Obeying the whisperings of the holy ghost12/20/2023 Maybe it looks like coming up with a new business which demonstrates to the world how to take care of employees and generate wealth for the poor. Perhaps for you, it looks like raising a family that loves Jesus and knows the Bible like the back of their hand. But know that there is a cost! Your life, carrying this torch, will probably not look like Billy Graham’s life. Or, if you prefer, a torch aflame is held aloft for each of us to grasp. There is a mantle in the spirit now awaiting you, if you will reach out in faith and take it up. When these women and men pass on to their reward, it’s like Elijah passing his mantle to Elisha. By faith, let the shaking that’s happening in the earth today be a shaking in your own life. Make a fresh commitment today to believe that God will use you to lead others to Jesus and that the power of God will accompany His work through you. This is not about guilt it’s about allowing the goodness of God to transform every place in your life into a place of joy, peace, and satisfaction in Him. Examine your life, ask the Holy Spirit to convict you of any place where you’re stretching the truth, any place where you’re making excuses, any place that you’re flirting with sin and temptation. I challenge you in the name of Jesus to commit to radical purity, honesty, uprightness. Let it shake off complacency and deception. This is the challenge from the Holy Spirit today. A generation is everyone alive at a given moment, which means you are part of the new generation. God is raising up a generation of firebrands who will carry the torch of healing, evangelism, missionary work, purity, and love. The angrier the Enemy gets, the more we will be filled with the power and joy of the Holy Spirit. We know there will be greater persecution, a greater push for Jesus’ followers to make the tough decisions, yet the darker it seems, the brighter will Christ shine through us. The Kingdom of God will relentlessly advance and those of us who love Jesus will face greater pressure from unseen forces. Know this: things will get better and worse at the same time. You are, no doubt, hearing many prophetic words about what’s ahead. This is what the earth needs in the coming season. This is the life to which you and I are called. Not seeking a platform, not hungry for fame or glory, but passionate to glorify the One and see the lost awakened to who He is. Along the way leading people to Jesus and holding fast to the belief that healing, signs, and wonders will confirm the preaching of the Gospel. There is something uniquely powerful about someone who spends their life in relative obscurity, staying true to Scripture, quietly obeying the leading of the Holy Spirit, remaining true to their marriage vows, not cheating on their taxes, growing in love and character. Men and women like Bobby and Ronda spend their lives like the apostle Paul did, willingly and joyously in response to the love of God. He wasn’t alone, of course: there are many in our own movement who do the same, yet when a true elder such as Bobby leaves this earth, there is a shift. Alongside his wife Ronda, he was a missionary, running crusades in the Philippines for many years, seeing countless thousands come to faith in Jesus and many more miraculously healed. I consider Bobby part of the “old guard” of ministers who carried the flame of healing and evangelism for decades. Who will pick up the mantle that has been left behind? Why not you?Ī man named Bobby Martz, a man you may have never heard of, has died. A giant of the faith has passed on to his reward, silently and without fanfair.
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