REIGNING AS KINGS IN THIS LIFE - PART II
SAY - MY NAME IS AHIEZER, JOASH, JEIEL, PELET, ISMAIAH, ABISHAI, SIBBECHAI, ELHANAN, JONATHAN SON OF SHIMEA.
‘If by the sin of one man, (Adam) death reigned as king through that one man, how MUCH MORE, shall they through an abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness REIGN AS KINGS IN THIS LIFE - through ONE MAN, JESUS CHRIST!’ (Romans 5:17)
‘What is man, that you are mindful of him -or the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou has made him a little lower than GOD (Elohim), and hast covered him with glory and honour’. Psalms 8:4,5
WHERE THE WORD OF A KING IS, THERE IS POWER: (Ecclesiastes 8:4)
‘And he (Christ) hath made US to be KINGS and priests unto God his Father; To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.’ (Revelation 1:6)
‘Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because AS HE IS - SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD’. (I John 4:17)
Last week,I used the ‘Words of a King’, and enjoyed tremendous victory in 2 important things - one was a pending storm..
That was not the first time that such a thing had happened..
SEAN AND STEPHEN and the STORM
In Manhattan in 1989, I was preparing to conduct a lengthy Bible class; (The last one to be held in NYC - as the founder of the ministry had died 4 years earlier, and the new leadership was collecting all copies of the class1. (Confiscating them, is a better word).
We used to use VHS tapes, a VCR machine, and a television to show the Class films. I had none of those devices, so a friend, Stephen, was to lend them to me.
Steve lived on West 22nd street and I lived on West 110th Street. So yet another friend, Sean, drove me that distance in his car to pick everything up. That day it happened to be raining cats and dogs..
I don’t recall praying about the rain. In the ministry, we all knew and believed our authority in Christ. So sometimes we professed our authority by ACTING upon it. That is, we were not ‘circumstance’ oriented. We walked by faith - not by sight. Our eyes were on the class schedule - not the rain.
We needed to get the class materials, so I got into Sean’s Toyota Corolla and we took 7th Avenue south to Steve’s apartment, with the windshield wipers flapping a mile a minute and a monsoon character to the rainfall. When we pulled up in front of Steve’s building and parked the car - the rain shut off like a faucet.
In his apartment, Steve and I loaded his expensive electronic equipment onto a rolling cart, a large television, VCR machine, and VHS tapes of the class, and rolled everything to the front door of the building, and out to the car. Not a drop of rain fell on anything.
Steve returned inside, Sean and I slammed his car doors shut and pulled away from the curb -, at which point the skies opened up and it rained cats and dogs all the way up 8th avenue to 110th Street.
At 354 West 110 street we pulled to the curb in front of my apartment building, and parked. The rain stopped like a faucet.
We emptied Sean’s car of the gear - loading it into the building. Not a drop fell on the Bible class tapes - or the equipment I’d be using to play the tapes. This sort of thing came to be routine. To this day, I never have questioned my authority in Christ Jesus - and have seen more miracles of this nature than you can shake a King’s Scepter at.
The great healer/evangelist - John Lake - had a teaching he called ‘REIGNING AS KINGS’, given in Portland Oregon, January 4th, 1931.
Lake wrote:
“The thing that was forfeited in the Garden was regained. God gave man dominion over the works of his hands. God made him His understudy, His king (KING) to rule over everything that had life. Man was Master..”
The globalist devils today are trying to cancel what God wrought with His man. They CAN’T strip us of our authority - so they ‘talk us out of it’. Or ‘bribe us out of it’. They claim that God’s earth is changing, His climate is changing, that earth cannot support us, or viruses that can kill are going to keep coming; that we need to kill all the cows, we need to eliminate 90% of earth’s people, we are helpless in the face of catastrophic events…
BS. They are of their father the devil - he is a liar and the father of it. Believe them not.
What did God say? - I have made you a little lower than me, to reign as KINGS and have dominion over the works of my hands..
