"The Endowment"
by Earl R. Curry

			
Characteristic No. 5:  There shall be an outpouring of marvelously deep and
                                         intelligent spiritual gifts, and help, and guidance.

More than a century ago, in these very rooms in which this word of prophetic insight
                and foresight is written,         
         the priesthood of that day enjoyed, in small part only, 
                        that which is possible for a loving Father to bestow.  
                They were new to such experiences and 
                        human notions and 
                        lusts and 
                        selfishness 
                                still marred their lives. 
                They had not, as yet, traveled very far up to the mountain of the Lord's
                        House.  
                Their eyes, as yet, were holden and blinded to the deeper and finer things
                         of the Spirit.  

The larger vision the great Father desired to open up to them was, as yet, 
        too bright, 
        too far above,
        too noble in concept 
                for them to see.  

God could only manifest to them on the level of their concern.  
        Nevertheless, it was a great day for them.
                This great day, however, 
                        does not even begin to compare with that which is before you.  

You have had experiences.  
You have tried to move forward with some measure of  success, 
        but the more spiritual among you 
                are beginning to see, and 
                are becoming deeply aware of the need of divine endowment.          
                        In a few short years, or less, of time, you 
                shall be made terribly aware of your need for endowment, by the
                        increasing pressure of events that shall come to pass in the world.  

You are all too slowly learning to consecrate spiritual gifts to a higher end, 
        in that the character of your concerns 
                make it impossible for God to lead on to
                        higher experiences and expressions of His guidance.  

Yet, above and beyond all this, 
        the time is growing short as the long promised return of the Lord 
                Jesus Christ nears!   
        Satan increasingly rages among the nations.  
        God must soon make bare His mighty arm, even as He said thru His prophets
                         that He would!  
The time of God's preparation and the great day of the Lord draws near.
        Has He not clearly said that Zion shall be an unmistakable sign of His coming?  
        Has He not said that 
                the gospel of His kingdom shall be preached in all the world as a witness
                         and then shall the end  come?                                          
        Has He not promised mighty spiritual power to redeem His people?  
        Has He not said that He will thresh the nations by the power of His Spirit?  Lo, 
        He has said all these things and more, and 
                He must now arise to maintain His cause.  

You are, therefore, on the threshold of a time of mighty spiritual outpouring.  
God will use the many marvelous gifts of His Spirit 
                to help qualify His ministers and His people, 
        thus pulling them upward 
                with His great hands of love, and 
                with His marvelous gifts of His Spirit 
                        to help qualify His ministers and His people, and 
                with His marvelously intelligent spiritual gifts 
                        toward those higher levels of understanding, of consecration 
                        to great tasks, and 
                        to levels of very great spiritual insight, 
                                whereon they may function in mighty demonstration of His
                                         great power to 
                                                heal and 
                                                bless and 
                                                lift up mankind.

Can you not see that these things must be so,
         or else the word of God will fail
                --and this cannot be.  
        He would throw every weight of resource into the impending final struggle
                between good and evil, 
                between the Almighty Father and the wicked father of lies.  
Deep, profoundly intelligent spiritual gifts are part of those resources and 
        He will use them to the uttermost.

Let not any think that all this implies only, that in this outpouring, 
        there shall only be used the gift of prophecy or 
                speaking in tongues and interpretation of tongues.  
                        These will be there, and in power, 
        but other gifts will be there in power also.  
                There are many more gifts of the Spirit than you ordinarily consider.
                These you ought to 
                        know about and 
                        understand their operation.  
                                If you will think and pray and meditate about these hidden
                                        gifts, 
                                you will find there are many more ways than you have
                                         perceived.

Now, in view of all this, the wise minister will earnestly seek to 
        understand, 
        develop, and 
        use with increasing wisdom and depth such gifts as are given unto him.  
If you do this, then shall you become one among many in this day of outpouring of
        profoundly intelligent spiritual gifts that shall come.  
                And this time will come.