The UNIQUE FELLOWSHIP of CHRISTIANS

What Makes CHRISTIAN Fellowship 

DIFFERENT from other fellowships ?

An Object Lesson from a Teapot

KOINONIA ~  The UNIQUE Christian Fellowship

A WORLD of difference exists between “normal” fellowship and CHRISTIAN fellowship. One is rooted in humanism; the other is CHRIST-centered. One is formed in and by the world; the other is created in and by The HOLY SPIRIT.  

The Scriptures use the Greek word, Koinonia. It  is from a Greek root word that means a sharer, a partner, a participant. Christian fellowship, then, is that unique togetherness that is shared IN CHRIST and OF CHRIST and WITH CHRIST and BY CHRIST.

This kind of Scriptural fellowship we are exhorted to develop is totally oriented in CHRIST JESUS Himself+.

Contrary to common opinion, Christian fellowship is NOT doing:

·                    the same activities

·                    in the same way

·                    in the same place

·                    at the same time

·                    for a common cause

·                    with the same people

·                    and / or, with goods held in "common."

Many worldly organizations incorporate these very characteristics and their members consider themselves to have "fellowship" with each other.  

They may indeed have a fellowship... but they do not have that CHRIST-centered unique Fellowship that is referred to in Scriptures.

1 John 1:3

That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, SO THAT (Gk) ye also may have FELLOWSHIP WITH US; and TRULY our FELLOWSHIP is with The FATHER and with HIS SON+ JESUS CHRIST.

CHRISTIAN Fellowship will be found in the Church oriented in CHRIST JESUS, the one Apostolic, “Catholic,” Church out of every kindred, tongue, people, and nation …  the Church Without Borders, the Church Without Walls.

Here is an object lesson from 1 John, chapter 1 to illustrate this fundamental truth.

Imagine a two-burner hot plate.  Turn the burners on HIGH and make them bright red. That is our power.

Secondly, feature a teapot on each burner, with the SPOUTS facing each other, close together BUT NOT TOUCHING.   The handles are each turned outward. 

Thirdly, picture clouds of STEAM rising from the two close spouts of the teapots. ... two separate columns of STEAM.

Q # 1  What happens to those two steam clouds when the water boils,  if the two spouts facing each other, are very close together ?

 The columns of steam combine or blend into each other, making one steam cloud out of two.  

Q # 2  Where  (or after ) the steam clouds combine, can you tell or discern one cloud of steam from the other ? In other words, can you tell WHICH pot is producing WHICH particles of STEAM ?   

NO  

Q # 3  There is now ONE thing that forms a CONNECTION between the separate teapots as they continue to boil. What is it? 

The STEAM 

The STEAM one teapot produces is the SAME kind of STEAM as the other teapot produces and the two steam clouds combine, merging seamlessly into one cloud of steam. 

In this object lesson, these teapots are filled with Living Water... so

·  #4 WHO are the teapots ?  You and me

· #5 WHO is the burner ?  The LORD JESUS 

· #6  WHAT is the STEAM ?  The HOLY SPIRIT

Let's think about the Living Water.

 

John 7:38 

He that believeth on ME+, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall  flow  rivers of Living Water.

Q # 7  From where does this LIVING WATER emanate ?

It comes from JESUS the LORD, when HE+ is LORD of our lives.

Since this LIVING WATER comes from JESUS, there is a constant supply flowing into those vessels, those "teapots," who live for HIM+. Notice that to be "living," the water is not static but must be flowing --- in and out.

Q # 8  What will happen to the water in a teapot if it is not refilled and sits static for a period of time? 

It will evaporate and be gone.

Now, let's think about the STEAM .

Q # 9 Can the teapots do ANYTHING on their own to produce the steam ? Can they do anything other than to CONTAIN the Living Water ?  

NO

   

Q # 10  Where must the teapot BE to have its Living Water boil to produce the steam ?  

On the burner or connected to the power source.

Since this power source is JESUS, the power is never, ever turned off. HE+ is always burning red hot and always burning on HIGH.

Matthew 28:18

JESUS said, ALL authority is given unto ME+ in Heaven and in earth.

