Living In the

SUPERNATURAL

MIRACLES ~ HEAVEN

GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT

SIGNS & WONDERS

ANGELS

How To Live In ALL

That God Has Provided

KATHIE WALTERS

LIVING IN THE SUPERNATURAL by Kathie Walters Copyright © 1993 by Kathie Walters

Revised E-Book © 2008

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Printed in the United States of America This book is dedicated first of all to the lovely Holy Spirit. It is really all about Him. Its purpose No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in is to encourage you, the reader, to honor and treas-a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any ure His presence, for His awesome and wonderful means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or ways are glorious.

otherwise, without prior permission from the author.

Second, it is dedicated to my precious sisters in Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the Lord who let me see more of Jesus through the New King James Version of the Bible.

them. I love them because they hunger for an inti-Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson Inc., mate relationship with the Holy Spirit, who Publishers. Used by permission.

reveals Jesus.

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Third, I dedicate this book to my friend Joy KJV are from the King James

Version of the Bible.

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Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

A New Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1 Proving God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2 Our Inheritance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3 Learning to Know the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . 23

4 Yielding to the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

5 The Holy Spirit’s Visitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

6 Discerning by the Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

7 The Judgments of the Lord Are True . . . . . . 47

8 Amazing Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

9 Faith—God’s Vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

10 Divine Visitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

11 Intercession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

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Introduction

When we are born again, we are delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God’s dear Son (Col. 1:13). By this we begin to live in a supernatural realm. Life in this realm is more than reading a Bible, attending church and trying to live morally. The Christian life in its essence is being filled with the Spirit (Eph. 5:18), living in the Spirit and walking in the Spirit (Gal. 5:25). Many Christians have never experienced this on a day-to-day basis.

Kathie shares scores of insights and personal experiences, including my experiences and those of others, which will help you to see that the Spirit-filled life is God’s norm for His children. Each chapter reveals a number of keys to making your Christian life an ongoing exciting adventure.

—DAVID WALTERS

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Chapter One

A New

Beginning

Before being filled with the Holy Spirit, I had a great deal of head knowledge. Martyn Lloyd-Jones of Westminster Chapel, probably the greatest expository preacher of his day, was our pastor for nine years. Although the teaching was wonderful, I lacked the power to live what I was being taught. After heading off in several wrong directions, the Lord caught up with me and graciously filled me with the Holy Spirit.

Prior to the baptism of the Holy Spirit, I remember being hungry to know Jesus in an intimate way. I longed to be lost in His presence and to experience His power. I felt He wanted that too. After being filled with the Spirit, I was delivered from several demonic strongholds in my life. Only then did I begin to have the relationship with God that I desired.

Still hungry to experience more of God, I read my Bible 3

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with a new eagerness. It became clear to me that there was Then God revealed something to me. Jesus left us with another realm, another dimension of knowing God of which not only great information about God, but with an inheri-I was unaware. There is a right and a wrong kind of reason-tance that would enable us to walk in the realms in which ing. When reason of heart becomes treason of heart, we are He walked.

prevented from obeying God in faith. (See Luke 5:22.) The Many supernatural things happened in the life of the early right kind of reasoning allows the Holy Spirit to bring light church, including visions, Holy Spirit earthquakes, angelic and revelation to us. Our minds can be fed by the Spirit of visitations and supernatural salvation experiences. I believe the Lord, the wisdom of this world, or it can be fed by spirits those things were meant to be a part of my life as well.

that pervert and distort the truth. All these want to captivate After a short while, I started experiencing supernatural our minds.

manifestations of the Holy Spirit. I was lifted into heaven Paul instructed the Corinthians to:

several times, and I smelled the perfumes of the Lord as the Holy Spirit revealed the presence of Jesus. I experienced

“Bring every thought into captivity to the obedience angelic visitations. Often the things of the Spirit realm of Christ.”

became so strong that I couldn’t tell them apart from the

—2 CORINTHIANS 10:5

things of the natural realm.

The Holy Spirit moves in our faith; it is contrary to His After spending all those years as a Christian with no real nature to move in accordance with our unbelief. Jesus was victory or joy, I said to God, “Thank You for filling me with not of this world, and neither are we who are born again.

Your Spirit and showing me that You are still moving in the earth today. But I don’t want just to have more head

“Our citizenship is in heaven.”

knowledge. I want You to be real in my life. I don’t walk

—PHILIPPIANS 3:20

around my house saying ‘I believe my husband is here!

David is here!’ I just know he is here, because he is.”

In the following chapters I will tell about some of the Many people find themselves frustrated with all the supernatural manifestations and outpourings of the Holy Christian talk. They are tired of receiving more information, Spirit that my husband and I have had the privilege to learning more Scripture verses and having more teaching.

experience. This book is meant to encourage you to receive Increased knowledge is very wearisome if the Holy Spirit is this part of your inheritance as a child of God.

missing.

I get so angry at the devil for stealing from God’s people.

It makes me sad to see many Christians lacking God’s power

“The kingdom of God is not in word but in power.”

in their Christian experience. Jesus Christ is not a doctrine,

—1 CORINTHIANS 4:20

the Holy Spirit is not an “it,” and the Father is not a

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Chapter Two

theology; all are Persons of the Godhead. You can’t fellowship with or fall in love with a teaching.

The Scriptures are meant to bring us into a relationship with Jesus, but so often we stop with the words. Jesus said to the Pharisees:

“[You] search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that Proving God

you might have life.”

—JOHN 5:39–40

Jesus wants a beautiful Bride who loves Him, not one who merely knows about Him. The Body of Christ is full of knowledge, but we need to be full of Jesus’ presence also.

In the early church, people spoke in other tongues and prophesied. Many were healed and delivered from evil We are to be filled with all the “fullness of Him who fills all spirits. Even a casual reader of the book of Acts can see these in all” (Eph. 1:23). Stop thinking that the power of God is things happening again and again.

only for the man or woman on the platform. It is also for you, since you have been called by God into the body of Our First Experience of Church

Christ.

The more my husband and I read, the more we wanted this for ourselves. We had experienced only programmed

“For the promise [of the Spirit] is to you and to your meetings and traditional services. We had never learned how children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the to listen to the voice of the Spirit. All our understanding Lord our God will call.”

came directly from our minds. We didn’t understand Paul’s

—ACTS 2:39

letter to the Ephesians:

“Making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give 7

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to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the visitors clung to their seats—they were the only ones left knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding sitting.

being enlightened; that you may know what is the Many of us were challenged to change our lives as we hope of His calling; what are the riches of the glory learned to move in the gifts of the Spirit. Hearts were of His inheritance in the saints.”

touched and pierced. Though some men and women would

—EPHESIANS 1:16–18

have been happy with a religious discussion—keeping God at arm’s length—the word of knowledge in operation made Finally, in a small gathering of friends, we gave ourselves that impossible.

completely to the Holy Spirit to do with us whatever He In the Gospel of John, a woman from Samaria who came wanted. As we did the power of God began to flow through to draw water at a well where Jesus was resting tried to keep the people gathered there. Because we had totally submitted Him at a distance with a religious discussion. But this ordi-our hearts and minds to the Holy Spirit, He was able to fill nary meeting was transformed into the supernatural as Jesus us with His power. After we were filled, the Holy Spirit gave a word of knowledge to the woman about her five hus-began to wash our minds and filter out the head knowledge bands! As Jesus continued speaking, not getting involved in we had accumulated.

her religious words, the woman finally recognized Him as Sometimes during our praise and worship, the power of the Messiah of Israel. (See John 4:6–26.) God would come upon us as Jesus’ presence was manifested.

Most of the young people in our church had a desire to People would slide to the floor and lay prostrate, sometimes evangelize. They often went to the worst pub in our area for hours. On several occasions the young people left our where large numbers of drug pushers hung out. The young house to walk to the bus stop, but they never made it. Drunk people stood outside as the druggies and pushers went into with “new wine,” they topped into the bushes! One night, the pub. The Lord gave the Christian kids words of knowl-some of the youngsters fell into a neighbor’s front yard, edge, and they offered to pray for the people. Many were unable to move for almost an hour.

saved and delivered right there on the street. Some of them For two years, we met in several homes around the town.

eventually became pastors and elders in local churches.

Eventually, we had to move into the local town hall for our main meetings. The meetings exploded spiritually. One Proving God In the Marketplace

Sunday morning, a small boy started a chorus, and, as we After David and I were married, I worked in the account-sang, waves of the Spirit moved over the people. The people ing department of a company in London. God’s Spirit was seemed to go one way and the chairs the other way. Two moving, and many people came to our home fellowship. We hundred people ended up flat on the floor! Two first-time knew I was only a matter of time before we went into full-time Living in the Supernatural ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 10

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ministry. I was determined to leave that company with a great

“This flu shot is ninety percent proof,” he angrily told me.

testimony.

“Well, my protection is one hundred percent proof,” I The Spirit began to manifest His power in our office, and replied.

the people who worked there sensed the reality of the Lord.

Later that afternoon, I began to sneeze while my nose One of the things that caught the attention of the chief began to run and my eyes were watering.

accountant and the staff was how the Lord moved on my When it was time to go home, my co-workers called out behalf at the end of every month when we tried to balance laughingly, “See you in a couple of weeks.”

the books. While everyone else was frantically poring over In the train on the way home, I prayed, “This healing the huge ledger sheets looking for mistakes to correct, I thing was Your idea; so, now, it’s up to You, Lord. I must be would bow my head and pray, and the Holy Spirit would fit for work tomorrow.”

immediately tell me the error. Consequently, my books and But, I felt worse. When I arrived home, I told my husband accounts were balanced within a few minutes.

the situation and he prayed for me. I was healed instantly.

At one time, there was a mail strike which was expected to The next morning I arrived at work perfectly healthy, much last a couple of weeks. Since we were unable to send out to the amazement of the staff. Although they knew the Lord monthly statements, no one bothered to prepare them for had healed me, they didn’t want to acknowledge Him.

mailing. After a few days, the Holy Spirit told me to get the Then, the Lord added to it with an experience that hap-statements ready because the strike would be over in the pened after I left the company. After four months of serving morning. As I folded the statements and put them into in full-time ministry, I received a phone call from the chief envelopes, the assistant accountant asked me what I was accountant.

doing.

“Kathie, we have a mistake somewhere in our sales

“The Lord told me I can mail them in the morning,” I accounts, and we cannot find it. We have looked and looked replied. He just rolled his eyes in disbelief.

for the error with no luck in finding it. We thought that The next day’s early morning news reported that the strike maybe you could help us find the error. You could ask was over. I picked up my statements, hurried to the post office Him—you know, the Man up there—and He will tell you and was back by 9:20 A.M. When I returned, the chief account-where it is.”

ant asked me if I would help the others prepare their mail.

