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Thursday, October 30, 2014
Another
Coffee Break:
Dealing With Fear, Part 9
October 17, 2014
I like days like today.
You wake up in the morning, the presence of the Lord is there, it’s kind
of like Dr. Luther Mieir used to say, “Good Morning, Lord! Sure glad you’re here.” Now I know some of you wiseacres wake up,
wipe the sleepy seeds from your eyes and say, “Good Lord, it’s morning!” See.
It’s like this. You’ve got to
change your whole frame of mind when you wake up. Hehehehehe…….
Your attitude when you wake up in the morning can affect
your work, the words that come out of your mouth…actually, it can change your entire
day. That’s why today is the best day of
my life. Tomorrow will be even
better. Know why? Because – to quote one of my friends –
"God don’t make no junk days!"
David
had it figured out right when he sang, “This is the day which the
Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24)
Let's take a slightly different approach today to
dealing with fear. I'm addressing --
perhaps a bit from an oblique way -- the Fear of Evil, and how it affects folks
in ministry.
A number of years ago, I met with a group of
perhaps eight or ten pastors over lunch to discuss a really contentious topic:
deliverance. You understand that this
topic is only contentious for those folks who’ve adopted the mindset and
doctrine that Christians can’t be afflicted with evil spirits.
The doctrine really does come out of the
mis-interpretation of the word, daimonizomai, and its usage in the KJV as “being
possessed” by demons. Possession conveys
the wrong idea entirely. Possession
connotes ownership. People aren’t
“owned” by demons, any more than they are “owned” by Holy Spirit.
When we invite Jesus Christ into our lives, He
takes up “his abode” with us. If we
continue to yield to the leading and guidance He provides through Holy Spirit,
we have the opportunity and authority to become totally free in every aspect of
our lives. Once a person has begun the
process of salvation, deliverance, healing, walking in health and prosperity,
it is somewhat like the kid who throws a big rock in a pond. You have a big splash, but then there are the
ripples that seemingly continue outward for a long time thereafter.
Deliverance is like that. Your initial experience of being set free
from unclean spirits may be dramatic, but there are the ripples – the ongoing
revelations that come by the Holy Spirit – that continue on for months, and
sometimes years.
Demons, unclean spirits, evil spirits – no matter
how you refer to them – can only create impulses; they can lead you through the
pleasures of your flesh, they can create thoughts in your mind, and they can
drive you through fear -- whether that fear be the Fear of Evil, the Fear of
Man, or the Fear of death -- through doubt or through unbelief to commit
certain acts or take certain actions that lead you into sin, or take you away
from the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Evil spirits operate in two ways: internally –
through thoughts implanted in your mind, and externally – by creating a set of
circumstances or “supernatural” manifestations that generate fear, doubt and unbelief.
The eight or ten pastors that met with me that day
over lunch knew, and confessed to me, that Christians could be afflicted and tormented by evil spirits. Nevertheless, they had adopted – for the sake
of convenience and political expediency within their churches – the
anti-deliverance doctrine.
I took them to task over their arrogant expediency,
and quoted to them from Jeremiah 8:11-12, “For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there
is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they
fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast
down, saith the LORD.”
I rebuked these pastors for telling their folks
that they were free when many of them were still being tormented. They were saying to the people, “It’s just
your flesh. You need to discipline your
flesh and bring it under subjection.”
So what’s wrong with an answer like that? Nothing.
Except that it doesn’t go far enough.
It stops short. You cannot bring
unclean spirits under subjection. You
don’t discipline evil spirits. You kick
them out!
In the months that followed, three of those men
fell “among them that fall”(see Daniel 11:33) – they fell into sin
themselves. All three were removed from
their places of ministry. One was
indicted by a federal grand jury and wound up in prison.
Of the remaining pastors, one began to suffer ill
health and turned his senior pastorate over to his son – who also happened to
be among that group of pastors. The son,
when he took over the pastorate, later called me and acknowledged that they had
been wrong. He asked me out to lunch,
and made it clear that I would be welcome to come and share and teach in their
church any time.
Another of the pastors present that day at the
luncheon began to repent of his anti-deliverance stance when the fall began for
the three who were later removed from their ministries. I was pleased to sit in his church one Sunday
and hear him openly repent for having taught error. He began to call people to acknowledge their
need for deliverance and respond to the authority available in Christ Jesus.
