Prepared-Readiness

TRANSLATION ALERT 123 | Neal Frisby’s Sermon CD #1425 6-7-92 (AM)

Amen. Lord, bless your hearts. I’m proud to be in the house of God. Hey, He is wonderful!

Lord, we love you, how great thou art! You know, we love the American flag, but oh, how greater you are than the flag, Lord. That’s just a mark. You’re the Creator of both flag and the land of providence, Lord. And your great power flies over your people, Lord. You’ve got a flag of your own, the Holy Spirit, and the great Comforter. Now touch each one in that audience, and they should be more loyal to you than anything on this earth. And take the hurts and the pains and all of the things that overshadow their life, Lord, and push them aside.

And let the power of the Lord come upon their life and let the Lord’s anointing be with them. I command the demon powers, and I command the bondage to be lifted from them, giving them comfort, giving them rest, and giving them peace in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Almighty. Oh, praise God.

Bless your heart. Okay, go ahead and be seated. Now, instead of this morning, I’m here tonight. This is just a brief message to kind of wake people up. You know, for so much, Pentecostal people, full gospel people, fundamental people, and all kinds of them, they’re making all kinds of rackets everywhere all over the country for all kinds of them. How many of them are really prepared? Now, that’s what’s going to count. Can you say amen? You know, you can talk, talk, you can say this, you can say that, but how many are prepared? I’m going to talk about this just a little bit before we do something else here tonight.

Now, Prepared Readiness. Now, during the days of the world, it looks like a binge, a world of madness, like they went off into a great binge, and the Pied Piper, and even into the youth, and the way they’re doing everything that they’re doing, and their sprees, and what they’re doing, what new thing they can think up in one day, and what thing they can think up in the next day. How many Christians, while all of these great cares of this life are going on, how many Christians are prepared? In such an hour as you think not, that’s exactly right. If you ever get where the real Word of God is burning, and the real Word of God is powerful, and it’s just exactly as the scriptures, and the anointing becomes a twin with the Word, and you can’t tell one from the other, and it begins to operate, there you will separate the false twin to the other one. Can you say amen? Oh, there’s the real make believer and the believer. They’re right there.

And so, Prepared and Readiness. Are you a faithful witness? That’s what it was in the book of Revelation. It said, and He is a Faithful Witness. That means that faithful witness right up until the end of the age before you’re called up in the translation, a faithful witness until the coming of the Lord. How many? How many of that faithful witness there? Behold, she, that’s the church, the elect, she makes herself ready, meaning [she] does not leave it all up to God, does not just throw up on God’s hands completely, but there are certain parts that the church and certain parts, they must do themselves, preparing their hearts in great faith, knowledge, wisdom, power, and witnessing in a great testimony and prayer and praise up unto the living God. How many of you believe that? Now, if you’re not scurrying around in your heart and making yourself ready for the Bridegroom, it said that was leaving time. That’s the time to get out. According to all the signs, the packing should have already started because the train is coming around the corner. And these people ain’t even packed yet, and the train’s coming around the corner. They’re not going to have time to get on God’s train, and I don’t know how they’re going to get there. Otherwise, that’s a great tribulation for some of them. But the train is going to be gone. God’s going to take His people into heaven. Amen.

Ready and prepared, loyalty, loyalty to Jesus, the great God, the Word. Now, that is loyalty to Jesus as the great God. How many of you are loyal? The Word, and He was made flesh and dwelt among us, and He was called the Word. Faithful witness, faithful to that Word right there. And then the Bible said this here, in the Word, “Be ye also ready.” Now, be ye also ready, what does it mean? It doesn’t mean just be watching and praying, but it said, be ye also ready. That goes back to, are you prepared during this worldliness that’s going on all over the world? They think God is billions of miles away, and they don’t know He has already come and been down here before they got here, and He will be here long after their ashes are upon the earth. How many of you know that? That’s exactly right. Be prepared at all times. Be ye also ready. You have salvation, be sure in your heart that you believe, and you have salvation in your heart. Some people have salvation in the brain, in the card. They’ve got it somewhere else. They’ve got it in their thoughts; they will work it out somehow, they will do this, they’ll do that. But make sure and repent therefore, and make sure in your heart where you stand with God each day, each time, because we’re to watch for the Lord not next month or next year. We are to watch for the Lord daily now, because there are too many signs, and they’re all around us, so that gives us the privilege to say, when will the Lord come? Anytime, anytime. He can come anytime He wants to come. We are getting that close that you can say that [He is] coming at any time there. Jesus said it was so close that He just looked upon the fields as His widest [whitest] harvest. He said, look, “say not ye, there are yet four months” (John 4. 35). Look out there, you see? That’s how close it was there, and so forth.

