Monday, June 29, 2020

The Intensifying Storm

From: Dwight Burford


The Intensifying Storm
 
Dear Family and Friends,

Please take time to watch the videos linked below.  I believe they are very significant.  The first one is approx. 16 minutes.

This second video is from the same pastor and is a follow-up to the first.  Its about 20 minutes.

The testimony of the pastor in these videos resonates with me for a number of reasons, including a recent experience illustrating a similar warning.  It came to me on June 17th while I was on a hilltop in SW Iowa during the church senior high camp I attended there with my youngest daughter.  Here’s a summary of that experience:

Each year the campers and staff hike up to a hilltop on the camp grounds to watch the sunset and then have a prayer and testimony service. There were about 70 or so of us up there this year. Shortly after the service began, the winds picked up and it was quite hard to hear people pray and testify.  So one of the camp directors stepped forward and asked everyone to join her in prayer that the winds would quiet down. I had been praying silently they would calm, so I was glad we were invited to pray together that the winds would be stilled. But the winds seemed to grow even stronger, to the point it was nearly impossible to hear someone speak less than 5 ft away.  After several people prayed, I was compelled to step forward and speak boldly to the group. I told them that it had been impressed upon me that the strong winds we were experiencing were a sign of what was about to come upon this country, and like those judgments, these winds would not be turned back. In that very moment I was also reminded of how Jeremiah was told to stop praying for his people because God’s judgments would not be turned away from them because they refused to turn back to Him (e.g. Jeremiah 7:16, 11:14, 14:11,12…). Just like then, God’s judgments are now coming upon this land through different agents.  I simply could not keep myself from speaking these words. Then on Saturday morning at the camp dedication service I told the camp of a special testimony the Lord gave me as we came down off the hill that Wednesday evening.  I was given to understand that even though I could not hear many of them praying and testifying as they stood on the windy hilltop, I would know that in the midst of the strong winds that would soon blow across this country they were still praying and God would hear them. And I assured them that they could know that I too would be standing in the midst of these same winds to pray for them.

The week before the camp, while in a time of prayer, I was told “this is it.” With the strong winds on the hilltop I now had a physical understanding of what this short message meant.  As others are confirming, a time of judgment will soon sweep over this land. Please prayerfully consider these testimonies and prepare accordingly.  And may we all be ever ready to give an answer for the hope that is in us.  A thousand years with Jesus Christ in His kingdom, Zion, awaits all those who receive the Holy Ghost and endure to the end (I Nephi 1:187-189).  May none miss it.

Blessings,
Dwight Burford



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