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THE DANGERS OF THROWING ROCKS!
by Kathie Walters
A Special Note by
Steve Shultz:
 Dear
Elijah List Readers,
Kathie Walters wanted me to be clear with you that this is not an article saying
that any kind of sin is "ok." This article is certainly not about that. It's about
when you come across someone caught in sin, what do you do? And here's just a hint...Did
you know that you can "point" at sin...in your heart? An Angel told William Branham
one day, "Tell the people that their thoughts are heard louder in heaven than their
words."
You don't want to be caught, with God watching (which is all the time), "pointing
the finger" or "throwing stones" at others caught in sin. Pray for them, restore
them, but don't judge them in your heart.
Oh, plus it's in the Word...just in case you were wondering...
Isaiah 58:9-12
(NIV)
"If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious
talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs
of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will
become like the noonday. The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your
needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a
well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Your people will rebuild
the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called
Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.
John 8:7-11
"If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her..."
...Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned
you?"
"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you..."
By the way, at the end
of this article you can read about Kathie's book, "THE SPIRIT OF FALSE JUDGMENT."
This is one of Kathie's most popular books that we carry by her.
Be blessed,
Steve Shultz
THE ELIJAH LIST
I was taking a few days off with my
eldest daughter, Faith, and two of her children in Chattanooga, Tennessee - it's
nice to take a break sometimes - while my husband David took my other grandson,
Zion, to Bermuda where he is doing a week long camp.
SOMETIMES, GOD INTERRUPTS YOU
As I was standing in the line at the IMAX theater, suddenly my right shoulder felt
as if it went completely out of joint. Understand, it didn't really come out of
joint, it just felt like that for a little while...long enough for God to get my
attention. I started praying in the Spirit. "Whaaaat?" I asked the Lord, but then
we went into watch a short movie about bugs.
When the movie finished we went to a nearby restaurant and the shoulder thing came
back strong. It almost felt dislocated. I started praying again and the sky suddenly
became very black. At the same time I had a vivid vision. If you don't have this
kind of Seer-type anointing, don't worry about it, as it can be very inconvenient.
The Holy Spirit doesn't seem to worry about the fact that you are in the middle
of a good restaurant and eating your extremely nice dinner. By the way of explanation,
the shoulder represents authority. The government is on the shoulders. The right
shoulder represents senior leadership.
ROCK THROWERS
As I received this vision, the fear of the Lord came on me and the anger of the
Lord was stirred within me. I saw in the Spirit, a man in a white shirt, a senior
leader or Pastor. He had his back to a wall and was crouched over. There were some
other men and a few women who were throwing some pretty large rocks at him. With
his back to the wall, and obviously outnumbered, he didn't stand much of a chance
of standing up for himself. It seemed to me that he had failed in some areas, maybe
even morally. But this anger I felt was not directed toward this man, but rather
at those who were throwing the stones and rocks.
GRACE
I thought about the word I had recently received about Niagara Falls and the move
of God that is coming called "GREAT GRACE," and the revelation of the powerful,
life-changing grace of God. (See this word entitled "God Is Coming Like The Niagara
Falls!" on THE ELIJAH LIST at
http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=2245.)
Just to remind ourselves of a few things, it was prophesied of Jesus that He will
judge not by the seeing of the eye, nor the hearing of the ear, but He will judge
by righteous judgment (see Isaiah11:3-4).
JUDGE OR NOT
Jesus warned several times about judging.
Matthew 7:1,2 & 3:
1) Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2) For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure
ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3) And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest
not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Is it our place then to judge one another? Or is it OK just to put up with anything?
Neither is correct; our position is IN THE SPIRIT and listening to the spirit and
getting the mind of the Lord. The enemy or the spirit of religion would like us
to get into the realm of judgment. If we do that, then we place ourselves over one
another, forgetting that we are all ONLY kept by the grace of God, and His grace
is poured out onto a humble heart.
"God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble" (1 Peter 5:5).
WHAT IS REAL HUMILITY?
People get confused about humility. Is a humble person someone who walks around
bemoaning the fact that they have nothing?
Before I was filled with the Spirit, I belonged to a very, supposedly,
spiritual group in London. In our prayer meetings, the person who could confess
the longest about his poverty and need and tell how much of a worthless, wormlike
sinner he was, was considered the most spiritual. I was never the star of these
shows as I could never remember the right spiritual sounding words, and worms didn't
do a whole lot for me.
We didn't have much of a revelation of what Jesus had accomplished for us on the
cross of course, and that was really sad.
LEARNING HOW TO DELIVER A JUDGMENT-TYPE
WORD
So let me explain to you about judging. If you have judged another brother or sister,
church, ministry, or fellowship, you need to repent and release them from your judgment.
You are kept ONLY by the grace of God.
A long time ago, before we moved our ministry to America, David and I were traveling
in the Eastern part of the United States; in the Atlanta area we were due to minister
among a number of house groups. We stayed in the home of an Elder there and on Saturday
evening this man told us, "I am going to take you to meet another Elder whom you
have not met before. As you will be speaking at his house church tomorrow morning,
I will take you to his home now and introduce you."
Well, we went over to this man's house - myself, David, and a young lady, Sue, who
was traveling with us. In answer to our knock, a nice looking man answered the door.
As I shook his hand I was shocked to see a spirit of lust in his eyes. There are
some things that are so blatant you don't really need much "discernment."
We went on into the living room. There were about ten young men and women there,
standing around, talking and fellowshipping. Much to my surprise, a friend and Papa-in-the-Lord,
Arthur Burt, was sitting right there in the living room, chatting away to a lady
next to him. Arthur had been in the ministry a long, long time. I sat still, amazed
at the blatant lust I had seen in this other leader. I sat staring at Arthur. "If
Arthur is such a man of God, can't he see this spirit? Why doesn't he DO something?"
