The message on the tears of Calvary is especially for the Bride of Christ. Through Heaven’s understanding, every member of the bridal company should treasure the tears of Calvary. With love, peace, yearning and compassion, divinity cries. It is not necessary for actual salty tears to run down the face in order to cry the tears of Calvary. The ingredients in the tears of Calvary are from Heaven.

Many in the past have not accepted the tears of Calvary, have not let them become part of their hearts. But in this final hour, we must cry the tears of Calvary with all the love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and self-control that were in the tears of our Lord. These are the tears of divinity, and we are to be partakers of His divine nature. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (II Peter 1:4).

Those in the past with the tears of Calvary have paid dearly for them. Because the cost is so high, few people have cried them. Jesus paid the price to bring us those tears; it cost His place of glory in Heaven in exchange for a place of persecution and ridicule here on Earth for over thirty years. Taking on the form of a servant, Jesus came bringing the tears of Calvary for all to use. He made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Philippians 2:7,8). Jesus did not have a life of ease. In Luke 9:58 we read, And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. Not a bed to call His own…the Son of God came down from Heaven to this.

It cost Him a crown of thorns, shame. He was spat upon; His beard plucked out. In the Garden of Gethsemane His sweat became as blood as He cried the tears of Calvary.

The tears of Calvary always command Heaven’s attention; angels take note. The Brightest Jewel of Heaven was given for those tears. Divine tears shed by human beings is made possible through Jesus, the Son of the Living God. Jesus paid the price to make these tears possible; He paid it all, and all to Him we owe. Daily, some of you are willing to pay this price; you have come on into the greatness of the Lord, into the mighty outpouring of the rain of the Holy Spirit just like those in the Upper Room did on the day of Pentecost when the rain first fell.

Ponder the great work, the signs, wonders and miracles performed in the beginning of the Church Age through those who possessed the tears of Calvary. Then realize that those works will be done in this hour, only on a much greater scale, as God pours out His Holy Spirit. And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh (Acts 2:17). It is marvelous what God is doing in this last and final hour!

You have the same tears, with the same love, the same peace, joy, longsuffering, self-control—the same everything they had. Victorious tears, they reach the lost as well as Heaven’s throne every time they are shed.

As long as the tears of Calvary flow they bring hope, faith for our lost. No matter how stubbornly and determinedly loved ones have hardened their hearts, we can still have hope and faith for their salvation through the tears of Calvary. As divinity cries through us, the love, the faith of God—everything that God uses—flow.

How much will it cost for the tears of Calvary? Everything, everything. If we want to be like Jesus, we will have to give the way He gave. He held nothing in reserve. How can we do less?

Up-and-Down Simon Peter

What did Simon Peter pay for the tears of Calvary? He didn’t have them at first. When the Lord called him to discipleship, he had only human tears. Perhaps he cried when he dropped his nets to follow Jesus. It may have saddened him to think he might never pick them up again. A lot of us cried when we started out with Jesus; most of those tears, however, were cried over self, over what we were leaving behind. Peter had difficulty finding the tears of Calvary; in fact, he almost missed them. At times Peter had been used by Jesus in a great way, and yet at other times he failed the Lord miserably. Once close enough to Jesus to walk the waters, close enough to pull out a fish with tax money in its mouth, Peter backed away from Jesus in His most trying hour.

The night Jesus cried those tears of agony in the Garden, Peter should have been right there crying divine tears with Him. Peter had known the touch of the Master’s hand, had lived with divinity for three years, seen divinity perform wonders and miracles, raise the dead. Yet he wouldn’t yield all so that his understanding could be enlightened; he yielded to his own spirit rather than the Spirit of Jesus. In the Garden, Peter used the sword, cut off a man’s ear. He was ready to fight in his own way. Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath (John 18:11). Put up your sword, Peter; you will need a different sword, different tears to shed: tears of divinity.

Many of us have been ready to stand up for Jesus—in our own way. We’ve prepared to serve Him on our terms, to cry for the lost the way we want, walk paths of our own choosing instead of the Master’s. Not willing to leave our lives in the hands of God, we said, Lord, I commit everything to you; but we really didn’t. Everything’s on the altar, Lord; however it wasn’t. We told the Lord, I believe you, and yet we doubted Him. We declared, Lord, my soul, my heart, my very being is filled with your love; and still we were afraid. Peter was like that. At times fear took him over; it sunk him after he began walking on the water. Fear overwhelmed Peter when Jesus was arrested, when he discovered he couldn’t use his sword. He didn’t reach out for what Jesus had, for the power of Jesus.

