Ministering in the 21st Century, Part III
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Beloved, As promised, here is Part III of Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne's prophecy from the October 2003 Ministers' Conference. Joan Ann
CONTINUED PROPHECY, PART III BY DR. RODNEY HOWARD-BROWNE, OCTOBER 2003
For some do not want to allow My Spirit to work in you to get rid of the things of yesterday or the things of the past, but you'd like to hold on to them and clutch on to them as though they were given to you as an inheritance, and you keep them as a family heirloom, and you hold them and show them to your daughter and your son and your loved ones, and say, "This is what I inherited from my grandparents." But oh, allow My Spirit to work in you. Let go of the things of yesterday. Let it be dead and gone. For if you do not let go of the past, then the enemy will have a foothold in your life, 'cause he'll remind you of the things of yesterday, but I've already forgiven you of that. I've already cleansed you of that. I've already washed you from that. I've already worked a miracle for you from that. So rejoice! It's past. It's gone. It's finished. Bury it. It's done. Haaa.
So, now let's get back to these revelation gifts, because they're going to come with great clarity, and there's not going to be any vagueness. There won't be any vagueness. No, you won't need an interpreter to come and interpret. It'll be so plain. Are you listening? Are you listening? Haaa. You won't leave the service saying, "I wonder what the Spirit was saying. I wonder what he meant by that." Word of knowledge. You'll know things happening, taking place. Mmmm. You'll know things about to happen. Some things are not for now. Some things are future. Some things could even be as far as five or ten years ahead, and others even longer, because in the realm of the Spirit, there's no time. Prophets of old prophesied, and four hundred years later what they said came to pass. They looked down centuries. In the spirit realm there is no time. So you'll know things present and past, and you'll know things to come. You'll know this by the Holy Ghost, not because of some dead one.
And then the gifts of discerning of spirits, looking into the hearts of men to see the spirit that operates, whether good or bad, whether God or the enemy, or looking into the spirit realm to see demonic activity or angelic activity. For some operate in discerning of spirits and it's always to do with the dark side. Develop your gift. It's recognizing good and evil. It's recognizing light and darkness. How come you only see the darkness? For the light is greater than the darkness. Some who have just exercised their gift to walk in the darkness. No wonder they walk in the doom and the gloom. No wonder they walk in depression, for that's all they see. Dark clouds on the horizon. They don't see the glory. They don't see what the Spirit of God is doing. They don't see what the hand of Heaven is doing. But you'll see the hand of Heaven, for the hand of Heaven'll be made manifest unto you. Hallelujah! Thank You, Lord Jesus (repeated twice).
The Lord's been speaking to me about just moving more into, because you see (tongues). This is what I saw, and the Lord spoke to me it about a month ago in Toronto, Canada on a Friday night, and the Lord began to speak to me about yielding more. 'Cause I do yield, but I yield some and then pull back. Someone said, "You pull back?" Yeah, I pull back, pull back, because you just, you know, why bother with it? Some people don't even believe in the simple gift of prophecy. So why even step over into this realm? But I'm going to do it. I'm just flat going to do it and jump over. Hallelujah! Mmmm. Hallelujah! Glory to God. Glory to God.
Now just hold that thing on the gifts. Get ready for some songs to come in the night hour, and the Lord will awaken you by the Spirit. Put the tape recorder by your bed, and keep a keyboard there, 'cause you'll wake up - He'll just wake you up playing the song - and just get up and sing. I'm telling you, stir yourself up in these areas, for there are songs in the Spirit that must come forth, and they'll come forth in the night hours, and they'll come forth in the early morning time. They'll come forth just in that waking moment. You'll hear a melody; you'll hear Heaven's melody. You'll not try to look for it. You'll wake up, and as your head lifts from the pillow, you'll hear the melody - oh, I hear that. Jump on the piano. Don't worry about your makeup. Don't worry even. Just (tongues), and songs will come, songs of Heaven. Songs of Heaven will come. Amen. More, more than you've ever known before. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah!
