Mighty Outpouring

Mighty Outpouring

The year 2010 will be a year of mighty outpouring of My Oriented Presence upon My Church, with a mighty move of My Supernatural powers flowing through My Oriented Church, those who worship Me and draw close to Me. My Bride who will seek Me the Bridegroom in deeper intimacy then other before. Then you will see mighty exploits of those who seek Me and My Presence and Glorify Me not self. Those who promote intimacy with Me and build My Kingdom not there's. Remember you as individuals are My Church, My dwelling place, My Temple!!

A trial for many in 2010

This will be a year of trial for many, but those who seek Me and thirst after Me and not flesh, shall see My Presence flowing where My people gather know matter of the size of the group. For My word says where two or three are gathered I am in the midst. So My Bride press into Me with expectancy even now as I begin to move as you are focus on orienting My Presence with, seeking Me and harkening to My voice led by My Presence. In My Presence there is Fullness of Joy!!

So Arise My Church, obey My voice put action to what My Spirit is saying through My Eagles. A mighty move of supernatural power with many being healed will start in the State of Oregon U.S.A and spill out through the USA, Canada and the world. Yes as My people seek Me whole heartedly and worship Me in Spirit and Truth, My Oriented Presence will flow like a river throughout the US.A., Canada and the world. Focus on Me and My Presence and My anointing. For I am the anointed one, My Father is Love and the Holy Spirit is the anointing.

Do Greater things

I shall raise up by My Spirit many who will be carriers of My Presence and flame the Fire with humility giving Me the Glory & Praise! I have declared in My word that you shall do greater things then Me. So don't put Me in a box but expect My Presence in 2010 walk in the abundance or My Rain, My manifestations of Supernatural Power!

Nothing is im[possible with Me, many will come to know Me as Lord in this season of Oriented Presence. This will be a year of Harvest for My Kingdom!

By prophet James Donovan

Perception: 2010: The Year of Courage Courage = Confidence

Heb. 10:35: Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. (KJV)

I believe 2010 will be the year of Courage. Courage is not something that can be borrowed or bought. It is an inward behavior which creates the conclusion for your future actions. It is a predetermined action to any circumstance. It comes from confidence in God and in yourself--yes, in God and in yourself! Courage is also an action of faith. Faith is a spiritual confidence that God really is telling us the truth and that we can pull it off. So you see, courage is the product of confidence, and confidence is the product of faith, and with faith all things are possible. Let's explore this further.

Do you remember the lion in the movie "The Wizard of Oz"? In the beginning he was very fearful and he lacked confidence in himself. The cowardly lion spoke these famous words: "Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got?"

He was created to be the King of the Forest: one who rules with great courage and authority. Yet, his problem was that he had misappropriated his confidence. He had placed confidence in his past and not in his future. He had placed his confidence in fear and failure, instead of who he really was to become. The lack of confidence equals fear; but confidence in abundance equals courage. Can you identify with the lion's character? Fear is not of God so why should you be in agreement with this creative power? Yes, creative power--fear is a creative power! Have you ever considered this: that fear has creative power? Of course it does. It will guide every step of your life if you live in agreement with its influence. Just as the lion agreed with fear, so do you and I at times. The more he focused on failure, the more fear he created. The lion's greatest desire was to have courage to rule and reign. He had this great need to be all that he was created to be; it just seemed there was an unseen force that hindered him from achieving this crescendo in his life.

Fear caused the lion to feel inadequate. It even caused him to give himself a new name: he went from the "King of the Forest" to the "Cowardly Lion". Have you yielded to this influence of fear and given yourself a new internal name? Your internal name is the one you live unto. It is the name to which you respond. "Bad circumstance of life" was the evidence the lion used to give himself his new name. He saw himself as the "Cowardly Lion" so he lived unto this name. He constantly gave testimony to his friends that this was who he was. Those who opposed him also gave the report of his fear and cowardly ways. Can you see how you can agree with the wrong information and create a false reality? A false reality, yes; but a reality just the same. It is in this greenhouse of false reality where the bad information breeds and grows. Pretty soon you have a harvest of fruit that, at best, is undesirable and bitter. The cowardly lion was very unhappy with the false reality he had created; and thus, was on a quest to find courage to overcome the fears that controlled his life. He was looking, however, to fix his problem from the outside in, instead of from the inside out.

Are you on this same journey? Could it be that you are letting fear give you a new name? Can you see how the lion had lost all confidence within himself? What a dangerous place to be. It is in this place that you can be controlled by fear. Fear is darkness and lies and can only be present where there is a void of light. A lie is darkness running undercover; but it is presented as truth. How can you know if you are embracing lies as truth and darkness as light? It is by the fruit of your life. You cannot escape the fruit. Do you feel more alive today than ever, or are you feeling death within your soul? Are you giving yourself a new internal name that speaks death, or is your new name one that speaks life?

Your spiritual enemy is constantly trying to give you a new name, one that reflects sadness and failure. Just check on the names you are calling yourself--this is your evidence. When the lion finally saw the Wizard, he found that the Wizard did not have a magic potion of courage to give him, but he did have the truth. The truth was in the lion all the time. He just needed to discover the truth of God within himself and exercise faith in it.

If you have received the Spirit of truth in your life, then the truth to set you free has been in you all the time. You just need to exercise confidence in the truth of God and in yourself. This confidence will begat courage, and courage will be the spiritual fuel to propel your future. Confidence and courage says that you will not run from your problems, but will hit them head on. Confidence and courage says that you will not fail; but you will instead prevail. God's call gives you a name. It is the victorious one, part of a royal diadem. God has already given you a "new name" to go with a "new nature" of the "new man". Will you believe the "lie" or embrace the "truth"? Could it be possible that the Creator knows best what the creation He created should be called? Of course He does! Be courageous and believe.

Isaiah 62:2-3: And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name , which the mouth of the Lord shall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. (KJV)

Can you see that this new name will be part of the crown of glory that our Lord will hold? To be part of a crown must mean you have great value. He died and bought the rites of your heavenly domain name. Not only is your name part of the Lord's crown, it is also part of a royal diadem. Royal means you have "kingly ancestry" and "diadem" means to be wrapped around. God calls you a royal diadem which means that because of your royal ancestry, you are wrapped around His hand never to be let go. Can you see it? Jesus is King, and you and I are His crown. Not only are you given a new name, you are also given a new address where this man or woman with the new name will live. This new name is eternal just like the new address is eternal. This new address only needs a name and destination in which to complete its journey. This is a spiritual key that creates your eternity as well as your future here on earth.

Rev. 3:12: ... I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. (KJV)

The name of something is the first line written in an address; therefore, the name is the first thing that determines where the object is going! You can see that what you call yourself determines where your life is going. Perhaps you need to learn from this heavenly truth and begin agreeing with your Creator. Have the courage to believe that you have a new name which sets you free from the past and sends you into your future. I challenge you right now to pray and ask God what your new name is. Be courageous. Don't be afraid. Stop right now and just ask. Listen to His still small voice. I'll give you a little help. Remember that your new name has to do with your destination. Write me back and let me know what you hear.

May God bless you all in this new year of 2010. I encourage you to confidently step forward in faith and with courage, to embrace who God truly created you to be!

Blessings,
Alan Smith

Prophetic Word for 2010 The Year of the Fivefold Entrepreneur

Prophetic Word for 2010
The Year of the Fivefold Entrepreneur

The Following Word is available online also at http://www.gbr-i.com/daily_ent

The time is at hand says the Lord, for Me to reveal a new plan for My Body. For many times and seasons of blessing have come upon My people in times past, and many lives have been touched and transformed. Yet one difficulty has plagued My Church from the beginning. And this has caused My people to come under the bondage of the World System and the rulers of this world.

For though you are not of this world, says the Lord, you cannot function without the resources that are in the world. Therefore the enemy has locked up those resources and placed them into the hands of those who oppose My Kingdom. And My people are forced to grovel to the World System in order to carry out My work.

This has caused many of my choice servants in the past to fail in their calling. They were often so restricted because of financial lack, that they failed to complete their mandate in the time available to them. And while those who serve the Wicked One prosper, My servants suffer lack and hardship.

But I have reserved for Myself those whom I have been preparing out of sight, hidden from view, and unknown to the enemy. And I have been raising up my prophets to decree into existence the era that is about to begin, and to release those whom I have been preparing in secret.

These men and women and have cried out to Me for a way to bring the changes that are needed. To cause the wealth of the wicked to be moved into the hands of the just. To place the resources of this world back under the control of My Body, the Church.

