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Gerry Gutierrez' Update
Prologue to the "YES" book part one. The following are
some forward words from lifetime friends, who have honored me by reading and
reacting to the draft of the cream of my thinking. These men of God have been
as good shepherds to Ruthie and me and have frequently sought to encourage us
in the worse of times. ********************** My dear Brother
Gerry: What a
masterpiece!! Over my head, in places—IÕm not smart like you and
Einstein! I know virtually nothing about physics and the laws that govern this
immense subject—but you have helped me begin to grasp the application of
these immutable, unchangeable laws to spiritual dynamics. I wished I had more
time to ponder, think through the implications of your thinking before I had to
write this review because (perhaps) I could be wiser and more helpful, but I
see here the careful thinking of a godly man who desires more than anything
that we, as followers of Jesus, take seriously and make full application of the
instructions, laws and commands of our God to seek His will through prayer,
drawing upon His unlimited resources to accomplish the work He has entrusted to
all of us who bear His name. I especially
appreciate your emphasis on prayer, faith, the Word and will of God. That is indeed the key. As we implement
these principles and apply them to the ministry He has given us we will see the
world change. Shame on us for trusting ourselves, our methods, our plans and
schemes when we have the unlimited, effective and productive resources of our
infinite God at our disposal through obedience to His revealed will and in
answer to our earnest, believing prayer. It was great to
talk with you last night. I hope this is not too late to reach you before you
set off on your appointment. I keep you in our prayers and rejoice in the
evidence of healing and the way you obviously are drawing upon the comfort the
Lord has promised to those who lean on Him. In His
love, The Rev. Doctor
XX. I have no permission to use his name yet. ********************** 5/11/13 Dear Gerry, By the time you
read this you will be in Japan or on your way. I trust you will have a
wonderful time and be blessed by the Lord--and have all the sushi you want. I read your paper
twice and also listened to your sermon at the Lancaster church. It was an
interesting contrast. In the sermon you stayed with the text of God's words
about his Son--"Listen to him." I thought it was very powerful. I
could tell that your formula had influenced what you were saying--but you
stayed with Scripture. On the other
hand, when I read the paper it came across to me as a claim that you have
discovered something no one else has seen (just like Einstein discovered what
was always true but undiscovered). There is certainly nothing unbiblical about
the formula--but is it really something so revolutionary that another Great
Awakening could break out if we only applied it? You even say that
"harnessing the spiritual laws leads to control of the unseen world."
I will confess I have a great problem with claims that following a certain
formula will guarantee results or will cause God to act in one way or
another. I think it is
very appropriate to share with people that you have found a simple formula that
helps you to understand the nature of faith. People will appreciate hearing a
simple way to think about calling upon the Lord. But that is not the same as
claiming that you have discovered THE FORMULA what will cause God to unleash
new power on the earth. God is God and is not controlled by formulas--I know
that there are great promises about prayer, but in the end God moves when and
where He pleases. (By the way--you
prayed through the Lord's Prayer beautifully and powerfully in that Westminster
sermon--I was very blessed). Hear me carefully--THE FORMULA IS NOT WRONG OR
UNBIBLICAL, BUT DON'T PRESENT IT AS YOUR DISCOVERY OF SOMETHING NO ONE HAS
UNDERSTOOD BEFORE. Perhaps that is not what you meant to say, but you must
appreciate how it comes across to those who read it. I'm sure others will have
different thoughts, but you asked for mine and I thought it only right to try
and speak truthfully. Your true friend
in Christ, the Reverend XX. (No permission to use his
name yet) ********************** Dear Gerry, my
brother in the Lord, Thank you so much
for sharing this CD of your wonderfully presented message of missions. Today I
had the chance to listen to it for the third time at home with a note pad
handy; the first two times were heard as I was driving, but couldnÕt take notes
then of course. Your message was
both challenging and compelling to me. My faith and
trust in Christ has been strengthened. My desire to be a more faithful disciple
and missionary has also been made stronger by the work of the Holy Spirit
through your message. Just a few key
parts of your message that I especially loved were: 1. Your
love of God, and of Ruthie, and your family was beautifully described. 2. Your
praying of the LordÕs Prayer was clearly from your heart. 3. The
love of our Father in heaven for His Son Jesus Christ, and how well pleased He
was of His Son was so good to be reminded of. 4. ÒO
Lord, pray for us.Ó 5. ÒOpen
Your Word to our heart, and our heart to Your Word.Ó 6. Missions
without God is inconceivable. 7.
Your description of fellowship with another believer as the life of Jesus in me
and in them. 8. ÒListen
to the Lord Jesus Christ! Listen to Him! Listen to Him!Ó May the Lord
continue to bless you, Gerry, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and in
every way, as only He can. Thanking Him for
you, my brother, Ruling Elder, XX
(No permission to use his name yet). ********************** Background of the
ÒYESÓ book: Introduction to
my Report on China A Man is the
victim of the work of his own hands. Dr. Frankenstein
created a monster that ended up killing him. Mr. Emanuel Franz
had a pet tiger that ended up killing him after 10 years of friendship. Mohammed Ali had
Larry Holmes as a sparring partner later Holmes almost killed him in a real
match. History teaches
that great culture are not destroyed from without but from within.
The fall of Rome is traced to internal struggle and
moral decay and cruelty in government. The fall of the
Inca Empire is traced to a civil rivalry, division and sexual immorality. The destruction
of Sodom and Gomorrah is traced to the moral corruption of homosexuality and
lust. In the same way,
that which ends up destroying us is the work of our hand of that which we have
loved more than God and his will.
Our powerful
country, in its desire for comfort has become a glutton for oil that now the
huff of the camel rest on the neck of America.
Lately that
unquenchable thirst for gadgets has the mouth of the Dragon steadily sucking
like a vacuum the savings of America threatening to turn us into beggar. While the Russian
bear maliciously and angrily roams wounded in its pride for having been left as
second fiddle in the world scenario. The eagle
controls the skies sovereignly soaring above the clouds with piercing eyes
looking at the ground concerned to have less and less places to land freely and
safely. Could it be that
we are painting ourselves into the corner as a society? If this is true,
then we have no one to blame but ourselves. We, as Dr.
Frankenstein have created a monster call China. Let us focus on
China. To say the least, China is now ÒThe most contradictory country in the
world todayÓ. China has earned
that title rightly for having been the most Radical Communist Country of the
Planet and in a matter of a generation has become the most Aggressive
Capitalist Country of the World to date. It should not be
a matter of great concern to us of what goes on in China, after all we believe
in free enterprise and free trade and democracy. The only problem
is that our world has not only become a global village but seems to be shrinking
in the light of the population explosion. The inhabitants
of our globe are growing in a fast rate as if it has taken the elevator; but
our capacity to feed the world is as slow as if it has taking the stairs. The well use
figure of speech of ÒOur boat being small and the ocean so greatÓ is still a
sobering reality. Consistent with
this description, our flat belly and disgustingly healthy oriental friends
though smaller as individuals are greater in number than many countries put
together. Their collective
size alone makes them a danger because they are like a ÒBig fat mama with huge
hips and big legsÓ that when she moves in our small boat, makes every one's
knuckles turn white as they grab and fight for balance. Though their
numbers and ever-growing population should be their problem, it happens that we
are in ÒfellowshipÓ with them in the same small boat. (We are fellows in the
same ship). Even though we
should be concerned for the well being of our neighbors;
in actuality, it is our well being which is at stake. What should an
old man about to exit this world care about future problems? You donÕt have to
be a statesmen or sociologists or anthropologist to think globally and act
responsibly on our micro cosmos.
If one is a
father few children and a grandfather of many and have a great number of
friends and fellow believers, you can't help but to care for this world of ours
where God has placed us as His overseers and stewards. In my report on
China, I will apply the deductive principle to state my recommendations. ÒThis
is what I have observed, this is what I know and this is what I have
concluded.Ó ÒThe good old horse common sense.Ó To this I will
add a lifetime of observing China before Mao Tse Tung
and after Mao and the China of the last 25 years. I will also apply
the principle of ÒKnow a Chinese and know ChinaÓ. I have developed and
kept a close friendship with an honorable one Hundred percent Chinese family
and their children and grandchildren and friends for more than thirty years. We have become
like adopted brothers who walk in a covenantal relationship and spend great
deal of time together brainstorming on the future of China and the
world.
