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Pattison’s Perspective
Ivan Pattison, Australia
HONOURABLE MEN OF OUR
TIME
We have wonderful examples of men of honour in
the Holy Bible, Job, and Joseph. Then there were those who made some really unholy
mistakes in their life, but we can still look up to them as they came through
for God in a victorious manner. Whether they were righteous from the beginning
to end, or whether they finished being victorious, and of course finishing,
being victorious is what life is all about. It is not how a man starts out as,
but how he finishes is the most important, and if he finishes in honour, what a
great testimony for Jesus.
We read about the
faults, and failings of many, of the Old Testament warriors, and yet they came
through victorious. It is not how we
start life, or how many falls we have throughout life, but how we finish that
matters, and that is the most important, part.
Today we find men of
honour, such as Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Billy Graham, and many more that
we can take as an example for how we live our life in the future. I have
followed Kenneth Copeland's life and how he has raised his children, and I
wished I had that teaching in my early days of marriage, and my life and my
family life might have been different. Some have it, others don't, and it is
sad that satan can have such an input into our lives, as he does, if he didn't
we would not fall would we?
For me it has taken
years of being in a Deliverance, Healing, and Restoration program that has
brought me through to where I am now. I
am now victorious in my life, and it is great. I am meeting more and more
people on the Internet, that want to e-mail me more and more about spiritual
things, and that excites me.
We have men like
Billy Graham that we can look up to and be proud of men such as he is. I have
not long bought two DVDs of Billy Graham, and they are having an effect on my
life, and no doubt he is still having an effect on many others. Billy Graham is a man of honour, a man of
valour.
We do need more men
like him, and it would be good to have men rise up today just like him, those
who are truly moved by Jesus, and those who let the Holy Spirit be in control,
those who bring people together for the
Glory of Jesus, and to bring about change in the lives of many.
While watching these
two DVDs I was thinking, that with Jesus, a day is as thousand years, and a thousand years are as a
day, and looking at this, I don't believe we will see another move of the Holy
Spirit in the same way (I hope I am wrong), but we will see a move of the Holy
Spirit in a way that we will need to depend on Jesus so much more than we are
doing now. The Word of God says there will be a falling away in the last days,
and it will be as in the days of Noah, and I believe we are seeing that now.
I believe Billy
Graham was, and is a part of the end times where Jesus poured out His Spirit on
mankind, and then there has been, and is, the raising up of the Pentecostal
Church, and the Pentecostal movement moving through most Christian
religions. I believe now we are in the
period of the falling away, and where the men of honour, the servants of Jesus
Christ have, and are already in the highways, compelling many to come in.
Matthew 22:10 So those
servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they
found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
Luke 14:23 And
the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel
[them] to come in, that my house may be filled.
Love and Blessings
Ivan
