Today I woke up with these scriptures in Joe 2:25 "So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you. 26 You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, And praise the name of the LORD your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; And My people shall never be put to shame. 27 Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the LORD your God And there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame. The word restore mean s to give you back what was stolen or lost from you. And thank God for that, for in my case it was a very good life But most people think it means more than you had before. Jesus restore back what was lost in the garden with Adam and Eve. Mt 17:11 Jesus answered and said to them, "Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things. That was our salvation and commutation with God again through the cross. Plus He redeem us from the curse of law of sickness and poverty.
But going from Glory to Glory is quite a difference thing. The Lord will restore you. But why be content for just that, even though that feels pretty good. But while you were on the ash pile, was it not there that you realized you missed the mark in your expectancy of His promises? I certainly did. I realized I had settle for less than God had promised, I had short changed myself. therefore it was not too hard for the thief to pull the rug from under me. We must take our place in His kingdom where it will be more difficult for the enemy to tumble us out of our place.
I remember once when I was in Asia ministering that the people put me in a place where the enemy would have to go through three sets of groups of people before anyone could reach me. Believe me it was hotter in that room where I was staying, but safer. To destroy me they would have to destroy all those other before they could have reached me. What I am saying is Isa 54:2 "Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, And strengthen your stakes. We have too much at stake to be in a place where the enemy can use a few people to destroy what God has given unto you. 1Ch 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted him what he requested. I pray this prayer too enlarge my territory so that evil cannot reach me and cause me pain. Yes there will be battles, but battles with God help you will always overcome.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Blessings for such a time as this
At 5:30 this morning the scripture came to me of, Esther 4:13 And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: "Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king's palace any more than all the other Jews. 14 "For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"
Esther did not want to rock the boat in her chosen life. Life was good, better than it had ever been. She was afraid to ask the king for anything unless he called for her. She didn't want to risk her life. who would? Yet Mordecai knew how desperate his position was as well as all the other Jews were. He loved Esther and he didn't want to put her life at risk, but there had to be someone to help them. She only was close enough to the king to stop the destroying of the Jews. She reluctantly obey and saved Mordecai and the Jews lives as well as her own life. Her life was saved by her mercy to Mordecai.
Thirty years ago our old church in Cushing, OK. hit hard times during the oil fall. I went to one of my millionaire friends who had made that year eleven million in oil. I asked for help. Her husband had instructed her not to help us, but secretly she did anyway. A few years later her husband lost everything overnight, because he hired a lawyer that was a thief. She called me to her home to asked if I thought she would lose their beautiful home. I started to tell her yes, because her husband would not acknowledge God in his tithes. But the Lord stop me and said that she had been like Abigail was with King David before he ever became king. The Lord reminded me of her gift that had been given secretly to our church. I spoke into her life that she would not loose her home, because she had bound mercy around her neck in our time of need. And she lived in that home until they moved to California.
Healing Ministries Bible College like Mordecai, is fighting for survival. I humbled myself and asked for help on Facebook to those who knew the Rathbuns and Healing Ministries Bible College. To my amazement none, but three women who had very little to give were the ones that heard my cry.
I know my God will bring us victory from another avenue, because HE is faithful. But remember when you think you are so secure that you can put your hands over your ears when one cries, remember this Proverbs 21: 13 ¶ Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor Will also cry himself and not be heard.
Esther did not want to rock the boat in her chosen life. Life was good, better than it had ever been. She was afraid to ask the king for anything unless he called for her. She didn't want to risk her life. who would? Yet Mordecai knew how desperate his position was as well as all the other Jews were. He loved Esther and he didn't want to put her life at risk, but there had to be someone to help them. She only was close enough to the king to stop the destroying of the Jews. She reluctantly obey and saved Mordecai and the Jews lives as well as her own life. Her life was saved by her mercy to Mordecai.
Thirty years ago our old church in Cushing, OK. hit hard times during the oil fall. I went to one of my millionaire friends who had made that year eleven million in oil. I asked for help. Her husband had instructed her not to help us, but secretly she did anyway. A few years later her husband lost everything overnight, because he hired a lawyer that was a thief. She called me to her home to asked if I thought she would lose their beautiful home. I started to tell her yes, because her husband would not acknowledge God in his tithes. But the Lord stop me and said that she had been like Abigail was with King David before he ever became king. The Lord reminded me of her gift that had been given secretly to our church. I spoke into her life that she would not loose her home, because she had bound mercy around her neck in our time of need. And she lived in that home until they moved to California.
Healing Ministries Bible College like Mordecai, is fighting for survival. I humbled myself and asked for help on Facebook to those who knew the Rathbuns and Healing Ministries Bible College. To my amazement none, but three women who had very little to give were the ones that heard my cry.
I know my God will bring us victory from another avenue, because HE is faithful. But remember when you think you are so secure that you can put your hands over your ears when one cries, remember this Proverbs 21: 13 ¶ Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor Will also cry himself and not be heard.
Monday, November 21, 2011
There is a lot of SHAKING GOING ON
The Lord spoke to me Friday as I was riding in my car about all the shaking going on from the earthquakes on the earth. Hebrews 12: 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven." 27 Now this, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.” The earth is being shaken because of their sins and judgment has come, but the heavens are being shaken also, which is the Church that is sitting in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. The reason is because God is squeezing and pressing us to come out of our little inhabitation and stretch ourselves to be what Romans 8:18 says, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.” The shaking going on is proof that this is the Day of Lord where the Church will be also glorified together with Christ. We are the light of the WORLD and the city that sits on a hill Stand up and allow God to be in you what you were created to be for this day
Friday, November 18, 2011
Courses offered in Jan. 2012
Earn Your MASTER OF DIVINITY at
HEALING MINISTRY BIBLE COLLEGE!
For information call
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Each Course is worth three credits
Three classes on-line are;
Church History
Kingdom of God Eschatology
God and Creation
Classes on campus will be Tuesday & Thursday 6:00 P.M.
For more information e-mail to
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HEALING MINISTRY BIBLE COLLEGE!