We both care
heavily for the kingdom of God and His righteousness. We car pulled and ate
many meals together as we worked in our under graduate studies in Missouri.
(True to the Chinese proverb that says: You do not know a man until you have
eaten a sack of salt together. That is in eating many meals. And the sack of
salt lasts longer in China, because they use salt sparingly. I have visited
him in China in my way to Russia twenty-five years ago before Glasnost and
Perestroika. He has visited me in Washington DC while I was assigned to work
with the diplomatic community there. Recently I
visited him in Austin Texas when he came to visit his children. Lately I was
with him in China and traveled by train some one hundred times and by bus some
fifty times, boats and taxis and walked all over China, Honk Kong, Macau to
observe the brutal change of the last twenty-five years since I was last in
China. Before I sent you
my final report on China I will include the following email from him shortly
after I return from China. ********************** Dear Brother, Good to know
that you are finally back home in good shape and making chicken soup for your
family. God bless you
as you please Him by searching His will for not only China, but also the whole
world. Take care, eat
slowly, walk slowly and work slowly. Wai Kan ********************** Dear Paul, Bruce and I will
be in Japan from the 10th to the 22th of May and we will cover
Tokyo, Shiva, Osaka, Nagoya, and Hiroshima. (I am expecting a heavy schedule of
internal travel as well as speaking and investigation). The traffic from
Tokyo to New Deli is very difficult that takes me through Beijing or Shanghai
and also overnight stay at the airport. Its more cost
effective to comeback to the US and rest a little and go to India directly and
travel North India where there is a Maoist Communist Movement developing. There is a leader
of that group of Maoists who has befriended a Covenant Seminary graduate from
India. It is very important that I meet this Maoist leader who like me is
open to talk to the followers of Jesœs. But my
interest in him is to understand what is the reason to still follow Maoism,
which has become an Anti-historical Movement and has been discredited for its
ÒDes-encounter with HistoryÓ. To understand
this movement will shed some light for me of the ÒWhy China still wants to keep
Communism as the Ideology of the new China which at this time does not make
senseÓ. For our purposes
its also very important this vacuum of Ideology in China. It is a door of
opportunity to take advantage by offering a new rug in the Gospel of our Lord Jesœs now that Capitalism has pull the rug of their
Ideology from under their feet. Unusually China is very open as never before to
the Gospel. After I return
from India I will be better informed to write my recommendation on China and
Communism and how we can use ÒThe Munich Manifesto of the Followers of Jesœs 2012Ó based on ÒThe Gospel according to God the
FatherÓ which I was able to launch from Germany after a short visit to Karl
Marx tomb in London. It seem clear
that all my life will be tied to communism; either by
propagating it and now opposing it. Monumental task, noble challenge certain
impossibility only if Jesœs is out of the Equation.
In my free time I hope to hit the Radio ministry to the Andes Mountains, write
books, keep my Internet ministry, pastor a struggling congregation, mentor
leaders in High places and push the Munich Manifesto and use the F=Pw2 as the
formula to harness the invisible world as Albert Einstein harness the seen
world with his equation E=Mc2. F= Faith (Taken
God at his Word) P= Prayer
(Agreeing with God) W= Will and Word
of God. The prevailing will of God as revealed from the Word of God. (The ever-immutable constant will and Word of God equivalent to the
constant speed of light for the seen world). F=Pw2 The merit
of this formula is not on its creation but on its discovery. Its like the E=Mc2
of Einstein, he did not created it, but discovery it. Discovery is like the
discovery of America in 1492. Columbus did not
created America, he only discovery it. Discovery is by revelation of that which
was previously unknown or hidden or doubted or not believed. It took the death
of my wife to discover the meaning of prayer, the meaning of faith and to die
to self and live to do the prevailing will of God as stated on the Word of God.
(Heaven and Earth will pass away but the Word of God endures forever) There is an
indescribable power in the equation F=Pw2 at our disposal to conquer the World
for Jesœs or to accelerate his return. My draft on The
LordÕs Prayer has suffered a set back and cannot make it to the projected date
for publishing. It needs ÒbadlyÓ editing. But it remains the heart of my
thinking and has become more important than life it self. I miss my RuthieÕs
feedback and grammar and spelling. Dear Paul, with
your approval after I return from India I hope to take those few days to fish
and relax a little. In July I will be going to Bogota Colombia to help
Nathaniel at his request and will be able to baptize his third child. My Caleb
is now a father of a beautiful little boy named Josiah Luther and I will
baptize him on June. Day and night I
write messages for my future ministry in the Radio. I sleep very little. I do
not like to watch TV, traveling is not my cup of tea and I am not a sightseer
either. The Lord provides always some one to travel wherever I go. There is a young
executive from Washington DC who Loves the Lord and has the desire to dig deep
into scripture, he wants to know the mind of Jesœs
and is accompanying me at his own cost all over India. To me he is a provision
from the Lord in every way. The summer will confine me indoors and will give me
a chance to write most of what is left unfinished. This letter is in
preparation for our meeting the second of May. I hope that by then you had a
chance to hear the CD I left with you. Preaching is not what I do; it is
what I am. Always praying
and making memory of you before God Gerry Gutierrez ********************** ÒYESÓ ÒYESÓ is
the only word worth GodÕs ears. For 25 years I
said NO to God. For 25 years I
said MAYBE to God. For 20 years I
said YES to God. At 70 let me help
you say YES to God! ÒAs the tiptoeing of a Toddler at the sea shore.Ó It is a serious matter to come to the point in
life to ask yourself the question that Albert Einstein asked of himself: ÒAm I
insane or is the rest of the world insane?Ó At the end of this period, I
hope to recuperate my old friends and gain few new ones, or I may lose the few
I still have and make new enemies. My view on Prayer has made me temporarily a
ÒRadioactiveÓ person in the eyes of some. I trust this is a matter of misunderstanding and
that in the event than my friends come to see Prayer from the point where I am
standing, they too in great excitement will gladly embrace the ÒPrincipleÓ and
will exercise with matchless delight the power and authority concealed in
prayer that was within reach all along. This is a book for my family and friends and
anyone interested ÒTo Make the World Great Again. This is truly a movement that
seeks to call few good men to join together in the mind of Jesus, under the
following foundational principle; "Faith is equal to Prayer under the Will of
God revealed in the Word of God as the only way to come into alignment
and unity with God in Jesus where all things are yes and a prayer
away". Convicted and
convinced along with Paul that, ÒThe Kingdom of God is not a matter of words
but of power.Ó Found in 1 Corinthians 4:20, is only proper to believe and not
shy away from the reach of such a power made available to the believer by God
the Father through Jesus the Lord. The LordÕs Prayer
will be treated as THE LORDÕS PRAYER, period. Our parts in
Prayer are, to ÒAgreeÓ with Jesus and say YES to every one of
his statements in ÒThe LordÕs Prayer.Ó Due to our
oneness with Jesus as the head of the body of which we are all but member of
that one body, there should not be in our minds the desire to entertain the
idea that some how we could take the initiative in Prayer and have our talks
with God in our own words and terms as if the LordÕs prayer was nor complete
and enough to cover all vital needs. The backbone of
this book will be the LordÕs Prayer. Let the folks of the Old Testament ÔLive
and died by the PsalmsÓ. It was those who lived by the Old Testament that came
to Jesus asking, Lord teach us to Pray. Should they have not asked the Master
of Masters to teach them to Pray, it would have been alright to keep living and
dying by the Psalms and by the counsel of my will. But Jesus has
spoken on matters of prayer and comprehensibly. Let us refrain from our better
prayer and seek to attain the knowledge of Prayer in its length, depth, weight
and height and find the unspeakable joy of understanding prayer from one who
know how to talk the God the Father in the strength of God the Holy Spirit and
over the fact of being the beloved son of God with Whom God is well
pleased. The Psalms are
delicious as milk, but at this time of my life my taste is for solid food. The
LordÕs Prayer is solid food as the stake that I just put out to defrost to eat
it tonight. ÒThis,
then, is how you should pray: ÒÔOur
Father in heaven, your
kingdom come, The intention is to accelerate the return of the
kingdom of God in our generation convinced that it is the will of God to return
on earth and see to it that his will is done as in heaven. (Let me express this
in a common language with your permission: ÒGod is dying to return for his own
to earth; in fact he died already for that to happen and we are not
ÒcoincidingÓ with his will and not praying loud enough for his kingdom to come
and his will be done fully in our generation). Jesus is not coming until we cry out loud in
prayer as if life would depend on it. We are by Faith to take
Jesus at his Word and agree by Prayer with God according to his will as
revealed in the Word of God. This has bee clearly stated in the "Lord's
Prayer." The special focus will be on "Your Kingdom come, and your
will be done on Earth as in heavenÓ. YES. Ò Again I say to you, if
two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by
my Father in heaven. Where two or three gather in my name, there am I with
themÓ Matthew
18:19-20. In times of drought when the grass was dry and
hunger and thirst brought death to animal and threatened life on earth,
Toddlers and Tykes of many societies are called by their parents out of their
houses to pray every night a single Prayer out in the streets in a loud voice
in total agreement: "Lord have mercy on
us. Lord have mercy on us. Lord have mercy on usÓ!! From sunset to evening we cry out until
our voices died down or the rain came down. In our ever growing and over organized society
of today, security rests in the false shaky foundation of what
"Organization" provides. It is beautiful to see skyscrapers
being built all over the world. Whether they are motivated by pride or necessity, it does not matter as
much as one who builds the visible world must remember that the seed of
destruction of each building is within the building and that is it's own
height, weight and pressure. There is more to security that what meets the
eye. The kind of iron we use or the percentage of cement mix we use is important, but it will never stands the test of time. All we see with our
eyes now will be destroyed in a matter of years. That is the common destiny of the seen world
that is subject to the laws of physics such as universal gravitation, gravity,
inertia, thermodynamics, attraction and repulsion to mention a few. Reality is formed by two components, one is
material and visible and the other is spiritual and invisible to the senses.
