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There is an outrageous attack on Israel and America taking place by Arab Terrorists right before our eyes, and not many Christians are aware of it.

This Tuesday, in Anapolis a meeting of Palestinian, Israeli, and other Arab interests, along with US and other authorities will take place in order to further slice Israel out of their rightful land. Now, every time the US has meddled with Israel to get them to concede land to the Palestinians, a Katrina, a 9/11, floods, mass murders, other natural disasters have occured. Every TIME dear friends! Check it out. If America gets involved with this program, expect to see something major happen to the US soon afterward.

Basically the bottom line is that the Palestinian Authority wants Israel to return to the pre 1967 borders, but also many of the holy sites in Jerusalem will be taken by the people who want nothing but death to Americans and Jews. This means all of East Jerusalem - which is more than the 1967 borders will go under Palestinian authority. When Bethlehem was given over to PA it was 85% christian. Two years ago it was 15%, and today it is less than 5%. Bethlehem is a ghost town, and it is so dangerous to venture there that tours are rare.

They would also take over the Garden Tomb, which fits some descriptions of Golgotha. Also the Pool of Bethesda, the Via Dolorosa, The Upper Room, The Eastern Gate (or Golden Gate) where Jews say the Messiah will return; The house of Caiaphus (where Peter denied Jesus), the Garden of Gethsemene, the Mount of Olives, and the Mount of Ascension. Not only are these precious historical and religious sites, they are also places that millions of tourists and pilgrims visit each year, and with one sweep of a pen they could become unavailable to both Christian and Jew alike.

WHAT CAN I DO?

Pray, Pray Pray. Especially on Tuesday - that the Lord would confound the enemy. My wife had an interesting thought the other night in which the story from 1 Samuel 6 and 7 came into play:

“When the Philistines heard that Israel had assembled at Mizpah, the rulers of the Philistines came up to attack them. And when the Israelites heard of it, they were afraid because of the Philistines. They said to Samuel, “Do not stop crying out to the LORD our God for us, that he may rescue us from the hand of the Philistines.” Then Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it up as a whole burnt offering to the LORD . He cried out to the LORD on Israel’s behalf, and the LORD answered him. While Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to engage Israel in battle. But that day the LORD thundered with loud thunder against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic that they were routed before the Israelites.”
1 Samuel 7:7-10 NIV

By Samuel’s act of worship, and the repentant hearts of the Israelites (Read the rest of the context to see the whole story) The Lord thundered, and the enemy was routed.

Please pray, and if the Lord leads you to fast on Tuesday, that would be a great idea as well. Pray that the enemy will be confounded, by God’s thunder, and that the American authorities will have the sense to see that this is also an attack on the US. I would bet that anyone, including the Palestinians, with a sensible mind would see the corelation between the attitude of the US regarding Israel, and the natural or manmade disasters which happen immediately afterward. Perhaps the Palestinians know something the Liberals do not manage to see, and they see this as another way to weaken further the US.

Blessings,

Rick Reece

I just received this excellent message from David and Kathie Walters and I wanted to share it with everyone I could. What he says is so true and I believe one of the hindrances to true Revival is our unwillingness to wander away from the routine, and venture into total abandonment and uninhibited, undignified worship. If God doesn’t show up, what are we doing here anyway?

I remember times in our church in Brazil when sometimes we would sit in silence for as much as 40 minutes just waiting on the Lord. The only other time I have seen that was when we went to the World Gathering of Christian Indigenous People in 2004 in Hawaii. That conference was the same way. There was no agenda, and no chairs (except for the Kahunas or grandparents). We waited in silence, listening to the Lord until He gave direction. It was beautiful! I’ll try to write more about this in a future post, but for now let’s get on to David’s article.

