PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS IN ITS ENTIRETY! I know it is a bit long, but somethings just have to be to gain understanding. Thank you for you patience.
I know it has been another length of time since I have been able to write on the blog, but I have been doing much traveling lately. I just returned from the IAM International Fall Conference in Albany, NY where I was invited to be one of the main speakers.
God was so wonderful to come with His presence in these meetings. His fire burned and brought many to the very throne of Grace. The Holy Spirit challenged us to go past the cross to the very throne of God. There was a great prophetic flow of God in our meetings. There were also many testimonies of how God healed people physically and spiritually. To Him be all the Glory now and forever!
Sister Ruth Fazel from Toronto ministered in her prophetic music, and many parts of the IAM family shared their vision and present work of the Lord. These were IAM builders, Youth Ablaze, IAM Intercessors. God is moving through these ministries. We also were encouraged by Pastor Jay Francis, the President and founder, and Rev. Sharon Carlson, Vice President. They stirred up the flame of God in us and encouraged us to press on in the Lord. We were all blessed to see the Body of Christ in unity working together with the Lord for His end-time purposes. My son ministered on the drums, and shared the heart for the youth at Rock Road Church on Sunday and that was a blessing to all as well.
We were honored by God to be with the family of God in Albany, and to be a vessel to help point the way to the heart of God. I believe DVD's and CD's will be available if you go to the IAM Headquarters link. I encourage all of you with a heart for the missions to go and read the whole website to get the heart and flavor of IAM.
At the end of the blog, I am going to post a vision and word a precious sister from IAM YOUTH ABLAZE received in September 2008. We had never met or talked to one another before. God put in their heart to meet me and me them. We just didn't know why. I went there to testify of all God has done in the youth. As I did, this sister wept and so did the others. I testified of 6,8, 10 and older and younger children were filled with the fire of God at our meetings. They preached, prophesied, and prayed as if they were seasoned veterans.
After I finished, she shared this word God gave her for the youth of the world. Then, I wept, for I am seeing this happen with my own eyes. This work for us began in Milliken Colorado in 2006 where we had a move of God amongst the young people. On Saturday evening at the tent meeting, I was called to preach a message about the refining fire. You could have heard a pin drop because of the Holy presence of the Lord.
When I gave the alter call not one adult came to the alter, but every youth came and the Lord said, "call down the fire." The fire of the Holy Spirit came, and they burned with God's presence and were changed before our eyes. They even began to pray the fire over one another with words of prophecy, wisdom and knowledge.
Unfortunately, much opposition and persecution came to them and us because of this. Many of them were discouraged not to come to get more at the meetings. Some were not allowed to come back to our meetings. The enemy tried to do all he could to shut them up and shut them down. Many leaders just didn't understand the flame of the Holy Spirit or they became threatened by the youth's hunger for more and desire to come to the meetings, I am afraid.
We are trying with all our heart to reach out to the Pastor's and leaders in each area we go. We
testify of what the Lord is doing in this hour. We are seeking hearts and hands to join with in seeing this flame of prayer, intercession, and this equipping flame of God, empower our youth and God's people. We just don't preach experience alone, but it's very foundation is found in the word of God of being filled with the Holy Spirit and Fire. (Mathew 3:11, Ephesians 5:18, Acts 2:4)
This fire puts a deeper hunger in their hearts to pray and read God's word like I have never seen, and they become ready to be taught and imparted to as disciples. We have seen that at our boot camp training sessions where more personal training can be done from the Word of God. We have shared with them that to much Holy Spirit without the Word of God you blow up, to much Word without the Spirit, you dry up, but the right blend of the Word of God and the Holy Spirit you go up and grow up spiritually.
Some places we are having more success than others in establishing relationships with Pastors and leaders. But we won't stop trying to reach out to those who will at least listen and have an open heart. I wish many Pastors and leaders could see how God has taken this flame of the Holy Spirit that was birthed for the youth and church in Colorado, and how He is spreading that flame from city to city and nation to nation.
