₦airaland Forum

Mad Cow: God forgave Eve yet kept her punishment for all generations unborn.

God forgave the Children of Israel yet kept them in the wilderness till all the adults died in the dessert.

Funny story!

Guy, its not like that. U'll chose where U 'll spend eternity. That choice is yours to make - to be with the Great God Jehovah or with Lucifer forever n ever. Make d right my guy. God doesn't force anyone. He's very very patient.

HOW TO QUIT SMOKING, DRINKING AND WOMANISING

A young woman came to see D. L. Moody, and she said, "I want to become a Christian, but I just love to dance. I tried to give up dancing to become a Christian, but I just can't." She was talking about worldly dancing, of course. Mr. Moody said to her, "Why, little lady, just give your heart to Jesus, and you can dance all you want to." Well, that convinced her, so she gave her heart to the Lord and was born again. A number of days later Mr. Moody said that this young lady met him on the street. She smiled and said, "Mr. Moody, I see what you mean now. The 'want to' is gone!"

Quit trying to stop those dirty habit without Christ. Receive the Lord Jesus first and He will empower you to stop whatever it is you want to stop.

A lady once asked Smith Wigglesworth if she had to stop drinking and smoking before receiving Christ. Smith told her she can smoke as many cigar as she like and drink as many bottle as she can. He encouraged to receive Christ and care less about those stuff. She owned a brewing company. She received Christ gladly and before long, she just couldn’t take another bottle or smoke another cigar. That’s the Power of the Lord Jesus to break any kind of bad HABIT.

Pastor Olu T: LOL, can't just stop laughing,

"HOW THAT OLD DEVIL TREATED ME"

God saves us Christians!

Its high time U put that old Devil on the RUN. When Martin Luther saw him, he stoned him wt a jar of ink. That stain is still on d wall.
Percy Collett commanded him to lie down on d floor wen he saw him in d jungle. D devil n Percy walked on him.
Smith Wigglesworth was asleep wen he heard some noice in the living room. He went there n saw the Devil himself. He said to d devil, "Mr Nothing, wen U're thru, leave my home" then he went bk to sleep. There is nothing to fear abt him if u're Born Again. Jesus has disarmed him for us. Praise Jesus forevermore!!!

musKeeto: Seeing as he dwells outside time, he has no need for mortal attributes like memory.

Omniscient things....

Our Great Father God has d Largest Memory U could never imagine. He knows all about all who ever came to this world. He has other creations that He oversees. There are several Suns, Earths, many solar systems my dear. God rules over all. Heaven is over 80-times bigger than this earth. This planet earth is just a small place.

Evil Brain: How can an all knowing god forget?

Your religion don't make no sense.

Because He is God that's Y He can chose to forget. There's none like Him. All U've ever said n done are recorded in the Great Room of Record which is half d size of this earth. In d end, after all d judgments, God will cast the Great Room of Records into the Sea of Forgetfulness. The whole of the Planet Heaven will move into Eternity as God will take us to show us where He, Jesus n d Holy Spirit came from. Guy, U don't need to miss this Great event. If U eVer see this Great God Jehovah, ur knees will buckle. The only God who died for His worshipper - what love!

[quote author=Ki-Katanga]Nor the sin of Eve![/quote]Eve is in HEAVEN. They were forgiven by God. After they fell, they started learning how to walk with God. With time they developed in that. You make sure you are Born Again n get to that Planet Heaven, I assure you that U 'll see Eve there. She's enjoying Heaven I tell U. I can't wait to meet her there.

critique101: Its not true. if someone does something painful to you,you can forgive but you will never forget it.

We ain't telling u to delete it from ur memory. Stop referring to it. You just kind of let go. It will help a lot. As you develop in Christ, U find it easy to let Go!
That's Y its so important to read the Bible a lot and pray much in the Holy Ghost. When U do, forgiveness becomes the easiest thing to do like Jesus. U'll stop praying against your enemies n start blessing n praying for them as Jesus commands.

FORGIVE & FORGET

In 1939 my wife and I went to pastor a church in north Texas. The first week we were there, one of the women in the church came to visit us. We talked for a while, and then she said, "Brother Hagin, I want to tell you about Sister So-and-so and how she treated me." Then she began to go on and on telling us how that sister had mistreated her. I thought to myself, Well, last week she and this other sister probably got into a spat. I asked her, "When did this happen?" She began to count, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. . ." I thought she was going to say, "Eight days ago." But she answered, "It will be eight years ago next Tuesday." I had such a look of astonishment on my face that she quickly answered, "Now don't misunderstand me. I've forgiven her all right. But I never will forget how that old devil treated me."

Without thinking, I answered, "Sister, you're a bald-faced liar. You haven't forgiven her. If you had forgiven her, you would have forgotten it, and you wouldn't be over here telling me about it. (Kenneth E Hagin)

WHEN GOD FORGIVES, HE FORGETS: BE LIKE HIM

I was holding a meeting for a certain minister in the '30s, and then later I preached for his brother too. Both of them were Full Gospel pastors. The older brother had a much better personality than the younger one, and he was just a better preacher in every respect. Actually, he could just preach circles around the younger brother. Even though the younger brother didn't have near the personality of the older brother, and he wasn't as good a preacher, he always pastored a good church and drove a new automobile even in Depression Days. In fact, he had a much larger church than the older brother. The older brother never was very successful in the ministry even though he had a better personality and was a better preacher. Someone said to me, "I've got it figured out why the older brother never was very successful pastoring. Before he got saved, he was always meaner than the
other brother. He was wicked, so now he's just paying for his sins. God is just punishing him." I said to him, "How could God punish him when the Lord doesn't even remember that the man did anything wrong?" How in the world is God going to punish you for something He doesn't even remember you did? God washes away and forgets your past when you are born again; you become a new creature. No, I found out why one of them was a success in the ministry and the other one wasn't. The older brother with the better personality had all the ability,
all right. He had tremendous speaking ability, and he could preach circles around his younger brother, but he never studied.

My wife and I stayed at the parsonage with the older brother, and he was always out talking to people and telling jokes. They weren't bad jokes, but it's just that telling jokes took up all his time. Then once he got in the pulpit, he didn't have anything to talk about but jokes. Once in awhile he'd get down to business and really preach. But the other fellow was constantly studying. I know because I held a meeting for him. I mean he'd be in his study every day for several hours just pouring over the Bible and his books. You never did see him because he was busy studying. And then at other times I stopped by to visit him, and he was always in his study with his Bible and his books just studying. That's why he climbed to the top in the ministry. It wasn't a matter that one of them was being punished for his past, because when God forgives, He forgets! And that is the way He wants you and me to forgive too. If you walk in the God-kind of love, that is the way you will forgive, too, because love and forgiveness go hand in hand. God Looks on the Heart. (Rev. Kenneth E hagin)

PROPHETIC WORD TO START YOUR DAY
Have faith in God, I tell you the truth, if you say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in your heart but believes that what you says will happen, it will be done for you. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins. Mk11v22-23
He who overcomes will be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before My Father & His angels rev3v5
He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death rev2v10
Him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame & sat down with My Father on His thrown rev3v21
Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of My God & the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from My God; & I will also write on him My new name rev3v12
Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit you & you will bring justice. You will not shout or cry out, or raise your voice in the streets. A bruised reed you will not break, & a smoldering wick you will not you will not snuff out. In faithfulness you will bring forth justice; you will not falter or be discouraged till you establishes justice… isa42v1-4

If as one people speaking the same language they began to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them gen11v6

If my people would but listen to me & follow my ways, how quickly would I subdue their enemies & turn my hand against their foes! Psm 81:13-14

If you will walk in my ways and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here. Zech 3:7

I called you. You are my servant; I have chosen you & have not rejected you. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you & help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. All who rage against you will surely be ashamed & disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing & perish. Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all. For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand & says to you, Do not fear; I will help you. Do not be afraid, for I myself will help you. See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new & sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains & crush them, & reduce the hills to chaff. You will winnow them, the wind will pick up them, & a gale will blow them away. But you will rejoice in the Lord & glory in the holy One of Israel. I the Lord will answer you; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake you. I will make rivers flows on barren heights, & springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, & the parched ground into springs. isa41v-21

I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you. Jer 29:11-14

I myself will bring you back to your pasture, where you will be fruitful and increase in number. I will place shepherds over you who will tend you, and you will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing. Jer 23:3-4

Defend the cause of the weak & fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor & oppressed Psm 82:2

I am God Almighty; walk before me & be blameless. I will confirm my covenant between Me & you & will greatly increase your numbers gen17v1-2

