The Macedonian Call is the end-time cry of the lost, but it first came to the Apostle Paul in a profound vision. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us (Acts 16:9). Come over and help us! This Macedonian Call is just as fresh from God today as it was when it was given, and everyone must hear this call! The need is so great throughout the world today that I could be continually traveling from nation to nation.

And after he [Paul] had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them (Acts 16:10). They were on their way with full assurance from the Lord, but they still realized that everything wasn’t going to go smoothly. Some people are on board for God and the mission field as long as everything goes their way, while there are others who view missionary travel as a vacation. If you don’t have a heart of love for people and their souls, you should never go to the mission field. God has given us His great love to share with people, and I put my whole heart and life on the line to give them the precious Word of God.

Paul had three great missionary journeys, and the Bible describes just some of the many hardships he endured. At one time, Paul disagreed with one of his workers over who was going to accompany him on a particular missionary journey. Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do. And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus; And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God (Acts 15:36-40).

Paul didn’t like confusion. He had received the call to go, and he wasn’t going to be defeated; and he definitely wasn’t going to take someone along just because somebody else wanted him to.

Paul and Silas in Prison

God knew what Paul would face on that trip and who would best be able to fulfill the mission with him. And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers…And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks (Acts 16:16-19,23,24). The jail keeper was instructed to keep Paul and Silas in the inner prison with their legs shackled, but the two of them were in one mind and one accord.

People in one mind and one accord are the only ones who should be on the mission fields; and that’s all who should go, saith the Lord. This last hour has to be greater than Pentecost and exceed anything that happened in the Early Church. There are over six billion people on Earth today, and many of them think they’re ready to meet the Lord. But they’re actually in the World Church and not the Jesus Church. They’re not pleasing the Lord or walking in His steps; they’re not living in grace but rather in disgrace and deception.

Be a Servant of the Lord

Those who grumble, complain or find fault with things shouldn’t go to the mission field. Life is easy for us in comparison to the way people live in some of the places I’ve traveled. Many of the workers who accompany me are real missionaries; they go to serve, and they give their all while they’re there. Those who don’t go to serve should stay home; God doesn’t want them to go. God’s people have to stand as one army now just as they did in Gideon’s time; and when we do, God can really pour out His mighty power with judgments and blessings to defeat the devil.

There was a time when the Lord was unable to find one man to stand in the gap. And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none (Ezekiel 22:30). How pathetic! The deeper I go with God, the sorrier I feel for Him. Never forget what He’s had to deal with.

God has called different people to the mission field for Him; but some have let the devil deceive them into thinking they had better things to do, and they spent time playing rather than praying. They were more interested in feasting than fasting, and that’s why people fail. God lets me know when people aren’t prayed up.

One Voice

I can feel people’s spirits, good or bad. Those who sacrifice to send others to the mission field and give their lives to God at home will be rewarded just the same as those who go. When they hold my hands up, they’re going in spirit; and I couldn’t go without them. When I preach, they’re preaching; and when I pray for the sick, they’re praying for the sick. When God uses me to perform miracles and healings, they will also be made whole.

Their voices of faith and love are lifted up to join with those on the mission field, and together we make up one great voice in the wilderness just like that of John the Baptist. No one could stop his voice sounding forth. As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins (Mark 1:2-4).

The great trumpet of our voices must go forth as one, a voice of truth and greatness and not one of despair, oppression and depression! We have to forget about ourselves and reach out to serve. At times our lives may be in jeopardy, but we put them there for the sake of Christ. Thousands of people will crowd into places deemed dangerous; but God moves in, and we have no trouble.

No Complaints

When Paul took Silas, he chose a man who was full of grace and not one who would be a weak link; we don’t even hear of Silas complaining in jail. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them (Acts 16:25).

They didn’t grumble and complain even though the Bible says they were stripped of their clothes and beaten; they sang praises unto God. When you really love Jesus, nothing else matters but being in His will.

I consider doing God’s will to be the greatest privilege of my life. That’s why the gifts work in such perfection through me just like they did in the beginning of the Church. The voice of the Lord is now encouraging us to go on as the Holy Spirit warns us of the late hour.

