February 1, 2017
"When Two Prophets in the Same Day Get Revelation About Bill
Johnson, Bethel, California and Much More..."by Chad Taylor and
Stephen Powell
From the Desk of Steve Shultz:
 It's rare that we run two words together. Rarer still that
we get two prophetic words that are so similar in theme by prophets who are
not in contact with one another.
Early in the day yesterday Chad Taylor, a long-time prophetic writer for THE
ELIJAH LIST, sent me a sudden download he received all about Bill Johnson,
Bethel, and more.
Later in the same day, I received this word by Stephen Powell, who also had a
sudden prophetic download also mentioning Bill Johnson, Bethel, Shawn Bolz,
IHOP, Mike Bickle and Hollywood and California.
So for that reason...we are posting them together. Be sure to read them both.
God is certainly speaking concerning these men, the anointing on Bethel,
California and much more! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List go here.)
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"A Word About Bill Johnson – My Beloved is Mine" Plus "California
and Another Pentecost"by Chad Taylor, Thomasville, Georgia
Heaven seemed to open over me recently, as an armada of visions and words
came. This happened even despite my busy schedule with four kids and preparing
for an extended trip to Alaska. The Holy Spirit stubbornly persisted until I
finally stopped to listen. I saw a number of spiritual "flash points," or
visions throughout the day that were at times very specific, then they would
suddenly change becoming vast, sweeping, encompassing nations, continents and
generations...
On the rare occasions like this when I personally glimpse even for a moment
the refection of God's love and intentions for another human being, this
unfathomable infinite love, it moves me profoundly, deeply. Or as Paul
emboldened the Ephesus Church with these words: "That
you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how
long, how high, and how deep His love is." (Ephesians 3:18)
Song of Solomon 2:16 repeated itself over and
over to me in the spirit as I waited and listened to the Lord, "My beloved is mine, and I am His: He feedeth among the
lilies." Then the Lord said to me, "Song of
Solomon 2:16 was only a precursor to John 3:16 when I would unveil His love
fully, face-to-face to the world."
I then saw a series, of what I like to call "flash-points" or visions of Bill
Johnson, Pastor of Bethel Church in Redding, CA. I am not alleging to know Bill
Johnson personally, nor do I want to give the reader the impression that I do –
I am only sharing what I have seen and heard. "My beloved is mine, and I am his:
he feedeth among the lilies..."
Waves of Youth and the Nations
I saw a "replay" of a vision from 1956 that Loren Cunningham experienced
which would later become the catalyst of YWAM, or Youth With A Mission. In
short, Loren described waves on the shorelines of the continents on a world map,
eventually growing bigger and bigger, covering the landmass. He describes in his
vision that the waves changed to young people covering the continents, talking
to people about their faith and witnessing...It was a sweeping missionary
movement that would impact every nation with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Despite
having over 15,000 full-time volunteers in more than 1,100 ministry locations in
over 180 countries I saw this vision as yet fulfilled. While this spiritual
tapestry continued to unfold I heard the Lord say, "Unfinished business..."
 My vision suddenly changed, like a cutaway scene in a
movie, and I saw Bill Johnson. He was part of this first "wave." The waves in
the panoramic vision that Loren saw in 1956 on a missionary trip to the Bahamas.
In the vision that I had today, Bill Johnson was in that 1956 wave, as were many
others, a wave that widely impacted the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
(Photo via Flickr)
I have personally ministered at YWAM and taught strategic missions at the
University of the Nations in Kona, HI and other YWAM bases. I have pondered
Loren's vision of the waves of youth many times. The Lord revealed to me years
ago while at the Kona base, that this vision was yet to be fulfilled in totality
or fully come to fruition and to pray earnestly that it would. To pray as Jesus
admonished his disciples to in Luke 10:2, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the
Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest
field."
A Three-Fold Cord
I then saw a tightly woven cord tightly intertwined, a "three-fold
cord." This seemingly unbreakable cord had on it written plainly on each strand
an inscription. One read, YWAM. The other, THECALL. Finally,
the third cord was marked with the name, BILL JOHNSON BETHEL.
I heard the Lord say, "These three cords
will create an unbreakable bond, or net, that will begin to bring in a great
harvest of souls and even now I am binding them together as
one..." It was like the story of Jesus in Luke 5 when their nets
began to burst, "They caught such a large number of fish
that their nets began to break. So they signaled their partners in the other
boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that
they began to sink." (Luke 5:6-7)
As these visions continued to unfurl in sequence, the Lord allowed me to
glimpse in a small way, however finite, this man's heart or spiritual DNA – Bill
Johnson. I was moved. I saw a missionaries heart, a harvester to the very core.
An Apostolic Evangelist as the likes of Paul. It was in his DNA, his natural and
spiritual genetics. The perpetual cry of the missionary resonated through the
corridors of his very being. It's who he was through and through and even now,
in the vision, the Lord was "stirring the waters" of Bill Johnson's first love
and I saw how deeply this was going to impact us all.
