Baptism of Suffering
Baptism
of Suffering/Martyrdom
Scripture
[Passion
(such as of Christ) in English is translated as pati in Latin meaning to
suffer.]
Genesis 4:10-11 Alexander Harkavy -
10He said, "What
hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the
ground.
11Now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth
to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand."
Psalm 22:24 KJV -
24
For He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
neither hath He hid His face from him; but when he cried unto Him, He heard.
25
My praise shall be of Thee in the great congregation.
Psalm 56:8 NIV -
Record my lament; list my tears on your scroll.
Are they not in Your
record
(bottle)?
Psalms-Chapter-69/21
- In
My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.
(Prophecy concerning Jesus as Jewish Messiah and God's Son during His
crucifixion).
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Isaiah 52:14
-
Many were
astonished at Thee (the prophesied Messiah).
His visage was so marred, more than any man,
and His form more than the sons of men.
Matthew 10:28 -
Do NOT be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul.
Rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both the soul and body in
hell.
Matthew 10:39 -
Jesus said, "He who loses his life for My sake will find
it."
Matthew 11:12 KJV - From the days
of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence
(from God's enemy).
The violent
(men empowered with Holy Spirit) take (rescue)
it by force
(from God's spiritual enemy).
Matthew 20:22-23 - Jesus answered & said, "You know not what you ask.
Are you able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of & to be baptized with the
baptism that I am baptized with?"
They said, "We are able."
He said to them,
"You
shall drink indeed of My cup & be baptized with the
baptism that I am baptized."
(This scripture precedes the Palm Sunday
chapter.)
Matthew 26:36, 39 - Jesus went with His disciples to a place called Gethsemane.
He said to them, "Sit here while I
go over there and pray."
Going a little farther, He fell with His
face to the ground & prayed, "My Father, if
it is possible, may this cup be taken from Me. Yet not as I will, but as
You will."
(This scripture
precedes the arrest and subsequent death of Jesus.)
Matthew 27:46 KJV - About the 9th hour
Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli,
Eli, Imana sabachthani."
("My God, My
God, for this I was kept" is an Aramaic/Arabic idiom meaning, This was my
destiny.
I was born for this.
Aramaic Scripture from New
Testament)
Mark 10:29-30 TPNT - 29Jesus said, "Truly
I say to you, there is no one who left (voluntarily behind or were
abducted from)
house or brothers or sisters or mother or father
or children or farms because of Me & because of the
Good News,
30who
would
not take (receive)100
times as much now in this time, houses & brothers, sisters & mothers, children & farms, with persecutions & in the coming age eternal life."
Mark 14:32-36 TNAB -
32They came to a place named Gethsemane. He
said to His disciples, "Sit here while I pray."
33He took with Him Peter, James and John & began to be troubled & distressed.
34Then
He said to them, "My soul
is sorrowful even to death. Remain here & keep watch."
35He
advanced a little and fell to the ground and prayed, that if it were possible
the hour might pass by Him.
36He
said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to You.
Take this cup away from Me, but mot what I will, but what You will."
Luke 22:39-46 TNAB -
39Then
going out He went, as was His custom, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples
followed Him.
40When He
arrived at the place, He said to them,
"Pray that you may
not undergo the test."
41After withdrawing about a stone's
throw from them & kneeling, He prayed,
42saying, "Father, if
You are willing, take this cup away from Me; still, not My will but Yours be
done."
43[To strengthen
Him an angel from
heaven appeared to Him.
44He
was in such agony and He prayed so fervently that His sweat became like drops of
blood falling on the ground.]
45When He rose from prayer & returned to His disciples,
He found them sleeping from grief.
46He
said to them,
"Why are you sleeping? Get up & pray
that you may not undergo the test."
Acts 5:40-41 NIV - 40They called the apostles in & had them flogged.
Then they ordered them NOT to speak in the name of Jesus, & let hem go.
41The
apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they
had been counted worthy
of suffering disgrace for the Name.
Acts 9:16 TNAB - "(Ananias,)
I (Jesus) will show him what he
(Saul/Paul) will have to
suffer for My name."
Acts 14:22-23 KJVer - We must go through
much tribulation to enter into the kingdom of God.
When (after) they
had ordained them elders in every church &
had prayed with fasting, they (then/next) commended them
to the Lord, on (in) Whom they believed.
Romans 8:14-23 NIV - Those who are led by the
Spirit of God are sons of God.
You did NOT receive a(n evil)
spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the (Holy)
Spirit of sonship. By Him we cry, "Abba, Father."
The Spirit Himself testifies with our (human) spirit that we are God's
children.
If we are (His) children, then we are heirs (heirs of God and
co-heirs with Christ) if indeed we share in His sufferings in order that we may
also share in His glory. I consider that our present sufferings are not
worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation
waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. Creation
was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the One
Who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its
bondage to decay & brought
into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth
right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have
the 1st-fruits of the (Holy) Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our
adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies (&
souls/mind).
Romans 8:31-39 TNAB
31If God is for us, who can be against us?
32He Who did not spare His own Son but
handed Him over for us all, how will He not also give us everything else along
with Him?
33Who will bring a charge against God's
chosen ones? It is God Who acquits us.
34Who will condemn?
It is Christ [Jesus] Who died, was raised, is at the right hand of God & intercedes for us.
35Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ?
Shall trouble, hardship, persecution, famine, nakedness,
danger or sword?
36As it is written
(in Psalm 44), "For Your sake we are being slain
all the day.
We are look upon as sheep to be slaughtered."
37No, in all these things we conquer
overwhelmingly through Him Who loved us.
38For I am convinced that neither death,
life, angels, principalities, present things, future things, powers,
39height, depth, nor any other
(evil) creature will be able to separate us from the love of God
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2nd Corinthians 1:3-5 NIV -
3Praise be to the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion &
the God of all comfort,
4Who
(through the Holy Spirit) comforts us in our troubles, so that we
can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received
from God.
5For just as the
sufferings of Christ ('s persecution continue to) flow
over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
2nd Corinthians 1:6-7 WJMorford - 6If we are afflicted, it is on behalf of your
comfort & salvation.
If we are comforted, it is on behalf of your
comfort, which is being
worked in patience
by the same suffering which we
are also suffering.
7Our hope on your behalf is firm, since we
know that, as you are sharers of the sufferings, so also are you sharers
of the comforting.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 - For our light affliction, which is but for a
moment,
worketh for us a far more exceeding & eternal weight of glory.
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not
seen:
"For the things which are seen are temporal: but the things which are not seen
are eternal.
2nd Corinthians 5:21 TPNT - He (Father God) made the One (Jesus) Who
did not know sin to be sin
(on the cross) on our behalf, so that we ourselves would know the
righteousness of God by means of Him.
2nd Corinthians 12
Philippians 3:10 KJV - I may know Him, the power of His resurrection, & the fellowship
of His sufferings,
being
made conformable to His death, if by any means I might attain to the
resurrection of the dead.
Colossians1:24-29 Moreford's PNT 24"Now
I rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf &
I make up for His absence
to take on the afflictions of the Messiah, in my flesh, for the sake of His
body, which is the
congregation,
25
of which I have become a servant according to the divine office of God, the 1 that was given to me to bring the Word of God to completion in you,
26
the mystery that has been hidden away from the ages, & from the generations,
but
now it has been revealed to His saints,
27 to whom God desired to make known among the
heathens the wealth of the glory of this mystery,
which is
Messiah in you, the hope of glory:
28 which we are proclaiming, admonishing everyone & teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that
we could present every person complete in Messiah:
29 and in which i toil,
struggling, according to His working that
which is being worked in me in power."
Colossians 1:24-28 -
Complete Jewish Bible
(CJB) - Copyright © 1998 by
David H. Stern -
24
I rejoice in my present
sufferings on your behalf! Yes,
I am completing in my own flesh what has been lacking of
the Messiah’s afflictions, on behalf of his
Body, the Messianic Community.
25
I became a servant of the Good News because God gave me this work to
do
for your benefit.
The work is to make
fully known the message from God,
26
the secret hidden for generations, for ages, but now made clear
to the people
He has set apart for
Himself.
27 To them God wanted to make known how great among
the Gentiles is the glorious richness of this secret. The
secret is this:
the Messiah is united
with you people! In that rests your hope
of glory.
28
We, for our part, proclaim Him; we warn,
confront & teach everyone in all wisdom;
so that
we may present everyone as having
reached the goal, united with the Messiah.
Hebrews 2:10 NIV - In bringing many (spiritual/adopted/saved/forgiven) sons to glory,
it was fitting
that God, for Whom and through Whom everything exists, should make
the Author (Messiah) of
their (my/our) salvation perfect through suffering.
Hebrews 5:7 TNAB - In the days when
He was (alive) in the flesh, He offered prayers & supplications with loud cries
& tears to
the One Who was able to save Him from death;
(afterward/after His death)
He was heard (answered/rescued) because of His reverence.
Hebrews 5:8 KJV -
Though He was the Son (of God),
He (His human nature) learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
hebrews/11-35.htm
- 35Women
received back their dead by resurrection;
& others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might
obtain a better resurrection;
36and
others experienced mockings & scourgings, yes, also chains & imprisonment.
37They
were stoned, sawn in half, tempted & put to death with the sword.
They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted,
ill-treated
38(men
of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves & holes in the ground.
39All these, having gained approval through their faith,
did not receive what was
promised,
40because
God had provided something better for us,
so that apart from us they would not
be made perfect
Hebrews 12:4 - You have not yet resisted to
blood (martyrdom), striving against sin.
Hebrews 12:5-11 KJVer 5My
son, despise not you the (rough/uncomfortable) chastening
(mentoring/tutoring/afflictions/instructing/ educating/teaching/consequences
due to your
disobedience, allowed) of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of Him.
6Whom the Lord loves He chastens (punishes/disciplines/corrects) & scourges
(whips/spanks -
even Jesus Christ our substitute/propitiation/atonement)
every son whom He receives.
7If
you endure chastening (reprimands), God deals with you as
with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8If you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you
illegitimate children & not sons.
9Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us & we gave them reverence.
Shall we not much rather be in subjection (submission) to the Father of spirits
& live?"
10They
verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure
(manner/wisdom/skill/judgment);
but He for our profit, that we
might be partakers of His holiness.
11No
chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but (rather/instead)
grievous. Nevertheless, afterward,
it yields the peaceable
fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised (disciplined/trained)
thereby.
(Spiritual insight: Our parents do not
give us a disease or harm, but rather a rebuke/
admonishment, so that we may be
safe and also mature/learn from our mistakes.)
James 1:2-3 -
2Consider
(count) it pure joy, my brothers, whenever
you face trials
(diverse temptations/tests) of many kinds,
3because you know that the testing of your faith
develops perseverance (patience)."
James 5:13 KJVer - 13Is
any among you afflicted (due to his/her
testimony for Christ)? Let him pray.
1st Peter 4:12-16 NIV -
12Do NOT be surprised at the
painful trial you are suffering,
as though something strange were
happening to you.
13Rejoice, that you participate in the sufferings
of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when His glory is revealed.
14If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the
Spirit of glory & of God rests on you.
15If you suffer,
it should NOT be as a murderer, thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as
a meddler.
16If you suffer as a Christian,
do not be
ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.
1st Peter 5:10 KJV - "Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered
(abused/tortured/maligned for your testimony to Christ) a while, make you
perfect, establish, strengthen & settle
you."
Revelation 1:9 KJV - I, John, who also am your brother & companion in tribulation (suffering for
the gospel) & in the kingdom & patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is
called Patmos, for the word of God & for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
I was in
the Spirit on the Lord's day &
heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying, "I
am Alpha & Omega, the 1st & last."
Revelation 2:10 -
"Be faithful until death and I will give you the crown of
life." (Christ's death was
not for His own benefit.
His death was a substitute guilt offering
for us,
entitling us to get a free ticket into heaven.)
2nd Timothy 2:12 KJV If we suffer (for
Christ), we shall also reign with Him.
Baptism of Suffering
Books that Inspire or Give us pause.
Allen, AA - The Price of God's Miracle Working Power -
www.schambach.org
Chapter 1 - "Jesus was NOT persecuted while He remained in the
carpenter shop at Nazareth.
But the moment He started to do mighty things, He was called the 'prince of
devils' & there were many attempts to destroy His life
(See Luke 4:29).
"Peter was a 'good fellow' as long as he was a mere fisherman, but when he
healed the lame man, they threw him in jail
(See Acts 3:7, 4:3)...You will NOT encounter much opposition or persecution as long as you are just a
'normal (nominal) Christian.'
But when you accept God's promises for your
life and begin to do the UNUSUAL, persecution will come."
Chapter 2 The Disciple IS Not Above His Master
Fasting & "persistent habitual prayer...is the cause, miracles the
result...
If the disciple could attain the same results as Jesus did without
paying the same price, the disciples would be greater than his master... The student of Jesus Christ CANNOT become greater than his teacher.
He
cannot learn anything Jesus does not know.
He cannot find a shortcut to
(Holy/healing/miracle/deliverance) power with God."
Chapter 7 The Cross "Charles G Finney left a
promising law practice to enter the ministry, an untried field for which he had
no special training. He took up His cross...However, just taking up the cross is not enough.
It must be taken up DAILY...Christ never took a vacation...The cross went with
Him even on vacation...
The cross was not an accident which befell Him at the end
of life...
There was never a day that He would say, 'This day is My own.
I
will go about My Father's business again tomorrow.'"
Andrew, Brother - God's Smuggler -
www.odusa.org
Baker, HA -
Heaven & the Angels -
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/tsgibson/heavang.pdf -
Chapter 11 Saints Serving in Heaven - "Work begun
on earth will continue in heaven." (Individuals are mentored & mature at their own rate, progressing
from terrace #1 to terrace #7, school to school, ascending glory to glory, to
the Temple of God. Merit is not ours, but His. Motives must be 101%
unselfish.)
Chapter #3 The New Jerusalem shares heavenly blueprint &
specifications of each terraced city & school system.
amazing
Chapter 14 Who Are Prepared to Serve? -
Suffering Saints (are being) Prepared To Be Serving Saints -
astonishing
- "Those who suffer for Christ upon earth & 'enter the Kingdom of God through tribulation'92
are exalted to highest
service (housing, fellowship with & proximity to the Trinity) there. Willingly & deliberately
enduring hardship for Christ they enter the highest plains in heaven. It is upon
this earth where Jesus died that we prepare ourselves for service among the
saints in heaven... Talmage wrote of what he saw in heaven:
'I appreciated for the 1st time what Paul said to Timothy, 'If we suffer we
shall reign with Him.'
