Paul Cain

Stadium Vision

2006-04-16T00:03:00.000-07:00

BY PAUL CAIN
Paul has had several specific burdens and prophetic expectations for the Body of Christ today and in the days to come. He has had reoccurring visions concerning the end times, which he believes are rapidly approaching. About 30 years ago the Lord gave Paul a vision that has occurred to Paul more than a few times and still reoccurs to this day.
It is a vision of the last days when sports stadiums all over the United States are filled with thousands of people. In this vision, people are being healed and miracles are happening to thousands in the name of Jesus Christ. People are turning to the Lord in droves and the whole nation is in revival. It seemed the whole earth was turning to Christ.
Television news reporters are broadcasting stories of resurrections and miracle healings. None of the secular reporters could get near the men on the platform. They did not know who the men were. Paul described them as "almost faceless men." He hears a TV anchorman saying, "There are no sporting events to report tonight because all the stadiums, ball parks and arenas are being used for large revival meetings and are filled with people crying, ''Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Lord."
In these visions, Paul saw these men minister for three days and nights without food, water or change of clothing. Supernatural strength enabled them to continue for these long periods. In the vision, Paul is standing at the crossroads of life and sees a billboard that says, "Joel's army now in training." People are being trained to walk in obedience to Jesus. They have learned patience and endurance, have the power of God and having done all, they know how to stand against the enemy.
"They will have the mind of Christ," Paul said. "They will partake of the heavenly calling and be a new breed, God's dread champions." Those ministries will be filled with such passion for Jesus and the power of the Spirit that the host of darkness will dread their impact. Paul said in the midst of the Laodicean church age of lethargy and apathy, that God was preparing in hiddenness an army to pull down enemy strongholds, and go forth in the power of God and have pure and undefiled religion.
"He's going to do this with a people who have stripped themselves and separated themselves from the world, the flesh and the devil," Paul said. "They will realize the end time is here and that things are in a mess and things at the end time are different. Just as it required total sacrifice on the part of the disciples to begin this thing, it will require an equal commitment from us to complete the task in the end times.
Joe's mighty army, as described in Joel Ch. 2 is the army of God - not a wicked army, as some have thought. They are the ones with 'feet of iron not mixed with clay', with the wisdom of God alone, not imitators of other men of God. Some of the superstars of the Church will fall. The Lord will have an army of holy anointed vessels to usher in His kingdom so that no one man can take credit for it. It will be to the glory of God alone."

