Five-Fold Today - Glory, Anchorage Testimony - Repositioning of the Five Fold Ministry. - Buried with me so that you would be raised with me
GLORY!
Chad Taylor
Saturday
I am compelled by the Spirit of Lord to share this awesome explosion
of Jesus on the streets of Anchorage last night! I know this a
prophetic statement of the spiritual confrontations that we are
experiencing and are about to engage in, and the imminent victory
looming over the Church! Sit back and get ready for a dose of the
Ghost!
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Every Friday, multiple youth groups and churches meet in downtown
Anchorage for evangelism training and prayer at a small Christian
book store located in the center of the local bus terminal. A Mecca
of activity, the homeless, dozens of teens, business men returning
home from work etc. etc. From 7:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. we worship and
pray, then I proceed to do some activation and training from about 8
to 8:30. At 8:30 we open the doors to the public bus terminal and
the youth from the streets begin to stream into the book store, as
well as others from every walk of life. Teams of Christians are
released as well into the area.
Last night it was moving as usual, Craig Hyder, a local youth pastor
playing his guitar, the sound of worship filling the air. I saw a
man standing outside the entrance to the book store listening, I
stepped out and invited him in. As I was talking to this man, a
fight broke out on the sidewalk outside, I immediately rushed toward
the altercation. I stepped out from the main doors of the bus
terminal directly in the line of fire! I began to loudly declare
Jesus, within seconds the fight ceased. A huge crowd of youth had
gathered to watch the spectacle.
The boldness of the Lord came upon me like a fire! I began to
confront the crowd of youth and preach and declare the love of Jesus
Christ. Suddenly choruses of "Satan! Satan!" Could be heard. Then
from the crowd a young man jumped out at me, threatening and
screaming at me! I looked him in the eye and simply said, "Jesus
loves you." He screamed louder, more aggressive. Taunting and
mocking the Lord. Suddenly, and just as unexpectedly, a young native
boy ran up to us, and began shouting, "JESUS IS REAL! JESUS IS
REAL!" In a blink of an eye the crowd had turned from God haters to
confessing Him as Lord and Savior! You could hear chants of Jesus
from the crowd.
Finally another Christian from the group inside came out, I said,
"Get on your knees right here brother and lets release the GLORY!"
We both got on our knees right there in the main thoroughfare in
downtown Anchorage and began to boldly release His glory and grace!
Another large crowd had gathered as we lifted our hands and prayed
prostrate on the concrete! I looked up and saw three genuine witches
hovering near us. One began to prophecy to me! He kept
repeating, "you have been through much, you have done the things you
are saying..." At this moment we got off of our knees and began to
share His great grace!
At least 40 kids had gathered at this time to listen. The witches
began to press us with questions like, "Your people have been hunting
and killing us for generations, and you say God loves us?" I looked
the leader in the eye and said, "Nobody is condemning you today,
Jesus loves you." His adamant argument was that the devil was not
real, that they did not believe in the devil or evil. The Lord gave
me a wisdom to reply, I told him that in any warfare the greatest
strategy or tactic of the enemy or foe is to make his presence
secret. I told him that satan was on his shoulder and he didn't even
know it. He was stunned and speechless.
As more people gathered five police men suddenly came on the scene.
They were at the fringes of the crowd watching. The main cop on the
beat began to pray for us! He was a born again Christian! They
stood and watched and prayed! GOD EXPLODED ON THE STREETS OF
ANCHORAGE LAST NIGHT!
One of the most heart wrenching episodes was a little girl no more
than sixteen years old, she looked at me with all the feeling she
could muster and said, "I am a lesbian, does God still love me?!" Oh
God! I looked at her with tears and told her very plainly that God
most assuredly did love her, enough to die and spill his precious
blood. For an hour the crowd of youth pressed upon us with difficult
questions concerning God and Jesus. Questions they have been longing
to ask but not able. Usually not finding someone to answer them.
Later the police man gathered with a group of us from the book store
and agreed that the powers of darkness to be bound and gagged. God's
natural and spiritual authority was released, and the demons arrested!
