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Same Old Song
Hi, SheepTrax!
When I was in college, I majored in radio and TV. Part of my
education was funded by my 20 hour a week job as the Continuity
Director of our campus station. In those days, we had a varied format
that included everything from AOR (album oriented rock) to news. We
were a commercial college station manned by students who loved radio.
Our communications director was a personal friend of Timothy Leary,
the granddaddy of LSD if that helps clarify the picture.
Without a profit motive, radio is a delightful free-for-all. I still
love listening to local community and not for profit stations because
of the free artistic expression found. I maintain to this day that
radio is a much more creative medium than boring TV - yeech! -
because there are no retakes. When pot #1 is hot, the microphone is
on, and we're live!
Commercial radio is a business, driven by and paid for by
advertising. No problem making a profit. Once the profit motive is
introduced, radios' role as a medium of community expression is
greatly diminished and it becomes just another business.
One night, a daring friend of mine hatched a devious plan. She called
2 of our mutual friends who had graduated and were now gainfully
employed at local commercial stations and suggested that at 11:00 pm
that Saturday evening, the three of them play the same AOR
classic, "Radar Love." Imagine a Friday night where for a few
brief minutes all the competing rock radio stations in town were in
harmony working together!
Kids, this was long before the crooning boy bands that dominate pop
culture today. Back then, the early 80s, my Catholic friends prayed
to Madonna; they didn't dance to her. Forgive me, but disco still
sucked, and `N Sync was `N Diapers!
So, on that warm summer night, I had my radio on at 11 p.m., tuned to
KRCU, the college station, when that Golden Earring pre-grunge
classic was suddenly pumping at a blistering 100 watts of pure
commercial free power. I quickly flipped to the other stations. All
had started the same long playing LP - kids, that's kind of
like a vinyl CD the size of a medium pizza - at almost the same
instant.
As it was a weekend, the cruzers who had their radios cranked were
amazed to hear the same song on all three stations. It was the campus
buzz for weeks and it was beautiful. In that moment, I understood why
I loved radio.
Flash forward a number of years. John and Suzie Saint have a dream;
to start a ministry working with Goth kids. Most people see these
freakish young `uns draped up in black, wearing skull rings and
spider ear rings, with their faces painted cadaver white, and well,
it's pretty clear their not part of the local Baptist youth
group.
John and Suzie live in the suburbs surrounded by steeples and nice
houses. Defying suburban Christian convention, they open their home
on the weekends to these Goths, hosting barbeques and swimming
parties in their backyard. Their home becomes a safe haven for the
kids no one wants and surprise, surprise, they start coming to
Christ. Delighted, John and Suzie try to bring their unusual harvest
of souls to local churches, but are politely told to first
"baptize them, and use soap when they're under the
water," before they are welcome into the company of the church.
Frustrated, John and Suzie finally end up starting their own church.
They weren't competing with anyone, but no one would welcome them
for who they were. A few years pass and the Goths grow up, get jobs,
have loveable little freaks of their own, and suddenly John and Suzie
find themselves competing with the other respectable churches in the
area. After all, there are bills to pay, salaries to meet, and they
sit wondering at the spirit of competition as other pastors are now
trying to lure away the now grown and respectable adults that a few
years earlier no one wanted.
John and Suzie are angry with competing area pastors and start
responding by marketing and beginning to attract members from other
churches to their church - the place God is really moving. It
becomes a cut throat war of "Come Grow With Us!" Weirder
still, down the street there is this "rebellious" couple who
are opening their home on the weekends to these weird looking kids,
making noise at all hours of the night, making the neighborhood
feel `less safe.' Don't these so-called Christians know
that decent people have to work in the morning?
Sigh…
Wouldn't it be wonderful, even for one glorious weekend night, if
we laid the profit motive aside and quit competing with the other
churches in our community and remember why we all got into ministry
in the first place? Perhaps we could all play the same song;
not "Radar Love," but "God's Love," and then go
out into the byways and highways with that same message.