Why am I writing this? Not to bring disunity to the body, but to bring a clarity to the present work of the Holy Spirit to the youth and the church. I am writing this as a call for us "ministers and Pastor's" to wake up and see that we are one family of God! I am writing this for us "leaders" to get out of the way of God and let Him set the youth on fire.
I am writing this so we as leaders will stop putting the youth in the OK corral of youth group, Sunday school first, and not find a place or allow them to be in our Sunday morning meetings as integral parts of it. We must stop thinking that putting on skits, or singing a song once in a while is enough for them. We must prepare them to preach, teach and pray as God the Holy Spirit moves through them. We have to teach them the Holy Spirit is not 6,7 or 10, He is the Almighty God in them and will pour through them if they will trust Him. Did not Jesus himself at 12 years old confound the wisdom of the learned leaders of the Jews? Why is entertaining them more important than the FIRE OF GOD that has come to change them?
We in the USA, have put the youth aside from us, and God wants them in the middle of us in worship and being with Him in the congregation. I am writing this to beg you to hear the voice of the Lord in this hour for his young ones. God wants to equip us as leaders to enable this young generation to be fire bringers to the schools, neighborhoods, cities and nations. He wants us to be the Joshua's that will lead them in to that promised land Jesus prepared for us.
Do we love the youth enough to let them be God's and not ours? Do we love them enough to listen to a message God is sending through many messengers to the church leaders in this hour and change our minds? These are the questions we must ask ourselves and face the truth of what we have been doing as the people of God to our young people. Our ideas were not evil, but we didn't realize how we took them away from the presence of the Lord in our midst. God is jealous over them!
Beloved, this flame does not just touch teens or is it for them alone, but it is for us adults as well. I have watched the fire go from the children to the parents and parents to the children in every conference we had. God's fire came at every building and church we were able to have our meetings in Hope Center, the 7th Day Adventist Church, Abundant Life in Greeley Colorado.
The fire came to Mercy Gate, the Spanish churches in Tucson, Arizona, and Better Life Church in South Africa. It was the same God, doing the same work, to those who had an open heart to hear what the Lord was saying to them. In one church in Colorado and another in Tucson, the whole atmosphere in the church changed and could be felt for days that many people testified of! There was an open heaven in and above those churches, why would we not want that?
Please Beloved Readers, ask God what He wants for the youth in this hour. Ask God what He wants for His intercessors in your church. Ask God, "have I been a hindrance to you with the youth and our intercessors?" Maybe then we all might see God's will from a different perspective if we could understand we are called to work "with God, and work "with" one another versus trying to bring everybody under you or "under us."
I know many people and leaders are fearful of people coming from the "outside" to their area. Of course there are false prophets and false ministries everywhere and we need to be discerning. But haven't we gone a little over board and trust no one now? Aren't we to know "no man after the flesh but after the Spirit?" But we won't even try to discern or we have become so spiritually dead we judge by the only thing we know, the flesh. Where is the Holy Spirit's power in our life to say "yes this is God or no this is not?" Why are we so afraid to see God uses someone else to help us grow in God?
This mistrust must go away in the household of God or we will truly lose out of the blessing of what it means to be a family of God. We as missionaries, have been accused of wanting to start a church, take people out of their churches and worse. Some leaders are afraid that if people come to our meetings there church will lose money because offering will go to this work and not theirs. Many believe, they (we) are not one of us (them) or if this work is even from God if "I didn't birth it. Some leaders have implied if you are going to do this in "my" area your work needs to be "under our covering."
Pastors, I understand that well. I Pastored over 22 years and I understand the responsibility we have to protect the flock. I understand we all need the finances. I understand that we want the people to work in our church. But what if God wants to give something to a whole church in a region like we have seen in Colorado. and now is spreading to the nations? Is not God bigger than one church or one ministry?
We don't nor can we take any credit for this work, it is not us, but God Himself. All we desire is to see is the hearts of God's people burn in love with Him and for one another. We desire to see the church grow up and come into full grown manhood, and for the youth to take their place in God for these end times. We desire to see every church become a house of prayer for the nations as the Word of God teaches us. We are being sent to help the local church come back to their first love and to pray 2nd Chronicles 7:14 for our nation. Is there not room in your hearts for the rest of the family?
