Manifestation of His Presense-The Cloud of Glory

Venue : WOF, Johor Bahru, Time :8.00 -11.30 pm
Extended Prayer and Worship

Acts 2, Hebrew 6, Hebrews 10

We had our extended time of prayer and worship at WOF and present were almost 20 of our believers. After a time of worship I felt led to share a portion of scripture from Hebrews 6 which speaks of Paul exhorting the recipients of the letter to obtained the promises of God through faith and patience. In a busy and an instant society that we live -instant burgers, instant coffee, instant this and instant that, we as Christians are missing out on what the Lord wants to release on us because of this attitude.

Impatience to wait, the lack of stick -ability and commitment of the part of the believer-seems to be the great failure to see our prayers answered and receiving the miracle that we believing for.

I also shared during this strong initial session of prayer time, a testimony a woman and her deformed son who received a miracle-in fact 27 miracles in 10-15 minutes because of her persistence. I continued to encourage our believers in WOF to have the tenacity to walk with God and to have a fighting spirit. As I was about to finish these session, I sensed and felt a strong, powerful anointing coming upon me and the presense of the Lord was tangible among us.
By this time it was almost 9.45 pm, and we entered into time of worship and to wait upon the Lord. The was obviously a tangible presense in the hall. Every one was in attitude of prayer and worship when I had an impression to be quiet in the presense of the Lord. As we waited quietly, the Lord began to move in prophecy and vision.

One of the sisters said that she saw in a vision the Lord Jesus coming from the back of the church hall and dressed as a high priest and representing us as intercessor and advocate before the Father. As He move towards the front portion of the hall, the glory of the Lord like a thick cloud was enveloping the people The whole place was full of smoke. One of our youth girls, who was was sitting near the pulpit area testified that she has a kind of heavy blanket or something weighty coming on her and she was pressed down almost to the floor in worship. She said that tears were flowing freely as she worshipped. Some who sat nearby experienced similar things.

As we continued on in this attitude of prayer, the Lord began to show me a vision too. In that vision I saw a scroll that was in the hands of the Lord. Written on the scroll in numerical succession, were all the accusations that satan and his hosts bringing against the believer. Also written, were the accusations of others, and even our own accusations about ourselves. As He was opening up the scroll, I saw drops of blood falling on the scroll and blotting out the accusations one by one. This is the picture of the precious blood of Jesus that cleanses us and sets us free from all condemnation and guilt. Then I saw in my spirit a fountain that is filled with blood flooding that scroll and literally washing it away. There is power in the Blood to loose us from every guilty stain. Others also experienced different visions and words of encouragement from the Lord.

After a break, we moved into time of praying in tongues. As we began to explore the different areas of praying in the spirit, the Lord, began to move us deeper in the spirit-singing in tongues, praying rapidly in tongues, praying in warfare tongues. As we were finishing this session, we all sensed a tremendous building up of our inner man into greater capacity to receive from the Lord.

We are believing God for more of the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in our church.

Its been really great writing some of these truths from God's Word. Hope You have enjoyed it and applied in your daily walk. God bless you.

God's Man of Faith and Power

A.A. Allen "Man of Faith and Power"