Imagine it's the weekend, and the passersby who have their hearts
open standing in amazement hearing the same love song coming from
people of different churches working together because they purely and
simply love God. It would be beautiful. Perhaps in that moment, we
would remember why got into ministry in the first place.
Perhaps it's time to repent and return to commercial free
ministry. It would certainly be a lot more fun.
Bryan Hupperts © 2001
The Anointed Ones
Jane Jacobson
I will do a deep inner healing in My people. There are roots that must
come out; things that would trigger old memories and the old things of
the past. I will do a deep work so that the "old things" cannot have
power anymore or repeat themselves in the new works that I do. Be not
surprised at the way you respond emotionally to certain words and
situations. Be not ashamed at the tears you may shed for they are tears
of healing that would wash away the pain of the past. I will use them
for good as your hearts will grow and stretch with compassion, love,
mercy and empathy for what others may be going through. I use all things
for good, and certainly that which the devil has meant for evil. Pure
gold comes from the fires and the testings. I will give beauty for ashes,
and the oil of joy for mourning. Rejoice for these times will refresh
you, and heal you, and give you peace where there was none before.
You are my trophies. I will display you to the world in high places where
you will be a light and a beacon to the hopeless, the discouraged, the
weary, and the lost. Your testimonies will have the power, as does the
Word to defeat the devil, for does not My Word say that he will be
defeated by My Word and the word of your testimonies?
What the world would consider weak, will be strong. For the broken
vessels that they have seen, have now been, and are being transformed
into precious vessels which will be used in these end days. You will walk
in My authority. You will cast out devils, heal the sick, multiply the
bread, and do wondrous works even greater than My Son. I send you to
redeem, rescue, save, protect, give hope to, and bless.
I will do the work. Strive not. Rest and I will work, for it will not be
of you, but of Me that the work will be done. You are My vessels; my hands
and feet, My voice. You will be anointed, Christ like, The Anointed Ones.
And yes, you will be known by your love, for the world needs to be
transformed by My love, not judgment. My goodness will bring people to
repentance. The enemy's perversion of the word "love" has brought great
evil and harm to the world. I will reveal Myself, and who I AM. I will
reveal my love. It will break the powers of darkness, and yea even the
hardest of hearts shall be melted down. For it is each man, woman, and
child's desire to be loved in a pure, holy way. I will wash the defilement
away and they will be clean, and then they too will go forth as a mighty
force to set the captives free.
Trust Me. Hear Me. Obey Me. I am the God of the impossible. Believe it,
for I will do mighty things which thou knowest not. Do not limit me with
your understanding, but ask Me to give you My understanding, wisdom, and
revelation.
The wind is blowing. Hear what the Spirit is saying. Obey the Spirit
regardless of man's opinion. I am faithful. My ways are higher than your
ways and joy shall overtake you as you go forth in obedience; and there
will be no better way to live than in the will of God. The rewards are
great on earth and in heaven. What joy could be greater than to save the
lost from eternal damnation, or to bring healing and spare a life from
great suffering and affliction?
And yes, the wealth of the wicked shall be laid up for the just.
Treasures are hidden in dark places where I will reveal to My people
where they are and how to get them. Obey here too, for money has power
to set free and deliver too. Take that power from the enemy and use it
for My will and purposes. Step out in faith, even as a mustard seed in
obedience and watch Me multiply and restore what the locusts have taken.
jjacobson13@sprint.ca
Repentance
by Doug Fortune
Repentance... that word stirs thoughts of the many times I've
cried out to God in sorrow for my sin. For many, it brings images
of tears shed on bended knee at an altar call. Repentance was
one of the primary emphases of the ministries of both John the
baptist and Jesus. I can hear both of them crying out, "Repent,
for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand!" Recently, I've been wondering
why it seems we hear so little of repentance in the current apostolic
reformation... or do we?
