Julian Adams Prophesies at Newfrontiers Prayer and Fasting!!

Thanks to the latest edition of the Newfrontiers magazine, we can all now benefit from this awesome prophecy that Julian Adams shared at Prayer and Fasting. It's got special significance for those in London:

‘I found myself standing alongside the River Thames and I saw the water levels beginning to rise. As it began to rise, it began to sweep over the banks and begin to rush the city.

I felt, specifically for the City of London, there is about to come an overwhelming sense of the presence of God and conviction. I felt God speak to me about bringing a new prophetic herald, a new prophetic voice, a forerunner in churches that will begin to speak out against immorality, injustice and sin, and there will be a sense of conviction that will begin to sweep over, specifically, London ... I felt God even say it will be a physical thing ... I could see physical floods beginning to happen all across the nation of England ... God would say to you I want you to know this is not something that is going to happen, it is beginning to happen. Revival is breaking out ...'

Come Holy Spirit!

Fighting For the Prophetic

I have been quite provoked by an issue that my friend Jesse has raised in two of his posts - "Review: Beginner's Guide to Spiritual Gifts, 'Who Said God Said?' (Ch. 7)" and "Question of the week: should a prophecy be written down beforehand?". In his review of Sam Storm's excellent book on spiritual gifts, Jesse asks some key questions;

"First, do you agree with Storms observation that there has been abuse? Second, how wide-spread do you think it is? Third, do you agree with Storms list of reasons why, or what would you add?"
I was thinking through the issues that Jesse discussed and it occured to me that I haven't heard much of a discussion about the devil's involvement with the spiritual gifts. If the Word of God commands that spiritual gifts are earnestly desired but especially prophecy - then surely the devil will realise that prophecy could potentially be very powerful for use in the Kingdom of God. I thought about two strategies that I would employ if I were trying to hinder prophecy in the Church.

1. He can try and keep Christians back from fully entering into the gift of prophecy. Or cessationism in other words.

2. He can push those who believe in prophecy into excess which will result in fear, hurt and suspicion which will get back eventually to his first strategy - that of preventing Christians from entering into the prophetic.

I have to say I think he has been quite successful in hindering the prophetic altogether or tarnishing it with the false, the fake and the bizarre. We have all read the "horror stories" usually published by John MacArthur or Hank Hanegraff about prophecy. But it is a bit more unusual to hear testimonies and read transcripts of true and genuine prophecies.

It is my goal to fight for the genuine prophetic because I have had my life changed and blessed immeasurably by the genuine prophetic in my life from friends I trust. I have therefore dug out some prophecies that were (thank God!) written down and transcribed from the Stoneleigh Bible Week 2000. They are, in my opinion, examples of the genuine and the good and how God can use them to motivate and inspire His Church.

Here they are - still as true today as they were seven years ago.

Dave Devenish Prophesying at Stoneleigh - "Faithfulness of God".

Terry Virgo Prophesying at Stoneleigh - "Represented on high".

Terry Virgo Prophesying at Stoneleigh - "Receive My grace".

Dave Devenish Prophesying at Stoneleigh - "My strategy for the nations".

Terry Virgo Prophesying at Stoneleigh - "Participation in the Holy Spirit".

Dave Devenish Prophesying at Stoneleigh - "Bathing in My glory to change the nations".

Prophecy from Terry Virgo at Stoneleigh Bible Week 2000!!

"My love, My grace is made available to you for participation in the Holy Spirit. I come to be your partner, to have fellowship with you, says the Spirit. I come to come alongside. I love it when you call Me alongside, when you lean into My strength, feel My energy flooding you, supporting you, enabling you. I am here to grant you an ability beyond your strength. I am here to do works through you that bring glory to the Saviour. I am here to flood your life with confidence in God. Therefore enjoy the fellowship and participation of the Spirit.

I am here to communicate love and faith to you. Drink in My Presence, not as a mere emotion but as energy for your soul. Life for you to live by, strength to run with, even as My servant Elijah outran the chariot he was enabled by the enabling of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. I come to fellowship with you, I come to strengthen you and I come not only to ease you but also to fortify you with My enabling power. As you go from this place, you will have been fortified by Me, waiting upon Me, hearing My word, feeling your spirit rise up, soaring, mounting above circumstances, delays, bewildering circumstances, refusing to allow Satan to put you down by events.