O Church! The love of God is bleeding for the hearts of these
children! Like Lamentations 2:19, "Pour out your hearts like water
for the life of your young children that faint for hunger at the top
of every street..." They are dying and hungry! Anxiously waiting
for someone to answer their hard pressed questions! The satanist and
sorcerers like in Acts chp. 8 are just waiting for a demonstration of
something, SOMEONE greater than the deceptions that hold them
captive!
They need a DEMONSTRATION of His grace and power! "When they SAW AND
HEARD the miracles which Phillip did..." the whole city of Samaria
turned their hearts to Jesus! God's Philips are poised to invade
Samaria in this hour! From Jerusalem (The church) they are going to
rise up like a rushing mighty wind and invade every Samaria, (The
world). And the power that they release will eclipse the false fake
light of the enemy. And the captives by the billions will be set free
to pursue the Most High God!
I pray even now as you read this report that the Spirit of the Lord
of the Harvest would fall upon you and captivate your heart and
spirit with the urgency of the hour. That you would "redeem the time
for the days are evil". And blaze a trail of revival and reformation
through the streets and cities of America and the world. O God, Lord
Saboath, fall now upon your people and like a kindling, burn them
with your holy desire and consuming fire for the broken and
destitute. Show them the revelation that this "great and mighty
army" are waiting to be summoned and mobilized on the streets and bi-
ways of America. Cause your Philips, your Miriams, your Deborahs,
your Pauls and Peters to awake at this critical mass, and do
exploits! Cause them to "launch out into the deep and take in a
great catch". BREATH ON YOUR CHILDREN EVEN NOW LORD! Quicken them
with visions and dreams of harvest! In Jesus Mighty name, Amen.
Chad Taylor
by Meri Burlingame
ap@myhome.net
As we go through the repositioning, so to speak, of the
five fold ministry, it would seem providential that there
will come a major change in focus of all the equipping
ministries, not just the prophetic. Much of what I hear
raising up as a cry among prophetic people,
would seem to be based on the
upside down work of leadership as it has existed in the
last two centuries. As we head into the third day, there
has come, even now, a change in the order of things, though
it has yet to be manifest very significantly throughout
the world as it relates to the Church.
But the first pangs of that turning upside down came with
the shaking of ministries in the end of the second day
church, such as Swaggert and Bakker. We see it now with
the increased divorce rate among the five fold ministry.
This is affecting even those who have the call of apostle
on their life who find that every aspect of their lives
is subject to pressure beyond their imagination.
The five fold ministry was not instituted to "exist." It
was instituted or spoken forth and came into being to
facilitate the growth of the body of Christ itself, of
which it was a part. The five fold is a servant group
that may have no identity as a group where it is working most
effectively. They are indeed servants to the body that
give their lives for the freeing of the body, for the
release of the Body and it's individual members from the
bondage of sin, ignorance, and immaturity.
We keep hearing about the 5 fold, of the apostolic and
prophetic, as John Sanford spoke of the prophetic years
ago, that they will be the scum of the earth. We are beginning
to hear that in every community that they are called
to operate in they will cause the demonic forces
of the areas they are sent in to
rile up the people of the community as well as the people
in the house of the Lord. It will be these who will
either "stand in the gap" and call forth the work of the
Lord and "hold onto it" while the vultures try to steal
it before the fire of God consumes it. This won't bring the
greatest glory and honor in the world.
This is servant leadership of a kind that we only read
about when we look into the scriptures past what we have
done to men such as Paul as we elevated him into positions
of great honor because of the excellency of God's word in
them. Yet, he was despised and rejected of men over and
over even as was His Lord and Savior. Those endowed
with the greater portion of God's own nature, will bear a
greater measure of all that was the lot of Jesus...he was
despised and rejected of men....considered smitten and
cast off by God himself....he bore our sins.....
That is the prophetic ministry...the apostolic ministry,
the work of the teacher and pastor, and
evangelist.......their own death and the resurrection of
all Jesus is.....for surely he bore our sins and by his
stripes we were healed. Will we be willing to walk forth
and allow HIM in us to bear the sins of others and are we
willing to have our flesh suffer stripes in order that
the message of healing might be made known to the house
of the Lord?
