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The Every Creature Commission
(Rees Howells, Intercession and Warfare)
This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“In the days of Isaiah and Hezekiah, the Lord God gave a sign of His promise to them that the shadow cast by
the sun would retreat the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz [2 Kings 20:8-11 and Isaiah 38:7-8, NIV].
Nothing has changed says the Lord; My promises are as current coin from one generation to any other. The Pharisees
and experts in the law in their generation rejected God’s purpose for their lives by refusing to be baptised by
John the Baptist. In the parable of the persistent widow, Jesus taught that God would bring about justice for
His chosen ones who cry out to Him day and night. He also inquired whether He would find faith on the earth.
“So now we come to these end time generations and the faith and unity required to bring about My purposes on
earth as in heaven. This is not the time to be thinking about having a good time, but there are good times to
be had. This is not the time to be thinking about the cost, but there is a price to be paid, and this is
definitely not the time to be self-centred, but centred on My Son. For I am sorely troubled by the fact that
many in the church today, still have little or no understanding of the true nature and purpose of its calling
or My purpose for it. ‘God’s intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made
known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to His eternal purpose which He accomplished
in Christ Jesus our Lord’ [Ephesians 3:10-11, NIV]. Not a legacy of inward fighting and petty squabbles where the
un-crucified flesh is more important than the every creature commission.
“So I bring to your attention a few who have gone before, who laid down their lives for the Gospel and cried out
to Me day and night for justice and to prepare the way for others to follow. So it was in these last days, I called
for a man to stand in the gap on behalf of others and chose one from beneath the Black Mountains of Wales (in the U.K.)
and in the fullness of time he was sown as a seed in the cleft of a rock overlooking Swansea Bay. Then I called forth
other seeds who were chosen for their faith and they were grafted in and they were transformed by the Holy Spirit, as
each in turn surrendered their wills for His; for a season of combined faith for spiritual warfare on the earth and in
the heavens on a scale not witnessed before, as each did their part, led by My Spirit. They too were given a sign as a
promise that the every creature commission would be fulfilled and the finances required released.
“Knowing that God had indeed found faith on the earth for the Gospel to reach all of mankind, the devil spurred on
by his hatred of God and His creation unleashed the powers of darkness and did everything he could to influence the
outcome, bringing about catastrophic consequences throughout the earth. But at every turn it was met with a wall of
faith that restrained them until finally bound, driven back and victory assured in keeping with the Word of God and
His promises. Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth
forth much fruit. Having died to self they were raised up in Christ to life to see the fruit of their warfare and
the ongoing fruit of their intercessions continue to this day and will continue to bear fruit as the Lord God pours
out His Spirit on all peoples.
“The seeds of the first fruits are sown, the authentic cleft in the rock has been relocated and the bridge that led
to it has been torn down. But the true and genuine legacy is still being released throughout the earth as promised
with a new generation of disciples who have surrendered all to the Holy Spirit and will be raised up in Christ to
complete Jesus’ last command, in the power of the Spirit.”
Michael Backholer, Wednesday 3 November 2010 - www.ProphecyNow.co.uk
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