This nation is full of compromise. The Christian church is full of compromise. And I have a question for you today:

Are you walking before the Lord with clean hands and a pure heart? Are you 100% loyal, faithful, and obedient to His inerrant, infallible Word? Or is there compromise in you, too?

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Who is praying on the wall?

Every one of us has to ask ourselves this question: Are we disciples of Jesus, or merely fans of Jesus?

I hear a lot in Christian culture about church growth and success—and I’m all for those things. Those things are contained in the Word of God. However, I don’t hear a lot about purity and holiness. I hear even less about adherence to God’s Word. Instead of the message of holiness based upon the Word of God that used to thunder from our pulpits, we have so-called spiritual leaders advocating for abortion and drug use, and who are themselves operating in sexual sin—and leading their followers to do the same.

These things are not the Spirit of Christ.

Jesus is, and was, 100% pure and holy. And if we are to be like Him, naming Him as Lord and Savior, that means He becomes our Boss and Master.

In other words, whatever He says goes. Naming Jesus your Lord is not a matter of praying a prayer and thinking you just received “fire insurance” that will keep you out of hell. No; naming Jesus your Lord means that you give Him 100% total control of your life, doing whatever He says from that day forward without exception.

That means that, if Jesus is your Lord and Savior in truth, you cannot possibly espouse abortion—for God’s Word says that He hates the shedding of innocent blood.

This also means that, if Jesus is your Lord and Savior, you cannot find homosexuality nor even heterosexual sex outside of marriage permissible—for 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 says:

“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”

Yet, we have Christians every day who claim the name of Christ who walk in fornication, homosexuality, and who believe these things are all right!

Friend, we have to wake up. If Jesus is not our Lord OF all, He is not our Lord AT all.

The realm of politics and of political preferences cannot be independent of our spiritual practices and beliefs. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” This is what Jesus said straight to the devil himself in Matthew 4:4, and this is what every Christian in every place today needs to stand up and declare as well.

You exist only by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Hebrews 1:3 tells us that Jesus upholds all things by the WORD of His power. That means His voice, His Word, is holding the cells, atoms, protons, neutrons, and nuclei of your body together right now. With that being the case, how dare we as Christians forsake His most holy Word in order to compromise and please our own flesh?

It’s time for a purging, and it has to start with each one of us individually—in our own heart, before God.

My continual prayer before the Lord is, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts. And see if there be any wicked way in me—and if there is, get it out!—and lead me in Your way everlasting” (see Psalm 139:23-24).

We cannot rest on our laurels. We cannot assume that we are saved or right with God in any way unless we have truly made Jesus our Lord—and that Lordship requires, by definition, that we believe what He says and do it.

Friend, are you living in holiness as defined by God’s Word? Or, is there compromise in you?

Either way, I urge you today to do what the old revival pioneer, Gipsy Smith (1860-1947), did. When asked how to start a revival, he told the listener to go home, get a piece of chalk, kneel down alone with God, draw a circle around himself on the floor, and ask the Lord to start a revival inside that chalk circle.

And Gipsy Smith was right. Revival begins with you alone.

Is there compromise in you today? Ask the Lord to reveal it to you if so. Ask Him to deal with you and discipline you as much as He needs to in order to purify your heart and life.

I leave you with the words of Joshua the son of Nun, leader of the Israelites after Moses, who spoke to the Israelites after the Lord had taken them into the Promised Land—but they still walked in compromise and sin. This is what Joshua said to them:

“Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:14-15 NKJV, emphasis mine).

Choose you this day whom you will serve. And I pray with all my heart that you will declare, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”—and that you will let that Lordship permeate every aspect of your life; for, again, if Jesus is not our Lord OF all, He is not truly Lord AT all.

Is Holy Spirit speaking to you today about this topic? If so, we encourage you to bow before God and repent for any compromise He is showing you in your life. We each have to do this; you are not alone! Ask Jesus to help you walk in His ways in that area, and to fill you afresh and anew with His Spirit. Then, dedicate yourself to seeking Him first today and every day, asking Him to purge your heart as He sees fit on a daily basis!

Please leave a comment below if you need prayer in this area—and pray for the person who commented before you.

Jamie Rohrbaugh is the author of 7 Prayers to Pray Over Your Character: Contending for What Matters Most. She is the founder and CEO of From His Presence, a ministry dedicated to equipping God’s people in prayer, the prophetic word, living supernaturally, inner healing, and Kingdom wealth. Her writing can be found on YouVersion Bible Plans, Charisma Magazine, The Elijah List, Spirit Fuel, and various other ministry outlets. Download her free prayer tool, Praying the Names of God: 555 Biblical Names of God and How to Use Them in Prayer and Worship, here. Photo Credit: Canva.