Posted: 05/24/2008 at 10:16am | IP Logged

The Prophetic Church - the Church who together expresses, reveals and demonstrates Jesus Christ on Earth

Rev 19:10b "I am a fellow servant of yours and your bretheren who hold the testimony of Jesus; worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." God's angel to John who had erringly fallen down to worship him.

There is far more on the way than what vast numbers have yet to see or even dare hope for.

There is already in place a stirring and a coming together and even flesh and life (Spirit) having to come on and into some of the bones. His life is the light of men. Therefore there have arisen and been assembled as we speak the ' radiant lighthouses' strategically placed.

Is 60:2-5 "For behold darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the Lord will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you. Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising. Lift up your eyes round about and see; they all gather together, they come to you. Your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried in the arms. Then you will see and be radiant and your heart will thrill and rejoice; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you "

There's been clouding that these pockets of "real life" have so far been hidden under. Much cleansing and purging and realigning and transforming has gone on, as it were, under cover of darkness.

Many people look for and long for the proper functioning and relating as kingdom family of Father God in the resurrection of our King Jesus. Many know from the Lord there's this coming, and not the version they've seen prominently portrayed before them. True heavenly worship. Real ministry of the Word and laying on of hands. Real authority - the restorative and cleansing and uplifting authority that we saw come forth in the very human and imperfect early elders and apostles as Jesus ministered through them, not to alienate and divide but to rightly align restore and build up. The ministry of Jesus in the character, heart and power of Jesus.

Many have yet to fully recognize this where it has begun to emerge and it has sprung up. This is because of the clouding and obscuring of the full revelation of Jesus in and among His people. Many have been deterred from seeing the beauty and reality of what's really there and that this is INDEED the place for them. It looks on the surface so very like that very wrong bad version they were released from. There are deep deep cuts - to the very bone and into the bone (marrow, source of blood-life) these have experienced and miraculously been restored from. They do not want to be exposed in this way ever again, and hearts and lives have been walled off and separated by mighty fortresses of protection and alternative life structures that do not do them justice nor can they fully be what they truly were made to be.

They fear the same bitter and mortal wounding and so fail to see the reality. Some groups - yes - they may call cults, or "not real church", or maybe some inaccurately see some as some form of church they never wish to return to. And yet - for ALL that have this in them, this longing for the real, for the real Body of Christ, to be part of this, no matter how deep and buried inside worlds of hurt....HE is restoring the lines of communication.

He is sending forth His angels to keep these lines straight and pure and to carry no "brand" other than Him. He is alerting these to open their arms and to prepare for this influx of many, perhaps multitudes who have waited so long to see and come into the reality. The invitation has been issued by the King, and by His overcomers.

I believe that He will make room and a place (is already doing so) for many brothers (male and female) to join up and fully engage.

There's the real version where the ministry of the word goes to thousands at once and yet it will not be like the false regurgitated version. It is TRUE ministry of the word, it will be engaged individually as well as corporately. This is currently occurring on a weekly basis, or perhaps on a monthly, yearly, or daily basis as well. It is as the ministry of Jesus to the multitudes, and to the one. The same exact quality and Spirit would also issue to ONLY one or to ONLY a few, or as many will receive and engage, and is not the clever creation of the individuals. It will carry individual flavor as it flows through individual unique vessels but it will be the SAME Jesus and Spirit. It will be the "words of life". John 6:68-69 (Peter, after many disciples withdrew from Him)

My prayer is the remnant who come into this life of freedom and reality would be far larger than it seems now they could be. There will, yes, be the disciples and the multitudes, or the Overcomer/Bride and the Daughters of Jerusalem. Yes, this is a reality to be sure...He called out 'Come to the waters, come and buy....who have no money' Is 55 calling loudly to ALL. The Spirit and the Bride say 'COME' Rev 22:17.

Jesus prophesied betrayal, hatred, falseness, lawlessness and cold love, among other things, in Matthew 24 and Matthew 10.

