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"'FOUR YEARS
OF COLLEGE' OR 'ONE' WORD OF KNOWLEDGE! SOME THINGS CANNOT BE TAUGHT...THEY CAN
ONLY BE CAUGHT!"
by Bill Yount
www.billyount.com
theshofarhasblown@juno.com
September 14, 2004
 Since
the attack against my heart over a year ago, I am constantly being attacked by healing!
Since that attack, I have discovered that I now have a ministry of "full-time" breathing!
I love it! I enjoy breathing. Breathing qualifies us to be full-time worshippers!
I have often studied about healing, but lately I am learning that we can study all
about healing and still miss the Healer! We can study all about deliverance and
still miss the Deliverer! Sometimes it's not our education, but it's our location
in relation to Jesus that we find real answers. I am finally able to enjoy hanging
around with the One whose stripes have already healed me! Just to be able to rub
shoulders with the Ancient of Days strengthens my heart more than anything else.
Did you know that Jesus called many of His disciples just to be with Him? I think
Jesus knew that much of their knowledge and wisdom would ultimately come through
just being with Him. Just to be still and know that He was God would become their
greatest education on earth. The world took notice that these unlearned men who
had turned the world upside down, had been with Jesus!
A Father's words to his children are so powerful. Before Jesus ever entered into
ministry, the heavens opened up and He heard the most powerful words ever spoken
to Him. "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." After that, nothing
ever stopped Jesus from His purpose and destiny. The devil couldn't. The cross became
a launching pad. And after three days in the tomb, death shouted from the grave..."We
better let Him go, His Father is coming to raise Him up!"
"Resting in Your Father's Love
For You Will Give You Revelation Like Nothing Else Will!"
Jesus told the apostle John something that caused
John to outlast every other disciple..."As the Father has sent Me, so send I you!"
From that moment on, John had the revelation that the Father of glory really loved
him and was sending him, and John never stopped. He became famous for being called
the "beloved." He often rested on Jesus' breast, listening to the wisdom of God
in a heartbeat. John the Beloved showed up at the cross when all the other disciples
were running away in fear. Why wasn't John afraid? Perfect love casts out all fear,
even the fear of dying! John is still found hanging around the garden tomb when
Jesus was dead. John just had a knack for hanging around the one he loved, because
the One who knew him best loved him most. It's believed that John lived to be the
oldest of the disciples and, in his older years, he ends up on the isle of Patmos
as a castaway for the gospel. As I begin reading the book of Revelation, the first
words I hear coming out of John on that lonely island was..."I was in the Spirit
on the Lord's day!"
I wanted to say, "Wait a minute, John. You should be discouraged by now and depressed."
But here is John the Beloved in the Spirit. He must have really believed that every
morning he woke up that "this is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice
and be glad in it!" Every day was perhaps a Sabbath day for him. Sabbath means rest.
I personally believe John was on that lonely island resting in His Father's loving
arms wrapped around him and out comes oozing the whole book of Revelation! We are
still trying to study and figure that book out and it just oozed out of John, resting
in his Father's love for him.
Rest will give you revelation! Resting in your Father's love for you will give you
revelation like nothing else will. John gets so much revelation that one church
can't hold it all; so he ends up writing to seven churches and continues to write
a whole book and names it the book of Revelation! I am not against education, but
"four years of college or one word of knowledge"? It still matters who you know
and who you hang out with. As you get to know the Father more and spend time with
Him, His wisdom and knowledge just rubs off!
Have You Left Your First
Love?
All John can say, as he is intoxicated with the Father's love for him and every
church, is..."You have left your first love!" I honestly use to feel guilty reading
that scripture, because I always feel I keep falling short in loving God back like
I should. But John, in his epistle, explains what love really is. He says in 1 John
4:10, "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he first loved us."
The Lord is saying, "I started loving you first. Return to me for I am not finished
loving you!" Jude exhorts us to "Keep yourselves in the love of God." Keep
yourself in His love, for you and it will cause you to naturally want to love Him
in return.
