The reason the world is in this state is because it has not been alert, awake, vigilant in obeying the words of the Spirit. Hate, the negations, the antitheses of the Spirit, have been vigilant; the negatives always are.

You have been more awake because you disciplined yourselves within; because you sought and found. But your scale is much too small where it should be higher in its vigilance and this is the reason you feel the outside pressure as much as you do and find it so difficult to withstand. This awareness of God must be fiery; you must be ablaze with it, for then it will be felt and the picture of this glory will be translated now, this minute, into a welling up of faith and power.