Five-Fold Today - Nations as Your Inheritance - Kingdom Evangelism - Women Beyond the Cave - A Season of Multiplied Sorrows - Crying Out for the Nations - His Glory Will Spring Forth - The Church: An Unworthy Conception of God
NATIONS AS YOUR INHERITANCE
I have a quickening in my spirit that this is the year of the nations. We
as a ministry have been bombarded with invitations and Macedonia calls to
the nations in the last six months! I believe that it is a prophetic sign
that God is truly about to give us whole regions and Nations for his Glory.
Ps 2:8 declares: Ask of Me and I will give you the nations for your
inheritance! In this day and Hour as Christ releases the Kingly Oil, his
mantle of Authority and power, we will see not only the release
of resources but opportunities to go and to reap in the nations of the
earth. There will be a Missions Evangelism explosion and the release of
the Glory and gold to launch missionaries forward into their destiny
because He shall rule as King. In this outpouring many
that are not in ministry at this time will quickly be released as
labourers in His vineyard.
I see Nations that have been closed to the Gospel even Muslim countries
opening a door wide, and I also see many of those at one time who
pioneered a missions movement, being thrust back into the ministry and
seeing the Godly Heritage being fulfilled in their
Children's children. Those who sowed much into the nations and saw
little fruit will reap!!!
One such nation I see beginning to explode in revival is Holland spreading
throughout Europe. As I was under the power of the Spirit recently in
Marysville, Washington, I had this Word come to me:
Holland Rise!!!
Holland, Rise and Shine for your light has come and the Glory of the Lord
is risen upon you. Gentiles shall come to your light and Kings of nations
to the brightness of your rising.
Holland, lift up your gates and the King of Glory will come in. I sense
that the Spirit of the Lord is about to favour you in a way that you have
not been favoured for hundreds of years since your last Outpouring. Dig
up those wells!!!!
Through the gate that you are to Europe and the world so you shall be a
spiritual Gate. I will bring the nations to you to experience a mighty
healing revival, I want to release that which will sweep through the
country healing the sick in their homes. Even as I moved
through Wales, I will move through you a sweeping revival of Power Signs
and Wonders. I see a spiritual reproach of Unbelief being rolled back and
the fountains of the deep giving forth her living water again.
Amsterdam, city of sexual sin, I will take your prostitution and
reputation of sin city life {red light district} and even as I made Rahab
the prostitute a part of my redemptive plan I shall not forget you in
Salvation. I will sweep your streets with a conviction of sin and visit
you with My purity. As the nations desired that of what I did in Toronto,
shall they not also desire you, Holland?
I see large healing Campaigns and a fruitfulness in areas of ministry
where the ground has been hard and not productive. Where ministries have
failed in the past and have even left you they shall return with the coals
of revival.
My love will bring a unity into you and the surrounding countries. It is
Time for you to take your place and sit back no longer for what I desire
to do in you will be a sign in the earth.
toddsa_2000@yahoo.com
KINGDOM EVANGELISM
By Meri Burlingame
In a recent post a minister told of seeing some beautiful young girls
standing idle on the streets of India waiting for their next trick. As I
was praying the other evening the scene of these beautiful girls came back
to my mind and with it the thought that in this "new season" that we are
in, when we go out to evangelize those beautiful young women, it is going
to have to be with an all new mindset.
In India and other places around the world it is increasingly impractical
to invite those you are introducing to the Lord Jesus to "go to church" or
"come to church." (OK, I hear some of you jumping up and down! grin.) In
India, churches are being bombed and attacked, and people wearing
religious apparel are singled out for attack.
Another missionary wrote in a post recently that a man without shoes came
to their mission organization and asked for shoes so he could more
effectively support his wife and family. Unable to provide such resources
the man was offered all that they had.....the outpouring of His spirit and
a manifestation of the glory of God. The man later returned and told the
lady that the glory of God was all he needed to
live his life, that it met ALL his needs.
An apostle in our area pointed out that while Moses saw many miracles he
still wanted to see the glory of God. The difference between these two
experiences is the difference in what God is calling us to preach in this
new season. Moses saw the Lord do the miracles, but when God hid Moses in
the cleft of a rock and "mooned" him as some with more sense of humor than
this lady has, called it, HE SAW GOD!
