PROPHETIC CHAMBER

I would love for it to be said of me that I was "like Anna" (see Luke 2:36-38), someone who focused on nothing and nobody except Jesus. In every prophetic word, long ones or short ones, in every vision, every dream, every inspired prayer, I want to be declaring the testimony of Jesus (see Revelation 19:10). I want to be like John the Beloved, leaning my head on His chest, and then telling others about Him.

Do you love Him? If you love Him, your heart will overflow with words about Him. In loving Him, none of us will be exactly like Anna, because the overflow will take different forms. The message of love will come in different wrappings and it will be presented in different styles. Marketplace manners are a little different from prophetic conferences. Culture differs from place to place. But, the simple truth is that all adventures in the prophetic realm must be rooted in the same soil – expressing the love of God.

How Much God Loves Somebody Else

The prophetic gift helps us understand how much God loves us personally. But as the gift operates upon, in, and through you, it becomes a demonstration of how much God loves someone else.
When you stir up the gift and release it, you are doing what the apostle Paul taught: "Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy" (1 Corinthians 14:1). Prophecy, in its pure form, is supposed to be about loving people with Jesus' love. God has put into you a tiny measure of His massive heart of love, and His Spirit decides to open up a little spigot. Even a tiny measure of His love overwhelms us, whether it comes with signs and wonders, or in the midst of a quiet, calm, little conversation.

For each of us, the various expressions of the prophetic gift differ, depending upon our personalities and what God has called us to. Each of us is a unique creature. God never uses a cookie cutter. The varieties of giftings and ministries that we read about in the New Testament become further varied as they are expressed through such a wide variety of individuals. "There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all" (1 Corinthians 12:4-6).

Relevant Shifts

Besides the differences in personalities and in applications of the prophetic gifts, I am continually noticing additional diversity in the prophetic realm. Within the Body of Christ, we are finding a wider ethnic diversity than ever before, and we are also hearing fresh voices. More new people are just over the horizon.
We are hearing new prophetic sounds, in terms of up-to-the-minute media presentations. Continuous change seems to be the new norm. New ways of thinking require flexibility and adjustment. From prophetic evangelism at New Age fairs to solemn assemblies of hungry, passionate young people, the name of Jesus is being proclaimed as never before.

Year after year, new models of Kingdom life are developing. They include everything from mega-churches to small house churches, from crowded stadiums to widely-dispersed webcasts. Some flourish in places that have become centers of spiritual life, while others remain hidden from the public eye. Such a wide variety of new possibilities abound in this shifting prophetic landscape that I have tried to capture them in a memorable way. Here are my "nine M's":

1. Mighty Streams of Prayer and Praise, combined with the prophetic, are encouraging the manifest presence of God. The worship movement is maturing and bringing us into higher realms of glory.

2. Miracle Manifestations are proliferating, not only in Third World countries, but also in the West.

3. Marketplace Ministry, never heard of until recently, is increasing. Guided by the Holy Spirit, Christians exercise their prophetic gifts in their places of secular employment, bringing much-needed wisdom and prophetic intercession into new situations.

4. The Matrix of Relationships. The gifts do not thrive in isolation; they require a healthy, relational community of faith. (Photo by Ben Earwicker)

5. Missions Outreach. In spite of world recession and the well-established indigenous Church, both long-term and short-term missions continue to be launched, based in many countries including new places.

6. Middle East Emphasis: God is doing something in Israel and in the regions surrounding Israel as people bring the Gospel of the Kingdom to the Jew first and them to the Gentile (see Romans 1:16).

7. Ministry Training. With the proliferation of ministry training centers and the organic spreading of the mentoring movement, established prophets, pastors, and teachers are able to give away what they have earned and learned. People are realizing that the little bit they have may be someone else's magnificent meal.

8. Mercy Ministries. My late wife, Michal Ann Goll, responded to a call for this one. She ministered in Mozambique, Thailand, Burma, among the First Nations, and wherever else she was able to release the message that compassion acts.

9. Media Mania - another way of saying that every new means of communication, public and private, is being used by people of the Kingdom.

The Holy Spirit is helping the worldwide Church to achieve a remarkable level of unity and energy in "doing the stuff." Whether we face more storms or times of fulfillment, it is time seize the moment, listening to the Holy Spirit for direction. The Body of Christ is accepting an incredible opportunity to shift and move into Kingdom alignment.

Getting It Together

I wish personal character could have been an outright gift of the Spirit like the gift of prophecy or the word of wisdom. Our character flaws contribute more to our ministry failures than any other factor. And yet, bequeathing us such puny character represents a stroke of genius on the part of God, who wants us to rely on Him for everything.
Here He is, living inside each person who names Him as Lord, with a goal of transforming us into His image day by day. As we come into union with the Creator of the universe, who knows us better than we will ever know ourselves, we grow in our experience of new creation realities. Christ in us is the hope of glory (see Colossians 1:27).