I recently was accused of "violating people's boundaries"
in my religious zeal. Being one who has little exposure
in the local community, I didn't have a whole lot of
difficulty identifying the situations that could be
defined within those words...violating people's
boundaries. The evening I heard this "accusation" a
friend and I went to a radical fellowship in Olympia and
there a man at least 10 years my senior was exhorting
people to go forth in what we know today as prophetic
evangelism. We would have called it "witnessing" in my
youth. "When you go into a restaurant," the man said,
"pray, ask God who, if anyone, He is desiring to have you
share His word with in that place and then be quiet until
He shows you why you were sent to that place....and be
prepared to be obedient." Over and over this speaker
shared how God ministered miraculously when he was
willing to ask and then be obedient. I turned to the
friend with me and said..."goodbye boundaries!!"
Boundaries are things that God cuts through with His
word. Yes, as loving caring brothers and sisters, we are
to be respectful of personal issues, of needs, of
feelings and thoughts. But when God pours out his love,
the ache of a person's heart, the distress of their mind,
and the death of their being is far more important than
any possible offense that might come because you spoke to
them when they had not invited you. We will risk offense
to show forth Gods love.
Once when accused of being over zealous, I explained to my
accuser. "If you knew your best friend had cancer and you
had the answer or the way for that friend to get well,
but you also knew that the person would be offended if
you spoke to them about it, would you not risk offense to
give Life to them, to save their physical lives? How
much more if we hold the Word of Life and know that
without that Word, which could be a word of healing or
deliverance, a SOUL will die would we be willing to speak?
Are we willing to go out
on the highway and stop the next red car that comes by
and share with them a Word from the Lord, if God
directed, even if we were called "nuts," if it meant
that person might be healed and delivered and set free to
enter into the Kingdom of God? If you had to knock on 100
doors to see 1 healed, would you go out again and knock
on 500, hoping for 2 souls to be saved and healed and
released into the Kingdom of God?
Will we be so in tune with the heart of the Father, that
when we are accused of being zealous without knowledge
will we have the confidence of knowing Him in whom we have
believed and will we be persuaded that He is able to keep that
which I committed unto HIM against this day?
"BURIED WITH ME SO THAT YOU
WOULD BE RAISED WITH ME"
April 22, 2000
Stephen Hanson
9. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was
any deceit in his mouth. Is. 53
25. He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification. Rom. 4
4. We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead
through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. Rom. 6
"Is there a death that my servants would be willing to enter into for Me? Are you willing to be
made into my image? Are you willing to have been buried with Me so that you may be raised
with Me? For I died for you so that you may be raised with Me. I was wounded for your
transgressions, and I was assigned a grave for those I knew not. I entered into death so that I
would be made alive, and to make you alive as well. I did not sin but I took on your sins. I bore
them so that you would not need to. As I bore the cross and endured the pain, so would each of
you need to do. You are not worthy of Me unless you pick up your cross daily and follow after
Me. "
"In this life you will have tribulation..."
(The Lord showed me a rose, which was lying down. I looked at it, and it had several thorns
going up and down the stem, while at the top, there were beautiful pink petals. Then my attention
was drawn to the petals. As I continued looking at the petals, they opened up continuously in the
center.)
"But I ask you to look beyond the thorns and the trials of this life. For the life that I give far
exceeds anything that you go through in this life. I have come to give you life and that more
abundantly. Do not focus on the trials, but focus on the end result. For they are designed by Me
to bring you into my image. Sons of God....be of good cheer, for you will reap and you will
triumph. You will gather much and reap much. The plants will grow and mature and bring forth
new ones. Your ministries will reap where you have not sown. A great net is being sown for
gathering into my kingdom. The last harvest is ready to be gathered in. While you are gathering
souls for my kingdom it is also a time for training and teaching. For it is time for the perfecting
of the saints. It is time for maturity, and it is time for brotherly love."
"Will I come back for a church without spot or wrinkle, or will I find you fighting amongst
yourselves? Be not as little children, but be as kings and queens, for you will reign with Me."
Stephen Hanson
April 23, 2000
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