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THE STAFF AND THE SWORD MINISTRY
JANUARY 12, 1988
JEREMIAH 9 :23,24
"THUS SAITH THE LORD, LET NOT THE WISE MAN GLORY IN HIS WISDOM, NEITHER LET THE MIGHTY MAN GLORY IN HIS MIGHT, LET NOT THE RICH MAN GLORY IN HIS RICHES. BUT LET HIM THAT GLORIETH GLORY IN THIS, THAT HE !NDERSTANDETH AND KNOWETH ME, THAT I AM LOVING KINDNESS, JUDGMENT AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE EARTH: FOR IN THESE THINGS I DELIGHT, SAITH THE LORD." CONCERNING THE EAST COAST PROPHETIC MISSION AND CONCERNING THE DECISION YOU ARE TO MAKE:
WE PLACE OUR FAITH IN CHRIST IN YOU TO DECIDE Directly after this page, you will find the regular newsletter which reports the January 1988 DECISION about the East Coast Trip - in essence its a no go'. We also have Jesus Word that re-schedules the East Coast Trip to now begin FEBRUARY 17, 1988. As a result of this, what we have before us all is a fresh 'Decision" - it appears the Lord is presented us with a 'second opportunity to decide'. I believe there is more to it than this. I began to write this newsletter Saturday January 9th and sought the Lord for a title, JESUS gave me Jeremiah 9:2. Using this as a title proved difficult, I ended up quoting the context or whole chapter of Jeremiah 9 with focus on verses 23, and 24. By Sunday January 10th I had typewritten over 13 pages; and Nancy-TONI is reading what I'd typed pointed out that the main point was vague. I agreed, and so Monday January 11th I started all over again dropping Jeremiah 9:2 as a title. I now condensed the report about the 'decision' this January 1988 and finished the report in 6 pages. On completing the 6th page(enclosed), we had to go out, for last week I was led to go see a Christian speaker named Steve Lightle and so we had tickets for a 6:30PM Monday January 11th dinner-lecture by Steve. Now we really enjoyed Steve Lightle's testimony, it affirmed so much to us of what Jesus had taught us and this brother in Christ was 'real and loving'. First off, Steve Lightle asked his wife Judy to give a testimony and tho shy she did share about a little plant she had bought in Hawaii a time back. She wanted to bring this plant back home, and did, but in a busy schedule it was overlooked and by the time she got to it, the plant was dried up, moldy and dead. Judy Lightle began to pray, sing and talk to the plant, and played "Chariots of Fire" to it every day, believing God would revive it -- she persisted, nothing happened. Months later, 9 months later they found the plant had three green sprouts - it had revived after 9 months of being dead. With God all things are possible, if you put your Faith in HIM! The point was simple, PERSIST in placing your Faith in Christ, PERSIST in praying, asking, and believe until the answer comes - then Praise God for the answer! Now when Steve Lightle began to give his testimony he shared that the Lord Jesus had given him a scripture for this evening JEREMIAH 9:23,24 -- I immediately quickened when he said that -- the same scripture Jesus gave me Saturday January 9th - well almost. THE PARTIAL: In the 6 pages reporting the January 1988 Decision(right after this page) after praying and working trying to bring focus to the central issues, I realized that as we had a PARTIAL DECISION, that also the Revelations were PARTIAL, just as the FUNDS were PARTIAL -we lacked what we needed to complete anything - almost everything. I concluded this the afternoon of January 11th - now the evening of January 11th as I listened to Steve Lightle I realized that even the scripture Jesus gave me was partial -- JEREMAIH 9:2 was JEREMAIH 9:23, 24. (Over)