My old boss did not want to use the words “pray” or A few weeks later, there was an Asian flu epidemic in

“God,” but he was getting close. They were so desperate that London. The symptoms lasted two to three weeks. The chief he offered to pay me anything I wanted.

accountant arranged for everyone to get a flu shot, but I I knew this would be an excellent opportunity for God to declined.

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walked from the train station to the office, I said to the Lord, good mood. The Holy Spirit said, “She is rebelling against

“Father! This is a great occasion in order for You to be someone in authority in her life. Tell her this person only glorified in. They know that I am going to ask You where the wants what is good for her. I have placed that person in her mistake is, so, I believe that You will show me right away life.”

where it is.”

I began a debate with the Lord. (I have since learned that When I walked into the office, I found they had placed whenever I do that, I never win!) “Lord, if she comes out the about two hundred very large ledger sheets full of figures on same door I do, I’ll know You want me to talk to her.”

a desk. It would normally take at least a week to sort through Relieved that she went out the other door, I determined to them.

pray for her that night.

The other people were seated at their desks, pretending to As I walked toward my car, the Holy Spirit prompted me work, but, they were watching me out of the corners of their again.

eyes.

“I asked you to tell her.”

Bowing my head briefly, I prayed, “OK, Lord, now show

“If she is on my side of the store when I go back in,” I said, me.”

“I will know that You actually want me to speak to her.”

I turned the sheets one at a time.

I went back inside, and she went outside the opposite Suddenly, the Holy Spirit said, “There it is, in the middle door, talking to the customer with her. I was relieved.

of the page.”

But as I walked back toward my car, she suddenly headed I immediately spotted the mistake and showed it to the in my direction. I knew that if I continued to disobey the chief accountant. No more than five minutes had passed Holy Spirit, every time I went to that store, I would remem-since I began looking for the error. Everyone, including my ber my unwillingness to follow the Lord’s directions.

ex-boss, was stunned. As he thanked me, I said, “Don’t I took a deep breath and walked toward her.

thank me. You know I couldn’t have done that by myself.”

“Excuse me,” I said. “I am a Christian and I believe the Remember that the Holy Spirit in you knows all things. If Lord has given me a word for you.”

you are open, He will give you words of knowledge so you She looked as though she wanted to smack me, but I con-can witness to others. It will not always be easy, and some tinued to tell her what the Holy Spirit had shown me. Her face people may think you are crazy for obeying the Holy Spirit.

changed, and she began to cry right there in the parking lot.

But whatever their reactions, never underestimate what can

“I am a Christian, too,” she said. “My youth pastor has happen inside their spirits.

been trying so hard to minister to me, but I have rebelled I remember going to a grocery store where a girl was bag-against everything he’s tried to do. Tonight at my youth ging the groceries in the line next to mine. She was not in a meeting, will ask him to forgive me.”

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I was so grateful that I had obeyed the Holy Spirit.

“The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees On another occasion, my husband and I were eating the Father do” (John 5:19).

lunch in a very pleasant but crowded restaurant. After finally being seated, I noticed that the table next to ours had twelve He also said, “Without Me you can do nothing” (John people seated around it. They were giving the waitress a very 15:5).

hard time. The more difficult they were, the more upset the waitress became.

Though He said that He could do nothing of Himself, He When something wasn’t right about the order, one man proceeded to do everything.

lost his temper and yelled at her. The girl was embarrassed and turned away quickly, causing every waitress’s nightmare: Jesus Christ spoke—and then He demonstrated.

She dropped the tray of food!

My heart went out to her. I saw tears begin to run down He said, “I am the light of the world.” then He opened the her face as she bent down under the table to pick up the tray.

eyes of the blind.

I crawled under the table and smiled as I helped her pick up (See John 8:12; Luke 7:21.)

the food. Then I prayed a simple prayer for God’s peace to be evident.

He said, “I am the bread of life,” then He fed the five As the peace of the Lord came, she smiled and sweetly thousand.

attended to the angry people at the table. They calmed down (See John 6:35; Matthew 14:19–21.)

and were apologetic for their uncivilized behavior.

As we were leaving the restaurant she came running out, He said, “I am the resurrection and the life,” then He her eyes shining, “Thank you so much for praying,” she said.

raised the dead.

“I am a backslidden Christian, and my father is a pastor. All (See John 11:25, 43–44.)

week the Lord has been telling me to go back, make things right and fulfill the call of God on my life. This was a con-He came not only to teach but also to do.

firmation that He still loves me.”

(See Acts 1:1.)

What a blessing to see God’s love manifested to this girl.

The apostle Paul declared:

God wants us to be a channel of His blessing.

Doing Nothing but Accomplishing Everything

“For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.”

Jesus stated, “I can of Myself do nothing” (John 5:30).

—1 CORINTHIANS 4:20

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Chapter Three

Why is this so? This power demonstrates the kingdom of God. This is the kingdom of which Jesus spoke to the disciples and to the New Testament church. God bears witness to the gospel and the preaching of the good news, “both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will” (Heb. 2:4).

We are not to promote a lesser gospel than Jesus preached; nor are we to offer a weak, diluted demonstration of God’s Our Inheritance

goodness and grace. God’s promises are yes and amen. He is not a yes-and-no God of inconsistencies.

“For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me Silvanus, and Timothy—

was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes. For all the If someone notified you that you were to receive an in-promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, heritance, you would be curious to know what that to the glory of God through us.”

inheritance was. We are told in the Word of God that Jesus,

—2 CORINTHIANS 1:19–20

our elder brother, died and left an inheritance for us. (See Ephesians 1:11, 14; Acts 20:32.)

Jesus’ most important possession was a wonderful relationship with the Father. He fellowshipped with and knew the Father intimately. Jesus had the same mind and heart as His Father did, and as we yield our will to His will, we can too.

“I in them, and You in Me; that they made be made perfect in on, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as you have loved Me.”

—JOHN 17:23

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19 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Our Inheritance Eternal life is also included in this inheritance.

form of service or program we have. They don’t care what kind of Bible study we attend—as long as God’s life isn’t

“I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; flowing in us. We can do as many works as we want as long neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.”

as the Holy Spirit doesn’t show up and start manifesting the

—JOHN 10:28

life of Christ to people.

When my husband, David, preached in the public schools Supposed your attorney read you only part of a will? Or in England, no one minded when he gave little talks on what if many things had been given to you and your family Christianity. But, when the Holy Spirit began to move upon that you never knew about because you tucked the will them, and the kids repented, wept and were healed, then the away in a drawer somewhere? Satan tries to hide from us demons got mad.

the reality of our inheritance in Jesus.

The apostle Paul said:

When Jesus began His ministry, religious spirits blinded many people’s eyes just as they do today. For my first nine

“My speech and my preaching were not with persua-years as a Christian, I was blinded in many areas. I knew sive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration about only part of my salvation—I didn’t know anything of the Spirit and of power.”

about Jesus’ provision for my healing, the baptism of the

—1 CORINTHIANS 2:4

Spirit or the gifts of the Spirit.

Paul wrote:

This demonstration of power is also our inheritance.

I love to see signs and wonders. I love to see the things my

“The gospel…is the power of God to salvation for heavenly Father can do. I delight in it, for there is nothing everyone who believes.”

more wonderful than to be where God’s Spirit is moving

—ROMANS 1:16

with a demonstration of the awesomeness of His love and power.

We are to have the same quality of life that Jesus had. It’s Jesus reached multitudes in a short time. How did He our inheritance. We are to walk as Jesus walked—in com-always know what was happening in the spirit realm? How munion with the Father. The life of the Father flowed did He speak words that pierced the hearts of the people and through Him, conquering demons, sickness, death, hate met all their needs? He always knew their motives. He oper-and even false religion.

ated in peace and confidence. He listened to the voice of His But the devil tries to deceive us with religious spirits Father and was led by the Holy Spirit in all He did.

which rob the people of God. Even “good” can become the Jesus wasn’t governed by the natural realm; He was gov-enemy of best. Religious spirits aren’t intimidated by the erned by what the Father said. A good example occurred when

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21 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Our Inheritance Lazarus’s sisters sent Jesus a message telling Him their Her faith was limited. He spoke to her, “Your brother will brother was very sick. The Bible tells us that Jesus loved rise again” (v. 23).

Lazarus.

Then she spoke about…“the resurrection at the last day”

You or I would have dropped everything and caught the (v. 24).

first bus, train or plane to get there as quickly as possible. But Her faith was in the future, not the present—and it was Jesus didn’t go anywhere for two days.

actually just hope, not faith. Mary repeated what her sister said in verse 22.

“When He [Jesus] heard that he was sick, He stayed So Jesus heard with His ears that He was too late. When two more days in the place where He was.”

they rolled away the stone from the tomb, His eyes told Him

—JOHN 11:6

that He was too late. And when He smelled the stench of the body, His nose also told Him that He was too late!

I can image the people around Him saying to each other, Everything in the natural realm gave Jesus information.

“I thought Jesus loved Lazarus! He doesn’t seem to care But He was not motivated by the natural, rather by the voice very much. He isn’t even going to see him.”

of the Father. (See Isaiah 11:3.) He obeyed that voice, saying, But Jesus was not motivated by the things His ears heard or

“Lazarus, come forth!” (v. 43). And immediately “he who even by the needs of the people. He was motivated by the had died came out” (v. 44).

voice of His Father. He stayed until His Father released Him The natural realm may shout the loudest, but the Holy to go. Until we learn to discern, listen to and obey the Spirit, Spirit has more authority than the natural realm.

we will just stumble around, trying to help others in our Do you want to learn to live in the Spirit and walk in the strength through the natural realm. We will experience a Spirit? Do you want to live in the realm of the miraculous, major victory in our lives when we learn to minister through see the anointing of God, talk to the angels, have the Holy the power of the Holy Spirit, who brings life into every cir-Spirit lift you into the heavenlies and reveal Jesus to you?

cumstance.

Then there is only one way. Learn to feed from the tree of After waiting for two days, Jesus went to Judea, telling His life, which is Christ Jesus.

disciples that Lazarus was dead (v. 14). It probably seemed My husband and I, along with others from our church, pointless to the disciples to make the trip, yet they went with prayed for a young lady named Pamela who was a diabetic.

Him. Upon arriving at Lazarus’s home in Bethany, Jesus She was healed and delivered. Several months went by, and learned that His friend had been dead for four days.

she had no problems. One day, she came to our home to tell The first comment of Martha, Lazarus’ sister, was, “Lord, us that the symptoms of diabetes had returned. David asked if You had been here, my brother would not have died” (John her if she could think of anything which might have caused 11:21).

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Chapter Four

the door to be open for this sickness to return. She insisted there was no sin, no reason she could think of. The Holy Spirit showed us that she had unforgiveness in her heart, but Learning

she insisted that she did not.

Some other friends came to our home, and we prepared supper. Suddenly, David turned to Pamela and said, “Whom to Know the

do you blame for your diabetes?”

She cried out, “It was my mother’s fault. She dropped me Holy Spirit

when I was a small child, and I went into shock. After that I became a diabetic.”

