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Elijah Church By Elvis Iverson Copyright © 2006 by Elvis Iverson All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwisewithout prior written permission of the copyright owner, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper or broadcast. Printed in the United States of America Elvis Iverson P.O. Box 8132 Omaha, NE 68108 sim@elvisiverson.com Supplication International Ministries http://www.ElvisIverson.com Contents: 1. All Can Prophesy 2. Prophetic River 3. Come Up Here 4. Walk in the Supernatural 5. Revelation Faith 6. How to Have Revelation 7. More Excellent Way 8. Pure and Impure Rivers 9. Desire Spiritual Gifts 10. Receive A New Heart 11. The Elijah Church 1. All Can Prophesy The language of the Holy Spirit is prophecy, visions and dreams. When the Holy Spirit is upon a people, and the signs of this outpouring is prophecy, visions and dreams. The Bible says the Holy Spirit will pour out upon all flesh that means every people group. In addition, that your sons and daughters shall prophecy, and young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams. It is God's will for every Christian to prophecy, see visions and dream dreams. (Acts 2:17-18) God speaks more then one way; only through the Holy Spirit we can perceive it. When a person becomes born again he then can hear what the Spirit is saying. In our sleep God opens our ears and seals our instructions. There is that that is prideful and has heard time hearing from God, God in his mercy will speak to them in dreams in order to turn them from their deeds, and conceal pride from man. Moreover, God gives dreams to the believer and the believer does not need to seek out a prophet for him to interpret. However, an unbeliever God gives dreams to connect them to believers but does not give the interpretation. Which will come from the believer or a prophet. In addition, God speaks to politicians, civic leaders and other leaders dreams to guide them in his ways this is why we as Christians should pray for those in authority. (Job. 33:14-17) When the Spirit of prophecy comes into place of gathering, in turn everyone in that place can prophecy at that time, not just the prophets. The prophets of old when a person would come into their company they would prophesy. When a person comes upon the prophetic anointing not only they can prophecy but their heart will change. You don't need to be a prophet to prophecy; you need only the Holy Spirit. Every believer has the Holy Spirit and can prophecy. (Rev. 19:10) Every Christian is to pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophecy. (1 Cor.14: 1) In addition, we are to desire earnestly to prophecy, and do not forbid anyone to speak with tongues. (1 Cor. 14:39) When person not only is born again but also is when the Holy Spirit comes upon them, they receive holy spiritual language. This is a tongue that is for communion between God and man, and in turn helps us to pray. This is why many call this their prayer language, in turn when praying in the Spirit, stirs up the gifts, which God give you through the Holy Spirit. Praying in the Holy Spirit will help you to hear God in your personal life and help you to prophecy to one another. When you pray in the Spirit, pray that you interpret. This is a knowing or a word of what you prayed about that you might thank God, also this is the way the Holy Spirit will lead you in your prayer life. (1 Cor. 14:18) There is a difference between praying in the Spirit and to speak in a tongue. Your spiritual language is not as the same as gifts of divers kinds and interpretation of tongues. However, they go from one to another when praying in the Spirit. (1 Cor. 12:10) Every one is not a prophet, however, every Christian can prophesy. Every Christian has a prophetic anointing for the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of prophecy. In the Old Testament only a few had the Holy Spirit upon them, but today not only we have the Holy Spirit upon us but also we have the Holy Spirit in us. Every believer can hear the voice of God, and every believer can be lead by the Spirit. However, we must learn to hear the voice of God, by prayer, praying in the Spirit, studying the Bible, God's Holy Word. And obeying the Holy Spirit in the little he gives you. The Holy Spirit will give a little to do in order to train you for the near future. (Heb. 8:10-11) Understanding the prophetic dimensional. 