Friday, May 29, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The Navajo Land Healing & Prophetic Revival Complete Update
We just completed our five day prophetic/ healing meetings to the Navajo Nation in Farmington, New Mexico and are now back in Miami, Florida.
The Lord Jesus moved exceedingly, abundantly beyond all of our expectations.On the subject of the manifestation of physical healings there were so many that I have lost count.I think that the most notable miracle was that of a Southern Baptist missionary. This man, probably in his seventies, was led by his son to one of our gatherings. His eyes were absolutely closed shut. He was semi paralyzed and sat in the meeting with his mouth wide open…really with the appearance of a vegetable. This precious saint, suffered not only from blindness for many years, but had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. After prayer he began to stretch his frozen arms slowly above his head as he waved to the Lord. We told him to open his eyes which were tiny. His iris and pupils were small and formless. As we spoke life into his eyes, shape began to come to them; the iris grew and was lined with blue. He suddenly began to see light and could discern my moving hand as a square in front of his eyes pointing correctly to where I would shift it to.He never that night regained total sight but when he went back to his chair his eyes were formed and partially opened. This saint had been a worship leader for many years and had lost his ability to sing due to the debilitating diseases. I grabbed his throat and shook it in the name of Jesus. Imagine doing that a Southern Baptist! I must confess that he was kind of freaked out. I then told then him to sing. Beautiful songs such as “How Great Thou Art” came out of a wonderful voice. Everybody began applauding.We found ourselves praying for people from 12:00PM to 10 PM straight with a half hour dinner break at about 6:30 every night.The next day, a pastor’s wife came for prayer with glaucoma in one eye. As we ministered to her, the bad eye cleared up right before our very faces and she began to say “Yes, I am seeing, I am seeing!”With chronically or partially deaf ears we saw no less than five people receive the instantaneous opening of their ears. One lady who had left her hearing aid in during our prayers said in Navajo, “You guys are talking too loud!’A brother had his hearing destroyed by a bug that had entered into his ear as a child. As we prayed for him four people saw a spiritual/ invisible bug scurry out of his left ear as his hearing was suddenly restored. Tears came into his eyes.A woman who had lost her hearing as a child regained it and received a healing from a tumor around her ear which had been obstructing the hearing.With skeletal problems we saw so many obtain the immediate relief from arthritis. One man witnessed the pain of many years of Carpel Tunnel Syndrome depart from him.Two wonderful miracles were for one, that of a man who came to us drastically hunched over and twisted, dragging himself on metal braces. He had been in an accident twenty years earlier and had bruised his spinal cord He also had a heart blockage and was due to go to a procedure the next day. After much prayer his back totally straightened up. He left still on the braces but without a trace of a hunch. He came two days later to get some additional prayer. He had gone to the doctor who found no trace of the heart blockage.We prayed more for his back. We walked him around the room minus his braces holding just his hands and barely grabbing his elbows. He had no pain at all. I am convinced that he could have taken off walking but still had fear of doing so after not attempting it for twenty plus years.Secondly, is a dear friend ours who has suffered immensely from rheumatoid arthritis and had no cartilage or meniscus in her knees. She could not stand more than a minute at a time without the effect of intense pain shooting up her legs. She received the beginning of a miracle today. She stood up for nearly ten minutes praying for people and then walked gingerly all the way back to her car. Hallelujah!Other precious ones received immediate relief from cancer, asthma, stomach, intestinal and gall bladder symptoms.Many got words of prophecies that confirmed things from the Lord. Others received the gift of tongues. Many who suffered from broken hearts received a healing. There were at least three demonic deliverances on the carpet of the venue center at the Region Inn. One woman vomited into the garbage can of the conference room as the Lord set her free.We were taken to a Navajo home to prophecy over and bless the land and had a chance to eat freshly cooked fry bread.The Lord connected us with powerful ministers in Native American missions who will join hands with us not only to bring future healing meetings to Native America but our expositional Bible conferences, and seminars on the use of spiritual gifts and the identifying of spiritual ministries.The Lord Jesus was just doing what He always does best…loving people and setting them free for all the world to see.
