Divine Healing- E W Kenyon

DIVINE HEALING(E W Kenyon)

THE SUBJECT OF HEALING is one over which there has been much controversy. Today there exist at least three different attitudes toward healing among the Christians.

One group teaches that healing is not for us today. They base this upon the theory that healing is a miracle and that miracles do not belong to the present day; that they belonged only to the Apostolic Age.

Another group teaches that God heals today in answer to special prayer or a special act of faith, and that according to His own will in the matter. The third group teaches that healing for the body is the legal right of every child of God, and that he receives healing for his physical body upon the same grounds that he receives remission of sin for his spirit. Let us now examine these three teachings in the light of the Word.

The first attitude can be easily shown to be erroneous by a definition of a miracle. A miracle, according to Webster, is an act or happening in the material or physical sphere that apparently departs from the laws of nature or goes beyond what is known concerning these laws. It is really an intervention of God into the realm of natural laws, or the realm of human activity. It is God coming upon the scene.

Whenever God comes into immediate contact with men a miracle is performed. Every answer to prayer, regardless of its smallness, and every New Birth is a miracle. An act of healing whereby God comes into immediate contact with man's physical body is no more a miracle than the New Birth, in which God comes into immediate contact with the spirit of man, imparting to it His own nature.

Man asks God to perform a greater miracle than healing when he asks Him to save his soul, and as great a miracle as healing when he asks Him to answer a request, regardless of how slight it might be. To say that miracles belonged only to the Apostolic Age would be to say that God must take the place of a mere spectator or cipher in the world He had created, from the Apostolic Age to this. We can easily see the utter fallacy of this teaching. Let us now seek to find what God's Word declares about the issue of the other two beliefs. If the second attitude is the correct teaching, the third is not.

If God heals only in answer to a special act of faith, and that only when He wills to, healing does not legally belong to the child of God and was not included in Redemption. If, on the other hand, healing was a part of man's Redemption in Christ, healing belongs to every child of God, and no special act of faith is required to obtain it. There need be no questioning as to whether it is God's will to heal; if it is in the Redemption, it is His Will. We will now consider what God's Word says about this.

Origin of Sickness and Disease

Before we are able to understand healing we must understand the origin of disease, sickness and death. We have seen that as a result of Adam's crime of High Treason, Spiritual Death gained an entrance into the spirit of man. This Spiritual Death, which has reigned in the human race, has been the soil out of which has grown the reign of sin, disease and death over man. Sickness, disease and death in man's physical body are but the manifestation of Spiritual Death within the spirit. If man had never died spiritually, disease and death would never have had a part in man's physical body.

When Satan became the god of this world, one of the results of his reign was the peopling of the air with disease germs so that from then to the present time, disease microbes too small to be seen with the naked eye have been one of the greatest enemies of man. The fact cannot be denied that in this world there exists evil. The existence of evil has caused many earnest people to reject belief in a God of love; they have not understood that evil was the result of Satan's reign over humanity as the prince and god of this world.

There are philosophers who have been so impressed by the reign of evil that they have arrived at the conclusion that the central principle of the universe is evil. They are wrong. It is not the Creator, but the Usurper, Satan, who is the source of evil. The two divisions of evil are pain and sin. Pain may have several subdivisions, but the major body of pain known and experienced by humanity is the pain caused by disease. In conclusion, sin and disease are twins, born of Spiritual Death. They are both the work of Satan. Sin is a disease of the spirit; sickness, as we see it, is a disease of the physical body.

God's Attitude Toward Disease

God looks upon disease as He looks upon sin, the work of Satan in the life of His Creation, man. Christ came to reveal the Father-God, to make known His attitude toward man. By carefully following the life of Christ we may learn the attitude of God toward sickness.

Christ Was the Will of the Father

Christ's ministry from the beginning to the close was a twofold ministry. He brought peace to the souls of men and healing to their bodies. Healing had a major place in the ministry of Christ. Throughout His ministry He delivered all those who were oppressed of Satan. This deliverance included healing for physical bodies. If disease did not come from Satan, it must have had a place in God's original plan for man. Read Matthew 8:16-17 and Mark 1:32-34.

If this were the case, then Jesus' ministry would have been contrary to the Father's will. He was the Father's will revealed to man and He revealed that it was the Father's will to break the power of disease over man's body and set him free from pain and suffering. Christ's ministry proclaimed healing and blessing to the physical part of man's nature, as well as to the spiritual side. There are several instances where the attitude of Christ toward disease is clearly shown. One is in Luke 13:10-17. After loosing a woman on the Sabbath from an infirmity which she had had for eighteen years, Christ was criticized by the rulers of the synagogue.

His answer was, "Ought not this woman, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, to have been loosed from this bond on the day of the Sabbath?" He clearly stated that Satan was the cause of the infirmity which had bound her physical body. Another incident is found in Mark 2:1-21. A man with palsy is brought to Christ to whom Christ said, "Son, thy sins are forgiven." When the scribes questioned the statement Christ had made, He answered them with this, "Which is easier, to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins are forgiven; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?"

In reality Christ is saying this, "Which is easier? Wherein is the difference to forgive sins which are the results of Spiritual Death in man's spirit, or to heal the disease of his physical body, which is the result also of the same Spiritual Death." In either case Christ was dealing with the bondage of man to Satan. To see more fully the attitude of Christ toward disease and the place healing played in His ministry, read the following:

Healing in Redemption

I John 3:8 tells us that Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. He came to destroy what Satan had wrought in humanity when he became the spiritual father of man as a result of Adam's crime of High Treason. He came to bring Satan to nought in his relationship and power over man. Hebrews 2:14. He came to completely redeem man from the effects of Adam's sin by identifying Himself with humanity. Study carefully Romans 5:12-21.

If man's redemption from Spiritual Death is to be a complete redemption it must be a redemption from disease as well as sin. God realized this, and He has clearly shown us in His Word that He has made provision for the healing of man's body. Isaiah 53:4-6. God lifts the curtain through the prophets and lets us see Him dealing with sin and sickness. Literally it reads, "He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of pains, and acquainted with sickness."

