Five-Fold Today - 4th Quarter Lakers - Gifted??? - Esther, It's Time - Ongoing Revelation - Winds of change - If God Has Called You - The Buckboard and the Church Building - A Word for Intercessors

June 7, 2000

Hello Jay,

Did you watch the game Sunday? This is what my son said "God" revealed to him as he was watching the game( he is 21 years old) I believe it will bless you as you read it.

Eudora Harrington

The lakers were down by 15 going into the 4th quarter. Phil (the coach) told the team to stick with the game plan. Don't change it just stick with what I taught you in the word, the plan (my plan saids the Lord). Yes, I know you are under pressure right now, and you feel as though you may crack, but God is saying stick with the plan. Lakers over came a 15 point deficit and won by 5. We're going into the 4th quarter down by 15 and GOD is telling us to stick with the game plan. Things may be hard right now, the pressure is on, the enemy wants to deceive you and pursuade you to make the wrong move, the enemy wants you to crack under pressure, BUT God says not so! stick with me and I will take you places you have never been. you make Game 7 Winner takes all loser goes home. (devil you got to go...you're a loser, I am on the winning team. I stuck with the plan (my fathers plan and came out a winner!) The pressure was on, L.A. going into the 4th quarter but L.A. did not crack. They did not fold under Pressure. Pressure is the biggest weapon the enemy uses against us and if we don't crack under pressure we will come out victorous just like L.A. God is saying to the body of Christ today, don't fold under presure... You are in the fourth quarter, you don't know how you are going to win, you are tired, exhausted and weary but the Lord saids "stick to the plan" you may think you can't make it, that no one knows how you feel, that you need some help, that you are up under so much preasure you will break if help don't come soon. But God is saying because of my love for you, because of my purpose for your life, because I have heard your groanings, your cries, because I have felt your pain and know your heart..... You shall! you will be victorious! You shall overcome I know you will saith the Lord " I have already prayed for you, saith God! And when you overcome , this is what I want you to do" I want you to GO BACK AND STRENGTHEN YOUR BROTHER! After YOU OVERCOME, I KNOW YOU WILL, as you stick to the plan! ...JUST STICK WITH THE PLAN!!!!

LOVE GOD

From: MajJoshua@aol.com
Subject: [NEW-WINE] Gifted???

Dear Body:

There is a worship song that I just enjoy whole heartily. The chorus says "As long as I have breath, I will sing your praise, as long as I can sign I will sing your praises. Where ever you lead me, I will follow you."

That is my hearts cry to be where the father has sent me, doing what the father has anointed me to do. Recently, I was serving on a ministry staff under an excellent anointed pastor. I was sharing him my hearts passion is to minister with the youth. He shared with me how he was seeking God's direction for a new youth pastor. Now, in the natural we could have said our eternal father brought us together. (I moved 1200+ miles west.) Pastor Roger having a hearts desire to follow after God's leading (weather popular or not) said "I want an Isaac for the youth [one who is anointed and appointed) not an Ishmel (looks good, good fill in). I must admit, I was slightly offended because I felt he totally overlooked the anointing I had active in my life. Later I realized that is not what he was saying. He wanted God's choice. I must admit, I could have done an excellent job ministering and training the youth. BUT, if it was not my place to be, It would not have worked out. We all would have become frustrated. I thank God that Pastor Roger made the decision based on what the Holy Spirit was leading him. Today, Calvary has a wonderful youth ministry team. The youth are hungry and ignighted for Jesus. The youth pastors are mentoring and discipling the youth to a level that I am not sure if I could have.

We in the body of Christ are ALL anointed. Upon salvation God plants awesome seeds in our lives. We must nurture these seeds by watering them with the word of God. The purpose of the body of Christ is not to plow over each other to get to the finish line first. (did you read that). We have developed the mentality that only a few are selected by our father to be used. The scriptures declare that EACH of us is called. We all have destinies in Christ. The word of God states that our gifts will make room for us. Then why do we constantly race each other for "positions." We get so caught up in titles and names (self glorification). We (the Body of Christ) ALL have gifting and talents that our father has given us. We are ALL to impact those around us for Christ. Are you changing the world around you, or is the world around you changing you?

The week that Billy Graham received Christ as his savor, he was one of two that came forward in the meetings. What would have happened if the evangelist decided to cancel the meetings because he was not seeing the numbers saved?

