The bible also says there will be a "falling away". So the question could only pertain your area or church. But I got these from a friend who went on a missionary trip to Pakistan.
roughly 4000 repented...
roughly 2000 Got the holy Ghost as well...
The pastors where planning to baptise all week after the revival...
There were increadible miracles of healing as well...
Here is a picture of the choir!
They blew the place away!
This isn't Africa or South America, this is Pakistan!!! In the heart of Islam !!
What an awesome God we serve!!!!!!!!!!
Notice the beautiful matching shawlish headcoverings the women wear?
AWESOME!
I'd love to have been there.
__________________ You can tell more about people
by what they say about others...than by what others
say about them.
The power of Acts is still available. This is what I believe.
We do not have the walk as the Apostles did, because of the fact they had physically been with Jesus. Paul experienced Christ on the road to Emmaeus. They had seen what Jesus did, and they preformed what Christ did in front of them. They had heard His voice and knew His power firsthand.
If we want that power, and that demonstration, then we must be willing to seek after the Lord until He becomes as real to us as He was to the Apostles. I believe there is a place one can get to have that experience in Christ. It is available, but we must kill our desires and desire only Him.
I believe it's because we are weighed down. We are essentially wage slaves on Pharaoh's corporate plantation. And our churches are bogged down in ever increasing debt with mortgages, utilities, building programs, overly expensive non-biblical ministries, growing salaried staffers, etc. In the book of Acts church was simply a gathering of Christian families in homes. It was there that they broke bread and experienced Christian teaching and fellowship. Elders weren't "CEOs" or administrators. They were spiritual leaders who lead their family and extended their wisdom and knowledge to other families in the congregations. The church in Acts traveled light on "stuff" and "heavily" in the anointing. They put a higher premium on personal spiritual ministries, spiritual maturity, and preaching the gospel than attending "functions".
They were real...they practiced true Christianity. Not the fabricated "churchianity" so many of us have adopted here in the United States of America. Due to the shallow brand of Christianity we have here in the United States our spiritual immaturity quenches the anointing, power, and sanctification the early church had.
There are many individuals and organizations today who put together venues advertising displays of the same "Power!!" shown in the Book of Acts, but it never happens. They just talk about such "Power!!", but cannot demonstrate it.
If such people call themselves "apostles," or "apostolic," are they accurately advertising the true Power of God, or are they falsely advertising the Power of God? Which is it?
Why cannot any of today's "apostles" do the true Works of the Holy Spirit as done in the Book of Acts?
Shelli.
In our time some are being healed, some miracles are happening, some are raised from the dead, and many are being saved (the greatest of all miracles). Most of these works are done among the needy, not for show, and so most of these works are not advertised, are not on the internet, and are not on TV.
God's promise was unto all, even to you, if you trust His word of promise.
Old Testament Prophetic Promise
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. 30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. 32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. Joel 2:28-32 (KJV)
Jesus's Promise
When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. 8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth Acts 1:6-8 (KJV)
Peter declares this that which Joel spoke of
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: 21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts 2:16-21 (KJV)
Peter said that the promise comes to us
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. Acts 2:39 (KJV)
The power of Acts today is the same place it has always been.....in the hearts of man.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
There are many individuals and organizations today who put together venues advertising displays of the same "Power!!" shown in the Book of Acts, but it never happens. They just talk about such "Power!!", but cannot demonstrate it.
If such people call themselves "apostles," or "apostolic," are they accurately advertising the true Power of God, or are they falsely advertising the Power of God? Which is it?
Why cannot any of today's "apostles" do the true Works of the Holy Spirit as done in the Book of Acts?
Shelli.
Much of it is mired in the mud of unbelief. Because many are more concerned about the first step of salvation and the not the entire journey...
Apostolic's need to answer why were miracles performed in the first place.
Then why if at all do some what to see them in "their" ministry today...
I think many want the stamp of God's approval on their call and ministry.
Notice the beautiful matching shawlish headcoverings the women wear?
AWESOME!
I'd love to have been there.
These pictures can be duplicated by other denominations in the same cities and countries. These outporings are simply not limited to Apolstolic's or one group...
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