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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">“<b>TWO
ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></p>
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ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES</b></font></p>
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& Marie Watt – Beth Chesed, Tacoma - </b></font>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><u><b>TRUE
GUIDANCE: SAFEGUARD FOR GIFT OF PROPHECY”</b></u></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>
- 2007.01.16</b></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b>(From
“Answers to Prayer” by George Muller)</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> The
“Presbytery Concept” was restored to the Church on February 12,
1948 at the Sharon Bible School, North Battleford, Saskatchewan,
Canada.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> In
a sense it was completely unexpected – and yet contrariwise, it had
been expected for 13 years. Over that period of time God had given a
steady stream of encouraging words to George R. Hawtin of Alsask,
Saskatchewan concerning this impending Restoration event.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> During
this period of time, God had worked into Hawtin’s character to go
along with specific attributes to prepare him for the leadership for
1948. Look at Abraham, Joseph, David and Paul. Each had a 13 year
preparation time also, before God released them into the true calling
he had for them.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> In
other articles I have written in detail on this. Suffice it to say
here, that that day in February will never be forgotten, not only by
those who were present, but for the rest of us who saw the results of
this Restoration, plus 11 other Revival Principles, which all came
together that year.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> But
with every privilege comes responsibility. I have been asked – What
happened during the July 1948 Camp Meeting in North Battleford that
brought you into balance?</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> It
happened one afternoon that July. George Hawtin had announced in the
morning that there would take place that afternoon the Commissioning
to Africa of two missionary couples. I knew them both, and had a word
for the "Rosenkis.” The other couple was the “Shepherds.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> I
had invited Marie Gaudet from Vancouver BC (my wife now) to attend
this Camp Meeting. She was interested in the Bible and God, but a
Christian Science friend was offering to help her in this direction.
I knew that though the help offer was genuine and sincere, yet it was
“very sincerely wrong.” So I sent Marie a return train ticket
from Vancouver to Saskatoon, trusting that God would speak to her
through the Convention.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> I
had thought that anyone reading the Bible 8 and 12 hours a day would
have a good work of grace already started. But when I picked Marie up
in Saskatoon at the train station, I knew I was in for a time.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Her
hair-do was beautiful, but it reminded me of Nefertiti of Egypt, wife
of Pharaoh Akhenaten, and perhaps a ruler in her own right after his
death.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> I
knew that with her long ear-rings, purple lipstick and unusual
flashing dress – that when I brought her 90 miles northwest to a
Pentecostal Camp Ground, that much would break loose. It did!</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Yet
by November of that year back in Vancouver, Marie made a decision and
choice to follow Christ fully, and in December to let Him possess her
by His Holy Spirit.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> As
one of the 7 elders at the Camp in July, I was much on the platform,
and then at the front ministering primarily to couples, but also some
singles, in Confirmation and Commissioning with the Laying on of
Hands and Prophecy.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> I
felt concerned with Marie sitting at the back, and following every
service many women would come wanting to get her to the front to be
saved. So I asked George Hawtin this afternoon if I could not sit
with her. “But we need the word God gives you,” he said, “for
those ministered to with the Presbytery Concept.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> But
he understood my concern and relented. “Alright,” he said, “Sit
with her. But when we minister at the front, stand and give the word
God gives you from where you are.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> During
the service they announced that they would Commission the Rosenkis
first as missionaries, and then the Shepherds. So as they ministered
according to their announcement for the Rosenkis, I stood and gave
the word I believed the Lord had given me for them and then sat again
beside Marie.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Then
they announced – “Now we will pray over the Rosenkis!” They had
switched the two couples without announcing to that effect. And –
God did NOT as He did for Jacob, show me to cross my hands. I had
given the wrong word to the wrong couple.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Following
the service I sought out Ern Hawtin, and told him of my devastating
discovery. He knelt with me, counseled me and prayed with me. I
appreciated his love and concern, but I told him that until God
showed me why He hadn’t directed me as He did with Joseph and his 2
sons – I would be seeking some very clear answers.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Because
of several doctrinal inroads early in this movement, I became
concerned. In April of the next year Marie and I severed connections,
but not until I had first thoroughly talked to one of the other
