With only 3 days left until my daughter, Jessica’s wedding, it seems like the enemy has stepped up his attacks on me. Six days ago I came down with a nasty cold, which drained me of what little energy I had. Then last night an oppressive  presence tried three times to kill me through suffocation while I was trying to sleep. God prevailed in both circumstances, and continues to encourage me to believe Him for a very powerful supernatural breakthrough in the physical realm by the wedding date.

I’ve been reading Erlo Stegens’ missionary account in 1966 to the Zulus in So. Africa. What struck me was that before the amazing revival of 1966 took place, Erlo discovered that he needed to repent and be transparent before the Zulus. The Apostle Paul says, “I die daily” (1Corinthians 15:31). What does he mean by that? How can we die daily? The Lord Jesus experienced death in Gethsemane, so to say, before He physically died on the Cross. There His sweat became like great drops of blood and He was close to despair, until He was finally able to say to His Father, “Not my will, but thine, be done.” He died to Himself. If we can pray in this way, then we no longer seek our own will; we humble ourselves under God’s will and deny ourselves. To die to one’s self-will is extremely difficult, It is only possible through the power of the Holy Spirit. 

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