It surprised me beyond description that all the great in
heaven were great sufferers. Not all? Yes, all. There was Moses, David, Ezekiel,
yea all the apostles, who after lives of suffering, died by violence:
beaten to death with fuller's clubs or dragged to death by mobs, or from the
thrust of sword, or by exposure on barren island, or by decapitation... All high
up in heaven had been great sufferers, & women more than men. Felicitas, St.
Cecilia, St. Agnes, St. Agatha, St. Lucia, & women never heard of outside their
own neighborhood; queens of the: needle, washtub & dairy, rewarded according to
how well they did their work, whether to set a table or govern a nation, whether
empress or milkmaid' (for the honor & glory of the Trinity)... Another person,
led up to heaven's higher plains, says she caught a glimpse of the place from
which Jesus, almost 2,000 years ago, went away to prepare for those who love
Him. She saw the white light which glorified the faces of those who basked in
its radiance, & she saw missionaries & others who had done
slum work in the city. She says further:
'It seemed that those who had suffered most for Jesus' sake, those who 'had come
up out of great tribulation' were the ones whose faces shone with the most
glorious light.
Bales, Connor @
https://www.amazon.com/Counted-Worthy-Perspective-Theology-Suffering-ebook/dp/B09H982C63?asin=B09H982C63&revisionId=d02a24b3&format=1&depth=1
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Bitterman, Chester Allen, -
1952-1982.
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http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/09/world/missionary-murdered-in-colombia-hailed-as-martyr-at-home-church.html
"Chester
A. Bitterman 3d, the missionary (& Bible translator) slain by his kidnappers in Colombia
yesterday."
Biography Called to Die by Steve Estes
www.wycliffe.org -
Family notes:
http://www.kidsofcourage.com/?p=8416
Concerning the Days
Ahead By Yolanda Ballard
Billheimer, Paul E - Don't Waste Your
Sorrows -
Chapter 8 The Great Business of Life - Learning Agape Love (continued)
section Explanation of the Mystery of Suffering -
"God is NOT interested
in brokenness primarily
for its temporal (refining/testing/purifying/sanctifying/maturing of character) value, great as
that may be. His
Bride-elect is in training for the throne...
Suffering is God's grand strategy
(apprenticeship) for creating rank in the Bridehood for His eternal
enterprise...
There is NO sainthood without suffering...All born-again people are
in training for rulership...
Deep dimensions of this (agape) love are learned
only in the school of suffering, even after the new birth & filling with
the Holy Spirit.""
Burt, Arthur - Round the World in 88 Years -
www.arthurburt.com -
Chapter 14 Far & Away -
"'Did you come by bus?' 'No,' the one explained. 'We swam 4
miles across the bay'...These young men swam 4 miles through shark-infested
waters & would swim 4 miles back
again when the
meeting was over.
They didn't consider that a hardship or a sacrifice to
come
to a (Jamaican morning church) meeting.
Burt, Arthur -
No Ebb (with endnotes)
pdf - manuscript copy prior to printing.
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Chapter 7 - The One-Man Show Is Over -
"If your revelation (Godly insight/fertilization/seed/sperm)
doesn't find a (challenging/maturing/testing/impossible) situation (womb),
it suffers
evaporation and there's NO thing done IN (inside/implanted in) you."
Burt, Arthur -
http://btckstorage.blob.core.windows.net/site2929/Arthur%20Burt%20Media/SilentYears.pdf
Suffer
(allow/yield) the little children to come unto Me & forbid them not.
http://bible.cc/matthew/19-14.htm
Cerullo, Morris -
Why Do The Righteous Suffer? -
www.mcwe.com
Chariots of Fire
- running for the Lord @
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vxlX5wyEQs&feature=player_embedded
Cho, David Yonggi, Seol, Korea -
Successful Home Cell Groups -
www.bridgelogos.com
Chapter 14 Preaching to a Growing Church shares that
we should never suffer for personal sin,
sickness, the devil, a curse, or
poverty, but only for the sake of the gospel, because
of
persecution. Christ removed/took care of man's problems at the cross.
Any suffering
that does not bring any redeeming/spiritual
(salvation/deliverance/ healing/etc) result, especially for others, causes
nothing but affliction/trauma (reversible by God).
Cho, David Yonggi - The 4th Dimension volume 1 -
www.bridgelogos.com - publisher
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Chapter 4 Rhema shares that one's suffering can be
"God-appointed" if it blesses others, especially into the kingdom of God.
But if
your suffering "starts to destroy you, then this is from Satan & you should pray
through & rid yourself of it...
Always focus through the lens of
the uppermost goal, the redeeming of souls. If you see that
your suffering brings abut more redemption than your healing, then do not
ask for deliverance; but ask God to give you strength to persevere."
Cho, David Yonggi - The Holy Spirit My Senior Partner -
www.charismahouse.com -
publisher -
Chapter 5 Believers & the Holy Spirit (baptism) reminds us
that Penticost made the difference between the disciples remembering +
understanding Jesus' teachings and between remaining discouraged, bewildered &
impotent to serve God. "The Holy Spirit did not lead Jesus to be tempted
so as to destroy Him. This temptation of the devil was (allowed) only to
discipline Him. Likewise, the Holy Spirit is with us & teaches us, both
when we sense the wonderful grace and truth of God & when we feel as if we
have been deserted." Remember, Christ "felt in His human
flesh/mind/emotions" that God had abandoned Him on the cross. Human flesh is Not
a discerner/perceiver of truth. Our human spirit is tutored/mentored by the Holy
Spirit daily as we permit/woo/worship/listen to Him.
Our human spirit
(the part of us that has eternal life when we ask Jesus to be our savior)
receives what insights the Holy Spirit gives & transmits to our other
human parts (flesh/mind/emotions).
"The spiritual teaching of the Holy Spirit is in progress naturally, in every
field of our human will, feelings & intelligence. Through our will &
emotions, the Holy Spirit brings us into the likeness of Christ"...
Let us never
"belittle or neglect to live out the teachings of the Holy Spirit that we
receive through real-life tests & experiences as
well as through the Word." God's Holy Spirit "school has neither holiday
nor vacation."
Clark, Randy - There Is More -
www.globalawakening.com -
Subtitle: Reclaiming the Power of Impartation
Chapter 11 Radical Obedience - Impartation for the Power to Die -
Available for martyrdom
Davis, June Newman @
The Shaping of an Apostle: Davis, June Newman: Amazon.com: Books -
Excerpts - Autobiography in part shares much of the physical maladies
originating from drowning as a child.
+
Scripture Keys Power Manual - Kindle edition by Newman Davis, June. Religion
& Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Healed of Pain testimony.
Davis, Paul Keith - Angels that Gather -
www.whitedoveministries.org
Chapter 3 The New Ministry Model "God used (and
continues to use) ordinary people who received (make themselves available to
receive) an extraordinary mandate & Heaven's virtue to achieve its (Penticost's)
fulfillment...
He (Jesus Messiah) shall receive the full measure of
His reward for His
sufferings."
Revelation 6:10 TPNT Are You not judging and
exonerating our blood from those who live upon the earth?
Chapter 4 The Transition "The Apocrypha
tells us that Isaiah was 'sawn asunder with a wooden saw' because of that
generation's hardness of heart & absence of revelatory insight"... Sometimes the Lord permits/encourages bullies/evil/demons to torment us, thus
allowing us in the natural to gain spiritual insight/muscle necessary to war
against demonic principalities later on in life, experiences without which in
spiritual warfare we would be useless/annihilated/ taken advantage
of/kidnapped/continually defeated.
Duplantis, Jesse @
https://www.divinerevelations.info/searchable_directory2/czech/
heaven_close_encounters_of_the_god_kind_jesse%20duplantis.pdf
(edited excerpt)
Paul "said, "Our affliction is but for a moment. People have made
it a lifetime. Change it back to a moment."
I get goose bumps when I
think about that. It's a moment, not a lifetime.
"Change it back to a
moment," Paul told me. I have used Paul's statement in seminars & people
compliment me for the message, but that word didn't come from me. It came
from Paul. Look at how Paul said it in 2 Corinthians 4:17,18: For our
light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more
exceeding & eternal weight of glory. While we look not at the things which
are seen, but at the things which are not seen:
for the things which are
seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Paul continued to speak to me, "Change it back to a moment, Jesse."
Then he whispered, "Change it back to a moment. Don't leave it a
lifetime. I've kept the faith, & that's how it's done. & it worked."
Early, Dave - The 21 Most Effective Prayers of the Bible -
www.barbourbooks.com
publisher -
Chapter 19 Increase Our Faith - The Prayer of the
Disciples - Luke 17:5 reminds us that not only was Jesus martyred, but
also His disciples. James, John's brother, was executed; Matthew was
killed by the sword; John was boiled in boiling oil; Peter & Andrew were
crucified on a X-shaped cross; James the Just was thrown down 100 feet & then
clubbed to death; Matthias +
James the Greater (with his new convert, a Roman officer) were beheaded.
Bartholomew (Nathaniel) was martyred by whipping; Thomas
was stabbed with a spear.
Ferrell, Ana - Seated in Heavenly Places -
www.voiceofthelight.com - There is
a "relationship that exists between being a participant in the sufferings of
Christ & producing the light & the authority that dispels the darkness"
(of
evil & deceit).
Chapter 2 The Throne of God section I Came to Judgment before the
Great Judge of the Universe -
There is a place of loneliness in Ministry training by the Holy
Spirit, where one will be unable to see or hear God for a season, where the
holy fire of God will allow refining/purification, including demonic attacks,
such as came upon Job in the Old Testament.
[This reminds us of the time when Jesus on the cross cried out that He had
been forsaken by His Father God; but that was His sense of loneliness, that of
his feeling being abandoned. Nonetheless, God had NOT abandoned Jesus,
even though His 5 senses & His human spirit told him otherwise.]
Ferrell, L Emerson - Immersed in Him -
www.voiceofthelight.com
-
"Persecution from those who refuse repentance is the fire used to baptize us
& destroy them."
Grable, Steve -
3/2009
http://jeremiah111.org/words/The%20Saints%20will%20Rise%20to%20the%20Top%20Like%20Cream.htm
-
"The
Lord...spoke to me saying, 'This
is the Status Quo, this is a time that my people will struggle & suffer & learn.
But when the end times, the hard times come, My people will rise to the
top like cream.'” "We
are about to set voyage upon an adventure of a life-time. Many men of the Bible
have desired to stand in time where we stand here & now & have longed to see the
events of our day come to pass. We are a most privileged and chosen generation.
You & I are about to become witnesses of marvelous things, things too impossible
to imagine, events that have been designed by our God before the foundation of
the world. We are at that designated place in history & have been called & anointed to bring the Good News of Jesus to a dying world
that will affect the decisions of the multitudes. For all eternity, every
resident of Heaven will remember these final days as the great Victory of the
Saints through the power of our God & our Lord Jesus. We are on that
very edge of His Glory.
Every Believer who is focused upon the Lord will be used
mightily." -
http://jeremiah111.org/
http://www.pdxprays.com/uploads/3/9/1/6/39160377/prayer_walking_handbook_-_henry_gruver.pdf
edited
Gruver, Henry -
[CARRYING OTHERS’ SUFFERING IN OUR BODY] -
In an area of Siberia where many saints had been martyred, I could hardly
sleep for 9 days and nights, until I found myself at the point of exhaustion.
I
would fall asleep for about an hour and a half, then stir out of that sleep,
hearing those cries. I would get up and walk the floor, reading Isaiah 53,
clinging to it & embracing it. I would cry out to the Lord, “You haven’t given
me any understanding of what I am experiencing.” I had no idea what it was all
about until the end of the 9th day.
As I was walking that city my
bronchial tubes froze. It was April; the sun was shining and I didn’t cover my
face. What I didn’t realize was that it was 20 degrees below zero. I didn’t know
what had happened to me. I just knew that the fever & the pain of every breath I
took, combined with the inability to sleep more than an hour or so, was like
torture. I kept walking because I kept hearing the cries of innocent blood,
particularly on 1 hill above the city.
I kept remitting the
sins of the innocent blood, but the Lord wouldn’t tell me what had happened
on that hill. The last day I was there, I asked a local man if he knew the
history of the area, & of that hill in particular.
He was a man of
position & honor & spoke English very well.
“Oh,” he explained, “that is called The Red Hill.” 69 It was
covered with snow at the time, so I inquired, “Why is it called The Red Hill?”
“Well,” he started to say, as he hesitated for a moment, “it doesn’t make me
happy to tell you this; but people like you, we took them up on that hill &
lined them up & machine-gunned them down.
We had to; we were
order
to do it. If we would not have obeyed those orders, we would have been shot
also.
We then used a bulldozer to cover their fallen bodies. That whole hill is
full of bodies of people like you.”
[He meant Christians.] That certainly explained why the cries persisted in my
spirit.
It was truly the cries of innocents (martyrs) who had given their lives…
I hadn’t
realized the power of that innocent blood in that hill.
Again that night I got
my hour & a half of sleep before I awakened again to the cries of pain in
my body.
Once more I walked the floor. Jesus, I don’t understand,” I
told Him…
He spoke these words to me very gently & sweetly. “You
are in a heated room.
You can crawl into a comfortable bed for that hour & a
half
of rest.
You can fellowship with the saints in this city without fear. Can I not
count you worthy to enter into the fellowship of the sufferings of those who would
not accept deliverance?
(Hebrews 11:35)
Can I not account you worthy to experience some of what
they went through, “not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better
resurrection?”
Hearing those words, I fell on my face & broke into weeping.
“Oh, Jesus,” I
sobbed, “don’t ever take this off from me.
I’m (now) willing to carry this
affliction the rest of my life, until I go to the grave.
Don’t take if off me,
if it will bring glory to Your name.” I sincerely meant every word…
(But subsequently Pastor Dick) stated…“The Lord has been talking to me about you
while you were preaching tonight… He told me that you have been carrying this
affliction in your body, & that a couple of nights ago you told him you would
be willing to carry it the rest of your life. He told me to tell you that He
has accounted to you as though you had carried it
the rest of your life. You have the reward, but He is going to take it off from
you, because
He wants your strength to remain for many days.” (This spiritual twist/insight
on the Bride
of Christ suffering with Christ on the cross (martyrdom) aligns to some degree
with Catholic theology. Invite Holy Spirit to enlighten/align us with
scripture/Father's perspective.)
philippians/3-10.htm
-
10I
want to know
Christ
and
the
power
of
His
resurrection
and
the
fellowship
of
His
sufferings,
being conformed
to Him
in His
death.
11so
that
I may somehow attain
to
the
resurrection
from
the dead.
12Not
that
I have already obtained all this,
or
have already been perfected,
but
I press on
to take hold of
that for which
Christ
Jesus
took hold of me.
