The Pioneer, The Forerunner, The Messenger, and The Watchman
The Pioneer
The Lord’s pioneers are those who are called to establish the city of God upon the earth. The city of God on the earth is one with the city of God in Heaven. We are that city. We are Mount Zion, the Heavenly Jerusalem (Hebrews 12:22-24). Jesus said to us, “You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid.” (Matthew 5:14 DRB). Pioneers leave their own earthly country, in order to settle and establish the city of the living God in strategic locations throughout the earth.
“By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” (Hebrews 11:8, 10 WEB)
For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come. (Hebrews 13:14 DRB)
Abraham was a type of pioneer. He was searching for the city of God as part of his inheritance. Abraham is a prophetic foreshadowing of how our lives should be. We have no lasting earthly city, in the natural, on this earth. But Christ has come in us, and as we are built together as living stones; the lord’s dwelling place in the Spirit (temple) will be established. Once the Lord’s house or dwelling place is established, then other homes are built and connected to it in the Spirit. This continues to grow until spiritual cities are formed in the Spirit. These spiritual cites become one with the city of God in Heaven.
This is how the Kingdom of God can be established on the earth in this age. It is an internal work, an internal city, and an internal Kingdom. It can only be spiritually discerned in this age. We should be seeking this city which will come in fullness in the next age, but can be tasted of in this age.
The city of God must be established by those whom the Lord calls to be pioneers. These vessels carry a grace or anointing to initiate the city of God. Some leaders in the past and current church have been focused on their calling, and their ministry. Much of their time has been spent on building a ministry, instead of seeing God have a city for Himself. This is about to change with the release of the pioneers.
God’s pioneers have a hunger and passion to see Him get what He wants. They understand that true satisfaction is in the will of the Lord being accomplished through them. They are willing to sacrifice having a large ministry or “big name” for themselves, in order to see the Kingdom of God come forth upon the earth.
Even now the Lord is beginning to release these pioneers that carry the blueprints of Heaven. He has been secretly preparing them for such a time as this. The beginnings may be small, but are not to be despised. The Lord will send these pioneers to places of refuge that He will protect in these end-times. The Lord will call believers to these locations. Since the Lord has been preparing us inwardly in private to become the city of God, when He brings us together; the work will happen more rapidly than we might expect.
And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. (Isaiah 2:2 DRB)
Obviously this scripture is speaking about the millennium, as it could be translated “on the last day” (of the age). However the veil is very thin between Heaven and earth. The Lord will have His houses prepared for a dwelling place in the Spirit before He returns. These houses will begin with the pioneer. They must begin with proper understanding of what is actually being built. The house is being established to begin the city of God in that region. It is an invisible city.
The reason that we have not seen this come forth yet, is because houses of God have not been established with this in mind. Ministers with a pioneering anointing will understand that it’s about the larger picture of the Lord starting with a house, and continuing to build until He has a city in a region.
A city is not a bunch of ministries or churches in a region that don’t spend time together, don’t know each other, and are divided in doctrine and beliefs. That is what we currently have dominating in America, and it is not working. The Lord is building His city that will be of one heart and one mind. His city will be seeking Him above all else. His presence will be upon them corporately in an unusual way. His light with fill them, and shine through them.
Pioneers will found powerhouses. These powerhouses will be sources of power for the city. Power lines will come out of the powerhouse that will create a network. An ecosystem of power will draw people to build their homes around the powerhouse, which will be connected by power lines. These powerhouses may be the only thing shinning within dark expanses of land.
As this happens the land will begin to get brighter and brighter. The spiritual darkness will begin to flee. It will become a city on a mountain. The mountain of the house of the Lord. The shinning light will draw more people. Community, spiritual family, and healthy relationships will be established. The light of Christ will shine through His city. Many will come to the city to survive spiritually and physically in these last days.
