A Spiritual Secret; How to Be Filled With the Spirit

I am going to tell you a secret. You ready for this, it’s a spiritual secret. It’s not my secret; it’s what the great missionary Hudson Taylor called “his spiritual secret. It deals with being filled with the Spirit or walking in the spirit. First, let’s establish the fact that we are commanded to walk in the Spirit 

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit,..Gal 5:16 

Synonymous to walking in the Spirit is being filled with the spirit. 

17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. 

18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Eph 5: 17-18 

Notice the comparison to being drunk, when someone is drunk they are influenced and controlled by alcohol. In the same way we are commanded to be controlled or filled with the Spirit. Now the question is; how? How can we be filled or walk in the Spirit? 

The great missionary Hudson Taylor had trouble with understanding how to be filled with the Spirit. I quote from his book Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret from a letter that he wrote. 

Perhaps I may make myself more clear if I go back a little. Well, dear, my mind has been greatly exercised for six or eight months past, feeling the need personally and for our Mission of more holiness, life, power in our souls. But personal need stood first and was the greatest. I felt the ingratitude, the danger, the sin of not living nearer to God. I prayed, agonized, fasted, strove, made resolutions, read the Word more diligently, sought more time for meditation — but all without avail. Every day, almost every hour, the consciousness of sin oppressed me. 

I knew that if only I could abide in Christ all would be well, but I could not. I would begin the day with prayer, determined not to take my eye off Him for a moment, but pressure of duties, sometimes very trying, and constant interruptions apt to be so wearing, caused me to forget Him. Then one’s nerves get so fretted in this climate that temptations to irritability, hard thoughts and sometimes unkind words are all the more difficult to control. Each day brought its register of sin and failure, of lack of power. To will was indeed “present with me,” but how to perform I found not… 

So, Hudson Taylor had a problem, he was not being successful in His Christian life and ministry—he realized he was not being filled with the Spirit. So, what is the solution to the problem? Hudson continues. 

All the time I felt assured that there was in Christ all I needed, but the practical question was — how to get it out. He was rich truly, but I was poor; He was strong, but I weak. I knew full well that there was in the root, the stem, abundant fatness, but how to get it into my puny little branch was the question. As gradually light dawned, I saw that faith was the only requisite — was the hand to lay hold on His fullness and make it mine. But I had not this faith… 

When my agony of soul was at its height, a sentence in a letter from dear McCarthy was used to remove the scales from my eyes, and the Spirit of God revealed to me the truth of our oneness with Jesus as I had never 

known it before. McCarthy, who had been much exercised by the same sense of failure but saw the light before I did, wrote (I quote from memory): 

“But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.” 

As I read, I saw it all! “If we believe not, he abideth faithful.” I looked to Jesus and saw (and when I saw, oh, how joy flowed!) that He had said, “I will never leave thee.” 

“Ah, there is rest!” I thought. “I have striven in vain to rest in Him. I’ll strive no more. For has not He promised to abide with me — never to leave me, never to fail me?” And, dearie, He never will. 

So, what is the solution to the problem? Faith—we are filled with the Spirit or walk in the Spirit by faith. Consider this verse. 

6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Col 2:6 

How did we receive the Lord? By faith. So, how do we walk in the Spirit? By faith. 

7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 2 Cor 5:7 

And here is the result in Hudson’s life 

The sweetest part, if one may speak of one part being sweeter than another, is the rest which full identification with Christ brings. I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize this; for He, I know, is able to carry out His will, and His will is mine. It makes no matter where He places me, or how. That is rather for Him to consider than for me; for in the easiest position He must give me His grace, and in the most difficult His grace is sufficient. It little matters to my servant whether I send him to buy a few cash worth of things, or the most expensive articles. In either case he looks to me for the money and brings me his purchases. So, if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in positions of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of great pressure and trial, much strength? No fear that His resources will prove unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me. 