He experienced GOD Himself, personally.
In this season God is calling us to a new kind of evangelism: kingdom
evangelism versus insurance evangelism. Years ago I participated in an
evangelism seminar which taught that effective evangelism:
A young man attending that seminar who had just gone through an intensive
training for a large insurance company stood up and shared how these steps
of evangelism were exactly the same steps that they were taught as the
means of selling insurance! Their dire need to be protected, the
shortcoming of their present coverage, their company's policies, and the
dividend that the policy would pay.
Kingdom evangelism is just exactly the opposite of "insurance" evangelism.
Kingdom evangelism gives people the "reward" (the eternal life of Christ
Jesus Himself) and then makes them aware of what the reward or provision
accomplishes in their lives (transforms them into the image of Christ).
One of the greatest selling points is that Kingdom evangelism is free for
the asking, the "premium"
having been paid for them by Someone Else.
The good news of the Kingdom is that JESUS IS COME, the very life of Jesus
Christ is now available, free to all those who would ask! Jesus Christ IS
COME in the flesh! Do we have to show them their need for Jesus? Do we
need to point to the death and destruction in their lives as the reason
for "needing Jesus?"
No! Jesus, Himself, is the justification for receiving Him, not what He
can do. He isn't an insurance policy for when you get sick, be it
physically or spiritually. He isn't a life insurance policy in case you
die He isn't an accident policy in case you fall off a roof and break your
back.
Jesus Himself is the Message of the Kingdom. Moses saw all that the Lord
could do, but he longed for something more, to see (personally experience,
know) the Lord Himself.
In this season, the world is hungry to "see the Lord HIMSELF." And the
only way He is going to be manifest to the world is in those He has called
to be His own sons, his own body, the church. Except Jesus be formed and
shaped in earthly vessels of clay and walked into MacDonald's and
BurgerKing bearing forth the glory of the Lord's very
presence the WORLD will never know Him or that the Father loves them.
The day may be passed when you can invite someone "to church" without
receiving raucous laughter in your face. Unless Jesus Christ lives and
dwells in you and manifests Himself through you to those who walk the
earthly paths that you walk, the gospel of the Kingdom is not going forth.
In the last days many will go forth doing signs and wonders but the
scriptures tell us, many of them will be among those to whom the Lord will
say, I never knew (was intimately acquainted with) you. Do we only know a
God that healed us, or delivered us, or set our feet to dancing?
This is a new season and a new mindset is required. As wonderful as
Amazing Grace is, God no longer dealing with most Christian about what
wretches they are but is today, dealing with what it means to become the
"Perfect Man." The five fold ministry is called to equip the saints to do
the work of the ministry so that we all come to the measure of the perfect
man.
The cross is the beginning place, the means by which we enter into the
death of the Lord Jesus, that we might be raised up, A NEW MAN IN CHRIST
JESUS....so that it is no longer I that liveth but Christ that liveth in
me!
The harlots on the streets of India would probably spit in your face if
you asked them to go to church...what church? The one the Muslims burned
down the night before: the one that will be burned down tomorrow? Most of
the young people in our high schools would laugh at you if you invited
them to church or youth group for most (not all) are irrelevant to their
world.
But if we bear forth the image and nature of the Lord Jesus Christ, whose
presence is the same yesterday today and forever, they may get a taste of
the Kings presence and a hunger may arise in them which God will use to
draw them into His Kingdom, into the place where His
presence is the center, first and foremostly, of our hearts. Then it will
be where two or three are gathered together, and then He will inhabit
larger corporate dwelling places.
The Gospel of the Kingdom is the good news of the King, which is that He
loves ALL those he created. All through the gospel (good news) of the
beloved disciple John, we are told, if follow His commandments, the world
will see how much we love each other and know that the Father loves them
also.
The cost of receiving the Kingdom: total submission to the life of the
King within us! What freedom! Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is
liberty.....freedom to make choices!
The good news of the Kingdom is that JESUS IS COME, the very life of Jesus
Christ is now available, free to all those who would ask! Jesus Christ IS
COME in the flesh! Do we have to show them their need for Jesus? Do we
need to point to the death and destruction in their lives as the reason
for "needing Jesus?"