Pioneers will carry an anointing for rebuilding, for it is the city of God that the Lord is seeking to restore: “And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of [buildings that have laid waste for] many generations; and you shall be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.” (Isaiah 58:12 AMPC)
As pioneers establish houses of God, the Lord’s glory will come. When His glory comes, many families will come and build houses. Broken down and worn out houses will be rebuilt and renewed. Thus the city of God on earth in a region will shine forth, in the dark expanse at the end the age. The church will then step corporately into the powers of the age to come:
““Arise [from spiritual depression to a new life], shine [be radiant with the glory and brilliance of the LORD ]; for your light has come, And the glory and brilliance of the LORD has risen upon you. For in fact, darkness will cover the earth And deep darkness will cover the peoples; But the LORD will rise upon you [Jerusalem] And His glory and brilliance will be seen on you. Nations will come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.” (Isaiah 60:1-3 AMP)
Abraham had no continuing earthly city. He was searching for a city that had foundations. He was looking for the city of God. He left a familiar place of comfort, to pioneer into the unknown. Something burned in his heart that could only be fulfilled in the will and purpose of God. This pioneer in the Spirit, went forth not knowing where he was going. By faith, it is now our turn to hear the Lord for ourselves, and seek out the locations where He is building His spiritual city. We have an opportunity to be apart of the light shinning forth from the city on a hill.
The Forerunner
A forerunner is defined as: “a person who goes or is sent in advance to announce the coming of someone or something that follows; herald; harbinger.” The prototype of a forerunner was John the Baptist:
“And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; For you will go on BEFORE THE LORD (the Messiah) TO PREPARE HIS WAYS;” (Luke 1:76 AMP)
“So they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi (Teacher), the Man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan [at the Jordan River crossing]—and to whom you have testified—look, He is baptizing too, and everyone is going to Him!” John replied, “A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing at all] unless it has been granted to him from heaven [for there is no other source than the sovereign will of God]. You yourselves are my witnesses that I stated, ‘I am not the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed),’ but, ‘I have [only] been sent ahead of Him [as His appointed forerunner and messenger to announce and proclaim His coming].’” (John 3:26-28 AMP)
The Forerunners are coming. Their priority will be to prepare the way of the Lord, and point to Him. The forerunner has seen the Bridegroom’s heart that longs for His bride, and is motivated according to that vision. There is no greater joy than to see the bride standing in glory next to the Bridegroom. Those called to the forerunner ministry are fulfilled when the desire of their Master is fulfilled. Their chief desire is to be pleasing to Him, and see Him pleased.
Part of the forerunner call is to wage war against the religious system. John rebuked the religious leaders who were in charge of this system, because they were using this system to keep people from knowing the Lord (Matthew 3:7-12). John preached to them that the axe of God’s judgment would cut them down, and they would be thrown into the fire of Hell; unless they repented and their lives demonstrated fruit of the Spirit.
The Lord releases this forerunner anointing to plow through the field of religion and religious leaders (even in the charismatic church), in order to make a straight path for Him (Isaiah 40:3-5). The point of clearing a level path for the Lord, is so that His glory will appear among His people. John functioned as a forerunner to prepare a people for the first coming of Christ in which “the favorable year of the Lord,” was proclaimed. Now before Christ’s second coming, these forerunners will prepare people for the second half of Isaiah 61:2. They will also declare that the “day of vengeance and retribution” of God is upon us.
Believers must be prepared by the spirit of the fear of the Lord, operating through these forerunners. They will impart a healthy fear of the Lord to the church, by bringing a revelation of judgment, and the coming King. They will preach the second coming of Christ, for He is not coming as He did the first time. When He returns, His robe will be dripping in blood from slaughtering the wicked by His own hand (Revelation 19:13-16, Isaiah 63:1-6). Be awake and be prepared for the day of vengeance is coming.
The forerunners will be sent ahead of the Lord to every city or area that He is seeking to visit and release revival fire.