Therefore, God who is the author of all creation runs the physical world by
Physical Laws such as the Law of relativity as expressed by Albert Einstein in
his equation of E=MC2. The knowledge that Energy is equal to Mass and
that constant
and reliable speed of light properly understood and believed, made man able of harnessing the power of matter
that once properly
unleashed came to be known as the powerful Atomic bomb that later generated
another greater force
that came to be known as the hydrogen bomb. One applied the principle of
explosion and the other the principle of implosion. Let it be known that the Atomic Bomb was one of
the many applications of EinsteinÕs equation. The bulk of its application is
known as the cyber-revolution. Without EinsteinÕs equation, there could be no
GPS, no Internet, and no instrument flying, rocket science, cell phones, computers etc. Therefore, it should not be strange to assume
that God governs the Spiritual world with equally precise and reliable laws
more exact than the speed of light. Such speed may at times experience a
small variation in its speed according to the thickness of the Ethereal nature of the universe, the density
of the atmosphere or the depth of the ocean and darkness; but not so with the will and word of God. The natural consequence of this reasoning has
led me to conclude that there is such a law that if applied at present time
among the believers is equivalent to the power of TNT Dynamite, but TNT in a
cosmic war is a game of hit and miss. Therefore the enemy is laughing in the
valley mocking the armies of the Lord of hosts. There is power available for our Spiritual
warfare that the other super power cannot duplicate. We have been waging war
with primitive weapons and are guilty of the weak use of the power of prayer
entrusted to us by Jesus who holds all Authority and Power. There is Power to him who comes to Jesus and takes
Jesus at his word in a child-like manner and agrees with God in Prayer and settles for the
ever-prevailing will of God as revealed in the Word of God. Therefore, itÕs my Joy and privilege to
introduce to you F=PW2. This is to say that Faith is equal to Prayer
under the Will of God according to the Word of God that leads men into alignment
with God whereby finally and at last a man is able to say the only Prayer worth
GodÕs ears. ÒYESÓ. Doug Coe spoke all his life about the small groups
principle. Jesus, Lenin, Mao and I practiced the no less than tree or more than
seven small group principle to mobilize young people fast. While Marx and Engels launch the Communist
Manifesto of 1848 under the call ÒWorkers of all Land Unite.Ó I launch my New
Manifesto of the Followers of Jesus by faith under the LordÕs Prayer to be
united to God in the agreement of Prayer according to the will and the word of
God. This is clearly expressed in the equation of F=PW2. ********************** Introduction to the ÒYESÓ book, through
the equation of F = PW2. Faith equals Prayer under the
Will and Word of God. At the risk of sounding simplistic, let me
be a child-like teacher to illustrate my point. ÒAll things are understandable when we go back to its Genesis or basics. The deepest ocean is only more of the
shallow found at the edge of a sleepy, sandy beach where Toddlers play care
freeÓ. Let us harness some concepts: Let
us look at the unseen world. Consider the word ÒTrinityÓ: If God the Father is equal to God the Son. God the Son is equal to God the Holy
Spirit. Then God the Holy Spirit is equal to God
the Father. Therefore God is one and three at the same
time. That is to say, A=B B= C C=A Now let us look at the seen world. Consider the word ÒExistenceÓ: Time, Space, Matter and Movement
makes up the term Existence. Take away anyone from the rest and you
will destroy the term ÒexistenceÓ. In order for something to exist it has to
be sometime ago, somewhere, something, somehow. For something to exist, it had
to have start in time, be placed in a space in a period of time and can only be
manifested or known as it moves. In other words, if something exists we know
because it moves; if it does not move, it does not exist. In the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now
the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of
the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the
waters. ( Genesis
1:1-2) Now let us harness a formula so practical
in everyday life; S x T = D. Speed multiplied by Time = Distance. Distance divided by Time = Speed. Distance divided by Speed = Time. For example, I do not need to go to the
sun with my measuring tape to know the distance between the earth and the
sun. All I have to do is to apply the equation S x T = D: Speed times Time equal Distance. The constant speed of light is 300,000
kilometers per second or 180,000 miles per second. Multiply the speed of light
by the number of seconds it takes for light to reach earth and that will result
is the distance between the sun and the earth. So 300,000 kilometers per second,
multiplied by 497 seconds equals to 1.491,000,000 kilometers. Or 180,000 miles
per second times 497 seconds equals to 89,460,000 miles. Thus, Albert Einstein launched his
equation of E = MC2 based on the reliable constant speed of light discovered
and ratified after a total solar eclipse in Australia. Einstein came to the
understanding of the nature of Matter and Energy as equal combining the
constant speed of light being the same everywhere and every time. He launched
his formula and brought about the Cyber Revolution that left the world to never
be the same again. Since then humankind is able to launch a
missile or a spacecraft and deliver its cargo far away with a pinpoint
accuracy. Thanks to the application of the equation E = MC2 to modern science,
we now have GPS, Internet, cell phones, wireless technology, atomic and
hydrogen bombs and much more. Once a man understands the macro cosmos in
the micro cosmos, he can handle his meso cosmos. We
do not belong to the worlds infinitely large. Neither do we
belong to the worlds infinitely small. We belong to a world
in between that is the mesocosmic world,
like Mesopotamia was a city between two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates.
