Ministering in the 21st Century, Part IV
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Beloved, As promised, here is Part IV of Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne's Prophecy along with some of his speaking to us and then more prophecy. Joan Ann
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CONTINUED FROM PART III OF THE PROPHECY
Don't limit the Lord. Don't limit Him (repeated). For some words that are coming forth are so in general - I mean, a hoping you hit something. But they'll -- specific words, direct words, specific words, intelligent words, intelligent words, directional words, specific, detailed words. Hallelujah! (repeated)
[I tell you, I just feel the Lord, Brother Dick, telling me to tell you, "Thank you." Thank you for all these years of your ministry. Thank you for all these years -- 61 years - of just speaking the word of the Lord in the face of opposition, in the face of people criticizing you, in the face of people attacking you, in the face of people coming against you. Because you blazed the trail, you paved the way for the younger men to come through. And they would say, "Is there a prophet in the land?" "He's a man of God. His name is Dick Mills. He'll give you the word of the Lord." And so, thank you. I feel the Lord telling me to tell you, "Thank you." (repeated) 61 years. Glory (repeated). Thank you (repeated). Thank you for not drawing back (repeated). Thank you for not pulling back. Thank you for not quitting. Thank you for keeping going.
For some of you have flowed in the gifts for five years, but 61 years he's flowed. Some have flowed for three years and pulled back. Huh! 61 years and still growing strong. Hallelujah! Thank you (repeated). Hallelujah!
The Lord told me to tell you that you've asked the Lord and said, "Lord, I've traveled here and traveled there and everywhere and given the word. I really was looking for the fact that many sons would be raised up under me, but somehow I can seem to find some here and some there." But the Lord would say they're raised up all over, that you do not even know at this time because they've never been able to get to you and been able to tell you that it was through your ministry that they were touched, through your ministry they were inspired. But on the other shore you'll see and hear. And even those that have already gone on ahead will declare unto you. And then those that'll follow you will declare unto you because of your life and your ministry declaring the word of the Lord caused me to step over into that which God had for me. So rejoice, for they're all over. Hallelujah. Sons and daughters, all over, flowing in the realm of God, flowing in the realm of Heaven.
The reason why you stayed true, the reason why you stayed true for 61 years, is because that which you've given has been based upon the Word. Many based it upon "pizza revelation". Many based their word upon macaroni and cheese, but you stayed with the Word. That's why you still stand 61 years later. Hallelujah! (repeated)]
Always stay close to the Word (repeated). The Word's your rock. The Word's your foundation. And then you won't go off your head. You won't go flaky. You won't become a Granola bar, full of nuts and flakes. Don't try to come up with some revelation. When the Holy Ghost is moving, you don't have to try to come up with anything. When the Holy Ghost is moving, He'll pop up and it'll come forth. Hallelujah!
I just feel right now that the Lord is speaking to people because you flowed in a measure of the gifts of the Spirit in days gone by, but for some reason you drew back. For some reason, whatever, whatever realm. Now there might be just one or two of the gifts that God was moving you in and you were being cultivated in that area, but you've kind of been pulling back, but now the Lord's speaking to you tonight. And there's something happening on the inside of you, and you're feeling a stirring of the Spirit of Heaven. And so now you're making a decision - and that's all that it takes - you're making a decision, "I will flow in the Holy Ghost. I will flow. I will obey. I will go. I will do." If that's you, just slip your hand up high. Right now the Lord's talking to you. Right now (repeated). Hallelujah! (repeated)
Now that means that everybody else that didn't raise your hand, you're already flowing. Amen. Hallelujah! Thank You, Lord Jesus. But you can yield more. You can yield more. There's more you can yield. You haven't yielded as much as you're supposed to yield. Haaaa! There's more! (repeated)]
[Now, both of you stand up because the Lord gave me a word for you. (personal ministry)]
I mean when you stand there and you can't speak, that's prophecy. Because you can't speak in English, so now you must come forth by the Holy Ghost. But what people sometimes do - just "I can't speak." No, no, just flip it over from the English. Somebody said, "I know what I want to say, but I can't say it. I can't say it in English." Just flip it right over and go into tongues. Hallelujah!
[More personal ministry]
It's time to explode. It's time to explode forth, explode forth, not slowly come forward and slowly approach it, ýcause that's where the power'll be released. Hallelujah! (repeated) Thank You, Lord Jesus (repeated).