I am God Almighty; be fruitful & increase in number. A nation & a community of nations will come from you, & kings will come from your body. The land I gave to Abraham & Isaac I also give to you, & I will give this land to your descendants after you. Gen35v11-12

I am He who searches hearts & minds, & I will repay each of you according to your deeds. Rev2v23

I am making everything new! Rev 21v5

I am watching to see that My word is fulfilled. Jer1v12

I am your Husband. Jer3v14

I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth & every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. & to all the beasts of the earth & all the birds of the air & all the creatures that move on the ground- everything that has breath of life in it- I give every green plant for food gen1v28-30

I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham & the God of Isaac. I will give you & your descendants the land. Your descendants will be like the dusts of the earth, & you will spread out to the west & to the east, to the north & to the south. All peoples on the earth will be blessed through you & your offspring. I am with you & will watch over you wherever you go, & I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. Gen28v13-15

I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you & will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham. Gen26v24

If you utter worthy, not worthless, words, you will be my spokesman. I will make you a wall to these people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but will not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue & to save you. I will save you from the hands of the wicked & redeem you from the grasp of the cruel. Jr16:19-21

I foretold the former things long ago, my mouth announced them & I made them known; then suddenly I acted, & they came to pass. I told you these things long ago; before they happened I announced them to you. From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you. They are created now & not long ago; you have not heard of them before today…see, I have refined you… I, even I, have called you. I will bring you & you will succeed in your mission. I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go. If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea. Your descendants would have been like the sand, your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be cut off nor destroyed before me. Isa48v3-22

I have brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit & rich produce. Jer2v7

If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all isa7v9

It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him gen2v18

I have planted you like a choice vine of sound & reliable stock. Jer2v21

I have removed the burden from your shoulder Psm 81:6

In My faithfulness I will reward you & make a everlasting covenant you. Your descendants will be known among the nations & your offspring among the people. All who see you will acknowledge that you are a person the Lord has blessed. isa61v8-

In that day, I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them. So do not fear, O my servant; do not be dismayed, I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. you will again have peace and security, and no one will make you afraid. I am with you and will save you, I will discipline you but only with justice. Jer 30:8-11

In your distress you called & I rescued you out of a thundercloud Psm 81:7

I have chosen you, so that you will direct your children & your household after you to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right & just, so that the Lord will bring about for you what He has promised him gen18v19

I have made a covenant with you my chosen one, I have sworn to you my child 89v3

I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have exalted you from among the people 89v19

I have given you this land to take possession of it gen15v7
NIV

A LESSON FROM ADAM, THE FIRST MAN ON PLANET EARTH

Another man who looked almost exactly like Abel came and stood beside him.
“I am Adam,” he said. “I was given authority over the earth, but I gave it to the evil one by obeying evil. He now rules in my place and your place. The earth was given to man, but the evil one has taken it. The authority I lost was restored by the cross. Jesus Christ is the last Adam, and He will soon take His authority and rule. He will rule through mankind because He gave the earth to mankind. Those who live in your times will prepare the earth for Him to rule.”
“Please tell me more,” I asked, a little surprised to see Adam, but wanting to hear everything he had to say. “How
do we prepare for Him?”
“Love,” he said. “You must love one another. You must love the earth, and you must love life. My sin released the death that now flows as rivers upon the earth. Your love will release rivers of life. When evil reigns, death is stronger than life, and death prevails over life. When righteousness reigns, life prevails, and life is stronger than death. Soon the life of the Son of God will swallow up the death that was released through my disobedience. It is not just living that you must love, but life. Death is your enemy. You are called to be a messenger of life.
“When the Lord’s people begin to love, He will use them to release His judgments. His judgments are to be desired.
The whole world is groaning and travailing as it waits for His judgments, and when they come, the world will learn righteousness. What He is about to do, He will do through His people, and His people will stand as Elijah in the last days. Their words will shut up the heavens or bring rain; they will prophesy earthquakes and famines, and they will come to pass; they will stop famines and earthquakes.
“When they release armies in the heavens, armies will march on the earth. When they hold back armies, there will
be peace. They will decide where He shows mercy and where He shows His wrath. They will have this authority because they will love, and those who love will be one with Him. What you will see through that door is to help prepare you for what He is about to do through His people.
“I know authority. I also know the responsibility of authority. Because of the great authority that I was given, I am responsible for what has happened to the earth. Even so, the grace of God began to cover me, and God’s great redemption will soon swallow up my mistake. Peace will be taken from the earth, but you are called to help restore it. Peace prevails in heaven, and you are called to bring heaven to earth. Those who abide in His presence will know peace and will spread peace.
“The earth itself will shake and tremble. Times of trouble greater than have ever been known will begin to move across the earth like great waves of the sea. Even so, those who know Him will not be troubled. They will stand before the raging of the seas and say, ‘Peace, be still’ and the seas will be calm. Even the least of His little ones will be like a great fortress of peace that will stand through all that is coming. His glory will be revealed to His people first and then through them. Even the creation will recognize Him in His people and will obey them as it does Him.
“This is the authority that I had, and it will be given to mankind again. I used my authority to turn Paradise into a wilderness. The Lord will use His authority to turn the wilderness into Paradise again. This is the authority that He is giving to His people. I used mine wrongly and death came. When His authority is used in righteousness, it will release life. Be careful how you use authority. With authority comes responsibility. You, too, can use it wrongly, but you will not do this if you love. As all of heaven knows, ‘’Love never fails.”
“What about the earthquakes, famines and even wars that you said we would release on the earth? Won’t this be releasing death?” I asked.
“All the death that is coming upon the world is being allowed to prepare the way for life. Everything that is sown must be reaped, unless those who have sown evil call upon the cross in Spirit and truth. The army of the cross is about to be released, and it will march in the power of the cross, carrying the offer of mercy to all. Those who reject the mercy of God have rejected life.”
“That is a great responsibility,” I said. “How do we know when they have rejected His mercy?” “Disobedience brought death, and obedience will bring life. When I walked with God, He taught me His ways. As I walked with Him, I began to know Him. You must walk with God and learn of His ways. Your authority is His authority, and you must be one with Him in order to use it. The weapons of His army are not carnal—they are spiritual and much more powerful than any earthly weapons. Your most powerful weapons are truth and love. Even the final judgment of destruction is God’s love extended in mercy.
“When truth spoken in love is rejected, death has been chosen over life. You will understand this as you walk with Him. You will come to understand the Spirit that He has given to you to bring life and not death. There is a time to give men over to reap what they have sown, but you must do all things in obedience. Jesus came to give life. He does not desire for any to perish, and this must be your desire also. For this reason, you must even love your enemies if you are to be trusted with the authority that He wants to give to His people.
“The time is at hand for the fulfillment of what has been written. His people have prayed for more time, and He gave it to them. However, few have used it wisely. You have a little more time, but soon the time can no longer be delayed. The time is near when time itself will seem to speed up. As it is written, when He comes, He will come quickly. However, you are not to fear the times. If you fear Him, you do not need to fear anything that is coming upon the earth.
“All that is about to happen is coming so that His wisdom can again prevail on earth just as it does in heaven. All of the evil that was sown in mankind is about to be reaped. Even so, the good that He has sown will also be reaped.
Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than death. He walked the earth to destroy the works of the devil, and He will finish what He has begun.”

