A Vital Weapon For Treacherous Times // Patricia King // Shiloh Fellowship

thank you wow i have a message prepared i've been working on this week but i feel right now just to share from my heart and we might have to pull it offline because i don't know what's going to come out right now as i share from my heart we might not want it just on there for long we'll see father i just pray i just pray that you would help us this morning come to see you in your love in greater ways lord god and your truth in this hour and lord i ask that you would give me articulation of the things that you've been speaking to me about and just the journey the current journey that we've been on and the emotion in it and the processing in it and the words that you've been speaking and so we thank you lord for being here holy spirit you're our teacher and our guide and you are here to help us so i pray that you would speak to each one of us individually not only those of us who are in this room but those who are watching online that you would speak into their lives and speak into their heart today something precious something beautiful right from your heart to theirs in jesus name amen this last season has been um very challenging i think probably every leader in the body would probably agree with that it's been very very challenging there's been so much eruption and so much going on on different levels and it seems like opinion not only public opinion but opinion within the church has just like it's just running free let's put it that way running free and there's so much to consider and so as someone who's called to serve the body in a fivefold ministry capacity of fivefold ministry just means you you are there to serve the body to see them come into the full measure of the stature of christ according to what god's put in your heart for them so that we can all come into the unity of the faith it's a servant position it's not a position of glamour for sure jesus said the greatest in the kingdom is the kingdom of all but as someone called to serve in that way there's been a number of things in this last few years that have literally broken my heart that i've travailed over in prayer and in many tears when i see blatant unrighteousness being covered up or rebelled against when i see the body in disunity because of of an election when i see slanderous remarks on social media breaking up the body it just breaks my heart and so in that in this season i have needed to be responsible so not only in prayer but in study of the word in conversation it's really important that we listen not just to one one perspective but that we gain perspective so i've tried to be extremely diligent in that to hear what the spirit is saying through various people through various voices through various perspectives and also i'm not an academic person i'm not a scholar i'm a heart person i'm not a head person but in this season i've had to do some head work and it's really challenging for me i'll i'll be honest with you some of the the books and the writings and the readings are just have so many big words i have to actually look up the words on what they mean to even understand what's being written so i'm just being open and honest with you i've listened to a lot of um theological perspectives and it's really interesting because there's a lot of theologians out there and very few of them agree um so when we're looking for theological perspective we want a good perspective but i'm just saying everyone thinks they're right in their own mind and their own perspective and i somehow feel like all of it has pieces in it that come together to present jesus in in the fullness and truth and the fullness and so that's why we need to really be open to one another and to follow the holy spirit in those ways and draw really close to him and then recently because of the elections it's put the body into a tailspin and it hurts me actually to see um the the the fragmentation of the body and the division in the body because of an election and i do realize there's more than that to it i do realize that historically we are in a very challenging place so i've been doing so much study on all the different history of the united states i know more history of the united states than most americans do i'm an immigrant i've i've only been an american citizen for for since 2014 but i've i've been forced to do a lot of studying on american history to try to understand what some of the prophetic voices are saying what some of the theologians are saying what some of the mesologists are saying because it's been just kind of all greek to me you know i've had to do some extra study on that and so i've been absorbed in all kinds of study and books and prayer in in trying to listen to holy spirit as to where everything happened you know how everything's happening there's new terminology like christian nationalism which i'm trying to understand the scope of that and what the ramifications are for the body of christ and so i've been i just said all that to say to you that i've been in my head a lot um as well as taking these issues to prayer and this morning i was before the lord and he um he spoke to me out of ecclesiastes ecclesiastes is an interesting book to review because it's written from man's perspective man's journey in life and the conclusions about god and about life that man has has come to but it says in ecclesiastes 12 it says the words of wise men are like goats and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails they are given by one shepherd but beyond this my son be warned the writing of many books is endless and excessive devotion to books is wearing to the body and the conclusion when all has been heard is fear god and keep his commandments because this applies to every person for god will bring every act to judgment everything which is hidden whether it is good or evil so the lord spoke to me through that and he said you know you can just get so absorbed in everything that's going on that you forget what's really important and he brought me back to the moment that i was born again i