Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts

Friday, March 21, 2014

Prophetic Word for the UK: God's Glory Will Be On Display This Spring - Charles Shamp

Charles Shamp:

Church History in the UK

When we study out the history of revival in the earth over the past several centuries, we can almost single handily point to the United Kingdom as a major hot spot and catalyst for what the Holy Spirit was doing at that time. Almost every major shift of reformation or revival started on these Island nations.

Whether we are discussing the First and Second Great Awakenings, or go further back and discuss the mystics and catholic miracle workers that walked the shores of England, Ireland, Scotland, or Wales – God has always seemed to release the fresh movement of the Holy Spirit on these Islands that has gone on to affect the entire earth.
Key To a New Sound by Jennifer Page

My love for Church history and the moves of the Spirit caused me to recognize that what took place within these nations directly affected America and the move of the Spirit in my nation.

Although we are an ocean away, we are connected in the realm of the Spirit, and as the song of Heaven would arise over the UK, it would carry all the way to the shores of America and revival would begin to come forth in these United States.

Over the past several years as I have been traveling into the UK to minister, my greatest hope and prayer has been that God would once again ignite these Islands with the wild fire of Heaven. 

From the moment that I first stepped into a meeting in the nation of Wales back in 2010, I could feel something fresh was being birthed in the Spirit, something organic, something that would turn the world upside down!

Intercession and Weeping

Several weeks ago as I was ministering in a series of meetings in England, with my good friend Munday Martin, God began to show up in the most powerful way, both within the nightly meetings as well as during the street outreach in the afternoon time.

There were nights where during our preaching, young people would come in off of the streets and walk to the front asking, "What must we do to be saved?" With no alter call or invitation for people to accept Jesus, they were coming to the alter to be born again. The harvest was just that ripe!

On Friday, February 21, as the team gathered for a time of fellowship, the Spirit of intercession came unexpectedly into our friend's home. This was just hours before we were to travel into Lowestoft, the place of the English revival that took place in 1921. It was a revival that went for eighteen months that saw many people come to Christ. A Spirit of intercession came on the team and we all began to pray with fervency.

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During that time I found myself on the floor weeping with such a heavy burden from the Lord for the UK. Just as spontaneous as the intercession, so too was a word of the Lord over England. What I have discovered is that what is often released as a mystery in the form of intercession and tongues (if we are faithful to wait upon the Lord), will be revealed as "revelation in prophecy" to show us the future plan of God in a nation so that we will be ready when it comes.

God's Glory Will Be On Display This Spring

Prayer Is The Key by Jennifer PageThis was the word that came forth:

"The wilderness and winter season in England is coming to an end and the people would sing with great joy as it comes. 

This barren land will once again celebrate and flowers will burst forth in spring, bursting into blossom like a symphony of song and color. God's glory will be on display this spring.

"Those who have been weary will be strengthened in their knees. Those who were lame will leap with joy. Those who have been fearful will revive with courage. This is a season and time to take heart. 

God is coming in a fresh way.

"The people will say, 'God is here, right here, on His way to put things right in our nation. Yes He has come! He will save us!' The blind eyes will be opened, deaf ears will hear once again. Those who felt they had no voice will break into a song that Heaven has come!"

The Lord spoke to me that a major shift in the Spirit would come in the spring and wells that were capped over would be opened once again. I felt The Lord speak to me that there are springs of water that will burst out in the spring time and fresh streams will flow.

It will spring up in the spring! Watch for it! They will find natural springs in the spring and this will be a sign of what God is doing in the Spirit. People are going to drink of natural springs and it will be a sign of a new prophetic movement in the nation.

God is changing the waters from bitter to drinkable. New prophetic voices will come forth this year that will cause the axe head to float. There will be signs and wonders and prophets that will move with the government of God. They will decree a thing and it will be established!

"But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed. And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim. Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it." 2 Kings 6:5-7

Key To a New Sound by Jennifer PageOverall, I believe that this word is for all of the United Kingdom and God will use England as a catalyst for revival that will spring into Scotland, Ireland, and Wales and eventually will touch the world. What was left unfulfilled in previous generations will be fulfilled in this one.

There will be voices that will come from the wilderness. Men and woman, that up until this point no one had even known their names, will come with the word of the Lord and an axe will be in their hand to lay at the root of the religious tree. They will cut off the old system. The old religious roots that made the waters so bitter will go and there will be new trees planted in their stead.

These will be trees of righteousness. These will be trees for the healing of the nations. These will be trees for an awakening that will touch the nations!

I am greatly encouraged by what the Lord has shown me and I know we are on the verge of a fresh great awakening that will begin in England and the United Kingdom. Remember friends to take heart in this spring season. Heaven is at hand!

