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such a girl recently, unable to help her. But those we see set free are wonderfully changed and ever thankful. We praise God with them.
It has been a blessing to be part of a School of the Supernatural hosted by Elim church in Auckland. The main blessing for me has been ministering with other like-minded people from different churches around New Zealand. In recent months there has been an upsurge of interest in the supernatural, and I have been told that there are ‘at least eight’ similar Schools taking place independently of each other in Auckland alone! Such hunger is unprecedented, and we fully anticipate it to result in a flood of salvation, healing and deliverance.
‘New’ is the fingerprint of God
I cannot end without a brief comment on what the Lord is doing in Florida. While we personally haven’t visited the latest ‘outpouring’, many friends have, including those whose judgement I trust completely. All have been blessed and re-fired! I say this because some question whether this move is of God, because, they say, some of the doctrine is unsound. It probably is.
I don’t pretend that my own is perfect either! But speaking of false prophets, Jesus said, ‘By their fruit you will recognize them’ (Matthew 16:20). Not by their appearance, title, money, humour, power, eloquence or even doctrine! So I
ask, ‘What is the fruit?’ Are people being saved? Are the blind seeing? Are the broken-hearted finding healing? Are people being delivered of demons? (If so, it must be God, because a kingdom cannot be divided against itself). Are people falling in love with Jesus, and giving him the glory? Yes, there will be false prophets, and yes, there will be false miracles. But these will point AWAY from Jesus, not TOWARDS him.
John in his first epistle brings us back to the non-negotiables: ‘Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist--he denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also (1 John 2:22-23). ‘This is how you can recognize the Spirit
of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God’ (1 John 4:2). ‘If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God’ (1 John 4:15). Here is the bottom line. Jesus is the Christ, Jesus is the Son of God, and Jesus has come in the flesh. That is why, when Peter declared to Jesus that ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’ (Matthew 16:16), he was expressing these three irreducible truths that tell us what is of God, and what is not.
Why, then, do we see things like feathers, gold-dust, jewels and oil in the hands, when they don’t happen in Scripture? Why are people seeing angels, and ‘being caught up to heaven’ in ways that we don’t read about? Listen! Scripture itself shows us unequivocally that God is the God of the
new thing. Consistently, God does things that have never happened before. That is one of the major lessons of Scripture. In fact, since the devil is a copier not a creator, it is the devil who cannot do new things! He only has his usual old tricks! [John 10:10 tells us that he comes ONLY to steal, kill and destroy, not to do new things]. Therefore new things must be from God. ‘Behold, I make all things new!’ (Revelation 21:5) [The Greek word here means ‘new’, not ‘renewed’!]. This phrase can mean not only that God makes new things, but also that all new things are made by God! Creation was new; the flood was new (and will never be repeated); healing was new; prophecy was new; deliverance was new; the Cross was new, and will not be repeated either; the church was new; the baptism in the Holy Spirit
was new! We read about them as history, but when they first happened, they were brand new. When they first happened, they didn’t exist ‘in Scripture’ either!
Every move of God has brought a new thing, but some were convinced that that was the only new thing! When the next new thing came along, they resisted! If we want to keep up with the Spirit, we had better be ready to move! He is after all, the Wind.
We love you people, and thank you for your prayers.
Blessings
John & Bron