shared a little bit of this already he brought me back to the moment that i was born again and he said what turned your life what turned your life at that time and i thought it was just one moment with you jesus just one moment with you changed everything and then he started to show me throughout my life with him all the real strategic moments that transformed me into into greater understanding of who he was he said where did you get that from and it was always from his presence it was always from him speaking to my heart it was always about him and a lot of the scriptures that um people were quoting over me and in fact all of them earlier those every single one of those scriptures was words that god gave me as a brand new believer and it just touched me and it was god saying to me personally you remember from where you came and the lord always showed me because i was visited by love love is what transformed me the moment that i got born again i didn't know anything about the bible i'd gone to sunday school as a little girl learned about noah and david and daniel and different stories but i didn't know the bible but that moment i didn't know the author of the scriptures i didn't know the spirit of prophecy because jesus himself came into me in that moment and he is love and he will always be love he will never not be love he is always love and that love transformed me and right hours after i was born again because i got born again around midnight that next morning i was already knocking on doors in my neighborhood not because i had taken an evangelism course and not because i understood the scripture enough to say anything to anyone i didn't even i didn't even know the i didn't know anything i just knew one thing that jesus loved me and forgave me of all my sin and he could do it for anyone if he could do it for me and i remember knocking on the door of my neighbor six o'clock in the morning i was getting ready for work i saw his light on i went knocked on the door and he said are you okay i saw yeah last night jesus came into my heart and he forgave me of all my sin and i know he can do it for you too and he looked at me so strange he said are you are you okay like he's have you gone crazy i said no i was crazy but now i'm not crazy and it all made sense to me but not to him and rumor went around the whole neighborhood that i'd gone off my rocker i could have cared less because i was absolutely in love with everything i didn't care about people's opinions i didn't care about anything i was just smitten i was smitten by love himself and i couldn't stop going and telling people that very afternoon i went to my friends in the new age sat them all down and i said you don't have to you don't have to study the new age anymore you don't have to study any of this stuff you don't have to be involved in any of it because i got the answer for you the one you are searching for is jesus i was preaching to all my my teachers and everything in the new age they're all sitting there looking stunned at me and i said he forgive me my sin last night he can forgive yours they said well we didn't think he even had any sin to be forgiven i saw i did but he can forgive yours they said oh and they were they struggled so bad with what i shared but i didn't care i didn't care that they didn't didn't understand and that they were upset with me i just wanted to love them more i just kept loving and loving and loving and loving even though they disagreed because when you are loved you can love others really well you don't care if they're in disagreement with you and the lord spoke to me and he showed me over the last 24 hours he took me on a journey throughout my life and showed me all the way he led me and everything he led me to do was in love i remember going out on the streets we would go out from morning to night just trying to help people and show them how good god was we would feed the poor we went out in missions to the poorest of the poor we go up into the far north and minister to those who had never heard the gospel because we were compelled by love there was no money involved there was no prestige involved there was nothing like that no one even knew what we were doing back in those days and i didn't even care i cared about one thing jesus loves me this i know and i know he can love you too and let's get this message out there for all to hear and i just was compelled and compelled and compelled and then we we finally went to a bible school and it was a good it was a discipleship training school actually for missions it just about killed me but i made through it made it through and they didn't have the same revelation of love as i had so it was an interesting journey but it was good for me but when we came out of that place it was just like love remained as hard as it was as challenging as it was love remained i remember just i mean we lived right in the inner city amongst the prostitutes the drug addicts the pimps you know and and i loved every minute of it because every day we shared the same bathroom with them open showers everything you know you just you know you just do what you have to do to share the love of jesus christ we labored there month after month after month with absolutely no salvations and then finally you know finally before we finished our mission there there was a big big uh ingathering of souls it just happened spontaneously i remember saying to god just before then i said god we gave up everything to come here we gave up everything we put everything out we sacrificed everything brought our children over here we just laid our life down for you and you know we've been preaching the gospel every day we've been loving on people we started up a a uh child care in the in the inner city because the prostitutes were leaving their children alone all day all night so we just started something to look after and we did all kinds of things like that they were you know we were out on the streets until after midnight we started up coffee houses and little places where we could rescue um prostitutes from their pimps all of that day