Africa and the Bethel Effect
I saw a vision of John G. Lake. Before John G. Lake was renowned for the
Healing Rooms and the countless miracles accounted for through his ministry – he
was simply known as, "God's Apostle to Africa." He was undoubtedly one of the
most prolific soul winners of any generation. It is said that he was responsible
for raising over 1,000,000 converts, 625 churches and 1,250 preachers in only
five years of ministry in Africa. The only testimony beside the 1st Century
Church to compare it to would be Hudson Taylor and in the Inland China Mission,
or how David Livingstone and Amy Carmichael were to Africa and India what The
Salvation Army was to England.
I saw a mighty river, a conduit of missionaries, workers,
intercessors and worshipers, sent out from Bethel Church to all of Africa in
what seemed like an endless river of missionaries and workers. It was a great
stirring, an anointing birthed in a unique season of prayer – an "Azusa Street"
type of prayer. An upper-room kind of prayer when they cried out in one accord
for God's power to move the world. I heard this Scripture reverberate through it
all, "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the
Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their
affliction..." (James 1:27)
I see a Fulton Street kind of revival and prayer that melts the hearts of His
people like wax for a world yet unsaved and floundering. A revival that produces
leaders such as D.L. Moody and David Brainerd. An unquenchable fire for the vast
fields of humanity. I saw bright red glowing flames, small at first, spreading
across the continent of Africa and multitudes being healed. Masses, myriads of
human faces, far more than the naked eye could number born-again.
Edinburgh Scotland: An Apostolic
Commission
I then saw a vision of Edinburgh, Scotland, the city that the historic
gathering took place in 1910 called the "World Missionary Conference." The
Protestant Church in nearly every nation was accounted for in June of 1910. They
were confronted with the reality of a world that was still unreached after 1900
years following Pentecost.
1,200 representatives of every Protestant denomination and missionary
societies gathered for ten days to seek God for worldwide revival. Edinburgh was
the first of its kind since the "Jerusalem council" in Acts 15.
I saw a "Edinburgh Scotland" at Bethel. Considerable gatherings of
missionaries and "generals" akin, to William Booth, Evan Roberts, Loren
Cunningham and other leaders synonymous with missions and harvest. They gathered
in Redding, CA and Bethel Church to receive and impart a mighty fresh directive
for the nations – a Great Commission. The prayer of Psalm
2:8 was electric and in the air, "Ask of Me, and
I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your
possession."
I saw a notable revival in Bethel Church and Redding, CA rewriting
the records of Church history that was different in its nature to past revivals
of the last 70 years. It was not declamatory or what anyone was
expecting, it was a "deep calling out to deep." It was an Azusa Street type of
experience that caused men to weep as much as they would rejoice. Or as the
prophet Joel so vividly described in Joel 2:17:
Let the priests, who minister in the LORD's presence,
stand and weep between the entry room to the Temple and the altar. Let them
pray, "Spare Your people, LORD! Don't let Your special possession become an
object of mockery. Don't let them become a joke for unbelieving foreigners who
say, 'Has the God of Israel left them?'"
Renew Your Youth and Another Pentecost
The Lord gave me a very specific word for Bill Johnson and even at this
writing I am still stunned by God's unconditional love, a thing in great demand
in this late hour. It reminded me of the time, many years ago in Kona, HI, when
I gave a similar word to Loren Cunningham. I heard the Lord speak from Psalm 103:5, "Your youth
is renewed like the eagle's!" (emphasis mine) The "youth renewed
like the eagle" was referring to Bill Johnson's "first love" or the "first
works" that God had called him to early in his ministry. The call for missions,
the nations and for souls. It was coming full circle. It was paramount; it
loomed all around him and was imminent.
 It was like another encounter following Pentecost when God
"suddenly" appeared in the place where they prayed and the earth was shaken
transforming them into powerful, effective witnesses. "After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was
shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word of God
boldly." (Acts 4:31) (Photo via
Wikimedia Commons)
I witnessed in my recent vision a mighty revival as if I was there in the
flesh. A revival that we have not seen in over 150 years sweeping through
Redding, CA and Bethel. However, it was not past-tense nor was it present-tense;
it was futuristic in its scope and was looming directly ahead of them like a
mountain. Impending, bursting the seams.
Leonard Ravenhill and Keith Green
I then saw a writing pen being put into Bill's hand. It was a pen you might
notice in a business man's pocket, worn and put to much use but durable. I
examined the pen closer, there was an engraving and I had to squint to see what
it said, it spelled out, "Leonard Ravenhill." As I saw the pen with this
particular named inscribed, I heard a melody in the background begin to play. I
recognized it immediately, "O Lord, You're Beautiful." A song written and sung
by the late, ground-breaking singer and song writer, Keith Green.
