Anyone who has ever had the incredible experience of attending one of the healing services that Kathryn Kuhlman conducted, at the Shrine auditorium in Los Angeles, knows about the atmosphere that filled the place. It was such that every person present knew this was no ordinary Christian service. There was a sense of eternity mixed with wonder as the hustle and bustle of the world outside penetrated the building. But inside the quiet stillness was powerful and all encompassing as Kathryn would declare, "Not a sound in this great auditorium, not one sound."
The atmosphere was charged with Almighty God Himself! Most of God's dealings with men, both in saving and healing are by the outpouring of His Spirit and through a Spirit~filled, united, and praying gathering of believers. His method is revealed by the promise, "I will pour out My Spirit," and the statement, "They were all filled with the Spirit." A spirit~filled and praying gathering of Christians produces an atmosphere in which it is easy for God to work. This makes it difficult for the devil to interfere. This atmosphere is the Holy Spirit Himself. Not a force, not a power, but a Person. A Person who is more than a match for the devil.
In the revival belt, during the Finney revivals and other great revivals, sinners fell under conviction as soon as they stepped off the train where a revival was in progress. Mr Finney tells of such unity in prayer that every adult person on a street three miles long was saved, except one. The Christians united for that one, and he was saved.
It is true that individuals are sometimes saved and healed where there is no revival. However, God's regular method was and is for His people all to pray for an outpouring of the Holy spirit. We read, "These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication." We seldom see such a thing now!
Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa started like this, Shekinah Fellowship started like this, a lot of moves of God started like this.
Unless our gatherings together become filled with the Holy Spirit and kept filled with the Holy Spirit, it is impossible that the spiritual atmosphere of the meetings can be what it must be. Otherwise, God is limited or hindered. This atmosphere is produced by the whole gathering of Christians being filled with the Spirit and all praying for the work of Christ. Then the power of God is present to heal as it was at the beginning. God's way is for the whole Church to be filled and kept filled with the same Holy Spirit who saved and healed those multitudes in New Testament times.
John says, "This is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us."
Are we doing this together as a whole Church? Every Christian today is commanded to be filled with the Holy Spirit, to pray for the outpouring of the Spirit, and to prevail in prayer for the healing of the sick. Our being filled with the Holy Spirit is the condition for His perfect working.
The Church is out of tune with God's program and is promoting their own program...
You can see it for yourself. All the e~mails promoting and advertising we get through the social media etc. What one does to make a ministry is what one must do to continue a ministry. If self promotion then continuous self promotion. If simple trust in God then continuous trust in God.
“I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth within me, and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.”
"What is all the fame and flattery worth ... when a man comes to face eternity? Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell."
Charles Studd
We all should be desiring of the manifested presence of the Holy Spirit. Then stuff will happen that will break through the powers of this earth and reveal Almighty God to a fallen humanity.
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