Claim your Anointing

How to Access and Increase

the Anointing on Your Life

By Julia Loren
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 Be careful of limiting God.

There are different anointings

for different seasons of time,

for what you are called to do.

It is not like there is one anointing.

– Randy Clark
Table of Contents

You are So Much More than You Know

Julia Loren

The Price to Pay for the Anointing

Randy Clark
Video: Restoration of the Shekinah Glory

Claiming the Anointing of the Holy Spirit

Bill Johnson
Video: Fathering Sustainable Revival

Claiming the Anointing of a True Prophet

Graham Cooke
Video: How you know God becomes the way
He speaks to you

Claiming the Anointing for Strategic

Warfare
Mahesh Chavda

Claiming the Anointing for Miracles of

 Healing
David Hogan

Claiming the Anointing to Reconcile

Nations
Myles Weiss

Claiming the Anointing of Love to Change

the World
Heidi Baker
Video: The Weapons of Our Warfare

Claiming the Anointing of Power for

Missions
Leif Hetland

Claiming the Anointing to Reach Your

Sacred Destiny
John Paul Jackson & Paul Keith Davis
Video: Preparing for the Supernatural

Discover your Spiritual Gifts (Online Gifts

Assessment)

About the Author

 You are so much more than you know
Julia Loren

Wherever I speak and minister, I have people come up to talk

with me about how they feel adrift, unaffirmed in their gifts, and
unaware of their calling. I usually respond, “There is so much
more to you than you know. Life is short and you were born for
a reason. You need to discover who you are and what you are
carrying so that you can enter into your sacred destiny.” And
you need to discover WHY you need the anointing in your life
and operating through your life.

Others are catapulted into their anointing as they read simple

stories of others who have paved the way. As you read about
the various gifts, callings and anointing, listen to the voice of
the Holy Spirit whispering, “This is you! This is for you!” And
begin to access your birthright. Claim your anointing.

You are unique. Before you were born, the Father of all
Creation set you apart so that you may know God and enjoy
the fullness of life. Before you were born, the Father dreamed
of you. He dreamed you into existence. You are His dream
come true. There is so much more to you than you know. At
every age and stage of life, new gifts emerge, new anointing is
released, and you wonder if there is more! There is more in you
longing for release that you can imagine. Or maybe you do
know it and don’t know how to access more anointing…or
even discern what gifts in you long for outward expression.
Part of His dream includes wiring your spiritual DNA with
specific gifts that includes an anointing, or capacity, to love
God and out of that love, serve God. The anointing is God’s
love saturating your life and overflowing to others. If you want
more of the anointing, you are, in reality, asking for more of
God’s love.

Love releases the gifts in greater measure than you ever

dreamed could happen through you. The gifts are tools to do
the work of advancing the kingdom, of building, of parenting,
and of releasing God’s love in such a way that you end up
leaving a spiritual legacy for those around you to draw from as
they advance the kingdom in their spheres of influence. The
supernatural charisma gifts, or graces, from the Holy Spirit are
simply tools, which are always given by God to serve others.
The gifts are yours to express but given by God alone and to
God alone, belongs the glory. They are born out of God’s love
for you and are released out of your love for God.

What does this love look like?

Just as Jesus released His natural and spiritual gifts, you have
a specific gift mix of natural and spiritual gifts that includes
even your personality. As the anointing falls on your gifts, it
becomes supernaturally transformed and empowered to change
the atmosphere around you.

The wonderful thing about the anointings, gifts, and power

that God gives us to serve Him by is there is always more to be
had. (Read through Acts 1.4-5,2.1-13, & Acts 4.23-31) Jesus is
the one who gives the Spirit without measure.

Do You Want to be Happy?

I love studying happiness. Do you want to know who the

happiest people are? Not the rich, nor the most gifted. The
happiest people are those who find their purpose in life and
release their gifts in such a way that they discover they are
living a meaningful existence. The happiest people on earth are
those who are living in the flow of grace – releasing God’s
favor and gifts to others.

God calls us to ministry not simply for utilitarian reasons - to

build the kingdom and release God’s love - but also because it
is more fulfilling to give than it is to receive. God wants us to
seek Him for more of Him, so that our joy might be made full in
Him, as we extend His love, grace, compassion, and power in
the wonderful Name of Jesus. Claiming your anointing will not
make you happy. Releasing the anointing will…if it is done to
the glory of God and not to your own desire for glory.

God’s anointing comes on the most unlikely people. Biblical

stories reveal that He anointed prostitutes, thieves, murderers,
children, old men and women, young men and women, stupid
people, rich people, whoever came to Jesus, He accepted. And
even those who didn’t really want to come to Jesus, or were
completely blind and crippled and had no faith that Jesus
would heal them, He drew them to Himself, poured out His love
and they were forever transformed by just one encounter.
Anointing happens. And it can happen to you. In fact, it is part
of your birthright if you consider yourself a follower of Christ
and become a child of God.

Humankind’s approval comes and goes and if your emotions

and joy are tied to the acceptance of others, you will find
yourself discouraged. The Father’s approval is forever. If your
meaning in life, your identity and giftedness are tied to His
approval, you will be happy indeed. And here is a secret – The
Father already approves of you. And His love is unconditional.
So no matter what happens, you can always find what you
need in relationship with God. I say that, because later on, you
will see that there is a price to pay for the anointing. And you
will need a deep, loving relationship with God that enables you
to know His goodness and access His presence every moment
of every day.

Spiritual & Motivational Gifts

You have been set apart as a royal, priestly minister, so that

“you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you
out of darkness.” During the workshops on “Destiny
Encounters” and “Flourish Workshops” that I offer through
Global Shores Life Coaching and Counseling, I really focus on
helping people understand and activate their spiritual and
motivational gifts. People come alive as they realize their gifts
and the uniqueness of their lives. I love watching people
interact on a whole new level of anointing by the end of a
workshop. The joy in the room is infectious. It is meant to
infect others as you recognize your gifts and release them. Joy
comes in the giving.
You are a child of God and have the right to access the spiritual
gifts of the kingdom. Of the spiritual gifts, the nine charisma
gifts, listed in 1st Corinthians, chapter 12, basically fall into
three categories. There are the power gifts-the gifts of healing,
miracles, and faith. There are the speaking gifts-the gifts of
prophecy, tongues, and word of knowledge. And then there
are the discernment gifts-the gifts of word of wisdom,
discernment of spirits, and interpretation of tongues.

Any Christian who seriously desires to serve God can pray to

God for an impartation from the Holy Spirit. In fact, all of the
gifts are what the late pastor John Wimber called “gracelets”,
given according to the needs of the one in front of us who we
are ministering to. They are gifts given through us. And they
are all available to us when we need them. However, as you
step out in faith, one or two of those gifts may become so
much a part of you that you come to be known as operating in
a more mature gift.

In addition to spiritual gifts, there are motivational gifts. Paul

lists seven motivational, or personality, types God gives to the
church in the book of Romans, chapter 8. They include:
serving, teaching, exhortation, giving, prophecy, mercy, and
leadership. Each of us is hardwired with a personality type that
naturally gravitate towards on of these motivation gifts. We
see these gifts emerging in children as they play. One plays out
the mercy gift as a nurse or in feeding others, another child
plays out the leadership gift as one doll bosses another doll
around, or another child plays superhero and releases justice
to others. Whatever you were playing as a child, probably
gave your parents hints about your motivational gifts.
Unfortunately, most parents were unable to recognize those
gifts, call them forth more strongly, bless them and encourage
you in them. But they are there, deep in your personality, and
others recognize them. Do you?

While one is born with a motivational gift, or gifts, the spiritual

gifts are imparted as one begins to actively desire to serve God.
This impartation can happen sovereignly. The Holy Spirit may
quite unexpectedly in a time and place of His choosing simply
impart the gifts to you, or it may happen through the laying of
hands in a church ministry time or at a conference type setting.
It should be noted what with several of the gifts-particularly
the gifts of healing, miracles, faith, and prophecy, they are
often imparted with a great release of the dunamis (Greek for
dynamite) power of the Holy Spirit. However, it should be
known that some receive these gifts with no outward sense, or
manifestation, what so ever. Either way is okay, as long as we
receive the gifts of God by faith, not by sight! Additionally,
God often uses prophets to impart and encourage people in
their potential gifts and callings.

5 Fold Ministry Gifts

So you have a unique motivational gift and are able to receive

the spiritual gifts to advance God’s love and build His kingdom
on earth as it is in heaven. You are called to be anointed and
release gifts. Some are even called to BE the gift and discover
that they have been born into the ministries of the apostle,
prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher which Paul calls
ascension gifts in the book of Ephesians, chapter 4, verses 7-
12. Many incorrectly refer to these as offices as in a position of
authority. In the original language, however, the word for office
is not really used. As with the charisma gifts, the doma, or
calling gifts, are for serving, not a hierarchal posturing.

One can seek a charisma gift, whereas one can only be born to
become a doma, or calling gift. While the charisma gifts are
usually stronger and more in evidence with someone called to
one of the five ascension gifts the true mark of someone
walking in a doma calling is not so much that they operate in
the charisma gifts. A true doma person is committed to training
and equipping the church at large to grow in each one’s gifting
so we can all bear fruit for God the Father. (John 15.8)

As well, they normally have a strong desire to help grow the

church in Christ like maturity. This is why some with the gift of
prophecy can prophesy, but not necessarily be a prophet. On
the other hand a prophet can come to your church and minister
and they might not actually prophesy over anyone, but they
communicate the heart of God for your congregation for that
particular season! A doma person with a strong anointing for
healing should be more interested in training others to pray for
the sick than simply praying for the sick themselves. A true
pastor may not actually hold the responsibility of pastoring in
a local church, but everywhere they go they end up building
people up with genuine love and hope.
Mantles

Specifically, the word mantle, as used in the Old Testament,

means a cloak, or covering. As with the case of Elijah and
Elisha the word becomes somewhat synonymous with a
calling, or doma gift. A mantle has much more to do with the
ethos of whom God has created you to be rather than an
impartation of a charisma type gift.

Frequently, I hear people saying things like “so and so’s

mantle has come upon me”. Really, the only place in the Bible
where there is even a hint of that sort of transference of a
mantle is with Elijah and Elisha. But even then it was not
something that could be passed on through the laying on of
hands. Rather it had to do with the God given destiny over
each of their lives. It was not Elisha’s for the asking like with a
charisma gift. Neither was it Elijah’s to give away. Rather it had
to do with Elisha coming into spiritual maturity (eyes to see)
and stepping into the Father’s will for his life. (2 Kings 2)

Mantles, very much like a fine garment, are very tailored things,
which God creates in a specific way for specific people. It is
more than gifting. It has to do with the spiritual and emotional
DNA, destiny and calling God has put with in some special
people. It is not their specialness that qualifies them; rather it is
simply the unique will of the Father that makes them special.