Fourth verse, "Surely He hath borne our sicknesses, and carried our diseases; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted." He was stricken of God with our diseases. He was afflicted with our pains. "He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed." Tenth verse, "Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise Him, He hath made Him sick; when thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin."

The old version which reads "griefs and sorrows" is not correct. Every literal translation gives "disease and sickness." God not only laid upon Jesus our iniquities, but our diseases. He was made sick with our diseases. He was made sin with our sins. In the Father's mind, and in the mind of Jesus, and according to the Word, our diseases and sins were borne by the Master. If they were borne by Him, then it is wrong for us to bear them. Sense Knowledge has attempted to repudiate this, but the truth remains that God laid our diseases and our sins on Jesus. He could not be raised until man was declared righteous (Romans 4:25).

When He arose from the dead, the body of sin, of Spiritual Death, had been destroyed (Romans 6:6). Sin had lost its power and so had disease. Isaiah 53:10 reads as follows in the Hebrew: "Yet Jehovah hath delighted to bruise Him; He bath made Him sick." God made Jesus sin with our sins, and He made Him sick with our sicknesses: He delighted to do it because of one reason . . . it meant healing for man.

Christ bore our sins and the penalty that we might be free from sin, its power, and its judgment. Upon the same grounds He bore our disease and pains. He carried them that we might be set free, that we need not bear them. God made Him to be our sin-bearer and our sickness-bearer. Him who knew no sin was made sin and Him who knew no sickness was made sickness.

In the ministry of Christ, the Father-God revealed that it was His will to heal man physically. Now in Redemption He breaks the power of disease and sickness
upon Christ. Satan, who had the authority in the realm of Spiritual Death, has been brought to nought (Hebrews 2:14). In that victory, disease and sickness, the works of Satan, were brought to nought also. By His bruising, we are healed from the law of disease.

Healing Today

Christ's ministry upon earth was twofold, constantly affecting the spirits and bodies of men. His death was two-fold, bearing our sins and diseases. He is the same today and the twofold ministry of blessing for spirit and body has continued from His earthly ministry to the present time. He bore man's Spiritual Death that he might have Life, and in His Word He made provision for man's salvation. He bore man's diseases and in His Word He made provision for his healing.

In Mark, the sixteenth chapter, He gave to His disciples the Great Commission. He is going to depart to be with the Father to take up His work at His right hand. His disciples are going to take His place. His representatives are to continue His ministry, do what He would do if He were here. So in their commission to a world for whom He died He reveals that the twofold ministry will continue. First, the commission is to meet the spiritual need of man. Mark 16:16, "He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved."

Every child of God applies this portion of the commission to himself, teaching that faith in Christ is essential to salvation and that unbelief excludes one from it. Then comes the second part of the commission, Mark 16:17, "And these signs shall accompany them that believe." The Greek word for "believe" is the same as "believeth" in verse 16, except for the fact that one is singular and the other is plural. What right has anyone had to separate these words of Christ which immediately follow His first part of the commission?

Where in His Word has He ever implied that the first words had reference to all men, and that the last had reference to only the Christians of the Apostolic Age? Both promises hang by the single stem "believing." The act of believing brings one into the family of God. The rich cluster of miraculous promises following, belong to them that believe, or the "believing ones," a literal translation.

Man has held fast to the first promise, because he knew how to use it, and he has flung back the other because he did not know how to use it. He bore man's diseases that man might not bear them, and the provision for man's healing is in this: "In My Name ... they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." The ministry of the disciples under the guidance of the Holy Spirit had the same twofold blessing as had Christ's ministry. A complete Redemption was preached by them, the New Birth for the spirit and healing for the body.

The two streams of blessing which began from the personal ministry of Christ, a stream of regeneration and healing have continued from then, through the Apostolic Age, and to the present, wherever Christians have dared to act upon His Word.
Our right to healing given to us in His Redemption has been invested in the authority of His Name. Today He is watching over this Word to confirm it, as He confirmed it in the days of the Apostles (Mark 16:20).

The Basic Bible Course

GREATER MEASURE OF THE UNCTION

Ezek. 47:3: And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles. 
Ezek. 47:4 : Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.
Ezek. 47:5: Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.


God wants you to walk with Him and know Him intimately. He wants you to be a carrier of His anointing. You may have some struggles, pain, challenges, tensions and trials but today is a brand new day. So let us step in and look for new beginnings, new anointing and new strength. Let the Holy Spirit breath in you and receive new anointing from Him. Let the very life of God Himself flow through your being and you will be refreshed, renewed, ignited, fulled of passion and the love of God.

I believe there are several levels of anointing that the Bible speaks of. Not all are obvious but they are certainly there. To know what the anointing is, one must first look at what the substance of the anointing is. It is very clear that the word anointing means, “To smear”. The question is, smear what? The Lord commands Moses to make a very particular oil that can be used only for its designated reason and then is asked to smear that oil on the chosen high priest.

  Exo. 29:7:- Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.

Once the high priest is smeared or anointed, he is allowed into the presence of God. In other words, without that oil on him he is a dead man if he goes into the inner most sanctum of God though he is a high priest. This denotes that a person no matter what they are ranked as in the Kingdom of God, must be anointed (set apart). This kind of sanctification can only take place through the anointing (smearing of blood). So, for the remaining part after blood sanctification, the anointing can be explained as; a holy instrument of God (in this case oil) used to set apart a person or something to be used by God for a particular purpose. Not everyone is chosen even though everyone is called to come to God. There is a very big difference in these concepts.

When we bring this same concept of being chosen and anointed into the New Testament context, we see that under the leadership of our High Priest Jesus, all requirements of the law were fulfilled once for all time. This allowed Him to receive the Holy Spirit, the anointing agent to be poured out upon us to be anointed, to be in the presence of God forever. The blood of Jesus acted as a cleansing agent for our sins to give us the Holy Spirit to become the anointing that gives us access to God.

 Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Eph 2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

That is why we are encouraged to enter in boldly. This is the first level of anointing; which is, to be set apart.