POWER AND LOVE
As Adam talked, I was captured by his grace and dignity. I began to wonder if he had possibly lived his whole life after the fall without sinning again because he seemed to be so pure. Knowing my thoughts, he changed the subject briefly to answer them.
“I lived long on the earth because sin did not have a deep root in me. Even though I had sinned, I was created to walk with God, and my desire was still for Him. I did not know the depths of sin that the following generations knew. As sin grew, life was shortened, but in every generation, those who walk with God touch the life that is in God. Because Moses walked so closely with God, he would have lived on had the Lord not taken him. Enoch walked with Him so closely that the Lord had to take him as well. That is why Jesus said, ‘’I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me shall live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die.
“What you are seeing in me is not just the lack of sin, but the presence of life that I had on the earth. What we were on earth will remain a part of who we are forever. I can look at all of the others here who are a part of the great cloud of witnesses and know much about their life on earth.” “So you are a part of the great cloud of witnesses.”
“Yes. My story is a part of the eternal gospel. My wife and I were the first to taste sin, and the first to see our children reap the consequences of disobedience. We have beheld the death spread through each generation, but we have also beheld the cross and seen the victory over sin.
“Satan has boasted since the cross that Jesus could redeem men but could not change them. During the times of the greatest darkness and evil that are about to come, His people will stand as a testimony for all time that He not only redeemed His people from sin, but He also removed sin from them. Through them, He will remove sin from the whole earth. He will now display to the whole creation the power of His new creation. He did not come just to forgive sin, but to save mankind from sin, and He is returning for a people who are without stain from the world.
This will come to pass in the most difficult of times. “I was created to love the Lord and to love the earth, as were all people. I have loathed the sight of the world’s rivers becoming sewers. Even more have I loathed the sight of what has happened to the human mind. The philosophies of the human mind now filling the streams of human thought are as loathsome as the sewage filling the rivers. But the rivers of human thought will one day be pure again, just as the rivers of the earth. By this, for all time to come, it will be proven that good is stronger than evil.
“The Lord did not go to the cross just to redeem, but also to restore. He walked the earth as a man to show mankind how to live. He will now reveal Himself through His chosen ones to show them who they were created to be. This demonstration will not just come through power, but through love. He will give you power because He is all powerful, and power is also a revelation of Him. Even so, He uses His power because of love and so must you. Even His judgments come because of love. When you send them forth, it must be because of love. Even His final judgment of the earth will be His final mercy.”

Adam’s disobedience made the way for Abel’s obedience, whose blood still speaks as a harbinger of salvation. (Rick Joyner)

FOLLOW PEACE WITH ALL MEN

One church I pastored had a lot of problems, but somehow or other, God gave me the wisdom to pastor that church, and He solved the problems. When I left that church, the congregation had grown and the church was full and running over. But the fellow who took over the pastorate after me ran into some problems pastoring that church. I was out in the field ministry by then and just happened to be in that area, so I thought I would drop in and visit with this new pastor. I'd heard he was having some troubles in the church, so I'd been praying for him. In fact, many times God would wake me up early in the morning, and I'd pray for him. I had compassion for him. After all, I'd pastored that church, and I knew some of the problems that existed. So when I came into town that particular day, I drove up to the parsonage, and this pastor came out to the car to talk to me. I told him I had some business in town and just wanted to stop by to see how he was doing. I asked him, "How are things going?" He said, "Things aren't right! People aren't paying their tithes."

Then he looked at me and demanded, "Have you been coming around here collecting these people's tithes?" When he asked me that, before I could say a word, he got so mad, he just reached in and grabbed ahold of my necktie. I thought he was going to pull me out of the car! Well, I have the flesh to deal with just like you do. I wanted to knock him in the head, but I knew I couldn't let the flesh dominate me. I could just see the headlines in the local paper, "Full Gospel Minister Knocks Full Gospel Pastor in the Head." But here he was accusing me of stealing the people's tithes! The Bible said not to render evil for evil or railing for railing. The world's way is that when people rail against you, you just retaliate and rail back against them. But the Bible says, "Contrariwise, render blessing, so that you can inherit a blessing." I said to him, "I haven't received a dime from the people in your church! Dear Brother, I've prayed for you more than once. Why, just the day before yesterday at four o'clock in the morning, I was down on my knees on the cold linoleum floor praying for you!" You see, I knew problems existed in that church because I had pastored it. God had told me how to deal with the people in that congregation, but now some of those same problems had surfaced again, and this pastor didn't know how to handle them. When I told this pastor I'd been praying for him, he jumped just like I'd hit him with a whip. Then he started crying, "My God! Brother Hagin, forgive me! I knew what I said wasn't right. I just had to lay off the blame on someone."

Then he admitted, "I've just been such a failure in this church. I haven't handled the situation right, and I've divided the church and run half the people off. You were a success and I wasn't, and I was trying to blame all the trouble off on you. Will you forgive me?" I said, "Sure, I forgive you." And then we hugged one another and fellowshipped awhile. We parted friends instead of enemies. Isn't that better than fighting? However, if I had let my flesh rule me, and I'd returned evil for evil and railing for railing, it wouldn't have turned out that way. But because I didn't allow my flesh to take over, that man is my friend to this day. (Kenneth E Hagin)

HOW PRINCIPALITIES INFLUENCES CERTAIN AREAS

My wife and I were in a town visiting her relatives one time, and the pastor of the church there said he wanted me to preach. I was on the field in evangelism, and he kept asking me. Finally I told him I wasn't going to do it. He asked me if there were something wrong with him and his wife. I told him there wasn't. But I explained I didn't want to preach in that town unless God definitely told me to. I told him the town was full of reserved, conservative people, motivated by stingy devils and demons. I told him these demons had gotten into his church and that the
people wouldn't support me if I went there.

His eyes got big and his mouth fell open, and he asked me if anyone had been talking to me. I told him no one but the Lord. Whatever kinds of spirits are in a city will get into the church, because there will be someone who will let them in. For instance, look at the Church at Corinth. Corinth was one of the most immoral cities of the East. This immoral devil got into the church. There was a man cohabiting with his father's wife. It had to be dealt with.

First Corinthians 5:1 tells us, "It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife." Whatever spirits are predominant in a city will get into the church unless individuals and the church as a whole learn to stand against them. This minister decided to tell me some things. He said he had taken that church without promise of any set salary. Whatever came in as tithes and offerings on Sunday morning was to be his. The Sunday night and Wednesday night offerings would go for payments on the church building and utilities.

When he first came, he didn't have enough money to get by on. But he believed God and sacrificed, and the church started growing. He had been getting about $80 a week, but he began getting around $200, which in that day was a large amount. At this time the board had a meeting without him and decided, "That's just too much. Let's use some of this money for improvements on the building. Whatever is left over we'll give to him." The Bible says, ".. .Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward" (1 Tim. 5:18). Paul said that, and he's quoting the Old Testament, talking about the ministry. In one sense, this church was stealing the pastor's money! I told him, "That's why I won't come." Unless God tells you to, there's no use going to a group like that. They can't be blessed too much anyway. They are motivated by evil spirits.

When Jesus was talking about going to the cross and dying, Peter took hold of Him and said, "Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. " Jesus said, "Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men." He wasn't calling Peter Satan, but He knew Peter unconsciously was yielding to the devil.

The board in that church didn't yield unconsciously to the devil. They had the new plan down in writing. That's just being crooked. People wonder why God isn't in some churches and isn't blessing them. He can't bless people like that. It won't work. (Kenneth E. Hagin)

SOULWINNER’S CROWN

(We were all praying in church one day) I knelt on the platform beside a folding chair near the pulpit. I began to pray in other tongues, and I heard a voice say,
"Come up hither."
At first, I didn't realize that the voice was speaking to me. I thought everybody heard it.
"Come up hither," the voice said again. Then I looked and saw Jesus standing about where the top of the tent would be. As I looked up again, the tent had disappeared, the folding chairs had disappeared, every tent pole had disappeared, the pulpit had disappeared, and God permitted me to see into the spirit realm.

Jesus was standing there, and I stood in His presence. He was holding a crown in His hands. This crown was so extraordinarily beautiful that human language cannot begin to describe it.
Jesus told me, "This is a soulwinner's crown. My people are so careless and indifferent. This crown is for every one of My children. I speak and say, 'Go speak to this one or pray for that one,' but My people are too busy. They put it off, and souls are lost because they will not obey Me."

When Jesus said that, I wept before Him. I knelt down and repented of my failures. Then Jesus said to me again, "Come up hither." It seemed as if I went with Him through the air until we came to a beautiful city. We did not actually go into the city, but we beheld it at close range as one might go up on a mountain and look down on a city in the valley. Its beauty was beyond words!

Jesus said that people selfishly say they are ready for heaven. They talk about their mansions and the glories of heaven while many around them live in darkness and hopelessness. Jesus said I should share my hope with them and invite them to come to heaven with me. Then Jesus turned to me and said, "Now let us go down to hell."

We came back down out of heaven, and when we got to earth we didn't stop, but kept going. Numerous Scriptures in the Bible refer to hell as being beneath us. For example, "Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming... thou shalt be brought down to hell.... " (Isa. 14:9,15). "Therefore hell hath enlarged herself. . . and he... shall descend into it" (Isa. 5:14).

We went down to hell, and as we went into that place I saw what appeared to be human beings wrapped in flames. I said, "Lord, this looks just like it did when I died and came to this place on April 22, 1933. You spoke and I came back up out of here. I then repented and prayed, seeking your forgiveness, and You saved me. Only now I feel so different: I am neither afraid nor horrified, as I was then."

