maybe we can finally get to work :-).
There is plenty more in here
that I had highlighted that I didn't share
the time I first read it.
They seem even more relevant today.
Read it till the end :-).
You'll be glad you did.
And this is only up to page 111?
out of 388?
Something like that.
"Every advancement in bringing the Kingdom of God to earth was paved on the backs of visionaries, MARYTERS and THOSE WHO BROKE THE MOLD IN THEIR RESPECTIVE ERAS."
"What now seems strange, risky and new will eventually be familiar, safe ground, because forerunner pilgrims will have tracked out safe paths to walk in."
"The lord is looking for those BOLD ENOUGH to forge new paths into the hinterlands where numerous pioneering Christian mystics, prophets and miracle workers left off."
"The history of the church is full of such radicals, men and women of no reputation who impacted their respective day by dwelling in the transcendent realm of Heaven."
"Charles Spurgeon went so far as to say, "There are very few Christians who believe in the resurrection of the dead." Is that possible? Many give the scriptures lip service, but very few believe it in their heart. Even fewer believe it enough that they expect to imitate the miraculous on the same scale in their own lives."
("There are very few Christians who believe in the resurrection of the dead." Why are you even bothering to go? All in or nothing.)
"Many want nothing to do with such a bizarre faith that is beyond the scope of understanding."
(If people honestly knew just how strange and weird the nooks and dark crannies of the faith were, the things they have been led away from purposely? The diluting of it? Because people were to scared to teach/explain it? They wouldn't ever have anything to do with it.)
"Yet these hidden regiments of fanatics- those who stow away in caves and hide from television cameras-they thrive in such extremities."
(Forget cameras...just stay away from TV's :-)
"One of the first signs of a (great saint) may well be the fact that other people do not know what to make of him. In fact they are not sure whether he is crazy or only proud but it must at least be pride to be haunted by some individual idea which nobody but God really comprehends...He can not seem to make his life fit in with the books.," writes modern completive Thomas Merton."
"Such men are acquainted with suffering, With social distaste. With persecution and the theft of human dignity."
(I got a chair at my table, come explain it to me some more please.
Sarcasm, the highest form of humor BTW.)
"It will not be so critical for us to have perfect Eschatology - an exact understanding of the end times - prior to the Lords return. However, even as the book of Revelation promises blessings to those who read, hear and take the book to heart, so there will be blessings to those who apply themselves to prophetically understand the Lord's end time purpose."
(How ironic is it
that the only book that promises a blessing to those who read it:
Revelation 1:3
Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.
Is the most neglected one in the cannon?)
"As we move closer to the "period of restoration of all things" which Peter talked about, we are going to see many such things that had a Christian foundation, but seem to have been lost to the spirit of the world, recovered for the purposes of Christ," writes prophetic teacher Rick Joyner."
"Sundar (Sadhu Sundar Singh) remarked on western Christianity shallow spirituality and the rampant materialism at that time."
(Whats changed really?)
"His intense revelatory experiences became more and more frequent."
(Familiar with that concept...yup...)
"Translations from one place to another will become far more commonplace with the new mystics. When our only standard is the presence of God, the favor of God rest upon us, and all things become possible. The enemy shivers at the thought of what access we have to find God's power."
"...the lord wants to restore the church prior to her entrance into glory, before the Lord returns, He will have a church functioning in her prime. A pure and spotless bride without blemish."
"the last days are when the church will shine her brightest."
"The people of God do not bow out or get whisked away in times of trial, rather God carries them right through to the other side as they lean into him."
("whisked away in times of trial" I'm not even gonna get into the magic carpet ride to nowhere, led by nobody knows who, or where they go, or for how long they are there, or what they do while they are gone, till who knows when, or who brings them back, or when they come back...Opps...I just did :-).
"In these last days, the Church will walk in the anointing of the sons of Golden Oil foreshadowed in Zachariah 4 and Revelation 11."
(:-). Okay, now no comment :-).
"Those with vision will embrace such encounters with the demonic, because Christians who walk in power will be on the offense, not the defense."
"The primary reason we must understand the principal of restoration in the last days, is to grasp the coming tidal wave of supernatural power about to be released on the church."
"The early church fathers battled heresies and Christological errors. The emperor Constantine jumped on board with Christianity around a.d. 300, bought up the clergy and made a big church/state hybrid. He ended Christin persecution but basically sold the church out to a political spirit that still remains today."
(There is no political litmus test to accepting the blood of Christ.
