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Some Songs Of The Move Of The Spirit, Beginning Around 1948
How can we know anything about anythingTo try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible? NO! That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about. Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us? How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences? We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers. Why is that? How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read. Why is that? Same scientific facts. Different answers. Same Bible. Different answers. Why is that? The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible? How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible? How do we analyze what we have seen and read? How do we interpret what we have seen and read? We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly. An example might help. Question: Why do you believe in evolution? Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact. Question: Why do you believe your science teacher? Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read. Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice. If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts. When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from? There are three possibilities.
Question: Why do you believe in creation? Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him. See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved. In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same. Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us. The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan? The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know. Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me" The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem. Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God. How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32) "If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it" Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay. "[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31). "There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48) That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own. "When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19) Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true. In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations. They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him. The following song was one of many "received" in the Spirit back in 1949, "given" in the early beginnings of this present Move of the Spirit. For your spiritual enrichment.... submitted by Br. Terry Miller: GOD IS POURING OUT HIS SPIRIT ---------------------------------------------------- God is pouring out His Spirit, He hears the cry of longing hearts; To the ground once dry and barren, Resurrection life imparts. chorus: God is pouring out His Spirit, Showers are falling everywhere; But for mighty sweeping torrents, This would be our humble prayer. Now we know the water's troubled, Our God has surely heard our cry; Clouds of rain are now appearing, Filling all the earth and sky. Saints of God, now let us seek Him, Just pray till God shall have His way; Yield your spirit, soul and body, Hearken to His call today. - "Received" in '49 by Phyllis C. Spiers ANOTHER MOMENT IN TIME: CHURCH HISTORY. In these days, many things are being written about the early years of this Move of the Spirit, some of it fairly accurate and some of it not. I'm not a musician by any means, but music and singing was an important part of the early years, and still is. From the beginning of this outpouring many new songs were "given", which happens even today. Some are meant for only one particular meeting, but others are for time and probably some for eternity. Among those "received" in the early years some were choruses and others were ballads or hymns and even "singing the Scriptures", especially the Psalms. Some we still sing, a few are even part of our song book, others have found their way into the larger Christian community, but many are long forgotten, and a few are being rediscovered once again. In the latter classification, and among those "received" at North Battleford in 1948-49 was....
HAVE YOU BEEN IN THE GARDEN? =========================== Have you been in the garden with Jesus? Is your heart crushed with sorrow and pain? Are you willing to go one step farther, His fullness of blessing to gain? Chorus: Will you go one step farther with Jesus? Will you yield your all unto Him? It may cost you your friends, your life, your all; Will you go through the garden with Him? Have you yielded your all unto Jesus? Is your all on the altar now laid? Are you willing to say, "All the way Lord; I'll go through the garden today"? Have you come to the place on life's pathway When all things have been dimmed by your tears? Are you willing to look up to Jesus? He'll drive away all your fears. ................................................................................................................. A chorus also "received" at North Battleford in 1948-49 was...
O FOR A MIGHTY OUTPOURING! ========================= O for a mighty outpouring! Send it on every heart; O for the Holy Ghost stirring, In my hungry heart let it start. Purge away all that would hinder, Cause me to seek Thee afresh; Open the floodgates of heaven, Come, and Thy people now bless. .................................................................................................................. (Music is available in printed form for a.) HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE GARDEN?, b.) O FOR A MIGHTY OUTPOURING, and c.) GOD IS POURING OUT HIS SPIRIT (posted earlier). All were "received" at that time by Sis. Phyllis Spiers, who will be remembered by those who were there in the beginnings. She also received HE'S THE LORD OF GLORY, which has gone around the world, and is sung in many Christian circles even today:) HE'S THE LORD OF GLORY ===================== He's the Lord of Glory, He is the Great I AM, The Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and the End. His name is Wonderful, The Prince of Peace is He, The Everlasting Father, Throughout Eternity.
ANOTHER MOMENT IN TIME: CHURCH HISTORY submitted by Br. Terry Miller, a servant of the Church, which is His Body. Recently I posted the words of five songs "given" in the early days of the Outpouring of 1948-49, which many haven't heard before. Only the older Brethren seem to remember them. Several have emailed asking if printed music exists? Yes, music (not tapes) in printed form does exist, and I'll gladly mail photocopies on request to any of our singers/musicians who might like one. If you're interested in the words only, those have already been posted on the Global List. Music is available (words and music) for:
O FOR A MIGHTY OUTPOURING GOD IS POURING OUT HIS SPIRIT THIS IS THE PROMISE HAVE YOU BEEN IN THE GARDEN RAIN, RAIN, RAIN I've also posted the words for HE'S THE LORD OF GLORY, but I haven't yet located music for that one, but I hear it exists (so I'll keep researching). I have to chuckle that a guy who can't sing a note or read one either is gathering music!!! As dear Br. Whitter used to say, "God help us all." (smile) Blessings to all. Br. Terry Miller A servant of the Church, which is His Body. Author/Compiler Last updated: Aug, 2011 |
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