after day night after night and i remember saying after we'd been there for about three months i said god we we we gave up everything for you and not one person has given their life to the lord they don't they don't even want you this is a waste of time what are we doing here and he said hmm he said i didn't call you here to save people i said you didn't he didn't call us here to save people well what did we give our lives up for then we gave up our careers we gave up our money we gave up everything he didn't call us here to save souls what are we doing he said i just called you to preach the gospel i'll save the souls and it was this huge light entered my heart and i thought oh god oh god it is all about you and it's all about your power and it's your miracle work all we have to do is go love and to go serve and so over the years our love was tested and tested and tested over and over again and it was beautiful being able to love those who couldn't love you back being able to give to those who who couldn't give back and there's no one knew what we were doing it was all in the background no one no one knew is from adam was just a delight to serve the lord in hiddenness and truly love with an authentic heart because we had been truly loved by an authentic god and he said i don't ever want you to forget from where you came every sacrifice you made was be was love every time you would give up everything to go out on the mission field it was because of love and he said not only did you do everything because of love you did everything in childlike faith and he said and i don't want you to lose sight of that i don't want you to get so involved right now with everything that's happening on some political scale or whatever and lose the very very heart of what you've been called to he said everyone's so concerned about all this stuff do you not know that i am god and i'm greater than everything that's going on right now all the differences all the disunity i'm greater than it all and if you will just go out and love we had a situation happen this week this last week actually in the last couple weeks within the ministry i won't go into detail right now but it involves something that could be a legal issue because of of the way that we need to um honor everyone okay that's that's the code is to honor everyone and so it it raises some challenges for the church it does and so we were reviewing that we were having meetings with attorneys and everything to ask about the legalities of it all and i just felt the lord say i want you to remember i want you to remember when i would send you into areas like you know thailand for example when we gave our life for the the rescuing of young girls and children from sex trafficking and we became friends with the transgender community because we felt so much love for them and so much compassion for them and he said you weren't thinking about legalities you were just thinking about what my gospel could do to transform them and how you could love them and how you did love them and are you going to exchange that for some legal code what would you be willing to lay down for me if i actually had to you know had you love someone and the world arrested you and threw you into prison what would you do and i thought well just what we've always done i guess just love everyone in the prison then and he said that's what i want you to remember i want you to remember who you are i want you to remember who you are we go into dark places new age fairs and inner cities living amongst them that's what jesus said he left heaven to live amongst us not to condemn us but to save us and he's still living amongst us he's still living amongst us but he lives amongst us within us and we have to show the world his love and we have to speak the truth in love because that's what's going to rescue people and we have to be strong but if we abandon love and if we abandon childlike faith we have to lay hold of childlike faith in the midst of all the theological intellectual discussions which you know is great if you're called to that but the lord said that's not who i made you i made you to walk amongst the people i made you to serve the people i made you to look at the hearts of people and bring them to me yes there might be some call to an intellectual platform and i'm not demeaning that i think it's probably very important i'm just not familiar with that but he says don't forget who i've made you to be and that's why i said you have to remember how you came to the lord each and every one of you has to remember how you came to the lord you have to remember how god touched you in your darkest hours how did he touch you because that's who you are in him that's what you carry that is what is authentic not what you learn in your head or not what some politician tells you or whatever it has to be that face to face with jesus it has to be that reviewing of his heart because god wants to do something so great we could very easily be living in the end times i'm not saying we are but i'm saying we could very easily be the way things are going right now the way things are headed even on decisions being made in governments on a world scale not just in america but on a world scale it could very possibly be one of the darkest hours coming that mankind has ever lived in but what does that mean to us what does that mean to us that means great opportunity that's what that means to us and that's what the lord spoke to me he said you've been so caught up i remember years ago we were just always thinking about the laws we were always on the street always helping the poor always overseas doing missions and i said for the last few years have you been doing that i have not i said we're so wrapped up in theologies and and politics and everything else he said you're forgetting what's important and i'm not saying you know if you're carrying something in the lord for those realms i'm not saying that's wrong i'm just saying why god spoke to me personally and there's a whole world out there he said there's a world that's more confused now than they've ever been