Jesus told me, "WARN MEN AND WOMEN ABOUT THIS PLACE," and I cried out with tears that I would. He then brought me back to earth. I became aware that I was kneeling on the platform by the folding chair, and Jesus was standing by my side. As He stood there, He talked to me about my ministry. He told me some things in general that He later explained in more detail in another vision. Then Jesus disappeared and I realized I still was kneeling on the platform. I could hear people praying all around me. (Kenneth E. Hagin)

THE RIVER OF LIFE By Percy Collett
The Brazen Altar and the Golden Alter are a Spectacular Sight to see and it is the River of Life which flows from under the Altars, the Golden and the Brazen. 
It is from the River of Life that Life is given to both the Body and the Soul. The River of Life flows out from the Throne. And it is Within the Throne that the Spirit of GOD comes from and Everlasting Life to the Body at the Rapture and the Transfiguration. 
The River of Life flowing out from GOD and the Throne is Two Thousand Miles Long and Very Wide. This Great River is the Power and the Spirit flowing down upon this Earth and into the Human Bodies, to bring life to the Body in the Resurrection so that we will have life and will have it more ABUNDANTLY .
The tremendous Flood Gates which will be opened up at the Time of the Rapture will let the River of Life flow down onto the Earth, around the Graves upon this Earth and immediately, at the Resurrection of the Dead, the Dead Bodies will drink in of the River of Life and become alive through the Spirit of God. 
And in the Twinkling of an Eye, these Bodies will rise and go sailing through the Air to meet Jesus. 
The Golden Altar and the Brazen Altar with Thousands and Thousands of Angels on each side of the River sing to the Glory of GOD. You have heard the old song: ''Down By The River Side, I Will Put On My White Robe, Down By The River Side.'' That song, sung by the Black People, is not so far off after all. Some of those Spirituals must have been inspired by the Spirit Of The LIVING GOD. You speak of the great Baptizing in the Rivers on this Earth; To be Baptized
In water here is a wonderful reality and a Confession of Faith. In Heaven there will be a Great Baptizing. Every Redeemed Soul and Every Transfigured Body will be Baptized in the River of Life in Heaven as a Confession of Redemption. This is one of the Great Secrets revealed to me in Heaven, one of the One Hundred Secrets that I am to reveal on this Earth. I want to be very Accurate and Specific in what I write in this Book because this Book is a Revelation of Jesus to me while in Heaven. 
The River of Life, being Two Thousand Earthly Miles Long and Angels and Redeemed Souls and Bodies standing on each side of the River, will make a Spectacular Sight! 
And it will be at this Singing that the Flood Gates will close and there will be no more Spirit of the Living GOD upon this Earth. The Earth will be an awful place to be on at that Time, for down below they will be crying for the Rocks
And the Mountains to fall on them and it will be Gross Darkness. There will be no more Spirit of the Lord shining on this Earth. When the Flood Gates close, it will be all over then. 
The River of Life will fill again to its Top for the Great Baptizing in Heaven. And it will not just be a sprinkling as it will be Immersing. The Saints of GOD which will already have been Blood Washed, will be washed with the Spirit in Heaven, full of Fire from off the Brazen Altar and anointed forever and ever by GOD, The Father, to live with Him where there will be no more Tears, Sorrow, Sacrifice or Death. 
The trees on each side of the River bearing their Twelve Manners of Fruits will be eaten by the Redeemed Souls. While it was Adam and Eve who ate of the Fruits of the Trees in the Garden, which brought Death to them, the Trees of Life on each side of the River will become A symbol of Life forever and ever.

THE 7TH HEAVEN
Jesus is my Lord in the Ministry of which the Lord has made me a part, for Jesus is my Main Minister, He is my Potentate, My Chief Bishop of my Soul, and He will be King of Kings and Lord of Lords after His Crowning.
I walked with Jesus in Heaven for Five and One Half Days. Jesus told me many things and He appears to me unto this day. This very week I was in a meeting and GOD was moving and He was Blessing us. The Congregation was Praising and Glorifying GOD before the Throne in this particular Meeting. The Spirit of the Lord had slain me flat on the platform.
The Congregation was Praising GOD in the Spirit as I lay flat on my back! And the whole Host of Angels appeared to me on the platform with the Beautiful Face of Jesus in the Midst of the Angels looking down at me! Jesus was pleased because we were all worshiping GOD The Father. And the Worship of the Lord is so precious and that is what it is all about. First, win Souls; For he that winneth souls is wise.
''The Fruit Of The Righteous Is A Tree Of Life; And He That Winneth Souls Is Wise.'' Proverbs 11:30.
When Souls are washed in the Blood, this is your Ticket, your Entrance into Heaven .
''And He Said Unto Jesus, Lord, Remember Me When Thou Comest Into Thy Kingdom. And Jesus Said Unto Him, Verily I Say Unto Thee, Today Shalt Thou Be With Me In Paradise.'' Luke 23:42 and 43.
There are Seven Levels of Heaven, The Outer Perimeter, Inside The Second Gate which is the Third Heaven; The Fourth Level Heaven where The Altar and The River of Life are; The Fifth Heaven where The Temple, The New Jerusalem and The Banqueting House are; The Sixth Heaven are The Great Mountain, all The Beautiful Colors, The Seats of Authority, Love, Administration, Knowledge and Wisdom. I sat on all of these under the Shadow of the Almighty GOD, His Left Hand Outstretched, Covered by Millions of Feathers. The Entrance to The Throne, The Incense, all Kinds of Musical Instruments playing, The Celestial Air of GOD, and so many other Realities, all were before me.
The Seventh Heaven is The Top Throne where GOD sits, Mighty, Beautiful, The Father of Jesus and Jesus sitting on His Right Hand. How beautiful and beyond any Earthly description is The Throne of GOD!
It was our GOD The Father who said: ''Let There Be Light,'' And there was Light. GOD The Father by His Commands can command anything and He is Light. The Word says, The Words of GOD The Father: Let there be Light, and there was Light before He made the Sun. GOD put the Sun in Place, Set His Fire in it and without GOD's Fire in the Sun, everything would die and freeze in this Orbit of the Sun. For God is a Consuming Fire.
Heaven is, also, a Fire where the Fire of GOD exists; Heaven is a Stationary Planet as is the Sun. The Stars that sing unto GOD Orbit Heaven and they are on the move all the time. However, the Outside of Heaven is not created as the Sun. There are trees, rivers, valleys and beautiful mountains on the Outside of Heaven and the Fire of GOD is on the Inside of the Heavenly Planet. The entire Inside of Heaven is operated by the Spirit of GOD and Water which causes everything to live in Heaven. For Heaven is Alive. The Seventh Heaven is Beautiful covering a vast area of millions of square miles.
Around The Throne of GOD are Four and Twenty Elders with Bells above that ring out every time Souls are saved on this Earth. When the last Soul is saved and the Judgment is over and the complete Worship of GOD is in Operation, The Bells will ring forever; They will never stop.
The Music will always be playing on every kind of an instrument that was given Man the Knowledge to make. Heaven will be a continous Worship of GOD, Joy Unspeakable and Full of Glory.
After the Rapture, the Judgment, and the Last Bugle has been blown, all Joy will be Speakable and the Worship of GOD will be Forever and Ever and Ever. (Percy Collett)

