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April 15, 2006 AM
Pastor Steven L. Shelley


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And I'm really full this morning, but I won't be able to share with you why I'm so full, but I will when I can.  I had a very unusual dream last night that was very lengthy.  I know this may sound like an exaggeration, but I really believe that the dream lasted somewhere around 3 hours.  

And it was very, very unusual and very detailed.  And I'll just share this one little part.  In the dream, I met the seven church age messengers, one by one.  And all of them gave the same message in this dream although it was different.  The details were different.

They spoke about different aspects of the same thing.  And that same thing was everyone of them were talking to me about the overcoming anointing.  And each one of them was speaking to me about what it took, what kind of an anointing it was taking, to overcome in their church age.

And when I was privileged at the very end to speak with that seventh star that the Lord Jesus had in His hand, the messenger of the seventh angel . . .  He spoke to me, and just this one little piece I'll share with you now.  And as soon as I can assimilate it all, put it all together . . .  You know, it's big in my little head.

But when I spoke with him, one of the things that I would be willing to share this morning was that he spoke about the fact that . . . and this part I was surely aware of, but it was special in the way it was presented . . . that the evil of every other church age, all of these ages, he said, was gathered together into this last church age that we're . . . as the Bride, we're moving out of.

But the world is still . . . the church world and the world is still experiencing the final days and stages of Laodicea.  But he said in the same way that all the evil of every age had been gathered together into Laodicea, in the same way the Anointing that it took to overcome . . . that special portion of His anointing and His glory that it took to overcome in each age . . . all of those portions of overcoming anointing, he said . . . they have also been gathered together into one measure, one great big measure.

And that's exactly the words that he used to describe it - one great big measure of overcoming anointing.  And he assured me that it was going to be released very soon upon those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.

And you know, I want my eyes to be anointed this morning with eyesalve and my ears to be anointed.  I feel . . .  We'll just pray that prayer together.  

Father, as we stand here this morning approaching Your Word, my heart is so full because of this visitation in a dream.  And although it wasn't the thing yet that we were looking for, but it was so much and so important to me because we need that, we know there's something.  We know there's a portion.  We know there's an anointing.  We know there's a mantle that as yet has not fallen upon Your Bride that will cause us to overcome all these things that the enemy uses against us.

And so we just pray together in this little place in Jerusalem with our brothers and sisters who have joined us around the world.  Lord, anoint our eyes with eyesalve that we might see Your Word for this hour, that we may not be caught lodging too long in the plains of the wilderness, that we would not marry ourselves to the past, but that we would have eyes to see.  And anoint our ears that we can hear the Word of the Lord for this hour - timely Word in season, oh God, from Your Throne.

Thank You for that great measure, great big portion and measure of overcoming anointing.  And it was . . .  Lord, I thank You for it.  Give us grace in Your Word today.  BaShem Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach.  Amen.  And the church said, "Amen."



We woke up this morning . . . terrible storms in California.  In Tennessee, just a few days ago . . .  Every day . . . terrible storms and weather patterns.  I think the Lord is saying something.  Something is kind of shaking up in the heavens.  Well, you know what? That's good news.  It's good news because if things are shaking in the heavens, in the natural, it means that things are also shaking in the spiritual realm.

The dream that I had last night to me is the most outstanding dream I've ever had in my life.  It was the most vivid and most real dream that I've ever had.  It was more or less like reality.  It was so real that I could see them.

I mean, I saw the apostle Paul in the dream and I knew that it was the apostle Paul.  I saw Irenaeus and Martin and Columba and knew that . . .  And Luther has never been my favorite person in history.  I know that's dangerous to say because there's so many former Lutherans here, you know.

But Luther's never been my favorite character.  But I recognized years ago he was one of the church age messengers.  God used him, although he was very confused about God's dealing with the Jewish people.  He was full of bitterness toward them and misunderstanding, by the way, that had been bred in him.

It didn't start with Martin Luther.  It started in his church.  It started in the Roman Catholic church that is bred with hatred and anti-Semitism against the Jews.  And listen, it's in Jerusalem today.  Serious.



The church is still prejudice against the Jewish people.  So I've always had this little problem with Martin Luther.  He was bald-headed, you know.  I've just never thought of him with enough respect, I know.

But in this dream I saw him as the most little, humble, sweet man you'd ever want to meet in all your life, even though I'd heard all those things he said, all those, "Christ killers be damned," and on and on and on as he cursed the Jews.

He must have been having a terrible bad day because in this dream he was the most humble fellow.  And it was really strange because it was as though he knew I wasn't fond of him - in this dream.  It was as though he was intimidated, almost, by my presence instead of me intimidated by his presence.

He looked at me as though, "I know what you think about me."  Really, it's very, very strange.  And all of a sudden he began to talk to me about what it took and the anointing that was present to be able to overcome in his day and in his church age.
                        
And as he began to talk in this dream, I was so filled with love for him.  I've never loved Martin Luther like I love him now.  Hallelujah.  It was just strange.  And the dream was so real.  I believe all of these things that are happening are signs to us.

And especially the Word that Bro. Branham spoke in this dream . . . that this gathering together of all the anointing, that overcoming anointing that was present in every hour . . .  Remember the anointing that we have talked about in the ox age, and so forth - these powerful anointings.

And he was talking about how they had to be gathered together into this age and that we were going to overcome with a portion of that anointing that was really the overcoming portion of every age gathered into this age and that it would be released upon those that had eyes to see and ears to hear.

And I started thinking about this.  Poor Moses . . . he was speaking to a people that couldn't see and couldn't hear, and yet he still allowed them to provoke him to such anger that he was not even allowed to go in and enjoy the Promised Land.

I have a lot of things here that I wanted to share with you, but I don't think I'll have the time to do that.  






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