Five-Fold Today - Regaining the Confidence - You Have Been Taken to the Edge - Faithful Christians Taking Hits - Apostles are Fathers, (and Mothers) - Return To Me - His Eye Is On You - The Sugar of Pride - Faithful Shepherds - The Place of Miracles - Seventh Day

September 15, 2000

REGAINING THE CONFIDENCE

by Undrai Fizer

The Church must go through a period of regaining confidence in our renewed relationship with God. You would be surprised to know how many people form congregations in America that lack a passionate security in the power of God.

Common sense has replaced faith. Human will has replaced Spirit-led direction. There are those who relate to God only in a spiritual bondage. They cannot relate to the liberty and power that flows from the connection to God.

Terms like "prayer, faith, ministry, and fellowship" have seemed to lose their impact. This is a time where faith in God is seemingly outdated and over-hyped. Religious ritual and dogmas have spread like wildfire in our churches today. Allegiances to unscriptural teachings, personal preferences and opinion have snuffed out the mighty hand of God in some regions.

It seems like anything other than "Christian" is the stronger and most sought after. The mindset of ministry being weak and unable to relate to the changing times and seasons is growing into various cultures, and even to members of the churches themselves!

Is there a word from God in these times? Is there a different way to release the powers of God in the regions and regain the confidence of church? Or, were they really part of the church?

There are those who have been fed of wrong, but sincere, measures. There are those who have thought they accepted the Lord, but have had their faith and allegiance "crash land" in a field of doubt, worry, and despair! "What have we done? Is there a word from God in these times?"

No matter how sincere the teaching, if it was wrong, IT'S WRONG! The "sincerely wrong" may give you fellowship with people, but you will lose your hunger for the perfect reality of God. The "sincerely wrong" may give you church membership, but you will be ignorant of the present truth and movements of God in the earth. The "sincerely wrong" will teach you about God, but you will live life not knowing God and who He is in you!

Is there a word from God in these times? Is there a people who have been entrusted with the revelation of the life of God and walk in it? They know they are not perfect, but they posses the perfect hunger for the life of Him.

There are true teachers out there who must fight against the first, but wrong impression of God that has been embedded in the hearts of men and even those in the church, who have placed the authority of their lives in the "sincerely wrong" government of a church and movement built by a good man or woman who "only knew to do what they knew to do"...

That is no fault to men and women who gave their lives to express their gifts and limited knowledge to the church. However, in this prophetic session of life that we live, the ministry of the Kingdom should be fully expressed to the max! This is a season of the Holy Spirit reactivating ministry and truth to a new level of personal inventory and allegiance.

Who and what do we belong to -- the "sincerely wrong" or Living Truth? You will finally see if God is really impacting your life, or if we are "just paying our religious dues." Do we believe in the power of God and do we believe we have His power inside of us?

Is there a word from God in these times? Is there a word that will rekindle our confidence, not just an accepted, but unapplied principle, in God?

You see, there are things about God that we accept as truth, but it's a truth that we do not live or embrace! We read and accept that we are sons of God, but is that revelation a living, everyday experience?

But, there is a people who believe. These people are here in the earth, right now! They are perceived to be "out there" and unbalanced. They are highly misunderstood and looked at as "heavenly minded, but no earthly good." They have hungered for something that a good man or good woman cannot give them.

Just as the Word says that Abraham looked for a city "whose Builder and Maker is God, a city not made with hands," there is a people who are hungry for something a good service or dogma cannot make! They are hungry for something that "hype" cannot make. Only God can fulfill this hunger.

There is a people who have a hard time getting to God because of the "church terms and words" that still seem ineffective (i.e., prayer, fellowship, revival, etc.) They do not want a "churchy glory." They want His Glory. They are tired of a person "incorporating the Glory" and becoming the sole owner of the Glory. That time is over, simply over...

Is there a word from God in these times? Yes, I believe there is. Can you hear it?

Kingpriest@aol.com

YOU HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO THE EDGE

By Pastor Roger Davis

I have allowed you to come to the edge of defeat and failure. I have allowed you to be tested beyond what you thought you could bear. I have taken you to the limits of your faith and belief--that you can see just how much that you need me. It is those times that you have founded that I have never forsaken you or left you. That I was always there and was always near. What you feared was not there at all. What you thought was going to take you under--you were able to rise above it. What had kept you back--now is not there. What controlled you --was broken and cast away from you.