Elisha knew what he wanted. He wanted a double-portion of

Elijah’s spirit. He understood that no human agency could
present it to him—or prevent him from receiving it. A ministry
mantle, especially a double-portion, is a hard thing to receive.
It’s only found after going down an arduous road. We have to
be determined (almost stiff-necked) to pursue it. The double-
portion of Elijah’s ministry was Elisha’s for the asking, as long
as he stayed with Elijah until the end.

You can ask for a double portion of anointing on your life, but
what are you really asking? Is it that you want more power? For
what? The double portion Elijah was asking for was of the Holy
Spirit. In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit only came on a few.
In the New Testament, the Holy Spirit is freely given. And in
the days to come, the Holy Spirit will be poured out on
everyone. So, what you are asking for is not really someone
else’s mantle, but of a mantle of the Holy Spirit, being clothed
in the Holy Spirit means wearing the mantle of God. And it is a
mantle made of fire.

In the New Testament, we see that Jesus couldn’t promise the

sons of Zebedee they would sit at His right and left, even after
being directly asked. But He did promise them great ministry
with great price. He does the same for us; He offers us great
ministry but at great price. He offers a double-portion of His
Spirit to us—and a mantle of flame instead of cloth. So, how far
will you go after a mantle for ministry? Are you ready to
receive the fire of God?

Gift-Mixes

Why are some believers used in bigger, or at least more visible,

ways? Why do some lives, more than others, impact people so
significantly? Part of the answer lies in the differences between
various ministry Gift-Mixes; an evangelist with a miracle-gift
ministry will be far more publically visible than a server-helper
type of evangelist.

An intercessor type of prophet will have a more powerful

ministry off stage than onstage. A Seer prophetic gifting with a
gift for healing will have a more public expression of ministry.
An apostle may be known in small regions or known to the
world. There are those with leadership gifts whose gift mix
includes words of knowledge and faith. And those who are
leaders armed with mercy and need others who have gifts of
words of knowledge and discernment to come alongside of
them.

You have a unique gift-mix. And you need others gifts to come
alongside you so that you can come into the fullness of your
gifting. You are so unique in your gift mix that there is no
comparison to others! Why would you want to be a singer-
prophet if you cannot sing? Why not be a Seer-prophet? Or a
Scribal-teacher? If you are in prison, why not be empowered
with gifts to serve the community you live in? Gift-mixes are
yours to give wherever you live, in whatever circumstances
you find yourself in. They are a part of you.

If you want to know more about your gift-mix and how to

express your unique gifts and strategize about your future, I
encourage you to contact me for individual Life Coaching or to
host a workshop in your church. I encourage you to take your
eyes off of others’ gifts and stop longing to be someone you
were not created to be. You were created to be different. You
need to affirm and bless that difference in you, accept who you
are and appreciate who you are not. Then, you will discover
that you have fully embraced your gift mix and anointing.

A person’s gift will make room for him or her (Proverbs 18:16).
What is the gift that others see in you and make room for? Did
you know that it is only part of your gift mix? As you read this
book, ask God to reveal more of your unique gift-mix. There is
so much more to you than you know!

Growing in your anointing

As you learn about your gift mix and accept and value your
anointing, you can begin to grow rapidly. The degree to which
you become a laid down lover of God, laying yourself down,
your gifts down, your ambitions for visibility and glory down
at the feet of Jesus, is the degree to which you will rise up in
His anointing.

Another factor that increases growth is simply the degree of

someone’s surrender to Jesus’ words and ways. The more
obedient we are, the greater impact our lives have because we
live and minister in closer alignment to His truth. It’s much like
someone who is accustomed to using a certain tool: they will
be better at it and more efficient with it than someone who
rarely uses it.

Additionally, the degree to which we seek first the Kingdom,

deny ourselves and willingly lose our life, affects the outcomes
of our life. And that doesn’t even begin to consider how much
love, prayer, Bible reading, etc., adds to what we can
accomplish; unforgiveness, greed and jealousy take lots away.
While we will never understand all the particulars of how/why
believers end up making varying degrees of impact in the
world, some parts of our ministry portion clearly depend on us!

Vital ministry is active, not passive. We wait on God in order to

gain new strength for additional, proactive ministry. We are
invaders striking deep behind enemy lines in a world held
captive under the sway of the devil. Everywhere we go, we’re
privileged to assertively introduce the power of the kingdom of
God to override the world-as-it-is.

Paul advised Timothy, who was just beginning his ministry, to

live intentionally and “make the most” of his time. When
describing his own attitude and ministry lifestyle. Paul says,

I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which

also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus… Forgetting
what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies
ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the
upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:12-
14)

It takes a lifetime of walking with the Holy Spirit to know who

you are and who you were created to be. Every age and every
stage of your life carries the potential to discover more and
release more. I’ve walked with God for many years and I am still
discovering new gifts emerging while others take a back seat.
There are anointings and gifts we need for certain years of
ministry or seasons of life. And when we are called to let them
go, we discover that we have just what we need for the current
season. Some seasons are focused on raising children and
your gifts and anointing are channeled into parenting. Why
seek to release them elsewhere when your sphere of influence
and the legacy you are leaving to the world is to and through
your children?

Often, I have young adults come up to me and talk about how

they want to give up their educational process or business
career and “just enter into full time ministry”. My children, that
is an old concept. You are in full time ministry! Young
businessmen and women often tell me they just had an
encounter with God’s power and suddenly want to jump into
missions or pastoral work. I tell them there is more to them than
they know. Unless God really encourages them to jump into
missions or church leadership, they should increase their
anointing for business. More can be done to increase their
anointing for high-level societal transformation if they have
political power and financial clout gained through their
business endeavors.

There are some who are anointed to be justice-oriented

prophets. Why settle for a low-paying job with a non-profit
organization when you may be called into a high-level political
career that begins with obtaining an MBA or going to law
school? Why sell your leadership gifts to the military when
you are called into international business? Or let go of your
business anointing to go plant a church if you are not called to
that ministry role?

Jesus said the same thing another way: “Keep on asking,

seeking and knocking…” Some things only open to those who
persist in pursuit of what God makes available to them. That’s
why Jesus’ most powerful invitation to us is, “Follow Me!” As
you follow Jesus, He will direct your paths, release an increase
of the anointing and open doors to destiny that you never
dreamed of…so keep walking! At the end of your life, the only
thing that counts is knowing that you have lived a meaningful
life saturated in the love of the Holy Spirit and have passed
along your anointing to a desperate, thirsty world.

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Julia Loren is a prophetic equipper and the author of several

books including the Shifting Shadows series – Shifting
Shadows of Supernatural Power (with contributors Bill
Johnson, Mahesh Chavda and forward by Graham Cooke),
Shifting Shadows of Supernatural Experiences (co-authored
by James Goll), and Supernatural Anointing.

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The Price of the Anointing
 Randy Clark

(Excerpted from Shifting Shadows of Supernatural Power)

If you are to prepare for an increase in power, you must

understand that walking in the power of the Holy Spirit
involves suffering and a continual humbling process. Not
everyone you pray for will be healed. Your heart will ache over
those who are desperate for a touch from God and don’t
receive the miracle they seek.

One night, I watched John Wimber pray for people gathered

together in a Methodist church. Miraculously, almost
everybody was healed when he prayed for him or her. The
power of God was definitely present to heal. The next night,
however, no one was healed.

I talked to John about it after the abysmal meeting ended and

said, “I don’t understand it.”

He replied, “You don’t get it do you? I don’t have any more sin
in my life than I did last night. I don’t have any less faith
tonight than I did last night. Last night I came here, put my fat
hand out and said, ‘Come Holy Spirit.’ I just blessed what I saw
God do. Last night when everyone got healed I didn’t go to
bed thinking I’d done anything great or I was some great man
of God. And tonight I’m not going to be feeling like I am a great
failure either. It wasn’t me either time. And tomorrow I’m going
to get up and do it again.”
That short conversation with John encouraged me to step into
the healing ministry. For the first time I saw the humanity and
the brokenness behind the man who wielded such power.
When I realized that the power was a result of the anointing
and not John, I said in my heart I can do this. I can embrace
this ministry because I learned his secret: Just show up; just
put yourself in the place of ministry. Don’t take yourself too
seriously. Learn how to see what the father is doing and bless
it.

In Luke 5:17 the Spirit of the Lord was present to heal. The
implication is that it wasn’t always that way. But it is extremely
difficult when you’re in that place where the miracles aren’t
coming to the worst cases. I was ministering in Brazil recently
and grieved after I prayed for a little boy with a severe case of
Cerebral Palsy. The boy wasn’t healed. I also prayed for a girl
who was deaf in both ears. Despite the fact that I’ve seen a lot
of deaf people healed, she wasn’t healed. That night I didn’t go
to bed thinking I was a great failure and tomorrow, I am going
to get up and do it again.

Despite heart wrenching nights of ministry like that one, I take

encouragement in the fact that there are divine appointments.
Recognizing the divine appointments helps me separate from
the sense of obligation that I have to pray for every sick
person that I see. Jesus didn’t pray for every person he saw.
Suffering is lessened by understanding how to obey the spirit,
recognizing who you are supposed to pray for and not feeling
guilty because you passed somebody else up.
Entering into the powerful ministry of Jesus is not all suffering.
There is an excitement about it as you look to the divine
appointments where you know that you are to pray for
someone and that they will be healed or saved. You never
know when God is going to show up and release His power.
You could be at work, at play, or at home when God gives you
a prophecy or a word of knowledge for healing. As you act on
that prompting of the Holy Spirit all Heaven breaks loose. No
sweat. Our ministry is to be yoked to Jesus. His burden is light.
When we feel like it’s no longer light or easy, we’re pulling too
much.

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Randy Clark is the founder of the Apostolic Network

of Global Awakening,

based in Mechanicsburg, PA.

http://globalawakening.com/

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VIDEO:
RESTORATION OF THE SHEKINAH GLORY
– Randy Clark
Claiming the Anointing of the Holy Spirit
 Bill Johnson

(Excerpted from Shifting Shadows of Supernatural Power)

Jesus walked in an anointing of the Spirit beyond measure. He

constantly illustrated superior truths by stepping outside the
boundaries of nature. The more you and I become empowered
and directed by the Spirit of God, the more our lives should
defy natural principles, and release the spiritual realities God
intended for us to enjoy.

