The Book Gather My Apostles
by Cary Goodwin   copyright 1996

Chapter Six

The World

by

Cary Goodwin

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In the early 80's while I was working for N.B.C., I was traveling back to L.A. from a news assignment in Alaska, we were at 30,000 feet and I was looking down on the earth, over the destruction in the Mt. St. Helens area. Suddenly, the Lord spoke to me in this booming voice "You must think in terms of the Whole World". He then went on in a quieter voice, to tell me not to think only of the places I was walking at the time. At that time, I didn't know that He had an International ministry for me.

When the Lord spoke this to me, I was already traveling constantly around the States, including Alaska and Hawaii. I had traveled all of my life. My father was in the Army and we spent three years in Okinawa and three years in Japan. A short time after the Lord talked to me on the airplane; He was taking me around the World.

America overall, is the best, most advanced country in the World. In a relatively short period of time America has gone from a large wilderness landmass, to one of the most developed and affluent powers in the world. Throughout history, the world has never seen anything like it. Most people in the world attribute it to Democracy. We have not tried to make the World see God behind our prosperity.

Remember in Chapter one, I talked about this group of men called the Eisenhower Fellowship. I used it as one example; of how the Lord took me around to deliver messages to people. The Lord came into my hotel room one night after we had spent the evening interviewing these men. They were from the richest and oldest families in Argentina. They had all been educated in Colleges in the United States and were dedicated to establishing Democracy in Argentina. Then the Lord put the leader of this group, on the same plane, sitting right next to me as I left Argentina. I was able to deliver the message and witness to this man for twelve hours before we separated at the Miami Airport. He was on his way to see President Reagan.

I can't remember now, word for word the message that the Lord gave me to deliver. The Lord wanted me to tell these men, that He was responsible for the great success of America. The Lord wanted these men to know that they should seek Him to reform their country. The message was longer than that. I was also supposed to witness to this man for his salvation.

These men had been educated in America, but had never been taught that it was founded by Christians under God. I was supposed to send this man Armand a couple of books on my return to the States. I was very busy traveling again, after returning to the States and my Mother sent the books to Armand. One of the books is called The Light and the Glory. This is a book that talks about the founding of the United States, it is well researched. This is a book all Christians should read.

One of the incidents recorded in that history, is where Christopher Columbus was in the middle of a raging storm at sea. His crews on the three ships, were on the verge of Mutiny. They wanted to turn around. Columbus's log reveals, that it was illuminated to him by the Holy Spirit that he should keep going because it was for the furtherance of the Gospel. I am sure that Christopher Columbus had no idea that a very great nation would be raised up with complete freedom to worship God in Spirit and in Truth.

This book is not dedicated to proving America's Christian heritage. But from everything I have read and learned, I would like to tell you how I see America. I see America as the Promised Land to the Christians. It was not revealed until the time of the reformation, when God's people began to come out of the Government regulated Church, we talked about earlier. The earliest settlers, the Pilgrims, were fleeing religious persecution. They were looking for a land, where they could worship, as they believed without hindrance. In 1776, America was 98% Protestant Christian.

There are many similarities if you think about it, between the children of Israel taking possession of the Promised Land and America. The Promised Land flowing with milk and honey was inhabited. It was inhabited by a people who had no covenant with God. America too, was inhabited by a people who had no covenant with God. They worshipped the creation rather than the creator.

I believe with all my heart, that it was always God's intent to raise up America in power and affluence, for the purpose of taking the Gospel into all the earth. If this is true, then it is in America's best interest to fulfill, to the best of our ability, that destiny. Satan has always perverted in any way he can, the purposes of God. But if we know the truth, we must hold on to it and not let it slip. If we hold fast, in God's Will, Satan's plans cannot prevail. This is the Will of God.

The Apostles and Prophets are no longer leaving from Israel. Most of the missions work is coming from America. If America has been raised up and Chosen of God for this Purpose, can we prosper in the Lord by not taking our God given role in the earth? I believe that if the Church backs off from this responsibility that the Country as a whole suffers. This is what the Lord said to Israel who rejected him. Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. Where the Kingdom of God is concerned, you cannot be an isolationist.

Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

With America, the Lord has a government that opens many doors throughout the world, for the Gospel to move through. We must recognize this and be obedient. As the people of God in the Earth, our blessings come from God, not Politics. Those who suggest that we mind only the problems of America only, are perverting the word of God, and the will of God towards this great country. This great country, is free to be the moving force of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to the nations of the earth. This places the most challenging and greatest responsibility ever, on the American Christians. This responsibility also, if obedient to it, opens the doors for the greatest blessings.