Since " I " am this vessel -- this teapot -- I have the free will to move myself off the hot burner at any point in time. I have the free will to dis-connect myself from the power source whenever I want. 

Q # 11  What happens to my Living Water when I go off the burner or dis-connect from the power source?  

It stops boiling.

Q # 12 What happens when the boiling ceases? 

The steam stops.

Q # 13 What will happen if I sit off the burner or stay dis-connected ?

The Living Water will eventually evaporate.

Q #14 When the STEAM stops, is there ANY WAY I can CONNECT to any of the other teapots ?  

NO

1 John 1:7

But if we walk in the Light, as HE+ is in the Light, we HAVE fellowship one with another, and the Blood of JESUS CHRIST HIS SON+ cleanseth us from all sin.

Christian Fellowship is not formed from a selection of teapots sitting together on a counter top. Christian Fellowship is not even created by a collection of teapots once filled with Living Water but now is static, having gone stagnant.

 

Luke 8:18

 Take heed therefore how ye hear; for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he SEEMETH to have. ( See also Luke 19, Mark 4, Matthew 13, Matthew 25 ) 

Christian FELLOWSHIP occurs when those teapots filled with Living Water stay connected to JESUS on the hot burner... a burner hot enough to change that water into STEAM. 

Through the unity of the HOLY SPIRIT is Christian fellowship formed... not by power nor by might, but by MY+ SPIRIT, saith The LORD.   

We cannot --- we simply are NOT able ­­­--- to produce Christian fellowship by our own efforts:  there is no STEAM to unite us. We do NOT have the ABILITY to make our own STEAM. 

Hear John 15:5 …

I+ am the Vine+, ye are the branches: He that abideth in ME+, and I+ in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without ME+ ye can do nothing.

We must be attached to the Source+ of Power, our LORD JESUS CHRIST, in order to produce the STEAM which creates Christian fellowship. WHY?  Because CHRISTIAN Fellowship is a fellowship of the SPIRIT, not a fellowship of common or shared human efforts or activities. 

As the Scripture teaches us truly in 1 John 1:3:

  

That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, SO THAT ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with The FATHER, and with HIS S0N+ JESUS CHRIST.

We might as well try to connect the cold teapots together by their handles and then try to "produce steam together" … if we try to produce fellowship WITHOUT EACH one of us staying lively on that hot burner, JESUS, our power source.

It simply cannot be done... not with teapots, not with Christian Fellowship.

·  Are you struggling hard to produce Fellowship ?

·  Are you on the Hot Burner ?

· Do you remove yourself from the Burner when the church meeting or cell group is over ?

If so... then the first step is to enter into FELLOWSHIP with JESUS .

This is easy. You do NOT have to labor at producing "fellowship," any more than the teapot "labors" to produce steam. You only have to stay attached to the Vine+, to stay connected to the Power Source, holding onto JESUS with all of your might. 

When you hold onto JESUS with all your might, 

HE+ will hold onto you... 

with ALL HIS+ MIGHT !

I John 1: 5-10

This then is the message which we have heard of HIM+, and declare unto you, that GOD is Light, and in HIM is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with HIM+, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

But if we walk in the Light, as HE is in the Light, we HAVE fellowship one with another, and the Blood of JESUS CHRIST HIS SON+ cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the Truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, HE+ is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make HIM+ a liar, and His+ Word is not in us.

CHRISTIAN Fellowship is Uniquely Formed

Christian Fellowship, then, is a fruit of our walk with JESUS.  We do not focus on making fellowship. Rather, we each focus on staying in un-broken fellowship with JESUS.

If there is no, little, or faulty Christian fellowship amidst the brethren, then we must FIRST FOCUS on the individuals' walk with CHRIST JESUS. When each person in the flock is growing in CHRIST --- no matter what their maturity level --- there will be the fruit of Christian fellowship growing also.

Now in 1 John, chapter 1, let us do a little statistical analysis of that chapter.

Out of those 10 verses dealing with Christian Fellowship, only two verses ( verse 3 and verse 7 ) discuss fellowship with one another within the Body of CHRIST. 

