It is only as we walk in closeness with God that we can relate and transmit His message in
these times that try men’s souls.
The first thing I do almost every morning is spend time with the Lord. Reading His Word. Meditating. Praying. Much of my prayer is communion with Him in a two-way conversation. I believe I am to share with you more often what He says to me.
For instance, on December 20, 2011 as soon as I awoke, I heard, “Read Psalm 73. I want to speak to you today out of Psalm 73.”
So, I got my ArtScroll Tehillim off the bookshelf. It is a translation from Hebrew into English. I read the first verse. The Psalm opens with one brief positive statement.
Only Good is God to Israel, to the pure of heart.
(Ps. 73:1)
After that, it goes on and on about the wicked. I thought as I first read, Have I missed it?
But as for me, my feet were nearly turned astray,
Like nothing – my steps would have been washed aside;
For I envied the madmen when I saw the peace of the wicked.
(Ps. 73:2-3)
From there the Psalmist expresses doubts, Rashi, comments which could almost turn ones path of life towards the direction of disbelief. The wicked prosper so why should I struggle to purify my thoughts and actions? But eventually the Psalmist comes to the amazing place of the answer….
And when I reflected to understand this, it was iniquity in my eyes,
until I entered into the sanctuaries of God; then I understood their end…
(Ps. 73:16-17)
After more verses of the judgment of the wicked, the place of the righteous is revealed. The righteous declares:
But I am always with You, You grasped my right hand. With Your counsel You will guide me, And afterwards, with glory You will receive me… My flesh and my heart yearn- Rock of my heart And my portion is God forever…. But as for me, God’s closeness is my goodness, I have put my refuge in my Lord, HASHEM/ELOHIM So that I may relate all of your mission.
(Ps. 73:23-24, 26, 28)
The ArtScroll’s note on the Hebrew word translated mission, thrilled me and awakened me to
the message the Lord woke me up to receive.
Literally, a ???? (malach as in Malachi) angel, is a messenger charged with transmitting God’s wishes. Similarly the psalmist perceives in his heart a flash of Divine inspiration which contains a message for mankind. He communicates this faithfully to his audience. The psalmist has no greater desire than to continue to discharge this duty.
I perceived that this Psalm is a “now message” to all of us. We can look around and see the
wicked as the ArtScroll translates, “They direct their mouth against Heaven, and their tongue struts on earth” (verse 9). On so much of the world’s stage, the wicked seem to prosper in disproportionate measure to the righteous.
But ah! Here we have the answer. The sanctuaries of the Creator are open to us. We can dwell
in His sanctuaries—the only place of understanding. We can live above the fray, even in the midst of the fray.
There is so much to glean from this Psalm, but its epitome is in its finale. “But as for me, God’s
closeness is my goodness…so that I may relate all of Your mission.”
God has a mission and we are His missionaries! God has a message and we are His messengers!
It is only as we walk in closeness with God that we can relate and transmit His message in
these times that try men’s souls. It is only in closeness with God that we can begin to function as manifested sons of God.ut the last line, is a treasure of treasures. He has a mission and we are His messengers!
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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.