And since Christ has thus dwelt in my heart by faith, how happy I have been! I wish I could tell you about it, instead of writing. I am no better than before. In a sense, I do not wish to be, nor am I striving to be. But I am dead and buried with Christ — ay, and risen too! And now Christ lives in me, and “the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” 

So, as we start our day, we should make sure our sins are confessed and ask God to fill us with His Spirit, that Jesus would speak through us, love through us, live through us and believe that He will—that is the key, we must believe He will. 

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 

7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. James 1:6,7 

Does not God say, if we ask anything according to His will that He will give it to us? It is God’s will for us to be filled with the Spirit, so if we ask in faith believing, He will do it! 

Not sure that you will go to heaven? The end times are knocking on the door and so is Jesus. He wants to save you; will you let him in? Find out what you must do to be saved, click here. 

Have you had your epiphany? You need to be prepared for the end times! Read The Coming Epiphany;—Your Guide to Understanding End Times Bible Prophecy.

A Confirmation for Financial Collapse and WW3 in the Fall of 2022?

 

As most of the regular readers to this website are aware; I believe that it is highly possible that some or all of the Seals of Revelation have been opened. 

However, I do believe that it is possible that we have already entered into the last 7 years. And I also believe it is possible that Seals 1 to 4 may have already been opened. 

And whenever the horses of the Apocalypse have finished running throughout the earth, we will see the New World Order arise, WW3, a worldwide financial collapse, and the death of 25% of the world’s population. 

Source: Where Are We in the End Times?

 

If that is the case then WW3 and a worldwide financial collapse may be just around the corner. This is especially true in light of the Shemitah and Jubilee cycles. 

So, will we see the financial fall continue? Will the Shemitah and Jubilee financial downturn cycles accelerate and continue into 2023? Will 9/25/2022—Elul 29—be a day of a major financial downturn? Will the false messiah show up during this Jubilee year? 

Source: The Shemitah and the Jubilee; Will the Fall Continue and Will the False Messiah Arrive?

 

Well, we may have just gotten a confirmation that WW3 and the financial collapse may be near to beginning. 

This move by Pope Francis aligns perfectly with the information provided to me over this past weekend, from Bankers/Financial people I had to "lean on" for information, revealed in my August 29 radio show. 

Those Bankers/Financial people told me on Saturday night-into-Sunday that THEY expect a massive financial collapse "within 3 to 4 weeks" the official commencing of World War 3, and a hyperinflationary period, wiping out societal function.  It's all in the archive of my August 29 radio show.   The notes I used for that show are HERE for subscribers to this site, who support it with $1 a week subscription. 

Source: Pope Instructs ALL Vatican Entities to Move all Funds to Vatican Bank Before September 30

 

So, where are we in the end times? Have the Seals been opened? Will the financial collapse accelerate, will 9/25-26/2022 be a pivotal date. Will the wars and rumors of wars that are happening right now ignite into WW3? Or will it ride out for another year? 

As always—time will tell. But regardless of when you should be prepared for those times for they will eventually be here and they will occur before the rapture. 

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:36 

Have you had your epiphany? You need to be prepared for the end times! Read The Coming Epiphany;—Your Guide to Understanding End Times Bible Prophecy. 

Not sure that you will go to heaven? The end times are knocking on the door and so is Jesus. He wants to save you; will you let him in? Find out what you must do to be saved, click here.

Where Are We in the End Times?

 

Where are we in the end times? I get that question from time to time, and the short and the long of it is, right now I do not think we can know for sure. 

However, I do believe that it is possible that we have already entered into the last 7 years. And I also believe it is possible that Seals 1 to 4 may have already been opened. 

And whenever the horses of the Apocalypse have finished running throughout the earth, we will see the New World Order arise, WW3, a worldwide financial collapse, and the death of 25% of the world’s population. 

Remember in light of other modes of transportation horses gallop relatively slowly so even though a Seal may be opened it could take a few years to come to fruition. 

The confirmation of this theory and an establishment of a definite timeline will be marked by the events prophesized in the Bible that will occur at or near the midpoint of the last 7 years. 

I believe the Seal 3 worldwide financial collapse and the Seal 4 death of 25% of the world’s population should be recognizable by most as a prophesized end times event that will signal that we are in the last 7 years. 