Guyon, Jeanne -
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer -
http://www.passtheword.org/dialogs-from-the-past/methodofprayer.htm
Chapter 7 On Suffering is recommended reading for those
suffering persecution & rejection
Chapter 3 THE METHOD OF PRAYER FOR THOSE WHO
CANNOT READ -
Those suffering from disability &
infirmity
Chapter 23 AN EXHORTATION TO MINISTERS
"2. O how inexpressibly great is the loss sustained by mankind from the neglect
of the interior life.
What an account will those have to render who
are entrusted with the care of souls & have not discovered & communicated to
their flock this hidden treasure.
3. Some excuse themselves by saying, that there is danger in this way, or that
simple persons are incapable of comprehending the things of the Spirit. But the
oracles of truth affirm the contrary: "The Lord loveth those who walk
simply." (Prov. xii. 22, vulg.) But what danger can there be in walking
in the only true way, which is Jesus Christ, giving ourselves up to Him, fixing
our eye continually on Him, placing all our confidence in his grace, & tending
with all the strength of our soul to his purest love?4. The simple ones, so far
from being incapable of this perfection, are, by their docility, innocence, &
humility, peculiarly qualified for its attainment; &, as they are not
accustomed to reasoning, they are less tenacious of their own opinions. Even
from their want of learning, they submit more freely to the teachings of the
divine Spirit; whereas others, who are cramped & blinded by self-sufficiency,
offer much greater resistance to the operations of grace."
http://www.neve-family.com/books/guyon/03.html
other publications at
http://www.passtheword.org/DIALOGS-FROM-THE-PAST/index.html including:
CONCISE VIEW OF
THE WAY TO GOD; & OF THE STATE OF UNION
http://www.passtheword.org/DIALOGS-FROM-THE-PAST/waytogod.htm
Spiritual Torrents
http://www.passtheword.org/DIALOGS-FROM-THE-PAST/spiritualtorrents.htm
Also see Guyon at
http://www.ccel.org/index/author-G.html with following links
Autobiography of Madame Guyon or
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/guyon/auto.toc.html
Complete Poetical Works (Author of section)
+ Short
and Easy Method of Prayer +
Song
of Songs of Solomon +
Explanations and Reflections having Reference to the Interior Life
+
Spiritual Progress +
Translations from the French of Madame de la Mothe Guion
Hagin, Kenneth E @
https://idoc.pub/documents/kenneth-e-hagin-i-believe-in-visionspdf-34wm2jj3qwl7
or
I
Believe in Visions Kenneth E Hagin – Ekklesia - edited section:
Seeing Jesus' Wounds -
Then
the Lord said to me, "Stretch forth thine hand." He held His own hands out
before Him. I looked into them. For some reason I expected to see a scar in each
hand where the nails had pierced His flesh. I should have known better, but many
times we get ideas that are not really scriptural, yet they are accepted
beliefs. Instead of scars I saw in the palms of His hands the
wounds
of the crucifixion:
3-cornered, jagged holes.
Each hole was large enough for me to have put my finger in it. I could see
light on the other side of the hole.
After the vision, I got out my Bible & turned to the 20th chapter in
John's Gospel to read about the time (pg.53) Christ appeared to His disciples
following His resurrection.
When He 1st appeared to them, Thomas was not with them. They told Thomas they
had seen the Lord, but Thomas was unbelieving & said, "Except I shall see in
his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails &
thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe" (John 20:25).
8 days later while the disciples, including Thomas, were together in a
room, Jesus appeared again in their midst. He turned to Thomas & said, "Reach
hither thy finger, behold My hands; reach hither thy hand, thrust it into my
side & be not faithless, but believing." Then Thomas, knowing it was Jesus,
exclaimed, "My Lord & God" (John 20:27,28).
I had deeper insight then into what Thomas had seen.
Higginbotham ,
David -
summer 2013 -
In the Valley of Jabbok: Day 1
@
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiGU5qR6boKUr7H85dl5aQQ
-
"Sacrifice is one of the most important concepts you can learn in the
church. It doesn't lie.
It communicates your seriousness to God...In the 1st of 21 videos, Pastor David & his wife,
Evelyn,
speak about what the Israel Challenge in the Valley of Jabbok mean."
In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 2
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In the Valley of Jabbok: Day 3 -
In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 4 -
In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 5 -
In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 6 -
In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 7 -
In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 8 -
In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 9 -
In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 10
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In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 11 -
In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 12
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In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 13 -
In the Valley of Jabbock - Day 14
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In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 15
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In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 16
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In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 17
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In the Valley of Jabbok - Day18 -
In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 19
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In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 20
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In the Valley of Jabbok - Day 21
Hinn, Benny calls those who are willing to allow God to commission them to
martyrdom.
Not that God will, but that they are willing to be
willing.
(Also note above; 2009 TV program Intimacy
Benny references
Jeanne Guyon.) -
audio CD - High Call + Personal Cost -
www.bennyhinn.com
Holtz,
Scott and Dalit
-
http://earlymorningmanna.com/blasts/11qYesJu3R/11Mar24.html
-
3/24/2011 -
The Pleasure Access -
"That night that our Messiah was shedding the 1st divine
drops of blood upon
the soil of the local olive press of Jerusalem (known as Gethsemane),
He uttered
out the most defining words of all human problems known to all of us, 'Abba,
if Thou art willing, remove this cup from Me.'
He did not want to drink the cup that was before Him, nor did He want to obey
God's predetermined plan that all the universe hinged upon His absolute
obedience. This is also the same with everyone of us who walk this
decaying planet & evil world system.
There comes a time that we also
do not want to do His will & are utterly overcome with disobedience to the very
core of our beings.
Yet, we must choose & cannot remain neutral at this
moment of testing no matter how much we all want to avoid this inescapable
process. God in His divine purpose & pre-election has determined for us
to be confronted with that which we secretly hate & this test is the key to any
further spiritual advancement, maturity, & rewards from Heaven. It is in
this zone of divine darkness &
thick veil of mystery that the man or woman of God is defined to be
that vessel of refined gold
or rejected brass.
Once the decision has been made to respond with total surrender of 'Yet,
not my will,
but Thy will be done,'
not as just a coined religious statement, but that of a total surrender
to the
Divine Smelter's process, then begins the access to the pleasure zone
that is
beyond
anything life on planet Earth has to offer.
May you this morning be 1 of those who have taken this cup & have no desire to
look back...
We are praying that you will have the strength to respond to His
callings of deep speaking unto deep in this hour. Lose yourself & find God."
Holtz,
Scott & Dalit
-12/6/2012 Champions or Heroes #3
http://earlymorningmanna.com/blasts/11qYesJu3R/11Dec06.html
"Our greatest honor
this
side of glory is to carry His reproach. It is part of glorious honorable
service to be persecuted,
censured, blamed, criticized, reproach, scolded,
rebuked, treated as the scum of the earth, the
dregs of all things... reproached.
This is our hidden altar of Hebrews 13...Let
us go out to Him
outside the camp, bearing His reproach."
(Hebrews
13:10-13 New American Standard Bible)...
There
is a remnant of warrior lovers who are positioned to not only sound the shofar
of
warning in these last days, but also have been equipped by Abba to bear & carry
His reproaches. This is our greatest reward this side of glory...It takes
great courage to speak out & evangelize in this sector & one must be prepared
with great stamina against the reproaches &atroubles that are directed towards
those who preach Jesus the Messiah &
Risen from the dead."
Many "want the acceptance of man more than the acceptance of
Heaven."
(However
this can be due to many reasons including; spiritual immaturity,
not God's
timing, missing Holy Spirit baptism, lack of proper spiritual
oversight/accountability.)
Holtz, Scott & Dalit -
Nuclear Option of estate planning for terrorism & martyrdom
@
http://flashfloodsmedia.com/video/gallery/index.php?m=video&v=126
Hunter, Joan - Power to Heal -
www.joanhunter.org -
Chapter 8 Can I Truly Forgive? -
"I asked God one day,
'Why are You saving all of my tears?'
He (seemed to reply)
through the Holy Spirit, 'I am saving them for
restoration. I am keeping count.
For every tear sown
in sorrow, you will reap as much tears of joy.'"
Joly, Reona Peterson - Tomorrow You Die -
www.ywampublishing.com -
Chapter 11 Fear None of Those Things Which Thou Shalt Suffer
- "Could it be that, through laying down my life, a man the likes of Saul
of Tarsus (who became the apostle Paul) would come to know & serve Christ?
Then my death would surely not be in vain."
Chapter 12 Father, Glorify Your Name - "God was asking
us whether we trusted Him enough to leave the situation in His hands. Were
we really concerned with His glory? Could we truly say, 'Father, glorify
Your Name.
You know whether You can best do this by our death, by our
imprisonment, or by our release.
We leave that decision with You'?
The payer of relinquishment was what God was longing to hear from our lips.
His grace was made available.
We each prayed out loud, using the other as
a witness & we relinquished our lives to Him...
When death to self has taken
place, public humiliation is not difficult to bear.
Identification
with
the Savior, Who in His humiliation was denied even justice, was a very real
privilege."
Kushner, Rabbi Harold -
1 Guest: Kushner with Emily Rooney 6/11/2011 excellent
-
Insurance does not insure against fire or dying. Consider God's taste
rather than His judgment.
Don't confuse God with Santa.
Brian
Lake Needmore,
Pennsylvania, USA - Book:
Romancing the King
www.brianlake.org
3/9-13/2009 radio broadcast #1634 -
http://www.sidroth.org/
-
http://www.sidroth.org/site/News2?abbr=rad_&page=NewsArticle&id=7959&security=1042&news_iv_ctrl=1121
-
Chapter 5 True Worship Touches His Heart
When
"we (the broken vessel) are
experiencing
the breaking process" we "have
pain"...
The pain is part of the process... The goal is the fragrance...that
fills the air & the nostrils of God."
Lam, Nora with
daughter Ruth Lam - China Cry -
www.chinaministries.org - Now deceased
Norma Lam gives her testimony of the (1955-56) labor camp terrors (of Mao
Tse-Tung) & subsequent liberty (physical & spiritual).
Miller, Calvin
Loving God Up Close - Rekindling Your
Relationship with the Holy Spirit -
Richard Wumbrand is quoted as saying, "The life, the self-sacrifice, the
blood...forms what
the renowned missionary in Africa, Albert Schweitzer, called
'the sacred fellowship of Those
who have the mark of pain,' The fellowship to
which Jesus, the Man of sorrows, belonged.
The underground church is
united by a bond of love toward its Savior...
Nobody in the (earthly)
world can
defeat them."
"Always the hour of suffering causes us to rely most on the inward
presence of Christ.
The
presence of suffering, duress or pain
also causes us to treasure our sense of union with Christ."
Mjorud, Pastor A Herbert - Fighting Cancer with Christ
- Mjorud Evangelistic Association,
3604 Coolidge St. NE, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA 55418, Phone 1-612-789-7803 -
Chapter 8 Why Do the Righteous Suffer?
"There
are many in the healing ministry who insist that Paul did not have a physical
sickness, that he was referring to his persecutions & trials of faith.
However, in the Book of Galatians he specifically said that it was because of 'a
bodily ailment' that he stayed with them to preach the Gospel & reminded these
people that they would have gladly plucked out their eyes & given them to him, if it were
possible.
When speaking
of the 'thorn in the flesh,' he called it an
infirmity & so did the Lord...This is the very same
word in the
Greek language that is used in Matthew 8:17, where Isaiah 53:4 is
quoted,
'He took our infirmities (sicknesses)
& bore our diseases,' to say that Jesus fulfilled this when He healed all
the sick in Peter's house."
Sin is dealt with in the next verse.
Isaiah 53:5 (KJVer) He was wounded (physically) for our transgressions.
He
was bruised (pierced) for our iniquities (rebellion/sin).
The chastisement
of our peace was upon Him & with
(by) His
stripes
(wounds/ whipping)) we ARE healed
(physically).
Benny Hinn explains that the
front of the cross/Jesus is for the eradication of sin,
while the back of the
cross/Jesus is for the eradication of disease/ infirmity.
(Kat Kerr
www.revealingheaven.com says Paul's thorn was blindness, which he contended
with & overcame in large part, evidenced by writing letters in his own hand.)
Osborn, Tommy Lee (TL)
- Frontier Evangelism www.osborn.org Many quote Psalm 34:19 KJV
-
"Many are the afflictions of the righteous. This does NOT mean sicknesses as some would
have us believe.
It means
trials, hardships, persecutions, temptations, etc., but never
(disease, meaning) sicknesses or physical disabilities (due to
inheritance or injury."
In scripture the question is, "Who has done this? Who has sown these
weeds? Who or what has caused this disaster? Who can we blame for
this disease/problem?" The answer was/is, "The enemy (Satan) has done
this." Not God. God may have given Satan permission, as He did regarding
Job. In Job's instance, each tragedy was a spiritual test. Abram had
a spiritual test when asked to kill his son & heir Isaac.
Jesus had a spiritual
test in the dessert.
These tests were temporary, not lifelong; perhaps
because they passed the test.
Those who wandered 40 years in the desert,
never did pass the tests, never did learn.
Roberts, Frances J - Come Away My Beloved -
Chapter Lovest Thou Me? Section The Divine Commission -
Sometimes it is wise to "not chafe at the bit...My
direction...is not the common way...
I would bring thee into a
(holy/safe/challenging)
place in Me & a ministry...
The gathering darkness...hour...none shall be able freely
to do My work...Find the place
(destiny/assignment)
I have for thee. I have deliberately put
(allowed) thorns in thy nest...
The enemy (to your/My
destiny)
shall hinder thee in every way imaginable, if ye give him any room to stand.
Rebuke every detaining circumstance, in My name, & keep thyself covered by the blood.
Your heart will grow cold
unless ye keep it close to Mine." Keep one's focus on Him & NOT on the
problem.)
Chapter Lovest Thou Me? Section Sacrifice My Status Symbol -
"Look for the
blood-stained prints of My feet" (& follow them).
Chapter &
Section Learn to
Reign -
"Come
into that place where ye share My authority & thus I will be able to manifest
forth My glory through you. This is My greatest joy, to lift man out of
enemy territory & seat him in the heavenlies with Me. And where am I?
Even at the right hand of the Father...& ye are seated with Me, far above
all principalities & powers.
Through Me
ye have inherited all.
Ye can lay claim to that inheritance NOW because I have already died.
Because I have already died, ye can enter in NOW.
You do NOT gain an inheritance when you die
(& go to heaven), but when (Christ Jesus,
Messiah) the
testator dies. Take it, My people. It is yours NOW. It is
yours because of Calvary...
Think of My love...the tie-in between Calvary & this sharing of My throne life
(right NOW on earth).
I
want you with Me. I want you seated beside Me,
because I want you near Me, because I love you...
