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This is an encouraging and edifying word by Bill Yount. TEAMWORK, UNITY and RELATIONSHIP seem to be on the forefront of God's mind right now. Let's all take this to heart, and remember, as Bill says below, "how we walk with God is more important than just winning a game." Bill states that VICTORY, in God's perspective, is walking with God in this life until we reach our eternal home.
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Blessings,
Steve Shultz
Bill Yount:
"God's Strategy for Us to Win the Last Day 'Spiritual' World Series"
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work!
I saw a vision of a baseball team representing the Body of Christ in the last day "spiritual" world series. The Lord really impressed upon me the vital importance of teamwork in these last days. It was the bottom of the ninth inning. We had the bases loaded and needed one run to win.
The count was three balls and two strikes and you were the batter up. It seemed like this was the moment you always dreamed of. You stood at the threshold of a miraculous win. Right now your childhood dreams run wild as you imagine swinging your bat and connecting for a grand slam home run. Your team would not only win but your name would become a household word and talked about around the world.
Your phone would start ringing with interviews with Fox News and CNN, and Wheaties would bless you with a sizeable offering to make you a hero for the breakfast of champions. Other offerings from book publishers, magazines and TV commercials would flood your life. Even just a base hit would do the same, as your name would go down in history! As you stand there and whisper a prayer, surely this would be the moment God would remember you and your ministry as the pitcher winds up to throw that three-balls-and-two-strikes pitch.
What if God Told You that the Next Pitch was Going to Be a "Ball" and that You Were NOT to Swing Your "Bat"?
I heard very clearly from the Lord that the very next pitch that would be thrown to you would be a "ball" and you were to be careful not to swing your bat at all! I sense the Lord saying, "Everything within you is going to want to swing your bat on this next pitch to hit this next ball. Your flesh is trembling to swing, but a clear warning from the Lord is...'Don't swing!'
"If you don't swing, you will get a walk to first base and the man on third will automatically walk home to win the game, and your team will win. This win would not be as glorious on your part and you would not be known as the hero, but God would get the greater glory as the team celebrated their corporate victory!"
Philippians 2:3-5 "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."
This Ball being Thrown Became a Wild Pitch for Many—Hitting Many!
I saw this 3-2 pitch coming in outside of the strike zone turning wild, hitting some batters this hour, as it comes at the batter like a deranged missile!
But wait just a minute...as one batter takes a hit and shakes off the pain, there's something he doesn't do that makes him a star in God's eyes in the game: He doesn't look back at the pitcher who wounded him! Instead he proudly trots down to first base. Silently his character speaks so loudly that it fills the stadium with reverence and awe and seems to say, "Thank you, Mr. Pitcher, you didn't strike me out, I still made it to first base and we win!"
TAKE THE HIT!
Don't get upset and angry and curse the pitcher. Take the hit! The pitcher just did you a big favor. Getting hit still gets you on base, and the man on third walks home, and your team goes down in history winning this world series!
No More "Spiritual" Steroids Will be Used to Pump Up a Move of God!
I sense the Lord was not after us to do some great thing in this last day "spiritual" world series, even though the whole world was watching us. No heroes made from "spiritual" steroids. Victory, from God's perspective, was just to get a walk out of us. His dream for us was just to walk with Him from "home" to glory! A walk that would be a witness to the world that how we walk with God is more important than just winning a game!
Many on this Team had Failed to Take a Seventh Inning Stretch!
As the seventh inning stretch came, many on this team didn't take their seventh inning stretch. They instead used this time to practice swinging their bats (their ministries) and flexing their muscles (spiritual gifts). As a few stood still and began stretching out their arms, I saw fewer still suddenly appear to be on crosses.
The greatest supernatural key event in the whole game began to take place: a revelation of death to self, death to giftings, death to ministries was taking place through the Holy Spirit in these few. As they began dying to self, their eyes were being opened to prefer and esteem their team members above themselves. That's when the winning anointing began to fall upon them.
Bill Yount
Blowing the Shofar Ministries
Email: theshofarhasblown@juno.com
June 26, 2009 (7pm-10pm)
Isaiah 61 Ministries
Mt. Zion Methodist Church
1643 Churchville Road; Bel Air, Maryland
Contact: 410-679-3953 or 410-679-5947
July 12, 2009 (10am)
Activation Ministry Center
166 S. Lookout Mountain Rd; Golden, Colorado
Contact: 303-670-1319
July 19, 2009 (10am)
Zion Assembly of God
13814 Village Mill Dr; Maugansville, Maryland
Contact: 301-739-3888
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