#24 What is God Showing Us?

C. Peter Wagner speaks to us
about God's purpose behind parables:

"God's purpose behind parables, 
in this case a living parable, (check out
my post  #22 The Living Parable), 
is to teach His people an important lesson.

As I analyze this event, (#23 The Voodoo Spirit, the interpretation is clear.

Although these 4,500 hand-picked Christian leaders from almost 200 nations of the world gathered at Lausanne II in Manila to strategize the evangelization of the 3 billion people who do not yet know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, God wanted them all to know the real nature of their task.

I see three major lessons from the parable:

   1. World evangelization is a matter of life and death. Medically speaking, Juana Francisco was on the verge of death. Spiritually speaking, 3 billion people in the world are on the verge of an even more terrible death—eternal death in hell. Had Juana Francisco died, she would have gone to heaven.

The evangelistic crisis facing God's people is much more serious than was the brief crisis in the Philippine plaza Hotel because if unbelievers die they do not go to heaven.

   2. The key to world evangelization is hearing God and obeying what we hear. Mary Lance Sisk and Cindy Jacobs both received an immediate revelation from God.

As seasoned intercessors they were accustomed to this, so it did not take them by surprise. The fact that they had both heard the same word at the same time confirmed to each that they were hearing correctly.

But they also knew that hearing God was only the first step. The second was having the courage to obey Him no matter what.

They knew God wanted the curse broken, so they went into action, again doing what they had each done many times before. They took authority in the name of Jesus and neither one had any doubt that at that instant the battle had been won.

   3. God is going to use the whole Body of Christ to complete the task of world evangelization. The evangelicals are not going to evangelize the world by themselves. The charismatics are not going to evangelize the world by themselves.

God chose an evangelical and a charismatic to meet in the hallway and to the spiritual warfare. And to seal it, He chose Bill Bright, one of the Lausanne movement's most visible evangelical participants, do pray the healing prayer and watch God raise up Juana Francisco from her deathbed."  

(check out #22 The Living Parable & #23 The Voodoo Spirit, if you haven't, to read about what had happened)

Warfare Prayer

 #24 What is God Showing Us?
By C. Peter Wagner

(pgs. 43 -44) Regal Books

 
Pray with me:

   Father, as Your desire is for us to

hear Your Voice, I ask that my ears 

be open to You more.

   I want to be a part of the end-time

revival that I'm learning about.

   Help me and my friends to become open to what You want to accomplish among us here in our area.

   I know that You've been working in our hearts, and it is now my desire to see Your Spirit move in our churches to bring about a mighty awakening to sin.

   May the Spirit of repentance be given us in order to cause us to realize our sinful nature before You, the Holy One.

   I ask this in Jesus' holy name. Amen.

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Today’s Bible verse: Ez. 12:28 "Therefore say unto them: There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord God."

Today’s quote: Sandy Kirby Quandt – “God is an amazing God who cares fully for His children. He never fails to notice our acts of kindness and even pays them forward to and for us. There is great joy in giving and when He nudges our hearts to do good, He never fails to provide the means ... to overflowing.

Some thoughts today: Let us focus on God and his will for our lives. He is a God of Hearts, and only He can satisfy our deepest longings.

- Your mind and heart are connected. Do you live as you want to, choosing sin that brings death? or life, that draws you to and into God's love.

- Listen to your heart. Invite Jesus into your heart right now.

13th- Saturday’s post: We All Married Idiots, by Elaine W. Miller      Jean Oathout

14th- Sunday's post: Devoted to Prayer
Dr. Charles F. Stanley

16th- Tuesday's post: #25 Territorial Spirits
C. Peter Wagner

18th- Thursday's post: #26 Spiritual Power in Evangelism
C. Peter Wagner

A popular post:  #10 Intercession is a Biblical Concept C. Peter Wagner writes to us 

more about intercession: "I wrote out these [following] texts because I feel it is important 

for us to understand that intercession for leaders, although it may be underutilized today, is a biblical concept."

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