The word of God states that we were created for such a time as this. This is your day, shine bright.

In Christ,

Rev. Gary

A Prophetic Call---Esther, It's Time

By Kim Puffpaff

There is a prophetic call going forth for the end times bride to take her rightful place in the throne room of the king. It is time for Esther to display her beauty for the king.

Once again the nation of Israel is on the verge of annihilation as a people. The spirit of Haman (destruction) is raising forth its ugly head. Plans are set in motion, God has revealed the plot through the Holy Spirit, Mordecai and the counter move is already set in motion.

Esther, you have been chosen from birth for this day, taken from being an orphan and adopted by the Holy Spirit....You have come into the kingdom for such a time as this...You have come through the spirit of rejection and have been schooled in the spirit of humility and obedience.....You have learned to be obedient to the voice of the Holy Spirit and obey His every instruction....

I have soaked you in my oil of anointing for many days now. I have immersed you in the perfume of my worship. You have smelled my fragrance and the extravagance of it many times...Your preparation is about to end....For you have found favor in the eyes of the King, He has prepared a royal feast for you and given you royal robes to wear.

You have the authority to approach the King....because you have been chosen and because of your place of intimacy with Him....Intimacy brings favor....Now is the time to come forth.....For I will have a bride who dares to come into my throne room.....the cry of the Holy Spirit is coming forth in the gates of the city....He will not rest until a deliverer has come forth...

For I will enable you to deliver the people once again....He who has come down to deliver, will enable you to deliver....I have placed the fortitude of a solider within....I will have a bride who says....if I perish, I perish....but have mercy on your people Oh, God.....show your compassion once again....

For I have given you the Keys.....they are in your hands...the keys will unlock every door that has been shut by the enemy...for you will say to the north, give them up and to the south, do not hold them back...you will call my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth....!

You alone have the authority to enter the throne room....you have fasted, now you will give a feast for the King.....you will give a feast of wine for the King.....and He will extend His scepter to you and say, Ask of me, what do you want.....up to half the kingdom is yours......

. For intimacy with the king, the preparation you have gone through, will grant you entrance into His royal throne room...and He will gaze on the bride who He loves.....and grant deliverance to the people once again...

It is time for Esther to come forth. It is time for her to take her place in the throne room of the king....Will you say yes to the call? Will you say if I perish, I perish..? For you have come into the kingdom for such a time as this.......

Raise up your deliverers, oh God!

ONGOING REVELATION
by Dr. Kluane Spake

The book of Genesis contains the seedbed of Biblical truth. The garden became the birthplace of the whole shebang! All creation and all nations began in the garden. Eternal principles such as seed time and harvest began there. Civilization emerged on the sixth day when Adam (being both male and female) was made in the image and likeness of God (Gen.1:27).

God said, Let Us make man (the term man is universal, not gender specific -- i.e. literally, let us make a human) in Our image (shape, phantom, resemblance) according to Our likeness (like fashion, similitude); and let them (plural) have dominion over the fish of the sea.... And God called "their name Adam (Gen. 1). Male and female.... This God-like image refers to the faculties that Adam acquired from the Creator to be like Him and to relate to Him. Humanity was made IN His image, to be like God.

We are familiar with the commission given to Adam (being both male and female)

  1. Be fruitful = grow, reproduce after own kind. To produce again, or bring into existence, to make offspring of its own kind.
  2. Multiply = increase, become numerous.
  3. Fill the earth = replenish, fill to abundance, to satisfy
  4. Subdue it = conquer, bring under subjection, tread down.
  5. Have dominion = to reign over, take rule over everything that lives.
* This imprint of God's image was distorted at the fall.
Jesus died to RESTORE this EDENIC condition:
Redemption is what took Christianity out of the realms of religion and philosophy and made it a living reality. Redemption means "to restore" or to "buy back" or to put back the way it was before. We need the character strength and resolve to access what is our inheritance We must not ignore the total work of the cross which ultimately brings us back to the privilege of Eden (which means God's delight). Redemption enables humankind (the new creation) to return to this spiritual IMAGE and intent of God. These are not just words and thoughts, this is a way of life!

