GOD'S GUARANTEES!        DFO1027  28/7/81

         1. IF WE DID NOT HAVE THE LORD & HIS WORD AS OUR GUIDE & GUARANTEE, if we did business in the way of the modern World today, the modern selfish business World, we certainly would not recommend that all of our customers move to poor lands where their income is bound to be by all natural expectations much lower, & therefore our income also very much lower, as it has been this last couple of months.
         2. However, God's ways are not man's ways, & His ways are above our ways. As high as the Heavens are above the Earth, so high are His ways above our ways & His thoughts above our thoughts! (Is.55:8,9) God is more interested in people than in money. He is more interested in souls than in income. He is more interested in your safety & usefulness than in mere prosperity of some kind of Worldly business.
         3. God's Word & His guarantees have no restrictions, no limitations, no qualifications except your faith & our faith. He is not bound by time nor space nor land nor place! "Forever His Word is settled in Heaven" & His promises are forever! (Ps.119:89) Our future is as bright as the promises of God, regardless of where or when, as long as we obey & trust Him. In Jesus' name.
         4. WE HAVE IN OUR FAMILY A NUMBER OF TIMES DONE THINGS CONTRARY TO NATURAL EXPECTATION because we knew it was the will of God & good for us & good for His Work & good for lost souls & good for the Gospel to be preached throughout the whole World, even though it seemed it was going to cost us a great deal in effort & time & money & even manpower.
         5. When I was a young man, a young high school student nearing graduation, I dropped out of high school for years in order to serve the Lord with my Mother & travel with her in evangelistic work to save many lost souls & heal many broken bodies & broken hearts. But God gave me an education unparalleled in any of man's institutions. It was the knowledge of the Spirit & His Word & His Work & His ways.
         6. Later on I went & built that church & pastored that little flock & preached the Gospel to the lost & to the Indians & to the Mexicans & even to the Americans, who didn't appreciate it & threw me out because they got so fed up with me that they didn't like the way I was doing things & wanted me to do things their way instead of God's way. So once again I had to go out by faith just trusting God that if I would follow & obey Him, somehow, supernaturally, miraculously He would take care of me.
         7. I eventually wound up in a far more rewarding ministry to young teenage high school students as their teacher in a good Christian school where I could be much more useful & a greater blessing in training & molding young lives for the Lord & His service.
         8. Finally after three years of that ministry of Christian school teaching & molding those young lives who loved me & whom I really dearly loved, we had settled down to a comfortable home & comfortable living & comfortable lives, feeling & seeming secure for the rest of our career as a Christian educator, when suddenly God told me to, "Go! Sell all that thou hast & give to the poor & come follow Me!" It was a startling call & a dumbfounding surprise & I was amazed & shocked at God's lack of common sense. But once again the Lord said it was time to go & to obey Him, contrary to natural expectations.
         9. And He led me then into another much larger ministry than I had ever dreamed of: On the evangelistic road & in the Soul Clinic in training missionaries & winning souls, far beyond what I had done before.
         10. A few years later when that ministry was completed, God called me to strike out on the road again by faith & trust Him that we were going to get the Gospel on radio & television throughout North America & reach thereby millions more souls than I had ever dreamed of reaching myself.
         11. Once again when that ministry was finished because I chose rather to obey God than man & I chose rather to, like Moses, "suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season" (He.11:25), as Fred went astray & that job folded, we once again heard the call of the Lord & the very voice of God in the Spirit directing us daily where to go & what to do, purely by faith, trusting God alone for our needs.
         12. WELL, ONCE AGAIN WHEN WE GOT TO CALIFORNIA, GOD TOLD US TO FORSAKE ALL, the kind of ministry we'd had before, & He said to me that night as I walked the street viewing those sad, pitiful, drug-ridden creatures: "Look, they're as sheep having no shepherd. Would you be willing to be the King of the Beggars?" And that night I promised God I would lead you & do everything I could to save you & win you to the Lord & to lead you into His service.
         13. I never dreamed of the victories He was going to lead us to! I thought if we got any of you saved that was miraculous enough! But immediately God began to fulfill His promises & His end of the bargain, His guarantees, & pour out such a blessing there was not room enough to hold it in that little Light Club! It began to overflow onto the beaches & throughout California, & the Jesus Revolution was on its way!
         14. Again when our ministry was finished there in that one place amongst those limited few, God called us to forsake all & follow Him again. So once again we went out purely by faith trusting God, doing the unexpected, the unreasonable, the crazy, the illogical, contrary to all natural expectations. With 125 to 150 hippies in about 35 or 40 vehicles we crossed the United States one way from West to East & then North to South, preaching the Gospel everywhere we went, witnessing, demonstrating, wearing red robes & carrying staves & with yokes around our necks, some of the strangest things I'd ever heard of that God asked us to do to be witnesses. But as a result, we hit the headlines of the newspapers across the nation & the World & the witness went out to all the World that a new day had dawned!
         15. Then by the time we had over 50 Colonies in the U.S. & Canada & seemed to be once again comfortably fixed & busy for the Lord & it seemed with all that we could possibly do, suddenly God again called us to forsake all & follow Him & go out not knowing whither we went. So we dropped everything, & Maria & I went totally alone across the ocean by faith in the beginning of our first great Exodus from the U.S.!