You see, my understanding of the cry of John the baptist and
Jesus has always been paraphrased something along these lines;
"Bring forth godly sorrow and confession of sin in order that
you may be cleansed and be able to one day enter heaven." I don't
think this is too different from the basic understanding of the
majority in modern Christendom. Certainly there is truth in this
understanding, but I believe there is more to it than just this.
A closer examination will perhaps shed some more light on the
subject.
What has always amazed and disheartened me in this issue of repentance
is something I've seen many times in my own life and the lives
of others. After heartfelt and sincere remorse and confession
we find ourselves repeating the same offense we are repenting
from. I have come to the conclusion that godly sorrow and confession
ALONE do not have the power to break the bondage of sin! Now,
before you stone me, consider this verse; "For godly sorrow worketh
repentance to salvation..."(2 Cor.7:10) Godly sorrow is a vehicle
that leads us to the real bondage-breaker... and that is REPENTANCE
to salvation. This means we must reconsider our understanding
of repentance. The word is metanoia in Greek and quite plainly
means 'to think differently or afterwards, to reconsider'. My
friend, the primary emphasis of the current apostolic reformation
is challenging us and enabling us to THINK DIFFERENTLY!
Unfortunately, some have mistaken sorrow and remorse for the
whole of repentance, and have preached a sin-conscious works
oriented gospel that has yielded many tears but little true inner
change. Am I saying there is no place for confronting sin and
for godly sorrow?... certainly not! Let's don't confuse it with
repentance though! Remorse is certainly a vehicle and an important
element accompanying repentance, but it does not constitute the
whole of repentance.
To 'think differently' is not merely to train Adam to behave
better through 'Christian behavior modification' either. Other
than for deliverance and breaking generational bondages, probing
and expending effort to understand WHY we have certain destructive
behaviors is basically useless information stemming from the
Tree of Knowledge that appeals to the carnal mind. (Obviously,
there can be treatable medical conditions such as chemical imbalances
that cause certain behaviors, but I'm not addressing that issue
here.) To 'think differently' is really a matter of re-MEMBER-ing.
Are we not members of a many-MEMBERED Body of which Jesus is
the Head? Ephesians 2:10 tells us that we were created IN Christ,
"For we are His workmanship, created IN Christ Jesus unto good
works, which God hath BEFORE ORDAINED that we should walk in
them." This happened before we were born, before our BODY was
conceived and in our mother's womb. We are an eternal SPIRITUAL
being; we existed in spirit in the heavenly spiritual realm before
we existed in our physical body.
With this in mind, let us re-examine the message of Jesus and
John, "Think differently, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand!"
The word translated as kingdom is basiliea in Greek, meaning
'rule or a realm'. The word translated as 'at hand' is engidzo
in Greek, meaning 'to make NEAR or approach'. So, do we think
differently so that one day way off in the future we may go to
a FAR AWAY place? Remember Jesus' conversation with Martha in
John 11:25 concerning Lazarus being raised? Her words were something
along these lines, "Yes Lord, I realize that one day in the sweet
by and by..." Jesus response was, "I AM the Resurrection!", not
just a future hope but a PRESENT reality!
The message of Jesus and John is, "Think differently (repent),
for the rule and realm of the Spirit (the Kingdom of heaven)
is available NOW (at hand)!" For the Christian, repentance is
not merely so much about sin as it is about understanding who
we really ARE in Christ and where we ARE actually seated in the
heavenly spiritual realm. This repentance or thinking differently
is not even so much about new information or new thinking, as
it is about re-MEMBER-ing who we were originally created to be
IN Christ. The Father had your destiny imprinted into your DNA
before you even had any physical DNA! This thinking differently
is not even so much about building something NEW, as it is about
rebuilding that which lies in ruins. "After this I will return,
and will build again the Tabernacle of David, which is fallen
down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set
it up..."(Acts 15:16). We usually think of that verse in terms
of corporate prayer and worship, but in reality WE are to be
the Tabernacle with NO VEIL that God is restoring in the earth.