Charles Shamp, President and Founder
Destiny Encounters 

Charles and Brynn Shamp are the founders of DESTINY ENCOUNTERS. They have a true passion for revival and the glory of God. They boldly declare the Gospel of Christ; ministering freedom, joy, and supernatural healing everywhere they go. They have ministered both nationally and internationally (with such ministers as Jeff Jansen, Munday Martin, Joshua Mills, Mahesh Chavda, Bob and Bonnie Jones) with radical demonstrations of faith seeing lives transformed through the power of the Holy Spirit. 

Compelled by the heart of the Father to seek and save the lost, they are releasing God's love to the world seeing the captives delivered, the sick healed, and lives changed. Charles and Brynn believe that through outreach, missions, and crusade evangelism one life changed can impact a nation and transform a generation. Charles and Brynn have answered the call to lead a generation in the movement of both the Word and the Spirit. With the power of an encounter they are truly unlocking a generation's destiny one heart at a time.

Source: The Elijah List


Wednesday, November 20, 2013

"My Church...My Heart...My Ways for Cities and Nations" - Bob Hartley

Bob Hartley with Francis Low:

"My Church will Bring Forth True Reformation, the Revealing of My Heart and My Ways for Cities and Nations"

Bob HartleyThe Following word from Bob Hartley was scribed by Francis Low:

Radiant, Redeemed Cities and Nations and Hope Reformers

God has repeatedly revealed to Bob the vision of radiant cities and nations, and hope reformers who were on a hill looking at these cities and nations, which had been transformed. These hope reformers had the wisdom to worship Him for Who He really is and had the strength and confidence not to be changed by the atmosphere and culture of a city or nation; but instead were able to effect transformative change to the atmosphere and culture of cities and nations.

Bob saw radiant cities and nations on the earth that had invited Him in, where the atmosphere of these cities and nations were filled with His presence and His glory; where the cultures of these spheres and arenas of these cities had been radically transformed, and the evil mist of despair, hopelessness, fear, and cynicism in these cities had been obliterated; and instead there was radiant hope, health, healing, joy, abundance of peace and truth, creativity, prosperity, and a place where good things thrived and flourished.

And they shall rebuild the old ruins, they shall raise up the former desolations and they shall repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations. Isaiah 61:4

For the past seventeen years, God gave Bob recurring dreams where Bob would see Jesus coming out of cities, running up to him, and telling him that these cities would not let Him help them. Jesus was saddened by this and said to Bob, "I really want to help them and give them My gifts," but they did not know how He was to be invited in.

Cities looked like AuschwitzBob was perplexed by these dreams and did not really know how to respond to the Lord. He then saw over Jesus' shoulder cities which looked like Auschwitz villages; although functioning, they were severely emaciated and depleted in hope.

But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. Matthew 9:36

These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. Matthew 15:8

About two months ago, while Bob was visiting Australia and New Zealand, he had an open vision; however, this time in this open vision, when Jesus ran up to Bob, the Lord was like a young child with great joy exploding from Him, and He said to Bob with great excitement, "They are NOW receiving Me and My gifts."
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. James 1:17

Beautiful, radiant cityBob then looked over Jesus' shoulder, and this time he saw beautiful and radiant cities which were filled with the glory of Heaven. It was absolutely stunning! These cities were no longer desolate places or wastelands but are now His habitation, His heart and joy.

Inviting Jesus in NOW

Jesus said to Bob, "It is NOW that many nations and cities will invite Me in, and they will get their true identity in Me, and Jeremiah 33:9-11 will be fulfilled."

"Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it."

Thus says the LORD: "Again there shall be heard in this place – of which you say, 'It is desolate, without man and without beast' – in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say:

"'Praise the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for His mercy endures forever' – and of those who will bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first," says the LORD. Jeremiah 33:9-11

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Bob saw many hope reformers from nations who are now responding to the Lord appropriately. They are now inviting Him into their cities and nations by asking for God Himself to come and abide with them (see John 1:38-39).

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His own inheritance. Psalm 33:12

"I Have an Awesome Variety of Gifts"

Receive gifts from Jesus"How is this going to happen?" Bob asked Jesus.

Jesus replied, "I am going to give them gifts, which are like building kits and a blueprint for the Church to be the Kingdom Church. My Church will bring forth true reformation, the revealing of My Heart and My Ways for cities and nations."

And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, the food on his table, the seating of his servants, the service of his waiters and their apparel, his cupbearers, and his entryway by which he went up to the house of the LORD, there was no more spirit in her. 1 Kings 10:4-5

Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode.Nehemiah 2:12

Jesus then said to Bob, "I have an awesome variety of gifts."

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established. Romans 1:11

The LORD has opened His armory, and has brought out the weapons of His indignation; for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. Jeremiah 50:25

Through these gifts, the Lord will move the Church from where she is presently at to a Kingdom reformational place. Jesus said He will give His shepherds these divine building kits and they will understand how to release Kingdom callings, messages, and feedings that are appropriate for this hour. 