Full of the oil, the power of His Word, ready to work miracles, ready to believe God, ready to show the unbeliever a witness to Him. Those with an open heart, He will work a miracle. That’s right, oil and witnessing. Faith! Cast not away, therefore, your faith, for it is going to bring you a recompense, reward, a great reward. Without faith, it is impossible to please the Holy Spirit, the Word, the Son, and all of them together, God, Lord Jesus. It’s impossible to please God or any of His attributes, or sevenfold aspects of the Spirit without faith. You must have faith in your heart. He is a Super God. How many of you believe that? He will do anything. There is no limit. You know, I was preaching. Why in the world? All things are possible, a lot of people never reach that stage. Well, for one thing, just to let you know that there’s no limit with God. If you want to reach out and reach out, it shows you, you can go a long way with the Lord. Faith! Now, that’s telling others of His soon return. If you’ve got enough faith in your heart, you’re going to tell somebody, “Did you know it’s time to come to the Lord? Did you know the signs? I’ve got faith in my heart, I believe Jesus’ return is soon and He can come at any time. Are you prepared?” And He is on His way. Faith and the soon return.

Be ye a holy example, be an example to how the Word teaches it. A holiness people, a people that believe and [are] separate from the world. They separate themselves from many of the things the world is out there doing today. Be you holy to God. It means more than just an appearance outward or appearance inwardly or whatever it is, holy means before God. You are vile yourself, but God is a Holy God. You must come to Him, cleansing your heart of the least little things, things that are not even sins, things that may be legal to do. You may have done too much of them. You may have done a little bit of this, a little bit of that. And holiness, you get down to work, you clean that vessel and reach out to God. You haven’t said anything wrong against anybody, see, you haven’t got on to anybody unwisely. Make sure that you’ve got that when you step before Him with that great faith in Him. That’s coming at the end of the age, these things. And tonight, I just wanted to read, are you prepared in this world of dizziness, the world of madness, the world that’s going around? Yeah, the world’s going around like the world, isn’t it? And they don’t even know it. They’re going around in a mad circle. God had the world, it’s kind of turning on its axis and the world, they don’t know where they’re going next. Some people don’t know what’s going to happen next. Watch what I told you. Just watch. The world doesn’t know which way it’s going, and the people, the people are perplexed. They’re not restful. They’re unrestful. They don’t have confidence. They don’t know the straight direction. They have no guide, saith the Lord. How can they know where they are going? Thank you, Lord. That’s right. You know who the Guide is? The Holy Spirit is your Guide. He came in Jesus’ Name and He will guide you in there and for all that.

Now, how many of you are preparing? Tonight, how many of you are preparing for the change? You are preparing for the translation. Behold, she made herself ready. Be ye also ready. Be watchful and prayerful, but also prepare and not just watch and pray, but know that you’re ready. Prepared and readiness in the hour that we live in, where people can probably spend 10 hours watching TV and maybe see God for two or thirty minutes on the weekend. You never know. They can be doing something for twenty-five, thirty hours and never even think about God. Your heart–He said, wherever your heart is that’s where your treasure is going to be. And if your heart is stayed upon the Lord, and no matter what, and your heart is there, wherever your heart is planted, and you plant it in your heart that you’re going to be with Jesus, and you keep that in your heart, there’s going to be your treasure. What is in your heart? How many can say that today? Pitiful! Even among all the so-called Laodicean Pentecostals, the Fundamentals of Baptists, the real conservatives, and all of that today, every one of them falls short. But it was prophesied, it was predicted that that would be one of the signs, that the few that God will call, they will come together and do exactly as this message is [says] right here. They will believe it in their heart. Their heart is placed in the heavenly city. It is placed in the Lord Jesus. It is placed in eternal life that never runs out, life eternal. How many of you can say, praise the Lord? You know, tonight, there are empty seats, some of them, we don’t know where they are. What if He did call tonight? What if He did and then translation took place? How many, not only here, but around the world would be ready? The readiness is not here yet. You can tell it by the slackness. And the Lord said, “My hand is not slack, but the people are slack.” You can look around, you can see what is happening here and there, and all the signs are fulfilling. But yet, it seems like the people, you have to take a steamroller to get them where they should be. But God, while those that are really wise are preparing themselves and getting ready and their heart is in heaven, set on the treasure, the Lord himself is doing a work that no one sees. It is said at night while men sleep, He is working in the Holy Spirit and they did not understand (Matt. 13:25-30) when they woke up, what had happened, what God had done. That’s what’s going on now.