And as the world struggles to overcome its financial problems, seeking ways to solve the effects of financial lack and recession, I have prepared those who will find the true solutions. Those who will not only provide a way out of these problems, but also a way for My people to break free of their dependence on the ungodly and systems of this world.

It is time, says the Lord, to reveal those whom I have called with a different calling, and anointed with a new anointing. Not an anointing for normal ministry, but an anointing to tap into the wealth generating mechanisms of doing business My way. It is time to reveal, not only those called to the Fivefold Ministry, but also those whom I have called with a Fivefold Business Calling.

It is time to reveal, not only the Apostles that I have called and raised up, but also the Fivefold Entrepreneurs that I have called and am raising up. For these men and women will take their stand by the side of My Apostles, and together they will lead My Body to a place that is has never been in the past.

As I called Abraham long ago to leave Ur of the Chaldees and go possess the land I had promised him, staring a new race of people, so I am raising up my Abraham Entrepreneurs to leave the systems of this world and to prepare a place for My people, and a new generation that will rise up and take the land for Me. As Jacob of old learned to prosper and become wealthy using My power, so I am raising up My Jacob Entrepreneurs to tap into the wealth of this world, using My power.

As I raised up Joseph of old to take control of the wealth and resources of Egypt, so I am preparing My Joseph Entrepreneurs to overcome the world system and take control of the wealth of this world. And as I raised up Solomon of old to bring the Nation of Israel to a place of unprecedented wealth and prosperity, so I am raising up My Solomon Entrepreneurs to bring a prosperity to the Church that is without precedent in either past generations or in the Church.

As the year comes to a close, says the Lord, an old era will come to a close. And as the New Year begins, so a new era will begin to dawn. And those whom I have called with this new calling will start to become manifest in the world. They shall rise up and be trained by Me and those whom I have raised up for this purpose.

And then will begin a time of prosperity in the Church that has never existed before. A time of breaking free of dependence on the World System; a time of taking control of the wealth of this world. For this new era will see a new breed of leaders arise in the Church, who are called to prepare the way for the Fivefold Ministry and to finance the completion of My commission to take the Gospel to the whole world.

No longer will My servants rely on foreign missionary organizations to support them in their calling. But My Fivefold Ministers and Fivefold Entrepreneurs will stand side by side and go forward together as one, to take this world for My Kingdom.

Behold the New Year that stands before you says the Lord. It will be the year of the Fivefold Entrepreneur, the era of the Fivefold Business Calling. It will be the year of financial deliverance of the Church; the beginning of a new era that will change the face of the Church forever, and prepare the way for My soon return.

The Above Word is available online also at http://www.gbr-i.com/daily_ent

A MAN of SORROWS...

A MAN of SORROWS...
-by Marc White.

The prophesy in Isaiah 53:3 reads:

"He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him."

Rejected. Hated. Forsaken. Grief, the kind that accompanies
affliction and severe illness. Shame.

Man of sorrows, which, it seems, is pain inflicted both physically
and emotionally.

Why is this so? Jesus our Lord came to initiate the new order, the
kingdom of God. Good news to the afflicted, binding up the broken-
hearted, proclaiming (not “sharing”) liberty to captives, and freedom
to prisoners (Isaiah 61:1). Setting the captives free by His grace,
so we shout hallelujah!

But natural men love the old order, the status quo, the way things
are, the safe and familiar paths of the demonic world. Men of flesh
are threatened by the new order of God, since an eternal decision
is required that will cost them their familiar life. They often end up
despising and forsaking both its message and especially the Messenger.

So, assuming we’re walking with Him, both He and us at times
are people of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Jesus asked Saul
on the road to Damascus why he was persecuting HIM. And Jesus
commands us to leap for joy NOW when the persecution comes!
And it is promised to come. All who desire to live a holy life will
suffer for His name’s sake.

Meditating on Scriptures that describe the time on Calvary, we see
little joy at that time. But the joy given to the Author and Perfecter
of faith because of the cross came later on, we’re told. Hebrews
12:2 goes on to say: “who for the joy set before Him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand
of the throne of God.”

In the garden on that last night, words were uttered that stun me.
Earlier on in my Christian life I was always taught Jesus was “never
down.” Oh, He wept, but He was never in despair. But the words
reflect the truth of that night:

Matthew 26:37-38
And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and
began to be grieved and distressed. Then He said to them, "My
soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; remain here and keep
watch with Me."

Even our brother Paul experienced this gut wrenching emotion of
excessive burden and despair:

2 Cor. 1:8
“For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction
which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively,
beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life…”

But a couple of verses later, Paul praises the truth of the Savior’s
deliverance:

2 Cor. 1:10
"who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us,
he on whom we have set our hope. and he will yet deliver us"

Many of us believers avoid sorrow at all costs. Some even think
that sorrow, or any kind of tribulation in this world, means we’re
out of God’s will. So, they claim, we just need to be positive, not negative.

But those who walk closely with Jesus know the way of sorrow, the
way of the cross, being acquainted with grief. But it’s temporary,
we will be delivered. Praise to Jesus! Joy always follows these
times to those who fix their eyes on Him, running the race with
endurance (Heb. 12:2).

After circumcising Jesus on the 8th day and waiting 40 days for
Mary to become ceremonially clean once again, the couple brought
the newborn Son of Man to the temple. It’s at this time old Simeon
gives his farewell blessing-prophesy in Luke 2:34-35:

“And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, "Behold,
this Child is appointed for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and
for a sign to be opposed— and a sword will pierce even your own
soul—to the end that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed."”

Mothers, what do you feel when you read this? The fall and rise of
many? A sign to be opposed? A sword piercing Mary’s soul? Is
this any way to begin a new life with your firstborn? But Mary knew,
at least in part, it would not be a cake walk. Hardly. I’m positive
the mercy of God was upon her as the Holy Spirit prepared her
heart for the deposit of this word from the old saint. God, the faithful
one in her life, would supply Her need now, and even later at Calvary.

Did Mary know the prophesy of Isaiah 53, the Man of sorrows?
Probably. Did the Holy Spirit bring it to her mind, and then perhaps
bring comfort? I’m speculating He did. Might it have come through
the psalmist? God knows. Someday I hope to ask her in heaven.

Psalm 30:5b
"Weeping may last for the night,
But a shout of joy comes in the morning."

I remember vividly in Chicago growing up in the ‘60’s the first time
that I saw a tough-guy biker wearing the t-shirt that proclaimed “Born To Die.”

So, at this time when most celebrate His birth, we remember He
was born to die.

But much more than that.

He was born to be resurrected!

-Marc White.
-SOURCE: www.walkworthy.org

And the Word became flesh and lived among us

Hi all,
This week my thoughts have turned to John 1:14: "And the Word became flesh and lived among us." I'd like to share what that meant to first century readers of the gospel of John, and what it should mean to us.

Once upon a time there was a boy...
Samuel was born in the days of the book of Judges, a spiritually dry time in Israel. Though various righteous judges had risen and fallen over more than 300 years, there was little revelation flowing from the Lord.

But that's about to change, and the change established how the Lord would reveal himself to the prophets throughout the rest of the Old Testament, and even into our day.

I Samuel 3:1 sets the stage: "And the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no open vision."

You know the story; the Lord called Samuel 3 times, and each time the boy thought it was Eli calling him. Verse 7 says the reason he didn't recognize it was the Lord was this: "Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him."

On the 3rd time Eli realized it was the Lord and instructed Samuel to say "Speak Lord, for your servant listens." (v9) And I love verse 10: "And the Lord came, and stood and called as at the other (3) times." Again, this is the Lord, not an angel. It is Christ making an Old Testament appearance.

The Lord came and stood...after telling Samuel some things concerning Eli, verse 15 says that Samuel "was afraid to tell Eli the vision." So the Lord came and stood, Samuel saw him, but Samuel's eyes had to be opened to the Spirit realm to see him - the visitation was a vision.

Verse 21 establishes this new thing: "And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh; for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel by the Word of the Lord." From Adam to Samuel he revealed his various redemptive names, but now he is revealing himself as 'the Word of the Lord.' (caps mine)

This pattern of visitation as 'the Word of the Lord' is the way he would appear to all the prophets from here on out in the Old Testament. So when we see the phrase 'the word of the Lord came' in the prophetic books we know it is Christ appearing in a vision to give them a word, just as he established with Samuel.

The prophets didn't receive a word like some mystical hand guided their pen onto paper. They don't mean they were alone in the wilderness and heard the voice of the Lord. They mean as with Samuel, the Word of the Lord appeared in a vision and spoke to them and often showed them visions of future things. When they say "the word of the Lord that came to...", they mean the Word of the Lord, He, CAME to them.