There will be unique worship and offerings to God in the gates in the city, where hope reformers will be released to bring God's Presence, His heart, and His ways into cities and nations at this time (see Micah 4:1-2).

It is Time for Hope Reformers to Partner with God

Here in this recent encounter, the Lord turned Bob's eyes toward a number of nations. What the Lord revealed to Bob was so wonderful and glorious it took Bob's breath away! The Lord showed Bob a number of nations that are now inviting Jesus in, and that He was now going to reveal His specific callings and identities for these nations in accordance with the counsel of His heart.

Callings of God on nationsBob was able to share this at the recent Open Heavens conference at Bethel in Redding, California, where representatives from approximately 40 nations were present. The Lord graciously and powerfully confirmed to many at this conference His callings for these nations and to the people who were called to help bring forth radiant, hope-filled cities in nations. 

(Photo courtesy: FBUSD)

These are some of the nations Bob saw:
– Affectionate Australia!
– Courageous China, a nation that will see God as King!
– Endearing Egypt!
– Faithful France!
– Intimate Italy!
– Intentful Iran!
– Infectious India!
– Irresistible Indonesia!
– Loving Lebanon!
– Nations of Exciting Europe!
– Near Norway!
– Sensitive Spain!
– Soaring Scotland!
– Sweet Syria!
– Tender Turkey!
– United in God, the United States of America!
– Zealous Zimbabwe!
It is time for hope reformers to partner with God by coming into agreement and alignment with the Lord of the nations!

Bob Hartley, scribed by Francis Low
Deeper Waters Ministry

Bob Hartley is the founder of Hartley Institute/Deeper Waters Ministry in Kansas City, Missouri. Bob served as a pastor at Metro Christian Fellowship with Mike Bickle before entering the marketplace in 1983, with a vision to see the marketplace redeemed and cities established that value and love the person of Jesus. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Hartley Group, a "Hope Center" for the marketplace, consisting of Hartley's Executive Cleaning, Swift Chemicals & Supply, Prize Properties and H&H Management in Kansas City, Missouri. 

Bob is a frequent speaker to youth, churches, businesses, and national leaders throughout America and the world. His quest has been to bring the Kingdom of God into every arena of life and give spiritual tools and equipping to those seeking to know and love God in the midst of their everyday lives. Currently, Bob resides in Kansas City with his wife and four children.

Scribed by Francis Low
Hope Australia

Francis LowFrancis Low has a close friendship with Bob Hartley and has journeyed with Bob for many years and has partnered with Bob in ministry in many settings. Francis is the founder of Hope Australia, a marketplace ministry that facilitates transformational prayer and encounters with God for people from all arenas and spheres of influences (commerce, government, legal, media, and education). 

He has been ministering in Australia and overseas since 1987, and has a passion to empower people in their relationship with God and to launch people as God's presence carriers. His desire is to see and facilitate true transformation in the different spheres of influence in the world. Francis is also practicing as a commercial lawyer and a director of National Business Lawyers and Hope Consulting International. 

He is a leader on the International Board of Deeper Waters Ministries with Bob Hartley. He is married to Maria, and they have two sons, Daniel and David.
For more: The Elijah List

Monday, April 8, 2013

The Missionary Doctor and the Jews, Medicine in Tiberias 100 Years Ago

The Missionary Doctor and the Jews,
Medicine in Tiberias 100 Years Ago

Dr. Herbert Torrance visits Tiberias residents
The University of Dundee medical school in Scotland has posted the photos taken by two missionary doctors who established a hospital in Tiberias.  Below is the university's own description:
The Torrance collection, which includes thousands of photographs and color slides of Israel, Palestine and medical illnesses, has now been fully updated on our online catalogue. The photographs were taken by David Torrance and his son Herbert  Torrance who established a hospital in Tiberius in 1885 which lasted for over a hundred years helping the local communities.
Jewish patient in bed (circa 1930)
In recent months we posted several photo essays on the hospital, including incredible pictures dating back over 100 years.

But we were intrigued by a Christian Mission -- albeit a hospital -- in the midst of the very traditional Jewish residents of Tiberias.

We found an answer on a Hebrew Internet site by Avshalom Shachar called "נופים ותרבויות --Vistas and Cultures."
The Jews initially banned [cherem] the hospital, and rabbis prohibited their disciples from being aided in the place because of its missionary nature. However, the outbreak of cholera in the city in 1902 caused hundreds of casualties (including the doctor's wife) and led many Jews to seek out the services of the hospital and Dr. Torrance who, despite his wife's death, continued to treat patients diligently and earned great respect.
When Dr. Torrance died in 1923, the rabbi of Tiberias eulogized him: "Tiberias was blessed with three things: the Sea of Galilee, the Tiberias hot springs, and Dr. Torrance."

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Jewish and Arab boy, bladder stone cases (1933)