Everyone is bright and early tonight. All the folks in the northern hemisphere enjoying the summer? While we freeze here. They brought in a cold spell specially for Mark cos he did not believe he would get cold.

Well soon you can have autumn and we can have spring so we will both be balanced. Then we will arise like new shoots on the dead trees and florish as the new buds come out.

Be Ready For Revival

Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the righteous [is] like the light of dawn, which continues to grow brighter until the day is established. [GBMV]

A new day is dawning and we are expecting the Lord to do great things in our midst. When you look at the trees that have shed their leaves during fall and the winter, you wonder if there could ever be life there again. Could the Lord possibly restore what was once there?

Recently I began to walk down memory lane, when this ministry was first established and all the good things that the Lord did. I went over many messages I had preached over the years at least as far back as 2019, and my heart longed for us to go back to what we once had.

Folks were coming to us from everywhere and the work was growing. I was younger and more full of energy. And I felt a bit like Ezkiel when he stood in the valley of dry bones

and asked the question, “Can these bones live again?”

And the Lord told him to start preaching at those dead bones

and the start speaking to the wind

which is a picture of the Holy Spirit

For a while I stopped preaching from the pulpit

and it felt like I could not do that much any more

But after watching some of my old preaching an old fire began to burn in me again

I found 114 messages I had preached on YouTube

many just on Sunday meetings

and there is some gold there that is lying like real gold buried in the ground

But when there is a resurrection of a vision we get far more than we had in the first vision

So the Lord is bringing us now to newer and greater place

But I feel at times a bit like Joshua who finally got a chance to make things happen when he was already 80 years old

If any of you are feeling bored and want to go watch some good preaching, I have put all of these up on GBM Books

They include the original video, the audio file and a rough transcript of each message

you can see them all here: https://gbmbooks.gbmi.co.za/view-book-details/?title=YouTube%20Videos

Some of these were put into books which we have not yet published

But we will be releasing our new bookshop shortly and hope to get these finished and ready for publication

The rest I am going to make into shorter books containing just one main teaching

We are going to call them Short Books

they will be smaller and cheaper for folks to get easily and study just the subjects they want

Then we will try some new marketing thrusts and see if we can get this ministry reborn and increase the number of people on our mailing list

Now as I watched my preaching over time I could also see a transition taking place

I began with an emphasis on the fivefold ministry with more of a teaching thrust

But then the Lord began to take me through a series of phases where He began to add a greater supernatural dimension

When we established our live training schools my prophetic ministry moved to a new level

And in recent years this has grown to the point where I seldom minister to anyone without giving them clear prophetic direction

And now the Lord has begun to place a greater emphasis on the power gifts

and He is adding a greater dimension of the external anointing

He has made me walk down the roads of the past to see the progress I have gone through

and now I have so much that I can share that is based on what I lived

So I have the incentive to inspire and motivate everyone

to rise up and press into the things that you desire from the Lord

I want to speak about this a bit tonight

Because each one has a different inner desire

of how they would like to. be used by the Lord

and many have tried and failed to move into the ministries you wish you could do

There is a term that is often used in Scripture and it is usually translated as “earnestly desire”

This is not just a desire, but a driving force

let me give you some passages that use it

1 Corinthians 14:1 Pursue [agape] love, and passionately desire spiritual [gifts], but mostly that you may prophesy. [GBMV]

1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babies, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow by it: [GBMV]

Have you noticed that a newborn baby has only one desire in minid?

you see their mouth moving trying to find the source of milk

Now all of us get hungry at times

But in a newborn baby it is not just a normal desire, it is a passion

It will such on anything you stick in its mouth

suck

This is a desire that I call the core desire

It is a driving force

it never rests until it gets what it is looking for

As I look back over my life and ministry I can see this force at work in me

But it has changed over time

When I first started out with the call of God I did not know what I was supposed to do

But I began to see myself in the ministry and being a preacher

Before that I never really noticed the difference between preachers

I just sat and suffered for an hour in church and then went home

But once I got turned on to the call to preach it all changed

Now I listened intently to the preacher, hoping to learn something

hoping to find a model that I could follow

But I would find myself coming home from church and feeling like I was not fed that day

Ever been there?