When Heavan Touches Earth

2006-04-16T00:02:00.000-07:00

Paul Cain
The coming move of God is going to be a lot different than I ever thought?and I?m sure it will be different than you thought, too. The Lord is going to move in a completely new way, unlike anything we have ever seen before. It is good to look for precedents in Scripture and in church history, but many of the things that God will do in the days ahead are truly unprecedented. In fact, God has set somewhat of a precedent for doing unprecedented things. There never had been a precedent for a burning bush, but He used a burning bush as a powerful sign (see Exodus 3).
Moses didn?t have any doctrinal or theological foundation to prepare him for his encounter with this burning bush. God simply put His glory on a bush that burned without being consumed, and Moses turned aside to see. Like the burning bush, the church will again shine with the glory of the Lord. Though the bush was merely an inanimate plant impregnated with God?s glory, the church will be a living body that is glorious beyond description. Like the burning bush, we will be a sign that people will turn aside to see.
The holy radiation of God will drive out all kinds of illnesses in these last days, and it will be the number one cure for cancers, AIDS and all kinds of communicable diseases. God will once more do things that are unprecedented. He will do things that are different from anything He has ever done before. In the day of God?s unprecedented acts, we need to be careful about saying, "Well, that?s not in the Bible." No one had ever experienced a burning bush prior to Exodus 3.
Paul had no Bible verse directing him to go and stay in a certain house, nor did Ananias have a Scripture giving him revelation of the geographic location, street number or name of the man he was going to see. Ananias had no precedent to follow that would show him what had caused Paul? s blindness or what God would do if he would go and lay hands on Paul. Although Moses, Paul and Ananias may have lacked scriptural precedents for how God was choosing to move in their lives, they had the witness of the power of the Holy Spirit and they obeyed when God called to them. I do not know all the details of what God plans to do in coming days, but surely one of the key aspects is found in Isaiah 60:1-3:
"Arise, shine; for your light has come, And the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. "For behold, darkness will cover the earth, And deep darkness the peoples; But the LORD will rise upon you, And His glory will appear upon you. "And nations will come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising" (Isaiah 60:1-3).
Just as Jesus stood on the Mount of Transfiguration and his three disciples saw Him shine (Matthew 17:1-8), God is going to have a whole company of people who are going to shine. The world will see the light, and all the nations will come. It is going to be the light of "a city set on a hill" that "cannot be hidden" (Matthew 5:14). It is time for the body of Christ to arise and let her light shine forth for the world to see.
A New Breed of Leaders
I see a whole new leadership and a whole new move of God for these last days. The Lord is going to speak mightily again, and He is going to cause heaven to touch the earth. It is not enough for the world to hear our teachings, our prophecies, or our expositions of Scripture if the heavens are not stirred to action. Multitudes of men and women might thrill at the words they hear, but it matters little if there is not a chain reaction of kingdom life on the earth. The world is not so much questioning the reality of life after death, but rather it is watching us to see if we truly have a new kind of life after we receive Christ. Our inability to evangelize the world has been more the result of the world?s skepticism about "life after life" than about life after death.
Are we really saved? Do we really have new life? When we do, a heavenly chain reaction will follow. Life will beget life after its own kind (see Genesis 1:24). I believe an awesome, reverential fear and respect is coming back to the leadership of the church. Losing her self-imposed restrictions and her imprisonment to human traditions, the church is going to regain her power and emerge shining brighter than the noonday sun. We are going to be called upon by heads of state and kings of nations. The Lord is going to give heaven to earth so that we can evangelize the world. In the condition we are now in, the church would never be able to fully win the world. But, thank God, she is about to change. In order for the changes to occur, we, like Ezekiel, must "eat this scroll" that contains the Word of the Lord (Ezekiel 3:1).
What does it mean to eat the scroll? It means that we have to digest His message to the point where we become the message. We will never be able to reach the world unless that happens. God gave John the Beloved similar instructions about eating a little book (Revelation 10:8-11) and, like Ezekiel, John was able to prophesy in a way that caused a mighty chain reaction. When we eat the scroll and get His Word in us so that it becomes a part of us, the world will behold the glory of the Father. The nations will respond to this kind of word?not because God?s servants are listed in Who?s Who, or because they raise the greatest offerings, or build the greatest buildings. Rather, people will respond because they know that ordinary men cannot speak with such authority unless the power of God is in them.
True Seed Faith
One thing I am sure God will challenge is the idea of "seed money." God makes it very clear in His Word that His people are to be the seed that is planted, not the "almighty dollar." He distinctly shows us that we are to be the seed that is planted, and we are to be fruitful in the earth. Out of love for the Master they serve, God?s true disciples are those who forsake everything (Luke 14:26). The teaching that one can grow financially prosperous by giving more to the church is a perversion of truth.
We cannot be His disciples until all we have, all we are, and all we ever hope to be has been laid before Him. Only then can He do with us and through us all that He wants to do. "If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me" (Luke 9:23). This is what true discipleship is all about?the sacrificial life. The Lord wants the seed to be planted so that it can produce grain, but it must first be bruised and crushed before it can be living bread for the hungry (see John 12:24).
Although the "seed money" principle may have filled the coffers of the church, it has left the ministry and the people sterile. There is no birthing. The womb is closed. Yet God is going to change all this. He is going to plant the right seed in the right soil, and life is going to come forth. In the book of Acts, Peter and John were on their way into the temple when they saw a lame man lying at the gate. Fixing his gaze upon the man, Peter said, "Look at us!...I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene?walk!" (Acts 3:4-6).
Then Peter took him by the right hand and lifted him up. Immediately the man ?s feet and ankle bones received strength, and he began walking and leaping and praising God. This is what the world is waiting to see. The first thing Peter told the lame man was, "Look at us!" However, the world is not presently looking at the church. In fact, most unbelievers pay no attention to us at all. What is going to impress the world is the power and the character of God in our lives. They will take note when we are able to say, "What I do have I give to you"?and then do mighty miracles in Jesus? name. That kind of authority is going to be restored to the church.
A Heavenly Chain Reaction
There is going to be a release of power evangelism that will meet the needs of mankind. This will cause a chain reaction throughout the world. God is going to have a mighty army that goes into every place on the face of the earth, sharing this glorious gospel. The gospel of the kingdom is not just His Word?it is also His power. It is always associated with healing the sick and doing the works of God. This is the gospel that Jesus proclaimed and demonstrated, and He is about to do it again.
When heaven touches the earth, we won?t have to twist any arms to get people saved. Jesus is the Lord of the harvest, and He has given us the opportunity to proclaim His life-changing kingdom. We won?t have to strive in our own energy. We won?t have to go out and evangelize in the energy of the flesh, knocking on doors in hopes that someone will get saved. As never before, lost people will come to us.
In this spiritual chain reaction of the last days, we are going to know the times, understand what God is saying, and then go do something about it. We will have life to pass on to those who will hear, and they will receive life to pass on to others. When heaven touches earth, the world will know that we serve an awesome, life-giving God. His glory will be seen throughout the whole earth! (C) Paul Cain !