(There have been several known cases in which a sudden shock has caused the pancreas to cease functioning, resulting in diabetes.)

There was no need for us to say anything since the tone in The truth and reality of Jesus are revealed to us by the her voice spoke louder than all her denials. She finally Holy Spirit as He leads, guides and teaches us. Before I repented. We prayed again, and she was healed—this time was baptized in the Holy Spirit, I felt as if I did no really permanently. The Holy Spirit is able to deliver, but we must know Him. Oh, I knew about Him, but I didn’t have an learn to listen to His voice.

intimate relationship with Him. But seeing His works and feeling His awesome presence gripped me with a passion to know Him. I asked Him to teach me His ways, to show me the things He liked and those that grieved Him. Some things we know only in our minds. But He reveals things to our hearts as He teaches us, and they affect our whole lives.

The Holy Spirit is a Spirit of truth. If we are to have an intimate relationship with Him, we must recognize that there can be no pretense with Him. Truth has to be accept-able to us even though it’s often easier not to hear it. We must love the truth; it’s the essence of His nature.

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25 ~ ~ ~ ~ Learning to Know the Holy Spirit Walking with the Holy Spirit requires devotion. God is Learning to Hear

the only One who has a right to demand our unquestioning loyalty. Although others may require or ask it of us, no mat-Many of us in the body of Christ have a great desire to ter how great or worthy a person may seem to be, we cannot hear the Holy Spirit’s voice and move out in faith. We want give unquestioning loyalty. All men are fallible and vulnera-to be a blessing, but we are fearful of making a mistake or of ble to making errors. Many people of God are confused on missing His voice. Not wanting to look foolish, we decide to this issue.

do nothing rather than risk taking actions prompted by the Our work, church, ministry or pastor cannot be placed Holy Spirit. We take ourselves too seriously most of the above the Holy Spirit in this matter of loyalty. We must sup-time. It puts a heavy burden on us to make everything go port, love and care for our leaders, but if we put them in the right. Many things are beyond are control—God is ulti-place reserved for God, we will end up in trouble—and so mately in control. He is the only One able to change hearts.

will they. Many great ministries that have been worshiped for Everything is in perfect order in a graveyard, but no one their giftings have come falling down. Their Christian fol-moves either. I choose a life with a few messes rather than lowers were also to blame for lifting them up higher than death. (See Proverbs 14:4.)

where God had placed them in the Spirit.

When a toddler first learns to walk, he falls over many The Holy Spirit is part of the Godhead. God is a jealous times. But he doesn’t just lie on the ground saying, “I will God. It is important to realize that the Holy Spirit is also never try this again; this walking stuff doesn’t work for me.”

jealous if we give our affections or total loyalty to anyone or A toddler pulls himself up and tries again, falling many anything else apart from Jesus. He wants us to love Him and more times. It may take several days before he makes it fellowship with Him. He wants us to listen to His voice first, across the room.

to rely on Him so much that we do nothing without Him.

Don’t be afraid to make a mistake as you learn to walk in We must learn to listen to the Spirit in our hearts, waiting to the Spirit. You won’t lose your salvation. God will still love see what He says before we make commitments. We must you.

learn to be led by the Spirit and not be motivated by need.

In our first Spirit-filled church, we wanted to learn to hear When someone tells you of a problem or need, remember God’s voice and step out in faith. But none of us had ever to listen first to what the Holy Spirit is saying about it. Do been so bold before. All this “hearing from God” stuff was what He wants you to do in response. He knows the motives brand new to us, but we were determined to try.

and intents of each person’s heart—you don’t. (See Hebrews Frank, one of our young men, decided to learn to hear the 4:12.) His voice will become stronger in your spirit as you voice of the Holy Spirit and step out in faith. Late one obey His promptings.

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27 ~ ~ ~ ~ Learning to Know the Holy Spirit sandwiches and hot coffee for the street people who slept on the step was one of the elders holding a white dish with cover the benches down by the river. His wife, Anita, wasn’t too over it.

encouraging, as the ingredients he took for the sandwiches

“Thirty minutes ago, the Holy Spirit told my wife to make were to be used for dinner the next day.

this for you,” he said.

Undeterred, Frank rose off on his bicycle. It was a foggy, He put the dish into my hands and jumped back into his cold and damp night just like those in old English movies.

car. In the white dish was enough meat sauce for the four of Frank arrived and sat down on one of the benches with sand-us. Our guests never knew how close they came to having a wiches and coffee intact. He sat there for three hours with no very bland dinner!

one in sight. There wasn’t a soul anywhere. By this time, As you learn to walk in the supernatural, you may Frank was cold, hungry and thirsty. Eventually he realized stumble. If at first you don’t succeed, don’t quit—try again.

that even street people had more sense than to be out on A lot of us have spent most of our lives not listening to God.

such a miserable night, so he sat and ate the sandwiches It takes a little while to “tune in” to Him. Be patient and himself.

don’t give up—you will get it right. The Holy Spirit will When he related his experience to me, I asked him, “What encourage you. He desires to use you.

happened?”

A friend with a great faith-healing ministry in England

“I tried to walk in the Spirit and fell,” he responded.

and throughout the world once said, “When I began pray-But Frank didn’t quit. He got up, laughed at himself and ing for the sick, the first three people I prayed for died. I kept on walking.

thought I had a ministry of death! But then I said to the It was wonderful to watch people in our fellowship learn-Lord, ‘Your Word says that they will lay hands on the sick ing to hear from God regarding their giving. Sometime later, and they will recover.’ (Mark 16:18). ‘So I don’t care if I I invited a local pastor and his wife over for a spaghetti never see anyone healed. I will continue to pray, because dinner. The table was laid and the salad prepared, and I was You said it in Your word.’”

about to serve the spaghetti. Suddenly, I realized that I had Needless to say, it was not long before the Lord gave him completely forgotten about meat sauce. One can hardly a miraculous healing ministry.

serve up great piles of spaghetti with nothing at all to go on it. I was very embarrassed. These guests were not close friends. We were hoping to witness to them about the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

“Oh, Lord,” I prayed, “what now?”

Just at that moment, there was a knock on the door. On

Chapter Five

Yielding to

the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit draws and woos us. Our responsibility is to respond to Him. As we yield, He will do the things that are necessary for our growth.

There is a scripture that Satan twists to try to confuse us:

“Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”

—GALATIANS 5:16

Before my husband was filled with the Spirit, he spent years trying not to fulfill the lust of the flesh in order to qualify to walk in the Spirit. It was an impossible goal.

That is not the Holy Spirit’s way. The verse says that if we walk in the Spirit, we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. The emphasis is on walking in the Spirit—and the “will not”

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31 ~ ~ ~ ~ Yielding to Know the Holy Spirit becomes a promise. The works of the flesh are initiated by the Then God said something very wonderful:

flesh, whether they be good, bad or religious. They can

“The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your appear outwardly to be good—like the Pharisees. Outwardly peace” (v. 14).

they did good works, but Jesus called them “whited sepul-When Moses rested, God told him what to do.

chers.” The good works were not the Holy Spirit’s works, and He said, “Tell the children of Israel to go forward” (v. 15).

the fruit was not His fruit. It was not initiated by the Spirit.

The only place forward was the Red Sea. How ridiculous We read this account of the children of Israel in Hebrews 4: that sounds to the natural man.

But God said, “[Moses,] lift up your rod, and stretch out

“They to whom it was first preached entered not in your hand over the sea and divide it” (v. 16).

because of unbelief…he that is entered into His rest, The people went through on dry land in the midst of the he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did sea. What a great supernatural victory!

from His.”

This is God’s way. He did it.

—HEBREWS 4:6,10, KJV)

“His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him Isn’t that wonderful? What a relief! We do not have to the victory.”

produce our own works any longer. It is a matter of simply

—PSALM 98:1

letting the Holy Spirit have His way in our lives.

Imagine being in Moses’ shoes. (See Exodus 14.) He was As soon as Moses was totally dependent upon God, God in charge of all the people of Israel. They had left Egypt and used His arm to part the sea. Moses was blessed to be a part were by the seashore. Pharaoh, with all of his army, horses of the miracle. God wants to use us in supernatural ways, and chariots, came thundering after them. There was no-but He cannot use the arm of our flesh. Learn to rest in where to go: The Red Sea was in front, and Pharaoh was Him and believe that…

behind. They were trapped and afraid.

“…He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all In the natural realm, the only thing for Moses to do would that we ask or think, according to the power that be to shout, “Run for your life! Every man for himself!”

works in us.”

But, Moses said, “Do not be afraid. Stand still….”

—EPHESIANS 3:20

That sounds extremely ridiculous to the natural mind.

But Moses wasn’t finished speaking. He continued, “…and The Anointing

see the salvation of the Lord” (Ex. 14:13).

Moses had to put down his own arm of strength because We must yield the Spirit and let Him initiate the works.

there was nothing he could do.

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If they are initiated by Him, they will be anointed; if they are not, there will be no anointing upon them.

Only the anointing can destroy the yoke of flesh. Merely The

breaking the yoke is not enough; that which is broken can be repaired, but that which is destroyed in finished. We must desire and seek the anointing. God will never anoint the Holy Spirit’s

flesh or man-made programs, because “no flesh should glory in His presence” (1 Cor. 1:29).

Visitation

God is not interested in religious superstars even though many Christians are. The unity of the body of Christ only comes through the Spirit. Not even man’s attempts through religious or ecclesiastical rules or agreements in doctrine or theology can bring unity.

The psalmist says:

During a Sunday service at our church, a guest minister suddenly spoke a word by the Spirit:

“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for

“Are you going to push through the crowd like the woman brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the pre-who touched the hem of Jesus’ garment?”

cious oil upon the head, running down on the beard, The Holy Spirit sent that word right to my heart, and I the beard of Aaron, running down on the edge of his responded, “Oh, yes, Lord, whatever that means in my life, garments.”

I want to press right through the crowd.”

—PSALM 133:1–2

Each one of us has our own personal “crowd.” That crowd consists of things that keep you from touching Jesus.

The oil never touched the flesh. It went on his head, then My crowd may not be the same as yours, although some down his beard and onto his garments. God will not anoint things may be similar. The crowd in your life may be tele-our old fleshly ways.

vision, or it may be people you have placed before God in Jesus said:

your loyalty and affection. It may be golf, sports or even your ministry. But if you ask the Holy Spirit, He will show you

“No one puts new wine into old wineskins.”

the crowd. Then you have to determine to push past it and

—MARK 2:22

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35 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Holy Spirit’s Visitation move it out of the way. You must be aggressive. Whatever

“I know everything is going to be fine,” she said.

captures so much of your attention that you think you can’t (Later, she gave birth to a seven-and-a-half pound baby live without it is the bondage which must be broken.

with no problems.)

