Thursday, December 4, 2008

[revival-fire] Echoes of Heaven prophetic conference 

******* REVIVAL FIRE!!! *******

 
 
 

 

 

 

We invite you to join us for this powerful and Spirit Filled time in the Lord.

 

We are thrilled to have Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda and Martin Scott join us for this

 

2009, NEW YEARS PROPHETIC CONFERENCE.

 

What better way to enter into this new year than spending time soaking in the 

Prophetic presence of the Lord.

 

Information on Workshops will be released soon !  

 

 

       CONFERENCE HOSTS:                                

 

 

 

 

 

  Pastors Rich & Lindy Oliver

Pastors Rich & Lindy have pastored Family Christian Center for over 18 years.

They continue to fan the flames of revival throughout the region. As an

Apostolic father and mother, they bring a visionary and encouraging message

to Northern California.

 

 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Mahesh & Bonnie Chavda

 Mahesh Chavda is the founder and Senior Pastor of All Nations Church in    

Charlotte, North Carolina. An international evangelist, Mahesh Chavda,                                                                

is being used of God to proclaim salvation and healing through Jesus Christ

to hundreds of thousands of individuals in the U.S. and abroad.                                                                                                                                            

In the past 14 years over 700,000 people have received salvation through

Mahesh's ministry. Bonnie is the Associate Pastor of All Nations Church.                                                                                                                              

She is a dynamic teacher of the Word, bringing revelation and release to                                                                                                                                

thousands through her exciting and often dramatic exposition through her intense                                                                                                                  

love of Jesus.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Martin Scott

Martin hails from England and is a prophetic voice for the nations. Through prayer

and the prophetic, God has used Martin to transform the landscape of cities and regions                                                                                                    

throughout the world. Martin brings a NOW word for our region. 

WORSHIP WITH

    SIOBHAN is the Worship Pastor at Family Christian Center, and brings a powerful,

intimate encounter with God. Traveling the nation and the world with her Celtic flavored worship, Siobhan has a deep passion to lead others into the Throne room of the Lord !

 

Conference Schedule

 

 

Thursday January 22nd

Registration Begins  -  6:00pm

Doors Open -  6:30pm

Prophetic Ministry - 6:30pm - 7:00 pm

General Session  -  7:30pm

 

 Friday January 23rd

Doors open  -  9:00am

Prophetic Ministry  -  9:00 - 9:30am

General Session  -  9:30am

 

Lunch & Leadership Round Table

12:00  -  2:00pm

 

Workshops

2:00pm  -  3:15pm   -  Session 1

3:30pm  -  4:30pm   -  Session 2

 

Dinner Break   4:30pm -  7:00pm

 

Doors Open @ 6:30pm

General Session  -  7:00pm

 

Saturday January 24th

Doors open  -  9:30am

Prophetic Ministry - 9:30am - 10:00am

General Session  -  10:00am

Workshop  -  2:00pm  -  3:15pm

 

Closing Session  -  3:30pm

 

 

 

Special Leadership Lunch & Round Table Discussion
with out speakers
 
Friday, January 23rd 12:00 pm
12:00-2:00 pm Session
with our guest speakers

 

For Pastors, Spouses and Ministry Leaders Only!
With Conference Registration:
$15 per person $25 per couple
Without Conference Registration:
$20 per person, $35 for couples:  
includes lunch

 

-Please register in advance for this lunch-
This is a time for relationship, friendship and an opportunity for personal time with the speakers
 
 
 
 
Registration is available through our website @ www.riverlife.net. or
call Family at (916) 988-6606
 
 
 Click below for a direct link.
 
 
 
Echoes Of Heaven Registration (click to register)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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[revival-fire] Princess Bride 

******* REVIVAL FIRE!!! *******
  GOd makes me happier than any person ever could.
He is My best friend.
and everything else instead.
He makes me smile for no reason at all.
And laugh tell no days end
When he crys I cry
when he is glad, so am I.
WHen their is nothing else but what you got
he is always their pulling at you
and like any father
he nags
he gives you a hard time
and you will be annoyed like matt said..
but you gotta love it.
but it is all because he loves you and wants you all to himself like a good father should
He tells you what to do
He disiplines you but he also respects you too
When you ask something from him
most of the time he has a question to ask you in return..
like..dont you see I care about your future not your past..?
He likes when you are without and are suffering
all it does is draw you closer to greatness..
and he loves it...it gives him a great opportunity to reveal himself and test your faith..
so when the time comes you will be ready for your assignments..
And when you go to sleep at night he sits beside you at your bed
He kisses your forhead and tells you a bedtime story
the story about his love for you tell you fall asleep at peace and you do.
He knows you in and out and it is amazing to know how he picks you out
Somedays you suffer from casualties and nothing but hope
but he loves it when you to...he finds his way and it is a simple ass talking to him.haha.