Here is a sampling of the Lord appearing as the Word of the Lord to the prophets:

Jeremiah: "The words of Jeremiah...to whom the Word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah...then the Word of the Lord came to me saying, Before I formed you in the belly I knew you...then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth..." (1:2, 4, 9)

Joel: "The Word of the Lord that came to Joel..." (1:)
Amos: "The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel...thus says the Lord..." (1:)
Obadiah: "The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning..." (1)
Jonah: "Now the Word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai saying..." (1:1) "And the Word of the Lord came a second time to Jonah saying..." (2:1)
Micah: "The Word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite...which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem..." (1:1)
Nahum: "The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite." (1:1)
Habakkuk: "The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see." (1:1)

I particularly like Habakkuk because he describes the Lord in 3:4: "And his brightness was as the light; he had shafts of light coming out his fingers (hands): and that was the hiding place of his power."

Deuteronomy 9:10 says the Lord wrote the 10 Commandments in solid rock for Moses "with the finger of God." What Habakkuk describes as beams of concentrated light coming out the Lord's fingers, we would liken to a laser beam. Well, that explains that! Amazing.

Zephaniah: "The Word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah..."
Haggai: "In the second year of Darius the king...the Word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet...thus saith the Lord of hosts saying... (1:1-2)
Zechariah: "In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius...the Word of the Lord came to Zechariah...", which began a series of 10 visions, and even later in the book he continues to say "the Word of the Lord came..." as it relates to still more visions and visitations.
Malachi: "The burden of the Word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. I have loved you says the Lord..."

So you see...
The men who wrote the prophetic books of the Old Testament were reporting their visitations with the person of the Word of the Lord. That's how they knew him; the Word of the Lord. To them, that was his name.

Time to leave heaven and come to earth: The Word of the Lord was made flesh
What I'm about to share is an experience that remains the most sacred, intimate, and holy visitation I've ever had. I'm often torn between two emotions when I write or speak of some visitations and visions, and for that reason I rarely share this one.

First, they are between me and the Lord or me and the Father. Part of me wants to hold them in my heart as a treasure for me and me alone. But the larger part of me is compelled to share what I've been shown because to that I have been called. I must be transparent, I must share the ways of the Father, but it isn't always easy giving away what I've seen to what is for the most part, people who don't know me. So hear my heart, and if you don't believe me, just put it on a shelf for now, or reject the vision I share, but not the messenger.

During a visitation when my angel gave me a word from the Father, I asked him about heaven, and in particular how angels relate to Jesus. As I share in Pursing the Seasons of God, he told me this: "You have to understand, we know him as Creator (you know him as Savior)...Though we knew what was taking place when he left heaven, we did not personally understand. We had no way of comparing his great act of love for you with anything we had ever experienced, or anything we had seen him do."

I was then taken in the Spirit to heaven to a an event that happened over 2000 years ago; the moment Christ left heaven to be conceived in Mary's womb to become the baby named Jesus. I was merely a bystander in the midst of a huge crowd of angels before the throne of the Father in heaven. As far as I could tell I was the only human there.

The Father's throne was bright light, so bright I could barely make him out, and I could barely see the Lord standing next to him, yet out of that light as if coming from the brightest part of the sun, Jesus slowly walked away, which was in the general direction where I was standing in the crowd.

Every angel and even the cherubs around the throne were silent, and as Jesus walked through the crowd every angel would either kneel down on one knee or bow at the waist as they parted to let him pass. I've never experienced such a mixture of somber seriousness and pure awe and wonder. Every angel understood the seriousness, though they couldn't comprehend it mentally. Their Creator was about to become one of his creations.

Of all the times I've seen the Lord, angels, and been to heaven, this was the only time I felt like I didn't fully belong. I felt like a kid given permission to stay up way past his bed time to witness his parent's party. Inside I felt like that kid peeking around a corner trying not to be seen by the adults while at the same time wanting to take in everything happening around me.

The privilege I felt was beyond words, humbling, awe-inspiring. Though through the Holy Spirit I was allowed to see an event that took place long ago, it was not like this was a recording played back for me. The I AM, the Ever Present One allowed me to be present in the most wondrous and sacred of moments to both understand the awe the angels experienced which answered my initial question, and witness a very intimate moment between Father and Son.

As Jesus walked away from the throne he never looked back nor said a word. As if observing the thousands upon thousands of angels silent in awe and wonder weren't enough, the greatest impact I felt was what was going on between Father and Son. That is where I felt I was eavesdropping on a most sacred and intimate moment.

Nothing was said, and I wouldn't describe the mood as sad, yet the overwhelming sense that everything was about to change between the two of them was palpable. It was clear there was an unspoken and very serious mission, the details of the plan of salvation held within the two of them.

Hebrews 10: 6-7 records what the Lord said as he left heaven for conception in Mary's womb, and these were the only words I heard Jesus say as he walked past me in the vision, before I was suddenly back in my living room, all alone, tears welling in my eyes as I was overcome with the Father's presence and great love:

"In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure. Then I said, 'Lo, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me (Old Testament), to do your will O God (Father).'"

So you see, when the apostle John penned the opening words of his gospel, he was trying to communicate all of this in these beautiful words: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men."

"And the Word became flesh and lived among us."

And this is why the angels said to the shepherds in Luke 2:14 "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace and good will towards men."

They weren't saying 'all you humans start getting along'. They were saying the Word of the Lord who had appeared to all those prophets down through the centuries, has now become flesh, a baby in Bethlehem.

God in the highest is saying peace to the earth, He has good will and intentions for you!

That's what we celebrate this time of year. And when he appears to us today in visions, he is still appearing as the Word of the Lord. Even Revelation 19 says at his return his vesture will say "The Word of the Lord". Amazing and awe inspiring!

Blessings and Merry Christmas, ("Weekly Thoughts" will return in 2 weeks)

John Fenn
www.supernaturalhousechurch.org

Pray for Izarguien of Western Sahara

Izarguien of Western Sahara
The Izarguien are Saharan Arabs, a sub-group of the Tekna tribe. They adhere to the Maliki branch of Sunni Islam. The Tekna is a tribal confederation of Berber and Arab origins in southern Morocco and parts of northern Western Sahara. The Tekna tribes speak Hassaniya Arabic and Berber Tamazight language. Their traditional lifestyle was partly nomadic, based on camel and goat herding, and partly sedentary, controlling important routes of the Saharan caravan trade.

Ministry Obstacles
Western Sahara is not hospitable to visitors. The partially nomadic tribes are often reluctant to trust outsiders.

Outreach Ideas
Gospel radio broadcasts may bear fruit among the tribes of the Sahara. Much prayer is needed for the preparation of these broadcasts, and for hearts to be prepared to hear and believe.

Pray for the followers of Christ
There quite likely isn't a single follower of Christ among the Izarguien tribe. However, pray for those the Lord will soon call to Himself. Pray they will be firmly grounded on the truths of Scripture, not mixing the grace offered through Christ with the religion of good works. Pray they will understand the priority of living a life obedient to Christ, as an expression of thanksgiving.

Pray for the entire people group
Pray for the Izarguien tribe, living in a harsh and dangerous environment, to be able to provide adequately for their needs. Pray for the widow, the orphan, and the elderly to be cared for. Pray these people will be able to adjust to the changing requirements of the modern era.

Scripture Focus
"Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest?' Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest." John 4:35

TIME of TRIBULATION

This letter was written by Corrie Ten Boom, a Nazi Concentration
Camp survivor, and lifelong missionary, in 1974.


TIME of TRIBULATION
-Corrie Ten Boom.

The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already
signed the death certificate. Yet there is still a great work for
Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of
mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do
this because they are overcomers.

Christians are ambassadors for Christ. They are representatives from
Heaven to this dying world. And because of our presence here, things
will change.

My sister, Betsy, and I were in the Nazi concentration camp at
Ravensbruck because we committed the crime of loving Jews.
Seven hundred of us from Holland, France, Russia, Poland and
Belgium were herded into a room built for two hundred. As far as
I knew, Betsy and I were the only two representatives of Heaven in that room.

We may have been the Lord's only representatives in that place of
hatred, yet because of our presence there, things changed. Jesus
said, "In the world you shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer,
I have overcome the world." We too, are to be overcomers – bringing
the light of Jesus into a world filled with darkness and hate.

Sometimes I get frightened as I read the Bible, and as I look in this
world and see all of the tribulation and persecution promised by the
Bible coming true. Now I can tell you, though, if you too are afraid,
that I have just read the last pages. I can now come to shouting
"Hallelujah! Hallelujah!" for I have found where it is written that
Jesus said, "He that overcometh shall inherit all things: and I will be
His God, and he shall be My son." This is the future and hope of this
world. Not that the world will survive – but that we shall be overcomers
in the midst of a dying world.

