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Thursday, March 24, 2016
Multiply
BE FRUITFUL, MULTIPLY, FILL,
SUBDUE YOUR ENEMIES AND TAKE DOMINION
I sense that God's prophetic word to our Rising Movement this year is, "Be
fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue your enemies and have dominion” (Gen
1:28). God has given us a clear, 2020 VISION to see our GC2 strategy
statement: Obey the Great Commandment and the Great Commission.
However, our vision must be empowered by radical prayer.
I believe the Lord is encouraging us through the parables of the mustard
seed and the leaven (Mt 13:31-33) to see the worldwide advance of the
Kingdom. My expanded translation of Matthew 11:12 captures God’s
encouragement to us as it says, “From the days of John the Baptist until
now, the Kingdom of Heaven is triumphantly advancing. Now is the time
for forceful people, courageous souls, to lay hold of it with burning zeal."
Jesus said, "Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and
scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any
means hurt you" (Luke 10:19). God is calling His Beautiful Bride
—worldwide—to rise up in faith and use our authority to bind the evil spirits
and set captives free.
Larry Lea says, "The devil's work is to blind the minds of men and women. It
is our work to pray that the powers of darkness be pushed back from
shrouding people's minds. Until we do the prayer work necessary to defeat
the forces of the enemy holding people in darkness, Satan's blinders will remain."
Peter Wagner wrote an article on the key dynamic he discovered in his
studies on the revival in Argentina. I have traveled to Argentina twice with
Peter and Ed Silvoso and can attest to the following insight.
Peter reports, “One of today's most knowledgeable Argentine leaders is
Edgardo Silvoso of Harvest Evangelism based in San Jose, California. Silvoso
did a workshop at Lausanne II in Manila in 1989 on spiritual warfare in Argentina."
“There he said, ‘If there is one dominant element that has emerged in the
theology and methodology of evangelism in Argentina, I would say it is
spiritual warfare. It is an awareness that the struggle is not against a
political or a social system. Nor is it on behalf of those who are captives, but
it is rather against the jail keepers, against the rulers, those in authority in
the spiritual realm.’"
“Silvoso contends that understanding this allows Argentine evangelists to
get to the root of the problem instead of dealing merely with symptoms. He
suggests that the results validate this approach.”
In his book, Evangelism by Fire, Reinhardt Bonnke furthers God’s call on our
Rising Movement to engage in radical, authorative prayer as he writes, “I am
fully persuaded that God allows us to pull the trigger for mighty outpourings
of His Holy Spirit” (p 204). He gives us 7 steps to success in bringing in a
supernatural harvest. They are:
1. Realize our greatness is in God: “WITH GOD all things are possible”
(Mt 19:26).
2. All of God’s promises that were made to others become ours by
faith: “You shall give this people possession of the land WHICH I
SWORE TO THEIR FATHERS to bring them in” (Josh 1:6).
3. Get a vision of what you should do for God, then work to bring it
about: Our 2020 VISION is to nurture a simple church multiplication
movement starting in Glendora that will launch similar movements in
100 cities around the world. In Acts 20:20, 27 Paul explains his part in
the church multiplication movement at Ephesus, “I did not shrink back
from declaring to you the whole purpose of God and anything that was
profitable to you, teaching you publicly and from house to house.”
4. Go forth knowing God is with you as much as He was with anybody:
“No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. JUST
AS I HAVE BEEN WITH MOSES, I WILL BE WITH YOU. I will not
fail you or forsake you” (Josh 1:5).
5. Be bold in Christ: “Lord, take note of their threats and grant that
your bond-servants may speak Your word with all boldness while You
extend your hand to heal, with signs and wonders take place through
the name of Your holy servant Jesus. And WHEN THEY PRAYED, the
place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all
filled with the Holy Spirit, and BEGAN TO SPEAK THE WORD OF GOD
WILL BOLDNESS” (Acts 4:29-31).
6. Confess the Word: “This book of the law shall not depart from your
mouth” (Josh 1:8). What we say is what we will see. We wil not beg God,
we will believe God. We will confess His word. And not being weak in
faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was
about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did
not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was
strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced
that what He had promised He was also able to perform” (Rom 4:19-21).
7. Go in now and take the land: “The people shouted with a great shout,
and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city,
every man straight ahead, AND THEY TOOK THE CITY” (Josh 6:20).