and if my church isn't careful you will make them even more confused but you know what will unconfuse them just one encounter with god that's what will that's what unconfused me one encounter that's probably what unconfused you that one encounter you have to remember from where you came because we have a great big assignment right now and it's not to bash each other and be hateful towards each other and angry towards each other getting you know all of our political and theological biases out there to make sure that we're hurt we're wasting time in a way because there's a whole world that's hurting and confused that needs us to just go love them and you know what right now the world might not listen to us very well if we just get out there and preach from a pulpit the gospel because we haven't behaved very well lately and they're watching they're watching but if we go and serve them and love them in their place of need which is what we've always done i remember when we went to tijuana years ago it was one of my favorite mission fields ever we were there for three and a half years and we just lived amongst the poor and the colonias and that and we met their needs we we built houses for them we fed them we clothed them we built medical clinics orphanages and we just loved on them and the gospel spread like wildfire there wasn't a day when we didn't see miracles you know why because we needed them the poor need miracles they can't obtain anything from it for themselves any other way and so we saw the lord heal we saw the lord deliver we saw the lord provide supernaturally we had so many supernatural encounters and it was just with childlike faith because we said jesus you love the whole wide world and so we'll just go love them like you and that simple faith that simple childlike love faith transformed all the regions that we ministered in in t1 in fact it was noted it was actually on national television in canada and in the us they did programs on it at the time because such transformation had taken place but it was just a whole group of people we didn't we didn't have bible school training we didn't have degrees we didn't have anything but just the love of jesus in fact i took eight people with me to start that group and they were all between the age of 18 and 22. i was 30 or thereabouts we didn't have any money i just told them i said hey you want an adventure of faith i've got no money to pay you i don't even have any for myself but if we say yes to god i know that he'll provide and they all said yes let's do it we believe for a vehicle because we didn't even have a vehicle to go down in to hold that many people and i said you can all bring one suitcase with your clothes and we had one box of kitchen supplies and one box of office supplies and away we went we were so excited it's a beautiful story that whole thing is just amazing that whole story but when we got down there we felt the lord say give away all your clothes because there's people that don't have clothes here and we didn't have very many because we only had one suitcase left so we kept the the clothes that we were wearing and one other garment and gave everything else away it was a happy day it was like yay we did we just gave it all and then he said i want you to give away your food so we gave away our food and we kept just a meal and we watched god year after year when we were down there provide everything that we needed we had so many clothes to give away that we had to get warehouses in san diego to hold the overflow because we couldn't give it away fast enough we had medical supplies that we couldn't give away fast enough we had food that food clothing everything that we couldn't give away fast enough we spent 24 7 trying to give food away even to all the different ministries that we worked with in mexico and we still couldn't give it away fast enough we still had overflow this is supernatural but what produced that great harvest we went into the prisons we went into the jails we went into the the colonias we went in everywhere we went into the areas where there's prostitution and gangs and all of that we loved every single bit of it and every single day we had a harvest and every single day we had miracles every single day because at dinner time we would share all the testimonies from all the teams that went out every day and every day we had miracles there was not a day when people weren't saved and i'm not just talking about one or two every single day and what produced it was not sitting around trying to figure out some theological position and again i'm i'm not i believe it's important to have good theology i'm just saying everyone thinks their theology is good so it takes a little bit of wrestling to figure it all out but you know we could spend our whole life in books we could spend our whole life in theological discussions and forget the most important thing of all spreading his love and shining as lights for him being true light i was rejoicing the other day as i was praying i said god you've been so good to me since i was born again i you know it says that we can pray lead us not into temptation i've been i've been so blessed not to be ensnared and tempted by a lot of things that other people do get ensnared with i've been kept and i'm so grateful i'm so grateful to the lord and i believe that we need to trust him for that kind of testimony that lord your keeping power in my life is so beautiful you keep me pure you keep me holy because it's not a testimony to live ugly in the lord right i mean if we've been delivered from sin why would we want to live in it right so we want to want his miracle power to keep us clean and beautiful in him but i believe that we're in a day of confrontation by the spirit right now and i believe he's just saying we need to hear his heart we need to know him again we need to remember what it was that transformed us and then have a plan to go and serve serve and love we're not going to win the battle by controlling the power in any nation especially by political power that's not what's going to advance the kingdom even