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Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you? Don’t you know that you have the Holy Spirit from God, and you don’t belong to yourselves? You have been bought and paid for, so honor God with your body.

We do things a certain way out of habit, without even knowing why.

There’s an old story about a woman who always cut off the ends of a ham before she cooked it.. After watching this ritual for years, her daughter asked, “Mom, why do you cut off the ends of the ham before you cook it?” After some thought, her mother replied, “I don’t know. That’s the way my mother did it, and I guess I’ve always followed her example.” They decided to call Grandma and ask her why she always cut off the ends of a ham. Grandma answered, “Because I only had one small pan, and I had to cut off the ends of the ham to make it fit in the pan!”

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"The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man, what a man is survives him it can never be buried"

J.R. Miller

“Make your decision based on the Purpose”

A lighthouse keeper who worked on a rocky stretch of coastline received his new supply of oil once a month to keep the light burning.

Not being far from shore, he had frequent guests. One night a women from the village begged some oil to keep her family warm. Another time a father asked for some to use in his lamp. Another needed some to lubricate a wheel. Since all the requests seemed legitimate, the lighthouse keeper tried to please everyone and grant the requests of all.

Towards the end of the month he noticed the supply of oil was very low. Soon it was gone, and the beacon went out. That night several ships were wrecked and lives were lost. When the authorities investigated, the man was very repentant. To his excuses and pleading, their reply was, “You were given oil for one purpose – to keep the light burning!”

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WHAT IS "CALL TO WAR"?

Excerpt from Bishop Chester M Wright WHAT IS "CALL TO WAR"? To answer that question, some foundation needs to be laid first. Are we trying to do from a pulpit what the Lord never intended? In verses 16-18 of the Acts 26 account of what the Lord told Paul on the road to Damascus, the Voice from heaven declared to Paul that the purpose for Jesus appearing to him was to make (Grk = “appoint or destine”) him a “minister and witness” and that He was sending (Grk - apostello = “to send forth with a commission”) Paul to the Gentiles. It is extremely important to note what the Lord told Paul that He was commissioning him to do. Jesus commanded Paul “to open [their] blinded eyes” so that they could be delivered from “darkness to light” and from the “power [Grk = “authority”] of Satan to God” so that/in order that/to this end that they might receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among the saints (salvation). Only this last part of Paul’s commission could be done through the act of preaching the Gospel! What about the first two parts of Paul’s commission: opening spiritually blind eyes AND delivering the lost from darkness and the authority of Satan? You cannot do either one of those through preaching! For the preaching to the lost to be effective, the initial two steps have to be done in prayer FIRST! The coming of or manifestation of the Kingdom God has to be sought for FIRST (Matthew 6:10, 33), BEFORE the Kingdom can be “preached”! Bro. TW Barnes told me personally on more than one occasion that the lost are blind and cannot even choose whether or not they want to be saved until someone with the faith and authority to do so sets them free from their spiritual blindness. The Bible emphatically states that the god of this world has blinded the minds of them that believe not preventing them from being saved (2 Corinthians 4:3,4), and that the lost are subject to/under the authority of the prince of the power of the air causing them to be controlled by the “spirit of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:1-4). Paul proclaimed to the church for all ages that “we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12). Even if you can entice the lost into your building, it will not matter how great the messages are that you preach if you are preaching to the blind/deaf who are the bound captives of Satan’s authority. The “old timers” understood this concept. They called it “prevailing/travailing prayer.” They prayed UNTIL they got a “break through.” They did not skip this first step! Andrew Urshan in his book, "The Supreme Need of the Hour," from personal experience, clearly stated this principle. The Welsh revival, Azuza St., and even the results of Charles Finney’s ministry (as only a few examples) were DIRECTLY attributed to this type of praying. Why is this so absent from among us today? When and how did we lose this? We lost this when we gradually put more emphasis on intellectualism, on the personality of the preacher, on “performance” in the pulpit, on church growth programs, and winning the approval of our communities than on having and demonstrating the power of God (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)! Biblically and to be Scripturally technical, our Elders did spiritual warfare. They “broke through” the spiritual resistance to revival and harvest in their areas of responsibility through prayer that “prevailed.” Prevailed over whom? They warred in the Spirit for the souls of men until they prevailed over the powers of darkness (“the gates of hell” - Matthew 16:18-19) that ruled their towns and cities! Whether they understood it or not, whether they called it this or not, spiritual warfare is exactly what they did. Prevailing Prayer (spiritual warfare) was the foundation for the impact and results of the revival and harvest at the beginning of the last century. Why don’t we abandon the perversion of so many “church growth” ideologies (which ignore the place and significance that only belongs to prayer), get back to our “true roots,” and once again have revivals that powerfully change our cities? Satan offered Jesus a "short-cut" to power and success during His temptation of Christ in the wilderness. He offered Jesus the Kingdoms WITHOUT the cross! Trying to "grow" a church without the first and foremost emphasis being "prevailing prayer" (Spiritual Warfare) is taking the devil's "short-cut"! Prevailing prayer is the only element of true revival and of seeing a church grow that there is NO SUBSTITUTE for! You cannot build a church from a pulpit without first establishing and maintaining a solid foundation of warfare prayer as the main weapon in liberating the captives so that they can see spiritually and be free to choose to be saved. You cannot spoil the strongman’s house until you FIRST bind the strongman (Matthew 12:28-29; Mark 3:26-27; Luke 11:20-22)! To attempt to do so only causes frustration, weariness, and defeat. Our participation in Prevailing Prayer demonstrates our faith in Jesus' statement that WITHOUT HIM we can do NOTHING (John 15:5)! It also reveals that we, as a grain of wheat, have fallen into the ground and died so that there can be much fruit (John 12:24-26). Unfortunately, so many seem to know so little about spiritual warfare. Still others are uncomfortable with the whole idea. It feels strange to them, but it was not strange to our pioneering elders. So many are frustrated with the struggle to see real revival and harvest in their cities. Worse yet, they do not know what is wrong, what is missing. In Matthew 10 and Luke 9 and 10, when Jesus sent the disciples out, He did not send them out to just “preach.” He sent them out with power and authority over the spirit world! Preaching was only a part of His plan to reach the world! Do we know how to do the rest that they were sent to do? Are we not sent out with the SAME EXACT commission as they were? How do we find the answers when so many are afraid to even address the issue/situation openly? Psalms 79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

