Working Properly

Ephesians 4:7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8 Therefore [a]it says,

“When He ascended on high,
He led captive a host of captives,
And He gave gifts to men.”

9 (Now this expression, “He ascended,” what [b]does it mean except that He also [c]had descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.) 11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the [d]saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the [e]knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature [f]which belongs to the fullness of Christ. 14 [g]As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness [h]in deceitful scheming; 15 but [i]speaking the truth in love, [j]we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together [k]by what every joint supplies, according to the [l]proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

I realise, as I review my blog, that Christ has been writing Ephesians 4 in my bloodstream. Like when a jigsaw is being pieced together it is not always apparent what the whole picture will be. But if you analyse many of the posts in this blog they are nothing less than a rewording of  Paul's apostolic message:
What Christ won for us
Where He has positioned us
What the Body of Christ is
and  in this context....
GROWING UP FULLY INTO HIM or the full 3 stages of growth of this blog and also 1 John 2
BUT IN CORPORATE CONTEXT here in Ephesians 4.

And this describes the unique gifts the ascended Christ gives unto men to be able to form this supernatural thing called the CHURCH...but that this itself is only an interim stage...because the BODY carries on
building itself .....being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

So the strategy is this
We PREACH what is TRUE NOW of all of us in Christ
a bunch of individuals hears
then God rouses the churchbuilding gifts to move amongst these living stones
to mature them to a point where they know how to speak from the Spirit...in
other words to speak Christ to each other...that the whole church carries on building itself.

So if we come into an area, look for the Living Church we can tell what stage it has arrived at.
Jesus used the phrase a half built tower.
Well a half built tower would relate to 95% of all churches around today. they are still ONLY at the stage where one or two real ministries...or fake hireling ministries are speaking to a mass of stones....the stones themselves still relate as individual stones, and are not yet a Temple of the Living Lord, and there is no real sense yet that they are a Living Body yet, and moving as such.
Partly then, ministries who are themselves inadequately formed in God....
or partly through direct counterattack of the Enemy
or partly through the lack of hunger for righteousness and truth in the saints means that yet another half built tower is being laughed at by the world.

The purpose of this post is to examine the words "working properly". But first notice how Ephesians 4 continues in much the same vein as a lot of my blogposts....

17 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding,

As many readers will know I have been using the phrase..."locked in their leftbrain" or "leftbrain locked".

The tiny bit of our brain that does step by step thinking, that lists things, that guages things according to rules and parameters, and human measurements....is mainly the left frontal vortex. We now have the use of information that comes to us direct through the Holy Spirit. This does not mean we deny the human information, but as in healing for example....our present condition is nolonger the final Word...because Isaiah 53 says all our sicknesses and disease was laid upon Him.

Twice in this chapter St Paul talks about speaking truth

verse 15....speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ

verse 25....Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. 26 Be angry, and yet do not sin;

So we have an important fulcrum here.

1. We've got Chapters 1 to 3 which describe the building materials that are ours
2. We've got the ministries whose gifting it is to KICKSTART the engine...
3. And we've got the whole Body who corporately share the process of Building everything in that we need to become complete....(which ofcourse as you look out now on  the Body of Christ is incredibly INCOMPLETE)

BUT GUESS WHAT THE FULCRUM IS?  Our willingness to deal with truth.
I will repeat that.

As good as all the other components are they all mean zilch
if we are NOT PREPARED to speak the truth in love
NOR HEAR TRUTH.

I am growing in the Lord, people think.
No one is arguing that you are not.
But this is the actual phrase in the Bible:
we are to GROW UP IN ALL ASPECTS INTO HIM.

In order to be the Church the Lord spoke about through Smith Wigglesworth we have to be a WORD and SPIRIT CHURCH.

Grow up in all aspects into Him.

God has quickened the subject of the 12 Gates of Jerusalem in Nehemiah and not surprisingly because we too are a church that is coming back out of Babylon. We are rebuilding the Gates and the last big door opening message on the gates that I heard anyone preach was Arthur Wallis to the Fountain Trust around 40 years ago. We can't ignore GATES. We are to be complete!!!

And we cannot be complete if we still have issues with speaking truth.

WHICH BRINGS ME TO THIS REAL WORLD EXAMPLE:

On Facebook God engineered that we had a thread of people all privately chatting in one continuous private message thread for 2 years. Unlike church even...all the members could see all the private messages. We know things about each other that maybe spouses do not even know.
Glorious glorious stuff was shared.

But you know what?
It began faltering when I started to speak the Truth.

It was simple truth.
it was things like...if we are in covenant (as all christians are with one another) how can we just up and leave

with ne'er a fairwell....or for no other good reason than what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12

If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason [l]any the less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. 19 If they were all one member, where would the body be? 20 But now there are many members, but one body. 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. 26 Be angry, and yet do not sin;

Now the addition of Be angry but sin not....is already into territory that existing churches cannot handle. I thought it may be different among ourselves here...but no, it wasn't.

We are members of one another is a HUGE Statement.
We want everyone to be functioning right...not for moral reasons...but because in a real mystical sense we are ONE MACHINE  moving mightily in the heavenly places....so if one of your cogs is clogged up....actually in the Spirit that affects me. But at this stage in the growth of the Body people still seem to think parts of them are still under wraps . Ofcourse we are still individuals.....Ofcourse I am not going back into the territory of Emsworth Christian Church in the 1980s where we were for a time practically socialist or communist, having to ask permission to blow our noses....well I exaggerate.....a little....
No I absolutely get that...
But when the Spirit is moving on His Body and people are holding back for example in Acts 2 Ananias and Sapphyra were lying....and they died. They were FREE to do what they wanted. Everybody is free to do what they want....it's alwas the question of WHY you want to do what you want....and if it's not coming from the ONE LIFE in theUniverse....but it's something in addition to the life of God ...well yes...expect other participants in the same Life in the universe to question you.

WORKING PROPERLY
This is the point that prompted the post.
As Western Christians we speed read through Ephesians 1 to 3 going "nah nah nah nah nah"...yup got that...
we haven't ofcourse...it's just headknowledge...
then we come to something recognizable
in the English standard version it reads like this 4:16
from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

"Aha", we go.
Our brain goes click click click
I understand "working"
I understand "properly".

So from top left, if we are in a British Anglican or Methodist Church we learn to "do our bit for the church" by shaking a tin for charity donations to some charity that we favour or that our church leaders favour.

Or perhaps we are in an evangelical church, and we read in our new instruction book something that makes us think we have to put a sandwich board on us and march up and down the streets proclaiming how short time is.....which, by the way, it is....Everyone is free to do what they feel the Holy Spirit is telling them to do.
Last week, by way of the same subject, I felt I heard God say something which was quite a shock to me.
"You do realise that not everyone who purports to be an evangelical and goes out on the streets with signs and loud unempathising preaching is not always what it says on the tin?"  By that God was referring to the different methods the sons of Darkness use. Jesuits are taught to take on the appearance of any organisation and to copy the mannerisms perfectly. Witches are even brought up with pleasant religious "front alters" or "front personalities" and then placed in all kinds of churches.
So at least some of the most obnoxious preachers of damnation aren't christians at all....they are perfectly aware of the damage to Christ's Name they are doing in the high streets.

