– Kingdom of God review by: Michael Avery

Dr Stephen Jones Cape Town South Africa, ministering to church leaders at the annual World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries conference 2008.

Teaching on the subject of the Kingdom of God and the basics of Kingdom establishment. Dr Stephen Jones web site can be found here  Gods Kingdom Ministries.

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29 September-3rd October 2010 in Bendigo Australia

Venue:  Foundry Hotel Complex High St. Bendigo

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Arrival Dinner preceding the conference on the evening of 28th Sept.

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$700AU per person twin-share plus names of person(s) sharing accommodation by 24th August.

Discount of $100AU for multi-share – limited availability.

Registration covers 6 nights Accommodation, 5 Day Conference, two meals per day & gala dinner.

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This video clip is part of a praise and worship session on our last night in a Cairo Church, after hearing the message of the Kingdom our Egyptian hosts broke into wonderful praise. Sudanese bretheren of Cairo are a part of this church as well. I am truly amazed and humbled by the joy present in our brothers and sisters in Cairo.

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– Resurrection or Rapture review by: Jennifer Avery

Apostle Travis Ripley, ministering to his church in DeLeon Texas USA, teaching about the different beliefs in the church today.

What is coming for His church: Resurrection or Rapture.

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by J. Lee Grady @ Fire in My Bones

We’ve faked the power of Pentecost long enough. Let’s set aside the imitations and reclaim the real deal.

Shortly after Elijah was carried to heaven in his fiery chariot, a group of young prophets asked Elisha to go with them to build new living quarters near the Jordan River. While one of the young men was cutting down a tree, the blade of his axe fell in the water and sank into the murky depths of the riverbed (see 2 Kings 6:1-7).

The construction project came to an abrupt stop. This was before the days of flashlights and sonar devices. These guys were in trouble.

“Let’s ditch our counterfeits and our cheap substitutes, and ask the Lord to restore the axe blade. Let’s cry to Him for a pure, unadulterated, genuine, life-changing, planet-shaking revival.”

Knowing that his friends could not replace this expensive iron tool they had borrowed, the young prophet cried to his mentor Elisha for help. The wise prophet threw a stick in the water where the axe head had sunk. Immediately the heavy iron blade floated to the surface—defying the laws of physics and proving that nothing is impossible with God. Elisha’s faith saved the day.

We can gain so much comfort from this story. It reminds us that God has power over the natural world. It also proves that He cares about the seemingly trivial details of our lives—and that He is even willing to bail us out of the messes we make.

As I have meditated on this passage in recent days I’ve also applied it to our current situation in the American church. It illustrates how desperately we need to recover what we’ve lost.

Perhaps you’ve noticed that our blade is missing. I don’t know exactly when it fell off the handle, but it seems as if we’ve been trying to build God’s house without the sharp edge of His genuine anointing. We’ve traded the real for the phony. We’ve cheapened Pentecost to the point that it’s been reduced to dry religious programs and circus sideshow antics.

We’ve mastered the art of hype. We know how to fake the anointing. We push people to the floor during our altar times. We know how to manipulate music and crowds so that we can create the atmosphere of the anointing. But in so many cases the real anointing isn’t there. In its place is a hollow imitation.

Some charismatic leaders today are even selling specially handcrafted oils that promise the Holy Spirit’s power. Others sell scented candles that claim to bring God’s presence. And last year one brother was traveling the country with feathers in a jar—claiming that these belonged to an angel with healing powers.

Lord, forgive us for our charlatanism. We need the blade back! We must cry out to the God Who has the power to raise iron from the bottom of a river.

We are not going to advance Christ’s kingdom, or build His victorious church, using scented oils, fake charms, ear-tickling prophecies and goofy charismatic gimmicks. This is all wood, hay and stubble destined for the furnace. What we need today is the sharp blade of the Word that is empowered by the Holy Ghost and fire.

In my world travels during the past few years I have met humble Christians who carry the genuine anointing of the Spirit. I’ve spent time with Chinese believers who see miracles inside their prison cells. I’ve met an Indian evangelist who has seen six people raised from the dead. I’ve met a Pakistani apostle who regularly sees Muslims healed during outdoor gospel meetings.

Last week I interviewed an Iranian church leader whose ministry is leading 5,000 Iranians to faith in Christ every month. In the midst of persecution and political upheaval, a New Testament—style revival is erupting in that Shiite Muslim stronghold-all because the church in Iran is weilding the axe head of genuine Holy Spirit anointing.

Where is the God of Elisha? There is a cry in the American church today that resembles the cry of the desperate young prophet in 2 Kings 6. We have not been good stewards of the Holy Spirit’s gifts, and now the precious power of God has eluded us. We dropped it. Yet we are beginning to acknowledge our blunder.

Let’s fully humble ourselves. Let’s repent of fakery and fraud. Let’s ditch our counterfeits and our cheap substitutes, and ask the Lord to restore the axe blade. Let’s cry to Him for a pure, unadulterated, genuine, life-changing, planet-shaking revival.

