The Hand Of the Lord Org
Music Link: https://youtu.be/eJziCshj1GQ?list=RDeJziCshj1GQ
I gleaned this the other day off of “You Tube,” and was quite amused, as I read it. I recalled an incident that happened to me in Tulsa as I was attending a conference. You see, I used to hitchhike all over the country or ride my motorcycle from one city to another just to hear a reputable speaker that I might gain a little more insight or wisdom into the knowledge of God.
You see, I always knew that one day I was going to seriously serve God in a very important capacity, therefore, I prepared myself for it all of my Christian life. You know, God knocks you off of a horse, well you figure it is just a few years, and I will be preaching like "Billy Graham."
Naw, just kidding, but seriously you aren't thinking, "Well, it's going to be fifty years, I can hardly wait."
No, you don't know what to think, but you think, "I have got to be a 'man of integrity,' and I have to learn as much "Spiritually," as I can.
You see, I understood that the world wasn't going to be won by human preaching, but by the enabling of the "Holy Spirit."
This was why I would travel to places where I had to sleep on the ground, or to camp in the rain. it didn't matter to me, but I knew that if I didn't prepare myself and to ignore the elements as the apostle Paul laid down as example for us, then I would be a failure in ministry.
You see, I understood what Paul was modeling in his ministry. It was a life of tenacity, long suffering and a life which wouldn't quit or to let down his Lord by not bearing everything that had come his way.
Nonetheless, I couldn't tell you about the many times in which I slept on the ground or camped a few blocks down from all the Five Star Hotels where the speakers normally stayed during these "Camp meetings," or conferences.
Nevertheless, I was only "blessed," financially a few times, and that was after I had been doing it for something like twenty years. On occasion, a fellow believer, never any one in "ministry," would buy me a meal card or offer to let me stay on the floor of their hotel room. And that was while I was visiting South Carolina at Morning Star Ministries. A couple of real Christians who walked out the teachings of Jesus. There were a few other times in almost fifty years, I must be honest.
Nevertheless, it was just a few months ago, when I was explaining on one paper that I had been writing, how in all of my Christian life, really there was not one person who I could name and say that they supported me in any type of ministry that I have done.
I mean, seriously I have changed hundreds if not thousands of lives by the decisions in which I have chosen to walk. I have caused major changes not only in the church, but in society by the writings which I have released from my websites. Nonetheless, just as the apostle Paul was known, although "not known," so has my life copied his.
You see, for the Clergy to acknowledge Paul, they would have had to repent from their evil works. Therefore, it is just a whole lot easier to pretend that he didn't exist.
Therefore, he says in 1 Corinthians four, "We are known, yet not known."
Anyway, lest I forget, let me tell my story that caused me to laugh when reading about this character "Sean," what's his name?
Well, as usual they were having a convention up in Tulsa back in the nineties. For ten years, I would faithfully go up to hear a gathering of the most notable preachers at a conference under Oral Roberts. It was called the International Charismatic Bible Conference, and as a member every year, I would have the opportunity to hear Oral Roberts preach, as well as some others.
Well, it didn't matter how my finances were looking, I made this a priority every year. It didn't matter whether I would be forced to sleep on the ground or what I was going to be there faithfully.
And even though, these were hardships when I made these sacrifices, I always told God," God, I am making these sacrifices, I am enduring these hardships because I know that one day Lord, it is going to pay off. One day, Lord, I will be like one of these other Preachers, and I will be able to sleep in a reputable Hotel.
I will wake up and have some Eggs Benedict, Melon and some fresh Orange Juice for breakfast. I will go to bed on a Queen size or King Mattress, Lord and I'm not even gonna get up for the morning meeting, I'm just gonna sleep right through it, the 'heck,' with all the other preachers. They don't even make sense when they Preach anyway."
I know people are going to think that I am making this up, but it's the truth.
Anyway, that particular weekend was a prosperous one for me, as I had enough to stay in a motel for the conference that weekend.
You see, if I had enough money to sleep in one of Tulsa's worst Motels, I considered that a Prosperous weekend, and as I stated it was a prosperous weekend. Therefore, I went to one of the Motels in that part of town where they were not the best accommodations.
Does anyone know what I am talking about?
You see, I rode my bike up there, went to the evening meeting and when I returned to the Motel which I had rented the first thing I did was to shower and to get that road dust off of me.
Well, when I finished showering, I pushed back the shower curtain and there at the end of the tub was a used prophylactic.
I mean, I even feel ashamed that I have to write about it, but I feel that God would like me to share this story with this next coming generation of disciples.
You see, there are just not enough true men of God around for these youth to model themselves after. And I don't even feel as if I am qualified through the many sacrifices in which I have made in the past few decades. I fall short every day, and it is still a struggle.
Nevertheless, we are instructed by Paul to not look back, but to keep pressing forward.
My prayer, more than anything is that this next generation will not fall into the abuses and the con artistry of ministry in which these past leaders have made it.
