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Post by VR on Jun 27, 2016 5:29:56 GMT
| June 27th | Reading 179 of 366 | MORNING | HISTORICAL BOOKS | BOOK 14 of 66 | 2 CHRONICLES 1-3
Signpost Words | ‘STRENGTHENED’
Some Observations | It is God who enabled Solomon to get rich, and to emboss the Kingdom with wonders! Even so, among many other facilities of enablement, Solomon also was an arms dealer (1:17), and made great use of immigrant labor (2:17,18), and also imported foreign expertise (2:13,14). Nothing seems to have changed in the world! Jachin (he will establish) and Boaz (in him is strength) the two named pillars of the temple are emblematic of many things, least not the covenant intentions of the Lord toward the nation of His people. Look now, because of the continual waywardness of this people, even this great edifice shall later be wiped off the Google maps of the day, and all that shall be left will be scorched earth.
A Call To Action | God’s good intentions toward you demand your continual actions to maintain them. Note as well, that endings and continuance are better than beginnings, even great beginnings. Time is the great sifter.
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Post by VR on Jun 26, 2016 8:30:08 GMT
EVENING | PAULINE EPISTLES |BOOK 51 of 66 | COLOSSIANS 1 | Signpost Words | ‘AN ‘EVERY MAN’ MINISTRY’
Some Observations | Paul magnified Christ and the ministry of which Christ entrusted him. Paul was caught up in the privilege of being a communicator of the Gospel to those who would be inheritors of the saints in light. He was an obedient apostle and prayed worthy obedience into his disciples. He knew his Lord and prayed that they might also know the depths of the riches of God in Him, together with all of His power and might, light and riches, all of which are would be manifest in nice houses, settledness, peace and respect, in longsuffering, satanic buffeting, loss, fire and the removing of dross, all filling up what was lacking in the afflictions of Christ.
A Call To Action | We former enemies, reconciled to God by the blood of Christ’s cross, must now continue unmoved, grounded, and steadfast in the faith.
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Post by VR on Jun 26, 2016 8:27:59 GMT
| June 26th | Reading 178 of 366 |MORNING | HISTORICAL BOOKS | BOOK 13 of 66 | 1 CHRONICLES 29
Signpost Words | ‘HILARIOUS GIVING’
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Some Observations | At this second coronation of Solomon, with great pomp, circumstance and ceremony, David publicly hands over the baton of his reign. The atmosphere is of abundant willingness of generosity.
A Call To Action | All we possess, comes from God, everything we have is on leasehold. Happy are the people who recognize this and give with hilarity and thankfulness to all the good purposes of God
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Post by VR on Jun 26, 2016 8:19:19 GMT
You know, the more I think about the English Remain Migrants moving to Scotland the more obvious a solution it becomes. For sure, we all might experience 'inversion' as the Scots move to take your English jobs, but hey ho, you will at least be in the EU still. I propose that the next government should provide free bus tickets and free umbrellas to the felt disenfranchised, and send them on their way to Glasgow, with kilts and lessons in disguising English accents. Go on Remainers....please consider moving to Scotland, where until the English subsidies stop, you can still get Free prescriptions, Free education, Free monitoring of your children and still be part of the EU. Your'e welcome.
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Post by VR on Jun 26, 2016 8:17:45 GMT
THE FORTH BRIDGE | NICOLA STURGEON & ALEX SALMOND | Have issued a joint statement this morning saying "The Scottish people welcome with open arms our Eng-E-lish brothers and sisters. Our arms and hearts are open to you all. We love you. Join us in Scotland now and we shall remain in the EU together." The Welsh are reportedly bemused. Salmond, visibly spitting after he said the word Eng-E-lish said a midge had flew into his mouth.
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Post by VR on Jun 26, 2016 8:17:20 GMT
MOTO M6 SOUTHBOUND | Sunday June 26 | Is reportedly overrun this morning with thousands of smiling Scots moving South to fill the job vacancies left by the Remain Scottish Migration. Hamish McAllistair , formerly of Carluke, whilst hastily applying sun screen to his legs below the kilt line and still wearing the sash his father wore, said "These stupid English Ba@&t^*s can keep the EU. I want mae aen jab and a mae aen hoose."