Betsy and I, in the concentration camp, prayed that God would heal
Betsy who was so weak and sick. "Yes, the Lord will heal me,",
Betsy said with confidence. She died the next day and I could not
understand it. They laid her thin body on the concrete floor along
with all the other corpses of the women who died that day.

It was hard for me to understand, to believe that God had a purpose
for all that. Yet because of Betsy's death, today I am traveling all
over the world telling people about Jesus.

There are some among us teaching there will be no tribulation, that the
Christians will be able to escape all this. These are the false teachers
that Jesus was warning us to expect in the latter days. Most of them
have little knowledge of what is already going on across the world. I
have been in countries where the saints are already suffering terrible
persecution. In China, the Christians were told, "Don't worry, before
the tribulation comes you will be translated – raptured." Then came
a terrible persecution. Millions of Christians were tortured to death.
Later I heard a Bishop from China say, sadly, "We have failed. We
should have made the people strong for persecution rather than
telling them Jesus would come first. Tell the people how to be
strong in times of persecution, how to stand when the tribulation
comes – to stand and not faint."

I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world
that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in
training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body
of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation.
There is no way to escape it. We are next.

Since I have already gone through prison for Jesus' sake, and since
I met the Bishop in China, now every time I read a good Bible text I
think, "Hey, I can use that in the time of tribulation." Then I write it
down and learn it by heart.

When I was in the concentration camp, a camp where only twenty
percent of the women came out alive, we tried to cheer each other
up by saying, "Nothing could be any worse than today." But we
would find the next day was even worse. During this time a Bible
verse that I had committed to memory gave me great hope and joy.
"If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the
spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you; on their part evil is
spoken of, but on your part He is glorified." (I Peter 3:14) I found
myself saying, "Hallelujah! Because I am suffering, Jesus is glorified!"

In America, the churches sing, "Let the congregation escape
tribulation", but in China and Africa the tribulation has already arrived.
This last year alone more than two hundred thousand Christians
were martyred in Africa. Now things like that never get into the
newspapers because they cause bad political relations. But I know.
I have been there. We need to think about that when we sit down in
our nice houses with our nice clothes to eat our steak dinners.
Many, many members of the Body of Christ are being tortured to
death at this very moment, yet we continue right on as though we
are all going to escape the tribulation.

Several years ago I was in Africa in a nation where a new govern-
ment had come into power. The first night I was there some of the
Christians were commanded to come to the police station to register.
When they arrived they were arrested and that same night they
were executed. The next day the same thing happened with other
Christians. The third day it was the same. All the Christians in the
district were being systematically murdered.

The fourth day I was to speak in a little church. The people came,
but they were filled with fear and tension. All during the service
they were looking at each other, their eyes asking, "Will this one
I am sitting beside be the next one killed? Will I be the next one?"

The room was hot and stuffy with insects that came through the
screenless windows and swirled around the naked bulbs over the
bare wooden benches. I told them a story out of my childhood.

"When I was a little girl, " I said, "I went to my father and said,
"Daddy, I am afraid that I will never be strong enough to be a martyr
for Jesus Christ." "Tell me," said Father, "When you take a train
trip to Amsterdam, when do I give you the money for the ticket?
Three weeks before?" "No, Daddy, you give me the money for the
ticket just before we get on the train." "That is right," my father
said, "and so it is with God's strength. Our Father in Heaven knows
when you will need the strength to be a martyr for Jesus Christ.
He will supply all you need – just in time…"

My African friends were nodding and smiling. Suddenly a spirit of
joy descended upon that church and the people began singing, "In
the sweet by and by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore." Later
that week, half the congregation of that church was executed. I
heard later that the other half was killed some months ago.

But I must tell you something. I was so happy that the Lord used
me to encourage these people, for unlike many of their leaders, I
had the word of God. I had been to the Bible and discovered that
Jesus said He had not only overcome the world, but to all those
who remained faithful to the end, He would give a crown of life.

How can we get ready for the persecution? First we need to feed
on the word of God, digest it, make it a part of our being. This will
mean disciplined Bible study each day as we not only memorize
long passages of scripture, but put the principles to work in our lives.

Next we need to develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Not just the Jesus of yesterday, the Jesus of History, but the life-
changing Jesus of today who is still alive and sitting at the right
hand of God.

We must be filled with the Holy Spirit. This is no optional command
of the Bible, it is absolutely necessary. Those earthly disciples
could never have stood up under the persecution of the Jews and
Romans had they not waited for Pentecost. Each of us needs our
own personal Pentecost, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. We will
never be able to stand in the tribulation without it.

In the coming persecution we must be ready to help each other
and encourage each other. But we must not wait until the tribulation
comes before starting. The fruit of the Spirit should be the dominant
force of every Christian's life.

Many are fearful of the coming tribulation, they want to run. I, too,
and a little bit afraid when I think that after all my eighty years,
including the horrible nazi concentration camp, that I might have
to go through the tribulation also. But then I read the Bible and I am glad.

When I am weak, then I shall be strong, the Bible says. Betsy and
I were prisoners for the Lord, we were so weak, but we got power
because the Holy Spirit was on us. That mighty inner strengthening
of the Holy Spirit helped us through. No, you will not be strong in
yourself when the tribulation comes. Rather, you will be strong in
the power of Him who will not forsake you. For seventy-six years
I have known the Lord Jesus and not once has He ever left me, or
let me down. Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him, for I know
that to all who overcome, He shall give the crown of life. Hallelujah!

-Corrie Ten Boom, 1974.

More Bricks for Pharoah

More Bricks for Pharoah
By Don Walker basileia2009@yahoo.com

A crisis, economic or military, always presents an open door for civil government to expand and centralize its power. This was certainly the case in the 1930’s, when due to the “Great Depression,” FDR centralized and expanded the federal government through government programs designed to alleviate the suffering of the nation. The results of Roosevelt’s policies are still with us today over 70 years later. If we properly understood what has taken place we would recognize that FDR “sowed the wind and we have reaped the whirlwind.” Instead, our nation for the most part appears to be oblivious to the reality of the price we have paid. Higher and higher taxes, more and more government regulations, and the erosion of personal freedom are evidence to this reality.

The thinking that has guided the economic policies of our leaders over the past eighteen months demonstrates that they have failed to learn the lessons of history regarding the preservation of freedom, and they have adopted a view of the federal government as being the “savior” of us all. Unfortunately, this thinking appears to permeate both political parties. The price of having civil government as your “savior” is the loss of personal freedom and enslavement.

The Bible presents us with a clear lesson in economics and the expansion of governmental power in Genesis 47. There we find Joseph acting as the “economic czar” for the Egyptian Pharaoh while Egypt is experiencing a severe economic crisis in the form of a famine. Joseph shrewdly gathered up all the money by selling back to the Egyptians the grain they had been taxed (Gen. 41:34, 47:14). When they ran out of money, Joseph took their livestock in exchange for grain (47:16). When all the livestock had all been sold to Pharaoh, but the famine still persisted, their land was taken in exchange (47:18-20). All authority was now centralized in the Pharaoh, who had all the money, all the livestock, and all the land, and, as a result, the people themselves. Joseph undoubtedly “bailed out” the Egyptians, but there was a price to pay. The price was freedom. Those who were once land owning farmers and ranchers were now welfare recipients living in the urban ghetto paying homage to the Pharaoh. In coming to the rescue of the people, the power of the Pharaoh was greatly expanded and centralized. The means of production (land and livestock) were completely in his hands.

The loss of private ownership of land, and its transfer of ownership to the Pharaoh, not only resulted in the enslavement of the Egyptians, but ultimately in the enslavement of the Israelites. Though the Israelites did not pay the price in Joseph’s generation, future generations did. A future Pharaoh needed cities to be built to store his great wealth and the Israelites were called up to make bricks (Exodus 1:11-14).

This was an important object lesson for God’s people. When the Israelites entered the Promised Land, after 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, God had them divide the land, by tribes and by families, into privately owned plots. In addition, God commanded that no man had the right to sell or dispose of his land permanently (Lev. 25:23). This was part of the Year of Jubilee. Through this God made provision for their economic independence and for their political freedom as well, because economic dependence brings about political dependence.

The cost of an economic bail out may not be paid by the generation receiving it. But it will certainly be paid for by future generations. The price tag is a larger, centralized government that enslaves its citizens. Pharaoh will always demand more bricks.

