First Nations Outreach
As a core value of God Encounters Ministries, we practice a “Culture of Honor.” For our ministry, one biblical expression of this value comes through Honoring the Host or First Nation’s People. As part of our regular contributions to various First Nations Ministries, we helped with onsite locational prayer ventures and participated in the National Day of Prayer for the Cherokee. We gave away hundreds of our Christian books and gave towards food distribution and education. Today, we invite you to join us in holding up the hands of two ministries we have partnered with for over a decade! GEM Missions donations [...]
The Judicial Courts of Heaven
“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” Genesis 18:25 God Presented as the Judge of All As New Testament believers in Christ Jesus, we have a scriptural privilege to enter into the judicial courts of heaven in prayer and spiritual warfare. To do so, we must first have a revelation that God is the Judge and we have a rightful position to present our case through our advocate and lawyer, Jesus Christ, the righteous! Primary Scripture Reference A Look at Hebrews 12:22-24: “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly [...]
Prayer, Fire and Incense: What Goes Up Must Come Down
In January 1993, I traveled to the Czech Republic with a group of intercessors to join the believers there in “christening” their new nation to the Lord. While standing on the platform before Don Drapal’s Christian Fellowship of Prague, a series of words seemed to fall into my mind. “Have you considered the multidirectional dimension of prayer?” This sentence captured my attention, but I did not have time to ponder it, as it was time for me to deliver my next statement. Then the words, “Remember, what goes up must come down!” burst into my conscience. What was the Lord trying to tell [...]
The Ahab Problem & the Jehu Solution
"You [Jehu] shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezebel." 2 Kings 9:7 NASB For every problem God has a Hope Solution. Even in our Last Days Battle with the Jezebel Spirit, the Holy Spirit is ready to anoint Godly leaders and consecrated believers with His grace and power to over throw and displace every spirit of wickedness in Jesus name! Remember, every mess is an opportunity for God’s next miracle. So let it be in [...]
Changing of the Guard: The Convergence of Prophecy and Evangelism
We are postured at yet another major crossroads in the body of Christ, which includes a strategic “Changing of the Guard." In the last five years, we have had five major seer prophets all ascend to their heavenly reward. On February 14, 2014, the heavenly minded seer prophet Bob Jones passed into Glory. The following year in the exact same timeframe, the seer prophet John Paul Jackson suddenly departed from this world. In the next two years, we had yet two more very anointed seer prophets graduate from this world to their true eternal one: Kim Clement and John Sandford. Just a few [...]
Exposing Jezebel’s Influence
We are in a Last Days battle for the true and pure prophetic to come forth. It is a battle between the demonic powers of Jezebel’s influence and the promised restoration of the spirit of Elijah. In the natural, Biblical setting, Queen Jezebel manipulated King Ahab and pressured the prophets into hiding. Elijah came forth with an authentic prophetic mantle to dismantle the ruling false power. As it was in this historical context, there are parallel lessons for us to learn and apply in our day. It is time to Expose Jezebel’s Influence and for the authority and anointing of the true [...]
3 Vital Aspects of Testing the Spirits
Testing the spirits deals with all three aspects of discernment: revelation, interpretation, and application, although a different kind of spiritual filter needs to be applied to each aspect. I might pick up a revelation accurately only to interpret it incorrectly. Or I might get a revelation and its interpretation right, only to get stuck on the application (what I am supposed to do with that information). For example, let’s say I get a revelation about a political situation, but it happens to touch on a sensitive area in my own experience. If I have hung on to bitterness, for example, my revelation [...]
Confronting and Deaf and Dumb Spirit
God wants you to hear clearly and declare the Word of the Lord freely. But there are forces of darkness that you must confront in order to be effective in your mission. Jesus told His disciples as recorded in Matthew 13:43, “Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father, He who has ears, let him hear.” You are called to confront and dislodge the demonic power that hinders you from hearing the Holy Spirit and attempts to rob you of your capacity to speak clearly. What is a spiritual stronghold? Ed Silvosa of Harvest Evangelism defines [...]