(We have been deputized to function on earth on His behalf, not impotently, but
with audacity, in Jesus' name)
I have vested you with authority, also...Recognize your
privilege to do so...Move out in the power of the Spirit into that realm where I
would have you to live and move & yes...live in Me continually, & not
that ye be moving in and out of this place. I would have you live
continually in the center of the Kingdom of God, just as I have place the
Kingdom within the very center of your being (when God's Holy Spirit
impregnates your human spirit when you are born again; water & Holy Spirit
baptism further empowers one's spirit man).
You
bring this Kingdom into operation in you own life by an act of faith...
There are
works which I must yet do through My body, the Church, which I could not
possibly have accomplished through My own physical body in My earthly
ministry...
There are sufferings yet to be accomplished in the body of the Church
that I was not able to suffer on the cross...
Yea, & Praise Me when the most difficult thing to do is
Praise.
This is the victory that over-cometh the world...
Faith rejoicing
for victories claimed in advance...the very fabric of things hoped for...the raw
material in My hands... I am happiest there, &...ye shall make the enemy most
unhappy...
This (praise) is the most powerful weapon ye can use against him
(Satan).
Praise is like a 2-edged sword, the 1 side
bringing health to your own spirit & the other side cutting down the
enemy."
Sounding of the Trumpet Section Heart Purity -
"My forgiveness is in constant operation & ye need only
accept it...
Renounce thy sin (when you become aware of it & apologize for it; also
forgive self. 1 apology is sufficient.
Continually 'feeling' of
condemnation for a confessed sin is from one's enemy & NOT from Holy Spirit)...
Unrest & conflict that ye suffer is not caused by My
attitude toward thee, but by thine attitude toward thyself... (or by thine
adversary).
(3rd) If ye were bearing no fruit, ye would not be thus
molested
(by lying thoughts from the demonic kingdom in opposition to the
Kingdom of God)...No true saint who seeketh to please Me escapes the onslaughts of the devil...Ye
need the armor if ye decide to go out to battle. For in serving Me, ye
anger the enemy & he will not allow thee to gain ground spiritually without
seeking to hurl against thee his poisoned arrows of doubts & accusations.
Resist him, as scripture admonishes thee.
He is not courageous, but he is
sly, & he is not easily discouraged.
Ye can never escape his snare
until ye recognize his activities & strike at the
source...Resist...
Do not doubt My forgiveness, but close thine ears to the
accuser."
Smith, James Wesley - Excellent book. Written in the
1st person.
Accurate except for author bias of black persecution by majority of whites
(perhaps by whites in control of a local government, but NOT all or most
of whites).
http://www.angelfire.com/realm/blackcatholics/BlackSaitnsMysticsHoly.html
-
Snodgrass, Derrick @
The Supernatural Power of Tears: Turning our hearts back
to The Father - Kindle edition by Snodgrass, Derrick. Religion & Spirituality
Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Book Excerpt
Spurgeon, Charles H -
http://www.churchofgodeveninglight.com/wp-content/uploads/Charles-H-Spurgeon-Prince-of-Preachers.pdf
Taylor, Hudson @
http://www.theeffectivechristian.org/new%20Chapter%208,%20A%20Missionary,%20Hudson%20Taylor.htm
I Say to you, rise By
Elaine Tavolacci
- 10/2013 (edited)
"The Lord says,"
I am releasing those of you who are spiritually bound and in shackles, & loosing
you to be free once again.
I am cutting away the restraints that have held you
captive, & releasing you into a life of liberty.
I am raising those
of you who are spiritually dead back to life.
As you come out of this place
of complacency, you will return to the place of peace which you have once known. Now is the time to readjust your focus & reconsider your intentions.
When
all hope seemed to be gone, those of you who have stood your ground through
difficult times, will come back stronger. As I remove the grave clothes &
shake all that lies dormant in your life, you will once again be radiant with My
glory & you will be arrayed in garments of white. Allow Me you awaken you from
spiritual death & slumber, & you will once again come into alignment & become all that you
have been created to be.
As many of you have come face to face with the enemy, it has made you stronger
to be able to deliver those who are trapped & imprisoned. As you arise once
again you will be able to release others who are in the same trap as you have
been held hostage & deliver others from the very thing that you have been set
free from.
Many have fought the good fight & not allowed the calamities
that have come against you to overwhelm you.
You have taken control of your
thoughts & used these adverse situations as an opportunity to strengthen
yourself.
You have learned to master fear & refused to give in to anxiety when
confronted with stressful situations.
Go & teach others the same.
As you have been tenacious in spiritual warfare, others will be inspired by your
testimony.
As you allow Me to continue the work that I have began in you, you
will begin to walk in a life of freedom & fulfill all that I have placed in
your heart to do,' says the Lord."
Ten Boom, Corrie - The Hiding Place -
book & movie
Ten-Boom, Corrie 4/15/2008 @
http://myjwn.com/special-feature/watch-casper-and-bestie-ten-boom-honored-by-israel
"Casper ten Boom, Corrie’s father, gave his life saving 800 Jews.
The Ten Boom
Clock
Shop was an escape route on the way to Palestine, from the Nazi Holocaust
for Jews."
Ten Boom, Corrie -
http://www.theeffectivechristian.org/new%20Chapter%209,%20Corrie%20ten%20Boom.htm
Mike Evans Jerusalem Prayer Team
newsletter 4/12/2011 -
"My sister,
Betsie & I were in the Nazi concentration camp at Ravensbruck because we
committed the crime of loving Jews. 700 of us from Holland, France, Russia,
Poland and Belgium were herded into a room built for 200. As far as I knew,
Betsie & I were the only 2 representatives of Heaven in that room. We may
have been the Lord's only representatives in that place of hatred, yet because
of our presence there, things changed. Jesus said,
'In
the world you shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the
world.' We too,
are to be overcomers bringing the light of Jesus into a world filled with
darkness & hate. Sometimes I get frightened as I read the Bible, & as I look in
this world & see all of the tribulation & persecution promised by the
Bible coming true. Now I can tell you, though, if you too are afraid, that I
have just read the last pages...I can now come to shouting 'Hallelujah!
Hallelujah,' for I have found where it is written that Jesus said, 'He
that overcometh shall inherit all things:
I will be His God, & he shall be
My son.'
This is the future & hope of this world. Not that the world will survive, but
that we shall be overcomers in the midst of a dying world...Betsie & I, in the
concentration camp, prayed that God would heal Betsie who was so weak & sick.
'Yes, the Lord will heal me,' Betsie said with confidence. She died the next day
& I could not understand it.
They laid her thin body on
the concrete floor along with all the other corpses of the women who died that
day.
It was hard for me to understand,
to believe that God had a purpose for all
that.
Yet because of Betsie's death, today I am traveling all over the world
telling people about Jesus."
READ THE REST OF CORRIE'S DEVOTIONAL - 1974 or
http://tool.donation-net.net/Images/Email/1032/CorrieDevotional_12Apr2011.pdf
-
Corrie was born on April 15, 1892.
To celebrate her birthday, we are launching a
special project to turn the ten Boom story into a virtual reality tour on the
Internet. (http://tenboom.com/en/)
We want to share this wonderful story with the house of Israel so the Jewish
people could know the love Christians have for them; love that my own mother
never realized.
Tenny, Tommy - The God Chasers -
www.godchasers.net
-
Chapter 9 Dismantle Your Glory - The burial of man's glory is the birth of
God's glory. admonishes us that, "You may be only a few spiritual inches
away from the encounter
of a lifetime...
Sometimes...your most treasured things
may have to be broken to release the fragrance God remembers."
Tozier, A.W. - The Pursuit of God
- This is a book for those who are sold out for Jesus & willing to be
martyrs.
Treece, Patricia -
A Man for
Others - Maximilian Kolbe - Saint of Auschwitz - in the Words of Those
who Knew Him - Harper & Row Publishers
-
Klobe (1894-1941) Polish Franciscan priest volunteered to die in place of
another.
Turner, Kevin -
Another cutting edge ministry is that of Kevin Turner -
www.stragicworldimpact.com
who
requires His disciples to be willing to die out of love for the enemies of
Christ.
Tyndale, William -
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2278173/William-Tyndale-Martyr-and-Bible-Translator
Uwizera, Christine M - The Blazing Holy Fire -
http://www.healingstream.net
Also - 1/15/2007 Messianic Vision radio broadcast
with
Christine Uwizera a survivor of the Rwandan
holocaust.
Book's chapter 15 Fire of Testing and Persecution discusses mostly
psychiatric/emotional/soul torments (due to being a disciple of Christ),
although author herself did go through a harrowing time of family devastation
during the Rwandan holocaust.
Basically, one who is on fire for Christ,
needs to expect that the kingdom of Satan is threatened.
Satin will
counterattack, using any method on any weakness/vulnerability we have.
One
needs to silently stick to Christ,
even if the end result is martyrdom.
Excellent chapter for those beginning
a ministry.
van Thuan, (Francis
Xavier) Nguyen -
http://www.duonghyvong.com/biography.html
-
Vietnam Catholic cardinal & prisoner of war -
van Thuan, Nguyen -
video
http://saltandlighttv.org/roadofhope/ -
music -
http://www.duonghyvong.com/music/index.html
Walker, Dennis -
www.dunammisarc.org - Catching the
Initiatives of Heaven -
Chapter 5 Hindrances to Spiritual Senses
-
section Pride & Presumption - "Many people preach AT God...
But
Jesus...just followed His Father's directions from heaven & miracles
occurred." -
section Resist Presumption -
It's all about
relationship...Jesus...didn't run ahead or lag behind what the Father was
doing...
(With a prideful heart) we lose the opportunity for God to be
glorified on earth...
A heart of pride cannot bear fruit. It is
dead...does not understand broken humility & isn't open to hearing God...runs
from the breaking & dealing of the Lord...God will allow you to fall on your face, in
order to break the pride...The way to embrace a breaking is to ask God what to do to compete the
work."
Watchman Nee To-sheng - A Table In
The Wilderness - book - (Daily Meditations from the Ministry of Watchman
Nee, a Chinese minister imprisoned for his beliefs and testimony) - Exodus 32:29
- Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord...that He may bestow upon you a
blessing. Based on this scripture, Nee teaches a personal consecration of
ourselves to God, over & above our consecration to Him at the time we accept
what Jesus did for us on the cross. Nee teaches a consecration that
excludes any work we may do for the Lord. It is a personal relationship,
like that of a wedding, compared to an earlier bridal engagement, as at
salvation. Engagements often have 1 ring for the
finger of the bride-to-be. At weddings there is often a second ring for
the bride. Nee teaches a consecration to the "will of God." During
many marriage vows we say that we will marry our mate for better or worse, in
sickness until death. It is a life commitment.
f you make such a
consecration, mark the date in your Bible; then renew that commitment each year.
Maria Woodworth
Etter -
http://www.amazon.com/Signs-Wonders-Maria-Woodworth-Etter/dp/0883682990#reader_0883682990
Read
chapter 1 online. -
Chapter 30 Signs and Wonders in Dallas, Texas - "We must have trials to
perfect us for our future home."
Wurmbrand, Richard (Deceased) -
Tortured for Christ -
www.persuction.com
-
I
would like to request a complimentary copy of
Tortured for Christ for my friend(s).
autobiography -
https://etools.ncol.com/a/tfc/bg_vomtfc_wdbm-tfc-flash_346.html -
free book @ www.vom-usa.org
https://etools.ncol.com/a/tfc/bg_vomtfc_biblegateway-tfc-cell-160x600_309.html
(CAUTION: Only contribute $ to/through son Michael below*.)
Romanian secret police share that communists issued an order to kill entire
family.
http://michaelwurmbrand.com/killing-wurmbrands.htm
Wurmbrand, Michael (*Richard's son) P.O. Box 5161, Torrance, CA 90510, USA
-
http://michaelwurmbrand.com
or
http://helpforrefugees.com -
Wycliffe, John -
Martyrs in the History
of Christianity by Franklyn J. Balasundaram -
http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=1570&C=1463
Wyns, Peter - Fighting Death and Other Desperate Battles -
www.peterwyns.org -
Chapter 17 Desperate Prayer Serves the Lord reminds us that Father "God
did not release Him (Jesus) from the cross" nor in the garden of tears when He chose
God's way rather than His way.
Yoder, Dr Rebecca
Brown - He Came to Set the Captives Free -
www.harvestwarriors.com
Deliverance autobiography & tutorial on satanic cults + the need to be willing
to be a martyr for Jesus.
Yun, Brother with Paul
Hattaway - The Heavenly Man -
www.backtojerusalem.com -
www.asiaharvest.org
Remarkable autobiography
of Liu Zhenying -
(of Liu Lao Zhuang village, Nanyang County, southern Henan
Province, China)
Chapter 8 shares a song Martyrs for the Lord Holy Spirit gave them &
includes this stanza:
1-John was exiled to the lonely isle of Patmos.
2-Stephen was stoned to death by an angry crowd.
3-Matthew was stabbed to death in Persia by a mob.
4-Mark died as horses pulled his 2 legs apart.
5-Doctor Luke was cruelly hanged.
6-Peter, Philip and Simon were crucified on a cross.
7-Bartholomew was skinned alive by the heathen.
8-Thomas died in India as 5 horses pulled his body apart.
9-The apostle James was beheaded by King Herod.
10-Little James was cut in half by a sharp saw.
11-James the brother of the Lord was stoned to death.
12-Judas was tied to a pillar & shot by arrows.
13-Matthias had his head cut off in Jerusalem.
14-Paul was a martyr under Emperor Nero.
The Lord spoke to Liu (Brother Yun), "The
reason you suffer is so you can partake in the fellowship of My suffering.
Be still & know that I am
God."
Yun, Brother
http://www.backtojerusalem.com/video/btj919-W.html (appears 3x on 1st video)
Yun, Brother http://www.backtojerusalem.com/video/btj935-W.jtml last 3rd of 2nd video
Yun, Brother http://www.backtojerusalem.com/video/btj938-W.jtml -
3rd video
DVD Brother Yun's supernatural Prison Break
www.backtojerusalem.com
Contributions
http://www.backtojerusalem.com/pages/contact.php
5th Priestly Immersion of
Suffering -
http://www.hearoisrael.org/uploads/MIKVEH_or_BAPTISM.pdf -
"the 5th 'immersion' - The 1 that we would all just rather forget; the
'Immersion of Suffering'.
As Yahshua was going to Yerushalayim to offer Himself up, we read in
Mattityahu (Matthew) 20: 20-28
Then the mother of the sons of Zabdai came to Him with her sons, bowing down,
making a request
of Him. He said to her, 'What do you wish?'
She said to Him, 'Command that these 2 sons of mine might sit, 1 on Your right
hand & the
other on the left, in Your reign.' But Yahshua answering, said, 'You
do not know what you ask.
