Showing posts with label righteous power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label righteous power. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Morris Ruddick - Leadership Through the Jewish Model

Morris Ruddick - May 2014 

Having read all of Morris Ruddick six books, beginning with The Joseph-Daniel Calling (Jul 8, 2003), followed closely by God's Economy, Israel and the Nations  (Oct 28, 2004), I have found a tremendous respect for his life, his message and his leadership. 

After meeting him personally at a KEYS conference in Charlotte in 2011, and spending time recently at his home in Denver, CO, I know the Lord has chosen him for this hour - to train up and release men and women of faith into their business and spiritual callings.

I encourage you to get Morris' books, read them, and allow the Lord to inspire and encourage you in your pursuit of His anointing and purpose in your own life.

Thank you Morris!

Steve Martin
Founder
Love For His People

Morris Ruddick in the Marine Corps - Vietnam War Years

Morris & Carol - May, 2014 in the Rocky Mountains

Display of his books and a few memorabilia pieces

Xulon Press - Published April, 2014 

The world's system is being shaken. Tenets of leadership considered benchmarks are undergoing reevaluation. One of the biggest challenges for Christian leaders, especially within the marketplace, is the balance between functioning in their own ability and yielding to God's headship as leaders. 

For many, the acceptable inclination is blending their "natural abilities" and what has been gleaned from the world's system, with an icing of polite ethics and a "praise the Lord." Yet, the heroes of faith reversed the equation. Having heard from God, they harnessed their natural abilities to conform to and support an ongoing flow of direction and wisdom from the Lord. Everything else sprang from that. It is a higher standard. During turbulent times, it is back to basics. What endures is drawn from God's truth. 

Leadership by Anointing uncovers the principles, pathways and models of biblical leadership in practice with God's covenant people over the centuries. The author's calling has been one of leadership for change. He was recently described by a long-time associate with these words: "Morris Ruddick heads several organizations and corporate entities, including Global Initiatives Foundation, The Ruddick Int'l Group, and a global intercession network. He has led development of entrepreneurial activities in critical needy areas and brought together business and ministry in several nations, including the Messianic Jewish community in Israel, as well as in Africa, Asia, Afghanistan, Belarus, Russia and other areas of need." 

Mr. Ruddick's Kingdom agendas reflect a unique merging of the secular and the spiritual. He sums it up as "an interlinking of secular business enterprises with overriding Kingdom objectives." Since 1995, Mr. Ruddick has been a voice encouraging and mobilizing Kingdom leaders and entrepreneurs. The world is searching for the leadership "pizzazz" that fosters an edge. Deuteronomy 29 notes the secret things belong to the Lord. 

These secret things are captured in the stories of the heroes of faith and Jesus' Kingdom message. They are the distinguishing mark of leadership by anointing.



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Leadership By Anointing - The Jewish Strategy and Biblical Model for Leadership

Xulon Press - 2012



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Employing righteous power is a leadership calling. It builds and wields influence. It is God's strategy for change that requires a mix of biblical community, Kingdom entrepreneurship and heeding the voice of the Lord, as a people. With extraordinary examples drawn from an extensive track record in lands of persecution, its practical, grass-roots application exceeds expectations. 

This book outlines the steps being successfully applied in a diversity of extremely adverse spiritual climates. Righteous power doesn't operate like worldly power. It goes against the grain. It's the way of the Kingdom. Jesus described its employment as being a narrow, difficult path. Yet, against the odds, it is a catalyst for opportunity that brings blessing. It is the explosive power that demonstrates God's reality to those in darkness and releases societal change. 

The author's calling has been one of leadership for change. He was recently described by a long-time associate with these words: "Morris Ruddick heads several organizations and corporate entities, including Global Initiatives Foundation, The Ruddick Int'l Group, and a global intercession network. He has led development of entrepreneurial activities in critical needy areas and brought together business and ministry in several nations, including the Messianic Jewish community in Israel, as well as in Africa, Asia, Afghanistan, Belarus, Russia and other areas of need." 

