EASTERN GATE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
TEACHING AND PROPHETIC ARM – PART SEVEN
Saturday – April 11, 2020, Nisan 17, 5780
Greetings dear sons and daughters of the only living God and welcome back to this Saturday teaching series aimed at giving each reader more insight into this Ministry, its call, and focus. As you know this Ministry as three major arms with a fourth on the horizon. These are the Teaching and Prophetic arm, the Sabbatical arm, the Conference arm with the Eastern Gate Ministries International Vision Foundation on the near horizon. Above all, this Ministry, strives to share only the pure Word of God. The pure Word of God spoken in faith, in love, led of the Holy Spirit is the only Word that God will confirm with signs and wonders following as we see in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts. Starting within a few years of Jesus ascending to the right hand of the Father error had crept into the Church and making it than other organizations. The Church is to be the dominating most powerful organization by far in the earth (yes, right now). As it is, the Church has many words but is without the Power of God. Christian Churches are more like a charitable organization than an organization filled with individuals who are those with the authority and Power of God in the earth. Tradition and the doctrines of demons have convinced us at one level or another that we are just worms in the dirt and if we can just hang on Heaven is our home.
Last Saturday I pointed out that I had a vision for reaching out to Pastors and their spouses some years ago and for one reason and other that call and anointing got put on the shelf. It was not put on the shelf by God but by me. In His grace and mercy, He has prompted me to take it off the shelf and has brought people around me and me around those who have a like call and Anointing. That Ministry is an arm of Eastern Gate Ministries International and is called Sabbatical Moments. It seems to me that the Lord has shown me that the answer to my shelving this call and Anointing is found in the Parable of the Sower. Perhaps some of you will see yourselves in this teaching as well. Seeing the Truth and repenting is the way back onto the road of abundance in all things the Lord has prepared for each of us.
Luke 8:4-8 (KJV)
4 And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:
5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Perhaps everyone reading this has heard at least one sermon on this parable and perhaps many teachings or sermons. However, as we move forward, I would say to you and to myself; “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear”. Are we reading this passively as with some sort of religious exercise or are we reading this intentionally? Have we asked the Lord to help us hear and see all that we are able to hear and see in order to be changed to be more like Him? I am talking about revelation knowledge not head knowledge. This teaching will spread over two weeks but hang in there it will be well worth it. Now, lets look at how Jesus taught this parable to His disciples. Are we His disciples?
Luke 8:10-11 (KJV)
10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Can we, each one of us who have ears to hear spiritual things know this, this that is a mystery to others, Truth for us? The resounding answer from the lips of the Master Himself is Yes! In this parable (a story that illustrates a spiritual Truth) Jesus is talking about how one receives the Word of God what importance it has in their life. I have to ask myself as you ask yourself, what is more important in my life than the Word of God? Are there some other words we place over the Word of God, are their people ahead of the Word of God, what about our work, what about our hobbies? How are we to live? Is our Christian walk directed by the Word of God or are other activities and people regulating our Christian walk? What did Jesus say quoting Deuteronomy 8:3?
Matthew 4:4 (KJV)
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
God knows we need natural food (bread) but our main irreplaceable sustenance is “every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God”. Do you suppose that Jesus, that God the Father, and the Holy Spirit are serious about this or is this one of many good options available to us? We are freewill creations with authority in the earth and we are free to choose our destiny. God has given us His Son for redemption and the Bible to guide our feet. Are we choosing our own path or the overwhelmingly abundant and safe path of the Word of God? I don’t know about you but I have chosen my own path more than once and it was not a safe and abundant path but hard. As I end for this week let me ask another question. The things Jesus mentions which hinder or totally stop the Word of God come from deceptions of the devils and are perpetuated by our thoughts and the words of our own mouth. If so, then why do we insist on talking the worlds talk?
Until our next publication, as a Bible Teacher and Prophetic Voice I speak this blessing over each and every one of you, receive it, believe it, and speak over yourself and your family by faith in Jesus name! Quit asking God to bless you, you are already blessed, you have the Blessing, give Him something to do by the words of your mouth. Once you know the will of God, decree the thing (Job 22:28, Isaiah 45:11, Mark 11:23). (The Blessing is the Holy Spirit) We have left God way to long with nothing to do in our lives.
Numbers 6:24-26 (AMP)
24 The Lord bless you and watch, guard, and keep you;
25 The Lord make His face to shine upon and enlighten you and be gracious (kind, merciful, and giving favor) to you;
26 The Lord lift up His [approving] countenance upon you and give you peace (tranquility of heart and life continually).
By: Dr. David Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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