But the most definitive event, and one that will allow for the establishment of an end times timeline will be the takeover of the world by the antichrist at the three-and-a-half-year point. 

3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 

4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 

5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. Rev 13 3-5 

So, if the theory that we may already be in the last 7 years is correct and the last 7 years began in 2019, then the midpoint and the antichrist takeover will be in the spring of 2023. If the last 7 years began in 2020, then the midpoint and the antichrist takeover will be in the spring of 2024, so forth and so on. 

So, where are we in the end times? Right now, I do not think we can know for sure—time will tell. But please realize that the antichrist will take over the world and issue the mark of the beast before the rapture occurs and you should be prepared for that time which the Bible calls the great tribulation. 

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:36 

Have you had your epiphany? You need to be prepared for the end times! Read The Coming Epiphany;—Your Guide to Understanding End Times Bible Prophecy. 

Not sure that you will go to heaven? The end times are knocking on the door and so is Jesus. He wants to save you; will you let him in? Find out what you must do to be saved, click here.

The Shemitah and the Jubilee; Will the Fall Continue and Will the False Messiah Arrive?

 

The Feasts of Israel – Hebrew Calendars, New Moon, Sabbath Year, and the Jubilee Year – Bible.org Blogs

Update 9/26: Looks like it has begun Hal Turner Radio Show - PLUNGE: This isn't some Rinky-Dink Stock, it's the British Pound!

Markets and most currencies have been falling this year, and that is usually what happens in a Shemitah year, which we are in. The reason being, when a country or countries have departed from God’s ways they receive financial judgments as explained by Jonathan Cahn. 

Q: What’s the significance of the coming Jubilee in light of the Shemitah year? 

A: All of these things can cut both ways.  The Shemitah was a blessing for Israel when they followed God, but a judgment when they did not.   So too, the prophetic Jubilee was ultimately a blessing for the people of Israel, but a loss for the Islamic powers that held the land or that warred with Israel.  Both the Shemitah and Jubilee affirm the sovereignty of God over every part of life and that He is the true source of all sustenance and blessing.  For the world, it can mean shaking.  The Jubilee was, in a sense, a second Shemitah, extending its effects for another year.  On the other hand for those who are in the will of God, all of this can be a blessing – a time of freedom, release, and restoration. A time to be restored to what one has lost, to enter into one’s possession, one’s inheritance of God – a time of God’s favor.

https://www.daystar.com/news-updates/general-updates/beyond-the-shemitah-with-rabbi-jonathan-cahn/

And after this Shemitah year that began in September of 2021, according to Rabbi Fish we will enter a Jubilee year on 9/25/2022 and the same effects of a Shemitah year can extend into and be magnified in a Jubilee year. So, will the financial fall continue? 

PROMINENT MYSTIC: NEXT YEAR WILL BE THE FINAL JUBILEE, YEAR OF MESSIAH’S ARRIVAL BY ADAM ELIYAHU BERKOWITZ | JAN 12, 2022 | BIBLICAL NEWS 

And you shall hallow the fiftieth year. You shall proclaim release throughout the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you: each of you shall return to his holding and each of you shall return to his family. Leviticus 25:10 (The Israel BibleTM) 

Rabbi Fish said. “Rabbi (Oren) Evron informed me that next year, 5783, will be a Jubilee year and will usher in the Messiah.” Today, in the absence of a fully-functioning supreme Jewish court, known as the Sanhedrin, the Jewish community in Israel neither marks nor observes the Jubilee year. 

Rabbi Fish cited Rabbi Evron, “Every seven days since the creation of the world has been Shabbat. Every seven years since the creation of the world has been the Shemittah.” 

He noted that if the Hebrew year is divisible by seven, then it is a shemittah year. This year, for example, is 5782 which is the 826th shemittah year since the creation of the world. 

“Similarly, the Jubilee is the first year of the next shemittah cycle. This has been true since creation. This year is 5782, divided by 49 equals precisely 118. So next year is the 118th Jubilee since the creation of the world.