GREAT QUOTES

More GREAT QUOTES
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"A dark hour makes Jesus bright."
-Robert Murray McCheyne

"There are only two days on my calendar...today and the day of
judgement".
-Martin Luther

"You may pay for the book in which the Gospel is contained; for the
Church or chapel in which it is preached, for the minister who
preaches it to you … but, the Gospel itself is as free as the light
that shines, as the rain and dew which fall from above; as the air
which you inhale and as every other blessing of God"
-John Bate

"This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!"
-Leonard Ravenhill

"The worst thing a book can do for a Christian is to leave him with
the impression that he has received from it anything really good; the
best it can do is to point the way to the Good he is seeking."
- A.W. Tozer

"That book serves best which early makes itself unnecessary, just
as a signpost serves best after it is forgotten, after the traveller has
arrived safely at his desired haven."
- A.W. Tozer

"If the service of God is worth anything, it is worth everything. We
shall find our best reward in the Lord’s work if we do it with
determined diligence. Our labor is not in vain in the Lord, and we
know it."
- Charles H. Spurgeon

"The evangelist who preaches for eternity is never great on numbers.
He is not apt to count hundreds of converts where there is no
restitution, no confession, and no glad cry which proclaims, 'The
lost is found, the dead is made alive again!'"
-E.M. Bounds.

"I would say without any hesitation that the most urgent need in
the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the
greatest and most urgent need in the Church, it is obviously the
greatest need of the world also."
-Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones.

PROPHETIC PREACHING

PROPHETIC PREACHING
-by A.W. Tozer.

If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means
than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this
century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half,
there must appear a new type of preacher. The proper, ruler-of-the-
synagogue type will never do. Neither will the priestly type of man
who carries out his duties, takes his pay and asks no questions,
nor the smooth-talking pastoral type who knows how to make the
Christian religion acceptable to everyone. All these have been tried
and found wanting.

Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be
of the old prophet type, a man who has seen visions of God and
has heard a voice from the Throne. When he comes (and I pray
God there will be not one but many), he will stand in flat contradiction
to everything our smirking, smooth civilization holds dear. He will
contradict, denounce and protest in the name of God and will earn
the hatred and opposition of a large segment of Christendom.
Such a man is likely to be lean, rugged, blunt-spoken and a little
bit angry with the world. He will love Christ and the souls of men
to the point of willingness to die for the glory of the One and the
salvation of the other. But he will fear nothing that breathes with
mortal breath.

This is only to say that we need to have the gifts of the Spirit
restored again to the Church. And it is my belief that the one gift
we need most now is the gift of prophecy.

"Of the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the times, to
know what Israel ought to do, their chiefs were two hundred" -1 Chr 12:32.
A prophet is one who knows his times and what God is trying to
say to the people of his times....

Today we need prophetic preachers; not preachers of prophecy
merely, but preachers with a gift of prophecy. The word of wisdom
is missing. We need the gift of discernment again in our pulpits. It
is not ability to predict that we need, but the anointed eye, the
power of spiritual penetration and interpretation, the ability to
appraise the religious scene as viewed from God's position, and
to tell us what is actually going on....

Where is the man who can see through the ticker tape and confetti
to discover which way the parade is headed, why it started in the
first place and, particularly, who is riding up front in the seat of
honor?...

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars
can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.
Learning will enable a man to pass judgment on our yesterdays,
but it requires a gift of clear seeing to pass sentence on our own day....

"Lord, I pray for that gift of prophetic insight. Move me beyond the
knowledge You've enabled me to gain through education, reading,
and study. I pray that I might lead as one 'who has seen visions of
God and has heard a voice from the throne.' Amen."

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Others May, You Cannot

Others May, You Cannot
By G.D. Watson

If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. (Matthew 16:24-25 )

If God has called you to be truly like Jesus in all your spirit, He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility. He will put on you such demands of obedience that you will not be allowed to follow other Christians. In many ways, He seems to let other good people do things which He will not let you do.

Others who seem to be very religious and useful may push themselves, pull wires, and scheme to carry out their plans, but you cannot. If you attempt it, you will meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord as to make you sorely penitent.

Others can brag about themselves, their work, their successes, their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any such thing. If you begin to do so, He will lead you into some deep mortification that will make you despise yourself and all your good works.

Others will be allowed to succeed in making great sums of money, or having a legacy left to them, or in having luxuries, but God may supply you only on a day-to-day basis, because He wants you to have something far better than gold, a helpless dependence on Him and His unseen treasury.

The Lord may let others be honored and put forward while keeping you hidden in obscurity because He wants to produce some choice, fragrant fruit for His coming glory, which can only be produced in the shade.

God may let others be great, but keep you small. He will let others do a work for Him and get the credit, but He will make you work and toil without knowing how much you are doing. Then, to make your work still more precious, He will let others get the credit for the work which you have done; this to teach you the message of the Cross, humility, and something of the value of being cloaked with His nature.

The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch on you, and with a jealous love rebuke you for careless words and feelings, or for wasting your time, which other Christians never seem distressed over.
So make up your mind that God is infinite and Sovereign and has a right to do as He pleases with His own, and that He may not explain to you a thousand things which may puzzle your reason in His dealings with you.

God will take you at your word. If you absolutely sell yourself to be His slave, He will wrap you up in a jealous love and let other people say and do many things that you cannot. Settle it forever; you are to deal directly with the Holy Spirit, He is to have the privilege of tying your tongue or chaining your hand or closing your eyes in ways which others are not dealt with. However, know this great secret of the Kingdom: When you are so completely possessed with the Living God that you are, in your secret heart, pleased and delighted over this peculiar, personal, private, jealous guardianship and management of the Holy Spirit over your life, you will have found the vestibule of heaven, the high calling of God.

G.D.Watson (1845-1924) was a Wesleyan Methodist minister and evangelist based in Los Angeles. His evangelistic campaigns took him to England, the West Indies, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Korea. He also wrote several books.

Let Your Flag Fly High

Let Your Flag Fly High

Consider the nations of this world says the Lord, and the pride that they place in the flag of their country. They are not ashamed to declare who they are, and what they stand for. Many are even ready to give their lives for the sake of that flag.

But you are a citizen of a better country. You carry a flag that is far greater than any other in this world. And when you show that flag, you display to the world that you are under allegiance to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

So why boast in the natural, my child, when I have given you far more to boast about in Me? Why rely on the natural powers of this world, when you have at your disposal the greatest power in the universe?

Be bold in Me and let your flag fly high for all the world to see. For when you do this you declare to the world that you belong to Me. And when you step out in faith to make me the master of your destiny, you release all the power of heaven to act on your behalf.

So stand up tall now and speak out boldly in My Name. Declare who you are in Me, and watch the forces of the heavenly realm break forth to act on your behalf. Watch as My power goes forth to work in your situation, to bring change and cause to come into being the things that you have desired and believed for.

And when others look at you, and they see My flag flying from the mast of your ship, they will take note that you are blessed by Me, and favored by Me. And they too will seek to know Me, for they will see My power manifest in your life.

VISION - The GREAT SEPARATION

VISION - The GREAT SEPARATION - Sept 24, 2009
-by Dianna de Valle.

As I was in a quiet prayer time this morning The Lord began to
show me a vision of a great pot that was being stirred. This large
and very full pot was made of clear glass so that it was quite easy
to see the contents inside. As the pot was being stirred the
contents were churning and swirling wildly around and there was
no definition or distinction whatsoever between any of the ingredients.
Then, the stirring began to slow down and continued to slow until
finally it stopped. As soon as it stopped, there began to be a
faint line appear in the middle of the pot which quickly grew wider
and wider and clearer and clearer. After every particle in the pot
had ceased to move, there remained three pronounced sections.Â
A top section and a bottom section with a very distinct middle
section that was so crystal clear it looked like pure glass. There
was absolutely not one single particle to be seen in that middle
section. The ingredients of the pot had all very definitely either
settled to the bottom or risen to the top.

As I began to ask the Lord about the meaning of this vision He told
me the following:

Right now in all of creation, there is a great stirring going on. It is
a stirring that will eventually affect every single ingredient in the
pot and leave no ingredient untouched or unturned. Every particle
WILL be stirred. This includes the government, the media,
pop-culture and celebrity, the education system, the financial
institutions and economy, the church and religion, and every single
person's individual life. Every single particle must be stirred
because once the stirring is over then a great separation will begin
to occur. At that moment each and every person will make a
decision on where they stand in My Kingdom. That decision will
determine whether they rise to the top where I am, or sink down to
the depths of eternal pain, loss, and frustration. There has never
been a separation this pronounced, and it will be such a defined
separation that there will not be ANY question about it. For too
long there has been no line and no separation and people have
been able to be right in the middle and walk with one foot in both
sides without having to really declare and determine where they
stand. The stirring has begun so that there will no longer be a
middle section. Everything is being forced to churn. Those who
were on the bottom, those who were in the middle, and those who
were at the top are being forced to churn so that in the end there
will be only be two sides and each will choose whom they will serve
and where they will stand for eternity.

