Saturday, February 27, 2010

Prophetic word over Catch the Fire State by Justin Pierce

Justin's word taken down by his mom, Nancy Pierce September 22, 2009.

Wow that was amazing!  My kitchen will never be the same....my son preached quite a prophetic word tonight  :)

Tonight, Justin, you talked about the low-tech methods of using the Brickyard to reach people and the free expression tunnel with messages about Fire State, Ignite groups, Catch the Fire Raleigh...how you observed other church's efforts of using high tech, high cost posters to try to start ministries at NC State....they had the money to start, there was a strong impression a few years ago that there was to be a new church at NC State area for students, but it was halted because of the thought that it wasn't a good business decision...

Catch the Fire was ready to invest in a building near campus for student-led ministry....in talking to people, a room became available on campus, for free, because of the student-led organization that was formed....

God has been wanting for years to break into Raleigh....with His Father's love....churches have had the desire here, but things didn't work out...it was waiting to happen...

He kept people in Raleigh who were wanting to leave Raleigh...me (Justin) for example...got accepted to Moody Bible Institute, was considering going, things changed and he stayed here...other people were gonna leave, but God kept them around...He kept those in Raleigh that are adventurous, that are not afraid of stepping out onto a road that isn't built yet, that is not seen yet...they are coming together in CTF and will be used....from the feet of the people to the head of government, to the arms and legs that are (his love and spirit) in reaching out.......there will be others churches that will be brought into this season. Other churches also who had to seed of desire for revival but it didn't come right then...it will be coming.... His oil is going to pour out on Raleigh....

Friday, February 26, 2010

Wow Prophecy from Julian Adams

2008

Just recently I was attending a team meeting where we gathered from our family of churches in France, key leaders to pray and strategize for the year forward. We were having a time of worship when the Lord took me into an encounter by the Spirit. In this encounter I found myself walking in a garden enjoying the presence of Jesus, when suddenly Jesus invited me into this room. I found myself in a treasure room. It was full of the most amazing jewels, treasure boxes full of gold and what seemed like big rocks
with diamonds hidden inside! Jesus began to speak to me about this room of treasure and heavenly resource!

Without delay I heard him say go search out your treasure and resource for this next year, as I did this, with much glee I might add, I literally was diving into treasure as I found myself energized by the Spirit. It was in this context that I saw you both, Duncan and Kate Smith looking, searching and enjoying the treasure of Heaven. This for me was really weird, as we have not really crossed paths other than a conference at Richard Maybury's church. I was actually startled by seeing you in this room! I noticed that you both were unaware of me as you were enjoying resource form heaven!

It was then I felt Jesus began to speak to me! I asked Him why you were both in this encounter, I felt him download a word into my heart for you both. I felt the Lord speaking about a new season of Resource and Treasure that the Lord was opening up to you. I felt him say these will be the resources that I will give the Smith's, people, buildings and nations. I felt him say this three times as I was there. God I believe is about to open up new vistas of opportunities for your church, ministry and the nations. I believe that part of your treasure will be coming into your true apostolic identity and part that will be released in displaying raw apostolic power.

I saw People, like literal treasures being added to you, from the affluent to the poorest of the poor. It was like the rocks of diamonds I was picking up. The divine enclosed in the earth. You will be a couple to break open the destiny of people that have being hidden for a long time. There is something about famous men and women who will join you. I mean this in terms of well-known people in secular arenas. I even felt there would be some famous actors who you will have contact with and draw them into an encounter of Jesus. I saw people of great influence given to you to open up the region
you are working in.

I believe another part of the treasure will be men and women who have been disillusioned with the church. Broken men and women. Those burnt stones that have been left on a heap and discarded. I felt that the Lord was excited when he was speaking to me about this but, there was also a caution. I felt him say there would be those who would want to spy out your freedom and criticize it. I felt like God would expose this and give you apostolic wisdom as to how to deal with them. My sense was that God was going to give you some unlikely candidates who will join you and bring an evangelistic momentum to you very quickly! There were some burnt stones that you would restore back into ministry!