Thus, 80 % of that chapter deals with forming fellowship WITH the LORD.

That should tell us something about where our priorities ought to be when forming  "fellowship."  The majority of the flock's effort should be going towards staying attached to The VINE+, staying attached to JESUS.

That is the great responsibility when tending the flock: to see that each person is walking with JESUS, staying attached at the core to JESUS.

Problems in fellowship arise when one or two of the flock slide along, keeping a semblance of Christianity, but who have left their first love of CHRIST.

The Solution?  

Return unto the FIRST LOVE of The LORD. Seek HIS+ face when problems arise in the Fellowship.  The SPIRIT will be joined unto The SPIRIT when each person is “right” with GOD because there is no division when The SPIRIT meets Itself !  

The Invitation ~ ~ ~

Revelation 22:17

And the SPIRIT and the Bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the Water of Life freely.

Matthew 11:28-30

COME unto ME+, all ye that are heavy laden, and I+ will give you rest. Take MY+ yoke upon you and learn of ME+; for I+ am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For MY+ yoke is easy, and MY+ burden is light.

John 3:17

For GOD sent not HIS SON+ into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through HIM+ might be saved.

The UN-CLAIMED PROMISE

The Martyrdom of St. Timothy

Of more value than gold in the bank, the "Promises" from the Bible are well-known by most Christians. We have heard them proclaimed repeatedly whenever problems and troubles arise which plague the human heart.

Great they are, too, and exceedingly precious to the hearts of all Believers. They are TRUE words, as is the constant testimony for those who follow The LORD JESUS CHRIST, The Most Beloved SON+ forever.

These promises of GOD bolster our faith.

However, there is one UN-claimed Promise that no-one seems to claim for himself.

This one, UN-claimed Promise --- for those who recognize its worth --- is faith-stretching. It carries within its very essence the means for us, Followers of JESUS CHRIST to measure our walk.

Using this UN-claimed Promise, we can readily see the answers to these questions; 

·                     Are we truly attached to the TRUE VINE+ ? 

·                     Are we operating directly within HIS+ Will ?

·                     Are we compromising His+ Truth?

·                     Are we indulging ( and kidding ) ourselves in "friendship evangelism" and thus, hiding the TRUE LIGHT+ ... which is able to save souls ... under a bushel basket ?      

WHAT is this Precious, UN-claimed Promise, the one that is ASSUREDLY as PRECIOUS as all the other promises of GOD ?

It is the Promise that makes us all shudder, and hence, avoid it at all costs. 

Here it is:

"And indeed, all those desiring 

to live GODLY in CHRIST JESUS 

will be persecuted." 

2 Timothy 3:12, Jay P. Green's Greek Interlinear.

 A Peek At the Greek...

In English, "persecution" is commonly understood as life-threatening harrassment or imprisonment or torture.

In Greek and Hebrew, however, it has the BASIC meaning of being driven out.

"Persecution" in the New Testament stems from the root of two Greek words, one of which means "to flee" and the other one "to pursue." ( See 1375 and 1377 in Strong's Concordance. )

Interestingly enough, the ONLY time "persecution" in the New Testament comes from a different root word  is in Acts 11:19, and that word accurately means "tribulation." (See Strong's # 2347.)

"To chase out or pursue hotly after" is the consistent meaning of persecute / persecution in the Hebrew language ,with all word forms stemming from a Hebrew root word which means "to pursue."  (See Strong's, #7291 and Young's Concordance for persecution.) 

Now, then, herein lies a problem... a BIG problem.

No-one LIKES persecution and no-one WANTS it as a daily companion. No-one chooses to be persecuted !

Scripture indicates, however, that persecution was the Daily Cup put before the Followers of JESUS. 

That Daily Cup worked many good things:

·                     The Gospel spread across the inhabited world through these persecuted Christians.

·                     Many received the Martyr's Reward, sealing their testimony with their blood.

·                     The persecuted Followers of JESUS founded many churches... with the blood of the martyr's becoming the seed of the church.

·                      The Gospel was translated into languages and tongues for all to have.

