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Written by Paul Anderson-Walsh
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Friday, 23 November 2007 |
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Only A Branch
“I am the vine, ye are the branches” – John 15:5
Tis only a little Branch,
A thing so fragile and weak,
But that little Brach has a message true to give, could it only speak.
“I’m only a little Branch,
I live by a life not mine,
For the sap that flows through my tendrils small
Is the life blood of the Vine.
No power indeed have I
The fruit myself to bear,
But since I’m part of the living Vine,
Its fruitfulness I share.
Dost thou ask how I abide?
How this life I can maintain?-
I am bound to the Vine by life’s strong band,
And I only need to remain.
Where first my life is given,
In the spot where I am set,
Upborne and upheld as the days go by,
By the stem which bears it met me yet.
“I fear not the days to come,
I dwell not on the past,
As moment by moment I draw life,
Which for evermore shall last.
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Nov
05
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Written by Paul Anderson-Walsh
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
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The Power of Love
For a while I have had the gnawing sense that the Lord has been trying to prise open a door in my heart that has long since been locked and the key thrown away. The door in question is the door to the charismatic. There had been a time, another lifetime ago when I had been very active in the ministry of the Spirit. I guess that I should not have been surprised given that we are transitioning from the child to the teenage phase in our work that the Lord would choose to revisit this subject with me. Having just finished the manuscript for the The Apprentice which deals with this second phase of life in which I discuss the characteristics of the teenage phase; it was naïve of me to have thought that I would not be also invited to reappraise my position on the charismatic. I guess what is becoming more and more apparent to me is that it is unnatural for us not to operate in the supernatural.
We are as I have said time and again supernatural naturally. Yet, when I came out of Pentecostalism I had little difficulty leaving behind not only the self-effort which was so much a feature but also the so called gifts of the Spirit which were very much its hallmark. Why? I want to be candid with you, what I was sensing in that environment was the very thing that that apostle Paul rebuked the Corinthians about. In all his church plants there was no more a charismatic community than the brothers at Corinth. Yet Paul told them that:
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