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Post by VR on Jun 26, 2016 8:16:53 GMT
GRETNA GREEN | Sunday June 26 | As traffic on the North Bound section of the M6 Grinds to a halt with 50 mile tailbacks to Penrith, the Remain migration began this weekend. UNESCO is concerned about children spending so long in cars and being subject to the hours and hours of English dispassionate voices trying to sing 'o Flower of Scotland.' Meanwhile rental property prices in Auchtermuchty have tripled overnight and there are reports that the Jimmy Shand memorial has been defaced. Nicola Sturgeon is hastily seeking help from Merkal in providing umbrellas for the 'Jungle' Eng-E-lish refugee camp now being hastily constructed in Ecclefechan.
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Post by VR on Jun 25, 2016 7:47:04 GMT
2016 | June 24th | 176 of 366 | EVENING | Phil 3:13-21 |EVENING | PAULINE EPISTLES | BOOK 44 of 66 | PHILIPPIANS 4
Signpost Words | ‘LIVING ON LESS THAN NOTHING’
Some Observations | This is the most magnificent thankyou note ever written and gives a little insight into Paul’s method of mission and his financial support base. It is evident that he had a method to his mission but his financial support base was rubbish. Even so, he pressed on with his calling, counting the cost and learning to be content with less than little. A single man can do this, a married man with a family, cannot.
A Call To Action | God cares more about your availability to Him, than the availability
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Post by VR on Jun 25, 2016 7:45:14 GMT
| June 25th | Reading 177 of 366 | MORNING | HISTORICAL BOOKS BOOK 13 of 66 | 1 CHRONICLES 27,28
Signpost Words | ‘PLANNING PERMISSION’
Highlight Verses | 1 Chronicles 28:8-13 "As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever. Consider now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong, and do it." Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the vestibule, its houses, its treasuries, its upper chambers, its inner chambers, and the place of the mercy seat; and the plans for all that he had by the Spirit, of the courts of the house of the Lord, of all the chambers all around, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries for the dedicated things; NKJV
Some Observations | Here is the great work. Downloaded from heaven, David, the Lord’s appointed quantity surveyor, has laid up all that he can in material preparation, and then some! All of this is to fulfill the vision of these great plans. Israel now has a capital city, Jerusalem, and soon, the nation shall find its center in the Lord’s Temple IN Jerusalem. The Lord shall be its light, even its visible and beating heart.
A Call To Action | Here is the great work. We, YOU, are the temple of the Lord. Christ in us, the hope of glory is our light now and in the age to come, and is also now our own pulsating heart! Watch now and be careful, for at the time of the end, this temple seeks to be inhabited by another!
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Post by VR on Jun 24, 2016 5:32:32 GMT
EVENING | PAULINE EPISTLES | BOOK 50 of 66 | PHILIPPIANS 3 | Signpost Words | ‘WAR’
Some Observations | There is a pattern, there is a die, there is a mold of Christian leadership, and the apostles and those of Paul in particular are that pattern. They walk by Spirit led rules, are kept on track by Scripture led boundaries, and are, to all who follow them both ensamples and examples. BEWARE! For not to walk according to this pattern will lead to those same selfish, self-serving, and self-delighting Mavericks becoming enemies of the cross of Christ.
A Call To Action | Are your thoughts heavenward of earthward? Are your thoughts on the ‘here and the now,’ or on the age to come? Are you waiting for your pension, or waiting and watching for Christ’s return?
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Post by VR on Jun 24, 2016 5:29:12 GMT
| June 24th | Reading 176 of 366 | MORNING | HISTORICAL BOOKS | BOOK 03 of 66 | 1 CHRONICLES 25,26
Signpost Words | ‘PROPHECY & PRAISE’
Some Observations | For sure, singing the Psalms, singing the word of God delivered by a prophet, is in a sense ‘prophesying’ the word of God. There is more here however, in that at times, and on some, God the Holy Spirit spoke forth the Word of God and foretold the future. I suspect the constant and usual prophesying was the former and the impromptu and ‘unusual’ prophecy was the latter.
A Call To Action | There is a great difference between music and repetition that induces manipulative states of consciousness and that music which accompanies and proclaims the word of God. In the New Testament church, both prayer and praise must be full of the Word, not drivel!
