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But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth. - Acts 1:8

This was the answer to the question "Is this the time that you will restore the kingdom of Israel? 

The angelic reply.  The power of the Holy Spirit will be what you need to restore the kingdom.  The Holy Spirit will give you the same qualifications that the men of old all shared.  Noah: build me an ark because its gonna rain and the earth had never before experienced rain.  Abraham: leave your country and family and go to a land that I show you (when you get there I'll show you it, not before). Joseph had a dream that took him through rejection and imprisonment which became his path to ruling a nation. Moses encountered a burning  bush and a few instructions more and that was all.   Parting the Red Sea was not in his profile or list of things to do prescribed by the Lord.  

It's always piece by piece and witnessing what the Father is doing and doing it with him that gets credited as a FAITH walk.  FAITH is spelled R-I-S-K.   It's pleasing to God to take risks with the little information He gives.  

Acts of the Apostles 2015

     There are 2 other books in the Bible that are similar to Acts.  They are Exodus and Revelations.   These books are considered to be books of action.   Each of these 3 books account for the transitional time and actions taken for a people to change the course of God's plan for His chosen people.  In Exodus, God's forms a nation out of the descendants of Abraham.  In Acts, God forms a spiritual nation of called out believers from many nations to become a people unto Himself.  In Revelation, God ends the government of men while using both His natural and spiritual nation to partner with Him and seat Jesus Christ on the throne as the world ruler.  Revelation is a bit different as it is written in advance of it's fulfillment. "Written in advance" is a key.  The prayer movement will utilize Revelation as a prayer guide to upstage the advance of the anti-christ.   Exodus and Acts were written as an observation of what took place as a journal.

One could say that the Acts of the Apostles is still being written as the church age has not yet been closed out until the appearing of the son of man and His return to the earth as King of kings and Lord of lords.  Perhaps when we get to heaven, all of our stories will be on display for us to read about as our lives have all been impacted by the death and resurrection of Jesus.

In 2014 I began getting a series of early morning visits from heaven.  I cannot say that all these visits were from Jesus, but I believe some specifically were.  At other times, I knew it was an angel and I would say most of the time it was the Holy Spirit.  During one of the visits by Jesus I felt like Jesus posed this question to me.

If I walked among you as a man today as I did among those living in the days the  gospels made record of, would I stop by you and say, "come follow me ?"  

I began to get understanding about His process of selecting the men that HE did select.   They were all living in the communities nearby where He started his ministry.  They were all out and about doing business in the community and Jesus showed up and approached them.  Each of the 12 all responded by following Him.  Others did not decide to follow Him.  Some others followed him in addition to the 12 they could called the 70 and the 120 collectively.  The 120 were the group assembling in the upper room on the day of Pentecost.   All of these were pretty devoted to Jesus and obeyed the command to not leave Jerusalem until the promise of the Father came to them (Pentecost).

My view of men has now taken a different focus.  I am looking at men wondering if certain men are marked with the Lord's challenge to "come follow me"is happening again as if a  m o d e r n  day revisit of Jesus raising up men like the early apostles and disciples is on His heart.

The proof of this is going to be in the pudding, so to speak, but I am opening the door for this reality to happen.... therefor I have pulled on the Lord's heart for Him to come and show up in a series of meetings and do this again with a gathering of men over coffee and conversation.... stay tuned as I have more to say about this.