There are small glimpses and images of the reality of His work and the condition of things. A minister went once to speak to a group of Belrussian pastors some years ago. The Lord, having given him a word for these then said "do not stand behind the pulpit over and above these men - they are your brothers. I want you to sit before them at their level and do not stand over them and preach over them. come as a brother to a brother" He did so.

A woman was in a home school group with some other families. She and her family used the materials and curriculum (all bible based) to raise up strong men and women of God, to equip and train them and release them. They are in their 20's and worlds beyond where I was by that age and VERY individual and free, and so on. Other families using the SAME program and materials have held an abusive domineering overbearing rule on their kids - one young woman has now in her 20's escaped to the first woman's house. As you'd suspect - some bible verses and phrases and concepts to her are VERY binding and scary for they were used to beat and bind - literally. She fears for her life - she'd run scared and screaming from words and ideas that are loving expressions of the Father. It's not the materials nor the words that are either pure or else defiled. It's the heart and character they have flowed through. She is being restored now, however cannot engage in many good things for the horror she experienced at the hands of very confused and decieved people, and God WILL restore her --- her deep heart is for Him and He has connected her where she can be helped. A MOTHER and FATHER in the kingdom.

God is a restorer of the hearts of the children to the Father, Jesus is the first of many brothers. He is ministering in the spirit and power of Elijah through many who have been in the process of being prepared, cleansed and purified to the extent that He might minister through them in purity and in a restorative and equipping manner.

The Prophetic Church is the one who TOGETHER reveals the fullness of Jesus. Light!

Posted: 05/27/2008 at 5:48am | IP Logged

Right on Mary!  and it seems that what was once the fullness of purity, farther down the road becomes less pure than we imagined, as He continues cleansing us and making us purer. 

He can and will still use us, because He is rich in mercy and He also so greatly loves the world.  Yet we are being called up higher.  And so, where we may have been allowed to once "live", regarding our heart-sets, and prosper -- we will no longer be able to operate and have the Lord's Spirit minister through any longer.  If we refuse the adjustments and surgical cleansing of the Lord and want to remain less than He intends for us to be...there's usually a bit of trouble.

He is a GOOD Father - and never desires or seeks for His kids to remain as small children.  He wants us to come into fullness of maturity in the heart and nature of Christ.

We can celebrate His acts of the past, but really we need not to seek and long to go "back" to them.  Sweet times and golden memories in the past cannot begin to compare with what the future holds as we grow up together in Him.  He has SO much for us!

Posted: 05/27/2008 at 11:08am | IP Logged

I hear ya there Dave! 

In fact - some of our folks and leaders have gone there now -- and it was stated publicly that we are going there to receive from the Lord but we are NOT going to adopt another man's style or methods..it needed to be said!  We had basically a bunch who WANTED to do things 'that way' and another contingency who feared we might....

Jesus is the indisputable Lord and ruler of His Church (big C) and this also includes all expression all of the way down to the individuals...He will flow in and through each and all differently - but He has all Lordship - we may still be tryng to rule either our own or else others "way outside the lines". 

Any of those He has given leadership or any type of authority will be walking in that fact.  I feel maybe this is a part of why Paul mentions elders ruling their households well...ruling well is NOT total control and keeping them under...Paul is perhaps exhorting to look for the fruit of true leadership emerging in the home as an indication of how they would serve, equip and release others...

Even those folks who might be set to lead must be put there by the Lord.  It's pretty obvious when someone's either not fully fledged (and I don't mean perfect) or else simply not authorized to lead in as much as they are trying to lead in...

Todd is indisputably leading these meetings in Lakeland, from what I hear.  Others there on site are also leading in various areas small and large..and to a certain degree each person present could have a 'jurisdiction' in which they lead (even as far as leading in servanthood by opening a door, giving someone a seat, praying for someone either secretly or openly)  in the true church every person has an important and intergral role...there's not really ever any 'bumps on the log' or 'peons'  -- the guy up front leading the thing is not any better than the little baby in the back row...wow...if we could get ahold of this!!!

We actually have one yr olds who have ministered powerfuly by the Spirit - POWERFULLY! They get it....Lord let them not lose it!!!!