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Post by VR on Jun 23, 2016 5:33:57 GMT
EVENING | PAULINE EPISTLES | BOOK 50 of 66 | PHILIPPIANS 2Signpost Words | ‘TRAIN UP’ Highlight Verses | Philippians 2:19-24 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be encouraged when I know your state. For I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus. But you know his proven character, that as a son with his father he served with me in the gospel. Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it goes with me. But I trust in the Lord that I myself shall also come shortly. NKJV
Some Observations | As elucidated in our Old Testament readings these last two mornings, there was a necessity for mentored apprentices in the service of the Lord in His Temple, in judgments, in weights, measures, music, order, singing, access, door keeping, and well, you name it! Paul had his platoon with him, and part of that unit were not only seasoned disciples, but mentored apprentices ready to see and do and to take over the work and to take it forward. Timothy was one of those folk. A Call To Action |All Christian leaders should make plans to work themselves out of a job and work someone else into the role. This is basic discipleship and it is incumbent upon all leaders of any and every sort within the Christian church to put this practice into place. Pity the church that has no willing young men to come and watch and learn. Indeed, weep for the church whose present leadership makes no attempt to replace itself, yes, wail for such a church, whose current leadership is not deemed by God to be worthy of reproduction. Now then
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Post by VR on Jun 23, 2016 5:30:51 GMT
| June 23rd | Reading 175 of 366 | MORNING | HISTORICAL BOOKS | BOOK 13 of 66 | 1 CHRONICLES 23,24 | Signpost Words | ‘PRAISE & PROPHECY’ Highlight Verses | 1 Chronicles 23:1-5 So when David was old and full of days, he made his son Solomon king over Israel. And he gathered together all the leaders of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and above; and the number of individual males was thirty-eight thousand. Of these, twenty-four thousand were to look after the work of the house of the Lord, six thousand were officers and judges, four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand praised the Lord with musical instruments, "which I made," said David, "for giving praise." NKJV
Some Observations | So, David now sets in order that great ship of state which is Israel. The political and religious areas, together with the army are set to their crews, watches, responsibilities and duties. When the Tabernacle in the wilderness was moved from place to place, strong Levites were the porters of the Lord, coming into their duties in their full strength of thirty years. In the settled temple to come, around the capital city of Jerusalem to which the nation would flock for sacrifice, this great and increased work would require more servants and so to increase manpower, David lowers the Levite serving age to twenty. God-led adaptability, still not violating Scriptural integrity. A Call To Action |The New Testament church also has its order and servants and framework of operation. Though exceptionally and culturally adaptable, in the same way, Scriptural integrity must not be violated.
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Post by VR on Jun 23, 2016 4:58:17 GMT
ERE WE GO AGAIN.. another 'Bent Oddley' moment. So, three things to remember..... BUT I DO LOVE Tommie Zito's ADVERTIZING...... http://instagr.am/p/BGT06ydyPHY "ALTERS FILLED & HUNDREDS BEING SAVED ON THE STREETS OF ENGLAND!"
Also thrilled to see that he's seen 53,000 souls saved in Wisconsin, - 19,000 in Miami alone (they need saving in Miami I can assure you)
- 70,000 in New York (Hallelujah)
- 51,000 in the State of Georgia (poor figures for Bible Belt)
- 27,000 in heathen New England (Quite something) and 4
- 3,000 in Baltimore.
(He's rounding down I am sure - However, that still makes 263,000 souls saved! WOW! And he's started a church and Bible college...yet he still can't dress himself... sheesh....I have to take my hat off to him. ) C'mon Reading! Ramp it up! P.S. is Bill & Team coming to help? - Maybe the 'Awakening'
- can then turn to a 'Move'
- which can then turn to an 'Outpouring,'
- which then prefixes an 'Open Heaven'
- which then prefixes a 'Turning'
- which in turn prefixes a FULL ON 'Revival.
' Frankly, you have got children (always encouraging when ignorant kids lead the way) , rivers, angels (though I love what Yinka said, quote: "I was not so easily impressed by angels because I have on more than one occasion spoken to the Lord himself in dreams..." fair play and hats off to him) , evidence of 'renewal', glory clouds, (always useful) with sparks of lightening ( I like that nice new touch) a bit of cultural shifting, even the possibility of an exponential explosion (nice), also, good to see the Catholics getting a look in as well, so, you have it all (almost). I think re-branding the 'community Church' (Bit Boring even for Reading) to ''THE GATE' was frankly, a marketing miracle! Looking forward to seeing all the follow on Merchandising, especially the anointed worship CD...ssss, and of course the healings, and manifestations, oil, gold flakes, fillings ( is God still doing dentistry?), weight loss miracles, oil (no we've had oil...) well, you get my drift. Can't wait.....Also, so looking forward to seeing all these new folks being discipled, learning to wave flags and dance, counting the cost, dying to self and following Jesus. Excellent. PS. Take care of those former Muslims, their compatriots tend to murder them when they commit Islamic treason. PPS. Christian Radio & TV & Press, are flooding to reading for Anointed Content, and increased ratings........ "Something is stirring in Reading – UK.
