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Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.
A young man of about 34 years of age came into our Clinic for Spiritual Diseases to be prayed for. He was intelligent and well-mannered. He was a part-time lecturer at an institution of higher learning and owned a prosperous business in town. Physically, he was lean and complained of not feeling too well. We prayed for him and he left. He felt much better after that. Many months afterwards, I was asked to go and pray for him at home because his condition was getting worse. I went to his home and found his two children playing in the yard. On inquiry, I was informed that he had gone out. Three months afterwards, word came to me that he was dead. He had been suffering from AIDS, had hidden this fact from most people and had informed his parents of it only towards the end of his life. He told them that he had had a blood transfusion some fourteen years earlier in a neighbouring country and that that was how he had come in contact with the disease! Oh, he had got in contact with the disease fourteen years earlier but had lived as a normal person until the year in which he died!
This revival tract is a direct message from the Lord to its author, Professor Fomum, on the distinctive ministry of fasting and its place in the Body of Christ. Every believer can prophesy, but there are some who are called to be prophets. Similarly, every believer can fast and every believer should fast, but there are some who are called apart to the distinctive ministry of fasting. Those who are called to such a ministry have received a special ability from God the Father to fast and they flow out in this way. Read this short message to come to grip with the distinctive capacities to carry out short, medium, long, and very long fasts.
The new heart has a burning desire to: Seek the Lord Find the Lord Know the Lord Love the Lord Make the Lord its bliss Serve the Lord as an overflow of love
My dear friend, are you tolerating any sin in your life? If you are doing so, the Bible says that you will not inherit the Kingdom of God. If any sin is in your life, forsake it at once and return to the Lord Jesus. If you do not forsake all sin that you know of, you shall surely go to the lake of fire. The fact that you knowingly continue to sin may indicate the fact that you are not a child of God. Your conversion may be counterfeit.
God gave a prophetic message to all in our ministry, Christian Missionary Fellowship International (CMFI), in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia on 20 September 2007. We have simply termed it the Santa Cruz message. We reiterate that God’s proclaimed purpose and goal for our work now is that we comply with that message, i.e. we are to give ourselves exclusively to evangelism, soul-winning church-planting, healing, deliverance from demons, breaking of curses, massive selling of literature. We are to minister the whole Gospel to the whole man in the power of the Holy Spirit. ... The Santa Cruz prophecy, though specific to our community, is not a peculiar command. It was a similar command that was Jesus’s last behest to His disciples, in their obeying of which He also pledged His companionship till the end of the age. Though specific in a particular sense, the Santa Cruz prophecy is in total conformity to Jesus’s commanded preoccupation for all His disciples for all time. It is wise for us to obey what the Master has commanded us and we should be busy at it till He comes. Do not disobey the Lord whom you love.
I never intended to write this tract. It came upon me as a result of my daily meditation, heart-search and communion with God. That day, the 16th of November, 1989 I was meditating from Luke 18:20 where the Lord said to the Jewish ruler, “You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour your father and mother.” I decided to spend one meditation period of two hours in examining my heart and life before the Lord on each of the commandments that was given by the Lord in the above passage. I will just write out what I wrote in my meditation book that day as adultery. I believe most of it will apply to fornication.
They are selfless and Christ-centred They labour to put others first. They put the interests of others ahead of their own interests. They consciously allow others to use them to accomplish their own goals. They love God’s will and have no personal interest which will be crushed by the will of God. They give with no thought nor desire to receive. They preferentially give to those who will never be able to give back to them in any way. They are self-effacing and labour to hide their accomplishments. They are put off by praise and honour from men.
I remind you that only the pure in heart will see Me. Again, I remind you that only the pure in heart and deed have a place in the Holy City. I command you to wash your garment in my Son’s blood and be for ever spotless in all things. I insist that you shall labour with all the strength which My Spirit mightily inspires within you to be pure and holy in motive, thought, look, touch, desire, word, deed, in everything. Without this kind of holiness and purity, you shall not see Me. I say very clearly to you and to all who are Mine that without this kind of holiness and purity, none will see Me. In the glorious Kingdom of My Holy Son, I will not cast My eye on anything that is spotted. You are to put everything into being holy. You should prefer to die and come home to Me rather than practise sin in any way. You should rather allow My work that I have put into your hands to suffer than practise or commit any sin to advance it. Have you heard Me? I am saying that you are to be transparent in everything.
There are a number of reasons why the cost of discipleship must be presented to people before they are allowed to make some commitment to the Lord. The first reason is the example of the Lord. He demanded that the disciples forsake all to follow him from the beginning and they left all and followed Him. About total separation from sin, the Word of God teaches that all those who practise sin are lost and the Lord always took for granted that all who followed Him had said their final good-bye to all known sin. The Lord did not allow the rich young ruler to make a superficial commitment and follow Him in order to have time to think about paying the whole cost. He brought him face to face with the whole cost at once and the man made the choice of keeping his money and keeping himself away from the kingdom of God. He bid men count the cost.
I am the One who calls people to the ministry of prayer. I am the One who sets people apart to the ministry of prayer. It is not a human decision. When I reveal Myself to someone and reveal to that one the fact that the movements of earth only make sense after Heaven has moved, that one will begin to pray. He will begin to move Me so that I would move man, instead of trying to manipulate man. The men and women in the ministry of prayer are called to it by Me. Others who are not called to it will do general praying, and they should not be manipulated to become Prayer Warriors because it will never work. They cannot, by exhortation or encouragement or rebuke, impart that knowledge of God and that burden of God that are indispensable for a life in the ministry of prayer.