Perfect Fellowship Destroyed

Adam and Eve were created in perfection with no contamination. They didn’t have physical blood but divine blood, and the Lord walked and talked with them in person every day. The tree of death was in the midst of the Garden, but it was an ugly sight to them as long as they walked in God’s will. Always remember that when you get out of the will of God, ugly things appear beautiful and beautiful things appear ugly; you’ll think truth is false and false is truth. The deadly weapons of the devil are damnable.

The devil will try to deceive everybody, no matter who they are. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect (Matthew 24:24).

Ego Is Destructive

Ego lifts people up, and the Lord told me that it comes straight from the devil. If you have any of it, you must get rid of it. Everyone is made of the same dirt, and the judgment of death is upon our flesh. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return (Genesis 3:19). But through Jesus Christ, the soul will live forever!

I’ve seen many preachers so full of ego that the Lord wiped them out because of the way they were living. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God (Hebrews 10:31). More than one went into the healing ministry but failed. They had robbed God’s people of their money and used it in the wrong way; and God let some of them die horrible deaths ahead of their time. The Bible warns, Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall (I Corinthians 10:12).

Don’t Be a Weak Link

If Silas had been a weak link, the earthquakes of power would not have benefited God like they did. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed (Acts 16:26). When people are in one mind and one accord, the locks fall off the doors; and we lead the prisoners out. We’re sent to set the captives free, but we first have to be free ourselves.

Thank God that Paul didn’t take a weak link with him on the Macedonian Call. God let me know that weak links cause Him to lose souls, and that deeply grieves Him. The Bible says that your life is no longer your own. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s (I Corinthians 6:19,20).

You’re going to serve what’s inside of you. Will it be love and grace or doubt and lukewarmness? If it’s the latter, you’ll hinder those around you. Paul knew what he needed to serve; and as God’s man for that hour, he went wherever God sent him.

Paul, a Vessel of the Lord

If Paul had failed, where would we be? There would be no Pauline epistles, and each one of his writings is a deep well of God’s truth. Paul knew the Law to the letter, and God had prepared him to separate it from grace like no other apostle could.

The devil thought he really had a hold on Paul. He was full of ego until the Lord knocked him down on the road to Damascus and was able to make Himself real to Paul for the first time. And as he [Paul] journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks (Acts 9:3-5).

Paul was well-educated and had served in the highest court, but he needed to be taught by the Lord. Therefore, God sent Paul into the wilderness for about three-and-a-half years where the Holy Ghost taught him day and night. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother (Galatians 1:15-19). Paul didn’t associate much with the other apostles, and there was a period of about fourteen years during which he didn’t even go to Jerusalem. He knew things wouldn’t be easy, but he also knew that he was called to bring the Gentiles in.

Take Time for Souls

Take another look into the jail on the night that the earthquake of power struck. The jailer almost killed himself because he thought all the prisoners had escaped. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house (Acts 16:28-31). If Paul and Silas had failed, the jailer would have taken his own life and been in hell today.

When we take our stand for God on the mission field, it will draw many people to salvation. But if you’re too busy and ignore souls, you’re failing God! God will say the same thing to you that He said to Adam and Eve, Where art thou (Genesis 3:9)?

When you’re covered with the blood, you will have the vision for lost souls. You’ll hear them calling, Come over here and help us! That call should mean more than food, sleep or personal time. I’m subject to be looking to God at any hour, and I only wish I had more hours to give to Him.

Don’t Follow the Flesh

God gave Paul powerful insight into the flesh—the weakness of it, the damnation of it and its destructiveness. In his letter to the Romans, he said, There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit (Romans 8:1). Those who walk after the flesh are so dead spiritually that they don’t even feel the condemnation of it. They think they’re all right, but they’re not God-right or in a place for Him to use them. They’re out of place now, and they’ll be out of place at Rapture time. I’ve cried and fasted over such people; and unfortunately, I’ve preached to many down through the years who wouldn’t give themselves completely to God.

Walk not after the flesh—God wants that to be in your spirit. Are you pleasing yourself or God? Are you following the star of Jesus or are you following your own star? People may boast about following their heart, but that isn’t what Jesus told us to do. When He gave the call to Peter and the other fishermen on the shore of Galilee, He said, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me (Matthew 16:24). You have no God unless you deny self; and when you deny self, you will follow the star of Jesus.

