Holy Spirit ignite us.

Surely you can recall the anointing of God on Brant Baker.

It was not theatrics, it was what the bible calls preaching. Few people preach today...most just teach.

Brant had an ear to hear what the Spirit was saying and an eye to see what the Spirit was doing. He followed the Holy Spirit closely during those ministry days.

When we omit the moving of the Holy Spirit we take the tension off of the string of our bows and our arrows fall harmlessly to the ground. Brant's bow had major tension! He was an annointed preacher and evangelist.

Yes the arrows of the Word are of importance. But if your bow has no string or tension on it, your arrows fall to the ground. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE TENSION on our bows. Eliminate Him and your bow is just a useless stick...

Holy Spirit and the Word of God. They work together as a team. The arrowhead needs the shaft and they need the feathers. They work together in unity. The arrowhead initiates, the shaft facilitates, the feathers give guidance and support. The bow of the Holy Spirit gives function...
We need the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit if we are going to make a diffrence in people's lives. One touch of the Holy Spirit will do more to change the course of a life then nine years of seminary school can.

Yield to the Holy Spirit. Be empty of selfish ambitions and adgendas. Give up, die to self.
John the baptist counted himself unworthy to tie Jesus sandal. And yet he was the most dramatic, political and religious leader of the time. The whole area was literally in an uproar over him. Even the religious leaders, the scribes, the Pharisees, the Saddusees came for his baptism.

Why? Because he was so powerful, and so many people were going to him. This is how influental this man was. He ate what God said, he wore what God said, he lived the way the Lord said, simple and isolated.

How many in ministry today are always looking for ways to increase 'their ministry?'
John talks about the Son of the Living God. He says, "He must increase, I must decrease, He is preferred before me." He could honestly say that, because it was true. And because it was true, he was willing to sacrifice literally everything. He wasn't selfish.

You don't live like that because of the applause you get from the people, because he lived in a desert wasteland. You don't have anything but Jesus. You wouldn't do it for anything else. Some people do things for money, but their not in the wilderness. They're not out there alone with the Lord. With people, but alone still, with the Lord. They are not really wanting Him to be preferred before themselves.

Some accepted their calling, not realizing what it would completely take, what the price really was. John knew. John confessed, it says..."And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elijah? And he saith, I am not."
Yet Jesus said that John had the spirit of Elijah. John said, "I'm not Elijah. I'm nobody special, I'm nobody big, I'm nobody Kewl, I'm just nobody at all."

"Are you a prophet then?" "Then said they unto him, Who art thou?"
Why? Because he was so anointed of the Holy Spirit! His bow was fully pulled back!
"No, I'm not Christ. No, I'm not Elijah. No, I'm not the prophet. Well then what saith thou of thyself?" God help you if you say anything. You're crucified with Christ.

Why are we not anointed? It is us. He is the same, the problem is you and I. We are so selfish, there is so much of ourselves. We are building our 'ministry.'
John's example tells us to count the cost. What does God want you to do with your life? What is your purpose here?

John knew that he wasn't even worthy to even touch His sandal, for this was God. This was Almighty God! And yet we are a temple of the Living God. Jesus Christ by His Holy Spirit dwells in me, in you, and in every born again believer.
This is an incredible truth of major porportions!

John knew every moment of the day, no matter how many thousands came to him, that his way, his purpose was a voice. He never forgot that. A voice in the wilderness pointing the way to the Lamb of God.

Johns bow was fully pulled back for the arrow of his words. Is yours? Is mine?

"And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus."

They 'heard him speak." He was anointed. The arrows of his words flew to their mark because the tension of his bow was there.

And that can only happen for us by the power of the Holy Spirit!

Holy Spirit ignite us!

HOLY SPIRIT COME AGAIN

July 6, 2007

HOLY SPIRIT COME AGAIN

The trinity of modern day Christianity best suited to their emphasis could be described as Father, Son, and Holy Bible. A personal relationship with the Holy Ghost as a person is almost never talked about and in most cases is subtly discouraged by church leaders. When on occasion, they do teach on the Holy Spirit, the vocabulary is radically redefined.

The revolutions that have occurred in culture which have taken place in the vocabularies of technology, psychology, medicine, politics and religion have little regard for biblical truth. The terminology used in teaching on the Holy Spirit has been retranslated into a language that is foreign to that of the Holy Scriptures.

It is therefore possible for evangelical theologians to use the terminology of the Bible and historic theology, but in an entirely different sense from that intended by the writers of Scripture.

A personal encounter with the Holy Ghost has been radically redefined to diminish the expectancy of new believers to a possible warm sensation or a slightly detectable energy field.

