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MONEY, FINANCE & ENDTIME (PROPHETIC) ABOUT MONEY & FINANCE Never pray for money. Do not to ask Me to give you money, for money is down here on earth. In the Name of Jesus command the money you need to come. Whatever you want or need, claim it. I want My children to have the best. I want My children to eat the good of the land. I Am not the One who is withholding finances from you; I Am not the One who did not want your children to have the right kind of food to eat. If I were to be the One withholding all these from you, I wouldn't be the right kind of a Father. Remember any old sinner can be a father who is concerned about his children. Remember that even an animal can be concerned about his offspring. Never is there an earthly parent who desires to do more for his children than I did. The problem is that My children do not cooperate with Me. Command the devil to take his hands off your finances. Just because you grew up did not make you lose your angel. Tell your ministering spirits, or angels, to go and cause the money to come. I have no shortage of money, but I have a shortage of righteous people. Son/daughter, don’t bind Me to finances. I can handle the fish just as I can the money. Son, if I send you a cow with a bag of money around her neck, for goodness’ sake, milk her before you send her home! CONCERNING THE END In heaven there is no more clock, all the time that is left is simply the Father's grace for those who have backslidden to offer them a chance to repent and do the first works. You are on the time of God's grace! In the great tribulation, there will be troubles like never before. At that time, people will long for death, but will not find it. Death will have fled from the earth. Warn My church and give them hope. Tell them that if people will repent now, I will forgive them while there is still time. I will do a great thing in the earth. Tell My people that if they ask for forgiveness, I will pardon. Many have lost their faith, they don't want to believe in Me, wickedness has multiplied on the earth and people don't want to believe that I exist. I Am going to do something great on the earth! Many of My people are backsliding instead of growing. Be holy, for I Am holy! Only the holy ones will enter the New Jerusalem! For without holiness no one will see the Lord. 'JUDGMENT IS COMING' Some ministers I called to the ministry live and die without getting into even the first phase I have for them. That is one reason why many ministers die prematurely — they are living only in My permissive will! My child, all the suffering on the earth concentrated in just one place is nothing, NOTHING compared with the suffering that a person has in the best parts of hell. You can play with the fire on the earth, but never with the fire in hell. All sorcerers and workers of evil will have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death The sin of rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft. In fact, all those who know My Word and My ways and have heard the gospel but still will not repent are in rebellion against Me. Many are in hell today because of this sin. I tell you the truth, many souls are in hell because of witchcraft, the occult, the worship of other gods, disobedience, unbelief, drunkenness, and filthiness of flesh and spirit. Come, I will show you a mystery and tell you of hidden things. I will reveal to you how to pray against the forces of evil. I desire to reveal to all that hell has enlarged itself. O foolish people and slow of heart, awaken to the truth, and love one another with fervent love. Help the helpless. Give to those in need without any thought of getting anything in return. If you will repent, O earth, I will bless you and not curse you. Awaken from your sleep, and come unto Me. Humble yourselves and bow your hearts before Me, and I will come and live with you. You will be My people, and I will be your God. |
THE MOST IMPORTANT TIME TO BE ALIVE (Prophetic) I am drawing a line of light and darkness. I am drawing a line in this world. At one point there will be no area to hide in. Satan won’t have that lie that says, ‘THERE IS NO GOD’ – the greatest lie he is using right now. And there will be lying signs and lying wonders. There will always be darkness but it will never be greater than the light. The Body of Christ need to stop living in fear. If you belong to Me, you have been appointed on this earth to reveal the My glory. Release My POWER on this earth. Take dominion like I put you here to do. You have entered some of the greatest times on the earth, yet My body is living in fear. Don’t run to the hills. Take no thought for your life, not what you will eat or wear. If it will take Me to make food and put it on your table, don’t you think I can do that? If I create everything that you see and don’t see, don’t you think I can take care of you? When I appointed you to be alive on the most important time to be alive as a believer. To manifest My glory so that people will know that there is a God. You need to stop trying to escape. To be raptured means to be enraptured. I will come and get you (when the time comes). I want you to not just wake up, not just know Me, not just to be filled with the Holy Spirit, but to be empowered. I want you dangerous against hell Unless Christians turn situations around in your nation, and get the right people in office in the next election—in just a matter of two to three years—your living standard will be half of what it is right now because of the economic conditions. THE ARMY OF THE LORD This army, which was spoken of by the prophet Joel, will arise from the land and do great works for God. The Son of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings. He shall tread down the wicked, and they shall be ashes under the soles of My feet. They shall be called the army of the Lord. I will give gifts unto them, and they will accomplish My mighty works. They shall do exploits for the Lord of glory. I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy. This army shall fight against the forces of evil and shall destroy much of Satan's work. They shall win many to Me before the day the evil beast arises. HOW BADLY DO YOU WANT THIS SPIRITUAL POWER? ARE YOU WILLING TO DO WHATEVER IT COSTS TO GET IT? There’s a battle going on between myriads of agent of darkness and myriads of agent of light in the upper air. Know that there is a dominion in Jesus Christ, and that ‘He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world’’ Stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. You have faith in Me, you stretch out your hand and divide the sea. I will always be with you in all your spiritual journeys. If the former rain was abundant, shall not the latter rain be more abundant? SIN If you allow sin to persist in your life, if sin is tolerated and allowed to remain, I will continue to be at a distance from you. I will be so far away, that I will be to you only the little, meaningless god whom so many others profess to serve. |
MADE IN HEAVEN I created you because I wanted a future. Your security and your future is in your seed. I had servants but I didn’t have sons. I had servants that served Me but I didn’t have a family. I created you. I love you and I like you. Many have been speaking to you to bring you down. But today, I lift out of you the evil words spoken against you. When I created the world, I didn’t create it for sinners. It is legally right for Me to take sinners money and give it to My children. All My money is yours. You are My seed. You are My future. You are My child. I am a Master of making champions out of nobody. I am a Master of making champions out of failures. You just surrender your life to Me and I will confirm My blessing on you. Get into My word. Get your mind renewed. Get ready for an adventure in faith. Submit to authority but be controlled by Me. Don’t let any body control you. If you don’t make the world better, it will make you worse. I give you all things to richly enjoy. I am watching you. I want the world. Go get it for Me. I want the world. I want to help people. I will always do what I said. Don’t ever say again, ‘I just can’t help everybody’ if you quit saying that, you could. When you say such word you limit yourself. When you limit yourself, you limit Me because you are My hand. It is more important to hear My voice outside the church than it is to hear it inside the church because the wealth of the sinners is not inside the church but outside. You must really be listening to Me. As you grow older in Me, My voice grows smaller. It’s a still small voice. When you first got born again, I had to holler as you were like a little baby. You can have good health all the way to the end. It’s yours if you want. It is up to you. Take care of your self. When I tell you to sleep, sleep! Some of you have prayed for an encounter with God, but you are not ready for that encounter. Some of you want to go into the ministry and yet you are not willing to go to your neighbour next door and talk to your neighbour about Me after I have told you many times. I will give you a ministry, but you have to at least obey when I told you something. So I ask you once again, ‘go to your neighbour and tell him or her about Me. It’s not your job if they receive it or not. It’s your job to speak it. And if you will obey Me in the small things of life I will give you big things to do and I will do it in a quick and very fast way. I wait your answer on that. How can I give you something when what you have you keep when I told you to be a sower and not a keeper? If you want those vital things in life, you’ve gat to get away from those depression mentality and walk like I walk. The rest of this year has been called in heaven the year of visitation. Many have come, many have spoken and said, ‘O God will you visit me?’’ I will go where I am welcomed I will go where I am believed I will go where people stand up for Me. There are many things concerning this cosmos that you know nothing of, but this planet is very dear to Me and I will visit it the rest of this year like I’ve never visited it before. I will come to those who will welcome Me and those who will stand up for Me. Victory Victory is not in places and things. Victory is not in people and man's plan. Victory is in Him, the Eternal One. The One who planned the great plan of redemption and sent the Champion out of heaven long ago, from the bosom of the Father down here below. And He met the enemy in awful combat: And arose victorious over death, hell, and the grave, And ascended on High and led captivity captive. The victory is in Him. And if in Him you live and He lives in you, then the victory is on the inside. Stir up the victory. Shout the words in the face of the enemy: "Victory!" "Victory!" "Victory!"—every day. "Victory!" every night. "Victory!" every moment. For the Victorious One in me doth live. Greater is He than all the forces of hell. Greater is He than temptation and all that against me may come. So I'll rest and rejoice every day. For, you see, I am the victorious one. Doubt and Fear Doubt and fear are the two tormenting twins of the enemy down here, sent to harass and rob you of God's blessings. But faith and love come from above. Faith and love—for faith worketh by love. And faith working by love will give you victory in every circumstance—will give you deliverance out of every problem. Faith and love sent from heaven above. Faith and love born of your spirit that is regenerated and born again: The love of God shed abroad in your spirit. Faith rising up out of the Word upon which you meditate and think. So cast aside doubt and fear for they have no place in you as you walk down here. For He has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. So cast away doubt and fear as you'd pull off your coat or cloak and throw it to one side. And rise up and walk in love, and act in faith. And all the heavenly blessings from above shall be at your disposal. And in His great plan, you'll live and enjoy His blessings, as you walk in this clime. And so you shall rejoice and be glad, for, you see, this is the day and this is the hour of your time. |
JESUS - ‘THE CHAMPION SENT BY THE FATHER’ YESTERDAY, TODAY & TOMORROW Yesterday is gone and should be forgotten. Satan will oftentime (as well as friends) remind you of your yesterday. But remember that your yesterday (all that is wrong) is under the blood. Recite all that is good and right . But walk in the light and know that your yesterdays are forever gone. And today is beautiful. So walk with Me and enjoy My blessings. For yesterday does not exist. TODAY Today is not as dark as some men would have you believe. Today is not as desolate and desperate as the media ofttime would portray. Today is the day of the Lord—a day of deliverance, a day of blessing, a day of visitation. For, you see, those who walk with the Me walk in the light. And they walk by faith and not by sight. But those who walk in darkness cannot see. Yea, even the god of this world has darkened their minds, and all they see is desolation, darkness, and the end of time. The end of time will surely come. But, remember, the I said to you who walk and live in this clime, "When these things begin to come to pass, lift up your heads and look up! Rejoice! for your redemption draweth nigh!" So today is not dark; Today is bright, and today is light. Walk in the light and all of your pathways will forever be bright. TOMORROW So many are worried and depressed and some even almost driven to suicide—frustrated about tomorrow. What will tomorrow bring? Will tomorrow ever come? What about tomorrow? Will I be here? What about tomorrow? Will it bring fame or will it bring fortune? Will it bring blessing? Will it be bad or will it be good? Yea, saith the Lord of hosts, tomorrow belongs unto the saints. Tomorrow can be filled, and will be filled with victory even as today—when you walk by faith. So see tomorrow as a stepping stone to greater success and achievement in the realm of God. Tomorrow is bright, for tomorrow belongs to the saints who walk in the light. Tomorrow is good, for the Father of lights sendeth down always unto His own that which is good. For God is good; Yea, His mercy endureth forever. So do not feel any anxiety about tomorrow. Trust in the Lord and leave it in His hands. Walk by faith and shout above the turmoil. All is right and all is bright for we are children of light. Darkness and gloom will overtake any who will yield unto Satan and walk in his way. Darkness and gloom; negativism and doubt. Fear, you see, dominates those who do not know what it is all about. But those who are enlightened by My Word, knoweth that the trial of their faith is more precious than gold. So in the midst of the trial and in the midst of the test they sound forth the shout of victory and rejoice. For they know that victory belongs unto the children of God. They know that there came out from heaven long ago the Champion sent by the Father to those who live down here below. And in the world of darkness, I came and said, "I am the Light of the world. Follow Me and you will walk not in darkness." So darkness and gloom are a thing of the past. For now you are the light of the world. Yea, now you walk in the fullness of God and the glory of the Father. And all that He has provided is thine. So shout it above all the roar of the enemy. Because, you see, all that God has said and declared is sublime. Victory Victory is not in places and things. Victory is not in people and man's plan. Victory is in Him, the Eternal One. The One who planned the great plan of redemption and sent the Champion out of heaven long ago, from the bosom of the Father down here below. And He met the enemy in awful combat: And arose victorious over death, hell, and the grave, And ascended on High and led captivity captive. The victory is in Him. And if in Him you live and He lives in you, then the victory is on the inside. Stir up the victory. Shout the words in the face of the enemy: "Victory!" "Victory!" "Victory!"—every day. "Victory!" every night. "Victory!" every moment. For the Victorious One in me doth live. Greater is He than all the forces of hell. Greater is He than temptation and all that against me may come. So I'll rest and rejoice every day. For, you see, I am the victorious one. |
