Sonlight Devotional

Cecil duCille

October 11, 2009
Mahomet, Illinois

(Published in Keeping in Touch, January 2010)

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Thank God that He is here with us. Hallelujah. This week we had a prophetic word that has shaken us very much and although it is a word that we have heard many times, the new meaning of the word that we got is that that which we have been hearing is now about ready to come to pass. I remember that at the time of Noah, God gave the people a last seven days. He told Noah, “Get into the ark now for within seven days there will be rain upon the land” (Genesis 7:1-4). I thank God that He is so mindful of us and He has so much respect for us that He would give us, as it were, a last warning.

This word that Brother Campbell brought was a word that said that the Lord is about ready to pour out His wrath, not only upon the sinners, but upon the church, and that there would be many, many deaths and a lot of destruction. We have heard that so often that some people don’t come to church because they don’t want to hear about the destruction. But this time it seems to me to be saying that we are just right up against the time when this will happen. We need fasting and prayer, to put ourselves before God, to ask God, “What do we do? If this word that You have sent is so urgent and so eminent and so intransigent, in other words, it cannot be changed, it will not be changed by prayer, then what do we do? What do You want us to do as a people?”

That is what I believe. Even if the word does nothing else for us, it gets each one of us to come to the throne of grace and say, “God, talk to me.”

Amen. Praise God.

It would seem to me that as we come closer to the time of the appearing of Jesus Christ, we are also closer to the time of this great destruction which He has talked about, because it is in the midst of the trouble that Christ will appear. I am asking you, brethren, to let us take this very serious and let us turn to God with all our hearts. For God is depending upon us to be that barrier between the living and the dead. The scripture tells us that the people of God murmured against God and they murmured against the leaders, against Moses.

God Almighty said to Moses, “Moses, step aside and let Me destroy them.” And Moses told Aaron to run quickly with a censer and make atonement for them (Numbers 16:45-47).

In other words, the censer is the place where we pray for one another, wherein one man puts himself up – his life for your life. So, Aaron ran with the censer into the people and the Word came that already the destruction had started. This is also part of Brother Campbell’s word, that already the destruction has started. So he ran in with his censer to pray and the Bible said that Aaron stood  between the living and the dead; and the plague was stayed (Numbers 16:48). There were dead on one side of him and living on the other side and the plague was stayed among the people of God. Hallelujah.

So we are a people who God is depending on to pray, to bring deliverance to the whole world, His people. Remember one scripture said, “Save Thy people, O God. Save Thy people” (Jeremiah 31:7). So we are expected to bring this kind of strength in the world because there is nothing standing, everything is falling and God is saying to us that we need to begin to pray in earnest before God and to be able to stand between the living and the dead because the hour of God’s wrath is coming upon the world. Hallelujah.

When we think of the cities and the wickedness of the cities, when we think of the church and the wickedness of the church, when people can get up and speak to the world and say, “I am a prophet of the Lord and the God has told me that His spirit is changing transvestites in the middle of Los Angeles,” that couldn’t have been spoken in hell in the past. Now it is being spoken on the television wide out to everybody and they are proclaiming this woman as a prophet. So we see that the world has gone to nothing. But, also the church has gone to nothing.

The worst part about it is that our little section, those of us who are supposed to stand, those of us who God is depending upon to stand, we are not standing. We are not standing. Don’t let us deceive ourselves. We are not standing. We are compassed about with so much business. We are so busy. We are so busy doing everything else besides God’s business. Hallelujah. The world is passing away and Death and Hell are about to ride (Revelation 6:8) and WE who are the only people on earth – excuse me, please – I didn’t say the Mahomet group. When I say WE, I am talking about the Body of Christ here in the world. Amen. WE, the Body of Christ in the world, are the only people on earth that God is depending on to stop the plague.

Yes. God said, …but for the elect’s sake… …no flesh should be saved…(Mark 13:20). Now, you have heard that so often that the smallest child in here could repeat that, but that doesn’t make it untrue or incorrect. It is correct and God is saying to us that the time has come when it is only the authority of the church, the authority of the Body of Christ that is going to save this whole world in which we live. The best part about it is that He said it will be saved, it will not be destroyed. He said, …but for the elect’s sake… …no flesh should be saved… But then, the elect is asleep. The elect is asleep. The reason why we have to be crying out so much is because we want to wake the elect.