The sixth man in that group was stricken with
Parkinson’s Disease. Although he
acknowledged to me privately that he knew I had spoken the truth, he refused to
acknowledge it publicly and died two years later. It was a real loss to me because he had been
a dear friend and brother in the Lord whose ministry I had otherwise greatly
appreciated.
The other pastors moved on, and I never heard how
their ministries prospered or failed. It
was a graphic picture I’ve never forgotten.
This is something that the Lord Jesus Christ takes
very seriously. You cannot pretend that
folks are free, tell them they are free, and withhold the deliverance from them
or the understanding that deliverance is necessary to deal with certain issues
in their spiritual lives because you either "fear the people" or because
of doctrinal compromise stemming from the Fear of Evil, and not suffer the
consequences. The responsibilities that
accompany spiritual leadership are great.
Jesus paid the complete price for our freedom on
the Cross. He took back the authority
that had been given Satan and made it available to all believers. Everything that Satan stole from us –
everything! – was now available to those who would seize it.
Jesus put it like this: “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the
kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force.”
When an individual is called by the Lord, anointed
for leadership, and equipped by Holy Spirit to teach and to lead folks into a
relationship with Jesus Christ, and then that individual knowingly avoids teaching
and sharing truths that will set folks free from bondage, he or she effectively
leaves Jesus hanging on the Cross instead of presenting Him as the resurrected
and risen Christ who has taken the final authority over death and all that
Satan seeks to do to retain his control of the human race.
Wheww! That
was a mouthful! Let me put it another
way.
Jesus’ death and resurrection proved that there is
no enemy man cannot subdue when that subduing takes place utilizing the power
and authority He has given. To cheat
folks out of that authority is unconscionable.
One of the worst fables being taught by those who
seek to make Salvation a once-and-for-all event, presupposing that once a
person is a Christian, it is impossible for Satan to afflict them, is the idea
that evil or unclean spirits cannot remain in the presence of the Lord.
That flies in the face of Job, Chapter 1, where
Satan presents himself before the Lord and God asks him if he has considered
his righteous servant, Job. It becomes
an event in which Satan repeatedly tests Job and returns to stand before God to
continue his arguments, “Yeah, but if you do this, Job will turn on you…” What Satan is playing on in this instance is
the Fear of Evil.
Consider for a moment, each and every event where
Jesus ministered deliverance. The
individuals who were under the influence and/or being afflicted by the evil
spirits did not flee from His presence.
Not one of the evil spirits fled from the individuals until they were
ordered to do so by the Lord, and in a couple of cases we have examples of them
arguing with Him over having to depart.
In each case Jesus held firm. The unclean spirits recognized His authority
over them and finally departed at His command.
But they didn’t leave until they were commanded to. There is not one single case of an evil
spirit leaving as soon as Jesus was present.
It makes a nice, religious doctrine for folks to
believe that once they have Christ in their lives, no unclean spirit can
remain, but there isn’t one shred of evidence in Scripture to support such a
doctrine. More often than not, that
doctrine is bolstered by a fear of Satan and the lying concoction that he is
almost as powerful as God. What
hogwash!
What is truth is that individuals who allow these
spirits to remain in their lives after they have accepted Jesus Christ and made
Him the Lord of their lives will suffer raging spiritual battles in their
lives. Sadly, too many Christians seem
to be unaware of the fact that He has given them the authority to deal with the
situation. They do not have to remain in
the midst of these struggles.
History is replete with the stories of some of the
most influential Christians, saints of God and profound leaders in the body of
Christ who have lived their lives with certain aspects of their character under
the torment of evil spirits.
Martin Luther, one of the most incredible leaders
of the Reformation, and a man responsible for beginning the process of leading
Christians out of the Dark Ages, was tormented by a spirit of racism. It hounded him to the day of his death, and
he never recognized that Christ had given him the authority to be free of his
hatred of the Jews.
John Bunyan, who wrote one of the all-time classics
of Christian literature, The Pilgrim’s Progress, was tormented by a spirit that
drove him to demand everything at half price.
You may laugh at that and think it is something of little consequence,
but he was never free to the day of his death.
Because of his continuous demands on people to sell him whatever he
wanted at half-price, his testimony was compromised, and people had difficulty
seeing the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ in him.
Was he a Christian at the time of his death? Certainly.