The second level is to receive the Holy Spirit as an anointing to do works. This anointing was evident in the life of Christ and is stated in the following verses. Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, Luk 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. This in effect was passed onto us by Jesus when He baptized us in the Holy Spirit. The expectation therefore of God through Jesus is, we will do exactly what Jesus did. 

John.14:12:- Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father

The third level of anointing is for intimacy. To get closer to Jesus in order to understand God through the teaching of His word. This forms and strengthens the relationship between God and His creation through Jesus and by the Holy Spirit. Without the word and Spirit, it is impossible to form intimacy with God as there is no basis for intimacy without the Spirit. 1Cor.6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

As long as people refuse Jesus and God and do not accept His ongoing conditions of salvation, there can be no intimacy. Instead, there is a fearful looking toward judgement. Salvation is a gate that gives us access to God for eternity. We will be with Him forever and forever learning and becoming intimate with Him.

There are many portions of anointing within one level of anointing that one can gain which relates to double and without measure portions of the same anointing. Elisha asked Elijah for a double portion of his anointing. However, what it does is, bring you to a greater involvement on one of these levels not necessarily all levels. Many come to initial salvation but do not go on to be baptized in the Holy Spirit for power and works or bother to understand God through His word. They remain as babies or become legalistic (word only). God is always seeking to get closer to us and expecting us to get closer to Him. However, this can be daunting at best when we are in the flesh because flesh cannot take the presence of God when He manifests. Many disdain manifestations of the Holy Spirit out of lack of understanding, fear and legalism. It is people who think like this that can never grow and find themselves limited because they do not move in the Spirit. The Bible often speaks of people who were full of the Holy Ghost. This means, they had to abandon themselves completely to the anointing on every level. Their function now was to flow out of that fullness and perform the tasks God had given them. The fullness is the fourth level of anointing. That is why Jesus said; “out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water”. The fullness brings many rivers flowing out of an individual.

In Ezekiel 47, we are given a picture of the different levels of anointing that can be released by God from His throne. Ezekiel depicts a picture of water issuing out of the throne room and forming a river that flows out. Ezekiel gets into the river at ankle depth and then proceeds downriver to knee level and then onto waist level before being fully submerged in the river causing him to swim in it. These four water levels depict the four levels of anointing. We are told later on in the chapter what this river does. He is told that this river is for the healing of many and also the salvation of many.

When we are operating at the ankle level of anointing there isn’t much one can achieve. Many have stayed with the knowledge of the word and have sought that, rather than the life of the word. This has led to their death spiritually because the letter kills. Then, there are others who go to the knee level and stay there on their knees instead of getting up and doing something with their prayer life. James says; “what is the use of praying without acting upon it”? Then we have the waist high anointing that speaks of character. Character is good if it is empowered in us to grow. Mere thoughts of kindness and meekness etc. cannot achieve anything. One must act out their character. Finally comes the abandonment anointing. This anointing is where one is fully baptized in the Spirit and goes where the Spirit takes them.
John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

To be born of the Spirit is not everyone’s choice as explained earlier. To be born of the Spirit means to be born again and abandoned unto God through Jesus. One must become a bondservant to Jesus. Then, the Spirit will rest upon a person because they are sold out for Jesus. Religion is liked by many but few practice it. Church is a good concept but it is a hiding place for many. Many think they are anointed but in actual fact are just working things out through their intellect. They are good at it. Others start in the Spirit and end up in the flesh. It is easy to recognize a Spirit filled person who carries an anointing because it is taking them from glory to glory. The results are spectacular.

Unless one seeks these levels of anointing, they cannot attain to them. It is not automatic on becoming a Christian. In fact, you will find many who will disdain anything to do with the Holy Spirit and actually dissuade others from seeking the Holy Spirit and even blaspheme. Mark. 3:22 And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils. Luke_11:20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you Mar 3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:

Others, will take on the baptism of the Holy Ghost and corrupt the power for reasons of personal gain and power. The anointing also has a way of corrupting a person making them think it is them who is doing things. One must be always careful to give the glory to God. The higher you get in the anointing, the greater the risk and need for humility. Many a Minister of God has fallen to the wayside over corruption of the soul and spirit through the mishandling of the anointing. This is fair warning to all who not only seek the anointing but want to go higher. Many have prophesied falsely, mimicked the anointing at meetings when there is none present. These are dangerous people. They usually become false prophets and teachers and gainsayers whose end is destruction and hell. In the last days, discernment, waiting on God and clearly hearing His voice will make you understand His will for your journey in the anointing.

The true believer seeks all levels of the anointing for the purpose of fulfilling God’s plan for humanity. They use the power not for self gain but for the gain of others. They do not operate on the basis of money but love. Such anointed people use money gained from their ministries to support the weak and needy. These are the truly anointed ones. They go about seeking to do good like their Master.

Acts 10:38:- How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

Let us be found anointed and doing good works out of the anointing. Then, our reward is sure in heaven.

The Path-finder of the Masters Unction must walk the ancient path, the narrow way. They must walk in humility as Jesus walked. They must live in obedience as He lived and love unconditionally as He loved. They must be willing to suffer for Christ's sake for Christ's glory. They must proclaim the Word of the Lord not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power. The Anointed are ambassadors of God, authorities of a Kingdom not made with hands, a Kingdom that will never be destroyed, a Kingdom that will consume every other kingdom and stand forever; and when these ambassadors speak they release the power from this Kingdom from whence they came.

This is the 5-oil mix that the Lord gave to us that will be at work in us, His people:

1. Cedars of Lebanon – prosperity, strength, wholeness, performance (ability)
2. Spikenard – extravagant adoration and intimacy with Jesus, abandonment producing resurrection power.
3. Rose of Sharon – glory, millennial rule – kingly anointing, kingly reign.
4. Lily of the Valley – purity of heart and provision that comes with a pure heart, which seeks first the kingdom of God.
5. Sweet Myrrh – dying to self to become a sweet smelling savor to the Lord. The establishing of the Bride without spot or wrinkle to rule and reign as kings (joint heirs seated with the King) from death to resurrection power.

These are the five oils of this coming season. Let the Holy Spirit mix these together and rub them upon us according to the good pleasure of the Lord.