Are you able to drink the cup
that I am about to drink, & to be immersed with the immersion that I am
immersed with?'
They said to Him, 'We are able.' He said to them, 'You
shall indeed drink My cup, & you shall be immersed with the
immersion that
I am immersed with. But to sit on My right
hand & on My left is not Mine to give, but it
is for those for whom it has been prepared by My Father.'
When the 10 heard it, they were displeased at the 2 brothers. But Yahshua
called them near & said, 'You
know that the rulers of the gentiles are masters over them, & those who are
great exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you, but
whoever wishes to become great among you, let him be your servant. Whoever
wishes to be 1st among you; let him be your servant, even as the Son of Adam did
not come to be served, but to serve, & to give His life as a
ransom
for many.'
This is also recorded in Mark 10."
(The Cohen Ha Gadol (High Priest) at Yom Kippur washes in the Tevilah 5X.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_washing_in_Judaism#Yom_Kippur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_washing_in_Judaism
Holtz,
Scott and Dalit -
Exercising Controlled Obedience In All Things - Trumpet update -
http://earlymorningmanna.com/blasts/11qYesJu3R/11Jun26.html 6/26/2011-
for
those who love to bike -
Often the Holy Spirit will take over (especially for His holy purposes)
when we
come to the end of ourselves. Hooray.
Editorials/Interviews/Newsletters/Periodicals/Transcripts
Alger, Wanda @
Rise Up, David, and Speak to that Giant! by Wanda
Alger
- Yes, you can, in God's time.
Baczko, Marie @
Breaking Out Into Destiny in 2016! by Faith Marie
Baczko
- 3/25/2016 -
"The (difficult) NARROW PLACE is the BIRTHING CHANNEL that is now moving His
people forward out into broad & spacious places of freedom & victory."
Heidi Baker: "You Are Lord Over All
Storms" (elijahlist.com) - 5/2/2022
Here's Why Not to Give Up by Heidi
Baker
-
2014 from
Birthing the
Miraculous
-
"I might have
given up when people shot at me or when gangs were chasing me. I might have
given up when
we were in deep psychological distress after friends of ours in
the Congo were dismembered
with machetes in a church. I might have given up when
I was reported in the newspapers as a
drug dealer because of mistaken results at
a lab, where they were testing some vitamins that
were donated to us. I might
have given up on the 5th, 6th or 7th occasion when crowds began
to stone me for
preaching about Jesus.
Most
especially, I might have given up when my husband, Rolland, got
cerebral malaria
& suffered a series of micro-strokes that almost killed him. Though he was
eventually healed, for 2 years he lost his short-term memory & was totally unable to
function in ministry or
administration.
The only reason I did
not give up any of these times was because I know the One who placed
His
promises within me. When you know Him intimately, you never give up,
because He is worthy.
You have to wait a long time for some promises.
I was 16 when the Lord told
me I had a
destiny in Africa, Asia & England.
It took me over 20 years before I
reached Mozambique & began to step into that piece of my calling.
Truthfully, I am being overshadowed more now than I have ever been before.
At times it is
still very uncomfortable. There are days when I feel
terribly stretched as God's promises grow
within me, but even those days are a
joy because I long to birth what God has given me.
Continue to carry your promises faithfully. Nurture them as they grow.
It does
not matter how
old you are. It is never too late.
The Lord wants to take you beyond who you
are & what you can do.
God is the One who can take a barren woman in her old age
& make her fruitful for
the 1st time, just as the angel
told Mary:
"Even Elizabeth
your relative is going to have a child in her old age, & she who was
said to be unable to conceive is in her 6th month. For no word from God will
ever fail"
(Luke 1:36-37, NIV).
2 things will come
from being over-shadowed. The 1st is a particular promise from God that is
naturally impossible to fulfill. The 2nd is a general promise from God that
nothing is impossible
with Him...If we are wise, we will make the choice to say yes to God many times a day. We
say yes to
taking the time to worship, to having a positive attitude, to
releasing people, to stopping for
people when we might be in a hurry, to
trusting God for a seemingly impossible financial
situation.
Our yes is a daily choice. There is a daily sacrifice & a daily joy as we participate
in
God's dreams for this world.
As we do this, we participate with Jesus in the
sacrifices He
too made for the joy that was set before Him.
What an awesome
privilege!"
www.irisglobal.org
Baker, Rolland -
6/25/2010 -
http://www.pwfwc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=107:iris-ministries-heidi-a-rolland-baker&catid=40:articles&Itemid=104 -
"We
rejoice that we participate in His sufferings, so that we may be overjoyed
when His glory is revealed. To the end of this age we will endure evil
opposition & glorify God by overcoming with faith proven to be genuine. In
all our troubles, our joy knows no bounds. As aliens & strangers in this world, we look forward
to our perfect inheritance, kept in heaven for us. In heaven Jesus will be
exalted for His obedient suffering, & in the same way we will share in His
reward. We conquer by taking the low road. We gain life by losing it, for His
sake. We humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God that He may exalt us at
the proper time. We learn to love by laying down our lives for others, & in
so doing, minister to God Himself."
Ballard,
Yolanda -
Let Their Cries be Heard by Yolanda Ballard 1/6/2014 (Prophetic words) -
"The
flesh must die so that the spirit may live. Join hands with Me around the
world so that I may have reverence bestowed upon the hundreds of millions of
martyrs who die for Me every day, not just a physical death, but financial,
emotional, every way possible. They live so that I may have the opportunity
to enter those places many dare to enter for these are even the places that
angels dare to tread. These are the places where many face lions in My name.
These are the places where deep dark secrets are told where many share in
the sufferings of Christ, for in these dark dungeons many experience the
stories that the early church lived, where John the Baptist was beheaded,
where Stephen was stoned, where Jesus carried the Cross, where lions ate
them as their meal, where many were burned for their faith. Listen to their
cries in the dark of night as they cry out to Me, their Heavenly Father, for
I listen to their cries & their pain as they take the blows against My
forehead once again & again. For they are My beloved faithful ones who loved
not their lives unto death. They held on to their faith no matter what the
cost & were the seeds planted in the earth that a bumper crop harvest could
grow up from. Listen to the cries of their hearts as they take the
sufferings so that you may be free to spread My word around the world. They
are those who give you the strength that you may stand strong. They are
those who take the pain so that you don't have to. They are those who are
the mighty warriors of Christ, the brave & courageous ones who have a double
portion of My anointing who stand up to the lions in My name & would not back
down. These are the ones who receive double honor before My throne.
They are the
soldiers of Christ that carry a banner of My love into battle who fight for the
souls of men that I gave My life for. All hail the power of Jesus name. Let all
kings prostrate fall. For they are kings & priests
around My throne. They paid
the price that you could never pay. They paid the ultimate
sacrifice….their life for the salvation of multitudes for truly they were the
seed planted in the ground so that a mighty oak tree could spring forth from.
Unless a seed dies no life can come forth. Let their voices be heard. Let their
cries be upon your heart.
Let not their life be in vain without it accomplishing
what it was sent out to do. One life for the lives of many.
They walked in My
footsteps along the same path.
As they suffered they cried, 'Forgive them for
they know not what they do." They had the same spirit as I have.
I was the seed
planted so that multitudes could rise up to carry My same cross…1 life for the life of many.
Give them
double honor for
they gave their lives for their brother, the price of unconditional surrender,
unconditional love."
Rachel
Baxter
Prophetic Word -
"My
word says that you shall have tribulation and you shall be persecuted. Yes, this
is truth. Look around you & you see it, & this shall be more and more.
Even here in the land of 'the free'. I tell you that you will face great trouble
for My sake and many will perish. But those that lose their life for My
sake will gain it...Seek forgiveness & give forgiveness. This is the only way to
truly live. I plead with you. Can you not accept that I died for you? What
more must I say or do so that you shall know the truth & see that you are
free? I cry out to the Father on your behalf. Come, sit at My feet that I may
comfort you My brothers and sisters. Give me your hand & I will lead you beside
still waters. There is nothing I withhold from My family. The beautiful
thing about light is that it cuts through the darkness & even overtakes it.
Hope. There is great hope. I am pouring out My Spirit in these last days in
mighty measure. No life has yet experienced the fullness of My Spirit, but you
shall.
Yes, the oil is ready. The Angels stand ready to pour out the great
anointing that I have saved up for such a time as this. Prepare yourself to
receive the anointing I have for you. Of yourself, you can do nothing. But in Me
there is nothing you can not do. Preparation means to humble yourself through
fasting & prayer. Then, wait upon Me & I will wash you clean in My blood. The
Angels will anoint your head with oil & you shall go forth to conquer.
Oh, how
glorious it will be. We will co-labor together on this earth in these last
days turning the hearts of the sons to their fathers & the fathers to their
sons.
When a child knows their Father, & knows their place in the family,
they are no longer an orphan, & this is what we shall do together. We shall set
things right. Child after child shall be set free until the last day.
It
is not time to look up for 'your' redemption.
It is time to look around to your
brothers & sisters on this earth & love them.
It is the question of THEIR
salvation that must be on your lips & in your heart. It is time to be the light.
I am not coming to take you away yet because instead I desire to live through
you in these last days.
Together we will bring in the greatest harvest of
souls this world has ever known...
Many of you will get to experience for
yourselves the fullness of who I am, & who you
are in Me.
As you come out of this world, you step into My kingdom.
Understand this,
My kingdom comes on this earth today." 12/21/2015
Now is the Time by Georgina
Buchanan
- Spiritual birthing -
Cerullo, Morris -
Why Do The Righteous Suffer
?
@
http://kingdomlibrary.iconosites.com/page/new-books
Hakeem Collins - 11/16/2018
Prophecy: 2019 Will Be a Year of Opportunities of a
Lifetime -
“Suddenly a vision of a ‘big door’ stood before me. On the other side of the
door, I saw enemies using the force of their bodies to keep the door shut &
locked. He said we are coming into a season of great opportunities that will
trigger demonic opposition. He said 'The greater the
opposition against my people, the greater the opportunity I will give unto them
as a sign.' Instantly, the Lord took me to the Scripture that says:
For a great & effective door has opened to me, & there are many
adversaries. (1 Cor. 16:9).”
Dollar, Creflo -
Primed for Promotion -
"Promotion comes from God & not from any
other source."
Erickson, Joni @
https://lifetoday.org/video/joy-despite-suffering-3/ video - 11/30/2021
-
Speaking God's word revitalizes our spirit, soul & DNA. -
Transcript @
https://lifetoday.org/assets/files/11-22-21e-Tada.pdf
Wommack, Andrew - REBUTTAL NOT to healty holy Joy &
God's intervention, but to blaming God
https://www.awmi.net/download.php?id=6303d9e3d6e9090001a57571&type=video&platform=zype
(Finally, one needs to be open to, agressively pursue & also receive
God's healing &/or miracles.
Sometimes we depend on Jesus to do what He
has ALREADY done. The remaining part may be our need to accost our
spiritual & physical inheritance, Jesus bequeathed to us.) 9/6/2022
Felicitas
-
The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua & Felicitas
-
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/perpetua.html
@ The Acts of the Christian Marytrs texts -
translation by Herbert Musurillo (c) Oxford University Press, 1972
"The prison diary of a young woman martyered in Carthage in 202 or 203 CE.
The beginning & ending are related by an editor/narrator;
the central text contains the words of Perpetua herself.
Read
more
-
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/why/martyrs.html#perpetua
of Perpetua from our interviews with New Testament scholars."
Guthrie,
Nancy - Suffering -
Yancey, Philip -
The Gift of Pain -
http://www.monergismbooks.com/pdfs/bestillmysoul.pdf -
"Dr. Paul Brand, a missionary
surgeon...headed the rehabilitation branch of America’s only leprosarium (at
that time) Brand’s discovery in the physical realm closely parallels
the moral argument for pain offered by C. S. Lewis in
The Problem of Pain.
Just as physical
pain is an early warning system to the brain, it
is a warning system to the soul.
Pain is a megaphone of God which, sometimes
murmuring, sometimes shouting, reminds us that some thing is wrong."
Hagin, Kenneth -
The Word of Faith magazine 1/2009 -
Faith In Action editorial
Receiving What Is Yours
www.rhema.org -
For 99 % of individuals the following would apply.
That "God always
answers our prayers with a 'yes', sometimes with a 'no,' & sometimes with a
'wait a while'...is human reasoning & doesn't line up with what the Bible
says.
John 15:7 says, 'If ye abide in Me & My Words abide in
you, ye shall ask what ye will, & it shall be done unto you.'"
(What this means, for instance, is that if your church doctrine teaches that
suffering is good for you &/or will help you to get into heaven, then such
teaching does NOT line up with Jesus' words & will also speed up your demise,
just what the enemy ordered.
God provided Jesus as our means to accomplish
the defeat of premature death, disease, & mental illness.
When we do not aggressively avail ourselves of His work on the cross, then we,
not He, allow/encourage/enlist our own suffering.)
Winter Seasons Produce Stronger Roots by
Michelle
Holderman
-
Tree roots strengthen during storms & winter months.
Robert Hotchkin @
https://www.quietkindfaith.com/think-like-jesus/the-battle-is-for-your-mind-choose-to-win
12/10/2018 - 21:21 - “If we get
blessed with a battle that's bigger &
longer than we expected, that doesn't
mean the devil's winning.
It means
we're taking more territory in the
spirit & laying a bigger foundation than
we realize.
When we get
that perspective in our soul, we go from
being discouraged about how things have
been to really encouraged & excited
about what it's going to be.
We
declare & decree from that (spiritual)
place (where & when) Holy Spirit gives
us (His) power.”
Robert
Hotchkin: "An Encounter: Two
Clear Paths - Which Will You Take?"
(elijahlist.com) 8/11/2021 @
RobertHotchkin.com
(edited editorial excerpt)
The enemy
knows who you are. He knows you are
God's plan for this hour, hand-picked by
God Almighty for this time & place to
operate in His authority, move in His
power & have real Kingdom impact in the
earth.
The
(invisible spiritual) enemy is
scared of the power available to you in
Christ.
That's why he, father of
lies, is working overtime to convince
you that you are powerless.
The Enemy Can
NOT Outmaneuver God -
The good news is while the enemy
is pulling out all the stops right now
to take you "off the board," God has a
brilliant counter move waking
His people up
& reminding us of who we really
are:
(citizens), sons, brides, men &
women made in His image.
He,
too, is working to lead us onto a path
in this critical hour...a very different
path from the enemy's; a path of
righteousness, holiness & radical
impact; a path marked by His presence,
power & personality; a path that will
lead us to bearing witness of Jesus like
never before.
The 1st step on His
path begins with allowing the Lord to do
a work in us in the areas where we are
most struggling.
