Insight into the Blood and the Glory increases when one sees how they travel a circular route. The Lord had shown me this path of His glory and man before I “accidentally” found the writings of A.E. Mitchell who articulated God’s circles so well.
On a visit to Angelus Temple in 1982 I stumbled upon his set of 10 small pocket books copyrighted in 1928 and entitled The Philosophy of The Cross. Mitchell was a minister, missionary, writer, and artist who departed earth for heaven in 1964 at the age of 87.
Andrew and his wife, Jennie, founded the global missionary organization Go Ye Fellowship.
Billy Graham wrote for the cover of Mrs. Mitchell’s biography entitled Jennie, “The story of this remarkable woman should be read by every man, woman, and child, Christian and non-Christian alike. She truly adhered to Jesus’ command to ‘Go ye into every part of all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.'”
Richard Halverson, Chaplain, U.S. Senate, endorsing the same book said of the Mitchells, “No two people in my 52 years of pilgrimage with Christ have so demonstrated authentic holiness as Jennie and Andrew.”
Bible Doctrine’s Circular Path
A.E. Mitchell said, “All Bible doctrine is built and runs its course in circular form.”
He gave the example of Jesus’ illustration of His own mission. “I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father” (John 16:28). Can you see the circle?
Mitchell wrote, “All divine circles culminate in ‘glory,’ God being glorified…The gospel Godward is the great reason for the gospel “usward.” As much as Christ did for men on the cross, He did infinitely more for God. And this, we believe, is the best part of circle teaching.
As the footsteps of Christ come usward, they bring salvation. As they return to God they bring to the Father utter and eternal pleasure and glory…The gospel usward is that which we are saved from, the gospel Godward is that which we are saved to…we are redeemed to God, and to His glory.”
Rom. 11:36 shows the circle, “For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.”
The following passage reveals how God’s Word travels a circular route:
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but (except it) watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
(Isa. 55:8-11)
Rain and snow, in the natural realm, demonstrate the path God’s Word travels. They come down earthward. They return heavenward in the natural process of evaporation.
Yet they do not return without first bringing forth fruit upon the earth. Likewise God’s Word originates in Him, travels earthward, accomplishes, and then returns to bring God glory.
The Glory travels that path. The Church travels that path. The Blood traveled that path.
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers
Billye Brim's Christian heritage is rich. She sensed the call of God in early childhood. However, it was only after an encounter with the Holy Spirit in 1967, that she as a young wife and mother of four began to follow Him to walk out her call. For almost ten years she served as Editor of Publications for Kenneth E. Hagin Ministries where she also taught at Rhema Bible Training Center.
Immediately after ordination in 1980, she traveled to Soviet Russia in what proved to be ongoing ministry there. Since then she has literally ministered around the world several times over.
Kent and Billye Brim with Lee and Jan Morgans founded a local church in Collinsville, Oklahoma. A Glorious Church Fellowship is the foundation of Billye Brim Ministries and Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks in Branson, Missouri, and the soon-to-be-built Migdal Arbel Prayer and Study Center in Israel.
When Kent passed away in 1986, Billye was led to "study Hebrew in the Land." Studying at Ulpan Akiva in Israel led to the unique Seminar Tours she has guided in the Land from 1986 to now. It also provided a pattern for the Prayer and Study Center in Israel.
"Helping Pray-ers" is a God-given directive in her life. One place this happens is at Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri. On 200 plus acres log cabins provide places for individual prayer or small prayer groups. Corporate prayer meetings are held twice a week in the chapel.
On Wednesdays at 12 Noon Central Time, the meeting is streamed live. Pray-ers (who have named themselves World-Wide Pray-ers) join in united prayer via thousands of computers in more than 60 nations. This prayer is focused primarily on an Awakening to God. For in a corporate prayer meeting in June 2008, Billye Brim and the pray-ers were impressed with these words: One thing will save America…an Awakening to God. One thing will avail for Israel and the nations, An Awakening to God. Several thousand pray-ers from around the world gather in Branson for an Autumn Assembly of Prayer she hosts.
Billye Brim is blessed to work with others across the Body of Christ. She strongly believes in walking out what Scripture teaches that we are one Body, with one Head, one Spirit, one Lord.
First Corinthians 10:32 is foundational in Billye Brim's ministry. The "good works that He has ordained that she should walk in" involve activity among the Jews, the Nations, and the Church-all to the Glory of God.