THE YEAR OF EVALUATION

In addition to this year being dedicated to readiness, it is also one of EVALUATION.  Our Overseer Gage called us to attention that though we are gifted people, it is not the gift that will take us to heaven.

 

The way we lived last year cannot be carried forward into this year, we have to change, God is calling us to change.

 

We are living in the technological era and there are so many distractions which are aided by the enemy in order for us to lose sight of the things of the Lord and to get caught up in the world but we ought not to learn the ways to the world nor take part in the practices of the heathen.

 

 

She said since the early days of AJAN Fellowship the Lord spoke to us about celebrations such as Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day and strictly prohibited us from partaking and doing anything which celebrates and glorifies these pagan practices.

This is the Word which the Lord gave and it is the premise on which we do not celebrate Christmas

 

Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven for the heathen are dismayed at them.  For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.  They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." (Jer. 10:1-4)

The world has no place in the lives of the children of God and earlier in the year, the Lord spoke to our Overseer that the world needs to get out of the church.  We cannot get attached to the world and its vices neither can we fall in love with it. 

We cannot trifle with our souls anymore, we no longer have that luxury.  It is the year of serious introspection and running into the Lord, assessing ourselves and seeking the Lord while he may be found.

The Lord will not tarry much longer and we have to wake up, "Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light.  See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.  (Eph. 5:14-16)