THE BANQUETING HOUSE By Percy Collett
He Brought Me Into The Banqueting House And His Banner Over Me Was Love.
The Large Banqueting House of Heaven is a Real Banqueting House, not just in word only. This is a Building underneath the Mansions with stairways going down from every Mansion. It is lit up from end to end by GOD's Glory.
My Prayer for almost seven years was: ''Oh, GOD, Let Me See Thy Glory.'' And GOD let me see His Glory, The Glory of GOD in GOD's Fullness.
The Banqueting House, Miles Wide And Many Miles Long, is Transparent and One Sits opposite One another except opposite with Jesus, Who will then wear His Crown because He then will be Our King. The Transparency of Heaven enables the Citizen of Heaven to look upon the Throne always. The Banqueting House has Hundreds of Tables in it, all built out of Beautiful Gold. All the Tables are Decorated with an Abundance of all kinds of Fruits and You cannot Eat them all up and Diminish the Supply; There is always an Abundance.
The Walls are Jasper and The Ceiling Blue. The Floors are Gold and the Seats are Purple. The Tables are inlaid with Precious Stones of all Kinds. Nothing has to be Cleaned in Heaven because there is no Dust or Falling Leaves, no Thunder Storms, no Rain, no Winds Blowing. Only the Celestial Breath of GOD that Supplies Heaven with His Celestial Air.
The Sweet Fragrance of the Flowers that never Decay fill the Banqueting House with such a Wonderful Air that it Satisfies the Sense of Smell in your Soul. When the Body leaves this Earth at the Great Resurrection of the Redeemed and when the Body and the Soul are joined together again and they will make the Great Entrance into Heaven before the Throne, then the Body will realize as well as the Soul Everlasting Life Forever And Ever.
It will be so wonderful in that Banqueting House, Millions sitting together and seeing one another as we are known because we shall be known as we are known.
It will be a Great Hallelujah of Remembrance as we see one another. Sin and Affliction and Sickness will be forgotten and no more Tears will be Shed as that will only last for a little while in Heaven and it will be all over, for the Troubles and the Heartaches of this Earth will be forgotten.
Discrepancies and Misunderstandings will be no more. Letters of Opposition will not be Written. There will be no one Claiming to be Holier than Thou nor Claim to be Smarter or more Clever than the Other. There will be no more Church Officials to set us Straight or Organizations that will say that They are the only Ones who are Right. There will be no more Thoughts of Hate, Misunderstandings or Jealousies, Divorces or Law Suits, Court Houses or Penitentiaries, no more Politicians to be Elected, no more Democrats or Republicans, Communists or Socialists, Scientists or Psychiatrists, Medical Doctors or Dentists: none of those will be needed anymore, for there will be no more Sickness or Pain.
We are now all gathered together in the Banqueting House of Love. Love is the Keynote of Heaven. He, who Loves His Brother, Does Him No Harm and Sister, Who Loves Her Sister, Does Her No Harm. Love is the Keynote of Heaven. Overhanging all the Tables is the Banner saying: LOVE.
One time I was in an Earthly gathering; All of us, Black and White, were breaking Bread together. A Black Sister came to attend. With Tears streaming down Her Eyes, She said: ''Such Love!'' This is the Banqueting House I am talking about, The Banqueting House of Heaven where the Saints of GOD gather together to partake in the Great Banquet of Love.
The Entrance to the Banqueting House is very Wide. The Chariots float overhead, ready to take you out and bring you in, to tour all over GOD's Heaven crossing the Celestial Sea, sailing up among the Bells, but nothing ever Higher than the Heavenly Choir.
The Musicians and Entertainers, who entertain at the Banquets of this Earth and go into the White House and Buckingham Palace and the Palaces of this Earth, would not have to drink whiskey or wine to pep up the Banquet or Heaven.
There will not be any need of any Cocktails, Olives or Onions, Vodka or Gin, Bourbon, Rye or Scotch. We will all drink of the new Wine of Heaven which will be supplied by Jesus. The Earthly will be turned into the Heavenly and it will be Everlasting Satisfaction.
There will be no more needs of Spoons and Dishes that will have to be Washed. Everything in the Heavenly Banqueting House will be Pure and Clean.
This is GOD'S BANQUETING HOUSE.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN UNSAVEN STEPS OUT OF HIS BODY

Now, we will describe what happens to someone who dies without accepting Christ as their Savior.

At first, they will experience the same exact sensations as the first person, but that begins to change almost immediately. They too, will no longer be sick, crippled or aged. As stated before, everyone’s spirit is eternal and once you leave your physical body (no matter what condition it is in) you will have a perfectly made spirit.

You soon begin to feel the sinister presence which is coming for you and then suddenly, demons appear and take hold of you with their claw-like hands. Horror fills you as the stench of death fills the room. You are unable to fight back, because satan now owns you! No matter how you fight or scream no one will come to help you. Your family and/or friends cannot see nor hear you and even if they could, they would be helpless to prevent what is about to happen. When you reject Christ, you become the property of Hell when you die. They begin to pull you downward until everything disappears into darkness. You begin to feel the heat and hear the screaming and moaning of agonized souls.

Even though your spirit was whole when you left your body, it will not remain that way for long. Hell is also a spirit realm and because you are now a spirit being, you will feel every form of torture they have. As you enter into the yawning mouth of the underworld, other demons will start to yell in glee as they begin to mutilate your being. The pain and agony is real and fear rules supreme as your mind begins to realize what has happened to you. All this time the searing heat is blistering you and every horror you ever imagined has become real!
There will be no contact with another human being, other than the sounds of screaming and cursing made by the damned. You will never eat or drink again, although you will experience continual starvation and dehydration. Never again will you know rest or peace, just utter exhaustion and pure terror. Your mind will reach the brink of insanity, but never allowed to completely go there. There is NO escape. You are there because of the choice you made, not because God rejected you. You will remain in Hell until the end of the millennial reign of Christ upon the earth. Then Hell will give up the wicked dead and they will go before the Great White Throne Judgment where they will receive their eternal place of punishment (called the second death) which is the Lake of Fire. God is merciful, but sin cannot enter into His presence nor dwell in Heaven because He is HOLY. If you do not receive Christ as your savior, your name will not be found in the Book of Life and you will be thrown into the lake of fire. Be sure you know where your destiny lies before you die; because after death it will be too late!
Do you know where yours is?
(Kat Kerr)

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A CHRISTIAN STEPS OUT OF HIS BODY

The Word of God says, “To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord”. This is a promise God gives to all Believers (those who have accepted Christ).
What happens to someone from the second they die and their spirit leaves the body and earth can no longer hold them?

First, we will discuss what happens to someone who has accepted Jesus as their Savior and will be going to Heaven. Then, we will discuss what happens to someone who rejected Christ and is headed for Hell!
Whatever has brought them to this moment, whether natural death at old age, a sickness or disease or an accident, it is always the same. As you draw your last breath and your spirit begins to leave your body, you will begin to feel weightless and float upward. If you look back, you will see your lifeless body. If there are other people in the room or area where your body is, you will also be able to see them and hear their comments. You cannot communicate with them, because you have left your physical body and are now a spirit being entering the spirit realm. Yes, you do still care about those you are leaving behind because you love them but you are now entering into the precious promise of God - to be with Him. Unfathomable love erases any anxiety or fear of death you may have experienced, even moments before.

If you were sick, injured or in pain before, you will now realize that all those symptoms have completely left and that you feel wonderful. Also, if you were elderly, you are now young again because age has no effect on your eternal spirit. The life of God now flows into your being. You will have no fear, because the peace of God will now become your constant companion. At this point, some people still do not realize they have even died; because they still have their senses and can touch themselves, it is hard for them to comprehend. They will still try to communicate with others that they pass by and wonder why they do not respond.
If not already present, the angels will appear to escort you on your journey to Heaven. They are magnificent beings still aglow from being in the heavenly realm. They always know your name and usually assure you that all will be well. No one is left to find their own way. If it is a child or baby, they are carried by the angels; they never experience fear or sadness, only tremendous love. There is no hanging around or a struggle to find a way to cross over. No one’s spirit can remain o n the earth for very long. There are various ways to be taken to Heaven, including chariots. If Jesus comes to escort individuals, they get to go in the Lord’s own chariot. It is rare, but sometimes loved ones are allowed to see you leave or to see the angelic beings who have come to escort you.

One of the normal ways you are taken to Heaven, if you are to remain there, is by a transport. These transports come in many different models, so they may not all look like the one I saw two years ago when I witnessed someone boarding one. Not only could I see the ship, but the two angels who were escorting the woman. She looked amazingly beautiful and young, even though I knew she had been very old when she passed away. This transport (as shown in the illustration) looked something like a cable car without the cables.

The lower part was made of a solid substance that looked like burnished pewter. Ornate panels, on either side of its doors, were gold as was the trim that ran down both ends of the ship and around the bottom. The light emanating from the sides as well as from beneath the ship was a brilliant white with blue highlights. This could be the bright light mentioned by some who have had near death experiences.

The upper part of the transport is like glass — you can actually see through it. Can you imagine how exhilarating it must be to streak through the universe and see everything on your way to Heaven?
You usually enter from the side of the craft by way of steps that appear from nowhere and have no visible means of support. How supernatural is that! I was told that sometimes people are also brought up through the bottom entrance (which I could not see).

Sometimes angels navigate these crafts, but usually people are chosen for this position before they die. They become Heaven’s pilots, not because of prior flight experience, but because of their heart for people. They have a natural ability to put people at ease and to share things about the new home they are going to.

Heaven’s pilots are the first contact individuals have with Heaven and therefore must be trusted by God to portray His care and love. It is a high honor to be chosen for this assignment.

It was truly amazing to be able to see a transport close up. The angels who escort these transports all wear white gowns with purple sashes at the waist, and purple on their cuffs and hems. They also wear narrow purple bands on their head. At least one of them carries a sword. Once boarded, the transport leaves and continues through the atmosphere at speeds we only dream of, until they arrive in the third heaven.