STUBBORN FAITH Twelve years ago, I went to Sierra Leone, Africa. I have traveled the Mediterranean, Israel, and the Middle East. I have preached to the masses and all kinds of people. I ministered to Kings and Queens and people who simply thought they were. As we were preparing to leave for Sierra Leone we went to Heathrow Airport in London, England. I had my passport and my ticket but I did not have a visa (you do need a visa to get into Sierra Leone). I went to the British Airway flight agent. "Good afternoon, madam," I said. She replied, "Do you have your visa, Sir?" I asked, "What for?" She said, "You need a visa to go." I told her, "I'm sorry, I did not know this." She said, "Rev. McLean, you cannot go." "I've got to go, I'm a preacher," I replied. "I'm sorry, Reverend McLean, you cannot go." "If I'm not going, that plane will not move." You cannot say that unless you know it. My wife was next to me and she said, "Renny, you can't say that." I responded, "I am going on that plane. If God wants me on that plane He will send me. That is if God really spoke" "Did God tell you?" Marina asked. I stood there and eyeballed that lady and said, "That plane is not going anywhere unless I am on it." I sat down and raised my hands. "Renny you are definitely a man of faith," Marina answered. "Devil, I dare you to get the plane out of my hand," I declared. I held my hand up and I saw the plane in my hand. One hour passed and the plane could not move. Two hours passed and the plane couldn't move. Three hours passed and the plane did not move. Five hours passed and the plane did not move. They deplaned all of the passengers. They couldn't figure out what was wrong because everything appeared to be normal. Now, it's going on seven hours and I am drinking tea and hot chocolate. I told Marina, "You can go home now. The plane is not going unless I am on it." The lady came back after eating her lunch, saw me sitting there holding my hand up in the air and said, "How come you have got your hand like that?" I answered, "I am holding the plane." She looked at me with one of those "Boy, you're some kind of nut case" looks. Oh well, the church has looked the fool, because we didn't know whether we'd heard from God or not. I said, "Lady, I told you that plane is not going anywhere unless I am on it." She said, "I remember you saying that and you are still here." "Yes, and that plane will be down another seven hours if I am not on it," I responded. She retorted, "If this is true about you and God, then you get on the plane and see if it will move." Can you just imagine the smirk on her face? I got on that plane and said, "In the name of Jesus, I release this plane." The flight attendants slammed the door shut. The plane proceeded to the main runway. "Why weren't you on here before?" the people on board asked me. I said, "Well, it was because of me the plane didn't move." (Not the best way to win friends and influence people.) The problem with us today is that we have diluted what the Bible calls faith. We have turned faith into a cheap commodity. No wonder it does not work. Is the devil a liar? Yes. So, if the devil is a liar, then why should we believe him?. Hope is dependent on faith for something to come to full fruition. The problem is that we live in two separate worlds. In my own mind, I do not accept limits. I don't see four walls. Now faith is! If you are still seeing your circumstance then you are not yet seeing in the spirit. Faith is the foundation of hope. Now faith is! The church speaks of revival. I can't call it revival when a dead person comes to life and a blind one sees. I've witnessed that for the last twenty-five years. I met the Lord when I was five years old and received my call at the age of seven. When I was nine, God used me to cast out devils. He was using me to heal the sick when I was ten and to raise the dead at fourteen years of age. I had a breakthrough when I was a young boy. I learned that God is not way out there somewhere. He is inside of me. The One inside of me is the same yesterday, today and forever. Hebrews 13:8 (KJV) "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and forever." I am not waiting for a move of God. It is within me. Wherever I go, the devil has to leave because of the presence and power of Christ in me. There are no options; Jesus knew His authority. The Bible tells us "They killed Jesus not because He was a prophet but because He said He was the Son of God." They accepted Him in the fivefold ministry according to Ephesians 4. They accepted Him as a teacher but they had problems when He said He was the Son of God. By that declaration He was saying He was equal with God. The Bible says you are a Son of God. 1 John 3:2 (KJV) "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." The revelation is in using the words joint heir—to be made equal with. (Romans. 8:17) In equality priority goes to the one who was first. In Romans it says Christ has the full preeminence. We are his brethren but He was the first. We are made equal to Him. When the devil looks at you he sees God in flesh, in human form. He doesn't hang around that. When I was a young man conducting and attending conferences and crusades all over England, the devils stopped coming. The devil knows who can pray. Many walk in the knowledge of ignorance. Satan cannot get advantage over us unless we are ignorant of his devices. 2 Cor 2:11 (KJV) "Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. for we are not ignorant of his devices." (Jenny Mclean) |
ONE WORD FROM JESUS CAN CHANGE YOUR WHOLE WORLD Blessing & cursing shall not flow from the same lips. You cannot curse the government & bless with the same lips. (This will definitely open the door to darkness into your life) Lo, I Am with you; go ahead, I will see you through. I will be with you. I Am the God who opened the Red Sea, who destroyed the power of the flames when those three Hebrew boys were thrown into the fiery furnace. I Am the God of all ages. Lo, I Am with you: all My forces are for you. And you are a victor in the face of all your enemies. I want you clothed with ability from on high, the Father's ability. Now you will be able to understand the messages that I have given to you. You will have ability to know what the New Creation means. You will have ability to enter into the fullness of this Divine Life. You will have ability to be My witness, to heal the sick, to cast out demons, and to use My Name against all the forces of darkness. Whatever you fix your eyes on grows within you & whatever grows within you is what you will become. Fix your eyes on Me to become like Me. Pay attention at what you are looking at. Go ye, therefore, as My representatives. I will give you a legal right to the use of My Name. In My Name you are the master of demons, of diseases, of the laws of nature that would in anywise hinder you from doing My will. You had plenty of time. Many could have taken courses in the study of the Word. It wouldn't be necessary for them to go away to a Bible School; they could have correspondence courses. They could attend Bible classes very likely in their own church or in their own community. They have even forgotten the teachings, the first principles of the New Creation. Many have forgotten that they have passed out of death unto Life. Many have forgotten that they are a New Creation created in Christ Jesus. Many have forgotten that they are tied up with God, that they are a partaker of the Divine Nature. Many have forgotten that they have within them the very Life of God Himself, and they have at their side the Great Paraclete, the Comforter, the Holy Spirit. Now I give you the legal right to use My Name, and all this authority is in that Name. In My name ye shall cast out demons. You see, I have given you authority over Satan. I have given you dominion over all the work that he has done. I came, to destroy the works of the devil. I Am leaving it in your hands now. You are always in truth in the inner man, don’t you? many never cared about their outward man. I want you to notice something. I made My world beautiful from the smallest atom to the largest mountain scape. It is ok for your outward look to be beautiful. You can trust My voice in your heart more than the reason of theology in your mind. I have given you a new heart & a new spirit. When I call you to pray for a person, I send thoughts that strikes & light upon you by chance. They actually intersect your thought process – it is the voice of My Spirit calling you to pray. Don’t ever picture separation between you & your child (wife, etc). He/she is bone of your bone. I want you to be like Abraham. He was a man of faith. He was also a motile millionaire. I want to make you a millionaire so that you can teach others to become millionaires. Abraham was a founder of a nation. He was a political leader. If the Christians in the church will not go out & lead, who’s going to lead? If My people don’t go out to lead in their nations, the heathen will occupy governmental positions & justice come out perverted. Whose fault it is? I’m waiting in heaven until you make My enemies My footstool. I’m convincing you. You don’t need to convince Me. I’m fully God from eternity. I became human. One of the reasons I became human was to destroy the Devil, and give humans the ability to destroy the works of the Devil by using My name. I will not release kingly anointing until I first have consecrated priest. I am going to release the sword of the word. I am going to release judgment on My enemies. Make it your priority to tell people about Me & everything will fall into place. The light shines in the darkness & the darkness cannot cease it. If your light is shining, darkness cannot cease it. You have a gift that God wants you to use. You have a prophetic ability that you need to press through. Now, enforce My victory. Now you enforce that binding decree that I’ve won the victory to enact; but I’m only going to enact it through you on the earth. Stop the enemy, now. I’ve already released that governing power by My death and resurrection. Now, I’m going to allow you to invoke it from heaven, and release that blessing on the earth, but you have to do it. The world is about to see the power of the revelation of the spoken word of God. Do you think I would require you to do something I wouldn't be willing to do? If I required you to forgive your brother if he sinned against you 490 times in a day, but I wasn't willing to do the same thing, then I would be unjust. MATTHEW 18:21,22 21, LUKE 17:3-5. Go! Go with the supernatural. Go with My power. I have touched your tongue with coals of fire, henceforth, as you say it, you will have it. |
JESUS, SCIENCE, THE BIBLE & YOU (1) Current scientific research revealed that; The root cause of CONGENITAL KIDNEY DISEASE is FEAR; The root cause of LIVER DISORDER is ANGER; The root cause of dysfunctional RESPIRATORY SYSTEM is SORROW, GRIEVE etc The root cause of HEART PROBLEMS are PANIC, FRIGHT etc; For CANCER, many know the culprit – BITTERNESS. Let me attempt to explain this to you: When the Great God Jehovah spoke creation into being, the SOUND WAVE which protrudes out of His mouth are literally frequency. Each word He spoke has its own unique frequency. All the organs in our bodies operate at a certain frequency & should stay at that frequency for the organ to be healthy. You see, pain, anger, malice, hatred, fear, envy etc has their own negative frequencies. If you are offended & you retained the offence by not forgiving the Offender. That pain will move straight to your body CELLS & can alter the frequency of certain organs of your body resulting in diseases or failure of that organ. When a family is plagued with untimely death, poverty, cancer etc. The memory of that plague is transferred to the next generation thereby repeating the same cycle. This is Y you’ve seen some families struggling with certain unique problem & you wonder Y. Science has just found out that each time your HEART beats, it sends an encoded signal to every cell of your body which basically updates your body cells to what you believe about your self right now. Every cell is reprogrammed every time your heart beats. About 3000 years ago Jesus through Solomon told us that, ‘as a man thinks of himself, so is he’ When a father beats or threatens his pregnant wife, the cellular memory of that can be imprinted in the child’s kidney which can result in a congenital kidney disease problem when the child is born. This explains the reason for so many disorderliness we see around. Scientists now know that our liver has a specific frequency & if it doesn’t stay at that frequency it will not be healthy. Every organs in our bodies have certain frequencies & should remain at that to be healthy. When you are hurt, offended or allow pain to come into you. When you don’t send that pain away (i.e. forgive), you hold on to it. Jesus said u can forgive (send away) or hold on to, when offended by someone. If u hold on to HURT, that hurt becomes a vibration inside every cell of your body that will cause your liver to not vibrate at the frequency God designed it to. The person may take some medications without dealing with the root cause of the problem. Some have adopted behavoiural remedy, but it only ends in worsening the condition. This is due to that fact having failed several times, the failure brings guilt which will definitely add to the problem. Heart transplant has recorded several memory transfers. A particular case was when a healthy heart was transferred from a murdered girl to another girl. Immediately the recipient opened her eyes, she screamed aloud as in terror. This continued over time. She would wake up in the middle of the night screaming, having a particular dream. She kept dreaming of the incident which resulted to the death of the girl whose heart was given to her. A lot of expert looked into it & with detailed description they were able to trace the murderer. The point I’m making here is that, the memory of all that was still in the cells of that heart even though it was medically cleared. Many live their lives today without thinking of the consequences of their action. By avenging yourself, fighting, committing adultery etc you are simply setting a TIME BOMB in your innocent generation. Live clean. Don’t destroy your generation like Eve & Abraham did. Why must you be in HEAVEN or HELL regretting the chaos you’ve laid down among your innocent children? (Jesus Wordz) |
TAUGHT BY JESUS REVENGE, RESENTMENT & UNFORGIVENESS A spirit of resentment, a spirit of revenge in the heart of the believer will open the door for Satan to come in. Satan will strike such in the nighttime when they are asleep upon their pillow because they left the door open & ofttime he’ll afflict them in mind & in body because they entertained a spirit of revenge – a spirit that was not right. & so the door was left open. If you’re unforgiving you will leave the door ajar. And surely the enemy walks about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. If the door is open, the devil can come in. But if the door is closed, he cannot enter in. Shut the door on him even now! Let not a spirit of resentment in your life abide. Let not a spirit of revenge about you reside. Let not an unforgiving spirit draw nigh unto thee. But freely forgive, for you have been freely forgiven! You will find that you can walk in spiritual health, mental health, & physical health. But open the door to the enemy, and surely you shall be defeated. Close the door! Let your mind be stayed on Me! Freely forgive from your heart your neighbour, your friend, your brother, your sister, your family. Yea, let no resentment build up within. Let no spirit of revenge reside, or that quick forked tongue that would strike, cut & hurt. Let that tongue be sanctified. Let your word be seasoned with grace & soaked in love. Be swift to hear, slow to speak, & slow to wrath as you walk down here. & if you will, you will find that life will be better; you will find that you will walk in a greater degree of spirituality. You will find that the blessings of the Lord shall reside upon you; & the enemy, will run away & hide! When you resist him. TRIALS Trials do not come from heaven; tests do not come from your heavenly Father. Yea, the enemy as you trod the pathway down here, will put pressure on you from every side. Darkness does not come from heaven; there is no darkness there. All is light! But the darkness of life, the trials of life, comes because the enemy stirs up strife. He would rob you of your faith (if you allow him); he would cause you to doubt (if you tolerate him). Yea, he would afflict your body (if you permit him), and cause you to lose your shout (if you don’t resist him). He would move in your home to cause you to be afraid (if you don’t bind him). He would feel you with fear & depression as you walk down here (without Jesus). But in My mercy, I minister to My own! Yea, My eye is on the sparrow; & I have not forsaken you! Even in the midst of darkness, in the midst of the night, in the midst of the storm, He will cause thee to be at rest & filled with peace, so that in your life there will be no fright. Even in the midst of the storm, when the winds of adversity blow, yea, you can look the enemy in the face, & fill your heart & spirit & mouth with laughter that is of a holy glee! Because, you see, the greater One in you doth dwell! I will rise up in you & give illumination unto your mind; direction to your spirit so you shall not need to question & wonder ‘’why?’’ but you shall know that I Am on your side! I will see you through. I’ll lift you up & establish your goings so you can rejoice in the midst of adversity; you can rejoice in the midst of trial; you can rejoice in the midst of test; & you can praise the Lord all the while! The last days are upon us. Occupy until I come. So continue to work. Continue to build My kingdom. Continue to train men & women boys and girls to go forth with the message of truth, the message of power, the message of the supernatural, and the message of the miraculous. The enemy, satan, knowing the time is short, moves in this day in his sphere and in his realm to work as never before. But at the same time, in My realm & in my sphere, I’m moving to counteract the power of darkness and to drive back the forces of evil. And so there shall come a greater manifestation of the power and the glory of God by the Holy Spirit. When you pray one way & speak against your prayer, you are laboring in vain. My people are not missing it primarily in their believing. They are missing it in their saying. (practice saying d Word out loud) Have you ever noticed in Mark 11:23 that you do 3-times SAYING than you do BELIEVING? You must preach 3-times the SAYING part of faith than you do the BELIEVING part to get folks to see it. The words that comes out of your mouth comes to pass. Speak solution to the problem, otherwise it is contamination. My people can have whatever they say; the problem is they are saying what they have. You need to watch what you say or tragedy will come. As long as there is breath in your tongue, it’s not too late (to have what you want). Manifest My kingdom. Bring My glory in. I am desperately hungry for My people to fully lay hold of their inheritance – ezek 44:28 I want My people to possess Me. I am desperately hungry that I would have My inheritance in My people – eph 3 |
