Copyright © 2013 – Randy DeMain
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank You, Lord Jesus, for allowing us to be part of a generation of great awakening and restoration!
Thank you to all the faithful believers God has used to stir this message in me.
Thank you to my wife Debbie and daughter Tera’s endless patience and encouragement to write. May it stir up our family and ministry.
Thanks to Wyndy and Constance who function under the impetus to “Git R Done”! And a special thanks to Carol Martinez, who has greatly enhanced the readability and flow of this and my three previous books. You’re the best!
Finally to XP Ministries, Patricia and gang. It was at your XPerience Night last year that the Spirit of the Lord came upon me with this unction and revelation of the womb of Sarah – the womb of the church – who would bring forth the sons of promise.
—Randy DeMain
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
SECTION I – ABOUT PROPHETIC SURGES
1 THE MORE GLORIOUS CHURCH
2 THE WOMB OF SARAH
3 RESTORING THE PRIESTLY PRINCIPLE
4 RESTORING THE LEVITICAL PRINCIPLE
5 RESTORING THE ORDER AND POWER OF PRAISE
6 THE FRAGRANCE OF BRIDIAL WORSHIP
7 THE WORK OF CHRIST TO PRESENT HIS CHURCH
8 ACTIVATING WAVES OF REVIVAL
SECTION II – PROPHETIC SURGE PROCLAMATIONS
COMING INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD
MOBILIZING THE CHURCH
PERSONAL MINISTRY AFFIRMATIONS
THE SEED OF ABRAHAM
PREPARATIONS OF THE PRIESTHOOD
THE BRIDE
SONS OF PROMISE
SONS CALLING ON HEAVENLY FATHER
CONCERNING ISRAEL
CLOSING BREACHES, BREAKING YOKES!
SREAKING THE POWERS OF DARKNESS
ACTIVATING ANGELS
PLUNDER FORCE
ACTIVATING THE ANOINTING
THE SOVEREIGN GOD OF GLORY
FOREWORD
Biblical prophecy has the ability to shine God’s Word and purpose into a given time. Prophecy has the power to bring revelation and corresponding faith to accomplish what it is sent for. In a time when the body of Christ seeks to press forward, prophecy and the sure Word of God are the very means toward breakthrough.
Prophecy provides vision beyond one’s current state of existence.It is a source of hope and courage to obtain more than your present experience, moving you out of your past.
As the church seeks to move forward in this hour, we must reengage the sure Word of God for greater depths of understanding and application. We must give ear to the prophetic ministries God has raised up to provide faith and direction.
There is a generation that will see the fulfillment of all God’s words spoken through the mouth of His prophets (Acts 3:21). I ask in this book, “What prophecies have yet to be seen or come into fulness regarding the church in the earth?” What have you not yet fully walked in that Jesus said we would? Then I provide a selection of primer prophecies by way of decree for our spirits to rise up and contend for fulfillment.
A more glorious church is breaking forth in the days ahead. It is our honor and responsibility to bring it forth with all that is in us.Our generation is called to something great, something bigger than ourselves, something worth laying down our lives for. This greater thing is bringing forth the sons of promise that God spoke to Abraham about. The sons God said would be conformed into Christ’s likeness and image. The sons whom the earth cries out for.
This book isn’t just a message, it’s about a movement the Holy Spirit of God is issuing forth into the earth for those who have ears to hear, eyes to see, and a heart to understand the move of God in this hour.
This book is a call out to an awakened generation who will arise as reformers and restorers of all God has declared over us. They will come forth in the spirit and power of Elijah!
Be stirred,
Randy DeMain
SECTION I:
ABOUT PROPHETIC SURGES
Every honest, praying believer can bear witness
that the church must experience a radical change
in order for the latter rain to be more than
the former rain, the glory of the latter house
greater than the glory of the former house.
CHAPTER 1
THE MORE GLORIOUS CHURCH
W
hat is the future of the church? Are we to know it? How shall it come forth? These are the questions asked by many who have realized that the present state of the church is not yet what the Scriptures have prophesied it will become.
Every honest, praying believer can bear witness that the church must experience a radical change in order for the latter rain to be more than the former rain, the glory of the latter house greater than the glory of the former house.
The church as a whole is in an extensive period of transition. Some churches are moving from outdated programs, while others are clinging tightly to moves of God and ministries of the past that have defined them. The majority know in their hearts that change must take place if we are to remain relevant in our times and, most importantly, become the overcoming, more glorious church the Scriptures describe.
In this time of forward momentum, we must be careful to build after the pattern given to us by Old Testament types and New Testament covenant principles. A new era church is emerging, reflecting mature sonship, a bridal essence, and a kingdom of God’s presence that cannot be prevailed against.
Proverbs tells us:
Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; By knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. (Proverbs 24:3-4)
One of Solomon’s Song of Ascents informs us:
Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. (Psalm 127:1)
Right away we get the sense that as the more glorious church emerges, it must be built after the design the Lord provides to us.
Before starting construction on the tabernacle, the Lord exhorted Moses to build exclusively after the pattern He showed him:
“And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.” (Exodus 25:8-9)
After Jesus came and announced: “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18), the New Testament church – the called out ones – began to be assembled and built for the habitation of God by His Spirit. Except this time it was different: Instead of the tabernacle that was built with stones and wood, now it is to be built of people.
Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:4-5)
Now, with the understanding that we are building people together after the pattern of Scripture, we set forth to build upon Christ who is the chief cornerstone (Psalm 118:22) and in like manner as the apostle Paul, who called himself a wise master builder.
