"Stand Firm" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

0:00 Music. Rescue radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God, you're getting our attention. We thank you for speaking to us, Lord God, even through the weather, the wind, the rain, the tornadoes, the floods, the hurricanes, you're speaking to us.

0:42 And you said everything that can be shaken is going to be shaken. And basically, you're shaking the elements so that your people will wake up. And so I thank you, Lord, that you will be done, O God, on earth, in and through all of us this day, that you'd wake up your people, get them standing upright on their feet and recognizing what's going on. I thank you, Lord, that your will be done. Your kingdom come. Your kingdom is coming. Your kingdom is here. And you are returning. So, Lord, can we even comprehend that? We did not comprehend your first coming when you actually came and died on the cross as the sacrificed lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. We didn't comprehend that. It was almost totally missed except by a few.

1:22 And still to this very day, you send messages of love and peace and reconciliation and salvation. So help the people today to get the word. Get the word out, Father God. And I pray also that you'd continue to give us your power and authority, direction and wisdom to walk in this way and to know which way to go. And that you'd also give us the power and to continue to bind and loosen, forbid and permit and to forgive even our enemies, Lord God. Love our enemies. I thank you, Lord, for the power that you gave us. You are real. You are real in all of this. Make yourself real and apparent to the hearts and souls and minds, even of those who are sleeping and under the slumber and the enchantments.

2:07 Wake them up, Father God. And I thank you now that you give us your divine protection as you have, that no weapon formed against us will prosper. No word said, deed done, action taken, will be able to be used by the enemy to bring forth any shame, trouble, or reproach. Cover us. Cover our families, those who work for us, pray for us, and love us. Cover those things that pertain to us, the things that you've called us to do. May you protect the work and the assignments that you've given us, that we might complete your will in our lives, all of us, Father God, that we will not grow weary and will not grow slack in these days, Father, but be more diligent and even more aggressive in the Spirit, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Well, you know, who can stand in this shaking?

2:50 Yeah. You know, God said he's going to shake everything that can be shaken, that the things that are not able to be shaken may remain. And we're talking today about a time of shaking. And lack of revelation. In Proverbs 29, today's the 29th, so read Proverbs 29. 18, it says, where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint, but happy is he who keeps the law. Casting off that restraint matches what was being said in Hosea. Chapter 4, verse 6, where he says, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, because they have rejected knowledge, I will also reject them from being priests for me.

3:35 So this lack of knowledge, lack of revelation, is critical to where we're at. And it also, you know, that's how people wake up when they're shook, shake them awake, right? Yeah, some people, you know, wake up when they're shaking, some don't. The shaking comes, they said, hey, leave me alone. I want to keep doing what I'm doing here. But let's look at the Old Testament prophet Hosea. He was ministering to the northern kingdom of Israel. Of God were divided into the northern kingdom Israel, the southern kingdom Judah, and he is a prophet to the northern kingdom.

4:15 And basically— What was happening in the northern kingdom? What was happening? They were breaking away first. They were committing so much idolatry and adultery and all this stuff with sticks and stones and everything else. So they were the first ones to be cut off. They were the first ones to be sent into exile. Yeah, and basically, so it's basically when Hosea starts his ministry, it's basically a time of prosperity. They're thinking, oh, everything is going well. You know, we're going to have a peace and prosperity and everything. And then God says, okay, Hosea— A change in plans here. Yeah, okay, I want you to marry a harlot. Marry a harlot, and you're going to have some kids from her.

4:57 And it's like, wait a minute. Is this God's will? How could this be the will of God? I know, I know. To marry, you know, an ungodly person. God was having him do a prophetic act in marrying this woman to show, to kind of display God's position. He's got a wife who is a harlot basically running around worshiping idols, sticks and stones, like I said. And God is just using Hosea as a way to, you know, demonstrate his own predicament, his own relationship. Not only, yeah, demonstration, and he's really experiencing that personally with having an unfaithful wife that's running after other guys. And just violating their relationship. But the whole point in the end is to show how God was continuing to bring her back, bring back his wayward, renegade wife, Israel.

