Sanctification and Power

 Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

This was first published in 1906 in the paper, Household of God, by Thomas Junk.  It was reprinted on the same year by the Apostolic Faith Mission Newsletter.

Have you accepted Jesus?

Will you accept Him?

Have you accepted Him as your sanctifier?

In John 17:15-17, Jesus prayed, "I pray not thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.  Sanctify them through thy faith, thy word is truth.... And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they might also be sanctified through the truth."

Also in 1 Thess. 1:4, "This is the will of God even your sanctification."

Bless His dear name.  He says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock.  If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in unto him and sup with him and He with us."  Praises to our God. Hosanna to His omnipotent name!

If we are sanctified and have clean hearts, living pure, holy lives and having perfect love for our souls, O, let us receive the Baptism with the Holy Ghost, the promise of the Father, that we may be able to be His witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth.  For Jesus gave this great commission in His resurrection power,  after He rose from the dead.  

"Go, ye, into all the world and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world."

O, dear loved ones, we must preach and teach and practice all that Jesus has commissioned us.  If we have not received all of the fullness of our blessed Christ, let us continue till we shall be filled with all the fullness of God.  Let us press forward to the mark of the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus.  O dear loved ones, this means the baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire upon our souls.

It is heaven in our souls here.  O, let us get down before God and humble ourselves until we can hear Him speak.  He desires to speak with His people today as He did in the early morning of the church.  The Holy Ghost wants to speak to the people.

We praise God for the instruments He has raised up to bring to us light, but far above all, we admire the great Teacher of teachers that never makes a mistake, that loved us even to the throbs of death when He hung on Calvary from the sixth until the ninth hour and there was darkness over the face of the earth, proving to a lost and benighted world that He was the Son of God.

Infidels were compelled to confess that this was the Son of God, for they heard His words on the cross, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."  His great desire on the cross was for the salvation of souls.

Dear ones, have we got that burning passion for souls of the lost?  When we are persecuted and tried for the word of God, can we say in our hearts, Lord, forgive them, for they know not what they do?  This is what it means to have the faith that was once delivered unto the saints, faith such as Stephen had when he was being stoned to death.  He could look up into heaven and see Jesus at the right hand of God.  It seems that he could not feel the stoning he was so wrapped up in Jesus.  There was a smile on his face like an angel when he fell asleep in Jesus.

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.

Roop-Crappell Ministries

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

Lake of Molten Lead

 Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Lake of Molten Lead

 

This same man, who had never seen a vision before, was retiring for the night in a hotel.  After having prayed, he was sitting on his bed when he saw the floor open at his feet, revealing a lake like molten lead, with living creatures plunging and moving in it, and men continually falling in.  

Above his head, seemingly up in the air, there seemed to be something like a very large bird cage, full of people, and as he gazed he occasionally saw a person descending from the earth and joining the company in the lake of molten lead![1]

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.

Roop-Crappell Ministries

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

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[1] Seymour, William Joseph.  The Azusa Street Newsletter.  Published by the Apostolic Faith Mission in Los Angeles, California from 1906-1908.

 

Spirit Walking In The Room

 Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Walking in the room 

This was my first known experience with a demonic entity.  I was lying in bed late at night. I had been sleeping just fine until I woke up suddenly.  I was laying there quietly and just thinking.  Then I just had this weird, cold feeling starting to come over me. I could not understand what was going on. 

I then felt some cold, evil entity come through my bedroom wall, the one by the closet and facing the bed. I could not see anything in front of me, the room was completely empty.  But there was “something there!”  I could not see it, but it was there!  I became very terrified!  

The fear made the seconds pass into hours. I started to sweat profusely! I could “feel” this invisible entity walk around my bed, and stand next to me, just staring down at me! How did I know this without seeing anything?  I felt it spiritually, with spiritual eyes.  I didn’t understand it at the time, I just knew it. 

There we were just staring at each other. I was lying in bed shaking and sweating. The demon is standing next to the bed staring down at me.  Then I spiritually felt a net of fear being thrown on top of me by this demon.  Then I understood what fear really was!  

This evil, spiritual net caused me to become so fearful that I was physically paralyzed!  I had been sweating before, but now I was quickly becoming drenched in sweat!  This was a whole new level of fear!  As I was lying there trembling, this evil thing started to laugh at me.  It turned away and walked out through the closed door to my right. 

When the demon left the house then the cloak of fear had left me as well.  I lay there sweating and trying to recover.  After about an hour later, I dozed back off to sleep.  I slept out of physical exhaustion due to the trauma of the event.  The demonic event took a lot out of me and made me physically and emotionally exhausted! 