We are in the beginning stages of the season of accelerated

growth. I believe it is possible under the mercy of God, to make
up for several hundred years of failure in these areas. It’s
possible to lay the groundwork for another generation to come
and use our ceiling as his or her floor, to build upon it, and go
where no one has ever gone.

First Corinthians 12-14 contains wonderful teaching on the

operation of the gifts of the Spirit. But beyond that it is a
revelation of the body of believers who live in the realm of the
Spirit that is essential for an authentic gospel. These
manifestations of the Holy Spirit are being taken to the streets
where they belong. It is there that they reach their full
potential. Our ambition is to increasingly take that atmosphere
of Heaven wherever we go, whether it’s into our homes,
businesses, the streets, or the even the mall. This is the normal
Christian life.
In the city where I live, community members are recognizing the
impact believers are having as they take the power of God to
the streets. People are accepting Christ into their lives, being
instantly healed and delivered. The Kingdom of God is
advancing through signs, wonders, healings, and power
encounters. Hundreds of people have been healed in public
places through believers that believe God is good.

We are living in desperate times. Genuine hunger accelerates

the process of maturity. And truly desperate people can pull
into this hour what was reserved for another hour.

This generation has the opportunity to fulfill the cry of Moses

for all of God’s people to be prophets. We are to carry the
Elijah anointing in preparing for the return of the Lord in the
same way that John the Baptist carried the Elijah anointing and
prepared the people for the coming of the Lord.

So how do we prepare for an increase of power in our lives?

By having our minds renewed to a Kingdom mind-set. This

helps us to take the risks necessary for God’s promised
invasion.

By asking for more of the Holy Spirit. Divine encounters given

to hungry people have always been the most important part of
a person’s transformation. Wise men still travel. Go wherever
you need to go to receive what others can contribute to this
need.
By giving honor to the gifts of Christ - past and present.
Recognizing the grace of God on leaders outside of your
immediate “stream” is beneficial in becoming the whole person
He has designed. I have made it a practice to even honor the
descendents of revivalists, asking them for the prayer of
blessing and impartation for me to fulfill my assignment.

Put yourself in places where you can encounter the presence

of God and allow the power of the Holy Spirit to transform your
thoughts until you find yourself dreaming with God of the
possibilities and potential realities in bringing Heaven to earth.
Out of that encounter a lifestyle develops that sustains revival
in our own lives. Once in place, we help to create a culture that
sustains revival. It looks somewhat like this:

A culture that sustains revival is a culture captivated by the

Lord Jesus Christ, delighting in the presence of the Holy Spirit.

It is a culture of humility—recognizing that we can do nothing

except what we see the Father doing and only that insofar as
we receive the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.

This culture releases the power of God. To not walk in power is

to withhold from man the very encounter that would bring God
praise.

This culture releases the report of God’s glory, nature and

covenant; keeping continuously on our lips the testimony of
what God is doing…not just what He has done in the past.
It is a culture of honor that recognizes peoples’ gifts and works
hard to call out peoples’ destiny. As destinies are released, we
ensure that the revival continues growing from glory to glory
in subsequent generations.

It seeks to defer to others rather than compete, bless rather

than destroy through petty jealousies, and seeks not to
criticize but to aspire to have the mind of Christ and the heart
of compassion for those in our midst and outside the church
walls.

It is a culture that extends the blessings of God outward rather

than hoarding them for us.

It is a culture where corporate gatherings open us up to greater

encounters with the living God. Where the glory brings unity
and divine encounters release us to fulfill our destiny—to
release Heaven on earth wherever we go.

This is the assignment of the hour. And I joyfully welcome an

increased manifestation of the Holy Spirit that enabled Jesus to
pursue and display an authentic Gospel. It is that same Spirit
that raised Jesus from the dead that resides within us. But He’s
not in us as a lake. He’s in us as a river that must be released. It
is that River that will change the landscape of the world around
us.

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Bill Johnson is the Senior Pastor of Bethel Church in Redding,

CA, an author and international speaker on revival culture.
www.ibethel.org

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VIDEO:
FATHERING SUSTAINABLE REVIVAL
- Randy Clark & Bill Johnson
Claiming the Anointing Of a True Prophet
 Graham Cooke

(Excerpted from Shifting Shadows of Supernatural

Experiences)

Real prophets are challenged by mediocrity. They have an

inner compulsion to fight darkness. They become light.
Mediocrity is the shadow land of faith to them. In the original
showdown between God and the prophets of Baal, Elijah was
not just fighting with occult powers. He was challenging the
space between dark and light. The grey areas; the shifting
shadows of loyalty which people can inhabit when they do not
reside in the light, close to the beacon of faithfulness.

Prophets live in the light, walk in the light and bask in the light
of all that God is to His people. They live with upturned faces
to a God who perpetually lifts up the light of His countenance
over His people. God smiles, and we look to Him and our faces
are radiant.

We have a cell in our DNA that loves to worship, we exist to

magnify. If not God, it will be something or someone else, an
idol of some sort.

Real prophets adore intimacy with God. They love His

presence. It is their place of refuge, a fortress, a secret place of
worship and communion. They access a place of blinding,
coruscating light. From that place they embark on their mission
to magnify the Lord in the world of men. The chief role of a
prophet is to make God radiant to everyone they meet, be it
friend or foe; Christian or pre-Christian; the good and the
wicked.

Prophets live in the center of light, not on the edge of

darkness. Their influence and anointing stretches out to touch
the blackness and invade it, but they themselves have their
heart safely locked away in the inviolate place of God’s
affection. Everyone must come to the light and abide there.
Too many Christians live in the shadows of intimacy and are
therefore not overwhelmed by God. They are in control of their
passion instead of being abandoned to it.

Intimacy provokes confidence, which releases faith to stand in

God’s presence and see Him as big as he is. Prophets declare
the hugeness of God in all His attributes. God is looking for a
people who will make Him bigger.

Our intimacy with God intimidates the enemy. It will also offend
Christians living in a controlled, passionless relationship with
the Lord. Fundamentalists are usually no fun and mainly mental
in their approach to God. The Father smiles, He laughs, He has
a huge sense of humor. He laughs at His enemies.

Boldness comes from the heart of God. A confidence so rich it

makes anything else seem like a poverty spirit. Elijah had fun
on Mount Carmel. Prophets relish the battle. Elijah ridiculed the
enemy.

The church at large has too much respect for the devil and not
enough admiration for the Lord. When we live in the radiance
of God our hearts are captivated by His brilliance. Our focus is
sharp, our perceptions in high definition. We are captured by
the immensity of the Father. We live in shock and awe at what
He can do, He really is far above all principalities and powers.

Shadow-land Christians seldom turn up for the fight. If they do,

they look for a lead from someone else. Confidence takes the
initiative. In shadow-land language, confidence is deemed to
be triumphalism. If misery loves company then mediocrity
fellowships with doubt. “I believe, help my unbelief” is the cry
of a man stumbling toward the light not away from it.

Elijah was not just attacking the darkness he was challenging

the grey areas in the people round about him. We must see
God’s people walking in fullness, not measure. The enemy has
come to steal, to kill, and destroy. A church living in less than
what the Father has decreed is being robbed, their initiative
killed, and their capacity to overcome destroyed. Mediocrity is
what we are left with, if we do not live in the full light of His
presence.

Prophets give a wake up call to the Body of Christ. Any

sportsman will tell us that it is not possible to win if we are
afraid to lose. Ironically it is Christians who live in the shadows
who are most afraid of the dark.

If the power of the Cross condemns us to victory then we must

produce believers who have a passionate desire to win. The
showdown on Mount Carmel declared to God’s people, “This
is who God is! Who is He for you?”
New Testament prophets do not stand between God and man,
only Jesus can do that. Rather they stand before God in the
presence of man. They are not idealists. They are realists
because they live in the presence of God in such a way that
their reality is shaped by their intimacy.

The showdown was over before it began. Elijah was not

fighting to get victory. He was contending from the place of
overcoming. The presence of God. What God’s people were
witnessing was the power of God being expressed through the
heart of a man who knew that His anointing came from his
intimate relationship with the Lord.

Elijah couldn’t lose—that’s the significance of Mount Carmel.

___________________________________________

Graham Cooke is a prophetic minister, speaker and author who

lives in Santa Barbara, CA.

www.grahamcooke.com

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VIDEO:
THE WAY GOD SPEAKS TO YOU
- Graham Cooke
 Claiming the Anointing for Strategic
Warfare
By Mahesh Chavda

(Excerpted from Shifting Shadows of Supernatural Power)

He has called us to fast and pray, and then to obey. At that

point, He can release apostolic anointing into our lives, our
churches, and our ministry in the world. With this anointing,
our ministry will not be apologetic, half-hearted, or apathetic. It
will not be laced with fear, doubt or unbelief. It will be
prophetic and apostolic, fitted with a double-edged sharpness
that comes only through the Holy Spirit. We will be gently
confrontational without even thinking about it, much as the
Lord led me to pray a simple prayer of command through which
God literally destroyed the seat of Satan in a town in Zaire.

I was conducting a mass evangelism campaign in the city of

Kananga, Zaire, an area gripped by sorcery. This crusade
conducted by our ministry was the first ever held in that area
by those filled with the power of the Holy Spirit and things
were going well. This was despite the aggressive opposition of
powerful witch doctors who had dominated the area for many
years. Right from the start they came to publicly pronounce
curses on us. Most of the people feared these servants of
Satan. The people there told me, “These witch doctors have
the power to tell someone, ‘You will die in seven days,’ and the
person will drop dead on the seventh day.”

Our meetings made these witch doctors so angry that they

called in every witch doctor in the whole region for a meeting
to figure out how to stop us from proclaiming Christ. These
witch doctors gathered together beneath the branches of a
towering tree used by sorcerers for many generations. They
believed that spiritual power for evil emanated from this
“sorcerer’s tree” and it was here that the witch doctors
conducted evil ceremonies and ate human flesh as they cast
spells on our crusade being held some miles away.

On the final night of the crusade, the sorcerers again gathered

beneath the “magic” sorcerer’s tree to conduct demonic
worship and rituals, cursing Christians, eating human flesh,
and discussing plans on how to stop the crusade (since
nothing they had already tried was working).

At the end of my message that night, the Lord told me to break

the yoke of witchcraft over that region and loose the people
from its power. While the sorcerers raged beneath their tree, I
declared before thousands of people gathered there, “Satan, I
bind you. I take authority over the spirit of witchcraft, and I
break the curse of sorcery over this area!”

