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From the desk of Jerry Gaffney
Here is the emergency note that went around the world
I had to get a copy of it from a friend Richard Riss

Awakening List Archives
FW: Police try and shut down meetings.

From: Richard M. Riss (rmriss@earthlink.net)

Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 09:07:19 CDT

Here's an emergency note from Jerry Gaffney, whom God has been using mightily in the pacific northwest for a few years now. One day last year, unexpectedly, he called me up, even though we hardly know each other. In fact, we'ver never met. Totally out of the blue, he said he wanted to pray for me that God would answer my most pressing need, whatever it was. He said, "Richard, what is your most pressing need right now? Do you need money?" It semed to me like God was saying to me through Jerry that I could be granted one wish, whatever it was. I said that my most pressing need was for time. At that time, I was still working for Merrill Lynch, I was scheduled to be teaching two courses in Church History that semester at Zarephath Bible Institute, and I was working on my Ph.D. degree at Drew University. I was also working on a number of writing assignments, and some upcoming speaking engagements. I said to Jerry that I didn't know what method or methods God would use to rescue me from my time dilemma, but that one possible method would be that I could teach full time at Zarephath. Then I could resign my position at Merrill Lynch and I would have a job instead of a job and a half. Jerry prayed along these lines, and from that moment onward, things began to fall in place for me to become full time at Zarephath even without a Ph.d. degree in hand. God arranged circumstances in a very unusual way to bring this about, because the administration had seemed certain that they didn't want anyone to teach there full time without a Ph.D. degree.

This answer to Jerry's prayer was a miraculous deliverance from what was, to all appearances, an impossible situation, and I attribute it to the prayer that Jerry prayed for me on that day in which the Lord prompted him to give me a phone call.

Jerry has had unusual answers to prayer there in the pacific northwest, where multitudes have been experiencing miraculous healings and other deliverances, and many people have been coming to the Lord.

But now, the police are trying to shut down his meetings.

I know only as much about the situation as Jerry has written below, but the impression I get from what he has written is that in the United States, it is becoming increasing the case that we no longer have freedom of speech or freedom of religion, even though those things are guaranteed in the U.S. constitution. This is very interesting to me as a historian, because the constitution of the Soviet Union also guaranteed these two freedoms. Although the soviets claimed to have freedom of speech and freedom of religion, they had neither.

It is my impression that in both the Soviet Union and in the present-day United States, the documents that explicitly guaranteed these freedoms have been, in practice, actually used by the governmental powers to prohibit the exercise of those very freedoms.

I am speaking here with reference, for example, to the free exercise of religion (and freedom of speech) in the public schools. The supreme court now interprets the bill of rights completely differently than it did in the 1800s, when, in general, the Bible was the centerpiece of the curriculum in every state, and when there were several specific supreme court decisions which upheld this practice on a number of occasions. When I did an in-depth study of this a few months ago, I was astounded. Normally, legal decisions are based upon precedents, but with respect to the use of the Bible in the public schools, the Supreme Court has taken a 180-degree turn, turning its back upon precedents. Now, Jefferson's "Wall of Separation" has become a

"Wall of Prohibition," which, of course, was never interpreted that way by the supreme court until the twentieth century.

In any case, Jerry is asking for our prayers and our moral support, so please join me in prayer with him for his situation. Thanks!

Richard

---------- From: "Jerry Gaffney"<jgaffney@planacc.com> To: <rmriss@earthlink.net> Subject: Police try and shut down meetings. Date: Fri, Sep 3, 1999, 5:10 AM

Dear Richard

I know I just sent you a weekly message yesterday. But this is an Emergency

JOEL 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; JOE 2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

Tonight the tent was so full they had to stand outside. Then it happened I was being asked to stop. the police had come to stop the meetings. Lets see what's so terrible that the police had to come. Gang members are turning from crime to Jesus. People are being set free from drugs. People are being set free from depression. Marriages are being restored. Lives are being changed. Hundreds are being saved.

We have been here in Sherwood for 4 weeks now. Now the Police say we have a permit for the tent but We do not have a permit to speak. We do not have a permit to worship. We do not have a permit to sing.

We should have known something was about to happen. So many are coming now. I do not know if Friday will be our last night. I really like a good fight. How about you. Our fight is not with the police but with the devil who has raised up his army. We are the Army of God, if God be for us who can be against us.

