Wheel Wing Meeting July, 2024
Psa 136:17-18 To Him who struck great kings; for His mercy endures forever; and killed famous kings; for His mercy endures forever:
We all know in the history of Israel how the sovereign Lord brought all the kings who had occupied the land of Canaan under divine judgment, destroyed them and gave this land to His chosen People, the Israelites. In Psalm 136, king David recollects all that the Lord did for Israel and invokes the current generation to praise and thank the Lord for His mercies.
The Lord had given a warning that the Church in India and the Church in the whole world is going to enter into a new era. In this new era ( from 2007) a prophetic generation will emerge. They will bring a new anointing – the new wine. This new wine was to be collected in new wineskins. The old wineskins (old hierarchical structure) could not hold the new wine . If they try, they would burst and the wine would spill.
Among the reputed Christian leaders, who are living today, some are found to be fallen from grace.
They are not responsible for this fall. But the system they are in made them fall.
The system which the institutional Church follows is the worst kind of dictatorship in the world. It keeps one person at the centre of everything.
In history this system started with Nimrod in Genesis chapter 10.
This system wrongly teaches that the leader of a Church is a king in charge of his kingdom.
They are the “Anointed dictators” in this kingdom.
The leaders have mesmerized their believers to believe wrong things and made them customers in their kingdom.
Only those who have come out of this system can gaze at this from afar and realize the depth of this fallacy.
Dear soldiers of the Army of Jesus,
The Lord has brought us out of this dangerous trap. But we should be careful not to fall into such a trap again.
Every soldier should be made to depend only on God in whom he/she should put all his trust.
Our human nature is corrupt to such an extent that the human inclination for power and popularity kept the Church of Jesus Christ in darkness for 1700 years. It could easily swallow up the results of Reformation brought by Martin Luther in 1500 A.D.
It could even quench the powerful fire brought to the Christian world by Azusa Revival in 1900 A.D.
Let each soldier of AOJ ask himself/herself these 7 questions to oneself every day before they go to bed,
- Is there any “Isaac” in my life because of whom I might be put to test like Abraham.
- Who is the closest person in my life?
- Is he/she a help or hindrance in my life to serve God with all my heart, all my soul, all my spirit and with all my strength.
- If it is the will of God to take that person away from my life, what will be my immediate response and reaction?
- Will I still serve the Lord with the same fervour as I am doing now?
- Do I keep myself free from the 3 weapons of satan, pride, the influence of money, and attachment to people or places? (the world)
- Can I pray wholeheartedly the prayer of the Psalmist “Turn away my eyes from seeing vanity” Psa 119:37
If anything or any one that deprives you of your 100% trust in God, the Lord in his jealousy might even take it away from one’s life. Or the Lord might even turn him as the number 1 enemy to you. We might even come to a wrong conclusion that
“This fellow cheated me. I trusted him. But he was not faithful”.
But it is not that fellow but, God who is against you.
God has turned him against you because He cannot tolerate your drifting away from Him because of that person. God cannot allow you lose your destiny because of that person.
It can be even your own son, daughter, wife , husband, mother, father, relative, employee, etc. who is very close to you.
The purpose of God in giving us any gift (husband, wife, father, mother , children, companion, friends, relatives etc is to build His kingdom on earth.
Jer 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, So says Jehovah, I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothals, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Jer 2:3 Israel was holiness to Jehovah, and the firstfruits of His increase. ……, says Jehovah.
But when they were brought to the land and enjoyed all its fruits, they forgot Him and became unfaithful.
The Lord even passes judgment against His people who went away from Him.
When we take the history of the Church, there were great kings who ruled over the Christian Kingdoms. Right from the time the Church was established as a royal religion in Rome, till today satan raised many kings who wanted to rule over the people of God like the kings of the world.
Jesus rightly said about them,
Luk 22:25 And He said to them, The kings of the nations exercise lordship over them. And they who exercise authority on them are called benefactors.
- They exercise lordship over them
- They exercise authority on them
- They are called benefactors.
This kind of lordship started from Nimrod.
But Jesus brought another kind of leadership into this world. An entirely opposite kind of leadership.
Luk 22:26 But you shall not be so: but the greater among you, let him be as the lesser, and he who governs, as one who serves.
Jesus practised it and became a model for it.
Jesus never had any assistant, helper, peon, clerk in his ministry.
He just called 12 people to follow Him. They did. But they were all in human thinking, unfit, disqualified in every way to be the founders of the biggest organization which the world has ever seen.
But by ministering to them and serving them until the last breath, Jesus made them great leaders , also, made them competent to hold their portfolio.
He never kept anyone of them as His own. He never claimed ownership over them. Rather He was willing to send them to the world. This was His prayer;
Joh 17:9 I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
He sent them to the world ; to preach whatever He they have heard from their Master, whatever they have seen in their Master and to execute whatever they have been entrusted with.
Let us make Jesus as our only model for our ministry. Let us never keep anyone under us or with us permanently. Any soldier at any time should be free to go to any place as per the will of God.
Sr. Angelica AJ