I felt the Lord speak to me about moments of doubling. It was like I could see a Sunday when you church would literally double in size. There is a breaking in of God coming to you that will cause radical increase!

I then saw building made out of precious stones. I felt the Lord would give you key buildings in the area that you work. I saw houses and big buildings. More than one! Buildings that would be used for equipping and releasing. This was not about simply places to meet or to have a nice building. I felt God wanting to give you title deeds and keys that would give you access to the community and to serve as a display of Glory. It was like there would be a residue of anointing in these place and people would come to receive as a result. I saw a lot of activity in building, I felt God say this will be a training house for revivalists and those who would bring reformation. I believe that God is going to unlock apostolic revelation to you that will release people to be trained and sent to impact many places, much like yeast effects a whole bowl of flour!

I also sensed that as you both were digging into these treasures there were treasures given that were specific to particular nations. It was like there were different types of treasure that came from different lands. I felt in particular you would be given building in other lands too. Even lands from poorer nations. As I continued in my encounter, there was a real sense of you both putting on jewels, crowns and precious stones. There was a sense of you both parading the multi-colored wisdom of God. I felt the Lord is about to take you both up a gear, and whilst you have had profile in many places God was about to unveil you to Nations. I felt that God said to me, part of the resource will be nations. God is going to give you nations that will be like a home from home. It is like you will have authority in those nations to see the out working of God's purposes. It will mean you will stand before very influential people in government and even kings and presidents. It was as if you were wearing theses nations like crowns and you would release nations into their redemptive destiny. I saw you finding treasure in these nations and exposing them to the world. I believe this is about finding sons and daughters in many nations and releasing them. This is about fathering and releasing! Duncan I feel like God wants you to know that the dreams in your heart for specific nations are his dreams and you will come into them sooner than you think!

I believe that the Lord will even give you predictive prophetic insight into what will happen in the economic and political situations of some of these nations. They are yours to display God's wisdom and grace with! God will give you particular nations as yours. I believe part of the nations he will give you an increasing measure and exposure to will be, South Africa and some European countries. I sense there might even be some connections with places that have been dark, like France, Spain and some Scandinavian nations. (This is just what I sense; I know you will be able to weigh this. Don't be surprised if doors don't open to you increasingly in these places.)

It really is a season of new treasure for you. New opportunities and new encounters in the treasure/resource rooms of heaven! I do believe that Your new church will be an apostolic base that will have an impact on many nations! Get ready it is a new day!