Genesis 50:20 shows
that what our enemies mean for harm,
God can actually use for the good,
not only good for us, but good on a
level that impacts nations.
hat is the type of moment we are in
right now in the spirit.
Yes,
the enemy has been hammering away with
things he means for harm in our
world, our nations, our finances, our
relationships & our lives. But
God can use it all for our good.
He wants us to notice the areas
where we've been giving place
to fear, frustration, anger, & other
forms of self-indulgent carnality, &
come to Him with them. He
will turn it all for our good.
He
will bring understanding, healing & a
great grace to surrender to Him afresh &
line up with Him anew.
Oh, it will be
glorious.
Maldonado, Apostle
Guillermo -
How to Be a Witness with Fire and Power
- 4/13/2011
-
"In the spiritual, a witness is translated to the
word 'martyr', which means someone who is willing to
die...
The 1st qualification to being a witness is
to have seen or heard something. You are a
witness of Jesus Christ just by hearing & seeing
what Jesus is doing in this ministry. If a witness
does not testify, the court of law will charge you
with perjury & put you in jail. The same is true in
the spirit. How many times have we seen cancer
disappear, people being healed & addicts delivered?
Many people stop testifying because they are afraid
of persecution.
If you want to be His witness, you
cannot stop speaking about what you have seen &
heard. God is saying you have been quiet about what
God has done &
is doing in your
family, your life & even with what has been done
on the altar here
in church;
that is perjury in
heaven.
You qualify to be a witness of Jesus Christ...
Maybe you did not come
out of drugs or prostitution
but what you have seen God do is enough to
testify...
The literal Greek translation of Jesus’ answer in
verse 37 (John 18:) reads, 'You
bet I am.'
Jesus was going to be crucified & was taken before the court though He had done
nothing wrong.
He could have said, 'I did not do
anything,' but He had the boldness & courage to
stand before the king & hold onto His
confession. Paul tells his spiritual son, Timothy,
to hold onto the good confession as Jesus did. It is
in the nature of a king
to stand for the
truth. He
challenged them with His boldness by responding,
'You
bet I am a king'...
Pilate asked Jesus if He
was a king because he saw Jesus by Himself, without
angels or people around Him. He looked like a
failure. They saw the Son of man beaten &
disfigured.
There are many people who look at you
like you are a failure.
You are serving God &
you don’t even have a job. You need to look at your
enemy & say, 'You bet I am a child of God.' You have to keep fighting for your deliverance & breakthrough.
Jesus was not afraid to die before Pilate. Jesus was
standing there, bleeding & alone.
The devil tells
you that you have made too many mistakes in your
life, you are not going to go anywhere, your life is
too much of a mess right now, are you really a child
of God?
You are praying for the sick & you are sick
yourself…are you a child of God?
Do not be afraid!
Don’t be afraid to lose your business or to face
persecution.
Do not be afraid of the attacks against
your life.
Fight back like a warrior! Stand up and
tell the devil, 'You bet I am a child of God.
I may
look like a mess now, but you can bet that I am
coming out of it.' Your troubles & momentary.
God is
at work. You might look like a mess now, but the
devil doesn’t know that, 6 months later, you will
have your victory... Go back to your family &
business, stand for your faith & be witness.
When
the enemy challenges your faith because of your
condition & questions your identity in God, stand
boldly &
shout, 'You bet I am a child of God.' Shout in the
face of depression.
Shout in the face of your
finances. Shout in the face of persecution...Every
time you see a mountain, shout, 'You bet I am a
child of God.'" @
http://kingjesusministry.org/content/blog/
editorials
Perpetua -
The
Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and
Felicitas -
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/perpetua.html
@ The Acts of the Christian Marytrs texts and
translation by Herbert Musurillo (c) Oxford
University Press, 1972 - "The prison diary of a
young woman martyred in Carthage in 202 or 203 CE.
The beginning & ending are related by an
editor/narrator.
The central text contains the words
of Perpetua herself.
Read
more
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/why/martyrs.html#perpetua
about the story of Perpetua from our interviews with
New Testament scholars."
Kat Kerr - #276 - Jesus' Prize for the Cross
- Taking you Home to the Father @ Holy
Ghost Radio Show -
http://www.christianforums.com/threads/kat-kerr-powerful-testimonies-of-heaven.7709517/page-12
-
"There's no
suffering in Heaven...He'll reach out, take you in
His arms & hold you.
You feel like you just want to disappear into His
being...You know at that
moment...you are home.
No matter how much
you loved this earth, or no matter how much you
loved
your family, you know you're in the arms of
the One that made you."
Renner,
Rick 11/3/2020 @
https://renner.org/devotionals/entangled/
- Holy Spirit will give us the intellectual,
emotional, spiritual & physical tools + character &
courage we
need in the day of
adversity.
Sawyer, Anton - Are You Dying? I
Hope So. -
http://www.mercygate.com/?p=653
@ section
TRUMPET CALL
Sawyer, Anton - Are You Being Persecuted?
-
http://www.mercygate.com/?p=177
Sawyer, Anton -
http://www.mercygate.com/?p=342
-
Are you PROGRESSING INTO
GOD
or are you still where you were when you started
your Christian walk
?
+
J. Preston Eby's
http://www.kingdombiblestudies.org/kingdom/kog43.htm
Radio/CD/DVD
Brown,
Rebecca -
http://www.harvestwarriors.com/downloads/awake_wolf_door.pdf
-
(Not a professional/theological rendition, but she gets her point across.)
"God turned to the angel & said, 'Send out my armor bearing angels.
Put My armor onto those who will stand for ME, &
who are still in MY Book of Life.
They will be
the most persecuted because they will stand against all the abominations of
Satan.'"
Caine, Christine - Moving Past
Your Past - How to Turn Trials into Triumphs -
www.lifetoday.org Includes autobiography.
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/life-today/christine-caine-and-tina-bryant-past-the-pain-375886.html
11/11/2013
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/life-today/christine-caine-moving-past-your-past-part-2-375892.html
11/13/2013
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/life-today/christine-caine-moving-past-your-past-part-3-375130.html
11/06/2013
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/life-today/christine-caine-moving-past-your-past-part-4-375907.html
11/20/2013
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/life-today/christine-caine-moving-past-your-past-part-5-378097.html
11/27/2013
Demola, David T - 5/5/2011
broadcast#1108 www.davidtdemola.org
- Storms can be vehicles of God's transportation NOT Satan's destruction, if we
do NOT allow the trouble getting into our boat to get into us.
We need to
recognize, rebuke & break off old: mind-sets, self-talk-tapes, rehearsal &
projection of past patterns into the present.
We need to speak God's Truth
that we are prospering, NOT speak Satan's design that we are
perishing.
We need to proclaim that we are over & NOT under the flood/problem/dilemma, in
Jesus' name.
Ferrell,
Ana Mendez - How Heaven Sees -
DVD D1014 USA -
www.voiceofthelight.com -
Suffering
precedes the manifestation of Father God's love into our lives & situations.
Do NOT quit, even if it means martyrdom, because it is the dying to self which
opens the door to God. Do not quit working for God.
Do not quit
loving your unlovable situation/ neighbor/circumstance/family member.
Do
not flee disgrace. Run to the cross of Jesus Christ & cling to Him.
His heart will penetrate yours.
Soon His light will emanate through you &
terrify both the devil & all those horrific circumstances.
You will
be glad you did not abort at the last minute.
Corrie
Ten Boom - (29) audio sermons
http://planet.infowars.com/worldnews/north-korean-tyrant-kim-jong-un-to-execute-33-christians
radio 3/6/2014
Snodgrass, Derrick - Heavenly Room
of Tears @ 9/23/2021
2-year Anniversary Episode! – Box 2 Radio Network
@
Derrick Snodgrass – Box 2 Radio
Network
Internet
Andrews,
Andy -
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/life-today/andy-andrews-how-do-you-kill-11-million-people-303981.html
10/11/2012
Baker,
Heidi - From Heidi Baker
3/8/2007 -
"The Lord spoke to me from John 6 that Iris Ministries is an
example of the boy with his bread & fish.
We have handed Jesus our lunch and He
is multiplying it for the multitudes.
10's of thousands of people have given
their hearts to Jesus in these last weeks.
The deaf have heard, the blind
have seen & the poor have heard the Good News.
I don't think I have ever seen
such suffering & hunger as I encountered in
the camps in Zambezia.
Baker, Heidi -
A Cup of Suffering & Joy 4/4/2007 by Heidi Baker -
http://www.irismin.com/latest_news.cfm -
"Our nation Mozambique has been hammered with floods, cyclones & monster
waves. Pemba, Cabo Delgado, was hit with cholera.
Finally a few kilometers
from our Zimpeto children's center in Maputo, a large ammunitions dump blew up,
spraying mines, missiles & shrapnel for 30 kilometers around. Hundreds of people
were killed. Houses were leveled leaving the victims crushed beneath the
rubble. I have never seen such suffering as I have seen in the last 30
days.
As I stood in the ruins of a house leveled by a missile & held a weeping women in
my arms, I drank of His cup of suffering. As I embraced Marcelina, 14, Edwardo,
15, & Carvalho, 12, orphaned by the blasts, I drank His cup of suffering. After
driving all day through the mud & potholes of Zambezia to minister & deliver
food to a distant village devastated by floods, I rocked a tiny, starving baby
in my arms & tried to find milk to no avail.
I drank the cup of His suffering.
After arriving in Caia, a town with a refugee camp on the flooded Zambezi River,
I spoke to the director of a large non-governmental organization as he was
evacuating his workers & helicopters because he could not get past all the
corruption & red tape.
I drank of the cup of suffering knowing those
very helicopters could have fed many
precious people stranded in the flood zones
starving for weeks.
I opened my eyes wider still to see & drink the
cup of suffering."
Baker, Heidi -
11/1/2007: Update from
Heidi Baker
-
"The Lord
came to me & asked me, 'If I had known ahead of
time all that this calling would cost, would I still be willing to receive the
call.'
Still my cry is yes. I have nowhere else to go.
I have no one else to run to. Jesus is my life.
He is altogether lovely. Through
everything, it is still my joy to say that I gladly give my life for Him."
Baker, Rolland -
http://www.irismin.com/index.cfm
-
"It was worth it to love the beautiful Congolese people who perhaps have
suffered more than any people on earth."
Baker, Heidi - 11/1/2007 -
November 1, 2007: Update from Heidi Baker -
http://www.irismin.org/wordpress/index.php?paged=3
-
"Our International Director Surprise Sithole also flew in to be with us from
South Africa.
He recently went back to the very village where our dear pastor, Ezekiel Sithole, was martyred
for the gospel. They cut off his tongue and lips to silence him. They said our
movement, Partners in Harvest/Iris Africa, would be silenced. Surprise went back
into the village in love & humility releasing forgiveness to those who killed
his cousin. Thousands gathered to hear him preach. Hundreds were saved. Please
pray for Pastor Ezekiel Sithole’s wife who is deeply troubled, very, very thin & left with many children to raise alone.
'Blessed are you when they revile &
persecute you, & say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
Rejoice & be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven.' Matthew
5:11-12."
The Lord Jesus has been speaking to Heidi & Rolland about finishing the race
well.
Bevere, Lisa -
http://m.lightsource.com/ministry/life-today/lisa-bevere-girls-with-swords-328972.html
-
G-d holds our tears in a bottle.
from archives
http://m.lightsource.com/ministry/life-today/broadcast-archives.html
Bonnke, Reinhard
-
Why Does God Allow Suffering?
-
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/even-greater/20100226/
from archives at
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/even-greater/
Chironna, Mark with King, Patricia
-
Click here to watch "Treasures in Transition Part 1" now!
3/31/2014
Paul Keith
Davis
1/19-23/2009 -
http://www.sidroth.org/site/News2?abbr=rad_&page=NewsArticle&id=7889&security=1042&news_iv_ctrl=1121
Radio Broadcast #1627 -
1/21/2009 discussion is that (emotional/physical) pain is
(human) preparation
for one's (spiritual) future (wellbeing/ministry/destiny),
(once the pain is
healed/redeemed/forgiven).
Another discussion is the revelation that premature death is/can be
held against Satan, especially that by violence/blood-shed/murder,
such as to Christ & to Abel by Cain.
Not only that, such blood shed
becomes a seed for future generations. (For instance, the blood shed by
Martin Luther King was the seed for Obama becoming President of the USA on
1/20/2009, per Ferrell, Emerson in a 11/2008 editorial.
http://voiceofthelight.com/VOTLM_us/PropheticWords.html )
Duplantis, Jesse -
http://www.jdm.org/jdmdefault.aspx?tabid=253&tabindex=-1 #3 -
Jesse says that the Lord told him that He dreads judgment day where
the resurrected sinner has no 2nd chance.
The tears spoken of
in heaven are the Lord's tears.
10/3/2011-
Iranian Christian to be executed for being a 'Zionist'
@
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/tabid/178/nid/22966/language/en-US/Default.aspx
12/3/2008
www.myjwn.com Mike Evans notes, "Ami Ortiz
still has safety pins & screws lodged in his body.
2 of his toes were
severed; his hearing was damaged; he suffered severe lacerations on
his feet & legs.
He may never be able to fulfill his dream to
play basketball. Both the Ortiz family & a police informant believe
the attack was the result of the fact that the Ortiz family believe
that Jesus was the promised Messiah.
In Ariel, the town where the
Ortiz family lives, someone handed out fliers with a warning that
their community had been invaded by people who believed in Jesus. 2
individuals in black skullcaps such as is worn by ultra-Orthodox Jews
photographed Pastor Ortiz. His photo & home address was also passed
out on a flier in Ariel.
Ami’s family 1st suspected a Palestinian
attack, but police later told them that the attacker was not
Palestinian.
The bomb in the package was much more sophisticated than
those used by the PLO.
There are approximately 10,000 Messianic Jews
in Israel, but apparently they are thought to be a threat by at least
1 individual. According to an article in USA Today, 'Rabbi Sholom Dov
Lifschitz, head of the ultra-Orthodox Yad Leahim organization that
campaigns against missionary activity in Israel, says Messianic Jews
give him ‘great pain.
They are provoking...It's a miracle that worse
things don't happen,’ he said.
Pastor Ortiz is not Jewish; his wife &
son are. Can you imagine this happening in America & none speaking
out...
Ami’s mother, Leah, wrote: 'We hope that an investigative report
will put sufficient pressure on the police to cause them to finally
arrest the perpetrators. We need to carefully guard our hearts from
anger & frustration, & we must keep on trusting the Lord, because He
will reveal the perpetrators in His time & for His glory.
There are
indications that the police really are working, but there is something
unrevealed & dark in this whole
story which I believe will be revealed in time.'