In today's world, the persecuted Followers of JESUS become the strongest Christians on earth.

Their cries, pleas, supplications, and intercessions are ANSWERED, as they endure the persecutions as Followers of The LAMB+ of GOD.

They are humble, knowing how to pray for their enemies, loving them and requesting their enemies to be delivered from the father of lies. 

These STRONG Christians have lost all, for the most part, even family members. They know full well that at any moment they could seal their testimony for CHRIST JESUS with their blood.

Some of them live in despair, barely clinging to life from the blows of loss of loved ones, home, health, and income. Our LORD sees their LIVING sacrifice: after all, they did not DENY HIM+ and turn to the world or pagan, demonic religions to avoid their plight. They stood the TEST.

Yes, when they recover from shock, these persecuted Christians become STRONG Followers of CHRIST.

Search out the testimonies of the church in North Korea, established in the midst of prison camps. Read about the Sudanese Christians living in the Nubian Desert, clinging solidly to The LORD and to each other. The Syrian Christians who have been ousted from their homeland are bearing the LIGHT of CHRIST to the muslim world.

What are WE DOING for the Kingdom of GOD, in comparison to these persecuted Followers of JESUS CHRIST ?

Yes, we all do what we can, but we have not been TESTED through the fires yet.

 JESUS said: 

Mark 9:49 ...

For every one shall be salted with fire and every sacrifice salted with salt.

Matthew 5:13 ...

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor,

wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but

to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

 Dear Salt ... let us NOT LOSE our Savor... and thereby lose our SAVIOR+.

Now is the Day of Preparation. We prepare for Persecution by drawing closer and closer to Our LORD JESUS CHRIST... now !

Now is the time --- when all is quiet (on the surface ) to spend QUALITY QUIET TIME with HIM+. Now is the time ( in relative safety ) for each individual to learn to hear His+ Voice ... UNMISTAKABLY.

If we are diligent to do these things, HE+ will guide us into Spiritual exercises that will help us retain the Salt HE+ has given to us. Hours of prayer, fasting, reading or reciting of Psalms, of our LORD’S Words, of the Apostles writings. Seeking to never be out of HIS+ Presence.

When the fire of persecution comes, then we will not be in shell-shock, but rather we will have our faces "set like flint" --- as HE+ did --- to determinedly go to Jerusalem and face the fire.

JESUS said, 

" Behold, I+ give unto you AUTHORITY to tread on opheON, sharp-eyed ones ( serpents ) and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and NOTHING shall by any means hurt  you. " 

Luke 10:19

JESUS said, 

"All AUTHORITY is given unto ME+ in Heaven and on earth." 

Matthew 28:18

Will the fire of persecution hurt us? 

Only... only... only if we fail 

to Follow our LORD JESUS to the cross.

Pleasant to the flesh? NO... But the rewards are INESTIMABLE and  the fruit lasting unto Eternity.

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The Words NOT SPOKEN...

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To Whom Does The Pope go for Confession ? 

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The silence is deafening.

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Listen to the words NOT uttered by the Pope on his visit to the US last week.

These words were NOT spoken, NOT uttered, and NOT even alluded to by The Roman Catholic Pope, the loudest spokesman and highest head of the largest Christian religious organization.

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The Words NOT SPOKEN To Mr. Obama:

 ... Repent and be baptized EVERY ONE of you in the name of JESUS CHRIST for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT..

Acts 2:38

JESUS SAID... Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Matthew 26:52

He that rejecteth ME+, and receiveth not My+ words, hath ONE+ that judgeth him: the Word that I+ have spoken, the Same shall judge him in the last day.

John 12:48

The Words NOT SPOKEN To the United Nations:

Jesus said ... I+ am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto THE FATHER, but by ME+.

John 14:6

The Words NOT SPOKEN  To the Bishops and Cardinals:

 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please HIM+ WHO+ hath chosen him to be a soldier.  

2 Timothy 2:4

The Words NOT SPOKEN To the Adoring Crowds:

Why do you call ME+ "LORD, LORD" and do not the things I+ say ? 

