JUNE 2005
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8 Ways to Maintain Our
Strength
Rededicate
To God’s Plan & Ways To
recover and maintain our spiritual strength
the first thing we can do is to rededicate
ourselves to the Lord, His ways, His
priorities and surrender our own agendas.
Rediscover who we are: agents from heaven
sent to be lights in the world and that we
walk by a different set of values and
priorities than it. Though we work and labor
in the world our value and worth do not come
from it, but from heaven. We are dead to the
world. We do not live to please it or conform
to it. Instead we are to be controlled by the
Spirit of God, word of God and the plan of
God.
Pray
Always In The Spirit. We must
continue to build ourselves up by prayer in
the spirit, continually welcoming His
presence and help. ‘But you beloved,
building yourselves up on your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep
yourselves in the love of God.” (Jude 20
See also Eph 6:18) This includes prayer in
tongues and prayer from the heart of God.
Without constant prayer the problems of life
and the pressure thoughts of can overwhelm us
and sap or energy. On the other hand when we
pray in the spirit and in tongues we build
ourselves up in our faith. We need to recover
the lifestyle of much prayer in the spirit
from the heart. This prayer discharges our
known problems and also reaches beyond them
to the heart of God.
Build
Ourselves Through the Word Reading
the world though the eyes of faith is a
tremendous source of strength for all
believers. We need not just to read it but
also to ponder its message. Reading what
other great men and women of God have written
about the word and continuing to listen to
messages on the word, stimulates our
understanding and cause us to discover the
riches of its treasures. Today’s’
Christian reading is often dominated by
reflection on contemporary trends that the
great doctrines of the faith are neglected
and our understanding limited. We must not
neglect to learn from and build on the
insights of the giants of the past.
Continue
To Receive The Holy Spirit.“Be
filled (i.e. constantly in a process of
refilling) with the Spirit speaking to
yourselves with songs and hymns and spiritual
songs singing and making melody in your heart
to the Lord.” (Eph 5:18-19)
“Whatever is true, whatever is
honorable, whatever is just, whatever is
pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is
gracious, if there is any excellence, if
there is anything worthy of praise, think
about these things. What you have learned and
received and heard and seen in me, do; and
the God of peace will be with you” (Phil
4:8,9) When negativity creeps into our
spirits through thoughts and words, we become
weak. When we fail to keep the melody of the
Lord flowing from our hearts, the problems
and pressures of life can overwhelm us. As a
counter measure to this we can recover the
strengthening power of joy and praise in the
Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit must be
continuously welcomed, employed and invited
into our lives and situations.
Continue
To Resist The Devil.When
Satan’s messengers come to discourage
and intimidate us, generate doubts, steal our
joy and wear us down with depression and
sickness, we must recognize his devices and
resist his work. One of the best ways to do
this is to renounce all agreement with
thoughts planted by the enemy and command the
spirits behind those thoughts to leave in
Jesus’ name!
Refuse
Bitterness & Unforgiveness To
keep our strength in the Lord we have to
absolutely refuse to walk in bitterness and
unforgiveness of any kind. Instead we can
walk in love, giving ourselves over to be
agents of God’s love and mercy in the
world. Since God’s love is poured into
our hearts through the Holy Spirit we can
constantly ask Him to pour into our hears a
supreme love for Him, proper love for
ourselves and ever increasing love for
others.
Lay
Aside All Weights & Sin.“Therefore,
since we are surrounded by so great a cloud
of witnesses, let us also lay aside every
weight, and sin which clings so closely, and
let us run with perseverance the race that is
set before us, looking unto Jesus the author
and he finisher of our faith.” (Heb.
12:1-2) Since we are in a race we have to
throw off ‘sins’ and
‘weights’ that slow us down. We can
recognize, repent and remove these sins from
our lives. Ask the Holy Spirit to give us
tender consciences so that, through
presumption, we do not allow anything into
our lives, which weakens us spiritually.
“Weights” are habits, distractions
and emotional entanglements, which hinder us
spiritually. Many carry with them weights,
guilts and hurts from these past. We can
loose ourselves from them so we can run our
race with focus and in freedom. Jesus has
given us the ‘keys of the kingdom’
to loose ourselves from these things and to
‘bind’ ourselves to the opposite.
