Something powerful and awesome is going on in the world today. It is a force beyond human comprehension that will affect the entire world in these last days. God is preparing a small but powerful army of Christians. He is going to close out the ages with a pure, devoted, fearless group.
All my life I have heard stories about our godly forefathers who hated sin. These men and women knew God’s voice and spent hours, even days, in fasting and prayer. They prayed relentlessly and had the power and ability to successfully stand up against immorality in their day.
These forefathers have long since passed on, but God is in the process of raising up another army. This time it will not be made up only of elderly, gray-haired fathers and mothers of the faith. It will have both new and seasoned believers, young and old - ordinary Christians who lay hold of God in a new realm of ministry.
The denominational church system appears to be in the throes of death. It has almost no influence in the secular world, no mighty power in Christ. Some accuse me of being “hard” on pastors, but I am in touch with many godly pastors who grieve as I do over the backsliding in the ministry today. There are many godly pastors, and I thank God for every one of them. Yet it is still a fact that more and more ministers are racing down the road of compromise.
The Bible warns that we are not to worry about this. God has a plan that we can read about in scripture, mostly in the first four chapters of 1 Samuel.
The prophet Samuel is a type of God’s last-days people. The Lord chose him during the worst of times and hid him away in training until it was time to reveal his new thing. God told Samuel, “Behold, I will do something in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle” (1 Samuel 3:11, NKJV). What would so amaze and startle all who heard it? It was the judgment of God on the backslidden religious system and the raising up, training and anointing of men and women committed to him.
God does in every generation what he did in Samuel’s day. He raises up a praying people after his own heart.