For information call
405-485-4294
Each Course is worth three credits
Three classes on-line are;
Church History
Kingdom of God Eschatology
God and Creation
Classes on campus will be Tuesday & Thursday 6:00 P.M.
For more information e-mail to
josharath@pldi.net
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Application for HEALING MINISTRIES BIBLE COLLEGE
HEALING MINISTRIES BIBLE COLLEGE & SEMINARY
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Resource Fee $ 4. Per hour (campus only) 5th week 20<}-o
Book costs vary per course, you may call (: an admissions counselor or our business office for exact cost of' books. One Percent (1.0%) IS charged monthly on the unpaid balance. $20.~ penalty is added monthly to accounts failing to make monthly payments as agreed. Foreign students must prepay shipping and handling charges.
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APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION AND ENROLLMENT
P.O. Box 617 Blanchard, OK 73010
Phone: (405)485-4294 Fax: (405)485-4294
E-Mail: josharath@ pld.net
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Please complete all information requested to help us prepare State, Federal, and College reports about all students. Enroll today by
including courses selected and payments as outlined on back under Financial Agreement_
Date of Application: .... _. . . Social Security # ---------.-------------- .. -- ..
Group that best describes you? Am. Indian __ Hispanic __ Asian pacific_- Black ... _ White Other . _
(or Alaskan Native) (rum-black) (Islander) (non-Hispanic)
Church Preference _." .. _ .. _ . . __ ._ _ ._ .. _ . . -._-.- -_.- - - - -- .. - .... -------.-- .. -.-.---.-.---
(Name o/Church) (Address) (City) (State) (Zip) (Denomination)
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High school graduate: Yes __._._ No will graduate (Date) (OED) . Other Equivalency _
(NOTE: Official High School! Transcripts, (GED Scores, Equivalent verification, or pass an evaluation test is required for admission)
Do you qualify for Veterans Assistance'( List other tuition benefit programs you have __. . . __ . . _
Have you attended Healing Ministries Bible College & Seminary before? Yes No._. _ When?
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Have you.: attended any Colleges, Technical Institutions, or Universities? Yes __ No __ this is my first time college enrollment
(NOTE: transferring credits, you are required to request colleges attended to send official transcripts directly toHMBC. No official evaluation a transcripts will be rnade from copies. No transfer of credits will be made without an official/transcript VA an Financial Aid require all official college transcripts to be an student files)
List colleges and universities attended (You can used a separate sheet of paper if necessary)
_____ . . . __ ._ .. _. __ ._._. . __._ Degree earned ... hours earned . _
__________ .. _. . __ . ._. ._.___________ Degree Earned ... __... . __ ... hours earned _
______________________ . __ . ... __ Degree Earned
__________________hours earned_. . _
_______ ~ . __ .____________ Degree Earned . . _
. One·-week mini-sessions are arranged several times during the year to enable distance learning student. to have the experience of sitting under HMBC professors and being classified as a campus student.
PROGRAM OF STUDY
Degree Plan? __ Associate of Arts (AA) in Theology _ in Bible (63 Semester hours)
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Biblical Studies __ (123 Semester hours)
-._- Master of Arts (M/\) in Ministry _ (36 Semester hours)
-- Master of Divinity (M. DIV.) -90 Semester hours)
Please select the initial course/s in the, order you would like to begin your studies. Do not select courses previously taken at ~another college or Seminary with a grade of C or better. Please list course prefix, number and title. Transfer students must have official transcripts on file prior to finalizing their degree program.
First Choice __________________________ Second Choice______________________________ Third Choice____________________________
FINANCIAL AGREEMENT
___ Check Here If Applying Federal Financial Aid (not available to HMBC at this time)
Select METHOD OF;' PAYMENT
1. Pay application fee, book cost, and total tuition (four classes)and receive a 05% tuition discount.
2.Pay application fee, plus book; cost")plus 1/3 tuition, and balance in 3
and balance in 3 equal monthly payment of $ _
Note: A credit check may be required if payment plan is selected.
D Credit Card:~ Visa Master Card __ Discover _Am Exp Debit Credit C.ard #~ ~_. Expiration date______
on credit card Charge my credit card $ _. _each month on this date:. _
Debit Card __ Visa ------MasterCard __ '__ Discover __ . Am Exp Debit Card # .... . _
Expiration date on debit ________________
Name on account ______________________________________________________________Name of Bank________________________________________
Checking account # __________________________________Checking account Routing_______________________________ _____________
Charge my debit ,card .. $ . __ ... __ .. __ each month on this date: _ .. .". ._ .. _
Amount submitted with this application $ . . _
TUITION and FEES Application Fee ~~ $50.00 for all programs Shipping Fee $ 10 (home study only)
One Time Application Fee $50.00
Re-Enrollment $10. REFUND POLICY
Undergraduate AA $235. Per credit hour 1st week 100%
Undergraduate BA $285. Per credit hour 3rd week 60%
Graduate Master $335. Per credit hour
Graduate Master of Divinity $385.00 Per credit hour
Resource Fee $ 4. Per hour (campus only) 5th week 20<}-o
Book costs vary per course, you may call (: an admissions counselor or our business office for exact cost of' books. One Percent (1.0%) IS charged monthly on the unpaid balance. $20.~ penalty is added monthly to accounts failing to make monthly payments as agreed. Foreign students must prepay shipping and handling charges.
APPLICATION ENROLLMENT and AGREEMENT
NOTE: Transmission of this agreernent by e--mail or fax with written or signed name and initial payment is acceptable as a firm commitment in good faith by all parties.
I certify that I have read and agree with the terms of this Application
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Applicant’s Signature Date
(Parent or legal Guardian ( if applicant is under 21 years of age
;________________________________________________________________________________________ Parent or Guardian signature Date
HEALING MINISTRIES COLLEGE & SEMINARY OFFICE USE ONLY
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Monday, November 14, 2011
RESTORATION
I just wanted to encourage some of you that have been through some real losses, you are next in line for restoration according , "Joel 2:25 "So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.; 26 You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, And praise the name of the LORD your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; And My people shall never be put to shame 27 Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the LORD your God And there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame..28 ¶ "And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions. 29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. 30 "And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.