I have been preparing you and building you up for such a time. I have positioned you and called you forth. What has taken place within has been me at work. At times, you thought: 'I cannot make it--this is too bad--God is unfair' but you have weathered it all and have stood. You have stood. You have learned resistance and how to endure. You have learned what is of me and what was of the flesh. It has not been easy--but hard. And, you did doubt at times if you would survive but you more than survived, but came through and have stood!

The testing is not easy at that time-your whole being is pressed. Your very movements are restricted. Your being felt boxed in and everything around you seems to be closed off to you. You have found others did not understand you--much less did you understand yourself. Confusion covered you and you felt alone. You wanted to hide and cover yourself. You said,'It is too much--God is too unfair.'

You found that was not true--but that you have come forth--refined as pure gold. You are not the same person that you were. You are becoming more like me. Now is the time--to recognise what I have done. Now is the time--to look at yourself and say,"I see what the Lord has done--I am not the same--I have been changing--Christ dwells in me and He is mine and I am His. Look forward--no longer hang on to the past--There is nothing there for you to look to. Look forward to what I have said and am about ready to do. All is before you--nothing is behind you.

Hold to my words and reject the lies of the past. The false conclusions that you have come to--are not of truth. All the words that you have spoken over yourself are now removed. The word curses of others are voided and have lost their power over you. My words are what is to operate in your life now. Those are the only words that you are to accept and be governed by. It has not been easy--there is more to come--but you are learning more and more how to discern what is going on. You are learning to separate the good from the evil. You are not easily moved by things, people, or circumstances--you are now learning how to be moved by my Spirit.

You are truly my sons and daughters---because you are lead by my Spirit. It is His voice that you are longing to hear. You have come to depend on Him. You have found He will lead you into truth and through Him you find My ways. What you were--you are not now. What you have become is Mine. You are not as you were. You are not wandering in fear and confusion. But, you see and hear clearly because I have trained you.

You do not understand all that lays before you--great things are to come but at the same time great resistance is before you. Hell has enlarged itself to resist what I am about to do. But, do not fear or even pull back --but set your face--face the conflict. Victory will come. Battles will be fought-fierce will be the battle--great will be the forces that will come against my army, but you have been well prepared. You have been trained and set in place.

I have placed you within the ranks --stand strong. You are ready because I have prepared you. I have seasoned you with testing and trials--you are well ready. My anointing and power is yours--you will lack nothing. Nothing will be with held from you. All that I have is yours. You will always have more than what the enemy has. You weapons are more powerful and they are outnumbered.

I have trained your hands to war. You are more prepared than what you think. You do not realise what a threat you are to darkness. Because My light is great around you --you shine so brightly. My glory is over you and it covers you. You are clothed with my presence and my brightness shines out from you. All that has been done to you--I have taken and used it. All the past that was meant to destroy you and even kill you--I have taken and formed you into a strong warrior.

There are scars and disappointments--but they are marks of your testing. They are medals of your battles--Look upon them and say, "The Lord has prevailed in my life." Hear what the Lord is saying, "You are ready-you are prepared-stand ready-listen to my voice-I am calling forth-this one and that one. I have positioned you --you are ready!"

RG Davis
Frontlines@worldnet.att.net
Fairbanks, Alaska

Faithful Christians Taking Hits

Bonnie Nel

My son's and my daughter's do you not know that time is short. You are speaking these things.

There is no more time to be molly coddled. I must have an army that shall stand through all. You are being trained. You are my warriors. The battle that rages are the preliminary rounds. You cannot make the championship bout unless you win in the warm-ups.

I am calling my forces. The ones that stand will be my leaders. You shall be the mightiest army ever known. I shall lead you into glory and eternal life and happiness.

No more do I let the weak pretend to be the strong. No more do the untruthful lead my army. Satan shall not hide in my children nor will he divide my forces again. v I am watching and preparing you. Keep your focus on Me. Again, I say you are being prepared for what is to come. Stand.

I watched my Son give His life for you. Know that I loved and love Him too. It is not easy what is happening for you or for Me. Trust Me. I AM GOD. I offer eternal life, joy and happiness. Pick up your cross and follow Me.

