Will My Prayers Ever Be Answered? by David Wilkerson

I believe in Holy Ghost timing. In God’s own time, all our prayers will be
answered—one way or another—but the trouble is, we are afraid to submit our
prayers to Holy Ghost scrutiny. Some of our prayers need to be purged because
often our faith is misspent on requests that are not mature. We do not know how
to pray, “Thy will be done.” We don’t want his will as much as those
things permitted by his will.

Abraham exercised his faith . . . . Read the rest on David Wilkerson’s Website!!

A Life Marked by Fire

Here is the latest entry from the Wilderness Outcry Blog, are you burning for Jesus?

A Life Marked by Fire – Rick Pino
One night I was cooking dinner for my wife. “Be careful, it’s hot,” I said to her as I served her the dish. She then went on to say something that so impacted me; “It’s so interesting that you can see heat.” She was referring to the hot food but the Lord used her to speak directly to my heart. I wondered; “Am I burning with the fire of God? If so, can others see the heat?” The Bible says of John the Baptist that he was a “burning and shining lamp”. Researchers believe that up to 750,000 people went to go see John preach within a six month period! This is before the Internet, or media existed! Trust me, he wasn’t preaching a watered down, tickle your ear, convenient gospel either! He preached, “Repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand!” So what did they go out to see? I believe they went out to see a burning man in the desert! John’s life was one that was marked with the fire of the Holy Spirit! John had an inward consecration to God that marked him as a blazing inferno of fiery zeal! John was burning with the desire to be a highway for the Messiah to ride into the earth on! He was a man of great humility! Willingly giving up his own disciples to a man who’s sandals he did not feel worthy to untie. He was the first to have the prophetic eyes to see Jesus as “the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” He fasted often. He was a man who stood for truth even in the face of death. He was called to a lonely life but was later referred to by Jesus as “the greatest man born of women”. He was a laid down lover. He was a man on fire. If you touch fire to something that’s not on fire for long enough, that thing will also start on fire. Fire spreads. It is a consuming force that when given the right fuel will continually expand. Are you a burning and shining lamp? Is your life marked by fire? Can others see the heat coming off of your life? If not, it’s time to press in close to God. After all, He is an all-consuming fire. Stick around Him long enough and you’ll have no choice but to burn.

Rick Pino

Fire Rain Ministries

http://www.wildernessoutcry.com/blog/

The Ten Commandments being REMOVED

David Wilkerson had this to say about the Ten Commandments being removed from courthouses!

Most of America knows that the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled the
Ten Commandments cannot be displayed in any government courthouse. This landmark
decision has been covered exhaustively by the media. But what does the ruling
mean?

A courthouse is where laws are enforced. The Ten Commandments represent God’s
moral law, which never shifts or changes. It is as fixed as the law of gravity.
If you defy that law, it’s like stepping off a high building. You can deny
that the law affects you, but there are consequences sure to be paid.

Simply put, the Ten Commandments are eternal laws designed by God to keep
society from destroying itself. Yet, amazingly, many sand-blasting companies
are at work right now grinding away those Commandments—as well as God’s
name—wherever they’re engraved in courthouse marble or concrete.

What a telling picture of the state of our society. These unchangeable laws
were originally engraved in stone by the finger of God. And now they are being
erased from stone by the law of man.

Some Christians are saying, “What’s the big deal? We are not under the law.
Why should this be an issue?” No, we are not under the Hebrew law, meaning the
613 additional commandments added by Jewish rabbis. But every Christian is under
the authority of God’s moral law, which is summed up in the Ten Commandments.

I wonder what goes through God’s mind as these sand-blasters erase his laws
from before our eyes. Some believers claim, “We don’t need these displays
of the Commandments. All that’s really necessary is for us to have them
written in our hearts.” That’s not what God’s Word says. Consider the
very visible presence God intended for the Commandments as they were delivered
to his people:

“These words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart… and
[thou] shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou
walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou
shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between
thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy
gates” (Deuteronomy 6:6-9).

http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/node/7984

Prepared for the Times

Rick Joyner recently wrote this piece and I thought it was pretty good. Enjoy!

Prepared for the Times, Part 11, by Rick Joyner
Week 11, 2010

     Certainly our ministry titles have a place in helping the church understand the ministry we have. However, the overuse and misuse of spiritual titles has terribly devalued our spiritual currency in recent times. It is hard not to meet anyone in ministry now who does not claim to be an apostle, bishop, or prophet. It has become so outlandish that when I see those whom just call themselves “pastor,” I immediately have respect and trust for them just because of their modesty.