God will restore not only what has been lost by the full-grown consuming locust, but also what has been lost by the less destructive licking locust, and swarming locust, and gnawing locust. RESTORE means make up to you what you have been through.
I will restore-the years] It has already been remarked that the locusts not only destroyed the produce of that year, but so completely ate up all buds, and barked the trees, that they did not recover for some years. Here God promises that he would either prevent or remedy that evil; for he would restore the years that the locusts, cankerworm, caterpillar, and palmerworm had eaten.
Pr 6:31 Yet when he is found, he must restore sevenfold; He may have to give up all the substance of his house.
Get ready to praise God for He will deal wondrously with you and you will eat in plenty.
God will restore not only what has been lost by the full-grown consuming locust, but also what has been lost by the less destructive licking locust, and swarming locust, and gnawing locust. RESTORE means make up to you what you have been through.
I will restore-the years] It has already been remarked that the locusts not only destroyed the produce of that year, but so completely ate up all buds, and barked the trees, that they did not recover for some years. Here God promises that he would either prevent or remedy that evil; for he would restore the years that the locusts, cankerworm, caterpillar, and palmerworm had eaten.
Pr 6:31 Yet when he is found, he must restore sevenfold; He may have to give up all the substance of his house.
Get ready to praise God for He will deal wondrously with you and you will eat in plenty.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
WHO REALLY KNOWN WHO JESUS IS
WHO REALLY KNOWS WHO JESUS IS?
A lady on an airplane sitting next to me said with all the false ministers today no one would know him if he was coming on this plane. I told her without a hesitant would know Him for He talks to me every day in his Word. I know how he thinks and what he loves and what grieves him by the written WORD.
John 8:19 Then they said to Him, Where is your father? Jesus said to them, You neither know Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also.
John 14:7 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also. And from now on you know Him and have seen Him.
Jesus, the WORD, was saying to the supposedly well read scribes and priest if you had actually read the Old Testament and not just filled an office, you would have recognized me as one with the father. The Old Testament points forward to the Messiah, the Anointed One, Christ. While the New Testament points backward to the Messiah, the Anointed One, which is the Christ..
Jesus also said how the scriptures of the Old Testament show how he would come, where he would be borne, what he must suffer , how he would be rejected and give his life up. Like 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Jon 1:5 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Later Philip ask in, Luke 14: 8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.":9 Jesus said to him, Have I been with you such a long time and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. And how do you say, Show us the Father?” Jesus was not talking about the short time he had been with Philip in the flesh, Jesus was talking how he had been with Philip through the Word, before the Word was made flesh..
How many people follow after false signs because they have not met Jesus nor his father in the WORD. I have heard ministers as well as saints say things that are absolutely false, because they do not study the scriptures, they only have an office like the scribes and priest. I have heard ministers say that God told them to brag on themselves to build up the people faith. The Word says , “Ro 10:17 Then faith is of hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Eph 1:13 in whom also you, hearing the word of truth, the gospel of our salvation, in whom also believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Some saints have not yet realized that you mare only a servant no matter how old you are until you learn HIS WORD. John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” If you knew the Word you would also know where we are in prophetic history as well as knowing what the true message is and what is a false word.
Jesus said people will disrespect and the real ministers and even do them harm, because of lack of knowledge of the Word. John 16:3 And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. The Apostle John describes that the real fathers in the Kingdom are the ones who can see and know from Moses until now what the Holy Spirit is saying concerning Jesus and His Church. John 1Jo 2:13 I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.
A lady on an airplane sitting next to me said with all the false ministers today no one would know him if he was coming on this plane. I told her without a hesitant would know Him for He talks to me every day in his Word. I know how he thinks and what he loves and what grieves him by the written WORD.
John 8:19 Then they said to Him, Where is your father? Jesus said to them, You neither know Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also.
John 14:7 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also. And from now on you know Him and have seen Him.
Jesus, the WORD, was saying to the supposedly well read scribes and priest if you had actually read the Old Testament and not just filled an office, you would have recognized me as one with the father. The Old Testament points forward to the Messiah, the Anointed One, Christ. While the New Testament points backward to the Messiah, the Anointed One, which is the Christ..
Jesus also said how the scriptures of the Old Testament show how he would come, where he would be borne, what he must suffer , how he would be rejected and give his life up. Like 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Jon 1:5 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Later Philip ask in, Luke 14: 8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.":9 Jesus said to him, Have I been with you such a long time and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father. And how do you say, Show us the Father?” Jesus was not talking about the short time he had been with Philip in the flesh, Jesus was talking how he had been with Philip through the Word, before the Word was made flesh..
How many people follow after false signs because they have not met Jesus nor his father in the WORD. I have heard ministers as well as saints say things that are absolutely false, because they do not study the scriptures, they only have an office like the scribes and priest. I have heard ministers say that God told them to brag on themselves to build up the people faith. The Word says , “Ro 10:17 Then faith is of hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Eph 1:13 in whom also you, hearing the word of truth, the gospel of our salvation, in whom also believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Some saints have not yet realized that you mare only a servant no matter how old you are until you learn HIS WORD. John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” If you knew the Word you would also know where we are in prophetic history as well as knowing what the true message is and what is a false word.
Jesus said people will disrespect and the real ministers and even do them harm, because of lack of knowledge of the Word. John 16:3 And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. The Apostle John describes that the real fathers in the Kingdom are the ones who can see and know from Moses until now what the Holy Spirit is saying concerning Jesus and His Church. John 1Jo 2:13 I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.
Monday, October 31, 2011
HOLD UP THE PROPHET'S HANDS
MERGENCY! PLEASE HELP HOLD UP THE PROPHET’S HANDS!