A BOOK WITH YOUR NAME IN IT In Ohio, there were tremendous signs and wonders in the meetings. One night the worship leader was caught up in the Spirit of God for hours. After the meeting I returned home to Texas. A few weeks later the pastor of the church called, "Sit down, I want to tell you something." He told me that the worship leader's nephew had died and she went immediately to the hospital. When she saw the dead body, she said, "Lord, I am asking you to manifest the same Glory that you recently imparted to me. Send that same Glory into this hospital ward." Suddenly the cloud came in and the manifested presence of God came in the room. When it appeared, he came back to life. Hallelujah! It is documented. If we can stop feeling sorry for ourselves and get into His presence, God can move. In old Pentecost we said, "Only believe." Today I just say, "Get into His presence." When you get there you will find Him waiting. In His presence you will find everything you are ever going to need. Once when I went into the Throne Room it was as if the throne had divided into two separate pieces. I could see Jesus, but I could not see God, the Father. When a man is in the realm of the Spirit, communication is not with speech. Your questions are answered in His non verbalized thoughts. When you are thinking, it often seems like a dream. Before you think it, it is known. No place terrified me as much as the Throne Room. I understand why many people never make it to this room. In the outer court is where we all meet but it is time for you to have an audience with the King. We know the courtyards but when you know the Throne, you are different. Your ability to perceive and conceive is changed. Because you are out of the body in the realm of the Spirit, there is nothing you can't see as you stand before His Throne. I could see the Holy Spirit. I could see Jesus. The Father's face was not seen. It may be difficult for some of you to comprehend that it is possible to enter His realm upon invitation. He commands us to enter into Him. As we do, we enter into another dimension which is not ruled by the dynamics of time. It is simply put—Now. I have seen the times and seasons as God has laid them out for all mankind. While I have witnessed these times and seasons and they say, "This is the time period for this, or this is the time period for that." I have seen the great library in the Heavens. There are books regarding signs and wonders that have never been opened, while there are many which are even now being opened. As in all things in the ownership of God, there were more than man could count. I truly think one of the more wonderful revelations for the believer about the Library of Heaven is that there is a book which has your name on it, as well as one with my name on it. It holds the destiny God has laid out for each one of us before the foundation of the earth was laid. Unlocking this book requires our will. We must accept the destiny written inside the book. To ignore, or show disregard for the written plan of God for us is to keep the book closed on the blessing He has in store for each one of us. He wants to give to you this book. Are you willing to receive it? Will you break through the mental blocks and receive your renewed mind? The Word will change you forever. Be not conformed. Be transformed. Right now, pray this prayer aloud to the Lord, and watch the weight of heaviness lift from you. "Father, in the name of Jesus I ask you to cleanse my mind by the washing of the water of the Word. Cleanse me from idle thoughts and open my mind to receive the perfect will of God. Prepare my heart and mind so that I might enter into the perfected plan you have for my life. Let me walk in your ways and think your thoughts. In Jesus name I pray. Amen." (Jenny Mclead) |
GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THE LORD JESUS Pray to be FILLED WITH JESUS and you will also receive the gifts of the Spirit. Pray to be more like Me. Don't beg for the gifts of the Spirit, pray to be more like Me. The gifts of the Spirit will operate in your life, if you are full of Jesus. If you will preach the message of deliverance, I will heal the sick. I will give you the Power to cast out devils. My angels will go with you into the world, into all portions of the world, to gather the fish ( men). I will make you a fisher of men, and angels will help you; they will protect you, and keep the evil one from you; they would help you win the souls of men for My Kingdom. I have called you to a separated life, you must spend many hours fasting, praying, meditating, and staying before the Lord. Fear not. I am sent from the Presence of Almighty God to tell you that …. God has sent you to take a gift of divine healing to the peoples of the world. If you will be sincere, and can get the people to believe, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even cancer. Son, realize this. Think this way, a twice born again man whipped Satan in his domain. A born again man defeated Satan. You are the very copy and image of that One. If you had the knowledge of the Word of God that I did, you could have done the same thing. Because you will reap on man too. The same power that the Spirit used in raising Me from the dead, I use to raise you from your death and trespasses and sin. I had to have that copy of that pattern to establish judgment on Satan so that I can recreate a child and a family and a whole new race of mankind and you are in My likeness. 60 I read from the book of Isaiah that the Spirit of the Lord was upon Me because He had anointed Me to do all those things among them (lk4:18-20; isa61:1-3) then when I finished reading, I closed the book and taught the people, saying, ‘’this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears’’. I didn’t preach that just in Nazareth. Everywhere I went, that was the first sermon I preached. Wherever I went, the first thing I did was tell the people, ‘’this scripture is fulfilled in your ears. I’m anointed.’’ Those who believed what I told them would receive healing, and those who didn’t believe it didn’t receive healing. Pray more. There are better things to be had in spiritual life, but they must be sought out with faith and prayer. I am the same yesterday, today and forever. All the healing power that was in Me when I walked this earth is still in Me. My love for humanity is still as deep as ever. I Am as willing to save a sick body as a sick soul. I Am just as ready to heal diseases now as I was when on earth – healings of the human body is expressly promised in scripture, in answer to the prayer of faith, and nowhere was it taken back. If it were told to some what their role is to be in this move of God (that is coming on earth), they would not be able at the moment to accept it. But this My move won’t come all at once in a way that overwhelms the people. It will come a little here and a little there and a little here and a little there. And when finally My Spirit moves with a mighty force, those who have a role in My plan will be prepared to obey what God has called them to do in the move of My Spirit. And so, walk by faith. Walk you in the light of the word. And examine the word daily to see if these things are so. And listen to what My Spirit says to your spirit. Yea, respond & be willing to follow the Spirit that resides in your spirit. Be willing to let the Holy Spirit move & have his way in your services & in your church. Don’t be afraid of fanaticism; don’t be afraid of excess. Familiarize yourself with the word & with the Holy Spirit. Encourage & invite the Holy Spirit to manifest himself, & he will. My glory shall rest upon My saints. Yea, the cloud of glory shall envelop many. And the eyes of many in the congregation will be open & they will see into the realm of the spirit. Many of those in the congregation will say, ‘’I saw a cloud hanging over the minister’s head as he preached.’’ others will say, ‘’the preacher stood in that cloud as he ministered.’’ and others will say, ‘’ I saw Jesus standing beside him!’’ For this is the day of the miraculous. Man & miracles go hand in hand. Man & miracles are God’s plan. The father has made the plan & set his power in motion. So rise up, man! Claim your miracle! Rise up, woman! Claim your miracle! Yea, receive your miracle, for the miracle-working God is at hand. |
SPIRITUAL DWARF VS SPIRITUAL GIANT I remember the last church I pastored. There was a woman in our church who was facing major surgery. I knew, of course, that God's best for her and His perfect will for her was that she be healed by the power of God and not have to undergo the surgery. So I kept talking to her about healing, and I read God's Word to her, trying to raise her level of faith to where mine was and to where God wanted her to be. But I saw over a period of time that I just wasn't making any headway. So one day I said to her, "Now I've done my best to get you to agree with me. You know the Bible says, 'If two of you on earth shall agree as touching anything they ask, it shall be done' [Matt. 18:19]. However, that also means if they don't agree, it won't be done." You see, you're not going to get somebody healed when you believe they receive their healing, and they believe they don't receive it. There's no agreement there! A lot of times people have thought, If somebody else has enough faith, he can believe God, and I'll just get healed whether I believe or whether I don't. Well, then, why didn't Jesus go ahead and get everyone healed on His own faith in Nazareth! MARK 6:5 5 And he could there do no mighty work [it didn't say He wouldn't; it said He couldn't], save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. How come Jesus only got a few sick folk healed in Nazareth? Why didn't He just go ahead and believe God for all of them? Wasn't He a man of faith? Certainly He was. Let's read the next verse. MARK 6:6 6 And he marvelled BECAUSE OF THEIR UNBELIEF. ... If Jesus' faith couldn't override those people's unbelief, you needn't think you're going to do something Jesus couldn't do! You won't be able to get everyone healed on your faith either! So I endeavored to get this woman to the place of faith where she could receive her healing. But I saw I just wasn't making it. So I said to her, "Sister, I've tried to get you to come up on my level of faith where we could agree together, and I see I'm just not making it. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll just come down on your level of faith. "Now, then, what can you believe?" I asked her. "I'll just believe with you where you can believe." "Well," the woman responded, "I can believe that God will see me safely through this operation." Now don't misunderstand me. That wasn't God's best for this woman. But right on the other hand, if you need to be operated on, if you'll believe that God will see you safely through an operation, the Bible says, ". . . ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH be it unto you" (Matt. 9:29). It's not that this woman just couldn't believe for her healing. She was a believer, so she could have believed. But she wouldn't and didn't believe she could receive the healing that actually belonged to her in Christ. She didn't believe she would not need to have the operation. I said to this woman, "I'll just agree with you then that God will see you safely through the operation." So I laid my hand on her head and said to her, "Now you listen to me pray, and see if you can agree with this prayer. And if we agree, it'll be done." And so I prayed: "Heavenly Father, I know You provided healing for us — for this sister — but she has not yet come to that level of faith to accept it. So I'll come down on her level of faith. You're not going to forsake her, Lord. She's Your child. I'll agree with her that You'll just guide the physician's hands and that You'll bring her safely through this operation. I agree that You'll cause her to respond so quickly, beyond what nature could do, so that even the doctors themselves will admit it's a miracle. In Jesus' Name, amen." Then I said, "Do you agree with that?" "Yes," she said, "I agree with that." I said, "All right, we've found something we can agree on then." I think Christians ought to agree like that more often. We ought to find things we can agree on, instead of finding things we disagree on! (And if we do disagree, we ought to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.) Also, we ought to help people regardless of where they are in their faith walk. This woman couldn't agree on my level of faith, so I came down and agreed on her level of faith. So the woman had the operation. I was at the hospital when she was operated on. They put her to sleep at about 7:30 in the morning and performed the operation. (those days operation was not like our modern operation) One of the doctors said to me, "We made a little longer incision than we would ordinarily make, because we wanted to do a little more exploratory surgery while we were performing the operation." So by twelve o'clock noon, she was out from under the anesthesia, and she was fully conscious. That night at about eight o'clock, my wife and I were visiting the woman again when the doctor came in. A nurse was with him, and he had this woman's medical chart in his hands. He hadn't seen the woman since her operation early that morning. He said to her, "I see on the chart that you haven't had any medication for pain. Aren't you hurting?" "No," she answered. "Have you got any pain?" the doctor asked her. "No." "Aw," he said, "I know you're bound to be hurting after having your stomach cut wide open." "Well," she said, "I don't. I don't have one pain; I don't hurt at all." "Well," he said, "I'm going to mark on your chart for them to give you a shot anyway." They gave her one shot, and that's all they ever gave her. She never had another shot for pain. About two or three days later, that same doctor said to me, "I've never seen anything like that in my life. We operate on people who come here from all over the United States. We perform three to ten of these operations every single day, and we've done that for years. "If some other doctor had told me that this woman experienced no pain after this kind of operation, I wouldn't have believed it. If I hadn't seen it myself with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it. I've never seen anybody in my lifetime come through this kind of operation so quickly and do so well. It's nothing short of miraculous." We got what we believed for! It really wasn't the best that God had for this woman. But that was the measure she had grown to, so I just agreed with her. And what we agreed on happened). Afterward, I saw that same woman begin to develop in faith after she had used her faith down on that lower level. And I saw her develop in faith until her faith grew to the point that if she ever faced the same kind of major surgery again, she would have been able to receive her healing instead. She wouldn't have had the operation. Actually, I would say she developed her faith until she outstripped everyone else in the church in the area of faith. Her faith was developed beyond all of them. Now just a couple of years before, it wasn't. But she started using her faith. I got this woman to begin using her faith where she was, and she saw that God worked a miracle in her life in that operation. It wasn't His best for her, but, after all, it was a miracle. She never did need a shot for pain after being cut wide open. She didn't even need the one they gave her! And that's what we agreed on — that she would come out of the operation miraculously. So she began to see that faith does work. And she began to use her faith in other areas until within a two-year period, she developed in faith beyond any other member of the church. She developed her measure of the mountain-moving faith. But this woman could have taken the wrong attitude. She could have said, "Well, I couldn't believe God for healing. I tried it and it didn't work." And she could have just given up on the whole thing and never grown anymore spiritually. She would have still been a spiritual dwarf, or a spiritual baby, not able to help herself or anybody else. It makes all the difference in the world the attitude we take wherever we are in life. So keep a positive attitude, and keep the switch of faith turned on, praise God! Keep believing God and exercising your faith where you are in your faith walk. Your measure of faith can grow and move mountains! (Kenneth Hagin) |
