What Is the Third Day Church?
Saturday, April 20, 2002
Question: What is the Third Day Church?
Answer: Those who finally make their greatest discovery. Those that see in the Second Day Church they believed they would find God in the largest churches, in the midst of crusades, on television, radio, CDs, audios and videos, but see in the NOW hour of God that it is no longer "all about Him", but rather it "is Him". It is Him, and they do what they were created to do -- worship Him! Songs about Him were Second Day Church, so they sing the Third Day Church songs of worship "to Him".
The Third Day Church knows He changes them NOW. They know God breaks through their flesh and their humanity to get to them, and they break through from the inside of themselves to be IN HIM -- IN HIM where rest and peace surpass all things that kept them from the rest in Him.
Third Day Churchers know where to find God, for all they need to do is to find the nearest broken heart or contrite spirit. Find the one locked in a prison, orphanage, hospital room, street corner, store, doctor's office, restaurant, filling station, whether it be at the midnight hour or the sunlit time of day. They are finding needs and meeting them. They are finding hurts and healing them. They are bringing in the harvest, whether it be one, ten, or thousands of souls to Him. God is there NOW wherever the Third Day person is.
The Third Day reflects, exhibits and does nothing less than being broken and wounded in spirit -- broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent, for such, O God, You will not despise (Psalm 51:17). God does it all as we worship Him. He changes us from glory to glory as we go higher and higher in Him, and He gets all the glory.
Everything that was ours before the foundations of time, when we were totally whole, can be called forth for ourselves into the NOW, and as we frame it in Jesus' Name, it is ours NOW. Just as Jesus was slain for us from the foundations of time and He had it all done for mankind, He had to come at an appointed time to earth to fulfill it in the NOW time that was made for man. God does not go by our time. There is no time in eternity. God made time for us. Yet in the Third Day, there is no time, for it is in the NOW.
The seventh day of rest is now. So call forth all your wholeness that is yours from the foundations of time to the NOW, and frame it in Jesus' Name, for it belongs to you, Third Day child of the Most High NOW. Call forth those rivers of living water to flow once again from your being to be the healing to all who see you as you are in the Third Day.
The Third day is our last day, so rejoice and worship Him! In this day all we are about is worshipping in the NOW. Clouds form above us as we worship Him, and He comes among us restoring, healing, and doing miracles for us, meeting every need we have as we worship Him. No one needs to lay hands on us in this Third Day place, for He is moving among us doing it all -- and to Him alone be all the glory, praise and thanksgiving.
Faith in the Second Day Church is needed to step into and catch the glory, but you are full of faith when you are in the glory. Worship and adore Him while NOW is NOW.
Question: Who are the Third Day Church?
Answer: In the Second Day Church, most of our time is spent dodging the enemy's arrows. In the Third Day Church, we have the anointing to bend the bow. "The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways." Deut. 28:7
God does it all! We rest in the Third Day Church time to rest. Jesus won all our battles for us from the foundations of time, so call forth what is yours.
"Let God arise, let HIS enemies be scattered; let those also who hate Him flee before Him." (Psalm 68:1)
If God be for us, and we live in this knowledge, then who can be against us? For they are HIS enemies, and we rest in Him in the Third Day Church. All that we hoped to have done of God's Word in the Second Day Church is done when we are in the rest of the Third Day Church. Hallelujah! Worship Him, and then worship Him again!
Those in Third Day Church carry the anointing and glory so heavily upon them that the enemy flees. The tribe of Judah anointing for worship upon Third Day Churchers sends the enemy away! Praise God! In Second Day Church we were divided by denominational bickering, but in the Third Day we're so in "unity" as "one" that revival breaks out wherever we are together worshipping God.
In the Second Day Church it was only the most fit who survived. In the Third Day Church we have the success that the Second Day Church only talked about having. In the Second Day Church we were lambs of God only. In the the Third Day Church we are not only the lambs of God but also the Lions of God in all the earth, for we are bold as the Lion of Judah, our Lord Jesus Christ.
We will be writing more on Third Day Church. I pray what we have written has blessed you.
Blessings,
Joan Ann
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