I was in a university, like
a medical university. The only reason why I’m
saying that is because I’ve seen some pictures, some
films, movies, or something over the years and I’ve seen
this kind of a classroom.
It
wasn’t a flat classroom, but it was an
elevated classroom where the chairs were
elevated. They weren’t like bleachers, but
they were desks - long tables and
chairs.
It was
an amphitheater style classroom, but in a nice, big,
tall-ceiling building. And the teacher was
down at the bottom.
And
there was a little woman, kind of mousy looking, but a
beautiful older woman with a little gray bun on the back
of her head, a little bit feeble looking. But I
knew she was sharp. And she was sitting at the
table, and she was the professor. She was
teaching the class.
And I
looked around and from floor to ceiling were these dry
erase boards all over. And there were
equations like I have never seen before
in my life - like quantum physics or something. I
don’t know what it was, but it was heavy stuff.
But
oddly enough, I was able to recognize portions
of the equations. One board to my left
was one problem solved in equations - one problem. And
it was line after line after line after line after line
of numbers and dots and digits and
letters.
And I
remembered small portions of this equation from
trigonometry or from algebra, or something. Little
sections of it looked familiar to me somehow. And
then there would be a line of stuff I’ve never seen
before and you couldn’t have proved it by
me.
But it
was so fascinating that everybody in that room was
saying things like, "This is awesome.
This is unbelievable. Have you ever seen
anything like this?"
And we
were madly writing. Every person had a notebook on
their desk, and we were madly copying these
equations into this notebook with everything
that we could do.
And
all of a sudden, I looked back up to the left board and
it disappeared. It went "whoosh,"
like somebody had wiped the board
clean.
Now I
said, "That is so strange." I looked to the front.
"Whoosh." It’d go
"whoosh."
Everything disappeared.
I looked down at my notebook. And what I had
been writing on this page was gone. I thumbed back
through the pages and saw that everything
that I had copied off the board was gone, disappeared,
erased - "whoosh."
I
closed the notebook. And
on the cover of the notebook was the name of the
class.
This
is where you and I come in. On the cover of
the notebook was the name of the class - like
Biology 101.
Guess
what my notebook said? The name of the
class was Unlearning
711.
Well,
my first thought is this is like 700 levels of
unlearning. I’m a dumb somebody if I’ve got to
unlearn 700 levels of something. Well, that was my
first reaction.
But
all of a sudden, I was overwhelmed in this
experience with the sense of Isaiah.
There was nothing on there that said Isaiah.
But before I read to you Isaiah
7:11, I need to tell you one other
thing that had happened that this tied in with
that I didn’t know if I would tell it or not. I
think I should tell it.
I hate
to tell it, but I think I ought to because who
knows? You know, brother, sister, I don’t
know what will happen. I don’t know what will
happen this time next week. That’s how
fast things are moving in the Spirit
realm.
You
know, we were talking about people that we know that are
away from God. You may come in here next Sunday and all
of them be sitting here. I’m honest.
There’s just no telling what is
happening.
Pastor
Shelley then shares that the Lord spoke to him the day
before he had this experience in the night:
A Sign and a
Gazingstock
He spoke two things to me.
He said, "I will give
you a sign. And I will make you a
gazingstock."
And I
said, "What, Lord?"
He
said, "I will give you a sign. And I will make you
a gazingstock."
And
this was my reaction. I said, "Oh Lord,
nooo." It was a strange reaction, but
appropriate under the circumstances.
I just
turned around and looked in the mirror, and I said,
"Oh Lord, no - please, not a gazingstock."
It wasn't really the way He
meant it, but it didn’t sound pretty, you know - a
gazingstock.
I
think my reaction caused this experience because here I
have gone to this University of Unlearning.
All this stuff is disappearing off the
wall. My notebook says, "Unlearning 711."
And I’m overwhelmed with a sense of Isaiah, the
prophet. And this happened just the same
night that I had told the Lord, "No, Lord, not
that."
Listen
at what Isaiah 7:11 says in the
Amplified Bible. It’s almost the same in King
James. In the Amplified Bible, guess what the
first phrase is? "Ask for yourself a
sign."
11.
Ask for yourself a sign (a token
or proof) of the Lord your God [one that will convince
you that God has spoken and will keep His word]; ask it
either in the depth below or in the height above [let it
be as deep as Sheol or as high as
heaven].
But I believe the anointing on it
is saying that God’s about to do
something. Folks are going to see it. Let
it be for the Glory of God. If it’ll be for His
Glory, if it'll really be for the Glory of God, I’m
ready.
We’re
waiting to go to the University of Unlearning.
We’re waiting on God to help us unlearn all that
we’ve learned, but didn’t learn it the
right way, or there’s a little something about it that
wasn’t from Him, or it’s so ingrained in our minds
that we think God has to come and do it exactly the same
way. And so God is just having to kind of
take it from us.
Now We Will Be Taught by Heaven's
Best
I threw up my hands in this
experience and looked down at that little woman sitting
at her desk.
And I
said, "Now what are we supposed to do?"
And I had a little bit of an attitude. I
said, "Now what are we supposed to
do?"
Oh,
she raised up her little head, took her fingers and
laced them like that and put them down on her little
chest like that. She cocked her head to
the side and smiled the sweetest smile and
stared at me like, "Dear . . ."
There
was a rumbling in the class. I wasn’t the only one
upset. I was just the only one that had a big
enough mouth to say, "What are we going to do
now?"
