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MORNING STAR RISING
MARCH 2000
NEWSLETTER & DEVOTION
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Terry Mosley -- Editor
Rev. Terry Mosley -- Chief Minister
Ann Stolp -- Associate Minister
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Transfiguring Prayer
There's nothing more transfiguring than prayer. People often ask, "Why do
you insist on prayer so much?" The answer is very simple - because Jesus
did. You could change the title of the Gospel according to St. Luke to the
Gospel of Prayer. It's the prayer life of Jesus. The other evangelists say
that Jesus was in the Jordan and the Spirit descended on Him as a dove -
Luke says it was while He was praying that the Spirit descended on Him.
The other evangelists say that Jesus chose 12 disciples - Luke says it was
after He spent a night in prayer that He chose 12 disciples. The other
evangelists say that Jesus died on a cross - Luke says that even when He
was dying Jesus was praying for those who persecuted Him. The other
evangelists say Jesus went on a mount and He was transfigured - Luke says
it was while He was praying that He was transfigured. There's nothing more
transfiguring than prayer.
The Scriptures say that the disciples went to bed, but Jesus went to pray
- as was His custom. It was His custom to pray. Now Jesus was the Son of
God - He was definitely anointed for His ministry. If Jesus needed all
that time in prayer; don't you and I need time in prayer? If Jesus needed
it in every crisis, don't you and I need it in every crisis?
Desperate Prayer
God makes all His best people in loneliness. Do you know what the secret
of praying is? Praying in secret. "But you, when you pray, go into your
inner room, and when you have shut your door..." (Matt. 6.6) You can't
show off when the door's shut and nobody's there. You can't display your
gifts. You can impress others, but you can't impress God.
Now I say very often - and people don't like it - that God doesn't answer
prayer. He answers desperate prayer! Your prayer life denotes how much you
depend on your own ability, and how much you really believe in your heart
when you sing, "Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to Thy cross I
cling..." The more self- confidence you have, the less you pray. The less
self-confidence you have, the more you have to pray.
What does the Scripture say? It says that God takes the lowly, the things
that are not. Paul says in I Corinthians 1:28 that God takes the things
that are not to bring to nothing the things that are, so that no flesh
should glory in His presence. We need a bunch of "are nots" today.
"Who Shall Ascend To The Hill Of The Lord?"
There's an experience Duncan Campbell told about when he was working in
Scotland.
"I couldn't preach," he said. "I couldn't get through to God. The heavens
were solid. It was as though there was a 10 ft. ceiling of steel." So he
quit trying to preach. He asked a young man named John Cameron to pray.
The boy stood up and said, "What's the use of praying if we're not right
with God?" He quoted the 24th Psalm, "Who may ascend into the hill of the
Lord?"
You can't approach God unless your hands are clean, which means your
relationships with others are clean and your heart is clean. "Who may
ascend into the hill of the Lord? He who has clean hands and a pure heart
(Psalm 24:3- 4)
After the boy recited Psalm 24 he began to pray. He prayed 10, 15, 20
minutes. Then he suddenly said, "Excuse me, Lord, while I resist the
devil." He turned around and began to tell the devil where to go and how
to get there. He fought for all he was worth. You talk about having on the
armor of God and resisting the devil! When he finished resisting the
devil, he finished his prayer. He prayed for 45 minutes! When he finished
praying it was just as though God had pulled a little switch in heaven.
The Spirit of God came down on that church, that community, on the dance
hall at the other end of town, and the tavern on this end of town. Revival
was born in that prayer!
At the end of Malachi it says, "And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly
(that's the word I like, suddenly) come to His temple." (Malachi 3:1)
Remember what it says about the shepherds? They were watching their flocks
by night when suddenly there was the sound of the heavenly host. Do you
remember a bunch of men that had been waiting in the upper room? Suddenly
the Holy Spirit came on them in that room.
There's a date in history that I love very much. It was Wednesday, August
13, 1737. A little group of people in Moravia were waiting in a prayer
meeting. At 11:00 suddenly the Holy Spirit came. Do you know what
happened? The prayer meeting that began at 11:00 lasted 100 years! That's
right. That prayer room was not empty for a century! It's the longest
prayer among men and women that I know of. Even children six and seven
years old travailed in prayer for countries the names of which they
couldn't even spell
Why We Don't Have Revival
In an old town in Ireland they'll show you with reverence a place where
four young men met night after night after night praying for revival. In
Wales, there's a place in the hills where three or four young men only 18
or 19 years old met and prayed night after night. They wouldn't let God
go; they would not take no for an answer. As far as humanly possible they
prayed a revival into birth. If you're thinking of revival at your church
without any inconvenience, forget it. Revival costs a lot.
I can give you one simple reason why we don't have revival in America.