PRAYERFULLY STUDY:

-Proof Producers- Morris Cerullo
-The New Anointing- Morris Cerullo
-Understanding the Anointing- Kenneth E Hagin
-The Anointing- Benny Hinn
-The Mega Church- Dag Heward Mills

The Power of Light

                                                                     
                                         
                                                                The Power of Light

Col.1:13-14:-Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:-In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
“Then God said let there be light and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness” (Genesis 1:3-4).

The Hebrew word translated in this context shows light as illumination, something that clarifies, brightens and brings happiness. The Bible says God saw that the light was good. Darkness is the opposite of light. Darkness depicts evil, something not good, chaos, confusion, ignorance, etc. Below are some of the qualities of light.

The only solution to darkness comes from the word of God. Jesus came in as the light of the world and human history changed for a new era.

Quantifed effects of Light

1.Light dissolves obscurity. Darkness buries human abilities, darkness buries human talents.
2.Light brings clarity and Enlightenment. It brings understanding and that understanding is the food of faith.
3.Light brings direction and Purpose Psalm 119:109.
4.Light brings acceleration and Vector motivated swift velocity. The difference in the speed of people is the light they have. Illumination determines acceleration. The reason some people’s joy is so sluggish is the absence of light. Association determines acceleration.
5.Light brings restoration.
6.Light brings distinction: It says arise and shine for thy light has come, Isaiah 60:1.

The believer in Christ is commanded to arise and shine because he has light (Isaiah 60:1). The Bible says the gospel of Jesus Christ is the light of the glory of God. It is this light that believers in Christ receive when they give their hearts to Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:3-4). The gospel makes its recipients to shine in this dark world, because it is the light of God’s glory. Light reigns because it shines and overcomes darkness. However, the extent of the shining and reigning of the believer is determined by the amount of light (revelation knowledge) he or she possesses and walks in. True believers radiate the glory and brilliance of God in this dark world.

Light heals and recreates: It is reportedly known that a good number of babies are born jaundiced. Jaundice is a liver disorder that causes the white part of the eyes and skin to turn yellow. Though potentially dangerous, it has an easy cure. The baby is put under a special light. The skin absorbs this light and stimulates the liver to start functioning well. Human beings are morally and spiritually sick because of sin. The truth of the scriptures is the light that heals us of spiritual sickness.
Light dispels darkness and expels wickedness: Satan is called the prince of darkness. His agents and demonic spirits are called the rulers of the darkness of this world (Ephesians 6:12). His kingdom is called the Kingdom of Darkness. He majorly rules his dark kingdom with fear, ignorance, hatred and deception. The Bible says light shines in darkness and the darkness cannot understand nor overpower nor extinguish it. Light wins over darkness without a fight.  Faith in God, the love of God and the truth of the scriptures are embodiment of the light of God. These qualities when possessed by the believer make him or her to overcome the darkness of this world.

Light rules and enforces dominion: The Bible says God created two great lights on the fourth day of creation. The greater light He created was to rule over the day, and the lesser light to rule over the night (Genesis 1:16-19). To rule is to exercise authority or dominion over something. The believer in Christ rules over sin, sickness and death because of the understanding which the light of God’s word provides him or her. What one understands he gains mastery over. Jesus said, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness but have the light of life” (John 8:12). Our understanding of redemption, forgiveness, sanctification and justification gives us mastery over the deception of darkness.

Light quickens: It enlivens and produces life. For most living organisms, life ebbs or ceases to be when light is no more. Plants live by photosynthesis. They convert sunlight energy into food and produce oxygen for mankind. Life and light are mysteriously inseparably linked. Jesus said those who follow Him will have the light that produces and leads to life. Life means being present with God both in this world and in eternity. Darkness is the absence of God.
(Genesis 1:2-5), light exposes (Ephesians 5:13) and shields (Romans 13:12)

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: (1 Peter 2:9).

The underlined portion of the verse above lets you know your present location; you’ve been brought out of darkness into God’s marvelous light. That light is the “light of life” that shows you the path of success, victory, and dominion. It’s like what the Lord did for the children of Israel back in the Old Testament; He brought them out of Egypt, which represented darkness, into the Promised Land, which symbolizes light!
The Kingdom to which you belong is superior to the kingdom of this world where sin, sickness, disease, and infirmities hold men in bondage. You’re not subject to the darkness and decadent systems and structures of this world; you belong to the heavenly Kingdom of God’s elect: it’s a land of glory, prosperity, beauty, honour, and excellence, where you partake of the glorious inheritance of the saints in light.
Enforce the Kingdom Light that Comes through the Revelation Knowledge  that comes through the Portals of Encounters in the Word of God.

Governing Territories

Ecc. 8:4-Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Principalities and powers are demonic governing forces waging war against Christ, His dominion, and His kingdom advancement. Battling against rebel kingdoms and the teachings of their leaders requires you to embrace the apostolic anointing. We are in a war for dominion, kingdom against kingdom, culture against culture, values against values, truth against lies, and light against darkness. Society needs the truth that lights the way out of darkness and chaos. This is why you need an apostolic anointing.

Preachers take an active role in representing and advancing the culture and values of the Kingdom of God. A preacher is a Kerux. Let’s discuss the ministry of God’s battling Kerux. A Kerux is an official representative of a king. After the resurrection, Christ used apostles and the apostolic anointing to pioneer His governing churches. New Testament churches were all apostolic in nature. For me, there are three words that best describe the apostolic anointing: build, restore and govern. We could add “sent” to that as well. To be apostolic (apostolos) means to be sent. Christ was sent, the Holy Ghost was sent and you will be sent.

You already know the Apostle Paul said he was called an apostle by the will of God alone. He also described himself as a wise “master builder.”

“According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.” (1 Corinthians 3:10)

Here again the apostolic anointing carries a building grace. “Masterbuilder” is the Greek word architekton. This is where we get the English word architect. An architect meets with the property owner to review a building’s design. Afterward the architect draws the plans and oversees the building process making sure the building matches the owner’s desire.