( Acts 3:21 tells us that Jesus is "held in the heavenlies" until the restoration of all things. What things? We need to answer that from the vantage of men and women's potential from BEFORE THE FALL INSTEAD OF AFTER THE FALL. "All things" will be restored - and no cultural expectation, sordid contemporary pressure, religious error, nor any other temporal obstruction has the power to interrupt or counteract the restoration that will take place. The reality of God's intentions will be accomplished. Restored believers (both men and women) will execute dominion rule on this earth.

As we press into this truth, let's do so assured of the ONGOING revelation from the very beginning. The ceaseless stream of God's perpetual design flows from the dawn of humanity until our day. God clearly authorized and decreed His precise eternal plan -- that of effective kingdom ministry dynamically impacting the world. We see this truth clarified as we overlay Adam's five-fold commission over the five fold ministry in operation. In doing this, we obtain further clarity with extended definition of the five-fold ministry for today.

  1. Fruitfulness = To bring forth others of the same kind. The ministry of the Apostle brings into existence the reproduction and replication of God's likeness and image. (The husbandman patiently waits for fruit (James 5:7) -- the produce of the Tree of Life).
  2. Multiplication = The act of increase is predicated upon the prophetic ministry calling God's plan into being.
  3. Filling the earth = The action of filling the earth with believers is accomplished by the Evangelists.
  4. Subduing = The pastor leads the congregation into conquering the soul realm and bringing carnality and every evil work into subjection.
  5. Dominion = The teacher reveals the rhema information necessary for the believer to transform the mind and accomplish dominion. As believers, our potential inheritance is to LIVE LIKE Jesus and to be restored to our original pre-fall likeness and image. That ONGOING SALVATION should also bring our ministry into resurrection LIFE - now. We are all challenged to take up the LIFE that Christ died to give.

Truth pulls the New Creation forward until it finally emerges from the cave of revelation and focuses on bringing forth the relevant kingdom issues. God's people, originally created to fully function in five-fold ministry, now become restored to their Edenic design. Jesus paid a high price for us to become heirs of His great and precious promises so that we could "participate in the divine nature" (1 Peter 1:4). Let's initiate His return by intimately imaging His likeness. Let's embrace and enact the absolute redemption that God intended for us to find. It's His delight.

Dr. Kluane Spake
http://www.spake.org/spake

A word through Rich Hughlett

"Winds of change, Winds of change," Saith the Lord. "For I am releasing mighty winds of change from the four corners of the earth, for the demolition of the old for the rebuilding of the new. Winds of change for the uncovering of the hidden, winds of change for the revealing of the truth. There shall be winds for re-evaluation, winds for relocation, winds for restoration, winds for refining, winds for realigning, winds for refreshing, winds for blessing, winds for repentence, winds for salvation, winds for prosperity, winds for healing, winds for deliverance, winds for consecration, and winds for sanctification."

"To those who resist, the winds will bring destruction, but for those who yield to my Spirit they will be winds that will propel them on the course that I have prepared for them. So seek my face to set your compass, and spread your wings and allow the currents of my Spirit to bring the changes that must be made to bring you higher and closer to me," Saith the Lord.

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At the beginning of the prophecy I saw the winds of a great storm blowing debris everywhere, and towards the end of the message I saw in my mind a great eagle hovering above her nest violently flapping her wings .

When I came to the word sanctification, the Holy Ghost spoke these words to me which I feel are not part of the prophecy, but are for counsel and instruction especially to those in leadership.

"A greater circle of influence requires a smaller circle of sanctification."

Rich Hughlett

If God Has Called You

Author Unknown

Submitted by Priscilla

If God has called you to really be like Jesus in all your spirit, He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility, and put on you such demands of obedience, that He will not allow you to follow other Christians, and in many ways He will seem to let other good people do things which He will not let you do.

Other Christians and ministers who seem very religious and useful may push themselves, pull wires, and work schemes to carry out their plans, but you can not do it; and if you attempt it, you will meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord as to make you sorely penitent.

Others can brag on themselves, on their work, on their success, on their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any such thing, and if you begin it, He will lead you into some deep mortification that will make you despise yourself and all your good works.

Others will be allowed to succeed in making great sums of money, or having a legacy left to them, or in having luxuries, but God may supply you daily, because He wants you to have something far better than gold, and that is a helpless dependence on Him, that He may have the privilege of providing your needs day by day out of the unseen treasury.