I know beyond a doubt
that the vast majority of ultra-Orthodox Jews would never do such a
horrible thing. However, we cannot be silent; we cannot just hope it
goes away. Our own history in America reminds us that this same kind
of attack happened to Blacks in America 100 years ago. It should not
be a crime to be a Jewish Christian, just as it should not be a crime
to be able to share one’s faith without fear of retaliation. Barukh....hatov shimkha u-lekha na'eh lehodot. Blessed be...He
Whose name is good & to whom it is fitting to give thanks."
Evans, Mike -
http://jerusalemprayerteam.org/email/2011/0627.htm -
"Our son was
asked by an Israeli from Jerusalem why his father was willing to
risk his
life for Israel.
He replied, "My dad's mother rejected him
when he accepted Jesus. Israel became his mother.
He has done
everything he can to defend & care for her,"
says wife Carolyn
Evans. 6/27/2011
Evans,
Mike - The Light -
child abuse -
http://timeworthybooks.com/TheLightBook/PDFs/ChapterOne_TheLight.pdf -
READ CHAPTER ONE OF THE LIGHT -
READ THE FRONT AND BACK COVERS OF
THE LIGHT
Fox's Book of Martyrs -
http://www.newwineonline.com/files/pdf/books/Book_of_Martyrs_JFoxe.pdf
Hinn, Benny - Strengthen Your Faith -
http://www.bennyhinn.org/articles/articledesc.cfm?id=6686&ps=Prophecy&hb=YL2008_Prophecy&pid=64
-
"The Holy Spirit, speaking through Peter, gave
these courageous believers 2 great assurances as they endured
persecution.
1st, He assured them that they hadn't done anything
wrong or believed anything wrong.
Instead their persecution showed
that the
very Spirit of the Lord rested upon them."
Hinn, Benny The Fragrance of Christ
#4 http://www.bennyhinn.org/media/2009-9-17.asx
-
There are 4 "spices mentioned in Exodus 30. Their use in the
Tabernacle is a fore-shadowing of the life (& fragrance) of our Lord
Jesus...The church, as the Bride of Christ, comes into such an
intimate relationship with the Son of God that His love penetrates
your being & your love penetrates His."
Benny shares how he began to comprehend more fully one's identification
with
the sufferings of
Christ & how one can comfort Him
even today, as did the Old Testament prophets, as he witnessed a woman
travailing in prayer, comforting, & loving on Christ.
Hinn, Benny - The Fragrance of Christ #5 -
http://www.bennyhinn.org/media/2009-9-18.asx
"4 spices...represent different aspects of our Lord Jesus’
personality, life & eternal communion with His Bride.
4 spices mean 4 incredible results for
us as we make the Holy of Holies, the 3rd Realm of Prayer, our habitation in
pursuit of 'Intimacy with God.'”
In the 1st dimension we come to be comforted.
In the
next dimension Jesus comes looking for us to comfort Him.
In the 3rd dimension of prayer God inters into us as we inter into
Him, as in matrimony, a foreshadowing of our union in the Trinity.
The Bride of Christ is a subsequent CD which may be
requested.
Benny shares how a friend who attended Reverend H A Maxwell Whyte's
Sunday deliverance ministry was not freed from the demons who
tormented her.
Yet, when he (Benny) answered her desperate
phone call at the end of his praying in the 3rd dimension, the
demons fled from her.
Holtz, Scott -
7/8/2011 or
4/7/2013 The Discipline of Stealth #2
-
http://earlymorningmanna.com/blasts/11qYesJu3R/11Jul08.html
Holtz, Scott - 7/28/2011 - The
Discipline of Stealth #4 -
http://earlymorningmanna.com/blasts/11qYesJu3R/11Jul28.html
Holtz, Scott - 12/7/2011 - The Nuclear Option -
http://flashfloodsmedia.com/video/gallery/index.php?m=video&v=126
Acts 1:8 You shall be My witnesses
(martyrs).
Hutton,
Larry - 4/24/2010 -
Keeping the Peace of God -
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/7189351
- Resist the enemy in order to nullify the things
(illness/disease/insanity/worry/fear/hate/insecurity/sufferings) he
would lay on us & trick us to pick up & carry.
Jakes,
T D – Sit on Me -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH15cdfmFyM - 3/24/2014
Sometimes Jesus ties us up to protect us till the angel of
death/trouble/danger passes us by.
We then can begin to practice thanking
Him we do not need others to wash or dress us, that we can get out of
bed, yet another day, without assistance.
Jakes, T D -
A Snake May Have Bitten You, But You Didn't
Die, Still Here -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1RDuDvy2sw&feature=related
Jakes, T D -
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/the-potters-house/transformational-instinct-part-1-405388.html
- 5/4/2014
Jakes, T D -
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/the-potters-house/transformational-instinct-part-2-406360.html
- 5/11/2014
Jakes, T D -
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/the-potters-house/transformational-instinct-part-3-406361.html
- 5/18/2014 -
It is
n our dark places/holes/prisons where God is able to transform the buried
seeds He plants in us to germinate & grow into the
destiny for which they were created.
Jakes, T D - 4/7/2015 Jacob (in his evolvement into Israel & in his) quest for God's blessing was branded with an
angelic wound.
God on occasion allows on purpose, even initiates harm (such as
surgery or trials) to accomplish accelerate His purpose in our
lives.
@
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/the-potters-house/broadcast-archives.html
Jakes, T D -
2/7/2016 -
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/the-potters-house/video-player/love-has-no-loopholes-513776.html
Matthew 26:42 -
He went away a 2nd time & prayed,
"My Father, if it is not possible
for this cup to be taken away
unless I drink it, may Your will be done."
Jakes, TD 1/11/2017 broadcast implicates those who attack
those who bless them.
Basically that is what happened when Jesus & His disciples
ministered blessings.
Scripture says for us not to be surprised (even if it is those from
our own household).
1_peter/4-12.htm
-
Suffering as
Christians
11If
anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God.
If anyone
serves, he should serve with the strength God supplies, so that in all
things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory & the power forever and ever. Amen.
12Beloved,
do not
be surprised at
the
fiery
trial
that has come
upon
you,
as though
something strange
were happening
to you.
13But
Jakes,
TD @ .Watch
Now Crushing (series) 1/2022
Kat Kerr Author
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipKlv88GoAQ
-
5/30/2016 - The enemy marks you in the spirit realm part 1 -
There are realms. For
safety we can step into a realm that is invisible to others, even
pulling others to safety, & walk through danger & people, just as
Jesus did.
Those who now & subsequently say, "Yes" to what they
are now hearing & acting on, are descendants of
martyrs.
Destiny can relate to our
ancestors/family-tree/generational-line/heritage.
Kat Kerr - The enemy
marks you in the spirit realm part 2
-
Keesee, Gary -
Raise Your Staff
-
http://www.faithlifenow.com/videos/1/raise-your-staff
-
Battles stand between us & our destiny. Engage your snake.
Keesee, Gary -
Raise Your Staff: Part 2 -
other podcasts (especially financial) @
http://www.faithlifenow.com/podcast
Montgomery, Mel
C. @
http://ar1.podbean.com/pb/692ad72e16ff5a094b405d9bd8084978/4
cadd53a/ar1/blogs11/198999/Goodwins_Wigglesworth.pdf
edited
-
"God chooses sometimes to mature his servants...by putting them in
very challenging situations, which forces them to grow up fast. I
believe this is demonstrated in the life of (saint) Joseph.
He
started out as the pampered favorite son of a Patriarch.
As such, he
was useless to himsel & to God. So God prepared him for a great
work by putting him 1st in slavery & then in prison.
A rude
awakening, but the difficulties
brought Joseph into great wisdom, discerning, maturity, & prepared him for a great work. Be careful
when you ask God to give you a great work to do.
The price you have
to pay may be much more than you imagine."
Moore, Beth -
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 Part #1 -
(Being perceived as "crazy" for the Lord may result in rejection
by family & friends.)
Moore, Beth -
http://lifetoday.org/video/to-hunger-and-thirst-for-god-part-2/
Morgan, Elisa -
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/life-today/video-player/elisa-morgan-the-beauty-of-broken-363479.html
New Matthew Bible -
http://www.newmatthewbible.org/about.html -
"In the early 1500’s it was illegal to translate the scriptures.
It was illegal to own an English
Bible.1
To defy these laws, or even just persevere in any conviction or
belief contrary to the teachings of the reigning Church, could &
persecution God moved & greatly used 3 men in the production
of the
Matthew
Bible:
William Tyndale (c.1495-1536), John Rogers (c.1500-1555), & Miles
(or Myles) Coverdale (c. 1487-1569).
Each of these men
worked
largely alone as to his contribution.
Interestingly, this is also,
of course, how the original scriptures were first given to us in
their original tongues."
New Wine - on line books -
http://www.newwineonline.com/nwo/online/books/books.htm
Open Doors - Brother Andrew -
http://www.opendoors.org/ -
http://www.opendoorsusa.org/persecuted-christians/persecuted-country-profiles/
-
http://www.opendoorsusa.org/about-us/brother-andrew/
Phillips, Ron -
Double For Your Trouble
-
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1319858690127
-
Ron Phillips Ministries
Reuben, Maurice @
Rees Howells, Intercessor
@
http://www.wellofoath.com/home.asp?pg=Newsletter&toc=November+2004
-
"On the way to the store on day, he heard the voice of the Lord
repeating the words, 'I am the way,
the truth, &
the life, no man comes to the Father,
but by Me.' His need for the truth
of his need to the Savior flashed upon him, & in a moment he
accepted Christ.
Then he told his brother & others. According to his
father's will he was to forfeit every penny if he ever changed his
(Jewish) religion, but his brother offered to give him $240,000, his
share of the business, if he would cross the USA and retire in
Montana. But Reuben replied, 'I have had the light in Pittsburgh, & I
am going to witness in Pittsburgh'.
Late that Saturday night
detectives came & took him to the police station. On Monday 2 doctors
visited his cell & asked him about
the voice he had heard. 2 hours later warders came from the asylum &
took him to a room where there were 29 mentally deranged people.
The bitterness of his situation weighed heavily upon him, & seemed
more than he could bear. So he fell on his knees by his bed, & poured out his heart to the Lord.
He did not know how
long
it had been, he seemed to have lost track of time,
when a vision
of Calvary appeared.
It was as if he witnessed every stage of
the crucifixion.
As he did, he forgot his own
suffering in
the sufferings of the Savior. As he gazed on the Cross, the
Master Himself
said to him, 'Must I
bear the Cross alone, &
all the world
go free?' From a broken heart Reuben answered, 'No. There's a
cross for everyone, & there's a cross for me.' From that hour he was
a new man.
Instead of complaining at being in the asylum, he began to
pray for the other 29, & to the Savior he said, 'Let me suffer for
You. Whatever You allow me to go through, I will never complain
again.'
After 2 weeks his brother came to see him, & reproached him for
his folly in getting himself into such a place.
'Why won't you
be wise? Get out of here & go to
Montana.' Reuben asked, 'Does that
offer still stand?
Then it is not a medical condition but something else that is
keeping me here.'
Some Christians he was on contact with began to make
inquiries, & after 6 weeks his release was
procured.
It became a court case. The judge
called the doctor &
asked why the man had been certified insane.
The doctor
stated,
'Because he heard a voice.'
But the Judge, who
happened to be a Christian, quickly countered,
'Didn't the
Apostle Paul hear a voice?'
The judge declared the whole thing a disgrace, & advised Reuben to
prosecute everyone involved.
'I shall never prosecute 1,' Reuben
answered back, 'But I will do 1 thing; I will pray for them.'
He
crossed the courtroom & offered
his
hand to his brother,
but he turned his back on him.
He then went
to his wife; she did the same.
But what a victory he had in his own
soul."
Roever, Dave - 1/19/2020 -
https://www.daystar.tv/joni-table-talk/season:1/videos/his-story-dave-roever
-
Schambach, RW - 2/29/2011 rebroadcast of
sermon given at Morris Cerullo convention -
Schambach reminded Christians that our "big" anointing will trigger a
"big" satanic test or trial.
Seeds of Resiliency movie trailer -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2pH-7yb0vI
- 10/18/2012
Selvaraj, Sadhu Sundar @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1T0CmM9YAk
10/23/2020 @
#SadhuSundarSelvaraj
#JesusMinistries
#AngelTV Sadhu contends that some
sins are unto the death of the flesh, but necessarily of the soul &
spirit.
Thus NO RX or prayer can/will remedy/reverse that
liberty/legal right given to satan.
Martyrs Army
conferences began 2017 after a 30 year incubation - Archives @
Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj -
Sermon Index
Selvaraj, Sadhu Sundar @ - 7/30/2019 -
According both scripture & medical science, fetuses have both
spiritual & physical ears that can both hear + a physical & spiritual
mind that can comprehend. @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwA594g7tso
-
Session #10 @
Christian Missionary Fellowship
International, Maryland
(Listen/watch at approx.
#40 on dial.)
We are to minister to fetuses when the moms are 6
months pregnant, says God even to (administering the) Holy Spirit baptism... Additionally,
those willing to consecrate themselves to be available martyrs
will be the remnant Judeo-Christians who will do the extreme wonders
beyond what Christ did, but via indwelling Holy Spirit. Archives
@
www.angeltv.org
Session #11 @
USA Prophetic 2019: How To Prepare for
Persecution or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mov57sgFRjU
-
Snodgrass, Derrick
4/25/2022 @
Derrick Snodgrass - Sid Roth – It’s
Supernatural! | sidroth.org Broadcast
Richard Wurmbrand
- The Voice of the Martyrs -
http://www.persecution.net/links/Print.htm
http://helpforrefugees.com (Michael Wurmbrand, son of deceased
Richard Wurmbrand)
Torrefuerte, Ana
Mercedes
@
http://web.me.com/arayini/PROPHETIC_NEWS_/Highlights/Entries/2009/8/7_Government_Kingdom_Conference.html
"Ana (Ferrell)
www.voiceofthelight.com
proclaimed word calling to her people a holy convocation in that place, the
sounds of the trumpets in heavens were heard & for the new generation to move
forward in their own under-standing & to bring
themselves in tune into what God is doing
in the present.
The Spirit of God spoke to His church through His prophetic voice
exclaiming (asking) to what point would we let Him work in our lives?
To
what point would we allow Him to transform us?
How far into the impossible would
we go for Him? How far are we willing to follow Him & not
man?
'Enter into the secret place,' said the
Lord '&
render your life to me, search for the truth.'
I emphasize that when the
prophets were
speaking, it was because they could hear the wounds of the
Bleeding Father."
Wilkerson,
David 7/31/2006 Forgive Me, Lord, for Making You Weep from Pulpit
Series -
www.worldchallenge.org -
Israel, the
Jews, & His inner circle for whom
Jesus came,
failed to trust fully in Him as Messiah until after Holy Spirit
fell as baptizer.
