A prophetic word to the church.
On Sunday night May 9th , 2004 I was visiting a church in east Dallas. I had heard that this was a
real worshipping church so I went. As I entered 10 minutes before the service the worship had
already began. An awesome sweet presence of worship was throughout the nearly empty room.
There was only me, the sound man, the keyboardist/worship leader and the base player.
As the worship leader sang it was heavenly. A few people began to trickle in and by 10 after seven
there was maybe two dozen. I was walking, singing and praying around the back of the 350 seat
sanctuary. The lack of crowd surprised me since the worship was so heavily anointed. Those who
were there truly came to worship.
As I worshipped and prayed the Lord began to speak to me by directing me to specific scriptures.
It is not uncommon for the Lord to speak to me this way. He will tell me to turn to specific
passages, often ones I am not real familiar with and talk to me through them.
This night was one of those times. He first told me to turn to Psalms 132:7-9
"Let us go into His tabernacle; Let us worship at His footstool. 8 Arise, O LORD, to Your resting
place, You and the ark of Your strength. 9 Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And
let Your saints shout for joy. "
Verse seven spoke to what the few of us were doing. "Let us go into His tabernacle; Let us worship
at His footstool." At this point my heart was greatly touched as I knew God wanted to speak. The
verse articulated my heart and the purpose of God for our lives.
As I read it God said to me pray these verses. So I began to declare them
"Let us go into His tabernacle; Let us worship at His footstool.
Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.
Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And let Your saints shout for joy."
I knew that God was wanting me to pray what the church is supposed to be not what it is. The
reality is that most of the church doesn't go to church to worship at His footstool. They go for
many reasons usually selfish. The church world in America has become aware of this and has
began to cater to this selfish based church attendance. We stopped making church about what
God said it was for and about what the people will respond to.
God created the church to be His resting place.
"Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength."
While I was praying this the Lord spoke to me to look at verse 13 - 14
"For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: “This is My resting place
forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.""
Zion speaks of the church, His people. He says that He has desired it for His dwelling place: God
desired the church, created the church for His dwelling place. The Purpose of the church is to be
an eternal dwelling place for God. “This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have
desired it.
The only reason the church exist is to be the eternal dwelling place of God. That is the ONLY
REASON!!!! If what we are doing is not building an eternal dwelling place then we are not building
His church. It's not about crowds, programs, buildings, tv shows, etc. etc. etc. It's about Jesus!!!
God continued to speak to me. He then told me to go to Matthew 12:3
“Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how
he entered the house of God and ate…" When I got this far I froze. David when he was hungry
entered the house of God and ate. Ate at the table of the Lord. Ate spiritual food. Not How to
sermons, or sermonets for christianets. Immediately I said where are the houses where we can eat.
Far to many churches don't feed there people spiritual food of any real substance. The children of
God are malnourished and starving.
They get sweets from the pulpit to keep them coming but are dying on the inside for they haven't
tasted of the rich treasures of the revelations from heaven. I have left many services in tears
because there is NO MEAT IN THE HOUSE. God spoke to me and said my house is to be a
house of worship where I dwell and a house of revelation where my people feast at the table of
the deep and intimate knowledge of me.
At this point my heart was breaking. "God do something in the church." I prayed. "Turn us around.
Help us." He then spoke to me to turn to Mathew 24:1-2. This shocked me and is the bases for
the prophetic warning for the church.
"Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the
buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly,
I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”"
First His presence left the buildings that man had made. Everything that man has built that doesn't
fulfill the intended purpose of the church which is to be His eternal dwelling place, Jesus is about
to depart. ICABOD!!! The glory hath departed.
His disciples showed him what man had built. As if we will ever impress God with our
accomplishments. Jesus was not impressed he was disturbed.
He said, “Do you not see all these things?
That is the question for the leaders of the church today. Do you not see these things. Don't you
see that much of what is going on doesn't fulfill Gods real purpose for the church. Don't you see
my presence departing? Don't you see that your tickling of itching ears is not creating a worthy
bride. Don't you see.
Then Jesus levels this end time prophetic warning. I say to you, not one stone shall be left here
upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
Judgment is coming to the house of God and everything that Jesus has not built will come down.
Everything that can be shaken Will be shaken so that which cannot be shaken will remain.
We must repent for not being about the fathers business. We build churches so we can build the
church, His eternal dwelling place. We win souls so He has an eternal dwelling place.
We preach, prophesy, and pray so people are changed into His image so He has an eternal
dwelling place. It's not about what I want, It's not about what the society wants, it's about His
will and desire.
"For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: “This is My resting
place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it."