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To All Leaders!

If you place yourselves beyond Correction, you place yourselves beyond Protection..

- Pastor Anthony Mangun

My Father's Son

My hist'ry is no secret it's written in the stones In the hill beside this river rest my mother's gentle bones And daddy there beside her among his next of kin And their legacy passed down to me the sons of mountain men. Raised to be a miner by a miners callised hands Passed my youth between these mountains where I grew to understand That family was the word of God and faith was it's demand And life and death the same came from the coal beneath this land. Well, a rich man writes the book of laws a poor man must defend But the highest laws are written on the hearts of honest men If that cup is passed to me to do what must be done When they lay me down remind them I was just my father's son. I've walked among these people, heard the stories that they tell I've crawled beside them in the mines and touched the walls of hell I've shared their sacred secrets, known their triumph and their pain And right or wrong i'll stand with them on the final judgement day. They say God gives his comfort when the time of trouble comes They say we'll know no share of peace till we lay down our guns But will my boy have the chance to do the things i've never done Or will he, like me, be told that he must be his father's son? Well, a rich man writes the book of laws a poor man must defend But the highest laws are written on the hearts of honest men When that cup is passed to me to do what must be done On a chunk of coal just carve these words ''I was just my father's son...''

Song by Ricky Skaggs

5 DANGEROUS PRAYERS TO PRAY

SEARCH ME: “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way of everlasting.” (Psalms 139:23,24) “Almost every Christian has times of feeling indignant toward people who rebel against God. David expresses that emotion in Psalm 139, but immediately he stopped and asked God to examine him. In the same way, we must not forget to ask God to point out rebellion in our own spirits” This great king of Israel was determined to follow Him, and in doing so he knew everything in his life that was an offense must go.

BREAK ME: You cannot grow as a Christian until you learn to ask for brokenness. Regardless of your level of spiritual maturity, there will always be areas of your life God needs to work in. There is a diabolical trend in the church in these last days that terrifies Godly men and women. It is the rejection of people to deal with, or sometimes to even recognize sin. Our disobedience offends our Lord and estranges Him from the fellowship. Many have built a wall between us and the throne of God and we don’t even realize it. We must pray for God to break us.

STRETCH ME: This is the kind of prayer to pray when you want to grow up spiritually. If you know someone whose depth of love is humbling, whose spiritual strength is amazing, that person has probably asked God to stretch him through life’s challenges. To be stretched means simply to be brought beyond one’s limits. If we ever expect to become what God intends us to be, we must be brought beyond our limits. Ask any weightlifter, strength and muscles don’t come over night. It requires work and to some degree, pain. There is no quick fix.

LEAD ME: Asking God to take your life and do whatever He wants with it is risky. We’ve got to believe that His plans for us are better than our own. As we present our bodies as a living sacrifice, we must keep in mind that every offering presented to God presupposes that the person presenting his gift relinquishes all his rights, title and interests in it. If Jesus has saved us, if we will allow Him to, He will lead us. He will guide us to Himself. He will direct us to His deliverance, to His healing, to His truth, that we may bring glory to His name.

USE ME: Everyone who has ever been used mightily by God has had to go through the process of searching, breaking, stretching and leading. This process makes us usable, because it can only be perfected in us through total surrender to His call on our lives.He is the potter and we are the clay. If we have purposed in our heart to serve Him for the rest of our lives, then we will allow Him to continue to turn and mold us. We will long for Him to take out every imperfection and repair every crack and flaw. We have been created to bring Him glory, and we are told that in everything we do, we are to do it for His glory.

- From World Network of Prayer

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"Fear is a fragile bond of union, a brittle basis of religion. The person who serve out of fear, without the realization of love, will try to bargain with God. He will do little things for God, make little offerings, say little prayers, etc., to embezzle a place in the heaven of his God. Life and religion will be a chess game, hardly an affair of love."

John Powell, Book - Why am i afraid to love.

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