Deny Self

The wise men had to deny themselves to follow the star. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him (Matthew 2:1,2). It took them two years to get to Jesus, and I’m sure another two years to return home; but God had provided them with enough riches to sustain them that long. Note that the Bible calls them wise men, and the wise are the ones who really receive the Lord.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2). Paul had the flesh under subjection all the time and took on the mind of Christ. He understood and taught the mind of Christ like no one else in the Holy Scriptures.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh (Romans 8:3). The Lord gave His life so that we could walk in the Holy Spirit and be free from sin.

You Must Have Godly Sorrow

The Macedonian Call goes out to all today who have completely separated from sin and are following the Jesus star. Those who are following their hearts won’t make it. When I was a sinner, I wanted to do what I wanted to do; but when I found Jesus, I fell before Him with godly sorrow. That’s the only way people can come out of darkness, lukewarmness and disobedience. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death (II Corinthians 7:10). You have to be as sorry for your sins as God is that you committed them or He will not forgive you. One day you’ll realize that you tied His hands, but it will be too late. Souls have dropped into hell because of people’s failures to act like and obey God or to seek Him like they should.

Live in God’s Will

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit (Romans 8:4). If you’re walking after the flesh, you’ll make fleshly decisions; and that’s what the devil wants. You’re then under his control.

When you’re walking in the flesh, you can’t see the steps of Jesus. You deceive yourself by thinking, I have a right to do what I please. Yes, and you also have a right to fail God and go to hell. Some people may admit to not doing God’s divine will, but they will justify their actions by declaring that at least they’re doing God’s permissible will. But when you’re living on ego and making your own decisions, you’re not even doing God’s permissible will.

Israel got into big trouble because they wanted to be like others more than they wanted the will of God. Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations (I Samuel 8:4,5).

When you want to be like others, you’re walking in the flesh and arrogance takes you over. Oh, if you only knew how hard that kind of flesh looks to me through the Spirit and how much darkness surrounds a person in that condition.

Wasted Prayers

The Lord lets me know when it’s no longer necessary to pray for a person, and I know that any additional effort will be wasted prayer. God worked with Paul in the same way. The Lord also let Paul know which ones that he no longer needed to pray for. God even told Jeremiah in the Old Testament that it was too late to pray for certain people. Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee (Jeremiah 7:16).

You can’t turn your back on God and get away with it. Like Joshua I say, Choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD (Joshua 24:15).

Are you serving yourself or your “Benjamin”? Jacob wasn’t willing to give up his son Benjamin even if it meant that he and the rest of the family would starve to death. And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave (Genesis 42:38).

Some of you think that you’d just die if you had to give up your “Benjamin”. But you need to die through the grace and Spirit of God and be resurrected into newness of life. You’re blind; you can’t see, and you don’t hear what the Spirit is saying, saith the Lord.

Listen to the Spirit

You’re either on this divine mission for the Lord or you’re not; you’re either doing God’s divine will or you’re not, so don’t deceive your own heart. Think about Adam and Eve; they were so perfect in all of their ways until iniquity took over. The Bible says that at one time even Lucifer was perfect in his ways. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee (Ezekiel 28:15).

Sin and disobedience destroy people. Look at the Israelites again; they said they wanted a king, but the prophet Samuel said, It isn’t God’s will; He wants to be your king. Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles (I Samuel 8:19,20). They didn’t think Samuel knew what he was talking about, but they found out after it was too late that he did know.

Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night (I Samuel 15:10,11). Samuel nearly cried himself to death over Saul, and even God repented that He had chosen him. At first, he was so humble that the people had to search for him when it was time to crown him king. And when they sought him [Saul], he could not be found. Therefore they inquired of the LORD further, if the man should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff (I Samuel 10:21,22). Saul didn’t think he was worthy. Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me (I Samuel 9:21)?

Have No Fear

Now consider little David. He didn’t stop to determine whether or not he was worthy; he just loved God, and he knew God would bring victory. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them (I Samuel 17:36). He never dreamed that he would become a soldier and face a giant; but when he saw Goliath he said, Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God (I Samuel 17:26)?