In that moment, according to the reports of several eye-

witnesses from the area where the witchdoctors were gathered,
flames of fire streaked across the sky, spanning the
approximately 7-to-8 mile distance from the crusade to fall upon
the sorcerer’s tree. The fire instantly set the tree ablaze. The
branches, which were spread 34 feet across, were consumed
from the top down! It did not split the trunk or branches as
would normally happen to a tree struck by lightning. The tree
trunk burned for three days until it was consumed down to the
height of a man’s head. It still stands today like a burnt
matchstick, a mute reminder of the power of the name of Jesus!

We learned the details of this miracle from some of the

witchdoctors themselves. They said that when the fire came
down and ignited the tree some of the witchdoctors were
blinded, some were burned, and some of them repented when
they saw the overwhelming power of God. They came to us
with the story and asked us how to be saved.

When I visited the site of the tree and stood before the charred
trunk marking all that remained of Satan’s evil grip on that area,
I was reminded of Elijah’s confrontation with the prophets of
Baal in First Kings 18. My spirit leapt within me, and I cried out
as did Elijah of old when the mantle of anointing fell on him,
“Where is the Lord God of Elijah” (2 Kings 2:14).

Elijah was thirsty. He was hungry to see the manifested power

of the living God pass to his generation as Elijah was taken into
Heaven. He confronted the demonic powers of his day and the
people stood on Mount Carmel watching in awe. Centuries
later, Jesus confronted the powers of His generation once and
forever. And the people stood on the mountains listening to
Him in awe. Even today, the Church stands, as it were, gazing
into Heaven, expecting Jesus to do from Heaven what He has
empowered us to do through the Holy Spirit on earth. The
magnitude of God’s move in our generation demands that we
step down from the mount of spiritual paralysis, take up the
mantle of anointing and power Jesus gave us, and begin to
obey His commands.

He has called us to fast and pray, and then to obey. He wants

us to learn the lessons of prayer and fasting so well that He
can send us out to our generation in the power of the Spirit. If
prayer is the booster capsule containing our gifts and requests
to God, then fasting is the booster rocket that propels us from
Mach 1 to Mach 10, which lifts our prayers beyond the
boundaries of earth and into the heavenlies.

I see the Church poised in virtually the same place the prophet
Elijah was when he prayed for rain on Mount Carmel after he
had prophesied to the evil King Ahab that rain was coming to
end a three-year drought. At first there wasn’t a cloud in the
sky, but he kept praying. After a long drought in the Church,
we have prophesied that that the rains are coming, and like
Elijah, we are perched on a high place with our faces between
our knees. And the Church is beginning to hear the sound of
the abundance of rain! We have seen the first raindrops of
God’s glory descend in such places as Argentina; Brazil;
Toronto, Ontario; and Pensacola, Florida. It is like Elijah’s
cloud, small as a man’s hand, starting to rise out of the sea. But
it is not enough. The abundance of rain is coming.

By praying and fasting together, we can overcome every

hindrance, obstruction, and mountain that blocks the way
between us and our corporate destiny and calling in Christ!
Victory is only found in the realm of the Spirit, and that is why
the devil takes every opportunity to divert us from the mode of
prayer and fasting back into the natural mode…a mode of
spiritual paralysis as we watch others move in the anointing.
Many leaders have called the church to pray and fast in the
past. But it is a calling that is now and forever…while the
bridegroom is away. Fasting reveals to Heaven the love-hunger
that resides in our hearts for the Lord. And it is this love-
hunger that moves Heaven to respond.

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Mahesh Chavda is the founder of an international apostolic

ministry based near Charlotte, NC. www.chavdaministries.org/.

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Claiming the Anointing for Miracles
 By David Hogan

(Excerpted from Shifting Shadows of Supernatural Power)

I went to the Bible and I began to find out from Genesis

through Revelation, all the prayers in the Bible. I took them all
and studied every one of them. I took them apart and studied
them from every angle using commentaries. I wanted to know
why, when then men of the Bible prayed, their words did not
fall to the ground. Then I studied fasting. Because the two
things that move Heaven are prayer and fasting. If you can
submit your soul in prayer, and your body in fasting, God
hears you.

So I looked through the Bible, and this is my opinion that I am

about to share with you. In my opinion the hardest thing I
could come up with, the most difficult thing I could find in the
Bible for God to do was once a human being is dead, to bring
that person back to life again. So I decided that through the
Old Covenant and the New, that there was a thread of God’s
power that was in both covenants. And so I decided that I was
going to seek Heaven until the day came that I could walk up
to a dead person and touch him and watch him get up from the
dead. That is what I decided to do. I decided that it doesn’t
matter if I have to fast until I turn into a bone, I don’t care. If I
have to pray 24 hours every day, I have to have the great glory
of God that it takes to change the world around me while I’m
still alive. I’m going to have it. So that is what I did. I sought
after that.
So I get inside the house and there are two or three candles
burning. The first thing I see is a woman in the middle of the
dirt floor, holding something, rocking back and forth, and
screaming. Her 9-year-old son’s body is stretched out. He has
been dead for four hours. I looked over by her right side, and
there were two black-magic warlocks standing there. Standing
next to them were two spiritist healers. Two elders from the
town were also there. They hate Jesus—they are antichrists.
There were many demons there.

So what should you do? Pray, believe, receive, what?

Scriptures from the Old and New Testaments began to go
through my mind about how different people were raised from
the dead. I didn’t know what to do because no one had written
a book about this, except the Bible. I now know that the Bible is
the only book I need for this kind of situation. I didn’t know
what to do. I didn’t have a direct command from God. I did not
have an angelic visitation; I did not have a finger write on the
wall. I didn’t even have a bird chirping. I had two black-magic
warlocks, two spiritist healers, two antichrists, and all of them
were chanting evil spells against me!

If I were a typical American, I would think the spiritual

‘airwaves’ are not clean, so I can’t pray. Praise the Lord. If I
were to wait for the “spiritual airwaves” to be clean, I would
NEVER pray! I do “pioneer” work. No Christian has ever
prayed there before. So all the “airwaves” are polluted by the
demon powers. Why do you think we have the Holy Spirit?
There is not a devil big enough to stop Jesus! That is the truth.
Your emotions do not have any authority in the situation.
Don’t listen to your emotions or you will always be in trouble.
What the devil says—whether it is in your mind, or spirit, or
what you are seeing or feeling or tasting or touching—has no
authority over what the Word of God says. What those
warlocks were saying had no power over the word of God.
They cannot—can NOT—stop Heaven.

I remembered what Jesus did. Scriptures began to run through

my mind. I thought to myself, “Jesus probably did it right.” The
mother had gone back into a corner and was whimpering. I
have my hand on the boy’s head, and my big hands usually
cover up their little heads. Then I decided to see if he was only
half-dead. Maybe I could find a faint heartbeat that would be
easier! I looked all over that boy for a faint heartbeat, a pulse,
and there was nothing. So I said, “He must be all the way
dead.”

So I began praying for him. I prayed in English. That didn’t

work. I prayed in Spanish. Uh-oh, that didn’t work. I prayed in
Indian. Uh-oh, that didn’t work. I prayed in “tongues.” Uh-oh,
that didn’t work. That was all of the languages that I knew.
What should I do? I told you already, I can’t give the credit to
anything but the name of Jesus. I can feel God’s spirit on me
now and I feel like He is carrying me away. I think I was so
nervous that I was praying a few words in one language and
then in another. But in every language, the name of Jesus was
there, and that is what is important. “How long?” I have no
idea. I know that I began to sweat a lot, but it was a hot night,
around 38 degrees Celsius [100.4 Fahrenheit] at 11 o’clock at
night. I was praying and sweating and holding onto the little
boy’s arm. He was stiff and sticky, and had lost all of his color.
He was whiter than I am and usually they are almost black.

Suddenly, while I was praying—the little boy was wearing a t-

shirt—the father and I saw the t-shirt bounce. I looked at the
father and his eyes were as big as mine, because he saw it also.
But the devils are still standing there chanting. They are still
angry and cursing God and me and everyone else. For some
reason, that didn’t bother the Holy Spirit. What do you think of
that? The Holy Spirit came into the room, thumped the heart of
that little boy and made it work again. In a few minutes, his little
arm became limp. And then—listen—the color came back into
him. He became warm again. WOW! Some of you may be
thinking “David, you should calm down!” but you are wrong!
Maybe tomorrow, because today is the day of salvation, just
like when Jesus was raised from the dead. Today is the day of
power and resurrection. Today is the day of glory! Today is
the day of visitation.

I don’t know why God came into the room and through me, or
however He did it, to heal that boy. I don’t feel qualified or
adequate. I don’t feel like I have enough Bible knowledge. But
that doesn’t seem to bother the Holy Spirit if I feel that way, as
long as I call on the name of Jesus in faith. As long as I believe
that “All things whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you
shall receive.” That is what I believe. That is what the Bible
says. Listen to me. I didn’t know what to do next, because his
eyes opened and he looked at me. Almost all of the children are
afraid of me because I am so big to them. But this little boy was
in perfect peace. I picked him up—this is wonderful—this little
boy who is alive, who was dead for a little over four and a half
hours.

_______________________________________________

David Hogan is a revivalist and healing minister who works

among the indigenous Mexican tribes. www.freedom-
ministries.us

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Claiming the Anointing to Reconcile Nations
 An interview with Myles Weiss

(Excerpted from Supernatural Anointing)

What is your definition of the anointing?

My definition of the anointing is to see what God is

seeing, to be in concert with what He's doing in the
moment. So is He healing physically, is He touching
inner life, is He releasing His life? It’s wherever He's
bringing the kingdom in a person or in a circumstance.
It’s wherever the kingdom of heaven is coming to
affect someone. I was just looking at some work I'm
doing for writing and people asking, "If Messiah has
come why is the world in such a mess?" And the
answer is it’s not a mess where His anointing is,
where His kingdom has come in individuals,
congregations or families. You can see something of
heaven, something of the fruit of the anointing. So I
would say its the release of His life, capital H, His life
into a person or circumstance.

So there is an alignment with Him that needs to take

place for breakthrough to happen?

Absolutely and that's why this seeming unsolvable

mystery of the war between the Jews and the Arabs,
the sons of Isaac and the sons of Ishmael, continues
on. You see wherever a Jewish person or an Arab
person comes into a real faith, leans into and believes
into and surrenders to the anointing of the Messiah
as King, there is peace between them. Yeshua is “Sar
Shalom”, the “Prince of Peace”. It is a very satisfying
part of our work. I'm actually working with a local
Arab pastor doing services together and speaking to
all the Bay Area leaders who are connected with the
Bethel river movement. During one of the morning
sessions, Pastor Ziad and I will have the chance to
bring the message of reconciliation modeling a living
testimony of an Arab and a Jew standing together in
Christ.

