Wednesdays, October
1,2003 through Saturday, October 4, 2003
“Neither is there
salvation in any other; for there is no other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved.”
Acts
4:12
“…I
bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.”
Galatians 6:17
And
Romans 1:16-25
People of God!
We live in a day when
just about everything imaginable is passing itself off for Christianity.
We are living in a day
when the “modern form of Christianity” can easily blend with the religions
of the world.
We are living in a day
when the “Last
Days Church” is being formed in both camps – Jesus versus Satan’s Apostate
Church.
The Disciples are
being branded by
the marks of their masters - who they
are going to follow and pay the price that is asked. Someone owns you!
“No man can follow two masters.” (Matthew 6:24)
Know you not that you are not your
own – that you are bought with a price? (I Corinthians 16:19-20)
People can mindlessly follow the crowd in
the enemy camp, but you cannot mindlessly follow in the Camp of the Lord.
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The enemy
blinds his followers, but Jesus expects that His followers have their
eyes wide open.
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The enemy
deafens his followers to truth, but Jesus expects that His followers
become close friends of the Holy Spirit of Truth.
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The enemy will allow
multiple voices to speak into the lives of his followers, but Jesus says that his
disciples must know His voice and not follow another.
(John 10:1-5)
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The enemy
allows weaknesses and actually preys on it, but Jesus tells us that His
Grace is sufficient and He is strong in our weaknesses. (II Corinthians
12:9); He wants us to make up our mind. (James 1:8); He does not allow
us to follow every wind of doctrine. (Ephesians 4:14)
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The enemy would desire that the cost of
following him is hid, but Jesus tells us to count the cost before the
war, before we build the house. (Luke 14:28-33)
God is looking for people that will stand up
- apart from the crowd and be counted as one that will not compromise with
any system or method or tactic or agenda or idea that departs from the
Gospel.
While there are
wonderful and submitted ministries and people that are not mixing things
together under the guise of Christianity, there are those that have mixed
anything and everything together. This is what the apostate church is
made of – one that preaches “another Christ”
(II Corinthians 11:4; Galatians 1:6-8)– a more palatable one that is
passed from one school of thought to another with ease.
The Name of Jesus, preached as the One and
only way to Salvation, is not very popular, even within the “Christian
churches.” So much has attached itself to the foundations of faith that
Jesus has been pushed out the back door. There is just “no room” for Him
in “that way.” He, as He presented Himself, has become an embarrassment to
the Church.
This may sound
extreme, but just go within any group of Christians and start talking
about Jesus and watch the subject cause an uncomfortable wave to go
through the group. Someone will change the subject as they shift their
feet and lower their head. Jesus knew that people would be ashamed of
Him and forewarned of the consequences of that happening. (Mark 8:34-38)
It will take a bold and faithful people to
the Cause of Christ to persevere in this time and not care that your Jesus
is an offense. (Romans 9:33) He also forewarned of that as well. We have
been told in the Word of God what His coming would do and also what the
response would be from the world as we took the message of Jesus to the
world.
He came into the world despise and (Isaiah
53:3) is still despised - But, the Church of the Living God must not be
ashamed of that Name.
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It is time that the
church quits adding to Jesus, as if something else could do the job.
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It is time that we quit
neutralizing the power of His name by being ashamed of it.
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It is time that we quit
watering down the power of His Gospel and offering that to a dying world.
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It is time that we became
comfortable with His name on our lips outside the House of God as we take
Him to the city streets.
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It is time that we no
longer waltz around the Name of Jesus when we talk to people about
“church.”
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It is time that we
remember that the Church is not the salvation of souls, but Jesus is
Salvation.
People need Jesus - not
our version of Jesus.
We have watched as formulas, techniques, and
ideas have passed themselves off in the place of the Power of God.
Workers for the church have spun their wheels in frustration as they have
realized that no one is getting changed, healed, delivered, or saved –
really. Oh a few come in and start attending church and yes, in some
places there are true disciples made out of the converts, but that is not
the norm.