“After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go.” (Luke 10:1 NKJV)
“And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.” (Luke 9:51-53 KJV)
We must be very careful not to reject the forerunners that Jesus sends. If we do not receive them, we are actually rejecting Jesus (Matthew 10:40-41). If we receive those who Jesus sends before His face, He will then visit that city in power, healing, and revival. If we reject the forerunners, because we don’t like them or their message; then Jesus will not pass by that way and visit that city with His miracle working power. We must discern and recognize the burning of the Lord that comes from these vessels. The fate of entire regions depends on us recognizing the Lord in His sent ones. Israel didn’t recognize Jesus and it costed them severely. Let us not make the same mistake right before His second coming.
The most important assignment of a forerunner is to bring God’s people into the presence of God. Jesus functioned as a forerunner and the scriptures record His example:
“This hope [this confident assurance] we have as an anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whatever pressure bears upon it]—a safe and steadfast hope that enters within the veil [of the heavenly temple, that most Holy Place in which the very presence of God dwells], where Jesus has entered [in advance] as a forerunner for us, having become a High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.” (Hebrews 6:19-20 AMP)
The Forerunner Himself opened a way into the most Holy Place for all who desire it. Jesus tore the veil of separation between us and God. We can now go within our own hearts, to the secret place where the Lord sits enthroned. The forerunners of our time will teach believers how to do this. They will lead believers deep within the veil, into the overwhelming glory of the living God. Here believers will understand their reason for being, as they behold love personified. Leading the way for believers in front of the throne of God, is the high calling of the forerunner ministry.
The Messenger
In the darkest of times, when God’s people have turned to doing what is right in their own eyes; the Lord sends forth His messengers. The message of real messengers has always been the same: worship, serve, and seek the living God. In these last days, the message will not just be return to Christ, but make Christ your life and your first love. The messenger role is not for everyone, for the messenger with face the stiffest opposition.
The Lord selects and prepares His messengers. They are prepared in a wilderness of trials and afflictions, so they will be hardened as sledge hammers. These vessels are used by the Lord to break false doctrines, traditions of men, and every imagination, thought, or argument that exalts itself against the knowledge of God (2 Corinthians 10:5). Messengers burn for the truth, and will lay down their lives for the Truth. They will speak the truth that the Lord reveals to them, regardless of the negative effects on their own popularity or ministry. Their goal is not to be popular before man, but to be obedient and pleasing to their Master.
Jesus was the perfect messenger. He only did what the Father told Him to do, and only said what the Father told Him to say. Jesus could have started off His ministry with a message of unity and positive revival prophecies. Instead, Jesus starts one of His first messages by telling God’s people that they don’t honor and receive the messengers that the Father sends, thus not honoring God (Luke 4:22-30). The Lord withholds miracles and healing from His own people because of this as a form of judgment, and sent Elijah and Elisha to foreigners. Jesus explained that there were many widows among God’s people (dying from starvation) in the the time of Elijah, but the Father did not send Elijah to provide food for any of them. Meaning he saved a foreigner from starvation, but not his own people. I have heard a pastor say, “I can’t believe the God would ever allow His people to starve.” Believe it or not, that’s what God did and Jesus taught it; and I believe Jesus.
The people became so enraged that they drug Jesus to a cliff, and attempted to throw Him off and kill Him. The Father wanted His people to know the truth of judgment and reasons for withholding revival, but the people didn’t want to hear the truth. They would’ve rather killed God in the flesh, then humbled themselves and repented. The same is the truth in the church today. God’s people can’t hear that the Lord has removed healing and miracles from America (to a large degree), because of our idolatrous and sinful lifestyles. And all of us are affected by this because it is a national judgment (even believers seeking the Lord with all their hearts suffer because of the choices of others).
This may not be the best message a minister can bring, and it’s really difficult to gather a huge following; and build a mega-church when preaching this message. But this is the assignment of the messengers. They are not messengers of the people, but messengers of the Lord. The message will cost them everything. Messengers will be rejected by many people, and by many leaders. It is a lonely road that few walk, because few want to walk it. The road can only be walked by means of the inner fire and burning of the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s all by the grace of God.