Everyone was afraid of Goliath, but David wasn’t. Relieved that they wouldn’t be called on to face the giant, some of the men ran to tell Saul that they had found someone willing to fight Goliath. Saul was afraid too; so even when he saw how young David was, he didn’t discourage him. And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him. And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine (I Samuel 17:31,32).

Saul pulled off his big coat of armor and put it on little David, but it nearly swallowed him up. And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him (I Samuel 17:38,39). David had sense enough to know that this armor wouldn’t work. He had already killed a bear and a lion with just his slingshot, and he knew he could rely on it again.

Divine Victory

By this time, Saul was a backslider and had failed God. He was a hypocrite and afraid, so he let David go with just five little stones. And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook [J-E-S-U-S], and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine (I Samuel 17:40).

David was anxious to finish the job so the armies of Israel would see what God could do. And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field (I Samuel 17:43,44). The devil was bellowing out through Goliath all that he would do to David; but David had God, and that was all he needed.

And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him (I Samuel 17:49,50).

It doesn’t take all of divinity to defeat the devil. Just one little stone did it when used by a holy hand that was connected to a holy heart and operated by a holy Jesus-mind; and to the amazement of the enemy, down Goliath went. But David didn’t stop there. David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his [Goliath’s] sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled (I Samuel 17:51). What would have happened if David hadn’t been obedient to and humble before God?

Don’t Please Self

The Bible says, For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace (Romans 8:6). People are either dead like Saul’s army or alive like David. Those that are dead aren’t pleasing God and will never get to Heaven. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God (Romans 8:7,8). The Bible says that even Jesus didn’t please Himself when He was here. For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me (Romans 15:3).

Angel and I never would have stayed in Akron, Ohio if it had not been God’s will. But where would some of you be today? When people miss God’s will, it causes souls to go to hell; and those that failed are responsible. On the great day of rewards, the Lord will tell those that didn’t live in His divine will, You damned this number of souls to hell. I gave you talents to use, and I tried to work with you; my Spirit even tried to work with you, but you wanted your own way. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death (Proverbs 14:12). You have no life unless you’re pleasing God, and you could drop into hell at any time.

But ye are not in the flesh (Romans 8:9). We’re on stage for the whole world now, and we can’t conquer if we’re living in the flesh. We can’t let anything stop us! This ministry is winning more souls now than big organizations are. Those who are connected with God and will pay any price are the ones He can use.

Bow to God’s Will

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his (Romans 8:9). Christ’s Spirit was a humble, sacrificial one with no ego; He only wanted to do the whole will of God. When Jesus was talking to the Father in the Garden, He said, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt (Matthew 26:39). It seemed like Jesus had taken as much as His flesh could possibly take when He agreed to bear all our sins, sicknesses and diseases; but the Lord sent angel help. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him (Luke 22:43).

The Lord will send angels to strengthen us again and again in this hour. The angel of the Lord can reach out and touch me at any time, and it gives me such mighty strength that I don’t even know the end of it.

We Are Not Our Own

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh (Romans 8:11,12). Paul said that we don’t owe our flesh anything because we’re not our own.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God (Romans 8:13,14). I never cater to my flesh. Those that are led by their own heart or their own star are not led by the Spirit. If you follow your star, that’s the call of the devil, saith the Lord. You’ll go straight to hell.

Adam and Eve did what they wanted to do, and the Bible never mentions that they ever found grace. They went to the tree of death even when the tree of life was in front of them. Jesus, our tree of life, is available to all today; but self will take you away from that tree, and then you’ll be spiritually dead.

Trust in the Lord

Sin is pleasant to the eyes, so you can’t trust your eyes or your ears unless you have a holy, blood-heart. The Lord said people were blind and deaf to His teachings because they wanted to be. For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them (Matthew 13:15).

The Antichrist’s spirit of disobedience is everywhere in the world today. Clouds of disobedience hang over the earth like clouds of thick smoke. It’s a deadly hour without the Lord; but when you live under His wings, you trust in Him. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler (Psalm 91:4).

Answer the Call

Listen again to the Macedonian Call: Come over here and help us! Are you going to answer it? The Lord said He could get along without those who are on the fringes. He said He would push them out of the way, and He has done that. After the Rapture takes place, there will be those left screaming, Come back, Jesus! I’ll do anything! But it will be too late; there is just one flight out! Everyone must choose whom they will serve—the devil or God. As for me and my house, we’re going to serve the Lord!