A Divine Encounter

2006-04-15T23:59:00.000-07:00

Paul Cain
Preached by Paul Cain 9-26-04 at Rick Joyner's Morningstar Church - Wilkesboro
Have any of you been discouraged, disillusioned or disheartened lately? I think most of us have been. God's people are being prepared right now for His next great move. I believe that a large percentage of us have been facing at least one of these things. It is time that we have a divine encounter with God.
We can sometimes think that we prepare ourselves for these, but it is really God who initiates these encounters. I've gone through many personal struggles and wrestled with my own weakness and failures and faced my own sins, but I am taking comfort from Moses, who even after he went through all that he did, that God is still dealing to restore me.
I take comfort in the fact as I am almost at Moses' age of 80, when being on the back side of the desert, he found that God could still use him and restore him, after feeling that he had totally failed. You know the Bible says be sure that your sin will find you out. Moses thought he had buried the Egyptian that he murdered in the sand when he was trying to defend God's people, but then one of his big toes stuck up out of the sand and Moses was found out, and so he ran because of his guilt.
And so he ran to the desert and tended sheep with Jethro his father-in-law, but really it was God setting him up for a move and a divine encounter. I have another name for God. You know we call him Jehovah Jireh and Jehovah Rapha and Jehovah Shalom, and all these things, but I have a revelation of his new name, it's "Jehovah Sneaky!" He will sneak up on you! There on the back side of the desert, feeling as far away as he could get, Moses saw an unusual thing. Many bushes burned in the desert, but this one he saw was different. We have to keep our focus on the right things if we are going to hear from God. Moses had to keep his focus on this to hear from God.
Exodus 3 is a significant chapter for me. I have read it many times over the years, but lately the Lord has been showing me a lot more out of it. Exo 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;Exo 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.Exo 3:9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.Exo 3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
Exo 3:11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? Here you can see that God sees all the oppression and sorrow that we have gone through. The Israelites groaned under the Egyptian bondage and cried. But God saw, because there is nothing going on that God does not see. And He hears. He hears every word and He sees every tear. And you will see here in verse 7 that God also knows. People don't always know you or how you feel, but God does. He knows everything that you are going through and how you feel about it. And He is the All-Sufficient One for us. No matter how impractical or impossible it seems, just keep on believing Him. God is sending today.
Like Moses in verse 10, He is using the young and the old and empowering them, just as He sent Moses this great prophet to Pharaoh. He is about to empower us to do His great work through His divine enablement. Give us courage, Lord, to receive this divine enablement. We have a destiny and future that will fill the stadiums. The power of God will come and we will see people falling on their faces saying, "Jesus is Lord! Jesus is Lord!" He is bringing us out to bring us in. There will be dramatic healings, and crutches and canes and wheelchairs will be discarded. And there will even be the raising of the dead! It will be in such fashion that even the media, like ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN will report it. Maybe even FOX will report it. It will be the greatest show on earth!
They will say, "Ladies and gentlemen, there is no news to report tonight, seemingly only good news! There are no sporting events to report because all of the stadiums and ball parks are filled. There are miracles taking place all over the place, even the raising of the dead! We see crutches and wheelchairs cast away and we aren't sure who these people are ministering, but they have been there for days!"
People, this isn't hype. I know hype and this isn't hype. How many of you remember the Jesus People Movement of the 70's when all those people and young people came in? It was really something. There were all these hippies coming into the church and it was really distressing to those of us who were raised up in the holiness movement.
God has great grace. I remember at the height of it, I was ministering with Chuck Smith in San Bernandino, where thousands, maybe a million people got baptized in the Pacific Ocean. We in the "holiness" camp just had fits with this new expression of God. These people were sinners, with their long hair - and long hair was a sin in those days - but some of the folks had tongues that were longer than their hair! Finally I realized that I would rather be a hippie than a hypocrite! One night at this campmeeting when so many of us were upset in this controversy, God spoke to me and said that He was going to do a creative miracle the next night to prove this meeting was of Him. I prophesied it and then heard Him say not to say another word about it. I felt He told me that it would happen on the left side of where I was preaching, in that section.
These kids were a mess. They were doing drugs in the parking lot, smoking their dope and popping their beer cans and we just hated it. It upset me so bad that I just wanted to dangle them over hell on the end of a rotten stick, you know? But the next night the crowd gathered and I didn't say a word, but as it commenced, I saw some people bring in a young man whose brain had totally fried on drugs, like from acid and the like. He had to have two people bring him in, one on the right and one on the left. He couldn't walk or dress or bathe himself and he even had to wear a diaper because he was so disconnected in his brain from those drugs. He sat in that left section and I knew that is where I felt God told me the miracle would take place, and I wondered if he was the guy. He was totally helpless, but he had been from an affluent family.
Affluent, if you don't know, means filthy rich. Apparently he had a music type background, of a show biz type. As I was preaching and ministering, I looked out into the crowd and I saw this glow around him, like a shining light on him, and suddenly before I knew what I was doing, I prophesied, "Brian, the Lord gives you a new brain right now in Jesus' Name!" He got up and the others got up to help him but they all fell out in the Spirit. There was a Baldwin kind of grand piano in there and he went over to it, fully connected together, and in concert style, he pulled back his old dirty tee shirt, and like a concert pianist began to play a Bach lullaby perfectly. I wasn't always so hot on that type of music in those days but it was just beautiful that night. Everyone just cried and wailed. Even the hippies got convicted. They were almost delirious. They came up and said "We shouldn't be doing these drugs in the parking lot, should we?"
And I said, "I didn't say that," because God told me not to say a word. They said, "We need to be saved, don't we?" And I said, "I didn't say that either." And they said "We aren't saved, we need to be saved!!!" And so a whole slew of them came forward and repented, convicted by the Spirit of God without man saying a word. We need to see the bush burn again in the desert. It's time to do business with the King. And God says, "I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh and your sons and your daughters will prophesy..." (As transcribed from her notes by Pam Clark

