Thread: AMERICAN CHURCHES STILL THINK THIS IS A GAME - Mario Murillo

Soul-sucking disaster upon disaster, and yet America does not pray. But, I get why. The word of God says, "the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God..."1 Corinthians 2: 14. What I don't get is how the American church can still think this is a game.

The world is on fire. Because of man, and nature—Earth is ready to explode. Meanwhile the church—like a party on the deck of the Titanic—pats herself on the back for her "big events."

Nothing has stopped—or even slowed down—America's depravity. We have spent more money, time, and talent than ever—yet the church never asks, why we keep doing things that don't work?

When the church

-Feeds a sick nation, a sick gospel, that does not deliver from evil, and worse, makes the already converted weaker, we must think it is a game.

-Our kid preachers' highest aspiration today is to preach in tight shirts with bulging biceps, live in a mansion, strut like a rooster, and be adored as a celebrity life coach. They must think it is a game.

-When the enemy is no longer the works of Satan, but the unsuccessful life—we are playing a game. We must return to the Bible. The Bible needs to set fire to our sermons.

Many of my Spirit-filled acquaintances are also playing games. Facebook is like a Petri dish for Pentecostals. In one compressed medium, you witness the banal bacteria that excites Charismatics today. Witness the games:

-Titles like Prophet and Apostle are flung around indiscriminately. Every garish emotional experience is hawked as being from God. One "prophet" says he went back in time and visited Moses. Who of us has not scratched our heads at preachers, in ill-fitting jeans, live-streaming from a near-empty church, that they are the vessel of the hour?

– "Prophetic" conferences promise that you will get "a word of knowledge" as if the Holy Spirit was On Demand. Or they offer formulas to "activate" gifts of the Spirit. This is New Age philosophy. God is not a force to manipulate—He is an awesome person to be adored and obeyed. Gift arrive, as the Spirit wills, to hearts broken—emptied of self—for the lost, the poor, and the forsaken.

-Everything seems based on angelic visitations, dreams, visions and trips to heaven. Most of our time is spent on these "experiences" and not on rock-solid instruction from the Word of God.

I believe in dreams, prophecy, healing, angels and visions. But if they are from God they will drive us to the front line of the culture and not into emotional safe zones. "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to the tearing down of strongholds." -2 Corinthians 10:4 We are nowhere near strongholds because we think it's a game.

Beloved, this is not a game. Christians toying with materialism, celebrity, alcohol, compromise and carnality spell doom for America. Google, Facebook, Apple, YouTube and the rest of Silicon Valley threaten to pull the plug on churches. Every day they inch closer to censorship. Will your zany videos matter if no one can see them?

Our preaching ricochets off a culture careening into indescribable debauchery. Soon it will illegal to preach the doctrines you are now ignoring. What a horror! Pastor you wake up one day with remorse over the truths you ignored—but now they're banned.

Mario is there any hope? My hope in God's fierce love for America. He will not let this nation go without a fierce fight. My hope is in some of the last people you'd expect.

My hope is in the discouraged preacher. Honest-to-God preachers who feel like fools when they see the runaway success of compromise. Psalm 73:12 says, "Behold, these are the ungodly, who are always at ease; They increase in riches. 13 Surely, I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence. 14 For all day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning."

My hope is in those who chose to fail honestly rather than succeed artificially.

Are you struggling with decreasing numbers and falling finances, even as you present a Christ-centered, Bible based pulpit? God sees you! Hold on just a little longer. Fire is coming that will cause a stampede and you won't know where to put the crowds.

My hope is in the Christian nobodies. Have you failed? Did man take away your pulpit? Get ready...your brokenness is a key to the fire of God in this hour. A nationwide hunger for reality is about to make shallowness obsolete.

Are you a teacher, business person, police officer or stay at home mom? Do you burn with a passion for your community? Get ready for vision and anointing right where you live!

The hour is so dangerous that God must bring down religious empires and promote others to great power and influence. Satan is also playing games. I believe that God—through the last people we expect—is about to teach Satan what war really looks like.

https://mariomurilloministries.wordp...his-is-a-game/

I posted this article on Fb a couple days ago...

It's a word in season.

That'll preach!

Good word!

Originally Posted by A.J.

I posted this article on Fb a couple days ago...

It's a word in season.

Yeah, I got it of FB. My friend BF posted it. I know you post some of his stuff sometimes.

Originally Posted by fuego

Yeah, I got it of FB. My friend BF posted it. I know you post some of his stuff sometimes.

Yes, he has really good stuff.

Originally Posted by victoryword

Just shared it on my page. Incidentally, I posted the statement below on FB a couple of days ago:

A lot of churches you can go into and teach basic Bible truth and they would be awed if they are open because they've never been taught it much less 'grasped' it.

I think that most churches will receive basic Bible but the big problem is they don't live it. The Bible is not going to do anything for you if you don't put it into action by faith.