“The rabbis teach that the Messiah comes in the year following a Shemittah but they also teach that the Shemittah year will bring wars. 

Rabbi Fish noted that the genatria (Hebrew numerology) of the sentence, במוצא שביעית בן דוד בא after the Shemittah the Messiah/son of David arrives- is precisely 1,000. 

“One thousand plus the 118, the number of Jubilees since creation, equals 1,118, which in Gematria is the first line of Shema Yisrael declaring that God is king and God is one,” Rabbi Fish said. “After Messiah, after this Jubilee, the entire world will recognize that God is king and God is one.” 

In regards to the Messiah mentioned above; remember before the real Messiah—the Lord Jesus Christ—shows up at the Sixth Seal Day of the Lord and the rapture, the false messiah comes first. 

So will the Shemitah cycle that began in September 2021 and the Jubilee cycle which will begin on 9/25/22 bring about a financial crash? So far this is what the markets have done since September 2021. 

By June 16th, 2022, the S&P had fallen 23.55% from 4,796 to 3,666, though its currently unknown if the index will plunge below the level. The DJIA fell 18.78% since its January 4th high, while the Nasdaq Composite fell 33.70% from its November 19th high. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_stock_market_decline

Will the financial fall continue as the Shemitah and the Jubilee year progresses? Time will tell. BTW; If the calculations above are correct, then the last Jubilee year was 1972-3. And look what happened in that Jubilee year; on 1/11/73 the stock market began a crash. 

In the 694 days between 11 January 1973 and 6 December 1974, the New York Stock Exchange's Dow Jones Industrial Average benchmark suffered the seventh-worst bear market in its history, losing over 45% of its value. 

So, will we see the financial fall continue? Will the Shemitah and Jubilee financial downturn cycles accelerate and continue into 2023? Will 9/25/2022—Elul 29—be a day of a major financial downturn? Will the false messiah show up during this Jubilee year? 

I cannot answer those questions, but I believe we should all prepare for those possibilities. 

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:36 

You need to be prepared for the end times! Read The Coming Epiphany;—Your Guide to Understanding End Times Bible Prophecy. 

Not sure that you will go to heaven? The end times are knocking on the door and so is Jesus. He wants to save you; will you let him in? Find out what you must do to be saved, click here.

Taiwan: It's Part of the Plan

With Taiwan in the news let me remind you of something I read years ago and have posted about in the past--an article by Cutting Edge ministries in which it was explained that as part of the coming New World Order that China was promised she would get Taiwan.

An occult plan, devised originally in the early 1800's and continually updated since, envisions a very powerful role for China once the New World Order is finally established…

All this capability was planned in broad form by the Satanic Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, one of the most important documents ever written that detailed specifically how the world was to be moved into the New World Order…

Now, listen to the role which the Protocols assign to America and China after the New World Order and its Superman, Antichrist, have been established. The Protocols envision that, just perhaps, some nations might resist their Christ and his new global government. Listen:

"... if we allow the possibility of a general rising against us, we shall respond with the guns of America, or China ..." [Protocol #7, last paragraph]…

Now, let us get back to the issue of the 1952 Illuminati plan to give Taiwan back to China. As you can see from this Illuminist map of the world, above, Taiwan is shown as a part of China when the world is redrawn into military patrol zones, a plan that will occur well after Antichrist arises…

http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1944.cfm

So, when I read about the recent developments between China and Taiwan it reminds me that as we get closer to the Day of the Lord, if the plan is followed, China will take Taiwan back under its control.

Further, if it occurs, I would envision this as one of the events during Seals 1 to 4 of Revelation, possibly part of Seal 2—WW3. It is not difficult to imagine that as the Middle East is engulfed in the flames of WW3, of which the USA will most likely be a participant, that China would then strategically make her move against Taiwan.

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:36 

You need to be prepared for the end times! Read The Coming Epiphany;—Your Guide to Understanding End Times Bible Prophecy. 

Not sure that you will go to heaven? The end times are knocking on the door and so is Jesus. He wants to save you; will you let him in? Find out what you must do to be saved, click here.