Chapter Eleven

Empowering the Last Day Saints

by

Cary Goodwin

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For the last eight years, the Lord has been discussing with me the affairs of His Kingdom. Even while I was ministering in the villages. He was almost continually talking to me about His Church. I had the impression many times that He wanted to re-empower His Church for these last days. He was telling me to write down what He was telling me and showing me and then Call the Church to Order.

I hope in the writing of this book, that I have conveyed how important it is, that we embrace God's ways and Order. I hope that you have a better understanding of how man's ways and order, do fight against God. We need to understand these things in a very practical sense so that we can turn away from the traditions of man. By understanding, we can better recognize those things that are of God and those things that are not. But make no mistake, if you just blindly follow after the traditions of man, having no understanding of God's ways and order, you will be found, fighting against God. No one who knows the Lord, would want to do that.

As I began telling you in chapter one, it was while I was working on this book, I awoke one morning about 5 am. I arose went into the bathroom and while I was washing my face, I heard the Lord calling my name. I was not fully awake. I didn't want to wake that early. I went back to bed. As I laid my head on the pillow, I heard the Lord call my name, again. His voice was insistent. This time, I responded to Him by saying "Yes Lord?", then very clearly He said, "Gather together My Apostles". This woke me up with a jolt! I didn't understand, but I knew, I had to have the understanding. So I began to ask the Lord to give me clear understanding. He spoke to me again and said, "Gather together my Apostles from around the world, into one place and time, as has not been done since the days of Pentecost". Now I'm wide awake and full of questions. But the Lord spoke no more about this to me, that day.

For the next three days, I sought the Lord on this matter. On the third day, while in prayer, I asked Him angrily, "why do you reveal this to me and what do you want me to do"? Then the Lord spoke and said; "I have given you the understanding to discern who is and who is not an Apostle unto me". Then He told me again, to "Gather My Apostles". If I had any doubts that we are in the very last days, this answered all doubt for me. These words, the Lord delivered to me, are Sacred and Holy. I believe, it is the most serious command, the Lord has ever given me.

This was very exciting to me, it verified to me, that the Lord was about to empower His Church, for the Final Chapters of the Book of the Acts of the Apostles. Suddenly, I saw that He was going to do another work in the Earth, that would rival or surpass the early Church. I was also aware, that just as He started with His Apostles before, He would do it again, after the Order of His Own Ways.

As one who is called to be an Apostle and knowing how much the Lord has been talking to me about His Church and His Kingdom, over the last eight years, I must believe, that right now, He is imparting direction, wisdom and giving commandments to His Apostles around the world, concerning His Kingdom. This would be consistent with Acts 1:3 & 4; His being seen of them forty days giving His Apostles commandment and speaking to them of things pertaining to the Kingdom of God. We realize that He was getting ready to pour out His Spirit on them and birth His Church. Now in the end times, I have heard the Spirit of God tell me to "Gather His Apostles from around the world into one place and time as has not been done since the days of Pentecost."

In May 1997, I was listening to a preacher, talk about a new research, on the Birth of Our Lord, using the Jewish Calendar. He was saying that the research showed that the Lord was born on September 27, or 28, 4 BC As he preached, the Lord Spoke to me and said, that is the exact time I gave you the Command, to "Gather My Apostles". It was true, it was the 28^th of September 1996, when the Lord called my name and spoke to me at five in the morning. That would mean, that exactly at the end of the 2000-year period, since our Lord Jesus Christ came into the Earth, He gave a Command to Gather His Apostles.

This indicates that the Lord is getting ready for a new move of His Spirit in the Earth. We must be ready to receive what He is about to do.

I know this is a bold thing to speak. I wouldn't do it, unless I was sure it was of the Lord. The Lord spoke this to me while I was working on this book. I know His timing, was such that it would be in this book. That makes this book, the first call, to all the Apostles around the world to contact me.

The Lord told me, that I was equipped to discern who is and who is not called an Apostle unto Him. And He has given me direction concerning this gathering of His Apostles.

For this reason, I believe that this simple book is important to the Body of Christ. The Lord will not use those who resemble the Pharisees. He will not use those who are trying to walk out their faith, while deceived by that Harlot, Mystery Babylon. It is not be a light thing to the Lord, for you to slay and persecute the offices of Apostles and Prophets.

