Kamis, 31 Desember 2009

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

Selasa, 29 Desember 2009

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

Sabtu, 26 Desember 2009

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

Minggu, 20 Desember 2009

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

Jumat, 18 Desember 2009

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.

Minggu, 13 Desember 2009

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.

Selasa, 01 Desember 2009

GREAT QUOTES


More GREAT QUOTES
-Sermonindex.net.

"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.