Just because folks are tormented and do battle in
certain areas of their lives with unclean and evil spirits does not in any way
alter the fact that they have committed their lives to Christ and seek to walk
with Him in a love-relationship. It
simply means they have not taken advantage of the authority available in Christ
Jesus to kick out the tormentors.
It was the prophet Hosea that prophesied, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
When the knowledge of how to be free has been
provided and folks fail to avail themselves of it, either through ignorance or
willfully because of a religious doctrine that teaches otherwise, they suffer
unnecessarily; and there are folks who go to their graves who have given their
lives to the Lord that never walk in the liberty Jesus Christ provides – in
this lifetime!
Freedom isn’t a when-we-all-get-to-heaven goal or
objective. It is a here-and-now reality
available to everyone who seizes it and takes it by force from an enemy who
seeks to cheat them. It is available to
the newborn Christian. It is available
to the seasoned Christian. It is
available to the weakest Christian. It
is available to all who will avail themselves of the power and authority Jesus
Christ provides.
No demon or evil spirit can prevent a Christian
from seizing his or her freedom and kicking it out when they appropriate the
name, the authority, the power of Jesus Christ.
By the same token, no wicked spirit will leave of his own accord just
because Jesus is there in a person’s life.
That spirit must be commanded to leave, and once gone, the person now
freed must continue to resist Satan.
There is nothing automatic about it.
This is war, folks!
Spiritual warfare! Jesus is after
a people who are overcomers. One does
not get classified “an overcomer” if he or she does not overcome the world, the
flesh and Satan, just as Jesus overcame.
We are more than able to overcome Satan!
Wow! I
didn’t mean to get preachy today. Just
got started sharing things, and the “preach” kind of took off. It isn’t my purpose to fight with folks over
doctrines. You can hold any doctrine you
want to hold – as long as that doctrine has life and reality in it. If your doctrine(s) keeps you in a place
where you lack real peace in your life, I suggest you begin to take another
look-see at where that doctrine comes from, and what Jesus actually said and
did, and what He is saying to you.
Are you afraid of Satan? Are you afraid that he won't leave when you
command him to do so? Are you afraid you
will be in worse shape if you try and he doesn't obey? Folks, this is all part of the Fear of
Evil! That fear is generated by Satan
himself. He's the one who is
afraid! He's the one who MUST bow to the
name -- the onoma -- of the Lord Jesus
Christ IN YOU!!!
In the coming weeks, I will try to share with you
some of the experiences I’ve had with folks (and they would fill many books if
I recounted them all) throughout the years who have been set free.
Jesus made a statement that puts everything in
context. “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free
indeed.” (John 8:36)
That is free “indeed!” Not free
because you think you are free; not free because your pastor says you are free;
not free because I say you are free; not free because you have a doctrine that
says you are free; but free in reality, free experientially, free indeed!
We
will continue this next week.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Another
Coffee Break:
Dealing With Fear, Part 8
October 10, 2014
Going back and reviewing what
I'd written thus far in this series, I realized that I'd left a pretty big gap
in my narrative of personal deliverance from the Fear of Man. Sorry to bounce around between the Fear of Man,
the Fear of Evil and the Fear of Death in this sharing, but it seemed
appropriate to go back and revisit the Fear of Man once more. In order to show you more of its family and
just how far that fear can reach into your life and contaminate your relationship,
let me revisit some events that unfolded in my business life -- as well as
ministry -- for the sake of illustration.
I've shared chunks of the following in various Coffee Breaks throughout
the years, so if I seem to be repeating myself, you'll understand.
In
previous Coffee Breaks, I’ve talked about heading up CBN’s activities in
Alaska, my fox-trapping adventures that started the whole thing rolling, and
opening up a couple of businesses to fund CBN-Alaska’s growth throughout
villages and remote communities throughout the state. Today, I’d like to take you on a personal
tour of how I came to grips with the fact that I was infected with the Fear of
Man, and what I had to do to overcome it.
As
I've said before, the Fear of Man is a liar.
Believe his lies, and you’re in trouble…..big trouble!
1978.
That
was some year! Back in Barrow, working
to establish headquarters for CBN-Alaska, Inc. and get the ministry of the 700
Club and Christian television programming distributed throughout the bush
communities, I took on a whole lot of things all at once.
