From the desk of Steve Shultz:
This word by Paul Keith Davis and the testimony in this article will "expand you" to love much more. We've been hearing that God wants to expand our hearts and give us a much greater capacity to love – even in the deepest of darkest environments. Jesus wasn't limited to love, no matter what the environment was...and why would He choose any different for us?
I like what Paul Keith shares here, "...we need a supernatural increase of our capacity to walk in such an incredible place with the Lord and influence our generation accordingly."
Yes, we NEED that expansion within us to the places He is calling us to!
Here are a couple of deep revelatory resources from Paul Keith Davis and others. You've got to get these, they are powerful!
Paul Keith Davis:
Recently I Heard the Lord Ask, "What is the Greatest Gift that I Could Give My People?"
Greetings friends,
I trust this newsletter finds you full of faith and hope for this coming season. This has been an incredibly active month spiritually from Rosh Hashanah through Tabernacles. Much revelation and insight have been given to prepare us to move forward into a season of fruitfulness and harvest.
The Lord willing, we hope to share much of that insight in the coming days. There is a major emphasis at the present moment on God enlarging and increasing our capacity for Him. It takes God to serve God! We need the Holy Spirit to give us a greater depth of hunger and desperation for Him than ever before. The times in which we live dictate that reality.
Recently I heard the Lord ask, "What is the greatest gift that I could give My people?" Of course, the immediate answer is salvation and freedom from our sins. However, the context of the question related to the Church and the various giftings that we are presently contending for. I know from history that whenever I am asked a question I generally do not know the answer, so I responded with the question back to the Lord. The response I heard was, "What is the greatest commandment?" Naturally, my mind reverted to Matthew 22:36-38, saying:
"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" And He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the great and foremost commandment."
Therefore, although we are believing for great mantles of healing, revelation, supernatural insight and other endowments essential for the harvest, a valid argument could be made that the greatest gift would be desperation for God, or as I have shared lately, "an enlarged heart for God." This is the revelation that we have derived from the amazing horse athlete, Secretariat. We have shared this in a message entitled, "The Heart of a Champion" and "Books of Destiny."
Another Generation to Encounter God
During Chuck Pierce's "Head of the Year" gathering, I was speaking on the "enlarged heart" message and all of the prophetic implications that I have received from the study of Secretariat when Chuck prophetically interrupted the message with an incredible decree from the Hawaiian delegation.
The group from Hawaii had prepared an amazing prophetic dance and procession to present Chuck with a carving of a big red horse made from Koa wood with the Hebrew emblems for the year 5771 carved into it. It was a powerful time of proclamation and decree for the coming season. I was deeply honored and touched as Chuck then presented the "big red" horse to me.
I am completely convinced that a spiritual deposit is available in the realm of the Spirit that will catapult us into a deeper and more intimate place with God. It is in fact the greatest gift that He could give us at this time as Christians. History is saturated with the testimony of devoted Saints who gave themselves for the message of the Kingdom. Hebrews 11 articulates a random sampling of those throughout Biblical history identified as true champions. Many more will be recorded in the archives of Heaven from this generation who have encountered God in like fashion.
A simple study of modern Church history also records the lives of many who changed and influenced their generation for God. Invariably, many of them lived productive and fruitful lives in the Kingdom but along the way became more desperate for the Lord, thus paving the way for an encounter with Him that changed and transformed them forever.
That is the testimony of men and women such as Kathryn Kuhlman, William Branham, John G. Lake, AA Allen and many others. I believe such an encounter is on the horizon for those of us today who experience an enlarged heart and greater capacity for God.
For Kathryn Kuhlman it was at 4:30 on a Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, California; for William Branham it was deep in the woods of Kentucky on May 7, 1946; for AA Allen it was while locked away in a closet for many hours where he encountered God's tangible and visible glory that launched him into a supernatural ministry. For John G. Lake, it was after a nine-month season of prayer and fasting when a glory encounter filled and saturated his life and transformed him into what he described as a "Christ-man."
On the Brink of Prophetic Fulfillment
I believe we stand on the brink of the prophetic fulfillment of an incredible prayer the Lord offered just prior to His crucifixion. In John 17:25-26, His great high priestly prayer declared:
"O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."
