“The Rise of the Nobodies!”

I woke up hearing the above title.

As I listened, I heard: “The Apostles were nobodies to those in Jerusalem.

I was a nobody to them as well. For they did not have My Father’s Heart or Mind on serving others.

They were more interested in making a name for themselves than caring for the sheep.

They were more interested in judging others than judging themselves. I told them they were straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.

Because I came from a poor area, and those resistant to their pride or formalized education, to them I was a nobody.

Well, I AM RAISING UP THE NOBODIES NOW!

Those whom The Church has mocked and rejected like so much flotsam or jetsam, who have said they could never amount to anything, I WILL USE to show My power and glory — because they will NOT take the glory for themselves.

They have trained in the boot-camp of abuse, pain, rejection, addiction, physical suffering and failures.

I asked the Pharisee, “Who would be more grateful, the one to whom little was forgiven or the one to whom MUCH was forgiven?” (Luke 7:41-50)

You know the answer to that! It’s the same now as then. Who of the Apostles was perfect?

What was Saul before he became Paul? Was Peter a perfect man, even after I rose from the dead?

Where is your GRACE for those who don’t appeal to your senses? I told you to judge with RIGHTEOUS judgment, not earthly!

Vanity and idolatry to those in the Pulpits of America needs to DIE!

For I will raise up people educated and uneducated who were thought to be nothing.

They will be known by the fruit of their lives.

Do they have compassion for the poor and lost?

Do they have compassion for the witches and homosexuals?

Or do they honor Me with their lips but teach falsely about My Word?

Are you understanding that in the days to come they will put you in jail if you don’t obey their advice versus Mine?

That’s why I warned Gideon about fear and carnality among his troops!

It was the religious congregation that nailed me to The Cross! Those who hated Me, and those who followed their leaders vs following Me!

So you must make a choice in these days as everything unfolds. The bottom line is: My Way — or man’s ways/ your ways.

Do not think that I came to feed you cotton candy vs the meat of the Word. My Father’s will is what I came to accomplish and I did it voluntarily.

I came in HUMBLE circumstances, among those who were under oppression of the Roman Empire.

I was born in a cave with animals, laid in straw bedding. Maybe you need to picture that for a moment.

There was no hospital, no purified water, no conveniences to help Mary and Joseph.

Remember that to whom much is given, much is required in this hour!

I love you all, but you must pray to have MY HEART for the humble. You must not judge by external beauty or wealth.

There is room for everyone in My Church that is called by My Name!

It will take great compassion, forgiveness and also WISDOM to deal with many who have been discarded and who will yet be thought discardable by the system of this world.

You know, black is white and white is black to the demonically controlled world.

MY WORD is the final authority, not only the written Word, but MY WORDS, what I AM saying will align with The Word — but you must understand the whole of the written Word to discern.

You need to seek MY FACE that I can show you what you need to know, so that I can give you the discernment you need.”

“He guards the paths of justice, and preserves the way of His saints. Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path. When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you, to deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things,…” Proverbs 2:8-10 NKJV

“Who in the world do you think you are to second-guess God? Do you for one moment suppose any of us knows enough to call God into question? Clay doesn’t talk back to the fingers that mold it, saying, “Why did you shape me like this?”” Romans 9:20-33 TMB

Isn’t it obvious that a Potter has a perfect right to shape one lump of clay into a vase for holding flowers and another into a pot for cooking beans?

If God needs one style of pottery especially designed to show His angry displeasure, and another style carefully crafted to show his glorious goodness, isn’t that all right?

Either or both happens to Jews, but it also happens to the other people.

Hosea put it well:

“I’ll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, “You’re nobody!” they’re calling you “God’s living children.”” Hosea 2:23, Romans 9:26-33

Isaiah maintained this same emphasis: If each grain of sand on the seashore were numbered and the sum labeled “chosen of God,” they’d be numbers still, not names; salvation comes by personal selection.

God doesn’t count us; he calls us by name. Arithmetic is not his focus!

Isaiah had looked ahead and spoken the truth: If our powerful God had not provided us a legacy of living children, we would have ended up like ghost towns, like Sodom and Gomorrah.

How can we sum this up?

All those people who didn’t seem interested in what God was doing actually embraced what God was doing as he straightened out their lives — and Israel, who seemed so interested in reading and talking about what God was doing, missed it.

How could they miss it? Because instead of trusting God, they took over. T hey were absorbed in what they themselves were doing.

They were so absorbed in their “God projects” that they didn’t notice God right in front of them, like a huge rock in the middle of the road.

And so they stumbled into him and went sprawling.

Isaiah (again!) gives us the metaphor for pulling this together: Careful! I’ve put a huge stone on the road to Mount Zion, a stone you can’t get around. But the stone is me If you’re looking for me, you’ll find me on the way, not in the way.

“Bless your enemies; no cursing under your breath. Laugh with your happy friends when they’re happy; share tears when they’re down. Get along with each other; don’t be stuck-up. Make friends with nobodies; don’t be the great somebody.” Romans 12:14-16 TMB

“Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”?” 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 TMB

That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God

. Everything that we have — right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start — comes from God by way of Jesus Christ.

That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God!”

 

~ Priscilla Van Sutphin

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PRISCILLA VAN SUTPHIN is the founder of Upstream Ministries, California, online at www.upstreamca.org and blogtalkradio.com/ Upstream and broadcasts on YouTube at @PriscillaVanSutphin. Email: upstream.ca@me.com For Donations: send to ‘Priscilla Van Sutphin’ on envelope, but to Upstream if chk at 15660 Tustin Village Way #27, Tustin CA 92780 or https://www.paypal.me/UpstreamMinistries or Zelle thru using upstream.ca@me.com

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