1. Every Believer cans prophecy. (1 Cor. 14:1) 2. Music Ministry has a prophetic anointing. (Eph. 5:19) 3. Intercessors have a prophetic anointing. (Eph. 6:18) 4. Word of wisdom, knowledge, discerning of Spirits, and the gift of prophecy, gifts of divers kinds and interpretation of tongues are all prophetic gifts of the Spirit. (1 Cor. 12:8,10) 5. House or watchman prophet. (1 Cor. 14:29) 6. Territorial Prophet. (1 Cor. 12:28) 7. Prophetic Presbyters. (1 Tim. 4:14) Nevertheless, Believers and prophets can miss the mark in the prophetic. This is why we need to be humble and meek. In addition, all prophecy must be discerned. That is why there is a need for a local prophetic company in a local church. Where one or, two, or three prophetic presbyters oversee. Let there be two, or three prophets speak and let the others wait for their turn. (1 Cor.14: 29) Moreover, there is a need for guidelines set for public and person prophesies. There is a difference between public and personal prophecy. Furthermore, we need to write down the prophecies and take them to the Lord in prayer. (1 Tim. 1:18) ********************************************************* 2. Prophetic River It is not a good thing to quench the Spirit. In addition, it is not a good thing to despise prophecy. When we stop the prophetic river on our local churches we are saying to the Holy Spirit that we don't want you here. In turn this will hinder many of the other wonderful manifestations of the Spirit. More you allow the Holy Spirit to manifested in our local churches the more will come. (1 Thess. 5:19-20) In my personal life, I recall a time when I seek God off and on for three full years. I don't seek to hear his voice, but I believe that God still speaks today. Moreover, I seek to know him, to love him and to serve him. No visions or dreams but only to love him with everything I am. I would hear his voice once in a while. Then came a time of outpouring of Spirit upon my life. On March 22, 1991 as I was asking God to show me his will for my life. He spoke; I was not thinking that God would speak back to me. However, God speaks to his children always. We all need to have faith that God speaks today, and that he will speak to each one of us. From that day forth, I moved in a prophetic anointing, I would see visions and prophecy almost every day. The Lord would show many things to come in my life and the Life of the Church. During the summer of that year I and other person meet almost every day to pray and seek the face of God. Almost every night God would give visions and prophecy. Not only that God used me, but also the order seeker. That's right, we are seeks of the Most High God. One thing; is that God will connect you to others in order to grow in the prophetic. Divine connections will always happen. What Lord wants is for prophetic people to come together for prayer and to share with each other. I believe this gathering is on the heart of God. Beside, God wants every one to prophesy, there only a few prophets, and there are people who have prophetic gifts. However, if you are prophetic or more in a prophetic gift you still need those around you in the body. Apart from that, every Christian should hear the voice of God in their prayer life and workplace. While I was in College, I would go to my common classrooms. Listen to people who don't pray at all. Then after class, return to my room, to seek God and pray. The Holy Spirit gives me more teaching then any classroom ever did. The Holy Spirit did not only allow me to flow in visions and prophecy but also give me revelation from God's Holy Word, the Bible. It is He who raises me up. However, this does not, mean that we should not be meek to others and sit under their ministry, for we all need one another. The Holy Spirit speaks and teaches through others. And placed many in the church to help each one of us. We need to be humble and meek. On the contrary, I recall a time, when I was minister helping another church. I recall when a few prophetic people who don't know God's order in the Loach church. And moved by another spirit. I befriend them, to learn more, I believe God used this to teach me to deal with the false prophetic. I even cast a demon out of one, then after that, he could not move in the prophetic. One reason, if your going to flow in the prophetic, you better be humble and know your proper place in the body. However, others did not show mercy toward them. I believe we are to being merciful for we are all learning to grow in the prophetic and in the supranational. Today God is bringing forth the Word and Spirit, and these two shall agree. When this happens there will be a great outpouring of the supranational like never before in history. Moreover, I recall, another blessed time. A ministry center open up in my hometown, and I was asked to help them and to minister. What happen is the Spirit of prophecy came into that place, and those that don't move in prophecy before, begun to see visions. And God rise up prophets during this time. I learn many things how God wants all to prophesy. All this is a work of God. It is God's heart to bring prophetic people together. It is God's heart to rise up a local company in our local churches. It is God's will to bring the prophets of a city together to share with one another. It is God's will to bring the prophets of a nation together to hear from one another. It is God's will to bring the Prophets that are international together that we may all learn. Above this, it is God's will for Prophets to connect to the Apostles. 