The peculiar part in Matthew 25 is where it tells us that there were ten virgins and it terribly amazes me that He said they were virgins and yet they were left outside. Come on, brethren. God is not talking about the old world out there. He is not talking about the wretched church out there that has turned her back on God. He is talking about us, we who are supposed to be walking in with God. God Almighty says that He wants to walk in them and talk in them and He wants to be their God and they will be His people (Hebrews 8:10). That is the covenant that we make with the Lord. Hallelujah. Now He is saying that THIS people are asleep.

It is written in Matthew 25 that there were ten virgins. Let us turn to it, for fear somebody says I am misquoting the scripture. In verse one, he is not talking about the fallen church, but the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 25:1, Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Ten virgins went to meet the bridegroom, it was not five. If you go to meet the bridegroom, you are well-dressed; your righteousness is in order, because your dress in typology is likened unto your righteousness. So that means you are not sinners, you are righteous people. Amen. Praise God.

The Bible said that the ten that went out to meet Jesus Christ were righteous people. They were virgins. It means that they were not fornicating with the world. We are not worldly people. We are classified in scripture as virgins. Amen. The virgin is described in Revelation 14. Let us look at Revelation 14 as we hold one finger in Matthew 25, just to see what God says you are. Verse 4, These are they which were not defiled with women… Meaning to say that you didn’t get deceived by some of these false churches, you didn’t get deceived by some of this false preaching. You are virgins. You are clean. Amen. …for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. If you follow Jesus Christ, you are clean. …These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. That is a description of a spiritual virgin, meaning to say that within you, you have the first resurrection, that you are one of those who God has ordained. This is another part of the prophecy which Brother Campbell brought forth, that some of those who have been marked by God are going to be among the dead. Some of those who have been called and elect, selected, are going to be among the dead because of disobedience. Verse 5, And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. THAT IS VIRGIN.

All right, let’s turn back to Matthew 25. So it says there were ten virgins. Amen. The kingdom of heaven is described here. Verse 2, And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. You know, I always wondered why if five represents the ministry, why do we have two of them? A wise hand and a foolish hand. Some of you use your left hand; you are left-handed. For me, my right hand is my spiritual hand and the left hand is in the natural. So, the natural and the spiritual work together to lift the weight. But here God is saying that five were wise and five were foolish.

Let’s look at what made the five wise, wise, and what made the five foolish, foolish. Because if they were all dressed, if they were all ready, they could not have been in the wedding feast if they were not ready. They were ready, but something happened. Something happened. When the going gets tough, the tough get going, but it seems to me that when the going gets tough, some people drop out and God is talking about the drop-outs. The going is getting tough – it’s just starting to get tough. Brethren, it is going to get so tough that I don’t know what you are going to do. This is what I have before God. When I see how tough it is going to get… We are going to lose our electricity; we are going to lose our water source. How are you going to manage? God said that He is training us to make preparation to be overcomers under all circumstances.

Verse 1, …ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Up to this late hour they did not know that their lamps were out of oil. Verse 2, And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: What is the meaning of that? Okay. Let’s see first of all what lamps mean and what vessels mean. Proverbs 20:27 says, The spirit of man is the candle (lamp) of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly (meaning the soul). God had one light in the tabernacle and that light was a menorah, a seven lamped golden candlestick type of thing and that means it is the seven churches with Jesus Christ in the middle church. That is the lamp. Now, if this lamp goes out there would be total darkness in the tabernacle because there is no window, no other light. Amen. So this is the only light in the tabernacle until the Shekinah glory shines on top of the ark of the covenant. That is the only light. So there is a supernatural light that will come forth and there is a light. Amen.

So God is saying that these five virgins were ready and going in to meet the bridegroom. All of a sudden, they had no oil in their vessels to replenish the lamp. What is the meaning of that? They did have oil one time. The Holy Place of the tabernacle is the soul, right? So if “the spirit of man is the lamp of God shining in the soul”, then it means that he had Holy Spirit/Holy Ghost oil in his spirit. But that same oil that is in his spirit is supposed to be in his soul or in the vessel.

Now let’s make sure that we are right here. The brethren asked Jesus to teach them to pray. Jesus said to pray, Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10). What does that have to do with lamp and spirit? Well, you pray every day – that is what God tells you to do. I’m telling you, when you kneel down and can’t find anything to pray, you begin to pray the Lord’s prayer for yourself to fix your condition. Thy kingdom come, “Lord, let the King reign,” because you can’t have a kingdom without a king. “Lord, let the King reign in my soul as He reigns in the Spirit.” Amen. So you know, brethren, that when you are in the Spirit you can’t be wrong. You know that? So we have a section of time to be perfect. Are we understanding? Am I putting you to sleep? The soul, therefore, must have the same oil of the Holy Spirit in it as the Spirit. Now, when you are in the Spirit you are dead, right? You are perfect. God is saying that that perfection, that that Holy Spirit that is in your spirit, should be in your soul, also.

