WARNING AGAINST IDOLATRY

SCRIPTURE READING: HOSEA 8

In this day, the church has been made into a circus of crazy blessing-seeking holiness-rejecting congregants. All we want to hear is how God will make us rich and prosperous. At the beginning of every year, we always get prophecies that make us jump up and down like crazy, because we will get this and that; because we're in line to receive, receive, receive. I haven't seen or heard prophecies that are in line with the purging of sin in the church; how God is displeased with the sinful church, as He used to do in the bible days. We don't want to hear such prophecies; even though they're more profitable than the 'bless-me-now' prophecies we prefer.
We have mastered the man-orchestrated procedure of worship, yet neglected the biblical requirements of the worshiper. We have chosen to squeeze our perverted view of "God's will" into our man-made patterns.
By so doing, we have become accomodative of sin and all that is displeasing to God.

I, therefore, declare 2013 a year of REPENTANCE! This is the year of building a church that will be pleasing to God in every aspect of life; a church that will seek God above fame and wealth; a church that will model Christ as Christ wants, through the leading of the Holy Spirit; a church that will stand out to please God against all odds and norms. I decree and declare that in 2013 we will be a church that will seek God until there's ALL OF GOD and NONE OF US to show.

PRAYER
Thank You Father for all Your goodness to us as Your people, even when we err. Thank You for the reminders about who we ought to be in You. May Your Name be glorified in our time and time to come because of the lives that we live. We decree and declare that we will adhere to Your Word everyday of our lives. We will be a church that will be blameless as You have said in Your Word. Tis all we will do if Your Holy Spirit enables us. We therefore ask that You constantly revive us as we seek Your face each day. This we ask believing thankfully in Jesus' Name. AMEN