Just that visual testimony is powerful in itself.

We had a practice run a few weeks ago at a local

church and at the end there was weeping all around
and the Jews ended up praying for the Arabs and the
Arabs for the Jews. God just broke through and
healed people of years, or decades or generations of
anti-Semitism or in our modern world “anti-Arabism.”

We have both anti-Semitism and anti-Arabism in our

country. And some people would relate that to
principalities and powers over a country. However,
one person who comes in humbly and anointed with
the presence of the Lord for reconciliation can do
some incredible work in people's hearts and minds.

You think of Jesus Who came as one; then there were

12, then 11, then 12 again; this small group of people
called disciples. I believe now that wherever my friend
and I put the soles of our feet, wherever they tread,
God will bring His kingdom of peace. We will
experience righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy
Spirit!

Now you started to talk about reconciliation between

Jew, Arab and Christian, why is that important?

Well, I think it is a sign of the times. Jesus said to His

Jewish disciples, "You'll not see Me again until you
say, ‘Baruch ha bah B’Shem Adonai’ (blessed is He
who comes in the name of the Lord). And so the time
clock of the restoration of Israel has something to do
with the return of the Lord. There are different
theories about what that means, what a generation is,
etc. But it is significant. You can trace actual history,
following the outbreak of the movements of the
modern church from the late 1800's and early 1900's
right up to our day. You can track increase in the
church, which parallels the restoration of Israel and
the Jewish people. Its a phenomenal study, its
actually on my website if you want to look at it
(www.visitbethshalom.org). There is something that
God is doing in concert with this restoration of His
natural brethren to the land, to their place, fulfilling
their destiny in the land, which will lead to coming
into the spirit and looking for the Messiah. Our
cousins, our brothers, who are intended to be our
brothers in the Lord, the sons of Ishmael must also
humbly enter the Kingdom of God through the
finished work of Messiah. It becomes a mark of the
power of God, the love of God, and the ability of God
to bring heaven to earth when there is reconciliation
between Jews and Arabs, to former Muslims and the
body at large. Former Muslims who love Jesus, His
Jewish family and the Jewish place in the land are
modern heroes. They understand that they have been
“grafted in” to the commonwealth of Israel, according
to Ephesians Chapter 2.

Where there is unity and reconciliation, peace

happens.

Psalm 133 says, “Behold, how good and how pleasant

it is when the brethren dwell together in unity. It is like
the oil on Aaron's beard that flows down through his
garments all the way to his feet.” And its there it says
at the end of the Psalm that He commands life
forevermore. The blessing is commanded, life forever
more. God takes it very seriously.

Do you believe that it’s not just speaking about unity

among like-minded believers; it’s talking about Arab,
Jew and Christian and all nations?

That's exactly right, that's a really, really good word

and a very important insight. I work among several
groups of pastors, especially in two counties of the
US. Here, we think of unity as a goal because of our
denominationalism and our various stripes of
Christianity and we think oh when we get unity won't
it be great. I came in low, I came in serving their
congregations as a therapist and gaining their trust
and being a part of the crowd but once I got them
connected to Israel and they saw what its like to be
connected to that living root of the Messianic world,
they started to understand that unity is not a goal, its
an entrance requirement, its a starting point.

Paul said in Ephesians endeavor to keep the unity of

the Spirit in the bond of peace; he didn't say attain to
it, or strive after it because of your denominations. He
said if you're walking in divisions, you're walking as
natural men and I can't even speak to you as spiritual.
So it’s really a beginning. Unity is step one. There's a
step program in the return of the Lord. Step one - we
are in unity in the spirit now, lets reach across to the
really difficult, difficult places. You know it’s a
celebration whenever the church gets together, but
how much cooler when ethnic barriers and long held
divisions are broken down by the power of the Lord?
It’s awesome.

How did God call you into the ministry of reconciling

nations?

In our own journey, we started out serving in a large

missions-minded work that held distinctive large
gospel meetings wherever we went. We ministered in
India, Africa, and Russia with a focus on salvation
and healing on a massive scale. I was a setup guy and
a video guy, a “carry the luggage” guy, who was just
really serving and seeing God do incredible things.
Occasionally, my traveling buddy was an Arab. So we
would come into a city in India or a place in the
backwaters of India, or Africa and we would say to
the Catholics, the Charismatics, Baptists,
Pentecostals, and the denominations that we are
going to lift up the name of Jesus for a week. There
will be salvation and healing and deliverance, and
pastors are going to move forward in their ministries.
There will be breakthrough on every level and we
are all going to get along together. You know how
we know that? Because he's an Arab from Ramallah
and I'm a New York Jew. If we can get along, you can
get along!

Its amazing how that opened the door for not only the
local pastors to reach for the entrance requirement of
unity, but also it worked on me because God gave me
love for my Arab brother, and he for me. We had to
work some things out along he way as you can
imagine. We had to work out loving this person who
the media, the cultures, the history, the current events
were all telling us was impossible.

One day I'm on my way back from conducting

marriage seminars in Russia with my wife when a
young, prophetic man said, "You're cheating your
kids out of their heritage." And so we said how?
“Well you're a Jew, you need to teach them where
they came from. Not just serving the nations and
doing what you're doing, but you need to also tell
them something about the blessing of Abraham.”

So that set us on a journey of holding Shabbat on a

regular basis and celebrating the feasts in our home.
Israelis were showing up, old folks were coming; all
these people that would never set foot in a church
were coming into our home. Eventually, about 80
people were showing up. One night a 96-year-old man
got saved in my kitchen. He started weeping and
wondering what's going on, “What's happening to
me? I haven't felt this way since my wife died. I have
felt so alone until tonight. What's different, what's
going on?”

And I said to him, “Your soul is being saved, Max.

God is saving you and drawing to the Mashiach, to
the Messiah. You're in contact with the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He's changing you.”
When I walked him out to his car and knelt down to
say good-bye he strained to tell me that his neck was
in severe pain. I prayed a simple prayer and God
healed his neck. So the kingdom had come to him, to
Max, in my kitchen. And the meetings grew. So when
it became too big for our home we began to meet in
churches and in other places and along the way this
reconciliation with my Arab cousins and brothers
became a central part of what we do. And I was
connecting to the root in Israel, to the people that are
laboring there on the front lines. We found Arab
Christians, and Jewish believers living together in the
peace of the Messiah. The body of Messianic
believers in Israel is a heroic community and it’s
grown tremendously over the past few decades.

There is something about you returning to your

Israeli roots or your Jewish roots and re-connecting
with your heritage that released an even greater
anointing and direction and calling to reconciliation.

Absolutely, it completely changed the direction of my

life. I spent two weeks on Mount Carmel with David
and Karen Davis and Peter Tsukahira’s ministry there.
I went up to Mt Carmel and wept for two weeks as
God re-ordered my DNA around my Hebrew roots. It
resulted in my thirst to see this message get out to the
body in the Bay Area of California and beyond; and
it’s absolutely transformative. Since early 2000 I’ve
received an endless revelation about the ministry of
reconciliation. I never get tired of it. I never lose
energy about it. I get discouraged, but I've never
looked back in terms of the direction of our ministry.

So you had your strong God encounter that set you off
on this commissioning.

Yes, for sure. And along the way there's been great
encouragement. Cindy Jacobs has spoken over us;
Chuck Pierce ordained us; and Bill Johnson had a
word for us. Ed Silvoso adopted me and there's been a
lot of favor with established believers. This last
November Ed Silvoso had me bring the message of
the “One New Man” to almost 700 world leaders.
They were marketplace, church and government
leaders who gathered in Hawaii for a transformation
conference and he had me bring the message of
reconciliation to the whole group. The highlight was
when I showed a DVD clip of an Arab Pastor from
Carmel who tells a little bit of his story. At the end of
the movie Ed Silvoso took off his shoes, got up on the
platform and admonished everyone to take off their
shoes as they were standing on holy ground. When
you see what God is doing, calling the sons of
Ishmael back to the God of Abraham, you experience
the holiness of His purposes.

God's economy is humorous that He is using a Jew to

do that. Our ministry is focused on raising up the
church as Esther, to stand in the gap for God’s
people. This includes those that know Him and those
who do not yet know Him. In a typically Jewish
comical note…my given Hebrew name happens to be
Mordecai!
Have you noticed in churches that those that have no
grid for understanding our connection with Israel,
the Christian connection with Ha Eretz, lack in the
anointing? And those that bless Israel see an
increase in anointing? Or nations for that matter?

That's a very good question because there are many

that don't have any grid at all and yet there is an
anointing and there is breakthrough. In fact, some of
them are leaders in revival. So I had a controversy
with the Lord about 5 years ago where I said, “What's
the story here God? I'm doing my best and preaching
this everywhere I go. I'm taking about 250 pastors to
Israel and they say things like "Myles why wasn't this
taught 25 years ago in seminary? Why did I wait my
whole life to learn this?" They get this incredible
revelation of what the Bible says in Genesis 12:1,2,3 I
will bless those that bless you and curse those who
curse you. And that word curse means to esteem
lightly, like if you don't get into this, there's a loss.
The Lord said, “Myles, they are the beneficiaries of
my restoration of Israel whether they know it or not.”

Implied in that was that this movement of restoration

that God's doing in the body worldwide and has been
doing for centuries, of restoring different aspects of
His life and His anointing is increasing and will move
on. You can do it without this connection but my
contention is that God wants us to do it on purpose,
 in connection. He wants the Messianic to be
connected to the revivalists, so we don't get dry and
liturgical. And He wants the revivalists to honor the
Jewish root because it is right to do so and God has a
double blessing for all of us.

Do you think when some of the revival leaders get a

hold of this they will see an exponential increase in
power and anointing?

Yes, that is what I believe. We need the oil of the

gentiles and the oil of the Jews to fill the candelabra.
Its two becoming one. It’s the two olive trees in
Zechariah and it’s this mystery of Ephesians 2 - God
breaking down the wall. Even with the incredible
things we are seeing in the earth today, how much
more will we see when we are living out of Psalm 133,
living unity on purpose, intentionally.

___________________________________________________

Myles Weiss is a Messianic Rabbi and host of Zola Levitt

Ministries. www.levitt.com

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Claiming the Anointing of Love to Change
the World
 An interview with Heidi Baker

(Excerpted from Supernatural Anointing)

Do you say what happened with you in Toronto years

ago was a time of incredible anointing and increase
that just changed everything?

