Date Given: Beginning of the Year 1999
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we moved into the New year, many have wanted to know what God has in
mind for the Church. What has God spoken to His prophets concerning the
year that lies ahead? What is His agenda for the Body of Christ? And
what about the new century that looms ahead of us? Should we be
panicking about Y2K and stocking up our shelves?
I would like to address this subject from what God
has revealed to me concerning His purpose and plan for the Body of
Christ in the year that lies ahead. I stand not as one who predicts, as
a fortune teller, but as one who humbly hears and speaks forth the Word
of God. Therefore what I declare is a putting forth of what God desires
to do in His people. May it motivate His prophets to rise up and speak
forth His word into the earth.
It is the prophets of God who release His word into
the earth, for God says that He does nothing unless He reveals His
secrets to His servants the prophets. Therefore the prophets of God are
encouraged to use their prophetic authority to speak forth the
manifestation of what God would accomplish in the earth.
The New Century and Millennium
For behold just as 1999 is the last year of the century
and even more than that, the last year of the millennium, even so says the
Lord , this year shall signal forth the ending of two entities that have
existed. The one signals the end of that which began at the turn of the
century, the other signals the end of what began a long time before that.
Therefore as this is the final year of the century that
heralded the outpouring of my spirit in Pentecostal power, so shall it end
with a greater measure of my outpouring than has been known before says
the Lord. And what began as the Latter Rain at the start of the century,
shall manifest itself in the fullness of my power being poured upon my
church.
Therefore the year that lies ahead will see an
outpouring that is greater in both quantity and influence. And the rain
that has fallen in select places in the past, will begin to overflow all
boundaries and spread everywhere, to encompass areas that have never
before been reached by my power.
So shall the century end, even as it began, with my
glory being poured out on the Body of Christ in many places. But it will
not be the final outpouring that I will pour upon my church. Yea it shall
rather be an anointing of power for preparation of what I shall do in my
Body in the new century that is to follow. And it shall bring about an end
to what began at the beginning of the century.
For as the first outpouring resulted in the formation
of the Pentecostal churches, known also as the Full Gospel movement - all
those proclaiming the Pentecostal blessing. Even so the end of the century
will bring an end to this. For the Pentecostal churches have become but
another man made structure to restrict the manifestation of my glory. And
therefore the garment that fitted well at the beginning has become old and
worn out says the Lord, and it shall be discarded in favor of the new.
So as the end of the century shall bring an end to the
establishment of the Pentecostal structures, so also shall the end of the millennium bring about the end of the patterns that came to dominate the
church in the millennium that has been. For as my body moved further and
further away from the original pattern that I set for it, there came a
structure and pattern that was foreign to what I had ordained originally.
And so the patterns of men crept into the church, and false methods of the
world came to dominate my work, says the Lord. Until eventually the plan
and pattern that I ordained became corrupted by the ideas of man.
Behold the time has come for restoration says the Lord.
And the last century of this millennium has been one in which I have sought
to restore my body to the original pattern that I had for it. Therefore as
this millennium draws to a close, the incorrect pattern shall reach its
peak of usefulness and shall wax old like a garment. Then as the old shall
reach the end of its usefulness, so shall the new arise says the Lord. And
therefore even as I have placed my prophets to speak forth the destruction
of the old and the creation of the new, so shall I move swiftly to bring
into being what has been spoken forth.
Therefore in the final days of the century and millennium, I shall raise up my prophets as never before, to speak forth
into the earth, the destruction of the old and the launching of the new.
And as my prophetic intercessors shall send forth my word into the earth,
so shall the hosts of heaven be mobilized to bring forth what has been
declared by my servants the prophets.
Behold I shall do a new thing says the Lord. Yet it
shall not be new, but rather a restoration of what was at the beginning.
And as the new century pours forth, and the new millennium comes into
being, there shall come forth those whom I have hidden away in training,
awaiting manifestation. So the new century and millennium shall see the
full manifestation of my glory and power, when I build again the
foundations that were long ago destroyed. Then my apostles shall rise up
out of obscurity and come forth to take their place in my Kingdom.
Then I shall rebuild the waste places says the Lord.
And I shall restore those who have been bruised and broken. And I shall
cause them to return. For there shall come an ingathering unlike anything
that has been known before. For as the new foundations are laid, there
shall arise ministries that will exceed the bounds of the current church
system. And many who have grown cold and become disheartened by the wrong
patterns will find a new hope. So that they will spring forth to new life
again.
For the building of my end time church shall be glorious
says the Lord. And the traditions of man will no longer apply. The
restrictions of organized procedures will no longer block my work, and my
people will no longer seek for great men of God or great ministries, but
they shall every one of them rise up together as one Body.
The sleeping giant that is my Body will shake off the
chains that bound it and will rise up as a mighty warrior, going forth to
conquer. And the gates of hell shall tremble as my body arises in power
and goes forth as one. The Kingdom of Darkness will be plundered as my
people go forth with my words in their mouths and my power in their
spirits.
Therefore shall the new millennium bring forth a new
church, with a new power and a new structure. But it will be like the
first church. It will go forth in power. Only this time the church will
arise in every nation. My body shall extend to every country. And my glory
shall be manifested in all the world. Until my bride is ready and adorned
for her bridegroom. She will stand without spot or wrinkle, with a heart
full of love, yearning for her groom. And then shall come the sign of the
Son of Man in heaven, as He returns to receive his bride, says the Lord.