3. Come Up Here In Revelation 4: 1 it say come up here, we are to come to the Throne Room by the Blood of Christ to have fellowship with the Father and Jesus through the Holy Spirit. This is an open door to all believers born of the Spirit. The Lord has been calling out to his body saying come up here. We are to pray for the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation. It is God's will for every believer to have a living flow of revelation in them through the Holy Spirit. Every believer is to have Word Revelation, the Holy Spirit teaching him or her from the Bible, which is the Word of God. The only things we need to do are to be faithful to the Word, which is the Bible and to ask the Father in Jesus name to give us Revelation from the Word through the Holy Spirit. (Eph. 1:17-18) The Bible says that the Holy Spirit will be poured out and we will have prophecy, have visions and dreams. It is the will of God for every believer to prophecy, it is the will of God for every one to have visions, and it is the will of God for every believer to have dreams. This all will come by the Holy Spirit in your life. (Acts 2:17-18) It is the will of God for to live in the supernatural in the Holy Spirit; we are to walk in the continuing manifestations of revelation, prophecy, visions and dreams. This is not just for a few; instead this is for the Body of Christ. The Bible says we are to purse love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. (1 Cor. 14:1) First and foremost we are to purse love, we are to love our brothers and sister in Christ, and we are to love in word and in deed. Love must be our motive in all things! First to Love God with all you got, then to love one another. After that we are to desire spiritual gifts. It is the will of God for us to desire spiritual gifts. God wants His Church full of the power, glory and the gifts of the Spirit. We are not just to desire one gift of the Spirit instead we are to desire all spiritual gifts. Then the Word goes on to say especially that you may prophesy! It is the will of God for you to desire to prophesy! It is God's will for every believer to prophesy. The prophetic should be a common manifestation and language among us. Now in addition, to our love motive we are to seek for the church to excel, we have spiritual gifts for the edification of the Church. First it says that prophecy edifies the church, and then it is the rest of the spiritual gifts that are for the purpose for the edification of the church. (1 Cor. 14:12,4) The more gifts you have in a church the more edification that church will have, the more believers walk in there gifts the more the church will have edification. Above that prophecy is a major gift for the edification of the church. Prophecy speaks edifications, exhortation, and comfort to the church. (1 Cor. 14:4,5,3) Furthermore, every believer is to heal the sick, is to cast out demons, are persons of prayer, is to walk in the power of God, are to walk in signs and wonders, is to witness to those around them, and to have revelation, prophecy, visions and dreams. 4. Walk in the Supernatural Every Believer born of the spirit can walk in the Spirit. Walking in the Spirit is walking in the supernatural; we are to walk in the supernatural through the Holy Spirit in us and upon us. Every believer can be led by the Holy Spirit. (Rom. 8:14) When you walk in relationship and in fellowship you will have the fruits of the spirit, and you will have more of God. As we fellowship with the Lord He increases more in our lives. We need to be a prayerful person; we need vision for our prayer life in order to be disciple. We pray with of passion and love for our Lord. (1 Thess. 5:17) Be faithful to the Word of God, we must learn to meditate on the Word more, not just to study or to read. To meditate is a life style in the Word. Meditate on the Word is one of the keys to the supernatural of the Holy Spirit. In addition, not only we study the Word, instead we apply the Word to our lives. (Phil. 4:8) Ask the Father in Jesus name for the Holy Spirit to teach you the Word, which is the Bible. Ask Him for revelation, and begin to write down everything you study and what he teaches you about. (Eph. 1:16-18) Pray for spiritual gifts, pray for the gift of prophecy, you are to earnestly desire the best gifts, which are the ones for you. You are to desire spiritual gifts, and you are to desire earnestly