         16. We led it & pioneered it, going first to Europe & then to the Mideast, spending time in Israel, getting fed up with the Jews & getting a completely new vision of what God wanted us to do for Him. Then we were back again in London & very busy writing the famous MO Letters & even beginning to distribute them on the street publicly & busy leading approximately 200 Colonies throughout the World, when suddenly God again told us to forsake all & follow Him, He had something new for us to do!
         17. Suddenly we were confronted with a vision in the middle of the night in brilliant red letters in the dark: TENERIFE! Little did we dream what God was going to do there, the mighty miracles of love that He was going to accomplish on that tiny island which was going to explode with His love in the great FFing Revolution & the Family of Love! Hallelujah! TYJ!
         18. Well, when we had finished that ministry there & gotten it as far as it could go, again God said, "It is enough!" & He literally had to force us out of our beautiful comfortable home there in that paradise island where we had thought we would live for the rest of our lives.
         19. BUT SINCE THEN, GOD HAS LED US FROM LAND TO LAND, TIME & AGAIN FORSAKING ALL & FOLLOWING HIM TO DO HIS WILL, to lead you & guide you to become the greatest fishers of men on this Earth today!--To become the greatest soul-winners in the World, to become the fastest growing missionary group & covering more nations, preaching more Gospel, publishing more literature, getting on more radio & television stations & witnessing & serving in more lands than we ever dreamed of! All in His wisdom!
         20. All because we were time & again willing to drop everything, forsake all, leaving everything behind that we worked so hard for, & once again strike out completely into a totally new field by faith.
         21. So once again we're making another great forsaking-all! Once again we're dropping everything & going to the ends of the Earth--the Southern end in this case--in obedience to God's warnings, that we might survive.
         22. Again He's guaranteeing you that He is going to make you fishers of men in a greater way than you have ever known Him before! Hallelujah! TYJ! PYL! And one of the most important things He's going to do is keep you fishers of men & witnesses & soul-winners & save you & spare you so that you can continue to minister & not be wiped out along with the rest of the ungodly Worldly Gospel-hardened ready-for-judgement North!
         23. "SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW, DAD? How are we going to pay for all these books & tapes & WS Units, support so many staff members? How are we going to do it, Dad, when everybody goes South & the income drops off & there's not so much money any more, what are we going to do then?"
         24. Well, I'll tell you what we're going to do then, we're going to do then just what we've always done & what we're doing right now, we're going to trust God & obey God!--I know one thing for sure, by His Word, His guarantees & His swearing by Himself, He is going to keep us going & He is going to take care of us no matter what! He is going to continue to supply our needs & your needs & your spiritual food in whatever form it may take or come in days to come.
         25. All we have to do is obey, all we have to do is do what Jesus said, to forsake all & come follow Him & He will continue to make us fishers of men!
         26. ARE YOU WILLING? ARE YOU READY? ARE YOU OBEYING JESUS? Are you heeding His warning to forsake all & leave those dangerous lands where not only can you lose your life, but your ministry & your disciples with you & end it all? Or are you willing to follow Jesus & drop everything that you have now to receive something greater & more beautiful & more wonderful & a greater ministry than you ever had before in more supernatural miraculous ways than you ever dreamed of with God supplying your needs just as much as ever, as much as you need wherever you need it?
         27. Do you believe God? "Without faith it is impossible to please God, for he that cometh unto Him must believe that He is & that He is the rewarder of them which diligently seek Him" & His will & His way & His service & His souls. (He.11:6) Do you believe His Word & His promises & His guarantees?
         28. Are you willing to forsake a GOOD thing for a BETTER & a GREATER thing? Are you willing to forsake a good thing for something even better & greater, such as more lost souls, souls that need Jesus in those neglected lands of the Third World & the Southern Hemisphere?
         29. May God help you to have faith to believe GOD & HIS guarantees & not man's & the Devil's lies, & drop everything today.--"And immediately they forsook all & followed Jesus!"--And go out knowing not whither you're going, knowing not how God's going to supply your needs, but willing to obey Him & work at it, do everything you can do so that God can do the things you can't do.
         30. Because you trust Him & you obey Him & you believe His guarantees, God's guarantees in His Word, He will supply all your need according to His riches in glory regardless of man or the Devil or our enemies or our place of ministry or our mode of ministry or whatever!--God will not fail, Jesus never fails!
         31. LORD, HELP THEM TO BELIEVE! Jesus, help them to trust Thy Word! Help them to know & believe Thy good guarantees, knowing that You'll never fail them if they will obey & trust Thee, forsake all & go into all the World & preach the Gospel to every creature.
         32. Thank You, Jesus, for Thy good guarantees that never fail! You have never failed us, Jesus, You'll not fail us now! You'll see us through to the very ends of the Earth & the end of the World & never fail us! TYL! We believe You, Jesus, we know You'll carry us through! Hallelujah! TYL!--Through a new door, into a new & wider field of ministry, a whole new World, a glorious new harvest, a wonderful wonderful fulfillment of Thy guarantees, the precious promises of Thy Word & Thy Love, in Jesus' name. Amen.
         33. Amen?--You can count on God's good guarantees forever!--Go now before it's too late!

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