To love him so much to tears in a world with such chaos...he is true love..whatever you see, once you see him always everything is as beautiful as it can be.

Princess Bride
Brea McMahon
 prospective minestry student  
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[revival-fire] FW: IN GOD WE TRUST 

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It goes to NBC site already over 80% voted to not remove it, make your vote count in this liberal media

 

Blessings, Candi

 

 

 

 

Subject:  "IN GOD WE TRUST .....NBC WAS SUPRISED!!!

NBC was surprised?

Here's your chance to let the media know where the people stand on our
faith in God, as a nation. NBC is taking a poll on 'In God We Trust' to
stay on our American currency. Please send this to every Christian you
know so they can vote on this important subject. Please do it right
away, before NBC takes this off the web page.

Poll is still open so you can vote. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10103521/

This is not sent for discussion, if you agree forward it, if you don't, delete it.
By me forwarding it, you know how I feel. I'll bet this was a surprise to NBC.



 


 



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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

[revival-fire] More keys to revival,--its coming within your grasp 

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Oklahoma City . . . All Nations Fellowship

As many of you know, we have been continuing to push through in intercessory worship on Saturday nights. Our goal has been to pray for revival and the many things connected with it or preceding it. We are trusting God to give us keys of revival. When He does, we share these over a wide area through podcasts and writings. We press into God and He gives us things to share and we do that free of charge. Pretty simple. Anything we get is yours--please share it with others all you like. We are happy that people in various places have been listening to or reading the teachings. Please feel free to download or listen to the audios at www.AllNations.podomatic.com . A new audio was put up last night and another will be put up later today. Also there's a new chapter on the online "experiential" novel at www.RanLives.com .

I hope more and more churches and Christian organizations start seeking God directly about getting more understanding of what God says they need to do to bring revival to their areas and to the world beyond those areas. To sort of paraphrase Charles Finney: Use the keys, have revival.

Bless you all,
Don

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[revival-fire] ALOHA!!! THE FALANYS MINISTERING IN HAWAII ~ BEGINNING THIS WEEKEND 

******* REVIVAL FIRE!!! *******

Hawaii Crusade
 
Henry & Grace Falany
HEALING & REVIVAL SERVICES
"Loving People through The Healing Ministry of Jesus"

 

 
Fiery Revival Preaching ~ Healing ~ New Wine ~ Joy
Impartations of the Spirit ~ Personal Ministry
 
"Bring the sick and the lost .. come expecting a fresh
move of the Spirit of God in your life and body!"
 
The Lord touches and heals in every meeting!
 
Dec 6 & 7 ~ Sat & Sun ~ Kihei, Maui
Life Builders Church
Pastor Chris Mannoia
Location: 164 Kauhaa St.
Sat morning .. A special leadership brunch with local pastors and leaders ~ 9 a.m.
Revival service times:
Sat ~ 7 p.m.
Sun ~ 9 a.m.
Contact: Pastor Chris ~ 808-298-4388
Email:Mannoia: chris@lbcc.biz
 
Dec 11 & 12 ~ Thur & Fri ~ Hilo, Big Island
"In His Presence, Healing Comes Conference"
Meetings hosted by
The Prayer Center and Healing Rooms of East Hawaii
Pastors Kevin & Kim Hill
of River of Glory Church in Nanawale
Service Location: 180 Kinoole St. #301 ~ Hilo
Service times: 7 p.m.
Contact:Pastors Kevin and Kimi Hill in Nanawale (808) 965-8030
 
Dec 13 & 14 ~ Sat & Sun ~ Kailua Kona, Big Island
Kona Life Church
Pastor Damien Wong
Service times: Sat 7 p.m. ~ Sun 9:30 a.m.
Note: services may extend to Mon the 15th .. to be anounced later
 
Location: We are nestled right in the middle of Historic Kailua
Kona town. Our services are held upstairs in Torchy's Restaurant,
overlooking the world famous Kailua Bay.
Contact: Pastor Wong at: Phone: 808-326-7000
 
Dec 14 ~ Sun p.m. ~ Naalehu, Big Island
Naalehu Assembly of God
Pastor Kevin Brown
Location: 95-5678 Mamalahoa Hwy, Naalehu
(On the Mountain side of the Hwy 11 at the 64 mile marker)
Service time: 6:30 p.m.
Contact: Phone (808) 929-7278    
 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
HENRY & GRACE FALANY BIO
Henry & Grace Falany founded Mariposa Revival Center in 1989.  The church is
located in the county of Mariposa, California.  Mariposa is a mountain community
on the Mother Lode of the historic 1849 California Gold Rush.  It is also the home
of Yosemite National Park. 