I am making you soldiers who learn how to gain strength even in the midst of difficulties, delays, things that cause your mind to be filled with questions but no longer allowing questions to be the end of the story for now you have fellowship with the One who sees the throne, that seven-fold Spirit ever before the throne, ever knowing Who is ruling. He is here for you, He is here for fellowship, He is here to fortify you, to make you soldiers, energised with strenght. Receive from Me, receive empowering, receive grace, receive strength".

Prophecy from Dave Devenish at Stoneleigh Bible Week 2000!!

"Oh God, our God come upon us that your wasy may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations. God our God will bless us. God will bless us and all the ends of the earth will fear Him. "As you have been crying out to Me concerning the desire that is so much on My heart for the nations to come to My Son, I just want to reveal something to you of My heart and My strategy for accomplishing it. I want to reveal that to you because I was saying to My people that as My blessing came in power upon them, the ends of the earth would feel its impact.

I want to tell you about My strategy. I have spoken to you already about revealing My strategy to you this week and I want to say this to you, that this has always been My strategy. I blessed one man Abraham and I said, "Through your descendents all the nations of the earth will be blessed". I fell in power upon just 120 in an upper room and the whole of the Roman Empire felt the impact of My blessing. Through revivals in history, I came on a few in your own land, just in a small room in London and the whole nation and many other nations felt the impact of My blessing. I want to say this to you; this is why you are here. You are here for a blessing; you are here for a blessing! Aren't you being blessed? Aren't you receiving the blessing of My joy brought out into your hearts? Aren't you receiving the blessing of My Spirit working powerfully among you? Aren't you experiencing the blessing of My love and compassion poured out upon you? Aren't you receiving the blessing that all My grace has for you?

I say that this is My method. I bless you. Then as I bless you, all the ends of the earth receive the impact. So that is what I am doing. Although you think of yourself as a large number here, compared with the needs of the world you are just small but that is My method to bless a small number of people and then let the ends of the earth feel the impact of it. So here, receive all the blessing you can get. Receive and receive and receive, keep on receiving My blessings because My strategy is to bless you so that the ends of the earth feel it's impact.

I am promising you this, says the Lord, if you drink as much as you can of My power and love and Presence in this place, you will be My strategy for "unreached people groups", for closed lands, for many, many nations to receive the blessing of God.

God, our God blesses us and all the ends of the earth will fear Him.

Prophecy from Terry Virgo at Stoneleigh Bible Week 2000!

"I believe God is saying, "Receive My grace, receive it! I want you to turn off the tap that is giving you discouragement, anxiety, self-pity and I want you just to take the hande and turn it off. Just turn it off. Just say, "I am not taking from that tap anymore. I am just not having it! I refuse it!". Be anxious for nothing; don't give yourself to self-pity, if only sadness and bad attitudes. Just say that you are not having it and just turn that tap off by the power of God. Now turn on this tap, this tap that says, "Abundant Grace". Receive it, receive it, this is for you, keep receiving even in these moments of worship, praise and celebration. Be receiving, grace, grace, grace. Just open up that tap and let it flood you, flood you. Don't the mixture. Turn off the negatives, really receiving mercy, grace and kindness".

Prophecy from Terry Virgo at Stoneleigh Bible Week 2000!

"I want you to realise the value you have on high, that you are represented there. I want you to ponder that in the depths of your heart; you are represented on high by the Prince of the universe, by the darling of the heart of God, the Prince and the Saviour. One whose worth defies your understanding, represents you on high. You don't have simply a name; you don't have simply an angel representing you but you are represented on high by the King of Glory Himself and that He pleads your cause. He pleads your name. He pleads on your behalf forever and ever. He has joined Himself forever to you, you are joined to Him forever, never to turn away, never to grow weary. You are represented on high by the King of Glory!

I want you to realise the massive value I put upon your life, says the Lord. Often you feel yourself tossed about by your circumstances. You feel you are the plaything of other people's temper, people's requirements. I want you to know that you are the apple of My eye. I want you to know you are in My hand, I want you to know these things and to know them so well that other problems bounce off you. You are so filled with the knowledge of My will for you, so assured of My overwhealming love for you, My hand being upon you, that those circumstances which would, to others, seem almost insurmountable, obstacles that seem impossible are as nothing to you because of the certainity of the love of God, flooding your inner being. The certainties of God are bigger to you than anything that stands in your way.

I want you to be like that My dear children for this is reality, this truth, that I have loved you, chosen you, ordained steps for you. I want you to march and run and jump and dance with courage, clarity, dignity and celebration because you are beloved and known. You are valued on high! You are forever valued and it is for you to celebrate this reality with such joy that you bring Me praise and all the angels look on in wonder because I have such a secure child on the earth. Therefore, drink deeply during these days, beloved, drink deeply of My love and the certainities of My love and the value that I have placed upon you.

