Old Dog V
No More Games
Bob Neumann, 1/2003
Bob told me that I don’t have to post this, but I really do, since what he wrote had a profound impact on me, and has provoked me to study hard about the bride of Christ. It is a hard word…. like a “Hai Karate” slap to the face. As the commercial said….”Thanks, I needed that!” Sometimes, we need to be comforted. Sometimes, we need to be slapped awake.
Bob informed me that he did not see or hear the broadcast on CBN. He was going from what had been written, and what had been coming up in his spirit. As I have already said, it is disturbing that there is such a difference that they, in effect, represent two entirely different words.
Blessings, Stephen L. Bening
Dear WPA FAMILY,
THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT has been moving in my spirit in many different directions since early yesterday.
Although Stephen has my name on the WPA face page and i might have the “right” to post directly to the WPA i prefer to submit what i am placing before you through him. I recognize two things. First that it is Stephen that was raised up to do this work called the WPA…. no one else. Second is that Stephen has been given a specific task that the WPA is to fulfill. The last 48 hours has shown the real atmosphere that the “world” is under. Or should i say “america”.
The WPA has no “perception” of THE BRIDE OF CHRIST. I do not say “church” for the simple reason is that church and religion are synonymous. According to THE WORD a “child” was born….a “SON” was given…. so that the “government” would rest upon HIS SHOULDERS. You should all recognize this as from the PROPHET ISAIAH. JESUS THE MESSIAH as John 3:16 proclaims came unto the whole world because of ABBA’S LOVE.
Yet HE stated clearly that when HE RETURNS the issue of FAITH would be in question. For the last several hours i have wrestled with the images of FAITH and THE BRIDE. My brother Mark Silbernagle has frequently reminded me that THE BRIDE is the primary FOCUS of THE KING OF KINGS. Why it is not “our’s” speaking as a part of the WPA and HIS BODY, bothers me.
THE BRIDE is a reflection of THE BRIDEGROOM. It has three important attributes that HE IS.
IT IS HOLY.
IT IS ETERNAL.
IT IS UNIVERSAL.… ALL ENCOMPASSING.
I was told this by HIM long ago. But as i have watched the last few days i have been abruptly aware that the last ISSUE is what is not understood. The fact that HE keeps bringing me to the issue of separating THE SHEEP and THE GOATS and THE GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY OF THE LORD is a warning that there are many who are in danger. RIGHT NOW….
Many who think they are “a chosen generation”…”the very elect”….
Something is very wrong in “THE KINGDOM” and something needs to be done. It would be nice if THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT would have raised up a JEREMIAH to stand on the wall and warn THE CITY… but HE HAS……….numerous…….and as a nation we are “isolationists” just like the PHARISEES.
WE are “elitist” just like the PHARISEES.
And like the PHARISEES and the SADDUCEES and the HERODIANS and the ZEALOTS there are too many subdivisions when “the coming together” has been prognosticated for years. The “shaking”, “stirring”, winnowing” has been spoken about for so long something should be happening. And like all the factions in ancient Israel we are divided by our own ideas of right and wrong with so little of THE TRUTH.
Tonight during the Fiesta Bowl ABC began “advertising” a program that will be broadcasted several weeks from now. The title clutched at my spiritman and has not let go…. the program is entitled “VERITAS…. THE QUEST”
May mean nothing to any of you…. but that is how this whole thing goes. I was struck with cold chills and had to turn off the TV because i was disgusted at myself for watching a football game when DEEP DARKNESS is upon the land. VERITAS is the LATIN term for TRUTH.
Are we all not on a QUEST for THE TRUTH….
THE WAY…. THE TRUTH…THE LIFE……….?????????
So here i am wondering how to deal with the people on the WPA that are playing games…. that are so caught up in “stuff” from all over the place when THE WORD says HIS SPIRIT IS POURED OUT ON ALL FLESH… why are the “WATCHMEN” not hearing THE CAPTAIN…. why are the “prophets” not discerning that “still small voice” for themselves. Jeremiah told us that ABBA said if we will call upon HIM, HE WOULD ANSWER ……… something is really wrong people when we “follow” hearsay and not HIS VOICE.
Does anyone hear the TRUMPET each time another post is added to the WPA headed by…. Alice Smith: A LOOK at 2003?
I do not “know” this woman, her “ministry”…. don’t care…. all i know is that something is wrong in the whole message. Maybe you can glean a kernel or two from it. But in my spirit i have the strongest negative feedback i have sensed in a long time.
I cannot tell you exactly why…. not sure even if that is even important at this time.
What jumped out at me after slowly following the threads was a statement Sister MOUNTAIN FLOWER…. said…. and THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT jumped all up and down on me…she said “standing on THE WORD”. And i am slammed with EPHESIANS 6…. and my CAPTAIN whispers to me…MY SHEEP DO NOT KNOW WHEN TO STAND AND WHEN TO WALK…. and as i type this i am once again standing on the hillside among the dead sheep…and right now…like Jeremiah i am crying because nothing HIS SERVANTS have said or done can change the outcome.
So many false voices…false prophets….then and now.
WE STAND in FAITH…. ON HIS WORD… but we also must WALK…. as HE LEADS….
David sang…. BLESSED IS THE MAN…. WHO DOES NOT WALK IN THE COUNCIL OF THE UNGODLY…. again in Ephesians Paul warns…
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things, which are done of them in secret.
13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
For years i have had visions of THE SHEPHERD and HIS SHEEP. HE WARNED us that there would be WOLVES in SHEEP’S CLOTHING. Those who would endanger the sheep…rend and devour the sheep. But what does that mean in the “real” world. If a person or a ministry preaches “another gospel” is it because they are deceived…. or are they deceivers?
HE SAID my people perish for lack of “vision”…. discernment…. the ability to clearly hear HIM.
So how can they follow if they don’t hear HIS VOICE? And if they “walk” with the wrong crowd David said they would eventually
STANDS IN THE WAY OF SINNERS….
Failure to follow the SHEPHERD puts us into trouble for we cannot discern JESUS from THE LIE. In Hebrews we were warned…
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. False Teachers and False Prophets prosper because the “dull in hearing” cannot discern…..and the next thing you see DAVID warned would be those who…..
SIT WITH THE SCORNFUL.
Today there are many who are comfortably inhabitation this “SEAT” in many congregations…those who scorn and mock…
Jude 1
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit
So JUDE tells us that those who do not WALK in FAITH…who do not FOLLOW the SHEPHERD will WALK after their own ungodly lusts. David and Jude use the same word…UNGODLY…. and it is a SIGN of the LAST TIME…
There is a song that begins THERE IS A WAY THAT LEADS TO LIFE…and the goal is to find it. To follow it… to ZION…the place ABBA DWELLS.
We are to STAND…and we are to WALK….but to know as STEPHEN put it the WHEN, WHERE, HOW, and WHY of it all.
That answer comes also from ISAIAH…
Isaiah 30
15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
So there is a choice to make…but many will not make it….so what would be next……..
20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
THE LORD gives us the BREAD and the WATER…and maybe it is needed to “awaken the sleepers”.
THE ROAD TO ZION is in the HEARTS of those who follow HIM…obey HIM. THE BRIDE has made herself ready… the Bridesmaids are another story. And maybe that is why i have written and prayed and wept this night…. for the five who will bring their oil…
selah
old dog
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