You say, you know, sometimes it looks like, you know, God is not–nothing happening out there. Look at all the world, look at what’s happening. Don’t you worry, He’s got another one ready, another one ready, and another one ready, one ready here, one will be taken, one will be left. He is getting them ready. And that’s where we are today. So, be prepared and ready. How many, according to the revelation of the living God, are ready to enter into the sevenfold aspect of that Holy Spirit in Revelations 4, where those lamps of fire were, where the voice was, where the lightnings were, where the thunder was, where the cherubims were, where the rainbow was at, where One sat as a Super, Super God, and was sitting there? How many are ready? How many are prepared to see such a sight? Isaiah was caught off guard, and he was a prophet at that time. It just about shook him all to pieces. And all of a sudden, he was caught up before the throne, such a throne. He had never seen such a sight. Everything in movement, everything was making harmony, everything was like a symphony, everything was working, and it just seemed like each knew what to do. Every one of them was in unison. It was all in such unity until he felt like that he shouldn’t even be part of the party up there, and repented before God, Isaiah the prophet. How many people are going to get caught off guard, and all of a sudden, they will miss the great translation, and then later they’ll be caught up before another throne, and they will be caught off guard? This one is stark white [the White Throne]. The books are in front of it, and it has some kind of ominous feeling. Everything for miles fled from it, and One sat, now that’s the One. If you’re not prepared, then you’ll be standing there.

And how will those that openly crucified Christ again, as those did on the cross; where will those people stand, before that crucified Christ, and have to walk up to Him one by one? Yea, it will come, saith the Lord, yea, your own eyes will see it, and your own ears will hear the report thereof. He is talking to everyone in that seat out there. No matter which way you go, or what happens, translation, dead, wherever you go, you’re going to get to witness what’s going to take place there, because He is going to call them up. He is going to call all the dead up there from the sea or wherever they’re at. Are you prepared? Are you ready? Are you ready to go? You know, tonight I came over here to do a certain thing, and not knowing it, this would have probably been somewhere, and it broke off in a great revelation message too, you know. But we preach so much, He told me, of the coming of the Lord and the future that sometimes people, if you preach it too much, they take it for granted, so our messages are mixed up. But we are at the end of the age now in such a way that there is such an urgency to tell about the coming of the Lord each day for a witness. That is just wonderful. Amen. Now sermons change because new people are listening to it even to find Christ, and about salvation, about healing, and about the Holy Spirit and so forth like that. But I thought to myself, let’s go over there and talk for a few minutes.

I have some unfinished minutes with some people that I have to pray for, and all of a sudden, I said, get a pencil real fast while I get one here. And the Holy Spirit, I know there’s more to this, he went down, and I wrote prepared and readiness in the world that we’re living in now, and then I told him to write. And the Lord kind of, I wouldn’t know if it would be infallible, if every word was right, because you know when it passes through our language, the mind of the Holy Spirit, the Word, but the meaning is there. Every meaning probably is about as close as you wanted to get it to a human from God. And each one of those were noted down one by one, real fast in just a few minutes now, in just a few minutes and brought over here, and I had to preach from that. This message came from God, and He is telling you, I’m not telling you anything. He just got through telling you how many of you are prepared for what you heard Him say. He is the Almighty. How many of you praise the Lord? That’s right. He is getting things ready. So be prepared for in an hour you think not, something is going to throw them clear off where they don’t even think about it; the Lord’s coming, and He is coming soon. And in the 90s, the momentum is going to pick up. Already we see things occurring. Shadows of prophecy are breaking forth everywhere. They’re coming. More biblical prophecy is breaking forth. Things are happening. As I know from the Bible, the lukewarm will get more lukewarm and colder. And those that are worldly or more worldly out there get more like that. Those that are semi-word will get more semi-word and pretty soon have no word. But those that are reaching out for more power will get more power. Those that want more of God will get more of God. I believe that with all of my heart. And if you believe it in your heart, and you believe that God’s going to take you away from here, and your treasure in your heart believes, like I said, where your treasure is, there is where you’re going to be.