The Jean Raborg Miracle

2006-04-15T23:50:00.000-07:00

Now I want to share a story with you I first heard of 3 years ago from a tape by Jack Deere and I read in his book "Surprised by the Voice of God," that illustrates just how important it is we pursue the power of both the Word and the Spirit. It is one of the most riveting stories of deliverance you'll ever read but it underscores just how far off the 21rst Century church has come from the days when the CHURCH depended on both the WORD AND THE SPIRIT.
In 1965 Jean Raborg was living the American dream. She had done everything right. She had been raised in a Christian home. Her mother had been the organist at Morningside Presbyterian Church in Phoenix, Arizona. She had married her college sweetheart, John, whom she had met at Arizona State University.
Now they were living in San Diego, California. They had two wonderful children, a daughter Janelle who was nine years old and a son John who was six. She was a popular home economics teacher in Kearny Mesa High School. She loved being a teacher, and she loved her students. The students could feel Jean's love and acceptance, and often came to her with their problems. It was common for Jean to pray for her students and even pray WITH THEM. In 1965 a public school teacher could still pray with her students without fear of losing her job. Jean's husband John had a promising career selling life insurance.
He had already won some award, and they had begun prospering financially. With their combined incomes, they were able to buy a lovely home on a hill in a suburb north of San Diego. They bought new furniture, and with Jean's decorating abilities their home looked like one of those show places out of Home and Garden. What more could any young couple want - a beautiful home, fulfilling jobs, a wonderful marriage, sweet children, and all of this in the midst of financial security? In addition to all of this there was a vital spiritual dimension to Jean's life. She was more than just a nominal Christian. She had loved Jesus will all her heart since she was 14.
When she was 19, she had an encounter with God that caused her to believe in the gifts of the Spirit. She believed God who could do miracles. She and John had joined a church that believed in supernatural ministry. In spite of their work schedules they were heavily involved in their church work. Jean really had it all. She had a wonderful family. She had never know depression or sorrow. She had prosperity and she had intimacy with God. She had a perfect life.
There was only one small problem in her perfect life. Jean was a perfectionist. She didn't know how bad her perfectionism was, and before 1965, it hadn't really caused her too much trouble. But now she found herself with more responsibility than she had ever had before. She was teaching 150 students every day. The more she loved those students, the more she took on their problems and their stresses. She put everything she had into her teaching. Also, the new house was not turning out to be the blessing that she had thought it would be. It was larger and required more effort to keep it clean than the smaller house they had before. There was the added worry about the new furniture - a worry that a nine-year old girl and six-year old boy couldn't really share.
Jean began to come home drained physically and emotionally drained. It seemed that her own children were beginning to require more from her than she could give. In order to meet her own children's emotional needs, she frequently had to let the house go, and this bothered her. It seemed like it was all she could go to get a meal on the table for John and her children and then clear away the mess afterwards. For the first time in her life, Jean began to have a problem sleeping. This didn't make any sense to her because she was so tired when she finally got to bed at night. But now it took her longer to go to sleep, and her sleep was fitful. When she woke up in the morning, she seemed almost as tired as she was when she went to bed. Jean began to long for the weekends, not because she could rest, but because this gave her time to get her house in perfect order. And then there was their church, Jean and John were committed to their church. It was difficult for her to say no to the needs there. So instead of allowing herself to be refreshed on the weekends, she usually began Monday even more worn out than she was on Friday.
As Jean approached exhaustion, she began to realize she could not handle all of her responsibilities. She began to feel like she was drowning - slowly, but surely and losing contact with reality and life. This type pressure was unknown to Jean ever in her life. She started talking to John about the pressure she was feeling, but then she thought, How could I worry John when he is already so overworked? She thought about telling someone at church, but a VOICE went off in her mind telling her that no one should ever know that SHE CAN'T REALLY HANDLE THINGS - that she should just keep going and everything would be alright. She didn't know where this last impression came from, but she decided to obey it. She talked to no one about her exhaustion and the mounting stress that was drowning her. She decided to keep going. For the first time in her Christian life, she stopped having what she called "her time alone with Jesus."
Descent into Madness
By February of 1965, Jean became desperate. She went to her family doctor, and the nurse led her into on of the examining rooms. In a few minutes Dr. Bowers came in. "Hi Jean, What brings your here today?" the kind physician asked. Jean begins to sob to the doctor and explains to Dr. Bowers that she just feels like she is on a merry-go-round and is almost ready to drop. Dr. Bowers diagnosed Jean with pure exhaustion. He told her she would have to make some changes and get some rest. "You are not using the wisdom God has given you, Jean" he said. He gave her some medicine that would help protect her immune system and give her a little more energy. She began to feel better, but she ignored the doctor's advice about the priorities because all her life Jean had managed to make thing work despite all her duties.
The summer of 1965 came and Jean and John planned to go on a vacation John had won through his company. The night before they left she felt a sharp pain under her arm. Putting her hand under her left arm, she felt a large hard lump. She collapsed into a chair. A black despair fell over her. She thought of her best friend, Ann, who had died form cancer when she was 28 years old and had left two beautiful little children behind. It had all begun when Ann found a lump just like this one. Out of the darkness that enveloped Jean, a voice whispered, "You have lost weight, you are tired, you have a lump under you arm, and you have all the other symptoms Ann had.
You have what Ann had, and it is just a matter of time before you join her." Jean had never known the kind of fear she was feeling now. It was paralyzing. She felt her legs going numb. She couldn't walk. the icy hand of fear gripped her heart and squeezed it so that the hope of the Holy Spirit oozed out of her heart and was lying in a pool on the floor beside her. Jean became powerless to reclaim it. The voice told Jean she couldn't tell anyone.
"Don't tell John and ruin what few months you have left. And just forget about telling God about this because He's punishing you for your inability to control things that have gotten out of control."