Posted: 06/10/2008 at 6:03am | IP Logged

As the Lord announces the truth of how desperate the times are, and become more desperate and more urgent...small trickles and tiny remnants of people begin to engage and move out into the places we are set.  I have been wondering about my own region, how that, here in Denver where stirrings of this company we might call the Prophetic Church (but not was was called that popularly in the last decade) or we might call the disciples, or the bride church- where this is stirring...where God is moving with His kingdom power - yes, inside the meetings or the believers but also thru the believers as touching business, marketplace encounters, neighbors, family and friends...WHY are there not people RUNNING to join Him infullness? They KNOW it's God moving.  Even Christians...WHY?   WHY do they not meet house to house and place to place and worship DAILY in the larger temple like gatherings as did the early church?  WHY not even ONE of these things?  WHY when they don't "feel so great" don't they seek to join with others to seek God?  WHY? when it's heard and reported by believers and medical professionals the weekly miracles (one grocery clerk was healed by a customer praying for them last week on the spot) WHY is Denver not seeing we are in desperate critical times and the Christians stepping in and the rest of the folks RUNNING to God?  Thousands of kids in Denver do not eat because their working parents cannot afford feeding them.  The government gives a small pittance to needy families...barely enough for a week for an elderly person, the community food banks cannot keep up with the huge influx of yet more who cannot feed their families or themselves...500 houses were foreclosed in my affluent county last month...Adams county has HUGE numbers of foreclosures - they are 30 min away and are #1 in the nation in foreclosures...I regularly view property values and have seen homes bought in 2005 for 200k now valued at 50k as of this past year!!!!  In a few counties.  People OWE more than their house is now worth...

We hear daily of tornadoes (like the ones that wiped out Windsor 20 mins away from me a couple weeks ago and one a few yrs ago that wiped out a town across the mountains from me)  wiping our communitiesand towns..floods, extreme heat...stuff all over the world....

And we have yet to see the wide spread passionate response and engaging and coming together of the church.

Reading in Genesis & Exodus the past couple weeks...I see repeatedly people who 'don't quite' run with God , who don't hang on His every word and who only come along 'part way'  and God begins really addressing this in the wilderness..they try and keep manna overnight, they worry they will starve or die of thirst, they meet Him just part way...not ALL the way.  Those who are gung ho and whole hearted emerge as leaders among the people...the rest die in the wilderness...God really is not after just a few leaders..who stand out like that...He is after a PEOPLE of God...Lord let this be the day that the people made in your image get a hold of this and are brilliant light in the darkness...the express image of Jesus on earth....

Posted: 06/10/2008 at 6:40am | IP Logged

these are ONLY the healings occurring in the larger temple type gatherings...just the tip of the iceberg of ALL God's doing in areas of provision, promotion, salvations, deliverance, healing...and yet this is a tiny trickle to what needs to be...dd

5/20/08

Hi members and friends of New Song,

At this writing, Ray and Inez Saragosa are returning from the Florida outpouring. By Sunday, June 1, six more of us will have gone and returned, including Beth and me, our youth pastor Nate, the Grossos and John Borkowski. Look for an explosion of anointing on June 1 when we loose on the rest of you what we all have gained.

Meanwhile, the increase in healing power is already evident. Last Sunday a hearing impairment was healed spontaneously in the glory of God during worship. One of our musicians was experiencing growing pain and inflammation in her arm that made it exceedingly difficult even to hold up her instrument. Healed. An arthritic foot was healed. At the close of service on Sunday night a young man with serious pain in his knees had experienced substantial improvement by the sovereign touch of God during worship and was receiving prayer for the completion of the healing. This is all in addition to the two cases of nodules on lungs that were seen in CAT scans but that disappeared after prayer - and the brother who received prayer for the kidney stones that were visible on a CAT scan. He was gowned up and prepped for surgery when he heard the doctors talking outside the door about the disappearing kidney stones that could no longer be seen in a CAT scan. He got dressed and went home.

God is on the move and it's only going to get better. Be there this week and especially June 1.