The bank loan on HEALING MINISTRIES BIBLE COLLEGE is due at the end of November. We have a five year balloon note. The bank will not allow us to refinance without a substantial amount down on our college note. Please pray about helping us to retain this bank note. Many of you have know our ministry and our character of integrity, that we would not have ask if we had not already done all that we possibly could do on our own. We are a 501c therefore your gifts are tax deductible. If the Lord puts it on your heart to help us with this note, please mail your check to Healing Ministries, P.O. Box 617, Blanchard, OK. 73010-0617 or go to our web site and donate with your credit card on pay pal. sharonrathbunministries.com
I pray in Jesus Name for an UNUSUAL BLESSING to all who will pray and hear from our Lord in the matter. I also pray in Jesus Name that as you have shown mercy on us that you will have FAVOR in the area you need it the most.
God Bless, Dr. Sharon R. Rathbun
The bank loan on HEALING MINISTRIES BIBLE COLLEGE is due at the end of November. We have a five year balloon note. The bank will not allow us to refinance without a substantial amount down on our college note. Please pray about helping us to retain this bank note. Many of you have know our ministry and our character of integrity, that we would not have ask if we had not already done all that we possibly could do on our own. We are a 501c therefore your gifts are tax deductible. If the Lord puts it on your heart to help us with this note, please mail your check to Healing Ministries, P.O. Box 617, Blanchard, OK. 73010-0617 or go to our web site and donate with your credit card on pay pal. sharonrathbunministries.com
I pray in Jesus Name for an UNUSUAL BLESSING to all who will pray and hear from our Lord in the matter. I also pray in Jesus Name that as you have shown mercy on us that you will have FAVOR in the area you need it the most.
God Bless, Dr. Sharon R. Rathbun
HOLD UP THE PROPHET'S HANDS
MERGENCY! PLEASE HELP HOLD UP THE PROPHET’S HANDS!
The bank loan on HEALING MINISTRIES BIBLE COLLEGE is due at the end of November. We have a five year balloon note. The bank will not allow us to refinance without a substantial amount down on our college note. Please pray about helping us to retain this bank note. Many of you have know our ministry and our character of integrity, that we would not have ask if we had not already done all that we possibly could do on our own. We are a 501c therefore your gifts are tax deductible. If the Lord puts it on your heart to help us with this note, please mail your check to Healing Ministries, P.O. Box 617, Blanchard, OK. 73010-0617 or go to our web site and donate with your credit card on pay pal. sharonrathbunministries.com
I pray in Jesus Name for an UNUSUAL BLESSING to all who will pray and hear from our Lord in the matter. I also pray in Jesus Name that as you have shown mercy on us that you will have FAVOR in the area you need it the most.
God Bless, Dr. Sharon R. Rathbun
The bank loan on HEALING MINISTRIES BIBLE COLLEGE is due at the end of November. We have a five year balloon note. The bank will not allow us to refinance without a substantial amount down on our college note. Please pray about helping us to retain this bank note. Many of you have know our ministry and our character of integrity, that we would not have ask if we had not already done all that we possibly could do on our own. We are a 501c therefore your gifts are tax deductible. If the Lord puts it on your heart to help us with this note, please mail your check to Healing Ministries, P.O. Box 617, Blanchard, OK. 73010-0617 or go to our web site and donate with your credit card on pay pal. sharonrathbunministries.com
I pray in Jesus Name for an UNUSUAL BLESSING to all who will pray and hear from our Lord in the matter. I also pray in Jesus Name that as you have shown mercy on us that you will have FAVOR in the area you need it the most.
God Bless, Dr. Sharon R. Rathbun
Friday, October 28, 2011
DO YOU KNOW THE TRUTH
esus answered everything with the Word. He even answered the scribes who were supposedly knowledgeable in the Old Testament, with the WORD. People who say and do non-biblical actions, are people who have never taken the time to study the WORD for themselves. Don't believe everything a minister or a christian tells you. Take the time to research what they preach or tell you for yourself. Have the fear of God to the point you do not want to be wrong.
The original reason I started studying the WORD at the age of seventeen was because I did not want to miss the mark and foolishly think I was right. When I heard someone preach and I had a question in my spirit I would go home and research the WORD to see if they were right. Sometimes I would find the scriptures that back them up even thought I wasn't familiar with that scripture. Other times I found them totally wrong or on the edge of misrepresenting the scripture. Again I say, 2Ti 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The original reason I started studying the WORD at the age of seventeen was because I did not want to miss the mark and foolishly think I was right. When I heard someone preach and I had a question in my spirit I would go home and research the WORD to see if they were right. Sometimes I would find the scriptures that back them up even thought I wasn't familiar with that scripture. Other times I found them totally wrong or on the edge of misrepresenting the scripture. Again I say, 2Ti 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
THE GLORYCLOUD
THE CLOUD OF GLORY
2 Ch. 5:1 ¶ And it came to pass when the priests came out of the Most Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, without keeping to their divisions), 12 and the Levites who were the singers, all those of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, stood at the east end of the altar, clothed in white linen, having cymbals, stringed instruments and harps, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets- 13 indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying: "For He is good, For His mercy endures forever," that the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,14 so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
God is not looking for empty worshipers, he doesn’t have an ego problem. He is not even moved by them. The Lord is looking for worshipers who are not only clothed in his white linen, but in their thankfulness they are praising and magnifying him of his goodness and his great mercy he has shone them. This is real praise. When I think of all my mistakes and shortcomings as a child of God and yet how he loves and blesses me, I have to praise him!!. I can understand Mephiboshethf feeling like a dirty dog living as a cripple of helplessness and yet he was brought into royalty into King David house, eating off of the king’s table. This is a picture of what God has done for us and this will bring true praises from our hearts unto our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. When the ministers of religion heartily unite in praising and adoring God for his mercies, he will accept their offerings, and give evidence of his approbation by delightful manifestations of his presence and favor.
In this scripture God shows up in a cloud The place was filled in every spot with that cloud .and the GLORY that comes with the cloud filled the whole house. The glory was so strong to the point that the priest who had just been sanctified in the MOST HOLY PLACE could not even continual to minister
When Ezekiel saw the GLORY of God he could not even stand up. 2Ezekiel1:7 Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around. 28 Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking. Ezekiel experienced the GLORY another time in Ezekiel 3:23, where he also could not stand up. Then in Ezekiel 10:3,4 Ezekiel watched as the cloud filled the inner court and continual until the cloud filled the house. When that happened the court was full of the BRIGHTNESS of the GLORY of GOD. WOW!