to prophecy, to have the gift of prophecy. (1 Cor. 12:31,14:1,39) Ask that Father to teach you the voice of the Holy Spirit, to teach you to be led by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will teach to hear His voice and to obey his voice. (Jn. 10:4) Pray and believe God for an outpouring of prophecy, visions and dreams. Ask Him to teach you how to flow in prophecy, visions and dreams. Seek the Lord to open your eyes. (Jer. 33:3) Above this, be a person who loves to pray in the Holy Spirit, praying in the Spirit will aid us to have visions, dreams, and prophecy. (1 Cor. 14:2) Learn and ask the Lord to teach you not to quench, or grieve the Holy Spirit, this will take time for you to learn how to honor the Holy Spirit and His ways. (1 Thess. 5:19, Eph. 4:30) Moreover, we are to walk in the supernatural together not alone. It is easier to walk in the Spirit together then to walk alone. We can learn and teach one another as we walk in the Spirit together. Furthermore, Let everything be to give glory to Christ, live to bring glory to Christ, center your life on Christ. Seek to love, know and serve Him, and whatever you do, do all for him. 5. Revelation Faith We are to pray for the Spirit of Wisdom and the Spirit of Revelation. It is the will of God for every believer not just for a few, instead for all believers to have revelation. We must believe this; first we must believe that there is revelation today from the Throne Room, second we must believe that revelation is not for the few, instead for every person in the Body of Christ. (Eph. 1:17-18) Pray for your eyes of your understanding to be anointed to see the Word of God with Revelation. We need to grow in seeing with eyes of our heart and the ears of our heart. God has giving us the Seeing Eye and the hearing ear and they both are from the Lord. (Prov. 20:12) Without revelation we cannot enter into the promise land. We need faith in the Word, and faith that comes by revelation of the Word through the Holy Spirit. However, the Children of Israel in the wilderness is example of those who don't have faith or revelation today. The Lord did not give them a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear. Why don't the Lord give them revelation, I believe for reasons like this, not faithful with the Word giving to them, not believing in the signs that God did before him, having a double mindset, and having unbelief. In addition, they didn't ask for revelation, only for their needs to be met. If people don't believe in revelation they will not ask for it. (Deut. 29:4) The Word of God is a lamp to your feet, and a light to your path. The entrance of the Word of God gives light, and understanding to you. The Holy Spirit is your teacher and He wills to give you revelation from the Bible, God's Word. We only need to be faithful to the Word, to apply the Word and to ask for Revelation. (Psa. 119:105,130, Jn. 16:13-15, 1 Cor. 2:9-10) When Jesus rose from the dead he had to rebuke the unbelief and hardness of heart his servants. Unbelief and the hardness of the hearts go hand on hand. Those who don't walk in revelation can enter into unbelief and their hearts could be hardened. Jesus had to open their understanding that they might comprehend the Scriptures. If Jesus did not open their eyes they would never understand. (Mk. 16:14,LK. 24:24) Many Christians have not only error in Scriptures without revelation, also they error when it comes to the power of God. We need to know the Scriptures and we need to know the power of God this is by revelation from the Holy Spirit. (Matt. 22:29) We need Revelation faith for not all have revelation faith. One person may have revelation in one area and the other person may have revelation in another area. But without faith we are unreasonable and wicked toward those who have revelation faith. Through revelation in the Word from the Holy Spirit we go from faith to faith. We are living a life of faith, a life of revelation faith, a life with flowing living revelation. (Rom. 1:17, 2 Thess. 3:2) Without vision the people fail, the word vision means revelation, without revelation the people fail. We need vision for our life and revelation from the Word to move forth in faith and hope. (Prov. 29:18) We need revelation to see our inheritance. It is by revelation our hearts are open and we then can receive the promise of God and they are yes and amen. (Eph. 1:17-18) True Revelation promotes the fruits of the spirit, humility, and meekness in us. The Mind of Christ is a living river of revelation flowing in each believer and the body of Christ. 