Messengers are able to fulfill the most difficult assignments, because they have been with the Lord. In His presence they encountered the One who meets every need. The Lord fills them with love, and the messenger comes to know the Lord as a friend. Since the messenger has experienced deep communion with the Lord, he/she is willing to do whatever the Lord requires. The Lord asks His messengers to bring difficult and hard messages. Many leaders do not understand them or why they are delivering certain messages, because the Lord has not given those leaders the same messages as He has the messenger. This can create tension and misunderstanding. Sometimes people judge what they don’t understand.
Jeremiah gives us incredible insight into the struggles and afflictions that a messenger will face during their ministry. He shows us what others said about him, and how being a messenger costed him greatly. The messenger calling is not that of glamour, but it is a ministry of the cross:
“O LORD, You know and understand; Remember me [thoughtfully], take notice of me, take vengeance for me on my persecutors. Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away; Know that for Your sake I endure [continual] rebuke and dishonor. Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became a joy to me and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts. I did not sit with the group of those who celebrate, Nor did I rejoice; I sat alone because Your [powerful] hand was upon me, For You had filled me with indignation [at their sin]. Why has my pain been perpetual And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive brook With water that is unreliable?” (Jeremiah 15:15-18 AMP)
“[Jeremiah said,] O LORD, You have persuaded me and I was deceived; You are stronger than I and You have prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; Everyone mocks me. For whenever I speak, I must shout out; I shout violence and destruction, Because the word of the LORD has become to me A reprimand and a mockery and has brought me insult all day long. If I say, “I will not remember Him Or speak His name anymore,” Then my heart becomes a burning fire Shut up in my bones. And I am weary of enduring and holding it in; I cannot endure it [nor contain it any longer]. For I have heard the whispering and defaming words of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” All my familiar and trusted friends, [Those who are] watching for my fall, say, “Perhaps he will be persuaded and deceived; then we will overcome him, And take our revenge on him.”” (Jeremiah 20:7-10 AMP)
Qualifications of a Messenger
The Lord is the One who qualifies the messenger. The messenger is not qualified because of works, ordainment by men, or a degree from seminary. A messenger is not qualified because he/she feels qualified. Even if a messenger does not feel qualified, does not mean that he/she is unqualified. If the Lord says someone is qualified to be a messenger, then they are qualified to be a messenger. A person can be an absolute ‘nobody’ among men, but if the Lord chooses to speak through them, He can.
Many leaders will question someone who they don’t consider important, or who do not have connections in the Americanized ministry world. Leaders may question messengers who don’t have a college ministry degree. There will always be resistance to anyone who is outside of the control of the systems of men. We must discern the Lord’s messengers by the Spirit, not the flesh. The criticizing of the Lord’s chosen vessels as messengers, is actually a criticism of the Lord.
Elijah appeared out of nowhere as a messenger of the Lord. The Holy Spirit had spent decades stripping Elijah of his self-life, and training him in the school of the Spirit. Elijah’s life was the Lord, and the Lord had qualified Elijah to be His messenger. His first word in ministry was a negative word of judgment that God’s people do not want to hear; famine is coming (1 Kings 17:1). Then Elijah is sent to hide in a deserted solitary place away from the comforts of life. Elijah didn’t use his prophetic gift to start a mega-church, and be a successful and wealthy leader of God’s people. He used his gift to obey God, and be His messenger. He was under the hand of the Lord, and an example to messengers who were to follow.
Generally, prophets are considered messengers. However this is not always the case. One can be a messenger and not be a prophet. One can be a prophet and not be a messenger, although they may give a prophetic message. The Lord anoints and appoints who He wills, and not everything He does will fit into the box of our understanding.