As I have processed and meditated on this I have the following
thoughts to share:

There are both good and bad sides to this of which we always
knew were coming, but our complacency in the body of Christ has
kept us from fully grasping the scope of it all. The good news is
that some who are steadfastly stuck in the darkness are going to
be broken free in the churning and they will have a new opportunity
to see the light and the truth and be made free! Those whom we
have so earnestly prayed for who seemed hopelessly lost are now
being churned!!! The bad news is that those who were in the middle
and wanted to walk dangerously close to the line so as not to
have to choose, are now being forcibly churned this way and that
and will be faced with a decision.

So where does that leave us as the Body of Christ? Well, if we
had a foundation built upon rock and not sand, and roots that were
deeply and firmly planted, and a mind set upon the Spirit and not
the flesh, then we don't have to worry!!! Yes, we may experience
the effects of some churning and shaking, but that is good for us
sometimes, lest we get lazy and complacent and forget our Great
Commission. But our firm roots and foundation will keep us
securely fastened and able to withstand the wind and the
waves. Once the hurricane is over, we will go outside and clean
up the debris and press on!!!

The crucial thing that we must be aware of and focus on is that
this stirring is a HUGE opportunity for us to affect eternity and
build The Kingdom of God by saving souls. It is not enough for us
to just make it to the top! As the pot is being stirred and we are
swirling around we have an opportunity to reach out and grab those
that we see flying by. That is the people that God puts in our path
every day. Our purpose in being on this Earth can be boiled down to
two things: The Great Commission of Mark 16:15 and the Great
Commandment of Matthew 22:37-39. We must ask ourselves if
the MAJORITY of our time and energy REALLY is (not just in
theory - not just intending to be) being devoted to these two things.
If not, then we are burying our talents (Luke 19)!!! We have each
been given talents by God that SHOULD BE BEING USED for His
purposes. Too often, we either bury them, or use them for our own
gain. This has to stop. We must be found actively using our talents
for building of The Kingdom through fulfilling the Great Commission
and The Great Commandment. Otherwise, we will not be found by
Him doing that which we are called to and will therefore not hear
"Well done, my good and faithful servant". We all have different
gifts, callings and talents and we must prayerfully seek how
God has intended those to be used in our individual lives AND
THEN ACT UPON IT. We also must spend (waste) less time
looking at everyone else's gifts and talents and wishing we had them
AND/OR spend less time thinking we know how everyone else
should be using their talents while ours are conveniently buried! Let
us be found bringing as many people as we can to the top with us,
for that is what LOVE would do! God is Love and if we claim to be
in Him with His Spirit then we also will be Love.

Philippians 3: The whole chapter

~Dianna de Valle.

Divine Intention

Divine Intention
Alice Smith

One day, years ago, I was in the mall with my children when I saw a young teenage couple sitting on a bench making out. They were completely oblivious to the shoppers walking around them. People were so distracted by the couple’s unusual behavior that they lost sight of what they were doing. All the while, I was trying to distract my young children, who were gawking at this inappropriate passionate behavior.

Lovers do not express their intimacy in public, they relate to one another in private. The same is true of our love relationship with the Lord Jesus. He has not chosen to relate to as as His business partner or His servant; He has taken us, for better or for worse, as His Bride. Jesus desires to commune intimately with us because He loves us and longs for fellowship with us. Don’t answer the call of your bridegroom from a sense of duty.

Remarkably, His heart is filled with secrets that He wants to reveal to us. “The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them” (Ps. 24:14). What we receive in prayer, in our secret place with Jesus, the lover of our souls, we will live out in the everyday world. The love we feel in private will in appropriate ways be manifest in the open.

This close relationship the Lord longs to have with you is not based on your worthiness. So resist the impulse to wait until you feel worthy to come to Him, because you never will be worthy of His wondrous love! It is not a matter of the mind but of the heart. For it is in your heart that God has placed His Spirit to bridge the chasm your sin created between you and your heavenly Groom.

Jesus, in wooing you, is destroying all your other lovers—self being the biggest of them all. He is jealous for your total affection. A kiss is a very intimate transaction. Jesus wants to impart His love to you as He kisses you with favor, love and grace. Once you find yourself successfully snuggled in the arms of your heavenly Bridegroom, you will be lifted out of self and centered in His purposes. Your heart will beat in sync with His. Your thoughts will be His thoughts and your desires will reflect His. You will have less concern for His meeting your needs and more concern for your meeting His needs.

Does God have needs? In one sense He does. Our self-limiting God has arranged the universe in such a way that He has chosen to be “codependent” on us. Jesus is looking for worshipers and intercessors. He has chosen to “need” us. And because He has, He will also equip us to fulfill His expectations with regard to this relationship. Amazing!

It is often said that the longer a married couple lives together, the more they look alike. The Father’s plan is for us to grow into the likeness of Christ (see Rom. 8:29). In order for us to be conformed into His image we must once and for all determine that we will not be conformed to the world (see Rom. 12:2). Your time spent in the prayer closet with Jesus will cause you to favor His likeness and people will begin to see His glory reflected in you.

A vital relationship with your heavenly Groom is a partnership with a purpose. He desires to fill the earth with the knowledge of His glory (see Hab. 2:14). He does this by filling the earth with sons and daughters born of His Spirit. As His bridal partner, we are critical to the fulfillment of the Great Commission. He wants us, His bride, to be pregnant with His burden for the 3.5 billion people who have never heard Calvary’s love story.

Won’t you seek your Bridegroom today in the bedchamber (your prayer closet) so that Jesus’ burden for the rest of the world can be deposited in your heart? He is waiting for you now.

DOES ANYONE HAVE ALL THE LIGHT OF GOD?

Does Anyone Have All the Light of God?

By Ron McGatlin www.openheaven.com



Brethren, we know little of what we ought to know.
We stand on the brink of the destiny of the ages.
The bright light of the kingdom of God is upon us.
Yet we stumble for lack of the pure whole light of God in a season when the bright light of the revelation of God is being poured out (Isa 59:10).
Why should we still be at the place of immaturity that Paul spoke of in First Corinthians 13 verse 9 when He wrote, “For we know in part and we prophesy in part?”
We stumble in a time of bright light because we have been divided from those who have other parts of the light that we do not have. We walk in only a portion of the available light.
We have gathered in groups around the part of the light that we have. We have not connected to our brothers who have other spectrums of the light of God that we do not have.
Does anyone have all the light of God?
Only Jesus has all the whole light of God. Father in His infinite wisdom has chosen to reveal portions of the light to different individuals and groups.
We can never reach beyond a part or portion of the whole light of God without receiving from our brothers who have other parts of the light that we do not have.
A number of years ago I was discussing a doctrinal issue with a friend. In the discussion, two positions of spiritual truth became evident. My friend strongly held to a certain position. I was trying to explain my position that there was perhaps greater truth and room for some balanced understanding. The discussion had become a bit intense, and it seemed a good time for me to excuse myself for a bathroom break. As I left the room, my friend almost shouted to me, “Well, it’s either black or its white.”

