God root out the motivational speakers and give us more HOLY GHOST POWERHOUSE PREACHERS within the land!

I will never forget the time. It was spring break of 1987. I had never been to the southern part of the United States before. Many things were new to me then. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest with a mom and dad who defended the rights of all races of people, they would never tolerate sin. What a shocker it was to see so many things in the south. That day I left New Orleans and begin to cross Lake Pontchartrain bridge which is miles long over the gulf coast. Being from Oregon I was acquainted with heavy rain, but brother, nothing like this. O my, what a torrential downpour. I was real nervous as me and and another preacher friend were making or way to his house in Pascagoula, Mississippi to pray for his ailing grandfather. My friend pushed a cassette tape into the deck in his big huge Oldsmobile. As the winds blew a comfort swept over me as I heard preaching like I have never ever heard. Who was this man aflame with a message? When every word came out of the speakers it felt as if God himself was burning out dross from my spirit man. Peace was surrounding his voice. So much was happening so fast that the storm became the least of my concerns. The preacher? Dr Ray H Hughes.

I was only 17 years old fresh in Bible School and I had already travelled with some pretty "tall cotton" ministers of my time. I had smuggled Bibles to the under ground church. I had seen miracles and healings in abundance. I had ministered in song before a stadium of more than 50,000 at age 12. So much I had done for Jesus with my siblings and my mother. But I had never heard preaching quite like this.

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It was truly PENTECOSTAL FIRE. Oh, I wanted that in my life. I was so hungry and so desperate for something real. Years later a pentecostal pastor had me for revival near Ridgcrest, California. He told me before he went to heaven, "David, if you just burn with the fire of the Holy Ghost, people who are dry, will come from nearly everywhere to watch you burn."

I understood what he said. More than anything I ever needed in my ministry was pentecostal fire. Many people have felt what I felt but never had the wonderful experience stay with them. Why? Because prayer is what brings the fiery edge to your life. Sin makes one so dull. Sin ruins and destroys. My life had been so stained by the guilt and the shame, the fear and inferiority as a result of sin. But O the Glory of God. O the fire of the Holy Ghost. O, His Divine presence.

There are so many television preachers today that so many people are watching. These so called preachers are what my granny called "pulpiteers". These so called preachers today are simply put, "motivational gurus". They don't speak of sin. They never call down the fire of the Holy Ghost. They never tell their huge audiences that without accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior that Hell is hot. They never speak of the rapturous time of the catching away of the saints. As a result, the devil has become more embolden. Adultury is rampont on almost every tv channel. Homosexuality is patted on the head and tolerated. Lies flow freely from our halls of congress. You can't but help but feel depressed after 20 minutes watchiing the news. THE DAY WE LIVE IN IS WICKED AND THE PEOPLE ARE COVERED IN GROSS DARKNESS.

But wait a minute. While the preachers write their New York Times best sellers, and ignore their Bible, there is is remnant. While the pulpiteers sell their wares of green hankies and oil and water, and cannot understand the Bible therefore watering it down with modernization, there is a remnant.

While the crowds never take the time to stop and look for a presidential candidate who lifts up the name of Jesus, there is a remnant. This remnant looks small and it looks torn. This remnant looks like it might fall apart and has been used up. But just one moment. This remnant is the church of the Lord Jesus, strong in battle, built by the Lord Jesus himself. Built to withstand the gates of hell. Built to stand against the witches and new age philosophy. Built to stand against all the powers of hell itself.

There are intercessor throughout the earth who now their God and who know how to pray in the Holy Ghost. God is raising me up for this wicked and perverse generation. God is raising others up who will move in the power of the gospel, demonstrating the power of God with signs wonders and miracles following. O Hallelujah!

The dividing line is being drawn. Which side will you be on? The side of weak knee ed, soft, saints? Will you be on the side of the powerhouse ministry? Will you keep the faith and stand strong against the compromise of the Gospel. Choose you this day who you will serve. Stand up strong against the power of the age. Don't go with the flow, stand against the powerful tide and current of universalism and atheism which is in the land today. Make a stand and pray. Make a stand and preach the uncompromising Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. I guess you could say, "I'M ON FIRE"!

Lost Heritage=Lost Future!

We need to reclaim our heritage


By Walton H. Walker II
Fayetteville

Two score and 10 years ago, I began as a young boy to learn about two of the greatest men in all history, American Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. I learned and memorized the dates of their birth — Feb. 22 and Feb. 12.

These were two honorable men whose boyhood characters were taught as examples for all young American boys and girls to remember and emulate. Their life stories were learned as part and parcel of the character development of several generations of young Americans. That has all changed now — and not for the better. Our nation is losing its American heritage because we have not been good stewards of it. It’s time for us to reclaim our heritage and rebuild important traditions like these.

Back then, since I lived in Alexandria, Va., my parents and teachers took me to visit the magnificent memorials to Washington and Lincoln on The Mall in Washington. They taught me about the honesty of young George. As I remember it, they taught me how George answered his father when asked, “Who cut down the cherry tree?” with “Father, I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.”

They told me the story of young “honest Abe” — one day young Abraham walked several miles to purchase some goods from a merchant. Abe discovered, after he returned home, that the merchant had given him a very small amount of incorrect change. So Abe trudged back that same day that long distance to return the change and then trudged back home again — his conscience clear.

Back then, every year during February, American schools focused on teaching about Washington and Lincoln and their times, about their upright characters and how their faith helped them in their struggles through major hardships. And we learned about their leadership in those times of great national crisis. We learned why George Washington is called “The Father of His Country.” We learned why Abraham Lincoln is considered the savior of the nation. Washington’s birthday was then honored as a national holiday regardless of the day of the week on which it fell.

It is vital to our American nation that we the people cherish and maintain those common characteristics that cement our national identity. America is only a true nation as long as the vast majority of our people identify themselves with a common knowledge, understanding, belief and following of truth; and for Americans to be a true nation, a vast majority should also claim a common heritage, language, culture, morality and vision for what we should be as a nation.

Our American traditions are one way that we maintain those commonalities and sustain our nation. Once lost, a tradition is very hard to rebuild, and that part of our identity which it helped sustain is in danger of dying.

Those contemplating change in tradition are well advised to tread carefully. In 1968, Congress decided, in large part for economic reasons, to change Washington’s birthday holiday to the third Monday in February. During the debate beforehand, one representative, Dan Heflin Kuykendall, R-Tenn., warned, “If we do this, 10 years from now our schoolchildren will not know or care when George Washington was born. They will know that in the middle of February they will have a three-day weekend for some reason. This will come.”

And so it has come. Our American children not only don’t know George Washington’s birthday, they also don’t know what they should know about George Washington and our nation’s birth. Nor do they know what they should know about Abraham Lincoln and how he gave the nation a new birth.

How many of our schoolchildren know who said and why he said, “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth.”

Do you know? Do your children?

Walton H. Walker II is a consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., a retired Special Forces officer, a former strategic planner for Army Special Forces, and a former member of the Observer’s Community Advisory Board. He lives in Fayetteville.