And there will come many operations of the unusual (repeated), and it'll be so unusual that some will say this surely couldn't be the Lord. But the Lord would say, I'll be right there in the middle of it, for I'll be another Rock of offense and a stumbling block to those that are not of a pure heart. There will come an increase and a flow of the manifestation of the unusual. Special anointings, special gifts, special graces, special anointings, special, peculiar, yes - special, special, unique, diverse, special, diverse. Ha! (Tongues)
For some momentarily yield to the Spirit of the Lord and they give the word of the Lord, and in thirty seconds they run out. But you'll step over and flow, and you'll flow like a river. And you'll flow, and there'll be no end. You'll have to literally unhook yourself to go home and do some functions in the natural. Oh, I see it! (repeated) Now, you'll say to people, "I think for the purposes of some natural functions that I will now disengage myself and will be back at a later time to hook back up with the Holy Ghost, for I need to go and take a shower and go to the restroom and have some food, for natural purposes. And but you'll live in that realm. You'll live in the glory (repeated many times).
I'll tell you right now there's not going to be the gap. There's not going to be this business of walking into church and having to wait an hour and a half before people get in the Spirit. It's not going to be. No, no, no, no. People will come walking in the door full of the Holy Ghost. They'll come walking in the door, I'm telling you. And the church'll step right immediately into the deep things of God, into the deep realms of Heaven. Hallelujah!
No such thing as, "Boy, we hit a brick wall there. We worshipped about an hour, and then it broke." Oh, no, no, no. That's because they're living in the flesh, living in the carnal, living in the realm of the mind, living in the realm of the reason, fighting one another, arguing with one another, running each other down. Shut up your face! Jump in the move of God! Jump in the glory of God! Stay in the river of God. Stay in the blessing of Heaven. Oh, yeah. You'll go to sleep that way. You'll wake up that way. You'll live that way. You'll walk that way. You'll talk that way. You'll pray that way. You'll eat that way. You'll fast that way. (Tongues)
[Personal ministry to couples, then to individuals....
Now, listen carefully. This will not come with some marriage that's divided. This will not come with some husband and wife fighting and arguing all the way to the church and suddenly you think you're going to get in the anointing and flow in the Holy Ghost. This will come because you're of one accord (which you're supposed to be anyway ýcause you're married), and this will come because you are people of prayer. And you know each other in the realm of prayer. For many do not know each other in the realm of prayer. They know each other in the physical realm. They know each other in the touchy realm, in the (kissing) realm. They know that realm, but they don't know each other in the Spirit. And that's why so many marriages are not what they should be, because many are judging each other after the flesh. They see each other's flaws; they see each other's faults; and they judge one another accordingly, instead of recognizing the gift of God, instead of recognizing the anointing of God upon your wife and upon your husband. And there's husbands that are just totally pigheaded and stubborn. They don't want to listen to their wife because she came up with something that they didn't like, but really she's talking by the Spirit of God and she's saying something to them, but they don't want to listen; they're just stubborn, bullheaded. And so they charge ahead, and they're not in agreement. And then there's some women who just run off at a tangent and don't listen to their husband, and they just run around like a chicken with their head chopped off, and wonder why nothing works for them.
But if you flow together and you respect one another and you love one another, and you don't let the sun go down on your wrath, and you pray together, and you talk together, and you're best friends together, and you sleep together, and you eat together, and you do everything together, and then you pray together, and then you're in the Spirit together. Stop fighting, stop arguing. How can you flow in the gifts of Heaven when out of your mouth is coming criticism one towards another because of faults and failings and things of yesterday and things of the past? Forget all that stuff. Grow up; mature. For parents do the same thing to their children, and they always see their children back when they were fourteen or sixteen, never allowing them to mature and come to maturity.
So realize that you are growing. Realize that you are growing and maturing together, and respect the gift. Look beyond the natural. See the gift of Heaven on your spouse. See the gift of God upon your spouse. Draw on that anointing. Look at each other. Ask each other. Say, "What do you feel in your spirit?" Not what you think in your head. Ask each other - say, "What do you think about this? What are you feeling in your spirit?" Talk about it, and pray about it, and then the answer will come, even if it takes two, three days. And you'll come together and you'll talk. But some, they're always fighting, arguing, and shouting and screaming and banging pots and pans and kicking the cat and the dog, and then they wonder why they never hear from Heaven.
The two shall be one. And he that is man among you feels that he needs nothing. But then why would the Lord give you a helpmeet if you weren't going to ever get any help? For she is not there just as your soft companion at night. In actual fact, the two will flow together until you'll be so one that you'll actually be able to say to somebody, "If you've seen my wife, you've seen me. You've seen me, you've seen my wife. If my wife said it, that's what I say. If I said it, that's what she'd say." There's not even a difference. My wife doesn't have a different opinion to me. Somebody says, "You mean she doesn't think for herself?" No, no. We've just talked it all through. (repeated) We've discussed it all through. And that'll only come with spending time together. So that means you have to switch off the television and get rid of the remote. No wonder some marriages are remote.