Once again I will state it, godly sorrow and confession ALONE
do not have the power to break the bondage of sin! Only TRUE
repentance, thinking differently, the renewing of the mind can
bring freedom. "...be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind..."(Rom.12:2) The word translated as renewing is anakainosis
in Greek, meaning renovation, renewing. The primary thought this
word conveys is restoring something to its ORIGINAL condition.
Now then, does the Father desire to restore your mind to its
condition the day you were born from your mother's womb?... obviously
not. He wants to take us further back than that, to our original
mind IN Christ. Does the Word not state that we have the MIND
of Christ? (1Cor.2:16) As Christians, the mind of Christ is ALREADY
within us and available, however I believe it must be apprehended...
or rather, we must allow the mind of Christ to apprehend US.
We must be about "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing
that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing
into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ..."(2
Cor.10:5) We must refuse the lies of the carnal mind, that the
mind of Christ RENEW us to our original thinking IN Christ.
Let us continue to trumpet the repentance message of Jesus and
John the baptist. Think differently, allow your mind to be restored
to the mind of Christ, for the rule and realm of the Spirit is
drawing near and available now! Don't put off into the future
what is available NOW... the rule and realm of the Kingdom is
at hand TODAY!
info@DougFortune.org
Arise O Faceless Bride
Dennis Drewlo
Arise O faceless Bride and come out from among the shadows. Come out
from your place of obscurity. Come up to the mountaintop with Me.
Look out at the horizon and all you see will be yours.
Arise and be healed, O wounded Bride. Let the oil flow over your scars.
Bring your wounds to the Waters to be healed. Be healed, My Bride, for
the multitudes are waiting. The cities are crying for the Brides release!
Hear, My Bride. Hear the cries of the fatherless, the sick, the lost,
for they are your inheritance. Call to Me day and night in never-ending
intercession. Hear the groaning creation, O sons and daughters of God.
I am asking you to grow up, My Bride, for I am looking not for a teenage
Bride, but for a fully mature Warrior Bride. Take your place on the Wall,
you lover, you fighter. Arise and be healed. The time has come for the
Bride to roll up her sleeves and get to work.
Call out to Me, for I long to hear the cries of My beloved. Deep into
the night and earliest hours of the morning, call out to Me, My Bride.
Hear, O Bride. Give Me your ears and I will reveal the hidden mysteries
to you. Give Me your heart, O faceless one. Give Me your affections. I
will fulfill the desires of My Bride.
Now is the time to prepare for Birth. Be strengthened for what is to
come. Keep yourselves rooted and grounded in My love. I will strengthen
you so that you will be able to carry and bring forth what I desire to
birth through you. I ask you, My Bride, do not look back. O how it
grieves Me when My Bride longs for what I have done in the past, for
I desire so much more for you.
My desire is to have unity. My desire is to have one unified Bride and
not an harem.
O nameless one, arise and lift up the Name of the Bridegroom. How I love
to hear My Bride speak to Me. The stage is set, O Bride, for the grandest
play of all. O faceless one, arise and take your place for what is about
to come!!
revivalfire@prodigy.net
Destroying Idols & High Places
Deborah Voetberg
"The Lord looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men. From the place of
His dwelling He looks on all the inhabitants of the earth; He fashions their
hearts individually; He considers all their works."
There is a shaking in the lives of God's people to loose them from idols and
tear down their high places of worship. God is going after the intent of
every thought that has exalted itself above the knowledge of Him. Thoughts
that have been entertained, evaluated and eventually taken people captive.
We have thought the idols have been destroyed, but we are still worshiping
in the high places! Hearts must be directed toward God. Only God knows the
place of the altar where we worship.
The plumb line of the Lord's has been dropped into the world, and all of
creation is being measured according to His justice and righteousness. The
cry in the spirit is for justice and righteousness to reign in the land, but
it is the people who live in that land that determine the ruling power and
influence by their hearts.
