The hardest thing is the waiting.
The key is more than obedience. It’s not what you know or can do. It’s a feudal submission to Christ, a total commitment of desire for His glory. It’s a heart aflame for Him and His servants. Even then, it’s only the servants He brings into your life, because you must know them personally for this to work. It is relentlessly personal — with Christ and with His people. This is the standard by which all things are measured.
When I say America is doomed, it has nothing to do with looking back over the country’s history and picking out moments based on some human standard of evaluation. I say “America is doomed” because that’s the word of the Lord to me and my spiritual family. In my ministry, there came a day when the Lord said my call for repentance was done. It has nothing to do with individuals here and there repenting when the Spirit moves them. Rather, what I’m pointing to is the moment when the Lord commanded me to stop making that call. Whatever else is going on in this world, the ministry He gave me shifted away from the call for folks out there in my world to repent.
It’s a question of as far as I’m concerned there is no repentance left for this country. Whether or not that registers with you is for you and God to decide. My mission is going to proceed as if it’s no longer possible for Americans at large.
In my heart, I know there was a time when people could join themselves to a core group of genuine followers of Christ and they would harvest some of the blessings. Because some small core of people were truly committed to Him, He would tolerate the presence of a bunch of people who simply hung out with that devoted bunch. A lot of churches experienced some measure of His covenant blessings. For whatever reason, that time of tolerance is over.
From that day forward, it has become a matter of God giving folks enough rope to hang themselves. Why is He so tolerant of the insulting rejection of His message? Why does He put up with folks doing such a hack job of misrepresenting Him, lying about Him and His character? Because the gate is closed and they are all doomed together.
Only the Eye of the Needle is left. That’s where you unload everything you have and come to Him on the most severe terms of personal submission. He’s only accepting individual submissions; the nation as a whole is lost already. There is no longer any way for His blessings to fall on nations — none of them. Even what little they could have had in the past is gone now. The gate kept getting narrower and narrower until it was gone. Now you must throw away everything you have to enter.
Right now, there aren’t many who are ready for that. They will have to hit bottom first, reach that point when nothing else matters. Do you suppose they’ll reach that bottom when everything they know, everything they thought they had, is gone? God’s wrath will fall on America, but not all at once. It will come bit by bit, occasionally in big chunks, testing to see how much pain it takes to move people to seek Him.
How long until the fruit is ripe? Wait and see.
