Apostolic Fervor
March 3rd, 2006 12:12 am
thru Priscilla Van Sutphin
Gal 6:17 AMP From now on let no person trouble me [ by making it necessary for me to vindicate my apostolic authority and the divine truth of my Gospel], for I bear on my body the [brand] marks of the Lord Jesus [ the wounds, scars, and other outward evidence of persecutions--these testify to His ownership of me ] !
2 Cor 12:11-15 AMP Now I have been [speaking like] a fool! But you forced me to it, for I ought to have been [saved the necessity and] commended by you. For I have not fallen short one bit or proved myself at all inferior to those superlative [false] apostles [of yours], even if I am nothing (a nobody).
12 Indeed, the signs that indicate a [genuine] apostle were performed among you fully and most patiently in miracles and wonders and mighty works.
13 For in what respect were you put to a disadvantage in comparison with the rest of the churches, unless [it was for the fact] that I myself did not burden you [with my financial support]? Pardon me [for doing you] this injustice!
14 Now for the third time I am ready to come to [visit] you. And I will not burden you [financially], for it is not your [money] that I want but you; for children are not duty bound to lay up store for their parents, but parents for their children.
15 But I will most gladly spend [myself] and be utterly spent for your souls. If I love you exceedingly, am I to be loved [by you] the less?
“ Many in My church have looked forward to this day, in which I display MY POWER ! I have urged you My beloveds over and over to come to Me and to allow Me to do what is necessary to make you into who I want you to be. Some have strived and strived beyond reason. Some have tried, but been so distracted because of the taunts of the enemy. Many have submitted themselves over and over to the church, yet have left feeling rejected and unhealed because there was no one with compassion to minister to them. So many have been disappointed waiting, for there is a timing that is important for before I pour out glory, I give every possible way to man to repent. I am PATIENT with My own, for I know all the opposition that has been there.
I am not slack concerning My promises. I WILL REMOVE EVERY HINDRANCE. I will NOT leave anyone out who really loves ME. I will not leave out your children or unsaved families. For many will fall into the kingdom as I pour out My glory ! You cannot imagine what it is like for this anointing has been absent from my church for millennia ! You have not the comprehension to imagine what it will be like. But I tell you now that your hearts will REJOICE and be GLAD for all I do in this hour. Painful birth pangs are upon you and lawlessness is increasing over the whole earth, but I AM GREATER ! I AM GREATER THAN ALL THE OPPOSITION and I WILL CHANGE the FACE OF MY CHURCH. LET GO of all your hurts and bitterness that you will not be hurt by the glory that is coming. Allow ME to search your hearts and do the healing necessary to WALK IN FREEDOM from resentments, bitterness and pain.
I have promised to heal. I said that I would arise with HEALING IN MY WINGS. And I AM DOING THAT NOW ! It is the time for the NOWS ! ”
Isa 33:10-11 NKJV Impending Judgment on Zion
"Now I will rise," says the LORD; "Now I will be exalted, Now I will lift Myself up.
11 You shall conceive chaff,You shall bring forth stubble;Your breath, as fire, shall devour you. 12 And the people shall be like the burnings of lime;Like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire. 13 Hear, you who are afar off, what I have done; And you who are near, acknowledge My might." 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites: "Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?"
15 He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, He who despises the gain of oppressions, Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes, Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, And shuts his eyes from seeing evil: 16 He will dwell on high; His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks; Bread will be given him, His water will be sure.
17 The Land of the Majestic King - Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; They will see the land that is very far off. 18 Your heart will meditate on terror: "Where is the scribe? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?" 19 You will not see a fierce people, A people of obscure speech, beyond perception, of a stammering tongue that you cannot understand. 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts; Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet home, a tabernacle that will not be taken down; Not one of its stakes will ever be removed, Nor will any of its cords be broken. 21 But there the majestic LORD will be for us A place of broad rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will sail, Nor majestic ships pass by
22(For the LORD is our Judge, The LORD is our Lawgiver,The LORD is our King; He will save us); 23 Your tackle is loosed, They could not strengthen their mast, They could not spread the sail. Then the prey of great plunder is divided; The lame take the prey. 24 And the inhabitant will not say, "I am sick"; The people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.
“ I AM a GOD of RESTORATION and I can do it in you AGAINST all odds !”
As the Lord said this, I remembered an incident when a few young friends of mine & I went to a mormon funeral. We went because the girl who died had given her heart to the Lord, but the parents were yet unsaved and in the mormon church. There was heavy oppression in that place, especially as this one doctor started to speak and proclaim Mormonism as “the truth” to all [ knowing we Christians were in the crowd ]
As he spoke David got the word “anti-christ”. Yet it was in this very setting that David got a touch from GOD in the midst of the darkness that brought a deliverance.
God was showing him that even in the darkness, GOD is there with us who believe !!!
I will never forget that. As we had prayed before the funeral as a group…God kept giving images of Elijah on Mt Carmel and how it was just he and Obadiah that were there as believers, and maybe Obadiahs hidden prophets [ which we don’t really know from scripture] up against all those false prophets of BAAL ! THIS is what Elijah was sent into…just like Moses and Aaron into the court of PHAROAH who at the time was the most occult presence on earth !
