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April to June 2006

Revival is A Negative, A Positive upon the earth : Fused of the Holy Ghost. As in a plug . without the negative - the live wire will not work and so to reach the World (the Earth) we need a negative and a Positive the Rhema Word of God - fused with the power of the Holy Ghost! The Negative And be not conformed to this world; Rom. 12:2 The Positive but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind; Rom. 12:2 Upon the Earth that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Rom. 12:2 Fused with the Holy Ghost But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsApril 1, 2007>

TheApril 1, 2007ne own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just, because I seek not mine own will, John 5:30.
The Positive
but the will of the Father which hath sent me. John 5:30.
Upon the Earth - Fused with the Holy Ghost
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: John 16:8

It is easy to cry out to God when you have been living on the edge of a war-zone for eighteen years - seen many of your loved ones eliminated because of war - perhaps it is easier for them to die to self than for us? Is this excuse one God will accept from us - or must we die too?

The Negative
If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this World, let him become a fool, I Cor. 3:18
The Positive
that he may be wise. I Cor. 3:18
Upon the Earth
And he said unto them,
Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Mark 16:15
Fused with the Holy Ghost
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Rom. 8:14

The Negative
and to die is gain. Phil. 1:21
I am crucified with Christ : Gal. 2:20
The Positive
For to me to live is Christ Phil 1:21
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Gal.2:20
Upon the Earth
That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. Rom. 15:16
Fused with the Holy Ghost
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Rom. 8:26

I cringe when I hear it said - "just say the word, just say the word!"

Rev. David P. Griffiths reporting
The sons of Sceva said the Word and look what happened to them! Acts 19

19:8 And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
19:9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
19:10 And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
19:11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
19:12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
19:13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
19:14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
19:15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
19:16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
19:17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
19:18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

The scripture calls us to submit to God; James 4:7; humble ourselves in the sight of the Lord; James 4:10 before resisting the devil and before God can lift us up. The Western ways of trying to live a double minded life of having one foot in the world and one foot in God is described in the Scripture as being double minded; James 1:8.

The vast number of "Church" splits that have occurred are as a result of double mindedness; James 4. Our worldwide ministry and Church ministry in Chester both emphasize the God given call to the EVERY CREATURE COMMISSION but infiltrating in at times have been those with earthly thinking. I refer to Jezebels, apparent prophets and ministers who seek to influence a congregation away from the God given vision of a pioneer to the controls and manipulations of their own lustful calling. I refer also to those who seek to bring a logic of this world, the scripture declaring that wars and fightings are as a result of earthly lusts, that is earthly thinking and an earthly order. John Wesley who constantly in his apostolic ministry fought such infiltrations declared:

The devil has given to the Church a substitute for faith which looks and sounds so much like faith some people can't tell the difference = MENTAL ASSENT.

Those who have friendship with the World are described in the Scripture as enemies of God; James 4:4, the Scripture going on to emphasize the importance of drawing nigh to God, cleansing our hands, purifying our hearts, being afflicted and in mourning, having our laughter turned to mourning and our joy to heaviness, the resulting humility allowing the Lord to lift us up. This humility allows us to move in the liberty and freedom of the Spirit, there being an acknowledgement that what we do is in fact in the strength of the Lord. Personal pride is absolutely defeated in this context for when we use the NAME JESUS, not as a formula as in the case of the Sons of Sceva, we actually become the manifestation of Christ Jesus himself to the devil. This is what it means to use the name JESUS - it means you have died - the NEGATIVE; He now is alive IN YOU - THE POSITIVE and so if you are dead - then who are you?

I John 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Christian growth, therefore, requires a dying to earthly joy - the false joy that is connected to the lusts of this world, and a time of humbling and repentance before God before moving into the ability to do all things through Christ who strengthens us; Phil. 4:13. This all has to happen before the manifestation of the joy of the Lord can be reached. Hear this word through Brother Spurgeon; (Sermon 1027 - Metropolitan Tabernacle, December 31, 1871.)

