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Ministry
Update
Highlights include:
Students from our
classes ministering - We have been getting good reports about our
students from the Discernment classes. They have been actively
ministering what they learned in our classes.
Giftings ignited
- A number of those called to leadership positions and to ministry
have been set free from roadblocks in their lives, had dormant giftings
ignited, and have been able to move forward in ministry.-
Victims of abuse
healed - Many who have been molested have been emotionally healed and
set free from the torment of the past.
Color
blindness healed - A young man experienced
emotional healing and was also healed of color blindness.
Multiple
Personalities integrated - A man suffering
from multiple personality disorder experienced an integration and
has been free of any manifestations of this disorder for over a
year.
Weight
loss following emotional healing - A woman
testified that she had received an emotional healing at one of our
meetings last spring, which led to physical healing of a weight
problem, and she had lost about 100 lbs over a few months time. The
Lord also provided a new wardrobe for her! (We believe that we are
going to see more and more physical healings as a result of
emotional healings!)
Baptism into Unity - A pastor received a deep work of the
Spirit which resulted simultaneously in all leadership experiencing
a powerful baptism into spiritual unity. (This is desperately needed
in the Body at large!)
Discerning the Body of Christ - A staff pastor testified that
she received an impartation of discerning of spirits and began to
experience spirit to spirit communion with members of the
congregation. Watchman Nee said that a broken man never misses a
move in another man’s spirit. This is truly “discerning the body of
Christ”. (The body of Christ must begin to know one another after
the spirit and not after the flesh!)
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Testimonies of Changed Lives
Letters from those blessed by this
ministry say:
Seymour, CT - "I
know that I’ve been given freedom from so much because of the
healing God has done through your ministry….I am filled with joy
that God has healed me but my real joy comes from knowing I can be
more effective as His servant.”
Charlotte, NC— "I
can already see a difference in our marriage. Also the freedom I
have felt ...has been beyond anything I felt before.”
Greer, SC- "We
[the church] will never be the same. You have opened a whole new
dimension of the realm of the Spirit to us...There is an awesome
anointing on the both of you and it was so evident this weekend.”
Brentwood, NH
- "I...experienced
tremendous breakthroughs...I have not only recovered but been
catapulted forward.”
New Bern, NC -"I
have been able to pray with more freedom...A new level of faith was
deposited."
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Intercession
Learning to Receive and Dispatch
Divine Orders
Dennis Clark
In the past much prayer was based on
nothing more than observing needs. Observed need can seem so
overwhelming that we send out "shotgun prayers" instead of having divine
laser beam focus. We must be able to discern the purposes of God, the
time, and the strategy. The Lord is emphasizing all kinds of prayer to me
right now, but in order to accurately hit the mark, "listening prayer"
seems to be taking on an even more significant role. It is vital to get
the agenda from our Commander in Chief. Jim Goll had a vision
of an army marching on their knees. The foot soldiers do not go into
battle without first receiving orders from the general.
Our spiritual ears must be attentive to
perceive spiritual promptings both in the prayer closet and also in
the circumstances of everyday life by consecrating ourselves to His
purposes as well as seeking His agenda. A greater sensitivity is needed
concerning other people and circumstances to know when, how, and how long
to intercede.
The prerequisite to being able to
pray effectively through submitting to God's strategy is going to be
through listening prayer, which is sitting at the feet of Jesus. A
disciple learns at the feet of his master. "The Lord God has given me the
tongue of the the learned [a disciple], that I should know how
[how] to speak a word in season [when] to him who [target
and agenda] is weary. He awakens me morning by morning, He
awakens my ear to hear as the learned [a disciple] (Isaiah 50:4)"
May the next Great Awakening bring an
awakening of our ears to hear and the obedience to pray the
prayer requests of God (Psalm 40:6-8)!
(For more information on
Listening Prayer see materials listed at the Online Store.)
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Necessity of Discernment in the End Time
What the Prophets Declare
A primary emphasis of
Full Stature Ministries is the gift of discerning of spirits and
true discernment in the Body of Christ. Because of this we would
like to share these prophetic words on this topic.
PROPHET BOB JONES
In the Shepherd's Rod for the year 20001,
Prophet Bob Jones declares, "The general theme for this year's Shepherd's
Rod continues to be highlighted with issues related to the preparation
necessary to confront the times ahead. Quite frankly, there were many
themes we anticipated were going to be addressed that were not. Instead,
in His infinite wisdom, the Lord has disclosed greater insights into His
heart and the great truths that He desires for His church to embrace to
equip and prepare her [emphasis mine]."
RELEASING SPIRITUAL
DISCERNMENT
One of the most notable promises given this year is the release of
spiritual discernment on a greatly heightened scale , Universally, the
church has been dreadfully lacking in spiritual discernment. Not only is
spiritual sensitivity needed in rightly dividing the Word but also
in discerning one another within the Body and the revelations given to
us by the Holy Spirit. The Lord is going to release the spiritual
provision allowing us to rightly discern the Body. Words of knowledge
will be released pinpointing our needs in the spirit, soul, and body of
individual believers, and in the corporate church [emphasis mine]."
PROPHET BILL HAMON
Prophet Bill Hamon states in his book, The Eternal
Church2, that, "Those Christian groups who do not have a
mature proven ministry in their midst with the gift of discerning of
spirits are going to be placed in precarious situations... The true
Church will not judge after the seeing of the eye, or hearing of the ear,
but will judge [discern] in the righteousness of God by the spirit of
discernment. Those who are saturated with the whole Word of God, who have
the love of God in their hearts, who are filled with the Holy Spirit, and
know the eternal purpose of God for His Church will not be led
astray [emphasis mine]."
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1
Jones, Bob and David, Keith, Shepherd's Rod 2000. The Prophetic Ministry
of Bob Jones and Keith Davis, www.bobjones.org/srod/Oct. 13, 1999.
2 Hamon, W. S.
Bill, The Eternal Church. (Phoenix, Arizona, Christian
International, 1981), 345-346.
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