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Rev. David Du Plessis | "Stirring Up the Gifts of God" Rev. David Du Plessis Copyrighted Recording Length: 49 Minutes You are welcome to listen to this recording for free. If you wish to purchase a CD copy of this recording for your private faith library, or if you want to give this as a gift, please click on the link below: CD: $5.00 | Recording Description: Excellent! That's the only word to describe this recording. Simply, excellent. This is the most intelligent teaching I've ever heard on how to stir up the gift of God within you. Brother Du Plessis begins by dealing with the prophetic excess which he had seen take place in 1928, 1958, and that we see commonly occur today. Although spiritual gifts can confirmed by the laying on of hands, they are not imparted by the will or wisdom of man. A spiritual gift is imparted only if the Holy Spirit decides to honor the laying on of hands, and implant one of His gifts. In 1928, and 1958, Brother Du Plessis had seen an outbreak of leaders supposedly imparting spiritual gifts to others--according to their own will and wisdom--by laying hands on individuals and prophesying over them. Brother Du Plessis says, "I met many precious brethren who told me 'Brother, I've just left a meeting, and they prophesied over me, and I have this gift and that gift and I've got the other gift, and I'm this and I'm that.'" Having differentiated between spiritual gifts, minstry gifts, and the gift of God that is within you, Brother David begins to tell how to stir up the gift of God that is within you. | Who Was David Du Plessis? Mostly forgotten today, David Du Plessis was a man mightily used of God to bring to pass the Charismatic Renewal. He was Born in 1905 in South Africa, saved in 1916 and filled with the Spirit in 1918. Brother David was ordained in 1928 thorugh the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa. Then when he came to America in the late 1940's, he transferred his ordination to the Assemblies of God. Early in his Christian walk, Brother Du Plessis, like many early Pentecostals, suffered a great deal of persecution and criticism from the liberal denominations and the Catholic Church. He had no intentions of ever ministering anywhere but in the Pentecostal churches he loved. But God had a different plan for him. In 1936, Smith Wigglesworth prophesied to David that God would use him to usher in a mighty move of God's Spirit that would take place in the old-line "liberal" denominations. David made no attempt to cause this to happen. But in the late 1950's, God began opening doors for him among liberal churches and in the Catholic church. David took the message of the baptism in the Holy Spirit into these circles and found many hungry hearts among the Priests, Bishops, and Cardinals. David willingly laid aside his prejudices against the liberal denominations and the Catholic Church as he discovered that his feelings were wrong. He learned many precious lessons along the way as God used him to bring the Baptism in the Holy Spirit into tradition-bound Christian groups. Brother David was mightily persecuted, criticized, and misunderstood for crossing the denominational line and reaching out to Christians in the old denominations. His ordination was revoked by the Assemblies of God, and he was denounced from many pulpits. But as is true with any genuine servant of God who is obeying the Lord's will, God saw him through the persecution and rejection, and vindicated him at the end. The Assemblies of God later reinstated his papers as they understood better what God was doing through him. And the Catholic Church and the liberal denominations so loved and appreciated him for bringing to them the knowledge of the baptism in the Holy Spirit, that by the time of his Homegoing in 1987, they had come to call him by the affectionate title of "Mr. Pentecost." I urge all ministers to listen closely to Brother David's recordings on this site. They are full of wisdom about how to minister in the power of the Spirit, how to reach people, and how to stay true to God so that you finish your ministry in glory and not in shame. | Acknowledgements This message was recorded at Christ for the Nations Institute in the 1960's and 1970's. Freda Lindsay, who started this ministry training center in 1948 with her husband Gordon Lindsay, has given us permission to host these recordings on this site. And we appreciate very much this generosity. Christ for the Nations Institute will celebrate their 60th anniversary next year, continuing still in the work of training and sending out graduates to minister all over the world. For more information about this school, please click on this link: Christ For the Nations Institute. Copyright 2007 Mel C. Montgomery all rights reserved. For further copyright information please see our copyright statement here. |
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