Once the transport stops, you will be escorted out and left in the care of other angels and / or people whose job it is to welcome you to Heaven. Many times Abraham will be there to greet you.

Sometimes the gates will be visible from your disembarking point, but sometimes they can be some distance away. Your family and friends who already dwell in Heaven will run to greet you. There is much joy and celebrating going on at your arrival. Usually, you pass through the gates and are taken immediately to your home which has been lovingly prepared for you. Everything you ever desired in architecture, style or decor has been considered to please you. Even the landscaping of your property is suited to your taste.

If you had any pets on earth that were special to you, they are also waiting for you (recreated by a loving Father). Time is then given to greet and rejoice with friends and family.

All this time you will be overwhelmed by the presence of God and the beauty of just being there and experiencing the sights, sounds and aromas. You feel like you have truly come home. Just when you think it can’t get any better, Jesus comes! You are now taken into the throne room where the redeemed and angels worship and rejoice together. Worship can be singing, dancing and bowing before the throne. Many times Jesus will dance with His people; everyone wants to touch him.

There are times of celebrating and times to lay prostrate before the King of Kings. On the way to the throne, You are greeted by all those whom you pass by. As you approach the throne the brilliance of the Father begins to overwhelm you.

The created beings, filled full of eyes, proclaim continuously about His holiness (Revelation 4). You can hardly bear to look Upon the glory of the Father as He declares His love for you. Fire and lightening proceed from His presence and awe falls over the throne room. Everyone turns to watch as you are welcomed home. Just when you think you will collapse from the weight of the glory, God reaches out and holds you to Himself. Never have you experienced such love and acceptance! All your preconceived ideas as to what God is like are washed away in the flood of love that goes right through you. It is unconditional love and you finally know the passion that was in His heart when He sent His Son to the cross for you! You are truly complete!

Once your time for communion with the Godhead is over, you are taken on an extensive tour of Heaven by your family and/or friends. You visit all the wonderful places your loving Father has prepared for you to enjoy. He truly delights to give you pleasure. (Kat Kerr)

YOU DETERMINE YOUR ETERNAL POSITION (By Katt Kerr)

Eternal Planning, salvation is free, but your life lived now, determines your eternal position! Your eternal position is determined by you and you are actually the one who decides it!

People do many types of planning in their lifetime; Vacation Plans, Homebuilding Plans, Savings Plans, College Fund Plans, Retirement Planning and even Estate Planning. The most important, but most overlooked planning is ETERNAL PLANNING. I am not talking about getting saved so you can make it to Heaven. I am talking about something far beyond that. Your eternal position, which once set will never be changed. You can work towards it until you die, after that there is not much you can do. That means you find out what God’s purpose is for your life and you accomplish it. He has a destiny for all of us. You will either rule or reign with Christ in the new earth, or you will serve others.

One of the most important things you will be held accountable for will be what God called you to do with your life. We all have specific destinies and God gives us the gifts, talents and grace to accomplish it. If you do not know what your calling is, seek God and He will reveal it to you.

The bible clearly says that our gifts and callings are without repentance. This means that you will not be excused from fulfilling God’s purpose for your life. You will make it to Heaven, but you will have no reward for doing your own stuff if you have not accomplished God’s stuff.

You do receive reward for any kindness you show, because the word of God says, “If you give a cup of water to a little one in Jesus name, you will in no wise lose your reward”. These rewards are different than the one you receive for accomplishing God’s calling on your life. Make sure your life counts for the Kingdom of God. Your reward will be to spend eternity ruling with Christ. You will never regret it!

A FINAL NOTE FROM THE FATHER TO HIS BODY
Please STOP fighting each other. I made you all and I love you all. You were given different callings and anointing. DO NOT come against anyone who is doing My work. Do you not know that My Word says, Touch not My anointed; and yet you despise and devour each other! You are all ONE family and you will live that way in Heaven and throughout eternity. I did not separate you from each other; that is man’s tradition. I am about to show up and interrupt a lot of those traditions because in these last days it is crucial that you all work together. The world will know you for your love of each other.
ARE YOU LOVING?

CHILDREN ARE THE MOST POPULATED IN HEAVEN

This fact is somewhat bittersweet. Sweet because that is what babies are and they are kept in one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited in Heaven. Bitter because it is one of the most populated places in Heaven, thanks to the abortion clinics’ business over the past 40 years. How accountable are we all for the mass abuse of these tiny babies? They are human lives swept under the carpet and remembered no more. Heaven knows how many of their lives were shredded, they know, because they have ALL of them there! Not a one was lost or discarded by our Heavenly Father.

Only because of His great mercy and Christ’s blood is there forgiveness and healing available for this sin. Even the children, when grown to the age of a toddler, go through a ceremony where they receive Jesus and forgive the ones who took their lives. Yes, they know who their parents are and they are conscious of what happened to them when they first arrive in Heaven. They do not understand why they were not wanted, but they do forgive it.

These nurseries hold all the babies which are miscarried or aborted. They are received by Jesus and He heals the wounds of their hearts. They are cared for by angelic beings who sing to them as they rock them in their arms. The breath of God nourishes them as they grow ever so slowly.

Because of the goodness of God, a 20 year old mother could miscarry her baby and 50 years later die and go to Heaven; her baby would only be around 3 years old (in earth years). She is given her baby when she arrives and she gets to raise it. How wonderful for all the parents who thought they had completely lost that privilege!

The mercy of God allows the same thing for those who have aborted their babies; then repent and come to know Christ and make it to Heaven. For this reason alone, a second chance to hold your child in your arms and love and raise it as your own; wouldn’t you want to make it there? Many will and they can experience the joy of watching their child (once destroyed and now restored) grow and become a happy, complete being! God desires this restoration in families.

The first illustration is of the angel, Rahmee, and a baby named Precious, who was miscarried in 2006. This baby girl was wanted very badly by the parents and one day she will be restored to them, because they have received Jesus as their Savior. She will be treated like a princess until their arrival in Heaven. There will be many surprised women, who did not know they had miscarried a baby, because it was so early in the pregnancy. What a shock when they arrive and find a little ‘’package’’ waiting for them.

The facilities where these babies are cared for are very beautiful. There are arched ceilings with openings at the top which cause the rooms to be bathed in a warm peachy glow. Flowers are growing right out of the walls and tiny birds come and perch on the branches to sing for the babies. The babies ‘’beds’’ have the appearances of beautiful sea shells that come out from niches in the wall. Every baby’s name is etched in the wall above them; embellished onto lovely ribbons if it is a girl and on stately shields if they are boys. If you have a baby in Heaven and haven’t named it, please do so. Not only does it show Heaven you accept the fact that your baby lives there, but your child knows you cared enough to give it a name.

Some of the angels appear to be male and some female but they all wore soft ivory gowns with pale colored sashes. They held the ‘tiny’ babies (some only inches long) in the palm of their hands and the bigger ones against their chests. As they sang to them, the breath of God nourished their little spirits. Even though these babies are tiny, they are different than the babies here, because they do not necessarily need to sleep. They do rest, but they also play. They already have the ability to ‘know’ things and
they can communicate. They are raised in the perfect love of God and joy is an automatic part of their lives. It was a most beautiful place, filled with the peace of god. Their little faces reflect the Glory of God and they will know Him as we all should know Him.

There are other places in Heaven for the older toddlers and children where they can play and learn. One place allows them to play games with the animals and actually slide down rainbows. Some of the landscape in the children’s area is similar to different parts of earth, so they will be in familiar surroundings while they adapt to being in Heaven. It is a fun and exciting thing to be a child and live in Heaven. There will never be rejection, pain, illness or loneliness in their lives. Family members come to see them often and eventually, when they are big enough, are sent home with them to await the arrival of their parents. Please be sure to make the right choice with your life. Your children are waiting! (Katt Kerr)

Frank, heaven's more real than this material world. Hubble satellite pictured heaven in 1994 wt an enhanced lense. They still have current fotos of heaven. Heaven is as real as the sun, moon n stars. After Jesus resurrection he ate fish, drank honey n still walked thru wall wt a solid body without blood. This earth is but a shadow of heaven. Every good thing on earth has d real one in heaven. This earth is not real compared compared to HEAVEN.

THE PORTAL (WE’RE BEING WATCHED)

Another fantastic trip to Heaven was when I was allowed to tour a wondrous place they call The Portal. This is the place where all of Heaven can come to view earth. There were angels present as well as the Redeemed. The immensity of the place left me speechless, I could not even see the end walls. However, there were some columns near where I was walking that looked to be about 60 feet high. The detail of the embellishments had to be done by a master craftsman.