I have experienced that kind of GLORY three times in my life when I not only was terrified I was so helpless in his presence and I had to craw to a chair to be able to pull my self up. I truly believe the Glory of God will not nor can it leave you the same as you were before the experience. I was left with a fear of God greater than I had ever had before. I felt his power and knew this power is stronger than any demon or evil on earth.
Lu 21:27 And then they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. I know now that the cloud always filled the house or coved the mountain so could this mean the cloud in this verse will filled the sky or earth or both. We know the heavens will be shaken.
2 Ch. 5:1 ¶ And it came to pass when the priests came out of the Most Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, without keeping to their divisions), 12 and the Levites who were the singers, all those of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, stood at the east end of the altar, clothed in white linen, having cymbals, stringed instruments and harps, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets- 13 indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying: "For He is good, For His mercy endures forever," that the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,14 so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
God is not looking for empty worshipers, he doesn’t have an ego problem. He is not even moved by them. The Lord is looking for worshipers who are not only clothed in his white linen, but in their thankfulness they are praising and magnifying him of his goodness and his great mercy he has shone them. This is real praise. When I think of all my mistakes and shortcomings as a child of God and yet how he loves and blesses me, I have to praise him!!. I can understand Mephiboshethf feeling like a dirty dog living as a cripple of helplessness and yet he was brought into royalty into King David house, eating off of the king’s table. This is a picture of what God has done for us and this will bring true praises from our hearts unto our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. When the ministers of religion heartily unite in praising and adoring God for his mercies, he will accept their offerings, and give evidence of his approbation by delightful manifestations of his presence and favor.
In this scripture God shows up in a cloud The place was filled in every spot with that cloud .and the GLORY that comes with the cloud filled the whole house. The glory was so strong to the point that the priest who had just been sanctified in the MOST HOLY PLACE could not even continual to minister
When Ezekiel saw the GLORY of God he could not even stand up. 2Ezekiel1:7 Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around. 28 Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking. Ezekiel experienced the GLORY another time in Ezekiel 3:23, where he also could not stand up. Then in Ezekiel 10:3,4 Ezekiel watched as the cloud filled the inner court and continual until the cloud filled the house. When that happened the court was full of the BRIGHTNESS of the GLORY of GOD. WOW!
I have experienced that kind of GLORY three times in my life when I not only was terrified I was so helpless in his presence and I had to craw to a chair to be able to pull my self up. I truly believe the Glory of God will not nor can it leave you the same as you were before the experience. I was left with a fear of God greater than I had ever had before. I felt his power and knew this power is stronger than any demon or evil on earth.
Lu 21:27 And then they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. I know now that the cloud always filled the house or coved the mountain so could this mean the cloud in this verse will filled the sky or earth or both. We know the heavens will be shaken.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
THE BOAZ BLESSING
I preached last night at Healing Ministries on “what makes you a perspective candidate for a Boaz life” according to the book of Ruth.
1, Was never going back to what you used to do or used be because of tragedy or lost. Even though Ruth had lost her husband she could not go back to the false god she used to served nor to the people she wants belonged to. (Ruth 1:16, 17, “ 16 But Ruth said: "Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me." Remember, Peter tried to go back to his old trade and found out he couldn’t catch the same kind of fish he wants caught. He had been brought unto a higher place through the training of Jesus Christ of three and half years.
2, She was willing to work and to help the one who mentor her. She could have thought of her own self and married one of the reapers, which would have gotten her out of the poverty and made her a respectable wife and mother. Why should she help an old woman who appeared to have nothing to give her. How many people I have seen in my forty-four years of ministry that have tried to take the short cut to a better life or even to promote their own ministry. In the natural it always looks easer and quicker. But in reality they never go as high or become what they thought they would become with the short cut.. You see the old woman called Naomi was not a loser as she appeared. For first of all even though she lost her husband and two sons, she owned three properties in Bethlehem, where they could live until God gave them the next promotion and where Boaz reign. . But what made her even a better blessing to the unsuspected Ruth was she was a relative to the wealthiest man in town, name Boaz.. And it was their custom for the next of kin to take care and married a widow of one of their own. (Ruth 2:1) So to have a Boaz life one must not take the short cut to their destiny, but rather do what and where God has given you an opportunity to sow. Where God usually put us to sow in most of the time is where you will think is a wasted place or wasted ministry. But you see what God is working on is your character, not your ministry. For that is a done deal because it is not your ministry, but it is the Holy Ghost ministry. By allowing Him to qualified you for the promotion, you will be able to even go higher after that promotion . You will be promoted more than one time in your life as you allow God to train you. What Ruth thought she had submitted herself to of just helping her needed mother-in-law was quite different of what she really had submitted herself to. She had put herself in a place of promotion number one, to become the Queen of Bethlehem and then number two promotion came after that promotion. Which was to be of the lineage of Jesus Christ.
3. Last but not least she was a willing student of the old woman called , Naomi. You can not have the Boaz life if you are not willing to take instruction from an older, wiser and experienced mentor. I have spent my life under great men and great women of God who constantly mentor me. I have allow people who looked like they were nothing nor had anything to give me, but their wisdom and past experience. They had all the experience in their past that I wanted to be in my future. I listen very carefully each time someone thought I worthy to hear their instructions. Then to the best of my ability I did what they instructed me to do. And guess what? It always worked because it had been tested and prove by them. The last time I was instructed by one older mentor was between 1998- 2009.You see this mentor came to one of my meeting in 1998 . When he walk into the service, the Lord told me this was a great man of God, even though I found out later he was not pasturing at that time, he had no money to give me and was not a well man physically. I believed God and he became a dear friend to my husband and myself .He would talk to us about the great church he had in Michigan and how he lost it. He would tells us of the great things he did as well as how he messed up at different times. You can learn from honest people who are willing to share their great wealth of knowledge and experience. . He was the one who encouraged my husband and myself late in our life to return to college to get our Master and Doctorate Degree, which we did. He would give me the courage to do things that I by nature could not have done without his instruction and support. One of the greatest things that happen to me because of his instructions was having me call the president of a college that he knew was going to donate to someone items from their college worth over a million and a half. dollars . By listening to this very wise and older minister, I was the receiver of this donation. You see I am after a Boaz Life.