5:51 And so this, so Hosea is just kind of using all of that. But the thing is, this is a serious problem today with all of us, too, in this place where, you know, not many, not everybody in this nation or in the world professes to know God. or love God or the one true God. That's to say they all have gods, but not a lot of them. But the thing is, those of us who do know God professed Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is born in Bethlehem, died on the cross for our sins. It's this group that God is married to. We're the bride, and we're basically renegade. I believe we're off base right now. For the most part, we're coming back, not just be negative. We don't want to be negative, but we have to understand that God has got to do some things to bring, to wake us up.

6:39 And in Hosea, he talks a lot about. Well, a lot of it is about idolatry. And in Hosea 4, verse 1, it says, Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel, for the Lord brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land. What's the charge? There is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land. That charge means like a legal complaint against you. So they have broken the covenant. The covenant God made with them was, I will be your God. My things are your things. Your things are my things. Follow me. And we will, you know, work this out together, walk this out together. And it's interesting. How many times in the Old Testament, in the times of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Joshua, judges, they said, oh, yes, yeah, we're going to follow the Lord.

7:30 We're no more idolatry. We're going to follow the Lord. and they go back into the same thing over and over and over again. This is why we have to understand there is a real... War, a battle, a conflict that's going on constantly between God and Satan. And we're just like the little ping pong ball is caught in the middle of it sometimes. But the thing is, we also have to make a decision. We can't just blame it on the devil or say, you know what, I didn't know, because you do know. And so for those of you who are listening today, that you're kind of in a lukewarm, mediocre, take it or leave it kind of position, that's not going to last much longer because there's going to be a shaking in your life, whether it's the treetops breaking off and falling on your lawn like it did for us, or it's something more radical.

8:18 But going back to Isaiah chapter 4, he says in verse 2, at first finish of 1, there is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land. By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery. They break all restraints with bloodshed after bloodshed. Just that one verse, that so describes our society. Yeah, America pretty much. Bloodshed and lying and stealing. Bloodshed after bloodshed. And we hear every day, every day, you hear some of the most horrific, you know, stabbings, shootings, abortions, all kinds of stuff going on. Bloodshed, blood touching blood. But see, the thing is that we cannot, avoid that. We try to isolate, hide out, get our own little safe place. Deny.

9:08 Yeah, deny too. But the thing is, it's going to take over, you know, but don't let it take over your soul. This is going to happen. Do not be afraid. When this stuff comes to happen, you know, when then God says in his Bible, look up for your salvation, your redemption draws night. Jesus Christ is coming back. The elements, the earth. The climate, the trees, the deer, everything, creation is longing and groaning for the return, for the establishment of re-establishment of truth and justice in the earth. But human beings, we're the ones who made the decisions to worship the sticks and stones. I think we get to that a little bit later. He says, yeah, verse 12 of Hosea, 4.12, he says, the people ask counsel from their wooden idols, and their staff informs them, for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray.

10:00 Think of how much uncleanness, perversion, idolatry, pornography, perversion, pedophilia, sexual abuse, rape, violence, just in that one arena alone. And they have played the harlot against their god. They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops and burn incense on the hills, under the oaks, the poplars, and the terrapins, because their shade is good. Therefore, your daughters commit harlotry and your brides commit adultery. So there's this uncleanness, this perversion, it's perversion it's beyond you know what happens when people do these horrific things Jerry and they can't they're so perverted they can't you can't even hardly speak about it it's so vile we have to have an explanation for that it's just not that the people themselves are.