Love ya'
Loren Sandford
Senior Pastor
New Song Fellowship
Denver

5/20 08

Brothers and sisters,

Please don't tire of the glory reports. You will be getting more of these in days to come as we encourage the saints with what God is doing. There's yet another healing to report from last Sunday. Here's the quote from the email I received from Star Wiklund:

"I was recently in a car accient (march 29th 08) and got a severe case of whip-lash(on top of my other 43 medical conditions) I had severe pain and was on very strong pain patch's and pain pills and musle relaxers. I had phycical theapy 2 times a week. As of thursday I was still at pain level 8 and p/theapy 1 time a week. I went forward for healing. I just came from p/theapy and the doctor. I am healed the whip-lash is completley GONE!!
PRAISE GOD!!!!!! "

I expect much more when Beth and I and others have returned from Lakeland. We leave Monday, May 26 and return Friday, May 30. Don't let yourself miss what God is doing!

Love ya',
Loren Sandford
Senior Pastor
New Song Fellowship, Denver

5/21/08

Trudy F. just posted this on Myspace. It's yet another healing report resulting from prayer at New Song last Sunday. God is on the move and it's only going to get bigger! Here's what she wrote:

"I have recently been dealing with RA (Rheumatoid Arthritis), This has been gong on for over 4 months now. God and his mighty power has now taken away a majority of the swelling that is a big part of it and there has been no pain for over 2 and a half days. I just wanted to let everyone know that God is present and wanting to heal all who is in need of healing. Please let this be a encouragement that it will happen."

I never like to report a healing like this on the day it seems to happen. Excitement, anointing, endorphines, all can mask pain that returns later. But after a few days, when the pain stays away and there is measurable, quantifiable change, it's time to report and praise God!

God bless,
Loren Sandford
New Song Fellowship, Denver

6/3/08

Hi folks,

MORE HEALING TESTIMONIES! There may be more not yet reported, but these have been reported from this last week.

A word of knowledge was given during worship on Sunday morning concerning someone with an injury to the left arm that had not healed properly and was giving a lot of pain. Ron Olin came forward after the service to say that he had sustained an injury to his left elbow that had been refusing to heal over a long period of time and that had been causing a lot of pain. His pain was completely relieved and it remained healed by prayer time (People of Prayer) on Monday night.

Angela Joliff has had daily pain in her ears from infections for a number of years. God touched her powerfully during worship on Sunday night and the pain vanished. Monday morning she awoke to the absence of any pain for the first time in years and by Monday night she remained pain free.

Virginia Fishburn (did I spell her last name right?) has had arthritis in her left foot for a number of years, resulting in a deformity and preventing her even from working in her garden, much less dancing before the Lord. During People of Prayer on Monday night we soaked her foot in prayer. As the evening progressed, the swelling and size of the deformity visibly diminished and by evening's end she was able to jump up and down on that foot without pain for the first time.

Trudy Fedder's rheumatoid arthritis remains completely healed now 2 1/2 weeks after prayer. The swelling is gone, as is the pain, and she has taken no medication in all that time.

Denise Detwiler received prayer two weeks ago for such severe pain in one arm that it nearly prevented her from being able to play her violin on the worship team. It had been building for weeks prior. After prayer on Sunday morning the pain vanished in an afternoon. She remains pain free.

There are a number of others, but this is a sampling. God is moving in His power and His love and we gratefully receive it!

God bless,
Loren Sandford
Senior Pastor
New Song Fellowship, Denver

6/8/08

Hi folks,

Harriet Younger came to church Sunday morning with pain in every joint and was sovereignly healed and completely relieved of pain during worship.

This next is considerably more dramatic. Here's the quote from the email I received from Star Wiklund: "I want to report healing, today at church. As I know so many have been praying for healing for me for years now at New Song. Well the doctors did a upper & lower G.I. and I use to have:
ulcers
I.B.S. (irritable bowel syndrome)
upper reflux
coltis
diverticulatis
lower bowell sydrome
They could find no proof on any of the tests that these 6 yes SIX medical conditions are in my body."

Doctor verified healing! It doesn't come much better than this! God is moving! Don't miss it! The glory is growing! We anticipate many more reports!