Because we're content to live without it. We're not seeking God we're
seeking miracles, we're seeking big crusades, we're seeking blessings. In
Numbers 11, Moses said to God, "You're asking me to carry a burden I can't
handle. Do something or kill me!" Do you love America enough to say, "God,
send revival or kill me"? Do you think it's time we changed Patrick
Henry's prayer from, "Give me liberty or give me death," to "Give me
revival or let me die"?
In the 3Oth chapter of Genesis, Rachael goes to Jacob and throws herself
down in despair. She says, "Give me children or else I die." Are you
willing to throw yourself down before God to seek the spiritual birth of
spiritual children in our country?
People say, "I'm filled with the Holy Spirit." If the coming of the Spirit
didn't revolutionize your prayer life, you'd better check on it. I'm not
so sure you got what God wanted you to get.
We've said that prayer changes things. No! Prayer doesn't change things.
Prayer changes people and they change things. We all want Gabriel to do
the job. God says do it yourself - with My sufficiency and My strength.
We need to get like this woman, Hannah. What did she do? She wept, she was
grieved, she said she had a complaint, she fasted - and she prayed.
Jesus, the anointed of God, made prayer His custom. Paul, with his
background and intellect, depended on prayer because he said he was weak.
David, the king, called himself a poor man and cried to the Lord. Hannah
prayed for a son and gave birth to a prophet. The prayers of a handful of
young men sparked revival.
There's nothing more transfiguring than prayer.
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by Leonard Ravenhil
(Read also Rees Howells Intercessor, By Norman Grubb)
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NEWSLETTER
Dear Precious Prayer Partners,
We want to wise you all the Happyest of New Years. We have had much ups
and downs this year, but it has started on the Up Side. Our Ministers
have had so many computor problems, and personnel set backs. But the Lord
has truely Blessed us with Renewed Hope, and things are back on Course for
the New Year. Please Lift up Stacy, who is still having many troubles,
and her Son Darrell needs prayer also.
We want to announce to you the begining of the Phone Ministry. Please
Pray for us to understand how the Holy Spirit wants to do this. We have a
Link on the Home Page, and also on the Womens Prayer Chapel Page. We have
a Form so we can call you, if you cant call us. We are on the West
Coast, so this is important for the Form, you may not beable to call
unless you make a time appointment. We will be opening up a few new things
as the Lord allows. So Please continue to lift us up, and Pray for the
Anoiting we all need to Keep our own Lives in order, and be about the
Lords business. We love you all, hope you will have the Best of his
Blessings Revealed to you throughout the year. We Pray that Prayer will
Transfigure you, and you will all see the Lord at work in your Lives.
Much Love and Appreciation,
Terry & Ann
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PROPHETIC WORD
There are heavenly rewards mounting up which you
have little understanding of. I am trying to
direct you to the very things that will bring
you the most gain. I am trying to direct you to
areas that will benefit you here on earth but in
heaven as well. I am trying to purify your
motives and encourage you along the most humble
path. I am trying to help you accomplish much
both here and in heaven above. Listen to My
leading for I will direct you to the most
beneficial acts. Consider that past events of
your life, even current circumstances have been
arranged to position you for maximal eternal
gain. Have you known humbling or disappointment?
Perhaps it was for your eternal good. Have you
suffered here on earth in some way? It may have
been in order to give you opportunity for
heavenly reward. You see, I am gracious enough
to order your lives here to give you the maximum
opportunity for heavenly gain. I am constantly
giving you opportunities to store up riches
above. I am forever trying to draw your
attention to that place.
Forget earthly scales and measures. You have no
idea how inverted heaven's measurements are
compared to earth's. For when you feel least
rewarded here,
you are often storing up the greatest reward there. When you feel you have
suffered the most on earth, you may have gained the most in heaven.
Why did I give you opportunity to turn down that high-paying job to serve
Me? Why did I give you that handicapped child or allow illness or pain?
Because I am more concerned about your heavenly reward, your eternal
inheritance than I am your comfort and ease on earth. I have long-range
vision - it extends way past your life here on earth. It extends to a
glorious eternity with Me. Won't you join Me in looking past this earth,
looking beyond your life here? For this is only the very beginning. The
first steps of our life together in love."
Given to Jane Williams
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THE BRIGHT AND MORNING-STAR
Re 2:28 And I will give him the morning star. Re 22:16 I Jesus
have
sent mine angel to testify unto you
these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of
David, [and] the bright and morning
star.
Lu 1:78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the day
spring
from on high hath visited us,
Lu 1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the
shadow of death, to guide our feet into
the way of peace.
2 Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye
do well that ye take heed, as unto
a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the
day star arise in your hearts.
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Easton & Smith Thayers Greek Lexicon & Dictionaries
5459 fosforov phosphoros {foce-for'-os}
from 5457 and 5342; TDNT - 9:310,1293; adj
AV - day star 1; 1
1) light bringing, giving light
2) the planet Venus, the morning star, day star
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