When
you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in
spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, (hand this man over to Satan
for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved on the
Day of the Lord.)1 Corinthians 5.4 I'm not really focussing on the
context....and anyway it worked so well, in the next letter,Paul had to
write the opposite....Go easy, the guy's turned
round. No it's the first phrase that has gripped me for several years.
You see every church aims to assemble in the name of the Lord, but
denominations and evangelicals stop there, and charismatics stop at the
power bit. But as Evan Roberts found there was another bit too. "until I
am with you in spirit" Well spiritists would just say...well it's
obvious just have a seance and get Paul's spirit. Well Paul hadn't died,
so it wasn't that. Paul had the spiritual gift of laying an apostolic
foundation. But is that all it is? I don't think so. David Swan writes
in Holy of Holies "The charismatic move is a mixed place." The Spirit is
there but the majority of people haven't a clue who they are yet.
People who have the Kingdom of God written in them properly by the
Spirit bring another order to a meeting. Evan Roberts of the Welsh
revival used to lead with his face to the floor. The more leaders and
worship leaders familiarise themselves with the actual New Covenant
written in them so they become living letters, the more they will be
able to say like Paul....when you gather in Jesus Name and that spirit
that I brought among you....then do this...or that.... This is also the
meaning behind Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for
anything in My name, He will give it to you. Asking in My Name has an
individual setting and a corporate setting. Churches should take more
and more care about whose Name they are gathering in in order to have
their prayers answered. It is a specific Order in the Spirit. It is
literally entering the NOW order of a living God, the Melchizedek order
of the New priesthood,corporately experienced. It is NOT the aegis of
one man's ministry. Once the priesthood is more fully prepared across
the earth, it frankly doesn't matter who does what, the same Presence
will be manifest in every location where saints gather. They will know
it and recognise it.
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