I was convinced there had to be better ways of preaching

But I was too young and inexperienced to ever get a chance to preach

So I lived in the fantasy of my mind

and see myself standing up there preaching

I started practicing with pen and paper, writing down what I would say if I were in the pulpit

And when I fist got a chance to preach at a youth meeting I exploded

And my pastor came and told me he was envious of the way I preached

Of course he was not ready still to allow me in his pulpit …

But that desire preach so burned in me that the fire never ever died

And when my chance came to be in ministry, my preaching was my main emphasis, and I excelled

Now nobody taught me how to preach, except the Lord

But I had a clear picture in my mind of what I wanted

It was my consuming passion

I could not go to full time bible school so I bought books to teach me

I spent huge amounts of money on books

Because I so earnestly wanted to be a successful preacher for the Lord

Now I could have looked at all the preachers and felt insecure

I could have reasoned that I did not have their knowledge or ability

and just kept in the background

But there was a driving force in me

And today as I watch many preachers out there I still have that same fire

Those who I admire, I make and effort to emulate

They become my mentors

When the Lord later began to lead me into studying principles of counseling I had another fire lit in me

I had experienced so many problems in my life that I had a heart for those who needed good counsel

I never had a leader who was qualified to give me good counsel

Most of them had enough problems in their own marriage and families to help me in mine

So I found some mentors who were experts in counseling

and I studied the principles in detail to make ma a better couselor

and I thought I was doing quite well at that

But it was such a long hard process and often took hours of digging and teaching

Then I found a book about a group of people who had learned how to counsel by just praying with people

and the Lord began to miraculously minister to people in their problems

without intensive counseling

I so yearned to be able to do this

But where could I find someone to show me how?

Apart from what I read in that book, there were no other teaching how to do this

and certainly nobody I knew had a clue

So I cried out to the Lord to give me more

and He began to move me into a more prophetic ministry where I could get revelation

I remember on one occasion trying to minister to someone by helping them go into their past and identify where their problem began

and since this person was an analytical, they took me on a three hour journey of their sodid life

I was bored to tears and found nothing

Then finally, afer trying to counsel the best way I knew hour, I suggested we pray

and in a matter of minutes the Lord put His finger on where this guys problem lay

I vowed that day that I would never again try to counsel the old way

and I cried out to the Lord for greater prophetic revelation

and from that time I counsel by the spirit and the Word

Before I give people principle from the Word to live by, I first find out what their problem is

The world does it by putting the counselee on the couch and letting them tell their life story

God’s way is much quicker, because He already knows both the problem and the solutino

But what I want you to see here, is that before I could move into these things and get the anointing needed to carry out these ministries

I first had to have a burning desire to want to do that ministry

Then I did everything in my power to leaern how to do it

I left no stone unturned in my search for what I needed

I was prepared to pay whatever price it took to get it

As I got involved in the church system, after being ordained officially finally as a minister

I began to notice so many thing in the church system that looked wrong according the pattern shown in the Word

So now I was stuck in a situation where I had to perform in ministry the way my seniors and church group dictated

But a new fire was lit in me

and I burned to show God’s people that there was a better way

That we were doing some things all wrong

This fire was so strong that though I was only still in my twenties I could not keep silent

I was invited to be the main speaker for a church conference, because they saw my teaching ability

And ministers from the whole country were assembled there

And this zealous fool stood up and gave some suggestions as to how we could change things to make them better

Well the head of our denomination was there too

and he was not impressed

Afterwards nobody would even talk to me

The second speaker was promoting a heresy called the Shepherding Movement and he was funny, and they all loved him

But that did not kill the fire in me

I was rejected by many in the status quo because I was too radicle

People who were junior to me were promoted above me

But you see I had a fire in me that the Lord had put there

I did not know it at the time, but it was the beginning of my Apostolic Mandate to build the new church

Eventually I had to leave the status quo system

and I was eventually led to set up my own ministry

To train leaders who would embrace the correct pattern He had shown me

And so began first our prophetic school and then the apostolic school

and later, as we returned to south africa we began to build schools also for the pastor teacher and evangelist