Now, going back to these gifts again now. So (tongues). The power gifts, the power gifts of the Spirit must now come forth in great demonstration - the gift of faith (which, by the way, is not just in the area of a miracle or a healing because it is the ability to receive the miracle), but the gift of faith also in the area of provision. Now listen, supernatural provision - that's a manifestation of the power gifts. Why is it that My people only think that the gifts that I've given unto them are there for in the service? And even at that, they make very little room for it. The gifts are there for Monday morning, Tuesday morning, midnight Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - come on - whew! The supernatural ability to receive a miracle, in whatever area the miracle is needed. The stilling of a storm, the finding of a lost treasure is all operated by the gift of faith.
And then, the working of miracles comes into play, 'cause they work together, the gift of faith and the working of miracles. They stay together. They are inseparable. They are twins. They flow together, and you can't have one without the other, so step over in that realm. Now some would say, "But these things are as the Spirit wills." Yes, but you can believe Me for the gifts. Covet earnestly the best gifts. And use your faith to believe Me for the gift of faith, and I'll drop it on you when you need it.
And then, the gifts of healings. Miracles'll pop like popcorn and healings'll happen -- just a divine flow - and you won't even need to call it out. People just say - they'll come into your vicinity and say, "I came in here with terrible pain, and I walked right in. It's gone now. It's gone. I just like to hang around you, 'cause when I hang around you, then infirmity goes. When I hang around you, sickness leaves." These gifts are for the profiting of the church, and the church has been running at a loss. So prophets - for some call themselves prophets, but they're "non"! Haaa.
Now, the utterance gifts. For if you didn't realize it already, that's what's been in manifestation tonight. The utterance gifts - divers kinds of tongues, interpretation of tongues, oh yes, and the gift of prophecy. These gifts must come into more prominence in the life of every believer, not just in the framework of a service where there's a lull after the worship and Sister So-and-so steps forward to deliver the word shakingly and quakingly. No, no. At your dinner table, driving down the road in your car the word of the Lord will come unto you saying. Prophesy, speak it out. Speak it out. Speak it to your wife, speak it to your children. Speak it over your life. Prophesy, prophesy, prophesy, 'cause it'll - the word "prophesy" is to bubble, to bubble up, to tumble forth, to spring forth. Ooooh! Prophecy will bubble right out of your belly!
[I was driving here tonight (now I'm not prophesying now). I'm just telling you. I was driving here tonight, and as I crossed (what, probably about fifteen minutes from the church) I felt a bubble in my belly. And the anointing of God fell on me. I felt a bubble in my belly. (Tongues) I felt a bubble in my belly, and I knew that the Lord wanted me to minister some things by the Spirit. Amen? Hallelujah.
Somebody say this after me, "I have a bubble in my belly." Glory to God. Hallelujah.]
And the Lord would say (now I'm going to prophesy again) that there will be teams of ministry where a husband and wife will flow together, and the one in tongues and the other interpretation, and the other in tongues and the other interpretation. They'll flow backwards and forwards, and you will see this begin to increase. And ministries will flow together, and they'll recognize and they'll see the glory on the face, and they'll flow together. And get ready, get ready. Get ready! (repeated) Some of you that the anointing of Heaven has fallen upon you and you're not able to speak in English and you didn't understand why you couldn't speak - because the spirit of prophecy doth rest in your mouth. And so you must speak forth by the Holy Ghost. You must speak forth. You must proclaim by the Holy Ghost what Heaven is saying. Declare it! Declare it when it doesn't look like it. Declare what you see in the Spirit. Speak it out (repeated). Way before it happens, speak it out. Speak it out. Prophesy. Prophesy. Tell it, by the bubble. (Tongues) Speak it out. Speak it out. The utterance gifts are for speaking. Speak it out. You can't have an utterance gift with no sound coming out of your mouth. So you have to yield to speak it out. Speak it out.
Now, the Lord would say unto you that many have yielded to the Spirit in only a measure, and the next time you yield, you yield in that same measure, and you stay in the comfort zone of what you are safe with in that measure. But according to the proportion of your faith, step out beyond, push back the threshold. Push back, and enter into the realm of the glory that you've only heard about, because if you just stay in your comfort zone, then you'll just see what you've always seen. But the more you yield, the more you yield, the more you yield (hahaha, hallelujah, haaaaa), so you'd better do it. You better do it. You had better do it. You had better do it. You must do it. You had better do it. Do you understand, you had better do it.
[Come here, both of you. (personal ministry)]
Part IV to follow of Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne's Prophecy....
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