Know the high, high value that you have. Know that I have My eye continually upon you to teach, to change you. If you will receive from Me, you will, even in these days, learn and grow and develop and you will learn in your inner man, truths that will set you free. Therefore, I want grow and develop and you will learn in your inner man, truths that will set you free. Therefore, I want you to know this. I don't just throw away My truths, I have focussed them on you with great love and great delight and great purpose says the Lord. Therefore receive from Me, knowing that I give you out of My love, right into your heart, in My purposes, says the Lord.

Prophecy from David Devenish at Stoneleigh Bible Week 2000!

"I want to bring two words to you. Faithful God ... Full of faith. Full of faith. Full of faith you have been celebrating Me as the faithful God, the God who is true to His word, the God whose promises reamin, the God who forgives your sins totally, the God who is faithful to forgive your sins as you confess them, the God whose promises will never fail. I am your faithful God.

I want to say to you that I am pleased with you as My faithful people. I want to say to you that, I am pleased with the fruit of My Holy Spirit within you that has produced faithfulness. Some of you say that you don't feel that you are very faithful or consistent, God would say to you, "Hear this I am pleased with your faithfulness. I am pleased with the way you have come faithfully to this Bible Week, year after year and you have come, despite difficulties for some of you, despite all sorts of things, you have been here to declare My word and sing My praise. You have been faithful, you have kept going through the difficulties of life and I say, My faithful people, I am pleased with you. I want to say from the faithful God to those who, by grace, I have made faithful, now be full of faith for this week.

Right from the start I want you to be full of faith about the amazing things I am going to do to you. I want you to be full of faith for visitations of My Spirit upon you. I want you to be full of faith for an open heaven above you and My Spirit poured out in amazing power. I want you to be full of faith for the meeting of your deepest needs during this time and that I will equip you to do all that I have called you to. I want you to be full of faith, those of you who have heard My promises in the past and yet full of faith for My accomplishment of all that I have promised to you. I want you to be full of faith for outbreaks of My power in healing, in setting people free, in signs and wonders, in demonstrations of My Spirit, be full of faith. I want you to be a people this week who know that it is by My grace you are a faithful people but also that you will be full of faith.

Full of faith as you go around this campsite, believing that I am going to speak to you, believing that I am going to break into your life, believe that as you pray for one another in small groups in places all around the campsite, that I am going to be there. Be full of faith that your children are going to be met powerfully, full of faith that youth are going to be called to the missions to this world that I have in mind for them. Be full of faith, faithful! Full of faith!".

Charismatica - Revival, Renewal and Referral Blog

Thanks to Janelle Phillips for this link - Charismatica. It is by Dr. Michael G. Davis who attends a Vineyard church in California. I have yet to read everything on the site but there is an incredible amount of material on this site and a lot of links that he has gathered together. Here's just a few that caught my eye;


1. Vineyard Blogs

2. Revival Ministries:

"Catch the Fire" - Guy Chevreau.

"Encounters Network" - Jim Goll.

"Global Awakening" - Randy Clark.

"Global Harvest Ministries" - C Peter Wagner.

"International House of Prayer" - Mike Bickle.

"John Kilpatrick Ministries" - John Kilpatrick.

"Jack Deere Ministries" - Jack Deere.

"Watch of the Lord" - Mahesh Chavda.

"Morningstar Ministries" - Rick Joyner.

"Revival Ministries" - Rodney Howard-Browne.

"Streams Ministries International" - John Paul Jackson.

"Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship".

3. Church Associations and Denominations:

"Assemblies of God"

"Association of Vineyard Churches"

"Foursquare Churches" - President: Dr Jack Hayford

"Morning Star Fellowship of Churches".

"Newfrontiers" - Leader: Terry Virgo.

4. Prophetic Ministries.

Prophecies at Kansas City - 1975!

I thinks sometimes we may make the mistake of assuming that we (the "Joshua" generation) are far beyond our fore-fathers in certain aspects of Christian life - especially the gifts of the Holy Spirit. This may be true in some areas - by God's grace and through faith in and relationship with the Holy Spirit the Church is indeed marching on. For example I reflected this morning walking back from work that I don't think the Church could except Ern Baxter's teaching to "go into the land". I have interrogated my dad and mum many times about those significant days at the Dales Bible Week and have been horrified that many churches returned from hearing a week of Ern's ministry and NOTHING was said or done about what he taught and brought.

