On the night before the Boston bombing, I could not sleep.
On the night before the Boston bombing, I could not sleep.
Let me say, up front, that I am disappointed with my reaction to my waking and staying awake for at least two hours. I thought, “Well, I just got in and I have only two days before I leave again. I have a lot to do. So I’m thinking about it. I must get some sleep.” Quickly, even robotically, I said, “Lord is this you? Is there something I need to pray about?” Then I tried once again to get to sleep. I did not give a thought to what had happened on the eves of two other events.
On the evening of April 18, 1995, my daughter, Shelli, and I were walking from our motel in Florida to the church just behind it. Both were on the property of Brother Norvel Hayes. As we walked, I heard a loud explosion. Saw nothing. Asked Shelli if she’d heard it. She had not. Norvel was late to the meeting. When he came in he was heavily burdened. We, the speakers, and the congregation took up the burden. I remember weeping and praying filled the evening. The next day terrorists bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. In this horrible event, 168 people died, including 19 children under 6, and 680 people were hurt.
On the evening of September 11, 2001, my daughter, Brenda and I were in Moscow, Russia where we’d just finished a meeting for Rick and Denise Renner speaking on Bible prophesy. We were preparing to go to the Bolshoi Ballet when Denise telephoned and asked if we knew what was happening in New York. We rushed to their home and watched via satellite the tragic events in New York City where it was still morning. The night before, September 10, in Moscow, we’d had a meeting of the ministry teams. Pastors George and Terry Pearsons had brought a prayer team to the event. At a restaurant each team member shared what they thought of the meeting. Did it do what it was meant to do. Etc. The last to share was my daughter, Brenda. The moment she opened her mouth to speak, intercessory travail poured forth and we all were swept into the burden of it.
Now, you know why I was so disappointed with myself in the early morning hours of April 15. I should have prayed. The load was heavy. I’ve asked the Lord to forgive me and I purpose to obey His urges to prayer.
Prayer is so vital in this hour. In every case, the Lord endeavors to get someone to work with Him. As John Wesley said, “It seems the Lord can do nothing on the earth, unless someone asks Him.” I know that in every tragedy I’ve named herein and in the multitude of large and small attacks upon mankind, the Lord moves upon His own to pray. And I know that He warns, protects, as far as men’s faith and obedience allows.
Brother Kenneth Copeland shared that the Lord told Him about what has come to be called Nine Eleven, “I forewarned every person. Some heard and lives were saved. Some heard and overrode the warning. Some did not hear at all. Some did not recognize My voice.”
What do I take away from this? As for me, I see that sitting in our seat in our heavenly ministry is of utmost importance. This we can do to rule and dominate in our places of individual dominion (Romans 5:17). We can cover ourselves and loved ones with the blood of Jesus. (See my book The Blood and the Glory.) And for others we can be faithful to our priesthood ministry. Obeying the promptings of the Spirit of God to prayer or other action.
This morning when I took communion over Isaiah 53, I was especially cognizant of what Jesus did 2000 years ago for the sins, diseases, and pains of the whole world.
I prayed that the healings of the wounded in Boston would know His quickening power.
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.