FEED YOUR INNER MAN B4 YOUR OUTER MAN George Mueller, founder of an orphanage in Bristol, England, years ago, was a man of faith. The orphanage he founded was just strictly a faith project. He didn't have any church because he wasn't pastoring, so he couldn't take up any offerings to help support these orphan children. Eventually, Rev. Mueller wound up with as many as 2,500 orphans in his home for children. He was solely responsible to believe God for the food and clothing to feed and clothe 2,500 children! Also, he had to believe God for the money to build the buildings to house 2,500 children, plus the money to pay the attendants' salaries and for the upkeep of the orphanage property. Rev. Mueller didn't have a mailing list to let people know what he was doing so he could ask for their help. And there were no radios in those days. He had no way to publish information about his orphanage in order to solicit prayers and financial support. Of course, the news about what he was doing would get out by word of mouth. But Rev. Mueller simply had to believe God for the money to run his orphanage. And in his lifetime, he prayed in $7,500,000. That doesn't sound too big in these days of inflation, but that was a lot of money in those days. That would probably be like $30 or $35 million today. When he was ninety-three years old, Mueller wrote these words in his journal: "When I first started praying and believing God [in other words, exercising or using his measure of faith], it took all the faith I had to believe God for one American dollar. But after feeding and exercising my faith daily for fifty years, I could believe God for one million dollars just as easily as I could for only one dollar fifty years before." Rev. Mueller said, "I always begin the day by feeding on God's Word, not just reading it." Before he ever ate breakfast — before he ever fed his body — he fed his spirit man on God's Word. Smith Wigglesworth, another English preacher, was also a man of great faith. He always carried his Bible or his New Testament with him. He said, "I never considered myself thoroughly dressed unless I had my Bible or my Testament in my pocket." He would have just as soon gone out without his shoes on as to be without his Bible. As a traveling minister in his day, Wigglesworth stayed in a lot of people's homes as he traveled all over the world. And many people have said that after every meal, even if he was in a restaurant or a cafe, Wigglesworth would always push back from the table, get out his Testament and say, "Well, we've fed the body; now let's feed the inward man." And he'd start reading, and he'd read something about faith and usually wind up giving a little faith message. F. F. Bosworth said, "Most Christians feed their bodies three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week. And they wonder why they're so weak in faith." Well, if you just ate one cold snack a week physically, you'd grow weak physically! The same is true spiritually. God's Word is faith food! You see, a lot of times people are praying, "Oh God, give me faith," but they're paying no attention at all to the means He's put in their hands to produce faith — the Bible. Well, God can't answer that prayer, because in a sense, He's already answered it. He's already told you in His Word how faith comes: ". . . by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Rom. 10:17). (Kenneth Hagin) |
A WORD FROM THE LORD JESUS III OLD TESTAMENT VS NEW TESTAMENT ON HEALING Under the Old Covenant, I said to Israel, "Walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, do that which is right in My sight, and I'll take sickness away from the midst of you, and the number of your days, you will fulfill.'’ "Paraphrasing that in New Testament language, I said, 'A new commandment I give you that you love one another. By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, because you have love one toward another'" (John 13:34,35). EXODUS 23:25,26 'Tell Satan, "Satan, I'm walking in love now. Take your hands off of my child (etc).'"" If you don't keep My commandments, these things are going to come upon you. However, it's not My will that they come upon you. If you'll walk in My statutes, none of these things will happen to you. I'll judge My people more quickly on spiritual sins (hidden motives and attitudes) than I will on physical sins. I did not put prophets in the Church to guide the New Testament Church. My Word says, 'As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.' Now if you will listen to Me, I am going to teach you how to follow My Spirit. Then I want you to teach My people how to be led by the Spirit. You have all I am going to give you. You don't need any supernatural sign. You don't need any supernatural writing in the sky. You know on the inside of you what to do. Now do it." CARNAL CHRISTIANS IN CORINTHIAN CHURCH If it had been you and some preachers you know writing to those people (carnal Corinthian Christians), you would have said, 'You backslidden buzzards need to pray through and get right with God’ But Paul didn't call them buzzards. Paul didn't call them backslidden. He did call them carnal, and he did call them babes. When a baby cries, hitting him over the head isn't going to make him grow. Feeding him (will). Putting something into him, not taking something out of him, makes him grow. Don't take anything out of them. Put something into them. Spiritual growth is like natural growth in a sense. Paul didn't just take out of these people. He corrected them gently all right, and showed them where they were missing it. But he didn't take everything away from them. He bragged about what they did have. And showed them there was more out there—encouraging them, 'Go to it! Get after it! It's yours!' Don't beat Christians over the head, Don't beat anyone over the head. Feed them. Find somewhere you can hook on with them. Don't fight other churches and other believers. "Don't take anything away from anybody, Give them something. Put something into them. When you repeat the words of criticism somebody else used in crticising another person, that is tantamount to you saying it. ‘’Who art thou that condemneth another man's servant?" Whose servant is he, Mine or yours? Well, if he is My servant, then I'm able to make him stand. Do you know what pressure he or she was under? Do you know the circumstances that surrounded the situation? If you'd been in the same position, you might not have done as well as some of them did. 62 What do you care? You were number one with me. You are number one with me. If I called you to put a coat on a man, it’s because I needed the job done. You are number one with Me because you are doing your job. If the person you are helping wins 2000 people at a particular night, it’s just the same as if you won them, because you are doing the job that I told you to do. Whether there is a little woman praying for the service that don’t even know where the service is been held, I’ve got it down in My book that she’s won 2000 peoples tonight. If I tell you to put that coat on a man, and you go out there and preach and you win 2000 souls, you ain’t going to get credit for any of them. No leaders - no revival. When the new apostles arise, revival will begin. I have used many swords in years past; and some were made of polluted metals. I used them because they were the only weapons available to Me. But for this last Great Revival, I must have swords of the purest metals which have been through the hottest fires so that they will not break in My Hand... There is going to be a major reemphasis on Bible teaching and there is going to be a great woman evangelist who will come to the West Coast. (That was fulfilled in Kathryn kuhlman. How about you? Claim it) I would be more pleased if you would live a fasted life. Never eat all you want. Keep your appetite under. That's all a fast is going to do anyway, keep the body under. You don't know how that delights My heart. No earthly father ever desired the companionship and the fellowship of his children any more than I, Your Heavenly Father, desire the fellowship and companionship of My children. You know, I made man so I'd have someone to fellowship with. I made man for My companion. In fact, I'll put it this way, I made man so I'd have someone to pal with. I put Adam on the earth in the garden, and in the cool of the day, I'd go down and walk and talk with him. |
DOMINION OVER TIME Mr. Harold Hill, the presumed President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland and a consultant in the space program related the following development. The astronauts and space scientists at Greenbelt, Maryland were checking the position of the sun, moon, and planets out in space where they would be 100 years, and 1,000 years from now. "We have to know so we won't send a satellite up and have it bump into something later on in its orbits. We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite, and where the planets will be so the whole thing will not bog down," they exclaimed. They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong, either with the information fed into it or with the results as compared to the standards. They called in the service department to check it out and they asked, "What's wrong?" Well, they found there is a day missing in space in elapsed time. They scratched their heads and tore their hair. There was no answer. Finally, a Christian man on the team said, "You know, one time I was in Sunday school and they talked about the sun standing still," While they didn't believe him, they didn't have an answer either, so they said, "Show us." He got a Bible and went back to the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for anyone with "common sense." There they found the Lord saying to Joshua, "Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand, there shall not a man of them stand before Thee." Joshua was concerned because the enemy surrounded him, and if darkness fell they would overpower them. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! That's right! "And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day." Joshua 10:13 (KJV) The astronauts and scientists said, "There is the missing day!" They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it was close but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes—not a whole day. They read the Bible and there it was, "about (approximately) a day." These little words in the Bible are important, but they were still in trouble because if you can't account for forty minutes, you'll still be in trouble 1,000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits. As the Christian employee thought about it, he remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went backwards. The scientists told him he was out of his mind, but they got out the book and read these words in 2 Kings that told of the following story: Hezekiah, on his deathbed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said, "Do you want the sun to go ahead ten degrees?" Hezekiah said, "It is nothing for the sun to go ahead ten degrees, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. "Isaiah spoke to the Lord and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees backward! 2 Kings 20:9-11 (NKJV) Ten degrees is exactly forty minutes! Twenty-three hours and twenty minutes in Joshua, plus forty minutes in 2 Kings, make the missing day in the universe!" Isn't it amazing? (References: Joshua 10:8,12-13 and 2 Kings 20:9-11) Since time falls into the category of creation, it is no wonder that the earth stood still for twenty-four hours in biblical history at the command of Joshua. Therefore man has the ability to subdue all of creation, including time. Time was given to the Sons of Men. We are the Sons of God, born from another system where there is no time. God has put Eternity in our hearts. Eternity is the Glory Realm. We have to learn to operate from where we came, not from where we live presently in this fallen time zone. Faith was given to us by God to break the time warp where we become trapped. Unlike time, the eternal has always been, and was never created. This Glory realm is our birthplace, and for those who are born from above by accepting the shed blood of Christ Jesus, it is our future home. However, time was created on the fourth day; it did not always exist. Through this created fourth-day light we have been given dominion, as contained in our original lease over this planet, which was given to Adam. For us to receive our miracle—or to administer miracles in this earth—we need to understand our dominion over time. All those who operate in miracle ministries have learned how to subdue time and enforce the unseen world upon the seen world. No one moves consistently in the supernatural realm without understanding how to supersede time. If we don't learn how to supersede time, we're going to have to work with it, and feel its obvious constraints. We need to know there is nothing that God is going to do that He has not already done. The secret is we have to learn how to reach up into that world and bring it into the here and now. (Jenny Mclead) |
DOMINION OVER TIME Mr. Harold Hill, the presumed President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland and a consultant in the space program related the following development. The astronauts and space scientists at Greenbelt, Maryland were checking the position of the sun, moon, and planets out in space where they would be 100 years, and 1,000 years from now. "We have to know so we won't send a satellite up and have it bump into something later on in its orbits. We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite, and where the planets will be so the whole thing will not bog down," they exclaimed. They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong, either with the information fed into it or with the results as compared to the standards. They called in the service department to check it out and they asked, "What's wrong?" Well, they found there is a day missing in space in elapsed time. They scratched their heads and tore their hair. There was no answer. Finally, a Christian man on the team said, "You know, one time I was in Sunday school and they talked about the sun standing still," While they didn't believe him, they didn't have an answer either, so they said, "Show us." He got a Bible and went back to the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for anyone with "common sense." There they found the Lord saying to Joshua, "Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand, there shall not a man of them stand before Thee." Joshua was concerned because the enemy surrounded him, and if darkness fell they would overpower them. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! That's right! "And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day." Joshua 10:13 (KJV) The astronauts and scientists said, "There is the missing day!" They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it was close but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes—not a whole day. They read the Bible and there it was, "about (approximately) a day." These little words in the Bible are important, but they were still in trouble because if you can't account for forty minutes, you'll still be in trouble 1,000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits. As the Christian employee thought about it, he remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went backwards. The scientists told him he was out of his mind, but they got out the book and read these words in 2 Kings that told of the following story: Hezekiah, on his deathbed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said, "Do you want the sun to go ahead ten degrees?" Hezekiah said, "It is nothing for the sun to go ahead ten degrees, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. "Isaiah spoke to the Lord and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees backward! 2 Kings 20:9-11 (NKJV) Ten degrees is exactly forty minutes! Twenty-three hours and twenty minutes in Joshua, plus forty minutes in 2 Kings, make the missing day in the universe!" Isn't it amazing? (References: Joshua 10:8,12-13 and 2 Kings 20:9-11) Since time falls into the category of creation, it is no wonder that the earth stood still for twenty-four hours in biblical history at the command of Joshua. Therefore man has the ability to subdue all of creation, including time. Time was given to the Sons of Men. We are the Sons of God, born from another system where there is no time. God has put Eternity in our hearts. Eternity is the Glory Realm. We have to learn to operate from where we came, not from where we live presently in this fallen time zone. Faith was given to us by God to break the time warp where we become trapped. Unlike time, the eternal has always been, and was never created. This Glory realm is our birthplace, and for those who are born from above by accepting the shed blood of Christ Jesus, it is our future home. However, time was created on the fourth day; it did not always exist. Through this created fourth-day light we have been given dominion, as contained in our original lease over this planet, which was given to Adam. For us to receive our miracle—or to administer miracles in this earth—we need to understand our dominion over time. All those who operate in miracle ministries have learned how to subdue time and enforce the unseen world upon the seen world. No one moves consistently in the supernatural realm without understanding how to supersede time. If we don't learn how to supersede time, we're going to have to work with it, and feel its obvious constraints. We need to know there is nothing that God is going to do that He has not already done. The secret is we have to learn how to reach up into that world and bring it into the here and now. (Jenny Mclead) |