No! Jesus, Himself, is the justification for receiving Him, not what He
can do. He isn't an insurance policy for when you get sick, be it
physically or spiritually. He isn't a life insurance policy in case you
die; He isn't an accident policy in case you fall off a roof
and break your back.
Jesus Himself is the Message of the Kingdom. Moses saw all that the Lord
could do, but he longed for something more, to see (personally experience,
know) the Lord Himself.
In this season, the world is hungry to "see the Lord HIMSELF." And the
only way He is going to be manifest to the world is in those He has called
to be His own sons, His own body, the Church. Except Jesus be formed and
shaped in earthly vessels of clay and walked into McDonald's and Burger
King bearing forth the glory of the Lord's very
presence that area of our lives, how will they see Him?
But in the Kingdom, in this apostolic day, we carry forth HIS PRESENCE
rather than going forth casting down the high places of the heathen. When
we occupy the land as sons of God, whose image is borne
throughout our lives, there will be a major "re-formation" which will
ultimately result in a re-creation, a new heavens and a new earth at the
end of the reign of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the earth.
Meri Burlingame
ap@myhome.net
Women Beyond The Cave
I can't shake it. In my spirit I keep hearing God say,
"Women arise! Women arise! With open hands lifted up to heaven. With lips ready to give praise and speak truth.
With hearts soft and open, ready to receive My message. It's time to receive your spiritual inheritance. To receive your
personal marching orders for this important hour."
As women we should be very encouraged. We may be soft on the outside, but we're strong and mighty in spirit. We are God's
secret weapons and the enemy knows it. He takes us seriously, even when others don't. The enemy's strategy has been to keep us
quiet and in hiding. But God is doing an end run. He is going to release so many of us at once that the enemy is not going to know
what hit him!
I believe in this hour the Lord is saying to His women:
"Now is the moment when I Myself am coming to release you. Too many of my people have turned a deaf ear to you.
Only those who understand the big picture and full spectrum of My heart can hear the words, Women Arise! I am
going to lay such an incredible anointing on women who are willing to step out. I am tired of fighting the war with only
half of My army.
Where are My women? Where are the ones I called to teach, to preach... To blaze those trails even the bravest of
men shudder to go. Where are my women? Where are they? Have they not heard My call?"
After hearing this from the Lord, in my minds eye I saw a cave. I looked closer and many women were in it, too many. And they
were afraid to come out.
Some felt the cave was a safe place to stay, that only men were equipped to venture out and fight the battles beyond. Some
felt content to stay, because the cave was indeed, their place of service. But many felt restless, unsettled Many felt called out but
some of them had been told those feelings were wrong, so they stifled them, Stuffed them down. Poured guilt upon
themselves. But for some, those feelings could not be ignored And this was right... because for some Their call could only be
fulfilled beyond the cave.
Lets take a quick look at just of a few of the better known women who ventured out beyond the cave.
Think of Deborah. She was a prophetess and a judge. She was a married woman who had a day job outside her home. Deborah
judged a nation. I don't know what kind of job her husband had, but the nation came to his wife for rulings. Deborah carried a
governmental mantle and we could safely assume she also had the gift of wisdom and discernment. She was trusted to disperse
wisdom for the whole nation. When she called for the army commander, Barak, and told him it was time to go to war, Barak wouldn't
go to battle unless Deborah went with him. Everyone knew that Deborah heard from God.
Then there was Esther. She was an orphan being raised by her uncle. When her story began she was much younger than
Deborah... and still single. But she knew how to hear from God. She was abducted with many other beautiful young
Girls and taken to the castle of a heathen King who was having a contest for a new wife. Even there, the Lord spoke to
Esther. God told her to listen to her uncle and take the advice of the man in charge of the girls. Esther hid the fact that she was
Jewish, and God gave her a strategy to become the queen. But that was only the beginning, she also won the Kings heart.
But little did Esther know all the Lord had in mind. When the whole Jewish nation was in line for extermination Esther fasted and
prayed and God gave her intricate, day by day, wisdom with split second timing. I believe God gave her wisdom as she went, and
that she moved very prophetically, giving time for the King to have a sleepless night and time for Haman's gallows to be built.
Only God could have orchestrated such an incredible deliverance for the Jewish nation, and such a fascinating turn of events to
judge the bad guys. But it was a young Jewish orphan girl who listened, heard, and followed God's plan.
