God's Wake-Up Call to the Church!

Towards the end of 2004 we heard a prophetic message received by Oral Roberts concerning the need for the Church to wake-up and get ready and prepared for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Here is what we believe was the most challenging and sobering part of the Lord's message to His Church. Let us hear and, most importantly, respond to the word of the Lord in whatever way it applies to us.

"Remember, I said in my Bible to My disciples 2000 years ago, Go into all the world and teach all nations and when that teaching has reached the nations, then will the end come" [see Matthew 28:19 & Matthew 24:14]. And then He [God] startled me. "With all the widespread church in the world...there is a wasting of My power. There is a failure to grasp the end time. They're coming to church on a Sunday morning mostly for themselves and the preachers, for the most part, are not really concerned for the nations of the earth. They're concerned about the little group that is there and they sing their songs and they get up and preach..."

[God said] "the thing that is breaking My heart is that I commanded My people, I commanded My Church to preach the gospel in all the world and to teach all nations, and while there are evangelists, and pastors, and prophets and apostles, and all kinds of My workers in all parts of the world, and in some of the nations of the earth, it is just a drop in the bucket to what I commanded My disciples to do. And I love people so much. I can't afford to let people go on as they are..."

For the past 57 years as I [Oral Roberts] have preached in all the continents of the world - I've not preached in all the nations but I've preached in scores of nations and had huge crusades and my TV programme went through a great part of the earth for a large number of years; and I've travelled this earth - the number of people I saw preaching the gospel was so infinitely small that it nearly broke my heart. I come back to America and there's a church almost on every corner and there's hundreds of thousands of preachers and hundreds of thousands of gospel teachers in this country...but when you go over there you don't find much...there's only a handful, like our brother Reinhard Bonnke. Most of the churches have very little concern outside the borders of their church building and where they live. I saw that and God said, "Don't you think I saw it?" He said, "Don't you see that if I don't do something, if I don't wake up this country and wake up My people and wake up the nations, it's going to look like My Son died in vain. It's going to look like I've not prepared a new heaven and a new earth for this world that's perishing..."

"But make sure that you don't get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day-to-day obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off, oblivious to God. The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing!" (Romans 13:2, The Message)