A Cry for New Intimacy Between the Bride and the Spirit by Russell Durose
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By Russell Durose
And there was given to me a thorn in my flesh… 2 Corinthians 12. There are many schools of thought about what was Paul's thorn. What is clear is that it was a messenger of Satan. The purpose was so that he would not be conceited about his revelations in God. Paul wrote this to a people who were confused about an apparent contradiction in the life of Paul. He moved in great revelation and miraculous power. But it seems that he was buffeted violently by something, which threatened all what was revealed and the miracles. This something was a messenger from Satan. He was given permission by God to afflict Paul.
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And there was given to me a thorn in my flesh… 2 Corinthians 12.
There are many schools of thought about what was Paul's thorn. What is clear is that it was a messenger of Satan.
The purpose was so that he would not be conceited about his revelations in God.
Paul wrote this to a people who were confused about an apparent contradiction in the life of Paul. He moved in great revelation and miraculous power. But it seems that he was buffeted violently by something, which threatened all what was revealed and the miracles. This something was a messenger from Satan. He was given permission by God to afflict Paul.
There was a lesson to be learned. He could not rely on his revelation in God nor the miracle he performed to get success. He must never forget that it is only by Grace.
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And what that means is that he must live moment by moment depending on the enabling of God to keep going. At that level of ministry God must refine and cause us to walk humbly and dependent on Him alone.
For one reality we can be stood in God and for one attitude we can fall like Satan who fell like lightning. So who better to try Paul than he who was conceited and fell like lightning? And in resisting this fallen conceited being Paul could come into a greater realm of overcoming.
When God says that His Grace is sufficient He means that Paul needed to look to grace as his source of overcoming.
I write this message today as this is a personal message to demonstrate that today I am in the same place. The revelations and ministry come with a price and I'm feeling it today. I'm in a struggle. I am being sifted and Jesus has prayed for me that my faith not fail.
Would appreciate your prayers also.
Shalom.
Russell Durose
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Revelation 1 gives us an insight into this reality. When you consider the persecutions of the first apostles you see that what is happening today is not so developed in a concerted effort to persecute the Church, I think we are on the threshold of an end time persecution which shall fill the "cup of iniquity" of the whole world. This shall be pivotal for the end. This series which I started just after the new year has the motivation of preparing the saints for what is coming. What is coming can only be walked through when we are duly prepared in the Word and the Spirit.
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Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? Matthew 11:2 This chapter is so interesting when you examine the processes that John the Baptist was going through in prison, when he sent messengers to Jesus. This question in the title of this message means something has changed with John in his perception of Jesus, and his expectation of the Messiah. When you research how John recognizes Jesus, as the Messiah you have to go to John 1, to see what God said and revealed to him in the wilderness.
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The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Isaiah 40:3 KJV The call of John into the wilderness is a demarcation in forsaking family duty, what is expected and what the Law determines. John is the son of a priest. As sons, it is predetermined that they follow the course. The Scripture in Isaiah 40 represents some unheard of movement of the Lord. It represents an apparent break with conformity for the objective of bringing about the greatest prophetic task ever undertaken until Jesus.