We also are in the middle of two worlds. The need of one of the cells in my body is
basically the same need of every one of my billions of cells in my body. This
need plus my knowledge of a personal, infinite and eternal creator God puts me in
the position to serve the one cell who wants to live not only in his
insignificant microscopic world of today in its limited dimensions, but in
relation to the greater world of macrocosmic dimensions. It is as if every one
of our cells has eternity in their hearts as something to aspire to. Just as the complexity of the bottom of
the ocean is made plain at the edge of the shallow, sleepy white sandy beach,
so does the deep, deep truth of the love of God in Jesus become clearly
understood with the help of the Holy Spirit in the reliable constant Word and
will of God revealed to us in Scripture when taking Jesus at his word in a
child like manner. Albert Einstein understood the physical
world and was able to harness it in a helpful equation that transformed his
world and ours. That was E=MC2. Once you harness you can unleash. Once you understand you can apply. Once you have a key you can open. Once you find you can use. Once you gain you can spend. Once you are armed you can fight. All things are better understood by going
back to its basics. Matter is understood when you go back to the atom. A believer can only walk straight as he
goes back to his First Love again and again. Progress in the believer is only
possible when he goes back to Jesus to begin again and again in him. (That was
the motto of the Reformers also). The following equation does not pretend to
reduce our belief to a formula as some may think at first glance. It is an
exciting discovery of an individual after a lifetime of agonizing search to
understand the mystery of Faith and prayer. When I was just over a year old my grandma
did not want me to be like others who stuttered, so she taught me to speak
properly by repeating after her the ÒLordÕs Prayer.Ó Even though I prayed the LordÕs Prayer
literally all my life, I confess that it was my biggest problem to understand
only second to the existence of God. I came to the point of hating prayer
meeting and my own prayers for being powerless and ineffective. I could not reconcile how an immutable and
unchangeable God who knows and controls the end from the beginning could change
just because I pray a few words. To make things worse, ÒThe South praying for
the destruction of the North and the North praying for the destruction of the South
at the same time to the same GodÓ (Abraham Lincoln). I could not accept the idea of a God
taking notes like a waitress at the requests of billons at the same time. Let
alone the crying babies in Ethiopia and India competing with eloquent prayers
of the professional prayer warriors of all the religions of the world. It could not be all about us, it has to be
all about God. That much I seemed to accept and understand for my private life,
but I am not alone in this world. Whatever I cook it has to be for the common
good. It took the sickness and death of my wife
Ruthie to finally understand prayer and its relationship with faith and the
will of God that prevails in a sovereign and immutably predestined way,
according to the unchangeable and reliable Word of God, to finally surrender
and grasp Prayer. It is us who have to change and must
change and come into alignment with God through Faith and Prayer according the
will of God stated in scripture. There is no room in the universe for more
than one will. The will of God will and must prevail regardless of any
secondary causes. Let me first introduce to you our working
terms and definitions: Faith = ÒTaking Jesus at his
wordÓ. Prayer = ÒAgreeing with God.Ó Will of God = ÒThe only thing that ultimately
prevails.Ó Word of God = ÒUnchangeable constant more
reliable than speed of light. This is stated in the equation F
= PW2. Our God, who does not mind to be compared
with a chicken, yet he is will not accommodate himself to the desire of every egg
in the nest. It is us who must accommodate ourselves under the chicken if we
want to be hatched to wholeness in our understanding of Faith and Prayer and
the will and Word of God. These components must go together at all
times to obtain the desired objective. That objective is alignment with
God, where a man at last no longer lives but Christ in him as the hope
of glory. This truth will not only wake us up and
change the world and make it a better place; NO! Our
desire is to accelerate with our oneness in prayer with God the coming of the
Kingdom of God that he so desires and taught us to pray. ÒYour Kingdom come and
your will be doneÓ. The following document ÒThe New Manifesto
of the Followers of JesusÓ has as its heart ÒThe LordÕs PrayerÓ as the
foundational principle. Yes! ÒLet
us prayÓ. We will make out of the LordÕs Prayer our
Constitution, Our pledge of Allegiance, our National anthem, Our Shorter and
larger Catechism, Our Confession of Faith, our Thesis, our Charter and
Statement of faith, our Policy and Platform with a laser focus in claiming,
ÒYour kingdom come and your will be done on earth as in heavenÓ. ********************** Introduction
to the ÒYESÓ book through Personal Testimony. This was my first Prayer as a new follower
of Jesus. Forty-six years
ago I surrendered to God and said, ÒTALK TO ME, LORDÓ. ÒTalk to me Lord
God in the name of Jesus. I need to understand the definition of existence from
your Scripture.Ó So I opened the
Bible heroically and went seeking the answer to my question Who Am I? Where do
I come from? What am I doing here? Where am I going? And when I get there,
where shall I be? I was hoping to find it in the first book, in the first
chapter and in the first verse. Sure enough, there
it was in the book of Genesis Chapter one verses one and two. Beautifully put
together, magisterially expressed in a few words clearly defined that which all
worldviews require from its beginning to explain anything that had to do with
the word ÒexistenceÓ. If something
exists it must have begun sometime ago, somewhere, somehow. That is to say that
you have to have these four elements that give us the definition of existence. WhatÕs more is
that these four elements must have appeared in its primitive stage at the same
Nano second, at the same moment and the lack of one of these elements would
make it impossible for the others to make any sense. These elements are: Time,
Space, Matter and Movement. In Genesis
chapter one, verses one and two I found the foundational cornerstone of GodÕs
equation or formula for existence. ÒIn the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth and the spirit of God moved over the watersÓ. This verse explains
succinctly all about existence. God = author of creation. Time = in the beginning God created. Space = the heavens. Matter = the earth and the planets. Movement = the spirit, motion over the
waters. It was these
words that made me conclude that the Scriptures are the words of the Creator of
the universe, who as its author gives us an account of the history of his
creation. ÒThis is the book
of GodÓ ÒNo man could
have written it.Ó ÒThe nature of
the book was out of this worldÓ My freshly left
secular view of existence shook hands with the truth and its author on the
peaceful grounds of scripture. Ever since then, my life became a constant
dating with God at the cool of the day every morning and night drinking to my
hearts contentment all I needed personally from the sweet voice of God. Every
serious student must know as the cornerstone of his every thought that God in
Jesus created the world in six day and he is the author of existence in a
blinking of and eye. My thinking has
developed in the bedrock of Genesis with God as the Author of creation and only
then everything else began to make sense. When I came off age as a believer, I
decided to stop chewing with someone elseÕs dentures. I was determine to chew
with my own teeth with the help of the Holy SpiritÕs guidance as my teacher,
comforter, counselor, help-meet and leader into all truth and reminder of all
truth and the real speaker of what I say when I find myself before the power
brokers of the world. I put aside every
book written by man and I subversively focused on Scripture and journaling
every thing that seem to be insights and pearls of wisdom reached in a
childlike investigation of the mind of Jesus. Twenty Bibles now compose my
library and over one hundred Journals written with pen and ink provided by
those in whose eyes God has given me grace and favor. ********************** Introduction to the YES book as opposition to the Fifth Gospel. I am pursuing to
write the unedited version of the four Gospels of Jesus by taking Jesus at his
word until I call it ÒMy GospelÓ. I wanted to die
for something of worth, such as ÒMy GospelÓ and not for the ÒFifth
GospelÓ, which is everything about the Gospels but not the whole and only
Gospel I needed to hear from God. I found the Fifth Gospel not worth dying for. By all
of this I do not mean that everybody is conspiring against me to only
speak fragments of the supernatural with more water than milk and very little
solid food. To me going back to Jesus alone is ÒSolid FoodÓ and any other
teaching is milk, or whimsically speaking, ÒGerberÕs Confession of FaithÓ (Baby
food). Let us express
Genesis 1:1-2 in other words; Someone = God pre-existent. Some time ago = time. Somewhere = space. Something = matter. Somehow = movement. Because of
someone, who is God, in a split second created existence, as we know it and
began with the four inseparable elements out of nothing. ÒEx nihiloÓ Existence as we
know it had a beginning and therefore will have an end. Secular
Scientists affirm that matter cannot be created or destroyed, but only
transformed. Apart from Genesis 1:1-2, we could say that, this could be as good
as any other explanation and may even be able to sleep the sleep of the
ignorant worm. It should be safe
to say that in the plains of eternity and the infinite, space and time are
nothing but a bump and a pothole soon to be level again in the second coming of
Jesus to usher us back to the infinite and eternal from where we come from. How could this be
explained? Even though the
universe existed as the creation of God, it is equivalent to a residence where
the Eternal stepped in for a short period of time. Man was formed
from the dust of the ground as lifeless as any pile of dirt anywhere in the
world. Just part of the created and visible and as space temporal matter. It is to this
house called body that the invisible God blew life into his nostrils and the
body became a living being. That body of dust
became what we call now man. This man called
Adam became a living being of two natures. The first one is material, visible
and as such finite, limited and mortal. The second nature of man is not created
but pre-existent, invisible and as such, infinite, eternal and immortal. Now it is fair to
ask the question, ÒIf we are eternal, where were we before the foundation of
the world? We were in the
mind of God who by the power of his Word made us what we never were for a
period of time in space with movement as material beings. But the body as we
know it, at death, goes to the dust where it came from and the spirit goes back
to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:7 Òand the dust returns to the ground it
came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave itÓ. The Lord our God,
the Lord is one. He alone is the ÒI am that I amÓ, as such we derive our
temporal existence from God, for there is no other God but the Lord our God. We therefore are
from God, of God and for God, created to be loved and to love. God is sovereign
and under his sovereign will we live immutable, predestined destinies in
infallible and unchangeable ways where the apparent freedom we seem to enjoy is
equivalent to the freedom of a passenger inside a large airplane or an gigantic cruise liner on the high sea. This personal,
omnipotent and omniscient God is the architect of the visible as well as the
invisible world. God is building a
kingdom for himself and by virtue of his attributes he has planned a perfect
kingdom where there will be not a single brick missing or a single brick too
many. The nature of
existence in creation is the reflection of the glory of God and his perfection.