While
she’s sitting there, just staring at me with this big
grin on her face, she just kind of nods her head
towards the door like that. She just
motions her head. Actually it would have been to the
side, that side.
She just kind of motioned her head to the
door and she said, "Now we will be taught by heaven’s
best."
And I looked out the door.
There was a glass pane, a few inches wide and
several feet high. The door was ajar a few inches.
I could see
both through the glass panel of the door and through the
gap of the door where it wasn’t closed.
And
the only way I know how to describe it was that
I saw the sages and the
prophets.
There was something about the way
they looked. Their look carried
authority. There was something about their excitement,
the way they were gathered, the way they were assembled,
the way they were waiting for a nod, the way they were
waiting for a signal, the way they were dressed, the
color of their skin.
Everything about them revealed to me that
they were the sages and the prophets. "We will now be taught by heaven’s
best."
When I
shared that experience with these men who I believe have
prophetic gifts, they were just
overwhelmed. They said, "This is confirmation for what God’s been
saying all over the
world."
Listen, there’s people that have just
recently had experiences with Enoch. They
weren’t looking for Enoch. They weren’t trying to
find him. They weren’t praying to see Enoch.
He just showed up and he shared some pertinent
revelation.
Have I
blown anybody’s mind? Good.
"We will now be
taught by heaven’s
best."
We’ve got to do some unlearning
before we can be taught by heaven’s
best.
One of
the things we’ve got to unlearn is we’ve got to
break this pattern that makes you afraid of what you
don’t understand. Fear can hinder us from
embracing what God wants to do in our
midst.
If
anybody in this place thinks that I want you to go and
start communicating with dead people, you’ve just missed
it, you know. I’m not going to look for them, pray
for them, turn over any rocks, hoping I’ll find
one. But if they come, I hope I’ve
unlearned enough that I can receive their
message.
Sermon Posted
I have
just posted the sermon where Pastor Shelley shared these
experiences and more. To
get much more insight about the Cloud of
Witnesses and their role in helping us in our
day, click on the following link:
I know it
takes time to read a sermon, but I believe you
would be very blessed by it!
2007 Campmeeting in Alabama - July 15
- 29
Here is
Pastor Shelley's latest e-newsletter:
Special Greetings to you in the Name
of
The Lord Jesus Christ (Yeshua)!
Since our
last newsletter to you, it has been a wonderful time of
heightened spiritual activity with an increase of
visions, dreams, revelations and prophetic experiences
with dramatic manifestations of the Lord's
Presence. God is up to something
big!
2007 Summer Campmeeting, July 15 -
29
It is with
great anticipation of an outpouring of the Spirit of God
that we invite you to join us for our 2007
Summer Campmeeting, July 15 - 29, at our church
facility in Smiths Station, Alabama (near Phenix City,
Alabama, and Columbus, Georgia).
Service Times:
Sunday Mornings - 11:00 AM
Monday
- Friday Evenings - 7:00 PM
Saturday Evenings - 6:00 PM
We are
excited to have Paul Keith Davis as our
special speaker again this year. He will be
ministering July 19 - 21 with additional morning
meetings July 20 and 21 at 10:30 AM.
I will be
speaking the last week of the campmeeting. Other
speakers will be featured as the Lord
leads.
Discovering Our Heritage, Claiming Our
Inheritance
The special
theme of the campmeeting that the Lord gave us for this
year is Discovering our Heritage, Claiming Our
Inheritance. This concept is so important for His
Bride that the Lord has been emphasizing it in various
ways to various prophetic leaders in dreams, visions and
prophetic experiences over the last months and even
years!
The
unfulfilled mantles of God's great pioneers from the
Cloud of Witnesses are waiting for us, the End-time
Bride, to claim as our inheritance. We can't claim
these mantles and walk in them unless we really
understand what God did and revealed in the last
generation and what He has ordained for us to
fulfill!
The enemy
has tried hard to keep the Bride of our generation from
knowing what our glorious inheritance really is, but God
is opening up the portals of heaven in this hour to not
only bring revelation, but also
impartation!
In
this campmeeting, we are expecting God to unveil our
destinies in a greater measure and empower us to begin
to walk in His higher callings for our lives! We
have heard from the Lord and we know that the "Sons of
the Kingdom" are being revealed in this
season.
More Information:
For more
information regarding directions and hotels, please
contact our church office at (334) 732-0050 during
office hours, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (M-F) [Eastern Daylight
Time, GMT -4]. You can also email us at NHRM@revival.org.
It would be
our great delight if you could come and join us for what
promises to be two powerful weeks in the manifest
Presence of the Lord!
Blessings,
Pastor Steven L. Shelley
New Hope
Revival Ministries
P.S. Stay tuned for a
special announcement in the next few days about our
brand new EagleCast (Podcast).
In Closing
We
are believing that God will continue to supply our needs
through you - especially through these summer
months when the bills don't stop, even though vacations
begin!
Thank you
for your past faithfulness to hear God's Voice to help
us. May you hear His
Voice again now to help us with our
annual van insurance payment, utilities, Jerusalem
taxes and rent!
(Heb
12:1) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed
about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let
us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so
easily beset us,
and let us run with patience the race that is set before
us,
(Heb
12:2) Looking unto Jesus the author and
finisher of our
faith; who for the joy that was set before him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down
at the right hand of the throne of
God.
May the Lord open our eyes more and more
to see into the heavenly realms and to be open to be
taught by heaven's best!
Blessings from
Jerusalem!