 

Since its inception the Falanys have guided the church to focus on preaching the

uncompromised Word of God, ushering in the "presence of the Lord" through

worship, restoring the Tabernacle of David through uncommon prayer endeavors,

an extensive and expanded Feed the Poor program, and restoring the healing and

deliverance ministry of Jesus to the body of Christ and the world.  They have also

been used by God to spark revivals, or spontaneous uncommon moves of the Holy

Spirit in numerous churches besides their own.  In one such move as many as 20

regional churches came into unity and were swept into the move. 

See "Feast of Fire Revival" and "What Leaders Say"

at:  http://www.MariposaRevivalCenter.com

With revival shut up in their bones, the Falanys are also itinerate church and

conference speakers around the country and internationally.  Called a mom & pop in

the Kingdom, they minister to leaders as well.  Pastor Henry has often been called a 

pastor to pastors. 

 

Henry & Grace travel and minister with an Apostolic anointing and experience many

healings and miracles in their meetings. To help spiritual revelations come alive,

Pastor Henry's preaching is often salted with a lot of country humor and interesting 

illustrations by using stories of his many life experiences in the great outdoors, and

southern swamp and bayou up-bringing.

 

Grace, as well as preaching, moves in a strong seers, deliverance and healing

anointing.  Henry's ministry usually features fiery prophetic messages to the church,

as well as an uncommon healing anointing.  It has also been said that he has a unique

"convincing" gift that affirms the people with a "You and God can do it" spirit.  It has

been said that God uses him to take the people to the next level in their personal

ministry and walk with the Lord.

 

The Falanys also teach and train healing classes in churches around the world.

 

Henry was inducted into "Who's Who in California" in 1984.

 

They have three adopted children, (Bernadette; born in 83 is Salvadoran and married to

Trent ~ Travis; born in 84 is Mexican, and Maria; born in 85 is Dutch-English) who all love

the Lord, plus one (so far) beautiful granddaughter .. Bernadette and Trent's. 

 

P.S.

Prior to pioneering the ministry, for 25 years, as world renown outfitters and guides, the Falanys

pioneered and conducted White Water River Expeditions, Inc.  Under their direction WWRE became

one of the world's largest river running companies taking people from all over the world on several

days to week long white water rafting and camping trips on the Salmon & Middle fork of the Salmon

River (River of No Return) in Idaho and the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon and all the major

rivers of the western United Sates.  They also conducted deluxe island camping and scuba

diving/sport fishing expeditions in remote areas of the Caribbean off the coast of Belize, Central

America. 

 

In addition, they owned a horse breeding ranch and showed and campaigned several "working cow

horses" and "cutting horses" to state, national, and world champions. 

 

Now, as pastors and international preachers they take occasional breaks with horses and mules and

pack train into the High Sierras to "ride the high country," camp, fish and enjoy God's handiwork.

 
 
www.MariposaRevivalCenter.com
"Revival is here, and Revival is coming !"
 
Our Mission Statement is:
Luke 4:18 & 19 & Matthew 10:7 & 8

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[revival-fire] MARIPOSA .. 2008 New Years Eve Dinner/Party 

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Mariposa Revival Center

Mariposa, Ca.

 

Announcing

2008 New Years Eve Dinner/Party

Everyone is welcome!

There is no charge or fee

 

 

We will ..

.. fellowship over good food, worship, enjoy a short "Word" of

encouragement for the great things ahead.

 

We will ..

.. finish the year and approach the coming year with "communion."

 

We will ..

..  have a time of entertainment from the people.

Have a song, dance, joke, story? …  bring it along, ham it up and

have some fun.

 

The Dinner will be Pot-luck .. lots of good home cookin'

 

Date: December 31

Time: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Location: The Best Western Conference room ~  Downtown Mariposa

Please RSVP by Dec 26!!

 

To RSVP or to bring a dish please contact:

Mirabai Breemer at (209) 966-6801 or email:  Memoemir@sti.net

 

To participate in the entertainment contact:

Barbara Wehmen at (209) 966-7167 or email at:  barbw34@sti.net

 
 
www.MariposaRevivalCenter.com
"Revival is here, and Revival is coming !"
 
Our Mission Statement is:
Luke 4:18 & 19 & Matthew 10:7 & 8

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[revival-fire] Wales in the USA 

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Hi all!