ANOTHER WORD FROM THE LORD JESUS INWARD WITNESS The prophet of the New Testament is very similar to the prophet of the Old Testament in that the prophet of the Old Testament was called a 'seer' because he saw and knew things supernaturally. The prophet of the New Testament also sees and knows things supernaturally. But the prophet of the New Testament does not have the same status as the prophet of the Old Testament, in that I did not set prophets in the Church to guide the Church. A Christian under the New Testament need not seek guidance through prophets. He might receive guidance through prophets, but he should not seek it. It is unscriptural to do so. The ministry of the New Testament prophet in this area is only to confirm what people already have in their own spirits. "Under the Old Covenant, only the priest, the prophet, and the king were anointed by the Holy Spirit to stand in those offices. What you would call the laity did not have the Spirit of God upon them or in them. Therefore, under the Old Covenant, people would seek guidance through the prophet because he had the Spirit of God. Under the New Covenant, it does not say, 'As many as are led by prophets, they are the sons of God.' The New Testament says, 'For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God'" (Rom. 8:14). The number one way, the primary way, that I lead all of My children is by the inward witness. I am going to show you how that works so you won't make the mistakes you have made in the past." To stand in the office of the prophet, one is first of all a minister of the gospel separated and called to the ministry with the call of God upon his life. Secondly, he has at least two of the revelation gifts—the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, the discerning of spirits—plus the gift of prophecy, operating in his ministry. From now on, I'm going to lead you by the inward witness. You had the inward witness all the time If you will learn to follow that inward witness, I will make you rich. I will guide you in all the affairs of life, financial as well as spiritual. I am not opposed to My children being rich; I am opposed to their being covetous. If the prophecy (prophesied to you) confirms what you already have, accept it. If it does not, don't accept it. ANGELS 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. 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? FASTING AND MEDITATION I would rather you would live a fasted life instead of having days and periods of fasting. Instead of having certain days you fast and then going back and eating all you want, just live a fasted life. Fasting does not change Me anyhow. I Am the same before you fast, while you fast, and when you get through fasting. It does not change My Word. It helps you keep your flesh under. So just don't ever eat all you want. Just keep your flesh under all the time. Don't spend all that time in the afternoon praying and wearing yourself out before the night service. Lie on the bed and meditate. Consider not your own body. Consider Him who is the Author and Finisher of your faith, your High Priest. OFFERING It is unscriptural not to receive offering. You just don’t know what is behind it yet. You stay in My word and I will teach you and train you on what it is about. Don’t you ever put pressure on people to give anything in an offering, never! Don’t ever receive offering to meet your personal needs. Religion has made many of My people devastating and deplorable. I have called you and I have NOW anointed you to do something about this. Do you think that I can’t take you over right where you are now into my perfect will? Why don’t you quit struggling, trying to get over here yourself? Let me lead you back over there. I called you into my will. Simply pray, ‘Lord, your will be done in my life’’ I will be your navigator. Relax! If you will do that, repent and forget all, for not finding out about this, then I will accept it as though you never made a mistake. I will account it as though you were in My perfect will and I will maneuver you right back into to your destination. If you walk in obedience, you will experience days of heaven on earth. There are no imperfections in (heaven) this place. Everything that was lost by the first Adam was restored by the second Adam. |
ALL JESUS WANTS IS ALL OF YOU Many of the great forefathers of the apostolic ministries learned how to court the Holy Spirit. A friend of mine was telling me about the first time he ever encountered Kathryn Kuhlman. He had been ushered into her backstage room before one of her meetings. When he walked in the room he saw Kathryn with her face turned away from him. She was crying and worshiping the Lord. The words that came out of her mouth struck my friend so hard he had to kneel down in the room as he was aware something very sacred was happening. Then he heard Kathryn Kuhlman whisper to the Lord, "Oh Father, will you trust me one more time?" I wonder if we truly know how much more we would have if we had the full trust of God in our lives. After a few moments, Sister Kuhlman turned and looked at my friend and told him, "Honey, all He wants is all of you." At that point my friend was overcome by the power of God. All he remembers is that some time later, he awoke and made his way into the huge auditorium where the service was already in progress. The platform is not the only setting for the acts of God to be played out on. That moment in time changed my friend's life. To this day he still speaks of those words he heard her say, "Oh Father, will you trust me one more time?" May I be so bold as to ask you the question, "Can God trust you?" The more you obey His commands, the more you show how much you love Him, the more you show you are in Him and He is in you. The more you're with Him, the more your heart and His heart are in tune and you are like Him. The more you are like Him, the more His trust is in you. There are requirements to the process of achieving an intimacy with Him. Have you presented your body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to Him? Have you denied yourself and taken up your cross to follow Him? Have you yielded your mind, will, and emotions to His mind? The life you live now is in Him. Outside of Him, you are not truly alive. If you are sitting here reading this wondering why you do not have a more powerful ministry, a larger congregation, or a larger bank account, you might consider the trust factor He has in you. Consider the previous paragraph as well as the following comments. In the Middle East, the shepherds learns how to care for the flock from their early days as a child. The son of a shepherd is not given the responsibility of an entire herd for his first mission. The first part of his training is when the Father begins to train the son. He does not give this responsibility to any of the other shepherds. He takes the responsibility for his son on his own shoulders. He is given one lamb to care for. He must learn how to nurture that lamb to full maturity. After he has mastered the knowledge of the lamb, he is given another, then another, until soon he has an entire flock to care for. It is all a matter of trust. The Father has to see if the son is able to be trusted with the lamb. What a wonderful day it must have been in the camp when the Father announces to all the family, and other shepherds, that his son is now a man who they could trust with their flocks. We may have faith in God, and even trust Him. But, can He say the same thing about us? (Jenny Mclead) |
A BLESSING OF HEALING 4U FROM OLD TO NEW TESTAMENT I am the Lord that heals you. Your days shall be 120yrs. You will be buried in a good old age. You will come to your grave in a full age like a shark that comes to its season. When I see the blood, I will pass over you and the plague will not be on you to destroy you. I will take sickness away from the midst of you and the number of your days I will fulfill. I will not put any of the diseases you are afraid of on you, but I will take all away from you. It will be well with you and your days will be multiplied and prolonged as the days of heaven on the earth. I turned the curse into a blessing for you because I love you. I’ve redeemed you from every sickness and every plague. As your days, so shall your strength be. I’ve found a ransom for you, your flesh shall be fresher than that of a child that returned to the days of her youth. I’ve healed you and brought up your soul from the grave. I’ve kept you alive from going down to the pit. I’ll give you strength and bless you with peace. I will preserve you and keep you alive. I will strengthen you on the bed of languishing. I will turn all your bed in your sickness. I am the health of your countenance and your God. No plague will come near your dwelling. I will satisfy you with long life. I heal all your diseases. I sent my word and healed you and delivered you from your destruction. You will not die but live and declare my works. I heal your broken hearts and bind up your wounds. The years of your life will be many. Trusting me brings heath to your navel and marrow to your bones. My words are life to you and health and medicine to all your flesh. My good report makes your bones fat. My pleasant words are food to your soul and health to your bones. My joy is your strength. A merry heart does good like medicine. The eyes of the blind will be opened. The eyes of him that see shall not be deemed. The ears of the deaf will be unstopped. The ears of him that hear shall hearken. The tongue of the dumb will sing. The tongue of the stammerer shall be ready to speak plainly. The lame man leap as a hart. I will recover you and make you live, I am ready to save you. I give power to the faint. I increased strength to them that have no might. I will renew your strength. I will strengthen and help you, to your old age and grey hair, I will carry you and I will deliver you. I bore your sicknesses. I carried your pains. I was put to sickness for you. With my stripes you were healed. I will heal you. Your light will break forth as the morning. Your health will spring forth speedily. I will restore health to you. I will heal you of your wound. Behold I will bring it health and cure. I will cure you and reveal to you the abundance of peace and truth. I will bind up that which is broken, I will strengthen that which is sick. I will cause breath to enter into you and you shall live. I will put my Spirit in you and you shall live. Wherever the rivers will come shall live, they will be healed and everything shall live. Seek me and you shall live. I have arisen with healing in my wings. I will, be thou clean! I took your infirmities. I bored your sicknesses. If you are sick, you need a physician, I am the Lord your Physician. I’m moved with compassion towards the sick and I heal them I heal all manner of sicknesses and all manner of diseases. According to your faith, be it unto you. I give you power and authority over all unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. I heal them all. As many as touched me, I will make perfectly whole. Healing is the children’s bread. I do all things well. I make the deaf to hear, the dumb to speak. If you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes. When hands are laid on you, you shall recover. My anointing heals the broken hearted, delivers the captives, recovers sight to the blind and set at liberty those that are bruised. I heal all those who have need of healing. I’m not come to destroy men lives, but to save them. Behold I give you authority over all the enemy’s power and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Sickness is satanic bondage and you ought to be loosed today. In me is life. I am the Bread of Life. I give you life. The words I speak to you are spirit and life. I’m come that you might have life and that you have it more abundantly. I am the Resurrection and the Life. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. Faith in my name makes you strong and gives you perfect soundness. I stretch forth my hand to heal. I Jesus Christ makes you whole. I do good and heal all that are oppressed of the devil. My power causes diseases to depart from you. The law of the spirit of life in me has made you free from the law of sin and death. The same Spirit that raised me from the death now lives in you and that spirit will quicken your mortal body. Your body is a member of me. Your body is the temple of my Spirit and you will glorify me in your body. If you will rightly discern my body which is broken for you, and judge yourself, you will not be judged and you will not be weak and sickly or die prematurely. I have set gifts of healing in my body. My life may be made manifest in your mortal flesh. I have delivered you from death. I do deliver you and if you trust me, I will yet deliver you. I have given you my name and put all things under your feet. I want it to be well with you. I want you to live long on the earth. I have delivered you from the authority of darkness. I will deliver you from every evil work. I tasted death for you. I destroyed the devil for you who had the power of death. I delivered you from the fear of death and bondage. I wash your body with pure water. Lift up the weak hand and the feeble knee. Don’t let that which is lamed be turned aside, but rather let it be healed. Let the elders anoint you and pray for you in my name and I will raise you up. Pray for one another I will heal you. By my stripes you were healed. My divine power have given to you all things that pertains to life and godliness through the knowledge of me. Whoever will let him come and take of the water of life freely. Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health even as your soul prosper |
STOP CRITICISING & ENJOY GOOD HEALTH I had another experience along this same line. My wife and I held a meeting down in east Texas in a Full Gospel church. We were going from that meeting to a convention that our denomination was holding. One of the ministers in that part of the state had gotten into some difficulty, and he had to leave the church. I asked someone, "What did he do?" And the person told me what the minister had done. Well, without thinking, I just said, "It looks to me like anybody with any sense would know better than to do that." I never thought anything else about it. My wife and I closed that meeting, and we went on our way to the convention. Now ordinarily I walk in divine health; I just feel good all the time. But during this convention, I just wasn't up to par physically, and I couldn't sleep at night. Normally by the time my head hits the pillow, I'm asleep. I made all the right faith confessions, and I believed I received my healing, but I still didn't feel good physically. On the third night of the convention, I still couldn't sleep. I said, "Lord, if I'm feeling like this tomorrow, I won't be able to go to the meetings. My body is about to give out." I got out of bed and got on my knees and started praying. I remembered something Dr. Lilian B. Yeomans said. She was a medical doctor who at one time had become addicted to drugs. She became sick and really just went down to death's door. But then she got saved and God raised her up from a deathbed. She then spent the rest of her life preaching about divine healing. Dr. Yeomans said, "If I pray and don't get results, I start changing. Why? Because there will have to be a change somewhere before the answer can come, and the change won't be with God, because God never changes." I remembered reading this statement by Dr. Yeomans, so I started changing. I'd been making all the right biblical confessions and saying all the right things, but I still hadn't improved. Finally, I said to the Lord, "Lord, what is wrong with me? I haven't made my faith connection with You. The Lord spoke to me and said, "DIDN'T YOU SAY SO AND SO ABOUT BROTHER_______," and the Lord called this pastor's name. I said, "Lord, all I said was 'It looks like anybody with any sense would have known better than to do that.'" The Lord asked me a question. He said, "DO YOU KNOW WHAT PRESSURE HE WAS UNDER?" I said, "No." The Lord asked me, "DO YOU KNOW THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT SURROUNDED THIS SITUATION?" I said, "No." The Lord said to me, "IF YOU'D BEEN IN THE SAME POSITION, YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE DONE AS WELL AS HE DID." With tears, I said, "Oh, God, forgive me. My God, please forgive me. I repent." Do you know that as soon as I repented, I was instantly well. It didn't take me time to get healed—I was instantly made whole! I got into bed and slept soundly for the first time in several nights. You see, there's a principle here. We can't criticize and judge the other fellow because we don't know the circumstances and the pressures that the person may have been under that caused him to act as he did. We don't know what made him do what he did—only the Lord knows. It's situations like this that taught me to keep my mouth shut about criticizing the Lord's servants. (Kenneth E. H) |
