Volume 1, Issue 9

From the Presbytery

December 2013
had to relearn how to pray and connect with Him for myself. I had to relearn how to depend on His Spirit more than I could depend on my ability. My abilities were being temporarily seized and my influence was being challenged by my lack of strength. I became weak in the areas that I once spoke confidently in. I needed my hope rekindled. This issue could not have been fixed by an event or a service. This had to be remedied by a series of real interactive encounters with my ruler. When I started communicating more fervently with my source, I remembered that I had inside connections with majesty. Sometimes we pray and we are doing it out of good discipline and then there are times when we go in that we literally touch the throne. When are your prayers most effective? I had to find my secret place again. I had to clean off and recreate an altar where I could sanctify myself again before His presence. My supplication is that I want to be clean as He is clean (whatever that looks like in every area, according to His righteous Judgments) . In the midst of it all He showed me some remarkable things

that I do not stand alone in this. Many of you have been promoted in the spirit and have experienced a greater measure of pressure than ever before during these last 12 months. As you sought after the things of Yah with everything, you discovered that the accumulation of knowledge can sometimes be the cause of madness. Knowledge is good when it increases our skill and cultivates humility in us but it can also be a prideful beast if Press on, Keep the faith! we idolize knowledge without cherishing its counterpart: Practical application. Grace Priests! I pray you have Application grounds us in the been triumphant this year. For spirit of the word so that we are me it has been a series of trials not simply hearers but we should and obstacles, one after the aspire to be achievers of His other. With every promotion word. Faith without works is comes opposition. A host of spir- dead. A man who thinks he has its will come to test you to see if faith but has not fortified to match his deeds with his reyou want to keep your inherisearch will find himself questiontance. They come to see what your armor is made out of. Your ing what reality is. I was asking God am I bi-polar? We can accuser wants to see if you will think some crazy things when we still serve Yahweh hard even are wounded in war. Like me, when you are in anguish. Will you may have questioned your you curse God when you are sanity at one point. If so, it is ok. His grace is sufficient for you. If found in the pit? you have kept your righteous I have been in the lowest valmind, that is great. I encourage leys of my life this year. I was you to continue to keep it. Me, commissioned to Apostleship on the other hand, I went as far and all hell broke loose. I trust as to question my humanity. I

about me and about Himself. I remembered that He really is a deliver (rescuer, savior). I remembered that even when He does not deliver me from the storm, I find deliverance in the storm. How can you be delivered in a storm without being delivered from it? It simply means that He will not take away the condition, but He fortifies you so that the condition acts as an agent that He uses to bring out your best qualities. He does not like when you suffer. He desires for you to be full in joy and have perfect peace. But I understand that I do not have a framework to even understand the peace that He gave me without being in a circumstance of suffering. Only then do I realize the peace that I have. This is why it is called peace that surpasses all understanding. His peace goes beyond all human reasoning and analysis. His peace is instinctively in you being dispensed as you need it all the time. It is not something you have to work for, it is something you come to understand and just receive by faith.

happen to us all. In the height of our exaltation we can experience the greatest feelings of loneliness and despair but I encourage you to press. Press when you are in your darkest hour. Press on. Press and He will illuminate your direction. Press on. Sometimes He will lead you to quiet streams and at other times He will lead you into the wilderness. We belong to Him and He is our Sovereign King. It is our duty to remain in good graces with His favor all the time despite the situation.. But He wants to do more than lead us or work us. He wants fix us and heal us. The great Physician desires to heal our brokenness. The Doctor/ Teacher in Him desires to eradicate the wrong thinking that attached itself to our health. Poor doctrine leads to poor living which leads to physical and emotional decay. So, Yahweh is concerned with our inner healing. He wants to get to the authentic you. Whatever it takes, He will get the treasure that He is going after. There are precious jewels of life that are buried in the depths of your inner-man. A wise man knows how to call forth the deep So, there is peace in suffering. and go in to the deep places. There is a righteous standard in This is what I encourage you to you even when you may still be do if you are still feeling lost and not really sure about where you handling wickedness. It is His truth inside of you that is leading are spiritually located. Dont be arrogant, say thank you for your you to the storm. It is His effecmercy oh Father, Thank you for tive power you compelling you to your grace. I need you. I love transform from the inside out. you. I desire you first above anyThe storm was going to come thing else. Teach me your ways anyway. It rains on the just and so that I might please you. Dont be ashamed. This is real the unjust. Time and chance

warfare. Wounds are real, but Victory is promised. Life and trauma has a way of causing us to depend more heavily on the voice of the Most High. His voice is not just sound and effects. His voice has life and light within it.

Keep the Faith and Press on, Terrance L. Frederick, Apostle

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