For 17 years we struggled along in Mexico living just above the breadline

But the fire would not let me go

It would have been so easy to just conform and become like the rest

But I had a driving force in me that has not abated over a period of over 50 years

At the height of my success in setting up the schools, the Lord suddenly changed my direction again

and for a while I was totally lost

Because I had lost my core desire in ministry

This has to be the most painful experience of my life

I had nowhere to go and nothing to go there with

Until the Lord put a new desire in my heart\\

He lit a new fire in me

He told me I needed to add a greater dimension of the supernatural and the power gifts to my ministry

Some of you were with us at that time, when I handed the schools over to someone else and started a new school called The School of the Supernatural

This was only the beginning

But I had to make some major changes in my thinking

The principles I applied to move in prophetic ministry did not work when it came to a ministry of power in healing

When I tried the things that worked for flowing in revelation they did not bring miraculous results

I struggled with this and cried out to the Lord

I told him from my heart that He could not accuse me of not having enough faith for this

And that is when He began to show me why I had succeeded in some things and not others

The truth is that I did not have the same passionate desire for everything

Because of my own experiences in ministry and the spiritual life I was always more concerned about the inner man than the body

I came to despise those in public ministry who tried to impress everyone with their great anointing and power

Making people fall under the power and putting on a show

I did not want any part of that because I was not there to impress people with my great anoitning

I just wanted them to know the truth

I had learned to set people free from the hurts of the past by taking them through their memories

and taking the Lord with them into those memories

and it worked quite effectively

But then we decided to have a seminar here on the Transformation of the Inner Man

And as I was preparing the messages to preach there, the Lord did something I did not expectd

He told me that for me to be effective in helping people break free of past influences I need more supernatural power

I once despised th concept of inner healing

Because to me that was pure psychology

The soul cannot get sick like the body

There were no soulish germs and viruses

But the Lord had taken me through a personal experience of inner healing when a friend prayed for me

He was somewhat prophetic and told me that the Lord had removed a weakness from me

And I realized afterwards that a miracle had taken place

and I no longer struggled with that

now the Lord told me that He would give me an anointing for healing the inner man that was miraculous

and I would not longer need to dig into the past

or deal with the memories that caused the problem

I began to learn this in the spirit before the conference

and that still stands today as our most successful conference.

Many lives were changed there as we prayed with people

But you see I had in me a deep desire to help people with hurts and past experiences

And that core desire led to me receiving a special ministry mantle for just that

But now I needed to. come to a place where I desired to see God’s power touch people in an overwhelming way

something that was real

And the Lord told me to go and watch some preachers online who moved in this anointing

So even though I despised these guys, I obeyed the Lord and looked them up online and watched some of their videos on YouTube

And the one day as I was watching this guy, I felt a deep stirring inside of me

for the first time I could honestly say, “Lord I want what that guy has”

But what price would I hvae to pay to get i

After all, I had taught in our training of the fivefold leaders, especially those in office that there was a price to pay

So what price would I need to pay?

I reached out to the Lord with a deep yearning in my heart and asked him what He required of me to get this

he told me that He had already paid the price for it

All He required of me was to earnestly desire it

his immediate answer to me was, “If you truly want it, you can have it”

I saw Him giving me a new mantle

and from that point onwards when I came to pray with someone I felt a new surge of power

and the person I prayed for also felt it

Now I could begin to move into what I call a mantle of revival

Where people will experience a touch from the Lord

sometimes they may burst into laughter and joy

But this does not necessarily include physical healing

I tried praying for healing and it just would not work

I felt nothing and so did the person

But I could bring the presence of the Lord and we would both feel it

But no healing took place

I saw that revival and healing do not always go together

I saw how preachers like Rodney Howard Browne would make people fall and laugh under the power

But few got healed under his ministry

I was a revival anointing, not a healing anointing

They require a different mantle

I had to finally come to a place where in frustration I realized that with the mantles I had received, healing was just not fully a part of them

