Abiding in God’s Will

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“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you” (John 15:7).

 
The verse of scripture has a much deeper meaning than you may think. To “abide in Me” is to live in Christ and Him in you. And you are forbidden to meditate or touch anything that is not of Him. This part of the verse is not too difficult to understand for anything of sin should not be let in. The next part of the verse has been misunderstood for a long time by many and needs further explanation; “and My words abide in you.” Here is what most people think this part of the verse is saying; if you stay away from sin and read your bible every day, or as often as possible then you are abiding in His word. Therefore, their belief is that the promise in this verse “you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you” (John 15:7b) is automatically working for every believing Christian. And when it doesn’t work in their life they question their faith and the Truth of the Bible.
 
Let’s look at what Jesus says about the written word, i.e. Holy Bible, (logos). “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life” (John 5:39-40).
 
We must be willing to answer the call of the Holy Spirit and be willing to follow Him to the depths of our spiritual journey. He will take you through various situations a long this journey teaching you what His Words really mean. Whether it’s the written word or spoken Word we must obtain understanding for this will increase our knowledge and with knowledge we will become much wiser.
 
The Deep Calls unto the Deep
 
Now let’s give this some thought. It’s not too difficult to read your Bible and restrain yourself from offending God. So why doesn’t every Christian receive whatever they so desire after all the Bible promises it to be so? The promise in this verse we are discussing states that “you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”
 
This is a very powerful promise and I will explain how you are to obtain this promise. Know the first part of this puzzle of truth must be broke down in order for us to see the prerequisites outlined within it before we can receive the full measure of the promise and its manifestation. Allow me if you will to stretch your faith a little and share with you what I have been taught by the Holy Spirit. The next few steps are not meant to offend but rather to help set you giving you a way to begin walking in the fullness of the promises of God.
 
Remember this one thing! The Holy Bible is 100% from God and is all true. Truth will always work when applied as instructed. If what you have been taught in the past is not working then it’s not being taught correctly and it’s time to ask the only true teacher for the correct answers. The Holy Spirit is the author and teacher that will give you all truth and nothing but the truth. Also remember what is written in the Holy Bible is not all there is to know about God’s ways and thoughts. We can continue to learn more daily from our God; for He is NOT dead He is alive and is speaking to you and me.
 
Who or What is the Word of God?
 
First of all, the Bible is not the Word of God, Jesus Christ is the Word of God. He can speak to you through the written words found in the Bible but do not be confused; He is not wood pulp and ink bound in genuine leather. (ref. John 5:39-40)
 
The Holy Scriptures are a compilation of divine events that are inscribed testimonials about God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. When you are reading from your Bible you need to know the difference between the (logos) word and His (Rhema) Word. Many words in the Bible have more than one meaning for they originated in other languages other than English. So, when we read our Bibles in the English translation the same word can be used over and over as having the same meaning; however, in the original text it may have multiple meanings. If you are reading your Bible and you are just obtaining information as you study you are reading the written word or you could say the (logos) word.
 
The Holy Spirit can use any book, billboard, poster, man, woman, child and even a donkey to speak to you. There is no limit to how God can speak His (Rhema) Word or to say His Life Giving Word. We are always looking for the Life Giving Word, the (Rhema) Word of God. The (Rhema) Word changes or lives and gives direction, heals and delivers us.
 
Do you know what it’s like to have the Holy Spirit speak His (Rhema) Word to you in the very hour of your greatest need? This is the (Rhema) Word this verse is talking about not just whatever you want to read or claim for yourself. The verse is referring to the (Rhema) Word from Jesus Christ who IS the Living Word in this verse. “If you abide in Me, and My words (His Rhema Word) abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you” (John 15:7). I hope and pray you understand this part and use it as your spiritual compass to guide you through life. Continually keep your spiritual antennas up ready to receive every Life Giving (Rhema) Word that comes to you. When it comes it is from your Master, King, Lord Jesus speaking to you. Pray, hear and obey, for it is the Christian way.
 

Amen, so be it!

 

Written by, Kent Simpson, Apostolic Prophet

Understanding Evangelism

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I have always had a heart for evangelizing; meaning winning souls and renewing backsliders. For many years I thought evangelism was all about leading lost souls in the sinner’s prayer witnessing them being born-again. Well, Holy Spirit has shown me much more about evangelism that has freed me from a measure of personal guilt and self-condemnation.
 
