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POURED OUT FROM VESSEL TO VESSEL
QUOTE KATHRYN KUHLMAN
on God TV 6/26/09
Originally recorded in 1967
Jer 48:11-12 AMP
Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has
settled on his lees {like wine} and has not been drawn
off from one vessel to another, neither has he gone into
exile. Therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent
has not changed. 12 Therefore behold, the days are
coming, says the Lord, when I shall send to {Moab}
tilters who shall tilt him up and shall empty his
vessels and break his bottles (earthenware) in pieces.
“All that I knew, was that I was going to lick the world
for God. I was a one-girl army expecting to lick the
world for God. Everything was wonderful. I was never
weary in body. I knew no fatigue. Then came the day
when I got the message that Papa had been killed. It
was between Christmas and New Years. Only God knows how
I loved my Papa! Up until that time, it was the first
sorrow I had ever known. The only sorrow that had ever
come into my life. My Papa.
My Papa had been killed before he had ever heard me
preach a sermon. When they were having the funeral
service for my Papa, I can not tell you one word that
was spoken. I can not tell you a song that was sung. I
only remember, before they closed the casket, I reached
over and I laid my hand on Papa’s shoulder. The
shoulder where I used to lay my head, when, as a child I
had a toothache, - as a child.
There was such healing power. There was such sympathy,
such warmth, such consolation in Papa’s shoulder - and
I laid my hand on Papa’s shoulder. And I knew something
for the first time in my life. I knew what real
resurrection power was. I was experiencing something I
had never known before. I was experiencing the precious
Presence of Jesus. Do you want to know the Man of
sorrow? Do you really want to know? Do you really want
to know the reality of Jesus Christ? Do you want to
know Him as a Person? Then go to the valley of
weeping. Go through a Gethsemane.
Ps 84:5-7 NLT
Happy are those who are strong in the LORD, who set
their minds on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. 6 When they
walk through the Valley of Weeping, it will become a
place of refreshing springs, where pools of blessing
collect after the rains! 7 They will continue to grow
stronger, and each of them will appear before God in
Jerusalem.
Isa 53: 3,4 NKJV
He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows
and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our
faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem
Him. 4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our
sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God,
and afflicted.
I walked with pleasure and she chattered all the way
And then left me none the wiser for all she had to say.
I walked a mile with sorrow and ne'er a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned from her when sorrow
walked with me!
Why do you think I can be a comfort to you? Why do you
think I can help you in your hour of sorrow? No person
can give to another any more than they have experienced
themselves. And He took that sorrow and He poured it
again into another vessel. My life was rich. I wasn’t
the same person that I was before. My ministry wasn’t
the same as it was before. It was a richer life. It
was a deeper life. {Kathryn has tears running down her
cheeks and her nose was running as she pours out her
heart to share this.}
Have you ever had your heart broken? Do you know what
it really means to make a consecration? Do you know why
I can tell you over and over again, that it costs much.
But its worth the price. I can tell you because I
know.
The greatest decision I ever made in my life was a
railroad station in LA California. It was the greatest
decision I ever made. It was the greatest consecration
I ever made. I have loved and I have loved deeply. I
don’t do anything half way. And somehow God has given
me a great capacity for love. I am human too. I am
human, sometimes I think I am so very human. But, I
made my choice and I chose my Master and a life of
service for Him.
I vowed to put Him first. And when I got on that train
at the railroad station in Los Angeles, all I had was
the suit I was wearing and the dress that I called my
pulpit dress in the suitcase and my Bible. I never
heard the whistle of a train, I never heard the clicking
and clacking of the wheels of a locomotive, but that I
remember that ride. I had made my decision. And He
poured it again into a vessel...
...That first service, there were exactly 38 people.
But, my friend, that was the beginning of the ministry
that you know now. That was the beginning of a
supernatural power of God in my life and my ministry.
For one week later, a woman stood up in a service and
said, “You know Kathryn, last night while you were
preaching, I was sitting here in the auditorium and
something happened to me. I was healed by the power of
God. I was so sure I was healed that I went to my
doctor. I was examined today and he’ll verify my
healing.’
I knew the secret. It was the power of the Holy Spirit,
using the vessel that was in His hand. Surrender to
Him. He doesn’t ask for golden vessels. He doesn’t ask
for silver vessels. All that He asks for is yielded
vessels. And He’ll take that yielded vessel and He will
pour it. And He will pour it into another vessel. And
you and I may look up through blinding tears sometimes
and say, “Father God, I don’t understand, why did You
allow this thing to happen to me? Why did you create
this thing to happen to me? Why?”
Remember, He never makes a mistake. The great Master
hand does the pouring. For every stone that bruised my
feet, for every hill I’ve ever climbed, for every
heartache, I do give praise to Him, for these were
things that made me strong.
In this moment, wipe away those blinding tears. Can’t
you understand, He never makes a mistake. Never, I
promise you. As I turn the pages of my own life back, I
thank Him for those things. I thank Him. I wouldn’t be
the person that I am this hour. I couldnt help you, if
I had never known heartache. If I had never known
sorrow. If I had never paid the price. I couldn’t feel
your heart, I couldn’t feel your burden. I couldn’t
understand you.
And one of these days after He has poured the vessel for
the last time, the last pouring. And He’ll take us all
the way from earth into His Presence. And I pray that I
shall hear from His own lips, “Well done, thou good and
faithful servant.”
{end Kathryn quote}
Matt 25:23 NKJV
His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful
servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I
will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy
of your lord.'
2 Cor 1:3-7 NKJV
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort , 4
who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be
able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the
comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
consolation also abounds through Christ. 6 Now if we are
afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation,
which is effective for enduring the same sufferings
which we also suffer. Or if we are comforted, it is for
your consolation and salvation. 7 And our hope for you
is steadfast, because we know that as you are partakers
of the sufferings, so also you will partake of the
consolation.
Isa 53 NKJV
53:1 The Sin-Bearing Messiah Who has believed our
report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been
revealed? 2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender
plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form
or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty
that we should desire Him. 3 He is despised and rejected
by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And
we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised,
and we did not esteem Him. 4 Surely He has borne our
griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him
stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was
wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our
iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep
have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own
way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us
all. 7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He
opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the
slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth. 8 He was taken from prison
and from judgment, And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the
transgressions of My people He was stricken. 9 And they
made His grave with the wicked — But with the rich at
His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any
deceit in His mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to
bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His
soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He
shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD
shall prosper in His hand. 11 He shall see the labor of
His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My
righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear
their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide Him a
portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil
with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto
death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And
He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the
transgressors.
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