1, Was never going back to what you used to do or used be because of tragedy or lost. Even though Ruth had lost her husband she could not go back to the false god she used to served nor to the people she wants belonged to. (Ruth 1:16, 17, “ 16 But Ruth said: "Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me." Remember, Peter tried to go back to his old trade and found out he couldn’t catch the same kind of fish he wants caught. He had been brought unto a higher place through the training of Jesus Christ of three and half years.
2, She was willing to work and to help the one who mentor her. She could have thought of her own self and married one of the reapers, which would have gotten her out of the poverty and made her a respectable wife and mother. Why should she help an old woman who appeared to have nothing to give her. How many people I have seen in my forty-four years of ministry that have tried to take the short cut to a better life or even to promote their own ministry. In the natural it always looks easer and quicker. But in reality they never go as high or become what they thought they would become with the short cut.. You see the old woman called Naomi was not a loser as she appeared. For first of all even though she lost her husband and two sons, she owned three properties in Bethlehem, where they could live until God gave them the next promotion and where Boaz reign. . But what made her even a better blessing to the unsuspected Ruth was she was a relative to the wealthiest man in town, name Boaz.. And it was their custom for the next of kin to take care and married a widow of one of their own. (Ruth 2:1) So to have a Boaz life one must not take the short cut to their destiny, but rather do what and where God has given you an opportunity to sow. Where God usually put us to sow in most of the time is where you will think is a wasted place or wasted ministry. But you see what God is working on is your character, not your ministry. For that is a done deal because it is not your ministry, but it is the Holy Ghost ministry. By allowing Him to qualified you for the promotion, you will be able to even go higher after that promotion . You will be promoted more than one time in your life as you allow God to train you. What Ruth thought she had submitted herself to of just helping her needed mother-in-law was quite different of what she really had submitted herself to. She had put herself in a place of promotion number one, to become the Queen of Bethlehem and then number two promotion came after that promotion. Which was to be of the lineage of Jesus Christ.
3. Last but not least she was a willing student of the old woman called , Naomi. You can not have the Boaz life if you are not willing to take instruction from an older, wiser and experienced mentor. I have spent my life under great men and great women of God who constantly mentor me. I have allow people who looked like they were nothing nor had anything to give me, but their wisdom and past experience. They had all the experience in their past that I wanted to be in my future. I listen very carefully each time someone thought I worthy to hear their instructions. Then to the best of my ability I did what they instructed me to do. And guess what? It always worked because it had been tested and prove by them. The last time I was instructed by one older mentor was between 1998- 2009.You see this mentor came to one of my meeting in 1998 . When he walk into the service, the Lord told me this was a great man of God, even though I found out later he was not pasturing at that time, he had no money to give me and was not a well man physically. I believed God and he became a dear friend to my husband and myself .He would talk to us about the great church he had in Michigan and how he lost it. He would tells us of the great things he did as well as how he messed up at different times. You can learn from honest people who are willing to share their great wealth of knowledge and experience. . He was the one who encouraged my husband and myself late in our life to return to college to get our Master and Doctorate Degree, which we did. He would give me the courage to do things that I by nature could not have done without his instruction and support. One of the greatest things that happen to me because of his instructions was having me call the president of a college that he knew was going to donate to someone items from their college worth over a million and a half. dollars . By listening to this very wise and older minister, I was the receiver of this donation. You see I am after a Boaz Life.
THE BOAZ BLESSING
I preached last night at Healing Ministries on “what makes you a perspective candidate for a Boaz life” according to the book of Ruth.
1, Was never going back to what you used to do or used be because of tragedy or lost. Even though Ruth had lost her husband she could not go back to the false god she used to served nor to the people she wants belonged to. (Ruth 1:16, 17, “ 16 But Ruth said: "Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me." Remember, Peter tried to go back to his old trade and found out he couldn’t catch the same kind of fish he wants caught. He had been brought unto a higher place through the training of Jesus Christ of three and half years.
2, She was willing to work and to help the one who mentor her. She could have thought of her own self and married one of the reapers, which would have gotten her out of the poverty and made her a respectable wife and mother. Why should she help an old woman who appeared to have nothing to give her. How many people I have seen in my forty-four years of ministry that have tried to take the short cut to a better life or even to promote their own ministry. In the natural it always looks easer and quicker. But in reality they never go as high or become what they thought they would become with the short cut.. You see the old woman called Naomi was not a loser as she appeared. For first of all even though she lost her husband and two sons, she owned three properties in Bethlehem, where they could live until God gave them the next promotion and where Boaz reign. . But what made her even a better blessing to the unsuspected Ruth was she was a relative to the wealthiest man in town, name Boaz.. And it was their custom for the next of kin to take care and married a widow of one of their own. (Ruth 2:1) So to have a Boaz life one must not take the short cut to their destiny, but rather do what and where God has given you an opportunity to sow. Where God usually put us to sow in most of the time is where you will think is a wasted place or wasted ministry. But you see what God is working on is your character, not your ministry. For that is a done deal because it is not your ministry, but it is the Holy Ghost ministry. By allowing Him to qualified you for the promotion, you will be able to even go higher after that promotion . You will be promoted more than one time in your life as you allow God to train you. What Ruth thought she had submitted herself to of just helping her needed mother-in-law was quite different of what she really had submitted herself to. She had put herself in a place of promotion number one, to become the Queen of Bethlehem and then number two promotion came after that promotion. Which was to be of the lineage of Jesus Christ.
