Exciting Days Ahead

I am sitting here in the airport, waiting to fly to Tulsa for the Worldwide Pentecostal Fellowship meeting. It may be not be exciting to some, but to me it is. To be in on the "ground floor" of something like this. I know it is not an organization, but I believe God has great things in store for the men that join themselves to this. Men that are willing to step out of the comfort zone of what has always been done, and know that there has to be a people that stand for what is right. The scripture that comes to mind is I Kings 18:41, "for there is a sound of abundance of rain." I feel that God will reward the sacrifices that are being made, the stands that are being taken. Some feel that revival has to come through technology and man's devices, but I am still firm in my thinking that God, only God, can bring true revival. Apostolic revival. We often quote that the latter will be greater than that of the former. If it is going to be happen, which I believe it is, the time is now, and the people that will see it are Apostolics who haven't lost their first love. Don't be surprised when revival sets in and the church pews can't hold it. In every sense of the words, there are "Exciting Days Ahead".

A need for a stand

I have read many places (blogs, forums, etc.) of people defending the UPCI and trying to bash the men that have put together this Tulsa meeting and the brethren who are going. I have many times almost commented and sayed some things that I personally felt, but have each time thought better of it. So those few people that do know about this blog, you are now the recipient of these thoughts that have been pent up for so long.
1. I read last night on a "Apostolic" forum a discussion of a preacher who left the UPCI to associate and base out of a former UPCI and currently charismatic church in Austin, TX. It is downright disgusting to me how some nincompoop will defend this man's actions. I am not here to judge his eternal place, but I will not defend someone that leaves the truth (the truth is not just one God, etc., but also holiness and so) and blatantly joins up with someone that has been gone for some time. Some Pentecostals are still referring to him as the greatest apostle of this time and UPCI preachers are still preaching him in their campmeetings and churches. Have You Lost Your Mind???? It is a spirit of compromise and glory for one's self. I value you my own spirituality too much, and if I was a pastor, my church's well being too much, to allow this attitude and spirit to influence me or God's people that I am too lead.
2. Some have been defensive in the last few weeks and months in regards to the organization and this Tulsa meeting. I have tried to reason out the shape the organization is in and make excuses for them, but the bottom line is very poor leadership for years. We always say if you preach it the saint will live it. But can I say, if the leadership of the UPCI would have enforced it, this organization wouldn't have been infiltrated like it is with liberals. If they would have taken a stand years ago, and when pastors quit preaching standards, gone in and pulled license, talked to the churches, some kind of an effort to let the people know we are not going down this road, then we would not be in this situation. So instead of casting the blame on a group of conservative Apostolic men that want no part of this liberalism anymore, put the blame where it belongs. On leaders who were more worried about money, votes, and growing the organization at all cost than preserving an Apostolic future. Let the chips fall where they may. There will always be a church, a true church, that rises up.