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Originally Posted by Brother Price
I am so saddened. We have so much wealth, so much goods, and we have so little love. We have no real fire, no real Pentecost, because we have had it so easy. We send missionaries around the world, and then they have to almost beg for funds. We send $1 for offerings for missions, and $10,000 for TV advertising. Please understand what this fat man is saying, and I feel this so strongly in my heart...
Where are the all night prayer meetings for revival? Where are the men and women bowed on the altar seeking His face? Where are the preachers dripping from sweat of prayer? Where are the seekers, the Bereans, those who want so much of God that if they do not get Him, it would be almost to the brink of their own demise?
We have so much, and have so little. We have a powerless Pentecost, and a hollow explosion. We have devastation, but no cleansing. I hope I am understood on this.
This past Sunday morning, while in worship, the Lord actually showed me a vision. I saw a dark city, and something that looked powerful was slowly engulfing that city. I then realized what it was. It was an explosion of monumental magnitude. Suddenly, it went from slow to fast, and became a mushroom cloud. I was able to walk into the explosion, and there was no continued explosion inside. It was hollow. It had no real power, no continued effect. It just destroyed.This is what I feel is now the state of the American pentecostal church, a form of godliness but denying the power thereof.
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I agree that we don't give enough and we don't pray enough. I agree that our enduement of power bears little resemblence to that of the Day of Pentecost. But, we do give, we do pray and we do have some power, at least. But why not on the same level at that at Pentecost? Again, its because our giving is not united. Our prayer seems to run in every direction. And our power...need I say more. At Pentecost, their prayer, the every activity was for a single purpose. Ours is not. Corporately, they waited for 1 thing, the promise of the father to be filled with the Holy Ghost.
We cannot expect the same results until we move beyond the stage of divsion. The brother here who stated over and over again, "the UPC needs a Healer" had a point. But he, like the rest of us missed the mark. The UPC doen't need a Healer. The Body needs a healer. We need a healer. And that healer is found in the prayer of Jesus.
"that they may be one..." Until we deal with how that can be accomplished we will continue to be a facade. A shell. No matter how much we splash around in the waters of water baptism. No matter how much we speak in tongues and debate all this doctrinal... we will continue to be
wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: Rev 3:17
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