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Volume 13 The Miracle of Supply

by Ernest Angley

But my God shall supply all your need according to his

riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). My God
will supply all by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts
(Zechariah 4:6). Not by man's spirit nor the power and might of
man, but by His Spirit will God supply, the Spirit of the living
God. We see the Lord performing a great, great miracle for a
woman who desperately needed the miracle supply. He used oil
to do it. Through the oil of the Holy Spirit, through the oil in your
lamp you can expect the miracle of supply. December 1993

We see the Early Church coming on the stage of action, a huge

arena filled with trials and persecutions. Many suffered, even at
Topics: Bride of Christ, Needs
the hands of their own families. So will it be in this final hour. Supplied
Many of you will be persecuted by members of your own families.
Expect it. No need to let it break your heart. You've lined up with
Jesus who came to separate His own from the world. The Bride is being separated into the arms of
Jesus, into the greatness of Him as He takes the Bride into the secret place of the Most High.

It's exciting to see the Christian in the arena today again displaying the same Spirit as the early
Christians in the beginning of the Church Age. The Church Age will close the way it began, with the
Christian in the arena, undergoing great persecution, trials and sufferings at the hands of audacious
people raised against the Lord. Even within the Christian world persecutions come, for many who
claim to be Christian are not lined up with God. Some of the early Christians' worst persecutions
came through the religious world.

This hour will be vicious, dumbfounding, as the spirit of Antichrist grows stronger in the land.
Demons of all the ages will gather to battle against the Bride of Christ because she is adorned with

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the righteousness, Spirit, grace, power of her Master. But Christian, look up. Don't dread this
hour. God's power is stronger than all the multitudes of demons that are coming against the Bride
of Christ in her last hour, all the devils that possessed the evil rulers of the past—Pharaoh, Ahab,
Jezebel. The same demons in King Herod who sought to destroy the child Jesus are seeking to
destroy the Bride of Jesus. The demons that were in all the persecutors who came against Jesus
Christ and the Early Church Christians are the same tormenting devils coming against the Bride of
Christ in the arena. The demons know if they can't destroy her, she will trample them underfoot.
They know she has been given power over them all, even over Lucifer himself.

The Lord chose Paul for a mission, and he suffered much for the Lord. He was, no doubt, from a
wealthy family, educated by the greatest teachers known in the world in that day. Much of the time
after his conversion he lived in the arena, imprisoned, beaten, persecuted—but what a message God
sent through him, the pure Word of God! The letters Paul wrote weren't contaminated with
opinions of man; they were the Word of God poured out as pure gold, refined again and again.

God will get the most out of you during hours of suffering, trials and persecutions in the arena. You
will cling to the Old Rugged Cross with greater determination, greater strength because you will
draw on Him for the power you need.

Listen to Paul in the arena as he tells of his trials. He had been persecuted again and again, but it
didn't destroy him. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I
beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I
have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in
perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils
in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness
and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold
and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me
daily, the care of all the churches (II Corinthians 11:24-28).

Paul had established many churches, and he felt a great burden for them. It didn't matter what he
had to go through to help them; he did not spare himself. His trials were very difficult, full of
danger as he journeyed for the Lord. Paul is a great example of the Christian in the arena.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in
despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing
about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made
manifest in our body (II Corinthians 4:8-10). Persecuted, mistreated, robbed of life just like
Jesus was robbed of life—the Early Church went through all of that. The human body can take a
limited amount of stress, but the words of the Lord held Paul when he was under more than he

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thought he could bear: My grace is sufficient for thee; my grace is sufficient.

A devil went everywhere Paul went, stirring up strife against him, buffeting him, striking him again
and again through people that the demon could take over. Three times Paul sought the Lord to
remove the devil; Paul knew the Lord could do it, but the devil continued to buffet him. Paul
sought the Lord and got his answer: God's grace is sufficient.

The Bride can have answers in this final hour. We don't have to be tormented with questions. In
Jesus we have the answer already no matter what it incorporates when it finally comes. Paul's
answer was that God's grace was sufficient, that His strength was made perfect in Paul's weakness.
No longer did Paul seek the Lord for his problem. He trusted God completely.

You who are in the arena will not have it easy, but as you trust the Lord you will win. You must
trust God completely. He provides all the power you need so you will come up lacking in nothing.

