STIR UP THE GIFT OF GOD
STIR UP THE GIFT OF GOD
Sunday, September 1, 2024
Pastor Carolyn Sissom
For the past three Sundays, I have been encouraging and exhorting our fellowship to believe God for provision, finances, and miracles as warfare getting ahead of the inflation and fearmongering to crash the dollar. I began to notice that other ministers were also calling the church to arise and apprehend faith and power for supernatural miracles.
Phyllis asked me to minister this past Friday on Prayer-Net about miracles and healings. This is that message in-part with the inclusion of Dutch Sheets’ Give Him 15 on August 30, 2024, at The Healing Summit, Middletown, Ohio, his hometown, and the hometown of our future Vice President, J. D. Vance.
Let us stir up the holy calling, and gifts given to us before time began.
Paul encouraged Timothy that he was to stir up the gift of God: 2 Timothy 1:6: I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands… (9)who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began…
3 John 1:2: Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
Heb. 10:24: Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works.
2 Pe. 3:1 Beloved, I now write you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder).
Isa. 42:13: the Lord shall go forth like a mighty man, He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war.
In Give Him 15, August 28 and 29, Dutch Sheets posted the following: (paraphrased and shortened for Prayer Net presentation).
We are moving into a supernatural, transformational, and reformational era where the glory and power of the Lord are being amped up at much higher levels. The Holy Spirit has consistently emphasized that healings and notable miracles are to be part of this era. They will now come in greater measure.
Miracles will accelerate through Kingdom Ekklesia. The miraculous will flow into towns, cities, regions, states, and nations. It is time to believe for this supernatural power of the living God to move in our churches with signs, wonders, miracles, and healings.
This season will include great, notable miracles. King Jesus is stepping to center stage, with His Ekklesia by His side, to magnify His magnificent healing covenant. He went to the whipping post, took stripes upon His back, and purchased a covenant-right to our healing. Holy Spirit is saying it is time to press into the miraculous healing realm and believe for notable miracles.
Father God, activate the gift of the workings of miracles and gifts of healing across this world. Release healings and miracles throughout all 50 states and around the earth. Loose them in our homes. Loose them in our families. Demonstrate how big and how great You are. Holy Spirit, pour out Your power to activate miracles in our midst. We agree with heaven’s plan. We believe that whatever the need is, You can take care of it.
And we pray for supernatural protection over our leaders in Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court. Trump, and especially Robert Kennedy, have been highlighted to me (Tim Sheets). Lord, so we pray specifically for them today. Surround them with angelic protection, shielding them from harm just as You did when Trump was shot. Cause every plot or plan to be thwarted (Tim Sheets – Give Him 15).
Lord, listen to their threats to harm us. Empower us, as your servants, to speak the word of God freely and courageously. Stretch out your hand of power through us to heal, and to move in signs and wonders by the name of your holy Son, Jesus!” As they prayed, the earth shook beneath them, causing the building they were in to tremble. Each one of them was filled with the Holy Spirit, and they proclaimed the word of God with unrestrained boldness. (Acts 4:29-31 TPT) The building shook! And they were filled with Holy Spirit, and with boldness. “Unrestrained boldness” is one word in Greek, parresia.
(1) The footnote in The Passion Translation says of this interesting word:
“This involves more than confidence; it was a free-flowing, unrestrained boldness.”
It can also mean ‘freedom of speech.’ Parresia carries nuances that are not easily brought over into English…[parresia] was reserved for only the highest rank of Greek citizens, not people of other lands or slaves…”
This struck me as significant. Parresia was a type of “freedom of speech” connected to citizenship in that day and culture, much like what we American citizens are granted in our Constitution. But these disciples weren’t asking for Rome’s freedom or permission, but heaven’s. “We are citizens of the Kingdom of heaven,” they were saying. “You are the King of this Kingdom and all the earth! Grant us YOUR permission to speak, heaven’s ‘freedom of speech!’”
The chapter (Acts 4) then speaks of their unity and generosity to one another (verse 32), followed by the incredible statement in verse 33: And with great power, the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. (NKJV)
The word “great” is used twice here - “great power” and “great grace” - and is the Greek word megas, from which we get our English word mega. It is used again in Acts 8:13, speaking of “great miracles.” One of Strong’s definitions of megas is simply “big!” I love that. BIG power! BIG grace! BIG miracles! How much grace and power from heaven do we want? BIG!!! What kind of miracles are we asking for? BIG!!!
LORD JESUS,
We realize You have always provided healing, but we believe an “outpouring” of miracles will now be released as part of this new harvest season. Give us mega-grace, mega-power, mega-miracles, and a mega-harvest.
So many need healings and deliverance, Father. We’re asking for the release of Your compassion, just as You did through Jesus, who was “moved with compassion.” Let Your compassion move through the earth. Move in homes, churches, hospital rooms, dorm rooms, everywhere where hungry people are crying out to You.
And please release an impartation of the gifts of Holy Spirit. Deposit them into thousands of believers around the world. We pledge that there will be no focus on our ministries and churches - only on You. We are not asking for miracles or revival in order to grow our ministries and churches, but to rescue the lost and broken and glorify You. Send this, Father. Amen.
We decree that signs and wonders are being released into the earth in the holy name of Jesus. (PARAPHRASED FROM Give Him 15 – August 28 & 29, 2024).
The Healing Summit – paraphrased from Give Him 15, August 30, 2024, Healing Summit Middletown, Ohio.
From Pastor Pat McManus:
"We are headed into a season that will truly impact the body of Christ and shift the nations in powerful ways. We have moved into a great alignment of hearts in the Ekklesia, enabling us to reveal and release the plans of the Lord in this time.
In Acts 13:1-3 the apostles surrendered to the plan of the Lord, and the Ekklesia was launched into the nations to impact their world. We are in such a time, positioned to step into the greatest opportunity of our lifetimes, aligning with the heart of the Father to see the fullness of His Kingdom revealed. This time will produce the greatest-ever expression of the Kingdom of God in the nations. Prepare to move forward."
From Clay Nash: "God has shown me that the Healing Summit will provide a trigger point for a significant healing wave to be released across our nation and the earth. Holy Spirit has said that He is seeking to heal His body so His body can go and heal the world. This release of healing is significant to the billion-soul harvest. Isaiah 8:18 states that we and our children are for signs and wonders."
Communion: Lord Jesus I pray that through your great grace, we have a true heart of forgiveness, forgiving our enemies and those who despite-fully use us. Lord Jesus search my heart for anyone I have not forgiven and I ask you to work in me the Holy Spirit’s forgiveness. Lord Jesus we receive your grace of healing through the communion of the bread and the wine. 1 Co. 10:16: The cup of blessing which we bless is the communion of the blood of Christ. The bread which we break is the communion of the body of Christ. For we being many are one bread and one body for we are all partakers of that one bread.
As they were eating; Jesus took bread and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, take, eat, this is my body. He took the cup, and gave thanks, and give it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. And they sang a hymn.
Mat. 10:8: Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils, freely you have received, freely give.
Pastor Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries Church
I entered into the labors of Give Him 15 by Dutch Sheets. Comments and paraphrasing are my own and not meant to reflect the views of those whom I have quoted.