The Lord Jesus moved exceedingly, abundantly beyond all of our expectations.On the subject of the manifestation of physical healings there were so many that I have lost count.I think that the most notable miracle was that of a Southern Baptist missionary. This man, probably in his seventies, was led by his son to one of our gatherings. His eyes were absolutely closed shut. He was semi paralyzed and sat in the meeting with his mouth wide open…really with the appearance of a vegetable. This precious saint, suffered not only from blindness for many years, but had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. After prayer he began to stretch his frozen arms slowly above his head as he waved to the Lord. We told him to open his eyes which were tiny. His iris and pupils were small and formless. As we spoke life into his eyes, shape began to come to them; the iris grew and was lined with blue. He suddenly began to see light and could discern my moving hand as a square in front of his eyes pointing correctly to where I would shift it to.He never that night regained total sight but when he went back to his chair his eyes were formed and partially opened. This saint had been a worship leader for many years and had lost his ability to sing due to the debilitating diseases. I grabbed his throat and shook it in the name of Jesus. Imagine doing that a Southern Baptist! I must confess that he was kind of freaked out. I then told then him to sing. Beautiful songs such as “How Great Thou Art” came out of a wonderful voice. Everybody began applauding.We found ourselves praying for people from 12:00PM to 10 PM straight with a half hour dinner break at about 6:30 every night.The next day, a pastor’s wife came for prayer with glaucoma in one eye. As we ministered to her, the bad eye cleared up right before our very faces and she began to say “Yes, I am seeing, I am seeing!”With chronically or partially deaf ears we saw no less than five people receive the instantaneous opening of their ears. One lady who had left her hearing aid in during our prayers said in Navajo, “You guys are talking too loud!’A brother had his hearing destroyed by a bug that had entered into his ear as a child. As we prayed for him four people saw a spiritual/ invisible bug scurry out of his left ear as his hearing was suddenly restored. Tears came into his eyes.A woman who had lost her hearing as a child regained it and received a healing from a tumor around her ear which had been obstructing the hearing.With skeletal problems we saw so many obtain the immediate relief from arthritis. One man witnessed the pain of many years of Carpel Tunnel Syndrome depart from him.Two wonderful miracles were for one, that of a man who came to us drastically hunched over and twisted, dragging himself on metal braces. He had been in an accident twenty years earlier and had bruised his spinal cord He also had a heart blockage and was due to go to a procedure the next day. After much prayer his back totally straightened up. He left still on the braces but without a trace of a hunch. He came two days later to get some additional prayer. He had gone to the doctor who found no trace of the heart blockage.We prayed more for his back. We walked him around the room minus his braces holding just his hands and barely grabbing his elbows. He had no pain at all. I am convinced that he could have taken off walking but still had fear of doing so after not attempting it for twenty plus years.Secondly, is a dear friend ours who has suffered immensely from rheumatoid arthritis and had no cartilage or meniscus in her knees. She could not stand more than a minute at a time without the effect of intense pain shooting up her legs. She received the beginning of a miracle today. She stood up for nearly ten minutes praying for people and then walked gingerly all the way back to her car. Hallelujah!Other precious ones received immediate relief from cancer, asthma, stomach, intestinal and gall bladder symptoms.Many got words of prophecies that confirmed things from the Lord. Others received the gift of tongues. Many who suffered from broken hearts received a healing. There were at least three demonic deliverances on the carpet of the venue center at the Region Inn. One woman vomited into the garbage can of the conference room as the Lord set her free.We were taken to a Navajo home to prophecy over and bless the land and had a chance to eat freshly cooked fry bread.The Lord connected us with powerful ministers in Native American missions who will join hands with us not only to bring future healing meetings to Native America but our expositional Bible conferences, and seminars on the use of spiritual gifts and the identifying of spiritual ministries.The Lord Jesus was just doing what He always does best…loving people and setting them free for all the world to see.
Any church that would like to set up future meetings with us please contact us at 305-299-0633 be it Native or Non Native. The Lord loves all of his people.
Safari Through the Word Ministries operates solely on free will faith offerings. We are a 501C3 non-profit corporation and issue receipts for your tax deductions. For financial contributions please write your checks or money orders to:
Safari Through the Word Ministries operates solely on free will faith offerings. We are a 501C3 non-profit corporation and issue receipts for your tax deductions. For financial contributions please write your checks or money orders to:
Safari Through the Word Ministries”
and mail them to:
Jose and Mary Alvarez
5725 NW 114 Path # 102
Doral, Florida 33178-4195
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Failing ot the Social Security System
Today, Fox News tells us that the SS system is going to run out of money sooner than expected. Though I am not surpised to hear that, what Fox fails to say is that part of the contributing cost to the failure of SS is the abortion of 50,000,000 babies. One generation of payees into this system wiped away. Truly, we reap what we sow.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Jesus Lives From Aorist Faith
As we celebrate the National Day of Prayer I wanted to share with you a nugget concerning prayer, from the original languages of our Bible.