The Early Church in the beginning was supplied with all the power they needed to defeat the
demonic powers of the kingdom of Lucifer. Had the Church only held to it…what a difference it
would have made!

Study the life of Paul. Next to Christ, he has been the most profound inspiration to me. The Lord
has used Paul's life to take me into the greatness of God. I never knew I could go into God's
greatness, that I could have even one of the nine gifts of the Spirit. I never counted myself worthy
to be able to reach them.

Paul's attitude in the face of great persecutions is a shining example of how to live the Christian
life. No one else has suffered more for the sake of Christ. Paul didn't complain, and the Lord was
able to pour out the marvelous Pauline Epistles through him.

In II Timothy, we read Paul's farewell letter to Timothy, one of his spiritual sons in the Lord: I am
now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good
fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith (II Timothy 4:6,7).

Paul kept the faith of Jesus Christ, believing Him in everything and all things; he never let the
enemy rob him of God's promise. Whatever the Lord told Paul, Paul accepted, trusting Him all the
way. This Christian in the arena looked as though he were all alone. A cruel tyrant had sentenced
him to death, but that sentence couldn't be carried out until Paul had finished his course.

Finally Paul's work was done; the Lord had poured out the last message through him; Paul had
encouraged the last soul; graduation day had come. A swordsman awaited to send him to his
heavenly home.

Some wouldn't have liked that kind of graduation ceremony, but Paul knew it was the Lord's way
for him to go, and with all humility, with all love, he bowed to it through the faith of God and the

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faith of Jesus Christ. His grace was sufficient.

Was Paul alone in the arena? No. A cloud of angels surrounded him. The heavenly host was
looking on as a great warrior sealed his testimony with his own blood.

Some people would have said Paul was too valuable to have been sacrificed, but that wasn't what
the Lord decided. God had the final say for his life. Paul gave himself in the hands of God, not
begging for his life to be spared. Paul was resigned to die because he had kept the faith, he knew he
had finished his work. He didn't care to stay on earth longer than the Lord planned. God would
not be giving Paul any more of His Word to write for others. He had trusted Paul with the message
for God's people, a message, now, that others would teach. Paul was ready, a Christian in the arena.

You who serve the Lord and walk with God cannot be killed in this last hour until you finish your
mission, your course. If you walk with God one hundred percent, are humble, dedicated and
consecrated to Him, do what He wants you to do, the devil cannot kill you until the Lord is ready
for you to die. Let that confidence dissolve all your fears in this longest of dark nights.

The Church Age is about to end, a night almost two thousand years long. But remember the words
of that Christian in the arena: I have finished my course; I have kept the faith, and a crown of
righteousness is laid up for me, and for all those who love His appearing.

Many of you will be in the arena when Jesus comes or calls, and your spirit will be shouting, I am
now ready! I have kept the faith; I have done all of my work for the Lord! There is no more for
me to do.

With no sorrow, Paul walked out to the chop block. How Nero despised Paul and all he stood for;
how he resented Paul going to his death without a care, praising God! In my mind's eye, I can see
Paul with the glory of the Lord shining upon him, angels on each side giving him great strength. He
is almost there now, and he bends down on his knees. I can hear him saying, Jesus, I'm almost
home! I'm almost home! I'll be there in a few moments.

The swordsman performs his gruesome deed, and Paul's life on earth is over. Another warrior has
finished his course and lifts his eyes on the streets of glory, a place with no arena.

You are in the arena to bless and please God, to sanctify the Lord God daily. You're the only "Bible"
many people will ever see or read. Live your life the way the Lord wills; walk hand in hand with
Him. Let no member of your family or anyone else hear you grumble or complain. Be always
thanking, blessing and praising the Lord in this long, long night.

Pen can't write all that the Children of God have suffered, but the closing of the eleventh chapter of
Hebrews, the faith chapter, tells of some of the faithful. And others had trial of cruel
mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment. Many were

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beaten, spent much time in dungeons, in filthy places. They were stoned, they were sawn
asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in
sheepskins and goatskins (They may have had to disguise themselves as animals at night to
leave their hiding places in search of food); being destitute, afflicted, tormented. They were
tormented in mind and body. (Of whom the world was not worthy:) (Hebrews 11:36-38).
The world was not worthy of such people, and the Lord took them to His heaven, those Christians
in the arena.