For me it had a lot to do with the Father's heart. I've

always been really passionate for Jesus and I’ve
spent hours with Him since I was saved. I've always
been really intimate with Him, but this understanding
that Father's there, that I can just lean back into His
presence, in His arms and He'll come through, shifts
the whole way you minister. It’s out of a security in
Him that you minister. You're dependent on Holy
Spirit totally, but you are sure Daddy is going to show
up for you.

Was that the shift that happened to you when God was
ministering to you in Toronto?
That was the main thing that happened - the shift in
His security and knowing that He is going to come
through. I also shifted into more rest, feeling like I
don't have to strive so much. I still fast obviously, but
back then I fasted one third of my life. Until a few
years ago I felt like I had to earn the favor somehow.
And now its like Daddy loves me and its ok to eat
sometimes, its ok to rest sometimes, its ok to take a
day off once in a while. That's a whole new place for
me.

The breakthrough happened in you first, but then

how did it happen in the land?

Well, mostly by hearing God speak to me over and

over that it’s His job to heal and it’s my job to love;
and that I need to be secure in who I am in Him. I
started really listening to the rhythm of His heart to
run, to rest, to release. It was about learning how to
release, instead of me trying to make it happen with
Him. Then instead of me doing the work and pushing
and striving and leading, I was able to hear Him say,
“Release this one”. I started seeing an increase of
miracles and growth as I released sons and daughters.
I was so secure in who I was that I could release it to a
generation.

As you released it God gave you more?

Yes, it was releasing it to little ones, telling them they
could see the deaf hear and the blind see and the dead
get raised. And I released them and had no desire to
be seen and God began to multiply. You know 12
guys went out and started ministering in the Bible, but
only three of them raised the dead. God started using
little children and everything shifted.

So that's one way to increase the anointing,

propagate it.
Yeah, give it away. Out of control, release control.
That's my biggest word - release control.

Can you talk a little bit about that progression of

encounter and release and following Him where He is
taking you?

Yeah, that was a real sovereign, divine thing. When I

was in my 20's I had some ambition and really wanted
to speak to the nations and in the stadiums and in the
big meetings, which I was doing. One day in my 20's,
the Lord said, “Stop!” He said three times to stop. He
told me to sit with the poor and learn about the
kingdom. So I did that for probably 18 years or 20
years. I lived in the slums with the poor, learning
about dependence, learning about living a life that is
needy; needing and desperate every day, not just for
myself, but for all my friends. My friends were the
poor.

Then, after encountering God in Toronto it shifted. I

never dreamed or wanted to speak to the Western
church or the Eastern Church. I just wanted to hide
myself as I had been doing for 20 some years among
the poor and be hidden.

Then one-day, after a year of praying for the blind,

(you know that story from one of my books) they
started to see. God opened the first woman's eyes,
and her name was Mama Aida (Heidi in Portuguese). I
watched her eyes go white, grey, and then brown.
Then the next day I prayed for a man and he didn't
see, which was really interesting.

The next day, I prayed for a woman and she was

miraculously healed and her eyes opened. She'd been
blind since she was eight and she began to scream
and she could see and I took her to the village and all
the villagers came around and started yelling and
dancing and saying, “Mama Aida can see”. Well
that's my name in Mozambique as well, Mama Aida.
Day three leads to such an extraordinary story. I
called the blind to the meeting and there was only one
blind lady in the meeting, so she came and I prayed
for her. She fell on the ground and her eyes went
white, grey, and brown. And everybody started
dancing and screaming and praising and saying,
“Mama Aida can see, Mama Aida can see”. That
woman's name was also Mama Aida. Is that the
wildest thing you ever heard? Three women with my
name getting healed of blindness over three days?

So, I mean I'd never seen a blind person receive even

a tiny sliver of light in 20 some years of ministry. I've
been ministering 35 years now. So I asked God, I put
my hands on my eyes and I said, “What is it? Do I
have a Kathryn Kuhlman anointing? Am I Aimee
Semple McPherson? Am I entering my healing,
evangelistic ministry?”

And the Lord said, “You're blind.”

And I said, “No I'm a missionary.”

And He said to me a second time, “You're blind.”
I said, “But I work with the poor.”
And a third time He said, “You're blind.”
So I laid my hands on my eyes and I began to cry out,
"I want to see, I want to see, Lord let me see, let me
see." When I opened my eyes I saw all these faces,
like hundreds of thousands of faces. I saw Asian
faces, I saw American faces, Canadian faces, and I
saw young ones, too. And in these faces I saw all
these different nationalities. And He said, “They are
poor, they are rich, they are blind, they are naked,
won't you love them too?”
And from that day on, I said yes to going back to the
Western and Asian church that wasn’t so poor as the
ones I had been working with. I spend one third of my
life calling people to a radical laid down life of love
and to see a missions movement rise up with those
who would love the poor, love the broken, and to call
the church into greater intimacy unto fruitfulness.

So how do you survive the anointing? You have

certainly seen and heard a lot of trauma and then
walked in the midst of it. And what is the secret to
surviving?

Stay low, stay low and go slow. I don't have to make

myself poor in spirit because I just am, because the
needs of this world and the needs of the people are so
great that I stay desperate on God, desperate on
Jesus. I literally come to Him, literally every moment,
just poor in spirit wanting Him, dependent on Him. I
stay low, I go slow and I slow down even more when
I'm not getting it right, I slow down even more, you
know?

When I preach and I minister, I wait in the presence. I

wait for Him. If it takes an hour or two, I'll wait that
long, if it takes five hours, I'll wait that long.
I've watched you at Bethel recently and at other
places and it seems like such a small percentage of
the people there will come forward to answer the call
to love the poor and to go out and to minister to the
poor. I mean it really is about maybe one percent that
responds to that altar call. What do you think about?
Are we just blind and hard-hearted?

I think while everyone is called to care for children

and to care for starving and the dying in this world,
there is a small percentage who are called to live
among them from the Western and Eastern Church. So
I'm not concerned if it’s a small percentage. If I give an
altar call like that it is very specific. They are going to
give their lives. I feel like every area of society needs
to be influenced by the love and power and presence
of God. So if someone wants to be a medical doctor or
an engineer, or professor I see that not as a lesser
value. I want the anointing to hit them as well. But the
call to live and work among the poor and to rescue
children out of starvation and the sex trade industry,
that is a specific call, and the reason I can call them in
is because I live that. And while I can call the whole
church into intimacy unto fruitfulness, I can call this
small, small group that God is literally calling to this.

When I see them come and respond and I see you pray
its like there is transference of that grace that you
have on your life. So maybe just one percent, but I see
how broken they are instantly by the Holy Spirit.
Instantly the grace comes and it’s imparted at that
time.

Yeah, and they are all over the world. They might be a
tiny percentage in a meeting, but there are hundreds
of them all over the world, living in the slums, bringing
home the child slaves, caring for the most desperate
people and that is beautiful to me.

I don't think it’s everyone's call. I think everyone

should adopt at least one child and feed one child, I
mean in a sponsorship kind of program. I think every
Christian should do that. I can't imagine a Christian
not doing that, not caring for one child and some are
called to give up their whole lives.

What do you sense about the anointing that is

coming? In your travels around the world are you
seeing hints to come of God's fresh outpouring.

I do. Everywhere we go I see people getting

completely wrecked. But I feel like God wants to bring
this radical love revolution where people start
focusing on loving the one right in front of them and
it’s more about carrying love everywhere than its
about a meeting.

This movement that I'm praying for is a love

revolution where Christians are actually known by
their love wherever they are in society, wherever they
move, wherever they walk. It’s all about breathing,
smelling and walking like Jesus, not so much about a
meeting in a certain place. It’s like carrying His
presence, the glory of His love out, into every single
part of society. People don't have to ask who you
believe in because of the way you treat people and
care for people they can see who you believe in.
Christians are known by their love. And I feel like God
is ripping anger out of people, and depression, and
fear and causing them to live a life of radical love.
That's what I'm seeing. That's what I'm longing for.

How do people get there? Do they just have to be open

to it and say yes to the Lord and just go for it?

Yes, and its also sovereign when God takes our little
hearts and makes them bigger. I'd say it’s actually a
gift. I believe that you know, He did it for me in
Toronto and He continues to do it for us. There's
something that when God does that, when He comes
crashing in on you in a sovereign way in a meeting,
then He totally takes away hatred and anger, and
allows you to forgive people who have hurt you and
ridiculed you, once that happens - you change. But
then you have to live that life out. So I believe that we
need more of those kinds of meetings where the
presence is so strong that God literally rips out the
hardness of our hearts and puts His heart in us. That's
what I'm longing for, more of those meetings. I saw it
yesterday [the day before the interview]. I saw South
Koreans come up and instead of just writhing and
shaking to receive the anointing and wanting the
woman or man of power to touch them, they were on
their faces sobbing their guts out and God was giving
them such a huge taste of His heart of love for them
and others.
___________________________________________________

Heidi and Roland Baker are missionaries in Mozambique, Africa

and founded the international Iris Ministries. www.irismin.org

___________________________________________________

VIDEO:
THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE
- Heidi Baker
Claiming the Anointing of Power for
Missions
An interview with Leif Hetland

(Excerpted from Supernatural Anointing)

When you go out into these deep dark places, like

Pakistan you're facing men with guns, and so much
resistance that you need to be secure in knowing that
God had called you to that assignment and that you
have the anointing to carry it out.

I think that there's connection with anointing and

assignment. So my assignment of reaching the
unreached, of taking the Gospel to the darkest places
in the world – to the places where there's never been
any good news is a special anointing. Walking into
the room, changing the environment, and to be able to
do signs, wonders and miracles just flows very
naturally.

But, if I go in a different setting I am not anointed for,

it would be like me trying to fix a car. Then I become
very annoying. The difference between “anointed”
and “annoying” is a very big difference. That has to
do with assignment.

I have to make sure that there is a major grace

involved that is connected to the assignment. The
other thing I think we need is to be free from fear.
Jesus says, “I have not given you a spirit of fear, but
what I have given you is a spirit of power and love,
and a sound mind.” I think one of the first major
freedoms connected to the anointing is that I had to
become free from fear.

The other thing I think has to do with worldview –

how you perceive or see things. Are you seeing it
from heaven's perspective? When the anointing is
there, when I look at Islam I don't see Islam as a
problem. I see it as a promise. And you can only
receive a promise. When I am looking at somebody
that is full of hatred, all I see is that they have never
experienced His love. So I am seeing them through
heaven's eyes.