BonnieNelP@aol.com

APOSTLES ARE FATHERS, (AND MOTHERS)

Lloyd Phillips

We live in exciting days. Days in which the Holy Spirit is accomplishing so many great and mighty things in preparation for the last days harvesting. He is fully restoring the five fold gifts of apostles, prophets, evangelist, shepherds, and teachers to the church so that the saints can be equipped to do the works of service spoken of in Eph 4:11,12. We have witnessed, and continue to witness the reestablishing of the prophetic office to the church. It is this office which is in turn be restoring all things (Matt 17:11) by calling out the last of the five fold gifts to be reestablished, the office of the apostle. Even now we are seeing this restoration occurring at an encouraging pace. Many of us have anticipated this day with great delight in our hearts, for when this last of the ascension gifts are put into place, we will begin to see discipleship like we have not witnessed in the recent past, as the church will again be in a position to "equip the saints for the work of the ministry".

One reason the apostolic office is so important to raising up the saints, and discipling the laborers for the harvest is that apostles are by nature spiritual fathers. They are called by God and anointed to raise up a generation of warriors, and impart the abilities to them by the Holy Spirit to accomplish the assignments entrusted to the Church. Jesus is our greatest example of this as he showed the fathers heart to his disciples, and especially to the twelve apostles. He was equipping and training them to carry on his work after he left to be seated in the heavenly places. He said to Philip, "Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father".(John 14:9). Apostles are called to be fathers, and to show the fathers heart to His people. Paul instructed the Ephesian believers to be imitators of God as dear children (Eph 5:1). Likewise Paul asked the church in Corinth to be followers, or imitators of him as he was of Christ (1 Cor 11:1).

There are many needs supplied in the family of God by the parental attributes of fully functioning apostolic ministry. Prov. 17:17 says that a brother is given to share adversity (NRSV), but without the guidance and authority exercised, too often the adversity has been BETWEEN brothers in the family of God. Just as proper paternal authority is meant to help keep the peace in the natural family, fully functioning apostolic ministry will also bring a peace between brothers in the spiritual family of God. There are two sides to proper parental care. Both are seen in the churches at the time of Sauls raising up by Barnabas in to his early stages of service to the Christian Church.

Acts 9:31 [KJV] Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

True apostolic ministry will bring both fear and comfort. Often we have been given the impression of apostolic ministry that is quite authoritarian, and in deed the apostle will need to stand through adversity and controversy. Paul was quite strong in his public rebuke of the apostle Peter, (Gal 2:11). The result was an acceptance on Peter's part. This took a strong anointing on Paul's part, I am sure. An apostle must be able to bring the people of God in line with God's will by imparting an awe and fear of His greatness and power. This strength in leadership is not only expressed by men, but a similar rebuke was given by the matriarch Deborah to Barak (Judges 4:9). These are not masculine traits, but Godly traits. Besides strong leadership, and sharing the fear of the Lord, the apostle must also be able to share the comfort of the Holy Spirit with those whom he has been sent to serve.

1 Thes 2:10 [NIV] You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed.
11 For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,
12 encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.

The apostle Paul, along with Timothy and Silas considered the encouraging, comforting, and exhorting attributes of a father. We also must see modern day apostolic ministry that is as balanced as Paul was. I believe one of the reasons that Paul was able to balance the authority with compassion was not that he saw himself primarily as a father, but he saw himself as a parent, You see Paul also saw himself as a as a mother, and said so to the Thessalonians;

1 Thes 2:6 We were not looking for praise from men, not from you or anyone else. As a apostles of Christ we could have been as a burden to you,
7 but we were gentle among you, like as a mother caring for her little children.

Because we often mistake punishment and exercise of authority as a an attribute of the father and compassion as a motherly attribute, we have given an overly harsh picture of what an apostle aught to be like. Jesus himself related his feelings towards his people as a those of as a mother hen brooding over her children. (Matt. 23:37, Luke 13:34). We should keep in mind that all apostles are first and foremost shepherds of God's people, and need to be able to share God's grace, goodness, and compassion with them.

While it is certain the Lord gives his gifts to men and women with differing personalities, it is important that each be able to serve God's people a balanced diet. This is especially true of the office of the apostle who will complete the equipping team of five-fold ministries to the Body of Christ. In the spirit apostles are not to be male nor female (Gal. 3:28). They must function as spiritual parents to the saints of God, which means more than for any other office they must exhibit the functions that we see in both fathers and mothers. I do not see this as a contradiction, nor do I see it as particularly difficult. As God continues to restore all things within the church, should it be any surprise that he would want the attribute of fully functioning spiritual fathers and mothers in his family? These days we have a lot to delight in and rejoice in our God for. For the first time in history we live in a time when the Church has the technology and resources to carry out the Great Commission. As the Lord continues to equip his last days army of laborers for the harvest, we will see more and more apostolic leadership who exhibit the true qualities and characteristics of spiritual parents who are able to show both the fear of the Lord, and the compassion of the Holy Spirit.