Serve the Lord without Fear

The only way we can serve the Lord without fear is to take what He brought, what He paid for. It all is available. Jesus didn’t bring anything from Heaven that we don’t need, didn’t use anything on Earth out of our reach. We need the whole Jesus, the whole Christ, all of Him; and we need His kind of tears. Jesus didn’t cry over Himself; He cried tears for the lost. Tears of divinity flowed, bringing salvation and healing to a lost and dying world.

Ears Closed to the Truth

We don’t know if Peter stood close enough to Jesus at Calvary to hear His cries, to make out His words; we do know he was afar off in spirit, in love, in faith. Miles and miles away. Peter put distance between himself and the Old Rugged Cross, such a vast distance! He should have been there helping cry the tears of Calvary; he should have understood what made up those tears. He should have been there to explain Calvary to those who didn’t understand—but he wasn’t. Peter cried for himself, human tears.

And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly (Luke 22:61,62). Peter was weeping over his sin, over what he had done to Jesus in cursing and denying Him. Jesus had tried to explain the crucifixion; at one time Peter had rebuked Him for talking about it. At other times Peter confessed Jesus to be the Son of God. But when the Son of God talked about His dying, Peter slammed the door. He didn’t want to hear the truth. He should have been waiting outside the tomb when Jesus rose from the dead. Had he shed the tears of Calvary with Jesus, he would have been there. Peter’s example teaches us all never to fail the Lord.

Peter had difficulty growing up, and some today are just like him. They just can’t grow up; they’re not willing to do things God’s way. In this final hour it will cost you to walk with Jesus, to carry on His work if you want to do things His way. It will cost you to have His thoughts, to be rid of your opinions; but you must let them go before you can accept what thus saith the Lord.

The prophets of old cried with the tears of God: Thus saith the Lord! Thus saith the Lord! Thus saith the Lord! And the Bride of Christ will cry in this final hour. Her cry will go up to be heard to the ends of the earth, saith the Lord; and it will be Thus saith the Lord! Thus saith the Lord! With her spotless garments, her life as pure and clean as the Christ’s, the Bride will be a holy vessel filled to the brim at all times with Heaven’s greatness.

The Resurrection Changed Peter

Peter, Peter…it took the resurrection of the Son of God to change him. When he knew that Jesus had conquered death, hell and the grave, he repented. Watching Jesus ascend back to Heaven, Peter then heard the angel say, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven (Acts 1:11).

Peter, a changed man, headed for the Upper Room. Others followed. In obedience to the command of Jesus, they were there to receive the baptism in the Holy Ghost, the power from On High. When Peter came down from the Upper Room, he had the tears of Calvary never to lose them again. He would shed the same tears that Jesus shed when He was here. All the love, compassion of Jesus were now His.

Peter, the Bible tells us, on the day of Pentecost stood up before a multitude that so recently had called for the death of Jesus. He was the one delivering the message of Jesus, that powerful message of the Crucifixion and Resurrection. Filled with conviction, his words throbbed with the tears of Calvary. Boldly Peter proclaimed, Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ (Acts 2:36). You crucified the Just One, the Son of God, cried the tears of Calvary in his voice. Self had been put down; and Peter stood in the power, in the greatness of God.

Weak human tears have nothing to do with God’s message; only the tears of Calvary make it come alive in the hearts of men. Because of the tears of Calvary, people were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls (Acts 2:37,38,41).

Calvary’s story cannot really be told without the tears of divinity; it will not bring God’s results without those tears. But with the tears of Calvary, God’s results will be manifested in this final hour. Jesus had told the disciples: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father (John 14:12).

Now self has been totally conquered for Peter. Jesus is the One Peter is talking about when he writes: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed (I Peter 2:24). With the very same compassion as the Master’s—not only for the lost but for the sick and afflicted—the tears of Calvary will adorn the Bride night and day.

Self must be totally conquered for all who make up the Bride of Christ. You can’t talk God’s will but then disregard it, acting on your own, and still expect God’s results. You are going to be under great stress in this hour, distress, pressure. What will flow from you in these trying times? Will it be misguided temper like Peter’s before he conquered self, before he shed the tears of Calvary? What manner of person are you? Do you lose your temper, or do you have self-control?

