I am a book man and recently I have been reading a book a week, sometimes two. In the past fortnight I have read two books that I know I will continue to go back to to read again and study in more detail, one is "Time is running out" by Rheinhard Bonkke and the second is this book.
A few weeks ago I saw this book in the hands of a friend of mine and I liked the title and fast took my interest and read with interest what the back cover had to say. I learned more from my friend Mark who was in the middle of reading it and saying that not only was it impressive how it covered the 12 lives of these renowned preachers, Apostles and medical evangelists and what they taught and a detailed account of their ministry, but it also pointed out where some of them fell into error and determined explained in a graceful way that is could happen to whatever and encouraged the reader not to fall like them.
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Today I got hold of it at 7.30pm and now it's 5 am in the morning and I am ¾ of the way straight through it.
Let me say this quite frankly.
Going out to the movies and for a meal at a café can be done for about in Australia where I live and population think nothing of it. But when it comes to spending that sort of money on a book they want to know all about it and need some convincing.
Guys if you have a full time calling on your life in the hereafter this book is a must for you.
The book details the lives of 12 population that were powerfully used by God with all signs and wonders following. The 12 population are
John Alexander Dowie Maria Woodworth Etter Evan Roberts Charles F Purham William J Seymour John G Lake Smith Wiggelsworth Aimee Semple Mc Pherson Kathryn Kuhlman William Branham Jack Coa A.A Allen
When I read the list of population mentioned in the book I recognized the name Karthyn Kuhlman, William Branham, Smith Wiggelsworth and John G Lake, but it was not the list of names that I was curious in, it was the title of the book.
When American first attacked Iraq on Tv for everybody to watch in 1990 I learned what a normal was. I learned that the American president was the commander and chief, but the man on the ground give the task of winning a war was the general. Up till that point I had not even understood what a normal was.
Put in a contemporary context, Jesus Christ is our commander and chief in heaven in a place far away, but we are meant to come with his power and his authority and take dominion on this earth in a real war with Satan for the lives of population perishing. God needs his Apostles and prophets on the earth today, suited men of valor in the position of normal and he needed them yesterday.
I received an unlikely prophetic word of a man that was dying in a reasoning ward some eight years ago when he threw a cup of water over me and said, "You are God's general, a Jew from the tribe of Benjamin"
Until I read this book I never indubitably realized the full meaning of that prophetic utterance. I have received many prophecies about my hereafter and they all confirm that I have a full time calling on my life and my role will be a bit of a nation shaker.
In this book John Alexander Dowie's story indubitably lit my heart with fire and gave me a passion to get out there and start preaching and healing. His downfall I have already fallen victim of in the past and so am wary of going down that track twice. I have to laugh, I can tell you much or I will spoil the book, but I resonated with him so strongly with his zeal for the population and for God and the way he fell.
Maria Woodworth Etter was the very best I have read yet as I have only completed seven. It is so refreshing that the best I read was a women preacher in the 1900's when women preachers weren't in vogue or allowed and her story lit a flame in my heart.
Evan Roberts lit a revival in Wales and they say the revivals in the Usa came from his teaching and correspondences and prayers for population in the Usa. He was a young man and had a zeal for God that was very attractive. Each of these guys I will have to go back and read again.
And the list goes on. Each man is covered in great detail and we are given a principal glance into their lives and teachings as well as the well documented healings that occurred in their ministries that even the popular media published. Many of them come under great attack.
It was reported in statistics that in one city that John G Lake was ministering in, that, that city was the healthiest city in the world at that time. He did over 100,000 healings in that city, ones that were proven and documented by the press and doctors.
John G Lake in five years in South Africa, led 100,000 population to the Lord, planted over 600 churches and raised up over 1200 pastors into full time ministry. And they did it in poverty sometimes pastors dying in their calling.
To any man that wants to be used by God in the hereafter or in full time ministry I cannot propose this book highly enough. Such that, I just spent half an hour of my time writing this review.
For :63 at Amazon as I post this today I have to say invest some money into your faith. It's an awesome book.
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Generals-They-Succeeded-Failed/dp/0883689448/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-5128255-2145438?ie=Utf8&s=books&qid=1189105322&sr=8-1 takes you there where you can read more reviews by population that posted them on Amazon.
Book chronicle of God's Generals by Roberts Liardon
