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Echoing The Call To Repentance
The word REPENTANCE is sadly missing from most pulpits around the world.
As an Apostle to the nations, I speak. There is an urgency in the spirit to release what God has placed upon my heart for the nations and churches around the world. For several weeks intercessors and I have been fasting, praying and seeking God for His divine intervention. In Stuttgart, Germany, I was a keynote speaker in a Leadership Conference where hundreds of Pastors gathered from many nations. Two of these pastors asked me a startling question. What is the greatest need of this sinful wicked hour in which we live? Without hesitation, I answered with a plain and piercing word; REPENTANCE. The word repentance is sadly missing from most pulpits around the world. I believe with all my heart that God is saying we must return to His biblical foundation of holiness and righteous living.
In American, I am deeply troubled that American Christianity is at the crossroad. Today our church is filled with idols of modern civilization. We believe we can have all this world has to offer and somehow hold on to God also.
Like the nation of ancient Israel, America has sinned and is slowly departing from God. We have rejected God’s Word as truth. Without His word, which is our foundation for truth, there is confusion and gross immorality.
The so-called “new morality” has replaced the reverence for God’s word as the only source for truth and morality. There are others who have risen up against God’s word, working to remove every vestige of God from our government and school and destroy the very foundation upon which this nation was built.
America is following the same steps of ancient Israel, which brought judgment upon her. God’s judgments are upon the nations and God alone knows to what degree the churches of America, England, and Europe are directly responsible for the spiritual collapse of these nations and for their judgment. Too many people today are going through the motion of religion without God. We attend church Sunday after Sunday, and most of us return home the same way: no serious commitment, .....
-Apostle Dr. Lloyd Benson, Sr.
Global Link Magazine / 4th Qtr. 2018 5 www.wlcm.org