If you can’t control your own spirit, then you can’t give it over to the Holy Spirit. You must be able to control your own spirit, bring it under subjection to the Holy Spirit so the Holy Spirit can use you one hundred percent. Sure, it will cost you; it will cost a crucifixion of self, of ego. Self must die and stay dead if Christ is to live within. With Christ living within, you will stand with the tears of Calvary as Peter stood before the multitude.

No Backing Down Now

Peter now had understanding of the tears of Calvary. Without asking the Lord the price, Simon at last is ready to pay. Arrested, questioned about the work of the Lord, shut away in prison, Peter knew the tears of Calvary had all the strength, all the help he needed. The tears of Calvary are the reason the angel of the Lord went into prison and brought him out. And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women (Acts 5:14). Peter states in verse 29, We ought to obey God rather than men. He was beaten for his obedience; it was the price he and other believers had to pay. Persecution, torture, murder threatened, but for Peter there was no backing down.

Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also (Acts 12:1-3). Stephen had been killed, now James—men close to Peter. Why were they killed? Were they all going to die? What would happen to the message of Jesus? Peter didn’t question the Lord; he was ready now to obey the Lord in everything. Persecuted, tempted, tried, treated like the scum of the earth, Peter was paying for the tears of Calvary. But he knew they were worth any price.

A Victorious Death

See Peter on his way to be crucified, crying the tears of Calvary. Salty tears are not running down his cheeks as he cries for the a lost and dying world; they’re the tears of Calvary. Oh Lord, raise up vessels to carry on your message after I am gone! Peter cries the tears of Calvary for those about to crucify him as he thinks: My Master took this walk years ago. I wish I would have walked it with Him. He didn’t forsake me then, and He hasn’t forsaken me today; He is with me still. Oh wonderful, loving Master that you are! You have been so good to me. You were with me in prison, out of prison, in persecutions. I’m not worthy to die like my Master. With all the love, the peace, the humility in the tears of Calvary flowing forth, Peter requested, historians tell us, that he be crucified with his head down. It took the tears of Calvary to decide such a thing, the love of Heaven. Crucify me with my head down!

Peter died a victorious death. When He gave his last cry before the soul took its flight, it was with the tears of Calvary. No self pity; no human tears for self, just the tears of Calvary flowing for lost, sick, afflicted, dying humanity.

Peter had paid a great price for those tears, but imagine what an experience was in store for him as he walked down the avenue of Glory to meet the One face to face who had brought those tears of Calvary to mankind!

Treasure the Tears

Realize how valuable the tears of Calvary are, oh Child of God. I treasure the tears of Calvary more than I do all the silver and gold on planet Earth. Caressing the tears of Calvary in my spirit down through the years, I have cried with those tears: Oh God, give me the lost at any cost! Oh God, don’t let me live if you aren’t going to give me souls. So many times I’ve told Him that. God, I have to win souls! I must have souls for my hire. Above all else, give me souls! The need for finances is very great, but instead of crying out for them I cry God, give me souls!

Are you willing to pay the price to shed the tears of Calvary, willing to die for Jesus’ name’s sake, to suffer? Are you willing to pay any cost, no matter how dear, that you may have the tears of Calvary? Or will you be content with human tears alone in this final hour? Will Heaven behold the tears of divinity or salty human tears rolling down those precious cheeks?

Man may not recognize these tears of divinity, but Heaven does. Heaven sees that love, that faith flowing just as clearly as we see tears running down the face. The Lord knows when we cry the tears of divinity; the angels mark the tears of Calvary wherever they appear. Never do they run down the cheeks of the littlest child of God without being acknowledged by Heaven.

Angels had seen and heard God cry in Old Testament days as man turned away from Him, but they never thought such a price would be paid to allow human beings to cry the tears of Calvary. No longer were God, His Son or the Holy Spirit crying by themselves; now man could cry the tears of divinity.

The First Martyr

Stephen—what price he paid—the supreme price of the martyr’s death! Why? The enemy raged because Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people (Acts 6:8). How was Stephen able to have all that faith, all that power to do the wonders and miracles? Through the tears of Calvary. That godly love and faith produce miracles; that godly faith and love specialize in the Word.