elders, explaining my concern, and why the possibility of a
separation might take place.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> For
18 years I did not move in the stream that started in 1948. Then in
about 1963 I was invited to speak at a church in Everett WA. I felt I
had the message for that service when driving up from Kent. But
enroute to Everett the Lord said, “I want you to use the title of
“True Guidance” for your message tonight, and I want you to
illustrate the necessity for My perfect Guidance, by recounting what
happened at North Battleford in July of 1948, when you gave the wrong
word over the wrong couple.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> “I
can’t do that,” I said. “There will be two men in the meeting
tonight from North Battleford, and it would NEVER do to tell such a
thing publicly.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> “DO
it,” He said. I argued with him like a Dutch uncle. It normally
took me an hour to drive from my home in Kent to Everett. That night
it took two hours! And God wouldn’t change His mind.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> When
I sat on the platform that night – Sure enough – there were my
two acquaintances sitting in front of me. </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> I
don’t know how I got through that service, but I obeyed God, and
gave His Word.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Then
He said, Show the </font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><u>safe
way</u></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> way to get “True
Guidance,” not just by relying on prophecy – but by letting “My
Word” be a Plumbline – to evaluate, discern and correct ALL
prophecy (1 Corinthians 14:29-33). Use the Preface to George Muller’s
“Answers to Prayer,” and his 6 point “How to Ascertain the Will
of God.” Here it is:</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> One.
I SEEK at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has
no will of its own in regard to a given matter. Nine-tenths of the
trouble with people generally is just here. Nine-tenths of the
difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord’s
will, whatever it may be. When one is truly in this state, it is
usually but a little way to the knowledge of what His will is.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Two.
Having done this, I do not leave the result to </font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><u>feeling</u></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">
or </font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><u>simple impression</u></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">.
If so, I make myself liable to great delusions.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Three.
I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with,
the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look
to the Spirit alone with the Word, I lay myself open to great
delusions also. If the Holy Spirit guides us at all, He will do it
according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Four.
Next I take into account providential circumstances. These often
plainly indicate God’s Will in connection with His Word and Spirit.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Five.
I ask God in prayer to reveal His Will to me aright.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Six.
Thus, through prayer to God, the study of the Word, and reflection, I
come to a deliberate judgment according to the best of my ability and
knowledge, and if my mind is thus at peace, and continues so after
two or three more petitions, I proceed accordingly. In trivial
matters, and in transactions involving most important issues, I have
found this method always effective.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Then
God said – “Next use Muller’s Appendix A and his Five
Conditions of Prevailing Prayer.” Here they are:</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> One.
ENTIRE DEPENDENCE upon the merits and mediation of the Lord Jesus
Christ as the only ground of any claim for blessing (See John 14:13,
14; 15:16, etc.)</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Two.
Separation from all known sin. If we regard iniquity in our hearts,
the Lord will not hear us, for it would be sanctioning sin. (Psalm
66:18.)</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Three.
Faith in God’s word of promise as confirmed by His oath. Not to
believe Him is to make Him both a liar and a perjurer. (Hebrews 11:6;
6:13-20.)</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Four.
Asking in accordance with His will. Our motives must be godly: we
must not seek any gift of God to consume it upon our lusts. (1 John
5:14; James 4:3.)</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Five.
Importunity in supplication. There must be waiting on God and waiting
for God, as the farmer has long patience to wait for the harvest.
(James 5:7; Luke 18:1-8; Luke 11:5-10; Daniel 10:12-14.)</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> It
is not enough to infallibly know God’s will by correcting any
prophecy that does not line up with God’s word. It is THEN
necessary to </font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><u>bring it
to pass</u></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> When
God revealed to C. T. Studd of England on his way as a missionary to
China, that it was His will for him to marry a very fiery Salvation
Army miss – her response to his proposal was – “Charlie Studd,
if you were the last man on earth, I wouldn’t marry you!”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> He
went to the Lord and said, “Are you sure?” His response was –
“She’s the one – keep drilling!”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> When
they arrived in China he stopped at Shanghai and she went on to
Peking. He wrote, “Twelve reasons why you should marry me.”
