LET MY PEOPLE GO!        DO 144   12/71

         1. SOME GET SO INVOLVED IN THE MASSIVE COMPLICATED OPERATIONS OF BIG HOMES that they seem to forget what they joined the Army for: NOT JUST TO DEMONSTRATE OUR WAY OF LIFE, BUT TO SAVE THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD FOR JESUS! The Colonisation Method the Lord has given us is merely a means to that end, but if we get so busy with the means that we forget the end, we'll never reach it. This is the GREATEST DANGER OF THE BIG HOMES--THEY GET SO INVOLVED WITH THEMSELVES THAT THEY FORGET WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR!
         2. THIS IS ANOTHER REASON WHY THE SMALLER HOMES DO SO MUCH BETTER: They are able to spend SO MUCH MORE TIME IN PERSONAL ATTENTION, PERSONAL TRAINING & PERSONAL WITNESSING they can be much more personally obedient in going about their Father's business, instead of having their fruitfulness choked by the briars & thorns & weeds of the cares of this life & material concerns, which is also why God showers them so with His personal blessings! Hallelujah!
         3. WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN THAT IT'S NOT NUMBERS THAT COUNT, BUT THE QUALITY & DEVOTION OF YOUR DISCIPLES to the Lord & lost souls. Some of our Homes have therefore gotten into almost the same selfish "bless me" sort of an attitude that they have forgotten, that like Jesus, we came not to be ministered unto, but to minister! May God have mercy on them & bring them to repentance & get them out of the barn into the Harvest again before it's too late!
         4. WE LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT THE WAY SOME OF YOU FOLKS PUT EVEN YOUR BABES RIGHT TO WORK TEACHING OTHERS! This is the way it ought to be & this is the faster way to develop leadership! Some took me too literally & have babied the Babes so much, especially in the big Homes, so that they can't even take care of themselves, much less lead anybody else! May God forgive us!
         5. SINCE THE MAIN EXCUSE OF THESE BIG HOMES HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT THEY HAVEN'T GOT ENOUGH LEADERS for pioneer teams & they don't have enough openings to house them in, SMALL TEAMS WOULD SOLVE BOTH PROBLEMS! Almost any little leader can have faith for only half a dozen, especially if he knows he's at least got some place to sleep them, such as his little camper or trailer, & you know God would always feed them, use & bless them, as they obey!
         6. ALL IT TAKES IS A LITTLE FAITH & OBEDIENCE & A HANDFUL TO START WITH. The Lord can do all the rest, if we'll just start out & obey, & IF WE'LL OBEY HE'LL GIVE US THE FAITH & supply the needs! We're going to have to send these teams out no matter what! They can't do anything but fail, which isn't so bad! They might even learn something! Nothing ventured, nothing gained--but every time we've done this, they've always made it somehow, PTL! The only person who has never failed is the guy who's never tried--& the least we can do is try!
         7. I'D RATHER SEE SOME LITTLE GUY WHO CAN LEAD A LITTLE TEAM ON THE ROAD, LEADING THAT TEAM RATHER THAN RUNNING A BAND OR PROVISIONING or whatever for some big Home! Let the little guys who can't even lead five people run these big Home operations, but let these little potential shepherds hit the road with their sheep! The trouble with a lot of them is: They could be leaders, but they don't want to be, because they don't want to have to make decisions because they might make a mistake & get blamed for it, which of course, they will! But we're going to have to push them out like the birds out of the nest whether they like it or not! GOING IS NOT AN OPTION!--IT'S A COMMANDMENT! And if we send them & they go in obedience to God's commandment, you know the Lord will take care of them!
         8. A LOT OF THE STRIFE, PERSONALITY CLASHES & PERSONAL PROBLEMS IN SOME OF THESE BIG HOMES is because they have too many leaders all bunched up together & they don't want to let them go, when every one of them ought to be out on the road with a team of his own. Then if one of these leaders in these big Homes shows a little leadership ability & initiative, has a little vision or spunk which threatens his superior's jealous pride & position & reflects on his own officer's weaknesses, his leader says he's "lifted up in pride" & puts him down several notches or back several grades to something like the Babes table or cleaning toilets & totally wastes this potential leadership ability!