False witnesses rose up to accuse Stephen; the Bride of Christ will be confronted by false witnesses, too—the Judases—by all kinds of trials and temptations. Will you let them defeat you or will you allow them to make you strong? What will happen to you, oh, Child of God, in this final hour? You have free choice; you can choose the tears of Calvary if you pay the price, if you sacrifice the way the Early Church did.

Stephen preached like a man from another world; he described his accusers perfectly when he said, Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth (Acts 7:51-54). Such a message! Not with hatred or malice did Stephen preach it. He preached it with the tears of Calvary.

Stephen, so young to be killed, didn’t contend with God. He beheld God’s glory. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God (Acts 7:55,56). Stephen in his dying hour didn’t speak of the stones, the hatred in his accusers’ faces. He didn’t plead for his life; he asked God to forgive his murderers.

The tears of Calvary feel the need of salvation for the persecutors of the Cross. The tears of Calvary have compassion for those in sin, warning: You must be free from all sin if you would see Heaven. With his last breath, Stephen, moved by the tears of Calvary, kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep (Acts 7:60). We don’t hear him asking the Lord to ease his pain, to save his life; he didn’t cry human tears for himself but divine tears for the lost, the same tears Jesus cried on Calvary’s tree. Father, forgive!

Tears Warn of Judgment

Any minister possessing the tears of Calvary will warn of the judgments of God for sin and disobedience. In the love of God, His judgments flow forth as a warning to all to bring them into total obedience to Him. The judgments of God are coming; everyone without the saving grace of Jesus Christ in his or her heart is facing them. Our only protection is the mercy and grace of Calvary. Those without the tears of Calvary will not warn of God’s judgments; for they won’t have the message of Thus saith the Lord: destruction is coming! Turn to Him; He is your refuge in the storm!

The book of Revelation is considered by unbelievers to be a mystery; its judgments aren’t real to them. Those with the tears of Calvary, however, know all the horror described in Revelation will come to pass. The tears of Calvary embrace Heaven, but the tears of Calvary are very much aware of the reality of hell. The tears of Calvary accept eternal joy and bliss for the believer, and they accept eternal damnation for the unbeliever.

The tears of Calvary…what will they cost you? They will cost you friends, loved ones, perhaps your own companion. But whatever the cost, the tears of Calvary are worth the paying.

No Compromise with Sin

You won’t be popular with the message of living free from sin, but the tears of Calvary present the truth: Freedom from all sin. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace (Romans 6:14). If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36).

In the tears of Calvary, the message goes forth loud and clear. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil (I John 3:8). For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries (Hebrews 10:26,27). If you willingly sin against the Lord, Jesus is no longer your sacrifice. In the tears of Calvary is no compromise.

John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus, possessed the tears of Calvary: the love, peace, joy, self-control, faith…he embraced it all. From his mother’s womb he had the Holy Ghost. He grew up full of the Holy Ghost, in the power of God and with the tears of Calvary for lost humanity.

Repent! rings loud and clear in the tears of Calvary. John the Baptist believed in repentance. In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matthew 3:1,2). Had John the Baptist not believed people must be free from all sin, he would have baptized everyone. But when he saw the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to Jordan where He was baptizing, he said, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?…every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire (verses 7,10). Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance (verse 8). When you repent with an honest heart, determined not to sin again, you find forgiveness. You are delivered from your sins.

John refused to baptize those who had not repented of their sins.

Standing at the Crossroads

Thank God for people like John the Baptist so willing to pay such a price! What will you pay? To have the tears of Calvary, you will pay many times. In one way or another it will cost your life, giving a little at a time, day after day, or giving it all at once. You’re at the crossroads now, and you must decide which way to take.

I was at the crossroads years ago. The Lord had given me the gift of discerning of spirits, and all hell was boiling over. Ministers who had been my friends for years and years turned against me, fighting the gifts of God that were in my life. Forget what you have received, they were telling me. Renounce the gifts of God, deny them? I could no more deny the gifts of God than I could have denied my hands. Standing at the crossroads I heard man say, Go this way; but I heard God say, If you walk with me, if you have my gifts, you must walk straight ahead, put everything, everyone on the altar, and be willing to die for my name’s sake. No one but God knows how I was persecuted, how I was cast down.