We finally approached the portal itself, which was magnificent. It seemed that when you walked up to it, you were looking over a balcony. The carvings on the rails and posts were finely detailed and wonderful to touch. The atmosphere inside was charged with excitement and at the same time, you were filled with awe. The light inside the structure was somewhat subdued, so that your attention was drawn to the portal and your viewing would not be interfered with. As always, the presence of God saturated everything and everyone. This was overwhelming to me, but perhaps that was because I was not a permanent resident. It is always difficult to focus on one thing in Heaven, because you do not just experience what you are seeing, and there are always aromas present together with indescribable music. It stirs you and al l you can do is begin to declare God’s goodness.

All the people were wearing their gowns and robes. The gowns were a brilliant white, but the robes were very different from each other. They were designed and embellished according to your level of reward and service to the Lord; and some were so glorious that they could hang in an art gallery.

This is one of the places in Heaven where it is requested that everyone come dressed alike. I feel that it promotes a sense of unity among all those coming to view, p ray and cheer for their loved ones on earth.

It was extremely exciting to be there and I shall never forget the expressions of love, joy, surprise and victory I saw on the faces of the people. They were allowed to see significant events in their family’s lives, such as marriages, births, celebrations and especially when they accepted Jesus as their Savior. How good of God to bless them, so that they can still be a part of the lives of those they left on earth.

Many people were leaning forward, whispering and gesturing to those that had accompanied them to view. There were hundreds present at the time I visited, but everyone saw something different— it is one of the wonders of Heaven — to have the ability to show everyone their specific families on earth all at the same time! There would be normal conversation, until someone on earth became a Christian, and then there was wild rejoicing and celebration. Everyone would congratulate the family whose loved one had come to believe in Jesus. It is the most exciting thing that happens at the portal.

Another exciting event is when a loved one comes home to Heaven. As soon as they realize that they are on their way, they race out to the Gate to greet them.
After viewing for what seemed to be an hour (it is very difficult to judge time by earth standards), I was instantly taken back to earth. It was almost impossible to go back to my normal earthly duties after experiencing something supernatural like the portal. It is mentioned in the bible in Hebrews 12: 1, where it talks about the ‘’great cloud of witnesses’’. Remember now, we are always being watched! (Katt Kerr)

.... SUDDENLY JESUS STOOD RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME…

In 1963, my office occupied only the den of my little frame home in Garland, Texas. It wasn't really much of an office at that. Some men in another city contacted me. They said, "If you will move your office to this city, we will set up an office for you. We will buy all the office equipment, hire the secretaries, and pay their salaries. You won't have to pay anything. Let's get some of your material published."

Another man, who was an electronic technician, said, "Brother Hagin, if you will let me, I will make tapes of all your sermons. It won't cost you a thing. I will furnish all the materials free of charge." Those offers sounded good. You would think God must be in them. But about that time I was praying with a certain group. We were having special times of ministering to the Lord. It was the kind of atmosphere Acts 13:1 and 2 speaks of—an atmosphere where God will move. I was sitting on the platform beside a chair, praying, when suddenly Jesus stood right in front of me. I had my eyes shut. It was a spiritual vision. I did not fall into a trance. Standing right behind Jesus, about two feet to His right and three feet behind Him, was a large angel. I had seen angels before—but never one that big. He must have been 8 feet tall or more.

Jesus talked to me about some things. (And everything He said came to pass.) Occasionally, while He talked, I would glance at that angel. When I did, the angel would open his mouth and start to say something. When I looked back to Jesus, he would not say anything. After Jesus finished His conversation with me, I asked, "Who is that fellow? What does he represent?" Jesus said, "That's your angel." I said, "My angel?" "Yes," He said, "your angel. You read in the scriptures that I said concerning the little children that their angel is ever before My Father's face. You don't lose your angel just because you grow up." (Isn't that comforting! I have that big fellow following me around. Praise the Lord!) I said, "What does he want?" Jesus said, "He has a message for you." Then I got so letter-of-the-Word conscious I could have missed the Spirit. I said, "You are talking to me; why don't
You give me the message? Why do I have to listen to an angel? Besides that, the Word of God says as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. I have the Holy Ghost. Why couldn't the Holy Ghost talk to me?" Jesus had mercy on me, and patience with me. He said, "Did you ever read in My Word where the angel of the Lord told Philip to go down to the way of Gaza? Wasn't that direction? Wasn't that guidance? Didn't my angel appear to Cornelius, and he wasn't even a born-again man? Didn't the angel tell him what to do?" He gave me several more New Testament examples. Finally, I said, "That's enough. I will listen." Then I looked up to this big fellow and said, "What is it?" He started this way, "I am sent from the Presence of Almighty God to tell you not to let these men (and he called their names) set up an office for you. They have an ulterior motive. They will control your ministry because they will have put in all the money." Then he called the name of the man who was the radio and electronic technician and said, "Don't let him have any of your tapes. He has an ulterior motive. If he gets them into his hands, he will control them. I am sent from the Presence of Almighty God to tell you that.

"Then I am sent from the Presence of Almighty God to tell you this: The money will come so that you can set up your own office, have your own books, have your own tapes. You will be the head of it, the sole boss, because I am going to tell you what to do, and not some man. Within four months, after everything is paid and cleared out, you will have enough money to get you headed this direction. For I have sent my angels out to cause the money to come." When that time came, I had $4,000 which was enough to do what the Lord had told me to do. That was the
beginning of this ministry. I could tell more, but this is enough to illustrate that these things do happen. But let me emphasize this—although God does lead us through visions and other supernatural manifestations, I would encourage you NOT to seek a vision. You could get beyond the Word where the devil can deceive you. We often prefer to have a more direct word of guidance, but we don't always have it. So
don't try to manufacture it, if it is not there. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that anyone was seeking a vision when one came. Visions just happened without anyone in the Bible seeking them. But educate and train and develop your human spirit so that inward witness becomes more and more real to you. Then, if God sees fit for supernatural visitations and manifestations, just thank God for them. Know that the angels of God are with you. Your angel is with you whether you ever see him or not. (Rev. Kenneth E. Hagin)

Feel free to call Sidespin on 08033853236 for question concerning
Heaven
Aborted children
Jesus
Eternity
Eternal Reward
Hell n Lake of Fire
Etc

DON’T PUT OUT HIS CANDLE

I was holding a crusade in a certain city when news broke out about a certain minister. Someone asked me what I thought about it. He asked, "What do you think about what happened to So-and-so?" I just said, "I have no comment." "Oh, really?" he said. Then I added, "Putting out the other fellow's candle never brightens your own." I'm not going to put anyone's candle out. I'm going to try to light it if I can! Dear friends, if we want to walk with God, we've got to walk in love because God is love!
(Kenneth E Hagin)

DO GOOD TO ALL MEN
An evangelist once held a meeting for me. He did something to me that was wrong and unethical. The devil suggested the thought to me, (If I were you, I wouldn't take up another offering for him). That's the get-even nature of the flesh. The flesh always wants to get revenge. But in the Bible, God said, "Revenge is Mine, I will repay" (Heb. 10:30). I have found that it's just better to let the Lord fight your battles. He'll do a better job than you could. If you try to take revenge, you'll get things in a mess. You see, if you let your natural human reasoning and your flesh dominate you, you'll wind up in trouble because then you're going to want to retaliate. And if you're not careful, your flesh and your mind will side in with the devil, and you'll want to accommodate his thoughts.

Anyway, I recognized that the thought to get even with this evangelist came into my mind from the devil. It didn't come from my recreated spirit where the Holy Spirit dwells. So I said, "Just for that, Mr. Devil, I'm going to take up an offering for that evangelist every night. And if you say anything more about it, I'll take up two offerings for him every night." Why did I say that? Because the law of love, the God-kind of love, says, "Return good for evil" (Rom. 12:21). And in this verse in Matthew 5:44 it said, ". . . Love your enemies . . . do good to them that hate you...." Do you know the devil never said another word to me about that evangelist. The devil doesn't want any preacher getting two offerings a night! So I took up an offering for that evangelist every night. Then I asked the evangelist, "How much do you usually average?" He told me, and I paid him three times as much as he usually got even in the larger churches, and I gave a third of it out of my own pocket. I did that because I wanted to exercise and develop the God-kind of love. The evangelist went away feeling good. I'd rather it be that way, wouldn't you? Do good to those who use you and persecute you! The Bible teaches you to do good to all men, not just believers. By doing good to all people, you are fulfilling the royal law of love (James 2:. (Kenneth E Hagin)

striktlymi: Good morning sides,

I am glad that the little girl was okay after everything; but I am of the opinion that it is not advisable to put the life of anyone in jeopardy just because someone else is trying to see if his/her faith is as big as a mustard seed.