Biblical terms that refer to the work of the Holy Spirit in Historic Christianity are redesigned in a theological framework but in direct variance with the historically accepted meanings of the terms.

A church that rejects the Holy Spirit encounter may sound as if they are in perfect agreement with those who receive the power of the Holy Ghost, while in reality they are miles apart. This language barrier of terminology has a way of replacing the manifested presence of God by establishing a false sense of unity.

The fellowship becomes nominal and frustrating because the vocabulary is in agreement but the definitions are not. Non-charismatic religion that shuns the ministry of the Holy Ghost may give the appearance of agreeing with nearly every statement the Spirit filled Christian makes but at the same time young Christians in their church’s are not taught to seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit. They don’t even know that such an encounter with God exists.

Religion may talk of God as trinity, but their concept of God is divine principles – Life, Truth and Love. Many devout Christians have a form of godliness but deny the power of God. They may be very sincere in their mental ability to serve God, but yielding to the Holy Spirit is more than surrendering ones mental concepts of serving God for reevaluation. It is to receive a baptism from heaven.

Pastor Tilson Shumate
Shekinah Fellowship

Brant Baker and Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa CA

"I remember walking into that little church, of course that was before it grew. They didn't have that patio there. They just had a little side walk and it was dirty and they had old carpets out on the dirt lot.

They had not yet expanded, it was a small chapel, and it wasn't filled. But there was something that was filling it. Some one was filling it...I walked into that little church and I begin to feel this funny feeling. It was like molasses going through the air...I saw, I touched, and I realized the reality of Almighty God."
Brant Baker speaking at a service held at the Arlington Foursquare Church, 2085 California Ave, Riverside, California.

Brant Baker first encountered the fullness of the person called the Holy Spirit at Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa CA. He desired that every single service at Shekinah Fellowship be like what he had experienced at Calvary Chapel. Filled with a person, the person of the Holy Spirit. Many a person gives testimony that they encountered the powerful presence of the Holy Spirit at a Shekinah Fellowship service.

Brant refused to walk out on the platform until he was certain that the Holy Spirit's presence had manifested in the service. The worship would continue as Brant spoke out through his microphone saying, "Worship Him, Adore Him, O how we love Him. We give you praise dear Jesus, we give You praise! Worship Him."

Brant said, "It's only to know, to yield, and to be yielded to the Third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. He is the only One that can testify of Jesus. Did you know that? I can tell you about a person, but I can't preach Christ, preach Jesus, without yielding to the Holy Spirit, that He would make Him become alive. His life touches and penetrates our lives.

I want with everything that is within me to be able to love Him with everything that is within this being...to love Him with all our heart. To love one another. Let's get back to the basics of what the Bible is talking about.

'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son' And Jesus said, 'As the Father has sent me, so I send you.' The same way, identical, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Assembly of God, Foursquare, everybody! Miracles happen because of the Love of God. Salvation happens because of the Love of God, it's the greatest miracle."

Update

This is a picture of pastor Tilson and Joseph. Don't they look alike? Seriously, take a close look. LOL

We have finally made contact with Anne Hume after many years of seeking for her. She told me in an email that she still has some Shekinah tapes and such. That is so cool!

She has some "studio size cassettes." The technology has changed over the years, I hope I can find someone with one of the machines used to record these originally. We need to convert them to DVD format.

She corrected me on some bad intel, apparently Brant did not pass away in Glendale but in Florida. I still don't know where his grave site is.

Happy fourth of July!
David

"It is better to do something imperfectly, then to do nothing at all."

"It is better to do something imperfectly, then to do nothing expertly."

 
Brant Baker did the best that he could.

He started a small home fellowship and eventually in a short period of time had hundreds of people involved in a healing ministry that traveled places to minister to others.

He could have just stayed at that small home fellowship.

 I wouldn't be here doing what I am doing if he had.

James 2:20
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

My point being that if we don't cast out our nets, then nothing happens.

There is that individual human responsibility for us to act.

Luke 5:4
Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down YOUR nets for a draught.

They did that and look what happens.

The nets are so full it takes two boats to haul in the catch.

After fishing all night with no results in minutes their nets are full to capacity.

The result of this is they get the revelation that Jesus is no ordinary man.

He then tells them to follow Him and He will make them fishers of men.

There are many who came to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior through the net that Brant Baker cast.

What if Brant had said to himself, "I can't do it, I have deep personal problems. I am not perfectly suited to the task."

He put himself aside and he looked to Jesus and cast out his net inspite of himself.

 He didn't let his own imperfect sinful personal life cancel out his call to the ministry.

I wonder, are we doing that?

"Let down your nets for a draught..."

David