1 Corinthians 13 tells us that if we have all knowledge and have not love, we are
nothing. I believe we can turn this verse around and say..."If we have God's love
we have all knowledge, because we know the One who knows everything and He will
show us great and mighty things that we know not of."
"Your Father is in the House!"
My daughter, Danielle, works in a restaurant. One day she came home from work and
said, "Dad, every time I take an order from a table and take it into the kitchen
to the cook, the cook is giving me a hard time."
I said to my daughter, "What do you want me to
do?" I really wanted to do something unscriptural, but finally
agreed in prayer with her that the Lord would take care of the cook.
Long story short, the cook is no longer there.
A month went by and I forgot the incident; my daughter was off work that day and
I took my son out to eat supper at that restaurant. We happened to sit near the
kitchen. A waitress came and took our order and, as she walked into the kitchen
to give the cook our order, I overheard her say to the cook, "Danielle's father
is in the building!" (I'm glad he didn't come out to see how tall I was...) That's
all she said to him. The next day my daughter goes to work and comes home at the
end of the day. She said, "Dad, that cook is different! He's treating me different,
like he respects me."
The Enemy Cannot Handle
a Father's Love for His Children
I want to tell you something that hell never wanted you to know. Every time I even
think of telling someone this secret in the Spirit, I see the devil packing his
luggage and fleeing from your front door seven ways! Listen carefully..."Your Father
is in the House!" And whatever has been coming against you from the enemy, using
other people or the devil himself, your Father is going to take care of it. I just
saw the Father's foot stepping into your life, your household, your job, your situation.
I sense the Father saying to you, "Your battle is over! Your war has ceased! I will
take over from here!"
The enemy cannot handle a Father's love for His children. It wiped him out at the
cross!
Rest in your Father's love for you. Be still and know that He is God inside of you,
the hope of glory! Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world!
1 Corinthians 1:30
"But of Him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made
unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption..."
He is our all in all!
Are you hanging out with Jesus? Have you rubbed shoulders with Him lately? Check
your location. As we draw near to Him, His Holy Spirit will teach us all things,
for we have an anointing that abides.
"Your Father is in the House!"
Bill Yount
Hagerstown, MD
www.billyount.com
theshofarhasblown@juno.com
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Bill Yount's Itinerary:
September 30th - Oct. 2nd
Passion For His Presence - Worship/Dance Conference
Family Worship Center, Beckley, West Virginia
October 10th - 11th
Conference at New Life Worship Center
Sarasota, Florida
Oct. 10th am & pm and the 11th at 7pm
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About Bill Yount:
Bill Yount has been a member of Faith Chapel in Hagerstown, Maryland, where he is
now an Elder and a home missionary for the past twenty-five years. He faithfully
served in Prison Ministry at Mount Hope Inc. for twenty-three years and now travels
full-time, ministering in churches and Aglow circles. He is currently an Advisor
at Large for Women's Aglow International.
Bill's calling is to encourage the Body of Christ to move forward into God's Destiny
as they are sent into the Harvest field. "Humility and Humor" characterize his ministry
as he brings forth a fresh word that is "in season" proclaiming the word of the
Lord! The shofar or ram's horn is often used in his meetings breaking the powers
of darkness over regions, churches, and households. The shofar represents God's
breath blowing into the nostrils of His people, reviving them and awakening the
lost. He travels across the U.S. and at times abroad. Many of God's messages that
he ministers prophetically come out of everyday life with his family and friends.
Bill's wife, Dagmar, ministers at times with him. They have three children: Naomi,
Danielle, and Joel.
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bring strength, hope, joy, and confirmation of those things the Lord is doing in
your life. You will also get a glimpse of the purposes of God for His people Israel,
for the Body of Christ, and for those yet to come into His Kingdom."
- Jane Hansen, President, Aglow International, Edmonds, Washington
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