Being a Watchman to add value to our nation II - Ps. Susan Tang

The series was taught at the 21st National Prayer Advance organized by Ps. Jean Lim and the Glory Place Prayer House.

The notes were compile by me some additional comments. Ps. Susan allows circulation of the audio CD. If you chose to receive a copy of the messages kindly send me an email.Timely messages for the End Times.
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Watchman to rise up

The function of the watchman is as follows from Eze 3,8
1. Hear
2. Sees
3. Speak up

Eze 3:
17 Son of man , I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel : therefore hear the word at my mouth , and give them warning from me. 18 When I say unto the wicked , Thou shalt surely die ; and thou givest him not warning , nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way , to save his life ; the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand .

Eze 8:
4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

Eze 2:
7-8 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.

God is calling Faithful Watchmen
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
(Isa 5:1-4)

Isa 5:1-4 Vineyard
God put a tower (for the watchman) and a winepress (dealings of God). The watchman is one that continuously allows the dealings of God in his or her life.Without which we cannot say that we are on the pilgrimage of sanctification for God wants to build watchmen who are strong in spirit. God requires fruitfulness, good fruits. Wild grapes are produced because there are no boundaries or restraint of God upon our lives, therefore we need the dealings of God that brings us to the place of producing the right fruits for God's harvest.

Abraham was faithful to God, willing to faithful unto death.

What is God requiring fm Malaysian Church? Faithfulness.
Psa 105:
18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters : he was laid in iron :

Oh that we pray that we need iron in our soul to be faithful unto death. When we aren't afraid to die, the devil don't have any strategy against us. Iron in our soul build a strong spirit within us.

God chose a man because of faithfulness.
When reality of God sets in, we can live with little. Solomon lost the reality when he looked for excesses. The little that we have in the physical actually is offset in the greater spiritual abundance we have that last for eternity.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
(Mat 6:19-21)

God's eyes that roam to and fro the earth to find a faithful man and He found Abram.


2Ch 16:9
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

Neh 9:
7 Thou [art] the LORD the God , who didst choose Abram , and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees , and gavest him the name of Abraham ; 8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and

Isa 51:
2 Look unto Abraham your father , and unto Sarah [that] bare you: for I called him alone , and blessed him, and increased him.

Today the Lord is still looking for those who are faithful to Him and willing to forsake even their own lives.

Rev 2:
10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer : behold , the devil shall cast [some] of you into prison , that ye may be tried ; and ye shall have tribulation ten days : be thou faithful unto death , and I will give thee a crown of life .

The overcomer is one that is faithful and their lives bear that testimony.

Rev 12:
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb , and by the word of their testimony ; and they loved not their lives unto the death .

Let not our faithfulness be like the morning cloud. (Hosea 6:4). The faithful are not dependent on circumstances. How many of us in the church today claim to be faithful.... even if we think that we are not 'blessed'.

Opposite of faithfulness is harlotry

Spirit of faithfulness vs. Spirit of harlotry (Hosea)

The many churches today have fallen into spiritual harlotry. Lost in activities as Israel did. Activities are not wrong in themselves but when we are caught up with them, then our focus on God will dim. Could it be why worship is so mood dependent? God called out to Israel to remember Him with a broken heart.

The Lord can be wearied with our sins. Forgiven, yet continue to wallow in sin. The process of God's sanctification and His dealing have we rejected. We can weary God with our iniquity or lawlessness, could it be that we disregard His laws and decide to live according to our standards and not His Moral standards?

Isa 43:
22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob ; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel . 23 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings ; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices . I have not caused thee to serve with an offering , nor wearied thee with incense . 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money , neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices : but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins , thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities . 25 I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins .

Are our doings and deeds turning to God

Hos 5:
4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God : for the spirit of whoredoms [is] in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD .

If our church has the spirit of harlotry, then come out of her for many works have nothing to do with turning to God. Works that don't turn us to God are considered dead works. And the foundation or root of dead works are meant to be pulled out that they don't give continuity to such works. The only pathway to perfection is when the foundation and roots are removed from our lives.

Heb 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

In faithfulness, we can pray commanding prayers

The watchman is one that can pray commanding prayers. Iniquity and dead works can disqualify us from the praying commanding prayers where principalities and powers of darkness can laugh at our faces. Watchmen need to stand in the place of authority.

Isa 45:
11 Thus saith the LORD , the Holy One of Israel , and his Maker , Ask me of things to come concerning my sons , and concerning the work of my hands command ye me .

Samuel wasn't a warrior and yet the life his commanding prayers guarded Israel.

1 Sam 7
13. So the Philistines were subdued, and they did not come anymore into the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

Life of Samuel has great worth, as long as he was alive kept the enemies away. May we live such lives. Power and life that we live that can take authority over the enemy.

Anti-thesis life: live against the existing order. Even to present church order.

Many have become church manship instead of God's workmanship. Where the gates of hell can't prevail. Are we, as a church, built by Christ or of man? The results are telling when there is the confrontation with the gates of hell.

Where the general church failed God will raise up a remnant to live the Samuel life. The general church is overfed with conferances, teachings, books, etc. Unfortunately the overfeeding didn't give birth to the Samuels who can make the difference to our nation and nations.

Rev 12. The true Church travail and pray for overcamers to come forth.

God is looking for the remnant church that will travail and birth the man-child company of overcomers that threatens the very powers of darkness in the end times.

God uses a few to cover the whole.

The cross life

Samuel have no greed, never lusted. Pure heart to see God. Keep demons at bay. Living within the confines of the cross. The cross is the greatest event in God's history. We have to restrain ourselves by the cross. Without the cross, there's lack of power, no restraint.

When the cross is not preached, the church can be among the perishing.

1 Cor 1:
18. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

If we think the message of the cross is foolish then we join the perishing order.

Outside the cross, there's no true knowledge of God. Vs. 2 tells of no restrain, the result thereof.

Hos 4:
1 Hear the word of the LORD , ye children of Israel : for the LORD hath a controversy (charge) with the inhabitants of the land , because [there is] no truth , nor mercy , nor knowledge of God in the land . 2 By swearing , and lying , and killing , and stealing , and committing adultery , they break out , and blood toucheth blood .

Imperitive Chritianity is living by the demands of God! Can God demand of me? Can I live to yield to God's demand. Choice is not ours, it's entirely God's. Living in the place or readiness to yield to God's demand is one that takes up his or her personal cross and following Jesus daily. Because it's a daily yielding.

If we yield to God's demand like Paul even spirits recognize us. Don't be like the 7 sons of Sceva. Our life yielded identity to Christ. Don't be fooled the spirits know how we life. Don't live for the consciousness of man.

Live in continum with the experiences of our spiritual forefathers who lived the cross life and are amongst the crowd of witnesses (Heb 12:1)

We need the cross life to have power over sin, pornography (demoniac holds), coverteousness, etc that challenge the moral standards of God.

Be the antithesis to bring anticlimax to demonic work.

The apostolic word is a requiring word. 'Bring forth, bear fruit' God's requirement. Be an overcomer, for our names to be in the book of life.

What is God requiring from us? To be a watchman and live an antithesis life!