So as you pray together, commune together, and fellowship together, one will put a thousand to flight; two will put ten thousand to flight. Get ready for ten thousand to be put to flight. Now I don't care how long it takes to get on the same page, but get on the same page. Some people aren't even in the same book.
Now, Father, I pray for these couples. They feel the pulling and tugging of Heaven to flow in the Holy Ghost together. We thank You that it shall be thus and so. Greater unity shall come, a bonding together of husband and wife, because really the two will have to give an account. Ananias and Sapphira were married, and they died together. Husband and wives joined together will be affected together. So make sure, then, of your marriage, and spend much time. Amen. That's all I'm going to say about that.
Then all the individuals here that feel God's telling you to move in the gifts, stand and move in the utterance gifts. Now, you say, "Well, I don't have somebody to check up on. I've got nobody. Yes, you do. Yes, you do. You have the Lord. So while the others are having to spend time with each other and talk to each other and pray with each other, you have to press into Heaven more than you've ever pressed into Heaven, and you have to seek the Lord's face more than you've ever sought the Lord's face, and you have to touch Heaven more than you've ever touched Heaven. And let Jesus become so real that it's just as though it was your husband or your wife standing right there. Let Jesus become so real.
Now, Father, I pray for these that there would be a stirring of the nine gifts, in Jesus' Name. And I bless You for it, and thank You for it. It'll come with clarity, that eyes will be opened, that people will see that which they've never seen before, ears will be opened that they'll hear things they never heard before. You'll see with the eye of the Spirit. You'll hear with the ear of the Spirit. Your five senses in the Spirit will be very acute. Hallelujah!...
Then practice at home. (repeated) Don't wait for some meeting to get up to practice it. Practice at home. Prophesy to each other. Pray with each other. Let the tongues, interpretation operate at home, at the dinner table. That's where I watched. I had an example of that. My father and mother, Dad and Mum, stand up. My dad's turning 80 this -- and my mom. Listen here, my dad is an engineer; my mom ran several day-cares. Let me tell you right now, before we went off to school in the morning, the whole family joined hands. My dad started praying and then he started prophesying. Or we'd sit around for the dinner table. My dad'd start praying over the food, and off he'd go into tongues and then interpretation. I knew the food was going to get cold! There's a lot of kids that don't ever see that. We were not in meetings; this was just in the home. You know, we had two meetings a day, six days a week, so my kids just watched us flow in the Holy Ghost all the time when they're on the road with us, or whatever. Hello! But they set an example. Thank you, Dad. Thank you, Mom.
I knew when my dad was just my dad. I could learn to discern the difference. My dad is my dad, and I know when my dad is just being my dad. And he has a right to be my dad - he's my dad. But then I also knew when my dad was speaking by the Spirit. I could see the difference. That's my dad, and that's my dad, and I still listen to my dad. But this is not my dad now; this is Heaven talking now. Eee. So I knew when my mom was talking just as my mom. I felt when my mom was talking. Her left hand would come flying through the air, swat me up the side of the head. I'd hear Heaven's bells ringing! But then I also knew when she was speaking by the Spirit of God.
And you walk in your house; you'll walk in the gifts; you'll walk in the gifts of the Spirit. You'll hone in on your kids. Kenneth knows when I'm doing that, don't you, son? I follow him around the house. "Come here, boy; let's talk." "What about, Dad?" "Well, just let's chat a little while. What's happening, son? What's up?" "Nothing, Dad." "Well, hmm." (My mom used to do that to me all the time. My mom would come to me and say, "What are you doing?" "Nothing. Nothing. I'm not doing anything." "Well, Dad and I were praying this morning." I thought, "Oh, no, not again. That is not right. I mean that is not fair. That's not fair. God went and told on me. That's not fair. I mean, how can a kid be a kid and just learn and do things, even wrong things, and God's... telling your dad and mom...." "So what's up there?... Let me look into your eyes." ...
So the Lord is going to develop in the Church those that are spiritually fit. For if suddenly we took off running out of here, many would run a hundred yards and be puffing and panting. But if we trained you every day for six weeks, you'd run two, three, four, five miles and up. Some now will just never be runners, no matter what you do. They might cycle a bike, or whatever, but they're never going to be runners.
But in the Spirit, it's the same. Take off in the Spirit and then you can only last an hour. Jesus had that problem with the disciples. "Could you not tarry with me one hour?" Yeah, they tarried, but they fell asleep. We've had that in the meetings - the power of God falls, a person falls out there and they're under the anointing, and then you hear snoring come up (snore). I've taken the microphone over and just stood there and the whole place got the joy, you know. Somebody was in deep travail. Happened several times. Amen. The meetings would go on past midnight. Some peoples' motto was, "He who endures to the end shall be saved."
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