Jean thought this was a judgment on her for failing in her responsibility as a wife, a mother, a teacher, and a Christian. No, it was over. There was nothing left except to waste like Ann had done. The vacation was a disaster. All Jean could think was, "I am dying, I am leaving these two beautiful children and my precious husband. I am leaving my beautiful home on the hill, and I won't be here to teach next fall." She kept touching the lump, which seemed to grow every day. As it grew Jean became thinner and thinner, slept less and less. By the time she got back to San Francisco she was no longer functioning as a human being.
Sometime that summer Jean started crying and couldn't stop. John couldn't understand it, and she couldn't tell him. Jean was having a breakdown, but since she had never known anyone who had had a breakdown, she didn't realize what was happening. Somehow she made it to the end of the summer. Her principal told her she had been made head of the Home Economics department. Instead of causing her to celebrate, the news pushed her to the verge of hysteria. Jean started teaching that fall but was an emotional wreck. Every time the students left the room, she broke into tears. After a couple of weeks trying to teach, she went back to see Dr. Bowers. When she tried to tell him what was wrong all she could do is cry. Finally she raised her arm and said, "what is this?"
After examining her Dr. Bowers said, 'Jean why didn't you come in here after you first found this?" After an examination Dr. Bowers determined the growth was not cancer or even a malignant tumor - it was just a swollen lymph gland and suggested minor surgery to take care of it. Instead of receiving the news in joy, Jean assumed both the husband and the doctor were hiding the real facts from her. The voice told Jean that John and Dr. Bowers had conspired not to tell her right away about her cancer because she was so depressed and had been crying so much. In spite of the doctor's assurances, she was more convinced than ever that she had cancer and that the doctor was lying to her to keep her calm until the surgery. Jean had been so confident and competent that she had never learned to ask for help. This situation had spread to Jean's soul and no one could seem to stop the descent into oblivion she was taking.
That night she began to pound on the bedroom walls at the house and cry hysterically. John had never seen Jean act like this. When he didn't get her to stop, he slammed the front door in anger and escaped to his office. The next day John took Jean to Dr. Bowers again who recommended a 2-week rest from school. After the 2-week rest one of her students in her class asked her where a certain ingredient was. She stared at the student for a minute, and then a blank look came over her face. Slowly the words, "I don't know, I don't know," came out of her mouth. it was a though something had switched off inside her and everything she had known as an adult seemed to leave her. She became like a child. She heard herself saying, "I am leaving this room, and I do not think I will ever come back." Without any warning, she began screaming hysterically and ran for the door. One of the teachers across the hall saw her bolting from the classroom and ran out to intercept her. She threw her arms around Jean, who was sobbing. "It's all over, it's all over." The colleague, Jane, calmed her down and got her into the car.
She took her to Dr. Bowers, who immediately called a psychiatrist and made an appointment. By the time John got to the psychiatrist's office two hours later, Jean had still not able to talk to the psychiatrist. All she could do was sit in his office and cry hysterically. The psychiatrist found that only drugs could calm Jean. He started her on tranquilizers. Jean could not believe that she, a born-again, Spirit-filled Christian, had to take tranquilizers. She slid into an abyss of hopelessness. She never went back to the classroom and ceased functioning. It got to the point that all she did was sit around the house and cry all day. John had to even comb her hair, then get the children ready for school and go to work. After all this then the suicidal stuff started. She began attempting to take her own life on several occasions including one day when she tried to jump out of John's car on a busy San Diego Freeway. He was barely able to restrain her. The doctor put her on thorazine. John took her to work to keep her from harming herself. But Jean could not feel John's love, and the drug didn't really dull her pain.
She felt enveloped by a suffocating darkness. She felt mentally, emotionally and physically dead. Thoughts of suicide were always on her mind. While all this was happening Jean's parents, Carl and Jesse Williams were in anguish over their daughter's illness and descent into insanity. Carl was the international treasurer of the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship. He traveled with Demos Shakarian, its president and had occasion to meet a number of well-known Christian evangelists. He and Jesse had taken Jean to all sorts of crusades and Christian meetings in order to have pastors and evangelists pray for her healing. Many of the most famous healing evangelists of the 1950s and 1960s prayed for Jean to be healed during this time, but nothing happened. She grew worse. By February 1966 Jean have a complete breakdown and simply stopped functioning as an adult. John did everything for her. Janelle, now 11, had become the mother of the house. After losing everything and basically being cut off from their church, friends and family, John pleaded with Jean to go back to the psychiatrist. She had stopped taking her medication and vowed never to see another doctor again. In spite of these protests, on Jean Raborg 36th birthday she found herself in the office of Dr. Jim Dickson and in front of the Mesa Vista Psychiatric Hospital.
The building was not what she imagined. She found it physically beautiful. She thought, "perhaps I can get some help here after all." Her and John signed the admitting forms and began to walk down a long corridor. The warmth Jean felt in the lobby disappeared. They came to a stark metal door that had one small window in it. They walked through the door, and when it slammed shut, it automatically locked. Jean was on one side with a nurse, and she saw John on the other side through the little window. At this moment Jean Raborg realized it would be a long time before she would see her husband and family again. She called out for John and he was gone. She called out for God and he didn't seem to be there either. She stood there, stunned. The windows were barred, the room small. She was alone. She was given more thorazine, and she slipped off into mental oblivion.
No matter what kind of therapy they tried on Jean, she didn't respond. She spent her waking hours in a daze. She began to want to sleep all the time. At four in the afternoon she would go to her bed and curl up in a fetal position. In the mornings, a nurse had to make her get out of bed. A few times she seemed to come back from the darkness and pretend she was feeling better. On these occasions they would let her go home for a visit and she would just wonder through her house from one bed to another, trying to sleep, but finding no rest. Her doctor would not allow sleeping pills and soon as she got home from the clinic she would always wind back up in the psychiatric ward. John kept hoping Jean would regain her sanity, but everyone else knew that she was not coming back home. Their children had given up hope. Her parents had given up hope.
