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
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
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.”
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