Mr. Ruddick's Kingdom agendas reflect a unique merging of the secular and the spiritual. He sums it up as "an interlinking of secular business enterprises with overriding Kingdom objectives." Since 1995, Mr. Ruddick has been a voice encouraging and mobilizing Kingdom leaders and entrepreneurs.



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The Joseph-Daniel Calling by Morris E. Ruddick (Jul 8, 2003)


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Righteous Power in a Corrupt World 

by Morris E. Ruddick (Oct 23, 2012)


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Friday, January 31, 2014

SHARED ANOINTINGS (c) Morris E. Ruddick

                 

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SHARED ANOINTINGS


(c) Morris E. Ruddick


"Elijah said to Elisha, 'Ask! What may I do for you, 
before I am taken away from you?' Elisha said, 
'Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.'" 
2 Kings 2:9

Elijah's God-encounter in the cave which followed his 
exploits against the prophets of Baal and Asherah began 
a transition for Elijah's ministry, as well as for Israel. After 
challenging Elijah's hideaway with the words: "What are you 
doing here;" the Lord then restored him to fulfill his next task. 
Soon afterward, Elijah was connected with Elisha as his 
protege and the process of Elisha's nurturing began. 
(1 Kings 19:16).

The authority of Elijah's anointing shut up the heavens and 
brought judgment on a reprobate Israel. Then his daring 
confrontation with evil changed Israel's spiritual climate. In 
so doing, God's people began coming out of the closet.

So when Elisha asked for a double portion of Elijah's spirit, 
it was no small thing. Elijah bore a disruptive anointing; an 
anointing that short-circuited the inroads of evil. His authority 
in the spirit stopped the sorcery in its tracks. It had no equal 
in that day.

The fulfillment of Elisha's request for a "double-portion" was 
evidenced not only by the startling miracles of his ministry, 
but by the angelic host unveiled around him in his encounter 
with the army of Syria (2 Kings 6:17). 2 Kings 13:21 then tells 
of a burial interrupted by a band of raiders. The dead man was 
abandoned in the tomb of Elisha and scripture indicates that 
when "he was let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he 
revived and stood on his feet." So Elisha's double-portion of 
Elijah's anointing not only worked unusual miracles, it commanded 
the authority of a host of angels and carried a presence that 
even transcended his death.

God's highest priorities are always about His people. For 
both Elijah and Elisha, their greatest accomplishments 
involved the impact on the spiritual climate to mobilize God's 
people and impart the prophetic wisdom as advisers to 
protect those known by His Name.

These dynamics raise two very important issues. First is what 
Elisha reached for: a dimension in God beyond the incredible 
spiritual threshold that operated through Elijah. The second 
is the issue of the anointing itself, and with the anointing the 
authority, available for the challenges within the church of 
this day.

The release of the anointing comes at a cost. It involves a 
stewardship. The stewardship is in the reach one makes for 
God's presence; which in turn abides in the place of His glory. 
The operation of the anointing requires a God-perspective, 
which means adjusting our mind-sets, to thinking according 
to God's order and standard. The release of the anointing 
manifests when operating in the Spirit beyond ones human 
capacities. Shared anointings come from mentoring and 
cooperative assignments directed by the Spirit for the 
purpose of the community at large.

Operation of the Anointing

Jesus taught his followers how to apply righteous power in 
corrupt settings. This is the way of the Kingdom. It begins 
with our thinking. "Let this mind be in you which also was 
in Christ Jesus." Phil 2:5

The anointing flows when there is not one vestige of 
variation between God's order and purposes; and our 
actions or words. It is an emptying of ourselves in 
humility to allow the unhindered flow of the Holy Spirit 
through us.

"Who emptied Himself, taking on the form of a 
bondservant." Phil 2:7

Jesus taught His followers to abide. Jesus spent hours 
at night in prayer with the Father. He imparted the 
wisdom that He always did what He saw His father 
doing. "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who 
abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for 
apart from Me you can do nothing." John 15:5-6

Upon His resurrection, a new thing happened. Jesus made
the Holy Spirit available to all believers (John 14:26-27).
The ongoing release of the Spirit follows the pattern of
Jesus in spending time with the Father and abiding. Many
were those who followed after Elijah, but only Elisha
stayed the course to embrace the "double-portion."

