PRAYER and OBEDIENCE
by David Wilkerson
We sometimes go to God in prayer as if He were a rich relative
who will support us and give us all we beg for, while we lift not
even a hand to help. We lift our hands to God in prayer, and then
put them in our pockets.
We expect our prayers to get God to working for us while we sit
idly by, thinking to ourselves, "He has all the power; I have none,
so I will simply stand still and let Him do the work."
It sounds like good theology, but it is not. God will have no idle
beggars at His door. He will not even allow us to be charitable to
those on earth who refuse to work.
"We commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should
he eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10).
There is nothing unscriptural about adding sweat to our tears.
Take, for example, the matter of praying for victory over a secret
lust that lingers in the heart. Do you simply ask God to take it
away miraculously, then sit by, hoping it will die on its own? No
sin has ever been slain in the heart without the cooperation of
man's own hand, as in the case of Joshua. All night long, he lay
prostrated and mourning over Israel's defeat. God set him on his
feet saying, "Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?
Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant
which I commanded them... Up, sanctify the people" (Josh 7:10-13).
God has every right to rouse us from our knees and say, "Why sit
around lazily, waiting for a miracle? Have I not commanded you
to flee from the very appearance of evil? You are to do more than
simply pray against your lust-you are commanded also to run
from it. You cannot rest until you have done all that is commanded."
Do not blame God for not listening to your prayers if you are not
listening to His call to obedience. You will end up blaspheming
God and accusing Him of negligence, while all along you will be
the culprit.
-Source-
http://sermons.worldchallenge.org/en/node/23867
Rabu, 27 November 2013
THE LACK of "HUNGER" - Key Problem!!
NOTE: An insightful piece below from Marie on why the West is
spiralling downward spiritually. It was sparked by Lee Grady's
article on "Apostles". We would be interested in your comments,
my friends.
THE LACK of "HUNGER" - Key Problem!!
by Marie [RS]
I´m sure there are compassionate apostles out there, but I´m afraid
that it´s the people they try to reach that are the problem. Our
western society is filled with so much pleasure-seeking and
entertainment, it´s hard to find the hungry people. We don´t live at
all like they did in the early church. Sin abounded then as much
as today, but people had shorter lives, walking everywhere to reach
places, no electricity, and everyone had to depend on each other
to survive. Families all had to live together and pitch in if they
wanted to survive.
We live in a selfish world. In India, families take care of elderly
parents and in the West, many are discarded and sent to homes,
or have retired wealthy and travel and live abundantly, spending all
their time on cruises, while the adult children struggle. We are
living in one of the most selfish times the world has ever seen.
When we read about certain dog-owners pampering their pets and
feeding them better than the average human, are we ready to hear
the gospel?... Everyone must keep up with their neighbors. People
are obsessed with things that are so temporal and don´t realize
they keep souls away at arms´ length.
If we are so consumed with self, how can we be apostles? The
Western lifestyle is quenching the Spirit. It demands energy,
obsessive communication with twittering and facebooking, financial
independence, success, education, youthful appearance, well-
maintained physiques, materialism, entertainment, travel and
what´s left of the day, is time for bed. Few take care of others. The
West hires people to take care of other people. The west is
experiencing a nursing shortage. Few young people want to work
in humanitarian jobs, but all want to work as anchors, or stock
brokers. Everyone wants to be a celebrity. Most high-powered
couples (and many in the church) are preoccupied with programs
and raising money for their churches. When do these have time
to talk to strangers? We won´t go where strangers are because
we´ve lost the art of hospitality and prefer to walk across the street
from the homeless man.
Apostles in today´s churches follow the trends, but so do the
saints, and so do unbelievers. Trends and activity keep everyone
from seeking God. Our minds are being bombasted with information
every moment, every second and we are being acclimatized to
having music, noise, talk, on radio, i-phones, i-pads, and if we ever
had a moment of quiet, I believe it might cause psychological
stress. People are being fed noise in their ears every waking
moment. How can anyone contemplate the things of God?
Towns in the Book of Acts were such that people congregated
outside (tropical climate) in the market and near temples to pray.
Today, millions pass each other in the streets and we don´t speak
to each other, but rather get cursed at if we don´t drive fast enough.
No one seems to have pity, compassion, self-control; women are
now independent feminists working outside the home, becoming
ferocious competitors and exhausted and have little compassion
outside the confines of their home.
