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Is One Greater Than Another?

Posted on 09/01/2023 | 2 comments

 by Deborah Waldron Fry

I have heard this saying before, that because someone has a “special” Anointing on their life, the enemy attacks them or their children more than others.

Another saying is, “Higher levels, different devils!”

I think many of you have heard this too and wondered about it.  This has always bothered me, because what parent would ever cause their children to have a target on their back, because of what they are called to do, whether it be apostle, or prophet, or evangelist, or pastor or teacher?

So I brought it to Father in prayer, asking, “Show me, Father, if this is true, I really need to know and others want to know.  And Father, in Jesus name, show us how to combat those attacks if true.”

And I heard the Sweet Loving Voice of the Father ask, “Is one of My Child’s Anointing, greater than another?”

“Well, LORD, we who are born again all have the same Holy Spirit in us, so I don’t think so.  We are ALL anointed.”

“Yes, My Child, when you are in Christ you are a “Christian” — which means “Little anointed one.”

It means you are LIKE CHRIST.  No one in My Kingdom has a “special” anointing, you are ALL ANOINTED by the Precious Holy Spirit. T here is no anointing greater or higher.

Is one gift or calling greater than another?  There is a variety of gifts, but the same Spirit, none is better than another, for ALL are needed.  There is a variety of service and activities but it is the same Lord who empowers all

A Body is made up of many members.  Each one needed and important.  I arrange the members in the Body, each one of them, as I choose.

If all were a single member, where would the body be?  It could not function.  As it is, there are many parts, yet one Glorious Body with Christ as the Head.

You are ALL My Body and you are ALL important, Beloved.  I have anointed you with The Holy Spirit and FIRE!

You all have a calling to be My Light in the darkness.  This LIGHT is what the enemy sees in you!

Not your gifts or your talents or callings, or a “special anointing”, but he sees MY SPIRIT in you.  He sees ME in you.

THE SPECIAL ANOINTING, Who is the Third Person of the Godhead, resides in all who are born again and filled with the Spirit!

Do you see now, My Child?  Do you see how special you are to Me?  You are ALL fearfully and wonderfully made! 

If one is attacked, you are all attacked for you are one Body and ALL come together to fight for the Victory!

The devil goes about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.  It matters not to him what your calling is, or what body part you are but only that you are Mine.

He sees My Mark on you.  He sees My Fire burning in your heart and he wants to quench it if he can.

But do not fear.  I have you covered.  You are hidden in Christ.  I have armed you with My Word.

The weapons of your warfare are MIGHTY through your God!  This is a New Covenant we have, Beloved.

You are not like Job who lost everything he had.  Job did not have the Spirit dwelling in Him.  Job was not hidden in Christ.  You are a NEW CREATION with every spiritual blessing!

You are covered in My Glory!  Do not let fear enter your mind and heart.  I have not given you a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind.

I do not give the devil free reign in your life.  I AM a good, good Father.  Though bad things happen in this world and afflictions and tribulations abound, I have promised to deliver you from them all.

I have no favorites for you are ALL in Christ Jesus!  I have called you and chosen you and anointed you.

Therefore, if one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.  Now you are the Body of Christ and individually members of it.

For thus says the LORD Who created you and He that formed you, “Fear not: for I have redeemed you, I have called you by name; you are Mine.  When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you.”

I will bring your children from the east and gather them from the west.  I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring My Sons from far, and My Daughters from the ends of the earth; even EVERY ONE that is called by My Name — for I have created you ALL for My Glory, I have formed you; yea, I have made you and I will keep you!”

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He rescues me

Posted on 28/05/2021 | 2 comments

I was recently asked to share a story in answer to the question “Have you ever been rescued?”

Yes!

The Almighty living true God, the One whom Jesus called Abba (Daddy) rescued me in May 1959.

He rescued me from a life of wondering what life was all about and transformed me into a new existence which biblical writers call “eternal life”.

I was blind, I was lost, I was enslaved to my own desires, imaginings and inclinations. My worldview changed overnight.

Yes, I have been rescued in every way.

God sent a black man from Uganda and his companion from Tanzania. As I listened to his story and saw his joy, I knew I had to have what this man, these people, so obviously had.

Yes, truly I have been rescued.