The Lord may let others be honored, and put forward, and keep you hid away in obscurity, because He wants to produce some choice, fragrant fruit for His coming glory, which can only be produced in the shade.

God will let others be great, but keep you small, He will let others do work for Him and get the credit for it, but He will make you work for Him , and toil on without knowing how much you are doing; and then to make your work still more precious, He will let others get the credit for the work which you have done, and this will make your reward ten times greater when Jesus comes.

The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch on you, with a jealous love, and will rebuke you for little words and feelings or for wasting your time, which other Christians never seemed distressed over. So make up your mind that God is an Infinite Sovereign, and has a right to do as he pleases with his own, and He will not explain to you a thousand things which may puzzle your reason in His dealings with you.

God will take you at your word; and if you absolutely sell yourself to be His slave, He will wrap you up in a jealous love, and let other people say and do many things that you cannot do or say.

Settle if forever, that you are to deal directly with the Holy Spirit, and that He is to have the privilege of tying your tongue, or chaining your hand, or closing your eyes, in ways that others are not dealt with. Now when you are so possessed with the living God that you are, in your secret heart, pleased and delighted over His peculiar, personal, private, jealous guardianship and management of the Holy Spirit over your life, you will have found the vestibule of heaven.

The Buckboard and the Church Building.

Becky McLendon

I was riding beside a buckboard driver. Suddenly the driver whipped the horses into an extremely fast run. I saw at the bottom of the hill we were descending, a small traditional white church building with steeple and double doors. We were approaching it at break neck speed. My thoughts were "WE ARE GOING TO CRASH AND BE KILLED"..but the driver never noticed me. He stared straight ahead. I noticed he had long hair and wore a white robe. But he headed the buckboard quite determinedly toward the building. It was inevitable..we were going to crash through the doors. As we touched the threshhold of the building the doors floated open and we began floating down the middle aisle of it. On either side of us the people were FROZEN. They pointed and whispered.."Look at them..they are floating." but they were FROZEN no one moved. Suddenly I was seized with the conviction to start telling them to hop on this wagon. A few slowly climbed on and were immediately free. They started telling the others to hop on. Just then the buckboard crashed through the wall at the other end of the building and was outside again..the horses never skipping a beat of their hooves. A few people ran after us..it was raining and very muddy by now..but they ran for the wagon. I and several others helped them on to the wagon and we rode off in a down pour of rain.

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This move of God, the final wave of waves is headed with singleness of purpose toward what we all have conceived in our minds to be "church"...The messenger will "crash the gates" of the religious system and pass right through it. Will this move of God find the people FROZEN and pointing and LOOKING at it but never moving? Or will the remnant hop up on the wagon and begin calling to others to COME. God spoke to me about 5 years ago to have my theology shaken. I truly believe we are in that time. We will either bundle our faulty theology up and toss it down at the foot of the cross, or we will be FROZEN and unable to respond when the Truth of God "rides" right through our midst.

THE BANQUET HALL

I entered a large banquet hall. The aroma and atmosphere was one of sumptuous dining and rich fellowship. It was decorated to the hilt. There was every imaginable food laid out at many different "stations"..People were piled around each table stuffing their mouths with as much as they could. One group called to me...BECKY!! Come over here. You must try this it is so delicious. One had whipped cream all over her mouth where she had stuffed a huge sweet delicacy into her mouth. The whole group was beckoning to me. Another was around a lavish feast of roasted meats and rich sauces...They had grease all over their faces and were talking with their mouths full.

Just then I looked in my hands. I was holding a plate with a small piece of meat and a small bit of gravy and potatoes. I looked at the meager meal and then at the banquets. and thought, "surely the Lord intends me to eat of those rich banquets and not this simple portion."

I then heard his voice say, 'YOUR MEAT IS TO DO THE WILL OF HIM THAT SENT YOU." I knew then to take the meat and gravy HE had given me. I stared straight ahead and walked all the way through the banquet hall and out the other door. After all he said "this is the way walk in it." We are not to look to the left or the right and be distracted by the sumptiousness of the feasts that man have built on a "revelation" from God. We are to accept HIS MEAT and eat it in His presence. He reminds me of my "plate" everytime I turn my attention to some of the fluff that passes off as God's work.