 

May you all have the best of Holy Days season! Be blessed beyond measure and above level!

 

We are considering an early ministry trip to the USA West Coast this year. Usually we start our traveling "season" in the spring and on, but we are feeling we need to keep moving on and pressing up because God is showing up in a sort of sudden way (as He has always said He would, actually!) and we do not want to miss any opportunity to share what He has done and what He says is about to do; things are quite precipitating and full scale revival is not just a possibility but a "round the corner" reality!

 

We are considering the last week in February into the first week in March for our trip and due to unpredictable weather elsewhere we will be focusing mainly in CA. Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in scheduling us for some meetings or seminars.

 

Moving toward a move of God

JC

 

 

Rev. J. Conrad Lampan

Revival Highway

Newport  - Wales

United Kingdom

Email: connect@revivalhighway.net

Alt Email: revivalhighway@sky.com

Phone: + 44 (0) 163 385 4409

Text: + 44 (0) 750 114 7598

 

 


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[revival-fire] Venue Change For This Weeks Chico Outpouring Meeting with Rob Sanchez 

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Important Announcement:

    
    There has been a venue change for the December 7th Chico Outpouring with Rob and Juanita Sanchez. We are excited to announce that this month’s meeting will be held this Sunday evening at the Almond Blossom Fellowship’s facility. Senior Leader’s Robin and Tina Henson who are being used significantly to host the move of the Holy Spirit in Chico have opened their facility to us.

    This will be a great opportunity to receive impartation from some highly respected ministers. Over the course of our ministry Rob has consistently given some of the most accurate and meaningful words that we have ever received. I know you will be encouraged and strengthened.


The Details:

Date:       Sunday December 7th
Time:       6pm
Location: The Almond Bossom Fellowship
               2540 Zanella Way Suite 20
               Chico, CA
Phone:    530-933-6825
Emall:     david@lcchico.com
Website:  www.lcchico.com

    See You There!!!

 
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Monday, December 1, 2008

[revival-fire] Dream Interpratation Outpouring Newspaper Article 

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This past weekend's Dream Interpretation Outpouring was really incredible.  Doug Addison is a truly gifted and humorous speaker who really knows how to communicate dream interpretation.  We learned a lot and had a great time.  Friday night we had coins falling out of thin air all over the worship area.  We ended the final night with a time of being completely overcome by God's Spirit.  The Sparks Tribune sent a reporter over who interviewed Doug and I and filed the following report which appeared in today's paper.

http://www.dailysparkstribune.com/pages/full_story?page_label=news&id=729063-Dream-interpreter-helps-people-realize-their-potential&article-Dream-interpreter-helps-people-realize-their-potential%20=&widget=push&instance=news_special%20_coverage_right_column&open=&

Pastor Eric Moen

pastoreric@rrcf.net

www.rrcf.net

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[revival-fire] Divine Appointments and Kairos Moments 

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God has been moving in such an awesome way at Destiny Faith Center in Antelope.  My husband and I are the Pastors of Destiny and  we are partners of the River Fellowship of Ministries as well. I have just got to testify about the glory and anointing of the Lord and what He has done.  Words cannot describe what He has done and is doing. PLUS it has only increased in the last few months.  Our meetings have gone to such a deep level that there is such anticipation for the next meeting. 
 
Dan and I planned to go to Bethel in Redding for the leadership conference the first week of November.  However, on Friday morning, October 31 at a Lake Tahoe cabin I fell down 15 stairs and hit a wood wall. So Satan just thought he was going to set us back.....BUT GOD!!!  Just the night before we had a blow out anointing meeting and we went to pray over a building and property that God has led us to for several years. All of us had mustard seed in our hands and after praying we threw it in the air and onto the ground.  We know that God is going to give us this property. After the meeting we drove up to Lake Tahoe to spend a couple of nights with our son, wife and new grand baby girl.
 
Somehow with help I got to the car and we drove to Truckee. At the hospital in Truckee xrays and a cat scan revealed that I had a 20% compression fracture to my T12 in my spine and a 5 mm instrusion movement toward the spinal cord.  I was taken by ambulance on a back board from the hospital in Truckee to Sutter Roseville in Roseville, CA.  I explain this only to show how God protected me.  I was at Sutter Roseville Trauma ICU for 5 days and got a body brace that I will have to wear at all times when out of bed until February. The doctors told me that I was lucky and fortunate.  I said NO, I am blessed and favored. Can anyone say PRAISE THE LORD???!!! They told me that most fractures to the T12 the people are paralyzed or even worse, they don't make it at all.  Praise the LORD!!
 