There is a reason God gave man the requisite knowledge in medicine...I believe that a second opinion from a specialist in the child's ish would have been in order before taken any decision...

I would have understood if the ailment was beyond the scope of medicine or if the parents had no money to take care of this child...but leaving everything when it is obvious that there is something they could have done seems like bad parenting in my opinion...

#Faith is good but not always needed.

UC, life is spiritual. When you are awaken spiritually, u'll see things differently. If Almighty made this world, the planets etc it is a little thing to trust Him for healing. Somebody who has an ailment that has defied medicine could read this and trust Jesus for his/her healing: and the Lord Jesus will heal that person. I think I know what I'm doing. Cheers

FAMILIAR SPIRIT AND FALSE PROPHECY

Saul once had the Spirit of God, but when he got away from God, an evil spirit came to him. There are people today who once were used of God, but later they began operating under an evil spirit.

A certain minister I know was at one time used of God in the word of knowledge and the revelation gifts. He was visiting a church where I was preaching, and the pastor asked him to say a few words. While he was speaking, the Spirit of God said to me, "He has a familiar spirit."

The minister said, "You think I am not a prophet of God? Why, your name is So-and-so. Your address is such-and-such. You are so many years old, and in your billfold you have so many dollars. Isn't that so?" The person said it was so. One man had a valuable diamond ring at home. The minister said to him, "You have a valuable diamond ring at home in such-and-such a drawer. God said for you to give it to me." The man knew that this was supernatural. It had to be God, he thought, so he got the ring and gave it to the minister. Charlatans line their pockets this way. But that was not God's power in demonstration; it was a familiar spirit.

Familiar spirits are familiar with you. They know about you and they tell people things about you. By the same token, the Spirit of God could do the same thing through the word of knowledge if He saw fit to do so. But it would not be just a public display for mere curiosity. It would be for your edification, not to attract attention to a man, to cause people to think he is someone great, to line his pockets with money, or to put diamonds or watches in his hand. The gift of prophecy is real. It is good. It is right. It can be used for good. (Kenneth E. Hagin)

TAME YOUR FLESH
(By Kenneth Hagin)

I remember the time my wife and I were holding a meeting for some folks, and I don't know why in the world they invited us to preach for them, but I happened to have the week free, so we went down there. (They lived in another state.)
We stayed in the parsonage with them. We were their guests. We'd never been there before.
They didn't say anything about eating, and they didn't fix us anything to eat. They'd get up in the morning and leave the house. We'd rummage around to see if we could find something. We had very little to eat.
One of the deacons suspected something. He lived on their street, and he came down and asked me how we were doing. "Oh," I said, "we're all right, brother." I didn't want to cause the pastors any trouble. (I knew people like them were going to get in trouble soon enough without my



causing them any!)
The deacon said, "Now, there's a freezer on the back porch of my house, and it's full of meat. Just come on up and get anything you want."
Then he asked, "Where are the pastors?"
I sort of covered up for them. I said, "Well, they had some kind of call to make" (which I'm sure they had).
On the last Sunday we were there, we returned to the parsonage after the morning service. While I was watching the news on television about 12:30, the pastors walked right by me. They never said "Goodbye; we'll see you" or anything. They just left. And they never came back.
We were sitting there with nothing to eat. Finally, my wife, who had been in another room, came out and said, "Where did they go?" I said, "I don't know. I guess they went to get something to eat." I knew there wasn't much in the refrigerator.
By 2 o'clock they hadn't come back, and we began to get hungry. We looked in the refrigerator and found a slice of bologna and two eggs. We boiled the eggs.
I said, "I believe I'll go up to the corner and get a fryer out of that fellow's freezer. We can thaw it out pretty quick in water and fry it."
Then I said, "No, I can't do that, because if I go down there, he's going to ask me, 'Where are the pastors?' and I'm going to have to say, 'I don't know.' And he's going to say,
'Well, didn't they take you out and feed you?' And I'll have to say, 'Well, no.' And he's going to wonder what kind of pastors they have. So I can't go to that deacon's house, because it would get the pastors in trouble with him."
Then my flesh rose up. (Now don't tell me your flesh



never rises up. Don't tell me you don't have trouble with your flesh.) I began to be a little angry. I went to the phone and actually picked it up. I said, "I'm going to phone long distance to the district superintendent. I'm going to ask him, "What kind of preachers do you have over here, anyway? I'm tired of this!"
Then I put the phone down. My heart said, "No, you can't act that way. That's not love. You'll get them in trouble with the district superintendent if you do that—and they're going to get in trouble soon enough."
I couldn't figure out anything else to do except eat that piece of bologna and an egg apiece and just forget it.
When the pastors finally came home, I acted like nothing had happened. Then I thought about it a while, and finally decided I'd load up the car and leave; I wouldn't even stay for the night service. And when I didn't show up, it would put the pastors on the spot!
Their church members would ask, "Where's Brother Hagin?" And they'd have to say, "We don't know. He left while we were gone." The people would wonder, "What made him leave?"
But we didn't do that, either. We went ahead, held the service, and acted like nothing had happened. We did our best.
Why did I put up with all that? Mainly to spare the flock.
What a difference it would make in a lot of lives— preachers and laymen alike—if we would put the other fellow first and consider the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in our actions.

STAY AWAY FROM CHURCHES THAT PREACH MORE DOUBT THAN FAITH

When our daughter, Pat, was 3 years old, a growth appeared in the corner of her left eye. It kept growing larger and larger until it was the size of the end of her little finger. It was a cause for concern.

I knew in my spirit that it was going to go away. Friends told us, "Oh, it probably will go away as she gets older." I knew when God healed Pat, they would say the growth would have gone away anyway, so I took her to an eye specialist for an examination.

He said Pat had a type of growth that would never go away without surgery. He suggested she be operated on, because the growth would become larger and larger until eventually it would hang down over her face. I thanked him for his diagnosis and left. That night about 10:15 I prayed about it and said, "Lord, the doctor said an operation is necessary, but John 16:23 says, '... Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.' I am standing on that Scripture. I have asked you, and now I believe you have done it. I believe tonight at 10:15 for my baby's healing. I thank You for the healing."

I got off my knees, and as I started to go to bed, the devil told me to turn the light on and see if the growth was gone. Immediately I resisted that thought. Several times during the night I was awakened with the same thought — to go see if the growth was gone yet.

I said, "Satan, why should I get up and turn the light on to see if it's gone yet? I know it's gone, because I have God's Word for it." The same suggestion returned the next morning, and again I pushed it from my mind. I kept saying Pat had received the healing the night before at 10:15. When I saw her at breakfast, the growth was still on her eye, but the Bible tells us to walk by faith and not by sight. I ignored the physical evidence of the growth. I walked by faith and kept thanking God for her healing.

Every time our family gathered at the dinner table, I saw that ugly growth sticking right out at me. But I just kept thanking God for the healing which had taken place that night at 10:15 when I prayed and believed that I received.

I was so engrossed in thanking God for the healing that I really don't know when the growth left. A few days later we were driving along and Pat was standing on the front seat between Oretha and me. I turned to say something to Oretha and I noticed Pat's growth was gone. When I mentioned it to Oretha, she told me it had been gone for about 10 days. We saw a miracle as a result of believing God and thanking Him for the answer, even though our physical senses told us it had not happened. This is the realm in which the battle of prayer is fought and won. Our thoughts are governed by observation, association, and teachings. We must guard against every evil thought and doubt that comes into our mind. We must stay away from all places and things that do not support our confession that God has answered our prayer. (Sometimes this means staying away from churches that teach more doubt than faith.) (Kenneth E. Hagin)

[quote author=Dux-01]I thought BLASPHEMY is the unpardonable Sin?[/quote]No sir. Blasphemy itself is not d sin against d Holy Spirit. Jesus warned those doctors of d law in His days. They were not ignorant folks. They knew Moses teachings. They knew Christ was genuine, but out of jealousy, they attributed Christ's works to d devil openly- that's a dangerous ground. Uc, God would not hold somebody else responsible if d person is ignorant. So when a truly anointed man of God runs down anoda anointed man of God openly nd consistently due ot envy, he may sin against d Holy Spirit that way.