God bless,
Loren Sandford
Senior Pastor
New Song Fellowship, Denver

Posted: 06/10/2008 at 5:48pm | IP Logged

jun 10 08

This one is from Mark VanderStoep and it happened Sunday. Here's the quote from his email:

"At yesterday’s call for healing in joints, I remained at the back. When I saw the size of the response, I didn’t want to risk anything getting in the way of my responsibilities with the ushers/greeters. Nonetheless, I joined everyone in prayer. I have had a long history of knee problems, including bolts of pain that would literally put me down on the floor. Surgery some years ago only gave me temporary relief. During the prayer, I began testing my right knee (the main problem) and it seemed that the pain had lessened. I went out to the foyer and tried the stairs. I trotted up and down the stairs, without the use of the handrails and without pain! I grabbed Danny Hagen and Steve Horn and had to show them. Danny noticed there was even a difference in my walk. At the risk of being one 'of little faith', I tested it this morning. I’m using the stairs at work (we’re on the third floor) as easily as the stairs at church. I even did a deep knee bend! (At that point, I notice that I’m going to have to re-train some muscles.) I actually got a cramp…but no knee problem! I’m presently having to re-learn walking without a limp in addition to reconditioning some leg muscles. Incidentally…I’ve taken no pain medication today. I’m looking forward to being able to walk the golf courses! Jesus heals!"

God is moving and you don't want to miss any of it! See you in church!

God bless,
Loren Sandford
Senior Pastor
New Song Fellowship, Denver

Posted: 06/10/2008 at 6:03pm | IP Logged

also today -- I was once again asked to go pray for my coworker's very ill mother.  she is the only one in her family who speaks fluent English.  When I arrived there was the Mexican lady who cares for her mother during the day, one of the brothers, one of the sisters, my friend and the mama.

My friend had felt prompted to ask me to call on 'another person who has healing gifts like you' I said 'oh-I know lots of people' but settled on one person who has a significant healing anointing.  He wasn't able to meet us today.

Then her one sister (one of 6 sisters) wanted us to await her arrival to pray.  When we prayed (yes I invited ALL to pray) she was very engaged...then she asked for prayer for a physical condition and the Lord revealed to me she is a healer and I spoke and prayed into it...it turns up she IS one! had wandered from the Lord and life was sort of a mess...anyhow she said what I specifically prayed (and partly to turn up what she'd walked in before) as well as several other things...spoke precisely to her situaion...and she was awakened and set some stuff right...so she then in particular ministered with me to everyone else, including mama again who wanted more....and everyone in the house both asked for and received ministry, and joined in ministry...all for some pretty intense stuff...

Told my friend "here you had the healer in the house all along!"

Also of some significance was that mama was walking on her own with the help of a walker BEFORE we got there for the first time in days or more.  And there was a HUGE angel accompanying her, from God, which more than one of us could sense....everyone kept telling me I brought it, but it was SPECIFICALLY connected with mama. 

I am looking forward to hearing ongoing reports of the confidential work God did in more than one person's heart there as well as their bodies...I made sure the gospel of repentance was preached and JESUS was lifted up as our healer and ALL were encouraged to relate directly with God...

Posted: 06/12/2008 at 5:38am | IP Logged

Tornado hits Scout Camp - at least 4 dead, 48 injured

Tornadoes also touched down in Kansas, Minnesota and Nebraska on Wednesday. They killed at least two people in northern Kansas, destroyed much of the small town of Chapman and caused extensive damage on the Kansas State University campus.

In Iowa, rescue workers cut their way through downed branches and dug through debris amid rain and lightning Wednesday night to reach the camp where the 93 boys, ages 13 to 18, and 25 staff members were attending a weeklong leadership training camp.

The boys were split into two groups when the storm hit the Little Sioux Scout Ranch in the remote Loess Hills. One group managed to take shelter, while the other was out hiking.

At least 42 of the injured remained hospitalized Thursday morning, with everything from cuts and bruises to major head trauma, said Gene Meyer, Iowa's public safety commissioner. At least four of the injured had been airlifted from the camp, he said, refusing to elaborate on their conditions or identify the dead.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and the families of the victims," Gov. Chet Culver said. "We continue to do everything we can to make sure those injured are going to recover."