Mt 21:22 And <2532> all things <3956>, whatsoever <302> <3745> ye shall ask <154> (5661) in <1722> prayer <4335>, believing <4100> (5723), ye shall receive <2983> (5695).
In the instructions of Jesus to us out of Matthew 21:22 we find a few interesting points from the the original Greek. The word “ask” is the Greek word “aiteoo”. Here the Lord is not talking about only offering generalized prayers but about very specific petitions and requests. This is what the word means. God enjoys our asking in specific and pinpointed petitions and will answer every one of them if they are brought to Him in faith.
In the instructions of Jesus to us out of Matthew 21:22 we find a few interesting points from the the original Greek. The word “ask” is the Greek word “aiteoo”. Here the Lord is not talking about only offering generalized prayers but about very specific petitions and requests. This is what the word means. God enjoys our asking in specific and pinpointed petitions and will answer every one of them if they are brought to Him in faith.
“Aiteoo” in the Greek aorist tense. This verb tense is a most magnificent tense, one which is truly not found in our English. More than being a simple past tense, the aorist is defined as the puncticular tense. It is specified as a punctuation mark on the timeline of moving history. In reality this is the definition of an event. Whereas our past tense simply describes the event as something which has passed, the aorist views it not just as a past event but as one which is completed. The aorist shoots a photograph of the event as tangible object, entity or reality in history, one commenced and terminated. It focus is not just on its being something past but as a tangible object which can be picked out, handled and observed from the timeline of history. This is crucial in our learning to operate by faith and see powerful result to our prayers.
Mt 9:29 Then <5119> touched he <680> (5662) their <846> eyes <3788>, saying <3004> (5723), According <2596> to your <5216> faith <4102> be it <1096> (5676) unto you <5213>.
In Matthew 9:29 Jesus tells us as He opens the eyes of the blind man that the miracle occurred according to or proportional to the man’s faith.
Everything that Jesus commanded done, He spoke it out in the aorist tense. Jesus’ faith operated in photographs of tangible events, entities or realities accomplished and completed. When He spoke to a leper to be cleansed, his faith was such that that He saw and felt the cleansing of the leprosy as a completed reality. When He spoke it into the air over the ill man, the completed event of the healing permeated into the man and healed him.
Hebrews 11:33 ) Through faith <4102> we understand <3539> (5719) that the worlds <165> were framed <2675> (5771) by the word <4487> of God <2316>, so <1519> that things which <3588> are seen <991> (5746) were <1096> <0> not <3361> made <1096> (5755) of <1537> things which do appear <5316> (5730).
Finally, Hebrews 11:3 tells us that the worlds are framed by the word of God. The worlds, “aioon” describes successive, continual impacts of tangible realities of the Kingdom of heaven intruding upon the natural kingdom of the earth at every moment of every hour. The scripture tells us that these successive impacts of heaven upon us are framed by what we say. The word framed, is just what it says. As a picture needs a frame to adjust, hold it in place and hang it for display and observation so the word of God creates, molds and frames the worlds of the kingdom of heaven by what we say and brings it to pass by faith. When we pray in aorist photographs of completed realities, what we frame are completed events which come to pass by faith. Try praying like that. As a matter of fact our whole life of faith should be lived out with aorist faith.
Mt 1:22 Now all this <5124> was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
The whole or entire thing was done (seen by faith in the Spirit) so that it might then be fulfilled…..
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
My Discussion in an Anglican blog after Todd Bentley's fall.
First of all I had wanted you to know that I have not visited your blog site before. I got to it because of the article on Todd Bentley. I wanted all of to know , how much I have enjoyed your comments. They are deep and insightful and for the most part your observations of the Charismatic abuses are correct.
My wife and I are pastors in a charismatic denomination called The Vineyard.
We have lived in Kenya for 18 months and ministered to the Pueblo Native American nations for 8 years.
Many people in my church in Miami Florida went to the Lakeland Revival. Many were deeply touched by the power of God. The actions of Todd Bentley however towards the end of the revival as one reader rightfully commented was absolutely unrighteous.
There have been two great ills with the charismatic movement which God is at hard at work correcting. There was the whole prosperity movement which Jesus never taught about. Many, and I say many well known Charismatic leaders, have fallen and are still falling due to the great corruption of greed and avarice and injury that this erroneous teaching has brought. God is cleaning up His house!
