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LET JESUS CHRIST ARISE IN YOU!
Blessings Elder Brother Connor, my dear friend and fellow laborer in the Lord.
It is always nice to be inspired by you over the phone. I awoke this morning around 4 am and started to feel the prompting of the Lord Jesus our Messiah to write unto you the following letter. Because it has so much in it from the Lord, I am also going to put it on the Meet Ministries website (www.meet-intl-ministries.org) and send it to many around the world. May Jesus Christ arise!
We who are called and glorified wait His return with Power, Amen! For He has given us the Glory given Him. (Jn 17:22).
To those who are perfected in Jesus and of full age should have the witnesses of the Glory saying; "what manner of man is this?" (Lu 8:25) And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.
As you know, the body has many members and all do not have the same office. But to those who have the fullness of Jesus Christ in them have been given a great responsibility to manifest Jesus Christ; to the end that false prophets and apostles who are ministers of the devil, appearing as light and deceiving many are exposed. (2 Cor. 11:9-15).
I am in deep admiration for those who manifest the true Glory for they have paid a great price to be able to receive such honor as to suffer with Him! There are several brethren in India that I know and for sure there are many others around the world who bare the true Glory.
Jesus Christ is going to stand up in His Glory, amen! The world will truly see Him as He is in His chosen. (1John 3:1-3) We chatted a little about this on the phone, but it is so hard to express in words what I am feeling. Only I can write a bit about it. What I am writing is the heart of the message preached in India recently. Please read and pray carefully about the following scripture.
2Thessalonians 1:1-12 1881 RV Version.
1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; 2 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We are bound to give thanks to God alway for you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth; 4 so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure; 5 which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: 6 if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you, 7 and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power 8 in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus: 9 who shall suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day. 11 To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and every work of faith, with power; 12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Brother, for sure there are many among us (tares) who are spots and clouds without water. They believe they are saved, they look outwardly like they are saved, but when they speak there is no Glory (power) manifested. These are they who are worse off than when they were swept and cleaned. (Luke 11: 23-26). And what are the seven unclean spirits that enter in with the one that brought them?
1. Own Righteousness. Ro. 10:1-8; Mt. 5:17-20.
2. Vain Worship, not received by the Lord. Mt. 15:7-9
3. Form of Godliness, no power. 2 Tim. 3:1-17.
4. Thinking Gain is Godliness. 1 Tim 6:1-5.
5. Hate of the Brethren. 1Jn2:8-11.
6. Lust. Acts 20:25-35
7. Pride. 1Jn2:18-20
8. Spots. Jude 2-25
Many of these could have been saved! They repented and received the Holy Ghost (death and burial) but were not taught how to put on Jesus; that is, His word was not preached in the spirit so they could build on the foundation. The word of God never was formed in them which is the sword against the spirits of the devil. Swept and garnished but no word in them! Their blood will be on the hands of the hireling.
These that believe only will weep and wail and gnash their teeth when they MARVEL at the revelation of Jesus Christ in His own. They are left to witness it. They will know Him because they did believe our testimony but the porter (hireling preachers) never opened the door to them. (Jn 10:1-5) Our testimony is the spirit of prophesy. (Revelations 19:10). Jesus Christ in us reconciling the world unto Himself. Where are the preachers that will travail in pain to birth the saints? (Ga 4:19) My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you!
For sure it is the most difficult thing to save those that are full of religion! You can't talk to them, the Holy Ghost cannot give increase to them for they are worse off than when they first believed, vessels of hard clay. The devil and his ministers have filled them with RELIGIOUS SPIRITS.
Brother, we must minister in a way to cause those that have a little oil (the maimed and halt) to rise and trim their lamp so they can enter in! The Pharisees would not enter in themselves and they even shut up the kingdom to others. (Mt. 23:13). More than ever it is time to preach the true Gospel of Death Burial and Resurrection. (Romans 6: 1-11). Many are preaching death and burial, even the devil does this, but they cannot preach the resurrection (revelation) if they are not the Lords' and resurrected themselves with Him!
John 12:26
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father (Spirit) honor.
We must move past the preaching of the corner stone and teach how to build on It; That is on Jesus Christ! We are to be wise master builders, opening the revelation of the Glory of Jesus, exposing the false glory of those who say they are of Him but are not. Therefore, we must teach how to pray and demonstrate the power of it as Jesus did before His disciples. (Luke 11:1). Then the Spirit of God will rise in the churches and increase faith in the saints. He will impart desire in them to seek His daily bread (revelation of Himself and His Glory). They will then allow Him to form Himself in them.We must minister in the spirit of Jesus Christ who made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. (2Corinthians 3:6).
Brother, my heart is full as I write this letter to you weeping in my spirit that men would allow Jesus Christ to be LORD.
Christian Love.
Brother Strome
December 2nd 2006