The Release of the Anointing

The anointing serves as a catalyst, an igniter of
righteous power. Abiding in the place of His presence,
the place of His glory penetrates the veil. It is the
place where the supernatural power of God to trump
evil is revealed.

Yet the anointing is released when what we see in
the Spirit-realm is put into action. From his place of
abiding Elisha discerned the very words the King of
Syria spoke in the privacy of his bedchamber. From
that he advised the King of Israel. So in 2 Kings 6
when the armies of Syria came by night and surrounded
Elisha's city, he knew exactly what was unfolding and
he knew what he was to do.

Joseph the Patriarch, a slave without position, brought
blessing to the household of Potiphar. Genesis 39
indicates that everyone saw that the Lord was with
Joseph and made all that he did to prosper. Joseph
knew what it meant to abide in God's presence, but
as a faithful steward Joseph put in action what God
showed him. He carried the mantle of his great-grandfather
Abraham, as a catalyst of blessing to those around him,
indeed to the nations.

Shared Anointings

Individual anointings are multiplied exponentially
when combined and released with the anointings
of others. The scope of Elisha's mantle expanded
as Elijah mentored, nurtured and prepared him. It
is the reason why biblical community represents a
safe-place to foster the diversity of gifts and
anointings; where they are allowed to incubate
and work together. However, since Jesus' resurrection
and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, shared
anointings have taken on an even greater potential.

The charismatic revival of the late sixties and
early 70s began when believers hungry for more
of God, began gathering to seek Him more diligently.
What resulted was shared and passed on by the
laying on of hands. Ripples went out that became
a torrent of revival as the anointing was imparted
and the presence of God manifested to satisfy
the growing hunger of those not satisfied with
the status quo.

Over the years, within my calling in the marketplace,
I have been given opportunity to apply my gift and
impart my anointing as a consultant to a number of
respected ministries, ranging from CBN to Oral Roberts,
to Morris Cerullo to Marilyn Hickey. In each of these
cases not only did result come from the application
of my gift; but I emerged with a dimension of the
anointing from these ministries I had served.

When anointings merge to serve God's purposes,
new dimensions are released on each side.

Many years ago, I received a prophetic word from
a minister I had never met before who had no
awareness of my situation or background. His
words to me simply were: "You sir, have a spirit
of prosperity on you. Financially, you may be
broke or you may be a millionaire. It doesn't
matter. Prosperity is not about money; but comes
from within to bring blessing and increase to others."
That word came not long after I had lost my position
with a firm I had been working for. My financial
situation at the time was not good.

Yet, the words of truth this man of God spoke
penetrated the darkness trying to enshroud me
at that time. It bore significantly on assignments
I had had in the past bearing on opportunity and
increase for my clients; as it has become foundational
to the role I now serve with the persecuted church
within God's purposes in making them the head
and not the tail.

Yet, what has resulted, as a consultant, a board-member
and a teacher-mobilizer comes from shared anointings,
which combine the dimensions of my own anointing
being blended with the unique dimensions of those
I have served and am serving.

As a young Christian, I was greatly influenced and
mentored by two incredible men of God. Both might
be described as world-class prayer warriors; men of
faith. Yet one also had a unique anointing for
developing strategy; while the other's distinctive
anointing was tied to being a catalyst for revival.
Now over forty years later, prayer, developing
strategy and revival are still by-words of the way
my anointing operates.

The more you impart to apply and give your anointing
away, the more it grows. It is a dynamic of the Kingdom.

The Cost and Application

The issue comes down to two factors. The first is the
cost of the anointing. The second is in applying the
anointing. The anointing of an Elijah or Elisha does not
come passively. It is developed and nurtured. It flows
with ones gifts and calling.

Every believer has a sphere (2 Cor 10:13), an area of
influence of their anointing. Within the boundary of
that area of influence is the authority to break asunder
what Paul refers to as the bondage of corruption.
Presumption in operating outside that sphere is
asking for trouble. The bottom line ties to changing
the spiritual climate.