Now the mockings, the persecutions of all kinds are yours. The saints of God in Bible days stood
the test, and you will have to stand the test—you must for the sake of Jesus Christ. Let nothing
discourage you or turn you back. Stand to be counted; stand strong as the soldier the Lord willed
you to be. Stand up to whatever comes; you are suffering these things for His name's sake.

The Bride is in the arena with the power of heaven and the grace of God. II Corinthians 12:9, My
grace is sufficient for thee. Bury that verse deep within your spirit; keep it there the rest of the
journey. Hear the Lord saying to you in the darkest hour of this long night, the final hour of the
Church Age: My grace is sufficient. Listen to the Holy Spirit whispering it over and over. You'll
hear these words of Jesus many times in this your last hour.

What ferocious battles will take place in this hour, but what fantastic victories for the Children of
God! The Bride, wearing the whole armor of God, cannot lose because she has given herself
completely, totally into the Lord's hands. The lions will not prevent her from doing what the Lord
wants done. Some of the faithful will fall in battle, but their sacrifice will just give greater grace and
power to the body of Christ, the Bride, like it did in the beginning when the blood of martyrs
became the seed of the Church.

We don't know all that will happen. We only know those who are yielded to God will finish their
mission one way or another. Some will seal their testimonies with their own blood; others will go
all the way to Rapture ground. Each member of the bridal company, all who have entered that
place in the Lord of the greatness of the Holy Spirit, are willing to live or die for His name's sake,
just as the Early Christians were. They sacrificed everything—home, possessions, family—that they
might win Christ. In doing so, the Lord was able to use them in a most wonderful, wonderful way.

In the grace of God is everything needed, all the power of Almighty God, the great I-Am, all the
power of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit—more than enough power to defeat all the demonic
spirits and to destroy Lucifer himself. There is nothing lacking. The power in the grace of Jesus
Christ will put Lucifer into the bottomless pit. The chain of the greatness of Jesus, His blood, His
grace, His power will do it. There is nothing to fear, nothing to worry about.

The more we have to suffer for His name's sake, the more God can use us. Look how the Lord used
John the Baptist. What a power for God he was! He died for the sake of Christ.

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Jesus is available to each member of the bridal company with all heaven's love, faith, and greatness
in the grace of God, all heaven's hope, peace, power, and protection for each Child of God. The
grace of God is our cloud of protection, our cloak of deliverance, strength. His grace is sufficient
for you.

Hear the Man of Galilee saying through the Holy Spirit to you right now: My grace is sufficient for
thee. In your trying hours, cling to Him through His promise: My grace is sufficient for thee.

In your sufferings and persecutions, God will get the glory, and He will give glory to you on that day
of rewards. His glory will be handed out freely to true soldiers of the Cross. But in the meantime,
you will shed many, many tears. The night will seem long and dark, but He has given you His song
in the night, the song of all songs, the song of His love, grace and peace written in the blood of the
Lamb. The song in the night will forever ring in your soul, Christian in the arena. Through the Old
Rugged Cross you have this song, reminding you of His sufferings, of how they plucked out His
beard, spit upon Him, mocked Him and told Him to prophesy who was hitting Him. They crowned
Him with thorns and then struck Him on the head—what hideous sight! It's all in the song in the
night—but He won. You can hear Him cry in the song in the night: It is finished! Now everyone
who wants to go to heaven can; everyone who wants to be holy can live holy. Everyone who
wants light instead of darkness, everyone who wants eternal love and joy can have these things
and more through the blood of the Lamb.

Christian, you better have that song, and you can only have it by walking hand in hand with Jesus.
This song in the night belongs to the Bride. All the power of the great I-Am is in this song, all the
strength of the armies of heaven. Everything you need is in the song in the night.

You may look as though you are all alone in the arena; it may seem to you that no one else is there,
but you begin to sing the song in the night, and you realize you are never alone.

My Savior is with me wherever I roam. I'll hold to His hand, lean on His strong arm. My Savior is
with me. I'm never alone.

The assurance that Jesus is with you helps make up the song in the night: I'm never alone; my
Savior is with me. In the arena, the Lord will never leave you by yourself. All kinds of lions will
roar, charge out to devour you; but the Lord will be there to close their mouths, preserve you as
long as you're on His divine mission.