A WORD FROM THE LORD JESUS (II) In one of our meetings the Glory of the Lord fell so mightily and the prophetic word came forth as follows: "For the atmosphere will change, says the Lord, and people will see Me in unusual ways. For it will come to pass, I will move through the prophetic voice with a sign and a wonder. It will shake the Heavens where they speak, it will shake the politicians. It will bring many of them to their knees. There will be many midnight conferences where the prophets will declare the Word with such accuracy that some will attempt to destroy the prophets because of their visions. And it will be a shaking like you have never witnessed. In that day, the voice of the prophets will rise above any other voice. The prophets will not speak counsel only; they will speak correction, rebuke and judgments. The fear of the Lord will befall on many kings. And these kings, because of the fear of the Lord, will cry out with a loud voice for the Word of the Lord. The Word of the Lord will become rare as cabinet members attempt to bring reason. The Word of the Lord, which came to the kings through prophetic utterances, will cause words of reasoning to fall to the ground. For it shall be, says the Lord, as I say, I will do. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken this." – (Renny Mclead) The current is changing. Look at the Heavens and hear My voice. The way it is changing is that no person will be a reference point. It will only be Me. Ask My servants how they can claim to be coming before Me and deny the River. Watch! The waves are changing. I am going to visit earth and manifest signs like they have never seen before. I am consummating the waves. I am consummating the mantles that this father had into a new thing. It will not be the same but a different stream. It is not so much a change of the guard, but it is much more like the changing of the waves. As one flows out, the other flows in. In this case there will be a difference in the size and power of the waves. There will be waves there that have never seen on earth before. The current is changing. It is not what you think. You cannot go into a service expecting the same old thing. You have to learn to minister out of this new current. My river will not flow into those in deception. The deception is this. This is what they will say, which will cause them to miss the new wave of My Glory, 'We have seen it all before.' There are waves approaching the earth that have never been seen before. Do you think that all of those former waves were all there was? The end time church is nearer My return than they could ever imagine. The nearer to the Throne they get, they will not be able to speak. All they will be able to say is, 'It is God.' Now you know why there are some things that I will reveal on the spur of the moment. There will be people who will begin to take the credit for this new wave of My Glory. When they do, the current will bypass them, for I am unstoppable." The devil cannot rob you on My territory. He’s got to get you over on his territory before he can rob you. The devil’s territory is fear, doubt & unbelief. When you walk in love, faith & obedience the devil can’t rob you. Every day he tries to entice you into his territory & I will not stop him from doing that. Because My people don’t see Me as the Creator, they don’t preach Me as the Creator, I don’t manifest creative miracles. But if they will see Me not just as the Healer, but as the Creator. I Am still the Creator. I will manifest as the Creator. If you will reach My people, the Jewish people & the Nation Israel, I will give you the nations. Rm 11 (pray for Jerusalem) Don’t limit any of My signs & glory because I want to touch people by signs & wonders. Until you can be faithful in the little things that no one see, I will not let you minister to My people. If you bring the high praise unto Me, there will be a continual opening in the Heavens, spiraling upward, as you touch higher realms where even greater miracles are awaiting to manifest on the earth. In the latter days it will come to pass that My people will speak by open vision. There will be a memory loss as to what they know. When the cloud is present, they will speak things that are conducive to those things I will show them in the cloud. There are realms of My Glory that have not been revealed. Everywhere you go, get My people into worship. When they worship, the door of Heaven opens, and they will see another side of My Glory and power. I have created realms in the Heavens that have not yet been revealed. The angels have not seen all the Glory in, and of, Me. The living creatures, the cherubim and seraphim have not seen all the Glory in, and of, Me. The angelic hosts have to go from Glory to Glory, you must go from Glory to Glory too." |
THE LAST REVIVAL IS SILENTLY APPROACHING Last summer, when I ministered in Chicago, many teeth were filled and crowned with gold, gold dust fell in the meetings, and there were many creative miracles. As we worshiped, I saw the glory of God extend outside the church into the streets, and I prophesied that drug addicts would be drawn to the glory and be saved. Within about fifteen minutes, an addict walked into the church and made his way to the front to testify. I thought he was a member of the church who had gotten healed, so I asked him what God had done for him. He said that something had drawn him into the church as he was walking past. The moment he walked into the building, the Holy Spirit seized him, and he gave his life to the Lord. Later, this man testified that he believed he had been instantly delivered from drugs at the moment the Holy Spirit had taken hold of his life. For good measure, we led him in a public prayer of salvation. A few minutes later, another man came up to the front. He, too, was a drug addict and had just walked in off the street. He said he had seen the lights of the church from outside and thought it was a night club, especially when he saw some of the people dancing before the Lord. He, too, was convicted of sin the moment he walked in, and he had come to the front to be saved. Many others were saved during the altar calls. Each week we are seeing an increase in the number of souls saved, and it is happening with such ease. It is beyond our expectations. I have never seen a greater evangelistic tool. We often sing, "We need the latter rain." We need it to facilitate the harvest. Recently, I was preaching in Haag, Holland. One night while I was there, I had a dream of golden rain coming down so thick it seemed like snow. The next morning I shared my dream in the meetings. As I did, gold flakes began to appear everywhere. One lady had her Bible covered with gold. People saw it all over the carpet, on the chairs, on the floor, and on their hands and faces. It was then that a girl found the diamond I mentioned. It was not a small one, and, as I said, the jeweler who looked at it with his instrument told us it was real. These manifestations resulted in many finding Christ as their Savior. Among them was a precious woman from Iran. Whether you choose to believe it or not, we are on the verge of the greatest harvest of souls that mankind has ever witnessed. It will happen because God is confirming His Word with miracles, signs and wonders. These will even surpass those witnessed by the believers of the first century. They will be greater than anything ever witnessed anywhere on Earth. Elijah confronted and challenged the sorcerers of his day with greater miracles, signs and wonders, causing great revival. He raised the dead, healed the sick, had authority over nature, and performed many unusual miracles - beginning and ending with provisional miracles. Jesus came in that same anointing. He raised Lazarus from the dead, multiplied bread and turned water into wine, healed the sick, and challenged every power and authority of His day. The apostles continued in Jesus' footsteps, and the same glory that empowered them is at work again today. The Elijah anointing is now coming upon the Church. (David Herzog) |
A WORD FROM THE LORD JESUS (I) The battle is in the mind & d war is for your heart. Why are you trying to fight from down here an enemy who is in the 2nd heaven? Y not ascend to the heavens and learn the strategy of the enemy? Y do you call Me an idiot? Because as you have done it to the least, you have done it to Me. (if abuse somebody, you are actually abusing His Maker – Jesus). How can you curse a man who you can see & bless Me whom you cannot see? I want you to stop asking Me to heal you because I have already done that – 1cor5:21 – what I want you to do, I want you to thank Me for PERFECT HEALTH. Psm 107:20, lk4:4 I want you to be a Dream Releaser because in each one of you, there is something, there is that song that has never been sang, there is that book that has never been written, that business that never was started. Whoever lends to the poor lends to Me The top of My list for you is the bottom of your list & the top of your list is the bottom of My list for you. I Am going to invert it correctly. The top of My list for you is the refinement of your character & the bottom of My list for you is the fulfillment of your ministry. I Am going to cause your root to be so deep in Me that when d day come in the future that you experience success in ministry (& life) you will be solid & not be moved to the right or to the left because your root had had time to go deep down in Me with the refinement of your character. You have by faith the capability to reach into the future & pull your future now into your moment even if it accelerates My timing- Jn2:1-5 What is it to you if I raise up a man like an axe in My hand to judge My church? Because My shepherd lied. They lied about My deity, they lied about My humanity, they lied about My first coming & they lied about My second coming. What is it to you if I raise up a man like an axe in My hand? Jer51:20 In your day of trouble, call on Me & I will answer. I can restore a broken life. Between restoring a broken car & a broken life, which is more important? Don’t say again that you have a low brain. Now that you are anointed with d Holy Spirit, you have a Tripled Brain. U are Brilliant. From now you say, ‘I am Brilliant!’ God is going to give you your nation. U are going to see d blind see, d deaf hear, d lame walk & d dead will be raised (U have to believe & work towards this) My people are not taking My Word serious. You need to look at d totality of My Word. As you SOW (generally I everything), you will REAP. When you sow thoughts, you will reap thoughts. You are so caught up in yourself, with d things of this world & things that are not important to you. The Church is a sleeping giant. I Am sending My anointing to wake them up to shine forth. Do u notice that your birth day changes? You will bring d knowledge of My power & My glory to My people for the time will come on the earth where there is going to be a revelation of d Working of Miracles. Because of d circumstances that will come on d earth My people are going to know d revelation of My power. To d nations you will go. You are to go & bring d revelation of My glory. I am bringing you here to bring you some revelations of the time to come that is coming to the earth & My people have needs to know this things. There are areas of the supernatural that the church has been fighting, that now, because of what is coming on the earth, they are going to be opened to the supernatural in a way that they have never been opened before. My thoughts are not your thoughts. There are certain thoughts I assigned only you to think. There are angelic beings been released on the earth that were assigned to this point in time. My people are going to need to know d Glory in order to step into the Power of God to retrieve miracles like they’ve never retrieved them before. Seek My kingdom above every other thing else. If you will learn to pray for people with your whole heart, My anointing, no matter what needs to be done, will always go into people. |
ATMOSPHERE OF FAITH When I was a young man I always loved the fellowship of old men, and was always careful to hear what they had to say. I had a friend, an old Baptist minister who was a wonderful preacher. I spent much of my time with him. One day he came to me and said, "My wife is dying." I said, "Brother Clark, why don't you believe God? God can raise her up if you will only believe Him." He asked me to come to his house, and I looked for someone to go with me. I went to a certain rich man who was very zealous for God, and spent much money in opening up rescue missions, and I asked him to go with me. He said, "Never you mind me. You go yourself, but I don't take to this kind of business." Then I thought of a man who could pray by the hour. When he was on his knees he could go round the world three times and come out at the same place. I asked him to go with me and said to him, "You'll have a real chance this time. Keep at it, and quit when you're through." (Some go on after they are through.) Brother Nichols, for that was his name, went with me and started praying. He asked the Lord to comfort the husband in his great bereavement and prayed for the orphans and a lot more on this line. I cried, "O my God, stop this man." But there was no stopping him and he went on praying and there was not a particle of faith in anything he uttered. He did stop at last, and I said, "Brother Clark, it's now your turn to pray. He started, "Lord, answer the prayer of my brother and comfort me in this great bereavement and sorrow. Prepare me to face this great trial." I cried out, "My God, stop this man." The whole atmosphere was being charged with unbelief. I had a glass bottle full of oil and I went up to the woman and poured the whole lot on her in the name of Jesus. Suddenly Jesus appeared, standing at the foot of the bed. He smiled and vanished. The woman stood up, perfectly healed, and she is a strong woman today. We have a big God. We have a wonderful Jesus. We have a glorious Comforter. God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil. Under His wings shalt thou trust. The Word of God is living and powerful and in its treasures you will find eternal life. If you dare trust this wonderful Lord, this Lord of life, you will find in Him everything you need. (Smith Wigglesworth) |
GOD’S LOVE CAN HEAL ANY BROKEN HOME I make mention sometimes about a minister's wife who called my wife for help because she was just about to leave her husband. Her husband was both mentally and physically abusive to her. I told my wife, "See if you can get both of them to come over so we can talk to them." When they arrived, among other things I asked them if they had The Amplified Bible. They did, so I told them, "On a 3 x 5 card, write out First Corinthians 13:4-8. Then when you go to bed at night, both of you read those verses out loud. Then read them again when you wake up in the morning." After several weeks, the wife called my wife back and said, "You know, every morning and every evening we've done just what Brother Hagin said to do. We've read those verses on the love of God out loud." Then she said, "Every single day since we've been reading those Scriptures, my husband has apologized to me. He's said, 'I can't believe I mistreated you as I did. I can't believe I said those things to you.'" And instead of allowing his flesh to dominate him, this man began letting his spirit dominate him. The love of God had already been shed abroad in his heart or his innermost being. He just had to learn how to tap into that love. When he started letting the God-kind of love dominate him, his wife told us, "He's just become a different person! Not only has he become a different person, but so have I. "I realized that to a large extent, I'm to blame for him finally blowing his top because I just kept nagging him. I should have kept my mouth shut. But we're both different people now because the love of God has changed us." God's love never fails! This was several years ago. My wife and I have seen this couple in more recent years, and they're very happy together. They told us that their ministry is prospering and their lives are better—just because they learned how to let the love of God dominate them. The God-kind of love changed them both. Thank God they learned where the answer is. The answer to so many of life's problem is found in this statement: God's love never fails! (Kenneth E. Hagin) |