Then other one which another reader correctly said is the notion that God is a “candy dispenser” of spiritual gifts and miracles. There have many abuses with that as well. This in part is why people such as Todd Bentley have fallen. I personally met Todd in London and talked to him on the way from Kenya to the USA. He was man a gentle man of love. We have sat under his conferences and read his books. I have been tremendously blessed by his ministry. He does move in the genuine power of God. However one of the big mistakes that we the Charismatics have commited is to exalt “anointing or power before spiritual character” . Charismatic leaders quickly exalted his anointing and put him at the forefront
Paul tells us in the NT never to put a novice into a position of leadership. In the 90's we the Charismatics got into the whole notion of exalting the glory and the power of God before spiritual character. It has caught up with us. The power and the glory of God are wonderful and essential but they must be held in an earthenware vessels of godly character.
Finally, everything must be based on the written Word of God. Amongst the charismatics there has been a great weakness in the study of the written Word and a focus on anointing, sometimes producing chaos and a circus type of atmosphere
My wife and I move in the gifts of word of knowledge, prophecy, miracles, healing and tongues. I can tell you that it has cost us much to operate in these gifts. For us God has never dispensed them. We have had to become broken and healed vessels who will not take the power or glory of God for ourselves.
In conclusion, I believe that the charismatic giftings are incredibly essential to the Body of Christ, for this is how the Holy Spirit manifests Himself to the world. We must not throw out the baby with the bath water So is the expositional study of the Word of God even more essential.
As I see the corrections that God is bringing to the charismatic movement is the getting rid or the pernicious prosperity teaching, putting mature and godly spiritual character before anointing and spiritual giftings, while leaving all of the spiritual giftings intact, and stressing the study of His word and the making and raising up disciples who will go into the world.
Please forgive us for the mistakes that we have made. Truly the whole charismatic emphasis of God when it is birthed by the Holy Spirit is wonderful and essential for all people regardless of their denomiantion.
My wife and I are pastors in a charismatic denomination called The Vineyard.
We have lived in Kenya for 18 months and ministered to the Pueblo Native American nations for 8 years.
Many people in my church in Miami Florida went to the Lakeland Revival. Many were deeply touched by the power of God. The actions of Todd Bentley however towards the end of the revival as one reader rightfully commented was absolutely unrighteous.
There have been two great ills with the charismatic movement which God is at hard at work correcting. There was the whole prosperity movement which Jesus never taught about. Many, and I say many well known Charismatic leaders, have fallen and are still falling due to the great corruption of greed and avarice and injury that this erroneous teaching has brought. God is cleaning up His house!
Then other one which another reader correctly said is the notion that God is a “candy dispenser” of spiritual gifts and miracles. There have many abuses with that as well. This in part is why people such as Todd Bentley have fallen. I personally met Todd in London and talked to him on the way from Kenya to the USA. He was man a gentle man of love. We have sat under his conferences and read his books. I have been tremendously blessed by his ministry. He does move in the genuine power of God. However one of the big mistakes that we the Charismatics have commited is to exalt “anointing or power before spiritual character” . Charismatic leaders quickly exalted his anointing and put him at the forefront
Paul tells us in the NT never to put a novice into a position of leadership. In the 90's we the Charismatics got into the whole notion of exalting the glory and the power of God before spiritual character. It has caught up with us. The power and the glory of God are wonderful and essential but they must be held in an earthenware vessels of godly character.
Finally, everything must be based on the written Word of God. Amongst the charismatics there has been a great weakness in the study of the written Word and a focus on anointing, sometimes producing chaos and a circus type of atmosphere
My wife and I move in the gifts of word of knowledge, prophecy, miracles, healing and tongues. I can tell you that it has cost us much to operate in these gifts. For us God has never dispensed them. We have had to become broken and healed vessels who will not take the power or glory of God for ourselves.
In conclusion, I believe that the charismatic giftings are incredibly essential to the Body of Christ, for this is how the Holy Spirit manifests Himself to the world. We must not throw out the baby with the bath water So is the expositional study of the Word of God even more essential.
As I see the corrections that God is bringing to the charismatic movement is the getting rid or the pernicious prosperity teaching, putting mature and godly spiritual character before anointing and spiritual giftings, while leaving all of the spiritual giftings intact, and stressing the study of His word and the making and raising up disciples who will go into the world.