6. How to Have Revelation Apostle Paul said we are to pray for revelation. We are to ask the Father in the name of Jesus Christ for the Spirit of Wisdom and the Spirit of Revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of our understanding being enlightened. In addition, the Holy Spirit is our Teacher; He is the Teacher of the Bible, which is the Word of God. He is called the Spirit of Truth. He will guide you into all truth. He will give you truth with grace that bring true conviction and change in our hearts and lives. Each one of us is to have revelation and to minister revelation to one another. (Eph. 1:17-18; 1 Cor. 14:26; Jn. 16:13-15; 1 Jn. 2:27) It is the Will of God that every believer has revelation. Revelation is not just for apostles, prophets and the very view; instead it is for the whole body of Christ. Revelation is the Holy Spirit teaching you from the Bible, and inspiration is from what the Holy Spirit already teaching gives to you. There is first hand knowledge, which is between you and the Holy Spirit, and then there is second hand knowledge, which is teaching first giving to another and then that person teaches you. Beyond that there is your human reason and human wisdom, etc. There is Word Revelation, which is the Holy Spirit giving insight and teaching you from the Bible, which is God's Holy Word. Then there is Prophetic Revelation, which comes from the Holy Spirit through prophecy, visions, and Dreams. The Lord wills, wants and desires both for you and for every believer. The Lord wills for us to have prophecy, visions and dreams. Prophetic revelation is not just for the prophets or a few; it is for every Born Again Believer. How do we prophecy? By earnestly desiring and praying in the Holy Spirit for prophesy, visions, and dreams. (Acts 2:7-18; 1 Cor. 14:1; 1 Cor. 12:31; 2 Tim. 1:6-7) How do you have revelation; revelation is a river that flows from the Throne Room through the Holy Spirit in us. The Holy Spirit teaches us through this river of revelation from the Word of God which is the Bible. How To Have Revelation: 1. By the Blood of Jesus you can have revelation. Come to the Throne Room by the Blood of Christ, Cleanse yourself by the Blood of Jesus and flow in revelation. (Heb. 10:19-22) 2. The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Revelation. It is not logic or reason it is the fear of the Lord. (Prov. 1:7, 9:10) 3. Praying in the Spirit, when praying in the Spirit the river of revelation will flow in your life. (1 Cor. 14:2) 4. Be Faithful to the Word, which is the Bible. (2 Tim. 2:15) 5. Learn to meditate on the Word. (Josh. 1:8; Col. 3:16) 6. Ask the Father in the Name of Jesus for Revelation. (Eph. 1:17-18) 7. When Revelation is giving, apply it and make changes to your life. (Rom. 12:1-2) 8. Be teachable and hear revelation from Servants of the Lord and other believers. (Mal. 3:16-18; Eph. 5:21; Matt. 5:3-6) 9. Revelation will come from an on-going healthy relationship with the Lord. (Matt. 13) When you have revelation in your life you will have good fruits and learn humility and meekness. Your life will change and you will be giving wisdom in how to apply this revelation to your life. Beyond this we need revelation in our churches and training centers. Classroom training is no longer the best way to be train. We need life training, we need training through fathering and mentoring. Yes we do need to study and hear the wisdom and the Word from others, but we need the whole training not just in area of our mind, instead in our every area of life. 7. More Excellent Way The River of God is flowing through the Body of Christ and in each believer. We need to see this river, the only way we can see this river and it's languages, it is through revelation, prophecy, visions and dreams. We need the eyes of our heart open; we need the ears of our heart open, and this is through the Holy Spirit and the Blood of Christ. (Heb. 10:19-25) First and foremost, we seek to know Him, we seek to love Him, and we seek to serve Him. We are to please Him in everything. We are to do what gives Him the glory. Do His deeds in faith and with right actions not only word or deed. Yes we are to ask for revelation, gifts, visions, and etc. But we seek to love Him more, and more. When you do this He will manifest himself to you. (Jn. 14:21,23) We need a holy passionate burning love for our Lord; we are to love him with all of our heart, mind and body, and with everything in our life. The Lord wants every believe to have personal revival all the time. After this we are to love one another, and walk in love. We need to speak the truth with love. Revelation comes and gives us faith, and faith works through love. Revelation promotes the fruits of the Spirit, humility and meekness in the Lord. Those who have true revelation will have the fruits of Spirit growing in their lives. You will see humility and meekness in them. Love is to be our motive in our prayers, in spiritual gifts and in revelation. We are to have revelation for the church