THE GOSPEL OF JESUS BRINGS DIGNITY TO PEOPLE We went to Philippine for a healing campaign. While saw a male lunatic close to the hotel we lodged. This man was a lonely figure. He was a lunatic at the corner of the street. He was not very far away from the hotel we were staying in while we had the miracle campaign in Philippine & there was something interesting that happened. For years people had seen him there. His whole body was thickly covered in mud basically. No one paid attention to him, but God had a plan for that man’s life. He was probably in his mid 30s & had been like that all his life walking around eating out of waste bins. We went to the man & told him that God loves him & that God wants him free. People around that day couldn’t understand how we could talk to a lunatic, but the spirit that had put that man in bondage knew that Jesus had come for that man that day. In an instant we commanded the spirit to leave that man & he became sane. The whole crown in the street was so shock to see that miracle. We took the man into our hotel. People were so surprise to see the man in his right mind. When the man stepped in, immediately the Lord spoke to me saying, ‘Go ahead, give him some of your nice clothes’ I went upstairs, brought some clothes & gave it to him. I gave some people some amount of money to have his hair shaved, get him some new clothes & shower too. That tells me that the GOSPEL brings DIGNITY to the people. God has sent us today to bring good news to you, to let you know that you might be struggling with some guilt, He says your sins have been forgiven you. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done. It doesn’t matter how the situation have been – He loves you just as you are. You might have killed people or you might have been a criminal – today, I believe that God’s love is reaching out to you. No matter what you’ve been through, you may have been broken hearted, rejected by people or abused by people – I believe that God’s power is reaching out to you. That man, that lunatic that no one loved. All of a sudden I said to him, ‘You are not alone any more. You are my brother now & Jesus has come with new life for you’ that evening he came to the campaign in his new clothing & no body could recognize he was the same lunatic who eats from waste bin all those years. The Gospel brings life & dignity to the people. (Charles Ndifon) |
CREATIVE MIRACLES I In Ohio, a lady who came to our meeting was experiencing supernatural oil and the presence of the Lord fell all over. For two days she was aware of the Lord dealing with her mouth and was confessing that the Lord would purify her speech. The next day, during a service the Glory of God fell and released a miracle while I was speaking, and she received eight gold teeth in her mouth. She is a sign and wonder. As the Glory of God fell in another meeting, a missionary lady received a supernatural multiplication of money. She gave what she had and then was grieved she did not have more to give. When she reached in her pocket there was the exact amount that she had just given. She promptly gave that in the offering. Some moments later someone gave her back the same amount. God gave her back what she gave in the beginning. In Houston, Texas, the Glory fell during the meeting with such magnitude that hundreds of people received miracles. Tumors vanished and legs and arms were healed. One brother who was involved in a court case asked for a financial miracle. Within days he received a check for $1,500,000. Yet this miracle is no greater than any of the others. In an Ohio meeting, a lady kept disturbing the service by calling out, "I want to testify!" "Well, praise the Lord," I responded. She then replied, "But something else has happened." She insisted I give her the microphone and she proceeded to say, "I was here the other night when the Glory of God fell. As the presence of the Lord fell, God began dealing with me and my finances. I knew I had received a miracle." The following day she had a phone call confirming a government contract for $53 million. Several weeks later we went back to the same church. The pastor said, "The sister that received the contract is in France. She wants you to call her." When I called her she told me, "I have something incredible to tell you. When I got to France, they canceled the $53 million dollar contract, and changed it to an $83 million dollar contract!" In a meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, two crippled people were in the audience. During the service the Lord said to me, "Tell the people to stand up and start walking." I told the whole church to stand up and start walking. As the whole church obeyed, including the lame, all of a sudden the Glory of the Lord fell in a mighty way. I remember this one woman, who had been crippled with multiple sclerosis. As she walked she broke into a dance. I recall seeing a lady I have known for many years in one of our Glory Summits. Her arm was broken in several places. There was no mention of healing, then all of a sudden, her hand straightened out and she began to move it. She knew she had been healed. She made her way to the platform, and with great excitement informed us she had experienced a miracle. When she returned to her home she went to the doctor to have her arm examined. The physician was astounded and did not believe her. "I have never seen this before," he stated to her. "I don't know how to tell you this, but your bones are actually fresh—brand new." She knew what had happened. Now her doctor did, too. All it took was for her to worship and the miracle manifested. To God be the Glory! In a meeting in Texas, I recall a three-day meeting where the Glory of the Lord was manifesting as people were worshiping. On one particular evening there, a lady came wearing a brace on her leg. I told her, "Just take it off," not really aware of the magnitude of what had just transpired. In obedience to the spoken word she removed the brace, to find she could walk with ease all around the building. This triggered another miracle. Another woman, who was bound to a wheelchair, was gloriously healed. She stood up from the wheelchair and began to follow the other lady around the building. Miracles started raining down upon the meeting! Several weeks after that meeting, a testimony came to us from the sister with the leg brace. When she went to the hospital the doctors were bewildered. She was scheduled to have a steel pin surgically implanted into her leg that week. When the technicians looked at the x-ray, they saw newly formed bone in her leg. I was asked to preach in a meeting in Philadelphia, where a great hunger for the presence, and power, of God was prevalent. It was overwhelming to see so many lifting their hands in total surrender to God's Glory, as they were brought into His presence through their worship. Time was suspended. It had no meaning. It had lost its grip on the people. As we entered His manifested presence, there was a sense in the atmosphere that this was the moment for anything to happen. We had taken the limitations off God. The word impossible never crossed our minds. It was as if we had eliminated it from our vocabulary. We were locked into that moment in time for God's power to manifest. As I was preaching, I began declaring what I was seeing. I started to declare deaf ears to open, cancers and tumors to dissolve and dissipate in Jesus' name. Suddenly, the platform was filled with miraculous testimonies. The number of those healed from deafness was more than fifty. They now stood on the platform, hearing by the word, and power, of God. It was thrilling to see so many deaf healed. But after having them examined, over half of them informed us that they had no eardrums at all before their miracle. What incredible creative miracles took place that night. God had created eardrums on a grand scale! Additionally, there were at least thirty people with tumors suddenly disappearing. Several tumors, some the size of a man's fist, were now obliterated by the power of God. As I was walking off the platform, a lady ran up to me, grabbed hold of my coat and said, "Brother Renny, I have received a miracle!" To which I replied, "Praise God!" I asked her what the Lord had done for her. She was one of the women who experienced a tumor supernaturally vanishing. She said the Lord had done something else. "What has the Lord done for you?", I asked. "Look in my mouth," she said. Up to this point in our ministry, we had witnessed gold teeth and gold fillings in abundance, so I was expecting to see a tooth filled with gold; however, there was no gold. The woman got more than excited, and kept insisting that I look in her mouth. When I took a look, everything looked quite normal. She implored me to look again into her mouth. This was a bit amusing to me as I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Finally, she looked at me and smiled. "Brother Renny, you just don't get it," she said. "No, I don't get it," I responded. "When I came into the service tonight, I didn't have one tooth in my mouth!" This forty-eight year old woman had a full set of brand new teeth. To this day she cannot stop talking about what God had done for her. And we hear she smiles all the time. You would too, wouldn't you? (Renny Mclead) |
DEFYING GRAVITY BY THE POWER OF LOVE JOHN G. LAKE The day that John G. Lake died, he was praying, setting the table. He was so full of God that day as other days. He said, ‘I just can’t see how you can stay here’ Then he went on to glory. This former scientist was so used to the overwhelming presence of the Love Jesus he couldn’t stay here again. E. W. KENYON Kenyon lived to a good old age. He got dressed one morning. He said, ‘one o’clock today, I’m going home!’ he ate breakfast, and started praying. Exactly one o’clock that afternoon, he went to be with the Lord. He checked out of this planet. SMITH WIGGLESWORTH Wigglesworth went to preach at his late friend’s funeral. Preaching on the pulpit, he turned to a being not seen by others physically and said, ‘Just a minute, I need to give the altar call’ he finished the sermon, led some people to the Lord Jesus, laid hands on many and healed them. He gets back to his seat behind the pulpit, sat down and said, ‘ok!’ then he bowed his head and checked out of this world, without sickness – a victor. 7yrs earlier, the Master Jesus had asked him to come home to enjoy the REWARD OF HIS LABOUR. He told the Lord to give him 7-more years, that he wasn’t done yet. And the Good Lord granted him 7-more years. POLLY WIGGLESWORTH: Smith was preaching in a meeting when news came to him that his wife had passed on. He said, ‘but she didn’t tell me she was leaving’ he finished the meeting, drove home & was directed to the hospital where his wife was. At this time they had already covered her. He asked the doctor to take him to her. The doctor insisted. After much persuasion, he was allowed in. He called her back authoritatively. She jerked, opened her tears-of-joy eyes & smiled. She told him of her glorious home-going, the wonders of the road & the beauties of heaven & that her time had come. While she was speaking, the Holy Spirit whispered to Smith that he should allow her go home to be with Jesus, that this is her moment. He said, ‘ok’ & she slept. He told the kids to never cry since their momma has gone home to be with Jesus, & they didn’t. ORAL ROBERT: This powerful man of God sang his own death. He was known for always saying, ‘something good is going to happen to you’ before he went home to be with the Lord, he changed the song. They heard him sing, ‘something good is going to happen to me today for Jesus is passing by…’ the Lord Jesus Himself in His own CHARIOT & picked him home. They burst through the 2nd Heaven (the demonic world) creating a VERY BYG OPENING, destroying several building/structures that will take the devil time to rebuild & Oral Robert laughed all the way as they ride home. How are you going to check out of this planet? I want Jesus Himself to come for me that day. There are 3-types of home going; An angel or a saint in heaven coming to your guardian angel to escort you home…(nice though) Multitudes of angels / saints in heaven coming to escort you home. Boy! I kinda like this. The Master Himself, Jesus in His own personal chariot. This is the highest honour. It is reserve only for those who learn the most important lesson on earth – that lesson is LOVE. Love your enemies, love His creation. Love Him & He’ll come Himself to get you when you are done with your earth’s assignment. |
DONT BE AFRAID, GOD IS STILL IN THE BUSINESS DIVINE RESCUE I know what it is like to be near the point of death. In 1983, while flying with six passengers in a Cessna aircraft at 11,000 feet, we ran out of fuel near Avon Park, Florida. I was asleep, but not for long. "We're in trouble. Pray! Pray!" were the first words I heard from our pilot, Don. Everyone began crying out in fear. But suddenly a great peace came over me. I said, "Don, it's going to be all right. No one will be killed!" God used those words to calm the passengers. "Please don't cry," I told them. "Just relax. God isn't finished with me." We crash-landed in a field and there were some injuries, but I did not have a scratch. Deep within my spirit I had the assurance, "It's going to be all right." Over twenty years later, I faced similar circumstances in 1995. We were returning from a miracle crusade in Japan, heading for Hawaii where we were to land and refuel. With less than two hours left in our flight, silence in the cabin was interrupted by the pilot's voice as he said, "Pastor Benny, I think you'd better pray." He went on to explain that there was a problem with the instruments and we were lost somewhere over the Pacific. I immediately began to pray and even though some of those who were with me were fearful, a peace settled over me. Although the circumstances were impossible in the natural, I felt a supernatural assurance that everything was going to be all right. The pilots continued to work with the instruments in the cockpit, but to no avail. With a rapidly diminishing fuel supply and in the midst of growing tension, the unexplainable confidence within me continued—everything was going to be fine. Suddenly and miraculously, our pilots made contact with someone who suggested that they tune to a radio station and use it to help guide them toward land. They did just that and landed with less than an hour's fuel remaining. In fact, our pilots told us we were flying on fumes! Although I always knew that our safe landing was a direct result of God's divine intervention, I never knew any of the details. Just recently at our Hawaii Miracle Crusade, however, I had the privilege of meeting one of the gentlemen who was working in the control tower that night. He explained that although he wasn't responsible for that particular airspace, he felt an urging by the Holy Spirit to get involved when he heard one of the other controllers attempting to contact a private plane that was overdue. He said landings are scheduled in advance, and the control tower was expecting our plane. However, because the plane was off course due to the instrumentation problem, we never showed up on their radar. As they attempted to contact us, they finally made radio contact with the plane, but had no idea of our location. As the man became more involved, he felt an overwhelming inner urging to pray. He explained, "I didn't know who was on that plane, but I knew that I had to help. When nothing else worked, someone in the tower suggested tuning into a radio station to help guide the plane in," the gentleman said. "I instantly remembered a 50,000-watt Christian radio station on the island which I listened to often. I suggested that frequency, and immediately, your pilots tuned in to the signal. That's how my friend and I in the control tower helped get your plane down on the ground safely." Then he added, "For seven years I have wondered who was on that airplane that night but had no way of finding out. Recently, I was talking to some friends at our church about the situation and they told me they knew the other part of the story. They said they were Covenant Partners with Benny Hinn Ministries, and Benny Hinn and some of his team were the individuals on that plane that night." After the man finished his story, I gave him a big hug and thanked him for recognizing the voice of the Holy Spirit and for responding in obedience. Then I added, "Thank you for saving my life! God wasn't done with me yet!" I have seen the Holy Spirit turn chaos into peace many, many times. And I am a living testimony to His ability to do so. Won't you allow Him to touch the chaos in your life with His deep and abiding peace? (Benny Hinn) |