So every day that you pray, “Thy kingdom come,” you are praying, “Lord God, let the King reign in my earth, in my soul nature as He reigns in my spirit nature.”

Have you ever seen a person who can preach a message that can stir people, that can speak in tongues and that can operate in the gifts of the Spirit? Hallelujah. Yet, if you provoke him he gets blind mad? It means that the glory that is in his spirit is not in his soul, at least not in his emotions, that is, his emotions are not taken by the Spirit of God like how his spirit is taken. So, God reigns in the spirit. “God, reign in my soul, also.”

When I talk about my soul what am I talking about? I am talking about me. “God, reign in my mind.”

Do you know that the mind is a terrible thing? The mind is a marvelous area of life and power. God Almighty says, Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life (Proverbs 4:23). What He is saying is, “Keep your mind right.” You think about pornography all day and then you come to church and try to worship God. Don’t you understand? The mind is the seat of God. This is where God wants to be. This is where God wants to reign. This is where God wants to live. Your mind is wrong; you find your mind straying into the wrong things, straying all the while, straying. None of you here can tell me that it is not true, because every time I kneel down to pray my mind flies off with something else. I have to hold my mind there. God told me that one of the ways to hold it is to remember the Lord’s prayer.

Yes, “Thy kingdom come in my mind as it is in the heavenlies. Lord God, hold my mind.” You know, “Thy will be done in my mind as it is in my spirit.”

Therefore, brethren, if your emotions are wild, if you don’t control your emotions properly, get before the porch and the altar and bawl like a baby before God. Get God to fix it. You hear me? Because you will be a foolish virgin. The oil is not in the vessel. Your vessel is supposed to be able to have the Holy Spirit in your emotions as much as the Holy Spirit is in your spirit when you are talking in tongues. My God. Amen.

So, you pray, “Lord God, let the Spirit of God come into my mind, come into my emotions, come into my will. Lord God, that desire that I want heaven in my mind and in my spirit and I desire to have just a little piece of hell in my desires. Oh, Lord, I so love that out there that I need to have a little bit of hell.”

Amen. Hell is all around us. Just switch on your television and you will get all the hell you want right in your living room. You don’t have to go out on the streets again any more for it. Amen. God Almighty is saying, “Control it.” Control that television. You have to control that television, especially those of you who have children. Children should not be able to go and switch on the television and look at anything they want to look at. It must be strictly controlled. Amen. It must be strictly controlled.

We are not people who are saying, “Oh, throw your television away.”

I love to look at the news sometimes and whatever else there is that is not sinful that I would like to look at I could look at. Do you see what I am saying? Don’t make yourself a prisoner to become a religious fanatic. Amen. Hallelujah. Control it. Amen. God put it there for you to control it. Amen. You were born with a temper, yes, but God put you there to control it. Hallelujah. By the power of the Word of God and by the power of the Spirit of God we can control it. If you have something in your life that you can’t control, go to God with it quickly. Get down on your knees and your face.

When I was in such a place I told God, “God, kill me.”

Don’t you ever do that. Don’t you follow me in my example. That was rough treatment, but then I wanted to die. I had a death wish. I threw myself before God and said, “Kill me. I will neither eat nor drink water until You, God, deliver me from this demon that I got from my father.”

Yes. The demon had power over me. I would go in a crowd where people were fighting and all of a sudden the spirit of fighting would get into me and I would start feeling badly, (breathing shallow). You know what I mean. Nothing bothers me, I am not worried, nobody bothers me, only that I am looking at the fighting. I used to love to look at boxing. I used to look at boxing in the television and I was there boxing.

“Hit him. Hit him there.” Yes, the spirit of violence. The spirit of violence coming down on you.

So we have to understand that we are the salt of the earth. Ye (WE) are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing… Good for nothing.

God Almighty is saying to His people that we need to submit ourselves NOW! NOW! That is what Brother Campbell’s message is saying. NOW! Don’t wait! There is no tomorrow. Hallelujah.

Five foolish virgins. Lord God, help us. We sit in church for so many years and turn up at the end of the time to be foolish virgins. The foolish virgins are those who will not allow the Spirit of God to come into their souls as it is in the Spirit. “Thy kingdom come in my soul nature as it is in the Spirit. As God reigns in heaven, reign, Lord Jesus Christ, in me.”