Period.
Read that again.
Tell me how Western civilization
and the Western Church aren't still suffering from:
"a big church/state hybrid"
Big mistake.
I got a chair and all the time in the world to listen.
Funny how nobody.
Not one person,
has ever come by
to talk to me about
any of the things I want them to.
Revelation 11:10
"because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth."
That couldn't have anything to do with it could it?
Truth hurts.
Deal with it.)
"Eventually, the modern rationalist dismissed God altogether, and scientific atheism was born."
"The bride of Christ suddenly seemed more interested in expounding on her marriage certificate than enjoying the Bridegroom Himself. Emotion was largely extracted from this objective, rational approach to the gospel."
"Science is a gift from God
and true science was never an enemy of faith."
(Thought it before I ever picked the book up. I was shocked to read somebody writing what I had always thought. Newton went looking for God in nature and boy he sure found plenty. Nowadays scientist dig through nature trying to prove there isn't a God and are dumbfounded when they find evidence of Him. Initial conditions, laws of nature, brute facts, constraints, fine tuning etc. Hey yo-yos? You go digging through the creators creation? You might just find evidence of him. )
"Not only will miraculous power return corporately,
but the arts, music, and even undiscovered forms of worship will abound."
(It's like a football game.
If what you were doing isn't working any more?
Then it's time to do something else.
Drastic times call for drastic measures etc)
"Spiritual creativity will ignite innovation."
"We will get past the mind - past controlling, domineering Christianity - and demonstrate a spiritual life that attracts the world."
"We've become comfortable with God making leaders out of drunks and former addicts. But we dont believe He can actually transform a theological liberal; Look out, the wind is about to blow."
"Overall what is on the horizon will maker a much more spiritual age, with the heavy chains of rationalism lifted."
"Like the medieval period, this age will be much more conductive to Christian mysticism. However thanks to the advances of rational thought, these post-mystics will posse a clearer intellect and safer theological understanding through which to experience the divine than ever before. The spirit and the mind of redeemed mankind will function at levels of cohesion never before realized. Mysteries will unfold like gangbusters."
(Come tell me how you haven't seen it happen if you live around here.
I got a place reserved just for you.)
"Breaking open new realms always takes sacrifice."
"The forces of Satan are very fearful of the new martyrs that are coming."
"The enemy has learned how foolish it is to kill martyrs. whenever he kills them, they multiply. The retribution that follows is far greater than if he left them alone."
"The vision ended (Crowders) and instantly, the lord spoke to me about the new martyrs that are coming on the scene and how the enemy feels about them.
This is what I heard: They will freak you out dude."
"Because they are extreme lovers of God, they will also be extreme lovers of their fellow man."
"We should realize that many miraculous happenings will mark this final wave of martyrs. at the same time, there will be a certain number in the lord's last day army who carry a type of anointing that makes them physically invincible to those who try to harm them as foretold by Joel."
"...we should not at all be fearful of our spiritual adversary the devil."
"there is a special authority given to headless martyrs."
"
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Revelation 20:4"
"This passage speaks not only literally but also symbolically of those who are dethatched from human wisdom and the wisdom of the age and are submitted to the true Head which is Christ."
(It's like it was taken right out of brother Joes bible study on the book of revelation.)
.
"...we will live as a people separated from a worldly mind-set, trusting fully in the lord even to our own hurt."
(Computer rebooted for no reason when I read that. No others did, just mine, right when I read that...I've talked enough about me and computers at the library.)
"It is time we learn to live in a delicate paradox of passionately hating the demonic belief systems of false religions, while unconditionally loving and embracing our fellow man who is trapped by them."
"There is a level of anointing that releases such inebriated abandonment that a man can literally count his life as nothing compared to the surpassing glory of Christ."
(It's such a blessing, it really is.)
"The enemy's advances against the church are very limited, and there is a turn of the tide coming quickly, as the enemy's time draws to an end. Daniel 7:21-22 says:
As I watched, this horn was waging war against the holy people and defeating them, 22 until the Ancient of Days came and pronounced judgment in favor of the holy people of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom."
"The forerunner spirit is primarily one of self-decreasing,
so that the Lord's presence increases and He is drawn into the present day life of the believer here on earth."
(I got a chair/table if anybody wants to come explain it to me in greater detail.)
"This will be a group of people that strike dread into the heart of the enemy. Why? Because they are so possessed by a spirit of burning, a passion for purity. Their lives will be utterly transparent before the lord."