The West is sucking the physical, emotional and spiritual energy
right out of everyone, where that leaves little for individuals to seek
God and pray and meditate on the Word. We are stressed on all
sides. Many people are coping with medications to relieve stress.
Everyone is told they need to exercise, keep a balanced life, work,
raise families, travel, occupy with activities, competitions, etc.
How can an apostle of the Lord squeeze into these people´s lives
for them to listen to what he has to say?
If they won´t listen, maybe it´s time for western apostles to shake
the dust off their feet and go into a place that would welcome the
gospel message. But, it might not be a comfortable lifestyle and
might require a lot of sacrifice. No one should call themself
`apostle´ until they leave the ways of Babylon.
-PLEASE COMMENT on this topic at the following website-
http://www.revivalschool.com/
spiralling downward spiritually. It was sparked by Lee Grady's
article on "Apostles". We would be interested in your comments,
my friends.
THE LACK of "HUNGER" - Key Problem!!
by Marie [RS]
I´m sure there are compassionate apostles out there, but I´m afraid
that it´s the people they try to reach that are the problem. Our
western society is filled with so much pleasure-seeking and
entertainment, it´s hard to find the hungry people. We don´t live at
all like they did in the early church. Sin abounded then as much
as today, but people had shorter lives, walking everywhere to reach
places, no electricity, and everyone had to depend on each other
to survive. Families all had to live together and pitch in if they
wanted to survive.
We live in a selfish world. In India, families take care of elderly
parents and in the West, many are discarded and sent to homes,
or have retired wealthy and travel and live abundantly, spending all
their time on cruises, while the adult children struggle. We are
living in one of the most selfish times the world has ever seen.
When we read about certain dog-owners pampering their pets and
feeding them better than the average human, are we ready to hear
the gospel?... Everyone must keep up with their neighbors. People
are obsessed with things that are so temporal and don´t realize
they keep souls away at arms´ length.
If we are so consumed with self, how can we be apostles? The
Western lifestyle is quenching the Spirit. It demands energy,
obsessive communication with twittering and facebooking, financial
independence, success, education, youthful appearance, well-
maintained physiques, materialism, entertainment, travel and
what´s left of the day, is time for bed. Few take care of others. The
West hires people to take care of other people. The west is
experiencing a nursing shortage. Few young people want to work
in humanitarian jobs, but all want to work as anchors, or stock
brokers. Everyone wants to be a celebrity. Most high-powered
couples (and many in the church) are preoccupied with programs
and raising money for their churches. When do these have time
to talk to strangers? We won´t go where strangers are because
we´ve lost the art of hospitality and prefer to walk across the street
from the homeless man.
Apostles in today´s churches follow the trends, but so do the
saints, and so do unbelievers. Trends and activity keep everyone
from seeking God. Our minds are being bombasted with information
every moment, every second and we are being acclimatized to
having music, noise, talk, on radio, i-phones, i-pads, and if we ever
had a moment of quiet, I believe it might cause psychological
stress. People are being fed noise in their ears every waking
moment. How can anyone contemplate the things of God?
Towns in the Book of Acts were such that people congregated
outside (tropical climate) in the market and near temples to pray.
Today, millions pass each other in the streets and we don´t speak
to each other, but rather get cursed at if we don´t drive fast enough.
No one seems to have pity, compassion, self-control; women are
now independent feminists working outside the home, becoming
ferocious competitors and exhausted and have little compassion
outside the confines of their home.
The West is sucking the physical, emotional and spiritual energy
right out of everyone, where that leaves little for individuals to seek
God and pray and meditate on the Word. We are stressed on all
sides. Many people are coping with medications to relieve stress.
Everyone is told they need to exercise, keep a balanced life, work,
raise families, travel, occupy with activities, competitions, etc.
How can an apostle of the Lord squeeze into these people´s lives
for them to listen to what he has to say?
If they won´t listen, maybe it´s time for western apostles to shake
the dust off their feet and go into a place that would welcome the
gospel message. But, it might not be a comfortable lifestyle and
might require a lot of sacrifice. No one should call themself
`apostle´ until they leave the ways of Babylon.
-PLEASE COMMENT on this topic at the following website-
http://www.revivalschool.com/
Kamis, 14 November 2013
THE SIGN OF a TRUE APOSTLE (It´s Not What You Think)
THE SIGN OF a TRUE APOSTLE (It´s Not What You Think)
by J. Lee Grady
What are the characteristics of a true apostle?
