Maloney - Overwhelmed by the spirit: empowered to manifest the glory of God throughout the earth

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The Panoramic Seer

OVERWHELMED

BY THE

SPIRIT

EMPOWERED TO MANIFEST THE GLORY OF GOD
THROUGHOUT THE EARTH

JAMES MALONEY

Copyright 2013Answering the Cry Publications

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To Mario Murillo.

A FEW NIGHTS BACK, THE LORD JESUS CAME TO ME.

Probably right now warning sirens are going off in your brain, and youre wise to be a little cautious. When people say God appeared to them, you should be wary; not critical, just careful. But for those of you whove read my previous books (Thanks!), I trust you know by now I dont make statements like that flippantly. I know Ill stand before God to give an account to their accuracy, and I have a reverential fear of the Lord, so I dare not embellish or make up encounters such as this.

So, the Lord did appear to me. I saw Him as the Son of Man, dressed simply in a white robe and sandals, with medium-length brown hair, of average height and build, of Jewish descent. He wasnt serious, nor was He frivolous. His demeanor was very matter of fact, like what He was about to show me just was. This is the way things are.

I have spent the past few days in prayer, trying to process exactly how to share this encounter with you. I even submitted it to other prophets, asking if they received a confirmation. Its difficult, because I believe I was bodily with the Lord. Yes, it was nighttime, but I wasnt simply dreaming this, and it didnt seem like a trancelike vision. While I cannot say unequivocally I was translated or transported with Him, I am firmly persuaded that is the case; similar to Paul not knowing whether he was in the body or out, as he wrote about in Second Corinthians 12.

Also, this experience was in real time. I mean, it didnt skip around like a dream: an hour was an hour. When I came to myself, sitting on my bed, I was dirty with dust, as if Id just traveled through an arid area, and I had to get up and take a shower. I was exhausted and perspiring as if Id participated in a three-hour miracle service. And thats just what happened.

It was as if I saw a map showing Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, countries that are located north and east of Iran and Afghanistan. This was a region, an area of operation that I saw. I can describe the terrain: dry and hilly with scrubby plants, not barren desert, but still rather dusty and semiarid. It was hot, early afternoon, which would make sense considering the time difference from Texas where I live.

The Lord impressed upon me that we were here because the people we were going to minister to had received the message of salvation from a missionary who had previously labored in this region. The plan of salvation had been preached, but the full gospel had not been presented with the Lords miraculous touch following, proving the validity of what the missionary shared; so the people still labored horribly under the yoke of oppression. He had come to show them salvation was for this time, not just when they passed away. He had come to show them He was the God of miraclesin this life and the next.

I followed Jesus as He walked through the center of this area. I could see Him as if I were seeing you; He was not an apparition, nor was He in my minds eye. This was not a movie; I was beside Him. My senses were heightened as He turned to the left or to the right, and suddenly I noticed the people.

Picture, if you will, every kind of conceivable sickness, infirmity, disease, corruption, deformity, crippling condition known to humankind. Every cancer youve ever heard of, every malformed limb youve ever seen. Leprosy, genetic abnormalities, dwarfism, AIDS, crooked, withered arms and legs, amputations, polio, mental retardation, bloated, twisted bodies. They were all here in this region. I had never seen such a sea of human suffering and disease, and Ive been to some pretty awful places on this earth!

I ached for these poor souls plight; my stomach wrenched with compassion for them. Was Jesus going to heal?

Yes. Of course He was! Why else had He come?

He turned to the left or to the right as we walked slowly, and we beheld a man, if you could call him that, emaciated and contorted, drawn up legs and mangled arms, lying at the Lords feet. He was about three feet tall and weighed maybe sixty pounds. His stomach was bloated, his ribs were protruding. There was no sign of humanity in his eyes, no cognizance or recognition. He was a vegetable.

Heres where you need to pay attention, because youll miss the whole point of this testimony. As the man came into focus, at our Lords feet, I was now seeing through Jesus eyes, as if the man was laying at my feet. And now as I reached out my hands, I recognized them as my own, but they were the Lords handsas if Hed stepped into me and was moving through me. Or I had stepped into Him.

I want to point out, this had nothing to do with something coming from myself at all. The power was totally the Lords alone, but He was choosing to move through me. I was completely surrendered to His will. Where He moved, I moved. My hands were His hands, His hands were my hands. My legs were His legs, His legs were my legs.

These Bible verses came to me:

Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power (Colossians 2:8-10).

For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones (Ephesians 5:30).

For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring (Acts 17:28).

I understood what these passages meant: we are complete through our union in Christ, given His fullness as He is the head of all authority. I was no longer just myself, I was in Christ and He in me.

And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace (John 1:16).