Leonard Ravenhill was the great 20th century prophet, tent evangelist, modern
day revivalist, prolific author and friend of AW Tozer. A mentor of leaders such
as the late Keith Green, Steve Hill and David Wilkerson. Even Loren Cunningham
himself. I saw this pen presented to Bill Johnson from the hand of the Lord and
I was undone.
This revival I saw at Bethel became a causeway or conduit that was
created as a result of this evolution of prayer, a bridge spanning the nations
with the Gospel. It was not only Bethel Church, but the Baptist
Churches as well and many other denominations. It was a great end-time harvest
that Jesus described in Matthew 13:39. It is in essence, a fulfillment of Loren
Cunningham's vision of the epic waves of youth crashing on the shores of
continents around the world.
It is the final chapter of Edinburgh, Scotland, the cry for missions and the
need to shore-up any shortcomings of the post-modern church unable or unwilling
to reach the world for Christ. It is the "Council of War" that General William
Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, would convene yearly to more effectively
reach the city streets and metropolitan cities with charity and Good News.
Then, as suddenly as the vision began, it came to an end. I sat stunned and
pondering, and I heard the words of Apostle Paul to the Corinthian Church that
draws many parallels to the Church today: "When I first
came to you, dear brothers and sisters, I didn't use lofty words and impressive
wisdom to tell you God's secret plan. For I decided that while I was with you I
would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the One who was crucified. I came
to you in weakness—timid and trembling. And my message and my preaching were
very plain. Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on
the power of the Holy Spirit. I did this so you would trust not in human wisdom
but in the power of God." (1 Corinthians
2:1-5) (To Subscribe to the Elijah List go here.)
Chad Taylor
Consuming Fire Ministries
Email: info@consumingfire.com
Website: www.consumingfire.com
Chad Taylor is known around the world for his two critically
acclaimed books Why Revival Still Tarries and The Cry of the
Harvest. After 15+ years as a prophetic voice to the nations and a
full-time minister on television, radio and conferences, his passion and
attention is often found elsewhere; with the broken, bedraggled, and unreached
masses that are yet to be touched with the matchless love of Jesus. Chad has
been called Prophet, Evangelist and a modern-day Revivalist but you will most
likely find Chad under a bridge, a street corner and an inner-city basketball
court than the meeting hall and if you're in his company long enough you will be
as well! Chad currently resides in Georgia with his wife and three children.
Chad Taylor's Itinerary:
February 4, 2017 (8am)
Men's Breakfast
342 Stedman St., Ketchikan, AK
99901
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"I Will Bring Many Streams Together!" Words for Kansas City,
Hollywood and Californiaby Stephen Powell, Fort Mill, SC
Intro by Stephen Powell: Here's the word I wrote at around
6:30 EST yesterday. It was so cool, cause when I first received it I was in the
shower. Then about fifteen minutes later, I wrote this in the van on my smart
phone as my wife was driving, as I was going out to eat with my family. When I
got to the restaurant and was all done with the word, I looked down and realized
that I had, in fact, put on an IHOP shirt in a hurry going out the door. IHOP's
torch symbol was on my heart as the Lord spoke to me about Mike Bickle and his
movement, as well as Bill Johnson and Bethel being on His heart! So cool! Here
it is:
Kansas City – Hollywood –
California
I see the Lord taking the anointing on Kansas City and combining it
with the anointing on Redding – to bring forth a new youth vessel that God will
pour into for inroads into the media mountain. I see ones which have
received their foundation in the International House of Prayer and have
progressed into the anointing on Bethel, even physically moving east to west, to
invade California. Although they will receive Bill Johnson's mantle, they'll
never be able to get away from what Mike Bickle gave to them. They will be
Daniel for the new day, and they will also be Fasting Daniel.
Each film project, each producing opportunity, each TV spot will
become a battle for Hollywood's real estate in the spirit, and they will
understand the calling and walk worthy of it before the Lord (Eph. 4:1). They
will have incredible grace to fast before the Lord upon entering Babylonian
ground, and they will have supernatural favor. They will do things that
Christians have not been able to do in Hollywood in more than a
generation.
The enemy has controlled these grounds, he has treaded upon these mountains
in the west and has set the rules. The enemy has sabotaged the careers of rising
stars for the Kingdom of God, and has limited their effect, controlling this
market with an iron grip...but the Lord says:
 "No more. For I have raised up a mountain in the east which shall
combine with the mountain that I've raised in Northern California, and they
shall invade south through California together as one warrior, as they shall
tread upon this enemy together on the mountains near the City of Angels, and
they shall penetrate the projects of this field, and the enemy will be left
wondering, 'How did Daniel make it past my defenses, how did this Daniel
division evade the diviner's fee, how did they get past python?'"
