The National Day of Prayer, Franklin Graham and Other Notes.

As the National Day of Prayer is upon us, the son of one of the most influential Christians of our times, Billy Graham, has been dis-invited to speak in the Pentagon, in a national prayer event. 

On another note, a judge has also deemed The National Day of Prayer unconstitutional, though her ruling is on hold due to all the protest and clamor which it has created.  It is not doubt that the spirit of antichrist is rearing up its ugly head; another sign of the end times.

Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham, spoke some remarks concerning the Islamic faith which supposedly put him in the “dog house” with the present administration. I personally think that his comments though truthful, could have been handled with a bit more tact. Nevertheless, to dis invite Mr. Graham even after the appeal which was made to Mr. Obama not only by Franklin Graham, but by Billy Graham himself, shows the perilous times that this country has entered into.

As Christians we can complain, cower, or shrink in a mindset of complacency that all is supposed to happen like this, and the Antichrist is just over the horizon. If this is God’s time for the mystery of iniquity to be fully revealed, and the antichrist to be manifested, then so be it.

I however, do not want to leave the legacy of an antichrist government to my children, neither will I sit back and allow the forces of evil to ravish my country and the world at large, just because I think that the time is here, and there is nothing that I can do to prevent it.

Throughout Biblical history, God raised up Moses’s, Joseph’s, David’s, Elijah’s and Elisha’s which stood up and confronted the godless governments of their days and soundly defeated them through the love and the power of God. Jesus said that if He was lifted up from the earth, He would draw all men unto Himself.

I want to be one who will be used by the Lord in the same way that God used these men of old. I want to be one who will display a love and a power that is greater than the power of antichrist which is being fomented in our land.  I want to be one who can stand in the face of evil and cast it down in Jesus Name.

People are hungry, they are seeking for a power and a love that will sweep them off their feet and will transform them.  Christ is the answer.

Complaining, and wringing our hands and timidly resigning ourselves to the “inevitable” is not the way of God. We must not be influenced by the world. We must influence and change the world as Christ has changed us.

I say “not on my watch, will the Antichrist come. Not on my watch, will I leave a legacy of unrighteousness and apostasy to my children and to this world”.

 If I am wrong, then I am wrong, but I will certainly try my best to change it.

Where are the Moses, Elijahs, David’s and Josephs of our generations? Certainly, the power of God has not changed from then to now. If it has changed, it is towards the greater, due to a grander revelation of God which can be attained to through the many resources at our finger tips.

If you and I arise in the power of these men of God, revival will certainly come to the USA and to the world. People are ready for it. People are dying to see it. People are starving to receive a love and purpose worth living, and dying for. People are waiting for us the Christian, for the revelation of the sons and daughters of God. 

Arise in the power of God, man and woman of God! Don’t be timid, don’t be afraid. Be willing to pay the cost to be one of these men or women as those of old, in these our present generations.

How To Produce Signs and Wonders in God's Kingdom

There are five things which God executes by faith and which are needed in order to produce a miracle, a sign or a wonder, as the Bible calls them.

When the Lord showed me that a sign and a wonder is simply the creation of an event, a happening, or an occurrence in His kingdom, it made a lot more sense to me.

A Christian is one who creates, interposes and manifests the events of the kingdom of God into the events of this world. Because the events of the kingdom are greater, they will take precedence into what is occuring in this natural world. This is what Moses did in Egypt.

The Christian is an “event maker.”

The five things which are needed to become “ an event maker” are will, substance, time, reality, and the manifestation or the existence of the event. We will tackle these 5 things in five teachings.

Today we will discuss “Will.”

The believer has exactly same the power and authority which God has, since Christ Jesus, ( Jehovah Elohim, “The Creator” in the O.T.) dwells in him or her in order to produce the event.

God decrees and it becomes. God commands and it becomes established. God wills and produces an event. This is the nature of God as The Creator, and whose same nature dwells in us. How He does it, we know not. We simply must accept this and learn to do what He does.

The following verses out of the book of Genesis are all in the grammatical “jussive” mood, or the mood of will, desire, determination, pleasure, intention, or command.

Gen 1:3 and God saith, ‘Let light be’; and light is.

6 And God saith, ‘Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters.’

9 And God saith, ‘Let the waters under the heavens be collected unto one place, and let the dry land be seen’: and it is so.