We do not know when we will get to the finish line, what it's going to be like. We just know the
Lord will be with us. We will have to suffer, and we might as well be ready for it. Just as I was put
in prison in Germany for the sake of Christ, we must be ready for whatever comes our way. I never
thought I would ever be in prison; it was unpleasant, an ordeal. There I was—guards sitting over
me with guns in my hotel room, keeping me awake all night until they locked me up in a dank, dirty
jail cell. During it all, I had the song in the night.

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The Lord visited me of the destruction, of the judgment that He would bring. He didn't tell me
what it would be, but He brought it. A disastrous storm sent by God pounded the Munich area with
hailstones, some as large as grapefruit, injuring 300 people and causing extensive damage.
Snowplows were needed in July to clear the hailstones off the streets.

In another country where we held a fantastic crusade, evil hearts planned to kill me. Thousands of
people attended this crusade, among whom were two armed would-be assassins. But the two were
rendered helpless. The Spirit of God took them over, convicted them of their sins, and up went
their hands as they said the sinners' prayer. Gloriously saved, they refused to kill the man of God.
Later their story came out in a book in that country, the first I knew of their plot and how they
found Jesus.

In another country a gang came to a crusade with the intention of stoning me and my workers. As I
finished the sermon and was ministering to the sick, they came, stones in hand, and climbed the
steps to the platform where I was. One man was just a matter of a few feet from me, but God
stopped him in his tracks. He stood there unable to throw the stone he had in his hand. Not one
person could cast a stone. The Lord held them until He finished performing His miracles, and then
He took me off the platform. The God of miracles lives.

In different cities people have planned to kill me, even set the time. I was told I would be killed,
but I went on the platform, a Christian in the arena. I had promised God my life, that whatever He
wants He can have. I promised God all of me, holding nothing in reserve.

Again I say, the Christian in the arena will not die until the mission is finished that God planned. I
know I am on a divine mission that will lead me to many parts of the world, that my workers and I
will be in jeopardy as the lions roar. Many times the smell of death will hang heavy in the air, but I
don't intend to walk in fear, in the dark. I have the light of Jesus in this night at all times.

Christian, you are in the arena. Although you may not go to foreign fields, your life is in danger.
The devil would like to destroy every one of God's Children if he could. In the manner of the
Christians in the arena at the opening of the Church Age, put self on the altar, die completely to
self, loved ones, home and whatever may distract you from the Lord, and put God first.

Take the whole world but give me Jesus. I'll do anything for His name's sake. I have been so
persecuted that there have been times death would have been welcome—had it not been for the
mission. I knew the mission wasn't finished. I have to go on living to finish it. Paul had to live to
finish his mission. Others in the Early Church had to live to finish their mission. Whatever the
Lord wants we must do.

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It would be wonderful to arrive at Rapture ground, but if more people can be brought to the Lord
by my death, it's all right with me. Heaven's going to be mine either way. I know I have bowed
completely to God's will, to whatever He wants. I must have the perfect will of God no matter what
it is. I would be happy if God wants to use me in a sacrificial way to bring more people into His
Kingdom. I am out to win the lost at any cost. Of course I would like to be here to give the devil
that last blow, but if I can't be, others will.

Happy with the song in the night, we won't pine over anything. The song in the night, the love song
of Jesus to the Bride with all the greatness of heaven, is pouring forth like a great river of God. In
that great river is strength for you, the sufficient grace of God flowing from the throne of God into
your soul. Jesus said, He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly
shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe
on him should receive (John 7:38,39).

We will flow His greatness to the inhabitants of the earth. Let not your heart be troubled, neither
let it be afraid. Whatever the Lord wants of us, we will give.

As you find yourself in the arena with the lions surrounding you, with death so near, look beyond to
the many, many angels that have come to help you. Be conscience of the grace of God abounding
for you; feel the strength of God flowing through every part of you, and give your mind over to the
Lord. Don't let the devil scramble that mind with all kinds of thoughts. Take on the mind of
Christ—it's a must for the Christian in the arena.

Suffering for His name's sake so willingly the way they did in the Early Church may take a different
form, but it will be all-out sacrifice. The price is to be paid, but what a prize: multitudes, millions of
souls! The Lord said so many would come to Him through this Jesus ministry that no human mind
would be able to count them.