However in listening to Dave Devenish's awesome teaching on the Kingdom of God at "Together on a Mission" in Brighton, I looked around and marvelled that the teaching was so similar to Ern Baxter's - yet the mood is different. These were leaders and pastors and elders and apostles and prophets listening! And they are eager to go on into the land!

Prophecy is another area where I am not so sure that we are that much more advanced or mature in, in a general world-wide sense. I have been reading through the New Wine Magazine covering the Kansas City conference and they included a number of prophecies that were brought at that conference. Let us not be fooled into thinking that the Kansas City conference was just about teaching or preaching simply because that is all we have of the ministry tapes! God was speaking powerfully and here is what He said;

Bruce Yocum:

"The Lord says, 'Mark down this day and remember it. And write down this word and recall it. Because My promises shall never fail and no word that I speaks falls to the ground but I will fulfill every word. Remember it. Call it to mind. Declare it publicly. Have no fear. Because I am faithful to My word and I will fulfill it.

I am going to restore My people and reunite them. I am going to restore My people the glory that is Mine so that the world will not mock it or scorn it but so that the world might know that I am God and King. And that I have come to redeem and save this earth.

Yes mark it down and remember that I have told you that I am restoring My people, bestowing on them power and glory, bringing them back to them the glory that is proper to My people. And making them look again like a Kingdom - the Kingdom of God on this earth".

Dick Leggatt:

"I the Lord God would speak a word of encouragement - a word of exhortation - a wordof admonition to My people. For I say unto you, My people that the things which I have said to you up to this time have not been empty requests neither have they been suggestions. But I, the Lord your God, say unto you that they have been commandments. And I have commanded ye saying, Ye shall be one. You shall love one another.

The Lord would say that there are yet many who in their hearts say, 'These are but suggestions from the Lord our God'. And who have said, 'I will do this in my appointed time and if it is the proper time and convenient for me, I shall obey these words'. But the Lord your God would say unto you this day that, 'I desire you to set your face to obey Me. I do not desire that you be like the children who followed after the ways of Balaam. For Balaam heard My word and would have obeyed but he reasoned in his heart saying, 'I shall not do it this way. I shall not do it as the Lord my God commands'. And I the Lord God said unto him in that day that his ways were contrary to My ways. And I was a swift witness against Balaam.

Therefore I the Lord your God would say unto you that I desire that ye be children after the manner of Abraham. For when I said to Abraham 'Take thy son, thine only son ...' Abraham My faithful servant heard the word NOW. And he obeyed. For he arose the next morning and made preparation and did the word of the Lord God.

Therefore I say unto you, My people NOW is the appointed time. NOW is the acceptable day. And I desire that ye My people hear My word NOW for I desire that you hear that you shall be one. For this is My desire for you that you shall love one another ... that you shall not reason in your heart saying, I shall do it another way. You shall not be like the ox who seeing the yoke before him stiffens his neck but you shall say in your hearts, 'Yea and Amen Lord!'. This is the word which You have spoken to us and this we shall do'. The Lord your God would say unto you, 'This is my commandment and I desire that ye walk in it".

I hope that in writing this post I have gone a little way towards fulfilling Bruce Yocum's prophecy; "'Mark down this day and remember it. And write down this word and recall it ... Remember it. Call it to mind. Declare it publicly. Have no fear". It made me reflect somewhat that if we really earnestly desire the gift of prophecy we are desiring a somewhat dangerous thing. Why does the Bible - the living Word of God - sufficient and complete canon of Scripture - COMMAND us to earnestly desire spiritual gifts - ESPECIALLY the gift of prophecy?

By the way as an aside - that Scripture seems to suggest to me that if we DO NOT earnestly desire spiritual gifts ESPECIALLY prophecy then surely we are being disobedient to God and disobeying His commands?

I think the Bible urges this because the gift of prophecy is God speaking! So prophecy is indeed dangerous because if we sincerely seek this gift then we are saying, "God we are prepared for You to speak to us - whatever You want to say, we want to hear it!". I don't reproduce these 30 year old prophecies for historical purposes only. I notice in these prophecies there is the same life-throbbing vein that is present in many of the prophecies we are hearing in church life today. God is commanding His Church to mobilise themselves! God is declaring to His Church that He wants the world to sit up and take notice of His beautiful Bride! The question is - are we ready for Him to speak like this? Or does our eschatology not allow for such life-changing demanding words? Because surely that could be one reason why our prophecies are still about sunflowers and waterfalls and butterflies (and I am NOT mocking them. I love those kind of pictures!).