God put the laws of nature for man to discover by revelation so he may live as
he was meant to live, to glorify God by subjugating creation. God created man
with a mind, and the function of the mind is to think thoughts. As the mind
thinks thoughts, it discovers laws such as gravity, universal gravitation,
relativity, hydraulics and so on. At the same time he discovers Spiritual Laws
to be used in coming into alignment with God, which is the chief end of God
through revelations. Some of these
laws are sovereignly revealed by God to man sometimes as he peaceably sits
under the apple tree like Isaac Newton or as actively searching the sky on a
cloudless night with the help of a telescope like Galileo or Copernicus. And
this is part of his common grace just as the rain falls over the righteous as
well as the wicked. Some of GodÕs
spiritual laws are discovered by man through special grace as a result of the
special revelation and work of Jesus on the cross for the purpose of salvation
and the others for the purpose of sanctification, but all for the common good
and the glory of God. One of GodÕs known pleasures is to hide and reveal things
that eyes have not seen and ears have not heard that he kept for those who love
him and believe in him in a child-like manner. The Gospel of God
was given clearly in the person of Jesus Christ, and when faithfully preached
draws people to Jesus and to salvation. But for the purpose of sanctification
and glorification, God has predestined, elected, chosen and called few of his
followers to transform the world with the mind of Jesus by doing greater things
promised to them that love him and take Jesus at his word. Men of God are
adopted and endowed with special gifts to be used for the common good of the
body. These men are the guardians of the good doctrines and the drafters of
creeds and confessions of faith and insights of wisdom and revelation. Their
ultimate desire is or should always be to bring people into alignment and unity
with God and his sovereign will. Spiritual or
physical laws are not created but discovered, as God in his own time is pleased
to open the understanding of man for the good of the others by bringing them
into alignment with God. Just as the
equation of Albert EinsteinÕs E=MC2 is rooted in the understanding of one, so
is our equation F= PW2 is rooted in the same principal that the undivided
principals and faithful application in the real life of the believer will give
him the knowledge of harnessing and unleashing incredible power for the service
of God as king in his kingdom as he meant it to be. ÒFor the kingdom of
God is not a matter of words but of powerÓ. Without the
practice and display of power the kingdom work will remain in the natural
realm. By this I mean for example, my mindset as I go to church on Sundays: I
am in search of hearing the pleasant tune of the supernatural like a fiber of
the cotton in a medicine bottle that will allow me with the help of the Holy
Spirit to twist and twist until I am able to pull all the cotton out and enjoy
the content of the bottle. Believers are
called to live supernatural lives in the most natural way. If we want to
see the power of God in our life of service to the Lord, we must do it his way
with his requirements and conditions to the letter. Faith plus prayer
plus will of God that prevails plus word of God as the only reliable point of
reference, more precise than the speed of light, must go together hand in hand
or else it will be futile. (Like Time, Space, Matter and Movement are one unity).
There are things that are meant to walk and stay together by divine design. Take any of the
four elements out and power is non-existent. Lets redefined them again: Faith = must take God at his
word. Prayer = must agree with God. Will = must accept the prevailing will of God. Word = must be led by the mind of Jesus. When one accepts
all these things he is in condition to call one, two or three to agree together
and pray, thus putting all things a prayer away. Jesus
says, "wherever two or three are gathered together in my name, I am
in their midst. You may ask anything in agreement according to my will and it
will be given to them. Nothing is impossible to him who believes." If the principle
expressed in the equation does not work when faithfully applied, I myself will
provide the stones to be stoned. This ÒYESÓ principle properly applied should
harness the spiritual forces that once unleashed by a life in alignment with
God will result in an unimaginable power that has always been within reach but
seldom dared to use. So before our Lord finds us making weak use of his power
at his return, let us Pray together in agreement, knowing that Jesus himself is
eager to return, but the matching desire from manÕs part is lukewarm at best
and many times non-existent. Beware; there is
no such a thing as making God do things as a result of Prayer. Prayer will only
bring us into alignment with God and it is us who will end up doing GodÕs
things, which are supernaturally being done in the most natural way. The only answer
worth GodÕs ears is ÒYESÓ and the extended version is the LordÕs Prayer. And the strong prayer in the Garden where Jesus said, ÒYESÓ to the
FatherÕs will in different words. God has spoken and the answers have
been given and are stored in the ÒLay awayÓ ready to be claimed as we say,
ÒYESÓ unconditionally. ********************** ÒGod Runs His Creation Through Laws" "Harness
It." Energy is equal to mass
and the constant is the speed of light. Faith is equal to Prayer
and the constant is the will and word of god. E=Mc2 F=Pw2 Harnessing the
Physical Laws leads to the management of the seen world. E=Mc2 ÒUnderstanding is
PowerÓ EinsteinÕs equation of E=Mc2 killed the
Industrial Revolution. The Law expressed in E=Mc2 gave
birth to the Cyber Revolution.
Galileo Copernicus Newton
Einstein Harnessing the
Spiritual Laws can lead to the understanding of the unseen world. F=Pw2 ÒUnderstanding is
PowerÓ. Our equation of
F=Pw2 is the untapped source of limitless power. The Law expressed in
F=Pw2 can accelerate the second coming. Early
Church
Middle Age Obscurantism
Reform
Movement
Awakening and Second coming!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The speed of light is a constant and that in physics looks the
same as in all frames of reference. E=Mc2 A hunk of material of any kind was full of or with enormous
quantities of energy that you could release it if only you could harness it
first. Einstein or anyone did not create the truths of these laws. Laws
are discovered, not made or created. It is like the duck that meets the bullet. It just happens that
the Duck was flying in the path of the bullet or the bullet was on the path of
the Duck. A discovery is the reward of the one who is in the right
predisposition who happens to be in the right place and the right time to see
as for a brief moment a rainbow-like sighting of an experience that leaves more
than a memory on the observer.
"A LawÓ "A Pattern" "A ConstantÓ ÒA Point of
referenceÓ ÒAn
ancient boundaryÓ ÒAn immutable markÓ "A reliable
source" "A principle
that works just as well, and exactly in the same way under the sun, as well as
behind the sun." In short, as an unquestionable beacon that works in the
same way, every time, anywhere, with anyone with the same predictable result. Here is a reasonable use of an oxymoron:
ÒPhysical laws are complicatedly simple" once you discover the angle from
where you did not look before. The key usefulness of the Law is that if
you believe and submit to its principle; its benefits are greater than
previously imagined.