We should be encouraged. If these women can lead prophetically, judge nations, and save whole people groups, why can't
God can use us too?
Esther and Deborah were on the front lines. One of the things I really like about their stories is the incredible teamwork that
happened between them and the men God put in their lives. Mordecai was behind the scenes praying and sharing wisdom to
Esther. And I would imagine Deborah's husband [along with the whole nation] prayed when she and Barak went off to war.
Many years later Jesus rose to prominence and a young girl named Mary poured ointment His feet. Her act of worship was
despised by the men around her. They thought it was wasteful. But Jesus pointed to her extravagant adoration as an example every
believer should follow. The example of a simple, worshipping woman.
And still many years after that, Joan of Arc, a young girl from a poor village in France began to hear God speaking to her. Her faith
and her visions took her before her government, with a strategy and a plan. Joan of Arc became the only teenager in all of history
ever to lead the army of a nation. She was betrayed and became a martyr, she is still an inspiration to people around
the world today.
Hundreds of years later, four teenaged girls were sent to America from England on a mission. The Salvation Army was flourishing in
England, but was unknown in America. Within months these teenagers started a movement in America that is still going strong
today. Most people don't realize that it was teenage girls that launched the Salvation Army in America.
Then there was that young Albanian woman who went to India as a schoolteacher. While she was there she felt a call from God to
help the poorest of the poor. She walked out into the streets of India without any money in her pocket and simply began to pick up
the dying from the gutters and take care of them. She lived in poverty and did menial tasks even when her name became known
worldwide as the byword for the embodiment of Christian love and compassion. She was Mother Teresa. And she did all of her
kindness in the name of Jesus, and as a pauper and a servant, she received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jackie Pullinger left the UK on a freighter, believing God would tell her when to get off. When the ship docked in Hong Kong she
disembarked. Knowing no one, she wandered into the "walled city" filled with heroin addicts, prostitutes, and violent gangs. It was
so terrible in there that the police wouldn't even go in. But God found a young English girl who was willing to go and show the love of
Jesus to these forgotten ones. Jackie, on her own, quietly and sacrificially won the trust of the worst of the worst. She learned God's
secrets about the poor, she learned Chinese, and she learned the keys to praying people off of heroin addiction. Jackie is still in
Hong Kong today, and because of her continued sacrifice there is a flourishing Chinese church filled with ex-addicts and countless
people with new lives.
Today the mission field is filled women who are leading churches and pioneering works in remote tribes and villages. They are
teaching, training, and raising up native pastors so God's work can grow.
There are also women serving God in the suburbs and the inner cities, in the pulpit, on their knees, and in the streets. Some
are prominent Bible teachers and others are serving in relative obscurity.
I've told just a few very brief stories. I obviously didn't do justice in telling the stories of the women I spoke about, but their lives in
greater detail, along with many others will be profiled in this site. And so will the encouraging words of many many men who support
and encourage the release of women into ministry.
Have you been encouraged? Maybe it's time for you to venture out of the safety of your cave and see how God wants to use you.
There's always room for one more out there.
A Season of Multiplied Sorrows
Bryan Hupperts
While praying over my country, I began to grieve and rejoice all at
once because I was shown the future for both the saints and the
wicked. Psalm 16: 2-4, "As for the saints who are on the earth,
They are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight. Their sorrows
shall be multiplied who hasten after other gods."
The Psalmist was speaking prophetically and this verse has
application for the USA and backslidden Western world in general. Neo-
paganism is on the rise and Wiccans, those who worship the earth, are
a fast emerging spiritual movement. Clearly, there is a trend in the
USA to reject Christianity and follow hard after other gods.
God promises in this verse that those who love him and long for his
appearing are his delight. And we are promised, in Psalms 37:4, if
we, "Delight (ourselves) also in the LORD, And He shall give (us)
the desires of (our) heart." Being someone's delight means
that you are a source of joy and pleasure and they naturally desire
your company. The delight of the believer is the sweet, unabated
Presence of Jesus in our daily life.
Consider the fate of those who follow after other gods. God
promises, "Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after
other gods." I believe the Lord revealed that the West will enter
into a time of "multiplied sorrows" as a result of following
after gods who are not God at all. Abandoning the God of the Universe
for non-gods is referred to in the Bible as leaving "the path of
life." And if a path does not lead to life, then it surely leads to
death.
