo to status GO and fulfill God’s objective upon your life!
Prophetic Word: STORM WARNING
The great missionary statesman of India, Jim Anderson, told of the time he was in the United States raising funds and happened to be driving down a country road when he saw a sight that just amazed him: a phalanx of combines, a dozen or more, were all furiously harvesting the same field together, side by side. Jim had never seen more than one combine going about its solitary work in the fields of the Midwest, and he just had to know: why were all these threshers working together at such an immense pace?
He pulled off the side of the road and flagged down one of the farmers to ask what was going on. The farmer hurriedly explained: there was an immense storm coming, and the only hope all the neighboring farms had to bring in their harvest before the storm washed it away was to work together. Every man was harvesting every other man’s field, in hopes of bringing the whole harvest in before the storm hit.
As the farmer hurried back to his combine, Jim Anderson heard the voice of the Lord say to him, “You must not go back to India. You must stay here in America, because there is a storm coming, and the harvest is not yet in.”
The storm is coming — and it is here! If you don’t think the storm has begun to ravage our precious America, consider this:
Every week, 4,000 unborn babies are aborted and taken out with the trash. That’s 4,000 legal murders of innocent babies every week in America. The storm is here. Every week 8,000 young people in America contract sexually transmitted diseases. That means 8,000 teenaged lives are ruined every week. The storm is here.
You witnessed in New Orleans what happens when people can’t get away from the storm: there is chaos, carnage, mayhem, loss of life ... on a spiritual scale, we are facing another Hurricane Katrina, another southeast Asian tsunami, as a storm of the devil’s making, straight from the pit of hell, breaks across the morality and spirituality of the USA with the intent to steal, kill and destroy.
It is time and past time to get a view of eternity again, and the idea that hundreds of millions of lost souls are ready for harvest — but if we do not work together to bring them in, they will be lost forever. What does it take? It takes every man harvesting every other man’s field. It takes all those combined, side by side, going as fast and furious as they can to bring in that harvest.
But my dear Platinum Breakthrough Covenant Partner, that is not happening! The church in America today has yet to heed the storm warning and is going about its business as usual, its status quo, just as if we never heard the words of the Savior: “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matthew 24:37-39).
There is coming a day when the seas will be seething, the moon bleeding, the world dying, and on that day, it won’t matter how many suits of clothes you had in your closet. God will not ask you about your stock portfolio or your condo at the beach. There is only one thing God will want to know on that day: how many did you rescue from a godless eternity with the gifts and abilities He gave you?
There is a storm coming, and God is calling me to mobilize a great army, connected in our faith and in our purpose, to bring our Savior the reward of His suffering. As a born-again believer in Jesus Christ, you have a divine mandate and a holy commission to go into all the world and preach the Gospel. You may not be able to go into the mission field yourself, but Psalm 68:12 declares that the one who remains at home to send the army divides the spoil with the foot soldier.
I believe that right now. The storm is coming, and God has touched my spirit with the urgency of the times ... such a mighty touch of God that it resulted in a complete paradigm shift in my life and our ministry together. I believe God is speaking to His people to return to their first love, to exalt a risen Savior once again, and to proclaim the Good News of the Gospel from the rooftops! Why? Because a storm of immense magnitude has already begun to batter the borders of our nation. If we don’t work together to bring in the harvest, those precious souls will remain forever lost.
Status quo is no longer an option for the church. The only way to fulfill our commission before God is to choose Status GO. Out of the ashes of yesterday’s church, I believe God is raising up a whole new kind of believer, the likes of which the devil has never seen before! They will be the Elishas and Elijahs, the Shadrachs, Meschachs and Abednegos. They will be the ones who refuse to bow down and compromise. I believe you are one of those. My question to you is simply this:
Why not you? Why not now?
You have already declared your intention to knit your heart to mine as a Platinum Covenant Partner, so I know you are praying for me and standing beside me, to lift up the arms of the prophet just as they did for Moses so many years ago. You are with me, I know, and you will stand with me as we embrace this paradigm shift and launch into the race to bring in the harvest before the storm that will ravage this nation and our world.
My prayer for you and me together is this:
Dear God and heavenly Father, You see how my heart is knit together with Joshua whom You have called according to Your purpose. Now I declare that we together, as Your children and Your servants, are no longer satisfied with business as usual, but have made it our intention to race together to bring in the great harvest of souls in advance of the storm that is even now battering our borders! With Your grace, Your guidance and Your blessing, we will be the ones to bring this wayward generation back to God and place them as precious jewels in the crown of our Savior!
Amen and amen! Thank you, partner, for standing with me for this critical moment in time, when we, together, can impact the future of America and the world, by God ’s power!