Maybe God will accelerate our maturity in the gift of prophecy when we are prepared to honestly speak what He wants saying!

Tidal Wave Prophecy from Brighton 1996!

I was sorting through my old Archives of Newfrontiers Magazines looking for quotes that should be going on the Post-it Notes blog and I was stirred to read this quote in a report of various conferences by John Wilthew in the Newfrontiers Magazine - Winter 2000.

This was the prophecy:

"The tidal wave is not coming, it has come. But it isn't moving forward, it is growing in height. And as it does this there comes a point at which it can no longer go higher, it has to break in total fullness on the shore".

This was John Wilthew's comment on it:

"This powerful prophetic word set the tone for Brighton 96 International Leaders Conference. The picture of the wave kept reappearing through the week ... You couldn't get away from the idea that God was about to break out in a mighty way on the shores of the nations".

I find that incredibly stirring and enormously encouraging! That prophecy was given even before I was baptised in the Holy Spirit and had even heard that there was a Holy Spirit to be encountered and experienced in power - never mind even dreaming that God would give me a powerful dream of the tidal wave heading towards the shores of Brighton! Isn't it amazing how He works in themes and gives the same message again and again. The meaning is clear - God is going to break out! And may it come soon!

Dave Devenish Prophecies at Stoneleigh Bible Week 2000!

"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom and we, who with unveiled faces all reflect or all contemplate the Lord's glory being transformed into His likeness with every increasing glory which comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. I believe God would say to us, "I have been revealing and I want to reveal to you again, what is the passion of My heart and the direction of

My strategy for you during this time together, that is to so demonstrate and flood you with My Presence that your lives are utterly transformed individually as churches and as a people together. That is what I am saying to you. I am here this time to flood My people with My Presence but that I am doing that in order to bring amazing transformations into your lives.

I want to speak to you about that strategy. To some of you, I am coming with Presence as individuals suddenly, as I baptise you in My Holy Spirit, as I heal your bodies, as I confront issues in your life that need to be sorted out, as I deal with sin, as I speak to you about things you know you need to change. as I do that, I am doing it by My Presence, the Presence of My Spirit coming upon you to transform your lives. Also for some of you I am doing that by direct intevention, others of you I am just flooding you with My Presence as you worship Me. I want you to sense that, I want you to sense that as you worship Me you sense My transforming Presence upon you. Also as I bring My word to you, I say I want to wash My Bride with the water of the Word.

That is what is happening, I am flooding you with My Presence trhough My Word because I am washing you to transform your lives. So I want you to know that is My strategy. For many of you it is individual change, individual sanctification, individually becoming more like Jesus, individually getting hold of My purposes for your life, individually experiencing My power for your lives. It is individually experiencing more of My pasison and I am igniting passion for My Son within you. I am calling you; I am speaking to you about direction for your lives, all that is My Presence among you as individuals.

I say to you as well, "I am here. My Presence is here to transform you as churches. My intention is to flood you this week with My Presence so that churches go back transformed".

I wanted to catch you up more and more as a bride for My Son. The same spirit that motivated the apostle Paul when he said, "I desire to present you as a church, as a chaste virgin to Christ" so I am doing that. I am bringing that passion upon you this week so that you are catching that Spirit so that your churches are transformed to be much more people who love My Son and are passionate about Him. I am also transforming you because as My Presence comes, that is how you become the outward looking churches that I have already spoken to you about. This is how you become a city set on a hill that is how you become the salt of the earth, as you bathe in My Presence.

I am preparing you as churches for a new day in this nation and for the other nations from which you come because I am calling you. The day will soon come when the mountain of the Lord will be lifted up higher than the other mountains, when the local church will be seen in communities as a city set on a hill. It is the transforming work of My Presence that is doing that for you.

As a family of churches together, I am also bathing you in My Presence this week. I am bathing you with My Word this week, bathing you with the glory of My face shining upon you this week in order that you, as a family together, may enter into all the promises I have called you to. Your effect on the nations, your effect upon this world, your effect upon the church across the world, your effect in new nation after new nation for you into unreached people groups, I would say to you that is My Presence that is going to do that. It is when I came upon My people in power that they were sent to the ends of the earth.

That is what I am doing for you, I am transforming you by the glory of My Presence, that is My heart for you, My passion for you, My strategy for you as a people this week.