Seeing all that I was going through, my wife Angel would ask at times, “Honey, what does God expect of you?” I would tell her, “I don’t know, but whatever it is, I will pay.” That’s all I told Angel, and it’s all I tell God. False accusation of fanaticism, that I had gotten into the power of the devil, came against me. To think that anyone would dare call the precious power of the Holy Ghost to be of the devil was a terrible grief to me. Before the Lord I would weep, fast and cry out to Him. I put all of the altar, all my kin, everything and everyone. I found myself standing before God, willing to die for Him. Persecution brought me into this willingness; the tears of Calvary for a sick, afflicted, lost and dying world helped me to do it. I told Jesus I wanted to be like Him, that I would pay any price. I wouldn’t count my own life dear.

You will have to do likewise—the Early Church did. Now it’s come your time, saith the Lord. You stand at the crossroads. Some of you are being tempted to hold onto people who will draw you back into the world. You’re afraid of what they will think if you make a commitment to Christ, what they will say and do. If you give into that fear, you will fail God. Stand up and put your life into the hands of God, to live or die for His name’s sake. I would rather die today than fail God tomorrow. I can’t fail my Lord.

Vessels Filled with the Breath of God

God made an empty vessel in the form of a man, and that vessel stayed empty until God filled it with Himself. He called that empty vessel Adam. Breathing into that form, God created in Adam a living soul; divinity was in him, giving him life. Until he failed God, Adam had it all; nothing was lacking. Everything in the tears of Calvary was in that first man—before he gave in to disobedience. Had Adam not fallen from grace, Calvary never would have been necessary. But man lost divinity, and Calvary was needed to make the way back to God. When man lost divinity, he lost its benefits and turned back into an empty shell. He had come to the crossroads and taken the wrong way. Man was separated from His God. Without God dwelling within, people are just shells, empty vessels that can’t be used, that refuse to be filled.

Only through the tears of Calvary could man be cleansed, could he find his way back to divinity, made holy. Only through Calvary. It would take tears, divine tears from On High, sacrificial tears to bring man back into that communion with God that had been lost. But that One who loved us so greatly said, Father, I’ll go. I’ll go. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (John 1:14).

The One who had helped create that first vessel of clay, Adam, now Himself lived in a vessel of clay. He had come to restore man’s fellowship with God. This vessel contained every godly quality found in the first Adam before the fall, all of it. Sin had no dominion, no power over Him. Not even death had power over Christ. He said, I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again (John 10:17,18). He did just that…a vessel of clay with divinity living within.

Jesus was the second Adam. The first Adam had failed, brought death upon the human race; but the second Adam came and conquered death, hell and the grave for all. Now other vessels are filled, vessels of clay; they’ve been cleansed through the blood of the Lamb; divinity has moved in to tabernacle with them, to never leave them again. In life and death, the Lord dwells within. What price victory—but, oh, what sweet victory it is! To be a Jesus overcomer is the greatest thing that could be said about anyone on planet Earth today. You will not be a Jesus overcomer without the tears of Calvary.

Paul Paid It All

What a price the Apostle Paul paid! The Lord said, He is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake (Acts 9:15,16). Paul never saw Jesus in the flesh, but now the Lord would show Paul the price he would have to pay. No one but Jesus suffered like Paul.

Paul describes some of his persecutions in II Corinthians 11:23-30: In labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. In I Corinthians 15, Paul writes that he died daily, was in jeopardy every hour.

In a vision Jesus came to Paul and said, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. What was Paul’s response? Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong (II Corinthians 12:9,10). Most gladly, Paul said. He had the tears of Calvary.

In speaking of his infirmities, Paul is not referring to sicknesses and diseases. What then were these infirmities? Paul in II Corinthians 12:7 refers to them as a thorn in the flesh, and he clearly tells us just what that thorn was: the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

Paul didn’t worry about being in need, for he said, My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). When he was weak, he became strong in the power of the Lord, for the Lord took over his weakness and the Lord’s strength moved through him. How did Paul have such great vision of the Lord? He had the tears of Calvary.

What will you pay? If you want the tears of Calvary they will cost you everything. They cost Paul everything.