Is the earth the work of His hands?
Is the weather the work of His hands?
Is the climate the work of His hands?
Are we living below par? Accepting lies that limit our authority?
Are you reigning today as a KING?
J.G. Lake said:
‘Man was made to be master; to live in the realm of God. He lived on terms of equality with God. God is a faith God. Man belongs to God’s class of being - man is a faith man, living in the creative realm of God. Friend - if you will believe what I am preaching, it’s going to end your impotence and weakness, and you will come out swinging into a power such as you have never known in your life’.
Friend - this is where life is worth living - wonderful even. Not in striving for wealth, or position, or stuff. Peter said to the man ‘Silver and Gold have I none, such as I have give I thee’.. then he spoke the words only and the man was healed. WONDERFUL!
Where have we missed it? I think we have missed it by wanting the silver more than the power. Or in wanting a ‘name for ourselves’, so that all of our ministering is to that end.. Where - Jesus made himself of ‘NO reputation’.
A cardinal in Rome once said to a visiting clergyman, “You see!” Gesticulating at the fabulous wealth that bedecked the vast halls of the Vatican “We don’t HAVE to say, ‘silver and gold have we none!” To which the visiting clergyman quietly replied - “But neither can you say, in the name of Jesus Christ - rise up and walk.”
There is that which no silver or gold can buy.
Spiritual power - and the authority of a King can do what no money on earth can. Can dollars raise the dead?
What sort of bargain has the Church struck with the devil, that they forfeited power for prosperity? She struck a deal with the spiritual mafia, that was never needed at all. The 501c3 gave a tax status to the churches, that the Constitution had already provided for.
With that bargain in place, the Church was not living in the realm of God in 2020, when some 600,000 clergymen closed up shop; and congregations donned masks because men told them they had to.
FRANCIS and CONNELLY MOFFETT
In the 1990s in Virginia, we knew a wonderful Godly couple, Francis and Connelly. They were already up in years when we all met in the Church where our 2 year old son was dedicated. Connelly got about with a cane, on wobbly legs, but I never met a man more solid in his faith.
When Nick was about 9 years old, the old couple took us to dinner one night at Olive Garden restaurant, and Connelly told us a story...
Seems he’d been at a Bible conference one time in the Midwest. The conference was held at a hotel that was simultaneously hosting a luciferian gathering. At one point, Connelly was on an elevator when a very tall warlock entered the car. On the man’s chest was a satanic symbol of some kind.. that Connelly found himself staring at. The man, noting the Bible under Connelly’s arm, knew which camp he belonged to and said to him arrogantly - ‘I HAVE more power than YOU!’ Resting his left hand on his cane, Connelly pointed his right hand at the warlock and said quietly, ‘The Lord Jesus Christ rebuke you’. The tall man set immediately to shaking violently. At his floor he exited the elevator and Connelly watched him jerking and shaking all the way down the hallway..
Lake said:
‘Brother, sister, if you have your redemption in Christ, it means for you that satan has been defeated; Jesus conquered the devil BEFORE he died. Then he let the devil conquer him on the cross, and send him down to the place of suffering with our burden and guilt upon him. But after Jesus satisfied the claims of justice, Jesus met the devil in his own throne room, and stripped him of his authority and dominion. When he arose the Lord said -
“I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold I am alive for evermore, Amen, and I have the keys of hell and death’. (Revelation 1:18)
He assigned us this authority, so why would we want to relinquish it?
Why do some call for crowd prayer on social media - as if there’s safety in numbers, rather than power in that name? Why?
Lake went on:
Jesus went into the throne room, took satan’s badge of dominion that Adam had given him, away from him. And every man that accepts Jesus Christ identified with Him when he did it. He died as our substitute; When he put his heel on satan’s neck, he did it for you; And to you who believe, satan is conquered. He can holler all he wants to, but you withstand him in the name of Jesus Christ.
