THE RESULT OF THE PERSECUTION OF LUXURY

THE RESULT OF THE PERSECUTION OF LUXURY

My kingdom is gigantic and filled with wonder. I have millions of citizens in the kingdom. There are many more to be added. Most of those who yet remain on earth, especially in the western cultures, are still in preparation for citizenship. I have few laborers, to do the preparing of newborns, teaching by example, the ways of the kingdom. To compensate for the lack of workers, I move some gifted laborers from place to place to impart kingdom principles. 

I requested you to pray for more laborers, but it is not high on your priority list. Therefore, there is a shortage of laborers. I move people from place to place and person to person, with a variety of gifts, to ensure that the body in the west, keeps moving toward maturity. I would that each local body, had all the gifts in operation, but luxury and ease, have greatly hampered the maturing of western believers. The gifts have been prostituted, to increase luxury, instead of mature the saints.

Where persecution abounds, I have no shortage of laborers. Real persecution produces maturity, much faster than western perceived persecution does. Because of the shortage of laborers in the west, when a believer,  reaches an understanding of kingdom,  I find it necessary to move them from place to place, to demonstrate kingdom life. Because persecution is so seldom in the western culture, kingdom maturity is very slow in developing. An eastern teenager who has undergone persecution for My sake, is more mature than most pastors in the western world. A kingdom depth of commitment, filters through ever fiber of their body, soul and spirit, while undergoing real persecution. 

In the west, they cry persecution when the offerings are down. In the east they cry, Jesus loves you, while being hung upside down for hours. In the west they rebuke the devil for giving them a flat tire, while in the east they praise Me for the privilege of being beaten and going to prison for preaching the gospel. In the west when a Christian is arrested for doing good it makes national headlines. In the east when a christian is released from prison, it makes headlines.

In western Christianity, taking people to court and suing them, for some inconvenience or pain someone caused, is normal. In eastern Christianity witnessing and sharing My love with the executioner, before they are executed, is the norm. To think that these will share the same rewards in My kingdom is insanity. One causes me to rejoice, while the other I want to spit out. My kingdom coming to the west is much slower and more difficult than the east.

Maturity will speed up in the west, as persecution increases. Rejoice and be glad for the gray areas will disappear as you see the real Christians stand up, and the luke warm fall away. This separation of wheat and chaff will bring true revival. Pray that I send laborers to the west, I am transferring some from the east to demonstrate the kingdom reaction to persecution. 

The reason people don't pray for laborers, rests in the fact, they, themselves, are not part of the labor force yet. If you are laboring night and day without enough help, you will be crying out, for Me to send more workers. Join the labor force yourself, before praying for labors.

Matthew 9:35-38 (AMP)
And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news (the Gospel) of the kingdom and curing all kinds of disease and every weakness and infirmity. [36] When He saw the throngs, He was moved with pity and sympathy for them, because they were bewildered (harassed and distressed and dejected and helpless), like sheep without a shepherd. [37] Then He said to His disciples, The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. [38] So pray to the Lord of the harvest to force out and thrust laborers into His harvest.

Matthew 5:10-12 (AMP)
Blessed and happy and enviably fortunate and spiritually prosperous (in the state in which the born-again child of God enjoys and finds satisfaction in God''s favor and salvation, regardless of his outward conditions) are those who are persecuted for righteousness'' sake (for being and doing right), for theirs is the kingdom of heaven! [11] Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous--with life-joy and satisfaction in God''s favor and salvation, regardless of your outward conditions) are you when people revile you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things against you falsely on My account. [12] Be glad and supremely joyful, for your reward in heaven is great (strong and intense), for in this same way people persecuted the prophets who were before you. II Chron. 36:16.

John 15:20-21 (AMP)
Remember that I told you, A servant is not greater than his master is not superior to him. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word and obeyed My teachings, they will also keep and obey yours. [21] But they will do all this to you inflict all this suffering on you because of your bearing My name and on My account, for they do not know or understand the One Who sent Me.

John 17:9-11,14-21 (AMP)
I am praying for them. I am not praying (requesting) for the world, but for those You have given Me, for they belong to You. [10] All things that are Mine are Yours, and all things that are Yours belong to Me; and I am glorified in (through) them. They have done Me honor; in them My glory is achieved. [11] And now I am no more in the world, but these are still in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep in Your Name in the knowledge of Yourself those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are one. [14] I have given and delivered to them Your word (message) and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world do not belong to the world, just as I am not of the world. [15] I do not ask that You will take them out of the world, but that You will keep and protect them from the evil one. [16] They are not of the world (worldly, belonging to the world), just as I am not of the world. [17] Sanctify them purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make them holy by the Truth; Your Word is Truth. [18] Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. [19] And so for their sake and on their behalf I sanctify (dedicate, consecrate) Myself, that they also may be sanctified (dedicated, consecrated, made holy) in the Truth. [20] Neither for these alone do I pray it is not for their sake only that I make this request, but also for all those who will ever come to believe in (trust in, cling to, rely on) Me through their word and teaching, [21] That they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me.

Matthew 24:8-14 (AMP)
All this is but the beginning the early pains of the birth pangs of the intolerable anguish. [9] Then they will hand you over to suffer affliction and tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for My name''s sake. [10] And then many will be offended and repelled and will begin to distrust and desert Him Whom they ought to trust and obey and will stumble and fall away and betray one another and pursue one another with hatred. [11] And many false prophets will rise up and deceive and lead many into error. [12] And the love of the great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity, [13] But he who endures to the end will be saved. [14] And this good news of the kingdom (the Gospel) will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end.

Revelation 3:16-18 (AMP)
So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth! [17] For you say, I am rich; I have prospered and grown wealthy, and I am in need of nothing; and you do not realize and understand that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. [18] Therefore I counsel you to purchase from Me gold refined and tested by fire, that you may be truly wealthy, and white clothes to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nudity from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, that you may see.

Revelation 14:12-16 (AMP)
Here comes in a call for the steadfastness of the saints the patience, the endurance of the people of God, those who habitually keep God''s commandments and their faith in Jesus. [13] Then I heard further perceiving the distinct words of a voice from heaven, saying, Write this: Blessed (happy, to be envied) are the dead from now on who die in the Lord! Yes, blessed (happy, to be envied indeed), says the Spirit, in that they may rest from their labors, for their works (deeds) do follow (attend, accompany) them! [14] Again I looked, and behold, I saw a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud One resembling a Son of Man, with a crown of gold on His head and a sharp scythe (sickle) in His hand. [15] And another angel came out of the temple sanctuary, calling with a mighty voice to Him Who was sitting upon the cloud, Put in Your scythe and reap, for the hour has arrived to gather the harvest, for the earth''s crop is fully ripened. [16] So He Who was sitting upon the cloud swung His scythe (sickle) on the earth, and the earth''s crop was harvested.

2 Corinthians 4:7-12,16-18 (KJV)
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. [8] We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; [9] Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; [10] Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. [11] For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. [12] So then death worketh in us, but life in you. [16] For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. [17] For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; [18] While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Matthew 7:21-27 (AMP)
Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father Who is in heaven. [22] Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name and driven out demons in Your name and done many mighty works in Your name? [23] And then I will say to them openly (publicly), I never knew you; depart from Me, you who act wickedly disregarding My commands. [24] So everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts upon them obeying them will be like a sensible (prudent, practical, wise) man who built his house upon the rock. [25] And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. [26] And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them will be like a stupid (foolish) man who built his house upon the sand. [27] And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell--and great and complete was the fall of it.

Matthew 6:10 (KJV)
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.