A. A. Allen was one of the most important of the Healing Evangelists of the "Voice of Healing Revival" Though severely criticized by denominational leaders, denounced by the media and slandered by many others for his sensational ways, God used A. A. Allen mightily to heal thousands and to even launch other ministries such as Gordon Lindsay and T. L. Osborn. Let his story remind you God is no respecter of persons and to the person who seeks Him, He will answer.
Asa Alonzo Allen was born into a severely dysfunctional family on March 27, 1911. His parents were fighting drunks who entertained themselves by giving their children liquor and watching their drunken antics until they passed out. As a result all the children grew up as alcoholics. Allen had two brothers, one of which died a drunkards death. Allen ran away from home at 14 to live the vagabond life free of the horrendous home life he lived but continued in the drinking and smoking that almost killed him.
Later, back again with his mother on a farm in the country, they opened up a dance hall fueled with home brew they made in the back. Just down the road was a man called Brother Hunter who was opening up a Pentecostal Church who was praying against the dance hall of the Allen’s. Eventually Allen, who was miserable with his drunken life, saw the life in the Church and accepted Christ as his Savior. Finally at a Pentecostal camp meeting in Oklahoma Allen met received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues.
During the height of the depression, while in Colorado with his new wife Lexie, Allen started A. A. Allen ministries on a shoestring and a prayer. They often recorded special offerings for the pastor of 35 cents to as little as 5 cents. They chopped wood and sold it to make money to live on while the offerings bought gas to get from meeting to meeting. It was during these meetings Allen learned the power of prayer. Following prayer he had as many as 30 to 60 people saved at meetings where there were many times only as many people as that!
In the late 1930s Allen accepted a pastorate at the Tower Assembly of God in Holly Colorado. It was while there Allen’s spirit was pricked to seek the secret of God’s power. Fasting was new to Allen and he had great difficulty in following through. But one time when he had prematurely broken a fast the Holy Spirit convicted him at the first mouthful and he went back to his prayer closet and told his wife to lock him in. Here Allen relates his experience.
"I began to realize that the light that was filling my prayer closet was God’s glory! The presence of God was so real and powerful that I felt I would die right there on my knees….Then, like a whirlwind, I heard His voice. It was God! He was speaking to me! This was the glorious answer that I had sought so diligently and for which I had waited since my conversion at the age of twenty three….It seemed faster than any human could possibly speak, faster than I could follow mentally, God was talking to me…. God was giving me a list of the things which stood between me and the power of God. After each new requirement was added to the list in my mind, there followed a brief explanation, or sermonette, explaining that requirement and its importance….As God spoke to me I wrote them down…..When the last requirement was written down on the list, God spoke once again and said. ‘This is the answer. When you have placed on the alter of consecration and obedience the last thing on your list, you shall not only heal the sick, but in my name shall you cast out devils, you shall see many mighty miracles as in my name you preach the Word, for behold, I give you power over all the power of the enemy.’
"God revealed to me at the same time that the things that were hindrances to my ministry were that same things which were hindering so many thousands of others.
"At last, here was the price I must pay for the power of God in my life and ministry. The price tag for the miracle working power of God!"
God gave Allen thirteen things he had to understand and do to receive the power of God in his ministry.
He must realize he couldn’t do greater quality miracles than Jesus
He could walk as Jesus walked
He must be blameless like God Himself
He must measure himself to Jesus alone
He must deny his fleshly desires with fasting.
After self denial, he must follow Jesus seven days a week
Without God he could do nothing!
He must do away with sin in his body.
He must not continue in shallow, pointless discussions.
He must give his body wholly to God forever.
He must believe all of God’s promises.
The remaining two guidelines were personal sins Allen felt he need not share with anyone.
It was shortly after that visit the Allen was tested when in a service a miner came forward who had been blinded by an mine explosion. After prayer the man’s sight was completely restored. The ministry of A. A. Allen had started and what a mighty outflow of God’s power it was.
If you could see the Church as God sees it you would be on your face with weeping and fasting. The Church of God is full of people with one foot in the church and one foot in the world. I recently was at a electrical show and I met a man in the booth next to mine. He was a bit disgruntled with some people who had come by and asked for free equipment. He said some very vile things about them under his breath to me. I was not shocked as the world acts like that. We can expect no better from them. Later that day I mentioned that I had played softball on some church co-ed leagues. He proudly told me about him being the leader of his church’s co-ed softball team and how they would pray for some non-Christian members before a game to mind what they said. Now I was shocked, because I have reason to expect a believer to be different than the world. I grieve for this man and the thousands others who are fighting the battle with much of their armor off. I pray for him that he might learn more of my sweet Jesus and his wonders in our lives.
The enemy works double time to undermine, steal, kill and destroy. The Church of God must wake up and realize the holy battle we are in. Men’s souls are at stake. Millions launch into a fiery hell every moment. The place where the Christian must be is in the prayer closet. When you see how much God overcame in A. A. Allen’s life you can see that He can use anyone to do his wonders!!
Beloved, have you sought God’s highest and best for yourself? Have you fasted and prayed with your soul in anguish to have the Holy One speak to you? Do you have a list like the one above you must work through to gain the presence and power of God in your life and ministry? Seek Him today and He will answer!!

Sources:
God’s Man of Faith and Power, Lexie E. Allen, A. A. Allen Publications, Hereford, AZ: 1954
God’s Generals, Roberts Lairdon, Albury Publishing, Tulsa, OK: 1992

Signs, Wonders and Miracles in His Name

Heal the Sick, Speak in New Tongues, Cast our Devil in the Name of Jesus

Mar 16:15-18
(15) And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
(16) He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.
(17) And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;
(18) they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

..these signs shall accompany them that believe…

Just before Jesus ascended to the Father and sat down at Majesty on High, He gave the disclips the Great Commission of World Evangelization. His disciples were to go to the ends of the earth and preach the gospel to every tribe, nation and tongue that the nations represent.

They were not to do these themselves. In these verses Jesus is giving us His part in the great mandate to the church. He is to be with us in the power and authority of His Name. Every time the church is to use that Name-He is will be there in presense to confirm the Word preached with signs and wonders following. The church as a whole has not major and mastered this subject of the authority that in behind the Name of Jesus. Some of us need to study the scriptures and get hold the revelation and begin to act and use the name for the benefit of those who are suffering in sin, sickness and poverty.

In that Name we are to speak with new tongues. The Baptism of the Holy Sprit and the evidence of speaking in tongues are released in us through that name. He has given us authority over demons powers and works of darkness over lives that bound by them. That power is released when we command demonic spirits in His Name.

The Name of Jesus has authority to heal the sick. The ability of God to heal the worst kind of diseases when the believer whispers the name of Jesus in faith. And finally “…nothing by any means hurt them..” belongs to us whether individually or corporately in the church.