A few years ago I heard a preacher tell a room full of ministers that
they couldn´t work miracles or exercise apostolic authority unless
they used the word apostle as a title. So some of them ran out
and printed new business cards-as if putting the word in front of
their names was the magic ticket to reclaiming New Testament power.
That was a bad idea. For the past 15 years or more, thousands of
people have been wounded and countless churches have nosedived
because immature leaders thought they could gain apostolic status
the easy way. We are so eager to qualify ourselves that we forget
God alone calls, prepares and sends true apostles.
The late Arthur Katz, who was a prophetic voice to our movement
for many years, wrote in his 1999 book Apostolic Foundations that
nobody should be eager to step into an apostolic assignment or to
treat such a task flippantly. "God is jealous over the word apostolic,"
Katz wrote. "It is a word that has fallen into disuse and needs to
be restored, and that restoration is not going to be cheap."
We are so carnal, so power hungry and so enamored with status
and position that we don´t have a clue what apostolic ministry really
is. Most charismatics think it is about authority, and many men
who claim to be apostles build top-down pyramid structures that
abuse people. Others think apostolic leaders are marked primarily
by sensational miracles. Yet I see something we have entirely
missed when I look at the life of the apostle Paul.
Paul told the Thessalonians that love is the true hallmark of any
person who is sent on an apostolic mission. Therefore, if we want
apostolic power or authority (which we should), it must flow through
apostolic love or it is a counterfeit. This apostolic love can be
described in four ways:
1. It is incarnational. Paul brought the gospel to the Thessalonians
and lived among them. He did not just drop in, preach a good
sermon and leave. He said, "We were well-pleased to impart to
you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives" (1 Thess. 2:8,
NASB, emphasis added). Just as Jesus came to this earth, lived
among us and died for us, true apostles give it all. If all an "apostle"
does is preach a good message, he is a poor substitute for the
real thing. (And if he also spends more time taking up offerings
for himself, he is a hireling or a con artist.)
2. It is sacrificial. Paul risked his neck in Thessalonica, and then
he told his followers that he would "suffer affliction" from his
persecutors (1 Thess. 3:4). But he loved them so much that he
prayed for them continually, and he longed to visit them again
even though he knew it would be risky. He never mentions money.
In fact, when he was with the Thessalonian church, he worked
night and day "so as not to be a burden to any of [them]" (1 Thess.
2:9). That flies in the face of modern apostles who charge $1,000
an hour for their consulting fees.
3. It is relational. The word brethren appears in 1 Thessalonians
17 times. That´s because Paul viewed the church as the family
of God. He saw himself in the role of a gentle, nursing mother
(1 Thess. 2:7) as well as a strong father (v. 11). Paul´s affection
is so thick and so slobbery that it drips off the page of his letter.
He says the members of the church "have become very dear" to
them (v. 8) and that they "also long to see [them]" (3:6). It´s no
surprise that he ends the epistle by exhorting the people to greet
one another with "a holy kiss" (5:26).
What has happened to this kind of holy affection in today´s church?
Why are we so disconnected? We have replaced deep relationships
with cold professionalism. Many pastors have not been properly
fathered, so they don´t know how to love-nor do they have close
friends. So we cover our dysfunction with busyness. We work,
work, work-while sterile, loveless congregations struggle to grow.
We use gimmicks and programs to get people in seats because
our love is not warm enough to attract people to Jesus.
4. It is confrontational. Paul was not seeker-sensitive. He did not
hesitate to confront sin. He gave the Thessalonians one of the
most frank, forthright sermons on sexual sin ever written (1 Thess.
4:1-8). But he confronted them as a loving father by emploring
them to stay within their God-given boundaries. He didn´t use
anger, manipulation, domination or threats. He led with strong,
apostolic love.
I believe God wants to pour out a new wave of apostolic power on
our generation. But we can´t be trusted with this anointing if we
refuse to grow up. We will have the maturity to use the word
apostolic when we learn to walk in the love that was modeled by
the first apostles.
-PLEASE COMMENT on this topic at the following website-
http://www.revivalschool.com/
-Original Source-
http://www.charismamag.com/blogs/fire-in-my-bones/18982
by J. Lee Grady
What are the characteristics of a true apostle?