     Even so, we are in a time when these ministries are being restored to the church, and we would be missing the purposes of the Lord to not expect them. We should seek to recognize and receive them. If we receive a prophet in the name of a prophet, we will receive a prophet’s reward, but if we receive a prophet as just a teacher, then we will only get teaching. The same is true of all ministries. If we receive an apostle as just a teacher, we will only get teaching. However, if we receive a teacher as an apostle, we are likely to get wrong or bad leadership. Because of this, there is a responsibility on the part of leadership to “know those who labor among you.”

     Again, there is a place, and even a need for using ministry titles, as even the Apostle Paul resolutely defended his apostleship. Even so, he was doing it for the people, not just for himself. There was no self-promotion or bombast in his defense, but rather the spirit of a father instructing his children. It has grace, dignity, and high wisdom that we come to know as a hallmark of the true messengers who have been sent by the King.

     Likewise, the revelations, dreams, or visions, which come from Him have this same grace and dignity. In this age, the Lord leads by calling more than commanding. He has the authority to do what He wants, but, as we see in Revelation 3:20, He is standing outside of His own church and knocking to see if anyone will hear and open up to Him. The reason for this is because we are in the age when He is seeking out those who will be joint heirs with Him, who will obey because they love the truth, not just under compulsion. For this reason, we should never feel pressured into action by a true prophetic revelation, but rather called. There have been times when we can receive a warning about something that requires action, but even those should come in the dignity and grace of the Lord, calling for a response, not pressuring, as we read in James 3.

     I have learned that whenever I was compelled to do something fast, it was not from the Lord, and the action was usually a big mistake. The Lord, who sees the end from the beginning, is not going to be caught off guard so that He will have to rush us into something. I know of a number of biblical exhortations to wait on the Lord and to be patient, but I do not know of a single one that compels us to hurry. After much experience and many mistakes, I’ve learned certain things about the way He speaks and leads.

     Now here’s an important principle that is essential for true ministry, but does fly in the face of what many perceive to be the way we should operate. The Holy Spirit is “The Helper,” not “The Doer.” When people say that none of them are mixed into the ministry, they are mistaken if it is true ministry. This “mixture” is not only okay, it is necessary. If the Lord had wanted all ministry to be 100 percent Him, with none of us mixed in, then He would never have left, and He would not have let anyone else do anything.

     As we have discussed before, in Luke 10 we see the Lord sending His disciples out two by two to preach the gospel, heal the sick, and cast out demons. They were so successful that when they returned, Jesus said that He saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning. However, it is not until the next chapter, Luke 11, that the disciples ask Jesus to teach them to pray. They did all of this and did not even know how to pray yet!

     These disciples were obviously far from perfect, or even mature, when the Lord trusted them with extraordinary authority. Yet, I doubt anyone who was healed, set free, or who heard the good news of the coming kingdom through them, complained. Even just before Jesus was crucified, the disciples were arguing over who was the greatest, and they were to be the leaders of the church through its most delicate formative times just a few weeks later. Many years afterward, some of them were still making extraordinary mistakes, such as Peter, who had to be rebuked by the youngest apostle at Antioch because “he stood condemned.”

     We are foolish if we look for perfection in ministry or in leadership, regardless of how mature they are. Our hope should not be in the vessels, but in the treasure that is in the vessels—the Holy Spirit. If we keep our trust rightly placed in Him, we will not be overly dependent or disappointed by people. If the ministries and leaders are true servants, they will not be seeking to build people’s trust in them, but in the Lord. Jesus, Himself, is the only foundation that can be built upon that will last. If we build people’s trust in ourselves instead of the Lord, we have failed, and that foundation will fail too, because no one but the Lord can carry that kind of burden.

     This is important because it is the perfectionist mentality that is based more in a trust in ourselves than in the Lord, which hinders most from stepping out into their calling and ministry. We do not get perfected so that we can be used by the Lord; we get perfected by being used by Him.

Chosen to bear fruit

David Wilkerson had a cool blog entry the other day that talked about what it means to bear fruit.  Hint: It is more than just saving lost souls. .  .

Enjoy

Chosen to Bear Fruit

“Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit” (John 15:16).

Many sincere Christians think bearing fruit means simply to bring souls to Christ. But to bear fruit means something much larger even than soulwinning.

The fruit Jesus is talking about is Christ-likeness. Simply put, bearing fruit means reflecting . . .(More)

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