“There is NOTHING I cannot do ! There is NOTHING that I cannot HEAL ! There is NO FOE that can withstand My power ! There is NOTHING I cannot replace or restore ! There is NOTHING I AM NOT GREATER THAN BECAUSE I AM ALMIGHTY GOD. I AM the CREATOR. Too much of My church has bowed down to the creature and become consumed by SELF that they are filled with UNBELIEF ! But I am about to CHANGE all that ! THEY will be RESTORED to BELIEF by what I do through those with APOSTOLIC FERVOR, WHOM I HAVE TRAINED UP AND SET APART FOR MY GLORY ! THE ENEMY WILL BE SUBDUED BY THE SWORD I PUT IN THEIR HANDS THAT WILL WIPE AWAY THE ROOTS EVEN OF ALL INFIRMITY, SICKNESS, DISEASE, INIQUITY AND SIN. THERE IS NOONE BEYOND MY ABILITY TO RESTORE. NO ONE ! NOTHING ! STOP putting LIMITS on MY ABILITY AND POWER. I AM SOVREIGN AND I AM LOVE ! WHAT IS WICKED WILL FALL ! WHAT IS WICKEDNESS WILL BE CONSUMED BY THE FIRE OF MY GLORY !
I WILL TRANSFIGURE YOU AND YOU WILL WALK IN NEW LIFE. DEATH WILL HAVE NO VICTORY OVER YOU ! BELIEVE FOR GREAT MIRACLES, SIGNS AND WONDERS ! BELIEVE THAT I AM WITH YOU AND WILL NEVER, NEVER, NEVER LEAVE YOU ! BELIEVE THAT MY LOVE AND GRACE WILL NEVER DEPART FROM THOSE I LOVE AND WHO ARE NOT ASHAMED OF ME ! ”
2 Cor 11:1-30 Amp
I WISH you would bear with me while I indulge in a little [so-called] foolishness. Do bear with me! 2 For I am zealous for you with a godly eagerness and a divine jealousy, for I have betrothed you to one Husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. [Hos 2:19,20.]
3 But [now] I am fearful, lest that even as the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, so your minds may be corrupted and seduced from wholehearted and sincere and pure devotion to Christ. [Gen 3:4.] 4 For [you seem readily to endure it] if a man comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the [Spirit] you [once] received or a different gospel from the one you [then] received and welcomed; you tolerate [all that] well enough!
5 Yet I consider myself as in no way inferior to these [precious] extra-super [false] apostles. 6 But even if [I am] unskilled in speaking, yet [I am] not [unskilled] in knowledge [I know what I am talking about]; we have made this evident to you in all things. 7 But did I perhaps make a mistake and do you a wrong in debasing and cheapening myself so that you might be exalted and enriched in dignity and honor and happiness by preaching God's Gospel without expense to you?
8 Other churches I have robbed by accepting [more than their share of] support for my ministry [from them in order] to serve you. 9 And when I was with you and ran short financially, I did not burden any [of you], for what I lacked was abundantly made up by the brethren who came from Macedonia. So I kept myself from being burdensome to you in any way, and will continue to keep [myself from being so].
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, this my boast [of independence] shall not be debarred (silenced or checked) in the regions of Achaia (most of Greece).
11 And why? Because I do not love you [do not have a preference for you, wish you well, and regard your welfare]? God perceives and knows that I do! 12 But what I do, I will continue to do, [for I am determined to maintain this independence] in order to cut off the claim of those who would like [to find an occasion and incentive] to claim that in their boasted [mission] they work on the same terms that we do. 13 For such men are false apostles [spurious, counterfeits], deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles (special messengers) of Christ (the Messiah).
14 And it is no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light; 15 So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. [But] their end will correspond with their deeds. 16 I repeat then, let no one think I have lost my wits; but even if you do, then bear with a witless man, so that I too may boast a little. 17 What I say by way of this confident boasting, I say not with the Lord's authority [by inspiration] but, as it were, in pure witlessness. 18[For] since many boast of worldly things and according to the flesh, I will glory (boast) also.
19 For you readily and gladly bear with the foolish, since you are so smart and wise yourselves!
20 For you endure it if a man assumes control of your souls and makes slaves of you, or devours [your substance, spends your money] and preys upon you, or deceives and takes advantage of you, or is arrogant and puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.
21 To my discredit, I must say, we have shown ourselves too weak [for you to show such tolerance of us and for us to do strong, courageous things like that to you]! But in whatever any person is bold and dares [to boast]--mind you, I am speaking in this foolish (witless) way--I also am bold and dare [to boast].
22 They are Hebrews? So am I! They are Israelites? So am I! They are descendants of Abraham? So am I! 23 Are they [ministering] servants of Christ (the Messiah)? I am talking like one beside himself, [but] I am more, with far more extensive and abundant labors, with far more imprisonments, [beaten] with countless stripes, and frequently [at the point of] death. 24 five times I received from [the hands of] the Jews forty [lashes all] but one; [Deut 25:3.] 25 three times I have been beaten with rods; once I was stoned. three times I have been aboard a ship wrecked at sea; a [whole] night and a day I have spent [adrift] on the deep;
26 Many times on journeys, [exposed to] perils from rivers, perils from bandits, perils from [my own] nation, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the desert places, perils in the sea, perils from those posing as believers [but destitute of Christian knowledge and piety]; 27 In toil and hardship, watching often [through sleepless nights], in hunger and thirst, frequently driven to fasting by want, in cold and exposure and lack of clothing. 28 And besides those things that are without, there is the daily [inescapable pressure] of my care and anxiety for all the churches! 29 Who is weak, and I do not feel [his] weakness? Who is made to stumble and fall and have his faith hurt, and I am not on fire [with sorrow or indignation]? 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that [show] my infirmity [of the things by which I am made weak and contemptible in the eyes of my opponents].