In Acts 14:19 we read that Paul was stoned and left for dead. No doubt this is the time he was caught up into the third Heaven that he speaks of in II Corinthians 12:2-4: I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

In Acts 16 we find Paul and Silas beaten with many stripes. Their backs are raw, burning like fire. No man comes to their aid, but they have the incomparable comfort of the tears of Calvary. Those tears brought a revival. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed (Acts 16:25,26). The jailor, horrified to see his prisoners freed, drew his sword and would have killed himself. But Paul cried out that they were all there; he should do himself no harm. The jailor called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house (Acts 16:29-31).

Those tears of Calvary shed by Paul and Silas brought a revival, an earthquake of power. The tears of Calvary held Paul and Silas in prison until souls were won. Why were they beaten and thrown in jail in the first place? Because they had cast a fortunetelling demon out of a girl, and the devil was upset.

When you do the works of Christ, there is a price to pay. All hell will come against you. How much will you pay? If you do the works of Jesus, you are willing to die for Him.

The Early Church disciples walked those paths of commitment with the tears of Calvary. In the tears of Calvary no sacrifice is too great for the lost, for the sick and afflicted. In the tears of Calvary you find the fasting, the praying—Heaven’s prayers—and you find the living Word in glorious action.

Do you want to be like Jesus? Paul did. He writes in Philippians 3:10, That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death. Paul wanted to know everything about Jesus, to know Him in all ways. He would suffer like Jesus, cry with the same tears and use the power of His Resurrection to deliver many. Rise and walk, Paul told the crippled. He breathed life into a dead boy through the great anointing and breath of God—Paul who once had persecuted Christians, had them imprisoned and put to death for the sake of Christ! A consenting Paul held the coats of those stoning Stephen. But on the road to Damascus, Paul met Jesus. Never afterward was he the same, for he picked up the Cross and took on the tears of Calvary, the power of that Cross, the deliverance. I admire him greatly; I study his life, weigh his words.

The Earth Will Be Shaken

In this final hour, the Bride of Christ will bring about many earthquakes of power from On High as she carries the tears of Calvary. As the tears of Calvary flow from her, the earth will be shaken with the power of Almighty God. What price will you pay to be a part of such an awakening? What price will you pay to be the hand of God in this final hour? What price will you pay to be the vessel of God, filled with all of His love, all of Himself the way Adam was in the beginning? What price will you pay until you can talk like Him, act like Him, be like Him so that God will come down and walk hand in hand with you in the cool of the day, talking to you as one human being would talk to another?

In this final hour, with the tears of Calvary, we will walk hand in hand with our Lord. His voice will be in our ears, and we will know the will of God, know what is about to take place in the hour in which we live. We will see the harvest being brought in in abundance. As the sun is going down, we will work. We will work till the close of day, until we hear that long-awaited shout: Hallelujah, the King cometh! The King cometh! Oh, blessed be the name of the Lord!

Miracles throughout the Earth

With the Precious Seed, with the tears of Calvary, we will sow the message of Jesus throughout the whole earth. The tears of Calvary bring great results.

We took the tears of Calvary to Africa, and over one hundred thousand were saved in one service. We took the tears of Calvary and one hundred seventy thousand miracles and healings took place in a single night. We took the tears of Calvary to a native woman who had carried her son on her back all the way to the service because he could not walk, not one step. As we served tears of Calvary, suddenly the boy began to move on his mother’s back. She let him stand and then rejoiced to see him walk off as though nothing had ever been wrong.

We took the tears of Calvary, and I looked down into the crowd to a paralyzed sixteen-year-old girl. She had been carried there, hopeless and helpless, placed on a blanket spread on the ground. But we had brought the tears of Calvary, and suddenly that compassion—the same compassion that Jesus used when he cleansed the leper—suddenly the tears of compassion of Calvary flowed, and the Lord made her completely whole. As she stood, people began to shout and crowd around her. Made whole through the tears of Calvary, she who had been paralyzed walked up onto the high platform to give her testimony.

In Calvary’s tears are all the power that Jesus used to heal the sick and afflicted, all He used to give the blind sight, to raise the dead. The Bride will treasure the tears of Calvary above everything else in this final hour. It will be her power, strength, greatness because she will be just like her Master. She will talk like Him, believe like Him, hope like Him and have compassion like Him. You will not be able to separate the Bride from Jesus; she is bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Glory be to God for evermore! What rejoicing there will be in Heaven in the final countdown time of the great harvest as it is being brought in!