10:45 Well, they are taken over, but there's something that's taking them over inside because God did not create them at all like this. So, yeah, people have yielded, you know, some people are just born into— Mess, a mess, spiritual mess. Into a mess, into a horrible, horrible situation. They have no godly training. They have no godly examples. And then, of course, the enemy is right there to say, okay, I'm just going to basically rape your mind. Rape your life with all kinds of lies, with all kinds of virtual reality, with drugs. You're going to be in pain. Here's some pain reliever.

11:27 You can have these drugs. You can have some fentanyl. You can do this. You can do that. But they're so taken up that they cannot, they can't turn back. Yeah, don't see it. And so Hosea, his role was to say, okay, people, wake up. Because basically he was saying, he was one of the prophets that was really giving Israel or the northern kingdom. It's also referred to as Ephraim in the Bible because that was the largest tribe in Israel at that time. He's saying, basically, this is your last chance. and I would say in our world today there there's, God is giving us a last chance. We're to the point where, you know, our DNA, even, our DNA is not going to be able to survive the onslaught that comes from every direction.

12:29 Yeah, I think this spiritual understanding, for those of you who love the Lord and are going through hard things, very, very hard things personally in your relationships, in your finances, in your situations, very difficult things. This is, hold on, just hold on. This is a time of shaking. This is a time of testing. This is a time of severe trial, even for the righteous. And, you know, you can't avoid this by being good because you can't, because the enemy is after those who are good. So it's going to be like, okay, God's going to have to keep us. We're going to have to secure ourselves in him. But don't be in that place where the devil has something against you, where he can actually bring a demonic judgment against you. He says, going back to 4.6 again, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, because you have rejected knowledge.

13:14 I will also reject you. Well, what have we rejected? The truth, the counsel of the Word of God. We've gone with the counterfeit versions of the Word of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. We've gone with the mixture of grace and good works, mixing those together and becoming, it becomes worthless and pointless because you cannot work to earn yourself a way to heaven, but you can abide in the vine and bring forth good fruit, which may include awesome good works, but they're not coming out of you. They're coming out of our relationship with Jesus Christ. So in this, again, with everything who can stand, you know, God is, He judges us by what he knows of us.

13:56 And let him know the truth. Let us walk in the power of the counsel of the Holy Spirit that lives inside of us and not grow weary in well-doing. He says, God says, the more they increase, think about the nation, the more they sinned against me. Now there's many, we say, well, it's turning around. There's good things happening. People are, the truth is coming out. Yes, the truth of the horror of what has happened, what some of us have known for 15, 5, 6, 7, 12 years is coming out. But at the same time, where's the, you know, we say, well, where's the justice? Well, the justice is coming, but at the same time, God is slow in bringing this justice so that you and I who have a need yet to repent or get on the right side of this whole thing, have time to do that.

14:41 God often withholds his justice or his judgment and because of his mercy and it's like sometimes we look at situations we think these guys are absolute horrible criminals but because they've got all their money and their political influence. They're just going to get keep getting by with it they get bought out they they buy people off and and they they continue in their evil doings and some are responsible for the deaths of millions and millions of people. And the justice, there's mercy. The fact that they're still alive is the mercy of God. Well, that's right. And yet God, we have to go back to you and I, we cannot take up the cause of the injustice and let that burning inflammation destroy us.

15:28 We are not the judge. We know righteousness. We know what justice should look like because God put that in us and we hate injustice. We're made by God and God hates injustice and so do we. So we get that, but we can't, let the devil use our hatred of iniquity. Use even that as a bait on the hook. I cannot, I'm not, I have what God says to do with those people is forgive them and turn them over to his court. You can't be the judge and be the plaintiff at the same time. So if you've got some ought against someone, a human being, person, your best thing to do is forgive. That means you release them from your judgment. You step out of the judge's bench, off the bed. You do not judge them.