THIS JOY, THIS STRENGTH, ARE BOTH WITHIN OUR REACH! "For the Lord had made them glad with great joy." God alone can give us this great joy. Then it is within the reach of any, for God can give it to one as well as to another. If it depended upon our good works or our natural abilities, some of us could never reach it; but if God is the source and giver of it he may give it to me as well as to thee, my brother, and to thee as well as to another. What was the way in which God gave this joy? Well first, he gave it to these people by their being attentive hearers. They were not only hearers, but they heard with their ears, their ears were into the word; it was read to them and they sucked it in, receiving it into their souls. An attentive hearer is on the way to being a joyous receiver. Having heard it they felt the power of it, and they wept. Did that seem the way to joy? It was. They received the threatenings of the law with all their terrors into their soul, they allowed the hammer of the word to break them in pieces, they submitted themselves to the word of reproof. Oh! That God would incline you all to do the same, for this, again, is the way in which God gives joy. The word is heard, the word is felt. Then after this, when they had felt the power of the word, we see that they worshipped God devoutly. They bowed the head. Their postures indicated what they felt within. Worshippers who with penitent hearts really adore God, will never complain of weary Sabbaths; adoration helps us into joy. He who can bow low enough before the throne shall be lifted as high before that throne as his heart can desire.

We read also that these hearers and worshippers understood clearly what they heard. Never be content with hearing a sermon unless you can understand it, and if there be a truth that is above you, strain after it, strive to know it. Bible-reader, do not be content with going through the words of the chapter: pray the Holy Ghost to tell you the meaning, and use proper means for finding out that meaning; ask those who know, and use your own enlightened judgment to discover the sense. When shall we have done with formalism of worship and come into living adoration? Sometimes, for all the true singing that there is, the song might as well be in Latin or in Greek. Oh! To know what you are singing, to know what you are saying in prayer, to know what you are reading, to get at it, to come right into it, to understand it-this is the way to holy joy.

And one other point. These people when they had understood what they had devoutly heard, were eager to obey. They obeyed not only the common points of the law in which Israel of old had furnished them with examples, but they found out an old institution which had been buried and forgotten. What was that to them; God had commanded it, and they celebrated it, and in so doing this peculiar joy came upon them. Oh, for the time when all believers shall search the word of God, when they shall not be content with saying, "I have joined myself with a certain body of Christians, and they do so; therefore I do so." May no man say to himself any longer, "Such is the rule of my church;" but may each say, "I am God's servant and not the servant of man, not the servant of thirty-nine articles, of the Prayer-book, or the Catechism; I stand to my own Master, and the only law book I acknowledge is the book of his word, inspired by his Spirit." Oh, blessed day, when every man shall say, "I want to know wherein I am wrong; I desire to know what I am to do; I am anxious to follow the Lord fully." Well, then, if your joy in God leads you to practical obedience, you may rest assured it has made you strong in the very best manner.

Beloved brethren and sisters, we had, before I went away for needed rest, a true spirit of prayer among us. I set out for the continent joyfully, because I left with you the names of some eighty persons proposed for church-membership. My beloved officers, with great diligence, have visited these and others, and next Lord's-day we hope to receive more than a hundred, perhaps a hundred and twenty fresh members into the church. Blessed be God for this. I should not have felt easy in going away if you had been in a barren, cold, dead state; but there was a real fire blazing on God's altar, and souls were being saved. Now, I desire that this gracious zeal should continue, and be renewed. It has not gone out in my absence, I believe, but I desire now a fresh blast from God's Spirit to blow the flame very vehemently. Let us meet for prayer tomorrow, and let the prayer be very earnest, and let those wrestlers who have been moved to agonizing supplication renew the ardour and fervency of their desires, and may we be a strong people, and consequently a joyous people in the strength and joy of the Lord. May sinners in great numbers look unto Jesus and be saved. Amen, and Amen.

Negative First - Then the Positive - the Rhema!

I now issue a challenge to the Word of Faith movement. God has told me to do this and I do this having spent many hours on the Prayer Helper - Intercession team working with Kenneth and Gloria Copeland at past Birmingham International Believers Conventions in U.K.

First . let it be understood .. the Copelands preach, minister and practise all that is being said here today in Revival News. I know this in my heart and I know this from having heard the Word first hand from through their lips. I know this from the fruits of their ministry, worldwide missions having enormously benefited from the huge offerings going through their ministry but I issue a challenge to the Copeland Ministry today particularly in the U.K. and Europe.