to have edification and that the church shall excel. (1 Cor. 14:1,12, 13:2) However, the Bible is the Word of God, The Word of God is the final authority not a vision, or a prophecy. True revelation will not be against the harmony of the Holy Scriptures. When you hear any thing, we need to search the Scriptures to see if they are true. The Holy Spirit teaches us with the Word by giving us revelation. (Acts 16:11) We are to be accountable to for our revelation; we are to be accountable for our prophecies, we are to be accountable for our visions and dreams. We are be accountable to prophets for they are to discern the prophetic, we are to be accountable to apostles for they the first overseers, and we are be accountable to one another for we are all living temples of the Holy Spirit. (1 Cor. 14:29, 1 Cor. 12:28, Tit. 1:5, Eph. 5:21) As you mature in the way you handle revelation, as you mature in a life of revelation, the revelation wine that is in you will be more ready for others to receive from you. Yes minister revelation, but don't use it as a tool to be lord over others, instead minister with meekness and humility. Remain teachable and minister in love not only in truth. (Eph. 4:14) 8. Pure and Impure Rivers There are impure rivers where these snakes flow through, these snake will even flow through the soulish realm of ministry. A person can be true and have these flows a little in their life. A person can be wrong and these things flow a lot in there life. As we seek God the river becomes pure in our life. Yes when this river comes in it is pure, but has it flows through our soul we add what is not of God into it, thus creating a river that is impure. (2 Cor. 6:11-18,7:1) Again you can be anointed, gifted and flow from an impure river which comes from the soulish realm of ministry. In the spirit is where the pure river flows; as we renew our minds the river that flows out from us becomes more pure. The river flows in us pure and could flow out from us impure. (1 Cor. 5:6-8) In addition, there could be impure rivers flowing from the soulish realm into your mind, then add to the impure river that flows out from you. The impure rivers flows from the soulish ministry can flow into you and mix with the pure river in you, making the pure river impure. (Deut. 18:15-22, 2 Cor. 10:1-6) Those in impure rivers can be used by unclean spirits and the soulish ministry to attack those ministries flowing with the pure rivers. However, even those in the pure river can become into a soulish realm and have become time and time again. This is why we must learn to renew our minds with the Word of God, and to separate the soulish from the spiritual in Christ. We must know what is our knowledge, and what is God's knowledge. This is why we must be humble and meek (1 Cor. 14:33) Our goal is to flow in the pure river, to receive the pure river and for the purer river flow out from us. You can have purity of ministry through faith, truth, and humility, meekness, grace, the Blood of Christ, love, the Holy Spirit, and renewing our minds with the Word of God and through the Holy Spirit. (Rom. 12:1-2,1 Pet. 1:22) Now we must learn, experience, and mature in the pure river. This takes time, and it takes patience, and takes trials, error, and mistakes. The pure river is free, but there is a cost of suffering that you will experience for walking and swimming in this pure river. (1 Pet. 3:15,Col. 4:6) Snakes of the Impure Rivers: The spirits of divination is the false prophetic spirits that gives prophecy and prophetic words. (Acts. 16:16) Familiar spirits are information spirits that speak information and give information to the divination spirits. (Deut. 18:10-12) Spy demons are like the familiar spirits, instead they get information for other demons, but do not speak as the familiar spirits will speak through a soulish realm of ministry. Laying spirits, these spirits are not just lying, instead then speak lies about ministers to mislead others. Flatter spirits give words that give pride, and raised persons up out of God's order. Spirits of error mislead and keep people flowing or finding the truth. They will try to work through others to bring their views against another view. (1 Jn. 4:6) Deceiving spirits will give doctrines of demons. (1 Tim. 4:1) Confusion spirits come to give confusion to keep people away from vision and destiny. Balaam spirits work through greed, etc, and to control the prophetic and gives false council, which works against others. Jezebel spirits work against God's establish authority and against young prophets, prophets and prophetic, and any thing of the supernatural in the Holy Spirit. They will try to control the life of God in the Church, and movements of the Spirit in the Body. Religious spirits use influence working with other demons spirit working against the works of the Spirit. We are to test every spirit, we are to test all things, and hold fast to what is good. And we are not to despise prophecies, or quench the Holy Spirit. Pray for discernment and wisdom, pray for the gift of discerning of spirits, and pray for wisdom in how to handle this gift, and how handle these times. At the same we love and we are to give grace and speak blessings. Furthermore, we are not to fear, and we are not to back down from ministry or give up on the prophetic or revelation. (1 Jn. 4:1-6, 1 Thess. 