16:10 You do not take on, that's not your job. You're going to get in trouble if you do because the devil's going to judge you for judging them. So get out of the way, turn it over to God, forgive them and say, God, you know the truth and let Jesus Christ... Testify to the truth of what's really going on before the Father, and bring your case before God. You have to look at the ultimate judgment. You can't, you know, very, very seldom is there accurate, truthful judgment. Because there's so many layers of things. You know, there's so much on, you don't, there's nothing as straightforward. Don't count on justice in this world. Right. But you can be righteous, and you can be just. Right. You can know the justice of God. And as you walk in the righteousness and the peace of God. We don't have to come under the damnation.

16:53 However, it's like we're all in this, and what happens to one may happen to another as this earth. We're all sharing the earth. We're all sharing the resources of this earth. So we are going to go back to God. God says Israel is stubborn. Ephraim has joined himself to idols. Their drink is rebellion. They commit harlotry continually. The rulers love dishonor. The wind has wrapped her up in its wings, and they're all ashamed because of their sacrifices. So the wind, see, yeah, the wind, the rain, the horrible natural disasters that are coming on this earth are not accidents.

17:37 They're not coincidences. They are, they're contrived and they're engineered and they're also, but God is permitting them. God is permitting them because why? Because here's the deal. God is a perfect will for our life. And that perfect will is righteousness, peace, justice, truth, blessing, goodness, joy, prosperity, you know, things going well. That's God's perfect plan and will for our lives. But the enemy has seduced us into using our free will to choose what looks like a better deal. So with God, the bottom line is whose report are you going to believe? Are you going to believe what God says, what the Bible says, and take that and use that as your foundation, as your operating principle?

18:22 Or are you going to believe what it looks like and feels like, and that you can make a fast buck and make a quick move and do a quick shortcut, and you can get out of some of this stuff by taking matters into your own hands, it will not work. The only way life works is to surrender every bit of that life to Jesus Christ. So God is calling him to order. He says, your deeds, they do not direct their deeds towards turning to their God. Again, he says, spirit of harlotry. So the whole book of Hosea is about idolatry, fornication, harlotry, sleeping with people you're not rightfully to sleep with. Yeah, and that's a part of it.

19:04 And then along with that, it's the spiritual idolatry. Spiritual. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Spiritual idolatry. In other words, we have other gods. Perfect, yeah, you're right. You know, in Timothy, 2 Timothy, Paul told Timothy, he says, in the last days people will be lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. Oh, yeah. We see that. All you have to do is go around on a weekend. Yeah, well, you know, they're all looking for a way to escape. Yeah, I mean, there's nothing wrong with enjoying. Things in life, but when you love your pleasures more than you love God. And, you know, how many people that you know that really find pleasure in the Lord? I do. I do. Yeah, good. Well, that's good. There's a couple of us here that find that. You ask the question, I answer the question.

19:48 We enjoy, you know, that in his Proverbs, Psalm 16, 18, in his presence, there's fullness of joy in his right hand. There are pleasures forevermore. But Satan has used that idea of pleasure and beauty. He's actually used that from the very beginning when he set up the enchantments and the root cuttings. Spells. Incantations, sorcery, drugs. And yeah, because we don't like it down here that much. We like heaven. We like beauty. We like beauty. We like pleasure. We like things sweet and good. And that's why that becomes a bait on the hook, too, for people who are looking for that. But he who seeks to save his life is going to lose it.

20:29 And he who loses his life for my sake will keep it. Look at the disciples, the apostles, the followers of Jesus Christ. Not one of them tried to save their life back after they finally got converted. They were all in this for the long haul, which is eternity. They were counting the afflictions of this present age as nothing for the glory of being with God and forever. And this forever is real. Heaven is real, people. Jesus is real. The coming, you're going to, we're all going to die or rapture, but we're all going to have to stand before the Lord someday, however we get there. and we're going to have to give an account of ourselves. And God knows that He wants us to be in a place where He can actually bless us.