A few years ago I heard a preacher tell a room full of ministers that
they couldn´t work miracles or exercise apostolic authority unless
they used the word apostle as a title. So some of them ran out
and printed new business cards-as if putting the word in front of
their names was the magic ticket to reclaiming New Testament power.
That was a bad idea. For the past 15 years or more, thousands of
people have been wounded and countless churches have nosedived
because immature leaders thought they could gain apostolic status
the easy way. We are so eager to qualify ourselves that we forget
God alone calls, prepares and sends true apostles.
The late Arthur Katz, who was a prophetic voice to our movement
for many years, wrote in his 1999 book Apostolic Foundations that
nobody should be eager to step into an apostolic assignment or to
treat such a task flippantly. "God is jealous over the word apostolic,"
Katz wrote. "It is a word that has fallen into disuse and needs to
be restored, and that restoration is not going to be cheap."
We are so carnal, so power hungry and so enamored with status
and position that we don´t have a clue what apostolic ministry really
is. Most charismatics think it is about authority, and many men
who claim to be apostles build top-down pyramid structures that
abuse people. Others think apostolic leaders are marked primarily
by sensational miracles. Yet I see something we have entirely
missed when I look at the life of the apostle Paul.
Paul told the Thessalonians that love is the true hallmark of any
person who is sent on an apostolic mission. Therefore, if we want
apostolic power or authority (which we should), it must flow through
apostolic love or it is a counterfeit. This apostolic love can be
described in four ways:
1. It is incarnational. Paul brought the gospel to the Thessalonians
and lived among them. He did not just drop in, preach a good
sermon and leave. He said, "We were well-pleased to impart to
you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives" (1 Thess. 2:8,
NASB, emphasis added). Just as Jesus came to this earth, lived
among us and died for us, true apostles give it all. If all an "apostle"
does is preach a good message, he is a poor substitute for the
real thing. (And if he also spends more time taking up offerings
for himself, he is a hireling or a con artist.)
2. It is sacrificial. Paul risked his neck in Thessalonica, and then
he told his followers that he would "suffer affliction" from his
persecutors (1 Thess. 3:4). But he loved them so much that he
prayed for them continually, and he longed to visit them again
even though he knew it would be risky. He never mentions money.
In fact, when he was with the Thessalonian church, he worked
night and day "so as not to be a burden to any of [them]" (1 Thess.
2:9). That flies in the face of modern apostles who charge $1,000
an hour for their consulting fees.
3. It is relational. The word brethren appears in 1 Thessalonians
17 times. That´s because Paul viewed the church as the family
of God. He saw himself in the role of a gentle, nursing mother
(1 Thess. 2:7) as well as a strong father (v. 11). Paul´s affection
is so thick and so slobbery that it drips off the page of his letter.
He says the members of the church "have become very dear" to
them (v. 8) and that they "also long to see [them]" (3:6). It´s no
surprise that he ends the epistle by exhorting the people to greet
one another with "a holy kiss" (5:26).
What has happened to this kind of holy affection in today´s church?
Why are we so disconnected? We have replaced deep relationships
with cold professionalism. Many pastors have not been properly
fathered, so they don´t know how to love-nor do they have close
friends. So we cover our dysfunction with busyness. We work,
work, work-while sterile, loveless congregations struggle to grow.
We use gimmicks and programs to get people in seats because
our love is not warm enough to attract people to Jesus.
4. It is confrontational. Paul was not seeker-sensitive. He did not
hesitate to confront sin. He gave the Thessalonians one of the
most frank, forthright sermons on sexual sin ever written (1 Thess.
4:1-8). But he confronted them as a loving father by emploring
them to stay within their God-given boundaries. He didn´t use
anger, manipulation, domination or threats. He led with strong,
apostolic love.
I believe God wants to pour out a new wave of apostolic power on
our generation. But we can´t be trusted with this anointing if we
refuse to grow up. We will have the maturity to use the word
apostolic when we learn to walk in the love that was modeled by
the first apostles.
-PLEASE COMMENT on this topic at the following website-
http://www.revivalschool.com/
-Original Source-
http://www.charismamag.com/blogs/fire-in-my-bones/18982
More GREAT QUOTES -Sermonindex
More GREAT QUOTES
-Sermonindex
"Let me never become a slave to crowds."