Lloyd C. Phillips, Director
The Fellow Laborer's International Network (FLInt Net)
E - Mail: flintnet@flintnet.org
Web page: http://www.flintnet.org

Return To Me

Debbie Cossu

Zechariah 1:3
"Therefore tell the people: This is what the Lord Almighty says, "Return to Me.' declares the Lord Almighty, 'and I will return to you,' says the Lord Almighty.

VISION:
There was a field. The vastness of it could not be measured. There were no visible boundary lines.

Although it was so large in size and scope, it appeared loud in silence, and empty with so much.

I began to groan outloud like a woman in the last moments of delivery. I was going to try to be quiet and constrain myself, but with no one else in sight, my mouth was opened wide and filled with a wailing and groaning that could not be contained. It peirced though the silence and filled the emptiness. I was standing the whole time of this intense "labor." Suddenly I realized that the reason I could stand was two angles were holding me up on either side. Their names were FAVOR and UNION. They looked up as the wailing had stopped, and my eyes followed theirs. Comming down from up above was a canopy. It just hung there with the wind gently blowing all around. The banner written upon this canopy is LOVE _ _ _

WORD OF THE LORD:

I see you coming...From the north and south, from the east and west, all accross the face of the earth, My people are returning to Me. The hosts of heaven and a great cloud of witnesses have gathered to see what is about to occur.

Through trial and tribulation, even in pain and suffering, you have grown. Deep in the secret places I watched over you. I have nourished and sustained you. I have held and carried you. You were conceived by My love, carried by My love, and are called by My love.

Called to Me. Called together, in Favor and Union for all the world to see. This canopy of love will be held in place as your hearts stay repentant before Me and each other. I have longed for this day when My commanded blessing would be released in spirit and in truth.

There are others yet to hear the call, others to return as you have done. Will you stand in their behalf this day. Will you becon them to come even as I have beconed to you. Will you run out to meet them even as I have run to meet you. Will you hold them close as they come, even as I embrase you this day.

This canopy of Love is a place of refreshment and refuge; A place of renewal and revival because of the tears and prayers you have brought forth so far. Continue on in My Love for surely New Life is about to come forth.

Listen, for your cries shall be turned to shouts of joy.

Look, for that which was empty is being filled.

Love, for those who have not are being brought near.

My Canopy of Love is where you must begin to be equipted to go forth as is needed in the days ahead.

debbcossu@juno.com

HIS EYE IS ON YOU!

Homer Owen

There was a time in my life if you told me that God had his eye on me, I would not have a good feeling about this really taking place. We are so naturally in the mind set that if God is observing us, it isn't for our good and His intentions are really to get on us about those things we are not suppose to be doing. David discovered a wonderful truth in recognizing that God does not keep a record of our mess ups.

"David speaks of the blessing upon the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works: 'Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account.'" (Romans 4:6-8)

Redemption in Christ has set us free from the law of sin and death. We are set free from this law of sin and death by another law that has come forth. "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death." (Romans 8:1-2)

The Lord wants us to know and enjoy our salvation in Him. The vicious cycle of sin and death over our lives has been broken by the love of God and He does not want us to focus on our failures and shortcomings, but on His marvelous grace and mercy that has been and is being extended to us. He loves us so much that He sent His Son to take care of the sin problem in our lives. Let us rejoice and be glad in Him - continually. This is what we praise Him for. His love, and mercy and grace and etc.

As we turn our hearts towards the Lord we turn the heart of God on towards us. "For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the whole earth in search of that one that has turned his heart towards the Lord in order that He may strongly support him because his heart is completely His." (2 Chronicles 16:9) We give our hearts to the Lord by giving our hearts to the Lord. We simply tell the Lord that we are giving our heart to Him and ask Him to look over our ways in His love.

"I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and and give you a heart of flesh." (Ezekiel 36:25-26) Ezekiel under the anointing of the Holy Spirit was speaking about us. Isn't this good news. Jesus came and preached the gospel of the Kingdom which is good news. This is the new covenant that we are in. The old covenant with all of its decrees and ordinances is no longer in effect over us. God help us to enjoy our life in Him.

Lord, cause us to move and have our being in You today. Help us to keep our focus centered on You and not ourselves. Thank you for being You. This is coming to you from Homer Owen. My home page is: http://home.earthlink.net/~homerowen.