21:11 And it says here, The Lord has turned His back because they dealt treacherously with the Lord, for they have begotten pagan children. God has had to kind of turn His back on this thing and let it run its course, which is basically what you and I have willed or wished for or wanted or voted for in a way, not politically, but in your choices every day, every day, every decision you make will either make you one step closer to God, not that you're far away, but I mean one step more secure in Him, in His will, or pull you back away from His will. So every decision, every choice that we are set, that's set before us, even the food we, every choice we make will draw us more or into the blessing of God, or into the trouble that the enemy has planned for us.

22:05 Yeah, full of choices, you know, that choose you this day who you will serve. God told that to, Joshua told that to the people of Israel. So what choices, now the thing is, we have choices. Sometimes we have decisions that are made for us. Certain things happen. We didn't choose them. We didn't seek them. But they happen, we could say, to us, despite our desires to not have those things happen. So, I mean, stuff just comes our way. Stuff happens. But God has given us grace. And some of it's the most hurtful kind of stuff. And I just think of, I mean, even believers that we know of now that are just, they're just suffering.

22:52 I just think of so many people that are just going through so many hard, hard things. And it's not because they're so wicked, it's just because there's wickedness in others, in a sense, that has come against them. Well, you know, in the wonderful, beautiful verse in Hosea, again, you might want to read this little book, chapter 6, verse 6, 6-6. For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. But like men, they transgress the covenant. They have dealt treacherously with me. So, you know, when we sin against one another, we're actually dealing treacherously against God. And God says he would rather have mercy and pardon us than to have us do all these good works and try to buy his favor and get him to like us.

23:40 God already likes us, but he wants to have mercy. But to have mercy, and he wants the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. He'd rather have you seek him, you know, take that time to cry out, pray, read your Bible, memorize some verses, meditate, meditate. Think on whatsoever things are pure, lovely, honest, just, and good report. I know this doesn't sound very positive, but in your heart, you're going to have to start meditating on the pure, lovely, honest, just, and good report things, or this overwhelming overwhelming. External stuff, you know, the suffering, the tragedy, will try to take you out. Because Satan will say, well, where is God? Why did God do that? Where was he when you prayed? And on and on, the devil will rage, trying to bring you, get you to bring God into judgment, like where was God when all this was happening?

24:28 God sits on the throne. God is love. God desires mercy rather than sacrifice. God wants to be favorable to you. And he will, and he is. He's actually being favorable and kind and merciful and gracious to all of us right now, because we don't understand how much God has invested in us. His whole life, his son, his everything, creation, everything was created for us. He has invested all of his handiwork in us that we might know him, that he might have a family, that we might come through this. This is not it, people, this world, whatever you can build down here, whatever kingdom, whatever little palace, whatever big palace, five castles you may have in your name, but the thing is some have nothing but a street corner.

25:10 Father, there's just so much to, you know, so much... You know, discrepancies, disparity, is that a word? Disparity, that's it, yeah. Difference between the conditions of men, some so well off it would appear and some not. But Lord God, this day is the day that you have made. It's the day the sun has again been given to us to shine. It's a day that you have made. Let each one today who's listening be encouraged. Just settle down. Just get small for a minute. Just go in the moment. Don't go back to, oh, no, what's going to happen tomorrow or, oh, no, what happened yesterday. Don't do the oh, no's and what of. Just be quiet. Settle down. Start talking. If you have to start talking out loud to God so that you can keep your focus and your concentration, because it's really hard to talk to the Lord without opening your mouth. I mean, really, literally.

26:03 You can meditate maybe in your soul, in your heart, your mind for maybe five seconds, and then you're off on something else. So you need to pray out loud to God, to talk to God, have a conversation with God. Then you can hear your own self saying and praying, and you can maybe even hear what God has to be saying back to you. And the other thing that's very super helpful to anchor you in all of this mess is the Word of God. To read it to yourself, to read it to others, to read it out loud, to read it every day, to read it several times a day, and then to begin to memorize it so that the Holy Spirit can bring back to you the anchoring, the words, the anchoring of your soul in the Word of God. And so as we, today, I just want to pray for people who are caught up in the whirlwind of their lives and suffering and don't know which way to go, where to turn, and that the Lord God will secure you and anchor you in His love and give you wisdom and give you that knowledge, to give you that revelation so you don't perish, that you'll have the revelation and you'll go forward in that revelation.