What an incredible opportunity! To love the Lord Jesus with the love by which the Father loved Him and sent into the world to make Him known. Needless to say, we need a supernatural increase of our capacity to walk in such an incredible place with the Lord and influence our generation accordingly.
Paul Keith Davis
WhiteDove Ministries
Email: inquiries@whitedoveministries.org
Note from Paul Keith and Introduction to
Elijah Maswanganyi:
In 1996 Wanda and I had an incredible opportunity to spend a day with two powerful apostolic missionaries from South Africa, Paul Dell and Elijah Maswanganyi. I sat amazed for many hours listening to the incredible stories of the miraculous as these two men recited their journeys throughout Africa winning various villages for God. At the conclusion of our time together, Elijah invited me over to an area that contained a box loaded with his books. After digging around for a moment he found a specific one that he wanted to give me. It was a pamphlet containing his "baptism in love" experience. I've always found it an amazing story and share it with the hopes of it providing encouragement and affirmation to the present message.
Paul Keith Davis
WhiteDove Ministries
Elijah Maswanganyi:
A Baptism in Love Experience
Several years ago I went into a sublime experience of what I term a "baptism in love." This title, I hope, will not give the reader the impression that I am expounding upon the unusual doctrinal teaching. My purpose is merely to narrate accurately, truthfully and sincerely my personal experience. I trust that my testimony will show that God, in the exercise of His Sovereign Power and great Grace, does reveal Himself to certain individuals in various ways, not with a purpose of launching a new doctrine, but for the purpose of spiritual development of that individual. After all, the ways of God are not the ways of men.
And now, my experience of a Baptism in Love:
I was alone, sleeping in my room after I had finished my usual devotions. All of a sudden, at about two o'clock in the morning, I heard and felt beautiful music surging within me like a symphonic orchestra at the highest crescendo. The music within me was joined by a host of angelic beings around me. There was perfect harmony between the song within me and that of the angels around me. The harmony of the music, which was accompanied by instruments, was not only beautiful to the highest degree, but also absolutely perfect and completely fulfilling my deepest spiritual and emotional longings. I felt transported by that music into the heavenlies. The chorus sung was, "Tell it to Jesus – He is a Friend That is Well Known."
It was as if someone was turning the volume higher and higher. At the highest crescendo, I felt drowned in the ocean of that angelic music. At that point of sweeping ecstasy, I saw the most beautiful hand of Jesus, but I did not see His body. The hand moved gracefully towards my forehead. After His touch, I got out of bed and burst into tongues – utterances of praise in speech and song which were in perfect harmony with the angelic singing. My hands were stretched up from about two o'clock to about six o'clock in the morning. My hands and feet never got tired. Then I sobbed with joy, peace and happiness. It was at this point that I was baptized with love. From that moment on I knew that I had gone through a new experience with God.
God's Love is Freedom
When I opened the door at about six o'clock in the morning, I loved everything my eyes fell on. I loved the peoples of various races; they appeared to me like God's bouquet of flowers. I loved the sky, the clouds, the trees, the grass, the buildings, the cars and the animals. All my suspicions, judgmental attitudes and fears were gone. I was so full of peace, which Paul describes as one that "passeth all human understanding," that for the first time in my life I felt completely free. Perhaps it is that experience that gave me a new definition of love, namely "God's Love Is Freedom."
After that glorious and supernatural experience, my life and ministry have never been the same. God gave me the capacity to understand and to love people unconditionally and to forgive unconditionally. It is that love that enables me to forgive untoward situations in advance.
Because of this experience I love all people, I think people, I dream people all the time. In my travels throughout the world, people have testified about this love of God in me. I get through to most people without much effort because God made all people to respond to love.
Even when people may not understand your language and culture they do know when you love them. From the Bible I can see why I cannot hate. It is because hatred is of the devil's nature and love is of God's nature. I may get angry over certain situations, but that anger is short-lived. There is a big difference between hate and anger. Hate is the sin of the spirit, whereas anger is purely emotional.
Love is the greatest need of the world. Because love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend, it is a constructive power that should be promoted in the home, school, church, governments and international relations, more than any other power.
Elijah Maswanganyi
From The Power of Love and Reconciliation