My Deepest Valley

God has used the life of Paul in a special way to bring me where I am today. Often I have lived with Him through the Word of God. I never thought I could ever be worthy of one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit; never would I have fasted and sought one of the gifts had the Lord not come to me that night I was dying and made me whole, telling me that later I would go on a long fast and afterward I would have the gifts of healing. That was the first time I ever knew that I could and would have any one of the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. I was frightened, but I didn’t have one doubt what He told me was true. I was in His very presence, my body charged with the greatness of Him. Divinity had taken over until I didn’t physically have the strength to stand before Him. Helpless in His hands, I was on His operating table. No wonder I love Him so; He gave me life when I was close to death. I owe everything to Him.

The hardest time of all was when the Lord took my darling wife Angel. He came one night and said, “You will have to surrender Angel. Angel is not your source of power. I am the source of your power.” That was all He said; He left me then. His words burned upon my soul, heart and spirit. I pondered them. Oh Lord, I’ve never thought Angel was my source of power. But the Lord speaks in strange ways to His children on Earth. I didn’t realize what a source of strength she really was to me. I didn’t know that when she went home to be with the Lord, I would feel I couldn’t go on breathing without her, that I couldn’t live. It is unspeakably agonizing to love someone that much and lose that one. My breath didn’t come right, but what did it matter; she was gone. I never knew a valley could be that deep. But Jesus found me there; nursed me in a way no one else could, for the valley was too overwhelming. He carried me out of that valley with His pure love, His pure strength, with His voice in my ear saying, I am the Lord that walketh with thee. I don’t know the many times He spoke those words to me before He finally pulled me out of that terrible valley of death. One thing I knew: when Angel died, I died.

The Lord still uses those words of faith and comfort today when I need extra help: I am the Lord that walketh with thee. All the tears of Calvary are in that statement. Why had God brought two people together bound in such holy love and then separated them? To bring about His plan of deliverance in this final hour, to bring about His plan to take the Gospel to the whole world. I could have no other source of power than the Lord.

Nothing will stop us now. We have the tears of Calvary. I reach for His tears, and I cry His tears. I walk in His strength with His voice in my ears. Oh blessed tears of Calvary! There is no need for me to question my heart how much it will pay. It will pay all. I don’t ever struggle with the cost. Just to know I am in His will is enough. Just to know that I live in Him and He lives in me, that I am chosen of Him to do His work, gifted by Him to preach His Gospel is enough, just to know the angel of the Lord always stands by my side when I begin praying for the sick and afflicted. It’s enough.

A Crown of Righteousness

The tears of Calvary have brought about this ministry; they make up miracles services, ordered and ordained by Heaven. I never, never wrestle with ego. With the Apostle Paul, when the time comes I will say, For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith (II Timothy 4:6,7). No one can honestly say that without the tears of Calvary. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing (verse 8).

What will we pay? We will pay all. What will we give? We will give all. How much will we grumble and complain? Not any. We will glory in the persecutions and trials as Paul did. We will suffer, and suffer much. It isn’t going to become easier; but we will have more victory, more power, more strength from On High as more people come into the Ark of the Lord to shed the tears of Calvary. More harvest will be brought in as greater miracles take place. In the mighty, mighty tears of Calvary, the gift of miracles at last will operate in perfection. God will shake the earth one more time with His power, and then the end will come, saith the Lord.

Lift up your heart in prayer and say: Oh God, I will pay! I will not let anyone hinder me, son, daughter, husband, wife, friends—no one will hinder me. I put everyone on the altar as I present myself to you, Lord. You have all of me. You will be first every day, every night that I have left. I just ask for the tears of Calvary that I might help bring in the lost, that I might help the sick and afflicted to receive miracles and healings from On High. I separate myself unto you. I give myself into your hands like I have never given myself before. My desires will be upon you day and night, Lord. I will always run after you, yielding to your ways. No longer will I stand at the crossroads. I take the straight, narrow love road, and I walk in your divine will. I have come to do thy will. I want to be just like Jesus. I will pay as Peter paid, as Stephen, as Paul paid, as others paid. I will pay the price to have all the greatness in the tears of Calvary. I will be somewhere working for you, Lord, when you come or call. You will find me with the tears of Calvary, crying for the lost, the sick and afflicted throughout the whole earth. I love you Jesus! I love you Jesus!