Religious bondage can be very deceptive and difficult to At that time, her husband, Mac, arrived home from work.

discern. Two of our Christian friends, Mac and Pauline, He did not know what had happened so Pauline excitedly were members of the church we attended before we became related her experience to him.

aware of the Holy Spirit’s power. Pauline had suffered David suggested that we pray together before we left. The through several miscarriages and was pregnant again.

four of us stood in the middle of the room to pray. Mac was One morning she called us on the phone to ask us to pray.

considered by many to be a very spiritual man. He had been She felt that another miscarriage was starting to happen. She well-taught in the Scriptures for many years and probably had received prayer for healing but to no avail.

knew the Bible better than most of us.

Ian Andrews, a friend who had been ministering nearby, As we stood together praising the Lord, the Holy Spirit dropped in to see us. We sought his insight on the situation, suddenly gave me a vision of a piece of white typing paper in telling him about the miscarriages and the failure of our a typewriter with the words “Love you” on it. I shared how prayers for healing. “I believe she needs deliverance,” he the vision made the words seem very impersonal.

told us, “not healing. You need to rebuke the spirit of infir-Suddenly, David turned toward Mac and spoke to the mity which has come down through her family tree and is spirit within him. “You cold, hard religious spirit, come out causing those miscarriages.”

of him!”

He encouraged us to pray for her as soon as possible.

Mac looked up, then closed his eyes and slowly sank to the We called to tell Pauline that we were coming over to pray floor, doubled over. We all stared in disbelief. David could with her. By the time we arrived, the Lord had given her this hardly believe his own voice. After a few minutes, Mac arose verse:

looking a little shaken, but he seemed fine and we went home.

What happened next is very important. Mac was a good

“Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be person. He knew all the right doctrines and had lived all his saved.”

life among Christians. But when that religious spirit left

—JOEL 2:32

him, he had no desire to serve God anymore. He never attended another prayer meeting or any other kind of We prayed and rebuked the spirit of infirmity just as Jesus Christian meeting after that day. He didn’t want to because had done. (See Luke 12:11–12.) After several minutes a he wasn’t interested. He was still a nice, kind person, but he demon manifested itself. Pauline went into convulsions.

wasn’t a Christian. Apparently, he never had been one.

Soon the spirit left, and Pauline began to weep and rejoice.

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37 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Holy Spirit’s Visitation We often judge so much by what we see and hear in the nat-things right with the Lord. While we were praying late one ural. All of us assumed that Mac must be a Christian because evening, there was a sudden sense of the Holy Spirit’s pres-he was so good and knew so much about the Bible. But Mac ence in the room.

apparently just had a religious spirit. Non-Christians can be The Holy Spirit said, “Jesus is now where He should be.”

very nice people. But being nice, kind, generous and religious Suddenly a noise like a wind came into the house. We all isn’t the issue. People can have so much religious or biblical sat up with eyes wide open, not speaking, but excited and a knowledge that they constantly amaze you, but that isn’t the little scared. The wind rushed around the room and sud-issue either. The question is, do they love Jesus? Have they denly fell on one of the young men. He began to experience established a relationship with the Father?

deliverance as the Holy Spirit filled him. Then the wind Mac later told us that he had never had a relationship went to the next person, and the same thing happened. It with the Lord. But no one challenged him, so he continued continued for several hours until everyone had been set free in this way for years until the Holy Spirit shone His light on by the Holy Spirit.

the situation.

Finally, a strange thing happened. We could see and hear I was still seeking the Lord concerning the word He gave in the spiritual realm just as we could in the natural. Then about “pushing through the crowd.” During that time, many an even stranger thing happened! Some demons came bang-people who needed accommodations were staying at our ing and knocking on the windows. They were screeching house. David was away preaching in churches and schools and making all kinds of noises. We felt they were just trying in different parts of the country, and a teacher friend named to frighten us and make us stop seeking the Lord. They must Sheila was spending her summer vacation with me. Three have been there before, but we hadn’t been able to see them.

young men were also temporarily staying at our home. One We just went to bed (although Sheila did ask if she could was an architect who was between jobs. The other two share my room for the night.) In the morning, the demons worked for themselves in a small business.

were gone, and a great peace filled the house.

During a three-day period, we felt impressed to wait on There is no substitute for the Holy Spirit. He is the only the Lord in prayer. We ate very little since we spent most of One who knows all things. The Holy Spirit will call you, the time praying. We weren’t on a planned fast; we simply speak to you and draw you so that you will yield to Him.

forgot to eat.

Sometimes we behave as if He isn’t doing anything, as if The Holy Spirit began to reveal areas in each individual’s He’s nowhere around. We think He is not interested in us.

life where there were bondages. These were not major sins, But that’s a lie; He is always present. He loves to reveal Jesus just small things, but we recognized idolatry as the real to His people. We can’t change ourselves or others.

problem. As God revealed these changes, each of us put

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“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

—2 CORINTHIANS 3:18

Discerning

by the Spirit

One early lesson the Holy Spirit taught us was the difference between human sympathy and compassion.

Sympathy is a natural human reaction to need. But it will not set people free from their problems, whether these problems are bondage, loss, depression or sickness in any form.

The Holy Spirit gives compassion. Real compassion produces righteousness, and God’s righteousness will produce action. The Holy Spirit’s actions are always released to bring people to the truth. Jesus said, “The truth will make you free” (John 8:32). It will free a person from sin, death and all of death’s works.

Bondage is the work of death. Fear, sin, disease, worry and emotional or financial needs will keep us from the liberty Jesus promised in the Spirit. (See Romans 8:21; 2

Corinthians 3:17.)

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41 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Discerning by the Spirit This area of loyalty to the voice and leading of the Holy We were a little shocked, but we did as he said. The poor Spirit will always be tested. Old habits or patterns of behav-girl looked miserable all through the meeting.

ior will cause you to react to need without asking God to When we were back at our friend’s house after the meet-show you what is going on in the Spirit.

ing, I asked why no one had ministered to the young lady.

Before we knew how to minister according to the Spirit, Ralph and Michele explained to us that she had received we visited a small church located in a tiny village called some ministry and deliverance earlier that afternoon. But South Chard in Somerset County in the southwest of the key to her total deliverance would be for her to give up England. The Spirit of the Lord was moving mightily in that her self-pity and get her life focused on Jesus and His will for church. People’s lives we being touched. We were very her. The spirit of self-pity had been in her since she was a excited but apprehensive, as we didn’t really understand small child. She had used the spirit in order to gain atten-anything about the ways of the Spirit. After supper, we tion, and it was a battle for her to let it go. But doing that was attended the Saturday evening meeting along with many vis-a decision only the person involved could make.

itors from England, Sweden, Iceland, Holland, Germany The next morning in the Sunday service I was amazed to and the United States.

see the girl worshipping the Lord with all her heart. The joy We were early, so there was time for some fellowship of the Lord was shining through her, and she received a before the meeting started. We were introduced to a few mighty deliverance and baptism in the Spirit. She was later people by our friends Ralph and Michelle. David and I used very effectively among the young people in Sweden.

noticed a young lady sitting by herself and crying. No one I really learned something from that experience. Sympathy seemed to notice, and I felt sorry for her. I thought, “What is will not set anyone free, but the truth will. If you sympathize the matter with these people? They are supposed to be so with sickness, your sympathy will never bring healing. If you spiritual; how can they just ignore this poor girl?”

sympathize with religious spirits, people will not come out of I sat next to her, putting my arm around her. She contin-dryness. A compassionate heart learns how to minister the ued to cry and mumbled something about how bad she felt.

truth motivated by love.

She complained that no one loved her. I didn’t really know That same weekend I received my baptisms. I was baptized what to do or how to minister to her except to offer my by immersion for the first time. I also received a mighty bap-sympathy.

tism in the Holy Spirit. I was unable to stop speaking in I tried to call my friend Ralph over, but the just smiled and tongues. During that weekend we were amazed to see so continued to talk to someone else. Then the pastor came by many speaking out in prophecy, giving words of knowledge and said, “Leave her alone. God is dealing with her, and she and messages in tongues, telling about visions and revelations, will be delivered before the weekend is over.”

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43 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Discerning by the Spirit a formal, planned message prepared by a pastor. Several their ancestors, looking for Westerners to bail them out with people ministered and brought the Word of God. The Holy handouts. We encouraged them to grow a variety of fruit and Spirit orchestrated the entire series of meetings.

vegetables not only to improve their diets, but also to sell at The pastor was a little man who sat at the back of the the local markets. We told them how to pen their chickens in church, preaching only occasionally. When he did minister, order to have eggs available, rather than searching all day for he stood on a chair and, with tears running down his face, one or two eggs.

preached about the love and presence of Jesus. All this had a We must teach the poor to walk in the Lord’s provision profound effect upon me. It gave David and me a hunger to and to give to others. They can be led by the Spirit to become know Jesus and the Holy Spirit in the way the pastor was a channel of God’s blessing.

describing. Although the church had only about 150

Many people with compassionate hearts try to minister to members, it had eight full-time ministers. These men and people’s needs rather than pointing them to the Lord. It’s women lived by faith, traveling in England and abroad to very hard not to respond immediately when people cry out minister in conferences, churches and home fellowships.

for help. We saw an illustration of that in the story of the The pastor encouraged us to have regular meetings in our death of Lazarus. If people expect us to meet their needs, hometown.

they will never develop a faith relationship with God. They will always be dependent upon others for healing, finances Ministering to the Needy, Not to Needs

or counseling.

It is a good thing to give money to the poor. But if that’s A minister friend of mine who could hear God in a all you give, it will not ultimately help the person to whom remarkable way once said, “I would not give a penny to a you are ministering.

beggar unless the Lord told me to.”

During the early seventies, we preached in the villages of Most Christians are unable to discern the Lord’s leading Kenya where the people are poor. After giving away most of to that degree.

our money, the Lord gave me a dream about fruit and This is not to suggest that you close your heart to the vegetables. At first I didn’t understand, but then the Lord gave needy, as the priest and the Levite did on the Jericho road David understanding from Joel 2:22–32. We began to break (Luke 10:30–37). It is always best to give and minister to the spirit of the locust, the cankerworm and the devourer.

those in need unless the Lord clearly tells you not to. As long Most of them were growing only millet (a rough grain, as you are open to His leading, God will direct and guide heavy in starch) from which they made bread. Yet their land you in this difficult area.

was fertile and could grow many kinds of vegetables and There is a fine line between the concept, “If I don’t save fruit. They lived under a poverty curse passed down from the world, nobody will” (which is often called a messiah Living in the Supernatural ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 44

45 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Discerning by the Spirit complex) and “The Lord can do it just as well without us,”

The heart will have to choose which to obey. As we grow or “He does it anyway, in spite of our puny efforts.”

in the Lord and begin to delight in His will, our hearts will It’s very important for us to learn to flow in the Holy learn to follow after the spirit. Thus, the mind realm bows to Spirit in our everyday lives, anticipating with joy what the third place but eventually becomes enlightened with revela-Lord has in store for us.

tion. The spirit allows the light to enter, and the revelation reaches the mind with illumination.