And Jean herself had given up hope a long time ago. Jean knew she would never leave her prison again. The last trip the clinic brought a suggestion from the doctor for Jean to stay indefinitely. As Jean sat on her bed crying, doped up on thorazine, drowning into this abyss, that same voice that had come to her in the very beginning of this descent came to her again and said, "How could a Christian who loves God and believes in His supernatural power end up so far away from him and in an insane asylum?" Then the voice offered Jean the answer: "You have committed the unpardonable sin. You have blasphemed the Holy Spirit. You can never be forgiven. This is your judgment." Jean believed that voice and basically sank even further to the bottom of her mental pit never to return again.
In October 1968 Carl and Jesse Williams traveled to San Bernardino California to hear a healing evangelist named Paul Cain. On the last night of the meeting Jesse stoop up and asked Paul if he would pray for her daughter, who was locked away in a mental institution. Paul agreed and prayed for Jean. After the meeting Paul asked the Williams where their daughter had been institutionalized. They told Paul that the hospital was somewhere in the San Diego area, but they did not know its name or precise location. John had refused to tell Jean's parents where she had been institutionalized. Although his relationship with Jean's parents had been extremely strained, he didn't do this out of meanness, but rather out of despair. Every attempt by the Williams through the healing evangelists had not helped, they had only aggravated the situation. Promises of healing that did not materialize just caused Jean to lose even more hope and strengthened her view that God had truly forsaken her.
In the end both the institution and John agreed that Jean would be better off if she was totally isolated. John had cut off all contact between Jean and the outside world, except with himself. Paul told the Williams that he would continue to pray for their daughter. Paul walked out of the meeting at midnight and went to his car. After two continuous weeks of meetings he was dead tired. Of top of that he had a severe sinus infection. Paul thought it was ironic that the Lord had used him to heal various people over the last two weeks while he himself had remained sick. He put the key in the ignition, but before he turned it he prayed one more time for Jean Raborg. As he prayed, he began to feel the compassion of Jesus for Jean. What started as a simple prayer became a torrent of words and emotions as he petitioned the Lord to deliver Jean from her madness. He wept as he felt the heart of Christ for her. As he was weeping, he looked up to heaven and the night sky turned into a giant television screen. On the screen, he saw jean in the psychiatrist's hospital and he saw the things about her life before she went to the hospital.
Then God spoke. It wasn't audible, but it couldn't have been any clearer than if it had been audible. These sentences formed in Paul's mind: If you will go to San Diego and pray for this woman, she will instantly healed to my glory. And I will use this testimony to the end of her life to encourage women with hope. The next morning Paul drove to San Diego. He felt impressed to pull of the freeway at a certain exit in San Diego. He walked up to a pay phone without knowing Jean Raborg was two blocks away from the Mesa Vista Psychiatric clinic. The Williams had given Paul Jean Raborg's office number and home phone. He called John's office and no one answered. He called the home and got Janelle the daughter. He asks her for the number and is told, "I'm sorry sir, but I cannot give you the name of the hospital. No one is allowed to see my mother but my dad." "Janelle," Paul said, "I don't want you to disobey your father, but I would like you to stay on the phone for just a minute longer. You see the Lord sent me here to help your mother. I am going to pray now. Please stay on the line."
Paul prayed, and in a few seconds he saw the giant television screen again. This time he saw a San Diego newspaper with a headline that said, "Mesa Vista." "Janelle, I believe the Lord has shown me your mother is at Mesa Vista. I just need you to confirm this for me. Does that name mean anything to you?" "That's it sir! that's it, my mom is at the Mesa Vista Psychiatric Hospital." Paul thanked Janelle and said "Honey, I know this has been a weary road for you and your family. You have had to be strong while your mother has been so sick. I want you to know that God is going to heal your mother and she will be home in THREE DAYS. And when she comes back she will be back to normal and full of joy. Goodbye." Paul walks through the Mesa Vista Clinic and finds the receptionist. "Hello, my name is Paul Cain. I am a minister and I'm here to see Jean Raborg."
The receptionist turned to look up Jean's room number. Next to Jean's name were the orders, "TO SEE NO ONE BUT HER HUSBAND- ESPECIALLY CLERGY!" The receptionist looks at the chart, turns around puts it back in the folder and said, "Come right this way Mr. Cain she's right back here." Paul walked straight through the nurses' station and asked for Jean. She was in occupational therapy now - sealing envelopes. When Jean sees Paul she screams "Dear God, who is that man? He looks just like an angel. I see your glory coming from him. Oh, I wish someone like that would come see me." Paul went to Jean and said "Jean, my name is Paul Cain. You don't know me, but I know you. What I am going to say to you is going to be difficult for you to understand. Jesus has sent me because he loves you and because he is going to heal you. I am going to pray for you today, and he will heal you, and you will be home in three days."
Before Paul had gotten there he had prayed for Jean to have sound mind since she had been so drugged up on thorazine. "Before I pray for you Jean I want to tell you two things that will help you understand God has really sent me here for you. The first thing Jesus told me to tell you is that you have never committed the unpardonable sin, and he knows you love him with all your heart." Jean thought she was going to burst. "Oh, I do love him, I do love him - I love Jesus with all my heart! she exclaimed." "The Lord also told me to remind you of something that happened when you were 14 years old, Jean. You were at a summer camp in Oregon, and after a service one evening you threw a pinecone into the fire, and you asked the Lord Jesus to come into your heart, and you asked him to make you a missionary." "Yes sir!" Yes sir! But how could you have possibly known that?" Paul took her hand and said, "Jean, I didn't know that but the Lord showed me those two things so you'll know He's really hear for you. He says he is about to make you a missionary, but not the way you thought." Paul abruptly stopped speaking. He closed his eyes for a moment and then said, "Jean, I am having a vision right now. I see a man standing in an airline uniform, and he's a pilot. He is a friend of yours, a neighbor of yours. His wife's name is Pat. What's his name?"