The sugar of pride

David Howe

Pride is like sugar in your spiritual fuel tank - It clogs you up inside - Clogs up your heart.

If you put sugar into a fuel tank - The sugar dissolved in the fuel slowly clogs up the engine as it uses this contaminated fuel until suddenly the engine breaks down - The driver did not know that an enemy had put sugar in his fuel tank.

Pride does the same to us in the spirit - You may not know that pride has got into your heart until you fall.

Watch your hearts - Watch the enemy does not put the sugar of pride in your fuel tank.

The only way to stop this is to stay humble before the Lord.

Stay pure - Keep your fuel pure - Keep your hearts pure.

For pride comes before a fall - For the Lord opposes the proud - But the humble he lifts up. Repent - Submit yourselves to God - Then resist the devil and he will flee from you - For it was through pride that the devil fell from heaven.

Watch your hearts when the Lord is using you - GIVE ALL THE GLORY TO THE LORD. Watch for the fear and favor of man is like a snare - Is like sugar to your hearts.

Also sugar rots your teeth - Which gives you bad breath - Pride does effect what comes out of your mouth - Effects what you say.

For the sugar of also pride causes you to put on weight - So that you increase and the Lord decreases in your life - This is the opposite of what scripture says - For as you decrease - He The Lord will increase in your life - We must lay all things down at his feet and make ourselves of no reputation.

So if you find that the sugar of pride has been got in your Spiritual fuel tank - Find yourself saying - This does not apply to me - Then this is one of the signs that the sugar of pride is within you - For it gets within us all - Then Repent - Humble yourself before God - Then resist the devil and he will flee from you - Keep a short account with the Lord - Then you can keep the sugar of pride out of your engine - Out of your life.

Stay pure - Watch your hearts - Keep your spiritual fuel pure.

Keep your engine - Life clean.

Dave Howe
Wellspring ministries - England.
davehowe@fdn.co.uk.

Faithful Shepherds

Sharon Marks

Faithful shepherds of My flock, I have seen your trials and I have seen your persecutions and I know your heart; as Job was tested--for I knew his integrity and righteousness; so have I allowed your testing. Know that in these things you have been made strong, My faithful ones. You cry out to me in the mid-night hour and you lift your voice to your God with praise and adoration in the darkest of hours. I have seen and I have heard and I am well pleased. I will take you into the desert for a time for there is much I wish to impart to you. This is not a desert that is void of Me but a desert of being completely alone with and in Me.

Embrace Me and all that I speak to you. For soon, very soon, I shall send many your way ... the broken, the poor, the wounded, the hopeless, the unwanted, the frightened, the run-aways. Those that others would look upon and walk away from; for they see with their eyes and not with their hearts. They JUDGE who is worthy to speak to and who is not, BUT I SAY, you have kept yourselves holy unto Me and unto My ways and will. Your hearts have remained broken and pure. You come before Me in spirit and in truth and I AM WELL PLEASED. I have put within you a compassion for those that have no compassion, a love for those who are unloved. A longing, a desire, a yearning, a compelling to reach out to those who are unreachable and who have been cast aside by the world. In these shall you build a mighty vineyard for My glory; it will bear much good fruit and by this, man shall know and come to Me through you.

In this time many will run to My sanctuary which I have entrusted to you, and it will be filled and flowing out into the streets. In this sanctuary shall you leave a remnant of that which I have instilled in you; for you have established it on solid ground and a solid foundation in My Son.

There are times of trials and tribulation that shall come; there shall come a shaking and a quaking of the church and I shall send a consuming fire to burn away the chaff; a fire to begin refining those who will be raised up, I will send My wind to fan this flame and My rain to set the metal in them. I will purge the dross from this church and all those who would contend with you shall contend with Me! In this will come cleansing and refreshing, strength and substance, faithfulness to Me and to the shepherds of the sheep. I will knit you one to the other and to your God and nothing shall separate you from Me.

You shall be a sword that cuts through the darkness of the evil one and the light of My Son that dwells within you shall expose him and bring all things to light . I will begin to expose those that speak falsely against My shepherds and My wrath shall be kindled against those who will not repent.

Remain steadfast My chosen ones. For I now begin a new work in you and as Jacob's ladder carried him from glory to glory so shall I carry you. Look up! For I am extending My ladder to you. Grab hold and climb! Reach out ... I will not let you go!