Unfortunately, this was the beginning of several demonic or ghostly events that would happen to me in this bedroom as a teenager.  These kind of event happen mostly at night because everything is quiet and there are no other distractions.  Spirits can be noticed more if we don’t have the distractions of life filling our senses.  [1]

William James Roop

Roop-Crappell Ministries

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

 

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[1] My own personal experience.

The Sliding Sharpener

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord! 

The Sliding Sharpener 

I was lying in bed very late in the evening. Everyone else in the house was fast asleep.  My bed was next to a window to my left. Straight ahead was a closet. To my right was a large wooden bookcase, clothes cabinet and desk combination.  Next to me was a stereo on top of a small cabinet.  

The room was dark except for the faint glow coming off the stereo.  The room was dark, but there was plenty of light to see everything, especially when your eyes had adjusted to it.  I always used the light off the stereo as a makeshift nightlight.  

I was lying there when I heard a scraping sound on top of the wooden desk.  Hearing this sound, any sound, coming from my normally quiet bedroom was unnerving.  I looked over at the desk, and watched my pencil sharpener moving across the desk! 

The desk was made of wood, I elevated it slightly to the back to keep round pencils from rolling off.  So this pencil sharpener was sliding uphill!  The pencil sharpener was of solid steel construction, it was square shape.  I had it as a teenager, but I have never seen one since. It was solid steel and was heavy. 

It was physically impossible for this heavy solid steel pencil sharpener to slide across the wooden desk!  But I laid there and watched it happen!  I didn’t see anything that would cause it to move it. But there it was slowly sliding.  It moved very slowly, but the sound of steel against wood made it seem faster. 

I watched it slowly slide until it reached the edge, then drop down to the shag carpeted floor.  I was paralyzed with fear as I had seen the impossible.  It dropped to the floor and stayed there.  I laid awake for over an hour until I fell asleep out of physical and emotional exhaustion![1]

William James Roop

Roop-Crappell Ministries

Hospice Care and Dying

 The Trucking Tango

 

 

 

 

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[1] My own personal experience

Love That Makes You Cry!

Hello everyone.   Praise the Lord!

My wife and I have been volunteering at the Purple Lemon thrift store and food bank,  for about a five months now. It's a blessing to work in the Kingdom to bless others, especially in this particular time of need.

Below is the picture of the front of the building. It's located in Berwick, Louisiana.  Thursday through Saturday is when the thrift store and Cafe are open. The food bank is open on Thursday mornings.

They have none perishable foods on shelves. The produce gets put on tables in the middle. It comes off the trucks from major grocery stores, donating produce that they can no longer sell.

Volunteers unload the trucks and stack the produce on the tables. The produce is mixed together, so we need to sort it all out to organize it and to see what they have available that day.

The people in need, already lining up, come in at 0930 in the morning.  We line them up inside, in the back of the thrift store, which is up front. We never know how many volunteers or food recipients will show up.  This Thursday we had 75 families arrive for food!  The cut-off is 80 families. Luckily we had a lot of volunteers show up as well!

Everyone got some meat, vegetables, fruit, chips, canned food, baby products. Most are appreciative, some are a bit standoffish.  But we believe that the Lord is pleased.

The last lady had a family of nine. Some were her kids, some were her sisters kids, she had just received custody of them. Because she had a large family and that she was the last one, we loaded up her basket! 

As we blessed her with an abundance of food and love she started crying! As she pushed her basket around the tables, we filled it up for her. She cried the whole way around!  We'll love you till you cry!

William James Roop 

Roop-Crappell Ministries

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

What Is Worship?

 Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Here is a quote from William Temple, a great Christian who lived from 1628-1699.  I hope that it will be a blessing to you.

"Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. 

 It is the quickening of our conscience by His holiness;

 the nourishment 0f our mind with His truth;  

the purifying of our imagination by His beauty; 

 the opening of our heart to His love; 

 the surrender of our will to His purpose- and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for what self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin."

William James Roop

Roop-Crappell Ministries

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

Baby Dedication Poem

 Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Here is a baby dedication poem that my old church pastor, Arless Glass, used for years. I've heard him say it to parents over baby's for decades. This morning he passed away to be Jesus in Glory.  So I decided to share it with you.

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.

If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.

If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.

If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty.

If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.

If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate.

If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident.

If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.

If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.

If a child lives with acceptance and appreciation, he learns to find love in the world.

Children learn what they live!

William James Roop

Roop-Crappell Ministries

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango