Operation Global Rain » 2007

This is incredibly wonderful!!!!

Wow, the SDA denomination is finally addressing our desperate need of the indwelling of Holy Spirit, so that we will be able reflect the character of Jesus Christ consistantly to all those we meet daily. This is the true gospel. Christ has said I am the way the truth and the light, no man comes to the Father except through me. My Father’s house is a house of prayer, as well as Do you not know that your body is the temple of Holy Spirit. What an incredible promise, that as we come to him confessing and turning away from our sin, He promises to dwell within us giving us His power by the indwelling of His Holy Spirit. Not by might nor by power but by My Spirit thus saith the Lord. When we as a body of believers truly accept and practice these simple truths the blessing of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit will come without fail. He has been waiting too long.

Question.

I would just like to know if any other denominations have been approached about this. Sure 16 million praying for one thing at the same time is cool, but imagine two billion doing it.

why 10 days?

As I listened to the interview on 3ABN, I was impressed that this is God’s doing and wanting of us. But, I can’t stop wondering why 10 days of prayer instead of seven. My mind keeps going back to the story of the Israelites marching around the walls once everyday for six days and seven times on the seventh day. Are we not going in prayer that the walls of sin that separate us from God, to fall. But also, the coming of the promised land? I’m not a pastor or a bible scholar, so please correct me if I’m wrong in my thinking.

Thank You

The work is to believe on the One sent (John 6:29)

This movement awes and gives me chills. The implications are last generation ones.

Moreover, if the emphasis would be “sanctification of the congregation” then that will be even a better sign (instead of going out to get busy working as often has been the case assuming that activity is the main condition.) But it’s clear from putting Latter Rain passages together, that righteousness of the congregation is the main condition for the latter rain and then asking for it. (Joel 2:15-24, Zech. 10:1, for example).

Certainly, witnessing work shouldn’t be neglected for that is a segment of character maturing along with prayer, Bible study, and fellowship, but witnessing work of itself is not identified as the condition for the Latter Rain.

Witness work of the gospel is the central condition for the event taking place after the outpouring, which we all know is the coming of Christ (Matt. 24:14), but poor humans without the extraordinary 2nd Pentecost power will never get ahead of Satan’s control of the populations. This outpouring will be upon all flesh (Joel 2:28) to rescue the multitude which no one can number.

In Jesus, brother Ken Davis

Impressive 3ABN Today Interview. Can we get a copy?

I saw the hour long 3ABN Today interview - on Sunday morning Feb 25 about the project of joining in unified prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It was so impressive! I want a copy of the program on DVD to share and post. Could you put it on this website? At the end of the program I turned the TV off and knelt in a deep prayer of confession, submission and claiming of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. This has been on my heart as a 2007 new year’s resolution. I shared my resolution prayer in the prayer requests catagory. May God bless and pour out His Holy Spirit on all who will just ask and hang on until He blesses!

Latter Rain

”Ask ye the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showeres of rain.” “He will cause to come down for you the rain the fromer rain, and the latter rain.”

”Only those who are living up to the light they have will receive greater light. Unless we are daily advancing in the exemplification of the active Christian virtues, we shall not recognize the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in the latter rain. It may be falling on hearts all around us, but we shall not discern or receive it. TM507.

Pray this Prayer of Resolution…

I’m “getting it” - that I naturally tend to wallow in an unclean house of personal pleasure rather than rise to serve in a purified temple of the Most High Creator God.

The oxymoron is that I want to clean house but I don’t want to clean house. I have to admit I do NOT have the power. The best I can do is focus on God’s glory and ask Him to change my natural tendencies and clean me up so He can fill me up with His Holy Spirit.

“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple.” 1 Cor 3:16, 17 NIV

This Prayer of Resolution is my request. Would you pray for me and for all those who join together in Operation Global Rain?

—– PRAYER OF RESOLUTION —–

To focus on His “absolute yes list“ -
His righteousness and power in the law (Old Testament) and the testimony (New Testament) with all our hearts, with all our minds, with all our souls and with all our might!
To bury our self reliance in the dust (die to self) believing in the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ’s story and what He does for us.
To admit that our “lips are unclean and we come from an unclean people“ like Isaiah when he was gifted the vision that began his prophetic ministry. May the angel come with a coal and touch it to our lips.
To let go of anything on His ”absolute no list” – that which God lays out before us that keeps us from praising Him and doing His will.
To claim the promises of the outpouring of His Holy Spirit. Let it rain! If we ask in one accord He promises to pour out this blessing!
To hold on without letting go, insisting the Lord bless us like Jacob when he wrestled all night and cried, “I will not let go until you bless me Lord!”
To answer, “I will Lord, I will“ like Isaiah when God asks, “Who will go and give this message?”

The Message of the Latter Rain

In an article entitled “Christ and Nicodemus” (ST, April 18, 1900), Ellen White wrote:

The brazen serpent was uplifted in the wilderness that those who looked in faith might be made whole. In like manner God sends a restoring, healing message to men, calling upon them to look away from man and earthly things, and place their trust in God. That brazen serpent uplifted in the wilderness was a symbol of Christ. The faith which the believing Israelites exercised as they looked at it, we must exercise as we look to Christ. With the same simplicity sinners must receive the Saviour; for He alone can save from sin. He is our ransom…

Today God has given to men the truth with power. He has opened His Word to those who are searching and praying for light. But when these messengers [my note: is she referring to Jones and Waggoner here?] gave the truth they had received to the people, many were as unbelieving as were some of the Israelites. Today many are caviling over the truth brought to them by humble messengers. How can this message be truth? they question. How is it possible that by looking to Jesus, and believing in His imputed righteousness, I can gain eternal life? Those who have thus refused to see the truth do not realize that it is God with whom they are in controversy, that in refusing the message sent them, they are refusing Christ.

God designs that the message of redemption shall come to His people as the latter rain; for they are fast losing their connection with God…. [my emphasis]

As we search the Scriptures, the character of Christ will appear in its infinite perfection. He is the One in whom our hopes of eternal life are centered. He is eternal life to all who will eat His flesh and drink His blood. Those who look to Him may be healed of the serpent’s sting. By beholding Him, we may become changed into the same image. Faith, love, and holiness will grow in the soul. “This is life eternal,” Christ said, “that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.” When we realize the value of this knowledge, these glorious truths will glow in our hearts, tremble upon our lips, and pervade our whole being.

She also said, at least as early as 1897, that we are living in the time of the latter rain - so that’s at least 110 years, if not rapidly approaching 120! (See her article “Pray for the Latter Rain,” The Review and Herald, March 2, 1897).

May we all at this late day in earth’s history have an intelligent understanding of, and receive, the message of Christ and His righteousness (which Ellen White appears to be saying is the latter rain!). We are truly living in exciting times!

The Relationship Of The Latter Rain To The Laodicean Message

How thrilled I am to see that possibly now a grassroots movement in the church may actually be happening. I have been looking for it for some time. We must understand that this movement, when it happens will be directly related to the Laodicean message found in the 3^rd chapter of Revelation. In Testimonies Vol. 1 page 179 is an article entitled “The Shaking”. It pictures just such a movement among God’s people. It graphically depicts the intense struggle that God’s people will be going through as they earnestly seek Him in prayer. It tells of many among us who do not enter into that struggle and shows that their angel’s leave them to help those who are engaged in it. It finally pictures them gaining the victory and thence advancing as a well organized company, moving in exact order under the power of the Holy Spirit. Ellen asks what caused this to happen and is told by the angel that it was in response to the last gracious message given to us as a people, the Laodicean message. Read that article in Vol. 1 and the following article as well!

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