Hmmmmm If we were to eat "His " meat we might loose some of the WEIGHT that so easily encumbers us!

Love you all..Becky (wayfarer)

A Word for Intercessors

Graham Cook

"Father I thank you Lord, Lord cause intercessors to rise to a new level of anointing and grace. If you are called to intercession, stand now.

First thing I want to say to you guys collectively is this: there is a fresh anointing upon you, there is a drawing into the throne room of God, that this is a season of coming in beyond the veil, into a place and there is a stepping closer to the throne of God in your life,. What this means is there is a fresh intimacy and the Lord says that for a season He has not called you just to be the watchman that you are, that this is a season for a couple of months where I'm sensing that God is just taking you off the wall and into the throne room. Some of you have been hurt and woundered in the battle, you've taken some hits, you've made some mistakes and the Lord says this is a season of healing for you, just the next couple of months a place of healing, a place of refreshing, a place of being renewed in His grace, in His love, in His mercy and I'm to tell you it starts right now, immediately. Some of you are already in it and I'm just confirming what you're doing because you've been feeling a bit guilty, you been feeling guilty, you've also been feeling "what's happening in my ministry because I'm not as sharp about what the enemies doing, because I can't see" and some of you have interpreted this season as "maybe the enemy is just confusing me right now, because I can't see with the same clarity." See what's been happening is your already into this session and the enemy has been trying to get you feeling you've lost your anointing, but you haven't, you haven't. It's just God has taken you off the wall, this is just R & R. You are in the throne room right now and the rest of you just need to find your way in.

This is a season of grace, this is a season of refreshing, this is a season when God is going to kiss you with the kisses of His mouth, it's a season when you're going to come into adoration, it's a season when you are going to come into a new place of worship, a new place of contemplation. Some of you have been trying to break into meditation and it's been like a battle against your mind but the Lord is saying that in the throne room He will break you into a place of meditation - deep thought - but also it's a place of adoration where the anointing of God is going to touch you and you're going to find yourself flowing in a new place in worship. And the Lord says it's OK just to spend hours in my presence worshipping. That's what I want. I don't want you in your ministry, I want you to minister to me, I want you to learnt to minister to me. This is what this season is all about. It's a season when you're going to learn to minister to the Lord and the Lord says get together with your friends who are of the same heart and just come and be in my presence and I'm going to touch you and Im going to grace you and to those who are having problems right now in marriage the Lord says to you, there is grace coming to you in the family home and as you come into this place of adoration the atmosphere is going to change in the family home, the atmosphere is going to change and those of you with rebellious kids, the atmosphere is going to change in the home. And the Lord says as you come into that place of adoration He is saying to you, don't go into war over your kids, come into My presence and worship me and I will touch them. I will grace their lives. This is a season of refreshing, this is a season of fresh anointing, it's a season of being in the presence of God, learning how to worship, learning how to sing in the Spirit, learning how to be in the presence of God, learning how to minister. And the Lord says, once this season is through He's going to put you back on the wall and your ministry will change. You'll be able to see further than you've seen before, you'll be able to give greater advance warning than you've given before, but the Lord says you'll watch with a new spirit and you won't just watch for the enemy like you have been doing because some of you have watched for the enemy for so long that's all you can see - the enemy. And the Lord says to you, this is a new day and I'm not asking you just to watch for the enemy, I'm asking you to watch for me because the King is coming. And in this season - you are going to learn to refocus on me because some of you have been so focused on the enemy he's all you ever look for. And the Lord says this is a season of refocusing when I teach you how to look at Me, focus on Me, because you're not just going to say 'behold the enemy', but you're also going to be saying, 'behold the King is coming, open the gates, the King is coming'. And you're going to be saying ' the King is coming', then there'll be a time when you'll say 'the King is here'.

So Father I pray, Lord would you touch their hearts right now, draw them into this secret place of your presence, bring the release and I pray that those who have become tired and weary would be refreshed, that you will reclaim their hearts, reclaim their spirits Father, refresh their soul, restore, renew their mind, restore their spirit in the name of Jesus and I ask that you will put a prophetic anointing on them, that from this day on, from this season on, they will have an anointing to detect the fine hand of God at work and not just the enemy. So Father, I pray that this season of release commence now in the name of Jesus. Amen

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