But what is missing in the Body of Christ is the understanding of the"we" and not the "me." As missionaries, we are called to work "with" the local church. We have a work to do differently from the local church that can bless and strengthen the local church. In cities, like Tucson and Albany, God has so touched Pastor's hearts that the words "under us" never come forth.
They have joined together to love one another as Jesus taught, and really learn how to pray together. When they have seen the move of God where God has sent us, they have cried be "with us" and "us with" you. In those places God moves mightily for there is no spirit of competition. In these cities they understand the word "missionary!" Beloved Pastors and Leaders, God is raising up missionaries to our nation, to our cities right now. I pray we can recognize them and accept them. We are called to train and raise them up working with the local church to do so if they are willing? God is raising up an army in which we are all called to train and equip!
As missionaries, we are under authority. We have a covering! For us at Flame of Fire, it is International Accelerated Missions. We have a Pastor and Advisory counsel over us, like the local church, but when we are sent out, our mission is to join hands "with" and not be put "under" the local church, because we are the local church expression of missionaries on a mission from God! It is just hard to understand that He might send some intercessory prayer missions to your city or town in America. He is answering your prayers Pastors, to see the cities change, and to have an open heaven over your city, will you not perceive it? Are cities are filled with new age, witches, warlocks and worse. Why wouldn't God send out missionaries to help the local church in America, your state or city ?
In Colorado, a word came for us as a "regional church body" to repent of the OK Corral sin of what we did to the youth, and the youth came. He showed us that we dissected the youth from us by putting them into rooms and groups before even teaching them His presence and desire to be with them. When we truly repented of that sin, the youth came out at the tent meeting in Milliken. They came out to our meetings in Greeley. They came out to our meetings in Tucson. They came out to our meetings in South Africa. That proves that the prayer work done in this region was not just a work of a local church in that region, but a missionary work that needed to spread to every nation and church. All this from Milliken and Greeley Colorado, can you believe that?
In the region where God sends us missionaries, there are those in the local church who will be called out to be sent out as intercessory missionaries, youth missionaries to join with us to do this work. Some of the local church people in a region will be called to join the rest of the family of God in that region to pray 24/7 for that region, including all the churches, Pastors, and ministries in that area. This strengthens and unites us as one people of God. It is not a threat, Pastors, but a blessing if we can just trust God to do it.
In so many cities the Pastor's in the area understand that and release their people to do that work, even if that work is 100 feet down the street at a regional prayer center. It is not about keeping people in our church for the numbers roll or tithing roll, it is to raise them up to do the work of the ministry, isn't it? Why do we have to keep everyone for ourselves? Why are we so insecure in our hearts to trust God to arrange the Body parts as He sees fit. They are not mine, or yours, or any ones but God's. He is the builder of the house, the word of God says.
This is the message I preach everywhere I go, because God has shown us to repent of what we have done to the youth and the church. We divided the youth from us, and this needs to change. Milliken and Greeley Colorado were the launching pad for this youth ablaze for us.
In NY at our gathering of ministers, this word burned in people's hearts, they ran to the throne of Grace as God exposed the things in our hearts. What is wrong with that Pastors and Leaders? Can we not let God get the Glory for His work and not us? Can we not get out of the way and release God's people to be what God called them to be?
I want you to read this word of a revelation this sister got, who never met us. She never heard of what God was doing in our midst and test for yourself if this is not the present work of the Holy Spirit and the youth. If you are a Pastor who reads this, I pray you repent as we had to and may God open your eyes to see what we have done to them, and what God wants to do through them.
Let your church be a place the youth are fully welcome into the midst of the congregation to be who they are in Christ. Your church will be much stronger as God pours through them, and ministers through them to you and the people, just like you will do for them. Please read it for yourself and test it.
I know some will laugh, mock or even be scornful, because there is so much insecurity in God's leaders today that they have to "protect" the flock. We need great wisdom to discern that our protection is not a spirit of control,and we can't see it. Would you at least ask the Lord to search your heart? If it is control, this great God will lead us to brokenness and repentance, and we will be much stronger in Him for repenting.