Another series of weights come from
commitments we have made and involvement in
activities and enterprises that have outlived
their usefulness. We can miss obedience to
God’s call because of the weight of
obligation to a duty He no longer wants us to
bear. Never let your duties to the world
interfere with your obedience to the Lord.
Stay
Involved In The Battle David, one of
the greatest warriors of all time, became
weary with the battle and no longer went out
to battle. It was then he became weak and
succumbed to the sin that nearly destroyed
his whole life’s work. Jesus said,
“My meat is to do the will of him who
sent me and to finish His work” (John
4:34) Many drop out from the work and become
weak. When we stay engaged and continue to
take our part (no matter how small it seems)
in the Lord’s work giving it top
priority, our spirits are strengthened with
invisible food. There is much more to be said
about being free to be strong in the Lord.
The above is a start to stimulate our faith
to fight and run with sharpness and freshness
. In this way we can be overcomers and win
the crowns of life rather than be overcome by
the cares and pressures of this age. (See
Rev. 2 & 3) Be of good cheer says Jesus I
have overcome the world!!
What
Other’s Say
“You
can never really know the scriptures until
you are willing to be changed by them. All
genuine revivals of the Lord result in
believers responding with action and soul
winning.” (Brother Yun “The
Heavenly Man” p. 297)
“In
every age the Holy Spirit has invited
believers to step into His own miraculous
realm. Only a few have achieved it..
God’s constant effort has been to lead
us – not across the desert – but
into the miraculous realm of the Spirit. This
fact has been as difficult for contemporary
Christians to accept it as it was for ancient
Jews. For that reason many modern
congregations find themselves left behind
wondering what happened to their once
thriving ministries. Miraculous power is
gone; nothing is left but an empty shell
where life once thrived.” (Charles
Carrin Newsletter 2/05)
News
Dear
Friends, We send you our letter once again to
keep in touch and to ask for prayers for our
upcoming ministry.
Since the
beginning of the year we have continued our
local “120 Club” Bible studies in
Stuart, Ft. Pierce/Vero & Jupiter. This
last month we have studied the Healing Room
Training Tapes by Cal Pierce, founder of the
International Association of Healing Rooms.
We believe the Lord is using the Healing
Rooms world wide to restore the miraculous
and supernatural dimension of the kingdom to
the Body of Christ.
We shall be
away from home on ministry in Ireland, U.K. ,
Finland , Estonia and Germany between March
17th and June 20th
We have more
than 80 meetings planned for that time. With
the help of your prayer these meetings can be
significant times of blessing, consolidation
and breakthrough for the places we minister
at.
Each of
these nations has a different dynamic.
Ireland of course is predominately Roman
Catholic but becoming increasingly
secularized. It is a joy to have input in
churches of every denomination when we are in
Ireland. Especially close to our hearts is
the development of the evangelical,
charismatic and pentecostal churches there.
Finland,
which shares a long border with Russia, is a
predominately Lutheran and secular society.
Their long resistance to Soviet expansion
during the war and post war period has given
them a special characteristic of independent
thinking. After the collapse of the Soviet
Union, Finland became a major bridge for the
return of Soviet Jews to Israel.
Largely due
to the heroic efforts of D r s . Kaarlo &
Ula Jarvilheto and the International
Christian Embassy, Christians have played a
major part in helping Soviet Jews return to
Israel. The Finnish branch of the Christian
Embassy has arranged our itinerary in
Finland, and we will be partnering with the
Jarvilhetos on our ministry there. Our
invitation to Estonia comes through Ulo
Niinemagi. Our ministry there will be
evangelistic and teaching in many churches
including the largest cathedral in Tallinn,
the capital.
Estonia came
out from Communism in 1989 and is a forward
thinking democracy. The vacuum created by the
collapse of atheistic communism ideology has
resulted in people there to be very open to
the gospel.
The
continuing upheaval, shakings and
consternation among the nations, arising from
unstable political, economic, geological and
climate conditions will cause millions to
turn to the stability of the Rock and His
message. However, the advance of the gospel
will not bring outer peace until Jesus
returns. In these times of great shakings and
uncertainty His message has never been a more
relevant lighthouse
It is our
privilege and yours to be a part a small part
of this light that is streaming into the
nations.
Our
sincerest thanks to all of you who help us
with your prayers and financial support. You
are a vital part of the ministry, without
which we would not function,
With deepest
appreciation & Love, One In His great
love and service,
-Paul
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