My thoughts were all over the place. I was totally thrown. Sue was across the room
staring at me much the same way I was staring at Arthur. She was thinking the same
thing of David and I, as I was thinking of Arthur. "Why don't they DO something?"
After a while, Arthur put down the glass of
orange juice he was drinking and gave out a very loud tongue (in the Spirit.) Then
he proceeded to give the interpretation. It went something like this: "You have
until tomorrow night about this time to uncover or be discovered by the Spirit of
God."
Then Arthur picked up his glass of juice and continued his conversation with the
lady next to him. The room was VERY quiet for a few minutes. You have to remember,
this message came out of the blue in the midst of "chat."
"I COULDN'T USE YOU, BECAUSE
YOU ALREADY JUDGED THE MAN IN YOUR HEART"
A little dazed by it all, we went back to the home where we were staying. I went
immediately into the bedroom. "OK, Lord what happened with this situation?"
God spoke to me right away: "I couldn't use
you, Kathie, because you already judged the man in your heart."
Then I saw how that was true; when I SAW WITH
MY EYES that spirit of lust, I had judged him by immediately thinking someone should
DO something, without asking the Lord about it. He gives grace and grace and then
more grace, but we want to jump right in and straighten everyone out, don't we?
I realized that Arthur had been around a long time - I am sure he saw that lust
spirit just as we had, but you see, he didn't know it UNTIL GOD TOLD HIM. He made
no judgment in his heart like I did, and so when the anointing came upon him he
just obeyed the Spirit and the Word of the Lord came out and did its own work. Arthur
was detached from it and he was not personally involved in that way, although the
man in question was an old friend. So you see, you can see but not know. You can
hear but not perceive the truth. Only God can knows the heart; only God knows the
thoughts and intents of the heart. The Word, by the Spirit, is able to divide the
soul and spirit and thoughts and intents of the heart (Hebrews 4:12). We had a great
meeting the next morning, and that evening, the elder in whose house we had the
meeting, took off with another lady from the group and never did come back! The
word that Arthur gave did its own work. It brought things to the light.
I want to tell you about one other situation.
WHEN GOD LIFTS HIS GRACE
Years ago, when we lived in Orlando, we had Arthur Burt minister in our church.
After the service we brought Arthur and another young English guy, Jeremy, back
to our house for some supper. During the conversation Jeremy interrupted and asked
Arthur, "Oh by the way, do you know brother Stan Brown?" (Not his real name.)
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I do," replied Arthur, and he continued his conversation
with someone else.
Jeremy was excited! "When this man was in
the UK, he had tent meetings and that's where I got saved," Jeremy said. "Do you
know where he is?"
"Well, yes I do," Arthur said, and turned
away to resume his conversation. I thought Arthur was behaving a little weird.
"But Arthur, where is he (Stan)? I would love to contact him," Jeremy said, now
a little impatient.
"If you must know, brother, he is in jail."
Arthur again began to talk to someone else.
By this time, poor Jeremy was losing it. "What do mean 'in jail'? Why is he in jail?"
A bewildered Jeremy was in shock.
"Well, if you must know, he is in jail for child pornography." Arthur looked at
Jeremy now.
Jeremy couldn't understand it at all and was speechless. "How could that happen?,"
Jeremy asked. "Brother Stan was so anointed! He led me to the Lord, and there were
so many people saved and healed in his meetings."
"Brother," Arthur turned to Jeremy, "When a man gets into pride, God lifts His grace
and then he falls into the first hole that he comes to."
Well, we all got a revelation that night, but I have seen it happen again and again.
"God resists the proud and gives His grace to humble." This evangelist got into
pride in his ministry and God lifted His grace. He fell into the first hole he came
to. "God resists the proud."
GREAT GRACE
The move of God is coming - it is GREAT GRACE - and we must have a revelation of
the grace of God and understand that we cannot play God and judge one another. The
promise is that if you make judgments, THEY WILL COME BACK TO YOU and stop you from
receiving God's grace in your own life. We don't know the heart of another except
God reveal it. I know many people in the ministry, and a lot of them have been in
the ministry for a long time. I don't know anyone who has not said some dumb things,
done some dumb things from time to time. If we judge by what we see and hear, guess
what? You would write everyone off. You would be the only one in church on Sunday.
Let go of your judgments now, don't hang on to them, they are hindering what God
has for you. Release the people you have judged, then God's grace will fall stronger
over your life.
Jesus once said a strange thing in Matthew 21: "If you fall on the rock you will
be broken, but if the rock falls on you it will crush you."
The Lord showed me this rock once, and in
a vision I saw myself fall on the rock and I had my arms around the rock and was
weeping. "I don't understand about this rock," I said to the Lord.
"This is My grace, if you cast yourself on it you will be safe, but
if you don't, the power of it will crush you."
GIVE GRACE - FOR YOU HAVE RECEIVED
IT
Don't resist the grace of God; extend it and do not withhold it. For He freely gave
it to you and He gives and gives and gives again.
The vision I saw tonight of the man with his back to the wall...it was real...those
rocks were real, it was a real situation. The Lord's righteous anger was stirred
up against the rock throwers. Be careful, my friend, of your judgments.
Does this sound like a hard word? It is not like me, I know, but God wants you in
the flow of the move of God that is getting nearer every day. If you are moving
in His grace, it will be wonderful; if not, it will be a judgment to you.
The goodness of God leads to repentance. What the man who fails does (like the man
in the vision had failed) is between him and God; I will stay in the Spirit and
pray. If God uses me that's great; if He uses someone else to help that man, that's
OK, too.
by Kathie Walters
www.goodnews.netministries.org/kathie.htm
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