It took 5 days for the doctor to determine I would not need spinal surgery because the body brace was holding my spine in place. I was transferred me to acute rehab in Auburn.  There I began to have DIVINE appointments that God would send to my room and people would open up their hearts to me and God would give me the words to say to them..  I was totally dependent on the medical staff, was in severe pain constantly and couldn't do one thing without help or in pain.  Yet these people were asking me for help- spiritual help to life's problems. 
 
The Word says to be ready in season and out but I will even add to that - even be ready in what we think is the wrong season.  What we think is so totally a season that God could not use us He will on greater ways that we can imagine.  He showed me that the horrific pain I was experiencing did not compare to the pain and suffering Jesus did for us at the cross.  And He would have done it for just one person but He did it for all.  More than that, I'm going through this WITH God by my side and Jesus had separation from God.  He showed me that if going through my ordeal would change one person's life - it was all worth it.  I had nurses and nurse aides and many others on staff and those not on staff come to my room just to talk to me about God and ask questions.  I have always said that every moment is a divine appointment but most of them we pass by. God has alerted my spirit to divine KAIROS moments and appointments.  The Lord was leading people to my room.  What I learned later the hospital staff even labeled my medical file right on the top that my husband and I are pastors of Destiny Faith Center.  Praise the Lord!! 
 
I had one experience at midnight when a nurse opened her heart to me and I spoke into her life, I reached out my hand to her's and prayed for her.  I called my husband that night and began to tell him what God was revealing to me and how I realized I was there for such a time as this to be a minister to people that need a touch or word from God.  I decided to lean into where God had me.  All the while knowing that - By His stripes I was healed at the cross (and so I am healed NOW) and that He wouldn't give me any more than I could handle.   From that experience I began to thank the Lord every time I had pain and proclaimed "By His stripes I was healed".   I would pray and thank the Lord for all He is doing and for divine appointments and that my light would shine and draw people to it.  Within minutes I would have another person come into my room for ministry.  I can't help but share about the Lord.  Since then every time I reach out to touch someone's hand there is an impartation that takes place.
 
This is 4th year for our Christmas Toy and Food Drive.  We put about 85,000 lights on our house and we are Santa and Mrs. Claus in front of our house and at many stores we partner with.  People were asking us if we were going to cancel it for this year because of my injury.  From my hospital bed I said "NO WAY!!! It's full steam ahead"  What Satan tries to do for evil God is going to use it for good.  The word there is "tries" which means Satan does not accomplish that, he only tries to deceive us into thinking he does.  There's too many people that need our help and depending on us.  So maybe there won't be Mrs. Claus this year but even the doctors said I might could do it by mid-December with the body brace on under my outfit.  WHOA! So we will see.
 
If you are a church that would like to participate in helping with our toy and food drive for needy families, please let us know because we could really use the help with  toy or food donations. Go to our Christmas website to find out what we do - www.christmastyme.com  But that is not the purpose of this testimony - the purpose is to shout how great our Lord is. The revelation of what Jesus did at the cross is much greater than where we live in our walk.  I pray that the revelation of the cross be revealed to every person and even to all of us mature Christians that we would have a deeper revelation of the Lord.
 
It's not about me and It's not about you but it's all about the Lord and what He wants to do in and through us for His Glory!!
 
Pastor Mary Gromer
Destiny Faith Center
4025
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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[revival-fire] TUE BMF LUNCHEON SPEAKER 

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TUESDAY LUNCHEON DECEMBER 2nd
 
" ALAN GARREN " 
 
AT THE NEW DOWNTOWN BUFFET 1801 'H' STREET,  MODESTO, CA
ACROSS FROM SAVE MART
 
   
  
                                                                              MODESTO CHAPTER OF BMF USA
 
 
Luncheon  Meeting "Tuesday" December 2nd with Alan Garren
Those who were fortunate enough to be with us the last time Alan was with us know what a powerful meeting we had.  Alan walks in a very powerful prophetic ministry and carries a strong healing anointing.  Alan is Founder and President of Five Star Custom Builders, Inc. and Senior Project Manager / Senior Estimator. He is also an ordained Minister and Instrumentalist of Upon This Rock International Ministries with Rev. Irma Diaz.
 
Bring a friend, especially anyone who needs to know Jesus as Lord and Savior and Healer.
 
We look forward to seeing you this coming Tuesday December 2nd for lunch at 12 noon at the Downtown Buffet.  When you arrive, please help yourself to the buffet and go directly to the reserved banquet room made ready for our meeting. 
 
As always, ladies are welcome.
 
Those desiring personal ministry  are invited to remain following the testimony.
 
