Like Rungs On A Ladder

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Vision for the timeline of God and Prophesy are determined and based in part on which rung of the ladder you are standing on. Not all believers have the same God vision as we are all in different places with Him. This is important to say because what happens is that we fall into the idea-trap that we are smarter than others without a full and complete assessment of where they are with God.

I will tell you a mystery that is usually excluded from the judgement calculation used by the rambunctious little Christian kidletts. 

Matt 6:5-7 - “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

There was once a guy who was challenged by a Pastor and invited to a prayer meeting. Oh the Pastor thought he might just well pray that Evangelist right under the table. Oh now come on, you know that you yourself may have been inclined to impress someone or a group at a prayer meeting in that you could, you know, pray real good prayers, and since no one waited around to see if those prayers would ever get answered, it may well have just been assumed, that the exotic prayer from you was good enough, and that there would be no way that God would overlook such an oratorical display and simply ignore such requests. Ha, but not in this prayer meeting. You see the Evangelist had a secret place prayer time in which no one was invited, and it was in such a place that he got ahold of Gods heart and would get God responses. Gods presence would show up and all the while, no one was there to see the display given in private. Oh they saw the secret-place-prayers manifest in public ministry and this is why the secret place holds all the value within your personal relationship with God.

So the Evangelist showed up last to the prayer meeting as it must have been thought that perhaps, given the Evangelist reputation, they should get a jump start you know as if this was a contest to see who knows God better. Korah and his clan along with Meriam and Arron attempted to play the same game. You can read all about it in Numbers chapter 12 and 16.

Now they were all making their usual prayer noises which is common amongst those who think God is deaf. But when the Evangelist, who by practice, brought his secret place with him, started to pray, one by one they crawled out of the “public prayer room” until know one was left but the Evangelist. Smith Wigglesworth probably knew was these game-player Pastors were up to and though it would be a good idea to use the opportunity to humble them. Whether it worked or not was not disclosed in the story but perhaps by our hearing the story it will help us. 

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