The Spirit who dwells inside us is also the spirit of prophecy, and, as you will remember, the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus (see Revelation 19:10). As the spirit of prophecy draws you continually to the Lord of Love, you will know God better and better.
That is our cure for weak character – and our primary prophetic message. What an adventure this life with Him is turning out to be! Yes, there will be a generation that walks in the double: fullness of fruit (character) and fullness of power (gifts of the Holy Spirit). And when we add the Spirit of Wisdom to that – oh, what an adventure that will truly be!

Dr. James W. Goll
Founder of Encounters Network • Prayer Storm • God Encounters Training e-School

PROPHETIC CHAMBER

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. Matthew 6:6

This speaks of the importance and the power of private, personal prayer.
To go into our "closet" and shut the door in order to pray is a very private, personal experience. Here, in the privacy of our "set apart place" of prayer, we can express our heart to the Lord. To express our deep inner desires and feelings in prayer is as medicine to our soul. But there is a greater and more important blessing. Our Heavenly Father hears our secret prayer, and He will openly reward us.

Because no one is involved in our "shut in" time, we can come aside and pray at any time. We "choose" when to pray.
However, intercession is quite different; we "respond" to an intercessory burden which "impregnates" us, and we intercede until it is "birthed."
This speaks of the importance and power of private, personal intercession.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Romans 8:26

We must respond when this impartation of an "intercessory burden" takes place. Thus, the price of our being an intercessor is very high, as it intrudes upon our time and personal desires. This intercession may come with deep groanings, as in a birthing process. As much as possible, this should be done in private. If in a gathering of the saints, quietly slip out into a private place to "give birth" to the intercessory process.

I can say, "I will pray now," or, "I will wait and pray later." However, I cannot say, "I will intercede," either now or later. I can only say, "I will respond to an intercessory burden, if I am moved upon by the Holy Spirit to intercede."

Intercession is at the heart of the end-time intervention of our Lord. It is the "enabling" that will release and make a way for the Lord to enter the affairs of man. Just as John the Baptist was raised up as a "forerunner" of the birth and ministry of Jesus, so also, in our day, a corporate John (intercessors) is being raised up.

And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. Revelation 12:1-2

These intercessors will become a "gateway" through whom the Lord will be able to greatly affect and alter the affairs of individuals and nations, in order to prepare them for their place and function in the Millennial Kingdom of God.

And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up to God, and to His throne. Revelation 12:5

This "man-child" does not refer to the birth of Jesus two thousand years ago in a manger. Rather, the Book of Revelation is a revelation of "things which must shortly come to pass" (Revelation 1:1). It is a revelation of the future, not an affirmation of the past.

This "man-child" is a fully matured and qualified body (overcomers), of whom Jesus has become the active head. This "catching up" can be thought of as being a "rapture," not away from the earth in escape, but our being "lifted" to rule nations in power and authority with consequence.
The "woman" who gives birth to this "man-child" is a committed Body of intercessors within the present-day Church. She is clothed with the sun (Son) and has the moon under her feet. That is, she is receiving direct (sun) revelation from the Lord, being impregnated directly by Him for intercession, rather than moving in reflected, indirect (moon) revelation, that is received from others.

Being birthed through intercession and caught up into a higher realm, these are "ruling with the rod of iron." This speaks of end-time authority, which is imparted to a Body of overcomers whom the Lord has prepared to rightly use this authority. These ruling "overcomers" will bring tribulation to the ungodly, and impart righteousness, peace, and joy to the godly. This will lead into the establishing of the Millennial Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And they sung a new song, saying, "Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us to our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth." Revelation 5:9-10

This Body of overcomers is being birthed from within the Church of our day, and is presently being lifted in intercessory anointing, to bring forth the end-time birthing of the purpose of our Lord.
May each of us, who are feeling these birth pains, understand and rightly respond. And if not, may we present ourselves to the Lord as being willing to become an intercessor.

Wade Taylor
Wade Taylor Ministries / Parousia Ministries

PROPHETIC CHAMBER

Dear Pentecost Celebrants,

On this Pentecost morning, the voice of Holy Spirit was so clear and powerful.

When we began, we heard the Lord say, "This is a day of diffusing my Spirit into My people."

To diffuse means to move outward, to spread through or over a wide area, or cause to become widely known. I saw the fathoms of the deep speaking to the deep within us, diffusing times, words, sounds and seasons. The fathoms are speaking of the diffusing coming up and out of us in this season. On Pentecost, the sound from heaven came and diffused. THE THIRD PERSON OF THE TRINITY came into one place and fanned out all over. I see that what we decree here will move over the continents. Holy Spirit will go even to Antarctica and Alaska where ice formed during the ice age. What comes in during this age will refresh and go out again. San Marcos, Texas will have a visitation.

