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"GOD WILL *SOMETIMES* NOT BLESS LOCALLY--WHAT HE INTENDS TO BLESS NATIONALLY"
Steve Shultz
Aug 29, 2002
"GOD WILL *SOMETIMES*
NOT BLESS LOCALLY--WHAT HE INTENDS TO BLESS NATIONALLY"
Steve Shultz
Aug 29, 2002
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"GOD WILL *SOMETIMES* NOT BLESS LOCALLY
--WHAT HE INTENDS TO BLESS NATIONALLY"
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A Word through Steve Shultz, THE ELIJAH LIST
email: steve@elijahlist.com
www.elijahlist.com
For some of you, EVERYTHING is about to change and change suddenly.
This word applies in three categories:
a) To some of you...it doesn’t apply at all! You are in the right place
at the right time in the right way.
b) To some of you, it means you are about to be promoted OUTSIDE your
area and comfort zone--to a regional or national ministry
c) To some of you, it means you are about to be PULLED IN from a
regional and/or national ministry to a local or city or church
ministry.
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This is not a "one word fits all" thing.
Only the Spirit Himself can
tell you if or how this word applies to you.
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A few nights ago, my wife and I were at a sister (in the Lord's) house and
another sister in the Lord was also there. As we conversed, the name of a
pastor "upstate" (not in Oregon where I live) came up.
She began to tell me how no matter what he did, this pastor could not get
his local church to grow or prosper. He knew he'd been called to some larger
ministry but he was trying to be obedient and to build up to that by
building his local church. (That was the general idea I was getting though
not the exact words).
All hell had seemingly come against this Godly man.
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AN ANOINTING CAME UPON ME
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As she said this, an unusual anointing...like an unction came upon me and
out of my mouth came this sentence:
"GOD WILL NOT BLESS LOCALLY WHAT HE INTENDS TO BLESS NATIONALLY!"
The other sister in Christ who was with us, stopped short as she had been in
a conversation with my wife about the same type of thing, only about a
different church. This is exactly what she had been talking to Derene
about--at the same moment.
One word SUDDENLY HIT two targets...and it just sort of popped out of my
mouth. This is how God often speaks through me.
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THE ERRANT VIEW SOME OF TAKEN
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There is a fallacy that many have swallowed. i.e.. If God has told you that
you will have a national ministry, you have been told not to despise small
beginnings. So you took that to mean that unless you started in one place
and slowly grew until that one place became large...God could never promote
you to a larger place. This is reasoning of man. This is not necessarily the
reasoning of God, though for some of you, it will happen just this way-- you
WILL start tiny, in one place, build it up, until it becomes large and THEN
the Lord will promote you nationally.
Others of you however, will be suddenly promoted nationally, never having
been recognized locally. AFTER NATIONAL exposure, only THEN, will the Lord
have you grow something locally. Some of you will only grow nationally in an
itinerant ministry and NEVER build a local ministry.
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THE REVERSE IS TRUE, BY THE WAY
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Some of you, in this very hour are being given your PINK SLIPS to retire
from the "road" where you have had national and/or itinerant ministries and
the Lord is saying, "It's time to build a local ministry" or "It's time to
just come home and be happy ministering one-on-one to people I send you to,
while you make a living in town--or at your computer."
As the Prophet and Seer Bob Jones has been quoted as saying, "if you are
obeying the Lord, the pay is the same." So don't worry about the change.
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ASK GOD WHAT HE IS DOING WITH YOU!
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If God is both blessing you, prospering you, and giving you grace and peace,
then you are probably in the right place at the right time.
If you are NOT getting blessing, favor and peace, you must ask God, "Do I
fight to win my battle here, or have you withdrawn a measure of grace,
because I'm called to either a wider or more local ministry?"
You NEED to ask these questions. Seek the counsel of people who are Godly
and wise. But ultimately, you must obey the Holy Spirit.
God is doing a "suddenly" work for many of you. Your "job" is to ask what it
is exactly---that the Lord is suddenly doing for you!
Blessings,
Steve Shultz
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