Or bottom left, perhaps we feel to be "working properly" we must be preaching. How many preachers know how to preach in the Holy Spirit as God gives them utterance. And how many do lots of uttering whether god is giving it to them or not.

Or how about this even more subtle situation bottom right?
The words come from a current email request from a network apostolic church this week. The writer won't have a clue that there is anything wrong in the words he used.
In reply to his email, IF I WAS TO REPLY would be....
and this tight chemistry with this leadership team? How mature are they? Do they yet know they are Christ in their form according to galatians 2:20. Are they experienced in delivering people from Satan and demonic strongholds? Are they aware of how much danger we are all in as Satan prepares his last onslaught against Jews Christians and Muslims....anybody in any way related to Abrahamic forms of Monotheistic believing?
What kind of gospel is this leadership team into? Grace plus works? Do they preach any further than Romans 1 to 5?
And what about the later phrase "helping to foster a church planting movement"?
What you mean do you know how to start a club which you are calling a church in a school hall or community hall with a musican band and a twolevel gospel about forgiveness from sin and the baptism in the Holy Spirit?  And this you describe as "church planting".   We would call that beginning christian clubs that meet on Sundays and have musicians on podiums.

NO NO NO.
This all comes from the western carnal mind that speed reads Ephesians 1 to 3 then gets to the bit about working properly and thinks in terms of a day job....except here it's a similar activity but you may or may not be paid for it.


Nope 4:16 is entirely in context.
And the context is birthing Christ and who you are now according to those three chapters  INSIDE YOU AS CONSCIOUSNESS, Then out of that consciousness everything you authentically ARE begins to work properly. And whatever you naturally are being moved and prompted by Christ's life within you, by His Spirit....is going to feed and upbuild other Christ members.

What must we be doing to do the works of Christ asked the disciples?  Believe ON Him who God has sent. And what this now means for believers is we believe IN HIS LIFE in us. We believe in the all sufficiency of that life IN US.  Or as proverbs 3 puts it....we acknowledge HIM in all our ways....and He makes straight our paths.

A better way to think of us "supplying" and "working properly" is to think in terms of Genesis 1. Our Father approached the problem of Darkness with Word alone. He said, "Let there be Light"
We are His kids. "Working properly"....whether by speaking or by actions in faith means addressing Darkness. Addressing Darkness in the world. Addressing darkness in each other by SPEAKING LIGHT...as we have utterance in the Spirit.

This whole post came out of an initial post that people responded well to last night on Facebook, made in conversation with Edie Chill and others....

Edie Chill
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I know (in my intuitive knower, that place within where reason and logic are not allowed to go) that there is a "way" of living heretofore unknown to humanity. Could we possibly be the generation to taste it, or must I continue to be a dreaming fool?


Bill Fechtelkotter You're no fool. Yesterday, I started hearing a question and a phrase, "Are you ready to shine?" I answered, "Yes." And then, over and over, "It's time to shine." This unexpectedly brought tears to my eyes.

It's NOW Edie. The long wait is over. Our time as a caterpillar has expired, our wings have arrived! Haha

Edie Chill "This is bigger than "self-improvement," and whatever you're going to find in the "self-help" aisle. We are going to have to get past me-myself-and-I, and the idea that this is all about individual enhancement. The transformation we want is more than tidying up a messed up world. For the Spirit to work we have to be talking to one another. What is there to say? Turn within to the spirit of the depths. What is opening up through your deep feelings? What is that intuitive knowing and tacit understandings revealing to you? We have to talk to one another from that place! We must express it as naturally as we can in our own words. You have to become a little child to really do it - it's as simple as that, and as difficult as that.

Is this the same as reading another book about God and spirituality? No.
Is this the same as following our favorite spiritual teacher? No.
Is this the same as attending another conference or workshop? No.
Is this the same as embracing more progressive beliefs in your mind? No.
Is this the same as acquiring more knowledge? No.

It's not necessary to do any of the above in order to practice what I'm suggesting. And unless you practice what I'm suggesting, all of the above are meaningless.

Turn within to the spirit and source within you. We have to start talking to one another about what we experience there... not in a bunch of empty religious phraseology, but in our own words. Nothing is going to change unless we start doing this." Jim Palmer

Katie Woodside I am beginning to see the value in non resistance. There is a flow to this life and for me, it is time to relax! My "daily bread" for today (something that rises up within me) says to relax and enjoy the moment! Keep calm and enjoy the day!

Darryl Dement I know that 2nd Adam does not till the Ground, not sure how yet LOL, for now I tell myself that because I love maters so much it's a joy instead of a labor. That day of reaping where I have not sown may be a little way in the future Ha. But I can certainly grasp that concept.
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Tunji Ayoade Getting the hang of immortality is like toilet training
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Chris Welch Nobody I have ever spoken to so far "has" the vision of the Body is joined by that which every joint supplies...in parenthesises...Paul adds "errr supplies when they are working properly."Before I get to that consider this.
Before the industrial revolution no one could imagine breaking down all aspects of the production of one item into a loop round a building or factory. Before that everybody built everything from start to finish.

Before corporation culture really got its act together nobody could have dreamed that one bunch of folk...be it 50,100,1000....all streamlined so that every one of their functions worked seamlessly to the end of a set of products or services....could be SO MUCH GREATER then the sum of all its parts. When you are dealing with a corporation and brand you are dealing with something with a force and momentum about it that can be both alarming and a real blessing....it's way beyond just a bunch of humans having coffee in a room!!!

Now anyone who knows me knows I will most often use the more negative effects of the industrialised world. But i want you to catch something. before these things really got up and running nobody could really imagine or dream that such things could happen.

Before this there was a smithy in a village with perhaps one or two master smiths and one or two apprentices for most things in an area that required making. To sit in a smithy and try to even imagine what we have now is virtually impossible.

So muse on that, then we'll move onto 1 Corinthians 12.
Up until now everybody thinks of this chapter in terms of Spiritfilled meetings....
But actually it's about "the administration God is raising up...suitable to the fulness of the times"......that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known NOW through the church to the principalities and powers.

See.....everything we have now....which is pretty darned impressive...ofcourse apart from the fact that everything has been co opted by the devil and freemasonry into a web or basket shape of interwoven "control" under the auspices of the hidden council of 300...using front organisation after front organisation to disguse the fact that Macdonalds and BASF are equally managed up top by the same few individuals,,,,,

but on the positive side....everything we have now is built using people who "aren't working properly"....well according to Paul's definition.

To work properly
each individual has to be experiencing being born again,
out of the shame dogging everybody since Genesis 3
rooted and grounded in the grace of Christ
each one knowing the veil is rent and that we all have a completely clear relationship with our Father through Jesus Christ our Brother
that we have all moved way beyond leftbrain locked systems of the world
into the whole of our being now switched back on again in Christ by the Spirit....
both our authentic natural giftings, and those more freaky supernatural ones God chooses to ping out of us......