How so? I am glad that you asked; I will tell you how helpful these laws are:
ÒYou can know confidently the end of what you are doing from the beginning.Ó The
Laws of Nature make predictable the work of our hands. The application of
the Laws of aerodynamics plus E=Mc2 can help you to hit a mark
thousands of miles away with pinpoint accuracy. To hit a target is no
longer for one who has good eyesight and steady hands as a sniper. A scientist
with a heavy pair of glasses like the bottom of a wine bottle and trembling
hands can defeat the sharpest sniper just by applying the Laws of Physics to an
apparatus that launches a projectile or a missile or a shuttle or a rocket to
its desired objective effectiblely. The
mechanical movement gave birth to the Industrial Revolution, but the Physical
movement gave birth to the Cyber Revolution, the latter being superior to the
former. In the same way the Laws that govern the unseen world are not
created the moment we discover them. They are only revealed in the
moment that by the Sovereign Grace of God we are entrusted with a glimpse into
the Holy of Holies long enough to hear God the Father telling us, ÒWho shall Go
for usÓ or ÒListen to Jesus.Ó Such a command from God the Father Himself awakens in us
the Power to finally and freshly hear that which we always knew and was near
and dear to our hearts, souls, strengths, and minds. What is that specifically? That is hearing the Word of God
and knowing His will and taking God at His Word. That is faith that comes from hearing, which leads us to pray in
Òagreement with GodÓ and living under the infallible, constant Will of God that
prevails always, which is clearly revealed in the Word of God, to the ÒTarget,
which is a life in alignment with God at last.Ó F=Pw2 Faith = ÒTaking God at His WordÓ Prayer = ÒAgreeing with GodÓ Will = ÒThe desires of God that will prevail ultimatelyÓ Word = ÒThe infallible, immutable, unchangeable, reliable
ScriptureÓ. F=Pw2 Faith = Prayer, Will & Word.
If we accept the Law of God harnessed on this equation and apply it to our
daily lives, we will discover the immense power and energy there is in faith
and prayer because it is the prevailing will of God revealed in the Word of
God.
The wagon of our confession of faith is packed and ready to conquer the West as
well as the Far East. The horses are in front of the Cart, but the trip is so
painfully slow. Could it be that out of the twelve horses only half are doing
most of the pulling and the rest are just along for the ride? Humbly
and respectfully I ask my mother, the Church, if we have harnessed the rest of
the horses right. Is the break off? Is the whip swift over the front horses? Is
the cart overloaded with unnecessary burdens? Are we fighting unnecessary wars
to which we have not been called? The Trip Master promised by Jesus in the
person of the Holy Spirit has already come! Is he in Charge?
Power from on high has been delivered. ÒLET THE WAGONS ROLL!! YOU SHALL BE MY
WITNESSESS TO THE END OF THE EARTH!Ó has been clearly heard. We are travelers with our young, and our old.
We are traveling with our pots and pans. Our weapons are defensive weapons. A
traveler is not a commando unit. When under attack we circle our wagons and
resist. We seek to prevail by surviving. Ours is not an armor car full of SWAT
snipers heavily armed. Our desire is to arrive to the edge of our Jordan River
as soon as we can if possible before nightfall losing none along the way. We
have a promised land to reach.
F=Pw2 This equation
applied to our lives as believers of Jesus will be more precise than even E=Mc2. It
will work anytime, anywhere and with anybody with the same exact result and
blessing of knowing the end from the beginning. It will speed the work of
our hands by putting everything a prayer away and lead us to new heights for
the glory of the Most High God whose Will will be
finally done as it is in heaven. This is truly Òseeking first the Kingdom of
God and His righteousness and all other things will be added unto us.Ó In
other words, this equation knows GodÕs will as revealed in Scripture and taking
God at His Word and praying in agreement with God in a life of alignment with
God. We will no longer live but God in Us.
F=Pw2 You may have noticed that Albert Einstein and I are
similar. He and I are from foreign countries, we both speak English with
heavy accents, we both are naturalized American citizens, and we both are very
smart. Well . . . three out of four is not that bad . . . is it?
(Humor) Even
though I call us Albert Gutierrez and Gerry Einstein, neither of us has created
any Law on our equations. It was there, waiting to be discovered.
It is like the American Revolution; the desire to fight for Freedom was in
everyoneÕs heart. The prairie was bone dry after the hot summer of many
years of oppression. It needed only a spark to light the whole prairie. Remember that there is only one Revolutionary,
and that is Jesus. The rest of us are only Reformers. A reformer is
like the maintenance man of a wax museum who at the end of the summer returns
the sharp shape of the wax statues by re-forming only. Never
adding wax or subtracting wax. That would be considered
unfaithfulness to the original author or the maker of the statues.
Many believe in education and instruction and training as the means to become
intellectual elite who is in the business of saying things never spoken or writing
things never written or thinking things never thought. But the expressed will of Jesus is more than instruction. ItÕs
teaching people to obey; to obey everything Jesus taught them. It is to
live Christ with the view of death as gain. It is to obey that which we
already know, such as the great commandment expressed in the Golden Rule, the
Ten Commandments, the LordÕs Prayer. ÒProgress in Christianity is beginning again
and again in Jesus and his GospelsÓ (the view of the Reformers). ItÕs going back
to Jesus and His church of 2000 years ago where believers took Jesus at His
word - ÒFÓ Faith; where believers ÒPÓ prayed agreeing with God, and they knew
from ÒW2Ó that the Will of God was the only thing that prevails every time,
every where. And the infallible Word of God that is more constant and reliable
than the speed of light.
F=Pw2 Heaven and earth will pass away, but the Word of God shall
never pass away. Time and space will be swallowed by the eternal and
infinite. The seen world will come to an end. E=Mc2 will
be no more, but F=Pw2, the Will and the Word of God will go on
forever. ÒThe Kingdom of God is
not a matter of words, but Power.Ó
All power and authority has been given to Jesus. If we are to do the work
of the King and His Kingdom, we need power. Faith, Prayer, the Will and
Word of God, F=Pw2equal to Power.
The Gospel according to God the Father is stated in John 17:5-6, ÒThis is My
Son, Whom I love, In Him I am well please. Listen to Him.Ó When God says, ÒThis is
My Son,Ó take God at His word. That is Faith ÒF.Ó ÒWhom I love.Ó Pray
through and in agreement with Jesus. That is Prayer ÒPÓ ÒIn Him I am well
pleased.Ó That is the will of God satisfied. ÒListen to Him.Ó
That is the Word of God that changes not. Faith = Prayer + Will and
Word that prevails and endures forever. F=Pw2 This Gospel is
clear, short, pure and irresistible.
When Jesus teaches men to pray, He said, ÒThis is how you should pray. Repeat
after me: ÒOur Father in
HeavenÓ You must take Jesus
at His word and only then is God your Father in Heaven. That is
Faith in God through Jesus. ÒFÓ – Faith. ÒHallowed be your
name.Ó
The greatest content of The LordÕs Prayer is Òagreeing with GodÓ for what His
name stands. The chief end of man is to love, hallow, consecrate, bless,
revere, respect, deify, and sanctify the name of God. Rejoicing always,
praying continuously and giving thanks in all circumstances for that is the
will of God for us in Christ Jesus. To glorify the name of the Father was the
chief end of Jesus and so must be ours. ÒPrayer is to agree
with God.Ó
Then Jesus says, ÒYour Kingdom come.Ó The Word of God is all about the
King and His Kingdom. ÒYour
will be done on Earth as in Heaven.Ó
There is no room on Earth or in Heaven but for the will of God that will always endure and prevail forever. ÒFÓ
Faith is to believe in God through Jesus.
ÒPÓ Prayer is to agree with Jesus.
ÒWÓ The Will of God will
prevail on Earth as in Heaven. ÒWÓ The Word of God is
about the infallible absolutes. F=Pw2
When you cannot understand the macrocosms (this is the infinitely large
worlds), you must go to the microcosms (the infinitely small worlds) to draw
your theories by comparison. We do not belong to the infinitely large
worlds; nor do we belong to the infinitely small worlds. We belong to the
world in between, to the Mesocosmic world, like
Mesopotamia was a city between two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates.
We are like the man in the gap with one foot on holy ground and the other foot
in the world.
A better and much cleaner illustration should be that of being
adolescents. We are not boys anymore, nor are we adults either.