3. Last but not least she was a willing student of the old woman called , Naomi. You can not have the Boaz life if you are not willing to take instruction from an older, wiser and experienced mentor. I have spent my life under great men and great women of God who constantly mentor me. I have allow people who looked like they were nothing nor had anything to give me, but their wisdom and past experience. They had all the experience in their past that I wanted to be in my future. I listen very carefully each time someone thought I worthy to hear their instructions. Then to the best of my ability I did what they instructed me to do. And guess what? It always worked because it had been tested and prove by them. The last time I was instructed by one older mentor was between 1998- 2009.You see this mentor came to one of my meeting in 1998 . When he walk into the service, the Lord told me this was a great man of God, even though I found out later he was not pasturing at that time, he had no money to give me and was not a well man physically. I believed God and he became a dear friend to my husband and myself .He would talk to us about the great church he had in Michigan and how he lost it. He would tells us of the great things he did as well as how he messed up at different times. You can learn from honest people who are willing to share their great wealth of knowledge and experience. . He was the one who encouraged my husband and myself late in our life to return to college to get our Master and Doctorate Degree, which we did. He would give me the courage to do things that I by nature could not have done without his instruction and support. One of the greatest things that happen to me because of his instructions was having me call the president of a college that he knew was going to donate to someone items from their college worth over a million and a half. dollars . By listening to this very wise and older minister, I was the receiver of this donation. You see I am after a Boaz Life.
1, Was never going back to what you used to do or used be because of tragedy or lost. Even though Ruth had lost her husband she could not go back to the false god she used to served nor to the people she wants belonged to. (Ruth 1:16, 17, “ 16 But Ruth said: "Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me." Remember, Peter tried to go back to his old trade and found out he couldn’t catch the same kind of fish he wants caught. He had been brought unto a higher place through the training of Jesus Christ of three and half years.
2, She was willing to work and to help the one who mentor her. She could have thought of her own self and married one of the reapers, which would have gotten her out of the poverty and made her a respectable wife and mother. Why should she help an old woman who appeared to have nothing to give her. How many people I have seen in my forty-four years of ministry that have tried to take the short cut to a better life or even to promote their own ministry. In the natural it always looks easer and quicker. But in reality they never go as high or become what they thought they would become with the short cut.. You see the old woman called Naomi was not a loser as she appeared. For first of all even though she lost her husband and two sons, she owned three properties in Bethlehem, where they could live until God gave them the next promotion and where Boaz reign. . But what made her even a better blessing to the unsuspected Ruth was she was a relative to the wealthiest man in town, name Boaz.. And it was their custom for the next of kin to take care and married a widow of one of their own. (Ruth 2:1) So to have a Boaz life one must not take the short cut to their destiny, but rather do what and where God has given you an opportunity to sow. Where God usually put us to sow in most of the time is where you will think is a wasted place or wasted ministry. But you see what God is working on is your character, not your ministry. For that is a done deal because it is not your ministry, but it is the Holy Ghost ministry. By allowing Him to qualified you for the promotion, you will be able to even go higher after that promotion . You will be promoted more than one time in your life as you allow God to train you. What Ruth thought she had submitted herself to of just helping her needed mother-in-law was quite different of what she really had submitted herself to. She had put herself in a place of promotion number one, to become the Queen of Bethlehem and then number two promotion came after that promotion. Which was to be of the lineage of Jesus Christ.
3. Last but not least she was a willing student of the old woman called , Naomi. You can not have the Boaz life if you are not willing to take instruction from an older, wiser and experienced mentor. I have spent my life under great men and great women of God who constantly mentor me. I have allow people who looked like they were nothing nor had anything to give me, but their wisdom and past experience. They had all the experience in their past that I wanted to be in my future. I listen very carefully each time someone thought I worthy to hear their instructions. Then to the best of my ability I did what they instructed me to do. And guess what? It always worked because it had been tested and prove by them. The last time I was instructed by one older mentor was between 1998- 2009.You see this mentor came to one of my meeting in 1998 . When he walk into the service, the Lord told me this was a great man of God, even though I found out later he was not pasturing at that time, he had no money to give me and was not a well man physically. I believed God and he became a dear friend to my husband and myself .He would talk to us about the great church he had in Michigan and how he lost it. He would tells us of the great things he did as well as how he messed up at different times. You can learn from honest people who are willing to share their great wealth of knowledge and experience. . He was the one who encouraged my husband and myself late in our life to return to college to get our Master and Doctorate Degree, which we did. He would give me the courage to do things that I by nature could not have done without his instruction and support. One of the greatest things that happen to me because of his instructions was having me call the president of a college that he knew was going to donate to someone items from their college worth over a million and a half. dollars . By listening to this very wise and older minister, I was the receiver of this donation. You see I am after a Boaz Life.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
MORE DEMONSTRATION, LESS PROFILE
The Ministers of the Gospel that are ministering in today’s society will have to have more power of the Holy Ghost than they ever had before, because the saints are going through excruciating battles. The people of God don’t really care what the ministers accomplishments were in the past. They like myself are asking “where is the beef“. The Apostle Paul said it s clearly in 1Co 2:4 “And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of men's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.”
When my husband and myself were building Healing Ministries Bible College we dealt with this all the time with different business men. They always told us how great they were in their specialize craft and deserved the high pay they were asking for. but most of the time it remain to be seen even a third of what their claims were. There were times we actually had to hire someone else to do what the previous worker had been paid to do. Thus, Because of what I experienced with so many workers, I began to price everything myself as well as look at other workers finished projects before even having a conversation with a new worker. My husband would laugh at times when I was questioning a perspective hire worker because he knew I already had the facts and he knew when I was finished with their sales pitch even though they were still promoting themselves. It was over as far as I was concerned for they had not convinced me they were whom they claimed they were and that their work was that great.
That attitude has become the attitude of many of God’s people today. . They too want to see something outside of the ministers sale pitch. The people of God are going through horrible battles and they don’t want a sale pitch of who God was and who He will one day be. They are saying what the father said to Jesus in Lu 9:40, “ And I begged Your disciples to cast him out, and they could not.” At least those disciples wanted to know why they couldn't set the young man free. The ministeries today need to ask Jesus the same question. Jesus told his disciples in Matthew 10:7, “ And as you go, proclaim, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand. 8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. You have received freely, freely give.”: Lu 9:2, “ And He sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.” Lu 10:9, “ And heal the sick that are in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God has come near you!” These are our Lord’s words. We don’t have to convince the saints that Jesus wants to do these things for them. They too believe that and that is why they come into our services to see if maybe we have been sent to do these things for that is our calling. We are to preach Jesus and His Kingdom and demonstrate His power by healing the sick, and the broken hearted and setting the captive free. We are sent to do them in His name. Jesus said in Lu 4:18, "The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,” Then Jesus said in John 20:21, “ Then Jesus said to them again, Peace to you. As My Father has sent Me, even so I send you.”