It’s wonderful to walk with the Lord. The Bible says, Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered (Romans 8:26). People who fail don’t have the real Holy Ghost because He never leads people on a disobedient walk.

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God (Romans 8:27). The Holy Spirit makes intercession only according to God’s will. He won’t compromise with anyone, and He won’t make intercession for those who don’t want God’s will. You’ll take the will of God in this hour or you won’t travel with God, saith the Lord.

Walk God’s Way

We must walk with God in liberty and freedom. Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:1,2). This verse says, looking unto Jesus, not looking unto self. You have to not only deny self but crucify it.

Some of those who want their way rather than God’s way actually think that God will change His mind. Israel wanted their own way, and it didn’t matter to them what God wanted. God let them know that they would suffer if He answered their prayer and gave them a king, and they did pay a great price.

Look again at Saul in his backslidden state. He was told to go and destroy a king and all of his subjects because they were fighting God. When he came back, he told Samuel that he’d done the whole will of God. And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD (I Samuel 15:13).

If that was so, then Samuel wanted to know, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear (I Samuel 15:14)? Oh, let me tell you about that, Saul boasted.

When you boast about something that’s out of the will of God, you’re deceived. Your mind is leeched, saith the Lord; and you don’t know whereof you speak.

God taught me about the devil’s leeches and showed me how they attach to the mind. They’re just tiny, little spirits that the devil patiently drops into the mind as if from an eyedropper. Eventually, there will be so many that the last one blocks out all the light; and the devils can’t be cast out.

We Must Separate

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28). All things can’t work for your good until you answer the call according to His purpose.

Preacher, I’m doing the best I can!

But are you doing the Lord’s best? When God chooses a person for Heaven, that’s the holiest calling of all! He chooses them to become a member of the family of God and to have divine blood in their soul so they will live forever. He destroys every particle of death.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory (I Corinthians 15:55)? The blood takes away the sting of death to the point that the Lord many times referred to it as sleep because He had conquered it when He brought divine life.

We must be a separated people, and Matthew tells us from whom we’re to separate. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it (Matthew 10:34-39).

Jesus said that He came to separate, but some of you refuse to do it. You’ll listen to your family complain, bicker and bad-mouth God and His ministry. You’ll allow them to drag you out of services and hinder you from doing what the Lord has called you to do. This type of compromise won’t bring peace; it will only destroy any peace that you still have.

I don’t want to be popular with the world. I want to do the whole will of God and bring in the lost no matter what the cost!

Love God First

If you love God rather than yourself, you won’t have trouble following the Lord. The Bible says, Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him (I John 2:15). Beware, because the devil will try to blind you, deceive you and rob you of all of God’s love. Then, love for yourself and what you want will take over.

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us (Romans 8:31)? If you put God first, it won’t matter what comes against you. You don’t have to cater to your family when they don’t treat you or God right. I don’t let my unsaved family members hinder me because when I left the world behind, I left them with it. I don’t care how much they grumble and complain; I want to be like Jesus, and I have both of my hands in His. I have plenty of family in God’s people who love the Lord like I do.

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things (Romans 8:32)? God sacrificed His Son for us all. Will you walk over His crucified body? Will you trample underfoot the shed blood of the One who died for you?

God Is with Us

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us (Romans 8:33,34). We have it made. Even when we feel weak, God said we’re to say we’re strong because He promised to make us strong.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us [We have nothing to fear or worry about.]. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:35-39). These verses prove that God is with us in every situation because He promised to never leave us nor forsake us.

Paul Endured

That passage was also the secret to how the Apostle Paul made it and conquered. He as well as other children of God were in danger of being killed at any moment. They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) (Hebrews 11:37,38).

Study the book of Romans and the other Pauline epistles, and you’ll realize all that Paul endured. Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches (II Corinthians 11:22-28). Does this sound like Paul was full of self? No, through it all, he had no ego; and he kept his mind on Christ.

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (II Corinthians 10:5). Every one of our thoughts must be to the obedience of Christ.