I paid the dearest price when the Lord took my wife, Angel, home to be with Him. This Christian
was in the arena, and death had taken the helpmate he thought would be with him the whole
journey. Angel was dead; Angel was gone. Three different times the Lord had tried to tell me He
would take her, but I wouldn't accept it. Just about a week before she died, the Lord came to me
saying "You'll have to surrender Angel." He called her Angel. Again He used her name, saying,
"Angel is not your source of power. I am your source of power." He left me amazed and
dumbfounded. It was the first time the Lord had ever visited with me that I saw the devil there,
too, standing tall as a man. But seeing the devil didn't baffle me as much as what the Lord had said
about Angel. As the Lord moved out, I was saying, "Well, Lord, I've never put her ahead of you that
I know of. Lord, I never put her ahead of you."

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The Lord is so kind; He was warning me. I didn't know what a strength Angel was to me. The Lord
knew what was going to happen; He tried to tell me, but still I didn't accept it. Then a few days
later, a day or two before He took her, He came again to remind me that He was going to take her.
I still wouldn't accept it. Why, the Lord wouldn't take the only little lamb I had, I thought. She was
my wee little lamb. She had been such a wonderful helpmate. In our college days when we would
sit out on the campus planning our marriage, our lives together, she had promised me that she
would never hinder me. "I'll go anywhere God sends you," she said. She did exactly as she
promised.

God had given her many talents. Surely such a helpmate would be priceless in this final hour,
surely we would work together till day was done; surely we would hear the cry together, Behold the
Bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet Him! The Lord wouldn't take her, I reasoned.

I wouldn't accept her death. I was on a divine mission and Angel was with me. Then it happened,
the worst thing that could ever have happened to me, it seemed. Angel was no longer with me in
the arena.

Later I opened Angel's Bible. On the flyleaf she had written a message; it was just for me at that
time: The way of the Lord is perfect. With tear-dimmed eyes I read and re-read the words. I could
hear her saying it: The way of the Lord is perfect, Honey. You can't improve on perfection. This is
His way, His perfect way, His perfect will to have taken me on home ahead of you.

Yes, it was a wonderful message. The Lord moved in to live with me. I walked into my house,
never more tormented, more distressed. But the whole house was filled with the glory of God,
every room. I knew God was perfect in all His ways. If the Lord never did anything else for me but
stand over me night and day as my nursemaid at that time, I would praise Him for all eternity.

Don't worry about me in any arena from here on out; none will be that horrible, absolutely none.
We're in the arena, but I don't seem to mind because the glory of the Lord has become so great, and
the power of God so mighty. That miracle power from the gift of miracles is possessing me until
nothing else seems to matter, only getting the Gospel to the world. That's what I live for. I don't
think of the price I will have to pay, what I will have to go through to take the Gospel to the world.
It makes no difference to me, just so I get it there, just so I finish the divine mission.

The Lord took me into a vision where He numbered the souls as the stars of heaven. Again and
again He brought this vision to me. Days and nights before He took Angel He showed me the
stars—a sky full of stars. I'd get down to pray, and go into the vision. I'd stand in the pulpit and go
into the vision. Suddenly there would be no roof on the building, only a sky full of stars. Then after
the Lord took Angel, He visited with me and showed me the sky again. It was different this time.

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Vacant spaces were all through the sky of my vision where once stars had been. My soul seemed to
die within me. What had happened to the vision, to the sky? I was going through so much it
seemed I couldn't take any more. Then the Lord spoke, "The blank spaces are for the souls Angel
helped you win. It was my divine will to have taken her when I did. By taking her when I did, she
will win more souls for me than had I left her with you. You'll have to go on without her." The
Lord had come in person to deliver His message. He didn't send an angel that time. Jesus had
come.

My heart cries for you in the arena, Child of God. Some of you bow as one dumb before your
persecutors; you don't know how handle the battles of the mind that the enemy is hammering into
you, bombing you with daily. Some of you don't know how to walk through the valleys and remain
sustained by the song in the night. I cry for God to give you the know-how to help and strengthen
you. I cry for God to lay His tender hand on you, shelter you, hug you close to His bosom so you
won't hurt so much. I pray He gives you understanding of why you are in that valley, why He
willed that valley for you, why you are in the arena.