When my husband and myself were building Healing Ministries Bible College we dealt with this all the time with different business men. They always told us how great they were in their specialize craft and deserved the high pay they were asking for. but most of the time it remain to be seen even a third of what their claims were. There were times we actually had to hire someone else to do what the previous worker had been paid to do. Thus, Because of what I experienced with so many workers, I began to price everything myself as well as look at other workers finished projects before even having a conversation with a new worker. My husband would laugh at times when I was questioning a perspective hire worker because he knew I already had the facts and he knew when I was finished with their sales pitch even though they were still promoting themselves. It was over as far as I was concerned for they had not convinced me they were whom they claimed they were and that their work was that great.
That attitude has become the attitude of many of God’s people today. . They too want to see something outside of the ministers sale pitch. The people of God are going through horrible battles and they don’t want a sale pitch of who God was and who He will one day be. They are saying what the father said to Jesus in Lu 9:40, “ And I begged Your disciples to cast him out, and they could not.” At least those disciples wanted to know why they couldn't set the young man free. The ministeries today need to ask Jesus the same question. Jesus told his disciples in Matthew 10:7, “ And as you go, proclaim, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand. 8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. You have received freely, freely give.”: Lu 9:2, “ And He sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.” Lu 10:9, “ And heal the sick that are in it, and say to them, The kingdom of God has come near you!” These are our Lord’s words. We don’t have to convince the saints that Jesus wants to do these things for them. They too believe that and that is why they come into our services to see if maybe we have been sent to do these things for that is our calling. We are to preach Jesus and His Kingdom and demonstrate His power by healing the sick, and the broken hearted and setting the captive free. We are sent to do them in His name. Jesus said in Lu 4:18, "The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,” Then Jesus said in John 20:21, “ Then Jesus said to them again, Peace to you. As My Father has sent Me, even so I send you.”
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Boasting if not of God
I greive in my spirit when I see the believers and even ministry treat other christians and even ministries as though they are in a higher level than their brothers and sisters in the Kingdom. The Apostle Paul must have seen what I have seen, for he speaks of it in " 1 Cor. 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have prophecies, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to move mountains, and do not have charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I give out all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, I am profited nothing. 4 Charity has patience, is kind; charity is not envious, is not vain, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave indecently, does not seek her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil." We are the body of Christ and of many members. I was born in the church all my life and have see many ministries and belivers treat others as though they were second class believers. Paul writes again in "1 Cor.10:24 Let no one seek his own, but each one another's." It is not all about you, it better be about Jesus and His church. If you are still alive then there is something the Lord wants you to do for HIS KINGDOM not for YOUR KINGDOM. The person and the ministry God will really bless in this last day is the ones who are seeking to obey God in reaching the nations for HIM. The only way you can do that is become a TEAM player in His Kingdom not just for me and my people. "Eph 4:16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love." The lone ranger in the Kingdom of God is over. We will have to work together in bringing in the net of souls as good fishermen or we will be limited to a small group of people with false pride. "Ro 12:3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith." "1 Thess. 5:12 And, brothers, we beseech you to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and who admonish you, 13 and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake." Brothers and Sisters in the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ become like our Lord and humble yourself and in due season He will lift you up. Beware of the people around you that are telling you that you only have the truth. Remember the demonic spirit who spoke through the woman who was following Paul. It was to bring pride to him but Paul came against the spirit that was bosting about him instead of Christ. Today we see ministers put those kind of people in the front to do exactly what Paul came against. Let our works and His spirit testified of us if there be anything to testified about. For what do you have or know that was not given unto you by our Lord.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
IF GOD IS FOR YOU!!!!
Alot of affictions are coming to America and to the Church, but we already know His promises of our deliverance as the Apostle Paul wrote about in 2 Tim. 3:11 persecutions, afflictions, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. What persecutions I endured! But the Lord delivered me out of all. Yea, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
I have fought the hardest battles of my life in the last three years and I am finally winning. I didn't understand why untill resently. Here is the reason for all these things that come against you when you are living a christian, fruitful life. "Joh 15:2 "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit." I now understand you must go from glory to glory, even when you are satified with where you are in God and life. The Prophet Sam Woods ministered to me a few weeks ago my VISION was too small.
Is your vision too small? If so prepare yourself for persecutions and affictions. I just wanted a peaceful, calm life. I thought my latter years were not to be in the front lines battles anymore. Wrong, God has trained you to take back all that the Devil has taken from the Church. The WHOLE CHURCH not just what affect you, but the Kingdom Of God.
I have fought the hardest battles of my life in the last three years and I am finally winning. I didn't understand why untill resently. Here is the reason for all these things that come against you when you are living a christian, fruitful life. "Joh 15:2 "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit." I now understand you must go from glory to glory, even when you are satified with where you are in God and life. The Prophet Sam Woods ministered to me a few weeks ago my VISION was too small.
Is your vision too small? If so prepare yourself for persecutions and affictions. I just wanted a peaceful, calm life. I thought my latter years were not to be in the front lines battles anymore. Wrong, God has trained you to take back all that the Devil has taken from the Church. The WHOLE CHURCH not just what affect you, but the Kingdom Of God.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Welcome...
Here we are! I have waited a long time to be able to "visit" with all of you in this up close and personal way, but it has finally come to pass. God bless each of you that have inspired and encouraged me to make this move into the realm of personal publishing. I look forward to what God has in store for us and I promise to share what he gives me in order to bless your lives and encourage your relatinship with our beautiful savior, Jesus.
Love,
Sharon
Love,
Sharon
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