5:19-22) 9. Desire Spiritual Gifts The Bible takes about the gifts to each one of us that are giving. Every one in the Spirit has a spiritual gift from God. These gifts that are giving to each of us, that each one of us has a gift from God. The first we look at is the gifts of the Grace of Christ, giving to those who are call to be in the equipping ministry in the church. Not all have the same gift, each have one of these gifts, or may have two or three. But these gifts are to each one of them, to each one. And they're some of this and some of that. These gifts are only 10% in the body, instead of the 90% of the Body. (Eph. 4:7) Now to the rest of the body, which goes for every one in the Body, the five fold grace ministers and the believer ministers. Comes to these gifts, the gifts of the Father, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. (Eph. 4, Rom. 12, 1 Cor. 12) We see again within the body about the gifts of the Father that not all have the same function, not all have the same gifting, and we again see these words "to each one of us". (Rom. 12:1-5) Now again we come to the gifts of the Holy Spirit and again we see these words the manifestation of the Spirit is giving to each one, distributing to each one individually, and for one is giving this, to another they are giving this, but for the profit of all, and the Holy Spirit works all these things. (1 Cor. 12:7-11) Now we come from the words to each one of us, or to another giving to now this is giving to all. We are encourage to earnestly desire the best gifts, this mean more then one gift, this also means that best gifts are the gifts that Holy Spirit giving to you. Now again we see that we are going from each one to all when we are encouraged to desire spiritual gifts, meaning all the gifts of the Spirit! (1 Cor. 12:31, 14:1) Apart from that, we are to desire especially that you may prophesy. So this mean that every person in the Body of Christ can have the gift of prophesy and then prophesy. And the Word again says; "desire earnestly to prophesy. (1 Cor. 14:1,39) Before going on let me first give you understanding that the manifestation of the Gifts of the Spirit giving to each one meaning that each one should have a gift of the Spirit. This is a grace to walk in this the gift giving to you all the time. This also applies to every spiritual gift that you can walk in and manifest freely for it is a grace from the Holy Spirit. (1 Cor. 12:7) Now we see the gifts giving to each one of us, that one has few gifts or one gifts and the other likewise, then we go to all can have all the gifts of the Spirit. Can this happen? We would not be encourage to desire spiritual gifts meaning all gifts of the Spirit if the Holy Spirit didn't want us to have them in are life. (1 Cor. 14:1, 12:31) But clearly you see that every one should have the gift of prophesy for it would not say desire especially that you may prophesy, and desire earnestly to prophesy if this was not the will of the Holy Spirit. (1 Cor. 14:1,39) Moreover, the Word says that when the Holy Spirit pours out upon us we shall prophesy, see visions, and dream dreams; this shows us that this is the will of God too. We are all to prophesy, have visions and have visions. Let us also not only desire, instead to earnestly desire this supernatural life in the Spirit. (Acts 2:17-18) Furthermore, this is the will of God the Father, this is the will of Lord Jesus Christ, and this is the will of the Holy Spirit that we come short in no gift, or that we will not lack no gift. That means this is will of God for the local church, the city church, an apostolic network, and the Body of Christ. (1 Cor. 1:7) 10. Receive A New Heart The Lord is arising a new company of prophets that changes the hearts of the people. Those who come under this new life-changing anointing will receive a new heart from the Lord. When persons come into the meetings where these kinds of prophets are the Spirit of the Lord will come upon a person and they will turn into another person. God will give them a heart and these are one of signs of this coming heart changing prophetic anointing. In addition, not only you will receive a new heart you will prophesy when this anointing touches you. (1 Sam. 10:5-6,9-12) The signs