Nobody anywhere has any real clue of what the Body living in this state 24 hours a day ....sharing the living Christ in all forms at all levels would be like....
But try this...
The blessings of business are shared. Even those weak among us are strong in Christ. People are always giving. There's no reserve about popping in and out of houses...nobody has anything to hide....and if they still have stuff....someone somewhere will feel to impart something.
people with big houses wont be like at present...
vast vacant lots of grass and courtyards...with 2 or 3 people rattling around all this space....big rooms will be filled with loads of people happy to see one another...and actually....mostly laughing.

A lot of us have had downpayments of this stuff....

But do you realise that at present if Christ gets shared...only about 2 or 3 minutes of one leader's preaching may really carry any anointing that does anything in the Spirit. So people have driven all that way to be together....and very little actual Christ stuff has happened.
But a gathering of "properlyworking" Christ conscious ones, all giving as the Spirit shows.....well we can't really imagine it...
~Cos if we think of brickies building a house...there's usually only one two or three building a layer all round....

The Christ building....each brick that gets put in place starts building other bricks...it's all hugely exponential.
But your average vicar/pastor/priest....actually blocks Jesus Christ...
so what should be a house building itself...
resembles the speed of a slowly dripping tap in one tiny corner of the kitchen.

Can you see how different our existence on earth should be...we are like in that smithy at the moment.....nobody can imagine what an Earth of "properly working joints" would even look like!
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Tim Kraft Powerful post Chris Welch!
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Edie Chill I agree Tim. Til we ALL come to the measure of the stature of Christ. In the beginning we were without form and void, now Christ is being formed IN US and all the parts are being fitly joined together.
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Chris Welch One of the reasons "we don't work" very well....and here I talk of many on Facebook....and I refer to being sidelined in the greater field of things....is precisely because "we are starting to work properly".

You see, yes, many Christians believe in Christ, but as Darren Hufford points out....in their daily lives they are practical atheists....and they dovetail perfectly into the world system of shame based relating....and pyramids of fear and control....much disguised ofcourse as I said earlier.
But if we are of Christ Himself we come up from underneath.
Jesus used to formalise this by saying....don't go straight to the high table....in case you get put on one of the lower tables....let yourself be discovered and you will rise to where you really should be...but it will be based on reality and not on the world's odd systems of family caste and false hype.
In the end you have to make a covenant with reality and not with sham and figleaves. This has enormous implications in how we live all of life.
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Edie Chill Chris, What I hear you saying is......................Rest..............&..............Allow

Kim Black Chris Welch, That is beautiful.

No matter what we see, Christ has already won. Yes, make a covenant with reality now. As you say, doing so will have enormous implications in how you live all of life beginning right now.
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Chris Welch Kim it's a funny old game this Body building lark.
You see there SIMPLY IS NO COPYRIIGHT ON Deep calls to DEEP
or Psalm 19.....their words go out but none is heard audibly....etc
Day to day pours forth speech....

Now as it happens generally speaking the things revealed DO BELONG to the People of God....

and God does nothing without first telling the prophets...

But hey....if the prophets aren't listening as Rick Joyner doesn't seem to be....certainly as far as thirdlevel Christianity goes anyway....or the covert plans of the enemy....

well there's no copyright...
so God just speaks to the next ragamuffin bunch who are listening.

That's why we must never be like the disciples and say...hey....such and such are not with us and they are saying God's stuff....go right in there Jesus and stop them....

But ofcourse He says the opposite....no one who is not against Me will not be for Me....

So that shows you how nebulous the building is organisationally...
The Body is literally jouned by that which every joint supplies....now where that joint is currently may not be orthodox.

We see God's heart when He announces to the angels
"Hey the sons of the Kingdom aren't interested in the wedding feast invitations....go out therefore into the highways byways fields and gutters or underpasses....AND COMPEL THEM TO COME IN

so all of a sudden Fred the dropout is feeling compelling messages from the Sky via Psalm 19.....the day is dripping with speech....and it can't be the alcohol because he finished the bottle ages ago!!!!
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Chris Welch By the way Kim...thx for asking
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Kim Black Chris Welch, Ragamuffin bunch. Lol. I'm feelin' that.
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Edie Chill Chris......................You have a great way to express truth!
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So finally to get a better context for "working properly" read these three chapters at one sitting, then if you like them download the Mirror version of the letters of the new testament done by Francois DuToit and now available as a book or on Kindle on Amazon.

