The Communists in China are afraid of sheep. So President Xi has rounded up their leaders, like Pastor Wang, and sent them off to prison. President Xi is shaking in his boots at what a flock of humble sheep can do.
Sheep can pray revival down - a fire that burns so quickly through a nation that nothing can put the fire out. Communists don't like that kind of fire. Once it gets inside a heart they are helpless against it.
Sheep have a shepherd who heals the sick and raises the dead and gives hope where there is none - and Communists do not. The Party doesn't have a lot to offer and they know it.
Sheep hear their shepherd's voice above all others - a great bone of contention to the Party. But the shepherd doesn't care and he speaks to his sheep anyway and they obey him first of all - because, after all, HE is their Lord, not President Xi.
No matter what the Communists of China do, they can NEVER tear the shepherd out of a sheep's heart.
And it infuriates them.
Photograph: sheep, unknown
Does it look quiet to you, there on your knees? . . . It's Coming.
Do you feel the expectancy, there on your knees? . . . It's Coming.
Is your vision soaring higher, there on your knees? . . . It's Coming!
Do you feel the drops of water falling on your head, there on your knees? . . . IT'S COMING!!!
STRIKE THE GROUND AGAIN . . . it's coming. THE RAIN IS COMING . . . can you see that small cloud? Revival is coming and righteousness is being raised up.
HE . . . IS . . . SENDING . . . RAAAIIINNNN!!!
Photograph: kneeling in prayer, unknown
It is a shaking, and holding on will do no good. It is a rumbling and groaning beneath our feet, our little worlds all torn asunder. And He has done it for a purpose.
All is being shaken ever harder: families, homes, the earth and seas, finances, careers and futures. Everything that cannot stand shall fall - so that what remains can stand, simply and honestly before Him. "Shake all of it!" He commands His angels on the earth. "Until the only thing remaining is a childlike faith, for that is all that can be taken into heaven."
And so it has begun.
Artwork: The Angels of Forgiveness (c) Howard David Johnson
http://www.howarddavidjohnson.com/