I remember being alone in the other room and thinking that if it was not black or white, then it must be gray, and that did not sound good to me. I began to pray and ask God “Is it really black or white?” Instantly the reply to my question burst into my heart; my heart was flooded with light as God simply and profoundly spoke as only He can do and said, “NO, ITS A RAINBOW.”
The scripture about God is light and in Him is no darkness (black) at all, came to my mind. With God it is not black or white; it is all perfectly clear.
Like the light of the sun, the whole clear light of God can be divided into all the colors of the rainbow. Yet when the whole light is together, it is perfectly clear light; but when broken down through drops of water in the sky or through a prism, the clear light is diffused into colors of light.
Black and white is a term that relates well to religion and natural-mind legal interpretations of scripture. Bright clear light and beautiful colors of the rainbow relate well to the light of scripture revealed by the Spirit God.
Considering the parable of sunlight, if we have a part of the light but not the whole light, then we become as a color or colors of the divided light.
We probably all have seen a color wheel with the three pie shaped primary colors of red, yellow and blue equally spaced within the circle and the many blended shades in between each. The absence of all color is black or darkness. The presence of all the colors in balance produces white or clear light.
Think of the color wheel as the revealed light of God. Each of us who have received revelation from God but have not received all the light of God has one or more sections of color. We may have red or blue and not yellow and so on.
Revelation of the light of God comes by the Spirit.
Revelation of God is truth that is alive in us by the Spirit of God. A truth revealed by the Spirit is beyond believing, it becomes absolute knowing.
We may believe a lot of things, but we really KNOW only the part or portion that has been revealed to us by Spirit God into our spirit and soul. The revelation may have begun with hearing or seeing with the natural senses, but until it becomes Spirit revelation it is only belief at best. However, when the Spirit reveals it and makes it light from heaven, it becomes alive within our spirit.
There is also direct revelation that is often in response to prayer or waiting in God’s manifest presence. Direct revelation does not begin with a natural input but is planted in our spirit by the Spirit of God. The directly revealed input will not disagree with an accurate understanding of scripture. However, it probably will not agree with our intellectually discerned interpretations of scripture.
Great problems have arisen causing much disorder and separation among believers because we have not connected with and received from brethren with other colors.
As ministers in our color group we have light in our area of revelation. However, people come with questions and needs in other areas of spiritual life experience. We need answers and are not good at saying I don’t know. Rather than come together with those who have the needed color of light to provide the answer, we turn back to the black and white understanding from the tree of knowledge.
Men of the past have gone to the scripture seeking to discover truth of God with their natural-mind intellect and reason without revelation from the Spirit. Intellectual discernment of the scriptures without the revelation of the Spirit is darkness. It will never agree with true revelation by the Spirit.
In this way we have filled in portions of our color wheel with darkness instead of the true revealed color from God. Every gifted person or group who is not spiritually connected laterally with others with revelation is probably a mixture of light and darkness.
Thus gifted men and women of God continue to live in and proclaim mixture. Only when we come together in love by the Spirit can the light in one shine upon the darkness in another bringing us nearer to the whole clear light of God. We do well to proclaim only the part revealed to us and not fill in our color wheel with teachings derived from intellectual interpretation of scripture.
We need true discernment that comes from intimate relationship with God. We need to hear God by His Spirit within us to discern light and darkness. With true discernment we need not fear the darkness in our brothers while we receive their color of light and perhaps remove some of their darkness with our revealed color.
God is Spirit. Father God is Spirit. Christ Jesus is Spirit that became a man. Before He became a man, Christ Jesus was Spirit with Father in heaven. They were Spirit, and they were Holy. Actually, they were as one Spirit. Is it then not correct to say Father and Son were Holy Spirit?
How many God’s do we have? In the white Spirit fire of the heart of God they are one. Jesus made it clear that He and the Father are one. Only as Spirit God flows outward toward man and creation are the manifestations of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit evident.
Christ now dwells in His body (temple) on earth as a “live-giving Spirit.” While at the same time He is seated at the right hand of the Father. In First Corinthians 15, verse 45 it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. First Corinthians 6, verse 19 reads “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?”
Knowing in part and prophesying in part will be done away when maturity has come. The pure real love of God by the Spirit is the maturity of Christ in us. The subject of First Corinthians 13 is love, the God kind of love that only comes by the Spirit. Verse 10 says “But when that which is perfect (mature) has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
Love is the progressive reality of maturity (perfection) in the kingdom of God.
God’s love is only available by the Spirit of God.
Love is the greatest foundational reality of the kingdom of God. God is love.
The kingdom is held together by love.
Faith works by love. Wisdom and power flow through love.
God’s love produces unity.
God’s love flowing by His Spirit can re-join all the colors of the rainbow back together into the whole clear light of God as brethren with the different colors of God’s light become one together.

GOD, GIVE US PROPHETS!!

GOD, GIVE Us PROPHETS!!
-by Paul Holdren.

The simultaneous use of the words "prophet" and "ministry" almost
seem like a veiled attempt to tame the untamable nature of the
prophet. The word "prophet" speaks of unconventional methods
and means. In this context the word "ministry" seems to imply the
use of conventional methods and means.

Prophets are unpredictable, while ministries have become very
predictable. Ministries are typically planned by men, while
prophets are ordered by God. Prophets have thrown themselves
prostrate before God in order to be stood up by God to forever be
set apart for God's purposes.

Prophets hear only from God. Therefore, they can speak for God.
Prophets have been touched by the hand of God. Therefore, they
know the power of God. Prophets have been positioned to see from
God's perspective, observing the world's system as it really is. For
it is corrupt in nature with nothing of eternal value to offer. Prophets have seen the glory of God. Therefore, they know the call to be holy.

Prophets have trembled before the holiness of God. Therefore, they
will not tremble before men. To revere God is to fear no man - be it individuals or institutions. Prophets walk differently, as they hear a heavenly music. Prophets talk differently, as they hear a heavenly voice. Prophets act differently, as they desire the clear and effective communication of the word of the Lord.

Peer pressure has no appeal to or influence upon the prophet.
The prophet is more concerned about God's reputation than social
acceptability. Prophets have sacrificially thrown themselves on the
altar of God as an offering. There to be consumed by the fire of God
as a sacrifice and filled with the Spirit of God as a sanctified
vessel. Prophets have been consumed by the Holy in order to be
empowered by the Holy.

The scripture states that Christians are to be "kings and priests"
(Revelation 1:6). However, the contemporary Christian is more like
the traditionalist of Ezekiel's time than like the New Testament
descript. Contemporary Christians tend to be predictable
traditionalists merely tweaking the methods and means that they
have been taught and trained to use. Typically speaking, the
contemporary Christian is too busy to spend time with God in order
to bask in His glorious presence, too busy to study the word of God
in order to know the mind of God, too busy to have altar time with
God to be consumed by holy fire, and too busy running from the
demands of God to be running with God, knowing the miraculous
will of God. Many contemporary Christians lack the vision and
passion to build the Kingdom of God. Rather, they build the
"Chapel of Self".....

Leonard Ravenhill, 20th Century Revivalist - "Oh God sends us
prophetic preaching that searches and scorches! Send us a race
of Martyr-preachers - men burdened, bent, bowed and broken
under the vision of impending judgment and the unending hell of
the impenitent..."
"Preachers make pulpits famous; prophets make prisons famous.
May the Lord send us prophets - terrible men, who cry aloud and
spare not, who sprinkle nations with unction zed woes- men too hot
to hold, to hard to be heard, to merciless to spare…"
"We are tired of men in soft raiment and softer in speech who use
rivers of words with but a smidgen of unction. These know more
about competition than consecration, about promotion than prayer.
They substitute propaganda for propagation and care more for their
church's happiness than holiness..." (-From 'Why Revival Tarries').

Ezekiel was the priest who became a prophet. His call from God
to prophetic office is worthy of our examination, as our place in
history cries out that God send prophets. His vantage point as
a prophet is worth taking note of, for the conditions of the nation
require the prophet's insight and perspective. His methods of
communication should be studied, as the world needs to hear
and understand its destitute rebellious nature and the impending
judgment of all unrighteousness. His calling of the nation to
repentance is worth remembering, for it is a fearful thing to not
have grace cover the nation's sin. His promise of restoration is
worth remembering, as it was given by Jehovah the covenant-
keeping God.

-From "The Wedding of Purity and Power" by Paul Holdren.

YAWNING OUR WAY TO OUR JOURNEY'S END?

Yawning Our Way to Our Journey's End?

By James Ryle www.truthworks.org


"If you knew that I was after the best, then why did you do less than the least?" (Matthew 25:26, The Message).

Sooner or later we each will have to face the moment of truth -- when our lives are measured in the light of eternity. There is an abiding reality within the depths of our souls that stirs us to pursue that which is good and true, that which is virtuous and noble. By divine instinct we shun death, disease, and destruction -- for we were not made for these things.

And though this fallen world is marred with the ever-encroaching presence of evil, our hearts are up-linked to more heavenly pursuits. We were not made for failure, but success. We were not designed to malfunction, but to excel. We are not at ease settling for that which we know is less than our best. But, then, why do so many seem so ready to surrender to mediocrity?

Maybe we've lost our vision -- our view of nobler things. Maybe our leaders have failed us, and thereby granted us license to sell our own selves short. Or maybe the friends with which we converse have inadvertently coaxed us into joining them in living a somewhat diminished life. After all, one of the easiest things in life to do is go along with the crowd.

Maybe we've become content to yawn our way to our journey's end.

Still, this doesn't change the sobering reality that one day we will stand in the Presence of Love Himself to answer for the loveless choices we have made along the way. "If you knew that I was after the best, then why did you do less than the least?"

Perhaps you are not in a place where you can give your best just yet -- but can't you at least do more than the least? It's a place to start.