An adolescent is someone who wants to be what he is not yet and
dislikes what he used to be and can no longer be. Humans by virtue of their
nature and size are on the one hand at an advantage over the microscopic world
but in disadvantage to the macroscopic world but have the better of the two
worlds. They are like Missionary Kids (MK) or Third culture Kids. They belong
to two cultures. Man has the advantage to reflect from the center stage of the
playhouse. In
our quest for power to control our destiny and the destiny of others and our
circumstances, we have been led to discover Laws. Notice
the word is ÒdiscoverÓ and not create. To discover is just to
uncover something that was previously covered. It is like the discovery
of America. The fact that on the 12th of October 1492
Christopher Columbus discovered America did not mean that he created America.
He just found something which was previously in existence already; like the gold rush was just the discovery of the place
where there was gold. ItÕs the same with the discovery of the Law of
Relativity and Motion of the entire material world in relation to other
celestial bodies. Laws teach us only how reality works and
recommends what not to do. In a way, itÕs as simple as the lesson of not
breathing until you pop your head out of the water. When
the power of the splitting of the atom was discovered, men made the atomic
bomb. Einstein with his equation E=Mc2 become the father
of the atomic bomb. We can say that there is power in discovering
Laws. It helps man to alter the future on the basis of the Constant and
Reliable Nature of the Law that will predict the same result anywhere and all
the time if the principles of the Law are properly applied.
For example, I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous
forsaken or his children begging for bread. There is more to prayer than what
meets the eye. Some get amazed of how prayer makes things happen. In reality
prayer is the only thing that works. I hope that some of these things
challenge the thinkers of thoughts, but before you throw the fresh egg out of the
nest, would you consider accommodating yourself over the eggs and hatch them
for a while along with your other eggs? Give the benefit of the doubt because
some chickens are hatching wrought on eggs and some perfectly good eggs have a
dead chicken sitting on them. (Ortis). Consider my testimony, I have experienced that
my flower and oil do not diminish even though I shared what I thought to be the
next to the last meal. In the same way, to discover the Spiritual
Laws that govern the spiritual world will definitely be of benefit to those who
harness these Laws and apply it properly in their lives. F=Pw2
This Law discovered and not created, if applied properly, should be able to
help the follower of Jesus to exercise tremendous power in the service of the
Lord. This Law will lead believers to live supernatural lives in the most
natural way to the point that the listener-observer will irresistibly be
attracted to Jesus of whom God the Father has said: ÒListen to Jesus!Ó To listen is to lift up Jesus who said, ÒIf you lift me
up, I will draw all men unto myself.Ó The proper definition of Evangelism is
ÒTo lift up Jesus, and he will draw all men unto himself.Ó You may ask, ÒIsnÕt
Evangelism the conversion of a sinner into a saint?Ó Yes, and you are right,
but do not forget that ÒConversionÓ is a miracle. And miracles are works of
God. Only God can do miracles. There is only one God and you are not him.
Then you may say, ÒI am an evangelist and I have led many to the Lord JesusÓ.
That is true and right as long as you remember the servant of the wedding of
Canaan who by the command of Jesus filled the empty jars of the ceremonial
washing and did not even know what they were doing but just obeyed. You too
will never be more useful to God than when you just obey. Just LEAD people to
Jesus by lifting the name of Jesus in Prayer. To trust in prayer will deliver
you of the burden of results. It is then and only then that the water
becomes wine and the sinner becomes a saint and this not from you but by the
transforming power of God who as the creator of the universe has the right and
power to alter the Laws of nature according to his immutable and ever
prevailing will that it come to pass unavoidably to fulfill the predestined
destiny of the elect. It is all about the Savior who came to
seek and save that which was lost, and once he finds them, he gives them the
honorable gift of instrumentality to go and call others in Jesus name as to the
blind man by the side of the road saying, ÒCome Jesus is calling youÓ. What are evangelists but servants as Phillip
on a desert road walking in agreement with the Holy Spirit and becoming and
instrument of God to lead but not to convert a soul? And once the man meets the
master there is no need for a servant. The Ethiopian Eunuch went on his way
rejoicing, praying and given thanks to God. The glamour in evangelism is in the
obedience of the evangelist who is led by the Holy Spirit to lead another to
the Lord. Therefore obedience should be defined as agreeing with God who makes
a life of a servant ÒA PrayerÓ. The ground and the seed are nothing; neither
are the sower or the waterer, but God who gives
growth. ÒYours is the kingdom and the power and (therefore) the glory forever
and ever amen.Ó Evangelism is the way God chose to build his
kingdom. As John Stott said, ÒThe greatest Evangelist of all times is God
himself who through the Power of his word is evangelizing the world. Without
the word of God it is not only impossible but inconceivable to evangelize the
worldÓ. The work of evangelism is the work of God, who is ÒRe-creatingÓ by the
same powerful word for creation. You may ask, what is the big deal about
the ÒWord of GodÓ? Thank you for asking. Because we know that everybody is
talking words everywhere eloquently and promising to build heaven on Earth.
There is only one problem and that is, it is not happening. Man cannot keep his
word. In order to keep your word you have to have power. A creatorÕs power can
truly transform the world. Men do not have that power. To make matters worse,
the kingdom of God is not a matter of words but of Power. It is said that a group of top
scientists challenged God to see who could create a better man than the one in
existence. It is said that God accepted the challenge with only one proviso:
ÒBring your own dirtÓ. History is full of such men of Ògrandiose ideasÓ and no
results. Marx and Engel wanted to change the
world through their ÒCommunist ManifestoÓ. Their Slogan was ÒWorkers of all
Lands UniteÓ. They believed in unity and change on the basis of their ideology
and their own name. That is why the movement was called Marxism and later
Leninism and Maoism. ÒOur Munich Manifesto of the Follower of Jesus 2012Ó
does not call the worker of all lands to unite, nor does it pursue change only
as Marx did. Our manifesto recognizes the unity already
purchased by Jesus in the cross as our received inheritance on the Cross. We
are free people to live that unity in obedience to the Gospel according to God
the Father who said, ÒThis is My Son whom I love. In Him I am well
pleased. Listen to Him.Ó
It is our intention to take God the Father at His Word and listen to Jesus by
obedience and not only ÒchangeÓ as the ambition of Marx was. Our goal is to be transfigured by the Divine life of God in us
to the point that people will scratch their heads in disbelief saying, ÒHow
could they have such knowledge without having been educated?Ó The true witness
of a believer is a life in alignment with God. We want the whole World to know that there is Knowledge that
comes not from education, information, or instruction primarily but from being
with Jesus. We want the world to answer their rhetorical question with the same
answer as those in the time of Jesus: ÒThey noticed that they were with
JesusÓ. We long for believers to remember their rich heritage and live
as royalty and invested with power and not as beggars in the service of the
king and his kingdom.
Our desire is to take God the Father at His Word and pray in agreement with
Jesus and abide by the constant and unchangeable will of God revealed in the
Word of God. F=Pw2
Faith is equal to Prayer under the constant Will and Word of God that endures
and prevails always. We indict ourselves as the church of Jesus and plead
guilty for the weak use of the power of God entrusted to us in the Holy Spirit
and take complete responsibility for our spiritual health as unacceptable
before a holy, pure, perfect, immaculate God. We cry out with Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and
the prophets of old for a fresh return to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Furthermore, we believe the early church not to be an infantile or immature
church, but just right before the Theological hooligans painted their graffiti
on the wall of the church of Jesus making the House of Prayer a den of
robbers. There is Power without limit if we only apply
the equation F=Pw2 in our lives in a child-like manner. All things will
be a prayer away. The wagon will arrive safely and its occupants.