Remember, we are coming closer to that time, when God is going to deal with His enemies once and for all. We are also coming into a time, when God will move in greater power, so that the world will know Him and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. We have walked in such a time of Grace, that many can't understand the severity of God. I was blessed enough to have experienced the fear of His Severity first hand. In no way, do I believe that this dispensation of time will just pass away, under the status quo of the Churches today.

The status quo of the Church today is likened unto total chaos. Most of the Order of God has been done away with. There is very little interest in the overall health and purpose of the Body of Christ. God's agenda for the Church has been pushed to the end of the list of priorities. Most of the Churches have no use for the Evangelist, Prophets, and Apostles. Yes, there are free-lance ministers who minister at many different churches. But most can only preach the most popular messages, that don't threaten the status quo. Those Evangelist, Prophets, and Apostles who have received fresh messages from the Lord for this time, that would begin to change the status quo are not sought out and they are persecuted by the Churches.

All the time, the Lord was talking to me about the condition of His Church, He was talking to me about teaching and preaching Order in His Church. It never occurred to me that it was important to Gather His Apostles. It never occurred to me, until that morning He spoke to me, to Gather His Apostles. When I heard this, I knew that it was God's wisdom for restoring Order to the Church. We are called to unity in Christ but unity is not possible without practicing and taking God's Order seriously. It is not every man for himself.

Recently, I was watching a Preacher on television talking about the former and latter rain. He was talking about the Glory of God coming on the Earth in the last days. Surprising me, the Lord speaks to me and says, "I have given you the Key, to Unlock my Glory and the Final move of My Spirit for these Last Days". Until that moment, I had not thought about the Gathering of His Apostles, as the Key to unlocking the Glory of the Lord for the Last Days. That day, I felt like one of the richest men who ever lived. There was joy in my spirit. I could experience the True Riches of His Spirit. I knew I had been blessed. I also fully understood the great significance of this key.

This Commandment from the Lord to me, to Gather His Apostles from around the world, must be taken seriously. It is to the benefit of all in the Body of Christ and the entire Kingdom of God in the Earth. It must be handled with integrity and without the influence of the traditions of men and devils.

We must make the best-concerted effort possible under God, to get this message to the entire Body of Christ in the Earth. We must make this effort to begin to restore God's Order in the Church. As we do, I am convinced by every thing I have heard from the Spirit of God, that it will be Blessed and the Lord will meet us there. It is the Time of the End and there is much to do.

Then we must do our very best to discern through the Spirit of God which of those who respond, are indeed Called to be Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ by the will of God. In the Vision the Lord gave me back in 1979, when He caught me away in the Spirit to see the work I was called to, I saw myself and a panel of Elders listening to the testimonies of men to discern who was indeed called of God. Now I see, that this is coming to pass and why it is so important.

Many in these days, are trying to tell the Body of Christ that testimonies are not important. In the testimony of a man or woman you will see parallels of the Lords work and ways in them, or you will not. You will see in their testimonies how much revelation of Jesus they have been given. To whom much has been given much will be required. Our callings and our testimonies are not given because of pride, arrogance and covetousness. The Spirit of God does not operate in these fleshly ways. Those who try to dismiss the testimonies of God's people, usually don't have a testimony of personal experience with the Lord Jesus Christ.

I believe, that in this time, the Lord has many who are saved and filled with His Holy Spirit, who were never indoctrinated into the Churches that perpetuate the systems of man. These men and women having heard the Truth of God's Salvation, have called upon the name of the Lord to be saved. The Lord has Saved many, Healed many, Delivered many from their destruction's and filled them with His Holy Spirit, when there was no man around. No one to take credit for them. No one, but the Lord to teach them and lead them. They believe that the Bible is the very word of God to us, because the Lord has proven it to them over and over again. These have experienced the Love of God without measure, as He delivered them from such a terrible bondage of darkness. To these, no society, no king, no threat, even of their own lives, will turn them from the Truth they know, the Lord Jesus Christ.