(Because there is no other answer than the one they are telling you is at work here and the enemy(s) know it.)
"They will truly be spotless."
(Maybe not before you
but before God.
As he has wiped their slate clean forever.
Ask yourself:
"Who would you rather be seen as spotless in front of?
Men?
Or God?)
"God is making for Himself worshippers in this hour whose lives are enflamed with holiness, who are unattached to the things of this world. They desire only their lover."
"Fear of punishment will produce an immediate response,
but only the love of God will produce a sustained relationship."
("You cant scare people into heaven"
Pastor Bridgette likes to say :-)
The Methodist in me
comes out sometimes :-)
"To fear the lord is simply to agree with love, and to literally hate evil."
"Desert Voices
"By the third and forth centuries, the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, Persia and Arabia had become filled with a radical wave of hermits and monks, who had chosen solitude apart from a decadent society, in quest for a deeper connection with God."
(First "presentation" I ever did.
Following Sunday at church:
"Dont be so radical."
Yeah...good luck with that.
You're not gonna change
whats been inside somebody 58 years.
God could.
But your not gonna.)
"In fact, society came to them for advice."
"Governors, Nobles and church leaders came to the deserts of Scete and the Nile delta for counsel, prayer, deliverance and healing -even pagan rulers."
(Proverbs 22:29
"Do you see a man diligent in his affairs?
He will not stand before mediocre men.
He will stand before kings.")
"...we have largely forgotten the thread of wisdom and divine experience in the desert fathers. theses men were dethatched completely from the spirit of their age, that their souls might be illuminated by Christ.'
"With the Desert fathers you have the characteristic of a clean break with a conventional, accepted social context in order to swim for one's life into an apparently irrational void.", write Thomas Merton."
"Let us pray that we may know the hidden things, that we may have power from God to stand against the darts of the evil one. And if we desire to know the hidden things, then we must have our hearts pure, that we may be a habitation for the Holy Spirit and then He will abide and rest in us, and the light that proceeds from Him will enable us to see the hidden things; even from remote distances."
"Their outward extremes were only a visible sign that they had discovered an inner paradise."
"Separation from the spirit of the world, combined with perseverance in prayer, will be the key to winning cities and nations in this hour and ushering in an awareness of God's presence."
"...a desert father named Squirion once said, "At that time wickedness will overflow and the charity of many will grow cold. And there shall come upon the earth a terrible testing. Those who shall be found worthy in this testing will be better than we are and better than our fathers. They shall be happy and more perfectly proven in virtue."
"God responds to spiritual hunger. When we deny ourselves to make room for him, He will meet us."
(You have witnessed it.)
"there will even be a revival of hermits and neo-monastics in the coming days that will blow us out of the water."
"...we will always be a peculiar people. It's unavoidable. we will always do weird things, because we are aware of a greater reality than the seen world."
(The more you believe in it,
and pray for it,
the more you will see of it
and you will become even more so:
"a peculiar people")
"entire new genres of music are about to come out of the church that the world has never before heard."
(Kinda right :-).
People might have heard it before
Just not in the context they are about to :-).
"our bent toward the natural realm
should be to somehow see the glory of God in all things."
"There will be such an acute consciousness of God's glory
that we will see his reflection everywhere we look."
(Yup...)
"The reason we only use 10% of our brain is because you can only go so far with rationalism."
"Human wisdom says.
"If it's not in the word dont do it."
Jesus says,
"Do what I tell you,
then I'll show you where it is in the word."
'Sometimes our greatest sin is settling for a mundane life
and not stepping out into the unknown.
God is looking for courageous pioneers."
(Why be normal?
Anybody can do that.)
"Faith must precede reason."
(Always...)
"...when I mention levitation or walking through walls, many people instantly think of the occult. But Jesus did both."
(Why wouldn't
the creator of Quantum Mechanics
be able to do whatever he wanted exactly?
I got a chair etc...)
"We have to be OK with experiencing his glory and watching Him do incredible things that boggle our minds."
(Be careful what you pray long and hard for...just sayin...)
"We need intellectual Christians in the marketplace - in business and politics- whom have amassed great reservoirs of learning, yet who are foremost yielded to the spirit of God. The world is afraid of an intellectual Christian because he gives rational credence to his life of faith."
"Satan is not afraid of you, but is terrified of the one who dwells within you."
"It is Him who saved me;
it is him who is purifying me;
and it is Him
who will bring his work in me
to completion.