LETTER TO THE EPHESIANS
CHAPTER 1
1:1 Paul, employed by the delightful resolve of God and commissioned to represent Jesus
Christ to the saints in Ephesus; also to every believer in Christ Jesus.
1:2 I greet you with the grace and peace that proceed from God the Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ.
1:3 Let’s celebrate God! He has lavished every blessing heaven has upon us in Christ!
1:4 He associated us in Christ before the fall of the world! Jesus is God's mind made up
about us! He always knew in his love that he would present us again face to face before him
in blameless innocence. (The implications of the fall are completely cancelled out, katabalo -
“to fall away, to put in a lower place,” instead of themelios - “foundation” see 2:20 - Thus
translated “the fall of the world” instead of “the foundation of the world.” God found us in
Christ before he lost us in Adam!)
1:5 He is the architect of our design; his heart dream realized our coming of age in Christ.
(Adoption here is not what it means in our Western society, it is a coming of age, like the
typical Jewish Barmitsva. See Gal.4:1-6 “…and to seal our sonship the spirit of his son echoes
Abba Father in our hearts.”. Greek, huiothesia).
1:6 His grace-plan is to be celebrated: he greatly endeared us and highly favored us in
Christ; his love for his Son is his love for us.
1:7 Since we are (fully represented) in him, his blood is the ransom that secures our
redemption. His forgiving us our sins measures the wealth of his grace.
1:8 This grace shown towards us communicates a wisdom and discernment of our worth
that completely surpasses any definition.
1:9 The secret is out! His cherished love-dream now unfolds in front of our very eyes.
1:10 In the economy (oikonomia) of the fullness of time, everything culminates in Christ; all
that is in heaven and all that is on earth is reconciled in him. (Phillips, “All human history
shall be consummated in Christ, everything that exists in heaven or earth shall find its
perfection and fulfillment in him.” Knox, “All that is in heaven, all that is on earth, summed
up in him!”)
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1:11 This is how we fit into God's picture, Christ is the measure of our portion, we are in
him; invented and defined in him. God's blueprint intention is on exhibition in us, everything
he accomplishes is inspired by the energy and intent of his affection. (See Romans 8:29 “He
engineered us from the start to fit the mould of sonship and likeness according to the exact
blueprint of his design. We see the original and intended shape of our lives preserved in his
Son; he is the firstborn from the same womb that reveals our genesis. He confirms that we
are the invention of God.”)
1:12 It was our initial privilege (as Jews) to cherish the Messianic hope; our lives in Christ
were destined to promote the celebration of his glorious plan with man (doxa, intention,
opinion.).
1:13 Now you (Gentiles) also have discovered yourselves to be equally included in him
having witnessed the unveiled logic of God. (The Word of truth, alethea, from a + lanthano,
not hidden) What exciting news! Your salvation is publicly announced. Consistent with the
promise of God, the Holy Spirit gives guarantee to the fact of your faith, like the stamp of a
signet ring that certifies a document. You are in him!
1:14 The Holy Spirit is our tangible link (title deed) to the inheritance that was ransomed
and preserved for us. God's glorious plan for man is the theme of our celebration.
(Guarantee, or earnest, arabon a Hebrew word, to braid, two parties intertwine by giving
something as surety and pledge. The pledge represents the full transaction. The legal
document or title deed represents the complete value of the transaction. Like a wedding ring
represents the marriage.)
1:15 I am sure you can appreciate how the news of your faith and love greatly inspires me.
1:16 I am so happy for you; my thoughts and prayers are full of you.
1:17 I desire that you will draw directly from the source; that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory ignites the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in you in the
unveiling of his Master Plan (his intent, doxa glory.) I desire that you know by revelation
what he has known about you all along!
1:18 I pray that your thoughts will be flooded with light and inspired insight; that you will
clearly picture his intent in identifying you in him so that you may know how precious you
are to him. The saints are his treasure and the glorious trophy of his portion! (We are God's
assets and the measure of his wealth!)
1:19 I pray that you will understand beyond all comparison the magnitude of his mighty
power towards us who believe. Faith reveals how enormously advantaged we are in Christ.
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1:20 It is the same dynamic energy that he unleashed in Christ when he raised him from
the dead and forever established him in the power of his own right hand in the realm of the
heavens.
1:21 Infinitely above all the combined forces of rule, authority, dominion or governments;
he is ranked superior to any name that could ever be given to anyone of this age or any age
still to come in the eternal future.
1:22 I want you to see this: he subjected all these powers under his feet. He towers head
and shoulders above everything. He is the head,
1:23 the church (his redeemed image and likeness in man) is his body. The completeness of
his being that fills all in all resides in us! God cannot make himself more visible or exhibit
himself more accurately.
CHAPTER 2
2:1 Picture where God found us, we were in a death trap of an inferior lifestyle, constantly
living below the blueprint measure of our lives. (Sin, hamartia, ha + meros, without our
allotted portion)
2:2 We were all part of a common pattern, swept along under a powerful invisible
influence; a spirit- energy that adopted us as sons to its dictate through unbelief.
2:3 Throughout that time everyone of us were warped and corrupted in our conduct
snared in a jumble of forbidden lusts; driven by the desires of the senses, totally engaged in
an expression of life ruled by mind games; it was as if a twisted passion parented a universal
breed of people.
2:4 None of this could distract from the extravagant love of God; he continued to love us
with the exact same intensity.
2:5 This is how grace rescued us: sin left us dead towards God, like spiritual corpses; then
comes the resurrection of Christ; in that moment, he simultaneously co-quickened us
together with Christ. (Exactly as Hosea prophesied it 800 BC) While sin proved how dead we
then were, grace reveals how alive we now are. Even when we were dead in our trespasses,
he made us alive together with him, and raised us up together with him. (God saw us in
Christ in his death and resurrection before we saw ourselves there! Hosea 6:2 declares our
co-resurrection with Christ before anyone but God believed it!)
2:6 (As much as we were co-included in his death,) we are co-included in his resurrection.
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We are also elevated in his ascension to be equally welcome in the throne room of the
heavenly realm where we are seated together with him in his executive authority. We are
fully represented in Christ Jesus.
2:7 (In a single triumphant act of righteousness God saved us from the guttermost to the
uttermost. Here we are now, revealed in Christ in the highest possible position of bliss! If
man's sad history could not distract from the extravagant love of God,) imagine how God is
now able for timeless perpetuity (the eternal future) to exhibit the trophy of the wealth of
his grace demonstrated in his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. Grace exhibits excessive
evidence of the success of the cross.
2:8 Your salvation is not a reward for good behaviour! It was a grace thing from start to
finish; you had no hand in it. Even the gift to believe simply reflects his faith! (You did not
invent faith; it was God's faith to begin with! It is from faith to faith, Rom 1:17 He is both the
source and conclusion of faith, Heb 12:2)
2:9 If this could be accomplished through any action of yours then there would be ground
for boasting.
2:10 We are engineered by his design; he moulded and manufactured us in Christ. We are
his workmanship, his poetry. (God finds inspired expression of Christ in us. Greek, poeima,)
We are fully fit to do good, equipped to give attractive evidence of his likeness in us in
everything we do. (God has done everything possible to find spontaneous and effortless
expression of his character in us in our everyday lifestyle. Greek, proetoimatso, God has
prepared a highway for us to lead us out like kings, just like it was in Oriental custom, where
people would go before a king to level the roads to make it possible for the king to journey
with ease and comfort. Isa 40:3-5)
2:11 Remember where you came from; (not only were you spiritually dead but) it wasn't
long ago when you were still classified as non-Jewish, judging on the surface you had
nothing that linked you to them. They sneered at you because you didn’t share their
distinguishing mark of circumcision, which was their claim to fame!
2:12 During that time you were distanced from the Messianic hope; you had nothing in
common with Israel; you felt foreign to the covenants of prophetic promise, living a life with
nothing to look forward to in a world where God seemed absent.
2:13 But now, wow! Everything has changed; you have discovered yourselves to be located
in Christ. What once seemed so distant is now so near; his blood reveals your redeemed
innocence and authentic value.
2:14 It is in him that we are one and at peace with everyone; he dissolved every definition
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of division.
2:15 In his incarnation, he rendered the entire Jewish system of ceremonial laws and
regulations useless as a measure to justify human life and conduct. In that he died
humanity’s death all ground for tension and hostility was entirely removed. The peace he
proclaims reveals one new human race, created and defined in Christ, instead of two groups
of people separated by their ethnic identity and differences.
2:16 Both parties are fully represented and reconciled to God in one human body through
the cross. He reinstated the former harmony; all opposing elements were thus utterly
defeated.
2:17 On that basis he made his public appearance, proclaiming the good news of peace to
universal mankind; both those who felt left out in the cold, (as far as the promises and
covenants were concerned,) as well as to those who were near all along, (because of their
Jewish identity.)
2:18 Because of Christ both Jew and Gentile now enjoy equal access to the Father in one
Spirit.
2:19 The conclusion is clear, you are no longer frowned upon as a foreigner; you are where
you belong and part of an intimate family where no-one is suspicious or inferior.
2:20 Your lives now give visible definition to the spiritual structure, having been built into it
by God upon the foundation that the prophets and apostles proclaimed. The first evidence
of this building was Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. (He is the first visible
testimony to the restored image and likeness of God in human form.)
2:21 In him everyone of us are like living Lego blocks fitted together of the same fabric
(conversation), giving ever increasing articulation to a mobile sanctuary intertwined in the
Lord.
2:22 In him you are co-constructed together as God's permanent spiritual residence. You
are God’s address!
CHAPTER 3
3:1 My ministry is not measured by the size of my cell, I am confined by his grace; Christ
Jesus is the prison keeper; you are why I am here. (Grace measures my ministry; this cell
cannot hide my message from you!)
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3:2 (I may be hidden away in a prison, but my ministry is not.) It is common knowledge that
I have been entrusted with a message that reveals how included you Gentiles are in the
grace gift of God.
3:3 You must have heard how this mystery was revealed to me, in a dramatic disclosure
that broke the silence of a long kept secret. I have previously written briefly about this.
3:4 In reading these words you will perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ. (Insight,
understanding, sunesis, a joining together like two streams)
3:5 In no previous generation has there been a more comprehensive and detailed
understanding (of the full consequence of grace) as it has now been uncovered in the Spirit
to his ambassadors who brought the prophetic promise into full view! Mankind (the sons of
men) may now realise that the prophetic word is fulfilled in them! Everything the prophets
saw is now declared! Both the prophets (who saw this in advance) and the apostles (who
now proclaim this) are sanctioned in Christ.
3:6 The essence of what I see reveals the fact that the multitude of humanity are joint
participants in the same inheritance (together with Israel), we are all part of one and the
same body in Christ. The Good news is that God's promise is equally relevant and applicable
to all.
3:7 This Gospel defines my ministry; I am supercharged by the gift of his grace!
3:8 I am the lowest ranked saint by far. (My claim to fame emphasizes the fact that grace is
a gift and certainly not a reward for good behavior.) His grace alone qualifies me to declare
this unexplored treasure of Christ in the nations.
3:9 The mandate of my message is to make all men see. The unveiling of this eternal secret
is to bring into public view an association that has always been hidden in God; Jesus Christ is
the blueprint of creation.
3:10 Every invisible authority and government in the arena of the heavenlies is now
confronted with the display of the wisdom of God. The church acts like a prism that
disperses the varied magnitude of God in human form.
3:11 Jesus Christ our Boss and Owner gives definition to God’s timeless pre-determined
thought ( pro-thesis ).
3:12 His faith in us gives our lives integrity. We echo and articulate the original
conversation publicly. (In him we express ourselves freely and openly) He is our platform to a
global audience.
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3:13 You have no reason to feel embarrassed or responsible because of what I am
suffering; rather feel honoured!
3:14 Overwhelmed by what grace communicates, I bow my knees in awe before the Father.
3:15 Every family in heaven and on earth originate in him; he remains the authentic and
original identity of every nation.
3:16 I desire for you to realise what the Father has given you from his own limitless
resources, so that you may be dynamically reinforced in your inner being by the Spirit of
God.
3:17 This will impact your faith with capacity to fully grasp the reality of the indwelling
Christ. You are rooted and founded in Love. Love is your invisible inner source just like the
root system of a tree and the foundation of a building. (The dimension of your inner person
exceeds any other measure that could possibly define you. “The Holy Spirit becomes to me
what he was to Jesus, the very life of my personality” - Andrew Murray).
3:18 This is your reservoir of super human strength which causes you as saints to
collectively grasp (come to terms with, make one’s own, empowered to comprehend) the
limitless extent of his love in breadth, in length, in height (rank), and the extremities of its
depths. (See John 1:12)
3:19 I desire for you to become intimately acquainted with the love of Christ on the
deepest possible level; far beyond the reach of a mere academic, intellectual grasp. Within
the scope of this equation God finds the ultimate expression of himself in you (so that you
may be filled with all the fullness of God).
3:20 We celebrate him who super charges us powerfully from within. Our biggest request
or most amazing dream cannot match the extravagant proportion of his thoughts towards
us.
3:21 He owns the applause displayed in the church (his redeemed image and likeness),
confirmed in Christ Jesus. The encore continues throughout every generation, not only of
this age but also of the countless ages to come. Amen!