Rick Reece

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ALLOWING THE HOLY SPIRIT TO CONTROL YOUR MEETING
DAVID WALTERS
Nov 21, 2007

davidmwalters@mindspring.com

I remember being at a church years ago when I was trying to help them with their worship. I suggested to the worship team that they sing the songs which the Holy Spirit tells them, rather than songs from a rehearses list. They said it was impossible to do that as they had to have the music, because they couldn’t sing songs for which they didn’t have the music.

To me it was kinda like a preacher saying that he can only preach from a printed sermon, or he must have his notes, otherwise he is unable to minister. What ever happened to spontaneity? What ever happened to being Spirit led and God being in control?

  

I believe the we should not hold church services, but have church meetings. When churches have an order of service or a printed program then that may be the religious way, but not the Bible way. If you were to attend a church service and start up a song, share a vision, a prophecy, a testimony, or a word of exaltation, you would more than likely be told to sit down, because you would be out of order. The justification scripture would be, “Let all things be done decently and in order.”               

(1.Cor.14:40)  But God’s order is different from man’s order and God’s ways are different from man’s ways even man’s religious ways.  “For as the heavens are higher than the earth so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”  ( Isa 55:9). If you want everything in so much order I suggest you find a suitable graveyard! 

  

When Jesus was approached by Nicodemas he was told that he must be born again. When Nicodemas questioned how, Jesus told him that he needed to be born again of water and the spirit. Then Jesus said the following, “The wind blows where it wills you hear the sound of it, but you can’t tell where it’s coming from or where it’s going, so is everyone who is born of the spirit.”(John 3:8) In other words True Christians are supposed to be like the wind, unpredictable.

Our lives should be an adventure where we don’t every quite know what the Lord has in store for us. We are not supposed to have everything and every minute mapped out.  We can Living in a rut, but a rut is a shallow grave, and nothing ever changes.

  

So when we come together corporately, our gatherings, or meetings, should also be unpredictable, like the wind. “How is it then? Whenever you come together each of you have a psalm, have a teaching, have a tongue, have a revelation, have an interpretation.” 1.Cor.14:27. Every time we gather together the Lord has a purpose, a theme, a message for His people. We gather together as a Body primarily for worship, exhortation, celebration and revelation. Teaching with line upon line and precept upon precept, is really for the special Apostolic teaching meetings.

  

 Everything should flow like a piece of music. A symphony, a melody theme, flows through with variations, but at the end everyone recognizes the melody, the theme, the message. It’s come through the songs that are brought by the Spirit,  the visions shared, the prophecies, and tongues given, the message preached. They all connect. No one is unsure what God is saying, even the children and youth understand it, because they also participate. Not all the songs come from the worship teams and not all the songs or worship is done at one time. A song may come, followed by a prophecy. Then another song, followed by a vision. Then perhaps a testimony, with another song. They all connect so that at the end the pastor sums up what the Lord is telling and showing the Body for that week.

  

Every week God has things to say to His people. We no longer suffer canned services,  canned preaching, or canned worship. It becomes exciting. Miracles begin to happen, signs and wonders are present, people are ministering and activated. They are no longer passive, just observing, but involved and activated. We are now having a God meeting, rather than a good meeting.

  

Years ago, when we had these kinds of meetings in England, an Anglican Curate, (which is an associate minister), visited us. After the meeting was over, He said to me,”What a wonderful meeting that was, everything thing just fitted together so well. You must have rehearsed for days.” “No I said, we didn’t know what was going to happen; we just followed the leading of the Holy Spirit.” “That was amazing.” he said, ”I can hardly believe it.” 

  

The local Body became so mature that the Saints would only respond to what the Lord was saying or doing. If someone got up and started a song which was not what they felt the Lord was saying, they didn’t  participate or respond and after a couple of verses sung, the song would fade away. If we felt the presence of God wasn’t  really there, we would close the meeting and acknowledge that we missed God. We would have a coffee.

That did not happen often, but we were so hungry to meet with God, and not just have a meeting, even a good meeting. Many churches can organize good meetings, but good can become the enemy of God, because we can become content with “good” and miss the anointing. 