And after all is said and done, you might end up not only surprising yourself with just how far and how high you go -- but, who knows, along the way you just also inspire the rest of us snozzing lugs.

JOHN FENN – WORD 3

JOHN FENN – WORD 3

Hi all,
This last of the series installment is coming to you early due to travels to a conference Labor Day weekend. I shared last week how a self-oriented Christian makes emotional decisions rather than spiritual ones.

My examples included the children of Israel who saw the same lack of water and food Moses did, but they complained and griped while Moses made a spiritual decision to look for supernatural provision in God.

Today I had promised to share results of emotional decisions, and then how to get out of the pattern of emotional decisions and back to spiritual decisions. I'm trying to teach and perhaps provoke towards healthy introspection for us all, so take it in the humble spirit intended, realizing that time and space prevent the full development of thought. There are 4 results listed below.

First result: Stop/start spiritually
Emotionally made or soulish decisions are not based on the bedrock of destiny in Christ. But Christ lives in us so he is continually stirring us to grow in him, causing a tug of war within.

Peter comes to mind as the gospels present him as the master of the stop/start. On the one hand he boldly proclaimed "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!", but then denied him 3 times. He would alternate between the brilliantly bold; "Lord, if you are, tell me to walk to you on the water" in Matthew 14, to over the top; "Let's build tents for you and Elijah and Moses" on the Mt. of Transfiguration.

Like Peter, these people are their own worst enemies, often alternating between self-loathing and 'feeling good' about their life and where they are - until another crisis happens and down they go again.

Second result: Socially alone/lonely
The stop/start ramification of one's spiritual life gets to be just too much for people they know. The unpredictability is fatiguing to those around, and all too often friends move on or potential friends back away.

It leads to social isolation or at least loneliness even when surrounded by people. The Bible is full of people like this. Lot, Abraham's nephew, made the emotional decision in Genesis 13: 5-9 to move to the well watered plain around Sodom so he could make more money, rather than a spiritual decision to stay away from the place. We find him in Genesis 19 all alone with no friends to help, locked in his house in Sodom, his front door being attacked by the mob wanting to rape the 2 men (angels) in his house.

II Peter 2: 7-8 tells us that Lot was righteous, he had a walk with God, but that his soul was 'vexed', literally 'tortured' in the Greek, by the lifestyles of those around him. Yet he chose to place himself there.

I often find those who have made emotional decisions have their walk with God but are emotionally and spiritual 'tortured'. Yet they are either clueless that they have done it to themselves, or they know it but choose to stay there because it's familiar and 'safer' than launching into the unknown new territory with God.

Samson also comes to mind as an emotional decision maker who was all alone. He chose to love Delilah (Judges 14:3), the Philistine girl who was outside the covenant of Israel rather than an Israelite girl. He went back and forth between emotional and spiritual decisions, ending up all alone, powerless with his eyes punched out in a metaphor illustrating how emotional decisions weaken and blind us. Ironically his final spiritual decision resulted in the collapse of a building on himself, and the death of himself and those within.

Another example is from Luke 15, the prodigal son. He made an emotional decision to take the money and run, and when he came to the full ramifications of that decision - all alone, hungry, feeding (unclean) pigs, the text says in verse 17 that he "came to himself", and saw his situation stripped of the imaginings that led him to make the original emotional decision. He sized up his situation rightly, and returned home.

Third result; Inconsistent life
People who habitually make emotional decisions have some area(s) of their life that are very inconsistent.

We should be moving from inconsistency towards consistency, as 'self control' or 'patience' depending on the translation, is one of the fruits of the spirit/Spirit in Galatians 5:22 and one of the character traits of a growing Christian listed by Peter in II Peter 1:5-8.

Consider Paul's teaching in Ephesians 4:14 on, about how inconsistency, or being 'tossed to and fro' is childlike. If you examine the rest of the chapter within the context we are talking about here, you'll see he is talking about leaving emotional and self-oriented decisions in favor of spiritual and outwardly oriented decisions, bound together within the glue of relationships with others.

Put on the new man in Christ not living like you used to - put away lying by telling the truth, put away explosive anger and holding grudges by loving, let him that stole get a job so he has money to give to others, clean up your language so you speak praises and grace, walk in forgiveness, are just a few examples.

Fourth result; Not a giver
When Jesus comes back and separates the sheep from the goats, he says in Matthew 25 the giving he is looking for is the giving of self, time, and practical things as well as things which involve money: I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me water, sick and you visited me, in prison and you visited me, naked and you clothed me. All involve money, but also time and resources, the larger issue being the relationships which promote giving in any form.

Many believers, even well grounded spiritually, still make emotional decisions in the subject of financial giving. If you consider that traditional church has largely replaced emotion for anointing, and brow beating and guilt trips to motivate people instead of teaching them how to establish internal motivation and discipline, is it any wonder most Christians give out of emotions rather than a spiritual decision to discipline oneself to write a check consistently month in and month out?

Barb and I have always held a principle close to our hearts that David understood and lived his life by. It's found in II Samuel 24 when an angel appears to him at the threshing floor of Araunah. David wants to buy the property to build a temple on it (today's Temple Mount), but Araunah offers to give it to the king.

But David wants to pay for it, saying in verse 24: "I will not give to the Lord that which costs me nothing."

That concept is lost on so much of the body of Christ, and as I said, I think this is one area the whole body needs to mature in because so few understand it. I will not give to the Lord that which cost me nothing.

A self-oriented believer became that way through emotional decisions, and because of their stop/start spirituality, loneliness, and inconsistency, have proven they shy away from anything that may cause pain or discomfort. Therefore they won't "give to the Lord that which costs me nothing."

I can only speak through the grace given to me, so lets bring this down to the nitty gritty of our lives. Barb and I support an orphanage in China and missionaries in Panama, $75 each per month, on top of our regular giving. So many times we've eaten out of the freezer rather than buy groceries for ourselves just so we could have the money to keep our commitment to them. That's spiritual decision making. Giving up fresh food or a meal or two out so an orphan has their needs met. I want it to cost me SOMETHING to give to God - and that seems so small compare to what it cost Jesus to give to us, doesn't it?

We have delayed paying our bills because we are used to trusting the Lord for our living and given to someone who freaks when they have to dip into their savings, giving that money to them so they may be comforted while we await more money to enable us to buy groceries or get the car fixed. We've lived this way since we were teens, like giving to a fellow teen $10 who had run out of gasoline while my own car was on 'R', but I knew I'd have it when I needed it for he had none at all.

I can't count the number of times in over 30+ years of ministry people that we've poured our lives into never give an offering, talking about how tight things are for them or how in debt they are, and then turn to someone else and talk about the restaurant they just went to and the upcoming trip they're going to take, or things for their house they bought at the store.

Time after time I just look at them with pity, praying they grow up.

Others are givers, but emotional ones. They'll give when they have extra. They'll give a percentage of a bonus or when they have some spare cash around. They will give when it costs them nothing. But they have a hard time making the spiritual decision of regular as clock work giving.

Remember the poor widow who gave all she had in Mark 12:41-44? Her 2 mites cost her, but she would not give to the Lord merely out of her extra. It's based on the fact we owe God, we love God, therefore we want to give something of ourselves, something we sacrifice to him because he sacrificed so much for us.

We could imagine the Father and Jesus saying "We will not give to mankind that which costs us nothing".

Thank God Jesus didn't say at the decision making Garden of Gethsemane, "Oh, this is going to cost me? Oh, I can't give that much! I need to go out to Zeb's Bar and Grill tonight with Peter and James, and when I feel like it I'll go to the cross."

It hurts
And this brings me full circle, for perhaps you've perceived when I mentioned David's heart and my own lifestyle that I was talking of larger things than mere money. Growing in Christ hurts. When it comes to changing from emotion based faith to spiritual based faith, you MUST give to the Lord that which costs you. Period.

We have repeated teachings in the New Testament about taking up the cross, dying to self, mortifying the flesh, "I'm crucified with Christ". It's going to cost you to move from emotional decisions to spiritual ones.

Remember Lot, Samson and the Prodigal son. They each 'came to themselves' at some point. They sized up their respective situations accurately, and made a decision not based on emotion, but something that would cost them. Lot lost his home & business. Samson lost his life. The Prodigal had to humble himself before his father and family. It will cost you. It doesn't feel good until after you've grown, and then it's WONDERFUL, because you have just that much more Christ formed within, and He feels like peace. (Galatians 4:19)

I will not give to the Lord that which costs me nothing. Welcome to discipleship.

New subject next week!
Blessings,
John Fenn
www.iFaithhome.org