Holy Spirit Seeing

The Great Unraveling!

Posted on June 27, 2012 by mcalmond

I have been sitting on this for some time now, dependently waiting upon the Lord Jesus Christ, for His release, correction and witness as to the timing of putting this out there, as it were. Today it seems like it is His time to share it. May He then, confirm His Word for His Glory, Honor and Praise and may we His people heed His Word.

As I was in prayer, in the Spirit, I began to see myself in a TV studio being interviewed. There was the interviewer directly in front of me and the studio audience to my left. They were all seated on what looked like bleachers. As the interviewer began to speak with me the Holy Spirit began to acutely draw my attention to someone at the right side of the bleachers and a little behind them. As I responded to the strong prompting of the Holy Spirit, I got up to see who it was that the Holy Spirit was drawing to my attention to. As I approached the end of the bleachers, I saw that someone move behind the bleachers further into the shadows. As I actually got to that end of the bleachers, I looked around to the back of them where I saw a young man standing there, hiding.

I called him out and as he came to me I brought him out and around to the front of the bleachers and the studio audience. He was without shoes and socks. His shirt was dirty and torn as were his pants. He, himself, was also unclean and unkempt.

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Recognition Isn’t As Simple As Seeing

Posted on March 26, 2012 by mcalmond

Luke 24:15-16 (ESV) While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. 16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

There is just something about Luke 24 as a passage of scripture that I have always been drawn to. It speaks to me often and I have therefore gained from it at important times in my life. So, every now and then I revisit this text to refresh myself in what the Lord has taught me there and to see what else I might get to see.

Today as I was reading it again, I noticed again something I had seen before and it is the title of this article, He whom they had known, had been familiar with over a period of years, they no longer recognized.

Why? Why did they not recognize their Lord and Savior anymore? What had changed? Was it them who had changed or was it the Lord Jesus? I think it was most definitely the Lord who had changed. He was, in so many ways, not who he was in the natural. He had been crucified, died, had been buried and now had been resurrected. He was now, more than ever, their Savior, Lord, God and King. He was, in every sense of the word a glorified new creation of God, transformed in and through the Power of the Lord God Almighty’s Resurrection of him from death.

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A Fresh Vision of Spiritual Covering

Posted on March 11, 2012 by mcalmond

Psalms 27:5 (ESV) For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.

I want to share with you something that the Lord shared with me. It has to do with Spiritual Covering. While I admit that this phrasing has met with a lot of distortion and abuse over the years, I genuinely believe in the truth and principle of our need to cover those whom the Lord has given us. Covering has to do primarily with protection. It is in this light that I desire to share with you Spiritual Covering.

It was 1985 and my lovely wife was in Sacred Heart Hospital for surgery on a brain tumor. I had been with her for much of the time during her surgery and in recovery with very little sleep. So, I finally went to a nearby motel. As I was at the motel, I suddenly found myself under attack, spiritually. This attack was concerning things that I had long thought were taken care of. I began to cry out to the Lord concerning these things. My question was why I was suddenly vulnerable to these attacks. The presence of the Lord came and was powerful, precious and very comforting. It was then that the Lord began to grant me some clarity regarding that which I was crying out to him about.

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A Dam, A Loch and His Victory

Posted on February 2, 2012 by mcalmond

While ministering in beautiful Scotland, there were a couple of days wherein an American couple (Richard and Susan) and I went to the Highlands. After spending the night in a B&B, we arose to a new a beautiful new day, setting ourselves to go forth and face the day that the Lord had prepared for us. As for myself, I was excited to get on with it and wondered what awesomeness of the Lord Jesus Christ I would be blessed and privileged to partake of. Finally, after breakfast and some pictures, we were off. We headed out to find a road, we were told would, take us further up into the Highlands.

We had, had an urging that we believed to be from the Lord Jesus. We felt Him setting our agenda. So, off we went. It wasn’t long before we found the side road we were looking for and immediately began our assent further up, ever up, into the Highlands of beautiful Scotland.

This terrain was simply awesome. I was so excited to see more of this nation that I had been coming to for so long now. After a brief stop at a park like area, we discerned that we were to continue along the road we had begun. So, we no sooner got out of the car than we were back into it headed along the road and across the Highlands.

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I’m No Scholar, I’m Just a Guy

Posted on September 3, 2011 by mcalmond

Acts 4:13 (NKJV) Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.

I can think of no greater compliment than that one was recognized as having been with Jesus. I believe that for me, this is genuinely my goal in life, to become one who is recognized as having been with Jesus. To become one whose life was so changed and impacted by the Life of Christ Jesus that while my other deficiencies may be noted, Christ Jesus is still readily visible and evident in and through my life.

 As was true of Peter and John, I would find myself, in regards to ministry, as fairly uneducated and common. I come from a line, albeit brief line (grandpa, dad and myself), of uneducated and common men who loved the Lord and believed that Jesus had called them to follow Him and so they picked up their Bibles and did so.

