Re: [Awake4HisReturn] ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: HEAVEN X: Samuel
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My people are not being warned about the seriousness of the Hour. The focus is about building of wealth and resources; the prosperity gospel ; false predictions about future events. My Son is coming and the World need to be warned"...
From: Wanda Ward <angelina56p47@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sun, February 20, 2011 9:10:36 PM
Subject: RE: [Awake4HisReturn] ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: HEAVEN X: Samuel
Thats so sad that they would desert the churches like that
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Date: Sunday, February 20, 2011 4:11:36 pm
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From: "Regner Capener" <capener@charter.net>
Subject: [Awake4HisReturn] ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: HEAVEN X: Samuel
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Heaven X: Samuel
Greetings!
A few weeks ago, I shared with you the transition we've been going through
with our ministry and the fact that we have suspended our regular daily
operation of River Worship Center in preparation for team ministry traveling
throughout the arctic.
Shortly thereafter, I talked with Dwain McKenzie (who has been a lifelong
friend and co-laborer in the Gospel) who, with his wife Suzy, has moved back
to Alaska and currently lives in Glenallen. Dwain said that he was going to
Barrow to preach for a couple of weeks (the church there (AofG) had just
lost its pastor, and he would try to get a sense of what the Spirit of the
Lord was doing and saying on the arctic coast.
I just talked with him yesterday and it turns out there is good reason for
the emphasis the Holy Spirit has been putting in Della and me to return to
the north and minister in the villages. Every single AofG church across the
north coast - Point Hope, Wainwright, Barrow, Nuiqsut and Kaktovik on Barter
Island - are without pastors. Not only that, both of the Presbyterian
churches in Wainwright and Barrow have lost their pastors. An old friend of
ours who was the Presbyterian pastor in Barrow back in the 1960's - John
Chambers - has returned to Barrow to preach on an interim basis, but as he
indicated, "this is strictly temporary until we can find someone permanent
to take this church."
What has happened is that (and I don't want to point fingers here
judgmentally) people who should be true shepherds and remain with their
people until other shepherds can take over the responsibility have simply
walked away from their pastorates like "hirelings" would.
Ezekiel had a strong Word from the Lord concerning this. "And they were
scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the
beasts of the field, when they were scattered. My sheep wandered through
all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered
upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
"Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; As I live, saith the
Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to
every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my
shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not
my flock; therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
"Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will
require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the
flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore; for I will
deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
"For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep,
and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he
is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will
deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy
and dark day." (Ezekiel 34:5-12)
Pretty strong, isn't it? Della and I both understand why also the Holy
Spirit has made clear to us that we will take on this ministry throughout
these communities at our own expense. That's to say, the Lord will make
provision for this ministry - this team ministry - without any need for us
to "take up offerings" in the villages in order to travel and teach, preach
and prophesy the spiritual health these folks need.
It is the Lord Jesus Christ who will direct the gathering. He is, after
all, the Chief Shepherd! It is the Holy Spirit who will deliver the people
from all the places where they have been scattered. It is His calling and
His responsibility that He is implanting in us in order to "heal the hurt of
the daughter of My people." (Jeremiah 8:11)
Now, let's get on with today's sharing. Oh.and by the way.better get your
cup of java poured if'n you haven't already.
When I wrote about David in this series, I commented that he perhaps more
than any other Biblical character has had an impact on my life. The things
he shared, the Psalms he penned, and the life of praise and worship he led
have been a part of my thought processes and unfolding revelation in my
spirit for nearly sixty years as of this writing.
As a young boy, however, my experiences with angelic appearances and that
first appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ in my bedroom at age seven
prompted my mother to take me to the events surrounding the calling of the
prophet Samuel as a youngster as it is described in Scripture. Mom had a
way of sharing events and stories from the Bible so that you were almost a
participant in those Biblical events. She had a flair for the dramatic and
loved to dramatize Bible stories so that my brother and I - and all the kids
she taught in Sunday School - were immersed in the events by her
story-telling. Mom realized that the Lord was dealing with me and revealing
Himself to me in a way that - in many respects - paralleled that of Samuel.
That said, I was anxious to talk to Samuel in person when the Lord gave me
the opportunity to meet and talk to anyone I desired during that first trip
to Heaven. The fact that the Lord first called him in his early youth made
him someone I could easily relate to, and I wanted to hear him talk about
what he experienced.
Samuel was another one of those folks I had a mental image of as an aged
prophet. It was easy to see him as an eight-year-old with Eli, the High
Priest, and I could envision him much later in life as the old bearded
prophet and mentor of David. What I saw in fact was very much like everyone
else - a young-looking, but mature man who was hale and hearty, filled with
vim, vigor and vitality. Seeing Samuel was one more reminder that folks
don't age in the presence of the Lord. In fact, age is totally irrelevant
since we as spiritual beings are eternal, made in the image and likeness of
the Lord God. There is nothing about Jesus that is old, and despite the
fact that Father God is described as "the Ancient of Days" He simply does
not age in any way.
My first question to Samuel related to his age when he first heard the voice
of God. "How old were you when you first heard the Lord call your name?"
He smiled as he responded, "Not that far off from where you are now - and
perhaps closer to your age when the Lord Jesus first appeared at your
bedside to call you. I was eight years of age. Unlike your experience,
however, visions, dreams and angelic visitations had become a rarity in
Israel. Though the priesthood should have been regularly experiencing
communication with God because of entering into the Holy of Holies once a
year, it had been generations since there had been a High Priest who really
reverenced the Lord, or had any real perception of what it meant to fear the
Lord and His Holiness.
"Eli had received the Word of the Lord concerning his lack of respect for
the sacrifices and the way in which he permitted his two sons to continue as
priests despite their utter disregard for the Lord as well as their perverse
behavior and contamination of the sacrifices - and he did nothing to stop
them. But he had never personally received angelic visitations; and he had
never personally heard the Lord. For that matter, neither had any of his
recent predecessor High Priests. There simply was no open vision of the
Lord or of the Heavenly realm in those days. We had no visible
manifestation of the presence or power of God in the way that Moses and
Joshua had experienced.
"All of Israel knew - I knew - that we were a people who were supposed to be
chosen by God. I knew that we had priests who were supposed to represent us
before God, but I'd never seen any demonstration of Him that I was aware of,
and I'd certainly never heard of anyone hearing or talking to God in any
recent times. When the voice of God first spoke in my hearing, it was
different from Eli's voice and yet I thought instinctively that it had to be
Eli calling me from another room. I had
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