So God is saying to us, how many of us sit here and we will get up from here and turn up to be foolish virgins? You waste all your life. You could have been having fun outside there. Yes. You waste all your life to end up as a foolish virgin. Don’t you see this is not God’s plan for us? God wants a people who will stand up and save the world. He said, …But for the elect’s sake… no flesh should be saved… We are at the BUT time now. We are at that time in the history of the world when the servants of God are going to be the only thing that saves the earth for the earth is destined by the devil to be destroyed. Satan planned it. Satan’s plan is to destroy the world. God’s plan is to save the world. God is going to save the world. Don’t believe it is going to be destroyed.

We have between six and seven billion people on earth and Satan will only be able to kill two or three billion. Amen. The others will be alive and we will be alive. Do you know why I know that? Because we have to stand up and fight the battle of Armageddon. We have to call fire from heaven to take away the kingdoms of this world from the sinners, because God Almighty said, …that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands… and it struck the image (Daniel 2:45). I want you to understand that that stone was not part of that image. We cannot be part of the world and part of the stone at the same time. Do you understand what I am saying? The stone cut out of the mountain without hands is the elect people that God is molding at this time, molding us, Lord God, out of mount Zion. Yes. He said, “A deliverer shall come forth from Zion” (Romans 11:26). “And saviours shall turn up on Zion” (Obadiah 1:21).

God is telling us here that it is possible to be a foolish virgin. Though you were made to be wise, though you were given the righteousness of Almighty God, though you were anointed with the selection that you were part of the elect of God. Yes, you are all here because you are part of the elect of God. Did you understand that? You are here because you are part of the elect of God, whether you believe it or not. Now, God says you can be elected, that is, selected, by God, and yet turn up outside in the darkness knocking on the door.

“Let me in!”

Noah: “I don’t have the keys.”

If Noah would have had the keys, the ark would have sunk because he would have let in all the people who called. His heart would have gone out for all the people knocking on the door, he would have let them in. Amen. What a horrible thing to see your friends drowning outside. Can you imagine seeing the people you have been preaching to drowning and you can’t do anything for them. But thank God. That story has a good side to it. The people who were drowning out there were repenting. Those who were knocking to come in were repenting. The Bible tells us that they turned up before Jesus Christ resurrected from the grave. The first thing Jesus did was He went to hell to preach to Noah’s congregation (I Peter 3:19). Hallelujah. The repentance that they had when they were in the water drowning, they cried out and God saved them all. So, you see, God is in the saving business. Hallelujah.

We are here as part of God’s plan to save the world. In other words, God is going to use us to save the world. Begin to pray, begin to fast.

Begin to say, “Lord God, deliver me. Deliver me from myself. Deliver me, Lord God, from my desires, for I might desire some things that are not of God. Deliver me, Lord God, from my will that is hardened and wants to go a certain way and says, ‘I am serving God. I am serving God and I want  to go this way. I am serving God. This is my way of serving God.’”

God has one way of serving Him and He will whisper it in your heart. Hallelujah. Remember now, we are not going to be foolish virgins. Let the oil flow. Let the glory of God flow into your mind as it is in your spirit.

You know, I have seen a brother instinctively get mad. Amen. Instinctively get mad, but instinctively he remembered that this is not Jesus, this is not Christ-like and he immediately apologized, “I’m sorry.”

Amen. Now that is beautiful. I say that is beautiful; it is not ugly, it is beautiful. Amen. So that means that there is a certain amount of control that is occurring in the spirit to the flesh, to the body. Amen. This is the battle we are fighting. The Bible said that there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought… (Revelation 12:7). Michael is the angel of the Blood; his weapon is the Blood of Jesus Christ. …Michael and his angels fought… against the Devil and his angels and the Devil and his angels could not prevail (Revelation 12:8). Do you know what the result of that battle was? Satan was cast out of the kingdom of heaven (Revelation 12:9). Satan was cast out of the kingdom of heaven! What do you think he was talking about? He is talking about the devil being cast out of your mind, the devil being cast out of your emotions, the devil being cast out of your desires and your will. Hallelujah.

He is talking about something happening in the heavenlies. Hallelujah. Sure, it is happening now. That is what is happening now. God Almighty is taking a hold of His kingdom. Amen.

Thank God, “I am Your kingdom, Lord Jesus Christ. I surrender all to You, dear Jesus Christ. Break the yoke of my sin. Break my ancestral inclinations. (Hallelujah.) Break hell out of me.” It sounds like a curse word, eh? I mean, it is hell. Hell had a hold on me, a strangle hold on me. Amen.

I said, “Jesus Christ, do anything to me but let hell depart from me. Let the glory of God come into me. Let the glory of God take the place where my ancestral demonizations had taken place, where I had gained all the problems of my family.” Amen.