Secrets to Success in Christ

Then Paul writes to the Thessalonians: Rejoice evermore (I Thessalonians 5:16). He was speaking to the obedient. If you’re not obedient to God, your joy will be false; and it won’t last. Things that are pleasant to the eyes can temporarily make you happy; but any spiritual sight brings the love of God, the power of God and the ways of God.

Paul also said, Pray without ceasing (I Thessalonians 5:17). We must always have a Spirit of prayer. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Quench not the Spirit (I Thessalonians 5:18,19). When you fail God in any way, you’re quenching and grieving the Spirit of God.

Despise not prophesyings (I Thessalonians 5:20). When you fail to believe the prophecies that God gives regardless of how you feel about them, you’re in big trouble. I just speak thus saith the Lord as God directs, and you can believe it or doubt it. If you don’t believe it, the Lord will lift His Spirit from you and let you go your own way into the dark night. You’ll be a believer one day, either in Heaven or in hell. There will be no unbelievers in hell.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil (I Thessalonians 5:21,22). Notice that it says to stay away from even the appearance of evil, but people won’t listen. Some are involved in pornography, but they’ll go to hell for it. They’ll be left when the Rapture takes place, probably take the Mark of the Beast, become like the devil himself and be doomed forever. Some may hide things even from their own mates, but God sees all. The only people who are not doomed in this old world are those who are living in the will of God—in His sanctification, His holiness and His righteousness!

Where Art Thou?

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it (I Thessalonians 5:23,24). This is true victory!

Where art thou today? If you’re out of the will of God, you have that hard-crusted arrogance that goes along with those in self. You must decide whether you’re going to be in or out. You’ve been given the truth, and you have your chance to go the right way or the wrong way; it’s up to you. Those that are failing God are lifting self up rather than Jesus, but those that are following God are lifting Jesus higher and higher; and every time you lift Jesus up, you go a little higher, too. Jesus is our life, our love, our greatness, our wisdom, our knowledge, our peace, our sanctification, our way, our light, our bread and our ladder to Heaven.

You who are lukewarm or not serving God, you must get right with the Lord today; it could be your last chance. People are receiving their last call in this hour, so you’d better move fast while the Spirit is still dealing with you.

Come to the Lord

Pray with me: Oh, God, I am so sorry that I have sinned against you. I have failed you and failed myself, but I give myself to you today, Lord. Do forgive me, and I’ll never go away again. I will do your will, and I want your smile above everything else. I know that there’s no real life, sunshine or joy without your smile, Lord; and there’s no rain from Heaven. Come into my heart now and wash everything away that’s unlike you. Forgive me, Jesus, and come in!

If you meant that prayer, now you can say, Hallelujah! He has come. Hallelujah! Jesus is mine.

Receive a Miracle

You can now have a miracle or a healing. The Lord wants to heal you. It’s not the will of the Lord for us to be sick any more than it’s His will for us to be sinful. Sickness doesn’t come from God. Only good and perfect gifts come from the Lord, and I’ve never seen a perfect sickness or disease. Lord, I call healing down upon the sick and afflicted today, and I ask you to get them well. Nothing is too hard for you, Lord. You have healed untold thousands through this Jesus ministry, and you can heal every affliction and every disease. Heal them now through the all-powerful blood name of Jesus. Heal! Heal!

Feel the Lord as He heals you now. Feel Him as He wipes away everything that distresses you. Close your case and get well. If you have any more pain, realize that it’s just a false symptom and that the devil is trying to rob you. Don’t let him do it!

Thus Saith the Lord

I have given my servant this message for you; you can accept it or reject it. If you reject it, you’ll walk your own paths; and I won’t be with you. I’ll not smile upon you, and you will carry only my frown. But you that walk after me, I will be with you; and you will not be defeated. I will lift you up. I will give you light to see on the darkest of nights. I will be with you, and you will know that I am with you; and I will use you in this final hour to bring in the harvest before it’s too late.

The hour is a late one, and I give you the Macedonian Call. My Spirit prayeth for thee. You cannot fail me now. This is the Macedonian Call, millions are crying, Come over here and help us find Jesus! Help us find the joy you have, the love you have and the grace you have. Come over here and help us; we need the light of the Gospel. Come and help us; oh, do come and help us!

I pray that you hear and heed the Macedonian Call. God Bless.