As I close this blog, and getting back to the testimonies, I have put some of the testimonies you have sent me on our website to give God the Glory for what He is doing throughout our nation and the world. If you go to our homepage, you can click on the testimonies link to read what God is doing. Read the testimonies of Pastors, youth and others of what God is doing.
There are testimonies from Pastors and 14 year old boy and 17 year old girls, and everyone in between on this site. I pray they will encourage you as you read them, and ignite the flame of God's Holy love in you.
Beloved Reader, I will be on the road again going to the Burning One's Western Regional Conference in Greeley Colorado November 6-9, 2008. This is going to be an exciting and dynamic time of burning in the presence of the Lord and we will never be the same.
The Flame of God has ignited in many nations, and the wind of God is causing it to spread. Let God pour through you as a fire starter to your home, family, neighbors, city, state and nation. Come to this conference if you can, it will be life changing.
We will have the conference posted on our website shortly, but you can also link to www.ncrhop.org for more information. You can email me as well if you have any questions concerning the conference.
We will be teaching and sharing there, and bringing a FIRE BRAND Pastor from Tucson with us Pastor Carl Jackson who is the Director of Teen Challenge. This is a man of God with a word of "repentance and change" for the church of God. God has so burdened him for the church to come back to our first love and build with the Lord and not for him. You will be blessed by his life and ministry. I hope you can attend, it will be worth it and more. We are working at arranging hotel bargain rates now and will post these for you shortly if you come.
I should be writing a new blog in the next day or so about what God is revealing to me about Sarah Palin, the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee. The blog will not be political but a revelation of what God is doing in the Spirit. I hope to have it done soon, so keep checking.
As always please send us your prayer needs. Go to the IAM Center of Tucson link and find the prayer request form there and send us your needs, or just email me with them. It is of the greatest honor to pray with you and seek the Lord with you on your behalf.
May God bless and keep everyone of you, and yes, read the testimonies if you have time. Send me a comment or a question as well.
We love each and every one of you very much!
May God keep you in the palm of His love,
Brother Henry
Here is the word below:
As we began to pray for
Along with this great outpouring of God's Spirit, I also saw a great persecution that will come upon the children. I saw little ones, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 years old being persecuted and martyred for His name sake. But through this great persecution I could see these children smiling and singing praises to the King. The children had such an unexplainable joy and peace, a peace that can only come from the Lord. A joy and peace that can not be explained, understood or rationalized among a natural thinking. It reminded me of the portion of scripture that talked about Stephen's persecution, all who looked at him saw that his face shined like the face of an angel.
There is such a pure line between children and the Lord that I believe the Lord wants to use this innocence and purity to do great exploits through the children. Children have such an innocence and trust in their faith, an innocence that is not muddled by life experiences or preconceived notions or ideas that cause them to question or doubt God and His Word.
I believe the Lord is putting a call out to the church, the ones who are older to train and equip these children where they are at. To know that their time is now and not in 5 or 10 years when they are older, but that God wants to use them at their young age. He wants us to encourage them in proclaiming the gospel and to be that voice in the desert. We need to encourage them in their faith to pray for the sick, to cast out demons, to raise the dead and to set the captives free.
I believe that along with this call, He is also putting out a warning to us not to hinder them in doing these exploits. We are not to treat them like they do not have the same power and authority that we do in Jesus. We are not to look down on the children and think that they do not have the same Holy Spirit, or to believe that they have a lesser ability in Christ and that they can not handle “these situations.”
We are not to push them to the back rooms, or to the back of the crowds, but instead, we are to invite them to be a part of what He is doing in our midst. We are to invite them to pray for those who need healing, to invite them to speak God's truth to those that are hurting and to allow them to experience His presence in the midst of His move.
We are to hear what God is saying, and I believe He is saying, “LET THE CHILDREN ARISE, LET THE CHILDREN ARISE.”
Received by Sister Jennifer
IAM YOUTH ABLAZE
Berne, NY
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