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the spirit of lewis and clark

8/3/2017

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In 1804 an expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out to explore the western half of the United States.  Those men were pioneers, the first ones to see and learn of new territory.  Their journey ended on the shores of the Pacific Ocean and soon they were settlers.  I personally live in a country that was named after these two pioneers.  Someone with true grit always goes into new territory before others will follow.  Men have opened the doors of revelation and sincere believers have followed them into the blessings the revelation produced.  Lewis and Clark were led by an Indian girl named Sacagawea.  The pioneers God sends out are led by His Spirit.
 
Isaiah 28:24 Does the plowman plow all day to sow?  Does he open and break the clods of his ground?
 
God sent His prophets out to plow up new ground in order to have revelation for the believers to sow into.  Men like Oral Roberts and Kenneth Hagin have gone before us and endured the hardships of resistance we will not face.  Most folks are comfortable in their “religion”.  They are not warm to fresh revelation, fresh manna.  Not everyone followed Lewis and Clark to the land they explored and mapped out.   The land Lewis and Clark discovered was wild and uncivilized.  It needed to be occupied and developed before it could sustain the owners.  The revelations of the Holy Spirit are new and fresh and they need to be accepted and acted upon before they produce fruit.
 
John 16:13 When the Spirit of Truth is come, He will guide you into all truth.
 
How many Christians have a “pioneering spirit”?  How many are willing to be led by God’s Spirit?  Many are content to stay back and criticize those who seek for more of their Lord.  I imagine those who followed after Lewis and Clark were warned not to go.  “You had better not go out into the new territory, the Indians will scalp you!”  The descendants of those wary people are among us today.  “Don’t mess around with that Holy Spirit because tongues are of the devil!”  I’m like a teenager, the more people oppose something the more I want it.  People can oppose good things just as much as they do bad things.  I don’t want people making my decisions for me.  Let me find my own success and deal with my own failure.
 
2Corinthians 12:7 And lest I should be elevated above the status quo through all the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of satan.
 
The Apostle Paul was a true pioneer.  The Lord took him where no man had ever gone.  His revelations would have a profound effect on the Body of Christ.  They would strengthen the church and cause it to grow.  The devil did everything he could to stop Paul and persuade him to stop offering such truth.  The devil sent Paul’s own kin to persecute him but he knew why they were sent, the devil hated his revelations.  When Paul sought the Lord for help, the Lord gave him His grace and with this grace every attempt of the devil failed.  We do not face any where near the attacks the fathers that plowed before had to endure.  Oral Roberts laid his hands on over a million people until he wore his shoulders out and with tears in his eyes he said he was the most hated preacher in the world. 
 

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    Jesus Redeemed me from the curse, no poverty, no lack in my house.

    Wealth and riches in my home, the devil is rebuked for my sake.

    Father daily loads me with benefits, He takes pleasure in my increase.

    I love being redeemed,
    and I give my Lord all the glory.

    ​PRAYER FOCUS
    TAKING INVENTORY
     
    We are about to embark on the greatest adventure and outpouring of God’s Spirit! This month the Holy Spirit is asking us to examine ourselves/take           inventory so as God’s Vessels we can take our part and place in the Body of Christ!
     
    Scriptures to meditate on:
     
    Hebrews 12:1 Therefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

    Psalm 26:4 Lord you can scrutinize me. Refine my heart and probe my every thought. Put me to the test and you will find it is true.
     
    2 Cor 10:6 It is written, and having a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

    1 Peter 4:17 For judgement begins at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
     
    Psalm 139: 23, 24 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me of unbelief and lead me in the way everlasting.
     
    2 Timothy 2:4 No soldier when in service gets entangled in the enterprises of (civilian) life: his aim is to satisfy and please the one who enlisted him (God)! DO ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD!

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