What He has taught me is that my part in evangelism is calling out those who are to be a part of the prophetic movement. This one revelation has released me from the burden how I was to evangelize. In fact, Holy Spirit has shown me that when I prophesy I am leading believers and unbelievers into the revelation that Jesus is not dead, but alive and He is speaking to all who have an ear to hear and He will speak to you too.
 

“For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Revelation 19:10c).

 
This understanding made me realize I needed a platform to start moving into God’s power to prophetically evangelize as many people as possible. So, I purchased time on a Christian radio station in Dallas, Texas so I could prophesy live over radio each Saturday morning. Also, I placed an ad in Charisma Magazine. Just so you know this was in the early 1990’s that all this took place; most people back then thought I was crazy including my pastor.
 
Within just a few short months, I had saved up enough money to pay one of my friends, who later became my brother-in-law, work up an ad to look just like what God had showed me. The very ad is the picture seen in the body of this paragraph.
 
Taking a deep breath, I sent the ad to Charisma Magazine then immediately went to work putting back enough money to pay for the next month’s ad. The wait for publication seemed to take forever. When I finally saw the ad in print, I felt I had really accomplished something great. That first month, not many people wrote in, but I did not lose sight of what I was doing, being obedient to God. The results were not my problem, nor did the measure of success dictate whether I continued running the ad. After a couple of months, we began to see the demand increase and it was becoming more difficult to balance doing the prophesies and continue working at my job; I knew then it was time to make a big decision. I wanted to give up my small business, but my wife and I were to be married soon and I could not see myself quitting as the ministry generated a huge monthly expense with no income to offset the cost. A few months had gone by and we were married and moved into our new home. I continued to keep the pace, building a new and controversial ministry as well as working a full-time job.
 
Then one day after coming home early from work, God began to deal with me about giving up my business and concentrating full time on the ministry. For the rest of the day, God and I had a back and forth discussion. I would remind Him that I just got married and my wife will think I am a bum if I close down my small business. He came back with the story of Elisha and how he broke down his plow, made a fire, and sacrificed his oxen as a symbol of his commitment to follow after the God of Elijah. Well, I knew what I had to do but did not know how my wife was going to take it. In a short time, she came home and she had a very strange look on her face. I was as nervous as cat on a hot tin roof, fearing she would break down when I told her what I had agreed to do.
 

“No one, having put his hand to the plow,
and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God”
(Luke 9:62).

 
When my wife came home from work that day she revealed that God had spoken to her. I patiently waited to hear what she had to share with me. She began with something like, “I’ve told you I didn’t want you to become a minister after seeing all my Dad had gone through as a pastor, but God has changed my thinking, and you need to quit your job.” I was in shock, fumbling around trying to find my words. She stood stunned as I told her about the experience I had encountered with our Heavenly Father. We both celebrated and where ecstatic that we were about to take on a huge financial loss.
 
As my wife left each day to work at her business, cleaning houses, I would go to the post office to pick up requests for prophesies, return home and began seeking God for His Word. One day I received a phone call that shook me to the core and at the same time gave me relief.
 
A Charisma Magazine executive called me and informed me that they were going to have to pull my ad. Baffled, I ask him why. He began to tell me that pastors from all over were calling and writing their office threatening to pull their subscriptions and tell their followers to do the same if they didn’t pull my ad. When I asked what the problem was, he revealed that company had no issue with the ad, but that a few pastors believed I was using my gift for financial gain. I resisted the urge to lose my temper over the phone reminding him that we only ask for a love offering, and thus far we had not received enough “love” to pay their monthly charge of $386.00. He said he was sorry, and I let it go. Relieved, knowing I would not have to come up with the funds for the next month, I found myself telling our Father that I had done all I could and that now the problem was His.
 
To my surprise the ad was in the next month’s issue. I just thought maybe someone made a mistake. However, when the next issue came out it still had the ad, I was totally perplexed.
 
Then in a few days I received another phone call and it was the Manager for Carman, a Christian Psalmist, and he said, “You will never know why your ad is still running unless someone tells you.” Then he proceeded to tell me that the editorial and sales staff for Strang Communications, which owned Charisma and many other publications, wrote in anonymously for a prophecy tape from you. He continued to tell me that he was there the day they all sat down at the huge boardroom table with their tapes in hand. As they passed around the tape player, they each played their prophecy and the others judged the Word. He reported that no one at the table had a dry eye; they cried and made a prayerful commitment they would NOT pull the ad as long as they owned the magazine. After 5 more years, I finally asked Charisma to pull the ad, because there were too many requests to keep up with each month.
 

