CCF International Church

Well we have just emerged from a phenomenal encounter with the Lord as the saints voluntarily embedded themselves in the temple. The young and the old, children as young as 3 months old; we waited in the temple for 24 hours, praising and worshipping the Lord Jesus; reasoning with one another concerning the demand of God in this present season. We dealt with great clarity the issues outlined in Exodus 23 concerning the nation of Israel.
Here are some of the views that were presented.
Ex 23:2-3
2 “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, 3 and do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.
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We must be able to discern between the crowd and a righteous company or the remnant. It makes all the difference in the way we will finish the race. The poor man does not enjoy immunity from prosecution simply because of his poverty. The demand in this season is for righteousness, irrespective of who we are. For too long the Church has been guilty of protecting the poor from the Divine demand for righteousness.
Ex 23:11
Then the poor among your people may get food from it
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There has been a general consensus that our primary responsibility is to the “poor among our people”. This refers to a covenantal people who belong to God and are faithful to Him. It is the responsibilty of the poor to show themselves to be “the people of God”. We recognise the need for social responsibilty…for scattering seed as the Lord would lead us; but our main responsibilty is towards the people amongst us.
Ex 23:20-25
20 “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. 21 Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. 22 If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. 23 My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out. 24 Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces. 25 Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water.
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The angel of God sent to every house is the set man or the one sent by God. He has spiritual authority over us. His Word is to be taken seriously and implemented quickly. He has the responsibilty to lead us into our destiny; a prepared place. The Scriptures warn us about rebelling against him; that the Name of the Lord is in him. That he (the man of God) has the ability to forgive and release you into your destiny, or delay your advancement. Note this very carefully! The name of the Lord is in Him.
The other demand is not to be seduced into worshipping at foreign altars and pagan systems and structures. Not only are we expected to vigorously resist them, we are supposed to destroy them into pieces.

THE MIRACLE OF THE DRY GROUND
The town of Wyebank has experienced an unusually high amount of rainfall over the past week. It has never rained like this in a long while.
In the past heavy rains caused the floor of the Church to be flooded;
during the time we were in the temple there was water all around the bulding, but the floor of the sanctuary was dry. Everyone witnessed this miracle; the faith of many has increased remarkably because of this sign from the Lord; that God is all the protection we need; like Noah’s ark, the floodwaters raged outside, but inside the ark the righteous company were protected by His hand.
Praise the Lord! Stay encouraged brethren. The Lord reigns.