The Fella in the Cellar and

Arthur related a true story to illustrate this idea. One rainy the Fanatic in the Attic

Sunday afternoon he was traveling by bus between two towns in the English countryside. The rain is always cold in We have a wonderful friend, Arthur Burt, who was a con-England, and buses run infrequently, often with a two-hour temporary of Smith Wigglesworth. He has ministered to wait between.

the body of Christ for at least forty years. This man was used Suddenly, Arthur’s spirit said, “Arthur, get off the bus at greatly by God to teach us the ways of the Spirit. He the next stop.”

explained the makeup of our beings in this way.

His mind immediately responded, “You must be mad.

Each of us is like a house. We each have a spirit that is made You’re in the middle of nowhere, and its pouring rain. That alive by the Holy Spirit of God. We call that spirit the “fanatic was not the Spirit of God speaking to you; it was your imagin the attic.” This fanatic can see from the heights and around ination.”

corners with unlimited vision from it’s bird’s eye view.

His spirit spoke again, “Arthur, get off the bus at the next Each of us also has a mind, which may be brilliant in the stop.”

natural realm. We call it the “fella in the cellar” because it Again that voice from the cellar prodded, “But there won’t cannot see above ground level; it cannot see in the spirit. The be another bus for two hours. Are you mad?”

fella in the cellar knows nothing about the future and can Arthur’s heart was left to choose which voice to obey. If he only make decisions according to its sense knowledge. It is a did not press the bell, the bus would not stop. Arthur jumped servant but would like to be the boss.

up and pressed the bell, and the driver stopped the bus. It There also is the “guy in the middle”—the heart or soul.

pulled away leaving Arthur standing in the pouring rain.

The heart must decide which to follow—the fellow in the His mind shouted, “That wasn’t God speaking to you—now cellar that shouts the loudest or the fanatic in the attic. The you’re in a mess. You’ll get soaked to the skin while you wait fanatic in the attic sees in the spirit and wants to follow two hours for the next bus.”

God’s call, but the fella in the cellar with it’s limited sight But, a few minutes later, a passing car screeched to a halt fearfully struggles against the fanatic.

and a voice said, “Brother Arthur, this must be God!”

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He recognized a young lady whom he knew.

“Get in,” she said. “We are on our way to Brother Cecil Stuart’s meeting. Will you come with us?”

The Judgments

When they arrived, Cecil saw Arthur and said, “Brother Burt has arrived. I believe God has sent him to preach to us tonight.”

of the Lord

Arthur preached with a great anointing that evening.

Many exciting adventures await those who let the fanatic Are True

in the attic lead the way. We must learn to listen and obey the voice of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is the only one who knows the intents and motivations of the heart.

“The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous alto-gether.”

—PSALM 19:9

Isaiah prophesied of Jesus, “His delight is in the fear of the Lord, and He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of the ears; but with righteousness He shall judge the poor” (Isa. 11:3–4).

Jesus said, “I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me” (John 5:30).

He also warned, “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment” (John 7:24).

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49 ~ ~ ~ The Judgments of the Lord Are True Jesus Christ did not make personal judgments, but He Several people were in the room, and I tried to join in the allowed the Father, who knows the secrets of hearts, to make conversation; but my thoughts were totally out of control. I the judgments.

was amazed to see Arthur Burt in the chair to my right, sip-The apostle Paul stated, “He who is spiritual judges all ping orange juice and talking with a young man.

things” (1 Cor. 2:15). Who is “he who is spiritual?” Is it the I thought, “Well, Arthur Burt, I thought you were so one who knows all the Scriptures? No, religious demons can spiritual. How can you just sit there and not do anything?”

quote reams of Scripture verses.

Time passed, with everyone still chatting and drinking Is it one who prays a lot? Not necessarily, but it certainly their coffee and juice. Suddenly, Arthur put down his orange helps. Some pray out of a religious mind rather than accord-juice and gave a very loud message in tongues, which was fol-ing to the direction of the Holy Spirit. But all true prayer is lowed by the interpretation. It was something like this: “God initiated by the Holy Spirit, who know what to pray for and will reveal all things and bring everything into the light.”

how to pray for it and who always gets a response from God.

Then he continued drinking his juice and talking as if The spiritual person is the one who is learning to walk nothing had happened.

like Christ, depending on the Father and waiting to hear When I returned to the home where we were staying, the from heaven. He does not depend on the seeing of the natu-Lord gave me understanding about the situation. God had ral eye or the hearing of the natural ear.

graciously given the man an opportunity to repent. He had While living in England, we made several ministry trips to spoken to the man’s heart through His Word, through a the United States. On one trip, we visited a very sweet group friend and finally through the Holy Spirit. Because he of Christians located on the outskirts of a Southern city. The refused to hear and obey, God’s judgment was now bringing church consisted of several small home groups that met twice the sin into the light.

a week, with all the groups meeting together twice a month.

God had been unable to use me because I judged the man During the week, we would minister in the smaller meetings.

in my own heart when I saw the spirit of adultery. My judg-On one Sunday, we had been invited to speak at a large home ment was not righteous or full of compassion. But Arthur group since there was no general meeting. One of the elders did not make that kind of judgment; he waited until the offered to introduce us to the home-group leader.

Spirit of the Lord spoke through him.

As we arrived at the home of the elder on Saturday Why did Jesus spend time with the harlot but did not try to evening, he came to the door to greet us. He smiled pleas-persuade the rich young ruler to follow Him? It has to do with antly and seemed very nice, but when I shook his hand and the heart. He alone knows the heart. King David sinned looked into his eyes, I was flabbergasted to see a spirit of greatly by committing adultery, lying and murdering adultery looking straight at me.

Bathsheba’s husband, Uriah the Hittite. But when confronted

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by Nathan (2 Sam. 12), he confessed and repented. God referred to David as one “who kept my commandments and who followed Me with all His heart, to do only what was right in my eyes” (1 Kings 14:8).

If you have judged anyone according to your own judgment, repent and ask the Lord to reveal His heart for that Amazing

ministry or person before you try to fellowship with the Holy Spirit.

Grace

If you have been judged with a false standard by another person or by a church, first forgive them and break the spirit of false judgment and false standards over you. Even God’s standards, if given in a legalistic spirit, do not manifest the heart of God, because they do not contain His grace.

When you receive a word from the Lord for someone, and We are saved by faith in God’s wonderful grace. We it contains correction or rebuke, be sure that your own emo-come to the cross realizing that we cannot do any-tions and biases are not involved. Wait on the Lord. Jesus thing to earn our salvation. As the words of a famous hymn never reacted; rather, He always acted under the direction of state:

the Holy Spirit. If you react, your emotions will distort the Nothing in my hands I bring,

word of the Lord, even though what you say may contain Simply to thy cross I cling…

some truth. A correction will become an accusation.

Not the labor of my hands

If someone has judged you wrongly, and you want to set Can fulfill thy law’s demands…

him straight, wait on the Lord. He will tell you whether to (“R

keep silent or to speak.

OCK OF AGES,”

BY AUGUSTUS

MONAGUE TOPLADY,

1740–1778)

When did grace ever stop?

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“And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; other-Presenting us faultless before the Father is Jesus’ privi-wise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it lege. No one else, however spiritual, is able to do that—not is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer your pastor, your best friend or your spouse. Do not let any-work.”

one else control your life. In the final count, you are answer-

—ROMANS 11:6

able only to Him.

Jesus died for you. You are owned by the Son of the living Paul reprimanded the Galatians for the same thing: God; you are His property (Eph. 1:13–14), and sealed by His Spirit ((Eph. 4:30). You are accountable to Him. His

“Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, Spirit will guide, teach and instruct you in the truth.

or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish Having Someone else’s revelation will be no excuse for your own begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect failure.

by the flesh?”

—GALATIANS 3:2–3

Having a Submissive Spirit

God gets all the glory for our salvation. He will not share Unfortunately, some leaders try to control and manipulate His glory with another.

people under the guise of submission. Instead of encouraging the people to hear and obey the voice of God for them-

“I am the Lord, that is My Name; and My glory I selves and to help them walk in the Spirit while nurturing will not give to another, nor My praise to carved potential gifts, the leaders have used and abused believers in images.”

order to build their own ministries or churches.

—ISAIAH 42:8

God is in the process of doing a giant rescue operation to bring out all those giftings, ministries and anointings that God does choose to share His glory with His children.

have lain dormant in the Body of Christ. Gifts of healing and (See Psalm 84:11; 2 Corinthians 3:18.) But, any attempt to miracles are flowing through individual ministers, but much steal it ends in tragedy.

is buried within the church body. But it will come forth just The Bible says:

as Lazarus came forth from the grave. God will bring forth the gifts He has deposited in your life if you believe in Him

“[He] is able to keep you from stumbling, and to and seek His face.

present you faultless before the presence of His glory A submissive spirit is having openness to others, being with exceeding joy.”

teachable and aware that you could be wrong. Suppose you

—JUDE 24

felt the Holy Spirit told you to make a trip to Germany.

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Wouldn’t you ask for prayer from people who loved you and could hear from the Lord?

Perhaps a friend came to you saying, “I don’t feel right in my spirit about your plans to go to Germany.”

If you are submissive, you will be open to the possibility that you may be wrong. Seek the Lord sincerely with an Faith—

open heart.

The Lord may say, “You are to pray for Germany, but you God’s Vehicle

are not to go there.”

Or, He may say, “Proceed with your plans.”

You can ask for confirmation, but you must believe He is sending it.

When two people get married, the minister says, “Does anyone have any just cause or good reason why these two Without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he should not be joined together in holy matrimony?”

who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He isn’t asking for agreement or approval of the marriage.

He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him”

They have already made the decision and are going ahead (Heb.11:6).

unless there is a legitimate cause why they shouldn’t (such I know many people who worry because they feel they do as one of them still being legally married to another person.) not have enough faith. That is the problem—they feel they Just so, it’s important that Christians are not controlled by do not have enough faith. Faith—God’s faith—has been the whims and prejudices of others.

imparted to us by the Spirit. It has nothing to do with how we feel. We believe with the heart, not the head. Jesus said to the Pharisees, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts?”

(Luke 5:22).

When it comes to faith, we need to stay in the Spirit. Satan can make us feel depressed, down or discouraged, throwing thoughts of fear at us. What we feel is irrelevant; it’s what we believe that will rule us.