Then do you know that there is something else greater than that? The moment you begin to overcome you are overcoming not for yourself only, but you are overcoming for your ancestors and your descendents. Your children! If you defeat Satan in yourself your children will begin to change immediately. If you see a child being troublesome, giving you problems, irking you… Every time the child does something and you feel irked and distressed, go repent because it is you that the thing is coming from. Your power should have destroyed the power of the devil in that child. Amen. Oh yes.

I was talking to one sister and she said, “It is my mother that prayed for me that brought this great deliverance in my life. It is my mother.”

Where is her mother? Her mother is in the heavenlies waiting on her now. Waiting on her because the scripture says, …that they without us should not be made perfect. Why? Heaven is waiting on us to be perfected. Yes. Yes. Do you see what happened? The devil beat up your grandfather and beat him up and beat him and beat him and he barely made a scrape through into heaven. He can’t beat the devil any more. That spirit that destroyed him and hurt him and bedeviled his life, he can’t touch him. He is in the heavenlies and he (devil) can’t touch him anymore. But he is looking at you and whispering to you, “Hit him. Yes. Hit him.”

If you overcome that devil, especially if you chain him and throw him in the abyss, heaven is released. Amen. All the people who that devil tormented are released, both in the heavenlies and on earth.

Can you understand the battle that we are fighting? All your problems, all your troubles begin to take on a beautiful picture, because you are fighting not only for yourself, but for those who are behind you who have gone on before. That is in Hebrews 11:40 and they are waiting on you. Hebrews 12:1, …we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses… waiting for you to kill the devil that killed them. Hallelujah.

Do you see? Can we understand how important our position is? Why we should overcome? Why we should not allow the devil to have the power over us? Why we suffer? Why it is necessary to suffer? Amen. For we are the warriors of God. Amen. We are the army of the living that must destroy the power of Satan on earth. God wants us to be conscious. He wants us to be conscious people who understand where we stand. We are standing right where Aaron stood between the living and the dead. Hallelujah. Yes, God Almighty wants you to be conscious.

What are you doing? Your brothers are still walking in sin. Your sisters are still walking in sin. What are you doing about it? You have the power to destroy the power of that sin because the same devil that is in them is the one that was in you. The same devil that rules them is the one that ruled you, but how can you destroy a devil that you have still ruling you? You have to get rid of your devil first before you try to get rid of mine. Devil can’t cast out devil. The Bible said that the kingdom of the devil would be finished if the devils start casting out devils. God said that He has given you the power. He has given you the power to cast out devils, to …lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:17-18). Amen.

If you have this power, what are you doing with it?

The first thing to do with it is that you wake up in the morning and say, “Thank You, God Almighty, for this bright day. Amen. Thank You, Lord God, for this glorious day. Hallelujah. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in me as it is in heaven. Cast every devil out of me now.” Yes. Pray to God, “Cast every devil out of me. Forgive me of every sin I have ever committed.” All of a sudden, you are holy. Yes. God answers quickly. Amen. All of a sudden you are holy.

I never forgot my situation, how beautiful it was. Imagine I am a sinner. I don’t know anything about God and somebody told me something to repeat. I only repeated it like a mantra.

“Lord Jesus, Mrs. Wrenford said to tell you to save me by the Blood of Jesus Christ.”

I didn’t know what I was talking about but God held me to my words. Immediately, I was delivered. Immediately, I felt something working inside of me. I wanted to laugh. I wanted to dance. Hallelujah. Bless the Lord God Almighty. That is how fast God works.

You tell somebody to pray, “Pray after me. Say ‘Lord, forgive me for my sins.’”

If that person ever prays in earnest, immediately he will be delivered. God said that in those days they who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (Acts 2:21). Every one that calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Hallelujah.

We just thank God for this moment. Hallelujah. I want to be a wise virgin. A virgin is not good enough; you have to be wise, too. Amen. Not just virgin for virgin sake, but wise virgin for wisdom’s sake, and the vessel must be filled with the Spirit of the living God, even as the heavenlies are filled with the Spirit of God. Hallelujah.

I want to close here and I want to thank you for listening. Hallelujah.

May God bless you and make this week a blessing. May the living God just make you a blessing this week, that God Almighty will be with you all through your workday and be with you at night and that the revelation of the Spirit might come to this Body. Yes. Those of you who are dreaming and receiving a word from the Lord, don’t keep it to yourselves. Please share it with the Body. Amen. Sometimes you might feel that it is foolishness – you share the foolishness with us. Hallelujah. God bless you in the name of Jesus. Amen.