ALMACENAMIENTO DEL VINO TEMPRANILLO

A devotion to be presented on 6-13-06, at the San Antonio Salvation Army A.R.C. Edward Eiland.

Good morning. I had three possible devotions present themselves as soon as I signed up for today, but when I made a call to my best buddy and spiritual advisor since 1975, He suggested this one: What Can We Pray For or How Large Can We Pray, And Can God Handle It?). Asking this Dude for advice, it turns out, and receiving His loving guidance is not an experience unique to me alone: I have talked with several good brothers here who have asked Jesus, Who is Lord and the soon-coming Messiah and King of this planet, for the right devotion and/or help in fi ne-tuning it, and have found the actual thoughts come into their minds that are directly from the Creator and Sustainer of the universe. Others of you have seen obvious responses from Him, and acts of His grace, in other ways. I must admit, when I asked for a show of hands at my last devotion of anyone who had seen an actual answer to prayer, or an act of grace, from this supernatural God, I was blown away that almost every hand in the dining room went up. Amen?

I saw my fi rst answer to prayer in 1974. After two academic degrees and eighteen years of education, it totally shattered my culturally-imposed ideas of what constitutes “reality”, namely, that there is a supernatural aspect to our beings, -each and every one of us- in addition to our “physical” existence, and that this dimension is only a minute part of the hugeness of what we are, as sons of an infi nite Father. You may know that a hologram is an image of light, such as those that were created by futuristic technology in the movie Star Wars. What you may not know is that through advances in modern physics scientists have broken down particles of matter into smaller and smaller units, way smaller than atoms into sub-atomic particles, until they have found out that we are not made of matter, but of energy, or light, shaped into what we interpret as “physical” matter. Brothers, we are holographic, (multi-

dimensional) images, or emanations, of Divine Light, originating directly from the Source, Who explores Himself through each and every one of us as we, through His Grace, and the example He set by coming to walk among us, fi nd our way back to Oneness with His will and His eternal spiritual Laws. We are, indeed, literally, made in His image.

This supernatural Aspect of ourselves is what we engage, and progressively strengthen, just like a physical muscle, when we pray, or, as I have heard it, become co-creators with God. Oh, and once made aware of this talent, you have the very heavy responsibility to use it for the good of all mankind. This is especially true in these Last Days, to counteract and aggressively attack Satan as he becomes fully active here, full of wrath, knowing he has little time left before the return of the Messiah, Jesus.

Some scriptural references to prayer:

Mat 6:33 But seek fi rst the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Heb 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Mat 17:20 For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

Mat 21:22 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

Mar 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Joh 14:12 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

Joh 14:14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

How many of us realize that we can pray for anything, and our exalted brother Jesus, Who created the universe, and to Whom we can speak directly, will hear us, and if our prayer is for spiritual purposes, -in His will- it will set in motion, in the “future”, what will eventually arrive to us in the “present”, in His timing, as the actual manifestation of that prayer. This is true for whatever we are praying for, no matter how large or small. We are only held back in what we can pray for by those limitations we, or others, have placed upon us, and ultimately, once we are mature, perhaps by Satan, who does not want us to realize how powerful prayer is or the potential each and every one of us has to become a prayer- warrior-in God, and to counteract, and aggressively attack, him in these Last Days. These limitations on our thinking, concepts of “reality”, and ultimately our prayers, have been imposed from different sources: no doubt originally as a child, where every one of us were trained to conceive of ourselves as merely physical beings in a physical dimension, and later perhaps, as myself, through a lack of spiritual training in the home, or through association with one of the many spiritually-dead Latter Day “churches”, who talk about God but not to Him, and do not teach that it is possible to have a deeply personal, one-on- one relationship with Him and access to His unlimited power. Again, we are supernatural beings, having awesome latent, or sleeping, supernatural power within us to shape the “future” through prayer before it gets to us, -this being on individual, collective, and global levels.

Joh 1:12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Joh 10:34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

In closing, please join me in a series of prayers, as examples of what we can ask for, and thus help Him create, in earth as it is in heaven, as is our birthright. Brothers, if you will, just an Amen, verbally or in spirit:

To the day ahead, we claim it in Jesus’ Name and Authority. Amen.

To our entire future ahead, from these moments forward, we claim it in Jesus’ Name and Authority. Amen.

We claim our families and our relationship with each and every one of them, and that they be absolutely protected, guided, and blessed by Jesus and His largest Warrior Angels. Amen.

We ask, and affi rm, His blessings upon every person who has ever wronged us, or whom we have wronged. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

We ask, and affi rm, and give thanks for total and perfect healing and perfect health upon Mrs. Captain Wilson, and for Chaplain Mena’s wife, Janie, and for anyone in our family or whom we love, both through supernatural, divine healing and through the Anointing of the Holy Spirit upon their doctors. By His stripes, they are healed. In Jesus’ Name and Authority, Amen.

We ask for, and give joyous thanks for having received, total and perfect healing and total and perfect freedom from and control over addiction. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

We ask for huge blessings upon those in godly authority here in our A.R.C., and for their families, for their service to the Lord in helping us, and we ask, and affi rm, that the Holy Spirit overshadow all aspects of the facility, the program, and its participants. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

We claim all those still in prison in Jesus’ Name, that they be given opportunity to know of His closeness, salvation, and forgiveness, -that He is with them wherever they may be, and that the Holy Spirit overshadow all who call upon Him in all future interactions with the legal system: judges, lawyers, and parole boards, and where appropriate, every aspect of their return to society. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

who are in physical combat with the armies of Satan, anywhere on this planet, and total victory in Jesus’ Name and in the power and ferocity of His largest Warrior Angels. Amen.

We ask, and affi rm in Jesus’ Name, that all needs will be met for all those on the planet that are in want: shelter, clothing, food, clean water, freedom from war, and perfect health and freedom from all diseases, including addiction, and for an overfl owing of blessings upon those organizations that help those in need. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

And lastly:

We claim this planet and all its peoples, and all of Nature, in Jesus’ Name and Authority, and in so doing we affi rm, boldly and aggressively, the birth of the prophesied Kingdom Age, through the return of Messiah Jesus and the Angelic Hosts in power and ferocity and glory. Amen.

Thank you, brothers. Now we know what Paul meant when he said, Pray without ceasing. Have a blessed day, literally.