word #2 for Pastors of Sonoma County

To Sonoma County Pastors, #2

I speak a thing before it happens so that men might be prepared, and walk forward in glory. A man should not rebuke the future lest he be caught by the thief. I change things and tell a man ahead of time so that he can do the works of glory with Me which bring the changes I have foretold.

You have heard words of love. I love you and don’t want you to think that the changes to come are from anger or that I am indifferent to your circumstances.
You have believed that I can do all things. Believing I am God is just the beginning of faith. Knowing that which I will do, and then working with Me to do it, that is faith.

Now look with Me at the circumstances as they now are. For the trumpet sounded and many things, structures, people, ministries, and much more, fell. Look at the Church here in Sonoma County. Many of the sheep are poor and becoming homeless. Yet the structure of the churches have not changed. Look with My eyes as I compare it to a previous famine of hard times which hit Egypt. Joseph took in the tithes during the good years. So the pastors here have taken in the tithes. Now, hear what I say. There are the harder and harder yet and hardest years yet ahead. It is time to change the way you do things. Just as Joseph gave out to the people during the lean years, so you also need to give out to the flock. Do not tell them that they need to have faith to give you more because you are sinking. They did not give you their tithe only to have you deny them what they need. I would not tell them to go, be warmed and filled, without giving them the things needed for the body.
I am restructuring the Church of Sonoma County. Pastors can work with me to feed their flocks, or they can try to run their churches as before, and suffer loss of all things. I am looking for pastors who will prepare their flocks with leaders, who will let the doors of their churches close on that day they can no longer pay. I am looking for pastors who will invest in men and women now while the congregation is together so that home churches can be made in the future. These pastors will be seen as overseers when they have many smaller home churches under them. Some will start new home churches and be as Apostles. People will care for each other’s needs during the great famine of finances; and it will become even more dire than it is now. There will be a run on the banks, and a great thief that was formerly contained will break out and steal from this community. But if you are prepared, and tending to the needs of the flock, you will have my heart, and you will not store up your funds for that day when things return to “normal” for you.

Now I have shown you My purpose, and the great change that is ahead. Though there are some churches that will not close, many will. If a pastor yearns for things to be as they are now, he will seek to preserve his church until it closes. His faith will be founded on sand, and all that he builds towards the future will fall.

Programs, funds for missions, and the costs of running a church will be held against My word which has been sent to him, and he will be in debt to Me. But those who train up their congregation, knowing one day they may not all meet under one roof again, they are the wise ones. Then will preserve unity amongst their people, and be found giving each one his portion in due season. And I will bless them in famine. So said the Lord.