What do you say? Are you willing to rise up and pray longer and harder than
ever before in your life? Will you stand with Sue and I and lay hold of God's
prophetic word to our Rising Movement to "Be fruitful, multiply, fill,
subdue your enemies and have dominion” (Gen 1:28)?
If deep in your spirit you are hearing a “YES LORD,” then I want to ask you
to plan on praying together with our group at the “Azusa, Now” event at the
LA Coliseum on April 9. Register today.
I believe this will be a milestone as the Lord releases His fresh
anointing on our Rising leadership team. He will empower us to go preach
the gospel with signs and wonders following. He will empower us to lead
hundred to become dynamic disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ who will
then multiply disciples for the rest of their lives. He will empower us to
realize our 2020 Vision, that our Rising church planting movement that
will nurture 100 other movements in Los Angeles, Bangkok and other
cities around the world!
SUBDUE YOUR ENEMIES AND TAKE DOMINION
I sense that God's prophetic word to our Rising Movement this year is, "Be
fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue your enemies and have dominion” (Gen
1:28). God has given us a clear, 2020 VISION to see our GC2 strategy
statement: Obey the Great Commandment and the Great Commission.
However, our vision must be empowered by radical prayer.
I believe the Lord is encouraging us through the parables of the mustard
seed and the leaven (Mt 13:31-33) to see the worldwide advance of the
Kingdom. My expanded translation of Matthew 11:12 captures God’s
encouragement to us as it says, “From the days of John the Baptist until
now, the Kingdom of Heaven is triumphantly advancing. Now is the time
for forceful people, courageous souls, to lay hold of it with burning zeal."
Jesus said, "Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and
scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any
means hurt you" (Luke 10:19). God is calling His Beautiful Bride
—worldwide—to rise up in faith and use our authority to bind the evil spirits
and set captives free.
Larry Lea says, "The devil's work is to blind the minds of men and women. It
is our work to pray that the powers of darkness be pushed back from
shrouding people's minds. Until we do the prayer work necessary to defeat
the forces of the enemy holding people in darkness, Satan's blinders will remain."
Peter Wagner wrote an article on the key dynamic he discovered in his
studies on the revival in Argentina. I have traveled to Argentina twice with
Peter and Ed Silvoso and can attest to the following insight.
Peter reports, “One of today's most knowledgeable Argentine leaders is
Edgardo Silvoso of Harvest Evangelism based in San Jose, California. Silvoso
did a workshop at Lausanne II in Manila in 1989 on spiritual warfare in Argentina."
“There he said, ‘If there is one dominant element that has emerged in the
theology and methodology of evangelism in Argentina, I would say it is
spiritual warfare. It is an awareness that the struggle is not against a
political or a social system. Nor is it on behalf of those who are captives, but
it is rather against the jail keepers, against the rulers, those in authority in
the spiritual realm.’"
“Silvoso contends that understanding this allows Argentine evangelists to
get to the root of the problem instead of dealing merely with symptoms. He
suggests that the results validate this approach.”
In his book, Evangelism by Fire, Reinhardt Bonnke furthers God’s call on our
Rising Movement to engage in radical, authorative prayer as he writes, “I am
fully persuaded that God allows us to pull the trigger for mighty outpourings
of His Holy Spirit” (p 204). He gives us 7 steps to success in bringing in a
supernatural harvest. They are:
1. Realize our greatness is in God: “WITH GOD all things are possible”
(Mt 19:26).
2. All of God’s promises that were made to others become ours by
faith: “You shall give this people possession of the land WHICH I
SWORE TO THEIR FATHERS to bring them in” (Josh 1:6).
3. Get a vision of what you should do for God, then work to bring it
about: Our 2020 VISION is to nurture a simple church multiplication
movement starting in Glendora that will launch similar movements in
100 cities around the world. In Acts 20:20, 27 Paul explains his part in
the church multiplication movement at Ephesus, “I did not shrink back
from declaring to you the whole purpose of God and anything that was
profitable to you, teaching you publicly and from house to house.”
4. Go forth knowing God is with you as much as He was with anybody:
“No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. JUST
AS I HAVE BEEN WITH MOSES, I WILL BE WITH YOU. I will not
fail you or forsake you” (Josh 1:5).