14 And God saith, ‘Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years,

We see that God simply wills and creates the event. God commands and brings a new reality.

The striking of Moses' rod on the Nile River which turned it into blood, brought an event which created a new reality and changed the existence of Egypt. We are global event makers, and reality changers by simple faith. This is the incredible power of the believer.

The most important and yet most difficult task for Christian is to act in total union and “glued oneness” to the still small voice of God in his or her heart, which operates in God's will, at every moment of every minute. In the moment to moment obedience to the voice of God, is His creative identity revealed to change realities and existences by the events of God which we produce.

This is the the greatest key to continual breakthrough, success and miracles in the Kingdom.

Tomorrow, we will talk about how you bring into this world the substance of the event which God wants to to create through you.

You think about that today.

4 Keys to Succesful Spiritual Warfare

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:



Many of us imagine that Ephesians chapter two is Paul’s discussion focusing on unbelievers. I disagree


This particular verse is in the present participle. Simply speaking it signifies that the sons of disobedience energize the scheme of the devil on a continuous basis.


The word for disobedience is being non compliant.


If a Christian is continually incompliant in an area of his or her life, will he or she energize the works of the devil? I believe that there is no difference; the devil is a legalist. He will always get in wherever he is given an open door.


I also feel, that the same degree of obedience or disobedience to the Lord, will result in the same degree of energizing or disengaging the works of the devil in our lives.


Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

We are encouraged here to take the whole armor of God and having done all to stand, to stand therefore. "Having done all" is the word "katergazomai.'

 Simply stated, “having done all,to stand,” is wonderfully depicted by the cartoons of the coyote and the roadrunner. In one of their many scuffles, as a ball of dull is kicked up, both of these guys always got lost in their dusty fights. When the dust finally settles, the roadrunner usually remained standing.

This is exactly what it means to “having done all, to stand.”! We must fight by the Spirit without compromise, or without discouragement, until we remain standing victoriously; as Satan, sin and the world lay scattered at our feet in full visibility, once our ball of dust finally settles!


John 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.


In John chapter fourteen we find Jesus discussing about His soon to come confrontation with Satan through the hands of Judah, and his subsequent arrest and crucifixion. In all certainty, the words of Jesus are more emphatic in the Greek. In His own words He says, “The prince of the cosmos comes, and it is impossible for him to have even have the tiniest connection with me.”


It goes to say then, that the more that we die to self, so that the magnificent person of Christ is revealed in us, the more and more that the devil will find it impossible to have even the tiniest connection with us.


Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.


The true Greek interpretation; we have overcome Satan by means of the blood of the lamb and by means of the word of our martyrdom.

The word for testimony in our New Testament is repeatedly found to be our English word, “martyrdom.”


Satan and his minions will forever grasp, cling, torment, and torture us as long as he finds unrepented of sin, and lingering bondages and hurts from our past. Only the cross of Christ, through the death of our sinful self, will free us from all of this. This in turn will cause Satan to lose his deceptive hold upon us.

The activity of the cross works in direct proportion to our obedience to the voice of God, and the Word of God.


 The word of our testimony is not a simple spewing out of scriptural verses upon the enemy. It is a confession of what the cross has done and doing in our lives. Only then, will our words be backed up with the authority of a resurrected life that emerged from martyrdom. The devil cannot touch resurrection life and will back away from us.

The Keys to the Kingdom / The Wants of God

 Rev 4:11 ‘Worthy art Thou, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the honour, and the power, because Thou—Thou didst create the all things, and because of Thy will (WANT) are they, and they were created.’

Matt 8:3 Mt 8:3 (YLT) and having stretched forth the hand, Jesus touched him, saying, ‘I will ( I WANT), be thou cleansed,’ and immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Lu 5:13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will ( I WANT): be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.

These scriptures give us a glimpse of the operations of the glory of God. They teach us how to function in the kingdom of God, accessing and managing His invisible things. Much of what happens in the invisible kingdom of God is an issue of will or more accurately want or desire. What one will's is, is one's want. What God wants, He gets immediately. This is the authority of the Kingdom.