Sometimes when we do our best it's hard to understand why the arena; then we remember Jesus
and the disciples, the true ones who lived in the arena. Why would we think we could follow in
their footsteps and never be in the arena?

You will learn the way of the Lord more and more, learn of His love, the sweetness of Him in the
arena like never before. You will learn to talk to Him on a personal basis. He will become living
reality to you, greater reality than any human being. At last you will have found someone who
understands every heartbeat and every heartache, every thought you battle with or are encouraged
with. He will understand when you're weary and tired, that you would love to go home; and He
will let you know why you must stay to finish the mission.

The song in the night, the glorious song, will be your consolation, the strength the Early Church
had. Parts of the song were new to them, the crucifixion part, the resurrection part, the ascension
part. The sufferings of Jesus were new to them. They never thought He would be crucified, but He
was.

Now He has ascended back to heaven with the promise: I will come again. Angels repeated the
promise: This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like
manner as ye have seen him go into heaven (Acts 1:11). With that song in their hearts they
made it through their long, dark night.

Jesus sent the Comforter, the Holy Spirit as He had promised, to strengthen them, to make Him
alive in their hearts. Imprisoned, they watched through iron bars, looked out into the arena and

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saw their dear brothers and sisters in Christ torn to bits, eaten by lions, trampled by vicious wild
animals. They watched while others burned at the stake. They saw them as they entered the arena,
not drawing back, but singing the song in the night. The glory of the Lord shone on their faces even
though they knew soon they would be killed. Their sacrifice was for His name's sake, to carry on
His work. They loved Him so very much that they died in His arms of love, paying the supreme
price. They praised God with the song in the night until there was no more voice.

I read the story of one man being burned for the sake of Christ. Others, knowing he would die that
day had told him they wanted a message of confirmation: "If there is anything after life, if the end
of the way is as you said, if it's like we've been told, just raise a hand and let us know when you're
crossing over." The fire was lit, the flames crept higher and higher. The body was being eaten by
the flames, the hair burned off, but no hand had gone up. The body was charred. Those left looked
at each other in disappointment. He didn't find what he was looking for at the end of the journey,
after all this, they thought. As they were about to turn away, a charred hand slowly went up. He
had found it. Then it dropped; there was no more life.

How great to be possessed by the love of God until nothing else matters in this world, nothing will
stop us! The arena—no matter how vicious it may be, no matter how hot the furnaces are
heated—will not take the love of God out of us. We are His chosen ones. We have been chosen to
do His work, to preach His Gospel to the whole world and we must do it.

What price victory? It matters not, Christian in the arena. Christian, hold to your song in the
night. You'll make it. Bathe in it, drink of it, live with night and day. You have everything you
need in His song in the Night for the Bride of Christ.

That song will dry our tears so many times. It will heal our bodies, strengthen us when we feel our
strength is gone. From that song will flow the strength of heaven into the body of the Christian in
the arena.

Thank God, the long night will soon end! The last Child of God will have given his or her life for
the sake of Christ, and the Bride will arrive with the light of the Holy Spirit at Rapture Ground.
The Holy Spirit will change her in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. As her feet leave the ground
it won't matter about the arenas, about the enemies of God persecuting and torturing the Children
of God. It will all be over. She will have won, finished the mission, evangelized the world. All will
have been given an opportunity to accept Him or reject Him.

Blood-washed, blood-bought, wearing His shoes and spiritual robe, the Bride will meet Jesus in
midair. He will not be waiting at the pearly gates for her; He will meet her in the air to usher her
through to heaven and down the avenue of Glory. The long night is behind her; it's all over. She
has eyes for no one but Him. Bowing humbly before the throne of God, the Bride will thank Him
for Jesus, for the wonderful Holy Spirit who helped her to use all of Jesus—the Jesus redemption,
love, strength and help—to make her what the Lord wanted her to be.

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Behold, the Bride! Behold the Bride of Christ! No more arenas, no more nights of darkness. It's all
over. She is a winner.

