Phil, ask for echurch shifting in application, I guess I'm obtuse, because
I haven't noticed it. I have never thought of you as a know-it-all, but
rather, a good listener and willing to learn from others. About having
every prayer that you pray answered, I dunno. Of course, as you said, I
don't know what that means, either. After thinking about it for a bit, I
thought that to have every prayer that we pray, answered, we would have to
pray everything in God's will, or in His name or for His sake. I don't
mean by praying in His name, the simple affixing of His name to the end of
a prayer. A former pastor used Genesis 24 as an illustration of this, as
Abraham's servant went forth to seek a bride for Isaac. He did everything
for his master Abraham, or in his master Abraham's name. A quick search
brought this verse:
John 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that
the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Can a person reach the point where all prayer are in God's will? It sounds
a little like sinless perfection, to me. I dunno, just thinking out loud.
earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>echurch has been shifting to a different spiritual sort of
>application, if you haven't already noticed, to some degree, and
>this is mostly due to the changes in my own life. It isn't that I
>have tried to change anything, you understand, but I am going to
>respond in ways that are different than how I used to in the
>past. The reason for this has to do with my calling as an
>intercessor. Frankly, intercessors are weird people. They think
>differently, they pray differently, and they always sense things
>spiritually which they have no control over. As an intercessor, I
>learned many years ago that most of what the Holy Spirit shows me
>isn't for anyone to hear but me. So about 95 percent of what I
>hear from the Lord, I rarely share with others. In fact, I never
>share it unless the Lord specifically tells me to speak to that
>person. As I pointed out, this the Lord rarely does. Strange as
>it may seem, I also sense these things through email messages.
>That surprised me, too, at first. I mean, how can you get a sense
>for anything through a written email message? I don't know the
>answer to that question but it happens to me all the time. I am
>not a psychic. That is a false counterfeit the Enemy uses to
>sidetrack people. A true intercessor, called of God, isn't
>spiritually smarter than anybody else in the body of Christ but
>they are generally, although not always, spiritually sensitive.
>There are various types of intercessors but the type I am called
>to be is directly related to the Body of Christ. Some
>intercessors are spiritual warriors. This means they pray for
>other governments and countries and peoples which causes things to
>change according to God's plans. As I said, in my case, the Lord
>revealed to me many years ago that my calling was to be an
>intercessor directly related to the healing of the Body of Christ.
>I was a Baptist when He showed me this and I had no idea what He
>was talking about and told Him so. Over time, He has revealed the
>nature of this calling upon my life. In the last two years, the
>Lord has been stripping off and out those things that have
>hindered me from His sensitivity which He sees and feels in
>others. I am learning, for example, how to take the burdens I
>feel and sense in others and release them so they don't become a
>spiritual hindrance to me and my relationship with God. Frankly,
>I have a very long ways to go but even where I am now, affords me
>to look into things and see things that normally cannot be seen by
>others simply because it is not their calling. Echurch is a place
>for support. Perhaps some have not felt as if they have gotten
>the support they need and for that I apologize and take that
>responsibility upon myself. I cannot help everybody but Jesus can
>and He will for those who come to Him. I also go after people
>when I feel led to do so. This, in and of itself, makes some
>people feel uncomfortable and I understand this. I also realize
>that I often come off as a know it all but nothing could be
>further from the truth. I am here, though, to help and to pray.
>My greatest desire in life was to be filled with the Holy Spirit,
>although I never thought that would be possible, and to learn what
>it means to pray to get your prayers answered. I talked about
>these two desires in my autobiography. To my amazement, the Lord
>has answered both of these prayers. I am still learning a lot
>about prayer but one night, as I lay on my back in bed, meditating
>on God and His holiness and greatness, I heard the Lord say,
>"There will come a time in your life that I will answer every
>prayer you bring to me." Seriously, I laughed out loud when the
>Lord said this to me. Me? I will get my prayers answered and
>every one of them? Even as I write this, I find it hard to
>believe but something happened inside of me the moment I heard the
>voice of the Lord and I cannot help but believe the truth. I
>don't feel I have arrived at that point as of yet but I know I
>will. I also have no idea exactly what the Lord meant by what He
>told me. I have a feeling it means something far greater than
>what I think it means. Regardless, I am telling everybody this on
>echurch because the gradual shift of emphasis has already started.
>Sometimes people will leave the list for various reason just like
>they join for various reasons. My job is to try and minister to
>the woundedness in a person's life when I see it. Some people are
>happy being miserable, believe it or not, and they don't want
>ministry. Those will probably not want to stay on echurch. They
>are most certainly welcome to stay, of course, and no body is
>going to try and make them feel differently. If you, however, do
>not have a burden for the needs of others, you, too, will be
>uncomfortable here because echurch is a place where people can
>come for ministry. Many of you don't know this but I spent a lot
>of hours on the telephone ministering to people. Many of them are
>on this mailing list and some are not. My whole life has changed
>and what I am now is not what I used to be. I felt it needful for
>those on the list now to know these things so when you see these
>things happening on the list, you'll understand. Finally, let me
>say that I am not perfect. I make mistakes, too. Sometimes
>people misunderstand what I share and I take responsibility for
>that because I should do a better job of making the truth known.
>Keep in mind, however, that sometimes God's truth can be very
>painful. I am just the messenger, however, so consider that if I
>say something that rubs you wrong. Anyhow, I have rambled on way
>too long but somehow I felt now was the time to share these things
>on echurch.
>
>Phil.
>
>I Flew Kites With Jesus
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John
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