I can also prove to you their commitment to the true Gospel by referring you their statement of faith (K.C.M. Web- Site) which boldly supports the doctrine of sanctification - that is separation from the World - but I ask them - how often is this preached in "Word of Faith" churches in Britain - for without this vital doctrine - there is corruption? It is not good enough to say - well just go on confessing the Word positively for the positive cannot work without a negative fused of the Holy Ghost, and the negative is that there is widespread corruption in what is known as "Word of Faith" churches. Mark 11:22-24 declares to speak to the mountain, but if you do not confess there is a negative (the mountain) - then you cannot speak to it! Corruption is a widespread disease in "Word of Faith" churches, a disease that needs to be tackled and spoken to.

I can give examples over the years, one young man coming to a recent LCMI meeting having had his bank statements inspected by a so-called "Word of Faith" Church in Shropshire. We know the importance of tithing but this was a physical check. Where the sanctification word is preached, that is the dying to self, there will be no need to check bank statements - the people will tithe and give from their heart felt - God given passions rather than legalistic adherence to law. I tell you - if you are part of these legalistic controls today - leave - and the "Word of Faith" movement is full of legalistic adherence to law with judgments and curses placed on those who do not adhere to the system.

The emphasis with the Copeland's is somewhat different but there are those in "Word of Faith" who have taken the positive word - without the negative, and I challenge the Copeland Ministry in U.K. to face and defeat this mountain thus bringing thousands into the freedom and liberty of the Holy Ghost fused Word of God.

We believe in sanctification through the Word of God and by the Holy Spirit, and we believe in personal holiness, purity of heart and life. K.C.M. Statement of Faith.

I believe that because the word relating to the dyings to the lusts of the flesh has not been received and accepted in the vast majority of what are known as "Word of Faith" churches - that there is widespread corruptions and controls and manipulations of people who have no vision, no callings and no direction because they are under the controls and manipulations of those who call themselves pastors who seek their own prosperity first rather than the prosperity of God, the scriptural prosperity in the scriptures relating as to be given to those who obey and serve God first, who have no interest in the lusts of the flesh but have dominant passions in their lives to surrender and give all to God who in turn - through His covenant promises gives all of the riches of heaven and earth to the Believer.

THE RESOURCES OF HEAVEN and EARTH are for the Body of Christ

PSALM 24:1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
24:2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
24:5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
24:6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

OBEDIENCE without selfish ambition IS THE KEY

JOB 36:11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Paul did receive offerings - fruit being added to the givers account - but the offering given was a sacrificial one - without selfish gain as a motive - the reaping of sowing being given to those who sow from the heart to see the Kingdom grow

PHIL. 4:16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
4:17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.
4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
4:20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Not the Copelands - but many who minister under "Word of Faith" banners emphasize the lustful gain rather than the Great Commission Call - thus when we ask for Missions offerings - the result is low - because there might not be something back for the giver - yet for those who give into Third World Mission projects - God has promised to pay him back again - to give again - to give again - to give again

PROV. 19:17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

I THUS CHALLENGE THE COPELANDS TO TACKLE THIS ISSUE IN
BRITAIN and EUROPE
God's promise of Proverbs being to all those who sacrificially give to the ongoing ministry of the Gospel; Isa. 61

The Prophetic Anointing...

God has given me a passion to preach the Word of God, minister His Word and declare the Good News of the Kingdom to the People, God restoring the ministry of Prophets and Apostles to the Church Eph. 2:20

We have apostolic accountability through Rev. Trevor Newport (Life Changing Ministries, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire) who in turn is accountable to the ministry of the International Coalition of Apostles pioneered by Apostle Peter Wagner, the enormous apostolic move of this time being based on Eph. 2.

2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

With the increase in the prophetic growing in this ministry, God has been speaking to us about prophetic as well as apostolic accountability so expect to hear news on this front soon! We also are being asked to give "covering" (not physical manipulation) to ministries around the World and so at this time we are seeking God in relation as to how this is to manifest - the Apostles and Prophets being the foundations of the precious Church of God - Jesus Christ himself being the Chief Cornerstone.

Revs. David P. and E.M. L. Griffiths

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