Looking at the reign of King Jehoshaphat of Judah in 2 Chronicles 17-20, we
find an excellent example of how removing idols out of our lives is not
enough. We must remove the high places they hold in our thoughts and hearts
to be delivered and our hearts need to be directed toward God. The king's
heart took delight in the ways of the Lord and originally did remove the
high places and wooden images from Judah. He prospered in the land and the
fear of the Lord was on all the kingdoms that surrounded Judah. So Judah
had peace. But He allied himself with Ahab, the king of Israel, by his son
marrying Ahab's daughter, Athaliah. Eventually the high places were restored
and the people offered sacrifices and burned incense on them.
The word says how can two walk together unless they agree? When Jehoshaphat
allied himself with Ahab, he showed a high place within himself. An altar
that belonged not to the Lord, but to another. The Lord never called
Jehoshaphat to walk with the wicked and those that hated Him. Because
Jehoshaphat had areas in his life that took a higher place than the plans of
his God, the people followed by reverting back to their places of worship
and King Jehoshaphat lost favor with the Lord for the people had not
directed their hearts toward the God of their fathers.
What is the first step of a high place being established in our heart for
the eventual act of idolatry? Being out of God's rest and carrying burdens
He has not given to us.
In Jeremiah 17:21&22, The Lord commands Israel to not carry burdens on the
Sabbath day. It was to be a day of rest. In the new covenant according to
Hebrews 4:1-11 we are to enter His rest, to hear His voice and not harden
our hearts. To believe and enter into the promise of His rest. And to
fear not doing so, lest any of us seem to have come short of it!
Why is the rest of the Lord so critical in our walk in the Spirit? Look back
to Jeremiah 17. Following the warning on carrying burdens on the Sabbath
day, the Lord takes Jeremiah to the potter's house in chapter 18. The
vessel is marred, so the potter starts again, and makes it into a new
vessel. The message was that the vessel had to obey the potter and rest in
His hands as He re-fashioned him on the wheel. Israel's response." That is
hopeless! " Much the same response we give the Lord when He says, " Be
still and know that I am God." When it's time for Him to re-fashion us.
Israel walked according to their own plans and obeyed the dictates of their
heart. What followed that decision is found in chapter 18 verse 15..."
Because My people have forgotten Me, they have burned incense to worthless
idols. And they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways." What
follows unrest and rebellion? Idolatry!
Idolatry is met with the wrath of God, though it is always His heart that we
turn from our wickedness and live! In Amos chapter 4, we find five ways
that the Lord comes to draw us through circumstances in our lives, to cry
out for Him and repent from our ways, seeking Him and life.
The Lord cries out, " Seek Me and live! " To change our homes, cities and
nations, we must change our hearts. We must direct them toward God and
worship only at His altar and high place. Psalm 36:7-9 says, " How precious
is Your lovingkindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their
trust under the shadow of Your wings. They are abundantly satisfied with
the fullness of Your house, and You give them drink from the river of Your
pleasures, for with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see
light."
Seek Him and live! Choose life...increase your light through His light!
Great Grace!
Deborah Voetberg
In One Accord???
by Jacquelyn Fedor
We are the body of Christ. Some are called to government and help make up the head of Christ
and some are called to body members and make up the body of Christ. Like any sound body it
should have one heart and one soul. It must be in one accord with itself to accomplish
anything. Satan is aware that a house divided will fall. It is a spiritual law. So he
introduces as much confusion as he possibly can. The biggest way he is successful is through
the mixed message of the body of Christ today. It doesn't speak the same thing. A new convert
would have no real idea of how to be saved. Some parts of the body say "just ask the Lord into
your heart and you are forever His." Others teach "you must repent first, acknowledge your
need to be saved, then ask Jesus to come into your life and be baptized." Some say at this
point "you are forever saved" while others tell you that "you have to let the Holy Spirit mold and
shape you by putting you in the fire and refining you to be restored to His image once again." In
other words it is a continuous process, and not a one time thing. Who's right and who's wrong?