(Photo via Pixabay)
And the Lord would say, "I'm standing and laughing, for this promise has come
forth, and these are the ones who Daniel prophesied about when He spoke all
those years ago, 'they shall know their God, they shall be strong, and they
shall do great exploits' (Dan. 11:32)."
I hear the Lord say, "I've brought Bolz to this land to face the
Bulls, for prophet Shawn Bolz is a sign of what I shall do with this new
company. He started with the International House of Prayer and he's
since joined with Bethel, and now he's positioned in Southern California to be a
light in the darkness there, to carry the power of breakthrough love in the
midst of darkness." But the Lord says, "He is one of many and he is a sign, and
I will bring others on the same path and they will invade."
New Prophetic Warriors Emerging
"Each warrior will be unique and will find their own way as God leads
them in their unique path, but they will have impartation from these camps, and
they will bring a shift in this land. I the Lord have purposed it, it will be
done.
"I see Daniel praying three times a day, I see him praying in the heart of
Babylon, and I see the heart of Babylon pushing out dark blood for red, for the
breath of life is being released there; the voice of My prophet is being heard.
He will not be twisted by python, he will not be changed by money, but he will
be like a mighty warrior armored in fire, and every time the enemy touches him
he will pay a price. Though the enemy slay one, ten more will quickly come in
his place, for I the Lord of hosts has planned this battle, and this battle is
Mine," says the Lord.
Again I see Daniel praying three times a day, and I see him fasting, and I
hear the Lord saying, "This kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting,
this demonic presence in Hollywood much be faced by fasting prophets, so do not
forsake what Kansas City has taught you. You are uniquely fitted with these
anointings in both the east and the west, so do not forget where you came from,
do not forsake your first love. Your first love is Jesus, but I've also given to
many of you the love of fasting and prayer, for it was I, the Lord, that did
this work in you and I do not make mistakes.
"You will need these weapons for your warfare as you invade Babylon, and if
you forsake your former ways you will not survive what lies before you. Hear
these words, for many of you will be in danger, even danger for your very souls.
Do not underestimate your enemy, for his lair has been Babylon for many
generations, and he will not easily relent. He is coy, he is crafty, and he has
a proven way which he deals with prophets. But I have given you My heart and
mind, and as long as you stay hidden in Me, and use the weapons I've armed you
with, you will be unstoppable, you will be unchanging, you will devastate this
mountain of the enemy, so that in My day it will become the mountain of the
Lord."
IHOP – International House of Prayer
 I hear the Lord say, "The International House of
Prayer is on My heart, and they have much to give this new generation, so don't
forsake their ways. I have done a mighty work in this land, among these people,
and they will continue to impart and raise up as I have seen fit to call them
into this work. But there will be a merging of streams again, west with
the east, as it was at the beginning when Metro merged with Vineyard.
Azusa was only the beginning, for I will bring these streams together in
more ways than one in the days to come to devastate the enemy's kingdom in this
land. Both are needed, not one above the other, even as Peter and Paul
were needed in their day. Don't forsake one for the other, for in doing so you
cut off the flow of Kingdom riches that I've given to each. "
We need each other today more than ever, so let's embrace each other,
not forgetting where we came from and what God has given us from the beginning,
and we will rise as that warrior bride, furnished unto every good work which He
has for us in this day! Only rise together, don't let the enemy divide
you, and see how high you can rise as one in this nation! (To Subscribe to the
Elijah List go here.)
Stephen Powell
Lion of Light Ministries
Email: info@lionoflight.org
Website: www.lionoflight.org
Stephen Powell is an Itinerant Minister commissioned under Steve Toliver of
"Abundance of Rain Ministries", and is an Associate Revivalist through "Fresh
Fire Ministries" under Todd Bentley. When he was a teenager God began to visit
Stephen in powerful encounters in the Secret Place during extended seasons of
fasting and prayer which has released a deep and tangible anointing in his life!
Stephen's passion is to perpetuate revival culture where ever he goes and
continue to walk in greater demonstrations of intimacy, power and glory with
Jesus! He currently resides in Fort Mill, South Carolina with his wife and four
children, and serves on Todd Bentley's Senior Apostolic Board.
Stephen Powell's Itinerary:
February 10-12, 2017
Open Heavens
The Secret Place Church
8180
Regent Pkwy., Fort Mill, SC 29715
(for more information click
here)
March 3-12, 2017 (7pm nightly Sun 11am)
Alaska Ablaze
March 3-5: Kenai
/ Kalifonsky Christian Center
Fairbanks / TBA
March 10-12: Wasilla /
White Fields Church
March 24-25, 2017 (Fri 7pm, Sat 6pm)
Advancing His Kingdom
Reigning
Word Intl' Ministries
2019 Pleasant Valley Rd., Fairmont, West Virginia
26554
Contact: 681-753-1288
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