"His name if Allan Lindemann. He is a captain for PSA Airlines in San Diego. He lives right across the street from us in University City." Paul said, "You also have a neighbor named Marion. In the future you are going to tell Pat and Marion what the Lord has done for you, and it will change their lives. And you are going to give your testimony to the man in the airline uniform and while he is dressed in that uniform he is going to believe in Christ through your testimony, now let me pray for you" As Paul prayed for Jean she said it felt like a giant heating pad had been put over her abdomen. Then she had a sensation of hot oil being poured over her and penetrating every fiber of her body. At the same time, she felt a cloud of oppression lift off of her. She started shouting for joy, "I'm healed, I'm healed!" Paul said "No, Jean," "you're not healed yet. When I leave there, the madness is going to try to return. God is going to put a scripture in your heart when I walk out this door. That scripture is going to seal your healing. When the evil voice returns to you, don't listen to it. Instead say, "It is written," and then quote whatever verse comes to your mind." The SPIRIT and the WORD will heal you and will keep you healed. Jean, you will be home in THREE DAYS and you will be filled with joy. Good-bye. I will be praying for you and will be in touch."
Paul walked out the door and just left. Jean picks her Bible up and tries to focus on the pages but cannot because of all the thorazine in her system. Her mind began to cloud again and she could feel that same numbness trying to come back. Just then she put her Bible down, stood up, walked out the door and as she walked an passage from the Old Testament came to her mind just as clearly as anything could be:
"FEAR THOU NOT, FOR I AM WITH THEE; BE NOT DISMAYED; FOR I AM THY GOD; I WILL STRENGTHEN THEE; YEA, I WILL HELP THEE; YEA, I WILL UPHOLD THEE WITH THE RIGHT HAND OF MY RIGHTEOUSNESS."
At that moment she felt an icy hand try to grip her heart. Each time she would just walk and down the hall screaming Isaiah 41:10. Everyone around her said, "Don't listen to her, she's crazy, she's crazy!" NO, Jean Raborg had just been healed. The next morning, her psychiatrist, Dr. Appleford came to see her and immediately said JEAN, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU! Why aren't you crying?
Where did that smile come from? I have never seen anyone in my entire practice snap out of depression overnight." Jean told him what happened when Paul visited. Dr. Appleford said, "Jean, I'm a backslidden Presbyterian and I don't believe in miracles but what I see before my eyes is changing my mind. I am going to have you observed for a couple of days and then i will make another evaluation."
On the THIRD DAY, a bright sunny October morning in 1968, Jean Raborg walked out of the mental clinic never to return again. Everything had changed when she got home. John and her had went bankrupt. The house on the hill had gone. They lived in a small apartment now. None of their "stuff" had been able to give them joy or protect them from the enemy but now by the mercy of God John and the children had gotten back their wife and mom. The SPIRIT and the WORD of God had set Jean free. Since they lived in a poorer section they didn't see their old friends anymore. But a few months later, she returned to a Bible study group in her old neighborhood to give her testimony of God's deliverance. Pat and Marion were profoundly impacted just as Paul Cain had prophesied.
BUT JEAN NEVER GOT TO TALK TO CAPTAIN ALLAN LINDEMANN. Soon after Jean's healing, the Raborg family moved from San Diego to Phoenix. Some 13 years after Jean's healing she was invited to come to Salt Lake City, Utah to share her testimony with a women's group. Jean flew from Phoenix to San Diego to meet her daughter Jeanelle, who going to accompany her to Salt Lake City. "Mom," said Jeanelle, "I wonder if Allan Lindemann could be flying this plane?" Jean smiled and said, "Honey, I am sure he is retired by now but to satisfy your curiousity I'll ask." Jean asked the stewardess who smiled and said, "His name is Captain Allan Lindemann." Jean couldn't believe it.
She sent Allen a letter message that she and Jeanelle were on the plane. The stewardess brought it back and said Allen would meet them in Salt Lake City and have coffee wtih them. Normally Allan did not fly to Salt Lake City. His usual route was San Diego to San Francisco. He was filling in for another pilot on this day. At least this was the human reason why he found himself in Salt Lake City in December 1981. The real reason he was in Salt Lake City had been decreed by God 13 years earlier in a mental institution. At the airport restaurant, Allen asked Jean what she was doing in Salt Lake City. "I am hear to share my testimony of my healing," Jean said.
"Oh yes, I remember that prophet fellow had a vision of Pat when you were healed." Jean smiled and said, "That's right Allen but he just didn't see Pat, he saw you too." "Really?" Allen asked wondering why. "Yes, he saw me talking to you while you were in your airline uniform. This is how he knew you were an airline pilot." Allen just sat back and said, "That's amazing." "Yes it is amazing Allen. It shows you how much God loves you, and Allen and how well he knows you." From there Jean began to share the Gospel with him. Alan's eyes filled with tears. For the first time he understood Jesus took his place on the cross and paid for ALL of his sins.
That day, Allan Lindemann trusted in the Lord Jesus to save him from his sins. He was born again right before Jean's eyes. "Allan, this is just like Paul said it would be in the vision he saw of you, you were wearing your uniform. You heard my testimony and the Gospel in the vision and you became born again." Allan continued to cry.
Finally he said, "What you don't know Jean, is that this is the last day I will ever wear this uniform again. I am retiring today from PSA Airlines. In just a little while I am flying home to San Diego, and I will never wear this uniform again."On the last possible day, Captain Allan Lindemann was saved. Why? Because a word from God had decreed it 13 years earlier in an insane asylum and no word from God will ever fall to the ground before it is fulfilled. Allan Lindemann was saved by the power of the WORD and the SPIRIT. Jean Raborg was saved and set free by the WORD and the SPIRIT.
A Costly Divorce
No one in the New Testament church would have regarded the above story as a unique, isolated event. They were used to seeing the power of the WORD and the Spirit work together. Somewhere along the way the church has encouraged a silent divorce between the word and the Spirit. Divorces are painful, both for the children and for the parents. One parent usually gets custody of the children, and the other only gets to visit occasionally. It breaks the hearts of the parents and the children are usually worse off because of the arrangement. Many in the church today are content to live with only one parent.
They live with the WORD, and the Spirit only has limited visiting rights. He just gets to see and touch the kids once in a while. Some of his kids don't even recognize him anymore. Some have become afraid of him and some even accuse their parent of being sent from Satan. Others in the church live with the Spirit and only allow the Word sporadic visits. The Spirit doesn't want to raise the kids without the Word. He can see how unruly they're becoming, but he won't force them to do what they must choose with their hearts.
So we have become a divided family growing up with separate parents. One set of kids is proud of their education, and the other set of kids is proud of their freedom. Both think they're better than the other. The parents are brokenhearted. Because unlike most divorces, they didn't choose this divorce. Their kids did. And the Word and the Spirit have had to both honor and endure that choice. The question is this: How many more Jean Raborg are languishing in insane asylums, waiting for the children to bring the parents back together again?

