I understand and respect those who continually ask me to turn down the volume or limit the passion in my preaching.  Please know this that I have prayed, meditated and considered your position and have never rejected it “right out” or ignored your arguments immediately.  Rather, I have carefully considered all your points and separated the salient from the trivial.  Then I took those realistic arguments to the Holy Spirit for testing as to spiritual origin and level of agreement with the Word and Truth.  Finally, I accept, respond to and actively adopt all direction I receive back from the Spirit of God.

It challenges many of you that the Lord’s Word or His prompting does not agree with your pleadings to revise the Word He has placed upon my heart.  I only serve one master and I love Him.  Therefore, although I respect the positions of many I care for I can only follow the guidance, orders or recommendations of my liege.  In fact, my flesh begs me to “get along” with everyone, to fit in and be harmonious with those in this world, but the Lord calls me to preach a message of repentance and His coming Kingdom which are wholly inconsistent with the world’s desires.  Secondly, the prompting He has given is getting more pronounced each day we come a bit closer to His return for His church and His wrath upon this disobedient world.  I wish that things were going to remain comfortable, peaceful and prosperous for every person on this planet, even those who call themselves my enemy.  However, the Lord’s Word clearly defines and accurately predicts with omniscient precision the events which will soon come upon all of us.  The urge to cry out and exalt His eternal message recently has begun waking me at night.  My heart knows that time is short.  The skeptic wants proof which I cannot provide for it is my faith that tells me these things are soon.

I love you and appreciate your discomfort.  None of us wants tribulation, even though most of us agree that the evidence demonstrates that the world is headed into it.  I pray that you take the words which I post to heart and test them against the Word and take them in prayer to the Holy Spirit.  Don’t believe me, believe Him.  Everything in my being tells me that this word is relevant, true and consistent with God’s message of salvation for those who believe in Christ and make themselves ready for His return.  Dismiss me if you find my pleas inconsistent.  Forget me if my word is found deceiving or false.  But if you believe and receive the message of truth then I urge you to ACT on behalf of God’s prompting in your life.  The time to perform will soon expire.  I pray that your pilot light is lit and soon turns to flame consuming you in service and lighting the way for those in your sphere that remain imprisoned in darkness.  Praise You Father,  in the name of Your Son Jesus.

http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/love-worth-finding/player/the-wings-of-faith-247751.html  Belief and Faith are different.  The late Pastor Adrian Rogers lays it out, clearly.