MARCH 11TH 2009
Prophetic Brief
Insight and Analysis for the 21st Century
In these issues we are dealing with
the changes produced by the
apostolic reformation in the
churches joined in divine purpose.
The following 5 characteristics are
present in churches which are
building in the reformation. The
one in bold font is dealt with in this
newsletter:  coincidence that the series of crises which
1. De-emphasis upon the
validity of personal blessing
a nd ministry driven by
individual preference, and
an emphasis on building and
architecture
2. A more integrated Church that
has lowered the boundaries of
individual ministries and changed
how leaders approach ministry  reality resident within those churches
3. Greater level of impartation,
authority, strength, and ranking
within the churches, making them
more able to fight and more able
to stand strong in crisis.  personal blessing and ministry driven
4. Apostles bring an ability to
execute what was spoken by the
prophets, thereby creating a more
effective stewardship of the
prophetic word  cross and follow me. For whoever wants
5. A greater demand to see beyond
the shapes of the natural into the
intents and mind of God
measurement, and a new power to build
within the prophetic was released within
me. Assisting people to effectively
respond to the speaking of God and build
in the earth that which He requires has
become more significant, and the
operation of the prophetic has become
more strategic and corporate. Assisting
churches in building correct architecture
became possible due to relational
proximity to the apostolic, and those
architectural platforms are now part of the
training for those we have identified as
having a prophetic calling upon their life.
This has allowed pastoral leaders and
prophets to work more effectively together
based on common standards of building.
God has a definitive blueprint that He
requires to be built into the earth, and the
declaration of Christ that “I will build my
church” is actualized with new authority in
the apostolic power to build, and has
released powerful faith in the churches
that are related to the apostolic.
Haggai
Haggai 1:2-4 This is what the LORD
Almighty says: "These people say, 'The
time has not yet come for the LORD's
house to be built.'" 3 Then the word of
the LORD came through the prophet
Haggai: 4 "Is it a time for you yourselves
to be living in your paneled houses, while
this house remains a ruin?" (NIV)
Haggai was raised up in a generation of
people whose dominant positions
opposed the purposes of God, and who
merely wanted to engage in a self-
indulgent or personal blessing lifestyle.
They were bound by cultural and religious
strongholds that prevented them from
completing divine purpose. The people
were paralyzed and bound by darkness,
which expressed itself as self-indulgence
and lack of building power. The prophet
then declared the requirement to build the
house of God and he began to effectively
overthrow the oppositional purposes of
the enemy (Haggai 1:1-15).
Because of their self-indulgent ways, the
people had been frustrated and resisted
by God. Haggai’s prophecy of you earned
money but put it in a bag with holes in it
applies to the modern financial crisis
without modification. Haggai went on to
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Building a Powerful Church to Thrive in a Time of
Crisis – Part 3
The Apostolic: Building & Architecture
This last week unemployment in the U.S.
topped 8%, and the stock market hit lows
not seen for decades. Some blue chip
stocks have been reduced to ridiculously
low levels, going from $50-$60/share to a
present value of .95 cents. Hundreds of
billions of dollars of value have
evaporated, and there is real concern that
the bottom hasn’t yet been reached. While
each one must navigate through the
economic crisis in terms of their job and
career, we must also realize that it is not a
are impacting the earth are occurring at
the same time that God is resourcing His
Church with more functional
understanding of the apostolic dimension.
The effective release of ministry through
credible apostles has produced immense
renovation in the body of Christ and
created a dramatically different framework
for the global Church to function within.
The greatest contribution we can make to
correctly navigating through the crisis is to
work within the present Apostolic
Reformation, a move of God which has
crafted a world in which apostolic realities
are resident and living within an entire
host of Kingdom communities joined by
God from across the earth. There are five
characteristics that describe the prevailing
engaged in ongoing efforts to build within
this present speaking of God. These
characteristics can also serve as a
prophetic description of a preferred future
for those churches relating to the
Apostolic Reformation as an emerging
reality. The first one is:
• A de-emphasis upon the validity of
by individual preference, and an
emphasis on building and
architecture
Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to his
disciples, "If anyone would come after
me, he must deny himself and take up his
to save his life will lose it, but whoever
loses his life for me will find it.” (NIV)
There is a subtle undercurrent which runs
through much of the church world of a
demand for personal blessing on behalf of
those who come to our churches. People
have individual preferences, and because
tell the people who were consumed with
their personal blessing but neglected
building the house of God: “you have
planted much, but harvested little. You
eat, but never have enough. You drink but
never have your fill. You put on clothes
but are not warmed” (v 7-9). We could
paraphrase Haggai’s words for our time:
you have eaten the Word of God at
church and numerous conferences, but
when you leave you still find yourselves
empty; you have put on the clothes of new
models of ministry but you are still cold
towards the present purposes of God. The
lack of deep fulfillment arising in the
hearts of many across the broad reaches
of the church is an indication that the
apostolic building dimension is yet to be
fully embraced.