I rarely ask any of you for help. I am asking now.

For the last five years I have spent every day helping your kids find Jesus. I have spent the last five years of my life trying to get the revival fires lit in the PNW. 500,000 of you have come to these meetings and been blessed. 60,000 of you have been saved. You all live in the PNW. Will you give the Lord just one night Can you stand up and be counted. Can you believe America is still free. Please don't wait for a funeral to come Please come for life. Will you come from the North and the south and the east and the west.

If you sent this letter to me you know I would be there.

Here's the battle plan. 1: Pray the favour of the Lord on the meetings. 2: Pray for the Power of the Holy Spirit to be present. 3: Pray for the fear of the Lord to fall on the police. 4: Pray they see we are the good guys.

If we do our job their job is easier. 5: Pray for an out pouring of souls. 6: Pray the Father will be glorified through the son. 7: Pray to come for just one night. 8: Pray blessing on the police 9: Pray blessing on the people who are trying to stop the meetings.

I would love about 10,000 of you to show up for Jesus. If we are going to take our state we must take a stand somewhere.

Don't tell me you are too busy, remember Peter & Andrew were fishing when Jesus said come, James & John were fishing when Jesus said come, Matthew was collecting taxes when Jesus said come, Elisha was plowing a field when Elijah said come

Will you have an ear to hear. Your Friend Forever Jerry Gaffney

PS: For those of you out of the PNW Please pray for the meetings tonight. Friday 3rd of September 10:30am & 7:00pm

I had to speak to hundreds tonight with no speakers no microphones no musical instruments. They still ran to the altar. They still got saved They still got healed and filled with the Holy Spirit. I love this job. Jesus be pleased.

We have been holding tent meetings at:
New Life Assembly of God
420 Oregon St.
Sherwood, OR 97140
503-625-7359-church
Pastor Jeff Dorothy

Your friend and co-warrior Jerry Gaffney

May the Commanded Blessing of God be upon you and yours.

Jerry & Jan Gaffney Jerry Gaffney Ministries
PO Box 1020 Centralia, WA 98531
360-807-9180
http://www.anointed.net/ E-mail jerry@anointed.net E-mail jgaffney@aa.net