Tear Fund Trip

Tear Fund have put together a kind of competition for Christian bloggers. The three "chosen ones" will go out to their Cambodian region and blog back live on their findings. The trip is in March.
 But first WHO ARE TEAR FUND?
TEAR or The Evangelical Association Relief fund can be found at  www.tearfund.org
History
1960s
World Refugee Year (1960) inspires compassionate Christians to send gifts to the Evangelical Alliance. The terrible 1968 famine in Biafra, caused by civil war in Nigeria, prompts the public launch of the fund under the leadership of George Hoffman. The Evangelical Alliance Relief (TEAR) Fund is born. Cliff Richard gives his first fundraising concert for the cause in the Royal Albert Hall in 1969.
1970s
Tearfund expands. Supporters can give £5 per month to sponsor children in Bangladesh, providing food, healthcare and education through Christian projects. We launch a youth and student programme to inspire young people to radical discipleship. Tearcraft begins providing dignified employment for thousands of skilled workers, selling craft in the UK.
1980s
The decade of Live Aid, war in Ethiopia, turmoil in Eastern Europe. In 1980 Tearfund sends its own medical team in to work in refugee camps in Somalia. Ten million face starvation in Ethiopia, and 1985 sees the biggest charity single and event ever: Band Aid. Tearfund starts a regular giving programme for long-term support for development programmes.
1990s
Civil unrest in the Balkans, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. In 1993 Tearfund celebrates its 25th anniversary with an award-winning edition of ‘Songs of Praise’. In 1994 Tearfund launches a massive appeal and relief response following the Rwandan genocide. Tearfund focuses on world debt as a founder-member of the Jubilee 2000 movement. Hurricane Mitch devastates Central America (1998) and Tearfund joins the Disasters Emergency Committee of relief agencies to appeal for funds.
2000s
The dawn of a new millennium sees severe floods in Africa and South Asia, while conflict intensifies hardships caused by drought in Afghanistan. The Jubilee 2000 campaign achieves qualified success. In 2003, brutal conflict erupts in Darfur. The following year, a tsunami strikes 13 countries in Asia, one of the deadliest disasters in recorded history.

In 2005, as a leading member of the Make Poverty History coalition, Tearfund sees the UK church mobilsed as never before to speak against injustice. Food crises, civil war and political oppression pose new challenges for Tearfund partners and relief teams in Africa, while development efforts continue.

Meanwhile, floods in Asia and a shattering earthquake in Haiti mark the start of a new decade, and the impact of climate change is increasingly felt by the world’s most vulnerable people…
- See more at: http://www.tearfund.org/en/about_us/history/#sthash.qw2ox0OJ.dpuf



Conversation with Nick Roberts of Tear Fund
I've been wanting to bounce some things off Nick for a few months but this was a good excuse to nip round the corner and nab some of his time. Nick works in computing and admin for Tear Fund at their London Teddington Headquarters. His son grew up with my son in the same classes at school, but since leaving for another school in Portsmouth we as parents don't get to see each other.

I wanted to explain to Nick what my interest was and to ask a few searching questions about how Tear Fund are getting on.