Haggai declared from God that “I am with
you,” which moved people towards a
different position. A new sense of
partnership with God was initiated through
Haggai as an agent of change and
transformation, and the building of the
house of God moved towards completion.
Haggai’s ministry teaches us that a
prophet must refuse to accept that which
is presented to him unless it agrees with
movement towards fullness of divine
purpose. If persons, churches or nations
present themselves before the prophet in
contradiction to divine purpose, the
prophet has the authority to reject the
incorrect shapes and disconfirm the false
spiritual positions which they occupy, and
to move them towards correctness.
Churches that cater to human preference
and the demands of a convenient faith
have proven unable to produce the
purposes of God, especially during the
time of crisis the earth finds itself in. That
is why believers have grown frustrated
with the carnal and selfish operating
systems endemic to the present Church
world, and are responding to the longing
placed in their heart by God for an
accurate people to be raised up who
represent the values of the Kingdom of
God. Ministry and church activity which is
oriented towards personal blessing and
which caters to individual demand
produces people who are underdeveloped
and unprepared, and is largely irrelevant
to the purposes of God as crisis besets
the earth and God looks for a properly
built people who can thrive in difficultly.
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they haven’t fully died to self these
preferences are exerted either subtly or
overtly, and they corrupt our ability to
build. At their most intense, people who
put a demand on God and the church for
personal blessing are operating from the
same drivers – greed and self indulgence
– as the values which brought on the
economic crisis. Success in this world is
measured in bodies, buildings and bucks,
but when the spirit realm looks down into
the earth a blessing church of 10,000
members and multiple campuses may
well look like a dilapidated shack with a
leaky roof and holes in the walls. The
system of individual demand and personal
entitlement is equally corrosive, whether
the demand is for more home than one
can afford or for personal blessings
delivered to me in a church.
My Own Experience
This system of personal demand has
shaped the church more than we would
like to admit, to the point that it has
become a systemic reality that is
unconsciously embraced by good and well
meaning people. For many years I went
into churches with good leaders and good
people, and the prophetic ministry shared
with them was encouraging and accurate,
but when I would return to the same
church 1-2 years later nothing had really
changed. On the next visit more prophetic
ministry and teaching was given because
that is how we measured success and
that is what the system demanded – good
meetings, powerful manifestations and
immediate blessings. I came to realize
that a good thing – the prophetic – could
be misused if in the incorrect context.
Therefore, the need was for a change
from a context of blessing and personal
demand to a context requiring accurate
building, even if that meant de-
emphasizing personal prophecy in some
settings. Some believed that I had
rejected the prophetic, when in reality
what I had rejected was the ineffective
system in which the prophetic was being
delivered – a key difference. Because it
was a system that I had personally
participated in building, a deep internal
process of amending certain values, heart
positions and mentalities based on a new
sight of God was required within me.
As the process effectively changed me
and the prophetic function within me,
correct architecture and accurate building
replaced previous standards of
MARCH 11TH 2009
Haggai 1:2-4
This is what the LORD Almighty
says: "These people say, 'The time
has not yet come for the LORD's
house to be built.'" 3 Then the
word of the LORD came through
the prophet Haggai: 4 "Is it a time
for you yourselves to be living in
your paneled houses, while this
house remains a ruin?"
The need was for a change from a
context of blessing and personal
demand to a context requiring
accurate building, even if that
meant de-emphasizing personal
prophecy in some settings. Some
believed that I had rejected the
prophetic, when in reality what I
had rejected was the ineffective
system in which the prophetic was
being delivered – a key difference.
Because it was a system that I had
personally participated in building,
a deep internal process of
amending certain values, heart
positions and mentalities based on
a new sight of God was required
within me.
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