Words confirming revival: Tammy Schabel

January 2010

As early as second grade I would lie awake at night listening for the trumpet to blow. I did not want to go to sleep because I wanted to be ready for the Lord’s return. I was still living with my mom at that time in a small apartment in northeast Greensboro. I would go to church as often as I could as a child. I loved being in church for any reason. I had a strong awareness of God’s presence. I felt His Spirit with me and I had a sense about things that were to take place at some time in my future. My parents were already divorced and in third grade I went to live with my fathers parents who raised me from then on. In search for relationship with God in the Baptist Church, I grew up praying that He would not forget me and leave me behind. In my early twenties I left the Baptist Church when God audibly spoke to me one Sunday morning and told me that I did not belong there anymore. It was the first time that I had heard Him speak to me that way. I looked all around for the voice, but there was no one seated near me. I had already been filled with the Holy Spirit at a Bible study that I attended after work on Thursday nights so the Lord led me to a Spirit-filled church. Around that point in my life I began to pray continually for revival and awakening. I loved studying about generals and reformers in the Kingdom. In 1996, I was at Pastor Steve and Karen’s house during a snow storm. They had a women there named Perry Parnacher, she was a Pastor and Prophetess from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I had never met her before that day, but I had heard about her. She had an adopted son who was at UNCG in school. She would come to visit and a lady I knew named Ann would hold prophetic meetings while she was in Greensboro. I had never made it to any of the meetings but God had set this divine appointment up on this cold, snowy February day. My son, Josh and I sat before her and she prayed and spoke over us both with exact words. She prophesied that I had been praying to the Lord, “Oh God, please do not let me miss revival.” She then said, “Not only will you not miss revival, but you will be in the center of revival.” One night before moving to Raleigh, I watched Pastor Choe from Korea as he spoke on TBN. He had ask the Lord, “What about the United States of America?” The Lord had him get a map out and told him that where the Lord placed his fingers there would be revival and Raleigh, NC was one of the areas. We moved to the Raleigh area to help a new ministry get established in 1997. So moving here was exciting at the time! We believed that revival would take place there but it did not. On July 22, 2003 while I sat on my tractor mowing the nearly two acres of land that we had at that time, the Lord spoke to me about revival. We were still at the ministry that we moved to the Raleigh area to help established. We had supported the Pastors even a year before we moved due to the Lord having spoke to Michael and I to reconnect with this couple and pray for them. The Lord had told us in 1989 when we were moving to NC from Louisiana (where Michael had grown up I had gone to Bible College) that we would one day be with this couple working in ministry. The Lord had told us other things as well to prepare our hearts to one day come to this area. But by July 2003, the Lord said that our seven year journey with this couple was up, our ship was in port and it was time to get off the ship. Then He began to show me a white building that would house revival. This building was somewhere in Raleigh and He showed me that it would have colors of purple in it. There were other things that He showed me, such as some of the ministry that Michael and I would be doing, and He even had me go read scriptures out of Isaiah 60 and 61. We drove through Raleigh on many occasions looking for the building and I even made a flower arrangement for it. People have since given us many gifts of purple candles and white churches. That same year (2003) Michael and I did something that we have never done before or since, we went to JCC in Smithfield to see Janet Paschal do a performance. Latter at a prophetic meeting I met a man named Larry Webber that gave me a word. He said that he had seen Janet Paschal at JCC, the same time that Michael and I were there, and while there he went into a vision. During the vision he saw a white building that had columns in it, but even with the columns you could still see the stage from wherever you sat. In this building would be revival and he believed that we would both be there working in ministry at this building. Interestingly enough, while he spoke the wind of heaven was strongly circling us. On New Years Eve 2003 and New Years Day of 2004, we were visiting with friends of ours in Virginia. One of them confirmed many of the things that the Lord had showed me on July 22, 2003. He even saw Michael and I in the white building. Years later the Lord connected us with a couple, named Craig and Yvonne Hughes, that He had previously told us about. When we met, we shared the things that the Lord had showed us about revival coming to Raleigh. They had seen the white church building also with the purple in it. They also knew another women that had seen the white church with columns and purple.
In May 2008, I went with one of our leaders to Maryland for a conference. While there Stacy Campbell prophesied over me and spoke of the coming move of God and how God would be using me. Over the years we have received many words about revival and the ministry that God has called us to. We feel that CTF-Raleigh is a definite part of what we have seen and heard from the Lord and others about. God Bless CTF-Raleigh and may this ministry be one without bars and may it stretch all the way to the Heavens. Amen.

History and Word by Kieron Densham

All of this came about at the beginning of our internship with Duncan and Kate in September 2007. Duncan and Kate had been traveling a huge amount that year and had given their position at TACF over to the YouthNet team. One thing that they had always held to is that they are all about the local church. Duncan once said that if it wasn't for the connection they had with the local church they would not be as effective as itinerant preachers as all of the stuff they preach on across the globe came from experiences of God being God in their home church. Now without a home church to speak of Duncan and Kate began seeking God for His mind on it all. At which point God told them they would be planting a network of churches. The number 1000 was give what they heard and they began to pray more into how they could possibly plant 1000 churches in their lifetime. One of the messages that Duncan regularly preached was about an Acorn. He would ask the question, " How many oak trees are there inside just one acorn?" Some would answer one which is partially correct but what Duncan would say is that one tree has the potential to produce thousands of acorns which each in turn have to potential to produce thousands. Therefore the answer to the question was not one but thousands. From there Duncan and Kate knew they were going to plant 1000 churches and they know that it was going to start with just one. The question was where?