First,
I was approached by Tommy Brower (more about him in a sec) and a couple other
elders in the Ukpeagvik Presbyterian Church.
They had just lost their pastor and the Presbyterian Missions board in
Anchorage was trying to find a replacement.
Tommy and friends asked me if I would serve in an interim capacity as
their pastor. That was a little more
than astonishing to me inasmuch as the Presbyterian pastor who had served in
Barrow when Dad came to build the Assembly of God church back in the 1950’s had
become a fierce competitor of Dad’s.
When
the incredible outpouring of Holy Spirit took place in the community in the
later ‘50’s, the Presbyterian Church lost several hundred of its members. The then-pastor stood before the congregation
and publicly swore that “the baptism of the Holy Spirit will never be preached
from this pulpit.”
The
invitation coming from Tommy Brower was no small thing, therefore. Tommy was sort of THE defacto leader of
Barrow at the time despite the fact that the community had replaced its village
elders with a city council and mayor.
His father was the famous whaler and trader, Charles Brower, who had
literally put Barrow on the map in the late 1800’s. The Brower family was kind of like Barrow’s
royal family, if you could put it that way.
Their business acumen – and Tommy’s particularly – was highly regarded,
and for a time, Tom Brower was the President and CEO of Colonial Life Insurance
Company. (I think I have that
right. It’s possible I have the name of
the insurance company incorrect.)
Tom
also owned 165 acres of downtown San Diego.
You get the picture. Tom was one
of those contradictions in appearance.
Despite his wealth and influence nationally, he ran around in his parki
(Tuniks (white folks) call them parkas [grin].)
and mukluks like everyone else.
Funny
thing, though. It was Tommy Brower who
provided Dad with the help he needed to acquire and prepare the land to build
the Assembly of God church. He sent some
of his employees, along with an old modified Dodge 4X4 Weapons Carrier (it had
tires from a WWII DC-3 airplane to provide floatation and buoyancy on the
tundra) to haul dirt and sand to provide landfill.
Although
I accepted the offer from Tom and friends to fill in at the Presbyterian
church, I made it clear to them that my intention was to eventually establish
an independent fellowship in the community, apart from the Assembly of God
church, and the Presbyterian church.
That was no problem to them and for about three or four months (I forget
how long it was) I served as their pastor.
It
was nothing less than incredible to me to find myself preaching from a pulpit
on the ministry of the Holy Spirit where a previous pastor had vowed it would
never happen. I knew the Lord was having
the final say in the matter….especially when folks began to receive the baptism
of Holy Spirit spontaneously when I was preaching and teaching.
During
those same months, Arctic Slope Audio and North Slope Communications began to
take shape. The Arctic Slope Regional
Corporation (one of 13 regional native corporations established by Congress
under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act) had hired me to run ASA
Communications and develop a service facility for the rapidly-growing need to
maintain all the televisions, stereo equipment and other electronic equipment
now populating the area.
After
a short run, ASRC’s leaders decided this was too far out of their area of
business (their principal field of endeavor was oilfield exploration,
development, and industrial construction) and chose to sell ASA Communications
to me. I shortly thereafter broke it
into two separate operations. Arctic
Slope Audio (using the ASA moniker) became a retail outlet for televisions,
high-end stereo equipment, and a service facility for consumer
electronics. North Slope Communications
took over the business communications that had been the original lifeline for
ASA Communications.
Both
businesses took off quickly and began to prosper. I took a salary for myself from the two
operations of about $36,000 and used the company profits to expand CBN’s growth
into the villages and remote communities.
We provided commercial broadcast equipment and video-taped programs to
the communities and saw it grow over a span of some seven years to serve 42
Alaskan towns, villages and hamlets. I
built several tiny TV stations in some of the communities across the arctic
slope and gave the stations outright to the communities with the caveat that
they would air Christian television programming for at least part of their
broadcast day.
1979
saw explosive growth and incredible profits.
From a community with a population base of maybe 4,000 – 5,000 people,
we did something like $1.2 Million in sales.
(That picture is somewhat distorted, however, because the largest
percentage of my customers were working on the building and maintenance of the
Alaska Pipeline.) By far the greatest
percentage of those profits were plunged into growing CBN’s ministry.