Answer: “13 reasons why I shouldn’t.” Each letter went up by
one till they reached 20. Then in desperation Charlie fasted and
prayed for two weeks. Her next letter – “Okay Charley – God got
through to me – when do you want to get married?”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> I
returned home after that Everett service, somewhat beaten. Very soon
afterwards I was asked to speak to about 40 pastors in Portland
Oregon at a Full Gospel Business Men’s meeting. I had been
advertised as a Baptist pastor, which I was. I had graduated in 1952
from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary of Chicago with an M.Div.
(Master of Divinity) and been assistant pastor of Tabernacle Baptist
Church of Chicago, Pastor of Kostner Avenue Baptist Church of Chicago
and First Baptist Church of Round Lake, Illinois.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> I
overheard one pastor say to another – “I wonder what this
Charismatic Baptist pastor thinks he’s going to educate us with?”
But then God led me to repeat the message on “True Guidance” I
had given in Everett. This time it was much easier telling stories on
myself. I was learning the secret of being crucified with Christ and
becoming “dead” to myself.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Soon
I heard my pastor friend say to his neighbor again – “THIS is no
Charismatic Baptist – THIS is an old dog in Pentecost!”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> That
meeting opened up doors for me in the greater Portland area that kept
me busy fulfilling them for a year.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> So
WHY did God humble me by having me tell of this incident in 1948?
Because He was against prophecy? Not at all. He was absolutely
serious to let people hear – that in HIS sight it is MOST important
that we are all very careful and cautious about prophecy, dreams, and
the gifts of the Spirit. He could have had me cross my hands like
Jacob with his two grandsons in 1948 – but He DIDN’T. He was
willing to humble me that I would everlastingly be careful about the
Gift of Prophecy, and that whenever He indicated, I was to share what
TRUE Guidance was in His estimation and sight. His WORD is more sure
than prophecy or dreams. I have heard too many prophecies “MISS IT”
in so-called “Presbytery Meetings,” that I feel sick at times.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> There
was a Presbytery Meeting in Southern California on one occasion a
number of years ago. The chairman of the Presbytery prophesied over a
couple – “Thus says the Lord! Thou shalt be as pillars in this
church. Here you shall uplift the arms of the pastor as did Aaron and
Hur for Moses. You shall be as a tree planted by the rivers of
underground water. When all is dry around, your leaf shall not
wither, and you will bring forth abundant fruit.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> “As
long as you stay in this church as pillars for this pastor, you shall
be blessed. If you leave this church, you shall not lose your
salvation – but your greatest blessing is by continuing to abide
here.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> “Thus
says the Lord.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Afterwards
the pastor said to the chairman, naming him by name. “I think we
might have missed it with this couple. We commissioned them as
missionaries to Japan last week.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> Response
– “Well – you can’t hit it all of the time.”</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> The
above would NOT have happened if Presbytery had not been infiltrated
with tradition – departing from the 1948 standards, but MOST OF ALL
from the Bible standards. Modern practice in many circles does not
allow the Presbytery to know ANYTHING about the candidates prior to
ministering to them. This was NOT true of Timothy. Elders from 3
cities were well acquainted with most everything about Timothy! It is
testing God wrongly NOT to let the Modern Presbytery know such facts
– and much more.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> God
has given a word on December 20</font><sup><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">th</font></sup><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">,
2006, that He would be moving swiftly from that date on to bring to
maturity not only the Presbytery concept, but all 12 of the 1948
Revival Principles that came together under the hand especially of
George Hawtin, with the 7 elders. At that time we did NOT move in
this modern concept. Neither did the Scriptures teach such.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"> The
5-fold ministries need to be carefully cautious not to be carried
away with fleshly enthusiasm that cannot be checked with Scripture,
Providence and the Spirit. The City Church concept in this area is a
GREAT safeguard here. One then doesn’t require outside traveling
Presbyteries coming in and being kept apart from all candidates to
whom they are to minister. The local pastor elders, who also double
with all of the 5-fold, and serve the needs of the City Church freely
– THEY perform this service. Outside prophets are <u>visitors</u><span style="text-decoration:none">.</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><u><b>CONCLUSION</b></u></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">:
Well – all of the above is because of a request today from a
Tacoma pastor. I wasn’t at first going to do much with it. Then
again, I got the 1963 word from God for Everett. “Spill the beans
on your embarrassment in July 1948. Give the correction of “TRUE
Guidance” from George Muller. And then trust ME to bring good out
of evil.”</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">Your
friend – Jim Watt</font></p>
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