I reminded Nick of my background. So in writing this I will embellish this conversation with some of what I have already said to Nick over the years so readers can get a fuller picture of my intents.

Some months ago, I realised I have a very similar background to Fritz Springmeier who has , as many people know on the net, been led to expose a lot of the hidden background knowledge as to who really controls things and how things are really run  behind a kind of smokescreen of what we are led to believe are the public infrastructures.

Fritz was called into this work as a born again Christian, and has effectively put his life on the line, having been imprisoned for his exposing work. Now Fritz himself doesn't come from nowhere spiritually. Both Fritz and myself have Dads that have been quite influential in their ways in charity and humanitarian work.
My Dad with my Mum taught Kofi Annan and other key Ghanaian people in Mfantsipim , Gold Coast in the 50s. He then received an MBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace a few years ago for decades of charity work both in Chesham area, but also in setting up Labaid (labaid.org)25 years ago in his retirement.

Fritz's Dad  set up Boys Towns in several places where underprivileged youngsters could be trained and kept off the streets in order that they be then able to take part in society. Springmeier senior elicited the support of schools like our Amersham junior School to raise funds and help with his humanitarian work.

Both Fritz and I, I suppose came to  "see through" the work our fathers were doing, as good as it was,and be forced to face the deeper issues of what really is at the root of the poverty problem. Both Fritz and I found the Lord as young men.   Fritz, quite naturally seems to be a "son of Issachar". I am not like that.That is, like Barry Smith,Chuck Missler, Grant Jeffrey and many other Christian authors, he has toured conferences warning of the Antichristian plans for world takeover. These type of folk have the abilty, unlike most of the rest of us, to see something we all think is quite innocent, and recognise it as a "cover" for something altogether different. We ofcourse, regard such people as highly paranoid, but in truth, like Dietrich Bonhoeffer's first sermon in 1933, they have this uncanny ability to pinpoint the equivalent of the rise of Hitler years before we even understand what Fluoride Toothpaste is all about!!!

Basically the humanitarian work our fathers were doing was like using a sticking plaster on a broken leg. It takes no account of man's need of personal salvation, nor at the macro level of how the world system is geared at a fundamental level according to  the claim of Psalm 2.
Why are the [a]nations in an uproar
And the peoples devising a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth take their stand
And the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and against His [b]Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us tear their fetters apart
And cast away their cords from us!”
Just how literal this is through the use of secret organisations infiltrating everything we regard as normal, is still absolutely unperceived by most Christians and Christian organisations.

I explained to Nick for example how as fast as Tear Fund are putting efforts into Sudan they should realise the whole thing is at least at one level a cover for these four things. Three are known in the satirical press, and the fourth is known by "sons of issachar" types. (A non born again "son of Issachar" is David Icke, but as I say, people come out of the womb with these characteristics.)
1. To create an obedient political puppet regime in Sudan out of all this conflict and destabilization
2. Sudan is just about the last bank Rothschild doesn't own. (You see now the Game Monopoly was a hidden warning)
3. Sudan and the middle east have to be made ready and compliant for the new oil pipeline feed to offset the onesided power and wealth obtained by the present Russian European pipeline. (source...English tuning client who is designing the pipeline)
4. "Whenever the Lights go out in a place...have you noticed there are less Christians when the lights are turned back on again."  Through secret manipulative organisations creating this strife, the aim all along was to destroy the lives of thousands more Christians.

All this is presented to us as natural, random foment and strife, and ofcourse charity organisations are quick to do their best to bring remedy. This is good and proper, but in general, charities, still operate in the fog of naivety that most non Christians and Christians operate in.

As an aside here, remember that in the first ever "Christian organisation", Judas, the very central Treasurer to the whole thing, turned out to be crooked, and if that wasn't enough, WAS PART OF THE CONSPIRACY TO KILL JESUS.

So what's Jesus saying in that? Well, it's not that He didn't warn us. He says in the New Testament two notable things leading up to the events at Jerusalem.
He said "If the light that is in you turns out to be Darkness, how great is the Darkness?"
Also it was written, Jesus did not join Himself to any of them for He knew what was in them. Most Christians are still working that one out.

So with this background, and also that as a Piano Business we have run our own Charity for 20 years called Christian Supplies Trust( UK reg Charity 1028509), I asked Nick what he felt was Tear Fund's aim.

He replied very definitely that unlike the many other aid organisations, Tear Fund had the love of God, and the need for personal salvation in its mix, but viewed both as integral to the other.

We then discussed for a while the nature of parachurch organisations and the aim to work closely with churches on the ground.  I was really heartened to note how much has changed in the world since I first learned of Tear Fund through Amersham Old Town Baptist Church in the 70s. The fact is, explained Nick,that it is now generally the poorest regions of the earth who have the largest active church communities.
He said this had changed completely since the early days of Tear Fund. Such churches were becoming the outreach hubs for their work.

I shared that I had observed that God keeps a complete vision in the Earth, even if at present it is a fractured view. What I mean by this is that God has placed a complete testimony of Himself in the Earth and in time to come this will be fully manifest according to Paul's words in Ephesians3.

"to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, 9 and to [e]bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things; 10 so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places."
This manifold wisdom is being displayed today....it's just it's more hidden.

Every single "spiritual system", "proper working" is actually intact in the Body of Christ across the earth today, and also embedded right across the gamut of non Christians too, as God's people also.

Here are two areas which describe what I mean.

For the last decades churches in their immaturity have tended to squeeze out and exclude two main operations of the Spirit of God:
Evangelism
Helping Others...or Practical Love.

NOW GOD won't and doesn't stand for this , so while the church is still growing up out of its nappies according to the three stages of growth in 1 John 2, he raises up PARACHURCH operations to stand in the gap.
For evangelism read: TL OSBORNE, LUIS PALAU,MORRIS CERULLO, RHEINHARD BONNKE, ARTHUR BLESSITT,DAVID HATHAWAY many many other lesser known and completely unknown ones.
For organisations read : YWAM, OPERATION MOBILISATION , WEC(Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade) and so on.

For Aid read YWAM Mercy Ministries, OM, Tear Fund, Oasis Trust and on and on.

Rightfully Nick was sharing that more and more, the local churches were picking up the ball all over the world, and that Tear Fund were increasingly dovetailing their activities into these local hubs.

So then I thought I'd flat out present my case for the Cambodian trip to Nick in terms that readers of this blog will understand. Namely that I am anxious to view their operation with third level eyes. How does aid work in third level Christianity? We have the Acts model ofcourse, and in fact in the end the early church had to raise up some hedges around the apostles who were beginning to have all their time consumed in aid administration, for which reason the Spirit indicated they should appoint Stephen, leaving themselves free to devote themselves to imparting Word.
Notice, in the Bible, unlike many of today's quiet but helpful aid givers, Acts shows us that Stephen was well able to deliver HIGH VOLTAGE WORD when called upon....and it so moved the hearers, that those with hard hearts immediately took up stones.

I described today's "model" or "system" for aid work was based around the current idea of a church.
So pretty soon networks of pretty uninfiltratable churches are set up where as St Paul described of the immature Corinthians...I am of Apollos, Peter or Paul etc.