The grace of an apostle is resident within apostolic churches. Apostolic churches consists of all five ascension gifts working together to equip and empower believers to do what they individually and corporately are called to do with their lives and ministries. The apostolic church has a “set man” which is an apostle but has within the ministry the other four ascension ministry gifts. All of these will help you enter the ministry of a kerux. Let’s take a look.

APOSTLE AND PREACHER

Paul was an apostle to the Gentiles. He also described his calling as apostle and preacher. “Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles” (2 Timothy 1:11). We have already given you some insight of the apostles anointing but let’s look closer at the word preacher. The word “preacher” in Greek is kerux.

The verb to preach is kerusso. We all have an image of what a preacher is and what he should be doing. To some a preacher is a full time pastor, seminary graduate, counselor or someone hired to meet the congregation’s needs, visit the sick and take care of widows and orphans. Preachers may do some of these things, but the word “preach” is very different.

All of this means that most of the time our images of the word preach is flawed or incomplete. For example, you may think a preacher is one that stands in front of great crowds in a white suite having a healing crusade. In one sense, that is something a preacher might do but in the fullest sense it is not what a preacher is. To preach, kerusso, is an action word that means to take an active role in representing and advancing the culture and values of a kingdom. Don’t miss this definition because it will change the way you look like your church, life, and ministry.

SATRAPS

The Greeks used the term kerux. To them, a Kerux was an official representative of a king. If a king wanted to invade a city he would send his official Kerux to inform the city of his expectations. So in a sense a kerux was apostolic because he was “a sent one”, sent by the king to convey the wishes, laws, values and culture of a kingdom. Without the ministry of a Kingdom Kerux it was impossible for people to understand how to transition their lives and society to match the wishes of their new king.

Persian kings also had official kingdom representatives. These representatives governed territories through a system of provincial organizations headed by chief administrators, ambassadors, and governors called satraps. Like a Kerux a Satrap was a powerful figure that represented a king and promoted kingdom laws, culture, and values. These satraps would not only herald their king’s desires, but kings would govern their new kingdoms through them. The bottom line is both Kerux and Satrap were kingdom representatives.

VICTORY OVER CHAOS AND CRISES

It’s interesting to read the ministry of a Kerux and Satrap as official representatives of a kingdom. Scripture says that you are to preach and teach the gospel to all nations. We call this the Great Commission. I have been told that ninety-five percent of Christians cannot tell you what the Great Commission is. No wonder the world is suffering from chaos and crises. Here is the expectation of our King to his Kingdom representatives.

“And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” (Matthew 28:18-20)

“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach (kerusso) the gospel to every creature.” (Mark 16:15)

Notice the word preach (kerusso) and the assignment to the disciples (kerux) was to “teach all nations.” Preaching the gospel of the kingdom is not only preaching the cross it is representing Kingdom of God culture and values. Yes, of course, what Jesus did on the cross of Calvary atoning for the sins of mankind is vital. And, yes, of course, we need to confess our sins and believe that God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day. In this essay, I am not taking anything away from the truth of the doctrine of salvation through repentance of sin and the blood of Christ. So now with that cleared up let’s make sure we understand what Paul wrote when he said he was an apostle and preacher.

Again, a Kerux is a representative of a kingdom. As a born again believer you have been translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God. You were once separated from God and dead in trespasses and sin. Through repentance and salvation by faith in the Son of God and His shed blood you were redeemed and entered the Kingdom of God. Notice that you didn’t leave the earth when you got saved. You are still here. The difference is that now the Kingdom of God is within you. Now you are a citizen of Zion with benefits and responsibility. In other words, God has some expectations of you.

REPRESENTING THE KINGDOM OF GOD

We all love to hear about the benefits of our salvation but our responsibilities are another matter. Permit me to be a little shocking on purpose. Christ did not save you so that you could escape this world. Before Jesus went to the cross he had this conversation with the Father.

“I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world” (John 17:15-18).

Christ didn’t ask the Father to take you out of the world but to keep you from evil and to send you into the world. You can see the sending apostolic nature in the conversation. Then again after the resurrection Jesus confirmed the same thing saying to his disciples, “Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me even so send I you. And when he had said this he breathed on them and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost” (John 20:21-22).

Both these scriptures refer to “sent ones”. To be sent is an apostolic term validating the apostolic nature of your Kingdom citizenship. But what is your mission? Get people saved? Yes. But that’s not all. Your mission is to represent your King and advance His kingdom. You are a Kingdom of God kerux.

We are in a war for dominion, kingdom against kingdom, culture against culture, values against values, truth against lies, and light against darkness. Society needs truth that lights the way out of darkness and chaos. This is why Jesus taught that you are salt, light and a city set on a hill.

To represent the Kingdom of God as a Kingdom Kerux means you need to know something about your God, His kingdom, culture, values, laws and expectations. First of all the Kingdom of God is not on the other side of Pluto. It’s not out there, over yonder, coming some day in the sweet by and by. No, the Kingdom of God has already come and it is in you. Jesus announced its arrival and said it was within our reach and we need to change the way we think about it. Scripture says, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye and believe the gospel” (Mark 1:15).

So now that you know that Christ gave us five different ascension gifts of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers to equip you for the work of ministry you can be about representing Christ’s kingdom, word, culture, laws, values and expectations. His kingdom come and His will be done on earth just as it is in heaven.

AFLAME-THE MORAVIAN PRAYER QUEST

The Moravian Revival 1727

Revivals

Introduction

The story of the Moravian Revival is a powerful one that demonstrates that He is the God who restores and keeps His promises. Often in our walk we go through dark seasons where everything seems to fall apart and it looks like it is all over for us. At first glance, it would appear the enemy has won and that our better days are behind us.

We find ourselves broken and lost. We are spiritual refugees, rejected and despised. We recall His promises, but our hope is almost faded. We find ourselves in a place of wondering and crying out to the Lord, “remember me!” We feel forgotten and rejected.

Yet, in this difficult place, He begins to expose areas in us that need crucified. It is a place of death. A place where we no longer can make anything happen in and of ourselves, so we learn to surrender. Our only hope is Him. The only One Who can turn things around is Him.