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Michael Avery

Santiago Lastra Morales

I would love to be writing this report with a spirit of joy, as I always do upon returning from a trip to another country.

On this occasion, however, I am writing with a bitter-sweet taste in my spirit.

I will share the sweet part first:

There is a faithful remnant in Cuba: brave, dedicated, crying out, faithful, and trusting in God’s promises for his people.

They are people of God who are being tested, and passed through the furnace of great tribulation and who have remained firm.

They are a people God is uniting through persecution, limitation, want and frustration.  Through his Holy Sprit He is bringing them to unity.

This faithful remnant is the hope of redemption for this nation.  These sons of God are the bearers of God’s Glory, which will be manifested in this nation, as it will be in the entire world.

This faithful remnant is eager to hear and to receive the impartation of the revelation that God is giving to other servants in the world.  They are thirsty for fellowship and for the love of their brothers and sisters.  They are hungry for the Rhema of God, his living word for their spirits.

All of this was reaffirmed in my recent and fourth apostolic journey to the Island in the past two years.  The Lord allowed me to receive an invitation from Apostle Bernardo Quezada Salmon, from the city of Camaguey, who is a shield on the battle-front in the battle against Babylon in that nation.

I returned from a trip to Brazil and Chile at the end of November and immediately began to prepare for my trip to Cuba, where I ministered on December 15 to a powerful group of leaders who have been formed in Apostle Quezada’s ministerial school.  They are all worshipers who are mature and fervent in their love of the Lord and ready to go to the nations as Ambassadors of the Kingdom.

I was able to confirm that the tribulation they have been submitted to is part of God’s purposes to refine their character in every area, since God has placed in each one of them a desire to go to the nations: not to flee from their repressive government, as they could have done long ago, and as many others have done, but to deliver the message of the King.

Now is the time when the King of the Universe has revealed His Word, directed at his children dispersed throughout the nations: “Children, it’s time to come Home.  Return to me and I will return to you.”

There is nothing more important for a father than the desire for his children who are dead or lost to return home.

The Father is calling us to return home.

The Son has revealed the path back to the Father.

And the Holy Spirit has already prepared ambassadors of the Kingdom and has revealed to us the Word of the Father and the Son.

It is urgent that we prepare those thousands of ambassadors in every nation, in whom God has marked the nations on each one of their hearts.

God has placed a burden in my spirit for this nation, and I must return to it this year at least four or five times.

We decree, along with that Holy Remnant, the fall of Babylon in that nation, as we have in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.  As the Lord spoke to me in a prophetic word for Cuba last year, the only kingdom that will conquer that nation is the Kingdom of Heaven.  Now is the time.

Now the bitter part:

The bitter part of this experience is that to go to Cuba, Babylon opposes in every way so that the builders of God’s house cannot arrive there, and everything is designed for foreigners to become discouraged and to be afraid to travel to the island.

Visiting God’s family in Cuba is only for those to whom God has entrusted this mission, because it takes courage, prudence, patience, love, mercy, wisdom, and humility, and all the other fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit, since you will be tested at every moment.  You must also have a willing heart to sow and invest in the Kingdom, because not only will you not receive any financial offering, but when you go you must offer all you have, and even offer yourself in order to accomplish God’s divine purpose there.

In exchange, you will receive an offering of love, attention, and honor from our Cuban brothers.

During the past four years of my ministry, during which the Lord has sent me to the six continents, I have never requested, nor received, the offering of a plane ticket or an offering to cover my expenses in any place, though God himself has provided for me through our ministry and through our business, a daycare center.  But now I am appealing to all those brothers, members of God’s family, who have been witnesses of God’s working through our ministry, to unite with us in establishing God’s Kingdom in Cuba, and to support us financially to accomplish this work.

The cost of a trip is two thousand dollars per person, and in addition we will need to take printing materials, because it is practically impossible to make photocopies in that nation.

Although it seems incredible, the use of Internet in Cuba is prohibited, and for foreigners, who have access to it, it costs $10 per hour.

For Latinos it is very difficult to travel to the United States because of the cost of currency there.  It is even more expensive to travel to Europe.  But traveling to Cuba is insanity: it is much more expensive than either the United States or Europe.  But despite that, God’s work there will be done with or without your support.  Now is the opportunity that God has given you for this work to be done with your collaboration.  You can go to the nations along with us through your financial contribution and by beginning to pray and prepare yourself to preach the Word of the message of the Kingdom along with us so that we speak one message and have one spirit.

Contact me about your offerings and contributions, and I would like to share that God has already provided the entire cost of one of my next journeys to Cuba through the ministry of the Apostle John M. Boney.  My next trip will be at the end of February or the beginning of March.

I invite everyone to unite with us in prayers and spiritual warfare against the Spirit of Babylon until it falls and is destroyed.  I hope that next year Apostle Boney will also go to that nation to share the word, along with other ministers who speak the same language.  It is time to rise up to build God’s house.  It is time to flee from Babylon.  It is time to stop building our own houses and build His House.

Apostle Santiago Lastra Morales.
http://www.fundamentosapostolicos.net

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