Luke 6:46

And whosever does not bear his cross, and come after ME+ cannot be My+ disciple.

Luke 14:27 

The Words NOT SPOKEN To Madonna and her ilk:

Get thee behind ME+, satan: for thou savorest not the things that be of GOD, but the things that be of men.

Mark 8:33

The Words NOT SPOKEN to Mammon-serving Planned Parenthood and its Abortionists:

It is appointed  unto men once to die, but after this,  the JUDGMENT. 

Hebrews 9:27

 Then said HE+ unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offenses will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Luke 17:1-2

The Words NOT SPOKEN to both 

• the Lgbt-ers with broken lives and to 
• the Lgbt-ers who are proud and arrogant about their sin:

O LORD, THOU+ hast searched me, and known me.  THOU+ knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, THOU+  understandest my thought afar off.

THOU+compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, THOU+ knowest it altogether. 

Psalm 139:1-4

The Words NOT SPOKEN to the Highest Court in this land, the US Supreme Court:

 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Isaiah 5:20-21

The Words NOT SPOKEN to the  10 Kings of Revelation 17:

And JESUS came and spake unto them, saying, ALL POWER is given unto ME+ in Heaven and in earth.

Matthew 28:18

 And HE+ said unto them, I+ beheld satan as lightning fall from Heaven.

Behold, I+ give unto [My+ Servants] power to tread on serpents ( opheOns-- sharp-eyed ones, not herpetons , snakes) and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you [My+ Servants].

Luke 10: 18-19

The Words NOT SPOKEN to Monsanto and its ilk, as well as to the CERN power base:

And the nations were angry, and Thy+ wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged,

and that THOU+ should give reward unto Thy+ servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear Thy Name+, small and great; 

and should destroy them which destroy the earth.

Revelation 11:18

The Words NOT SPOKEN   To the REFUGEES, both the homeless ones and the paid infiltrators :

Come unto ME+, 

all ye that labor and are heavy laden, 

and I+ will give you rest.

 Take My+ yoke upon you, 

and learn of ME+; 

for I+ am meek and lowly in heart: 

and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 

For My+ yoke is easy,

 and My+ burden is light.

Matthew 11: 28-30

 The Words NOT SPOKEN To his own mirror:

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy+ sight, O LORD, my Strength, and my REDEEMER+.

Psalm 19:14

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This is a Christian leader who does NOT speak the Words of CHRIST ? Have we ever seen such ?

Is this a world-renown leader of a large part of Christianity... who does NOT quote the Highest Authority there is and ever will be , the HOLY SCRIPTURES, using them to correct and admonish, to exhort the world to leave their sin-filled ways .... and Follow JESUS CHRIST ? 

Alas, the Pope did not correct, he did not reprove, he did not bring to light those most evil things done in darkness.

Rather, he pretended to bring peace BY NOT ALLUDING to the SINS --- yes , sins --- committed by these present evil-agers.

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Did he bring peace ?

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Not for the 60 million aborted babies. Not for the REAL homeless refugees from the needless and contrived wars.

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Nor did the Pope show the way to repentance and thus, peace with GOD, to the sin-sick entertainers, destructive seed-producers, dangerous electron-beamers,  clever politicians, and the whole raft of un-Holy judges directed by the 10 kings of Revelation 17.

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As it is written to Babylon of old:

You are weighed in the balance and found wanting.

GOD has numbered your kingdom and finished it.

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Come out of her, My+ People

and touch not the unclean thing. 

TURNING the TABLES of PERSECUTION in IRAN ... the CHRISTIAN WAY+ !

PASTOR SAEED ABEDINI

There is concerted Christian prayer being made
this Saturday, September 26, for this courageous Follower of JESUS. 

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Brothers and Sisters …  LET US TURN THE TABLES in this Spiritual battle being waged via Pastor Saeed in one of Iran’s worst criminal prisons.

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Pastor Saeed traveled to Iran hoping to establish a Christian orphanage, we are told. Instead, the LORD re-directed his efforts, involuntarily, and allowed Pastor Saeed to be placed into a terrible season of imprisonment and torture. It is continuing this day and the governments of our world are ignoring this innocent man’s imprisonment.

