The Knowledge Of The Ways of God!

By David Wilkerson
[May 19, 1931 - April 27, 2011]

We are facing a time when the word deliverance will take on a whole new
meaning! In the past, Christians have thought of deliverance mainly as physical
healing but soon the greatest deliverance will be from fear and terror!

Deliverance at that time will mean having a “sure word from heaven.” Jesus
said that men’s hearts will fail them for fear as they see the awful things
coming on the earth (see Luke 21:26) Indeed, people will clamor to know what
God is going to do next. They will turn in all directions, wanting to hear the
voice of someone who is calm, peaceful, not going crazy. They will cry,
“Please tell me! Is this God’s judgment? When is it all going to end?”

And who do you think is going to have the answers? You! The ordinary Christian
who has been shut in with God! You will be full of calm and peace while
everything is falling apart, because God is with you and you’re hearing from
heaven. He warned you this was coming and He promised to protect you!

I believe God is going to use His holy remnant in these last days to stir
multitudes, revive pastors, and awaken churches. This army will turn people’s
hearts back to God by bringing them to repentance—through prayer and godly
reproof of sin.

When I speak of a holy remnant in training, I do not mean an army of preachers,
evangelists and missionaries. I am talking about ordinary saints, lovers of
Jesus who themselves will be signs and wonders to the world, peaceful and calm.
God does not want a professional army trained in man’s methods. He wants men
and women who are trained in prayer by the Holy Spirit! He is seeking believers
who are shut in with Him, preparing their hearts before Him, learning to hear
His voice.

Does this describe you? Is your life right now a witness to a scared and shaken
world? I urge you to get alone with God and let Him speak to you. Ask Him to
reveal the sin in your life. Forsake all that the Holy Spirit convicts you of.
Make yourself available to Him by giving yourself to prayer and then you will
be a ready soldier in His great, last-day remnant army.

Go And Tell Peter

Here’s Today’s Devotional from The Vine…

But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.’” - Mark 16:7

Why “and Peter” ? Why was Peter named, and none of the other disciples? Had Peter been the most loyal and faithful of all the Master’s friends, that he deserved such a mark of distinction as this? Oh no; we remember how Peter had fallen. The last word that had dropped upon the ear of Jesus from His lips was a bitter word of denial. Peter had acted worse than any other of the disciples.

Why, then, did Jesus send this special word to Peter? It was just because he had sinned. That last look of the Savior broke his heart, and he went out into the night a penitent man, weeping bitterly. Those had been dark days for him since Jesus died. Not only was he overwhelmed with sorrow at the death of his Lord, whom he truly and most dearly loved, but his grief was made bitter beyond endurance by the remembrance of his own base denial at the very last. Deep must this sorrow have been, and all the deeper because he would never be able to ask forgiveness. How he must have longed to have Jesus back, if but for one moment, to confess his sin and crave pardon!

Jesus left this special word for Peter with the angel at the tomb, because He knew of the bitterness of His disciple’s sorrow. Peter might have been saying, when he heard Jesus had risen, “Perhaps He will not own me any more,” and so Jesus sent this message with Peter’s name in it specially, just to let him know that he was forgiven and would not be cast off. What a world of comfort there is in this “and Peter” for any who have sinned and are penitent! Those who have fallen are the very ones who receive the deepest, tenderest compassion from Jesus, because they need it most, and because He would help them to rise again. The gospel always has its special word for the penitent; Christ still comes to call the sinner.