Death often means a place of separation where those who have died
receive the full portion of their darkest desire - existence apart
from God.
Right now, the world is wild about Harry Potter, the book series
about an orphan boy who uses witchcraft and wizardry "for
good." Even that bastion of evangelicism Christianity Today has
endorsed the book! The world is coming under the sway of neo-pagan
influence that says it's OK to pursue spirituality apart from a
personal relationship with God. Truly, Proverbs 16:25, "There is
a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of
death."
As a child, I read a distinctly new Age children's book called "A
Wrinkle in Time," by Madeleine L'Engle that began my spiritual
search opening me to the possibilities of there being more to this
life than the eye could see. Thank God I found Jesus! Or I would have
been another lost neo-pagan wandering further and further away from
the path of Life. Yes, we are a spiritual people, but Jesus is not
Lord in our land – and those who honor him as such are targets of
hatred.
How this coming time of "multiplied sorrows" will happen I do
not know. A catalyst will spark a chain of event that will undo the
greatest time of economic prosperity in human history. My Canadian
friend Thomas Gibson has written that in the future of the West,
people will drive cars that they can scrounge and find parts for. A
time of leanness will cure our national problem with obesity. While
praying, I had a picture of the highways covered with people riding
bicycles as peasants in China do because gas will be a luxury item
for the very wealthy.
When this time of multiplied sorrows comes, the neo-pagan world will
try wizardry only to receive silence from their gods – who are
not gods at all. The saints will be under the special provision of
God. As there was light in Goshen while God' judgments and plagues
struck ancient Egypt, so there will be the Light Himself shining like
the sun at noonday in the midst of His delightful people.
In this approaching season of humiliation, many will see Jesus in the
presence of His delightful Church and will come to a saving knowledge
of Him – while others will rage at God, devouring the land in
marauding hordes of bandits. And as sorrows are multiplied, like a
woman in childbirth, each contraction of pain will surely bring us
one step closer to the return of Christ – who will forever
vanquish false gods from the world.
Bryan Hupperts © 2000
CRYING OUT FOR THE NATIONS!
I am crying out for the NATIONS... My voice is sounding throughout
the earth through My prophets, calling the NATIONS to repentance
and restoration. The NATIONS are MINE, and I am calling forth
for that which is Mine to return to Me. For the consummation
of the ages, the fullness of times is at hand wherein I shall
bring righteous judgment, that which the blood of martyrdom and
prayers of the righteous cry out for. I shall and I AM consummating
all things in Christ, for the knowledge of My glory is filling
the whole earth.
For the NATION that has rejected Me, loving darkness rather than
Light, I shall recompense with certain destruction according
to My righteous decree. For the NATION that has turned to Me
and sought righteousness, I shall recompense with favor and undeserved
blessing according to My righteous decree. I indeed have a remnant
in every NATION, and for those who are called by My Name in the
NATION that chooses darkness, though the NATION be judged, Mine
shall be recompensed in mercy and grace.
Cry out for the NATIONS, speak My prophetic proclamation of destiny
over them! Enforce with authority My decree against powers of
darkness, that the illumination of the glory of Christ fill the
whole earth. Yes, I am sovereign and yes, it is My doing according
to My zeal, but I am accomplishing it through My Body - a many
membered Man coming into the fullness of Christ. For this has
been My purpose and plan from the beginning; to have a many membered
Man in My image and likeness to rule over My creation, that I
may manifest the essence of Who I AM in the earth... for in Christ,
all things were created and in Christ all things are consummated...
Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. Have I not decreed
that ALL people, NATIONS and languages should serve Me?... then
cry out in prophetic proclamation that each NATION fulfill their
destiny in ME.
Look to the NATIONS, O Sons, cry out for the NATIONS and command
that My purpose be fulfilled in the earth as it is in the heavens.
His Glory Will Spring Forth
DEBORAH GLIEBE
No matter how hard hell begins to hit, God is going to supernaturally spring
forth the Glory, and it will happen in so many spots, so fast when this new
movement begins to spring in its' fullness. That no matter how fast Satan
and his cohorts of hell go to extinguish it, as soon as he begins to do
battle and win at one point, the Holy Ghost will roll over cities and begin
to come into other places, and undo the evil in that place.