		Return to Contents From the desk of Jerry Gaffney Here is the emergency note that went around the world I had to get a copy of it from a friend Richard Riss Awakening List Archives FW: Police try and shut down meetings. From: Richard M. Riss (rmriss@earthlink.net) Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 09:07:19 CDT Here's an emergency note from Jerry Gaffney, whom God has been using mightily in the pacific northwest for a few years now. One day last year, unexpectedly, he called me up, even though we hardly know each other. In fact, we'ver never met. Totally out of the blue, he said he wanted to pray for me that God would answer my most pressing need, whatever it was. He said, "Richard, what is your most pressing need right now? Do you need money?" It semed to me like God was saying to me through Jerry that I could be granted one wish, whatever it was. I said that my most pressing need was for time. At that time, I was still working for Merrill Lynch, I was scheduled to be teaching two courses in Church History that semester at Zarephath Bible Institute, and I was working on my Ph.D. degree at Drew University. I was also working on a number of writing assignments, and some upcoming speaking engagements. I said to Jerry that I didn't know what method or methods God would use to rescue me from my time dilemma, but that one possible method would be that I could teach full time at Zarephath. Then I could resign my position at Merrill Lynch and I would have a job instead of a job and a half. Jerry prayed along these lines, and from that moment onward, things began to fall in place for me to become full time at Zarephath even without a Ph.d. degree in hand. God arranged circumstances in a very unusual way to bring this about, because the administration had seemed certain that they didn't want anyone to teach there full time without a Ph.D. degree. This answer to Jerry's prayer was a miraculous deliverance from what was, to all appearances, an impossible situation, and I attribute it to the prayer that Jerry prayed for me on that day in which the Lord prompted him to give me a phone call. Jerry has had unusual answers to prayer there in the pacific northwest, where multitudes have been experiencing miraculous healings and other deliverances, and many people have been coming to the Lord. But now, the police are trying to shut down his meetings. I know only as much about the situation as Jerry has written below, but the impression I get from what he has written is that in the United States, it is becoming increasing the case that we no longer have freedom of speech or freedom of religion, even though those things are guaranteed in the U.S. constitution. This is very interesting to me as a historian, because the constitution of the Soviet Union also guaranteed these two freedoms. Although the soviets claimed to have freedom of speech and freedom of religion, they had neither. It is my impression that in both the Soviet Union and in the present-day United States, the documents that explicitly guaranteed these freedoms have been, in practice, actually used by the governmental powers to prohibit the exercise of those very freedoms. I am speaking here with reference, for example, to the free exercise of religion (and freedom of speech) in the public schools. The supreme court now interprets the bill of rights completely differently than it did in the 1800s, when, in general, the Bible was the centerpiece of the curriculum in every state, and when there were several specific supreme court decisions which upheld this practice on a number of occasions. When I did an in-depth study of this a few months ago, I was astounded. Normally, legal decisions are based upon precedents, but with respect to the use of the Bible in the public schools, the Supreme Court has taken a 180-degree turn, turning its back upon precedents. Now, Jefferson's "Wall of Separation" has become a "Wall of Prohibition," which, of course, was never interpreted that way by the supreme court until the twentieth century. In any case, Jerry is asking for our prayers and our moral support, so please join me in prayer with him for his situation. Thanks! Richard ---------- From: "Jerry Gaffney"<jgaffney@planacc.com> To: <rmriss@earthlink.net> Subject: Police try and shut down meetings. Date: Fri, Sep 3, 1999, 5:10 AM Dear Richard I know I just sent you a weekly message yesterday. But this is an Emergency JOEL 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; JOE 2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: Tonight the tent was so full they had to stand outside. Then it happened I was being asked to stop. the police had come to stop the meetings. Lets see what's so terrible that the police had to come. Gang members are turning from crime to Jesus. People are being set free from drugs. People are being set free from depression. Marriages are being restored. Lives are being changed. Hundreds are being saved. We have been here in Sherwood for 4 weeks now. Now the Police say we have a permit for the tent but We do not have a permit to speak. We do not have a permit to worship. We do not have a permit to sing. We should have known something was about to happen. So many are coming now. I do not know if Friday will be our last night. I really like a good fight. How about you. Our fight is not with the police but with the devil who has raised up his army. We are the Army of God, if God be for us who can be against us. I rarely ask any of you for help. I am asking now. For the last five years I have spent every day helping your kids find Jesus. I have spent the last five years of my life trying to get the revival fires lit in the PNW. 500,000 of you have come to these meetings and been blessed. 60,000 of you have been saved. You all live in the PNW. Will you give the Lord just one night Can you stand up and be counted. Can you believe America is still free. Please don't wait for a funeral to come Please come for life. Will you come from the North and the south and the east and the west. If you sent this letter to me you know I would be there. Here's the battle plan. 1: Pray the favour of the Lord on the meetings. 2: Pray for the Power of the Holy Spirit to be present. 3: Pray for the fear of the Lord to fall on the police. 4: Pray they see we are the good guys. If we do our job their job is easier. 5: Pray for an out pouring of souls. 6: Pray the Father will be glorified through the son. 7: Pray to come for just one night. 8: Pray blessing on the police 9: Pray blessing on the people who are trying to stop the meetings. I would love about 10,000 of you to show up for Jesus. If we are going to take our state we must take a stand somewhere. Don't tell me you are too busy, remember Peter & Andrew were fishing when Jesus said come, James & John were fishing when Jesus said come, Matthew was collecting taxes when Jesus said come, Elisha was plowing a field when Elijah said come Will you have an ear to hear. Your Friend Forever Jerry Gaffney PS: For those of you out of the PNW Please pray for the meetings tonight. Friday 3rd of September 10:30am & 7:00pm I had to speak to hundreds tonight with no speakers no microphones no musical instruments. They still ran to the altar. They still got saved They still got healed and filled with the Holy Spirit. I love this job. Jesus be pleased. We have been holding tent meetings at: New Life Assembly of God 420 Oregon St. Sherwood, OR 97140 503-625-7359-church Pastor Jeff Dorothy Your friend and co-warrior Jerry Gaffney May the Commanded Blessing of God be upon you and yours. Jerry & Jan Gaffney Jerry Gaffney Ministries PO Box 1020 Centralia, WA 98531 360-807-9180 http://www.anointed.net/ E-mail jerry@anointed.net E-mail jgaffney@aa.net