5. Be bold in Christ: “Lord, take note of their threats and grant that
your bond-servants may speak Your word with all boldness while You
extend your hand to heal, with signs and wonders take place through
the name of Your holy servant Jesus. And WHEN THEY PRAYED, the
place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all
filled with the Holy Spirit, and BEGAN TO SPEAK THE WORD OF GOD
WILL BOLDNESS” (Acts 4:29-31).
6. Confess the Word: “This book of the law shall not depart from your
mouth” (Josh 1:8). What we say is what we will see. We wil not beg God,
we will believe God. We will confess His word. And not being weak in
faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was
about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did
not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was
strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced
that what He had promised He was also able to perform” (Rom 4:19-21).
7. Go in now and take the land: “The people shouted with a great shout,
and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city,
every man straight ahead, AND THEY TOOK THE CITY” (Josh 6:20).
What do you say? Are you willing to rise up and pray longer and harder than
ever before in your life? Will you stand with Sue and I and lay hold of God's
prophetic word to our Rising Movement to "Be fruitful, multiply, fill,
subdue your enemies and have dominion” (Gen 1:28)?
If deep in your spirit you are hearing a “YES LORD,” then I want to ask you
to plan on praying together with our group at the “Azusa, Now” event at the
LA Coliseum on April 9. Register today.
I believe this will be a milestone as the Lord releases His fresh
anointing on our Rising leadership team. He will empower us to go preach
the gospel with signs and wonders following. He will empower us to lead
hundred to become dynamic disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ who will
then multiply disciples for the rest of their lives. He will empower us to
realize our 2020 Vision, that our Rising church planting movement that
will nurture 100 other movements in Los Angeles, Bangkok and other
cities around the world!
JOIN THE RISING GC2 MOVEMENT
“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your arising” Is 60:1,3
WE OBEY THE GREAT COMMANDMENT: LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS
WE OBEY THE GREAT COMMISSION: MAKE DISCIPLES
I. DISC 1.0 BECOME DYNAMIC DISCIPLES Mt 1:1-4:22
A. Hear my story
B. Learn the Gospel of the Kingdom
C. Count the cost of becoming a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ
1. Good News
a) God created you in His image
b) God loves you and wants you to live with Him forever
2. Bad News
a) Satan and many angels rebelled against God and created a false kingdom
b) Adam and Eve sinned and we were born with their rebellious nature
c) Our sin created a separation between us and God
d) Before salvation, every person’s spirit is dead to God
e) We are not capable of making ourselves pure and acceptable to a Holy God
3. Good News
a) The history of Israel is centered around God’s promise of a Messiah King
b) Jesus is God who became man. His life revealed God’s love and character
c) Christ died for our sin, according to the Scriptures
d) Jesus rose from the dead, overcoming death and Satan
e) He is enthroned in God’s Kingdom and has all authority in heaven and earth
f) Therefore, repent of your sin and rebellion
g) Transfer your allegiance from the domain Satan to the Kingdom of God
h) Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be forgiven for your sin
i) Your spirit will be born again as the Holy Spirit comes to live in your heart
j) Your name will be written in God’s Book of Life
k) You will begin your eternal relationship with God
l) You are ready to begin to share your story and introduce others to Jesus
1. Come and see
2. Follow Me
3. Look and see (many receptive Non-Christians)
4. Follow and lead (others to Christ)
5. Die for Me (and the gospel’s Sake)
D. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior
E. Immediately obey the Great Commandment and the Great Commission
F. Get baptized
G. Seek the fullness of the Holy Spirit
H. Freely you receive, freely give
II. DISC 2.0 SHARE GREAT NEWS Mt 4:23-12:37
A. Form an Evangelistic Team of 2 or 3 (usually with the person who led you to Christ)
B. Prepare your story (of how you received the great news)
C. Share your story daily
D. Reach out to your household (Oikos)
1. List 100 people you know
2. Reach 5 non-Christians every week
a) Challenge non-Christians to become disciples
b) Challenge Christians to become leaders
E. Bless people and focus on the receptive Person of Peace
F. Form Discovery Bible Studies
G. Answer key questions
H. Challenge the receptive to believe and become dynamic disciples
III. DISC 3.0 MULTIPLY SIMPLE CHURCHES Mt 9:35-23:39
A. Join a discipleship group of 4-12
B. Learn and practice the Three Thirds meeting format
1. Look Back
2. Look Up
3. Look Forward
C. Multiply your E-Team (when 3 become 4, form 2 E-Teams, etc.)
D. As you lead others to Christ, form new discipleship groups or house churches
E. A group of house churches can become a city church
IV. DISC 4.0 TRAIN REPRODUCING LEADERS Mt 24:1-28:20
A. Use the MACA Leadership Training Cycle
B. Leaders multiply disciples Mt 28:1-20
1. Model
2. Assist
3. Coach
4. Appoint
1. Go Out – While you are going Mt 28:19
2. Bring In – Baptize them Mt 28:19
3. Raise Up – Teach them to obey Mt 28:20
4. Send Out – Go to all nations Mt 28:19-20
C. In 12-18 months, you can become a leader of a house church
D. You are now ready to train others to become trainers
“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your arising” Is 60:1,3
WE OBEY THE GREAT COMMANDMENT: LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS
WE OBEY THE GREAT COMMISSION: MAKE DISCIPLES
I. DISC 1.0 BECOME DYNAMIC DISCIPLES Mt 1:1-4:22
A. Hear my story
B. Learn the Gospel of the Kingdom
C. Count the cost of becoming a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ
1. Good News
a) God created you in His image
b) God loves you and wants you to live with Him forever
2. Bad News
a) Satan and many angels rebelled against God and created a false kingdom
b) Adam and Eve sinned and we were born with their rebellious nature
c) Our sin created a separation between us and God
d) Before salvation, every person’s spirit is dead to God
e) We are not capable of making ourselves pure and acceptable to a Holy God
3. Good News
a) The history of Israel is centered around God’s promise of a Messiah King
b) Jesus is God who became man. His life revealed God’s love and character
c) Christ died for our sin, according to the Scriptures
d) Jesus rose from the dead, overcoming death and Satan
e) He is enthroned in God’s Kingdom and has all authority in heaven and earth
f) Therefore, repent of your sin and rebellion
g) Transfer your allegiance from the domain Satan to the Kingdom of God
h) Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be forgiven for your sin
i) Your spirit will be born again as the Holy Spirit comes to live in your heart
j) Your name will be written in God’s Book of Life
k) You will begin your eternal relationship with God
l) You are ready to begin to share your story and introduce others to Jesus
1. Come and see
2. Follow Me
3. Look and see (many receptive Non-Christians)
4. Follow and lead (others to Christ)
5. Die for Me (and the gospel’s Sake)
D. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior
E. Immediately obey the Great Commandment and the Great Commission
F. Get baptized
G. Seek the fullness of the Holy Spirit
H. Freely you receive, freely give
II. DISC 2.0 SHARE GREAT NEWS Mt 4:23-12:37
A. Form an Evangelistic Team of 2 or 3 (usually with the person who led you to Christ)
B. Prepare your story (of how you received the great news)
C. Share your story daily
D. Reach out to your household (Oikos)
1. List 100 people you know
2. Reach 5 non-Christians every week
a) Challenge non-Christians to become disciples
b) Challenge Christians to become leaders
E. Bless people and focus on the receptive Person of Peace
F. Form Discovery Bible Studies
G. Answer key questions
H. Challenge the receptive to believe and become dynamic disciples
III. DISC 3.0 MULTIPLY SIMPLE CHURCHES Mt 9:35-23:39
A. Join a discipleship group of 4-12
B. Learn and practice the Three Thirds meeting format
1. Look Back
2. Look Up
3. Look Forward
C. Multiply your E-Team (when 3 become 4, form 2 E-Teams, etc.)
D. As you lead others to Christ, form new discipleship groups or house churches
E. A group of house churches can become a city church
IV. DISC 4.0 TRAIN REPRODUCING LEADERS Mt 24:1-28:20
A. Use the MACA Leadership Training Cycle
B. Leaders multiply disciples Mt 28:1-20
1. Model
2. Assist
3. Coach
4. Appoint
1. Go Out – While you are going Mt 28:19
2. Bring In – Baptize them Mt 28:19
3. Raise Up – Teach them to obey Mt 28:20
4. Send Out – Go to all nations Mt 28:19-20
C. In 12-18 months, you can become a leader of a house church
D. You are now ready to train others to become trainers
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