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GRASSROOTS ACTION, PROMPT
AND VIGOROUS
10 | MARCH 2016
BY ANGUS BUCHAN

I read in my quiet time just the other day about the importance of
being ready for the move of God’s Holy Spirit. If we look at 2 Samuel
5:24 (NKJV), The Word of God says, “And it shall be, when you hear
the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you
shall advance quickly. For then the Lord will go out before you to
strike the camp of the Philistines.” Jesus is the Master of the wind and
He is the maker of the rain. I experienced that personally with 5000
delegates from all over the world at in Ein Gedi, at the Dead Sea, at the
place where David was hiding from King Saul. It was an evening meet-
ing and we called upon the Lord to bring revival and a mighty rushing
wind came through that meeting, and it started raining on the lowest
point on earth. An absolute miracle, to say the least.

Our action must be prompt and it must be vigorous. We cannot deter-
mine the wind and we cannot make the rain, but what we can do is to
put the sail up on our boat, so that when the wind comes it will blow
and fill that sail, and take us onto our destination. Walking close with
God requires holiness in our behaviour. The Lord is moving very quickly
in the earth these days. He has to, because we are coming to the
climax of this world. People are asking me in the street, “How much
worse must it get?” Jesus reminded us, when you see these signs in the
world, know that My coming is imminent. He tells us not to be afraid.
In fact in John 16:33 (NKJV), Jesus says, “These things I have spoken
to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will[a] have
tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

What we need to do, is we need to be listening, we need to be ready
for the rustling in the treetops, and then we need to advance quickly,
and to do whatever the Holy Spirit calls us too. For me I am very excit-
ed about what the future holds, not only for my life and for my family,
but for the nation and for the world. However, I am being very sensitive
to the leading of God’s Holy Spirit. I am not just going anywhere, at
everybody’s beck and call. I am only going where God tells me to go.
I’m only doing what God tells me to do and I am believing that I’m
going to be more effective in my senior years than I ever was in my
junior years.

When I was a young man I ran here and I ran there, trying to make an
effect. Often it amounted to nothing, because the Holy Spirit was not
in it. Now like a wise old fisherman I raise the sail of my boat and I wait
patiently for the wind (Holy Spirit) to fill the sail. Once that happens,
then I act promptly and vigorously, and I know that my journey is con-
ducted by the power of the Holy Spirit.

As you would wait patiently to hear the sound of marching on the tops
of the mulberry trees, be ready, because I can tell you right now that
the Lord is on the move.

May God bless you as you continue to act promptly and vigorously as
the Holy Spirit will redirect you. Remember William Carey, the founder
of the Baptist Union (He took the Gospel of Jesus Christ into India), he
said “We must attempt great things for God and expect great things
from God.” This is our time, Christian, let us not be sleeping when the
wind comes, but let our sail be fully extended and waiting.

God bless

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