How can I explain the miracles that are about to take place in Africa? The Holy Ghost is pressing me to believe that God will pour out his Spirit. The Father has already taken me in the spirit to the tip of Ethiopia and now He is sending me with the Holy Ghost to demonstrate resurrection power.
The miracles in Africa could happen right here in America if the Holy Ghost were welcomed. The church in America has devised many doctrines that reject the miraculous works of the Holy Ghost. Jesus is their Lord and savior but the ministry and person of the Holy Ghost are missing.
Their teachings usually include:
#1 Gifts of the Spirit ended when the last apostle died.
#2 Speaking in tongues is least of the gifts and always requires an interpretation.
#3 Prophets are not for today.
#4 There are no revelatory gifts
#5 The church age does not live in Pentecost.
#6 When the Bible was completed supernatural gifts were no longer needed.
#7 The gift of the word of knowledge is intellectual knowledge obtained by learning.
#8 Embrace only those gifts suitable to their doctrine and throw out the rest.
#9 Embrace only the office of the evangelist, pastor, and teacher acknowledging only three out of the five fold ministry listed in Ephesians 4:11
That school of thought will never allow the shadow of a modern day Christian passing over the sick to heal them. It will not allow a blessed handkerchief, or exorcism. They believe that God will guide the doctors to heal and the counselors to bring deliverance but they will not accept the unpredictable, unexplainable supernatural.
They are afraid of any manifestation ministry that include singing in the spirit, speaking in tongues, shaking, slain in he spirit or prophetic words of knowledge. The only knowledge they know is mental. Spiritual understanding is absent and often thought of as foolish. They can’t make practical sense of how the Holy Ghost conducts himself upon a person so they reject both the person and the Holy Ghost. Slowly but surely the Holy Ghost is moved from the main sanctuary to the parking lot. They may speak of the Holy Spirit in their sanctuaries with great respect but don’t be fooled, the power of the Holy Ghost is not there. They may even profess to believe in all of the gifts.
In Africa the blind will see and the deaf will hear because these are the signs that follow them that believe and they have not yet reduced the Holy Ghost to a doctrine.
If you are in a church with a religious group that rejects the ministry of the Holy Ghost, GET OUT. Find some believers who have a relationship with the Holy Ghost and allow Him to mightily manifest the life of Christ. The Son of God will stand in the midst of your fellowship and perform miracles that you never before believed possible. This creates a sort of window to the heavens. Faith will begin to prevail over doubt fear and unbelief causing the window to expand and fill the earth. You can open heaven over your area of influence. Light will spring from darkness and begin to spread throughout the land. The Heavens that are closed over America will then be opened and Jesus will be greatly magnified.
Psalm 72:19 "And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen."
Pastor Tilson
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