Prophecy given to
Pastor Steve Foss
5-9-2004
On Sunday night May 9th , 2004 I was visiting a church in east Dallas. I had heard that this was a
real worshipping church so I went. As I entered 10 minutes before the service the worship had
already began. An awesome sweet presence of worship was throughout the nearly empty room.
There was only me, the sound man, the keyboardist/worship leader and the base player.
As the worship leader sang it was heavenly. A few people began to trickle in and by 10 after seven
there was maybe two dozen. I was walking, singing and praying around the back of the 350 seat
sanctuary. The lack of crowd surprised me since the worship was so heavily anointed. Those who
were there truly came to worship.
As I worshipped and prayed the Lord began to speak to me by directing me to specific scriptures.
It is not uncommon for the Lord to speak to me this way. He will tell me to turn to specific
passages, often ones I am not real familiar with and talk to me through them.
This night was one of those times. He first told me to turn to Psalms 132:7-9
"Let us go into His tabernacle; Let us worship at His footstool. 8 Arise, O LORD, to Your resting
place, You and the ark of Your strength. 9 Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And
let Your saints shout for joy. "
Verse seven spoke to what the few of us were doing. "Let us go into His tabernacle; Let us worship
at His footstool." At this point my heart was greatly touched as I knew God wanted to speak. The
verse articulated my heart and the purpose of God for our lives.
As I read it God said to me pray these verses. So I began to declare them
"Let us go into His tabernacle; Let us worship at His footstool.
Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.
Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And let Your saints shout for joy."
I knew that God was wanting me to pray what the church is supposed to be not what it is. The
reality is that most of the church doesn't go to church to worship at His footstool. They go for
many reasons usually selfish. The church world in America has become aware of this and has
began to cater to this selfish based church attendance. We stopped making church about what
God said it was for and about what the people will respond to.
God created the church to be His resting place.
"Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength."
While I was praying this the Lord spoke to me to look at verse 13 - 14
"For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: “This is My resting place
forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.""
Zion speaks of the church, His people. He says that He has desired it for His dwelling place: God
desired the church, created the church for His dwelling place. The Purpose of the church is to be
an eternal dwelling place for God. “This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have
desired it.
The only reason the church exist is to be the eternal dwelling place of God. That is the ONLY
REASON!!!! If what we are doing is not building an eternal dwelling place then we are not building
His church. It's not about crowds, programs, buildings, tv shows, etc. etc. etc. It's about Jesus!!!
God continued to speak to me. He then told me to go to Matthew 12:3
“Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how
he entered the house of God and ate…" When I got this far I froze. David when he was hungry
entered the house of God and ate. Ate at the table of the Lord. Ate spiritual food. Not How to
sermons, or sermonets for christianets. Immediately I said where are the houses where we can eat.
Far to many churches don't feed there people spiritual food of any real substance. The children of
God are malnourished and starving.
They get sweets from the pulpit to keep them coming but are dying on the inside for they haven't
tasted of the rich treasures of the revelations from heaven. I have left many services in tears
because there is NO MEAT IN THE HOUSE. God spoke to me and said my house is to be a
house of worship where I dwell and a house of revelation where my people feast at the table of
the deep and intimate knowledge of me.
At this point my heart was breaking. "God do something in the church." I prayed. "Turn us around.
Help us." He then spoke to me to turn to Mathew 24:1-2. This shocked me and is the bases for
the prophetic warning for the church.
"Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the
buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly,
I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”"
First His presence left the buildings that man had made. Everything that man has built that doesn't
fulfill the intended purpose of the church which is to be His eternal dwelling place, Jesus is about
to depart. ICABOD!!! The glory hath departed.
His disciples showed him what man had built. As if we will ever impress God with our
accomplishments. Jesus was not impressed he was disturbed.
He said, “Do you not see all these things?
That is the question for the leaders of the church today. Do you not see these things. Don't you
see that much of what is going on doesn't fulfill Gods real purpose for the church. Don't you see
my presence departing? Don't you see that your tickling of itching ears is not creating a worthy
bride. Don't you see.
Then Jesus levels this end time prophetic warning. I say to you, not one stone shall be left here
upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
Judgment is coming to the house of God and everything that Jesus has not built will come down.
Everything that can be shaken Will be shaken so that which cannot be shaken will remain.
We must repent for not being about the fathers business. We build churches so we can build the
church, His eternal dwelling place. We win souls so He has an eternal dwelling place.
We preach, prophesy, and pray so people are changed into His image so He has an eternal
dwelling place. It's not about what I want, It's not about what the society wants, it's about His
will and desire.
"For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: “This is My resting
place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it."
Prophecy given to
Pastor Steve Foss
5-9-2004