And then, even if we do make it to baptism, how should we be baptized? In the name of
Jesus? In the name of Jehovah, Yeshua, and Pneuma maybe? Or maybe in no name - just
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In other words, who He is in relationship to us. When we finally
got past baptism and looked back on the event, had anyone ever explained to us that Adam's
race was a fallen race this is why we had to be born over again? We couldn't just fix fallen man
or straighten out Adam's race, we really needed to be born into something different, a new
creature that would follow the Lamb rather than the goat.
Were we told it is legalism to follow the commandments of Christ and walk on the highway of
holiness? Maybe it wasn't said quite like that, but it was implied that we can continue to sin and
the blood of Jesus will cover it and the Spirit of grace will go on and on forgiving our carnality.
Much more emphasis was put on these scriptures than for us to be holy as He is Holy, or that
narrow is the way to eternal life and broad is the road to destruction. Here is another example
(speaking in tongues). Which way is it? Should we speak in tongues? Is this evidence of
being filled with the Spirit or are we filled with the Spirit when we ask Jesus into our hearts?
Who do we believe?
Some sectors of the church leave all ministry to the leadership. The body just blesses God with
their presence and money and they sit in a pew every service. And speaking of services, even
the day we meet together is confused. Is Sunday correct? Or is Sabbath proper? Maybe the
day doesn't even matter to God.
Another bit of confusion: Are apostles and prophets for today? Can women be used in this
area or in any area of leadership for this matter?
When we are counseled on home life, are we told men rule the home, or spiritually cover the
home? Are women helpmates or door mats?
The point I'm trying to make here is that the church does not speak with one voice. Its language
is confused and is so much babble to the ears of the world. Examples: Should we try to fix the
governments of this world or let them fall, knowing God's kingdom is coming forth. We pray
"Thy kingdom come", and fix Satan's. We say we don't compromise, but we don't want to stir up
contention by speaking truth. We say we are not old wineskins, but we like to do things the
same way our parents did. The old song "If it's good enough for daddy then it's good enough
for me" is part of the church's theme song, but the other half is telling us we have to change as
God opens the seals of revelation giving us direction to walk through this end time. Or maybe
this really isn't even the end times? Some say we are anointed, others teach He is anointed
through us. Some say we are gifted, others teach He is the gift within and all we do is yield and
die to our self so He can work through us. Some teach that once we are saved, Satan can't
enter us so there is no real need for deliverance while others point to the scripture where Jesus
tells Peter "get behind me Satan" and how that Satan entered Judas Iscariot and so demand
that we go through deliverance before we can have any place in ministry. On and on,
confusion, confusion!
Who do we listen to? Some say God loves everyone, while others point out He said "Jacob I
love (the spiritual man) and Esau I hate (the carnal man)". Who are the Jacobs and Esau's
today if God is the same? Didn't David sing a song of warning in Psalm 5 against the liars and
the boastful workers of iniquity? He said God hates these ones. Was David right? Does God
hate some types of people? And who are those He says shall not enter the kingdom, even
though they call Him Lord and prophesied in His name and cast out devils and did many
wonders? Who are the ones to whom He will say "I never knew you: depart from me you who
practice lawlessness"? He called some hypocrite, others vipers and white washed graves.
Where are these today? Who are they? Confusion and babble!
Did you know that in the beginning the whole world spoke one language? Over time, however,
the sin that Satan introduced to mankind became so prevalent that they became totally united in
their evil purposes and God had to stop them. The method He used to hinder their efforts was
to confuse their language and break the power of their united message. It stopped them
because they couldn't agree on how to accomplish anything and they became scattered.
Gen 11:1-9
Satan counterfeits all he sees God doing. He recognizes a "spiritual law" when he sees it. He
learned from the above experience that if the same message is not spoken by everyone (no
matter how much people want to accomplish something), they will fail if they do not speak
the same thing. A house divided will fall. It's a spiritual law.