though it's good to have good laws and to contend for good values in the nation i cheer that on i say do it we all need to do that but that's not what is going to bring the great harvest the great harvest is when we serve not control from above but serve from underneath and reach out and touch real people i was a real person 45 years ago that needed the lord and he saw a real person and touched a real person's heart and there are real persons around you that need the love of god there are real people that are going to go to hell without jesus and some of them maybe the reason that they don't have them is because they've never heard and yet we might be living right next door to them or they might be sitting across the desk in the workplace it might not be the preaching of the gospel by words but the preaching of the gospel by love that will win them i remember after i got born again i was working in a in a biomedical laboratory and i i took the job because i needed a day job and my nursing job was on shift so i just took it for a few months while we were building a house i was a brand new christian and little did i know that there was other christians um working in there that i actually got discipled by them during lunch hours that was kind of cool but i remember like so vividly just just sharing the test i was so bubbling over with the testimony of the lord i couldn't keep quiet i was leading people to the lord as i had a needle in their arm extracting blood from them i was leading them to the lord i remember one time trying to extract blood out of a heroin addict and it's hard to find their veins and they don't tell you where their veins are because they're saving them for themselves and i'm almost breaking needles on them and i'm sharing the gospel with them and all of a sudden they burst into tears because they've been touched by god and get born again with a needle breaking in their heart and vein that's just too good and they weren't one because of some theological discussion they were one because the love of jesus touched them right where they were i just want to encourage you you all have his love in you and we need to know how to love really really well right now we need to know what love looks like right now we need to get back to basics and love each other well and love the world around us well and spread his joy we're in for some very challenging times but there's nothing too hard for the lord we sang about that today there's just nothing too difficult he's a miracle-working god he'll part the red sea for us but it's going to look different than what we might think when we were living in inner cities over the years you know there was still all kinds of darkness and all kinds of stuff bad stuff going on but in the middle of it god's making a way for us to spread light here light here light here light there right there before we know it it's just spreading and everything's changing but it didn't come from the top down it came from just being on the ground when we went into to do prophetic evangelism years ago in vancouver we were living in the slum hotel and walking the streets and that and you know the first couple days the people on the street they know that we're straight and they know that we're not like them and so they're resisting us and they're you know you know they were doing some cruel things but we just kept loving and loving and loving we just kept doing loving actions and before long all the streets knew who we were everyone on the street knew who we were and they loved us they were coming to us for help they wanted prophetic words they wanted a touch from god it's just because it's the way light works but you have to be there you have to be our light belongs in the darkness and you have to be there in order to spread that light if we just stay in a place that's already full of light like inside the church although we could probably use some light in the church but if we just stay in a place that's already got light how are we going to bring light into the darkness we need to look for places where we can some of the darkest places on the face of the earth that's where we need to be and that's where we'll be the most effective right now our own nation here in america is very dark and there's people dying around us there's people in nursing homes that are dying there's you know all kinds of needs out there families our needs there's families we have a body here that we can comfort each other but there's people out there that they don't have anyone to come for them when they mourn we do have those who who can comfort us when we mourn but they don't many of them don't and they're confused and hurt and fearful we need to be there for them so my time's up and i guess isaiah 61 it says the spirit of the lord god is upon me because the lord has anointed me to preach good news to the afflicted to bind up the brokenhearted to set captives free that's what we're made for and so father in the name of jesus i just pray that even this week that you would help us come into a realization lord god of where we need to be in this next season of how we need to walk of how we need to live and lord that we would cheer each other on whether we feel that we're to be in you know inside the midst of scholarly institutions or inside of the church teaching theology or on the streets wherever you're calling us that we would just be there in love and that we would we would just love you by loving those whom you love and so lord we just celebrate your love that is in your body right now we celebrate the calls on each one's heart and lives and we ask lord god that you would deepen the call within us lord and that we would remember you that we would remember the greatest commission of all the greatest calling of all the greatest goal of all for your people is to love and whatever that looks like and wherever that is that we would be known for our love and so let us be immersed afresh in your love lord baptize us afresh in love and in childlike sweet faith in jesus name amen you

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