A voluntary offering will be received.
 
 
For more information contact:
Kim Murray    523-3329
George Espinoza 345-5621 
 

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Sunday, November 30, 2008

[revival-fire] E-mail address 

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Hello:  
Could you please begin using my mac address: revbolin@mac.com instead or revbolin1@cs.com? I am switching my Internet provider. Thank you.
Pastor Bill
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[revival-fire] What happened in last Saturday night's meeting 

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Hi from Oklahoma City:

Last Saturday something great happened in our Saturday night intercessory/revelational meeting. Let me explain. For over 9 years we have come together on Saturdays nights (over time, altogether, people from lots of local churches here and out of town) to worship in an intercessory way. Lots of great things have happened. Lately it's been clear that as we worship, the Lord sort of releases teachings that he wants us to know and spread around to the body. It's sort of like we move into an area through worship and get a direction to go in the teaching (simplified explanation). Then there is a time of teaching, as the Lord helps bring things out of the Word. Some of these teachings have gone out through media to lots of places.

Anyway, last Saturday (before Thanksgiving) it was as if we ran into a strong vein of gold. We send these teachings out through podcasts, etc., but this time I thought I should write it out in the form of a teaching and share it with people in that form. It took a good while to do this. It seemed as if I had to fight through a lot to get it down. But here it is. Let me know what you think. It's about how Abraham shows us something about God's personality and ways that we really, really need to know. Here goes . . . . .


 
How Abraham Shows Us Something
that Can Change Everything

And he said, "Lord GOD, how can I know that I will inherit it?"
Genesis 15:8b

What is it about Abraham? What is the big deal? Well, he gave us a great gift. His life showed us something about God's personality and about God's ways that we desperately need to know. Some need to know it to get through the next week.

God's personality? God's ways? Don't we have to learn those things in the New Testament since Jesus revealed the Father to us there? Yes and no. Yes, Jesus, God the Son, revealed the Father to us. We now have a perfect image of God to look at, as shocking as this is when we really think about it.

We have been told the basics of what God is like now. He is like Jesus, which is not necessarily as we have been told.. We may have just begun to grasp this, for it opens up the truth that God the Father is greatly different than the way many have portrayed him. And we c an come to know the Father better and better and understand him more and more through interaction with the Holy Spirit in prayer and through prayerful study of the words of God in the New Testament. But not only the New Testament. If we will stay connected to the New Testament and look at the Old Testament through Jesus, God the Son, keeping in mind that the Father's personality is exactly like his, we can learn more about God and His ways. And that is where Abraham comes in.

Over and over in the New Testament, its God-breathed words mention Abraham. Is God trying to tell us something? Yes. Lot's of things. One thing we need to understand that Abraham is very "New Testament" in his faith, in his understanding of God and God's ways. He is the father of faith. Abraham's life is a life we need to study in order to know God better and know how he does things. Here, we will basically deal only with one area of Abraham's understanding of God, but it is an amazingly powerful one. Abraham has a gift for us.

If we like, we can imagine God to be just as we have been told he is or how we have feared he might be. Or we can find out what he is really like by actually getting to know him—through speaking with him and by=2 0looking into the Word. Well, when it comes to the looking into the Word element of it, as I said before, Abraham can show us something we really need to know about God. Really need to know.

In Genesis 12, God speaks to Abraham (known then as Abram) telling him to go to a land that he would show him. God tells him that he will bless him greatly giving him many descendants who will become a great nation. Yet, he does not have even one child. And he is old. Still, Abraham believes God and leaves for the new land. He goes to the promised place, and after some problems and moving around (Egypt), he settles down in the land (Chapter 13). Over this time Abraham is blessed greatly with all sorts of riches. But he still doesn't have a descendant.

Then God expands on the promises he has given Abraham. He tells him to look north, south, east, and west, telling him he will give all this land to him and his descendants. And God tells Abraham that his descendants will be numerous—as difficult to count as the dust of the earth.

Abraham has the promises. He knows God is trustworthy. Yet, there is still something else going o n. There is still something he wants. And in the story about that something is a great revelation for us. For some of us, it will answer to many questions. For others, it may get us closer to God than we ever had been.

Now we move forward to the next time God gives promises to Abraham, Genesis 15, a narrative packed as tight with spiritual gold as any chapter in the Old Testament. God speaks to Abraham, telling him that he, the Lord, was his shield, his very great reward. This surely is a good thing. But what was Abraham's response? He continues to "push" the Lord, so to speak. He is not satisfied. After all the promises and the beginnings of the fulfillment of them—the land, the blessing of riches—Abraham wants something else, and it is not only the child he wants, which he is about to mention again. It is something that will bring the child.