One of the greatest secrets to managing the affairs of the invisible kingdom is to learn to operate in the wants of God from moment to moment. This is the labor which must be instituted by us to acquire a renewed mind which will learn to operate in the wants of God. Whenever we tap into a want of God and obey it we will always find immediate and tangible results,breakthrough and anointing.

Matt 8:3 Mt 8:3 (YLT) and having stretched forth the hand, Jesus touched him, saying, ‘I will ( I WANT), be thou cleansed,’ and immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Lu 5:13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will ( I WANT): be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.

Rev 4:11 ‘Worthy art Thou, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the honour, and the power, because Thou—Thou didst create the all things, and because of Thy will (WANT) are they, and they were created.’

Revelation 4:11 tells us that the wants of God immediately come into existence in the invisible and become created in the natural.

This is how God created the earth when He said, “let there be light and there was light.”

Lets look further at the operations of the wants of God out of the book of Ezekiel.

Ezk 1:12 And each straight forward they go, whither the spirit is to go, they go, they turn not round in their going.

17 On their four sides, in their going they go, they turn not round in their going.

19 And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels go beside them, and in the living creatures being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels.

20 Whither the spirit is to go, they go, thither the spirit is to go, and the wheels are lifted up over-against them, for a living spirit is in the wheels.

21 In their going, they go; and in their standing, they stand; and in their being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels over-against them; for a living spirit is in the wheels.

The chariot throne of God being moved by cherubim on wheels symbolizes God's throne in heaven and His wheels upon the earth carrying out the purposes of His wants. This throne chariot functions seamlessly and in absolute subjection to the wants of the Spirit of God.

17 On their four sides, in their going they go, they turn not round in their going.

19 And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels go beside them, and in the living creatures being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels.

20 Whither the spirit is to go, they go, thither the spirit is to go, and the wheels are lifted up over-against them, for a living spirit is in the wheels.

21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

The wheels which depict the perfect and seamless flow of the glory of God upon the affairs of the earth are managed by us according to the wants of God.

Th Spirit of God is in the wheels. When we operate by the wants of God we will cause the seamless flow of the glory of God to ride and glide effortlessly upon the earth

Here is the beauty of our learning to operate in the invisible kingdom of God by the wants of the Holy Spirit and faith which will immediately bring results in the natural.

You think of that today!

Upcoming East Africa Conferences in 2010 and 2011

While we were doing our last conferences in Kenya in February and March of this year God gave us a new strategy for future work East Africa. Kenya and Uganda are in the midst of a revival of training. Where ever one goes there is a hunger for revelatory and expository teaching, learning how to minister, training in worship, and a huge desire to receive ministry and prophetical words. Because of this the Lord has told us to go twice a year and do training conferences in those countries.

For a number of years we have been going to individual churches, many of them in the remote parts of Maasai land and the rural conclaves of these countries.

Traveling by car is very expensive in East Africa due to the price of gasoline and the frequent repairs that cars always need ,due to bad roads.

Kitengela, is the town where our family lived for almost two years while in Kenya. Its 45 minutes away from Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi. Kitengela it is one the fastest growing cities in East Africa and is close to Maasai land where a big modern day revival is taking place. It is connected to Mombasa on the Indian Ocean, Tanzania to its south, it is close to Nairobi which in turn is connected to Western Kenya and Uganda. Kitengela, is the locale which God has selected for our next conference. Instead of traveling all over Kenya and wasting precious time and money, we will set up a tent of about 400 and have pastors from all over Kenya attend. The provisional date of this next conference will be from Monday September 20^th through Sunday September 26^th We will be taking a team which will teach expositionally, train on worship, probably do some workshops, and will minister in the power of God. There is a wonderful hotel in Kitengela ran by Christian pastors called the Masai Discovery ( shown on the photo). The trip itself will be comfortable in that the team will fly in, take a 45 minute ride to Kitengela, lodge and minister there for week and then fly home.

In February 2011 we have an invitation to do similar training in Uganda where there is another revival brewing. I will update you more as the time gets a bit closer. This is what he Lord appears to be doing now. God bless.

Our Special Africa Needs

  
                                         
 We began an “Adult Reading School” in Kenya when we saw many adult Christians who could not read. Today, there are 12 that are eligible for government certificates due to their reading skills which will get them jobs.    
$ 840.00/ $70.00/ person

Apostle Jeremy Gichuru of Quality Discipleship Churches in Kampala, Uganda needs 90 chairs for his main church. Gichuru has been fasting sitting on chairs at his churches until God answers his need. Gichuru sits on a small wooden stool. The cost of each chair is $10.00.