I saw a a picture this morning.. I saw a company of men walk out, and I saw all the diseases and all the crimes and agonies, I saw cancers and tumors and tuberculosis and I saw a company of men and women walk down in the midst of it and I heard them say ‘HERE COMES THE SONS OF GOD. HERE COMES THE CONQUERORS.”
THEN John Lake added something remarkable.. I say remarkable, because I had only just read the same amazing record myself. Did you know that David’s men, who loved their king (David), went out and killed Giants -? They killed the sons and brothers of Goliath! - the giant that David had killed. (II Samuel 21:15 - 22)
Lake wrote:
I saw another picture - I saw David in the old cave of Adullam. I saw men coming to him that were broken and in distress and in debt and men that were in awful physical conditions; And they gathered four hundred strong around David; and out of that miserable crowd, David developed and trained the most invincible army that was ever seen. I saw from that company mighty men come forth -
I saw one man go where there were thousands and thousands of Philistines, men that were shoulders above him, men that wore shields. I saw that man go among those giants and he slew hundreds of them.
Every one of those mighty men of David were simple men of extraordinary ability. There was no mark to indicate that they were more than common Jews.. but they knocked down men that TOWERED over them.
They conquered them because they were blood covenant men.
David’s men were a TYPE of the Church of Jesus Christ.
Lake wrote:
‘WHERE ARE GOD’S MIGHTY MEN TODAY? MY GOD MY GOD WHERE ARE THE MIGHTY MEN OF VALOR TODAY? THE MEN THAT CAN ASSAIL THE FORCES OF SATAN?
Lake said
‘Some of us have gone down the back stairs from the faith realm into the ‘reason realm.”
WHERE THE WORD OF A KING IS.. THERE IS POWER..
SAY THIS: I AM A KING. MY NAME IS AHIEZER, JOASH, JEIEL, PELET, ISMAIAH, ABISHAI, SIBBECHAI, ELHANAN, JONATHAN SON OF SHIMEA.
The family of Goliath are the globalists. Goliath is the devil.
David the KING (Jesus) destroyed the works of Goliath. (the devil)
His men who ‘LOVED THE KING” (the Church who loves the Lord) destroyed the family of the giant (the globalists).
For David and his men, this was a literal truth - but it represents US - The CHURCH of GOD; and our battle is SPIRITUAL.
WHEN THE SCRIPTURE SAYS - HE TEACHES MY HANDS TO WAR SO THAT A BOW OF STEEL IS BROKEN IN MINE ARMS - THAT’S a SPIRITUAL FACT!
BECAUSE OUR ENEMIES ARE SPIRITUAL;
BECAUSE THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE SPIRITUAL -
BECAUSE THE BATTLE IS SPIRITUAL.
AND OUR PRIMARY WEAPON - OUR OFFENSIVE WEAPON IS THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD. SILENCE IS NOT OF GOD.
OUR WEAPONS ARE MIGHTY! TO THE PULLING DOWN OF STRONGHOLDS!
BRETHREN.. DO YOU LOVE THE KING? THAT RECORD IS FOR US!! THE MEN THAT LOVED THE KING, AND KILLED GIANTS.. THAT’S YOU AND ME.
NOW THE LORD IS IN HEAVEN UNTIL THE RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS AND WE ARE HERE IN HIS STEAD - REIGNOMG IN LIFE AS KINGS; AND WHERE THE WORD OF A KING IS - THERE IS POWER!
Speak to the storms.
Speak to the clouds of dirty air - return them to the senders
Speak to the sicknesses.
Cast out demons.
TAKE NO PART WITH THE WORKS OF EVIL -RATHER EXPOSE THEM.
The time is short. THE KING is coming.
VJCB
I didn’t run the class again till years later when a friend provided me with a bootleg copy of the Bible class. Funny thing, every time I conduct the class for anyone, I see miracles. Could it be because the Word of God is not bound?