In America, we are free to speak the entire truth concerning God's word and Will. We can in this country, stand up on television or anywhere and speak the truth concerning Mohamed or Buddha etc. In Arab countries, this would cost you your life. In Buddhist, Muslim or Hindu countries you cannot attack their gods with out great retribution. Yet the Lord, brings many from all these countries here, where they can hear the entire truth. And many in this country are offended.

Recently in Pakistan, there was an incident where three Christian men, spray painted Christian scripture on the wall of a Muslim mosque. The Muslims murdered one of the Christians immediately. The other two Christians stood trial. The two who stood trial, were acquitted against the protest of the Moslem population. The Muslims vowed to kill these two young men, regardless of the ruling of the courts. These Christian men had a terrible dilemma, they would not be safe anywhere.

About two days after they vowed to kill these men, there was a terrible attack by Muslims against a mosque. Fifty people were gunned down and killed by their fellow Muslims. These attacks happened again, about three times more, in a short period of time. During this time, the Christians who were threatened were able to just disappear safely. I believe God brought a judgement and carried it out. These attacks caused the Muslims to forget all about the Christians.

Try to see God's Big Picture and once again, keep in mind what has the Highest Priority in Heaven and under Heaven. It is the saving of the Lost. In and from this country, we can Publish in any form we want the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is still the only place that is totally free to do this. I would not be able to work inside the Buddhist countries, if there were not a measure of freedom. But here there is total freedom. For example, in Thailand it is illegal to print the Gospel inside the country by foreigners in the Thai language. All the Bibles in the Thai language have to be printed outside the country and then they are taxed as an import. There are many such laws that are designed to limit and hinder the propagation of Christianity. So as we Christians, understand and are obedient to the plan and will of God, we are blessed in our obedience and the country is blessed.

There is no shortage of ministry in the United States but we let the Devil's devices keep us from unity, keep us from true doctrine, which makes our worship in vain. These are our enemies!! We discussed how we must think in terms of the whole World. Our Lord, is constantly beholding the whole world, it is His world and nothing happens anywhere on it, that He doesn't know about. I have been to places that I would have called God forsaken at one time. They are not. They may however, have been forsaken by the Church.

Think about this, the God of Heaven and Earth, has Chosen and Ordained His People in the Earth, to walk hand in hand with His only Begotten son, the Savior of the World, to fulfill the Greatest Mission Ever. He did not choose the Angels for this Mission. The Angels are here to help us in this Mission. All the resources of Heaven and Earth are laid up for this Mission. Yet so many in the Body of Christ, have made this one of the lower priorities of their faith.

I have been to places in the earth, where it is like going back 2000 years. I can remember thinking in this one place, in the Middle East, that it would have been just like what I was watching, in the days of our Lord. In the places I have been ministering, it is as it was in the days of Paul. They have been kept from the Truth. The Buddhist, are not going to proclaim Christ to their people and they are not going to pay for it. The Gangs, are not going to pay for the publishing of the Gospel in their midst. These two sentences and examples may sound stupid, but I have heard many doctrines come out of the mouths of God's people, that would indicate that the Lost are supposed to pay for it.

We are in the greatest time, for evangelizing the World. The World and its Governments are being shook. We have refugees in many places of the World that have been uprooted from everything that they have known to be true. Even the villages that I have been ministering in, have been shaken, nothing is the same, as it used to be. There is Civil unrest everywhere as oppression seeks to tighten its grip on the inhabitants of the World. Now is the time, for the Church of Jesus Christ to move out with greater power and anointing.

The world is constantly publishing television, magazines, movies, and entertainment of all kinds and translating them into many languages. We the people of God, must do more World Wide, to publish the Truth of Salvation. There is only one name under Heaven whereby a man can be Saved and that name and person is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation that saith unto Zion thy God reigneth. This is how the Lord sees His Church, as they carry out His Will in the Earth. And He has made the way for every one of His people, to be able to partake of this, even through their giving for the Gospels sake (benefit).

While ministering in these third world countries, where the Gospel has never been preached, you do see a harvest. We have seen many turn to the Lord Jesus. We have seen Him heal and deliver many. But you are also very aware that you are planting seeds and many are watching. Satan opposes the Gospel. It is not easy. There is persecution and there are counterfeits of Satan, to come against.

After three years of ministering in this area, the only healing ministry around of any kind was our ministry. One day, I was told this six-year-old boy in another village about four kilometers straight down the road from us. People were going to this young child and getting healed. His father was a witch doctor. The young boy said the spirits gave him three words to speak and then he would spit in a glass of water and give it to the people to drink. Many people were receiving healings. When I first heard this news, I did nothing. About two days later, I heard the boy was telling people, that soon there would be cars and motorcycles lining up past the Christian Pastor's house. Immediately, we took authority over those demon spirits. Demon spirits were operating in that boy, to deceive the people away from the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That young boy's healing ministry stopped that very day. It would no longer work to deceive those people from the Truth.