As He exposes the old dead formalism in us and unsurrendered areas, we go through a season of Him working on us. Slowly, as we yield and simply trust Him, He begins to restore us and open a new door. Then suddenly, everything changes. In His great mercy and goodness, He turns up and we have a divine visitation with Him. We are not the same. Like Jacob, we have wrestled with the Lord and no longer walk the same. Finally, we have come to the place of total trust and surrender to Him, and it is here He meets with us. It is here we discover a place of true victory and a new beginning, where the glory of these days outshines the former ones. We now live wholly for Him, and we find in giving our all to Him, He gives us His all.

Background

1. L. Moody preached in one of his last sermons…

“See how He came on the day of Pentecost! It is not the carnal to pray that he may come again and that the place be shaken.”¹

“God says’ ‘It shall come to pass- I will pour,’ This was His promise through the prophet Joel. The first fulfilment of this promise was on the day of Pentecost. There is nothing in the New Testament to indicate that this was to be the one and only fulfilment of this promise. On the contrary, we read in the book of Acts of many outpourings…”²

A Moravian Historian

Further, this historian wrote…

And verily the thirteenth of August, 1727, was a day of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We saw the hand of God and His wonders, and we were all under the cloud of our father baptized with their Spirit. The Holy Ghost came upon us in those days great signs and wonders took place in our midst. From that time, scarcely a day passed but what we beheld His almighty workings amongst us. A great hunger after the Word of God took possession of us so that we had to have three services every day…”

Count Zinzendorf was a man who had a heart after the Lord, and shortly after finishing college as was customary for a nobleman, he traveled across the major cities of Europe.  Zinzendorf was a man committed to prayer. When he was visiting the Art Gallery in Duseldorf, he saw an image of Jesus with a crown of thorns, standing before Pilate. Beneath the painting were the words, “This I have done for you, what are you doing for Me?”

These words had a deep impact on him who wrote regarding the event…

“I implore my Savior to draw me with force into the partnership of His sufferings, even if my mind struggled against it.”³

When the Lord begins to touch the heart, you can’t run from Him. The Lord knows exactly how to reach you and what words will pierce your heart. If we learn to trust Him, the Lord knows how to reach our loved ones. We never know when or how, but He has an appointment and day of visitation with us. The day when like Paul, we are knocked down to the grown, pierced in the heart, and our world challenged. On that day I pray that like Paul and Zinzendorf, our hearts are soft and bow to the Lordship of Jesus. Here Count Zinzendorf committed the rest of his life to the Lord. In this article, the focus is on the Moravian Revival. Count Zinzendorf played a critical part in the revival so we must talk about him. It started with his surrender to the purpose of the Father and the vision he had to build a Christian community. He would take his inheritance and purchase the estate of Berthelsdorf from his grandmother. Count Zinzendorf was able through the eyes of faith to see not empty fields, but the Christian community the Lord had put on his heart. However, I don’t think he fully grasped what the Lord had planned.

Count Zinzendorf appointed the Pietist John Andrew Rothe as the pastor of the Lutheran Church that was at Berthelsdorf. He commissioned him saying…

“I bought this estate because I wanted to spend my life among peasants, and win their souls for Christ. So go, Rothe, to the vineyard of the Lord. You will find me a brother and a helper rather than a patron.”⁴

I love the heart of Count Zinzendorf. He was not seeking to build his kingdom or boast in his position and authority. If we are to see a revival, it must come through humbling of ourselves. We must submit one to another in obedience to the Holy Spirit. True leadership empowers, and that was the heart of Zinzendorf. But true leaders also deal with issues. As we will see, Zinzendorf did that as well.

In 1722, he built a mansion on the estate and called it Bethel (House of God). He opened his home for all to come on Sunday afternoon for Bible Studies. Soon, he had his first settler come to the estate at Berthelsdorf. A man from Moravia, called Christian David. The Protestants in Moravia were being severely persecuted by the Catholic church, and David asked if the refugees could come to Berthelsdorf. Ludwig consented, not realizing that his dream was about to be fulfilled. Initially, ten refugees came and formed a community called Herrbhut (the Lord’s Watch), on June 17^th, 1722.

Who Where The Moravians?

To understand the story of the Moravians, we must go back to Wycliffe in the 14^th Century. Towards the end of his life, he was expelled from Oxford and his teachings banned from being studied. However, the king married a lady from Bohemia, which resulted in Bohemian students coming to study at Oxford. One of them was Jerome of Prague and he, in violation of Oxford rules, studied the works of Wycliffe. He then took them back to Bohemia, where Hus would study them. Hus would make a stand like Wycliffe against the corruption of the Catholic church, for which he was burnt at the stake. But his followers the Moravians continued. However, they would endure fierce persecution. So they were more than willing to follow David in the hope of sanctuary.

David brought the initial refugees to a swampy stretch of the estate as they were not welcomed in the village. There they found an old unfinished farmhouse that they rested in.

David, who had made a pledge that if the Lord healed his wife, he would return to Moravia for more refugees, discovered his wife had been made well, and immediately set back out for Moravia.

When the refugees first arrived, they were disappointed as only one house was complete and the rosy picture painted to them by David was far from reality. However, a stream of people continued to come from Moravia.

The Hidden Seed

Over the next four years, the community grew to around four hundred. They worked together to build a school and medical building. These Moravians, as I said, were the converts that came out of the ministry of Hus, who was burnt at the stake in 1415. By the time of Luther, they had grown to around 200,000 members. However, from the sixteenth century they were mercilessly persecuted, with only a few being left in Moravia. Their last bishop, Jan Amos Comenius who escaped to Holland, prophesied before that the remnant left would be a “hidden seed” that would grow into a “Fruitful tree.” ⁵

They were a broken people, hanging on by their nails. It seemed like their better days were behind them, but the Lord had not forgotten them. The Lord was faithful to deliver them in their darkest hour. He had a plan for them, and little could they have imagined that this swamp would become a place of divine encounter, restoration and commissioning.

