Revivals & 5-Fold Ministry: MorningStar & IHOP-Kansas City -

5-FOLD MINISTRY. This is the third video in our new ETG course “End-Time Harvests: Finishing the 5-Fold Work God Gave Us.” After two years of waiting on God, at last I got many prophetic words on where to go next: Belize. My experience there illustrates how—through unexpected twists and turns—I learned how the revivals and the 5-fold ministry work. And how to find your place in the process.

When I started out a missionary in Belize, I found evangelism easy. But discipleship was difficult. That’s when I started praying, at least monthly, in group prayer with other missionaries & pastors, who also needed breakthroughs in discipleship. And God often answered.

But His answers came more slowly than our prayer group wanted. For several years I prayed for a mission high school which would provide four years of discipleship, six hours a day, five days a week.

Still, many Christian principals in Belize warned me that starting a high school would turn out to be a long hard road. And it did. The government was not friendly to missionaries. It adhered to an increasingly secular agenda.

Revival starts & stops

Yet God finally answered my prayers, and the high school started in 2009. Then I got too busy for group prayer. After two months, I got too frustrated in my busyness not to pray. The day I committed to group prayer again, with a student’s parents, revival started.

Suddenly we had miraculous answers to prayer, instant healings, and meetings filled to overflowing. But the parents didn’t persevere in prayer. And the revival stopped as soon as the group prayer stopped. So did the school. So did most of the meetings. What begins quickly can end quickly.

More months of more revivals

So I was left free to seek God for what He wanted to do next in Belize. MorningStar Ministries, which ordained me in 1997—the year I started my Belize mission—let me spend 40 days seeking God there in South Carolina.

A revival was happening there, called the Holy Spirit Breakout. Much like the Toronto revival which I visited 16 years before, it featured unusual manifestations. More healings, more shaking, more falling, more blissful carpet time. I went through a lot of forgiveness and repentance concerning the short-lived school. And wonderful encounters with the Lord.

And I kept getting prophetic words, saying go back, you’ll have a resurrection and a restoration. So I concluded that God wanted me to restart the school. But first I needed a committed team who would pray together and stay together this time.

After the 40 days at MorningStar ended, I accepted an invitation to visit the International House of Prayer at Kansas City (IHOP-KC). Led by Mike Bickle, formerly of the Kansas City Prophets, they too were experiencing revival, which they had long prophesied and prayed for. Their revival meetings filled up 4 nights a week, 8 hours a night.

The rest of the time, worship and intercession were going 24/7. I got immersed and marinated in the presence of the Lord. Also, I kept looking for people to take back to Belize among the thousands of people visiting the revival.

A greater vision for Belize

After spending the best four months of my life at IHOP-KC, I still didn’t find them. But I had found a new vision when I returned to Belize. I started the Belize City House of Prayer, involving Belizean leaders from the very beginning, and praying for all 7 mountains of influence. To that we added the Belize Prayer Network, connecting with intercessors and prophetic people around the nation.

Then the Evangelical Association itself expanded, involving leaders from every district in the nation. It’s the closest thing to an apostolic ministry that Belize has. We seek to involve more heads of denominations, so that we can more fully represent the body of Christ. Then when revival comes, we can move in unity as God moves…

The above is only a short summary of the content in our 3rd video.

See 3^rd video: Revivals & 5-Fold Ministry: MorningStar & IHOP-KC

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