Please forgive us for the mistakes that we have made. Truly the whole charismatic emphasis of God when it is birthed by the Holy Spirit is wonderful and essential for all people regardless of their denomiantion.
Humpty Dumpty
I posted the following paragraph on Facebook on October 17, 2008.“My prophetical gifting is usually not geared towards the prediction of future events. I will say however that based upon what I have been getting from the Lord as well as what other men of God are getting, 2009-2010 will be years of God's judgment upon the USA because of the murder of 50,000,000 babies through abortion. The blood of babies that soaks the ground of this country will begin to cry out to Jesus in 2009 and will culminate in 2010. The judgment will probably be some kind of a food crisis. This judgment will not and cannot be averted unless there is a true Nineveh experience. The prophetic vision from which I penned this brief letter began by the display of the number "2010" boldly in front of my spiritual eyes.American leadership present or future that justifies this abomination will only exacerbate what is already impending.” Jose (Facebook on October 17, 2008.)About three months ago, the world as I knew it was in relative peace. The only pesky thing was the price of a barrel of oil which hovered above $140.00. As I was going to sleep one night my heart was suddenly and frightfully gripped by a voice that I heard saying , “The Day of the Lord is at Hand!”I muttered in a startled and fearful whisper, “Was that you Lord; what did you say?” The Lord said once again, “The Day of the Lord is at Hand!”A few days later a series of tornadoes raked the American soil and it was no more than two weeks after that that the huge domino effect of bank failures began. The rest is now history in process.Since that time I have unquestionably known that we are in a time of God’s spanking, punishment or judgment; whatever you want to call it. Today I went to pastor’s meeting where Steve Fatow was the invited guest. Steve is a pastor in Knoxsville, Tennessee with a very strong and accurate prophetic gifting. He has been in ministry for more than 30 years. As a matter of fact, Steve ministered to me in the early 80’s right after I had become a Christian.Steve has embarked on a calling of the Lord called “Procession of Healing” found @ http://processionofhealing.com/home.php.
These are nationwide funeral processions for aborted babies including hearse and all.Steve stated that if the blood of one man, Abel, cried to the Lord from the earth, what kind of effect does the blood of at least 50,000,000 babies soaking the foundations of the American soil going to have upon God? This is exactly what the Lord showed me months ago.
Genesis 4:9 ¶ And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother’s keeper?10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the earth.11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother’s blood from your hand;
I concur with Steve that the current judgment (Day of the Lord) that we are in, is in big part a judgment on the abomination of abortion. It will only get worse since the Lord said that “real” judgment of this sin would not be felt until 2010. The Lord knows how to discipline us where it hurts,... in our pocketbooks. Steve went on to quote a verse out of Hosea.
Hosea 13:15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
I suspect that God is bartering for the blood of these babies by the judgment of our national gods, “money, comfort, pleasure and entertainment.”Any future policies incrementing the freedoms of abortion will only aggravate what is already an impending judgment. No bailouts will function beneath the hand of an angry God. We do not need bailouts, we need open eyes, open ears and repentance.
In closing the Lord brought back to me the story of America as Humpty Dumpty.
Hear now the wisdom of Humpty for he is acting as a prophet of the Most High God!
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
These are nationwide funeral processions for aborted babies including hearse and all.Steve stated that if the blood of one man, Abel, cried to the Lord from the earth, what kind of effect does the blood of at least 50,000,000 babies soaking the foundations of the American soil going to have upon God? This is exactly what the Lord showed me months ago.
Genesis 4:9 ¶ And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother’s keeper?10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the earth.11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother’s blood from your hand;
I concur with Steve that the current judgment (Day of the Lord) that we are in, is in big part a judgment on the abomination of abortion. It will only get worse since the Lord said that “real” judgment of this sin would not be felt until 2010. The Lord knows how to discipline us where it hurts,... in our pocketbooks. Steve went on to quote a verse out of Hosea.
Hosea 13:15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
I suspect that God is bartering for the blood of these babies by the judgment of our national gods, “money, comfort, pleasure and entertainment.”Any future policies incrementing the freedoms of abortion will only aggravate what is already an impending judgment. No bailouts will function beneath the hand of an angry God. We do not need bailouts, we need open eyes, open ears and repentance.
In closing the Lord brought back to me the story of America as Humpty Dumpty.
Hear now the wisdom of Humpty for he is acting as a prophet of the Most High God!
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
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