But there are also many who have followed after the ways of the Churches of men, who believe that the ways of the Churches, is in exact alignment with the will and ways of God. They expect nothing more of God. Somehow, they think that the Lord will just have to change, because this is the way we do it. This hasn't worked in almost two thousand years. The small revivals that have occurred in our history, are due to someone or group laying aside a false doctrine and the Lord showing his pleasure, met them there. But these revivals have always been short lived because man reverts to his own ways. Again, I am not against Churches, but the traditions of men that make the word of God of none effect.

Much of what the Lord has revealed to me and taught me, has been while walking out my own salvation, calling and ministry. I am one that the Lord has called out of darkness into the light of His Glorious Gospel. I was dying as a result of my sinful life-styles and the Lord Jesus came to me and healed my body, delivered me from all my destructive ways, and filled me with His Holy Spirit. He gave me joy when there was none. He gave me wisdom when I had none. What I experienced in my salvation was just like the day of Pentecost to me. I became His disciple. He taught me according to His word and His ways. He called me back, to tell many of the things that I had seen, heard and experienced. He caught me up in the Spirit to see a Vision from Him that would save the souls of many. Then He began to call me an Apostle. He then took me out into the Harvest to work in the ministry. Telling a people who had not heard, that Jesus is their Messiah. Because of this, many have come to the Lord. Many who never heard have now heard. He has been teaching me all this time. He has anointed me for the work that He has called me to do.

This is a very basic and crude breakdown of my life in the Lord. Isn't this the New Testament coming to life now in this time? Why then, is it so hard for people to understand this? Is it because they really don't believe that God still moves the way He did in the days of the early Church and first Apostles? Is it because it threatens the system of man? Is it because they don't want to accept the truth? Do you see the enmity here? Do you see the contradictions in our actions to our Faith?

Since my return to the States, looking for help to do the work the Lord has called me to do; the Lord has taken me to many different churches and Pastors. I have walked with the Lord long enough, to know that where I walk and am placed, is no accident. I know that my steps are ordered of the Lord, from experience. I have watched Pastors even rewrite the word of God trying to prove that we are nothing and shouldn't be helped. I have watched people get very creative trying to redefine me and my calling as though they were the Lord. It is never scriptural and shows no wisdom and no fear of God. In every case the new definition that they came up with, needed no action from them or need of their help. Thereby ending the problem. It always seemed to be the love of money at the root.

I have had men and women who call themselves Pastors, who have no real testimony of experience and revelation of God, try their utmost to attack to destroy my ministry. They were not successful because God's hand is on the work. I tell these things, because we need to see and understand the devices of the Devil to stop the Gospel. Suddenly, they presume this position, that all that God has done in my life all the testimony, and all the ministry, is to be thrown away, because suddenly God has made them the judge. This is a ridiculous approach. I have learned the more absurd and hideous the attacks are, the more assurance you have that Satan is trying his utmost to destroy you. Then you begin to realize; just how threatened Satan is, by the calling and visions God has given you. I have written this from my own experience, but it is multiplied many times in many ministries and lives.

When someone who calls themselves by the name of the Lord, (Christians), and go to such lengths, to destroy a ministry and yea even that minister, called of God. Whose cause is being served? Satan's cause is being served not God's. If you know how to recognize these acts, and understand that they are serious, then you will be able to recognize who is of the Synagogue of Satan.

Jesus the first Apostle sacrificed so much for His Gospel. So many, throughout Church History and even in the world today, have sacrificed so much for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If you can realize this and think that God winks at attacks against His work in the earth, you have no Godly Wisdom.

Unfortunately, too many begin to perceive the Gospel, as Jesus having died just for those they approve of. They think the only activity of the Church, is just having Church and running it like a Country Club. Does this sound abominable? I believe in God's eyes it is.

I met a woman who is the head of a ministry that helps the poor with their needs. (Again only one example) They have an evangelistic work, where they see many of these poor, coming to the Lord, through their witness. Their plan is to direct these new converts towards a Pastor in the vicinity of the individuals that are saved. They call the Pastors and try to bring the two together. She told me the Pastors in that city did not want these people. She told me this was the response, without exception. We need to understand what spirit we are of. Amen?

I have noticed that almost every ministry called of God to the lost and or poor have great difficulty getting the help they need. Rather, it seems that the attitude from the Churches would be, to see them just go away. Our eternal destiny depends on which spirit we are of. Do our actions serve the Kingdom of God or do they serve the Kingdom of Darkness. Men can sin in the name of Jesus; it just makes the sin more abominable.