The Message
The message will cost the messenger everything, just as it did Jesus. Even though the message is from God, the people generally do not receive it or recognize it (Ezekiel 3:7, Jeremiah 7:27). This is one of the reasons that messengers never have an abundance of friends. Many want the power and authority to call down fire from Heaven or raise the dead, as Elijah had; but few can handle the pressure, persecution, and loneliness of being a messenger. Few are willing to give the message that the Lords wants relayed:
“Yet God sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD; these prophets testified against them, but they would not listen. Then the Spirit of God came over Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people and said to them, “This is what God has said: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have abandoned (turned away from) the LORD, He has also abandoned (turned away from) you.’ ” So they conspired against Zechariah and stoned him [to death] at the command of the king, in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.” (2 Chronicles 24:19-21 AMP)
God’s people did not want to ever hear that He had abandoned them for not repenting of their continual sins. Many today want to hear an endless grace doctrine that allows them to worship idols and have a little Jesus idol on the side, that they sometimes decide to spend time with. When Zechariah gave the people the true message from the Lord, the people killed him for it.
Messengers are the expendable ones. The Lord will protect messengers until it is their time to go to Heaven, just as He did with Paul when the people tried to kill him with stones (Acts 14:19-20). But messengers will be on the frontlines, and cannot stay hidden like others. They will be asked by the Lord to come to the forefront of the battle, and repeat what the Lord is saying to the leaders in the church, or to the government. When Elijah did this, it brought the full force and persecution of the national government against him (1 Kings 19:1-3).
Those who want to remain hidden from the government and everybody else in these last days, cannot be messengers of the Lord. Many messengers will be called to be martyred for the message in the coming days. Elijah hid when the Lord told him to, and exposed himself publicly when the Lord told him to. A messenger will have to follow the Lord out of hiding when it is time to proclaim the word of the Lord publicly. This will be done at great risk to the messenger’s life, but if the messenger has died to their self-life; then they will not try to love or hold on to their earthly life when the Lord calls them to be faced with death or to be killed (Revelation 12:11).
The Sending of the Messengers
The messengers who were prophesied of in Malachi 3:1-6 are about to be sent out all over the nations. These messengers will burn with the purifying fire of the Refiner Jesus Christ Himself. They will release a purifying fire to the church, so that those who are willing, can become cleansed and transformed into the royal priesthood. Many of these burning ones have been in hidden training. The Lord will send a company of these messengers forth in the Spirit and power of Elijah before His return (Malachi 4:5-6). Part of their assignments will be to turn the hearts of fathers to their children (spiritual sons and fathers, and natural sons and fathers). Also, to turn the hearts of born again children to the Heavenly Father. If these messengers do not accomplish this task in the regions where they are sent; the land will be struck with a curse or utter destruction. We must hear and respond to the coming messengers, if we do not want judgment in the regions in which we live. Scripture warns us what will happen if we do not respond properly:
“Whoever does not welcome you, nor listen to your message, as you leave that house or city, shake the dust [of it] off your feet [in contempt, breaking all ties]. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that city [since it rejected the Messiah’s messenger].” (Matthew 10:14-15 AMP)
“The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to them again and again by His messengers, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place. But they kept mocking the messengers of God and despising His words and scoffing at His prophets until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, until there was no remedy or healing.”(2 Chronicles 36:15-16 AMP)
We should take note that this scripture states that the Lord released wrath against His own people. This goes against the teaching and doctrine of some, however I choose to believe what the Lord says in His word over the teachings and doctrines of men. We will all be held accountable in the day of judgment, in regards to the issue of believing the truth presented by God. Those who place the traditions of men above the word of God, will be judged for it (the judgment of honoring and believing man over God).
The Watchman
There are a number of misconceptions in the church in regards to the ministry of the watchman. Some think a watchman is only a symbolic watered down version of the Old Testament watchmen. They believe watchmen see the enemy coming in the spirit, and then pray and intercede. While this is true, and watchmen are called to discern the attack of the enemy and intercede; it is only part of their calling. Watchmen still have the same function they always have, as the Holy Spirit never changed this in the New Testament.