And I have been continually rescued day by day and year by year since then and today, more than ever, I am thankful.

The mighty God maintains each of my 70 billion body cells every second.

So I am so grateful to Him and to those two East Africans, whom He sent to rescue me.

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Living in Fear?

Posted on 05/05/2021 | 1 comment
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It is clear to me that governments and mainstream media are either deliberately or

unwittingly collaborating the promotion of fear in the Western World.

Read what C.S. Lewis said here many years ago, to the British readers, so as to put things in perspective.

Of course, a much greater threat than Lewis lists here, is threatening us today. I refer to the immense satanic evil of the ominous one-world government that is being openly proposed which will radically change our way of life from freedom to slavery.

Nevertheless, we know that a better world awaits us who believe in the One who died for us and has set us free from fear and anxiety.

All you who read this, if you have not made reconciliation with Almighty God through his death, you must tremble.

But there is an alternative open to you. A way out.

And that is to change your mind, radically, completely and wholeheartedly about Jesus and commit your life into his hands and receive the gift of eternal life.

In doing so you will certainly receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, and no longer live in abject fear.

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We were begun as Persons

Posted on 28/11/2020 | Leave a comment

That this is not a person at 12 weeks is just one of the many, many lies being told, believed and approved of by people in Australia as well as the USA. Perhaps the worst of all lies. We have a choice about what we believe–we are responsible as fellow humans made in the likeness of God. Judgment will come.

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Christian lives matter in northern Nigeria

Posted on 06/08/2020 | Leave a comment

Out of the mountain of despair:

Published by Barnabas Fund 5  August 2020

Nigerian Christian leaders around the globe have called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague to act now against the “pernicious genocide” in northern Nigeria.

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The Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU) letter to the chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, opened by commending ICC’s role in the capture and potential extradition of the genocidal despot Al Bashir, Sudan’s popularly-deposed president.

But the church leaders go on to boldly flag that the ICC is failing Nigeria by not acting against the blatant genocidal persecution now unfolding in the north, as ongoing atrocities perpetrated by Fulani militants, Boko Haram and other murderous extremists mount day on day.

Enough of the bloodshed

A gathering of hundreds of Christians, dressed in black, protested on Sunday, 2 August against the slaughter and called on Buhari’s government to “rise to their responsibility” in Nigeria’s Kaduna State also seemed to go unnoticed by the world.

The day was marked by “fierce prayers for peace” asking God to intervene in the troubled region, reported Ibrahim Wuyo of Vanguard News, Nigeria, as the peaceful protesters waved heartrending banners. One simply said, “Enough of the bloodshed, widows and orphans are increasing.”

“The arc of the universe tends towards justice”

The arc of God’s universe, long though it is, “tends towards justice”, as a courageous man of God once said. Dr Martin Luther King Jr gave his historic address in front of Abraham Lincoln’s statue 57 years ago this month to claim the bounced “promissory note of freedom”. The “long night of captivity” had ended with Lincoln’s abolition of slavery, but racial justice and socio-economic freedom were yet owed to African Americans 100 years later.

A group of upstanding Muslim men are clearly visible in the assembly, standing close behind Dr King in support, as he spoke of conducting the struggle for freedom on the “high plain of dignity and discipline” and never allowing their righteous protest to degenerate into hate and violence.

What would such men of morality and decency make of the horrific slaughter of Christians unfolding in West Africa today at the cruel hands of Islamist extremists?

“Soul force” overcomes the force of hate

The covid-lockdown frenzy of anti-Christian violence that has spiked this year in West Africa, particularly in northern Nigeria, has barely been opposed by police or military intervention. Militants are mercilessly killing young and old with impunity – destroying lives and families, homes and hope.

The “new militancy” Dr King spoke of in 1963 answered physical force with “soul force” – love alone can conquer hate. It is just such magnificent spiritual courage we hear of from our partners in Nigeria, and other Sahel countries, where a flood of extremist violence is engulfing Christian communities.

Christians caught in this spiritual battle are forgiving their persecutors, rebuilding shattered lives amid post-covid hardships and pointing men of violence to the Prince of Peace.

In April, Rose, the 27-year-old widow of Nigerian pastor, Matthew Tagwi, prayed that her husband’s Fulani militant killers “will get to know this Jesus I know” as she forgave them and asked the Lord to save their souls.