Children and youth have presented a
formidable wall of resistance as we have seen them walk away from the
church or even refuse to enter the church. They are so imbedded with the
ideas and concepts of the world so thoroughly that our powerless “form of
godliness” (II Timothy 3:1-7) has no attraction to them. They are used to
the supernatural and see that the church offers nothing akin to that.
We claim to be Holy
Spirit filled and yet still rely upon our own thoughts and ways to “get
the job done.” Committees are formed until we committee things to death
and we still do not see the lost coming in record number – radically changed by the
Power of God.
Many missionaries, as they face the foreign
fields where the demonic powers are commonly understood and accepted by
the populace, understand that “business as usual” is not going to get
these people free.
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They know that it going to take someone
who knows the Name of Jesus and the Jesus of the name.
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They know that they have
to have a name that is higher than the name of the demonic gods of the
world.
(Philippians
2:9-11)
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They know that they have to demonstrate
that our God has power to set them free from the powerful forces that
are at work in their lives.
It will take someone that can convince them
that when they give up the shamans, witch doctors, high priests,
spiritists, and such that they will have the power to overcome the fear
and bondage that they have been trapped in.
Well that is foreign
soil, isn’t it? We, in more civilized societies are not like that. “Our
demons” here are nicer, more updated with our culture, less damaging to
our citizens - or so it would seem based upon the approach that is made in
dealing with the strongholds in “civilized” countries.
When will we ever learn?
Our society is demon infested and the demons
are not nice American or English demons who are civilized. They are
killers and thieves of our destiny, our children, our churches, our
finances, our peace, our cities, our nations, our families and so much
more.
The enemy is out to kill, steal and destroy.
(John 10:10) We will only face him with the powerful work of Jesus Christ
and His shed blood and name – and we will only face the enemy with our
faith firmly planted in the same.
We can’t go into this level of truth warfare
with anything added to what Jesus did already.
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We cannot add a thing to the cross.
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We cannot add a thing to deliverance.
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We cannot add a thing to healing.
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We cannot add a thing to salvation.
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We cannot add concepts, ideas or human
thought or we shoot ourselves in the foot.
We must not get caught up in the trap of
trying to supply this move of God with “our gifts and ideas,” but rather,
remember that God has supplied us with “His gifts, thoughts and ways.”
While He is creative in how He works through us within the gifts and
movement of the Holy Spirit, we must use caution lest we impose our human
spirit into the mix.
We have to know that this season is going to
need a church that is full of the power of God and filled with faith in
the Only Name under Heaven that has the power to Save, Heal and Deliver.
WE need Jesus – NOW –
More than ever!!!
Come to High Places 12 prepared to believe
God for an enduement of power from on High. God is moving in a
“time-tested way” to empower His church – Pentecost!
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Calling all
pastors, evangelists, teachers, missionaries, church leaders, prophets,
apostolic groundbreakers, and intercessors – people of God - this is
your time to be impacted with faith.
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If you are
feeling weakened by the last season, then you need a refilling to
neutralize the devil that has placed fear, sickness and doubt in and
upon you life.
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The church
needs to be impacted with courage to stand when others are falling for
“Other ways.”
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Pastors and
churches need to fight the temptation to “go along with things for the
sake of unity.”
We need each other – the church must network
for strength, prayer and vision. The church must find each other and
realize that all of us have not bowed our knees to Baal.
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It is time for the Church to arise up in
Power and Authority to do the work of the ministry.
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He is moving His church towards the
harvest fields.
We have a harvest of people counting on us
to do it God’s way, upon His path; via His Door – for there is NO OTHER
NAME!!!
During the “No Other Name/Branded”
gathering…
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Expect that God is going to shake your
concepts and church ideas for the sake of cleansing your life of
anything that is getting in the way of His movement.
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Expect a
fresh infilling of the Holy Ghost.
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Expect The
Holy Spirit to so impact you during these days that you will never look
at church life the same again.
Folks – something has got
to change – It might as well be us!
We feel that there are
people that God is speaking to about being here. Please obey the voice of
the Holy Spirit. You will be glad you did.
“Golden Glory” Follows on
Sunday, October 5th