There
was a problem, however. My business
success became a sensation in the retail electronics trade. Sony Corporation honored me for becoming
their number one outlet for Sony Audio Lab (VERY expensive sound and entertainment systems) equipment in the
United States. The President of Sony
Corporation in Japan came to the U.S.
They flew me to Chicago to meet with him at the annual CES show. I was wined and dined in ways I’d never known
before. Reporters met with me from
various trade magazines, as well as TIME, and I got attention the like of which
I had never had.
WONNNNDERFULLL!!! NOT!
I
guess there’s nothing wrong with being honored and receiving awards for your
successes, but when you let those honors and awards alter your behavior, and
your responses to the Lord, you’ve just given place to the Fear of Man.
And I
did!
1980
wasn’t quite the year I had in 1979 (only [?] $800,000 in sales), but it was
enough for the honors and national write-ups to continue. And I loved it. Every moment of it. $2 Million in two years in sales at the
virtual “top of the world” was an achievement, and I was glorying in it –
falsely.
The
Fear of Man has a couple of sons. Their
names are Pride and Arrogance. And,
brother, they became part of my family.
That’s what happens when you believe your own press. Know what happens when Pride enters? Yup.
You’re getting ready for a fall.
The greater the pride, the bigger the fall!
See? It’s this way! The remarkable success in business wasn’t
because of my brilliance or great acumen; it was the blessing and prosperity of
the Lord in making provision to grow the ministry and to reach the
normally-unreachable with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When you transfer the blessing of the Lord to
yourself and take to yourself accolades that belong to Him, you’re asking for
it.
Of
course I did the perfunctory, “All the credit for my success belongs to the
Lord,” but in my heart I was reveling in my own capabilities, and seeking to
extend my public acclaim and recognition.
That’s the Fear of Man, folks!
Pure and simple.
It
came to a head in late October of 1980 or early November. Standing in my store one afternoon when
things were quiet, I heard Holy Spirit speak to me, “Close the business. Shut the doors. Sell off your remaining merchandise and don’t
reorder.”
Yikes! That just couldn’t be the Lord! After all, look what we were doing with the
profits! Look how the ministry is
growing! And I just rationalized the
whole thing away. See what the Fear of
Man does to a person?
In
myself I said, “OK. We’ll do the
Christmas Season. It’s the best time of
year for sales, and I can finish this thing up with a bang. After the Christmas Season, I’ll announce a
‘Going-out-of-Business’ sale, and THEN we’ll close the doors.”
Huhh
Uhh! Nope! That’s not what the Lord said. Think God needs your successes to fund His
operations? Balderdash! See what the Fear of Man does to a person?
Brother,
I wanted 1980 to finish out even better than 1979, and I was determined to make
it happen. We’d already done close to
$800,000, and we had even hit the holidays!
I figured we were on tract to easily beat the $1.2 Million of 1979, and
I wanted the honors I knew would come from it.
Take
it from me. No, you don’t! Not when the Lord is saying something else!
So I placed
my orders for televisions and stereo equipment: the biggest orders I’d placed
to date. Added to my existing inventory,
that ought to bring me close to $1.5 Million for the year.
Well,
folks, when you rationalize things and listen to the lies that come from the
Fear of Man, you open doors to disaster.
Before the first of those new orders had arrived in Barrow, my store was
broken into – twice – and cleaned to the four walls. The thieves really had no use for all that
equipment. Maybe they hoped to get some
money for drugs or alcohol – I don’t know – but what little they sold sure
didn’t bring them much. The police
recovered most of it from snow banks and sewage from under a house. It was not practically usable or re-saleable.
So
much for my profit goal for the year.
The
new merchandise arrived, and I started my Christmas promotions, did my standup
TV commercials – the whole thing! I was
the Cal Worthington of television and retail electronics. (You folks who live in California, the
northwest and Alaska know exactly what I’m talking about.) Cal
Worthington just passed away, incidentally.
Before
Christmas even arrived, my store was broken into again and vandalized. With what was left undamaged, I was going to
do well just to pay the bills for the equipment I’d ordered, let alone make any
kind of profit. Think I was listening to
the Lord about now?
Think
Balaam. Think stupid. Think the Fear of Man! My great reputation was at stake. My credibility was at stake. And my ears were not open to hear the
Lord. Now I was scrambling with one
last-ditch effort to salvage what was left of the holiday season.