The "product" we are selling for nothing (Isaiah 55) is more than forgiveness for sins, and being born again.
It is more than receiving an infilling of the Spirit, where we run pretty much the same pastor pyramid as before, but now on Spirit steroids.
No, the product in Acts was more like the Parable of the Virgins....not just immediate oil...but oil you've been down the shops for. NOT by DOING THINGS to GAIN something....ie...a WORKS thing.
Like Galatians...you begin in the Spirit but you now seek to finish in the flesh according to fleshly effort.

How much of the drive for charity and Aid work is coming out of this pressure? Because we haven't been down the Spirit supply house with the whole of our being, getting the whole of us looked at under the Spirit microscope....not by our effort, but as the Spirit leads us.

The product that we have comes up with the GOODS.
Abraham had to believe against belief for Isaac. Nothing else would do. For in Isaac were all his descendants named. Isaac himself was the self reproducing seed.

Because churches are little more than human fabrications, human nissan huts made allbeit of living Spirit filled Christians...they don't produce after their own kind, and we are forced to bolster our efforts with more systems. But the gospel works....
One Sergei Kourdakov (early Russian emigre early 70s)
One Watchman Nee
One Smith Wigglesworth
One Rheinhard Bonnke
One Morris Cerullo
One Corrie Ten Boom
One Mother Basilea Schlink
One pastor Wurmbrand and so on

In other words just one mature third level Father stage (1 John 2) Christian is all a locality needs to come alive in God.

I felt to share with Nick again how we come into faith. Faith for the stupidly big things.See, it's not our faith. It's the faith of the Son of God. (Literal wording in Greek of Galations 2:20)
Faith , Romans 10:17 says, comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
Faith doesn't come DIRECT. It's two stage.
Access to the Word of God creates not natural hearing with two flappy natural ears...but it creates a spiritual hearing...it digs out a cavity within us which has this new capacity to hear the Son of God direct. His own faith gives us the stupid drive to believe for unheard of things
like Noah, for a boat, when it had never even rained and there weren't any seas....
like Abraham for sons that would bless the whole earth etc etc.

I reminded Nick of how both Rheinhard Bonnke and Bryn Jones had shared a room at Rees Howells Bible College. Bonnke most people still know of, Bryn was used to raise up nearly half the network of current new churches in the UK in the 70s, and Rees Howells was in Spirit training for decades to smash all 3 Dictators in the War by the Word of faith pronounced "foolishly" 3 years before the end of the War, and which the newspapers went to town on.

What is the likelihood that such a three should be in so great proximity? Very high!! because Jesus says where the dead body is...look at all the carrion circling suddenly? It's instinct.

And where the Death and resurrection of the Body of Jesus is rightfully celebrated in a genuine Spirit way, so the same thing happens over and over....all sort of Divine connection and propagation.

Just as in the natural a huge percentage of fruitfulness and food for the nations comes from the seemingly random and rather erratic form of propagation  by pollination and bees...so it is in the Spirit.

So what is the Tear Fund Plan? I plan to probe them.Do charities share all their skills, their knowhow in development basics? The pitfalls. The best equipment?


Nick and I didn't say today what I have begun sharing in the past. I am fascinated by developments in science and how these things can help. Both my parents were physics teachers.
I am fascinated by futurist podcasts. Using www.player.fm to access The Future and You podcast with Stephen Ewin Cobb.
The wealth of Development Knowledge that even comes through business programmes which are also freely available podcasts....In Business with Peter Day on Radio 4.
I have around 1400 mainly Christian people on Facebook who all share the latest buzz on things. Ofcourse some is not so useful, but so much is incredibly useful. All my blog posts are broadcast to all these folk should they choose to read them, and my blog itself coincidentally has a current average of 14,000 hits per month.
How about the Water Filtration Bag charity?
http://www.purehydration.com/natural-disaster-charity-receives-welcome-boost-with-water-purification-bags/#.UshwR3DYQ7I

In America, as Patriots seem to be preparing for a coming clash over their right to have weapons...(something UK people cannot get their head round)....there are many spinoffs which relate directly to Survivalist Issues worldwide.
For example, two things came my way on Facebook. Both of which were cheap ways of creating what would cost thousands if bought from commercial companies.

DIY build instructions for solar panel installations costing only a few hundred. How that would change things in a settlement in Africa!!!
DIY build instructions for creating hydroponic/aquaponic installations. These are the newly extrapolated systems whereby people can create sealed unit mini eco systems as they have developed for use in spaceships and on other planets. Using fish, which poo,which fertilise all the plants you'd ever need to eat, which oxygenate the air, which produces the water cycle which returns to the pond for the fish to swim in.
This breeds fish for protein and all the fresh vegatation for carbs and vegetables for vitamins. PURE GENIUS and you only add 10% or 20% of water to top up every so often. That beats all the long journeys made to wells in Africa eh?  This is MAGIC stuff.

When I was in Kenya in 86, I was at a youth conference (not a speaker, but an observer) I got to know a Finnish thirdleveller. He was quite apostolic and came out of the Finnish apostolic tradition I believe...but in those still early days of Spirit filled Christianity in Kenya, I noted how the Holy Spirit had snuck him in as a missionary, but fully funded as a Finnish Water Development expert. Subconsciously I had learned a pattern here, of how God can use a tentmaking skill, particularly in the developing World, of Knowhow in Practical development skilling.

Revelation 12 :13  and Development Aid13 And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.
This is a strange verse which the Holy Spirit continues to unpack, but one of the meanings best describes what Nick and I were talking about. You see as fast as Christians come up with God solutions by faith....a kind of new manchild....new manifestation of  Jesus in some new helpful form to give succour and help and deliver folk....at the point of birth the devil is there to try and snatch the whole system.

He's not a creator. He's a thief. He steals God systems. He tries to snatch them to make them his own.
This is incredibly relevant to the work of God in all its forms.

We see this process again in the parable of the Farmer, where the enemy comes and floods his field with bad seed no sooner than good seed has been sown. All this is actually the wisdom of God. but that doesn't make it less dangerous. God USES this to make His Seed strong....but that doesn't mean people DON'T DIE en route. Sergei Kourdakov may have escaped Russia in 72, but as he warned us, that didn't mean the KGB weren't still after him. He was "suicided" it is now believed a few months later in Canada.

We have already seen how the devil used "his agent" in Judas among Jesus and his band.
We've seen how he used the love of the saints in Acts to set up a kind of dependency in the people which began to put huge strain on the saints and their supply. This was an early example of dependency culture.

But what about schools and hospitals? The devil has stolen the whole hospital system and made it his field of commerce instead of compassion.
He stole education from the early monks. Oxford , Cambridge and Harvard itself which was actually evangelical...all stolen to purvey the false bubble of the secular and atheist viewpoint.

He stole the Methodist Class system and made it Communist cells, and Freemasonry and secret society structures.