And even if I never wake up to an Eggs Benedict and fresh squeezed Orange Juice at a decent hotel, (you know one where I have paid at least eighty-nine dollars for, as opposed to thirty-three) I will still be following the Lord, though I do occasionally get sidetracked.
Hey, actually, I think they are a little more than eighty-nine dollars, or I could be wrong?
How the hell would I ever know!
Hey, I can't help it, I'm a little slow!
Apostle Sean: https://youtu.be/mjow7fqTyyg
Please note: My apologies to this guy Sean and his ministry of nine homes, if the 'You Tube' clip wasn't accurate. Nonetheless, I felt that I had a duty to post it. You see, I know this guy ministers around the D.C. area, and I just don't want to wake up and see another one of these guys praying over the President.
Know what I mean, Vern?
Found a new church online if you are in the Manhattan area. Seems like a decent bloke for a Pastor.
Philippians 3:10-14 New Living Translation
10 I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, 11 so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!
12 I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. 13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.
Post script next morning:
You know, what I failed to point out in the anecdote above was that for over twenty years, I use to go to Hagin’s Camp Meetings, to the Southwest Believer’s Conferences, to the International Charismatic Bible Conferences and in all of these conferences I would allow the Holy Spirit to Pray through me that he might manifest the “Spirit of Jesus.” Or in many cases the corrective “Spirit,” of Jesus in order to bring the focus of the church back on the Lord. Though many times, it was difficult as most of these minister’s and ministries were so self-consumed to seek “Prosperity,” at all cost.
Nonetheless, in every meeting some of the richest “Prosperity,” Preachers would gather knowing my circumstances, knowing my needs, and in every single meeting, out of hundreds, not one individual ever encouraged me or would even buy me a coffee.
In other words, I found all of these so called “Prosperity Pioneers,” to be the world’s most selfish individuals in Christendom. And I am sorry guys, but this is the honest truth. The only thing that these people did was to lavish “gifts,” upon each other, that they may be paid back by favors or opportunities for selfish ministry.
In other words, although they were the richest in their “kingdoms, they were the cheapest “son of &*()_” in all of Christendom. Can I get an “Amen,” from the thousands and thousands who they had chased from the “Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
No, I am talking about the real church here.
That church which ought to be in the heart of every believer!
And so, as this week unfolds, there are a number of them rejoicing at another Southwest Believer’s Conference, in Fort Worth, unless it’s over?
Nevertheless, I can hear them now, “Finally, we got something on the little ‘ship,’ for fifty years now, we all knew that he wasn’t a real Christian as us. Why the man could never scrape two dollars together.”
Psalm 22 New Living Translation
For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be sung to the tune “Doe of the Dawn.”
1 My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
Why are you so far away when I groan for help?
2 Every day I call to you, my God, but you do not answer.
Every night I lift my voice, but I find no relief.
3 Yet you are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.
4 Our ancestors trusted in you,
and you rescued them.
5 They cried out to you and were saved.
They trusted in you and were never disgraced.
6 But I am a worm and not a man.
I am scorned and despised by all!
7 Everyone who sees me mocks me.
They sneer and shake their heads, saying,
8 “Is this the one who relies on the Lord?
Then let the Lord save him!
If the Lord loves him so much,
let the Lord rescue him!”
9 Yet you brought me safely from my mother’s womb
and led me to trust you at my mother’s breast.
10 I was thrust into your arms at my birth.
You have been my God from the moment I was born.
11 Do not stay so far from me,
for trouble is near,
and no one else can help me.
12 My enemies surround me like a herd of bulls;
fierce bulls of Bashan have hemmed me in!
13 Like lions they open their jaws against me,
roaring and tearing into their prey.
14 My life is poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax,
melting within me.
15 My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay.
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You have laid me in the dust and left me for dead.
16 My enemies surround me like a pack of dogs;
an evil gang closes in on me.
They have pierced my hands and feet.
17 I can count all my bones.
My enemies stare at me and gloat.
18 They divide my garments among themselves
and throw dice for my clothing.
19 O Lord, do not stay far away!
You are my strength; come quickly to my aid!
20 Save me from the sword;
spare my precious life from these dogs.
21 Snatch me from the lion’s jaws
and from the horns of these wild oxen.
22 I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters.
I will praise you among your assembled people.
23 Praise the Lord, all you who fear him!
Honor him, all you descendants of Jacob!
Show him reverence, all you descendants of Israel!
24 For he has not ignored or belittled the suffering of the needy.
He has not turned his back on them,
but has listened to their cries for help.
25 I will praise you in the great assembly.
I will fulfill my vows in the presence of those who worship you.
26 The poor will eat and be satisfied.
All who seek the Lord will praise him.
Their hearts will rejoice with everlasting joy.
27 The whole earth will acknowledge the Lord and return to him.
All the families of the nations will bow down before him.
28 For royal power belongs to the Lord.
He rules all the nations.
29 Let the rich of the earth feast and worship.
Bow before him, all who are mortal,
all whose lives will end as dust.
30 Our children will also serve him.
Future generations will hear about the wonders of the Lord.
31 His righteous acts will be told to those not yet born.
They will hear about everything he has done.
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