Here is a portion of other prophetic revelation that come forward:

"I am coming down from Heaven, and I am pulling My rivers together. My rivers within My people will become one mighty rushing water that begins to spread out into places that they have not touched before. This is a day of collecting the waters again that I might pour out upon places of the earth that are dry. These waters will begin to overwhelm that which has been so depleted and overwhelmed, and that which has been so separated. These waters will begin to draw together. Where there has been many, they will now become one. Where things need to be drawn together, they will now be drawn together into one place. This is a pulling together of My people that the earth has not seen. Within the movement of the pulling together, I will begin to demonstrate the power of My being that will flood through the doors around the earth, and cause a ground that has been dry, and a people that have been weary, and a people depleted and divided to come into a One New Man.
"Fiery trials will make One New Man for the times ahead and the new things I will send you into. You will carry a new message of greater works into the nations. This takes the One New Man! You will come into agreements that generations before could not form. This is the time of the greater works. At creation My Spirit hovered, and when I spoke, all of the earth shifted. At Pentecost My Spirit hovered, and when I released My voice, the whole earth shifted. I am hovering again, and the earth will shift at the sound of My voice. There is a whirlwind coming to places in the earth. In this whirlwind is fire! You will be like the three friends of Daniel in the fiery furnace. Where the whirlwind of fire comes, I will visit!
"The Poles are shifting and My people are being reoriented. My people will no longer be oriented by what the world says is up and down, but will have a third heaven orientation. I am ready to draw in people that have yet to been drawn in. I will cause many around to be confused. My glory will fall on those who have not known My glory. Because you have tasted My goodness, you will be tasted by others. Even words that have fallen in crevices throughout the earth will now begin to rise up and manifest - just as Joel prophesied. And in this day of diffusion, that which was prophesied thousands of days before began to manifest.
"When I enter Asia, the fire of the seven-headed dragon that is ready to blow will be stopped and cooled by the power of My Spirit. The dragon's breath now will grow hot in the earth, but My people will be like a cool drink of water, and those who have never experienced My joy will now be filled with My joy. In China, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, I will fall. I will come to Kazakhstan. And Russia will be awakened because I will fall on the people of Asian descent. I am hovering in ways that you have never seen. Singapore now will be realigned in My Spirit. Thailand will have divisions broken down. A Oneness of My Spirit will arise upon the island of Taiwan. The West Coast will know that I am alive. That which has been divided over the centuries will now become one again. I began One New Man and now One New Man will be seen.
"I speak to you, Asia. For in the early days you closed the door on My first apostolic move toward you. But this time in this day, this new apostolic move will penetrate! I am standing at the door, and will cause My fire to circle you. I am coming in strength and fire this time!
"Only the nations who rise above their religion to embrace the One New Man that I am arising in the earth will be the nations that begin to follow Me and that I bless in new ways. What has been divided, I will heal. Where the power of fornication and adultery has caused My presence to retract from the earth, even there I will heal the breach where you have scattered your seed. Seeds will come back into the rows that I have prepared, through the plowing of My people. Many people have scattered seeds through their division, but now a preparation has come through the plowing of My people, and those seeds will be brought back and My people who have been scattered and divided will become one.
"I am beginning to give revelation over ley lines and power lines over nations and continents. I am releasing angels to war along with you and bring revelation over power sources and strong men. You will release decrees, and you will see giants coming down and My glory rising. The world is Mine, and today I am hovering and holding the earth and its nations in My hands. The Father has given them to Me and I am giving them to you as your inheritance. Call out and come into One New Man for the earth is mine.

"My dancing hand is coming over the seven continents. My breath is upon the waters.  I am gathering together what will pull the end time portion into place. Watch My breath on the waters. South America, watch the domain of heaven invading your portion. I am coming into the caves of South America. Malaysia, now arise with the fullness of the Godhead, in the remnant. The seeds that have been strewn are now blossoming up, for such a time as this. The demonstration of My power will cause the Oneness of the cry of Jesus, My Son, to manifest. Each nation will arise, and the ends of the continents will be the diffusers, activated to move us across. Watch My breath and whirlwinds on the waters. Rivers will be rearranged. Waters will flow differently. Many on paths who are headed in one direction will be knocked down and rise up with scales removed from their eyes."

We decree the diffusing power of Holy Spirit today. We invite you to have access to those who profess the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, make us one, diffused with Your power. We invite that which will cause those who have sat at the Gate Beautiful to rise up in a new way. Many have begged, but today there is an interacting of the Spirit of God in the earth with those that are crying out in one accord, that will cause the doors and gates of your present synagogues and churches to change greatly. The doors of the church and the gates will change in such a way that the government will take notice. In nations, in cities, in America, we ask and cry out for a change in the door of your church. From this movement let the doors and the Gate Beautiful that leads into your present places of worship, become demonstrations.

Blessings,

Chuck D. Pierce
Glory of Zion International Ministries

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