- A.W. Tozer
"How do we worship our God Wholeheartedly? To answer the
question we must respond to the command..."If you love me, you
will obey what I command." John 14:15.
"True Love is complete obedience ... half obedience is no obedience.
If you love Jesus, you will obey what He commands. This is true
love and true worship."
- Unknown
"After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone, and children
sift through all we've left behind;
May the clues that they discover, become the light that leads them
to the road we each must find."
-Sung by Steve Green " Find US Faithful"
"Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of
spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When
wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results."
-E.M. Bounds
"Despite the atrociousness of it, Satan really does have "little cause
to fear most preaching." Most preaching in the modern church is
completely devoid of unction. Pastors are too busy playing golf or
racquetball to bother spending time on their knees."
-A. Reavis
-Sermonindex
"Let me never become a slave to crowds."
- A.W. Tozer
"How do we worship our God Wholeheartedly? To answer the
question we must respond to the command..."If you love me, you
will obey what I command." John 14:15.
"True Love is complete obedience ... half obedience is no obedience.
If you love Jesus, you will obey what He commands. This is true
love and true worship."
- Unknown
"After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone, and children
sift through all we've left behind;
May the clues that they discover, become the light that leads them
to the road we each must find."
-Sung by Steve Green " Find US Faithful"
"Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of
spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When
wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results."
-E.M. Bounds
"Despite the atrociousness of it, Satan really does have "little cause
to fear most preaching." Most preaching in the modern church is
completely devoid of unction. Pastors are too busy playing golf or
racquetball to bother spending time on their knees."
-A. Reavis
Jumat, 08 November 2013
More GREAT QUOTES -Sermonindex
More GREAT QUOTES
-Sermonindex
"Where God is not glorified - that place is sick."
-A.W. Tozer
"A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God."
- Samuel Chadwick
"A revival breaks the power of the world and of sin over Christians...
They have a new foretaste of heaven and new desires after union
with God; and the charm of the world is broken, and the power of
sin overcome. When the churches are thus awakened and reformed,
the reformation and salvation of sinners will follow, going through
the same stages of conviction, repentance, and reformation. Their
hearts will be broken down and changed."
-Charles G. Finney.
"The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches."
-Vance Havner
"Nothing is wrong with the inlet: It is the outlet that is obstructed.
The water of life does not spring forth because the flow has no
way through. Were the outlet cleared, the water of life would flow
unceasingly. What a child of God needs is not more life but more
flow of life. "
-Watchman Nee.
-Sermonindex
"Where God is not glorified - that place is sick."
-A.W. Tozer
"A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God."
- Samuel Chadwick
"A revival breaks the power of the world and of sin over Christians...
They have a new foretaste of heaven and new desires after union
with God; and the charm of the world is broken, and the power of
sin overcome. When the churches are thus awakened and reformed,
the reformation and salvation of sinners will follow, going through
the same stages of conviction, repentance, and reformation. Their
hearts will be broken down and changed."
-Charles G. Finney.
"The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches."
-Vance Havner
"Nothing is wrong with the inlet: It is the outlet that is obstructed.
The water of life does not spring forth because the flow has no
way through. Were the outlet cleared, the water of life would flow
unceasingly. What a child of God needs is not more life but more
flow of life. "
-Watchman Nee.
Rabu, 06 November 2013
The GREATEST DECEPTION
The GREATEST DECEPTION
by David Wilkerson
The greatest deception in the modern church is the matter of using
God's Word to put a badge of approval on covetousness. On the
surface, the Jezebel doctrine works (see 1 Kings 21:14-16). It got
Ahab what he wanted. He possessed his rights because when a
man was stoned for high treason against the king, all his
possessions reverted to the king.
Naboth the Jezreelite had told Ahab that he would not give him
the inheritance of his fathers because the Lord forbade him to do so.
"And [Ahab] laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face,
and would eat no bread. But Jezebel his wife came to him, and
said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?...
Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread,
and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vinyard of Naboth
the Jezreelite" (1 Kings 21:4-7).
Listen to the doctrine of Jezebel: "You are king, number one, and
you have rights. Let nothing stop you from getting what you want."
She said to Ahab, "Be happy! I'll get it for you." That is the false
gospel in a nutshell. "Don't sweat it. Don't feel sad or condemned
by those desires that eat you up. I'll get it for you." Like the
deceptive methods Jezebel used, these doctrines twist and
misuse Scripture.