Of
course I was pastoring Inupiat Christian Center by now – had been for quite
awhile – and I couldn’t possibly let them see my failure. Brother, how Pride gets in the way when you
are at war with the Fear of Man!
Arrogance
keeps you from admitting your failures to “your public.” You stiffen up and pretend everyone is going
along just fine, thank you very much.
Why of course we will recover from this.
God is bigger than this, anyway!
He has helped us this far, and He will continue to help us. Arrogance can really get religious when
it needs to.
You
spout all the right things, quote all the right scriptures, and smile your
plastic smile while Holy Spirit is tapping you on the skull and saying, “You
said WHAT? What was it I said to you in the first
place?”
January
of 1981 brought the new CES show in Chicago and another invitation from Sony
Corporation, along with all the public acclaim and baloney that goes with
it. Of course I went. Of course!
I needed to salve my own bruised ego.
What a farce!
I
returned home to face still a fourth robbery.
A week or ten days after getting back to Barrow, the store was cleaned
again to the four walls. And I was in
trouble financially. The merchandise I
had ordered to sell during the Christmas and holiday selling period was gone –
and not paid for.
Reality
really hurts when you’ve ignored it.
Especially when that reality is the word of the Lord. Now I decided to listen to that word I’d
heard in late October or early November.
Think late is better than never?
Think again. I still hadn’t come
to grips with the fact that I was fighting with a tangible enemy, the Fear of
Man.
The
notoriety from the four back-to-back robberies had just about killed Arctic
Slope Audio. Efforts to sell off the
remaining merchandise turned into a fire sale trying to recover enough money to
at least pay off the unpaid bills. So
much for all the accolades for my business acumen! They were pretty hollow by now.
You’ve
heard me previously discuss the persecution my family and I endured. It had been going on throughout all of this –
and actually, well before. In an effort
to separate the ministry of Inupiat Christian Center from the failures
associated with Arctic Slope Audio, I resigned and turned the ministry over to
Dave Dobbs, a brother in the Lord who had worked with me as my associate
pastor, and who had been part of the pastoral staff at Long Beach Christian
Center years before.
We
started the process of moving CBN’s operations to Fairbanks. In the meantime a longtime friend and tax
attorney in Fairbanks who had been the source of business and tax counseling
advised me to file for bankruptcy on Arctic Slope Audio. While he was counseling me, I learned that
the two men I had hired to manage North Slope Communications had fled with
$140,000 in checks from NSC’s operations I could have used to pay off the
remaining debts on Arctic Slope Audio.
They were able to cash the checks and disappear with the money.
And I
filed for bankruptcy. See what the Fear
of Man does to a person?
There
was nothing left to do but move my family to Fairbanks and at least continue
the CBN ministry. I knew I wouldn’t have
the monies from the retail business to continue our expansion, but at least we
could maintain the ongoing support to those communities already being
served. It took one more event for me to
see the extent to which I had been infected with the Fear of Man. That was the event I shared in #6 in this
series with CBN-Alaska, Inc.
By
now, you’ve been shown a whole fistful of areas in which this fear attacks and
torments us. As you can see, we are
vulnerable to it – especially when we don’t listen to the Lord and immediately
obey His instructions. Deliverance from
the Fear of Man is really just a matter of humbling oneself before the Lord,
taking the authority He gives us and kicking that spirit out, and then obeying
and paying attention ONLY to what the Lord says to us from that point forward.
True
humility and the Fear of Man are sworn enemies of each other. True humility leads one into the presence of
the Lord. It causes you to acknowledge
His leading, His provision, His blessings and any acclaim you might receive as
being due Him. The Fear of Man, on the other
hand, takes you away from the Lord. It
causes you to become disobedient to the word of the Lord. It causes you to take unto yourself accolades
more properly belonging to the Lord. It
causes you to vest your authority in your own knowledge and understanding –
especially when that knowledge is contradictory to what the Lord is speaking.
See
you again next week.
Again, if you are in
need of healing -- especially if you have some terminal disease or prognosis of
a very short time to live from the doctors -- please join our prayer conference
calls on either Monday or Wednesday of each week at 7:00 PM Eastern. Once
again, the number to call is (805) 399-1000.
Then enter the access code: 124763#.
To get into the queue for prayer, when Randy opens the call up for
everyone, hit *6-1 on your keypad. Let us minister to your need for healing!
Blessings on you!
Regner
Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
CAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
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