An evangelist and his team came to minister from the US, training people to go out on the streets to speak to people about Jesus. After some worship and 20 minutes training, teams are sent out and people are very open to hearing about Jesus. Around 600 had made decisions for Christ in the first 12 days. Here is what the pastor of Reading Community Church says about it:
Personal Statement from Yinka Oyekan Senior Minister of The Gate.( 9/6/16)
There is an Evangelistic outpouring happening now on the streets of Reading.
Context is everything!
Around 15 years ago the Lord gave me a lucid prophetic dream about revival. I saw a river flowing like a waterfall onto the street from the roof the church building we occupied at the time, above this cascading river was the cross.
I saw children running into the river with joy and ease as they came down a slight decline into the cascading river making their steps easier. I saw the adults eventually catching up with what was happening but their steps were a bit harder as they had to climb a slight incline. As long as the Cross was magnified the outpouring continued but where anyone went above the cross it stopped.
Then in 2010 following a visible and tangible manifestation of the Glory of God in our family home, a manifestation which happened to disrupt dinner (we saw it as a cloud and felt it as sparks of lightening), the Lord in a vision gave me a clear word about Fathers love coming down and sweeping towns and cities in the Uk into a new outpouring, but only if believers in cities would gather together and call out upon him. The leadership of three cities initially responded (Liverpool, Plymouth and Ely) but the gatherings did not go beyond the leaders.
Recently, I should have guessed something was afoot and that something strange was about to happen because in the weeks leading up to what I can only describe as the manifestation of that lucid dream I began to see angels everywhere. I have not been one for seeing angels, but recently they began to appear particularly in our current church building where this outpouring has begun from, but they also were appearing in my home and one of them spoke to me audibly. It was all really quite strange. But now I realise that Father was flooding the area with His troops and that was the point of their appearing. I was not so easily impressed by angels because I have on more than one occasion spoken to the Lord himself in a dreams.
Last week we invited evangelist Tommie Zito to lead our mission endeavour. All I was hoping for was a cultural shift in our church which whilst evangelical in belief was not so much in practice. I thought that at best ten people might be added to church out of possibly 50 conversions given we were starting from further back than I would have hoped.
I did not realise what was coming. We are finding that hundreds of people are happy to pray to give their lives to Christ on the streets of Reading, five Muslims have so far accepted Christ as well as Hindus. At last count yesterday over 720 people had prayed in the streets after just 10 days of mission.
I was trained by Evangelist Don Double and so thought I had effective follow up procedures in place, we have been so overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of conversions that all our current systems are bust and we will have to think again. True to the dream, the children are leading the way one young 11 year old has lead 46 people to Christ on the streets, my fourteen year old has lead 11 people to Christ and my nine year old has lead thirteen of his friends at school to Christ, on the school run, on the way to work at petrol stations all over the town on buses people are praying and accepting Christ as saviour, those who have come down and sat under the anointing are reporting back to me that once they got back home they are leading people to Christ. One pastor went back to his town and lead 6 people to Christ the minute he got back home having spent time with us in the renewal.
It is not like anything I have ever seen or experienced before and it left me reeling, feeling baffled and confused. Teachers leading colleagues to Christ during their break, it is every day, it is nonstop and it was initially baffling.
We will end up using many church buildings as a launch pad for this outpouring. The church of England Verger who has let us use part of his grounds as a launching pad into the town centre was inundated with stories from the staff from John Lewis (A large department store) in the middle of town who were queuing up in front of him to tell him how blessed they were at being stopped and prayed for.
What is happening is not revival yet if revival means the whole of Reading is turning to Christ, but it is an exponential explosion of what you would normally see in what I would call a normal mission. Everything is the same but hundreds of times multiplied, so there are more genuine salvations but also more people who have responded just to move teams on and also more people who whilst not sure what they did none the less are searching and want God and meant the prayers. 80+% are estimated to be prayers of Salvation or Rededications it is all so overwhelming.