Evangelist Asa A Allen

YouTube - AA Allen prays Arthritis, Cancer Instantly Healed

Tongues : The Benefit

Praying in the Spirit: A Psychiatrist’s report

This message is not directly about prophecy, but is indirectly, to help one find needed "edification" in this troubled world. Do you sometimes need edifying? If not, you are the only one on planet Earth. God has provided a way.

According to the Holy Spirit, speaking through the apostle Paul: "He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself…" (1 Corinthians 14:4).

The main purpose of this message is to pass along a report by a Christian psychiatrist of the physically edifying effects of praying in tongues. We always thought of the edification as only "spiritual" edification, which is great and always needed, but Christian psychiatrist Carl R. Peterson, M.D. describes physical edification also! Isn’t God amazing? I first heard about this for several months ago but was only recently able to obtain this documentation from Dr. Peterson’s office, which is below.

A word of caution. This manifestation of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, is ridiculed by some and called gibberish, or from the devil. Be careful. This is dangerous and might be considered blasphemy against the Holy One. Not a good idea, if you know what I mean. If anyone does that, you don’t want to be standing next to him in a thunderstorm.

As a matter of reference, I know a distinguished medical doctor who knows Dr. Peterson personally and has worked with him, and who says that Peterson is highly respected, as a psychiatrist and as a Christian.

NOTE: Dr. Peterson begins his attachment by specifically referring to "praying in the spirit" (glossolalia -- speaking in tongues), then begins to just use the words "prayer" or "praying." I am told that throughout his paper he is referring to speaking in tongues, as that is the context of the whole paper, and is as introduced by his letter.
CHRISTIAN-PSYCHIATRY SERVICES, INC.

Dear friend,

Thank you for your inquiry regarding the relationship of extended periods of praying in tongues and joyful laughter to brain activity. As you will read in the enclosed explanation, I shared some information concerning this with several ministers at a gathering some time ago. I pray this information will be helpful to you.

Respectfully,
Carl R. Peterson, M.D.Psychiatrist
Enclosure

EFFECTS OF EXTENDED VERBAL PRAYER AND JOYFUL LAUGHTER

I have had a number of inquiries concerning the efficacy of praying in the spirit (glossolalia) and its benefit to the human immune system, i.e., immunity enhanced by chemicals released from a part of the brain. I am attempting to clarify some information I have shared with a number of ministers. This is information that may be deduced from what we know about the way the brain functions. We do know the part of the brain affected most noticeably by extended prayer and laughter represents a significant portion of the brain and its metabolic activity. Therefore, voluntary speech during extended vocal prayer causes a major stimulation in these parts of the brain (mainly the hypothalamus). The hypothalamus has direct regulation of four major systems of the body, mainly: a) the pituitary gland and all target endocrine glands; b) the total immune system; c) the entire autonomic system; and d) the production of brain hormones called endorphins and enkephalons, which are chemicals the body produces and are 100-200 times more powerful than morphine.

In summary, a very significant percentage of the central nervous system is directly and indirectly activated in the process of extended verbal and musical prayer over a period of time. This results in a significant release of brain hormones which, in turn, increases the body’s general immunity. It is further enhanced through joyful laughter with increased respirations and oxygen intake to the brain, diaphragm and other muscles. This same phenomenon is seen in physical activity in general, i.e., running, etc.

We know from the Word of God that there is a true joy that builds and sustains. Nehemiah tells us the joy of the Lord is our strength. There is joy in the presence of Jehovah. We, as believers having entered into that wonderful presence of our Lord, know this to be true. What we must continue to remember is that the joy of the Lord spoken of in the Word is so much more than any manifestation. We can truly have that unspeakable joy in the face of any trials we may encounter, if our joy is grounded in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I hope the above information helps to clarify the report you received regarding my statement in the area of the physical effects of speaking in tongues and joyful laughter for extended periods of time. Truly, we all benefit—body, soul, and spirit—from obedience and yielding to the Spirit of God in every area of our lives.

Carl R. Peterson, M.D.

Confession Brings Possesion

Introduction

Christianity is called the Great Confession. In Hebrews 4:14 we are told to hold fast to our confession. When we think of confession is generally think of it as confession of our sins. That is the negative side of confession. In these scriptures and others in the epistles of Paul, we find the positive side of confession.

What is the positive side of confession based upon the Word of God. What am to hold fast to as the Hebrew writer says. I am to hold fast to the confession of the absolute integrity of the Bible. I am to hold fast to the confession of the redemption in Christ. I am to hold fast to the confession of the New Creation and of receiving the Life and Nature of the Father.

I am to hold fast to the confession that God is the strength of my life. I am to hold fast to the confession that “Surely He hath borne my sicknesses and carried my diseases and that by His stripes I am healed.

In the church world today, there is a lack teaching and instruction on this line which leads to many believers live lives with a continual sense of failure and defeat. If we want to have a better life, change our present situation the first place to make changes is to change in the area of our confession or the things that we say.

Every time that you confess disease, weakness and failure , you magnify the adversary above the Father and destroy you own confidence in the Word.
You are to hold fast to your confession in the face apparent defeat. Stand by your confession that the Father will make it good in your life and through thick and thin, you will see the things you are believing for will come to pass.