         9. BUT SOME OF THESE VERY POTENTIAL LEADERS WHO WERE SO PUT DOWN BY THEIR LEADERS are now proving to have outstanding leadership ability once they were allowed to get out on their own with the Lord & exercise their talents & faith, unhindered by jealous superiors! Meanwhile, back home, some of these same jealous leaders who wouldn't let these little folks leave, have now themselves fallen flat on their faces & proven almost total failures as leaders!
         10. SO OUR BIG HOMES ARE BECOMING JUST LIKE THE CHURCHES, FULL OF FEUDING LEADERS, fighting with each other, instead of getting them out on the road, starting their own Home! Either that or they haven't enough responsibility in a big Home, so all they have to worry about is their own personal problems, which they soon develop plenty of! THE BEST CURE FOR PERSONAL PROBLEMS IS THE BATTLEFRONT! The best cure for petty bickering & friction is to get them out eyeball-to-eyeball with the real Enemy! Witnessing may not be a cure-all, but it helps!
         11. SOME OF THESE LITTLE POTENTIAL LEADERS IN SOME OF THESE BIG HOMES ARE PROBABLY EVEN SMARTER THAN THE LEADERS, but whenever they try to make a suggestion or a correction or point out a problem, the Leader reports that they're lifted up in pride & need to be put down, so he proceeds to do so, when he really ought to kick them out & let them run their own Home! I've found you can't always go by some leaders' reports on some people, when it's the leader's own God-damned jealousy that's to blame! THE QUICKEST WAY TO FIND OUT IF HIS UNDERLING REALLY IS A LEADER OR IF IT'S JUST PRIDE, IS TO PUT HIM ON THE ROAD! If it was really pride, he'll fall flat, but if it was really leadership, he'll make it! Besides, responsibility can humble you quicker than almost anything!
         12. SO SOME OF THESE SO-CALLED TROUBLESOME OFFICERS OF YOURS MAY NOT BE SO LIFTED UP IN PRIDE AS THEY ARE CALLED TO LEAD, & their only trouble is that they are leaders & you resent other leaders who want to lead what you're trying to lead, so they have trouble working under you & you under them! DON'T CRUSH THEIR INITIATIVE & SPIRIT BY PUTTING THEM DOWN--PUT'M OUT!--Where they CAN lead or where they can prove they can't! This should be a good test! These small teams will be the test tubes out of which can come our World leadership! They may surprise you, like some of you've surprised me, who I thought were losers, but given a chance proved winners!
         13. A LOT OF TIMES I'VE SENT YOU GUYS OUT TO DO JOBS I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE FAITH FOR--because YOU had the faith for it, so I didn't HAVE to have the faith for it! God doesn't give ME the faith for YOUR job--He gives ME the faith for MY job! You have to have the faith for your own job & God will give you the faith for that job! So why don't you big leaders let these little leaders out & let them volunteer for whatever jobs they have the faith for, whether YOU'VE got the faith for it or not! YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THE FAITH FOR IT--IT'S THEIR FAITH THAT COUNTS! LET MY PEOPLE GO!
         14. IF YOU'LL LET SOME OF THESE LITTLE GUYS GO & DO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO, THEY MAY SURPRISE YOU! I let YOU go & now look what some of you've done!--Some things I didn't even have the faith for! IF YOU DON'T, YOU'RE GOING TO BE SORRY! If you don't let them do what they want to do & put them down instead, you'll just discourage them & have nothing but trouble on your hands & they can blame it all on you! But if you'll put them out on the road & give them a chance where they've got nobody but themselves to blame, they may die trying just to prove they were right! And God may be with them--& I believe He WILL be!--And you may be surprised what God will do with them if you give them a chance! Let them go! That's the way we started! That's the only way we'll be able to keep going & growing! Otherwise you'll get just like the churches! God forbid!
         15. THE TROUBLE WITH SOME OF OUR LEADERS IS THAT THEY'VE BECOME JUST LIKE THE PARENTS! They themselves have become 10:36ers!--Pampering, possessive, selfish, over-protective & jealous! They don't want to let their spiritual children go to serve the Lord as they should! They want to keep them home in their own big Home where they can enjoy & use them themselves, instead of letting them out to do what God has called them to! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO DO TO PERSUADE YOU?--TELL YOU YOU'RE NO LONGER A PART OF THE REVOLUTION IF YOU HAVE A HOME OF OVER TWO OR THREE DOZEN? What's it going to take?--A blow from God?

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