You will see whole houses of Mormonism given over to God. Whatever they do
in the temple, don't ask me. But I see a temple in my spirit, and I see that
God pours His Spirit, in His Grace. You say, "Those Mormons, they don't
deserve it." DID YOU? They deserve God just as much as you. In fact they
are probably seeking Him, and God is going to show up. They are going to get
filled with the Holy Ghost and come out shining, whereas some of the
religious churches have been playing in religiosity and don't have the true
fruit, these people that just had a real encounter with God are going to be
like 76 years old woman suddenly saved, saying, "I was just there, I was
just. . . and, I got GOD!!!!" And, at 76, she is going to be running to her
neighbor's house, ringing doorbells saying, "Do you want Jesus? I GOT
JESUS."
You will see hearts in men fail them and people drop dead behind pulpits,
right in the middle of their church services. God is going to take out some
ministers that have defiled the lamp stand. And have been preaching the
gospel but not by His will or His word. They have been under a wrong
controlling spirit and God will remove those people. And God will
supernaturally bring forth a remnant willing to pay the price.
Evil: You will see child molesters trumpeted in the future. And you will see
gay atheists and activists come forth to protect the molesters. Saying these
(the Christians) are haters. Oh God! And it will give appearance, like
where the scripture says, "What is good will appear evil and what is evil
will appear good."
You will hear about -- and some of you will actually be in the midst of --
total, full out, angelic visitations. Where the angels of our Lord Jesus
Christ so visit a place that fire appears over the meeting halls. And the
news media will catch this in actual photography. It will be trumpeted in
the newspaper in the future.
And you will see the flames, because these angels are right there. And
believe me, because some of you are saying: "Man that is way out there. Can
this be?" God says take it to My word. In My word, when the church got
filled with the anointing and the Holy Ghost, actual tongues of fire appeared
over them. And this is going to be done, in such significant manners, that
when these churches, that are having these spectacular signs happen,
virtually hundreds and then thousands of people will visit as the Lord will
use the news media to trumpet the events. And even though some will put a
negative connotation toward it, "I the Spirit of the living God will throw My
flame and fire on it in their hearts." And many will come just to see out of
curiosity and will be swept, by the multiple thousands, into salvation,
because of His great grace and His loving mercy.
You will see in the future, and hear of, entire households getting saved in
one night, at a service one evening. There will also be such an anointing to
preach the true gospel on TV. It will not only be Christian television, it
will be the other news stations that will partake because of the healings,
signs and wonders, that there will be whole television hours. Like they give
an hour to this report and an hour to that report. (like, "60 Minutes")
There will be television series by the hour that I, the Spirit the Lord Jesus
Christ, am going to do.
And people will be walking out that were carried in dead, that are alive;
"Saying, JESUS IS LORD". And because of those signs and wonder and
testimonies, thousands upon thousands of people will come. And there will be
Nations that will fly people from other Nations; Nation to Nation. It will
look like Holy Ghost holocaust going on. Because so many people will be
flying back and forth, saving and giving up even inheritances to fly over to
other Nations to see and test and taste the glory of God. People will so
empty out things and accounts! They will even take savings and inheritances
to get the gospel out. Some will literally walk into a church, having brand
new cars, and the Holy Ghost so compelled them to give unto His name sake,
that they will take their keys and throw them at the pulpit. And people, and
ministers and ministries will roll out with brand new cars. That day you
will see.
There will be entire teams, such as football teams -- (I am seeing a football
team) coming to the Lord and kneeling at the cross when they thought they
were going out to play a game. They will have a Holy Ghost encounter through
one evangelist that stands and preaches to them in a restaurant. And every
single soul will be saved and they will come out weeping. When they go to
the football or basketball place to do what they were going to do, instead
weeping will consume them and they will prophesy and they will give alter
calls and entire stadiums will be touched and many saved.
There will be people that are greatly known that will stand side by side by
these unusual signs and wonders that have been won by Christ and they will
then trumpet Christ. And will say, "You need to know Him! You need to know
Him! You need to know Him!" They won't even have a message that makes much
sense. It will be so simple.