Abraham is learning to know God, to know what he is like. He surely sees that God is a person who likes to promise things and then fulfill those promises. And there are conditions to these promises. For instance, God tells him to go to a land that he will show him and that he will bless him there. The blessing comes with the going. These in teractions are deals, really. Agreements between two parties. God likes agreements.

At any rate, after God's promise about being Abraham's shield and great reward, he presses God. He asks this: "What will you give me since I am childless and the steward of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?" He tells God that this man is now his heir, that is, since he has no child to whom he and Sarah can pass what they own. God answers. He says that this man will not be his heir. His heir will be a child coming from him.

Then the Lord takes Abraham outside. He tells him to look to the sky and tells him to count the stars if he can. His descendants will be innumerable like that, God tells him. The Word then tells us that Abraham "believed in the LORD, and he counted it to him for righteousness" (15:6). An amazing world-changing statement. This is anything but an exaggeration.

Abraham's faith, which enabled him to believe in God and of course in what God said, opened the way for God to give him what he=2 0had not earned by doing things or not doing things—goodness, righteousness. Abraham gave God faith. God gave him righteousness. It was an exchange, and one of huge proportions, a transaction at the heart of what God does for us in the New Covenant. The Lord goes on, telling Abraham, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land" (15:7).

So here we have it. The Lord comes to Abraham yet again. He enriches the promise about descendants he gave him before, and we read that Abraham believes him and it is counted to him as righteousness. He believes in God. As it is said of Sarah his wife in Hebrews 11, Abraham also obviously believes that he who had promised was faithful, faithful to do what he said he would do. Yet . . . Yet . . . Abraham pushes God again. Didn't he already have what he needed? He had the promise of a child. And he believed the promise. Why would he keep pressing God for something more? What was the something more? It is something that is connected to his personality, his ways, something that millions of Christians live and die without comprehending very well, and this has sadly brought them dreary, dark lives instead of dynamic miraculous lives. This something else could change their lives forever if they could clearly understand it.

After the Almighty God comes to Abraham, a man; after God confirms his promise of an heir coming from his own body; after Abraham believes God; after all this, Abraham asks for more. There is a reason. As we saw above, God tells Abraham that he brought him out of Ur to give him the land where he now was. Abraham believes God about the coming child and the descendants after him, so obviously they will need a place to live. He doesn't want his heirs to be drifters without land.

But why doesn't Abraham just take the promise of that land and be happy with that? Why does he keep pressing God, even after the promise of descendants and of a place for them to settle and prosper? After all, he believes the Lord was true to his word. The reason Abraham keeps pushing is that Abraham was dealing with God the way God wanted to be dealt with. God asks us to ask him for what we need. He draws us to ask him. He wants to show himself faithful to his words. He wants to show his personality to us. He wants us to know him, and he wants to know us. He wants us to deal with him according to his ways, according to=2 0the way he really is. Abraham is about to do this. So in response to God's promise that Abraham will inherit the land, Abraham says, "Lord GOD, how can I know that I will inherit it?" (15:8) What is he doing? What is he asking for?

What is Abraham asking for? As we see in the following verses, he is asking for a covenant, a covenant with the Almighty God himself. And, really, it is not just a covenant about the land. It is one that encompasses all that Abraham wanted including an heir. As we will see, the promise of an heir for Abraham is in the very fabric of the covenant. Abraham is about to get the thing he wants—a covenant. He wants to seal his dealings with God with a blood covenant. And God is quite ready to make a covenant with him. He could have asked for this before, but maybe he didn't feel ready somehow. But now he has been granted righteousness because of his faith. He can stand righteous before God. He can ask for anything. And he does.

The Scripture spells it out the making of the covenant very clearly:
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8: And he said, "Lord GOD, how can I know that I will inherit it?"
9: And he said to him, "Take me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
10: And he took to him all these and cut them in two down the middle and laid each piece one against another, but the birds he did not divide.
11: And when the birds came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
12: And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and, behold, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
13: And he said to Abram, "Know of a surety that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs and will be servants in that place, and they will afflict them four hundred years.
14: And also that nation, whom they will serve, I will judge, and afterward they will come out20with great substance.
15: And you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.
16: But in the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."
17: And it came to pass that when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a fiery torch passed between those pieces.
18: In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
19: [The land of] the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
20: And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
21: And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

God says he will do these things of an absolute certainty (for a surety). That is the essence of a covenant—total certainty. Here God Almighty makes a covenant with20a human. With the firebrand passing between the pieces of the animals, something is being communicated that was understood in the ancient world but is not today to much of a degree. In making such a covenant, the person making it was saying, "If I do not keep this covenant, may I be as these animals—my blood shed, my body destroyed"(see Guthrie, p.95). This was the strength of the covenant oath. An amazing thought, that God would make such a covenant, standing behind the promise of it with his very own life. It is difficult to imagine, but this is what it meant when one made this sort of agreement. Abraham had the strongest covenant in the world at that time, though a stronger one was coming, one made with the shedding of the blood of the Son of God.