Rev.Sharon Marks

sschmalfuss@snet.net

THE PLACE OF MIRACLES
by Rick Joyner

For the kingdom of God does not consist in words, but in power (I Corinthians 4:20)

When the Lord fed the thousands with just a few fish and loaves what made this miracle so great was that so much was done with so little. He receives more glory when we have less in our hands to do His works with. One of the greatest hindrances to our seeing the miracles of God is that we have too much.

When the Lord calls us to do a task we must resist looking to our resources for the ability to carry it out, but rather look to God's resources. Having much may actually hinder us from doing great things for God. When the Lord set about to change the world, He did not start accumulating a large treasury for the task. He just looked for twelve men that He could anoint. Even the men that He chose were lacking in the natural gifts and abilities to carry out such a purpose. However, the Lord did not need their abilities. He only needed a few who would be willing vessels for the Holy Spirit.

Years ago the Lord said to me that money was my least valuable resource. It is a resource, and has some value, but it is the least of what we need to carry out His purposes. We need the Holy Spirit. There are a couple of crucial factors about the Holy Spirit that we need to understand if we are going to be used by Him. These are highlighted in the very first mention of the Spirit in Genesis 1:2:

"And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Here we see in the first mention of the Holy Spirit that He is moving. In almost every mention of Him in Scripture He is moving. In John 3:8 we are told, The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit." Those who are born of the Spirit will also be moving. The Christian life is not static it is always moving, flowing, going somewhere. This is the nature of those who are born of the Spirit.

The second major factor we notice about the Spirit in Genesis is that He brought forth this glorious creation out of that which was formless and void. He still loves to do this. We do not have to be perfect for Him to use us. We can actually be over-organized and over prepared for Him to be able to use us. The Lord is not against organization, but in our pitiful little human perspectives our organization is often the result of majoring on minors. We want to get things ready, but He wants to get us ready. Our readiness is not dependent on the material realm, but on a heart that loves Him, trusts Him, and obeys Him.

It was for this reason that the Lord of the Universe was born in a stable, the most humble, unlikely place He could have chosen. The only way that He could be found was by revelation. The same is still true of those things that are truly born of God. The Lord is not waiting until our building is big enough, or us to have enough money in the bank, or even for us to get a certain degree. He is waiting for us to have faith, not in ourselves, and not in our stuff, but in Him.

http://www.morningstarministries.org/

Seventh Day

Marsha Burns

I had a dream of going to a Seventh Day church. It was wonderful! We had so much fun in the presence of the Lord; there was great joy and liberty in the fellowship, but I also knew that others would not have approved of our attending this church. In fact, an article came out in the local newspaper telling that we had been found in this church, placing us in a position of being ridiculed and rejected. During the course of my dream I discovered that this church was separated by a corridor into two groups in different rooms. The group we had been in fellowship with was incredible, but I made my way down to hall to find out about the other group, all the while thinking that it was such a shame that they all weren't in the same room. When I entered this room, there was no joy or presence of the Lord. They were complaining and grumbling against those in the first group. It was very oppressive, and I couldn't stay there.

Upon awakening, I realized that God is moving among His people to gather His saints where there will be peace, unity, and one accord and where the presence of the Lord will bring joy and liberty. But this moving of His Spirit will be misunderstood by those who are bound by tradition and the previous standard, and they will persecute and rise up against this new spiritual environment and miss God's purposes and find themselves without His presence.

And the Lord says: Beloved, if they persecuted Me, they will persecute you. But, I say to you, count it all joy because you are in the company of the redeemed, and I am about to pour out My Spirit in unprecedented ways. For this is the Third Day of Christ and the Seventh Day of God, and I say it is both the day of restoration with resurrection power and a day of judgment, which will first begin in the house of God. Do not find yourself in opposition to My work.

Faith Tabernacle
http://ft111.com
ft111@uswest.net

Five-Fold Today Archives



The Lord has given us the grace to reconcile the children to their Fathers

As One Body

  • We prepare for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb
  • Harvest the Fruit of the Latter Rain
  • Follow Him as the Army of the Lord into His Glory

Help To Prepare A Holy Bride!

Issue Oriented Discussion Newsletter

Index | Search This Site | Aristide.Org | The Latter Rain | Babylon the Great | The Kingdom | The Nicolaitans | Jezebel
The Baptism With the Holy Ghost | The Grand Delusion | World Trade Org | Liberation Theology | Jay Atkinson | Alphabetical Index



jay@latter-rain.com