That because of who they are and the personalities that they are, they will
literally lead hundreds of thousands to Christ, because people know these
people and love them and embrace them and because of that, because of that,
they will draw in many, many, many multitudes to salvation. Such as: (I will
give you an illustration) if Lucille Ball, which was on "I love Lucy," if she
would have trumpeted Christ, virtually thousands, who knows how many people,
would have accepted Jesus, just because they loved Lucy. Do you understand
what I am saying?
There will be mass healing crusades, that in the midst of the meeting,
suddenly, as the guest speaker gets up to speak, the Holy Ghost, without any
forewarning will suddenly, actually, fall in the building. And it will
interrupt the entire service and people will fall out, and the Glory will hit
the place and people will come up healed. There will be new parts grown on
people, as we have seen in the Spirit, multiple, multiple miracles. That is
why God is going to turn the world upside down in these end days. And
virtually there will be children that were punk rockers, that have spiked out
hair, have razor sharp edged stuff and has all kinds of stuff hanging off of
them, some of those kids will get so touched under the anointing, they will
get up, grab a microphone, give alter calls and thousands of people will get
saved because of the anointing.
There will be people that have never sang before in all of their life, that
will get up under the anointing and begin to sing gloriously, to the Glory of
God, and in their song they win souls to Christ.
There will be people that will be translated into other Nations as they are
walking down the road conversing with another. God will instantaneously catch
them on the way and they will be over in another place to minister the gospel.
There will be people with broken bones in hospitals but as people go in to
lay hands, they are instantaneously corrected under their hands. And people
and physicians, they will call into the rooms to see what happened. To see
what signs and wonders happened and they will want to know the beginning and
the end of the matter and many of them will get saved and begin to weep,
saying, "This could not have been done unless God be with them."
There will be children with deformities that have come out of the womb
totally deformed, in wheel chairs, some of them for years. And God will
literally, by the passing by in the shadow of anointed apostles, prophets and
evangelist, will begin to heal some of these and begin to put them in their
right state of mind and grow bones in places.
There will be these things that will happen. The end is very near and the
hand of God has to come down in a miraculous way to shake up a church and
wake her up and say, "Jesus is coming and His angels are with Him." And, He
is coming soon. Are you prepared to meet the Lord?
God is so going to shake the Nations.
"I am coming soon. I am coming soon." And the Holy Spirit is saying, "Get
ready to give me everything that you possess and think is yours, give it to
Me. Give me your whole hearts, not leaving any part out and I will give you
My very best, which is an unequal portion for your own life. I will put My
Spirit in you to do My will and My way. Only do not look for another. Do
not look to others. Look to Me."
God wants our hearts solely in Him. That we do not look to a man, we do not
to a ministry; we look totally to Jesus Christ in every way.
And some of you have gotten off track because you have looked to people. And
God is saying, "Oh I allowed that, so that now you can look to Me. So that
you can understand, I am the one doing all of this."
Well of Bethesda Ministries
The Church: An Unworthy Conception of God
A. W. Tozer
For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? Who among the sons
of the mighty can be likened to the Lord? God is greatly to be feared
in the assembly of the saints, and to be held in reverence by all
those around Him.
Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending upon her
concept of God. And I insist upon this and I have said it many times,
that the basic trouble with the Church today is her unworthy
conception of God. I talk with learned and godly people all over the
country, and they're all saying the same thing.
Unbelievers say, "Take your cowboy god and go home," and we get angry
and say, "They're vile heathen." No, they're not vile heathen--or at
least that's not why they say that. They can't respect our "cowboy
god." And since evangelicalism has gone overboard to "cowboy
religion," its conception of God is unworthy of Him. Our religion is
little because our god is little. Our religion is weak because our
god is weak. Our religion is ignoble because the god we serve is
ignoble. We do not see God as He is....
A local church will only be as great as its conception of God. An
individual Christian will be a success or a failure depending upon
what he or she thinks of God. It is critically important that we
have a knowledge of the Holy One, that we know what God is like.
The Attributes of God, 41,42.
"O God, help me to capture once again a realization of the greatness
of my God. May the God I represent in my ministry today be a God
worthy of lavish worship. Amen."
Literature Ministries International
Insight for Leaders
July 18, 2000
Todd Bentley
by Melody Green
SheepTrax Ministries, Inc.
www.SheepTrax.org
bryanh@igateway.net
Doug Fortune
http://members.aol.com/WellPage
--Psalm 89:6,7
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