I have heard the Lord, tell me over and over again, to go to His people for the finances that we need. I have experienced these attacks against my ministry, so much from the Church; that I have had to ask the Lord, Where are your people? I have had to ask myself, why does my calling to poor people in remote villages, make me an enemy of the Church? Is it because their money is threatened? Is it because they can't believe that the Lord would call someone like he did in the early Church? Is it because they can't believe that God really speaks to His people today? Or is it because it is inconsistent with a country club? We must judge righteously.

I want you to know right here, that the Lord has been dealing with me about my calling and ministry, for over twenty years. I am absolutely sure of my calling. If I were not sure, I would not be writing this book. The reasons for writing these things, is to help God's people understand. So they can receive from God the things of God. Including all the blessings that are in His Holy Covenant. And because the Lord did tell me to write this book. We cannot receive all that the Lord has for us, standing on doctrines and opinions of men. We cannot move in His great power to establish systems of men and doctrines of men, because He won't give it for those purposes. We cannot be prospered by God, when we are afraid to forsake our finances, for the Gospels sake and Jesus sake.

The Lord God Almighty does not take a poll to see what His people want, before addressing the issues. He does not make His doctrine to seek our votes. He does not call His ministers, for us to vote on. He is the Almighty, All Powerful, All knowing, Omnipotent, Omnipresent God. He is the King and His Subjects must follow His ways, laws and order, by faith in His Words, to please Him. He is the most loving and caring King who knows what His Subjects need because He is also their creator. There is no way to win rejecting His counsel. We lose when we try to change those things that are forever settled in Heaven, the Word of God.

As I said, it is my sincerest desire to see the Church of Jesus Christ, line up with God. So that we can experience His Glory, continually in our midst. I don't write this to condemn anyone. But I have experienced enough of God's Glory, to know that I want to experience more of it. I have experienced enough of His Glory to know, that if we the Body of Christ would show forth His Glory in the Earth, there would be nothing better.

His Glory will not be shared with the pharisees. It will not be found in Mystery Babylon. But to His people who serve Him and love Him and are one with Him, it is already given, even the same glory that God gave Jesus, He has given to us. John 17:22

We are in the last days. The last generation before Jesus Comes back. Perilous times are here. We must lean on and trust in the Lord more than ever. The Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy warning him. 2 Timothy 3:1-13 This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good. Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth; men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering charity patience, persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured; but out of all of them the Lord delivered me. Yea and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

If we read and heed the warnings and examples given us in the word, we can guard against being led astray. One example given in the scripture above, is where he says, they are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth. There must come a time in our Christian walk, where we walk in the maturity of the Truth, having been taught and having learned. Having learned, then we can with confidence exercise what we have learned, being found as doers of the word. I don't know of any teacher, who would be pleased because the students had to keep learning the same things over and over again, because they thought the teachings, to be of no real practical value.

Consider this, from the Lord's most high point of view, we have been likened to sheep. But we are not sheep and we are not mindless. To the men of this earth you are a peculiar people (special). To every devil, you have been given authority over them; they are subject to you.

You are the redeemed of the Lord. You are the Saints of the Most High God of the End Times. You are the Citizens of the Kingdom of the Most High God. You are Soldiers of the Army of the Most High God of the End Times. You are the Children of the Most High God. And if Children, then Heirs; Heirs of God and Joint Heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. His Mission, is Your Mission. You are just to do your part, according to the leading of the Lord Jesus Christ.

You are indeed of greater value than a sparrow. Do not let any doctrine of man or any devil tell you anything different.

One night before going to sleep, I questioned the Lord about this message of Gathering His Apostles; after all, it is not a part of the Status Quo. As I laid down to go to sleep I heard him say, "This is not a time like before. It is the time of the End". Then in my spirit, it kept bubbling up. It Is the Time; It Is the Time... I arose saying, It really is the Time! Jesus really is coming soon. God Bless you and keep you all, unto His coming, where we will all behold Him and each other in His Glory. So ….

REJOICE IN THE LORD OUR SAVIOR.!!

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