But Ahab could not enjoy what he received because of a pesky
prophet of God. "And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the
Tishbite, saying, Arise, go down to meet Ahab . . . in the vineyard
of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it. And thou shalt
speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed,
and also taken possession? . . . In the place where dogs licked
the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood. . . . And Ahab said
to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered,
I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in
the sight of the Lord" (1 Kings 21:17-20).
Imagine Ahab walking about his new possession, saying, "Isn't life
sweet? Ah, Jezebel. I may not agree with all her methods, but she
certainly gets it done." But dogging his every footstep was the
prophet Elijah.
So it is today. God has sent prophets, crying aloud, confronting
the Jezebel doctrine of materialism, making it uncomfortable for
Christians to enjoy their playthings and acquisitions. They have
sold out. They cannot see it, but sin is behind all this. Every time
I cry out against the prosperity doctrine, I sense the spirit and
power of Elijah upon me. You are going to hear more and more
exposing of this Jezebel doctrine. Everywhere, prophetic voices
will be heard loud and clear, crying out, "Sin! You possessed by
selling out to sin."
-PLEASE COMMENT on this topic at the following website-
http://www.revivalschool.com/
-Source-
http://sermons.worldchallenge.org/en/node/25091
by David Wilkerson
The greatest deception in the modern church is the matter of using
God's Word to put a badge of approval on covetousness. On the
surface, the Jezebel doctrine works (see 1 Kings 21:14-16). It got
Ahab what he wanted. He possessed his rights because when a
man was stoned for high treason against the king, all his
possessions reverted to the king.
Naboth the Jezreelite had told Ahab that he would not give him
the inheritance of his fathers because the Lord forbade him to do so.
"And [Ahab] laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face,
and would eat no bread. But Jezebel his wife came to him, and
said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?...
Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread,
and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vinyard of Naboth
the Jezreelite" (1 Kings 21:4-7).
Listen to the doctrine of Jezebel: "You are king, number one, and
you have rights. Let nothing stop you from getting what you want."
She said to Ahab, "Be happy! I'll get it for you." That is the false
gospel in a nutshell. "Don't sweat it. Don't feel sad or condemned
by those desires that eat you up. I'll get it for you." Like the
deceptive methods Jezebel used, these doctrines twist and
misuse Scripture.
But Ahab could not enjoy what he received because of a pesky
prophet of God. "And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the
Tishbite, saying, Arise, go down to meet Ahab . . . in the vineyard
of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it. And thou shalt
speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed,
and also taken possession? . . . In the place where dogs licked
the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood. . . . And Ahab said
to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered,
I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in
the sight of the Lord" (1 Kings 21:17-20).
Imagine Ahab walking about his new possession, saying, "Isn't life
sweet? Ah, Jezebel. I may not agree with all her methods, but she
certainly gets it done." But dogging his every footstep was the
prophet Elijah.
So it is today. God has sent prophets, crying aloud, confronting
the Jezebel doctrine of materialism, making it uncomfortable for
Christians to enjoy their playthings and acquisitions. They have
sold out. They cannot see it, but sin is behind all this. Every time
I cry out against the prosperity doctrine, I sense the spirit and
power of Elijah upon me. You are going to hear more and more
exposing of this Jezebel doctrine. Everywhere, prophetic voices
will be heard loud and clear, crying out, "Sin! You possessed by
selling out to sin."
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"We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too."
-John Calvin
"Pride is God's most stubborn enemy! There is no sin so much
like the devil as pride. It is a secret and subtle sin, and appears
in a great many shapes which are undetected and unsuspected."
- Jonathan Edwards
"A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God"
-Paul Washer
"The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of
time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow
of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the
world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the
general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in
heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather
serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the
Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only
the free Spirit can make a man spiritual."
-A.W.Tozer
"Oh the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him!!!"
-Duncan Campbell
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"We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too."
-John Calvin
"Pride is God's most stubborn enemy! There is no sin so much
like the devil as pride. It is a secret and subtle sin, and appears
in a great many shapes which are undetected and unsuspected."
- Jonathan Edwards
"A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God"
-Paul Washer
"The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of
time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow
of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the
world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the
general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in
heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather
serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the
Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only
the free Spirit can make a man spiritual."
-A.W.Tozer
"Oh the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him!!!"
-Duncan Campbell
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