In Him nothing can hold me back
from walking into my prophetic destiny."
(There's not a man or an entity on this earth gonna stop this.
I've been saying it a long time now.)
Speaking of St Francis of Assisi:
"...clergy was corrupt with materialism and spiritual pride at the time. I would not suggest we go taking vows of poverty, but Francis life was a prophetic sign in his day. He restored a voice and a hope for the laity and the poor in his era..."
"...preaching in the everyday language of the people with music and singing."
(This dispensation is different.
Because it's the last one.
Loosen up a lil bit about the language
I use that bothers you.
It's all about getting as many as we can
on the Ark before it's to late.
Deal w it.
Besides, if you haven't noticed?
God dont seems to mind near as much as you do,)
"It is my personal belief that keys of revelation will come that link spiritual laws to natural, physical laws - not that we will intellectually understand it all - and this will release us to walk in such faith,"
(The more you know about the world around you?
The small scale subatomic world and the large scale structures of the universe?
The more you will come to the conclusion there is a god. One God. You know the rest already. Who says that a lot? Hum?)
"When we encounter God, nature and even people are drawn to us. The anointing has an attractive element that all substances - animate and inanimate-mare compelled to worship! Even the thieves, junkies and prostitutes were drawn to Jesus because they perceived the fragrance of Heaven on him."
(If you've lived here?
You've seen it happen first hand.)
"In this hour , God is again calling his people to embrace supernatural Christianity."
(The whole faith is supernatural.
Why did we ever discount it?)
"prophetic movements in scripture and throughout church history have a very high rate of being rejected by God's people. It's par for the course. If god has called you into a prophetic office, you've been handed a ticket to your own crucifixion. Enjoy it. It just means you get more of God in the long run."
"It is time to eat meat and spit fire."
(Not a problem)
"But we can acknowledge that there are unique streams of the faith today that are drastically different from what we have experienced in the primarily Protestant West. Not just different in form, but different in mindset. And many of them are widely accommodating to the supernatural. The Eastern orthodox Church, for instance is highly open to the miraculous and corporately embraces modern signs and wonders far more than most mainline protestant denominations."
(Speaks for itself)
"I know this sounds weird to some non-Orthodox Christians, but the fact is, there is a lot out there we aren't clued in on."
(How about we change that?)
"There are obviously doctrinal errors in every stream of the church. You obviously think your own stream is closest to perfect or you wouldn't be swimming in it. But every denominational tributary in the Body of Christ has strengths and weaknesses -strong point and errors. We must stop seeing the church and her denominations as a tiered caste system, ranked in priority of who has the best doctrine. the blood of Christ has put us all on the same level playing field. We need to see the church more as a river. Every time a new tributary comes into the main stream, there are eddies and turbulence, but unless new waters flow in, the river risk drying up and becoming dead and stagnant. And those splashing in the latest tributary cannot think they own the river."
(Get out of that American fishbowl
of brainwashing you have been in your entire life.
Christ wasn't crucified on the cross just for American Evangelicals.
We need to get over ourselves.)
"It was the Coptic church refusal to mingle politics with church affairs that got them ostracized from the West in the fifth century."
(Cause it turned out so good for the Western church and Western civ is your counterargument?
Please.)
"...but we will also see that the Lord is raising up new mystics-a prophetic generation-from all corners of the globe. Joels army will not be wearing an American flag or a Canadian maple leaf on it's shoulder. It's only standard will be the cross. It's only membership requirement will be the blood of the lamb. The Lord is telling us to get our eyes outside the box and think of His church as a global entity.
Wait for it:
"The lord has "sleeper agents" planted throughout the world, who will be called out of their caves at the appointed time of harvest."
It's time.
I told you it was worth it :-).
I wanted to put a picture of my
"cave"
(my residence,
no windows with light coming in)
But I dont have a newer picture,
since I have made some upgrades
and I want to get this published,
so maybe I'll add it tomorrow.
And to those who would say:
"Well you just read that book all those years ago and decided to live your life to match it"
Yeah...
Right...
Sure thing...
How'd you get so smart?
That completely explains my prayer for a platform to be heard from and my friends and family being taken care of before me all coming true and all the accurate predictions made that the experts in their respective fields got wrong etc.
Gottcha...
Go with that.
Meanwhile?
p.s.
You are just reading this for the first time today.
I knew it was all gonna come true when I read it years ago.
How's that possible exactly?
I gotta chair :-).
I love you baby :-).
TTYS honey.
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