Their ongoing
failure to trust/believe/comprehend what the God's Holy Spirit was
doing
did wound him often.
Wommack, Andrew - 8/7/2018 -
http://www.awmi.net/download-file.php?ownloads/tv/2018/08aug/awm_tv20180807.wmv
-
Paul's thorn can be referenced in the Old
Testament scripture, as people/persecution.
Commentary:
BEWARE of Watchman
Nee's - The Latent Power of the Soul -
where Nee attributes paranormal exploits (entirely) to the subconscious mind rather than to
(the possibility of the meddling of)
evil spirits.
However, he does not dismiss that demonic activity/influence/interference
does or can exist.
BEWARE of the religious philosophy that things such as disease & trouble
are to be endured (rather than contested/resisted)
since Christ also suffered. Much of what we suffer is
the consequence of our wrong choices or
from inherited curses.
Christ's suffering was prophesied in the Old Testament to fulfill God's
promise
to rescue man.
There is a huge divide between suffering/ persecution
for believing in Jesus Christ & non religious suffering...
Sometimes pastors/mentors fail to remember & to remind us that most saints had
to cross at least 1 bridge of suffering to get to their
healing/deliverance/miracle/destiny. Even though Jesus was born again,
baptized in the Holy Spirit, operating in all the gifts & fruit of the Holy
Spirit, He had to be rejected, ridiculed, tormented, shamed, & tortured
unto death, prior to receiving His prize/inheritance/glory/ reward/trump card.
The 12 apostles likewise could operate in all the gifts & fruit of the Holy
Spirit, even raise the dead, yet they too were martyrs. God allowed Job to
be tested through suffering before receiving double for his trouble.
Jews
in every generation have been the lightening rod/scapegoat for many of the
world's problems.
It seems that they in particular have had to bear a
double cup of suffering on account of Jesus Christ, the Messiah & God's son.
So do NOT be discouraged nor dismayed when suffering lands on your doorstep.
It might be only a fire alarm drill, saying, "This is only a test."
God,
not Satan, always has the last laugh.
Empathy
Turner, Ann -
Dear
America - The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow -
The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo
(Dine)
Girl, New Mexico, 1864 - book
-
"During the Long Walk...'to Fort Summer'...Hweeldi, a place of suffering in
the Starving Time...the Day of Burning, for when the soldiers came...in the Time
of the parting of the Seasons...October... 1864."
"I hear a wounded animal sound that makes me turn around to see where it is
coming from.
It isn't Kaibah, it isn't the dog. It is me...Some
other girl is doing these things, not I.
Some other person is thinking about
food, about shelter & sleeping.
The girl (real person) that is Sarah Nita
is hiding deep inside, saying over & over to herself, 'Where is my
mother?
Where is Father? Are you alive?'"
Commentary
What is 1 reason why the physical body of Christ suffered such affliction before
& on the cross? Jesus is the body/flesh of God's Holy Spirit...We too (the
church in each generation) are the a containers/body/temple/flesh of God's
Spirit on the earth.
Our tortures (such as the holocaust/genocide) are
borne/experienced (on the cross) & redeemed (at His resurrection) by God (Who is
Trinity - Father/Son/Holy Spirit), when we operate as His
body/church/temple/home in the name of Yeshua/messiah.
If invisible God is
Spirit & we (Messianic Christians) are His flesh, then of course He also
suffers, for the 2 have become 1 in Him on the earth. (Remember, in
heaven there is
NO time, as science today defines it.)
Genocides/Holocausts
Evans, Mike
-
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4985893,00.html
-
autobiography regarding anti- Semitism -
“My mother was Jewish. She came from an orthodox family, whose parents arrived
from Eastern Europe & Belarus,” he says. “Her grandfather was Rabbi Michael
Katzenelson. She herself didn’t like Christians.
When I was 4 she told me
Christians had killed Jews, that Jesus is dead & there’s no need to resurrect
him, & that the pope & Hitler too were Christians. But she married my father,
who was a Christian, & had 7 children with him.
“My father came from the
conservative south. He raised us as Christians. He used to go to church, but he
was a hypocrite too.
On Friday evenings he would get drunk, & when he’d come
home, he would beat up my mother, calling her a Jewish whore, & say I was not his son but rather a bastard, an illegitimate Jewish
offspring.
He therefore never called me ‘son,’ he never loved or hugged me. Instead he
abused me.”
The young Mike feared for his life.
“My goal in life was to reach age 20, since
I was sure
my father was going to kill me before that.
When I was 11, he attempted to kill
me for trying to defend my mother. That was the only time.
I had never defended
her while he was beating her up. But that time I said ‘Stop it.’ He chased me,
choked me.
When I looked in his eyes, I knew I was going to die, that I was never going to
be 20.
I knew I wasn’t going to make it through the night. I threw up on myself &
fainted.
When I opened my eyes a few hours later, I was angry I was still
alive.
"I remember that anger. I prayed angrily in the dark: God, why was I born? It didn’t make any sense.
I was a small, broken child. The moment I had said
that,
I (then) realized I was born to defend the Jewish people.
That night I arrived
at that realization,” (the purpose/destiny for which God created him.)
Rinser, Luise - Woman's Prison Journal - Germany
1944 - Schoken Books/Random House publisher -
Risner "was neither Jewish nor
communist - was denounced by a 'friend', arrested for high treason,
and sent to
the women's prison at Traunstein in Bavaria."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luise_Rinser
Christian novel by Risner ? -
http://www.southerncrossreview.org/36/miryam3.htm
Martyrs
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Polycarp +
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Saint_Polycarp
+
https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2019/02/23/100589-hieromartyr-polycarp-bishop-of-smyrna
Turkey +
Russian Orthodox @
https://www.oca.org/history-archives
Polycarp full
movie @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njp3WNVQ9O4 -
Humility
The Power of Humility by R. T. Kendall - Read chapter 1
here .
Ministries/Pastors in Crisis
Hinn, Benny -
http://www.healingfellowship.com/
- "The Lord spoke to me to start this fellowship
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Holtz,
Scott - Beware of the Dogs -
http://earlymorningmanna.com/blasts/12wIs43Riv/12Jan25.html
Regarding "Ichabod (i.e. the glory has departed)...in Jeremiah 9:11; Micah
1:8;Jeremiah.10:21-22
"
Regarding "wolves & dogs in very strong warnings in Matthew
7:6
&
10:16 "
"The 1st reference (Matthew 7:6) the Messiah is warning us about has to do with
sharing what is holy in prayer with others who will also later turn on you.
How many times have you & I shared things from the secret place only to have
others treat it unholy & then try to rip you apart...
Watch out for those who have a zeal for 'ministry' but do not spend much time in
secret prayer...
Watch out for those who are always motivated by money 'messages'...
Watch out for those who love pleasure more than death & servant hood...
Watch out for those who are more carnal than wind (of the Holy Spirit) driven in
their zeal for God...
Be on your guard against these very dangerous dogs in this hour as you are
challenging
the 'professional' religious system...
Be on your guard as the agape love of many believers grows cold in this hour...
Do not give (share, especially spiritual intimacies) what is holy - to the
dogs."
Israel's
Messianic Jews -
http://maoz.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=maoz_projects_persecution
Voice of the Martyrs
- USA testimonies -
http://vommeetings.com/
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Caution
Shaw, Gwen - Suffering Helps Us To Know
the Father More Intimately -
“Jesus learned to know the Father through His suffering while He was a man on
earth.
It wasn’t in Heaven, where everything was peaceful & beautiful &
without pain, but rather, it was while He was on earth, when He suffered at the
hands of man, that He learned to know Him in a way He had never known Him in the
eternity of the past. (Gwen contends she too met God before she was
born)...
It is only through suffering that we are able to be drawn very close to
God.”
(April, 1999, pg. 4) @
http://www.eth-s.com/ End Time
Handmaidens & Servants - Cult
10/2009 editorial
(Which author is deceived?)
(COMMENTARY - Yes, suffering can be a mentoring/teaching/redeeming
gift/sacrament; however what Jesus suffered was NOT due to His own
inadequacy/incompleteness/ imperfection/immaturity/insufficiency.
Gwen's revelation is likely a demonic delusion, NOT God's reality. A
closer truth could be the following hypothesis:
Jesus is the visible
manifestation/ physical body of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit is the
invisible spirit of the Trinity.
Father God is the invisible
heart/soul/mind of the Trinity.
Yet the 3 share all parts equally in the
same way a human would share his own aliveness.
Doctrines of demons will
remove the holiness & awe of the Trinity.
We all are candidates of
deception. Guardian angels, we enlist & appreciate your daily protection
from spiritual, psychiatric & physical assaults. Yes, suffering does
fulfill both legal & spiritual
laws, but God's own fulfillment of them on our behalf, has NO thing to do with
the Yeshua, the 3rd part of the Trinity.
The Trinity in NO way was/is
insufficient; rather, it is we who are/were insufficient, until He made us
sufficient, in Him, never of/by ourselves. Without Him we are NO thing.)
The Trinity
Often Allows or Uses Evil for Good
so that evil/curses will boomerang & be recycled
for blessings.
Walsh,
Sheila 1/16/2019
https://lifetoday.org/video/scars-of-victory-part-1/#
-
A testimony of recovery after hospitalization.
The Trinity's or Heaven's Perspective
COMMENTARY: - It may be that because heavenly time
encompases earthly time (yesterday + today + tomorrow) that Father God as a
parent of each human (spirit + soul + body), is tearful (yesterday + today +
tomorrow) over each premature death & especially over each person who
elects to reject the salvation provided by His Son Jesus Christ.
Since
the (human) spirits living inside of Him come to earth to fulfill a
predetermined destiny in/for/with Him, many return to Him at the termination
of their "vacation" on earth, but others descend into Hell, permanently
separated from their spiritual family of origin.
This leaves a
permanant vacancy/hole (like Swiss cheese) in Papa God's heart.
As
humans, we can begin to comprehend/emphathize with Father God in His sorrow.
Papa, we repent for both ourselves & Your other offspring, who are often so
self absorbed that we rarely, if ever, comprehend Your holy agony &
provision for each of us individually, in each generation. With the
help of Your Holy Spirit & holy angels, may we increasingly comfort You &
help reduce this holocaust to our spiritual siblings & Your offspring.
This we pray in the name, blood & resurrection power of Your Son Jesus the
Christ, our Messiah.
Satan is often the evil spirit inciting denial &
betrayal.
luke/2-35.htm
The Prophecy of
Simeon -
34Then (rabbi) Simeon
blessed them & said to His (Yeshua's) mother Mary:
“Behold, this Child is
appointed to cause the rise & fall of many in Israel, & to be a sign that will be spoken
against,
35so
that
the thoughts
of
many
hearts
will be revealed —”
and
a sword
will pierce
your
soul
as well.
36There was also a prophetess named Anna.
john/19-34.htm -
Jesus' Side is
Pierced -
33But when they
came to Jesus & saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
34Instead,
one
of the
soldiers
pierced
His
side
with a spear,
and
immediately
blood
and
water
flowed out.
35The one who saw it has
testified to this, & his testimony is true.
He knows that he is telling
the truth,
so that you also may believe.…
matthew/13-57.htm
-
The Rejection at Nazareth
-
56Aren’t all His sisters with us as well?
Where then did this man get all these things?”
57they took offense
at
Him.
But
Jesus
said
to them,
“Only
in
his
hometown
and
in
his own
household”
is
a prophet
without honor.
58He did not do
many miracles there, because of their unbelief.
matthew/16-23.htm
-
Christ's Passion Foretold
-
22Peter took Him aside & began to rebuke
Him, “Far be it from You, Lord. This shall never happen to You.”
23But
Jesus turned
and said
to Peter,
“Get
behind
Me,
Satan.
You are
a stumbling block
to Me.
For
you do not have in mind
the things
of God,
but
the
things
of men.”
24Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone would
come after Me, he must deny himself & take up his cross and follow Me.
/john/13-22.htm
- Jesus Predicts His Betrayal
-
21After Jesus had said this, He became
troubled in spirit & testified, “Truly, truly, I tell you,
1 of you will betray Me.”
26Jesus answered, “It is the
one to whom I give this piece of bread after I have dipped it.”
Then
He dipped the piece of bread & gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot.
27After
Judas took
the
piece of bread,
Satan
entered
into
him.
Then
Jesus
said
to Judas,
“What
you are about to do,
do
quickly.”
luke/22-3.htm -
3Then
Satan
entered
Judas
Iscariot,
who was
one
of
the
Twelve disciples.
4Judas went to discuss with the chief priests & temple officers how he
might betray Jesus to them.
genesis/3-15.htm
KJV - 14The LORD God said to the serpent,
"Because you have
done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle,
& more than every beast of the field.
On your belly you will go, & dust you will eat all the days of your life;
15a.I
will put
enmity
Between
you and the woman,
And between
your seed
and her seed;
Young's Literal Translation
15b.He doth bruise thee: the head & thou dost bruise him: the heel.'
Douay-Rheims Bible - 15b.She
shall crush thy head, & thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.
JPS Tanakh 1917
15b. They (man) shall bruise (decapitate) thy head, & thou shalt bruise their heel'
(& thus become under
our/man's feet/authority). (or)
JPS Tanakh 1917
15b. They (snakes/demons) shall bruise thy head (mind), & thou shalt bruise (nip at) their heel' (seed
& thus
trigger awareness/deliverance).
Revelation 12:17 -
The dragon was enraged at the woman, & went to make war with the rest of her
children, who keep the commandments of God & hold to the testimony of Jesus.
revelation/20-2.htm -
Satan
Bound -
1Then I saw an angel coming down
from heaven
with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
2He
seized
the
dragon,
the
ancient
serpent
who
is
the devil
and
Satan,
and
bound
him
for a thousand
years.
3He threw him into the Abyss, shut it, & sealed it over him,
so that he could not deceive the nations until the 1,000 years were complete.
After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.
1_peter/4-12.htm -
12Beloved,
do not
be surprised at
the
fiery
trial
that has come
upon
you,
as though
something strange
were happening
to you.
13Rejoice that you share
in the sufferings of Christ, that you may be overjoyed at the
revelation of His glory.
Thorns
Thankful for the Thorns
-
http://www.youdevotion.com/streams/april/8 2020 -
Tears of Regret
Wommack, Andrew - 12/16/2019 -
You've Already Got It @
https://www.awmi.net/video/this-weeks-tv/?id=gSxwRmgP
@
https://www.awmi.net/ - The majority of people who arrive in
heaven will bemoan their failure to notice &/or utilize the spiritual power
indwelling them on earth.
(Another group will bemoan their failure to
receive the Holy Spirit baptism.)