Update, Jim Elliot, etc. "Revival kit" - "Revival please, Abba!"
Daniel Robbins
I am still waiting on God the "ultimate battle", and hence the "ultimate breakthrough, God willing. So, what is this "battle" anyway? It is a meeting - a VERY "loaded" meeting - which has been put off since 11(Nov)/9/2006 (which was my birthday!) It has been put off FOR A REASON - because, through the eyes of man, it "will" spell disaster for me, and everyone else involved. How limited the eyes of man are! God willing, I will get a phone call, arranging the long awaited meeting. Please pray it happens ASAP, and that God puts his enemies to shame with a mercy-miracle.
Now, 12/24/2006:
I had the meeting! I am still waiting for a decision from the people I met with, but the meeting has been held. Again, "the snare is broken, and we are escaped" - this battle is downhill from here, as far as I am concerned. That is not to say my faith is not being tested. Nothing could be further from the truth. But, listen, David had faith that Goliath was going down, I believe Daniel had faith he would come out of the den alive, and Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah had faith they would survive the furnace. So, "No worries!" Just faith, praise, and joy! "Praise ye the LORD! His mercy endures for ever and ever..."
Here is a "Revival kit". Please enjoy as God leads.
Love, in Christ,
Daniel
Listen to Jim's Sermons (you need real player, which can be downloaded at the site):
http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/docs/elliotsermons.html
* Note: When he prays, he uses what many would call "King James English" ;).
Look at Jim's journal:
http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/faq/20.htm
* Note: he spelled "there" "wrong" (he used the spelling "their", which technically means third person plural possessive ;)), and used the word OBDURATE. If ye want to look it up, go to www.webster.com. Here, in this journal, is Jim's most famous quote: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Then he quotes from the moral of the parable of the unfaithful steward! How applicable to my situation! It seems Jim saw himself a lot like I see myself - with nothing to lose, and knowing I will need friends in the days ahead, and therefore making as many friends as I can with what money I have on hand.
You know, I have been accused of being crazy, more of less, by some - because I regard not my stuff, or life. I wonder if people thought Jim was crazy. By the way, in case you are not aware, Jim Elliot went as a missionary to the "Auca" - or "Savage" - Indians in Columbia, and was martyred, along with him four friends, by them. It made breaking world news at the time. Oon January 30, 1956, Life magazine did a 10-page article on him and them.
http://www.life.com/Life/cover_search/view?coverkeyword=&startMonth=1&startYear=1956&endMonth=1&endYear=1956&pageNumber=1&indexNumber=3
*(Look in the top, right hand corner of the magazine)
Ye might want to do an internet search on it. Come to think of it, why do not I?...
... I did ;)
Plymouth Brethren article - BY FAR THE BEST! HOORAY FOR THE PLYMOUTH BRETHREN!
http://www.plymouthbrethren.org/page.php?page_id=545
The hymn Jim and his four comrades sang before they went into the "lion's den", which - for them - was mortal in the flesh, but utterly victorious in the Spirit:
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/e/r/wereston.htm
Here is the Wikipedia summary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Elliot
Here are Wiki "Jim quotes":
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jim_Elliot
Here are ones I really took to heart, and agree with:
"We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But we are "harmless," and therefore unharmed. We are spiritual pacifists, non-militants, conscientious objectors in this battle-to-the-death with principalities and powers in high places. Meekness must be had for contact with men, but brass, outspoken boldness is required to take part in the comradeship of the Cross. We are "sideliners" -- coaching and criticizing the real wrestlers while content to sit by and leave the enemies of God unchallenged. The world cannot hate us, we are too much like its own. Oh that God would make us dangerous!"
"Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God."
"In Touch"'s story of Jim:
http://www.intouch.org/myintouch/mighty/portraits/jim_elliot_213678.html
Time Magazine article:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,861902,00.html
Hyperhistory article:
http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b4jelliot6ra.htm
I also discovered this sermon by (ye guessed it) Spurgeon! "Abba! Give us ears to hear!"
http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=11413&commentView=itemComments
I furthermore discovered a "revival hymn", which blew me away (there is a song in the middle that ye may choose to skip - and some of this may be more "doctrinally perfect" than other parts, but I believe God would have me pass this on nevertheless. I do take exception to the brother who, with good intentions, said we should serve God, and not care wether we go to heaven or hell. Hey, sugar, I care! I am NOT going to hell, and I am very HAPPY about that FACT. I am also very HAPPY about the REWARDS that have been promised to ME! He was trying to encourage people away from selfishness, with is great, but he - in my opinion - ironically, "overcomensated", and started painting a picture that is not Scripturally accurate. People are warned in the Bible to "flee the wrath to come" - so, yes, we SHOULD reason with people according to the personal consequences of their choices. Nevertheless, I was blessed.
http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=11413&commentView=itemComments
Finally, a hymn taken from the "revival verse" of the Bible: Habakkuk 3:2 (http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Hab/Hab003.html#top):
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/r/e/revivetw.htm
Love,
Daniel
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