Sure it happened sometimes, but not in such an obvious way\\

Until I got to the point, just recently where I finally realized

that I wanted this anointing with all my heart

Affer trying and failing and becoming desperate I came to the Lord in the middle of the night and cried out to him

Now some years ago I had a core desire for music

But my natural voice really sucked

and I cried out to the Lord to somehow miraculously give me a better singing voice

The Lord said to me at that time, “I did not call you to be a singer”

I said to Him, “I don’t care I want it”

It took some years, and only after I had fulfilled the mandate for training he had given me, He said to me one day, okay you can get back to singing again

I had bought so many singing tutorials that I could teach others how to sing already 😀

But it was not working for me

Until the Lord one day began to show some things to do with my mouth and the way I held it when I sing

and suddenly my singing improved

Now I can boldly make song recordings and upload them for other to listen to

For those who do not know, you can go listen to them on our music school site at https://gbm-music.com

Now as I asked the Lord with a deep sincere desire in my heart to anointing me with power for healing, He simple said, “Yes you can have it

and suddenly I began to feel a new anointing coming into my hands

now I just need to learn how to use this new mantle and develop it

and I believe I will come to the place where I am as confident in all of these ministrie as I am in the prophetic

and I will be able to flow in them at any time and any place

But I did not receive one of these anointings with first having a deep passionate desire to have them

And if you have been striving to be used by the Lord the same thing applies

Do you want it badly enough?

Are you like that newborn baby looking to suck on anything that might feed you?

And you looking for whatever change you get to flow in His power?

and you lying awake at night wanting it

Do you remember what it is like to be in love with someone

that your heart cries out for them

Sometimes they are not interested in you

and you suffer in pain with such a strong desire

This is the kind of desire I am talking about

One of the best passages I use for this is the following

Genesis 30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I will die. [GBMV]

When your desire reaches this pitch, you will find so easy to reach out to the Lord to receive it

then also stand on this promise

Psalms 37:4 Delight yourself also in the LORD [Yahweh]; and he will give you the desires of your heart. [GBMV]

You see to desire it is not enough

It must be the strongest life dominating desire in your life right now

The Lord is not going to withold it from you or require you to qualify for it

he may test you to see if this desire is real though

How do we create a core desire?

I have a teaching on that somewhere which I can dig up

and maybe we can talk more about it in future lessons

For now I hope that I gave you some hope by sharing my story

and. that you may be inspired to reach out and receive from the Lord what you have been desiring\\

It is not enough to have the gifts of the spirit, like gifts of healing

All of those gifts are resident in you by the Holy Spirit

but they can only be released via the right ministry mantle

Until you receive that mantle from the Lord they won’t work

In my quest to learn how to flow in this I began to read the stories of those who rose up in this ministry

And everyone of them started out as failures

Some prayed for thousands of people for healing before it came

and in most cases there came a point of activation before it began to work

It is possible for you be activated by someone who is already flowing in it

Elisha got what Elijah had, but he had to stick to Elijah until the end to get it

The disciples got if from Jesus, first when he sent them out and later when He empowered them at Pentecost

It does not come by praying harder or doing anything a dfferent way

It just comes by the mantle of His anointing

Spend time with Him if you desire to get this

But realize it will not come from the Comforter, but from the Risen Ascended Christ

The Lord may give it to you directly or He may use someone to place a mantle on you

As an Apostle I am often led to place and activate mantles

So if you find someone who has what you desire, stick to them like glue and maybe the Lord will allow you to receive what they have

Ok we have run out of time again

I trust you will take this and use it to rise up and receive the things you have been desiring

Let the Lord light a new fire in you

then keep feeding that fire - never let it die

and it will lead the fulfillment of what you desire

Love you guys\\

Have a blessed week and we will see you next week again

Nakia has posted an article on her website at Perfect Love Ministries. Go read it here, then respond with some comments to encourage her. https://perfect-love-ministries.com/glory-to-glory/

We will continue to stand with you for some financial miracles. As you have sown freely into us we ask the Lord to multiply back to you in abundance and bless the work of your hands. May you see provision coming in from new sources to meet your every need. In the Name of Jesus I speak it and decree it into earth. Amen

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