 “Creative suffering” is redemptive

What Dr King described as “creative suffering” is a profound and redemptive force in a fallen world. Just as he called for hope at that pivotal moment, we are moved to echo his words and ask Christians in these uncertain and difficult times of accelerating global persecution not to “wallow in the valley of despair”. We place our complete trust in the Lord, knowing that, to His glory, He will exalt every valley, make the rough things of this present world smooth and every crooked place straight (Isaiah 40:4).

“With our faith we hew out of the mountain of despair the mountain of hope.”

–  Dr Martin Luther King Jr

 

 

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Racism and Guilt–Getting a True Perspective

Posted on 18/06/2020 | 2 comments

Reposted—thanks Brian Mallalieu for posting this a few days ago

Friends,

Black lives matter protests have gone around the world while in America the looting and destruction across mostly black areas and the murder of black business people and black cops continues. What a mess!

In Canada we have a Liberal party that has made it clear that if you do not celebrate the murder of unborn children, you are not welcome in that party.  In the Democratic party of America it is the same.  The ultimate violence, state-sanctioned violence,  being torn limb from limb while still alive, is visited upon the most innocent and helpless-the unborn child and in the place that should be the safest- a mother’s womb.

We humans are moral creatures.  Meaning that whether or not we recognize the Creator’s moral law, we experience guilt over wrongs done and seek forgiveness and redemption.  Killing the unborn and sexual anarchy are now celebrated “rights” but the moral basis of creation still operates so the guilt from these actions accumulates and has to go somewhere. . . . In the leftist “progressive” universe one of the deposits for this ocean of guilt is race relations.

Orgies of guilt about the sins of white slave owners are very convenient since I do not have to face the reality of violence against the unborn or my own relational violence and sexual anarchy.  Guilt for the sins of others long dead is false guilt with no possibility of forgiveness or redemption.  White slave owner?  What about the Arabs who captured and sold the slaves to the traders?  What about the black Africans who captured and sold their black brothers to the traders?  Should they pay reparations?  Should Antifa burn down Arab North Africa (some of which still keep black slaves)?

Those captured by false guilt, see the looters and rioters as “protesters” and let them loot, burn and kill.  Since you solve the “problem” of an unwanted child by gruesome violence  does your moral logic dictate that you must accept violence as a solution to the problem of racism? To all problems?

Orgies of false guilt drive orgies of violence seeking to wipe away that guilt.  Cannot be done.  Burning, looting and murder and/or allowing percieved victims to burn, loot and murder does not remove false guilt.  Violence only multiplies violence and creates more real guilt.  (Of course, I am channeling MLK, Mandella and Mother Teresa here!)

There is only one solution to false guilt.  Truth.  I am not responsible for my father’s sins, no matter how reprehensible.

There is only one solution to real guilt.  One Man died a violent death at our hands to take that violence upon Himself and to say, “Father forgive them!”.

There is only one solution to the sin of racism- to recognize my own sins and failures, confess them and seek forgiveness from those that I have wronged and begin to love them and serve them.  Real guilt is personal, one on one, relational thus forgivable and this forgiveness leads to reconciliation and rebuilding.

Oh and is this racism?  The world goes crazy over Covid 19 which has a 99.9% recovery rate.  Starvation is 100% fatal and has a very simple cure but it really only affects brown and black people.  What the church spends on buildings and sound systems in one year could solve world hunger.  What the west spends on pet food could end starvation.  What  the world spends on armaments in one hour could solve world hunger for a year.   We have the means to do this but apparently, we do not have the will.   But then most of the starving are brown or black.  Probably nothing to see here.  While you are (if you are) joining the protests about black lives  maybe you need to ask yourself why you are riding on a collective false guilt wagon leading to more violence and think about doing something that actually makes a difference?

Yes we are seeking to help feed folks starving because of the Covid lockdowns.  In Uganda the lockdowns measures are actually increasing while the rest of the world is easing restrictions.  Typical kleptocracy playbook- keep your people in misery, the better to extort money from the west.  The more misery, the more money available to steal.