Ludwig declared…

“I want to be used among these people to bring revival…though I may lose my property, my honor, and my life in the cause, as long as I live, and as far as I am able, this flock of the Lord shall be preserved for Him until He comes.”⁶

“The community became the vehicle for Zinzendorf’s adolescent pledge to preach the Gospel to every creature, and especially to those for whom no one else cared.”⁷

Zinzendorf had no clue that the vision the Lord had put on his heart was part of a bigger plan or restoration and would transform the world. As big as Zinzendorf dreamed, the Lord’s plan was bigger. Zinzendorf wanted to see souls won for Jesus by creating a Christian community. However, God created a Christian training and commissioning center that would send missionaries worldwide.

The Storm Arises

Word of the Herrnhut community spread and persecuted Christians from various denominations started coming, including Anabaptists (now Mennonites), Calvinists, Separatists, and even Catholics. The mixed breed of malcontents caused dissension to arise. “As poverty crept in at the door, love flew out of the window.”⁸ As the turmoil grew, along came a man called Johannes Sigismund Kruger. Kruger was a leader and caused great division. The enemy always seeks to kill any work of God and it takes Godly leadership to act with wisdom and shut the door on the enemy. Too often we try to just keep the peace, instead of making a stand for truth. Part of the enemy’s strategy is to go after the leadership. You see true leadership is formed by demonstrating the character of Christ and earning the trust of the people so they will follow you. If the devil can demonize the leader, he can devastate the church. Kruger, a messenger of the enemy, announced that he was divinely appointed by God to reform Zinzendorf, whom he called “the Beast,” and Rothe the “False Prophet.” Kruger attacked the various leaders, calling the Lutherans “no better than a den of thieves.” ⁹

During the last five years, Zinzendorf had not paid a lot of attention to the refugees at Herrnhut, but on his plans for Berthelsdorf. He also had his official duties at Dresden as the king’s councilor. He had, however, made it clear that all refugees coming to Herrnhut had to be fleeing religious persecution and had to agree to the Augsburg Confession. But Zinzendorf knew he had to act. Zinzendorf did act at the right time with great wisdom from heaven. I have personally learned the importance of acting at the critical time. It is easier to say than do, because we hope people will just work out their differences and you will not be dragged into the middle of it. But failure to act allows the enemy to ransack the people. Zinzendorf understood that those whom he had taken in out of compassion were now a group of scheming dissenters.

“At the critical point the Count intervened, and changed the duel into a duet. He would have no makers of sects on his estate. With all their faults, he believed that the settlers were at bottom broad-minded people. Only clear away the rubbish and the gold would be underneath.” ¹⁰

On May 12^th, he summoned them to a meeting where he preached for three hours on the sin of schisms. The best way to defeat the plans of the enemy is truth. Preach the truth. Jesus stood up against the religious Pharisees and hypocrites with truth. Not opinion and not with anger. Truth! However, Zinzendorf understood the importance of humility and prayer. The Battle is the Lord’s not ours. We must surrender the battle in prayer and humble ourselves under His mighty hand, recognizing that it is a spirit of pride that is seeking to destroy everything. The devil always works in and out of pride. We must, therefore, learn the power of humility. The result of Zinzendorf’s action was the squabbling refuges became orderly Christian tenants that promised to obey his Injunctions and Prohibitions.

Zinzendorf took leave of his assignment at Dusseldorf and proceeded to organize a church within the church at Herrnhut. He created a pact called, “the Brotherly Union and Compact.” On July 4^th, all were called to freely sign this pact. By signing, they promised to end sectarian quarrels and obey the agreement they had previously made with him. The result was a great calm came on the place that summer.

“The whole place…represented a visible tabernacle of God among men,” Said Zinzendorf… ‘for the next few months in the city on a hill was the home of ineffable joy; and the very men who had lately quarreled with each other now formed little groups for prayer and praise.” ¹¹

During the next period, Zinzendorf spent much time in prayer. In fact, on August 5^th, they held an all-night prayer session.

A communion Service

On August 13^th, 1727, Pastor Rothe called a special communion service at Berthelsdorf. Zinzendorf wrote of the event…

“We needed to come to the Communion with a sense of the loving nearness of the Savior. This was the great comfort which has made this day a generation ago to be a festival, because on this day twenty seven years ago the Congregation of Herrnhut, all assembled for communion were all dissatisfied with themselves. They had quit judging each other because they had become convinced, each one, of his lack of worth in the sight of God and each felt himself at this communion to be in view of the noble countenance of the Savior.”¹²

‘“We learned,’ said the Brethren, ‘to love. ’From that day onward,’ said Nitschmann, ‘Herrnhut was a living Church of Jesus Christ.” ¹³

Zinzendorf was twenty-seven, which was also the average age of the people at Herrnhut. At the communion service, he read the “Confession,” and as he did everyone was touched in a very powerful way. The Holy Spirit was poured out. Pastor Rothe fell to the floor overwhelmed by the Spirit. The people began praying, singing, and weeping. This continued until midnight.

“We saw the hand of God and His wonders, and we were all under the cloud of our fathers baptized with their Spirit. The Holy Ghost came upon us and in those days great signs and wonders took place in our midst.” ¹⁴

“Self-love and self-will, as well as all disobedience disappeared and an overwhelming flood of grace swept out into the great ocean of Divine Love.” ¹⁵

If we truly have an encounter with Him, we should demonstrate His love in our life. His love radiates from Him, and the afterglow of spending time in His presence is His love permeates and transforms you till you radiate with it.

“Beloved, let us (unselfishly) love and seek the best for one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves (other) is born of God and knows God (through personal experience).
1 John 4: 7 AMP

The Children

On August 17^th, the Holy Spirit was poured out on the children at Herrnhutt. They began a 24-hour, 7 day a week, prayer meeting. This prayer meeting started by the children would last for one hundred years! As the children came and bowed their knees to the Father, soon the parents joined them. Zinzendorf wrote…

“The children of both sexes felt a powerful impulse to prayer, and it was impossible to listen to their infant supplications without being deeply moved. …The Spirit of grace and supplication poured out upon the children so powerful that it is impossible to give an adequate description in words.” ¹⁶

On August 26^th, twenty-four men and twenty-four women covenanted together to continue praying, one hour each, day and night. Soon the group increased.

