The Coming Amputation

This morning when I came to pray I asked God to give me a fresh revelation of His love. It’s something He and I have been chatting about lately, and I believe is essential for everyone wanting to grow in Him. But the picture He showed me wasn’t so much a revelation of His love for me, but for His Bride. What He showed me shocked me at first, so I checked that it was definitely from Him, and it grew stronger. This is how the conversation went…

As I asked for a revelation of his love I saw a clear picture of Jesus sat in a hospital chair next to a bed where His beloved was dying. He looked tired and was weeping – and immediately I realised that the person in the bed was the Bride of Christ. It was a shocking picture – you can see why I felt the need to check that it was really from Him!

As I asked if I was seeing and interpreting correctly He said
Yes, that is My love – she is much weakened by a deadly infection.

Still shocked, I blurted out rather naively, ‘But You are Jesus – can’t you just raise up Your Bride and heal her completely?’

He answered,
There is a battle raging within My Bride – she has chosen this infection and allowed it to rage. Parts within her are strong and pure still, but compromise and unfaithfulness to Me are not something I can remove – it is of her will. While she clings to the world I cannot heal her.

Concerned that the Bride of Christ appeared to be at death’s door, and desperate for some kind of solution, I asked what seemed a harsh question even as I asked it, saying “Can’t You just raise up the pure part and leave the rest? Surely You’re not going to let Your Bride die completely?”

The reason for His tears became apparent as He replied sorrowfully,
“Beloved, it is not My will that any should be left behind. The time is indeed drawing near when parts will need to be amputated as my life-blood within those parts has been blocked from circulating. But it is as a last resort. The time is very close but until then I am sat weeping over My Bride, speaking life to every cell that will receive it – calling to the parts that receive Me and cling to Me over everything else.
There is a choice to make between life in Me and death with the familiar world. I am calling My beloved to choose life, before that which has chosen death by clinging to the world is cut away and removed.

His tears overwhelmed me and for a moment I felt desperate, but He continued,

I am not without hope, beloved. Do not think I am weeping without hope. I am resolute at what must be done – My Bride will undergo a serious amputation and separation from what is poisoning her – and then she will be set free. It will be a significant adjustment but I will not leave her crippled. On the contrary, once the parts infected with compromise and unfaithfulness have been removed, I will restore her to full health and recreate new parts to replace the old. Her healing will be rapid and dynamic, and she will be bold and radiant with her devotion to me.
But for now, My love, I weep for those who are clinging to death without realising, calling them back to Me before it is too late – for I know what is to come. Will you weep with Me and call them back with Me?

As I agreed to co-labour in intercession I felt an urgency to release this picture to others here. For a long time God has been speaking to me about the separation that is coming to the Church between the religious and the remnant. And the picture & conversation this morning convinced me that time is running out. The separation is coming soon and is essential for the Bride of Christ to become the glorious and powerful co-labourer with Christ that she was intended to be. It is not a separation between denominations or congregations, but simply between those individuals who cling to religion, tradition and opinion, compromised and infected with worldly-mindedness – and the remnant who cling to Jesus above all else, with pure and whole-hearted devotion. There is no middle-ground, no space for the religious to overlap with the remnant.
This morning I felt an urgent call from Him to choose. We must choose to align with Jesus over and above church congregations. They are not our salvation – He is. It’s not about what our church believes and does, it’s about what we as individuals believe and do. It is only personal relationship with Jesus that secures our place in the remnant.
Choose this day: cling to Jesus!