Tikkun Olam Team Member Highlight~ Anthony Harrison
Introduction and purpose in Wolf Point…
Greetings!
I am an image bearer of the One True and living God, Yahweh, Lord God most High! By Grace alone, through Faith alone, in Christ alone, I have the privilege and honor of being a son of God Almighty through the Son Christ Emmanuel, because of His living and all sufficient sacrifice upon the cross of wrath. Also, because of Yahweh’s goodness, witnessed in the Holy Spirit of adoption that raised Christ from the dead, whom has seen fit to possess me in the land of the living! To the Glory and Hallelujah for the Lord God Almighty in the Highest, for He is worthy!
Anthony Harrison is what I was named back in 1989.
~ I am geographically located in Fort Peck Native American Reservation because of The mandate (NOT the option) from the King of kings and the Lord of lords recorded in the following as such, by the Apostle Matthew…
“And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.” Matthew 28:18-20 NKJV
What have you learned about the community and its people?
~ What I have learned about the reservations from my time on this reservation can ultimately be summed up in this…
“But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”” Matthew 9:36-38 NKJV
What I have learned about the inhabitants of these territories cannot be addressed with such a broad brush stroke... Biblical Christianity is understood by very few… historically there has been a plethora of people whom have utter words with their lips about ABBA Yahweh, His Word, His Church, His Kingdom, and His Love offering, the Messiah, The Savior, The Son, Yeshua… However, as they have uttered with their lips concerning such matters, their hearts have been far from God in many many historical cases… many professing Christian’s lives and actions from days of old have bore contradiction to the objective, Biblical, life transforming ~ giving, and liberating Truth. This inherently inaccurate and false representation of Yahweh’s bride of Christ ~ the Church ~ narrative is grievous… It has produced grievous results generationally, which for many, not all, but many, this has produced an immense amount of offense and confusion.
Some have never even heard of Christ or His Gospel. Others might only know it as that white man’s religion nonsense or that corruptive talk that perverts the way of the Indians and incites fear. Some only know Christianity through the lens of Catholicism, boarding school abuse and trauma.
“But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”” Hebrews 1:8-9 ESV
This is the One whom the Saints and disciples of God Most High are called by to pick up their cross and follow, after denying themselves!
The ONE whom loves righteousness and hates wickedness is our standard to follow!
The Apostle Paul calls us to such a facet of this standard like this “Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.” Romans 12:9 NKJV
The Word of God says it like this in Proverbs 6:16-19 NKJV “These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren.”
And again in Proverbs 8:13 NKJV “The fear of the Lord ~ {Which by the way, is the beginning of Wisdom} ~ is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate.”
Yet, many of these abominations that the Lord God Most High hates, as seen in the above proverbs, is exactly what many indigenous people of this western hemisphere have experienced and witnessed generationally from {professing} Christians, repetitively! I emphasize the word {professing} because, honestly the Word of God says it very strongly, rightly and truly in….
1 John 3:7-9 NKJV “Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.”
Or consider James 2:19 food for thought, which states, ~ “You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe and tremble!”
These are some of the learnings I have come to realize regarding the inhabitants of these territories and the tribe’s historical interactions with what they believe to be Christianity.
Which ways are you involved/serving in the community?
~There are many ways that I have the privilege and honor to be involved in and serve this community.
My top three most cherished acts of involvement and engagement that I am eternally grateful for would be thus.
Living a life amongst the living in the reality of my introduction, empowered by Grace from on High!
Living out my response to that Great Love exchange throughout the various facets of life! That Great Love exchange would be, Loving the Lord my God with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my strength, with all my mind, with everything I am and with everything I have. With my all in all because HE first Loves me! By Grace! With that Grace I get to live in overflow, to where the reality is I get to Love my neighbor as myself!
What lavishly Great potential is given to us!
What will we do with it?
Thirdly~ “A sower went out to sow his seed.” Luke 8 NKJV
What are your goals while here on the reservation?
~ One of my primary goals for the inhabitants of this land in Fort Peck Native American Reservation is to equip and edify the Body of Christ with the sharp Truth of the Most High God, with a heavy emphasis on Unity in the Biblical Body of Christ, through a culture of intimate and Biblical prayer.
What is your hope and prayer for the Wolf Point community and the Fort Peck Native American Reservation at large?
~My hope and prayer for Fort Peck is...
“that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to them the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of their understanding being enlightened; that they may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” Ephesians 1:17-23 NKJV
Also, that there would be an Illumination of the heart of the people comparable to a great light in the darkness shining upon them and in them, to such a manifest extent that even the unbeliever cannot deny or dispute with objective validity or merit, that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand and has come upon them, and that the Finger of Yahweh fiercely drives out the strong holds of evil here and place it as a footstool under the Feet of the Lord of Host, where every enemy shall be inevitably placed. ~ Psalm 110 ~
That the heart of the people on the reservations would be rend bare and cut deep with the going forth of the Scripters, unto Biblical repentance.
That there would be a sincere, genuine, highly regarded value, thirst, and hunger for Biblical Truth, in and out of the Body of Christ!
Sola Scriptura!
In the Name above every other name ~ Christ Emmanuel! Amen!
The Zeal of the Lord of Host can and shall accomplish this!
Shalom!
Selah