Look up, no matter what you're going through. Live pure, clean, holy before God and never turn
back. Ever onward He is drawing on you. If you don't have Jesus, come to Him now. Come while
you yet have time. When God rises up without His love, when God takes off His robe of love and
puts on the robe of judgment, the arena for His Children will look like nothing compared to the
judgments that will fall on the earth. The tormentors of God's people are about to undergo horrors
beyond the mind as God rains down judgment. Where will you be?

If you need to get right with the Lord, pray this prayer with me now: Oh God, I am lost. Please,
God, I don't want to go to hell. Save my soul! I'm so sorry that I sinned against you, but I have
come home, and I'm going to serve you, Lord, the rest of my life. I believe that Jesus died for me,
and I will live for Him. I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all my sins, all of my sins. Come
on in Jesus! Come into my heart!

If you meant that prayer you can now say, Hallelujah, He has come! Hallelujah, He is my Savior,
my Redeemer!

You who are sick and afflicted, let me pray with you. My God shall supply all your need
according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). My God shall supply all
of your needs, and you have a great need for healing. Through the atonement of Jesus Christ, the
two-fold atonement, the miracle supply is yours, the miracle supply for the Children of God. All
things are supplied by Him. Tell the Lord you'll be His witness and give Him all the glory.

You who have been an invalid for years: There is a miracle for you. You may be paralyzed all over,
but there is a miracle for you that will bring life into that helpless body. Let the Lord know you
want to be a part of Him this last hour, that it doesn't matter about the arenas, about the
persecutions. You just want to be His witness. Lord: There are so many hopeless, helpless ones, so
many who need your touch today, the miraculous touch of the Lord right now. Oh Lord, place
your miracle hands on blinded eyes, touch the deaf ears, the crippled ones, re-create parts of
bodies that must be re-created. Heal the people of all manner of sickness and disease. Heal! in
the holy name of Jesus. Heal! in the name of the Lord. Heal! in the all-powerful name of Jesus of
Nazareth.

The miracle, healing power is flowing. Let that miracle power as well as the healing power go into
every part of you. Let the Lord make you whole for His honor and glory. Give Him all the honor
and glory. Praise Him daily and get completely well.

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Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord: I am preparing you; I am preparing you for your sufferings that
are ahead—not sicknesses and diseases, but the persecutions. You will be tested and you will be
tried. You will be persecuted. Your valleys will be deep ones, but I have given you your light and
your song in the night. I have given my servant these messages for you. He sat at my feet and I
taught him these subjects; I gave him the scriptures, and I gave him the song in the night for you.

I have anointed you through these messages with a special anointing that you've never had
before. I have anointed you to be more willing to suffer for my name's sake than you've ever been
willing before. Many of you have not been conscious of this, but I have brought you together
service after service to hear these messages that I have given to my servant to give you strength
and courage, to breathe upon you as I have breathed and am breathing upon him, to give you the
will as I have given it to him to live or die for my name's sake.

I'm anointing you with my greatness to be willing to do all that I need done. I'm giving you an
anointing as I have given to him for your journey, for your work. You are on a divine mission for
me. You're not on this mission by choice. I chose the mission for you, and I have chosen all paths
for you. All roads I have paved with my greatness. I will light up your way and make plain
paths for your feet.

Fear not the last hour of this long night because I am your light. I am your light of love; I am
your light of peace; I am your light of faith; I am your light of strength. I am your overcoming
light. Why should you fear the darkness? Why should fear Satan's kingdom? It's a kingdom of
darkness.

I have all power, and I give all power unto you as I gave my Son. All power is given unto you,
and you will trample the powers of darkness under your feet. You will command, and it will be
done. You will speak, and it will be the same as if I had spoken. I have given you that authority; I
have given you that power. Through your fastings and your prayers you've entered into my
greatness, saith the Lord.

I call unto you with my song in the night for you to sing. I call unto you with all of my greatness;
I call unto you. I will cradle you in my arms, and I will be with you. I will give you my thoughts
to think, and they will be thoughts of strength and grace.

Do not be troubled. Do not be discouraged. I the Lord thy God walketh with thee. I the Lord they
God will strengthen thee. I the Lord they God am with thee. Trust me. Trust me, saith the Lord.

God has given you a mighty song in the night. It's a song of the man called Jesus for the Bride of
Christ, the Christian in the arena. Sing, sing, oh Bride of Christ! Sing the glorious song in the night:
Victory! Victory! Heaven's victories will be yours!

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