Jeremiah Johnson

Nesse livro, Casas de Glória: Estratégias Proféticas para Entrarmos na Nova Estação, Jeremiah Johnson enfatiza muitas questões relevantes para os nossos dias, incluindo a grande necessidade da liberação de uma unção precursora para nos conduzir até o novo dia. Deus está abalando tudo o que pode ser abalado. Os odres estão mudando e o Senhor não irá derramar o Seu vinho novo sobre a Igreja com odres velhos. Deus está mexendo nos fundamentos da Igreja e separando aqueles que estão andando em santidade e temor do Senhor. O Espírito está despertando a Noiva para esse tempo. Ele está despertando você! Casas de Glória é uma leitura ousada e provocante, cheia de óleo que traz verdade, revelação, pureza, alinhamento, direção, clareza, esperança e fé que prepararão você para os dias de hoje. Para a verdadeira Igreja de Jesus Cristo: esta é a sua hora. É tempo de se erguer e brilhar, e não de fugir e de se esconder. Você nasceu para um tempo como esse. Se o seu coração está faminto por um plano apostólico e por estratégias proféticas referentes às casas de glória que prosperarão em meio à crise global, leia este livro!… (mer)

If you are a pastor, priest, or other leader in your church, or involved in any other way, such as choir member, a musician, a greeter, then this book is for you. And if you are even thinking about becoming a leader in your church, then this is a must read.

The author, Jeremiah Johnson, was visited one night in a hotel room by two angels. One was a cleansing angel and one a glorious angel. They told him the churches will be cleansed from the leaders down to its people before God will fill His house with His glory. Their message was based on Ezekiel 44, which the author breaks down for our understanding, and he includes many experiences with his own sins.

God is cleansing churches from the top down. If you are practicing some secret sin while delivering God's words to His people, your sin will soon be revealed. Also, any charismatic preaching and worship delivered will not be "annointed" by God until the sin is dealt with and you, the leader, has repented. But, if you repent only so you "can get back into ministry", then you have not really repented. In this case, that person should not be serving in the ministry at all. (p. 90)

It is time for leaders to also confront the sins of its people. Stop ignoring and compromising sinful behavior. This is accepting sin, and you are giving God's people mixed messages and cheating them out of annointings. The author discusses a few examples of these compromises in this book.

Our generation, and upcoming generations, are in great spiritual trouble. We seek promotion and influence and recognition. But, God wants us to learn to pray and lead from the knees. Many, who are ready to preach, do not realize that "divine validation is in the wilderness, not on a platform" (p. 96). I can imagine how hard this is on today’s leaders, and soon to be leaders, growing up in a generation totally self-centered and addicted to the popularity and on the number of "likes" received on all the different social medias, including Goodreads.

God will pass judgment on churches who continue to minister more to people rather than to God. When leaders focus more on entertaining the people (applause, platforms, concert style worships, microphones, networking, phone calls, emails, texts, money, popularity, etc...) rather than pure ministering to God, these are considered horizontal ministering...which can be as addicting as crack cocaine.

The author, himself, had an addiction to ministering, which God called him out on. He was told by God to take a 4 month break. No public praying, no preaching or prophesying to break his addiction on the wrong motives and refocus his attention on God's Son, Jesus. God wants us to work on our insides (our character) versus using us on the outside (in ministry). He wants us to get alone and pray. This quiet time with God is what creates intimacy with Him.

This break can be applied to other bad addictions we may have, such as Facebook, Twitter and all other social media addictions. Like Jeremiah Johnson, we may never know just how bad our addiction really is until we decide to quit it. I know. I quit Facebook 6 months ago and I still struggle with what to do with my boring and 'uninformed' life. There comes a point in time, if you are not careful, that you begin to do things just so you can post on Facebook. If you don't believe me, then stop posting things on Facebook and see if you still enjoy doing those things. Problem is, I haven't spent any quiet time with God to know how to fill that void.

The purpose of the house cleansing is so that God's house "might become a house of prayer once again" instead of an entertainment center. Intimacy with God should be prioritized far above ministry to the people.

Pray for God to release His cleansing judgment upon His house and our lives: "Father, if there is anything in my life that is hindering deep love and affection with You, expose and remove it now." (p. 48)… (mer)