Daniel excelled professionally and spiritually in a
culture of sorcery to the level that he was described
as ten times better than ALL the sorcerers within the
king's realm. From that juncture and standard, there
came stages of challenge: the king's dream; walking
in the fire; and the lion's den. Changing the spiritual
climate will not generally go unchallenged. However,
there comes a point in prevailing when one's spiritual
authority becomes established.

So it was, later in Daniel's tenure as advisor to the
court. It was in that context that the handwriting
on the wall manifested. It was a major shift from
the lion's den and walking in the fire. The handwriting
on the wall parallels Joseph's promotion alongside
Pharaoh, when the anointing prevails and has established
God's authority in a domain. When it does,
everything changes.

Yet, the mantle bearing the anointing will require
a cost. Many years ago, a great man of God I studied
under told the story of a young man who came to him
and audaciously told him he "wanted" his anointing.
Very few in that generation had an anointing to equal
the authority this man of God wielded. His response
to the young man very simply was: "Are you willing
to pay the cost?"

We impart and share the anointing generously.
However, to fully embrace the anointing of others,
a cost will be paid.

Sometimes the cost already has been paid at the
point of impartation and reflects a "next step" for
what the Lord has planned. That very much has
been the case with the persecuted segment of the
church we have been honored to be working with.
They have been through and have been purified by
fire. Elisha had been prepared by the best and was
ready for the double-portion.

Yet for others, the impartation will result in having to
face and then walk into the fire. It has never been
about man's glory, but God's; and His alone. The Word
of God tells us that God is a consuming fire. His presence
does not "abide" with the soulish. It disrupts and then
consumes it.

God's anointing applied will bring change and the
restoration of the order required to establish His
purposes. The key for the Elijah-Elisha impact, the
"double-portion" in today's time of turbulence, is to
be found in exercising the anointing through community.

We need the authority of Elijah's anointing to shut
up the heavens and bring judgment. We need God's
people to come out of the closet. We need those
who are either aligned with or overwhelmed by the
world to arise and take their place among the remnant
of the faithful, who have been applying their anointings.

It is time for the spiritual climate to be challenged
with the explosive power of shared anointings from
God's chosen.

The release of the anointing 
involves stewardship. 

Shared anointings ignite one another and bring 
enlargement. This type of prophetic stewardship 
requires a consistent priority of spending time with 
Him so that our perspective is a God-perspective. It 
means defining our gifts and like Daniel, becoming 
the best in the sphere we've been given. That means 
operating in the Spirit beyond our human capacities.

Entering this dimension requires focus given to mentoring
and cooperative assignments directed by the Spirit that
provide opportunity for shared anointings to manifest at
the community level. This premise will evoke what will
manifest as revival, as the fullness of His presence takes
root.

"I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. 
And I will cause showers to come down in their season; 
they will be showers of blessing. Also the tree of the field 
will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and 
they will be secure on their land. Then they will know that 
I am the LORD." Ezek 34:26-27
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Morris Ruddick has been a forerunner and spokesman for 
the call of God in the marketplace since the mid-90s. As 
founder of Global Initiatives Foundation and designer of 
the God's Economy Entrepreneurial Equippers Program, 
Mr. Ruddick imparts hope and equips economic community 
builders where God's light is dim in both the Western and 
non-Western world.  

He is author of "The Joseph-Daniel Calling;" "Gods Economy, 
Israel and the Nations;" "The Heart of a King;" "Something More;" 
and "Righteous Power in a Corrupt World," which address the 
mobilization of business and governmental leaders called to 
impact their communities with God's blessings. They are 
available in print and e-versions from Amazon.com, 
BarnesandNoble.com and other popular outlets.  

Global Initiatives Foundation (www.strategic-initiatives.org) is 
a tax-exempt 501 (c) 3 non-profit whose efforts are enabled 
by the generosity of a remnant of faithful friends and contributors 
whose vision aligns with God's heart to mobilize the persecuted 
church to be the head and not the tail. 

Checks on US banks should be made out to Global Initiatives 
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PO Box 370291, Denver CO 80237 

or email us at  sign@strategicintercession.org 
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Likewise, email us to schedule a briefing for your congregation 
on the state of the persecuted church and how you can more 
effectively pray for them.  

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Morris Ruddick
Global Initiatives Foundation
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