A TIME OF VISITATION

Hi Steve,

Got the following in the mail today, and typed it up to share on the Internet...it is from this minister's newsletter. Bob has ministered around the Pacific North West alot. They are currently out of Bend, Oregon...I can't remember where they were located before that.

Meri Burlingame

(Captitol letters represent things otherwise in italics)

August 26, 1997

In December of 1996 I shared with you some insights concerning 1997. I said that '97 would be a year much like what was discussed in 1 Samuel 15.God caused a '"deep sleep" to come over Saul's camp while he was out searching for David. Everyone slept as David entered and took Saul's spear. '97 will provide a great "window of opportunity to see souls saved". Just as God opened the door for David to go in and conquer, the Lord is going to open the door for believers to see the handiwork of God in these special days we live in. It is described in scripture as a "day of visitation."

This idea of a special, opportune or seasonable time of harvest and divine outpouring comes from the Greek word KAIROS. This special word is used by Jesus in Luke 19:43-44 when He dais, "For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave one stone upon another because you did not know the TIME OF YOUR VISITATION." KAIROS

IN ROMANS 5:6 THE LORD USES KAIROS IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE CROSS. "For when we were still without strength, in due time Jesus died for the ungodly." Kairos

In 1 Timothy 2:6, Paul says, Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified IN DUE TIME," Kairos.

Ephesians 1:10 states "that the dispensation of the FULLNESS OF THE TIMES (kairos) He might gather together in one all things in Christ, which are in heaven and on earth."

Matthew 13:30 discussess the parable of the wheat and the tares. Jesus said, "Let them grow together until the harvest, at the TIME OF THE HARVEST (kairos) I will say to the reapers, "First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn."

The Lord spoke to me that the church in America is going to have two visitations: One is a KAIROS Time. A divine appointment with God. This visitation will produce fruit, more fruit, much fruit and lasting fruit (John 15). God will "visit the camp" so to speak with a great army and take the spoils. There will be an unprecedented number of souls saved and some of the people you thought would never respond, will. There will be another visitation from Satan that will be a great demonic onlsought bent on stressing out the saints. Demons will be sent to the prayer closets of many believers to distract, influence and desensitize them as they are praying. Many Christian young people will be battered in the night with dark, unexplainable dreams that will cause them to worry, worry, worry! Many will be so focused on the unexplained that they will miss the day of visitation of the Lord Jesus Christ to their household. A word of caution" Focus in on the sure word of God. Be careful of the fuzzy, unfounded, ungodly, dark, half-truth concepts that will come in the night, and they will come.

About visitations...I remember speaking at a New Year's Eve service many years ago where a lady stood up and testified that in the previous year, 89 people in her family got saved. It was quite a testimony of the Lord walking into the lineage of a family and changing things for eternity. That year was her kairos time. I believe that God wants to walk into everyone's lineage and make eternal changes. May God help us to recognize the day of visitation to our country, family and home.

Bob Laflin
PO Box 6646
Bend, Oregon