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BUT, GOD IS NOT!

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The GOD and FATHER of Our LORD JESUS CHRIST is NOT IGNORING the cries of HIS SON’S + Beloved Follower nor is The LORD ignoring the prayers of the Saints.

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We forget that the blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the CHURCH+ of JESUS CHRIST.  

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Brother Saeed’s testimony to CHRIST JESUS in the Iranian prison is NOT being ignored by the other prisoners, either, in that hard-core incarceration camp.  For years now, they have watched Brother Saeed’s Christian behavior, heard him speak, and witnessed his testimony about the Risen CHRIST JESUS, bringing hope that they do not have. 

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Those men ALL KNOW he has harmed no- one nor stolen anyone’s property

… yet he is suffering.

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What they DO NOT KNOW is that The LORD JESUS CHRIST allowed Brother Saeed to be sent there — expressly to them — to give them opportunity to choose Eternal Life+ through JESUS instead of eternal damnation.

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It is likely that few of those men had ever heard the truth about The LORD JESUS CHRIST and fewer still had ever witnessed the behavior of a true Follower of JESUS first-hand. 

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So then, let us agree together …. as we beseech the Throne of CHRIST for Brother Saeed… to also supplicate for an out-pouring of the Blessed HOLY SPIRIT to pour down upon the prison inmates incarcerated with him…

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that the labor of Brother Saeed’s

 imprisonment will not be in vain.

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Where do we stand, in this spiritual warfare ? Let us stand with CHRIST and see His+ Great purpose in allowing the suffering of His+ Faithful Servant Saeed and then, Scripturally apply HIS+ Word … in unison and accord. Hear it: 

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JESUS said:  ” All AUTHORITY is given unto ME+ in Heaven and in earth.”

Matthew 28:18  

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JESUS said: ” Behold, I give unto YOU authority to tread on serpents [Gk.= OpheOn = Sharp-eyed Ones , not the animals which are herpetons ( reptiles, snakes) ], and scorpions , and over ALL THE POWER of the enemy and NOTHING shall by any means hurt you. ”  Luke 10:19

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Let us AGREE to :

• Bind the demonic spirits of islam which are keeping the prisoners bound

• Pray WITH ALL the AUTHORITY that The BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST gives us

• Pray WITH ALL the AUTHORITY that the Name of JESUS grants us

• Pray according to HIS+ WILL, Who+ desires ALL MEN to be saved

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LET US PRAY… 

O LORD JESUS CHRIST, THOU+ Who+ desireth that all men come to the Light of Thy+ Salvation, we pray for the OUT-POURING of the HOLY SPIRIT upon the men in Pastor Saeed’s cell, his block area, his hallway, his building, and his prison complex.

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We bind — by all the authority the Blood of The LAMB+ gives us and all the authority granted to us by the Name of JESUS  and in accordance with HIS+ Will — all the demonic spirits that are hindering these prisoners from coming to JESUS as LORD of their lives.  

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In the name of JESUS, we ask for HEAVY conviction of sin and shame of face to fall upon every inmate, every staff worker, and every official connected to this prison or who has anything to do with Pastor Saeed. 

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Let the fire of Thy+ Blessed HOLY SPIRIT fall upon these men and bring them to salvation, every one of them. Empower them to become evangelists, leading their families and friends across Iran unto THEE, O CHRIST. 

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And Grant, O FATHER of MERCIES, a miraculous deliverance of Thy servant Pastor Saeed, and bring the joy of Thy HOLY SPIRIT upon him this day, healing Thy Servant of every wound in his body and spirit, which are Thine. 

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This we ask for the Sake of Thy Beloved SON+ JESUS CHRIST, Who+ lives and died for us and ever reigns on High, with thee, Heavenly FATHER, and thy Blessed HOLY SPIRIT, one GOD, now and forever to the Endless Ages.

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And the Congregation said: “Amen!”

Ah, LORD GOD,

THOU hast made the Heavens

by Thy great power and stretched-out arm and there is NOTHING too hard for THEE !

Jeremiah 32:17

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