HortenseInspiration ~ Maybe I need to go from preaching to meddling? I think so, too. Let me go there right now before I change my mind! Hear me.
. . . NATIONAL REVIVAL. The Republic of Liberia needs a move of the Holy Ghost. Meanwhile, for the most part, the CHURCH is silent and Sunday morning "institutional churching" go on business as usual. Liberia needs an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Weekly revivals everywhere. Where people go on the MOURNERS BENCH and pray, repent, cry out for mercy and get SAVED with Salvation in Jesus Christ. This is the only formula for removing wickedness from the heart of human beings. We all know Liberia's number one problem is "wicked heart" for one another. Your know wicked heart is a form of witchcraft, right? Yes.
Liberia needs NATIONAL REVIVAL and mourners bench conversion. The Church must lead this way. Meanwhile, for the most part, churching have become competitions for university building projects. Maybebecause the Catholic and the AME church each operate a great standard university. The Methodist have theirs too. This must be why that Baptist prelate wants his name on one too. No wonder the one lil Seminary is struggling. Meanwhile new "outstanding concepts" for more church universities follow. Who thinking 'bout National Revival. Is that even the church business sef? The CHURCH got better things to study on than lead the Nation in an OUTCRY of sackcloth and ashes repentance. "People talking money Miss Hortense you talking souls...you girl go sit down mehn." hum hum (Liberian lingo for grunting).You must talk so: You talk so. On the other hand if you stand straight for a cry of repentence, holiness, Salvation, prayer and fasting, the first people to tear you down is the church folks. So, the thing is hard to talk yah. On one hand you want get vex with the big big church lords. On the other hand you can't blame them because the whole people self not serious enough. Besides. University got plenty money inside. National Revival throughout the length and breadth of the nation! You talking spending dollars not gaining pennies. Day after day, proclaiming a CRY OF REPENTANCE ain't got nothing much inside when it comes to plenty money business. You see the fix? You must talk so you talk so! For true. It hard to talk.
I can understand why the denominations are acting like that. Mammoth is difficult to resist. Elohim himself said it is impossible to pay attention to God and god the same way.
BUT HERE IS MY TOOTHACHE. In a land teeming with higher institutions of learning, primary children freely sell in the streets during daytime. Teenagers sell their bodies at evening time. Traumatized young adults terrorize communities at nighttime. Foreday in the morning (before daybreak) unrehabilitated former child-soldiers and accomplices embark on death-squad assignments into private residences leaving bloody trails and open bellies spilling out intestines. The once precious jewels now live on Center Street smoking the vapors off bones from century-old dead bodies in those graves they busted open to have sleeping place next to buried corpses. In the meantime THE CHURCH, for the most part is shaping lives. So the Church says it is doing. For who? I swear. Uhm uhm uhm. Shaping university lives while unshaping churching life. Something doesn't sound right.
So, tell me, who will lead the NATIONAL REVIVAL. Who? When?
We are failing miserably as THE CHURCH. The Church of Liberia. For the most part. I myself am ashamed how much we the Church have failed the State. GOD ELOHIM please help us in Jesus Name.
My prayer: Father forgive my part in this mess. Show us the right ways forward. We the Church are the only tool you have on this earth, to use for your purposes. Help us, we the Church in Liberia, collectively, to find our way back to where you would have us be. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus mighty name.
My people, I love you all. We're in this together. Blessings abundant to you.
~Servant Hortense
*Writing contains African vernacular and Liberian English