 My grandfather was saved out of the Navy shortly after World War 2 under Amy Semple McPherson’s ministry. He believed that he was called into the ministry as preacher of the Lord Jesus. He bought a tent, a flatbed truck (to use as a platform for services and to haul the tent), picked up his Bible and went preaching the Word of God.

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Are We Really Ready For His New Wind?

Posted on July 17, 2011 by mcalmond

I believe there is hope for the church and the people of God. I also believe that we need very real change. Could it be that in spirit and in truth we need a reformation, a rebuilding from the foundation (1 Cor 3) of Christ Jesus and up?

Reformation: 1) improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs 2) rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course.

There is something stirring out there and I pray that what is stirring is the breath of HIS change that we need. Will we see it when it comes or will our hurts, frustrations and disappointments and dissatisfaction’s with the church and the people of God keep us from seeing the changes that are coming or even that are needed? Will our being blinded by what we want or expect to see or have occur, keep us from seeing what really will be happening in the Lord Jesus and his church/body as happened so many times before?

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A Call To Seeing The More

Posted on May 22, 2011 by mcalmond

Acts 22:14-15 (NKJV) Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice of His mouth. 15 For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.

A couple of years ago, we were in another country on a prayer walk. We had left that morning to go on this prayer walk and I was excited because of what the Lord had showed the evening before in prayer. As a result, I was walking rather briskly as we headed out towards the place of prayer that we were going to be at this morning. It was a historical place, an ancient place and a very spiritually strategic place for the area.

We arrived at this high point in the area and we began immediately to engage the Lord in prayer and intercession. As we began to engage the Lord is this place, we sought only to be obedient to Lord, following His leading in how, what and to whatever end the Lord would have us to pray.

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Placing Your Life Within The Scriptures

Posted on March 12, 2011 by mcalmond

Hebrews 4:12-13 (NKJV) For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

The Word of God is living and powerful. What does this mean? Certainly it means that the whole of the Scriptures are alive and active. The phrase, “living and powerful” here, simply means the Word of God has taken on the life of its origin, of the Lord God Almighty. You can see this in Isa 55:11 as well. It comes forth filled with the purposes of God and will of God. It is because of the life of God, from wherein the Word originates, that is therefore empowered to fulfill itself as His very Word.

The word “powerful” really brings us some clarity in that it means here that the word of God “lives and has power”. It is simply, that all of what the Lord God Almighty is and does is filled by His very breath of life. He is the source of all that lives and has power, the power of life itself, His. Since the Word of God has its origin in and of the Lord God Almighty, it has life simply because He breathed it forth. His life is that which overcomes death and darkness in all that it is in us or in our midst. Hence, the Word of God is living and active, it lives and has power, the power of His very life breath. It is this breath of life, God’s, which sets us free from all that is of death and darkness.

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The Benefits of Speaking in Tongues, Pt 2

Posted on February 7, 2011 by mcalmond

Getting back to our discussion, in the larger context of the passage, we see that the appropriate use of Tongues corporately is to be with the corresponding gift of Interpretation. If there is no corresponding gift of interpretation then there should be no corporate expression of tongues before the Body. With interpretation you then have that which is equal to prophecy (1 Cor 14:5). Regardless of how you would interpret prophecy, tongues with the corresponding gift of interpretation is equal to prophecy in importance for the edification of the assembly of believers. If you see Prophecy as Preaching God’s Word, then tongues spoken out loud and then followed by interpretation is as Preaching God’s Word. If you see Prophecy as something else, then what you see it as, is equal to Tongues with Interpretation. This all seems very clear to me and yet it is also problematic.

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The Benefits of Speaking in Tongues, Pt 1

Posted on February 7, 2011 by mcalmond

Acts 2:1-4 (NKJV) When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

I will attempt to focus more on the Tongues aspect of this Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Much has been made of this gift, positively and negatively. My question is simply why would anyone not want all that the Lord Jesus has for them, no matter what? I want all that is his, no matter what it is or how it appears to others or even how stretching it is for me.

Tongues are a vital gift. It is not as some have declared, simply something that was limited as just for the first century church. It seems that all who were there in the upper room spoke with other tongues, or spoke in languages that they did know. This was borne witness by those of various nations and languages that were present. This did not happen only here. We see that it took place within the early church to the point that it seems to have been common. I think that this is important. What I mean is that in the days of Acts and the early church, the gifts of the Spirit, including Tongues, seem to be simply accepted as part of a believer’s and of the church’s life. It all seems to have been rather prevalent. Yes there were issues of abuse or misuse, not unlike today, but not issues of having to defend their use; yes, a need to explain, set in order, correct, but not defend. There was encouragement to not forbid speaking in tongues or to not despise prophecy, for example, but not a need to defend their rightful place within the church and its ministry.

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