There were a few doors that Duncan and Kate pushed before Raleigh but God, in one way or another, closed those doors. When Raleigh came on the radar however there was no closing that door. God sent confirmation after confirmation after confirmation.

Duncan had been talking with a prolific church planter a few years earlier Duncan asked him where in any of the world would he plant a church if he could. The mans reply was Raleigh, North Carolina. His reasons where because of the huge number of young people in the area due to all of the colleges and also the fact that it is a hub for academic achievement. So many people know and travel to Raleigh because it is a center for excellence. At that time Duncan suggested the idea to Kate but got a very short 2 letter response NO. Gods wisdom won out in that situation as the timing was just not right.

When right timing came about Duncan and Kate looked at Raleigh again and pursued God for His thoughts. They were driving back from a wedding in downtown Toronto and were chatting the idea over. at which point Duncan and Kate prayed, God if you want us to go to Raleigh we will go, if you want us to stay in Toronto we will stay we just want to know either way! As soon as they had prayed this Duncan spotted a car that was driving right in front of them. The car was a Plymouth Voyager and it had on it a North Carolina plate. WYV3100. This blew them both away and they immediately began to try and work out what the relevance of the letters and numbers on the license plate meant. Firstly The car was a Plymouth Voyager. Named after the voyage that a certain ship took from the dock in Plymouth carrying the first settlers of a place we now call the United States of America.

The license plates in NC have the phrase First in Flight on them. Then they unpacked the license plate itself. WYV "with Your Values" The values that they had been soaking up and preaching on for their whole time at TACF. Duncan and Kate saw this as confirmation that they were to set out on a voyage into the USA as the first in flight from TACF to plant a church carrying the values. The numbers were the easy bit. Duncan had another message about oneness that he taught regularly where he talked about the Godhead being one and us being in the godhead. The 3 represented the trinity and the 1 represented the oneness including us! The two 0's represented Duncan and Kate themselves!

They were seriously excited about what had happened and decided that we were going to look at Raleigh more purposefully now with the intention of planting the first CTF church there. So I went to work researching the city and it's history. Some of the things I found out were just astounding. Raleigh is otherwise refereed to as the city of Oaks. As you have already seen the relevance of the Oak tree is huge. God was saying yep, this is the place where the 1000 strong church movement begins.

The next thing we found out is that Raleigh was an intentionally built city. North Carolina needed a capital city so they bought out a plot of land and designed the city to be built on the plot. After looking into it a bit further i found out that the plot of land that was bought to build this city was..yeah you guessed it.. 1000 acres!!! The question about whether this was the right place has disappeared. Duncan and Kate were looking for a place where they could plant the first CTF church a church that would within their lifetime become 1000 churches. and Raleigh was the city of oaks built on a plot 1000 acres big. I looked into the word acre to see what it actually was and the meaning of the word is this. " The amount of land that 1 yolk of Oxen could plow in 1 day". I found this out the very same day that Duncan had preached a message at TACF about church planting. He was encouraging the church not to strive in the harvest field but to be yolked to the Bull (Holy Spirit) and let him plow the field. The amount of land 1 yolk of Oxen can plow in 1 day is 1 acre. We are Yolked to the Holy Spirit in the harvest field and the Harvest Field Duncan and Kate were looking at was historically 1000 acres!

I loved being around the church as it was in it's formative stage and I loved seeing God come through time and time again with confirmation that Raleigh was the place. It is an honor to have been involved in even the smallest of ways. We love you guys at CTF Raleigh so much and can't wait to see the Acorn become a forest.