First things first: F=Pw2. In the Fear of the Lord, Gerry Gutierrez (Second attempt to launch The New manifesto of the
followers of Jesus. The fist attempt was done in Munich Germany on December
2012 after brief visit to the tomb of Carl Marx in London.) ********************** Kathmandu,
Nepal, India. September 01 2014. Since I left Mission to the World as a
retired missionary, I have been going around the world like an arsonist to
light up the prairie in the conviction that you only need a spark to start a
fire. So far fear and forces beyond my
capacity to overcome alone has kept me silent. Not Today: I turn 46 in the Lord
and for Jesus, my wife, the love of my life, family and friends, and the elect;
I am willing to take the risk to lose what is left of my friends. Please be
gracious as you read the following pages. Nothing encourages a believer more than
the answer to his prayers. In the same way, nothing discourages a believer more
than a prayer without answer. Few confront the issue head on in order
not to be seen as more or less spiritual than others. Yet scripture teaches that there is
nothing impossible to him who believes and prays according to GodÕs will as
revealed in scripture. It is with great fear that I dare to
stand for Jesus in prayer, knowing that I may lose the few friends left to me
on earth. We either have a wrong
understanding of prayer or prayer does not work as we affirm verbally. Or it is
a matter of absence and little faith, and then there should not be prayer and
expectation of answer to prayer. On top of it all, we find Jesus not
approving the body life in the Church to the point of being known as a House of
Prayer, rather a den of robbers. As a consequence of it all, the supernatural
is absent from the church and not much is happening because of the lack of
faith and the power of prayer. What attract people to the church is not
the brain power or valid and effective ways to change the world. The churchÕs
appeal is in the supernatural. Not that by this I am asking miracles and signs,
but the sovereign manifestation of GodÕs sovereign presence as the confirmation
that we are in alignment with God. Since the health of the Church is
unacceptable. We the followers of Jesus, summon, constrain, impeach and charge
the church in the name of Jesus, to repent, pray and change its lukewarm in the
most important matter of Prayer. Since we are also part of the church, we
are taking ourselves to court along with those who are equally convicted of
having make a weak use of GodÕs power in prayer for kingdom work. The kingdom of God is not a matter of
words, but of power. We are called to do greater things than Jesus. We are
called to change the world and pray by word and deed his kingdom to come in our
generation. Since the power of God is within reach,
should we applied the principles of our equation faithfully, we should not be
surprised that we can see in our life time the coming of the kingdom before we
close our eyes. Therefore; To the believers at the San Marcos
Church of the Carpenter of Nazareth in the Andes mountain of Huanta Peru and to my fellow struggling praying friends all
over the world and my fellow leaders of the Kathmandu city of Nepal I remind
them the covenant we signed to stand for ÒYESÓ, ÒJesus and prayerÓ in our
generation. Greetings, salutations and blessings in
no other name but the one and only name of Jesus the Son of our Father in
Heaven in the power of the Holy Spirit who reigns today in representation of
Jesus and the Father in all of our hearts. How blessed we are to count you as
our faithful brothers in our partnership in the name of Jesus and his Gospel. To the brothers of the Andes
Mountains of Peru, I remind them that my heart has been torn and my eyes have
wept often as I remember you in my prayers ever since I left you three and a
half years ago to be exact 42 weeks or 1260 days to come to America with our
wounded Ruthie who went to Glory leaving me as a witness of our Lord Jesus to
the nationals in North America and the World. How I long to be restored to you as an
answer to your prayers and to your ÒCall to ServeÓ our Lord Jesus together once
again in the land of our fellow Quechua Incas of the Andes. I have read and reread you Òletter
of CallÓ to come to be with you, signed by all of you at the Church of the
Carpenter of Nazareth. Our Lord in his Jealous and possessive
love has removed from my life every idol and in complete loneliness wants my
attention only for himself. So like John in Patmos or Paul in the jail of
Philippi when he wrote II Timothy I am confine in Stanford and writing you this
ÒNew Manifesto of the followers of JesusÓ. May our Lord grant me the desires
of my heart also by restoring me back to you, should it be his will. There is only one other thing that I love more than to
be with you, and that is the prevailing will of God our Father in Heaven to
whom even our Lord Jesus sought to please with his own life by saying ÒYour
will be done and not mineÓ. You must rest assured that it is his will the
only thing that matters to me. May the Lord find us all wanting nothing
but to be in alignment with his sovereign will and his will alone at all times,
for this is advantage over any and everything. Even today, after reading the
scripture on the cleansing of the temple, I see clearly the Lord Jesus raising
as a witness to testify against his church in Jerusalem with his eyes full of
tears and a whip in his hands to purify his house saying: "It is
written." "My house will be called a house of prayer, but you have
made it a den of robbers". There is much convicting power in
the words of Jesus in my heart and in those who like me find themselves
stealing from God the glory due his name. We have neglected prayer to the point
of making out of the church, a den of robbers, full of activity and speed but
no vision of prayer as the real power to change the world. Therefore, from the ÒRoof of the
worldÓ at the foot of great Himalayan Mountains this is ÒThe New Manifesto of the followers of
JesusÓ. We the people of Nepal, Kathmandu,
Manipur, India, Huanta Peru Lancaster, Bogota, China,
Japan, Munich Germany stand as one for ÒJesus and PrayerÓ once again as we did
it at the feet of the Great Himalayan Mountains, so we present The New Manifesto
of the Followers of Jesus to the world. We find ourselves as members of
the one and only invisible body of Jesus as lukewarm and lacking in seal for
the house of the Lord, as the house of prayer. We find ourselves guilty as charged by
our Lord Jesus as robbers in the house of the Lord by neglecting prayer and
living powerless lives. We confess to have lived as wise
in our own eyes in disagreement with the ever prevailing will of God and
pursuing our own wills and desires. We have lived emasculated lives of
unproductivity and seldom find things Òjust as Jesus saidÓ because we did not
take Jesus at his word. We can not but be amazed of the
great patience of God by forbearing with such worm as us who have dare to call
prayer the endless vain repetition of words as if to impress God with our
eloquence, length, frequency in a vain exercise. We recognize that it had to take a
GodÕs size love to put up with such a frauds as us who have neglect prayer as a
small thing. We solemnly confess and repent
that, we alone are guilty for de delayed return of the Lord by not coming
sooner into alignment with his ever prevailing will that immutably comes to
pass and with sincere heart pray, ÒThy kingdom comeÓ, as loud and insistently
as we can. We will seek to understand the
LordÕs Prayer and his priestly prayers in all its length, weight, depth, height
and settle with great determination for nothing but the will of God here on
Earth as it is done in Heaven. We will seek to honor the Gospel
according to God the Father expressed at the Mountain of transfiguration by
turning to Jesus, as to the beloved Son of God with whom he is well please and
listen to Him. We will seek to lift the name of Jesus
alone, for he said, "If I am lifted up, I will draw all men onto my
self." We will adopt an equation F=Pw2
similar to the equation of Albert Einstein for the Physical World E=Mc2 in
order to harness and to unleash power as it is applied faithfully. We declared to be willing to died or
even be stoned to death if the equation faithfully applied does not work. Let
us define some terms: Faith is taking Jesus at his word.
(To find things just as Jesus said). Prayer is agreeing with the will of God.
(No room for another Will). Will of God is the ever-prevailing
Sovereignty of God. Word is the reliable constant more precise than the speed
of light. When F=Pw2 faithfully applied
produces the ÒAÓ bomb, that is ÒAnswerÓ to prayer, and all things are ÒYesÓ in
Jesus. When F=Pw2 perfectly applied in the
strength of the Lord, it will result in the ÒHÓ bomb, that ÒHighly AlignedÓ
with God, where you no longer live but Christ in you as the hope of Glory. We strongly believe that Jesus is
not coming any sooner until we enthusiastically claim with great voice and
single mind. ÒYour Kingdom come.Ó
ÒYour will be done.Ó We promise to, ÒRejoice always,
pray continually and give thanks in all circumstances, for this is GodÕs will
for us in Christ Jesus.ÓITess.5: 16-17. As the colt of the donkey, who Jesus
needed to make his Triumphal entry to Jerusalem, we make ourselves available to
him who can help himself from us in his second coming. Gerry Gutierrez PS. You may get the impression that we
are reducing our Faith to an equation. NO. In fact we are just using the
formula as an illustration only. Neither are we asking
God to do anything that he has not already decided and want to do it himself.
Being in alignment with God reduces us to a zero. But Zero behind ÒoneÓ is ten
times more. "Let us pray" YES!!! Gerry Gutierrez PS. In
memory of my mentors in order of arrival into my life; Cidolfina,
Francisco, Pankico, Hugh, Ruthie, Robert, John,
Steve, John, Bud, Doug, Val, Marcia, Lyn, Paul Z and Kye.
Thank you for the investment of yourselves in my life.
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