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. (1 Corinthians 3:9-17)
In light of these Scriptures spoken by God and men moved by the Holy Spirit, we must take heed in how we build the more glorious church in the days ahead.
PURPOSE AND PATTERN
The word purpose means “something laid out in advance.” The word pattern means “official decree” – it is something legally established; there is no vote or alteration to change the pattern. Keep these two definitions in mind as we continue.
John tells us, “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8, emphasis mine).
The more glorious church that is being issued forth by a remnant is both a habitation of God and a governmental force of the kingdom of God on earth. Unlike the tabernacles and temples of old that separated Jew and Gentile, priests and common man, from the purpose and presence of the Lord, the more glorious church has no wall of separation and no lack of governmental power.
For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. (Ephesians 2:14-16)
“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)
Jesus Christ has reconciled us to God by His shed blood which has remitted our sins. He has granted us free and unrestricted access to God by a new and living way which He consecrated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh. Now, unlike the laws and offerings of the old covenant, we are able to enter the Most Holy Place of the Lord’s presence through faith in the body and blood of Jesus! (Hebrews 10:19-22). He has adopted us as sons and filled us with the Holy Spirit to minister just as He did (see John 14:12). After His resurrection from the dead, Jesus commissioned us to go into all the world and preach the gospel of the kingdom, making disciples by teaching and training them. We are to heal the sick, cast out demons, raise the dead and live holy, expectant, faith-filled lives while we await His return.
AWAKENING AND REFORMATION
Jesus didn’t come to extend the old pattern of laws and ordinances. Rather, He came to transition us out of the old covenant into the new. This transition was in many ways a reformation that followed an awakening by His forerunner, John the Baptist. John came to prepare the way of the Lord, preaching. “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” (Matthew 3:2). That was the awakening.
Then Jesus came and repeated John’s message, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17). However, Jesus then demonstrated the authority and power of the kingdom through supernatural ministry. Further, He brought reform to their way of thinking and doing by many teachings, such as the “Sermon on the Mount” (Matthew 5–7). His ministry and teaching brought about a great transition and reformation as the people faithfully followed what they saw and heard from the Lord Jesus. The reformation continued through His disciples and apostles for nearly 100 years.
The more glorious church that is being issued forth
by a remnant is both a habitation of God and a
governmental force of the Kingdom of God on earth.
Since that time, we have experienced many awakenings and a second reformation through Martin Luther. That reformation birthed numerous reformers who went about confirming and reestablishing biblical truth and practices which had been lost through the years.
TIME FOR A THIRD REFORMATION
I believe we are in the throes of a great awakening that will lead to a third reformation, a total restoration of practices and truth once held by the early church, and even more. It is prophesied that the last generation church will eclipse all other expressions of the kingdom of God to date. The church will move in the greatest power, authority, and glory ever experienced by mankind through a restoration of truth and intimacy with the Lord that has been lost or diminished in years gone by.
It is time, once again, for the church to arise and move into her greater glory. Not only to restore lost truth and practices but, as the writer of Hebrews exhorts us, “Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment” (Hebrews 6:1-2).
As the awakening continues until it grows into a reformation, we must not stop at just the restoration of the elementary principles of Christ. Rather, we must see ourselves as a generation of reformers, a generation with a prophetic mandate to usher in the more glorious ministry of the Spirit, having tasted the good Word of God and the power of the age to come. As the writer of Hebrews declares, we have tasted and seen the goodness and power of God through the appearance of Jesus Christ, through righteousness by faith, and the operation of the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 6:1-6). Therefore we know what is ahead for us to pursue.
REBUILDING THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID
Jesus Christ is the pattern we are to build our personal lives after, ever being “conformed to the image of His Son” (Romans 8:29). The tabernacle of David is a pattern of the presence and operations of the kingdom of God exactly as God wants it be.
“After this I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will set it up; so the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does all these things.” (Acts 15:16-17)
We must see ourselves as a generation of reformers,
a generation with a prophetic mandate to usher in
the more glorious ministry of the Spirit.
The apostles correctly recognized the conversion of Cornelius and his household (Acts 10) as the beginning of the restoration of the tabernacle of David: The gospel was not only being preached to the Jews, but now also to the Gentiles, with Cornelius and his household being the first Gentile converts. However, while the tabernacle of David has experienced a large measure of restoration, much is still needed to complete its full restoration.
MORE THAN PRAISE AND WORSHIP
Many have relegated the tabernacle of David to praise and worship in the presence of God. This is an incomplete understanding. The tabernacle of David was not simply about music and worship. It was also about the manifest presence and operations of the kingdom of God that subdued all Israel’s enemies. All men, Jew and Gentile, who recognized the power and presence of God and came to the tabernacle, were swept into the rule and reign of the King.
Such was the case with Cornelius. He was confronted with an angelic visitation, a prophetic mandate, and a heart that desired to know the God of the Hebrews. After Peter preached the gospel to him, he and his household were saved and filled with the Holy Spirit with the kingdom evidence of speaking in tongues. This scriptural account is accredited to being the beginning of the restoration of the tabernacle of David (Acts 15:6-35). Praise and worship, free access to the presence of God, and the operation of the kingdom of God to save the lost and subdue the enemies of God is a fuller picture of what God is after, what He declared He would do.
Therefore, a great mandate awaits our full attention and strength to be the more glorious church. We must begin by patterning our lives and practices toward the greater ideal laid out for us in Scripture. Taking into account that the definition of the word pattern is “official decree,” consider the following Scriptures:
Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. (Philippians 3:17, emphasis mine)
Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. (2 Timothy 1:13, emphasis mine)
In all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility, sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you. (Titus 2:7-8, emphasis mine)