Prayer Led to Action

The prayer caused the burden of heaven to arise in the hearts of the people. True prayer should change us. Such prayer should cause an exchange of our burdens for His burden. We should be consumed with the heart of heaven. When it comes to prayer, relationship makes all the difference. We must be right with Him and our desires should clearly indicate that. When we are no longer consumed with the cares of life and desires of the flesh, but the burden of the Father, we have entered a powerful place.

“This small church in twenty years called into being more missions than the whole Evangelical Church has done in two centuries.” ¹⁷

In fact, within thirty-three years, 226 Moravian missionaries had been scattered around the world. They based the daily prayer on…

A fire must always be burning upon the altar. It must never go out.

Leviticus 6: 13

The passionate faith filled prayers carrying the burden of the Father’s heart did not bounce off the ceilings, but touched heaven, and heaven responded. They understood the Lord desired to move in revival and all they had to do was come believing.

The reality is, He desires to move in revival and touch lives way beyond what we could imagine. He is just looking for vessels to surrender to Him, so He can move.

“Every revival throughout history is unique. No two are exactly the same. God uses different people, different methods, and different times. However, one thing is always the same in times of revival. There have never been great revivals without great prayer.” ¹⁸

The Spirit of Worship

With revival it is always accompanied with worship. In the 1932 edition of the Methodist Hymnal it says, “Methodism was born in song.” We also see in Herrnhut as the Spirit was poured out, the floodgates of worship and singing began.

John Wesley, while on his way to America from England to minister to the Native Americans, learnt German, so he could on the journey communicate with the Moravians. In fact, he wrote in his journal on October 19^th, 1735, “Singing with the Germans.”¹⁹ John Wesley wanted to learn their secret. He watched them praise the Lord even in the fiercest of storms at sea. He wrote of them, “They are a people who have given up all for their Master, and have learned from Him to be modest and lowly, dead to the world, but full of faith and the Holy Spirit.”

One of the Moravians on board was David Nitschmann.

Charles Wesley, who met Peter Bohler, another Moravian, would write a song based on their conversation, where Peter said, “If I had a thousand tongues, I would praise Jesus with every one of them.” ²⁰The song of course goes, “Oh for a thousand tongues to sing.”

Dead Formalism

Two major areas the Moravians dealt with. The first was, of course, disunity. When they came together in true unity, power broke out. Just as it did on the day of Pentecost when the church had come together in unity. You can’t fake Godly unity. True unity is built upon humility, esteeming one another as higher than ourselves. It is a unity built upon His love.

“We know love by this, that he laid down His life for us, and that we ought to do the same for the brethren.
1 John 3: 16

Love is seen in the laid down life. If we could learn to empty ourselves of ourselves and become yielded vessels He can fill and use, we would see greater power.

Secondly, they addressed the dead formalism in the church. Most believers can go to a dead church and not even recognize that it is dead, or almost dead. Oh, the Father in His mercy will meet people who come to Him in faith and touch them, but the power is absent. Lives are not so utterly changed that they recklessly abandon the old and become consumed with the burden of heaven. Many get a touch from the Lord and get their lives put right, but never experience the Holy Spirit to have their lives turned upside down for the glory. They get blessed, but never jump in the barrel until they become a blessing. They taste of the goodness of the Lord but fail to possess the goodness of the Lord to become vessels of His glory. We are not here to just live better lives because of the Gospel. We are meant to be so utterly changed that the world around us is changed. The early church did not just experience the Holy Spirit and learn to have better jobs, better marriages, etc. That was, if anything, just the icing on the cake.

Oh, we can boast that we are blessed at church and we are better people because of it, but where is the radical power? Where is the Holy Spirit that causes such a fire to ignite in you that you are compelled to act? You understand your purpose on earth is to see souls come to the knowledge of Jesus. You become dead to this world and burn with a holy passion. There can be no going back to the old, because not alone is that old man dead, but now you are a radical believer commissioned by your Creator with a divine purpose!

Oh, I pray that you have such an encounter, that you refuse to settle with just an inner court experience but go into the Holy of Holies and you are never the same. You will feel like a fool until you die, but when you do, suddenly you enter the place of power!

No wonder the early church turned the world upside down. They became dead to the world and they no longer lived but Christ. We need to stop settling for the inspirational gospel, and get the Gospel of power. But it requires a total death. Are you willing to die to all? Are you willing to surrender your agenda, burdens, and dreams and take up the burden and dream of heaven?

The Moravians started off as a broken people seeking to survive. They were running from the enemy. They became a people who were overcomers that now ran to the battle to take back what the enemy stole. Are you broken running from a past? It is time for you to find sanctuary in His Presence and have a visitation with Him. Let Him expose all that hinders and all dead religion in your life. Be a lover of the truth! Your latter days can so outshine your former, that your wildest dreams would never be able to imagine what He has planned for you, if you will surrender and trust Him.

The Moravians became sold out to the Lord. They were not the same. Their lives were committed to reaching the lost. They set up a printing press to print the Bible, Christian tracts and hymnals. They became voices influencing others for Christ. The touched men like the Wesley brothers. John Wesley, in fact, translated one of Zinzendorf’s songs, “Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness.”

The Keys They Learned

Life was not easy for the Moravians. They world work sixteen hour days. But they were trained in three principles that were to equip them to go “out!”

• Jesus gave His life as a ransom for sin. They understood the sacrifice Jesus made and the power of the blood
• Jesus was the perfect example for them to follow. We are to fix our eyes on Him. He is the author of our faith and He is the One who will bring it to maturity.
• Jesus was present with them as Head of the church. If we could just understand that it He is the Head of the church and it is His church, oh, what a difference it would make. We would stop building our kingdoms and ministries. We would give our all for His ALL.

Conclusion

The Moravians went all over the world preaching the Gospel. How many of us would allow the Lord such a surrender so as to allow Him to send us to some land we don’t know? Such surrender that it is not based on our opinion but we are willing to surrender our rights, desires and opinions. We give Him an unqualified, “YES!” Many of us are willing as long as it is convenient and comfortable to us. We say that the Lord can use us, but only the way we want. What if we truly did surrender all and took the burden of the Father’s heart? What if we truly delighted in Him? The world would be changed.