I want you to stand on your feet tonight. Oh, how great and how wonderful the Lord is! Many things of the future, many things we’re headed out here. Now tonight, I am headed for the veil. I didn’t know that message was coming. I was headed for the veil, and I thought we had caught up, in fact, I told them to phone some people if they weren’t there to be here, and I would pray for them. Every time we prayed for the sick in the veil, their car broke down or they were sick, something happens, you know. And I told them, go send for them, we’ll pray for them. They hadn’t prayed for yet. Then we found out we got two or three more in the audience that hadn’t been prayed for. And I believe, and you had a woman, they had a car break down one time and they couldn’t get here. She had her foot out just about like this and all she could ever do is ask for prayer. She would come across the platform. She prayed and she prayed, and she prayed because she never could get to the veil. They had no car at that time. And she prayed and prayed. You know what? The more she prayed, we prayed, and she prayed, I was surprised one day she came by over here. I wasn’t exactly able to see her. I hadn’t seen her in a long time and she was just jumping all over the place out there. The thing had already left before she got over there, God had already done His work. I’d say that’s great! I don’t know whether they could get a hold of them here tonight, because they had been coming regularly and had car trouble the other night. But I will tell you one thing, for somebody her age, way over the 80s, way up in there, I’ll tell you, that’s okay, isn’t it?

Now, they picked out some that said they didn’t get prayed for. I’m not going to spend as much time as I did before. That took just about my life out of me. I stood there to really concrete it. I’m going to pray short brief prayers this time, because last time I prayed for such a long time there. And you know, there’s no way, there’s just no way that you can do this. Now the people that they are going to pick out haven’t had a chance. That one over here hadn’t even had a chance. He’d been standing there, he said, “I haven’t even got there, brother and I’ve been working with you almost every day on this television over here.” {That was bro Gerald} I am going to try to get him in over there too, and a few more that haven’t got in there and we’re going to get over in here. And then, you know, there’s just no way for you to say, “Well who’s going to go in there?” So what month are we in? June? I tell you what, give me about seven people that’s born, let’s say between the 25th of May and the 7th of June. See, just like that. Then there’s no favoritism. There’s nothing. Just let those people go and let it be in God’s hand. How many of you are with me on that? And when you get seven of them born in those months, you just send those seven, let them tell you 25th of May to 7th of June and you get them over there with those people. That is how we’re going to do it tonight. That way, nobody will run in there [and say] “I didn’t get in. He didn’t let me in. They didn’t let me in.” How many of you are happy tonight? You say, praise the Lord.

Great. How do you seek the Lord? Paul said, “When I’m weak,” ah, brother, he said, “I am strong.” How many of you believe that? That’s right. And you people tonight, you shout the victory. I’m behind you in prayer. Some of you have been writing to me, sending me notes, giving up your finances, helping me in every way, God’s taking note of that. I make sure that He takes note of that. We’re in the last era of time at any time, what you do for God is in the storehouse. Whatever you do on earth, the only thing that is going to count is the storehouse you’ve got up there, everything [else] is going to vanish. Well, anyway, I appreciate every one of you that’s got in behind me and helped me and more of you when you get it, I know you’re going to do that. But I appreciate it, and I am not letting you down in prayer. You say you don’t feel it. You wait around a while, you’ll run into something. Amen. God is out there. Some [miracles] are short term, and some are long term, and some are according to the cycle of your life or the way that He moves at different times. Sometimes this one will move faster and then He will be slower. And that one will move faster. I just watch Him; I watch Him in the prayer line. You come down here tonight and shout the victory because I’m going to pray for those people right over here in the veil. God loves every one of you now. And you witness, He said. That was Him. This message was God. Be ye my witnesses, says the Lord.

123 – Prepared-Readiness