‘’WHEN I BECAME SERIOUS WITH GOD, HE BECAME SERIOUS WITH ME.” Many years ago, a dear uncle of mine, Uncle Ben, lost his youngest son in a car accident. He told me about times he would go to bed and cry night after night, because he felt the great torment of deep sorrow. One night, he cried out to God like never before, “Dear God, I have to have help.” He prayed in a whole-hearted fashion. He said that when he prayed like this, God gave him what he needed in the manifestation of a vision. From his description, I believe that my uncle was translated to heaven. The experience changed his life. The glory of God shone on his face, even after a year had passed. I believe that he had the same kind of experience that Moses had when he came into God’s presence. The torment lifted from his life, and it became naturally visible that he had been transformed. The key to his revelation was found in his very words. He told me, “When I became serious with God, He became serious with me.” If you’ll learn to pray with your whole heart, you will receive an instant manifestation. In Matthew 5:6, Jesus said, “If you hunger and thirst you will be filled.” The words “hunger and thirst” also mean to crave or to starve. People do not get into God’s dimension, because they are not hungry or thirsty enough for God. They are like spoiled children who eat candy all day long and turn up their noses when a nourishing meal is set before them. They couldn’t eat it, anyway, because they are full of junk that is literally killing them. People, today, have their lives so full of the junk of this temporal world, that they do not have any room for the things of God. They may even become hateful when you talk about the things of God. If we, as Christians, will begin starving out some of the things of this world, the eternal, supernatural, life-changing Word of God will become exciting to read and meditate upon. We will be filled with the supernatural things of God. When we allow other things in our life to become more important than the things of God, it becomes difficult and often impossible to pray with our whole hearts. In Mark 4:19 Jesus said, “And the cares of this world, deceitfulness of riches, and lust of other things entering in, choke the Word, and it becometh unfruitful.” (Mel Bond) |
THE PRINCIPLE OF PRAYING WITH ALL YOUR HEART On Friday evening, September 28, 1984, I had a vision. In the vision, I was preaching in the church I was then pastoring, and perceived that there was a woman in the service who needed healing in her body. In my vision, I called her to the front, and began to pray for her. When she came forward, I felt someone behind me put their hand on my right shoulder, and I turned to see who it was. It was the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Then Jesus described to me the woman’s ailment and said, “PRAY WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART, AND MY ANOINTING WILL GO INTO HER, AND SHE WILL BE HEALED.” If you have ever experienced the spirit realm, you know that when words are spoken, volumes of information are transmitted. Often times, lips do not move, audible words are not spoken, yet volumes of information are transmitted. On that very Sunday that followed the vision, I finished preaching and simply acted out what I had experienced in the vision. I called the woman forward, and asked her if what Jesus had told me about her physical need was correct. She admitted the same condition, so I ministered to her in the way that Jesus had explained, and she was instantly healed. The instructions Jesus spoke to me during that vision were so simple. The more I meditate on the experience, the further I understand the knowledge that was transmitted in the realm of the Spirit. This is because when Jesus speaks, His words are alive and forever live. Anything that is alive must continue to grow, and God’s words are more alive than anything else in existence. However, the only way His words can continue to grow in us is by meditating, thinking and giving those words a place in our lives. (Mel Bond) |
A FOOLISH VIRGIN …‘’I understand how you feel," remarked another man I recognized as one I considered one of the greatest Christian leaders of all time. "Paul the apostle said near the end of his life that he was the least of the saints. Then just before his death he even called himself 'the greatest of sinners.' Had he not learned that in his life on earth he, too, would have been in jeopardy of being one of the least of the saints in heaven. Because he learned it on earth he is now one of those closest to the Lord, and will be one of the highest in rank for all of eternity." Seeing this man in the company of "The foolish virgins" was the greatest surprise I had yet. "I cannot believe that you, too, are one of the foolish who SLEPT AWAY THEIR LIVES ON EARTH. Why are you here?" "I am here because I made one of the most grave mistakes you can make as one entrusted with the glorious gospel of our Savior. Just as the apostle Paul progressed from not considering himself inferior to the greatest apostles, to being the greatest of sinners, I took the opposite course. I started out knowing that I had been one the greatest of sinners who had found grace, but ended up thinking that I was one of the greatest apostles. It was because of my great pride, not insecurity like our friend here, that I began to attack everyone who did not see everything just the way I did. Those who followed me I stripped of their own callings, and even their personalities, pressuring them to all become just like me. No one around me could be themselves. No one dared to question me because I would crush them into powder; I thought that by making others smaller I made myself larger. I thought that I was supposed to be the Holy Spirit to everyone. From the outside my ministry looked like a smooth running machine where everyone was in unity and there was perfect order, but it was the order of a concentration camp. I took the Lord's own children and made them automatons in my own image instead of His. In the end I was not even serving the Lord, but the idol I had built to myself. By the end of my life I was actually an enemy of the true gospel, at least in practice, even if my teachings and writings seemed impeccably biblical." "If that is true, that you became an enemy of the gospel, how is it that you are still here?" I questioned. "By the grace of God, I did trust in the cross for my own salvation, even though I actually kept other men from it, leading them to myself rather than to Him. The Lord remains faithful to us even when we are unfaithful. It was also by His grace that the Lord took me from the earth sooner than He would have, just so those who were under me could find Him and come to know Him." I could not have been more stunned to think that this was true of this particular man. History had given us a very different picture of him. Reading what was going on in my heart, he continued: "God does have a different set of history books than those on the earth. You have had a glimpse of this, but you do not yet know how different they are. Earthly histories will pass away, but the books that are kept here will last forever. IF YOU CAN REJOICE IN WHAT HEAVEN IS RECORDING ABOUT YOUR LIFE, YOU ARE BLESSED INDEED. Men see through a glass darkly, so their histories will always be clouded, and sometimes completely wrong. Very few, even very few Christians, have the true gift of discernment. Without this gift it is impossible to accurately discern truth in those of the present or the past. Even with this gift it is difficult. Until you have been here, and been stripped, you will judge others through distorted prejudices, either positive or negative. That is why we were warned not to judge before the time. Until we have been here we just cannot really know what is in the heart of others, whether they are performing good or evil deeds. There have been good motives in even the worst of men, and evil motives in even the best of them. Only here can men be judged by both their deeds and their motives." "When I return to earth, will I be able to discern history accurately because I have been here?" "You are here because you prayed for the Lord to judge you severely, to correct you ruthlessly, so that you could serve Him more perfectly. This was one of the most wise requests you ever made. The wise judge themselves lest they be judged. The even wiser ask for the judgments of the Lord, because they realize that they cannot even judge themselves very well. Having come here you will leave with far more wisdom and discernment, but on earth you will always see through a glass darkly to at least some degree. Your experience here will help you to know men better, but only when you are fully here can you know them fully. When you leave here you will be more impressed by how little you know men rather than by how well you know them. This is just as true in relation to the histories of men. I have been allowed to talk with you because I have in a sense discipled you through my writings, and to know the truth about me will help you greatly," the great Reformer concluded. (Rick Joyner) |
A FOOLISH VIRGIN (II) ‘’…I then noticed someone I had known on earth. He had been a faithful believer, but I did not think he had done anything of significance. He was so physically unattractive on earth that it had made him shy. Here he had the same features, but was somehow more handsome than any person I had known on earth. He stepped up to me with an assurance and dignity that I had never seen in him, or anyone, before. "Heaven is much greater than we could have dreamed while on earth," he began. "This room is but the threshold of realms of glory that are far beyond the ability we had to comprehend. It is also true that the second death is much more terrible than we understood. Neither heaven or hell are like we thought they were. If I had known on earth what I know here I would not have lived the way that I did. You are blessed with a great grace to have come here before you have died." he said while looking at my garments. I then looked at myself. I still had the old mantle of humility on, with the armor under it. I felt both foul and crude standing before those who were so regal and beautiful. I began to think that I was in serious trouble if I was going to appear before the Lord like this. Like the eagles, my old acquaintance could understand my thoughts, and he replied to them: "Those who come here wearing that mantle have nothing to fear. That mantle is the highest rank of honor, and it is why they all bowed to you while you passed." "I did not notice anyone bowing to me," I replied, a bit disconcerted. "It is not improper," he continued. "Here we show each other the respect that is due. Even the angels serve us here, but only our God and His Christ are worshiped." I was still ashamed. I had to retrain myself to keep from bowing to these glorious ones, while at the same time wanting to hide myself because I looked so bad. Then I began lamenting the fact that my thoughts here were just as foolish here as they were one earth, and here everyone knew them! I felt both stained and stupid standing before these who were so awesome and pure. Again my old acquaintance responded to these thoughts. "We have our incorruptible bodies now, and you do not. Our minds are no longer hindered by sin. We are therefore able to comprehend many times what even the greatest earthly mind can fathom, and we will spend eternity growing in our ability to understand. This is so that we can know the Father, and understand the glory of His creation. On earth you cannot even begin to understand what the least of these here know, and we are the least of those here." "How could you be the least?" I asked with disbelief. "There is an aristocracy here. The rewards for our earthly lives are the eternal positions that we have here. This great multitude here are those whom the Lord called 'foolish virgins.' We knew the Lord, and trusted in His cross for deliverance from damnation, but we did not really live for Him, but for ourselves. We did not keep our vessels filled with the oil of the Holy Spirit. We have eternal life, but we wasted our lives on earth." I was really surprised by this, but I also knew that no one could lie in that place. "The foolish virgins gnashed their teeth in the outer darkness," I protested. "And that we did. The grief that we experienced when we understood how we had so wasted our lives was beyond any grief possible on earth. The darkness of that grief can only be understood by those who have experienced it. Such darkness is magnified when it is revealed next to the glory of the One we failed. You are standing now among the lowest rank in heaven. There are no greater fools than the ones who know the great salvation of God, but then go on living for themselves. To come here and learn the reality of that folly is a grief beyond what an earthly soul can experience. We are those who suffered this outer darkness because of this greatest of follies." I was still incredulous. "But you are more glorious and full of more joy and peace than I even imagined, even for those in heaven. I do not feel any remorse in you, and yet I know that here you cannot lie. This does not make sense to me." Looking me straight in the eyes, he continued, "The Lord also loves us with a love greater than you can yet understand. Before His judgment seat I tasted the greatest darkness of soul and remorse that can be experienced. Though here we do not measure time as you do, it seemed to last for as long as my life on earth had lasted. All of my sins and follies which I had not repented of passed before me, and before all who are here. The grief of this you cannot understand until you have experienced it. I felt that I was in the deepest dungeon of hell, even as I stood before the Lord. He was resolute until my life had been completely reviewed. When I said I was sorry and asked for the mercy of His cross, He wiped away my tears and took away the great darkness. He looked at me with a love that was beyond anything that you can now understand. He gave me this robe. I no longer feel the darkness or bitterness that I knew as I stood before Him, but I remember it. Only here can you remember such things without continuing to feel the pain. A moment in the lowest part of heaven is much greater than a thousand years of the highest life on earth. Now my mourning at my folly has been turned into joy, and I know that I will know joy forever, even if I am in the lowest place in heaven." I began to think again of the treasures of salvation. Somehow I knew that all that this man had told me was revealed by those treasures. Every step I had taken up the mountain, or into it, had revealed that His ways are both more fearful and more wonderful than I had known before. Looking at me intently, my former acquaintance continued. "You are not here to understand, but to experience. The next level of rank here is many times greater than what we have. Each level after is that much greater than the previous one. It is not just that each level has an even more glorious spiritual body, but that each level is closer to the throne where all of the glory comes from. Even so, I no longer feel the grief of my failure. I really deserve nothing. I am here by grace alone, and I am so thankful for what I have. He is so worthy to be loved. I could be doing many wondrous things now in the different realms of heaven, but I would rather stay here and just behold the glory, even if I am on the outer fringes." Then, with a distant look in his eyes, he added, "Everyone in heaven is now in this room to watch His great mystery unfold, and to watch those of you who will fight the last battle." "Can you see Him from here?" I asked. "I see His glory far away, but I cannot see Him." "I can see many times better than you can," he answered. "And yes, I can see Him, and all that He is doing, even from here. I can also hear Him. I can also behold the earth. He gave us all that power. We are the great cloud of witnesses who are beholding you." He departed back into the ranks and I began walking again, trying to understand all that he had said to me. As I looked over the great host that he had said were the foolish virgins, the ones who had spiritually slept away their life on earth, I knew that if any one of them appeared on earth now that they would be worshiped as gods, and yet they were the very least of those who were here! I then began to think of all of the time that I had wasted in my life. It was such an overwhelming thought that I stopped. Then parts of my life began to pass before me. I began to experience a terrible grief over this one sin. I too had been one of the greatest of fools! I may have kept more oil in my lamp than others, but now I knew how foolish I had been to measure what was required of me by how others were doing. I, too, was one of the foolish virgins! Just when I thought I would collapse under the weight of this terrible discovery…. Rick Joyner |