27:07 And you will not then cast off restraint because you will know that the end is coming. Yeah, another thing, too, thinking of Hosea. Hosea fulfilled the calling that God gave to him. You know, despite the fact that he had a very, you know, super unfaithful wife, and he had all kinds of suffering. He was suffering personally. He was suffering in the way that God was suffering because of his people who were turning away from him into idolatry, into spiritual harlotry. And natural idolatry, harlotry as well. So basically, all these things were going wrong.

27:51 You know, there was all this resistance and people were not turning away from their sin when Hosea was speaking. Yet, despite his personal suffering, you know, with his unfaithful wife, despite, you know, if we have kids that are straying away or we have an unfaithful spouse or we have a sickness or disease, despite all that that's going on in our lives, in your life, you are able, by God's grace and mercy, to have compassion on other people, to live in God's mercy, to live in God's grace, to fulfill the call that he's placed on your life.

28:34 And you might not feel like you have much of a call or anything. But just every day, step by step, day by day, what is God giving you to do? What is God saying to you? What God is saying to you, do it. Hear the word of the Lord like Margie is saying. And what God is saying to you specifically day to day, even in your most mundane duties, just keep doing that. Keep on doing it. And you can't be just overwhelmed by all the wickedness of the world. Amen. But just keep your focus on the Lord. Yes, and let the joy of the Lord be your strength. In Ezra, if you want to read a little extra, Ezra 9, Nehemiah 9, Ezra 9, Daniel 9, all those chapters, he's bringing, he's repenting for the people.

29:24 Three nines, how about that? Yeah. And so he says, now for a little while, grace has been shown from the Lord to leave us a remnant to escape and to give us a peg in his holy place that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage. I think that's the way we're going to wrap it up today. He's going to give us a measure of revival. The harvest is still out there, and Satan is trying to destroy the harvest, just like you have a crop out there that's almost ready to harvest, and the wind comes and tries to flatten the grain, lodge the grain, so it cannot be harvested. This is Satan blowing these winds to try to lodge the harvest.

30:08 And so God is going to give us a measure of revival in our bodies as we repent. He's going to extend mercy to us. So, Father God, we thank you for that mercy, that extension, Father, in Jesus' name. Yeah, and all of us who are called to you, Lord, everyone listening here that knows you is called to be a harvester in some area of the harvest field. Father God and Lord, we just thank you, Lord, that you give us grace and encouragement. And Lord, we know that Satan right now is busy attacking the harvesters. Trying to interfere with the harvest he doesn't want. He wants, Satan wants his harvest to hell and to the lake of fire to bring with him.

30:51 God wants his harvest to be, you know, people to come into the, excuse me, into the abundant life here on earth and to be with him forever. So Father God, I pray that you would encourage the harvesters, Lord. Each of us who know you are called to share your love, to share your truth, you know, in some fashion. Let us be a light. And don't be discouraged by you think you don't have a whole much, you know, a lot that you're doing. But if you're doing something that the Lord is speaking to you about, just do it. And even if it's the most mundane thing, just do it as unto the Lord.

31:33 And that's your part for now in the harvest. And God, in His timing and in His grace, He'll increase the opportunities that He's given you. Be faithful in that which is least, and you'll be faithful in greater things. Amen. And we encourage you to join us. Check us out at liferecovery.com. The series we're doing now, Doing Relationships God's Way, is available on Amazon. It's also available on our website. We encourage you to stay encouraged by reading the Word of God and meditating on the good things of God. Amen. Thanks for joining us. Talk to you soon. Music.