He stole Jesuitry and made it a force for evil. The templars and the crusades were total manipulation to sellChristianity down the river.
He stole the Jewish "power to make wealth" and is holding the whole earth to ransom by those who "say they are Jews but are not".
He stole the Boys brigade, which itself was a God system in answer to the extremes of city poverty and poor parenting, and using Baden Powell via Kitchener (both pedophiles; Queen Victoria would not let Baden Powell back in England while she was alive) and scouting was formed in direct opposition to the evangelical drive in Boys Brigade.
He stole both Jewish and Christian seminaries. He positioned his men as double dealers in both seminaries. The Jews were told to forget the Torah and learn the Talmud. Christians were taught higher criticism.

Early missionaries to Africa happened to report gold. Satan raised up slavery in those precise places.

In the precise areas that Paul raised up churches, Satan fought long and hard that nobody should learn of his legacy. Some of the last of the line were the Armenians who were slaughtered in 1915.

All unknown in our modern "random" secular story of history, the real story of the Balkans is one of peoples fleeing Catholic control systems....even defecting to Moslem areas rather than defer.

Christian movements like Wesleyanism which brought national fruit were targeted so heavily that when I was brought up, Methodism was possibly one of the most liberal denominations. Staggeringly, Baptists in the UK were more open to the current move of the Spirit than Pentecostals themselves were. The devil hit Wales hard in the aftermath of the Revival.

The Northern and Southern Ireland struggles were largely orchestrated by their Lodges, which were both controlled by the same Luciferian rulers, so when Clinton's time to call a halt in the 90s, all the pyramid chiefs had to say was "Stop" and both sides miraculously stopped fighting. This was around the time of the early announcement in 1991 of the New World Order by Bush.

All Christian Development Agencies suffer the same attacks. Where goodness and Good seed is preached, a Dragon is poised to try and pounce on the seed. We are truly in a spiritual war, but Springmeier has woken us up to the fact that it isn't quite as purely spiritual as we thought.

Cambodia was one such pawn in the middle.

Pol Pot,Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Hitler all had pretty much the same modus operandi.
They all received their training in Terror and Mind Control in Europe, which is why the patterns in their control techniques are pretty identical the deeper you look.

The aim of  pushing into nations is always the same, from the French Revolution onwards.

1. To destabilise
2. To terrorise
3. For monetary gain by usurping a nation's resources and from weapons and armaments
4. To destroy faith in God and make God look an impotent laughing stock
5. That the many millions who die be a blood sacrifice to their dear Satan.

St Paul and Peter stated some surprising things.
Paul expected the Corinthians to grow up and RULE as if this was normal...Would that you were Kings (In your area)
Peter in 1 Peter2:12 writes  having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection. NASB writes visitation.
so revival or visitation is pretty much inevitable????!!!

Ed Miller by the Spirit orchestrated 5 revivals every decade from the 1950s onwards. Now others speak of "revival meetings" and every so often one of these may actually be one....but Ed Miller meant a revival in the sense of the spontaneous combustion of Wales or the Hebrides or Indonesia.

In 1986 God showed me a picture of some natives gazing skyward at a big white metallic bird and asked me "What's the difference between the natives' observation of a plane and of those in say America?"
I answered, " About 80 years'  knowhow."
"Exactly. At the moment you look skyward in the same way regarding revival, but I am going to teach you the ways of continuous revival."

And beginning with Bonnke perhaps, and then the 90s national and continental intercession, and prayer warfare over cities, God has in fact been opening a door. But some of the rest is in the three levels of the gospel in 1 John 2 that is not yet common knowledge.

Other strategies that none of us could foresee in 1972 when I was converted
was sattellite TV
and this very internet, including blogging and Facebook and Twitter.

The Ephesians Church formula is this
and it applies equally to imparting Christ to each other as it does of practical help and supply, and if that was really so in Tear Fund, and not just a stated policy to impress people, then I'd certainly have fun reporting any signs of that on this blog.....

anyhow the formula we have been learning together on Facebook....

The Formula
14 [g]As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness [h]indeceitful scheming; 15 but [i]speaking the truth in love, [j]we are to grow up in all aspectsinto Him who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together [k]by what every joint supplies, according to the [l]proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

• not children anymore.....not 1st and 2nd levellers which currently most Christians are

• not carried around by this years' latest trend...why...because we have our own "spiritual hearing unit fully installed"

• how? by speaking truth to each other. Some is good nice stuff about being raised with Christ...other truth is OUCH truth about where I am still squiffy in my "seeing"

• growing up in all aspects...not just SOME...

• into who? the Pyramid apostle head?(I don't believe in human pyramids) Terry Virgo? Hillsongs Brian Houston? No....Jesus Himself. And if it is genuine Jesus stuff it has to be my Jesus, your Jesus, his Jesus and her Jesus...the same Jesus. You can't have a personal Jesus, who is just your own personal imagining.

• the body is only held together by Christ stuff which each and every joint supplies...but it says they will only supply Christ stuff when each joint is working properly....and you can only be working properly when you are really spontaneously you...and not you pretending to be Billy Graham or Mother Teresa...it has to be Jesus-You as in Galatians 2:20.

• Working properly in a lot of missionary sermons is a euphemism for applying loads of pressure about what we OUGHT to be doing....helping people, evangelising people,giving more money.Working properly in the New Testament, simply means...functioning properly. You can't function properly until you know as consciousness from the inside of you, that you are Christ as you, in your form. You can't be Jesus Christ of Nazareth, because His bodily form has transferred to the right hand of God, but His very same life lives in you as you, in your personality in your body, as the unique creation that He made you. When you know that, rivers of Living Water flow from you because they are just His Life doing what comes natural. It's very like riding a bike or speaking in tongues. You can think about the theory of bike riding all week long...but you won't get the feel of balance until you do it. You can pray all you like for the gift of tongues but nothing happens until those lips open.

Finally a note for Tear Fund themselves in answer to their own specific questionTell us why you want to accept this challenge and help us hit the target in a blog post, a video, audio, and anything else you can think of?
My strength has been in communicating all over the world to a people at a particular stage of their Christian walk, and wondering as all the supports are being taken away, what on earth is God doing.
If you follow the Index at the bottom of the blog to Elaine Waterfield or Nya Suna you will see somebody who , if I was an organisation, might say..."we have sent her out"...but it was the Spirit who has sent her out, and God who keeps her alive. If I say lots of support has come through me and my friends of the blog, I'd be speaking untruth....but she is still alive, the testimonies show how much she has achieved as just one person doing what God says, and at least some of the bigger donations have come through exposure on my blog.

I'm up for the challenge of raising 60 people to donate a small regular sum....but my factfinding mission to Cambodia would be nothing less than trying to assemble some ideas for turning round situations all over the world. In fact I really like the thought that came today, which is so absurd, it could be God.

Which is  BEGIN by TURNING the poorest nation on earth round, just to show what God can do:
BURKINA FASO! I'm not sure it is the poorest now, since one of our friends found gold there and has begun setting up mines. Sadly, this is probably yet more exploitation by white folk. I'm not interested in that pattern at all.