  

One of the greatest needs in the church today, is to teach and show people how to be Spirit led. Even many pastors need to learn how to be Spirit led and be delivered from the fear of losing control. They need to trust the Holy  Spirit’s leading and presence in the church meetings. The worship leaders need to learn how to be Spirit led, and stop trying to be in control. If elders, pastors, leaders and worships leaders, keep controlling the meetings and the people, they will never enjoy the real power and presence of the Holy Spirit and the Body of Christ will never mature. Where you allow life to flow, there will be messes. If you don’t want messes, keep organized, keep everyone in order, then you will have sterile meetings. “Where no oxen are the trough is clean, but much increase comes by the strength of the ox.”  (Prov.14:4)  

  

A young evangelist who traveled with me was in one of our meetings on a Sunday morning. The meeting was packed and there were many visitors. Sometime during the meeting he stood up and said, “The Lord has shown me that there are six people here that are involved in immorality and if you don’t stand up right away, I will stand in front of you until you do. One by one, six people stood up for prayer and deliverance.”  Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.” (Acts 5:5)  

  

Young teenagers used to say, “We can go to our Evangelical church and mess about at the back and go out in the parking lot in the dark and fool around, but when we come to your meetings we are scared because be know our sins will probably be exposed. 

  

In another meeting of a church there was a  visiting pastor who arrived with some of his congregation because he heard of the remarkable moving of the Spirit. 

  

During the meeting there was a call for baptism and a number of his congregation went forward to be baptized. He was confused and finally prayed, “Lord I don’t know about this baptism. If You want me to be baptized you need to write it on the wall, only I need see it, but write it on the wall.”  

There was a cross painted on the wall of the church with a scroll around the cross which said “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” The pastor said, “Lord write it on the wall, like the cross.” Immediately a little old lady in the back of the church stood up and prophesied, “Why do you say to God, write it on the wall, when He has already written on the tables of your heart?” I think you can imagine his response! He ran to get baptized  

  

When this revival was happening, I took my Dad and Mother to the meeting at this church. She was a little Catholic lady and was very apprehensive, because she had never been to a Holy Spirit led  Body ministry meeting. I discovered that there was a German Roman Catholic priest in the meeting. He was a professor of comparative religion. He had been to many different kinds of strange meetings including séances. I said to her, “Mom keep and eye on the Catholic Priest. If he likes the meeting then you will know its OK with God.” 

  

The meeting started with worship, dancing, words of knowledge, and visions, coming forth, when suddenly the priest stood up and let out a blood curdling scream and run down the isle, fell on his back and slid along the floor knocking chairs in every direction. My mother stood up and said, “They are killing the priest!” “They are killing the priest!” and she ran out of the church and ran down the road with me following, trying to stop her.

  

Eventually I was able to calm her down and took her back to where she was staying which was a house next to the church. I couldn’t persuade her to come back to that meeting or any others that weekend for love or money.

  

About twenty minutes later I went back into the meeting to see the priest climbing out of the baptism tank dripping wet, speaking in tongues, prophesying, and praying for the sick, and everybody was still worshiping. Talk about being “seeker friendly.” 

Eventually my mom did enjoy coming to the meetings and accepted the Lord. My Dad loved that meeting and he really was a faithful member of our fellowship after he found Jesus as his Messiah in his sleep. He was Jewish. 

  

  

For more information on Spirit Led Worship. check David’s book,  “Worship Fur Dummies” on our website 

http://www.goodnews.netministries.org/spiritual.htm            

  

David Walters    davidmwalters@mindspring.com

www.goodnews.netministries.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEWS RELEASE

This is a perfect example of inspiring giving. May God raise up more people like Marshall Carter. We depended upon the Jaars pilots for over 30 years of our time in Brazil, and we say halelujah for them!