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57 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Faith—God’s Vehicle The devil is a liar and a thief. When he comes around, say, must seek the mind of the Spirit, which never contradicts the

“Satan, I know you’re trying to discourage me, but what written Word. The Holy Spirit will tell us how to release our you’ve really done is remind me that I have received a word faith to believe for the blessing of God in our lives. If we seek from the Lord concerning this situation.”

first His kingdom and His righteousness, nothing will The Holy Spirit is an encourager. Discouragement and hinder our prayers. If other things come first in our lives, we self-pity go against the very nature of the Holy Spirit.

open the door of interference to the devil and thereby step Everything that the Holy Spirit does bears fruit. It is out of the flow of the Spirit.

impossible for Him to be barren. God is full of faith. He It’s like standing in the shower. The shower is spraying believes in Himself; He believes in the Son; He believes that the water, but if we step out, we are getting out of the flow of the Holy Spirit can do wonders and great miracles in your water.

life. God believes in His own ability and power, so we had When the children of Israel came out of Egypt, Balak, better agree with Him.

king of the Moabites, saw how many people there were and was frightened by them. (See Numbers chapters 22 and 23.)

“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abun-He knew what they had done to the Amorites. He didn’t dantly above all that we ask or [even] think, accord-want a battle, so he sent for the prophet Balaam.

ing to the power that works in us.”

Balaam disobeyed God by going to Balak, who had told

—EPHESIANS 3:20

him to curse the children of Israel. Balaam once again sought the Lord about it, although God had already told him That promise is tied to the amount of God’s power we three times that he was to bless the children of Israel.

allow to work in us. Even if we have broken the power of a Although Balak was a great king, Balaam returned to negative, religious spirit, it can come back in us through a Balak and said:

“works” mentality. The blessing of God is upon us in Christ Jesus. As we walk in Him, we will receive His provision by

“God is not a man that He should lie, nor a son of faith. There is no other way.

man, that He should repent [or change His mind].

Faith is like electricity. Turn on the switch, and you have Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, light. But without an electric current, nothing will happen.

and He will not make it good? Behold, I have Having the Word only in your mind produces no power; it received a command to bless; and He has blessed, and merely gives you mental assent to the truth. Faith releases I cannot reverse it.”

the power, but the Word of God (the switch) directs the flow

—NUMBERS 23:19–20

and tells you what to believe.

Many things are not spelled out clearly in the Bible. We We must tell Satan:

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“Satan, Christ has already blessed us, and you cannot pre-didn’t seem to have a personal relationship with Jesus.

vent His blessing.”

Although they sometimes visited our church and had heard Satan’s only power is to lie, and he will lie to you if you the gospel message many times, they just didn’t seem to get will listen. Reject his lies and speak the promises of God.

born again.

Jesus said,

After being filled with the Holy Spirit, we started having meetings in our house. One weekend we took my mother to

“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall the church in South Chard. She was not at all used to meet-make you free.”

ings which lasted four hours or more. The worship and the

—JOHN 8:32

praise, coupled with the presence of the Holy Spirit, stirred up something in her. She felt strange during those meetings.

Free from what? You are free from that which is true—in The choruses kept going around in her head, and she could the natural. It is true that you may be in need, but the truth not forget them. Though we had hoped she would be saved is that “my God shall supply all of your need according to and filled with the Holy Spirit that weekend, it wasn’t to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19).

happen without a trial of our faith.

It is true that we are weak, but the truth is that “I can do We were hearing excited stories and testimonies about all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil. 4:13).

the South Chard Full Gospel Church. A deacon had been It may be true that I am sick, but the truth is “by His saved in a remarkable way. Although his wife had attended stripes we are healed” and “by whose stripes you were church regularly for about two years, he was apparently not healed” (Isa. 53:5; 1 Pet. 2:24).

interested.

Satan uses many different lies to cause us to fear and to One Sunday morning, an evangelist taught on faith, keep us from God’s truth. If we learn to deal with the lie, exhorting the people to believe their prayers were answered then the fear will die.

at the time they prayed, according to Mark 11:24. She Faith in His Promises

received her husband’s salvation by faith. That night, as her husband slept, she said to him, “Little do you know that you Before we were filled with the Holy Spirit, my husband are saved!”

and I prayed regularly for our parents’ salvation.

The next Sunday, he decided to go to church with her, My mother was a sweet English lady who wouldn’t harm telling her that the only reason he was going was because he a fly, but she did not know the Lord. My father had died was tired of cooking Sunday dinner. During the worship, he when I was twelve.

had an incredible vision of Jesus and he began to weep. He David’s father was a nice Jewish man, and his mother was experienced a mighty salvation, was baptized in the Holy a devout Catholic full of good works. She revered God but Living in the Supernatural ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 60

61 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Faith—God’s Vehicle Spirit and was unable to speak except to pray in tongues for sounding different. We chatted for awhile, but I was expect-two whole days. He began to devour his Bible and soon was ing her to explode at any minute. Then she said, “I’m not ministering in the church meetings.

sure what to do tomorrow—I’m bored.”

Hearing this increased our faith for our parents’ salvation.

I suggested watching a movie on television, but she was As we prayed, the Lord said to us, “Do you believe that sal-tired of television. Then I suggested she visit her sister, but vation is for you and your house?” (See Acts 16:31.) she didn’t want to do that either.

We said yes. He reminded us that “what things soever ye Finally, she said, “I thought I might come to your desire, when ye pray believe that ye receive them, and ye meeting.”

shall have them” (Mark 11:24, kjv).

Hesitating, I said, “You will find it noisy and a little Once more, we claimed our family’s salvation in faith, strange. I don’t really know if you would like it.”

saying, “Lord, we will believe when we pray, not when we

“Don’t tell me what I would or wouldn’t like. How do you see.”

know?” she retorted.

After we finished praying for each parent, we simply said,

“All right,” I said. “You are more than welcome.”

“Thank You, Lord. As far as we are concerned, they are She came, hungry for the Lord, and got saved, filled with saved; it is done. Their names are in Your Book of Life.”

the Spirit and baptized in water. Because of our faith, some-Every day, we continued to thank Him. In our excitement, thing happened in the realm of the spirit. Satan can’t stand we forgot that they didn’t know Jesus yet, and we treated the against the faith. He has to bow to Jesus.

as though they were already saved. For six weeks, we contin-The salvation of David’s father came next. Although he ued to talk to my mom about Jesus until one day she sud-was Jewish, he did not practice his religion. A mild, easy-denly went into a rage. She told us to leave her house and going man, he wasn’t against David’s conversion ten years never return, saying that we had lost our minds.

prior; he just wasn’t interested for himself.

Because this happened after we had received her salvation After we were filled with the Spirit and received his salva-by faith, we gently said to her, “Jesus loves you.”

tion by faith, things began to happen. For several weeks, there We thanked the Lord that she was saved, even though she was no change, but we kept thanking Jesus that he was saved.

didn’t realize it yet. At times, even the sound of my voice on David’s mother related to us how he finally met Jesus. In the phone would anger her again. Putting down the phone, the middle of the night, he suddenly sat up in bed. She I’d say, “Thank You for her salvation!”

turned on the light to see what was wrong. Putting his hands Though my ears told me the opposite, I believed I had in the air, he said, while still asleep, “Jesus, my Messiah.”

received her salvation by faith.

When he awoke the next morning, he was changed. A few One Saturday evening, Mother called me, this time weeks later, he responded to an altar call at a Morris Cerullo

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crusade in London, going forward to confirm with his mind what had already happened in his heart. A short time later, David’s mother raised her hand for salvation at a local meeting in our hometown.

These experiences gave us faith to believe for others.

When we ministered in schools, we received salvation by Divine

faith for the youth. At first, fifty or so would be saved. But soon, we were believing the Lord for hundreds. As we exer-Visitations

cised our faith, we saw great outpourings of the Spirit.

Within a year our house meeting had moved into the local town hall to accommodate all of the people attending.

Teenagers were awestruck as the Lord revealed the secrets of their hearts. Revival was breaking out in the local schools.

God had seen the hunger in our hearts for His supernat-Ilove this scripture: “Thou hast granted me life and favor, ural work. We were willing to pay whatever price was neces-and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit” (Job 10:12, sary to see His power become effective in our lives and min-KJV). Glory to God! His visitations are real and powerful.

istry. In times of revival, expect radical things to happen!

Believe for them; expect them.

I have experienced many different kinds of visitations.

Sometimes the perfume of the Lord will come upon people in a meeting, usually resulting in deliverance. The smell varies; at times it smells like lilies, and at other times like roses or sweet apples. At one meeting, the smell of freshly baked bread filled the room (and there were no bakeries nearby).

At other times, people have felt oil on their heads or hands. In a large communion service with Morris Cerullo in London years ago, the auditorium was filled with a very light rain, which I felt on my face and hands for nearly an hour.

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65 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Divine Visitations Other visitations last longer. Their specific purpose is to lifted me up into the heavenlies, although I could often still bring a revelation of Jesus and the Father. You cannot choose hear the music from my car. I would find myself with Jesus to have a visitation. But if you believe in the realm of the and the angels, arriving at my destination with no recollec-supernatural, visitations will come from time to time. These tion of how I got there. Day after day this continued.

usually are personal, although they can be shared to encour-One day in particular I saw Jesus with a young girl. It age and minister to others. The Holy Spirit does not reveal looked like me. I felt as if I represented the Body of Christ as anything that is contrary to Scripture, but He enlightens our His betrothed. I saw the relationship develop between Jesus eyes to understand spiritual realities.

and the young girl. He was wonderful—full of grace, kind-While we were living in Orlando in 1986, one visitation ness and love—and she fell in love with Him.

lasted for seven days. During this time, the Holy Spirit As she spent time in His presence, she became just like arranged circumstances to make it possible for Him to Him. God’s Word tells us:

come and do what He had planned. David was helping a

“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a friend start a business, and he left the house every day at mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed 8:00 A.M., returning around 5:30 P.M. My two children into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the attended a local Christian school, leaving home at 8:00 A.M.

Spirit of the Lord.”

and returning at 3:30 P.M.

—2 CORINTHIANS 3:18

Each day, as I sat waiting upon the Lord, the Holy Spirit would come upon me at 9:00 A.M., lifting me into the heav-That is exactly what happened. She manifested the same enlies and showing me many things. Each day, He showed grace and kindness. Their love for each other was an awe-me awesome things pertaining to Jesus’ desire for His some thing to see.

Bride. It was wonderful, and I had such an intimate time Finally ready, she became His Bride. I saw the wedding with the Lord.

feast and her ruling and reigning with Him. People from Knowing that Jesus loves us is one thing; experiencing it every race, tribe and nation came to worship Him before His is an entirely different thing. I felt His love so much that I throne.

could hardly talk about it. Each day, at 3:00 P.M., the anoint-When I am praying for people and see rejection, pain, ing lifted, and I was back in my home in time to get supper anxiety, worry and fear on their faces, I tell them, “I want you and see to the needs of my children.

to know how much Jesus loves you—how much He In Virginia, in 1992, I had a similar visitation that lasted absolutely adores His Bride. I have seen His face when He three and a half weeks. This was not confined to home, but looks at us though our relationship with Him is the most it happened often while I was driving. As before, the Spirit wonderful thing that has ever happened.”