The Saul who became the Apostle Paul, was the first
terrorist named in the New Testament. He terrorized
Stephen. So, when I’m looking at a solid terrorist, I see
the Apostle Paul. That's what the anointing did. So,
when you are there [in a Muslim country] and you're
seeing somebody that wants to cut your throat, or
you see “honor” killing – you see some of the most
gruesome stuff – you have to be able to see with the
eyes of Jesus.

I mean, they’ve got bad news. I’ve got good news.

Who's going to win? “The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me and He has anointed me.” Wherever there is
darkness, I've got Light. Where there is sadness, I can
have Oil of Gladness.

So when I say, “If Christ Jesus, that is the Anointed

One, if He is here and if He is alive, and He is in me,
you are going to see these things. And I declare
you're going to see blind eyes opened, deaf and mute
hearing, tumors are going to fall off people – you're
going to see it.” And they do.

What's the most amazing meeting or series of

meetings that God has used you in?

I think the most amazing meeting I have ever seen was

recently, when we were in Pakistan. In America I've
seen the whole environment change, but I think what
made this meeting very unique for me was that the
place we were at. We literally saw the environment
change and I had never seen such a transformation. It
took three days, but by that Sunday service we saw
so many creative miracles – in the thousands – that
I've never seen anything like it. I've seen miracles, but
the hunger level was intense. The people thought –
because they'd never heard of Jesus or known
anything about Jesus – that Jesus was me.

They were storming the police cars with guns and

machine guns trying to get to us, and I have video
clips of this. But they came up trying to touch you,
carrying their half-dead children, hoping that if they
could just touch you they were going to get well.

There was this girl who you could see there was
nothing in her eyes, she had been born with no
eyeballs, and I saw them bringing her up closer. And
the closer she got to the Presence of God; you could
see the creative miracle taking place. I have a picture
of myself standing up there – they actually handed me
this girl – who was seven or eight years old – and you
could see she received eyeballs. She could see for the
first time. She looks out at the thousands of people in
the audience, she'd look into your face and then grin
and just smile, and you know the anointing has
broken her yoke.

Then her family told all their friends – so an

explosiveness of power and faith occurred. But the
biggest thing was just the environment change.
Literally, when we left there you could feel the
environment had changed. We went into a place
where there has never been light, a totally unreached
area. Probably, I don't know, thousands and
thousands of people prayed and received Jesus, night
after night.

What I've been after is not to have just a visitation,

but to create an environment one day where we can
change the atmosphere. Then we can be not just a
thermometer, we can be a thermostat. I mean, that's
what the anointing is doing. It's going in and
changing the temperature that is in a room.

That's probably the meeting that I will never forget. I

have hundreds of meetings where I've seen amazing
things, but there was something there that – I really
saw heaven come down and change everything.
What do you see coming in the future of missions?

I think that the major shift that is coming has to do

with the unwise and the wise virgins. There are going
to be ten virgins in the end time, according to
Matthew 25. But five of them will end wise. All ten of
them, had lamps. They all had ministries– maybe for
some – ministries to nations. The biggest shift I see
taking place in regard to the anointing, is that we are
moving from the old system, where you can burn the
wick, and run from conferences, to places, and
seminars, and purchase anointing oil. The shift that's
taking place in regard to the anointing is going to be
the realization that you're going to have to burn
brightly without burning out. The only way to do that
is to obtain the oil of intimacy for yourself.

Also, when it comes to missions, what we have done

is we tried to achieve something you only can receive.
“Ask of me and I will give it to you,” Psalms 2:8 says.
So the whole thing is about asking and receiving;
“Ask of me, and I will give you Pakistan, or ask of me,
and I will give you like what Heidi is doing in
Mozambique, or the different ethno-linguistic people
groups. Everything in the kingdom can only be
received, not achieved. One key to the anointing – is
learning to be a good receiver.
There is a connection with the anointing and the
Presence of God where there is rest. That's how we're
going to wear the enemy out, because resting is
receiving. And receiving is reigning – it's ruling and
reigning. So, it's only when what comes from Him,
goes through Him and goes back to Him will there be
a flowing in the anointing. It comes from Him. It goes
through Him. And it goes back to Him.

I think a major shift in the next missionary movement

is going to be in identity where people realize, “I am
the Beloved son and daughter whom the Papa loves,
in whom He is well pleased.”

Lucifer was the first orphan. So when he left heaven,

he has had one major assignment – making sure
people don't get home. And that's what Jesus came
for. Jesus says in John 14:18, “I will not leave you as
an orphan. I will come to you.” Identity has to be the
foundation of the next missionary movement. You
teach what you know, but you reproduce what you
are. So there's going to be impartation of identity in
Him.
I think that the future's going to be full of people that
obtain blueprints from heaven. That's pretty much
what the apostolic or missionary is all about, is to be
able to get it from the Father and then learning how to
receive it, not to achieve it.

You say, “Papa, I don't know how to do this.”

And He says, “Good, then you're qualified. Then you

need my anointing.”

Then you have hope. You have everything else that

flows from that... when the anointing is upon you.
You can stand up against the opposition because
you're not conscious of the enemy trying to win,
you're conscious that the Lord's already won.

What do you think the next outpouring of God will

look like?

I think there's a major love revolution coming.

And it has to be there, because it eliminates fear.
Perfect love takes away fear. And believe me, it is
 going to be about the Father's love. Even in America,
you can go in and look at statistics on the
“fatherlessness” and you will find the devastation in
America on a global scale. Fatherlessness is the
number one root issue in the world today – even in
Islam.

Randy Clark prayed for me in 1995, and I received the

power and signs and wonders and miracles, and
stadiums filled up, and all those different things. My
identity used to be power, until eventually in the year
2000, when I had another encounter with the Lord, it
became love and power.

Alignment with Jesus is love, and then the

assignment is power. I think that there has to be major
love revolution. Now, everywhere I go, I make sure
there is a baptism of love – people are being affirmed
by the Father, and then find healing of that orphan
heart and the orphan spirit, they are getting the
identity of being a Beloved Son or Daughter.
___________________________________________________

Leif Hetland is a Norwegian based in the USA and has an

international ministry known for miracles, signs and wonders.
www.leifhetlandministries.com.
___________________________________________________
 Claiming the Anointing to Reach Your
Sacred Destiny
Interviews with John Paul Jackson & Paul Keith Davis

(Excerpted from Supernatural Anointing)

John Paul Jackson:

What do you see the coming anointing on leadership

look like?

There is a shift coming from purpose-driven leaders to

presence-driven leaders. Ask yourself how much in
your church can only be attributed to God’s power
working in your midst and that will tell you how much
you are presence focused. If you focus on prayer, not
programs, you are presence-driven.

I also see a shift coming from motivational preachers

to inspirational leaders. Motivational leaders produce
short-term results and usually their teaching is based
on fear issues. Inspirational leaders inspire people to
change their lives to accomplish something. People
change their life because of the leader’s anointing of
the Holy Spirit to empower eternal change.

The economy is changing and that will create a shift.

The numbers of people attending church and the size
of budgets will no longer be signs of the anointing.
The hallmark of the anointing will be to change lives.
Changed lives and making disciples will become the
mark of a truly anointed gathering of people.

A shift is coming in the perspective of five-fold

ministry. I think it will go from a financial focus to a
spiritual fruit focus. We will see apostles raised up
according to the Acts and Corinthians examples of 5-
fold anointing - not the Ephesians definition of 5-fold.
We will see apostles who are more interested in
building up the body of Christ rather than their own
networks. True fathers who are more than
administrators will arise. We have confused the ability
to administrate for the apostolic anointing when
apostles are fathers and mothers, men and women
who promote their spiritual children more than
themselves. They are thrilled by their son hitting more
home runs than they did…not threatened by the
success of their kids but thrilled. They want their
children to have children. They are anxious for the
spiritual fruit of their kids to come on the scene.
When crisis comes people are ready and longing for
change. Historic models reveal prophets who repent
when they make a mistake rather than spin doctoring
their words. We are coming back to that model of
honesty. And we are going beyond to where the
prophets will speak things and they will come to pass.
A Samuel Anointing will emerge – where what you
say comes to pass because everything you say comes
from God. Samuel focused on developing his
character and because of his character; he was able to
carry that level of anointing and authority.

I believe we will see evangelists who leave churches

in better shape than when they came. Right now, we
see many take the money and run. We don’t see
people come to the Lord through their ministries.
Instead, we see evangelists who are in it to make a
living rather than to bring souls into the kingdom. We
will see evangelists who value planting, and watering,
as well as the harvest. Right now, they seem to be
focused on only harvest. Evangelists have devalued
the planting and watering of the seed of the kingdom.

We’ll see pastors who no longer see numbers of

people as an indicator of their anointing. They will
demand to take people where God is directing, not
where the board thinks they should go. This is the
end of the hurting pastors who are scared to death of
board members.

Teachers who aren’t afraid to tell people to throw

away their old teaching because they were wrong will
emerge as new insights come.

Tell me about mantles in relationship to the prophetic

office. Is this an Old Testament/old wineskin concept
or timeless truth?

Mantles are a timeless truth. They are real. But they

have been misused and abused by people saying, I
will give you my mantle. This is not the reality of a
mantle’s existence. Mantles are merely an indicator of
the 5-fold ministry, a higher level of functioning. The
overall goal of giving people a prophetic word is to
get people to change what they are doing - if you do a
course correction this will take place in your life.
Having a prophetic mantle is that ability to speak the
word of God without predetermining how it must be
said and not for the benefit of yourself.
What are your top concerns that may inhibit the next
generation from entering into the fullness of the
anointing?

I always challenge my interns – don’t say you are

spiritual if I don’t see the fruit. Does your pastor think
this you are the most loving person or growing in love
– or most selfish person who has no clue? I look for
fruit in terms of kindness, patience, and longsuffering.
That is what we should be seeing with bonafide
manifestations of the Spirit.

But we’re seeing so much out there that is not the

focus of the kingdom. Nowhere in scripture has the
focus of the Kingdom been on extraneous, ancillary
things that happen. The focus is always on changed
lives – those who have been healed, received a
miracle, or raised from the dead, discover that their
lives have been changed. Changed lives bear witness
to the existence of the Father. One problem I see is
that people are no different after their experience with
God. Many are teaching people to walk on the edge of
heaven versus showing them how to get close to the
throne. When you walk on the edge of heaven you
wonder, “Am I going to get in or are gates closing?” It
creates anxiety and performance. We need to be
 teaching them how to get close to the throne and
develop righteousness.

We don’t depend on God like we used to. Instead, we

depend on the extraneous things that happen, like the
diamond that falls in a meeting rather than the power
of God to change lives. It is easier to believe in
something impersonal than personal. God wants to
prove Himself to be a very personal God, in a very
impersonal world.

