“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” (Ephesians 6:18)
Brethren, we have to step up a little bit higher and begin to reach out to others. Some people believe, because of our wrong teaching, that the minister who stands at the pulpit is supposed to be the one who takes care of the whole flock. No, no. He cannot! Each individual can do only so much and no more. But do you know what God is asking for? Let me give you an example:
I go to bed at night and God sometimes comes to me and brings somebody to mind for me to pray for. Somebody who might live way across the sea. I remember one day, God brought a man to me, to my prayers, that I had never met before. He said, “Pray for him,” and gave me his name. I saw the man kneeling and praying and weeping. I was aware of the fact that he was a minister. The Lord said, “He is in a great distress and is calling to me for some financial help. He lives in South America and I require you to pray.” He also asked me, “Do you want his telephone number?” I said, “No, Lord, this is enough. I have his name.” I am sorry now that I didn’t take the number. My duty then was to rise up against satanic forces that were coming against this man and stop them from doing their evil work on his mind and in his life. I prayed for him and rebuked the devil. I commanded the deliverance until I felt that it was done. I want you to know that as I began to pray for him, he became a part of me. I didn’t know him, but he was my brother in the Lord. Then, about a year or more later I sat at a table in a restaurant in Minneapolis and somebody introduced me to a brother. This brother began to talk, kind of derogatory, about a man who was working with him and he mentioned the name of the brother God told me to pray for. I asked, “What, do you know him?” He replied, “Yes, he was working with me, and so, and so.” He began to tell me a little bit about him. I said, “Where was this that you were involved with this man?” He told me it was in South America. Right away then I understood the function of God. It’s over all barriers, time and space. I tried to find out more, but he cut me off. He wouldn’t tell me anything else. But, I had already prayed for him and I know that God had reached out to him.
A couple of weeks ago I was getting up out of my sleep and the Lord spoke in my ear certain things concerning a certain individual I knew when he was a little boy. He is a grown man now, but we have been cut off from him. Do you think that was going to stop me from ministering to him? Oh, no! I immediately got on the computer and wrote him a letter. I told him exactly what God said and what he should do. He was in a situation where he was asking God whether he should marry this particular sister or not and God said, “Yes, it is I, go right ahead.” This is what I had seen in a vision. I didn’t know what the situation was, but I knew I was right, because God is never wrong. I, then, sent him the letter, not caring whether he loved me or not for that is not the point. That is none of my business. My business is to shepherd my Father’s children! And my Father’s children are in trouble everywhere. The Father says, “I am the good shepherd,” and I am the companion brother, the friend of the good shepherd. I am also a good shepherd, not a bad one, because I have been made a good shepherd by the Good Shepherd.
Let us, therefore, consider our ways and start caring for our brethren whether we know them or not. And let us “watch thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.”
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