Steve (a Jesus agent on commission in East Africa)

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Indigenous academic: Black Lives Matter protests “ridiculous”

Posted on 11/06/2020 | 15 comments

Indigenous academic,  Anthony Dillon, says the Black Lives Matter protests were “ridiculous” and the “rent-a-crowds” did not care about the real issues.

Read this great article : https://www.news.com.au/national/black-lives-matter-protesters-in-australia-are-just-rentacrowds/news-story/9c06a20372ff0b828b18b1222324b659

 

THE LIVING GOD WHO MADE US SAYS:

ALL LIVES MATTER

UNBORN LIVES MATTER

YOUNG LIVES MATTER

ELDERLY LIVES MATTER

CHINESE LIVES MATTER

INDIGENOUS LIVES MATTER

 

 

 

 

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Persons are us

Posted on 22/01/2012 | 3 comments

A few years ago, my grandson, Max, when his sister Sophia was a new baby, was pretty jealous of sharing his parents’ attention with this newcomer.  

 Max : “Dad, you are a person.”        “Yes.”.

 “Mum you are a person.”                    “Yes.”

 “And I am a person!”                            “Yes.”

 “But Sophia – a sausage, burning.”   Smiles.

 Still makes their Dad chuckle.

 So what is a person?  Yes, much more than a sausage! Even a sausage burning.

 For Jesus, the one whom God sent to show us what He is like, the most important thing was meeting people. Talking to them and showing that he actually cared that they were there. That they were persons. He heard the cry of their hearts. He entered into their lives.  

 I like what a friend wrote recently about music and song, wonderful though they are: “You may be the only person who connects with someone on a personal level who then shows them that someone actually cares.  This, to me, is more important than all the songs you can write, sing or play.”

 People really want to know that you care about them.  We so need to get to know them on a deeper level and create true relationships with them. We need to laugh with them, cry with them, eat and drink with them.

So where did Jesus meet with people in his days as a Jewish man? Yes, in the synagogue, as he was a Jew. But in the synagogue, it inevitably led to controversy with the strict religious, or conflict over his teaching and then forcible removal. So it was mostly on the street, in the open, at dinner parties, weddings, funerals and especially with his followers and ‘sinners’ over meals.

 And, he doesn’t suggest his followers attend anything like a ‘worship service’ or a church or to go to a synagogue service! Nor were they told to create such human constructions, but to simply go the houses of “people of peace” and accept their hospitality.

After his death and rising and the out-pour of the Holy Spirit, Jesus’  followers continued to meet in Jerusalem in homes and at public places to be part of a whole new community of the Spirit. It was all about loving, caring relationships instead of laws, rituals and legal requirements. Real persons.

 That’s because Jesus and his Dad are persons. We also are persons ‘made in his image’, wonderfully designed and wondrously equipped to be God’s friends.  And so God still meets persons on the street, in the open, at dinner parties, weddings, funerals and especially with his followers over meals.

 Why do we so often deny our uniqueness, our special-ness, our design, the purpose of our existence here on Earth?  Why do we continue to deny the greatest matter of all? Why do we keep on ignoring such a gracious and welcoming Dad?

 I would welcome your answer.

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The human desire for certainty

Posted on 18/01/2012 | 10 comments

“Faith is believing what you know ain’t true”  Mark Twain

No. No. No. Not so!  Faith, true faith, is trust and we need evidence to be able to trust! We need evidence.

That is how we live, e.g., we trust surgeons and flight captains with our lives. We trust that others will obey the road rules when we are driving. And we trust those we love. We cant see it, but we trust that there is this thing called love.  The scientist trusts that the world is really there, that her brain is working well, and that the laws of nature are in place.

We base such trust on evidence.

It is truly true that reality is that which is actually there even when you don’t believe in it and it’s an absolute certainty that disbelieving in God won’t make Him go away.

However it is fashionable in some circles to say “nothing is certain”. But there is this human desire for ‘certainty’. It’s everywhere. Here’s a good example.

In John’s biography of Jesus, Thomas was told by the others, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.” But then eight days later Jesus appeared and said to Thomas “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” The record says that Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” And Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? How blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

I wonder if doubting Thomas actually put in his finger or his hand to Jesus’ wounds, evidence of who he was, evidence of his suffering and death, and of course, of his bodily resurrection?  

I can’t be certain, but one day I will find out.

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