_________________

Paul Keith Davis

What do you believe the next generation anointing
will look like?

The truest form of prophetic ministry is not 1

Corinthians 12, but Hebrews 4:12. Hebrews 4:12
speaks of the living Word, which is not a pen and
parchment. It is the person of the living Word, the
logos being manifested in a tangible way that removes
the veil. Paul says in verse 13, “All things are open
and laid bare before the eyes of Him with whom we
have to do.” So that was what someone like William
Branham ministered in. He did not minister in a 1
Corinthians 12 word of knowledge. When he was
functioning under that anointing, the living word, or
what he called the “pillar of fire”, would come, and
literally it was like pulling a curtain back between the
two realms. In that place, what you have is an entirely
different dimension, a greater realm of authority. So in
that place, there is complete accuracy. That’s the
Samuel anointing. That is what I believe we are
coming into.

The Bible says that none of Samuel’s words fell to the

ground (1 Samuel 3:19). When Branham ministered
under that anointing he was always correct. Even his
worst critics said that. So that’s my standard, and
anything short of that is a little bit disappointing. I’m
convinced we can get there. I believe the sons of the
Kingdom will get there.

So what would it look like today?

I’ve seen it actually. There’s a different dimension of

anointing that’s coming, when we have the Bride’s
revival. It’s a different form of revival than we have
never seen before. Brownsville wasn’t it. Toronto
wasn’t it. Even what’s going on at Bethel Church is
not there yet. There is a different dimension of an
anointing that is going to be coming with the Bride’s
revival, and the bride will be anointed according to
Isaiah 11:2, with the seven spirits of God. That’s what
we need to understand about former ministers like
William Branham, Maria Woodworth-Etter, and
Kathryn Kuhlman - these people were prototypes of
the Bride. They were forerunners. Every one of them
even acknowledged that they lived out of season, or
that they were born out of season. They reached over
into a future day and pulled something back into their
day. John G. Lake actually made that very statement.
He knew that he reached over into another dimension,
another day. Therefore, we can look at them and know
that what they had will identify the coming revival
that will be given to the Bride of Christ.

Instead of so many people laying hands on people to

impart the power of God, you’re going to have the
power of the spoken Word doing the work. That’s the
big difference of what’s coming as opposed to what
we see now. There is a new realm of authority we will
step into. Jesus talked about it with the Roman
centurion where the Roman said, “I understand
authority and all you have to do is speak the word
and my servant will be healed.” Jesus marvelled at
that faith. That power of the spoken word will be a big
part of what’s coming in the days ahead.

Once I asked Paul Cain, “Paul, what was it like when

you ministered back in the 1950’s and that realm
entered the room?” And he said one minute you’re
looking at the people and you see them in the natural,
but the next minute it literally looks like a curtain has
been opened up, and that whole realm is available to
you and you just see everything that’s there. That’s
an entirely different realm of prophetic anointing than
what we have right now.

The Lord spoke to me one time, when I was really

asking for that level of anointing. He said, “Are you
really ready to know what people really think about
you and still love them anyway?” In other words, in
that anointing, there’s nothing hidden. Some people
said that William Branham, from external appearances,
seemed as though he treated his enemies better than
he treated his friends. Which means he saw what they
really had in their hearts. Often, he was told a day in
advance what was going to happen the next day. Paul
Cain moved in that. They’re really the main two in that
last generation that saw that dimension of revelatory
power. That’s what’s coming. That has to be the
standard we contend for.

The model for this coming movement is not them,

however, it is Samuel. None of his words fell to the
ground and he did not beg his bread from the people.
Meaning, he had the integrity to never use his gifting
for personal gain.

How do we get there? How do we contend for that?

A. W. Tozer wrote about the issue of character and he

said you have to go to the Lord and insist upon the
removal of the stumbling blocks and the issues So
whatever it is, you go to the Lord in humility and say,
“You’ve got to take out the tares in my life.” And
He’ll do that. You know, that’s a very answerable
prayer.

I think He’s refining people and He’s preparing them

for that level of anointing. I think it’s just a matter of
getting positioned with God and also, there has to be
a kairos, fullness of time moment, which I personally
believe we are approaching. In Isaiah 11:11 the Lord
speaks of recovering for a second time, the remnant of
His people. And I believe it this anointing will start
with a remnant. From there, it will expand and explode.

Who is the remnant that you’re referring to?

I believe they’re the overcomers. I think we have to

overcome the spirit of the age, which is the Laodicean
spirit. I also think we have to overcome our own
issues and generational curses and personal agendas.
Isaiah 11:13 - 15, says that if Ephraim will no longer be
jealous of Judah, and if Judah will no longer harass
Ephraim, then the two of them can come together and
go down and plunder the Philistine camp. And so I
think that the jealousy and harassing spirits are going
to have to be removed from the remnant. And I
believe they are. That’d be wonderful to see them
removed from the church! But I’d be happy right now
just to see it removed from the remnant, and that is
comprised of the overcomers. There is a wheel within
the wheel; we have to acknowledge that. We have to
acknowledge that there is a remnant within the big
company, victorious ones within the midst of that big
company. I think the Bride is within the church but
not all the church is the bride.

And so, it’s not just a handful of people, or men that

are going to be moving in this anointing, it’s a much
larger company.

Oh, it is a much larger company. I believe it’s not

going to be one or two as we saw in the last
generation, or ten of twelve even. I do believe it will
be hundreds or thousands. I also believe it will be a
remnant of the major group of people called the
Ecclesia – the church. People that have actually
received the Lord’s blood for the remission of their
sins; people that have not camped out in Passover,
and they have not even camped out in Pentecost, but
they have moved on into Tabernacles.

I’ve been really intrigued with 1 John 2:27-28 where it

talks about destiny and purpose and the anointing
teaching us everything we need to know for our
destiny. Whenever anyone asks me how to know their
destiny, I say go and live the reality of 1 John 2:27 –
the anointing which you receive will teach you
everything you need to know about your destiny. The
next verse says that there is a place to abide in Him so
that when He appears we will not shrink away. And so
that means there is the ability, at the manifestation of
His presence, to withdraw and to be repelled by His
coming. That seems kind of odd. But if we’re not in
the place where we need to be in our character
development, when this manifestation comes in some
are going to want to run away.

My advice for the next generation is to develop their

character and contend for the greater anointing.

2 Timothy says that we have an anointing for our

destiny. In other words we have a sacred destiny. It’s
one thing to be saved but it’s something else
altogether to have a divine calling or sacred destiny.
And it says that that destiny was set apart for us
before the foundation of the world. And so I think
right now, the greatest thing we can do is somehow
access the grace that was already set apart and pull it
down. The Lord showed me that there’s a grace
hovering over us right now and He said, “The more
people you can get to agree to pull it down, the
quicker it will come.” It is hovering over us right now
but it’s got to be pulled down into our generation.

You’re not just talking about the revelatory prophetic

anointing, you are talking about all the power of the
anointing available, whether a person needs healing
or anything else, as part of this grace package of
anointing that’s coming on the Bride.

Absolutely.

It’s the seven spirits of God. If the Bride of Christ will

do the works Jesus did, we will have to have the
anointing He had. It’s one thing to have a word of
knowledge, but it’s something else to have the spirit
of knowledge. It’s one thing to have a word of
wisdom, but it’s altogether something else to have the
spirit of wisdom. When it says, “The spirit of the Lord
is upon me,” that’s the government – the
manifestation of His presence –coming in to reside. It
produces wisdom and revelation, counsel and might,
knowledge and reverential awe. It brings Jehovah
Shema – the Lord who is there. If He’s there,
everything He is comes with Him. I had a very
profound vision once where I saw a future meeting,
and a person was ministering. Midway through, this
ball of light or fire came through the roof, right down
next to the minister, and all of a sudden everything
started happening simultaneously. The minister was
almost like a narrator speaking out what God was
doing. He pointed his finger and said, “Over here
someone’s being healed of cancer. Over here
someone’s being delivered of drugs. Deliverance, and
salvation and healings were all taking place
simultaneously. This is the anointing that is coming.
 I think a new breed’s coming in too. You know, I’d
love to see those old anointings restored to anybody
who’s gotten away from for whatever reason. I think
this is a season of restoration, no doubt. The new
breed will be mingled with it.

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John Paul Jackson has a prophetic ministry based in Texas.

www.streamsministries.com

Paul Keith Davis is the founder of White Dove ministries based

in Alabama. www.whitedoveministries.org.

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VIDEO:
PREPARING FOR THE SUPERNATURAL
- Paul Keith Davis
 Discover your Spiritual Gifts

How do you discover your spiritual gifts? Begin by looking at

what interests you. And then take a look at your personality –
which is also a part of your gift mix. God would not ask an
introvert to become a media evangelist. Neither would an
extrovert be interested in creating a life in contemplative prayer.
One of the easiest ways to make your gift mix a bit clearer is to
take an assessment that takes into account your interests and
your personality.
So many people have emailed me asking how they may
discover their spiritual gifts, that I realized I needed to find a
free and easy way to get started. One of the best free, online
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That link is listed below.
After you take the assessment, what do you do with it? Find a
place to serve and begin exercising your gifts. If you believe
your gift is healing, find a place where you may be trained in
your gift and practice praying for others. The late John Wimber
prayed for hundreds of people before he saw one person
healed. We grow in faith as we step out and take repeated
risks. If you believe your gift is prophecy, find a place to be
trained and to serve. The gifts need to be developed in the
context of community. Plenty of churches host training
workshops. Attach yourself to the more experienced and you
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working in a justice field. Why seek to step out of secular
employment where your gifts are being used, and into ministry
in the church?
As you understand your gift mix, I encourage you to begin
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 About the Author
Julia Loren is a prophetic equipper who books and speaking
ministry assist individuals in reaching their sacred destinies
and waking up to the reality of God’s presence and power
available today. She teaches workshops and speaks
internationally at retreats and in Churches to release the saints
into their sacred destinies. She is the author of the Shifting
Shadows series (published by Destiny Image) – that includes
contributions and interviews with notable apostolic and
prophetic ministers – Shifting Shadows of Supernatural
Power (with contributors Bill Johnson, Graham Cooke, Mahesh
Chavda), Shifting Shadows of Supernatural Experiences (co-
authored by James Goll), Supernatural Anointing.

She is also the author of Beyond 2012: What the Real

Prophets are Saying.

Julia has also authored several healing books like Breaking the
Spirit of Despair, Dancing in the Fullness of Joy and When
God Says Yes, and various short books to equip the saints for
the work of the ministry.

Her media company develops books, products, e-books and

materials. [email protected]
www.bluemothmedia.com

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