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67 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Divine Visitations The Song of Solomon is not just an allegory; it is a love see spiritual things with the eyes of faith. If you don’t believe story. We are His love, the object of all of His affections.

there are angelic ministers in your life you will never see them. You cannot see the things of the spirit if you have Angels

unbelief. Angels are a part of my walk with God. At times, Angels were a normal part of the life of the New Testa-someone will say, “You must not worship angels.”

ment church.

I don’t worship them; in fact, the only angels who would allow themselves to be worshiped are demonic angels, or

• Two angels spoke to the disciples when Jesus was taken demons. They love to be worshiped.

up into heaven. (See Acts 1.)

Religious demons try to seduce us to idolize personalities,

• The angel of the Lord opened up prison doors for the forms, programs, buildings, great ministries, our church or apostles. (See Acts 5.)

even our pastor. But God alone is worthy of worship.

• Another angel appeared to Philip and told him to go to

“That no flesh should glory in His presence…He Gaza. (See Acts 8.)

who glorifies, let him glory in the Lord.”

• An angel spoke to Cornelius about sending his servants to

—1 CORINTHIANS 1:29, 31

Joppa to get Simon. (See Acts 10.)

We should be grateful for God’s gifts, of various min-

• An angel loosed Peter from his cell in prison. (See istries, but we are not allowed to place them above the Lord Acts 12.)

in our affections.

• When Paul and Silas were imprisoned, an earthquake While in Columbus, Ohio, a few years ago, I went out for shook the prison.

a walk. An angel walked with me, telling me about the neighborhood for which my friends had been praying. He

• It must have been a band of angels that unlocked the told me about the little church on the corner. He showed me doors and loosed their fetters. (See Acts 16.) the homes of some people who would be leaving the area

• The angel of the Lord smote Herod. (See Acts 12.) and others where new families would be moving in. When I returned to Columbus the next year, many of these changes Angels ministered to Jesus on many occasions. Many had taken place.

instances of angels ministering to God’s people are recorded There is an angel who helps me to write, and he tells me throughout the Bible.

things that help me pray properly for people’s needs.

Though we aren’t really conscious of their presence, Sometimes he sits with me while I drive and tells me things angels are always around ministering to us. But we can only about Jesus.

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69 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Divine Visitations When my daughter Faith was in fifth grade, she liked to room, dressed in a fine, white silk robe and holding a piece wake up in the mornings to the music of Amy Grant. The of white material folded over his right arm. The seven-foot-volume had to be just right or she would go back to sleep.

tall, slender figure stood gazing at me, his eyes full of light.

One morning, the music was too soft, and she drifted back A thought came to me that he was black and not just dark. I to sleep. Suddenly, the volume turned up long enough to had never seen a black angel before.

awaken her and then turned down again.

“Who are you?” I asked.

The next day, she awoke early and played her tape He spelled out loud, “J-A-L-A.”

through one side. Since it was still early, she stayed in her

“That’s a funny name,” I replied.

bed. The tape stopped playing, ejected, was turned over and He answered, “You couldn’t say my name.”

began to play on the other side.

I thought that his name was probably too long to pro-Thirty minutes later, a friend who was staying in our nounce.

home came out of the bedroom. Her face shone as she said, I didn’t talk with him further, but went into the living

“I was quietly lying in bed praising God, and the door room to wait for my friend and my two daughters to return.

opened. I didn’t see anyone come in, but suddenly the whole When they got home, I did not say anything to them about room filled with the scent of beautiful perfume.”

the man in the other room.

Her room, next to Faith’s, had apparently been visited by My daughter, Faith, said good night and went straight to the same angel.

bed. She is the kind of person who falls asleep as soon as her At one time, we lived in Newberry, Florida, on a farm with head touches the pillow, and she sleeps soundly. After thirty a pool. We always prayed that an angel would look after any minutes, she started calling loudly, “Mama! Mama!”

child in our pool. While several children swam one after-I ran to her room and found her sitting up in bed, her eyes noon, each child saw the same angel standing in the same wide open.

place, at the same time. Apparently, he let them see him so

“Did you call me, Mama?” she asked.

they would know that they were divinely protected.

I told her, “No.”

In 1991, we were staying in a friend’s apartment in St.

But she pressed me, “Are you sure you didn’t come in and Petersburg, Florida. I had been praying for signs and won-call my name?”

ders so that the nations would know the awesomeness of

“No, I really didn’t,” I told her.

God. One evening, while the others went to a movie, I stayed

“But, Mama, didn’t you call my name in a deep man’s in my room. As I lay on the bed, asking God to pour out His voice?” she asked.

Spirit, I saw a light out of the corner of my eye. Looking

“No, Faith; I didn’t.”

around, I saw a figure standing near the doorway of the

“Who was it, then?” she asked.

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71 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Divine Visitations I told her about the angel who spoke to me and said it he was to have stayed for twenty-four hours, waiting until I must have been he calling her name. Breathing a sigh of had the peace of God.”

relief, she slipped back under the sheet and fell sound asleep.

“Which nation was he from?” asked Bob.

As I went back to bed that night, I was still aware of the

“I didn’t ask him,” I sighed, feeling foolish.

presence of the angel, but we did not talk. When I awoke the

“Well, now you’ll have to pray and ask God to show you next morning, he was still standing near the door. There was where he was from, because you are going to have to make a nothing at all frightening about his presence; it was awe-response.” Bob then ended the conversation with, “I’ll pray some, yet gentle. I was puzzled. He had a round, white hat for you.”

on his head and looked like someone from one of the African I asked the Lord to forgive me and to make it clear to me nations.

what nation He wanted me to go to.

I felt I needed to get some confirmation about this experi-The following morning, when I awoke, there stood in the ence.

same place another angel, short and slight but very pleasant I called a prophetic friend of mine and simply said, “Hi, to look at. He also wore a white robe, but it was more like a how are you?”

gown with gold edging. On his head was a small, round, flat After talking for a couple of minutes, Bob asked me what hat, slightly different from that of the first angel. His features the Lord was showing me.

were fine, and he was also black. He spoke just one sentence, Hesitating, I said, “Well, I was praying, and I saw a

“Will you come?”

man…”

I knew he was talking about Nigeria. Without hesitating, That’s as far as I got because he interrupted me saying, I said, “Yes.”

“He’s tall and slender, and he’s wearing a long, white, silk Later, as I sat drinking a cup of coffee in the living room, robe with some of it folded over his right arm, isn’t he?”

he suddenly appeared before the small coffee table which I just about fell off the chair I was sitting on.

was in front of me.

Bob continued, “He’s black and not just dark, isn’t he?”

“Are you sure that you will come?” he asked.

He said the exact same words I had thought when I first I was surprised, but again, I said, “Yes.”

saw the angel: He’s black and not just dark. When Bob said I thought about Nigeria all day, asking the Lord for some those words, a peace came into my heart. Then the angel other confirmation. That night, as I washed a few dishes, the smiled and just disappeared.

angel appeared again in the doorway.

“He is the angel over one of the African nations,” Bob

“Are you really sure that you will come?” he asked again.

continued. “He has come to call you to that nation.”

“Yes,” I replied very firmly. I felt a little irritated. It seemed

“But I didn’t even speak to him, I thought. “How gracious as if he didn’t believe me when I said I would go.

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73 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Divine Visitations I asked the Father, “Why did he ask me that repeatedly?”

“And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Immediately, God said, “Many people have said they Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, would go, but because there was no money in it, they never

‘Come over to Macedonia and help us.’”

went.” The Lord’s words pierced my heart.

—ACTS 16:9

“Give us the right contacts, then, Lord,” I said.

The angel of the Lord led Peter out of prison. Peter then God is now putting it all together. Our ministry receives a ran to Mary’s house and knocked at the door, and a young lot of requests for books from Nigerian pastors, schools and lady named Rhoda answered. She did not open the door, individuals. We always send something because of my prom-but she told the others that Peter was there. They told her ise to that nation.

that she was mad, but she insisted that Peter was at the door.

About a year before this episode, while walking on a beach

“It is his angel,” they said. (See Acts 12:13–16.) in Virginia, the Spirit of God fell on me, and I could not The Christians in the early church were used to the angels move another step. The presence of the Lord was in front of looking similar to people at times.

me like a pillar of light.

We are told to be hospitable, “for…some have unwittingly He spoke to me saying, “Both of you will minister to thou-entertained angels” (Heb. 13:2).

sands of black children. You will have meetings with twenty An angel must look similar to a human if it is possible for to thirty thousand children at a time, with awesome signs, us to entertain them unaware.

wonders and miracles that you have never seen before. I will Two angels met Lot at Sodom (Gen. 19), and he took pour out a great revival upon these children.”

them to his house for the night.

Although I have old few people about these experiences,

“Then he made them a feast, and baked unleavened we have had several letters from pastors in Nigeria telling me bread, and they ate” (Gen. 19:3).

that they knew I had angelic visitations concerning their Shortly after that, some men from the city came to Lot’s nation.

house, demanding that Lot deliver the two visitors into their We received a prophecy from John Watson’s church in hands. Obviously, the two angels were visiting the city in the Marion, Ohio, that we would have meetings with twenty to form of men and looked like everyone else.

thirty thousand black children at a time, with more signs, Over the last few years, there has been a tremendous move wonders and miracles than we had imagined. They knew of God in the jungle areas of Borneo and on the islands of nothing of the Lord’s word to me personally, or of those Sarawak. Many tribes have been saved. God has manifested angelic visitors.

His supernatural power to these desolate tribes in many dif-Angels can take many forms. Paul saw a man of ferent ways. Pictures and words depicting the gospel story Macedonia in a vision:

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75 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Divine Visitations have appeared in the sky. Miracles and visitations have still so strong from our conversation with the angel, caused occurred even to the children.

the spirit of fear to leave him. The Lord revealed to me that During a recent visit there, a Malaysian friend of ours as we minister with His anointing, all we will have to do is named Chris Choo learned that it was very common for speak His words, and the people of Israel, as well as others, angels to appear to the tribal peoples.

will receive deliverance.

Surprised by his question, “What do angels look like?”

God’s Heart to Bless

they replied simply, “They look just like us, of course.”

Israel With Signs and Wonders

Angelic visitations are normal events to these tribal people.

In July, 2008, I was in a great conference with Sid Roth in On my first visit to Israel, as I visited all the usual historic Boone, North Carolina. Sid Roth hosts an awesome and places, an angel accompanied me, often touching my arm very interesting television show which features him as he and whispering with a laugh, “He isn’t here.”

interviews many people who have had supernatural experi-Scripture says that, “God looks on His enemies and ences with the Lord. The anointing is tangible many times laughs.” (See Psalm 2:4, Psalm 37:13, Psalm 59:8.) as the stories come forth as the guests testify about the As I stood inside the garden tomb, my last stop, the angel increasing supernatural experiences while they give God all touched my arm again, “He certainly isn’t here,” he laughed the glory. When I was on the show, we had a tremendous triumphantly.

time—as we talked about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, It was so loud that I was sure everyone had heard it. But some could not even stay in their seats but slid down to the as I went out the little doorway, I laughed, too. I am sure floor laughing as they were touched by the Lord.

some people thought I was rather irreverent.