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE CHAIRMAN MARSHALL N. CARTER DONATES PLANE TO NORTH CAROLINAbS JAARS INC.

Rugged Multi-functional Pilatus PC-6 Aircraft Targeted for
Humanitarian Work in Indonesia

Waxhaw, N.C. November 15, 2007 - - JAARS Inc. of Waxhaw N.C. announced today that Marshall N. Carter and his wife Missy donated their personal Pilatus PC-6  aircraft to JAARS for its humanitarian purposes. Mr. Carter is chairman of the New York Stock Exchange and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Medical Center.

The Swiss aircraft received today by JAARS, a nonprofit organization devoted to serving minority language communities worldwide, is valued at $1.0 million.

JAARS President Jim Akovenko said, “We are very grateful for this timely gift from Mr. and Mrs. Carter.  The aircraft is a perfect match for the very short runways that are common in the field of operations. This aircraft will complement the current fleet and will be pressed into service immediately upon arrival.”

The turbo-prop PC-6, or Pilatus Porter, is well suited for medical evacuations and in assisting local people in literacy and other forms of community development through the efforts of JAARS partner, SIL International.  SIL is a nongovernmental, faith-based nonprofit language development organization working in over 1400 language communities worldwide.

Marshall Carter, a long-time seaplane pilot, has owned and used the aircraft for the last nine years.

“The Pilatus Porter is a wonderful aircraft and has brought a tremendous amount of joy to me and my family over the years,” Mr. Carter said. “With its donation to JAARS for humanitarian purposes, the aircraft will now take on its most important mission ever. JAARS should be commended for its great work and for putting donations such as this to work for people in need.”

The PC-6 can carry up to ten passengers, or more than three cubic meters of cargo. It will become a critical component of the JAARS organizationbs plan to replace its aging fleet of piston engine aircraft fueled by aviation gas with turbine aircraft in response to a worldwide shortage of aviation gas. Turbine aircraft burn jet fuel which is more readily available in places where JAARS aircraft are flown.

The PC-6 is ideal for the bush conditions in Indonesia as it can be flown in difficult mountain ranges, at higher elevations and faster speeds than other smaller aircraft, and can land on shorter airstrips than most aircraft with the same load capacity.

The aircraft will be operated by YAJASI, JAARS Indonesian counterpart and partner organization.

SIL Indonesia Director Mark Taber said, “The provision of this PC-6 is timely as we depend on our Indonesian partner, YAJASI, to provide us with safe, reliable air transportation to reach some of the remotest regions in eastern Indonesia. Our efforts to provide rural and isolated communities with literacy programs and various community development initiatives will be greatly enhanced by this aircraft.”

The JAARS aviation program operates flight programs in five countries, with operations in Asia, the Pacific and Africa. In addition, the Waxhaw aviation facility is used for training JAARS pilots in operation procedures for the overseas efforts.

JAARS provides more than aviation services.  Land and sea transportation services, computing and information technology, media services in the local or vernacular languages, and other vital logistical services for language programs worldwide are provided as well.

JAARS is motivated to serve the spiritual needs of language communities as well as the physical and social needs through its associations and in so doing assist in Bible translation efforts for the remaining language groups without Scripture in their heart language.

More information on the PC-6 can be found at www.pc-6.com and www.pilatus-aircraft.com. More information on JAARS can be found at www.jaars.org.

The Power of Blessing.
 

The son had never received affirmative words of blessing from his father. The more he strived to gain his father’s acceptance, the more he felt that he could never measure up to his dad’s expectations. Until finally he gave up trying. He left home, and went into business. He said, “I’ll show my dad what I can do.” But he held bitterness and unforgiveness in his heart until the day his father died. Then he felt guilt and shame because he had never been reconciled to his father, and now it was too late. He started playing on the worship team at his church, but on the side he was getting involved with girls and drugs. He was slowly sliding into the abyss of hell, and it only got worse when he got kicked off the worship team.
 

But one day his sister dragged him to an Ancient Paths Seminar. I was supposed to be the facilitator in his small group, but I had arrived late because we had hitched a ride from one city to another (in Brazil). When I arrived I noticed he sat angrily in his chair with his arms folded and a glare in his countenance as to say, “Don’t you dare mess with me.” After the first evening’s sessions he came up to me and said, “Who put me in this group? I want to change to another group. I know that kid who is assisting you and I don’t want him to minister to me.” I told him that we really don’t like to change the groups around once they have started, but he didn’t have to finish the seminar if he felt like he didn’t want to – he could do it another time. Then I prayed a brief prayer for the Lord to show him during the night if He wanted him to return tomorrow. It was already past midnight and I was tired from my trip.
 

The next morning, I looked around anxiously to see if he had returned and was relieved to see that he had. But during the first morning session he still sat there with his arms, legs, and heart crossed, and an angry glare on his face. He listened to the other young men in his group share, but he would not say a word. I was concerned, and was praying earnestly for the Lord to break through his shell. That afternoon while the video teaching part of the seminar was going on in the auditorium, each of the 15 ministry teams went to their rooms to pray together. As I and my team walked down to our classroom, my assistant asked me if I could translate a song into Portuguese for him. I said, “We really need to pray, but if it’s quick I can do it if there is a CD player in the room.” He told me there was, and I began to translate the song. It was a MorningStar CD and the song was a spontaneous “testimony song” about how the singer had been living a life in drugs, thinking about suicide until one night he heard a song on the radio: “What can wash away my sins, nothing but the blood of Jesus.” As I translated this song, suddenly all three of us were overwhelmed with a burden of intercession not only for each participant in our group, but also for this city, and the whole nation of Brazil. We were forced down onto the floor by the presence of a Holy God, and could not rise as weeping and wailing intercession came out of our lips. Then just as suddenly as that had come, there came an inexplicable joy, and our sorrow turned into laughter. Literally one second we were on the floor crying, and the next we were laughing uncontrollably. Then we could finally arise and return to the room where the other teams were meeting. When we shared what had just happened to us, the whole room was also suddenly down on their knees crying out to the Lord. Then the video in the next room ended, and the seminar participants started moving to their groups. I knew that something had happened in the spiritual realm, but had little idea what would happen next.
 

This time, our young man was the first to open up and he began unfold his story as I have started in the first paragraph. He felt such guilt because he had never received blessing from his father, and because he had never been able to go to him and ask for forgiveness before he died. I told him that he may not be able to ask forgivness of his father, but he can ask it of God, his Father. And he could release forgiveness to God for the offenses of his own father. So I asked him to pray a prayer like that, and he did. Then I asked him to ask Jesus how he saw him. Jesus began to show him a beautiful vision of himself as a warrior who had been stolen from, but now the King was about to bestow on him a new beginning. Then I told him, “Your father never was able to bless you, but your Heavenly Father has never stopped blessing you. Can I pray a prayer of blessing over you? I am not your father, but I believe God would have something to say to you.” He agreed, and I prayed a prayer blessing this young man, straight from the Father’s heart, through my voice into his heart. I cannot remember what I said that day, but I remember that the glare on his face, and his whole attitude changed that Saturday afternoon. And several years after that I heard report that it had totally transformed his life. He was free of his addictions, his suicidal tendancy, and he was back on the worship team, and now had a good job. He no longer had to strive for his father’s blessing, because he was receiving blessing from his Heavenly Father every day. And please note: All I ever did, was basically to lead this man to Jesus, the wonderful counselor. He did the rest, and I got to see it!
 

Perhaps you have had a story similar to this man’s. I would encourage you to go to an Ancient Paths seminar and allow the Lord to minister to you. We could tell countless other stories similar to this one of how the Lord has changed hearts to bring about a changed life. Check for a seminar in your area at www.familyfoundations.com