Total cost $ 900.00 COMPLETED

Pastor Elias Onduas Ouma has four children which our ministry has been putting through school for a number of years. Part of his school fees were due at the beginning of April. His oldest child Kennedy was sent home due to the fees not paid.

Total cost: $550.00 COMPLETED

Pastor Elias Onduas Ouma, though he leads over 40 churches in Kenya, lives in a hut. The thatched roof on his hut has rotted away and rain comes in. He really needs a new roof that will cost him about $3,000.00. A temporary roof will cost him $1200.00.

Total cost $1200.00.COMPLETED

You can donate to any one of these needs, in any amount that you want to, through our secure “Pay Pal” button found our web site. You can also write out a check. The instructions for giving are on our web site. Thank you so much!

Jose and Mary Alvarez

Web Site: http://www.thepattern.org

The Believer is God's Trophy and His Crowned Achievement.

Eph 2:6 and did raise us up together, and did seat us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

7 that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

8 for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you—of God the gift,

9 not of works, that no one may boast;

10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

Eph 2:6-10 are an amazing set of scriptures . I think that we have not had the full revelation of what Paul; was has been trying to tell us.

V6 We have been raised up with Christ when He was raised up. That is a given. All that has happened to Christ has happened to us. This is what separates the Christian for everybody else on the planet

Our current position now, and here on earth, is one of sitting on the very throne which Christ sits in.

If we have the revelation that we sit on the very throne which Christ's is sitting on, then we operate in exactly the same authority and power which He reigns with...right now!

The fullness of this can only be realized,however, when we live existentially or experientially in places which are found in the realms of God's kingdom. As Christians we will sadly spend most of our earthly lives living by the realities of earthly places and earthly things. We must press in by faith to become transcendental people with transcendental thinking that can enter into the transcendental places of God's kingdom and access His invisible and transcendental things. This is the definition of a renewed minds. We must ask God to transom us until it becomes the norm to live out heavenly places and access heavenly things and unnatural and uncomfortable to live out of earthly places.

Its obvious that the more that our experiences are within places which comprise the kingdom of heaven, the more that we will be our experience to access the hours, times and seasons of that kingdom which God continually desires to reveals to us.

God's heart is always one of kindness. The riches which God reveals to us in heavenly places are designated to fulfill specific functions of his kindness. Every object which God has placed in His kingdom and which He reveals to us is used by Him to demonstrate His kindness to us and more so His kindness THROUGH us to hurting and lost humanity.

I suspect that what Paul was intending to say in verses 9 and 10 is different to what we thought he meant.

Everything from verse 6-10 is connected. Paul always connected his thoughts in his writings.

Yes, the transcendental riches of His grace made up as functions of His kindness have saved us..but I also see him saying so much more than that.

The transcendental riches of His grace, all which demonstrate different aspects of God's incredible kindness to humanity, have been all poured or funneled into the believer. This pouring into us of all of God's incredible riches of kindness have created, molded, and completed the believer into something that God had in mind.

Think of molten, fiery, red hot steel, being poured into a metal cast iron mold, and creating an object once it cools down. Lets take for example, the frame of a car.

Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

This is exactly what Paul is saying in Eph 2:10.

The word “workmanship” is the Greek word “poiema.” This rare word, a noun, only appears twice in the NT.

As the fiery hot molten steel poured into a metal cast mold produced the frame of a car, all of the transcendental riches of God's kindness, power, and glory have BEEN POURED into the believer. The believer now is the workmanship, masterpiece, God's crowned achievement, the trophy, the completed product of all of God's blessings to humanity. You see, we must learn to minister to people as THE COMPLETED masterpiece of God's power, Gods healing, Gods finances, God's riches to humanity. We simply exhibit, demonstrate and release by faith.

This is why its not out works. It is an undeserved gift of God. We learn to minister boldly, confidently and with total authority realizing that all of the completed masterpieces, centerpieces and achievements of God's power, healing and riches for mankind lie deposited us finished and perfected. The more faith and the more revelation that we have, the greater will be the release of what is already in us.

You think about that today!