It is also amazing to me, to see how people can hear of the healings and miracles that are happening with us Christians there and not come to be healed, because of fear of persecution. Many do come, many receive, but many will not come for fear of persecution. We've even had people come and receive healing and then not come back, for fear of persecution. But over time, more and more hear and come to the Lord.

The persecution these people experience is much greater than you or I experience, here in America. I am proud of all those in my ministry, who received the Lord and then took a stand, even to be ostracized by their families and the Buddhist. As a minister of the Gospel, I am regarded by many as the enemy. It is dangerous, difficult and very necessary. The more you travel, the more you realize, just how big this world is. And the more you travel, the more you notice this huge sea of humanity looking lost and oppressed. And the more you take notice, the more you feel the Heart of God towards His people. He has already provided for their salvation. Oh, if only His people, who know Him, would go and tell them, that He loves them with an everlasting love.

In 1982 in Argentina the Lord began calling me to the villages of the Earth. As I have said, I have learned that these kinds of places and people make up about Half the Population of the World. No one minister or ministry will be called to this field it is too big. In 1986, when the Lord began to call me into the ministry full time, I thought I was ready to perform the work, He had been showing me in the visions. I did know more than most, about these villages. After all, the Lord had talked to me considerably about them on three different continents. And I had spent six years of my childhood in Asia.

My overall calling from the Lord, is to produce video material publishing the Gospel. There is nothing like these villages in America. The cultures world wide, are very diverse. Before we can reach people with the Gospel, we have to understand their world. We have to understand the opposition that they face. It is not enough just to translate American Christian material. It would go right over their heads. Christian Television is not allowed by many Governments, because it is so revolutionary. Paul said, in Corinthians 9:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. Paul knew that he could not reach people with out identifying with them.

The Lord has the wisdom for reaching His world. He trains His ministers, for their role in this mission. We must understand this. For example you cannot go into these villages and preach like you might here in America. You preach the same truths. But the style of our preaching must be geared to them, or they will walk away. If they don't identify, they assume it is not for them. The Lord did not begin to tell me to build a Mission Center to Indo-China and move towards the Vision he gave me in 1979, until I had lived with, and ministered to these people for many years. I speak from my own experience, but what I am about to say, applies to many who are called of God in the Earth.

From the time of the Vision the Lord gave me, where the Lord caught me up in the Spirit to see the work I was called to, until now, He has had me on His road, walking toward this Vision. I have been separated from everything I knew before; there has been a great deal of sacrifice in my own life and my familie's. All of it has been necessary for the fulfilling of God's Vision. The Lord does not take it lightly, and neither can I. I have no other choice than to do all that I can, to fulfill this calling. 1 Corinthians 9:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, If I preach not the gospel! There are many ministers who are painfully aware of this truth. Are these ministers to be alone in this burden? Jesus said, in Luke Chapter 11:30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall the son of man be to this generation. Then in John 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. The sign of Jonas is a sign to this generation. We know that Jonas was supposed to call the Ninevites to repentance. We also know what happened to Jonas when he chose not to do what God told him to do. The Lord does deal with us in the same manner he dealt with Jonas. There is a spiritual fish for all that choose not to obey. I ask you again, How can we be prospered, if we choose to turn away from such a great calling? We the Body of Christ, must come in line with God's Order and Will. We the Saints of the Most High God, are entrusted with the Eternal Truth of the Eternal and Almighty God. Does it seem right to you that the Muslims are evangelizing with a greater zeal in the earth than we are? In Matthew 13:38 The field is the World; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; Jesus declares here that the world is the field, and the harvest has much to do with our obedience to the command of God.

There are many in the world that the Lord foreknew from before the foundation of the World, whom he desires to save. They are scattered throughout the earth. When they hear the Truth, it speaks to them. But they will not hear, unless we tell them. These are the lost sheep that the Lord is continually going after. But He has Ordained that you and I the Body of Christ follow Him in this work. Many Saints, throughout Church History, have made sacrifices to the Gospel. They have given their money, their time and even their lives for this purpose. The first to give His life for this purpose was the Lord Jesus Christ. What if those, that went before us, did not care? What if their doctrine was, Oh, God would never inconvenience a Christian. Where would you and I be today? We are indebted to all those who went before holding on to the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ even unto death.

Of all the causes anywhere in the World, taking this Gospel of God's Kingdom into all the Earth, so that the World through Him might be saved, is the Greatest Cause of All. John 12:27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour; but for this cause came I unto this hour.... It is a Great Honor bestowed upon His Saints to be made a partaker of this CAUSE.

Genesis 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Aren't we the seed of Abraham and of Jesus?

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