that will be are, the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, you will receive a new heart, you will become another person, and you will prophesy. The Lord wants us to have a change of heart. He desires truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden parts He will make known wisdom. The Holy Spirit will come upon us and show us our ways vs. His ways that we will have a change of heart. The Lord wants a broken and a contrite heart. (Pas. 51:6,17) We are to cast away all our transgressions and we are to get ourselves a new heart and a new spirit. The Lord will sprinkle us with clean water and we shall be clean, He will cleanse us from all our filthiness and from all our idols. He will give us a new heart, put in us a new spirit, take away the heart of stone and give us a heart of flesh. The Holy Spirit in us will help us to walk the path and to keep His Word. The Lord will even give to a whole group one heart, new spirit, and take from them the stony heart and give them a heart of flesh. (Ezek. 18:31, 36:25-27,11:19-20) The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy. The Spirit of prophecy will come upon us giving us a overcoming life and aiding us to overcome all things and giving us a powerful testimony, and showing Jesus to us. (Rev. 19:10) Now only Prophets have a prophetic anointing, also all believers born of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Prophecy in us. Every believer can have prophecy, visions and dreams; every believer can have the gift of prophecy. This life changing prophetic anointing is not only coming upon the prophets, in addition this anointing is coming upon all the believers in Christ born of the Spirit too. Furthermore, the prophetic anointing is not just prophecy, visions and dreams, instead it is life changing anointing, receive a change of heart, a new heart, becoming humble, become another person. This is the true prophetic anointing. That when we prophecy, see visions, and dream dreams we are change by the Holy Spirit in us, upon us and around us. 11. The Elijah Church The Church is the Elijah Church; we are the apostolic and prophetic church. The Church is a prophetic church; every believer can walk in the prophetic anointing. The mantle that was on Elijah has been giving to the church. The Church has the same anointing that was upon Elijah; every believer in Christ can flow in the prophetic anointing that was upon Elijah. The anointing upon Elijah is more for the church then for the prophets of today. There will be great outpourings of prophecy, visions and dreams upon every believer in Christ; the church is a prophetic church. There is a divine connection between Elijah and the Church. The Spirit and Power of Elijah are upon the Church today. The church is the Elijah Church. The Spirit and Power of Elijah is the Spirit of Revival and the Spirit of Repentance, this is the mantle that Christ placed upon the church. (LK. 1:16-17) As James talks about the prayer life of Elijah, that church will flow in a like matter prayer anointing, to pray earnestly to pray effective, and to pray fervent, for the effective, fervent pray of a righteous man avails much. (Jam. 5:16-18) Jesus Christ not only place upon the church the mantle of Elijah, He also give us a double portion of the anointing that was upon Elijah. We are the church of the double portion anointing. Now how is all this true that you are saying to us? There is a connection between John The Baptist and the church. The church has a kingdom message and a repentance message to carry forth to the world, and the church has a restoration message to carry forth to the world. The same anointing that was upon John The Baptist is now upon the Church. The anointing that was upon John The Baptist is the Spirit and Power of Elijah. John The Baptist was not only a prophet; instead he was the messenger of the Lord send to prepare the way of the Lord. And likewise the Church is called to be a forerunner and to prepare the way for the return of Christ. In addition, the church is to be a forerunner and to prepare the ways for future moves of God. Our Lord Jesus called John The Baptist the greatest prophet who ever lived, in addition, He said, "He who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he." The Church is greater then John The Baptist, and this means that every believer is greater then John The Baptist. (LK. 7:24-28) Furthermore, When Jesus said, "He who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater then he." He means Himself that Jesus humbled Himself, become a servant and was obedient to the death of the cross. Through Jesus Christ we can have the anointing of Elijah and John The Baptist for in Christ we are greater then Elijah and John The Baptist. |
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