Let the Healer Speak

In January of this year I penned The United Pentecostal Church Needs a Healer. Amid the rumblings of a post Resolution 4 and fears of losing many good brethren from the UPCI this was sent around the world. Now some months later I am led to follow up and pray you will be blessed....rks

Something is happening in the United Pentecostal Church International!

The decision in Tampa sparked a change in many….

Some left or will leave over Tampa’s decision….

For others the decision will not be enough.....

A pendulum swings both ways……

Something has happened in the United Pentecostal Church!

Healers are rising to sound a clear sound in the pulpit….

Across the movement the Healer’s voice declares the Word of the Lord….

Recent Camp Meetings resonated with the sound of old fashioned preaching…..

A life of separation admonished ….

The crowds gladly received the Word…..

The Healer is speaking….

Something is happening in the United Pentecostal Church!

For too long sensational sermons dominated meetings….

Spin off preaching of Pentecostal pop culture media personalities became the norm….

Inspiration for some came from internet sermons sites….

The sensationalism wowed but with little heart change…

Current church trends were emulated…..

Relevant emergents endeavored to replace Paul’s admonition to Timothy…..

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

Preacher Man…Preach the Word….

The Word that exhorts and reproves and rebukes….

Sensationalized spin off sermons from media personalities are powerless, pitiful and weak….

People want exhortation and reproof and even longsuffering rebukes from the Word of God…

They know the difference…..

Preach the Word with a tear in your voice…..

People deserve more than harsh preaching….

More than empty words of a Pentecostal pop culture….

Give the people the Word with exhortations and reproving rebukes and exhortations in love and truth…..

Let the Healer speak….

Preacher Man, may every pulpit across America possess a healer……

Every God called preacher is a healer to the pulpit he fills….

The UPCI needs a Healer….

You Preacher Man are that Healer….

Preach the Word with exhortation and reproof and rebuke in love and doctrine…

You will heal the land….

Let the Healer speak!

If chosen to preach a youth rally…Preach the Word!

If blessed to preach a camp…..Preach the Word!

If speaking at a special conference…. Preach the Word!

If speaking at a General Conference…. Preach the Word with doctrine and truth and or rebukes in the right spirit…

The United Pentecostal Church knows the difference of anointed truth and imitated pop culture platitudes…..

Be a Healer Preacher Man….

Preach the Word that will heal a life….

Regardless the pulpit, offer truth and doctrine and exhortation and reproof and rebuke and exhortations in love….

Let the Healer speak….

Blessings....

rks

Simple Integrity

Tis 4 a.m. and sleep left hours ago.....

And I have wrestled with that thing called.....

Integrity.......

Oh not my own....

But rather the integrity of another...........

Wikepedia offered these thoughts.....

Integrity is the basing of one's actions on an internally consistent framework of principles. Depth of principles and adherence of each level to the next are key factors. One is said to have integrity to the extent that everything one does is derived from the same core set of values. While those values may change, it is their consistency with each other and with the person's actions that determine one's degree of integrity.

Integrity can be viewed as personal honesty, acting according to one's beliefs and values at all times. It can emphasize the "wholeness" or "intactness" of a moral stance or attitude. Relevant views of wholeness may also emphasize commitment and authenticity.

Integrity can be seen as a virtue in that accountability and moral responsibility are often indicated as necessary tools for maintaining consistency between one's actions and one's principles, methods and measures, especially when an expected result is incongruent with observed outcome.

The one overriding concept pounding in my spirit this early predawn morning....

Integrity comes out of the person....

It is either there or not...

There is not substitute for it....

There is no excuse for lack of it.......

Proverbs offered this to me this morning.....

The just man walketh in his integrity : his children are blessed after him. 11:3

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. 20:7

You have it or you do not...

This brings me to another conclusion....

If one is an adult and does not have it...

There is only one place to get it....

Therefore the pursuit of integrity rests completely upon every man...

We each choose to embrace it and walk in integrity...

Or we choose to neglect it and be destroyed by the lack thereof.....

Job's story began with an issue over his integrity...

It ended with his own words of declaration....

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity . 31:16

God's balance is always even....

God's side of the balance is constant...

The tale is told though when we place our integrity on the other side and truth is revealed in us.....

For truth is always revealed....

And integrity, or lack thereof....

Never kept secret....

Oh, one may hide it for a season....

But given time and chance.....

Every man will be placed on that balance and his integrity will be measured and revealed.......

And there is absolutely nothing anyone else can do about it....

A man measures up or he does not.....

The Psalmist spoke to my heart......

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; 25:21

And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity; 42:12

Integrity upholds and preserves....

In the grand scheme of life....

Little else matters....

Blessings...

rks