I am one of a Leadership Team of five for Reading Christian Network, a charismatic umbrella body for many of the ministries and churches in the town and today when we met I offered to hand over what has started at The Gate to the town. In that meeting we heard many stories of peoples encounters with what is happening. If the Pastors in our town will pursue and will pay the cost of pursuing it both spiritually and practically then it could lead to full blown revival. Eph 4 Evangelist Tommie Zito and I believe Reading could become the first city in Europe to be swept by the Glory of God. At this point I must be honest about what I prophetically believe, I thought the Revival the Lord showed me was coming was to start in the South West and I have tried very hard in previous years to ensure the leaders there knew this. The Gate will practically steward this outpouring whilst submitting to the spiritual oversight of the town to cover and give leadership to it.
Now for the really good news.
It is transferable to any city or town that wants this. I believe that this can happen in any city in this country or in Europe and because of that Tommie Zito’s ministry and Barnabas Fellowship of Churches are going to partner to facilitate this. Why do I believe it is transferable? Oh the joy of the simplicity of all of this. It is not a technique, it is not a program, it is not a church growth plan but something Holy from the Lord, it is simply the empowering of ordinary believers to be able to share the gospel on the streets and that is where the power to transform our cities lies. If we will humble ourselves, not try and control it and allow the Holy Spirit to flow we will see incredible things on the streets of every city in this nation.
I drew this picture attached to express my initial bewilderment at what I felt after the first day, indeed on the second day I was really worried and came under the most severe psychological attack, worse than anything I had experienced in the last four years which had been tough years of contending with spiritual forces. Why the psychological difficulties? Well I value my integrity but had no credible frame of reference to explain what I was seeing by the second day. On top of that I realised my follow up techniques which I prided myself with being good at were not going to be good enough. We have since begun to understand how to steward this move of God.
It was only after I accepted that Father was at work did the Lord send a pastor from Andy Au’s church from Brighton to encourage us. He came at the prompting of Jonathan Conrathe and when he arrived in Reading the Lord told a lady he had met three years ago to call him and tell him that revival was about to start and that the Lord had told her He was in Reading at that precise moment in time. This encouraged the meeting and gave us resolve to press in.
Why Reading?
We have been praying every week for 19 years for God to move in our town. This Wednesday was the day 19 years ago that the prayer meeting started. The leadership of RCN are more united and honest with each other than we have ever been.
Why ‘The Gate?’
God knows that whilst I am not the most prolific church planting Apostle, nevertheless I would never be content with holding this outpouring to just our church and my leadership team are just the same. Men and women who are a Kingdom minded team. A pastor receiving this gift may have been tempted to hang onto it as just another means of church growth which I believe many have seen Tommie and his ministry as in the past. Yes I wish to plant churches, yes I would love a huge church but, I would honestly prefer that every church become strong and growing whether they are part of my Baptist denomination, Barnabas Fellowship of churches, Anglican churches, Catholic churches Methodist churches or any other denomination or stream. I just long to see all churches growing and thriving. I believe God knows my heart and has trusted me knowing I would honour his servant Tommie and would seek to pursue what he had sent me and pay the cost. This is why I have a personal resolve to facilitate Tommie Zito and what he brings to our nation.
Yinka Oyekan
Senior Minster of The Gate & Team leader Barnabas Fellowship of Churches"
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Post by VR on Jun 22, 2016 5:26:52 GMT
EVENING | PAULINE EPISTLES | BOOK 50 of 66 | PHILIPPIANS 1 |Signpost Words| ‘RIGHT DESIRES AT RIGHT TIMES’
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Some Observations | Welcome to chosen joy, for it is that which is at the heart of this epistle. Paul’s test of blessing, was neither money nor comfort nor peace, but rather, it was evidence of the spread of the Gospel despite his chains and infirmities. It was this that brought Him great joy.
A Call To Action | Young men should not long for departure from this life, not even to be with Christ, for their strength and their desire is for a Christ ordained destiny upon the earth. Men in their prime should not long for departure to be with Christ, though they might, for they must show the young how to be victorious. Older men, should bear patiently their burdens, until Christ clothes them from above. The desire to be with Christ is good, but only when all our tasks are done.
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