Once more Satan will unite those that are lawless and full of rebellion through his message of
lies and false doctrine. These become one evil voice again against God, His people and
truth. These strongly united ones are then released into the church and their evil
message misleads and overpowers the new converts. They speak confusion and lies into
the hearts of these people, causing the once pure message to become so much polluted babble
and a new Babylon is birthed. Confusion worked for God in Genesis and it is working for
Satan today. Now a people with many different messages are trying to establish God's city
(New Jerusalem) and His tower (the mountain of Zion). As Satan's people were scattered so
long ago, we now see God's people disbanded and scattered in their efforts. But at Zephaniah
3:9 we see good news.
Zeph 3:9
It is the language of the Holy Spirit. It may be spoken in different dialects and from many
parts of the world, but the message will be pure and the same. No false doctrine in this gospel
and no lies of Satan to shape and mold people into his image. People who are truly in one
accord will speak what the Holy Spirit tells them to say. This will be a united message.
One of truth and restoration. This message will flow forth as living waters to create a new
heaven and a new earth and a new kingdom for God's people. Will it be a confused message
anymore? Absolutely not! The Spirit knows and tells only truth. How do we recognize truth?
Your spirit man knows the voice of the Holy Spirit no matter who the Holy Spirit is speaking
through. When your spirit witnesses with the Holy Spirit that a thing is so, you will have a peace
in the matter as you are obedient to that voice. Here lies a problem, however. God's ways are
not ours and many times when the Spirit gives direction we don't like what we hear. It probably
doesn't make sense to us anyway, and besides we like controlling our own destiny. We may
have soul ties to the past or mind sets as to what we will believe and blind spots, making it hard
to see truth. Besides, to listen to the Spirit will also many times mean we need to change our
message and even our lifestyle. One thing I do know from scripture however, is that if our
message is that of the Holy Spirit, it will not be one of compromise or confusion anymore.
No more babble. Pleasing the Father will take precedence over tickling the ears of man. And
if we continue in the pure message of the Spirit we will begin to develop in the very nature and
image of truth itself.
We are the temple of the Holy Spirit, or the Spirit of Truth. If we allow Him to speak through us,
He will draw us back together (in one accord) as was the early church, with one heart, one
soul and one message. He is not a God of confusion so we will not be divided any longer as
His house. We will be a house united with the same message and purpose and we will
conquer! It's a spiritual law!
In closing I put this plea out to the church. Please listen for the voice of the Spirit of Truth. Let
us allow God to weed the false doctrine and man's tradition out of the garden of our hearts and
out of our message. The noise of confusion, compromise and lies is the voice of the enemy that
screams over the top of the soft, quiet voice of the Spirit. As a prophet that I admire once
told me: God nudges, Satan pushes. Learn to recognize the nudges and the soft still voice of
the Holy Spirit. Don't listen to the voice of today's Pharisees and Sadducees as they fight to
maintain their positions. Speak the pure language that God is restoring to the church: the voice
long ago prophesied about in Zephaniah that will be restored at the time of God's wrath! Here
is the fate of those that won't listen.
Zeph 3:1-4
Zeph 3:9
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Armed With Courage
A. W. Tozer
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like
a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
When entering the prayer chamber, we must come filled with faith and
armed with courage. Nowhere else in the whole field of religious
thought and activity is courage so necessary as in prayer. The
successful prayer must be one without condition. We must believe
that God is love and that, being love, He cannot harm us but must
ever do us good. Then we must throw ourselves before Him and pray
with boldness for whatever we know our good and His glory require,
and the cost is no object! Whatever He in His love and wisdom would
assess against us, we will accept with delight because it pleased
Him. Prayers like that cannot go unanswered. The character and
reputation of God guarantee their fulfillment.
We should always keep in mind the infinite loving kindness of God.
No one need fear to put his life in His hands. His yoke is easy;
His burden is light. We Travel an Appointed Way, 48.
"Increase my faith; increase my courage. Amen."
April 19, 2001
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Psalm 33:13-15
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9 "For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the name
of the LORD, to serve Him with one accord.
God says He will restore a pure language so we can call on His name and serve Him in one
accord.
9 "For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the name
of the LORD, to serve Him with one accord.
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--James 1:6
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