War in Iraq - Magazine

2006-04-15T23:49:00.000-07:00

Billy Bruce December 2002 edition
Christian Leaders Spar Over Iraq War Prophetic leaders disagree on President Bush's resolve to remove President Saddam Hussein
National Christian leaders including some key prophetic voices are offering differing viewpoints on President Bush's resolution to use military force if needed to attack and disarm Iraq and remove President Saddam Hussein from office. Several Christian organizations have directly pressured Bush not to attack Iraq. Others have stated their support for the move.
According to the Bush administration, Hussein has maintained a stockpile of chemical and biological weapons in violation of United Nations restrictions and seeks to develop nuclear weapons. The religious community's dialogue heated up in October just as the House voted 296-133 and the Senate voted 77-23 to authorize Bush to attack Iraq if Hussein refused to give up weapons of mass destruction.
A more interesting point of the religious debate arose among prophetic ministry leaders. Some support a war against Iraq while others oppose it. But each side claims divine support for its point of view. Steve Shultz, publisher of The Elijah List, an Internet mailing of prophecy reports, issued a call for "crisis prayer" for Bush, who, Shultz said, will listen to godly counsel.
The Elijah List has gathered statements by several prophetic leaders who are warning of "disastrous results" if the United States attacks Iraq now. Shultz provided statements by Paul Cain, a traveling prophetic minister associated in the early 1990s with Mike Bickle's Metro Christian Fellowship of Kansas City, Mo. Shultz said Cain told a church in Oregon he had visited with Hussein and had urged Christians to pray that the United States would attempt diplomacy before it started a "cowboys and Indians" fight.
Graham Cooke, based in the United Kingdom, told conferencegoers in Frederick, Md., that Hussein allows Christians to evangelize and to operate churches as a way of keeping Islam in check. Cooke warned that if Hussein falls, devout Muslims will bring "a bloodbath" and that "every Christian in that nation will likely be killed because they are on somebody's list right now." "No matter what you think about it, [Hussein] is the only one standing between the church and Iran and Iraq and a bloodbath," Cooke said. "We need him alive because thousands upon thousands of people are getting saved in the country. There is a move of God there."
Cindy Jacobs, who with her husband, Mike, leads Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Generals of Intercession, agrees that God wants to liberate Iraq so the gospel will go forth, but she said the Lord showed her that Hussein's "cup of judgment is full" and that the United States should not be afraid to remove him. Jacobs claims that before Bush began clamoring to remove Hussein God had shown her last April the United States would be invading Iraq and that it may be in the winter months of early 2003.
She qualified her prophetic leanings by saying only prophecy in Scripture is unconditional and that today God often provides prophetic warning so people will pray for a better outcome. "I believe it could be the warning from God that if you don't pray, there could be a big bloodbath with Saddam coming out," she said. "I don't think it's Armageddon or the end of the world. I think if we're not careful, we could end up with a Y2K fear thing breaking out over this. I do believe God is calling us to pray and that it is a very solemn time." Jacobs has scheduled a meeting of world church leaders in Washington, D.C., Jan. 16-18 to pray for God's will and His timing with the Iraq situation.
"If we pray, I think God wants to break open the Middle East for the gospel. If we do it right, the Iraqi people will look on us as liberators," she said. Asked why God would tell one prophet to oppose an attack and another to support it, Jacobs said God doesn't want dueling prophets. She said she respected Cain as a man of God. Of Cooke's statement, she said God provides all the perspectives so that Christians will know how to pray and leaders will know what's at stake if they decide to embark on such a drastic measure. "I am not negating the prophecy of Graham Cooke.
There is always more than one side to a prophetic word," Jacobs said. In other moves, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), which represents at least 10 million charismatics, Pentecostals and other evangelicals in some 51 denominations, supported Bush's campaign against Hussein as a proper step to halt terrorism and evil. NAE Vice President for Governmental Affairs Richard Cizik qualified the organization's support by saying Bush should continue a good-faith effort to meet with Congress and the United Nations to exhaust diplomatic means before using military action.
But a key leader of the 16-million member Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) offered no such qualifier for removing Hussein. Richard Land, president of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said religious leaders who oppose Bush's stance are "well-intentioned and naive" and said he supports whatever military means are necessary to remove Hussein and his government.
The National Council of Churches (NCC) asked Bush not to attack Iraq. The NCC was founded in 1950 and comprises mainline denominations in the United States that include Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox groups. NCC leaders participated with others in an October event in Washington to press for alternatives to war. They held a prayer vigil on the lawn of the United Methodist Building at Capitol Hill. United Methodist leaders, members of Bush's own denomination, have expressed opposition to war in Iraq. America's Roman Catholic bishops told the president they have grave reservations about a unilateral U.S. strike against Iraq and urged him to use the U.N. to pressure Hussein.

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2006-04-11T01:42:00.000-07:00

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2006-01-29T23:21:00.000-08:00

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Living Tribute to Paul Cain

2005-11-25T22:09:00.000-08:00

Paul Cain has led a life marked by a touch of the supernatural. Before his birth, an angel had appeared to his mother with a message from the Lord: "The fruit of your womb is a male child. Name him Paul. He will preach the gospel as the Apostle Paul of old."In 1947, at the age of 18, Paul began to hold citywide salvation and healing campaigns in tents, civic auditoriums and churches. He became one of many prominent preachers in a move of the Spirit known as the "Healing Revival" which lasted from 1947 to 1958. During the great healing revival, Paul's ministry reached international proportions. In 1954, his manager purchased the world's largest gospel tent from Jack Coe, and Paul toured the country, filling it with thousands of people wherever he went. The tent held 8,000 people. In 1957, Paul ministered in Switzerland, as well as Karlsruhe, Germany (sponsored by the State Church). These meetings were attended by more than 30,000 people each night for one week. There were many salvations and healing miracles as the Lord confirmed His word with signs and wonders.During the height of his public ministry, the Lord began to speak to Paul about the excesses of the healing-revival movement. For the next few years, Paul watched in agony as many of the leaders of the healing-revival movement suffered moral failures involving money, sex, and power, and lost their ministries or seemed to die prematurely, or in infamy. By 1958, Paul had become totally disheartened. At age 29, he was disillusioned and burned out. In the midst of Paul's despair and repentance, God told him that if he kept himself from corruption and remained content with living a humble life marked by Scripture study and prayer, one day he would be allowed to stand before a new breed of men and women leaders. These would be marked by simplicity, purity and remarkable manifestations of power. Paul's obedience to God would result in him waiting on the Lord for some 25 years... a true desert experience. Paul calls these his "almost silent" years. However there was never a time when he was totally out of the ministry.Then Paul emerged in 1988 to begin a new phase of supernatural healing and prophetic ministry. He has since traveled around the world, proclaiming the gospel and calling the church back to purity and holiness. He has ministered to many national and international leaders - both political leaders (including presidents and senators) and spiritual leaders (including key church and denominational leaders).