I want to share with you about a mighty blessing from On my second visit, an angel dressed in a uniform of an God which happened in the meetings on July 22nd. The Israeli army soldier appeared to my friend and me as we vis-message that came from God’s angel who helps to govern ited Abraham and Sarah’s tomb. He answered Doreen’s over the nation of Israel was a key strategy to reach unbe-questions about a festival to take place, said good-bye and lievers in that nation. God has many promises for the people vanished completely within seconds. The presence of God of the nation of Israel—the Jewish people who are living was so overwhelming that we could not stand up for nearly there now and for those who are now returning there after an hour.

being scattered in other nations for centuries.

Later, a man with a look of fear on his face stopped to ask On Friday, July 18th, before the conference began, the us a question. As I stood to answer him, his whole counte-Holy Spirit told me that people at that conference were in for nance changed in front of my eyes. The anointing of God, MAJOR changes. At least, there was going to be an invitation

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77 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Divine Visitations from Him to agree with His will. (He doesn’t make us Jews require a sign and they will have signs, and many heal-respond but invites us to).

ings and miracles.”

This is the vision I had Saturday night when Sid was The Messiah, Yeshua, the Deliverer, the Healer, and the speaking. I had a glimpse of an Angel with some blue on restorer, the forgiver of sins, will demonstrate His power in him but, behind that angel, suddenly I saw the hugest Angel Israel in signs and wonders!

I have ever seen. He was golden in color and he had huge Gary Oats also saw another Angel in the same meeting.

wings. This is first time I have seen an angel with wings like Here is his testimony of what he saw.

that. I almost got off my seat and crawled under the chair.

I saw a large angel dressed in white with a large blue It was the Archangel, Michael. I believe that God sends banner going from the right shoulder to the left hip.

His messengers from heaven to the heat of the battle many He placed a gold crown with jewels in the points on times. Their job is to obey His will and to go fight where Sid’s head. I saw the angel behind Sid, moving with they are assigned. As I was seeing this high-ranking angel, I him, several times during the meeting. The blue ban-knew that it was definitely on God’s heart to bless Israel and ner was very prominent. I felt like the crown repre-the enemy was just as determined to stop or diminish the sented an increase of authority in the spiritual realm.

promised blessings.

I later told him I thought the blue banner represented Every God appointed ministry and church has an angel an increase in revelation he was to receive.

who is appointed over it. There are other angels involved in that work of course, but there is one who will be appointed There is a mighty spiritual battle waging going on over over it and the other angels work in the ministry under the individuals, households and families, towns and cities and main appointed angel. These angels are different from the territories and nations. At a time when Israel is now being ones who are appointed to minister to us personally.

surrounded by threats from other nations--even nuclear There had been a lot of interference in the Spirit in the threats--God gave us a glimpse of what is happening con-meeting and a wrestling. I know that intercessors were pray-cerning His heart for the nation of Israel. He wants to pour ing all over on Saturday night, and they didn’t even know out His Spirit upon all flesh--including Israel. Will you join what they were praying for. When I saw Michael, then I real-in prayer for the moving of His Spirit, and the victory in the ized why there was such a strong spiritual resistance to Sid assignments of His holy angels and His people, as we all Roth.

labor together for His will to be performed. Israel needs a As I saw Michael come in, suddenly I knew in my spirit revelation of Jesus and His love, justice and salvation. Pray that God was calling Sid to signs and wonders in Israel.

in the Spirit for Sid Roth and the part he has to play in During the daytime the Lord kept saying to me, “The God’s strategies. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

Chapter Twelve

Intercession

God uses us in different kinds of intercession and prayer.

Jesus spoke of the prayer of faith:

“Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”

—MARK 11:24

I translate this verse like this:

“When you pray, believe you have it, and then you will get it.”

Jesus spoke of the woman who went to the unjust judge and kept knocking at his door until he granted her request for justice (Luke 18:2–6). There is a time to keep on knocking, 79

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81 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Intercession but then there is a time to receive the answer by faith. Our Obviously, they needed more than one filling. Religious prayers must be initiated by the Holy Spirit, who will reveal spirits do not mind if you know about the presence of God the mind of the Father to us. I spent many hours praying in your mind, as long as it doesn’t affect your life. They do according to my own mind before being filled with the Spirit.

not want you to experience fresh fillings from the Holy I had no idea what was on God’s heart or how to find out. But Spirit.

God graciously blessed my willingness with grace for my Waiting on the Lord for the Holy Spirit to reveal the ignorance.

Father’s will is a part of all intercession.

Our children were only concerned with their immediate

“Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For surroundings when they were small. But as they grew, they we do not know what we should pray for as we discovered the interests and concerns that David and I ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for shared, and they understood some of our long-term plans.

us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He Eventually, they understood how they fit into our lives and who searches the heart knows what the mind of the what part they had to play. They became a part of the action, Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints sharing our desire and commitment to minister to the chil-according to the will of God.”

dren of the nations. They understood our destiny.

—ROMANS 8:26–27

God wants us to know His heart. As we grow in Him, the Holy Spirit will show us the part we have in His great pur-Children can also be strong intercessors, weeping for poses for our own family, for His church and for the nations.

others with awesome visions and prophetic words as they Christians who have not been drinking from the well of pray. It is not enough for you children and teens to be good living water can have dry spirits. They may not have experi-kids; teach them how to be anointed, godly young people enced a refilling of the Spirit for several years. Christians are who hear from God. There is a big difference between just meant to experience the presence of the Lord and His Spirit being good and being godly.

continually. There is one baptism but many fillings. The During the Gulf War, we prayed regularly for our troops.

Book of Acts gives the example of the disciples: One evening, a neighbor and I and her two children, along with my daughters, Faith and Lisa, heard gathered around

“And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.”

the fireplace to pray. My daughter, Faith, had a “mini-movie

—ACTS 2:4

vision” which she described as follows:

Two chapters later, we read:

“I see an American place which has been hit, and it is

“They were all filled with the Holy Spirit…”

coming down. The pilot is OK. He is walking in the desert,

—ACTS 4:31

looking for somewhere to hide, because enemy soldiers are

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83 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Intercession quite near. We need to pray for him to find a hiding place.”

I knew that it was a demonic principality. As I watched, I saw She stopped and prayed.

an angel come from the corner of heaven with a large sword

“I see an American plane looking for him, but he is too far in his hand. The angel cut off the head of the ram, but the in the desert for them to come. We need to pray that they will body of the ram kept standing for a little while before it col-travel further and find him.” We prayed that the rescue plane lapsed.

would not turn back until they found the pilot.

I asked the Holy Spirit what it meant.

Later, we read the whole story of the rescue in the July, He said, “This day, President Amin of Uganda and his 1992 issue of Reader’s Digest. It even related the part about government are fallen in the spirit.”

the rescue plane nearly turning back because they were run-At times, God may give your spirit a revelation, but you ning short of fuel.

may not see the natural manifestation until later. Idi Amin’s God will share His secrets with those who intercede for government actually came to a natural end about seven His kingdom. The Scriptures say,

months later, but in the spiritual realm God had ended it that day.

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered While attending a prayer meeting in Orlando several years into the heart of man the things which God has pre-ago, the Lord told me o go into the next room by myself. Not pared for those who love Him. But God has revealed wanting to disturb anyone, I went quietly into the room. As them to us, through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches I stood there, a bright light came down and engulfed me. I all things, yes, the deep things of God.”

sank to the floor and felt my spirit rising toward the light.

—1 CORINTHIANS 2:9–10

The next moment, I sensed that I was in Jerusalem, standing inside the mosque of Omar, observing rows of men In Deuteronomy 29:29 we read:

kneeling down on mats and praying. My first thought was to get out of there quickly. But then, I saw Jesus walk past the

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but men and touch several of them on the shoulder.

those things which are revealed belong to us and to He walked back toward me and said, “The men I have our children forever.”

touched are going to be saved. I am sending my servants to Expect God to share things with you.

minister to them and tell them the gospel story.”

The Lord may reveal something to you that isn’t even in Then we left the mosque and walked down a street in the your prayers.

old part of Jerusalem. Jesus pointed out several people.

One day, I sensed the presence of an angel. In a vision, I There was an elderly couple who were selling bread from a saw a ram with large, curled horns standing in the heavens.

cart. He told me their business was not doing very well, but

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85 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Intercession their friends and neighbors were going to help them.

came out of the tall wheat, and David preached the gospel As He pointed out a very attractive dark-haired Jewish girl and pointed them toward Jesus. They walked toward Him of about twenty, He said, “Her fiancée is seeking for the without averting their gaze.

truth. I am sending someone to witness to him so he will be More children came out of the wheat field, and the same saved.”

thing happened again. Very soon, hundreds of these beauti-He continued with another couple. When we got to the ful black children were streaming out of the field, walking to end of the street, the Lord turned to me and said, “You have the little hill where Jesus stood without taking their eyes to go now.”

from Him. Finally, there were so many, it wasn’t necessary to

“Oh, no,” I responded. “I’ll just stay here with You.”

preach. A mighty move of the Spirit took place. Jesus came Jesus said again, “You have to go now. I am going to visit and put His arms around David and me.

the prayer meeting at the convent.”

Suddenly, I was back in my room, unable to move for Suddenly, I was back in the room in Orlando, unable to nearly fifteen minutes.

move from the floor for some time.

Satan wants us to fear strong anointings like this, because At another time, as David prayed for some teenagers, I he knows that fear will stop us from yielding to the Holy stood behind them. The Holy Spirit came upon these Spirit.

teenagers, and I felt myself falling back toward the floor.

But Jesus said, “What man is there among you who, Surrounded by a light, I saw Jesus standing in a gold chariot if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if above me. He reached out His hand and pulled me up into he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent”

the chariot next to Him.

—MATTHEW 7:9–10

The chariot began to go faster and higher. I had a sensa-tion of tremendous speed. I caught a glimpse of an ocean Many people who are praying for revival do not know beneath me, then a Mid-eastern city with white buildings.

what they are praying for. When revival comes, many super-Above this city sat a cross-legged, arrogant-looking spirit natural things happen that are strange to the religious or dressed in Eastern clothes.

skeptical mind. At times, God waits until His people are I asked Jesus, “Are you going to do anything about that desperately hungry so they won’t dismiss the food He offers spirit?”

them.

He said, “No; not now.”

A few years ago, as we ministered in Michigan, the Holy A moment later, I stood in a wheat field outside a town in Spirit began to move in a powerful way. Some people South Africa. David was by my side, and Jesus was standing laughed, others wept, others were delivered, and still others on a small hill a little further away. Several black children were praising with their arms raised. The Lord ministered in

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Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve