Word for Africa

Word Received by Dr. Mary Craig
April 16, 2021 (home)

O Africa,

I am coming to you, Africa. I am coming to you.

You were doing well, but you have lost your first love. Consider the Church at Ephesus, Revelation 2, and be convicted and repent and do the deeds you did at first.

For you have followed the way of the Baals. You have followed the way of Balaam. You have, in your selfish ambition, sought to sell for profit what I freely give. You have preached the gospel of money while promising to preach the Gospel of Christ; yet you do not preach the Gospel of Christ, only of your need for more money and giving more promises, emptiness.

You have returned to witchcraft, sorcery, fear-mongering, setting yourselves up as gods as you expect My sheep to follow your voice, not My Voice.

I am the Good Shepherd, the Great Shepherd, the Chief Shepherd, and I am coming to you, and I will see what the shepherds are doing and saying, and I will discern their hearts and search their minds. And I will call you to repentance and I will see who answers the call: Who will follow the Christ? Who will follow the Lamb?

You are a large continent. Your roots run deep, but I run deeper than your roots, for I am your Creator. You were created for My glory, to glorify Me, and like all of Adam's offspring, you have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

Who among you loves power and the "show" of the gifts of God? And who gives glory to Me, the Glorious One who is both sovereign and holy? Knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. By the fear of the LORD one departs from iniquity. Let it not be said of the shepherds that they did thus and so in My Name and I never knew them; depart from Me you workers of iniquity.

I am the One who heals. I turn hearts that those who are given to Me by My Father respond in faith and repentance that I might save such. Only I make crooked places straight, the bent of the heart toward evil transformed to a heart that I change to conform to the image of Jesus Christ. It is not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit. I am the One who delivers from the kingdom of darkness and transfers a person to "the kingdom of God's dear Son."

Can you really save anyone? I alone save. I am the LORD and besides Me there is no Savior.

My heart churns within Me when I think of you, Africa. My love knows no bounds. The fury of it is that I am a consuming fire, the Flame of Yah, jealous for Mine. And I jealously guard My own. And I will guard My own.

I will deliver My own from false teachers, from false prophets, from all that is false, and I will lead them to springs of Living Water, to the fountain of Life, to My Living Word. By My Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit who is the Life-Giver, I will lead My own in wisdom and in the revelation of Jesus Christ. I will sift and sort, separate and sanctify. I accepted the Sacrifice of My Son, the Son of God, God the Son, in payment for their sins, bearing the wrath, bearing the curse, bearing the sin, bearing the Glory. And no one, no devil, no plot or plan from the bottomless pit, no accusation of the Accuser, no tempest and no storm, no snare of Satan, nothing will stop Me from fulfilling My Word, from consummating the Covenant of Jesus Christ. If you seek Me, you will find Me. When you find ME, follow Me.

Note from Dr. Craig: For greater understanding, "clue in" to the verses being referenced and also look at the places in Acts which refer to Ephesus along with the Letter to the Ephesians and Revelation 2.