Now Abraham has a covenant with the Almighty God, one that assumes without question that he will have descendants. It promises that those descendants—who will surely come—will have a place to live. Abraham has what he wants. He has everything. He sees that God is a God who promises things and keep his promises. He is a God who wants to make covenants. He does not do it grudgingly. He wants to do it. Look at the Bible. It contains the record of God dealing with his children through covenants and agreements. The main covenants are the ones with Noah, with the children of Israel at Sinai, and with us, the New Covenant in the blood of Jesus. And these covenants are sure covenants. They are utterly trustworthy—for the One who offered and made them with us is utterly trustworthy.

Yes, we live under the last of those three. The greatest one of all time. It is made in the blood of Jesus, God the Son. It is powerful beyond any measurement. And in it we are made righteous by faith, a very vital thing. 2 Corinthians 5:21 sets out this covenant reality: "For he has made him, who knew no sin, to be made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." We have perfect right standing before God Almighty because of this covenant made with God through the blood of Jesus. We can stand before the Father without a sense that we don't belong there. We have confidence far beyond any earthly confidence that God will fulfill the terms of that covenant. He will answer our prayers. He will take away our sicknesses. He will help us through life day by day. Our lives will be miraculous lives. We will have God's life forever.

It is good to know these things. It is better to know them and to live in them, trusting in our covenant, in God made it with us. The truth is this: God wanted to make this covenant with us. This desire to help us is part of him. We need to come to an understanding of his personality in relation to how he works with his children. This is what Abraham helps us see. The Father is not fighting us off. He is wanting us to come to him and talk. He wants us to ask him to take care of our needs. What amazed Jesus about people when he was on earth? Was it our impertinence in asking God for things? No, it was our unbelief. He asked us to ask him for things. "Ask and you will receive." "Whatever you desire when you pray, believe you receive it and you will have it."

We need to understand this about God: He liked Abraham's audacity in asking him for a covenant. This is the Heavenly Father that Jesus presented to us when he was on earth. He told us that if an earthly father wanted to take care of his children, how much more our Heavenly Father. Jesus said, "If you, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?" (Luke 11:13) Abraham's life shows us that God is a God who makes totally sure covenants. He loves to do this. And he has made one with us. He wants us to take hold of its promises. If we do not, we are n ot doing things God's way.

We are always thinking that going against God's ways only has to do with things we perceive as negative. But we can go contrary to his ways by not dealing with him as he loves to be dealt with. He wants you to come to know him more and more deeply. He wants to deal with you as a Father, as a dad (Abba), a very good one. He wants to deal with you as a dear child. He wants you to come to him and claim your covenant promises. He really does. This is the way he is. Life is all about relationship with God and with one another. It is getting to know the Father, understanding his personality better and better, getting to know his ways. Jesus said, "And this is eternal life that they might know you the one true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent" (John 17:3).

Abraham gave us a great gift. He helped us see something about God we very much need to understand. Abraham had God's promise of a child and of a land for his descendants, but he wanted more. He sensed he should go deeper, he should press on, on to a covenant relationship with God. He realized that prayer was communion and relationship with God. He realized that part of that relationship had to do with going after the promises of the Almighty God in the most extreme way possible, a blood covenant. His life was an amazing gift to us. We have a covenant and God has asked us to keep pressing: "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; and the one who seeks will find; and to the one who knocks, it will be opened" (Matthew 7:7-8).

This is an unspeakably great thing we have entered into. But we must do much more than just acknowledge it and passively accept what we have seen here. We shouldn't just say, "This was an interesting Bible study. No, the key is living a much more powerful life is going on to make these things a part of our lives. We can communicate with God about them. He will show us things as we seek to get more revelation through meditating upon the Scriptures in the Holy Spirit. By doing these things, we can get this truth about what God is like, about how he does things, deep into our spirits. And we can actually live in the covenant we have with God.

Reference: Guthrie, D., Motyer, J.A., Eds. "Genesis" by Meredith G. Kline in The New Bible Commentary, Third Edition. Chicago: Eerdmans. 1970.

Bless you all,
Don


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