““Son of man, speak to the sons of your people [who are exiled in Babylon] and say to them, ‘If I bring a sword on a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman, and he sees the sword coming on the land, and he blows the trumpet and warns the people, then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his [own] head.” (Ezekiel 33:2-4 AMP)
The Lord will show someone who He has called as watchman when war is coming on the land. As this scripture shows, it is the Lord who is bringing the ‘sword’ or judgment on the land. The watchman sees that judgment is coming, and then blows the trumpet to alert God’s people of what is coming. The primary function of a watchman, as per scripture, is to communicate to the people that the Lord is sending judgment.
The Lord reveals when He is sending judgment to His watchmen, so that His people can hear the truth of what is coming, and make the decision to repent and prepare. The Lord releases this information to watchmen out or mercy, not being willing that any should perish (2 Peter 3:9). Those that hear the warning of a watchman, believe it, and take the appropriate actions; will be shown grace and mercy. Those who refuse to repent and take action, because either they don’t want to repent; or they don’t believe the watchman, will suffer greatly in the days ahead (potentially eternally).
If the Lord shows the watchman that the sword is coming upon the land, and the watchman does not signal to the people; the watchman will be held accountable for the blood of the people that were killed by the judgment or conflict. Thus the ministry of a watchman is a very difficult calling. If the watchman tells people that the Lord is sending judgment upon the land, the watchman gets criticized by everyone. Believers will call the watchman a ‘doom and gloom’ prophet, because the message is not positive or exciting. Leaders will speak against the watchman, and tell him that God doesn’t judge anymore since we are under the New Covenant. The leaders will tell the watchman that he needs to get a revelation of the Lord’s love and mercy.
Now if the watchman does not speak the word of the Lord, then God Almighty judges the watchman. As bad as persecution and evil speaking from the church can be, the judgment of God is far worse. The watchman will have to understand by revelation, the fear of the Lord, if he/she wants to faithfully complete the assignment. The watchman must live to please God, and not man. The watchman must be prepared to be misunderstood by man, and learn over time to be okay with it. A watchman will sit in the very presence and love of God, until they are infused with God Himself. Then they will speak His word, and be judged for it. This ministry will not get a person invited within the ranks of the most popular leaders in the Charismatic Movement. This ministry will be conducted ‘outside the camp’ of the religious system (Hebrews 13:12-14).
The church has always had a history of faithful watchmen. Leonard Ravenhill and David Wilkerson are a few that come to mind. Some however, have drawn back from their calling as a watchman, for the love of money; and the desire to be welcomed and accepted by mainstream Charisma. Others, have given themselves over to the over abundance of alcohol, and worldly living. The Holy Spirit speaks of these watchmen in the book of Isaiah:
“Israel’s watchmen are blind, They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; Panting, lying down, they love to slumber. And the dogs are greedy; they never have enough. They are shepherds who have no understanding; They have all turned to their own way, Each one to his unlawful gain, without exception. “Come,” [they say,] “let us get wine, and let us fill ourselves with strong drink; And tomorrow will be like today, very great indeed.”” (Isaiah 56:10-12 AMP)
Even now the Lord’s true watchmen are warning the church about what is coming. We are in the days of the prophecies being fulfilled that Jesus spoke of in Matthew Chapter 24. The judgments of the Book of Revelation will soon start unfolding before our eyes, when Jesus breaks the seals (Revelation 6). The Antichrist system of control is in the process of being set up globally, and the Antichrist will attempt to take over the world through war (Revelation 13). The trumpet is blowing right now. Can we hear the sound of it, and will we believe?
“Also, I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen.’ Therefore hear, you nations, And know, O congregation, what is among them. Hear, O earth! Behold, I will certainly bring calamity on this people— The fruit of their thoughts, Because they have not heeded My words Nor My law, but rejected it.” (Jeremiah 6:17-19 NKJV)
Conclusion
In the coming days, these four ministries will be released in full measure. Jesus is coming soon, if the bride makes herself ready. These four ministries will work together to accomplish the will of the Lord, and see the city of God’s people shine bright upon the hills. The brilliance of Christ is going to shine through us in the dark night that is coming. It may be dark in the world, but we will have such glory in us, that our paths will be illuminated; and our hope sure. Let us be that city of God that we are called to be.