Written by, Kent Simpson, Apostolic Prophet

Breaking Sin’s Chains of Destruction

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Sin is sweet for a season; however, when you have partaken of it too long, your mind becomes locked in a place of total chaos, rendering you helpless and out of control. Sin can be so soulfully justified for the moment. Its false appearance of being harmless lures you into a place of darkness. Only then do you discover you are chained and yielding to its every command. You struggle to get out, but your mind will not let you go. Deep in the pits of your soul it is hard to find the light that previously kept you safe, before you succumbed to this miserable sin.
 
You have tried to fight the devil and keep him from controlling your thoughts, but with little success. From the pits of hell, the images and thoughts of the past continue to haunt you. Each time you go to that same place, hidden in the corner of your soul, you are provoked and spin out of control. You seem to have little charge of where your mind goes anymore, as if someone else has taken over the controls that manage your life.
 
“I, The Lord your God, will help you find your way out of this place” that makes you feel so bad about yourself. If you truly are set on being free, then today is the day of your deliverance. I hold an invisible Key that will unlock the chains that bind you. After you have removed the chains that control you, your mind will be free. If you take the Key that unlocks your soul, by the power of the Holy Ghost, you will take back all the devil has stolen from you.”
 

“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:10-11)

 
Recite this Prophetic Proclamation & Apostolic Decree to break the chains from past sins.
 
Speak these words with the authority of a true believer.
 
“I, (your name) accept this day, (month-date-year) God’s invisible Key. As I turn this Key these sinful thoughts within my mind will go away setting me free from sin this day, for it is now dead to me. By the power of God’s Word and the actions I have taken by faith, I am set free from sin and death. Amen, so be it!”
 

“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” (Romans 8:1).

 
You are now ready to receive God’s appointed Angel specifically sent to block any thoughts that may attempt to come back and lead you astray. With the help of His ministering spirit, you will call upon the Name of Jesus, and His Angel will immediately come to your aide, delivering you from the power of sin and its viscous ways.
 
The Lord says, “Now that you are free and My Angel walks with you each day and from this day forward you shall be mine forever more.”
 
“Not only have you been set free today, but you and I will begin a new journey together. The road I have paved with drops of My blood to Calvary it will guide you with the light of My words, for My blood cries out for you.”
 

“For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matthew 26:28).

 
“Take heed to feed your spirit daily with the bread of life that can be found in the written word, The Holy Scriptures, your Holy Bible.”
 

“It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4).

 
“Your spirit will need to drink daily; therefore, you must open your mouth and pray and praise Me with words from your soul and spirit. As you do these things unto Me, I will lift you higher and take you deeper into the things others cannot see. I will whisper in your ear along the journey, telling you of things to come. When you are confronted by the challenges of life, I will show you what to do; however, you must feed and give drink to your spirit each day lest it wither away.”
 
“When you speak from your spirit your words become My words and all heaven and earth must obey.”
 
“Prophecy My will on earth, as declared in heaven commissions My Angel to fulfill that which has been proclaimed.”
 

“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you” (John 15:7).

 

Amen, so be it!

 

Written by Kent Simpson, Apostolic Prophet

Evangelizing Souls

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What is a “The Rag-Mag”? Well, in some parts of the country this slang word defines what is better known as Tabloids, those unbelievable magazines you see on the magazine rack where you stand waiting to check out. You know, the one’s with the story lines that are so shocking you want to pick it up and look at it, but you don’t want anyone to see you.
 
One day I found myself standing in the checkout line at the grocery store when our Lord said, “Take one and make an offer.” Sheepishly, I stuck it in my shopping basket where no one would see that I was actually purchasing it. When I got home I started looking through it, trying to figure out what He meant by “make an offer.” When I got to the center of the magazine I found ads from psychics offering all kinds of promises. There were about 20 ads in all; they were anywhere from a ¼ to ¾ of a page in size. Right then and there I knew what He wanted me to do. He was instructing me to go head-to-head against these psychics by offering His Word and giving the alternative for people to come to Him instead.
 
Immediately, I picked up the telephone and called the phone number for the rag-mag ad department to find out what it cost to place an ad. Back in that day, 1992 the Internet did not exist so the process was slow. In a few days, I received a packet with layout requirements, design instructions and pricing. When I saw the price I about passed out. The ad’s that I had seen the psychics putting up started at $3,000.00 to $4,000.00 per WEEK. Even though the circulation boasted 15 million readers per week, the cost just did not balance out for me.
 