Posted: 06/13/2008 at 5:52am | IP Logged

Flood Puts City in Iowa 'at God's Mercy'

Posted: 07/18/2008 at 6:38am | IP Logged

this is one of the spiritual elements in which the prophetic church (the true church of Jesus/body of Jesus) functions:

KINGDOM MATH

Posted: 08/02/2008 at 8:04pm | IP Logged

Wonderful testimony Denise! Praise God!

I totally appreciate this part as well in what you've shared here.." (just an aside, I do not ever seek to make up my own
prayers. if God doesnt give me one I pray in silence or in tongues. i
won't say I am flawless in my hearing, but I seek never just to pray
whatever sounds good) "

 This gives very little place then for quite a bit of the` flakiness' and it's called being led of the Spirit. I so appreciate you sharing this and yes we are all learning in our hearing(taught) of Holy Spirit in each moment and each situation, etc.

good word!

Posted: 08/02/2008 at 8:29pm | IP Logged

There is a major shift going on and the one thing I believe is that God is showing us that He does not live in the box...and He is calling us to expand our mental horizions....He will use those who thinkradically as in Lakeland...This to me is wonderful...this kind of thinking will lead to tapping into the miraculous, signs and wonders...from the DEEP...

WOW....how I want mor of God in this manner....its my hearts cry....

When someone is afraid of change that makes me concerned....they think....well that;s not how we use to do that  OOPS sounds sad...u..c

to me........God loves and has created all to be the way He wants them to be  for His purpose...I am an artist and singer....I have not really felt like I really fit into the standard type of church....but there are a whole lot of people I can reach that the business type person cannot...I have the abitity to go into the devils camp and witness for Christ...a bar...where many fear to go....but I am not....I am not an alcoholic and that is not a pull on me...besides I know when it is and I have trained my flesh...yet I am very careful to make sure I go with God and not on my own........that would be trouble...

Jesus went into the bars and I am sure He didnot stand on a soap box preaching on how sinful it is to be a drunk....

I lead a man to Christ right there in a bar and trears came down his cheeks when I told him that Jesus loved him...the Holy Spirit was very strong...I am glad that I had that opportunity....I would not suggest it for every one you may get caught but I am just trying to say........step out of the BOX!!!!  or even off it......

Posted: 08/02/2008 at 8:39pm | IP Logged

Oh ya I forgot that I wanted to add that
a friend of mine had a vision from the Lord .....he was up in the heavens looking down at the earth and starting in the USA  a firework like a roman candle start and get bigger till it threw out a fireball that would go high into the air and then land .........then the process sould happen again and again...then it started to throw these fireballs into the nations....

 believe this to be scripture as somewhere it says I will build a nation out of which I will bless all nations....from here to the NATIONS...Amen

Posted: 08/03/2008 at 12:17pm | IP Logged

amen Ti Ana and DD,

Christ-ianity verses religianity( lol..religinaity..not sure if that's a word). One Life's, the other kills. Both will produce instantly as well as over time, it's fruit. One delivers relationship, the other division. One is outward in be-ing, the other is all about outward in do-ing. One is be-ing about our Father's business where true contentment resides, the other is busyness where discontentment resides. One restores, heals, renews/makes new, makes whole, the other flat wears out, steals, destroys and kills. One is a life lived in God( Father, Son, Holy Spirit), the other is knowledge, intellect about God( Father, Son, Holy Spirit) and so one is existence and the other non-existence. One will speak( whether word or deed) too come into the Father's Love, the other will keep out, speaking( whether word or deed) fear. One lifts up and into the Kingdom of Light, the other binding to the kingdom of darkness.

As Ti Ana's signature says...Freedom! Absolutely unequivocally! Like the fireball shooting out and landing, then into the nations...a nation within the nations...fire purging the heavens and earth of the spirit of hypocricy = religion = death.

"For the law( governing) of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law(governing) of sin and death." and " The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord"

DD, i just used your example of waiting and hearing Holy Spirit and being led of verses in our own strength or what we think we know, doing, etc. His Authority, rule over is then made known on earth as it is in heaven and His will is done