After coming out from under the sticker shock, I readjusted my thinking to the impossibility of me putting in a color ad with images; I opted to go with three lines in the classified section. The cost was still too high, running $486.00 for three lines of text for one week, one issue. Looking to the brighter side, I knew the opportunity to reach 15 million people for Jesus could be a soul-winning experience.
 
Now all I had to do was raise the funds to put in the ad and then find out from our Lord what to say in those three lines. I knew that a lot of folks would not be interested in supporting what I was called to do, but I did know of one couple who would like the idea. This couple has been the most influential in training me how to know God’s will and how to follow His leading. From the time I was a little boy they took me in and what time they had with me they were very loving and craftily en-grafted the word of God into my heart and soul. Because of how much they loved God and how they were always willing to take their time and finances to further the kingdom of God, I knew they would be my best shot at getting the job done for Jesus.
 
The first thing I would need to do is make the 260-mile trip in order to sit down with them and explain what I wanted to do. When I arrived at my aunt and uncle’s home they greeted me with the same love and compassion as always. We sat down I began to tell my uncle and aunt what I needed to do. After my explanations, Uncle asked how much it was going to cost. With some hesitation I told him $486.00 and he replied, “Alright we’ll pay for it!”
 
Excited about the possibilities of reaching so many people with the Gospel message and the power of His Spirit, I drove back home seeking direction of how to go about this endeavor. After receiving His Word about the wording of the ad for this project I had it typed up and sent off to the rag-mag. Next, I was to record on tape a special sermon just for the people who would be writing in for a free prophecy. I knew the Lord wanted them to listen to the 15-minute sermon before they would be able to hear their personal prophecy. Once everything was in place the hardest part was waiting for the ad to come out in the weekly tabloid. Week after week I became a regular customer for the rag-mag, making my purchase and skimming the pages in hopes of finding the ad.
 
Finally, the ad was out and I just knew I would go to the post office and there would be tons of mail. As I walked to the post office I was thinking to myself that we probably would not have any mail as of yet being that if they received their rag-mag today. It would take a while before their letters would get to my post office box. It was my daily routine to walk to the post office each day to pick up the prophecy requests that were coming in from the ad I was running in Charisma magazine, so even if I had not received any mail from the rag-mag ad it wasn’t a wasted trip.
 
To my surprise, I opened up the mail box and there was NO mail, only a card that indicated I had something that was too large for my small post office box. I made my way up to the counter and handed the notice to the clerk and she came back with a large bundle of mail. As soon as I was back at my little office I started opening the mail and found that many of the people who had been seeking the psychics were Christians. In many of the letters they told me that they did not know that God had prophets for today and that they could seek a prophet for a word rather than having to go to the psychics. In fact, a few of the letters came from some of the people who worked at the rag-mag just thanking me for giving their readers a better alternate for finding spiritual direction.
 

“And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues” (I Corinthians 12:28).

 
After a couple of weeks had gone by and the mail had stopped coming in from the ad, I made an account of the number of letters requesting a word from God. The total was 110 requests; therefore, I prophesied and mailed out 110 audio cassette tapes with the 15-minute sermon and their personal prophecy at the end.
 
Here is the best part of this entire story. Out of the 110 people who had received their personal prophecy 3 of them wrote back to me to inform me that they had turned their life over to Jesus Christ because they knew what was said had to be from God. Surprisingly, two of the people worked for the Psychic Network and told of how the power of the word had stripped them of their psychic ability to give readings and asked if they could become Christians and learn to hear the voice of God. The third person was an atheist who gave her life to Jesus; this person writes me each year on their born-again birthday. One of the two ladies are now a prophetess for Jesus Christ and has done wonderful work in the name of the Lord through her ministry. We still Facebook and email each other from time to time. The other person that was converted from the Psychic Network to Christianity helped transcribe many of my teaching tapes into manuals that we used in our first School of the Prophets back in 1994. I have since lost track of her, but the last I heard she was doing a Christian radio program. Once again, the return for doing it God’s way is the only way to a successful ending; for it always pays to Pray, Hear and Obey.
 

“Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most-High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour” (Acts 16:16-18).

 

Written by Kent Simpson, Apostolic Prophet