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JOHN PAUL JACKSON: "GOD WANTS TO RESTORE A MOVE OF GOD AT DARTMOUTH, HARVARD, YALE, AND PRINCETON."
by Paul Strand-CBN
Dec 3, 2005
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December 3, 2005
JOHN PAUL JACKSON: "GOD WANTS TO RESTORE A MOVE OF GOD AT
DARTMOUTH, HARVARD, YALE, AND PRINCETON."
By Paul Strand
Washington Sr. Correspondent
The Christian
Broadcasting Network
CBN.com
 Joyous
Revival Predicted to Shake New England
When the Pilgrims came to America almost 400 years ago, they came to establish a
Gospel nation, the first country birthed in a covenant with God since ancient
Israel.
But then New England grew cold and eventually became the most unchurched region
of America. Could there be a change about to take place?
Something is shaking New England. Something's turning people to prayer.
Something is making them dance for joy. It feels like the rumbles of
revival.
Rev. Roberto Miranda of the Congregación León de Judá remarked, "Staid,
intellectual, overly-rational New England is, I think, experiencing a visitation
of the Holy Spirit."
"There are a lot of hotbeds," said Rev. Paul Taylor from the Northeast Prayer
Center.
Streams Ministries International's John Paul Jackson declared, "There is a
hunger for God now, and a hunger not only to experience God, but a hunger to see
God do something."
Alex Canavan, who manages three Christian radio stations, commented, "And we
think something greater than the charismatic renewal is about to happen."
"All of the great
revivals. . . seemed to begin in New England."
Author David Manuel knows about revival, having written extensively about the
great ones that shook America in books he co-authored, like "The Light and the
Glory."
"All of the great revivals. . . the awakenings. . . that have swept America and
gone around the world," observed Manuel, "seemed to begin in New England."
A couple of years ago, Manuel said, God put it on his heart to team up with
Christian radio station owner Alex Canavan, and begin a wide-open time of prayer
every week at Tremont Temple in the heart of downtown Boston. Tremont Temple was
the first church to racially integrate in America, and the church where the most
famous revivalists preached.
Canavan said, "When we see a desire for people to get together to pray, we know
that God's about to do something powerfully. And that's the sense that we have."
Other such gatherings are popping up all over the region.
"That's where the revival is now--it's isolated candles, but very soon. . . we
sense. . . He's going to bring the candles together, and when He does, the
combined candle power is going to be brilliant, and it's going to be astonishing
to many people," Manuel predicted.
Pastor Paul Taylor directs the Northeast Prayer Center. He thinks the New
England revival would be events coming full-circle in a sweet and ironic way.
"This is where the Pilgrims did land," Taylor declared, "this is where the
Pilgrims made covenant with God to be a Gospel, covenant-keeping people."
". . . it is now the most
unchurched region in the United States."
But it is also a fact that long ago New
England somehow lost its spiritual bearings, as noted by Dan Clymer, whose
ministry helps start up small ethnic churches in the area.
Clymer stated, "This is the region where church-planting started, and yet it is
now the most unchurched region in the United States."
John Paul Jackson heads up Streams Ministries International and three New
England churches.
He noted that, "it's been 200 years since you've seen a real move of God in New
England."
Jackson and others blame the spiritual chill on the intellectual haughtiness
emanating from the area's world-famous universities such as Harvard and MIT.
But Canavan tells of a prophecy that Derek Prince brought to Boston in 1972.
"And in it he said that Boston is the Jericho of the United States," Canavan
observed. "And the Lord says that 'when I cause the walls of intellectualism to
come tumbling down, then I shall pour out my Spirit upon this whole land'. And
it's our sense that when Harvard and MIT come back to Christ, then the world's
going to take note."
A Powerful Touch for the
Ivy League Schools
Jackson said, "He wants to restore a move of God at Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale,
and Princeton. I believe the Ivy League schools are going to experience--in
fact, I know just from an experience I had with the Lord--the Ivy League schools
are going to be powerfully touched."
"There is so much pride here," Manuel said, ". . . intellectual pride. . . and
so much excellence, that this might be the last place anyone would pick, and
that might be why God seems to be picking it."
Miranda heads up a thriving Hispanic congregation in inner-city Boston.
"Just as we see that the enemy would like to put a stop to that and kind of
humiliate God if he were able to do that, by turning this into a cemetery of
churches and ministries, I think God is very much interested in reclaiming this
area and turning it into that beacon it was initially meant to be," Miranda
said.
Taylor added that "I think that there's a sense in America [that] if it can
happen in New England, it can happen anywhere."
And it is happening: dynamic worship-filled services are springing up across the
area. So are signs and wonders.
John Paul Jackson leads one of America's most cutting-edge ministries--teaching
average Christians how to interpret dreams and prophesy in everyday
circumstances.
Starting just before this Halloween, Jackson's people have seen dozens of
witches and Wiccans come to the Lord.
"Here's what'll happen," Jackson explained. "They'll have a dream that God gives
them, like Nebuchadnezzar. [They] don't have an answer for it, know it's God,
this is supernatural, 'I've got to have an answer for this. Somebody's got to
tell me what that answer is.'"
Those who have been trained by Jackson in dream-interpretation give them that
answer. "Then the Lord steps in, the Holy Spirit steps in, touches their heart,
the spirit of conviction of sin falls upon them, and they say, 'Surely the Lord
is among you! What must we do to be saved?'" Jackson said.
". . . Christians from
all over the world are coming here to be missionaries to us."
And here is an interesting twist--for centuries, America has been known for
sending its Christians out as missionaries all over the world. But now,
Christians from all over the world are coming here to be missionaries to us. And
that is especially true in the New England area.
Taylor said, "They truly believe that God has brought them from Brazil, brought
them from Latin America, to Boston--to the Boston area--because this is where
revival is going to break out."
"They come with a passion for holiness," Miranda said, "very open to the
manifestations of the Holy Spirit. So, in a sense, they have served as a
contaminating. . . in a good sense of the word. . . element for the churches."
A friend of Dan Clymer's recently came upon three Africans at JFK Airport.
"And the three of them were being sent by their church in Africa as missionaries
to the United States," Clymer recalled. "In 1900, the United States was the
number-one sending nation of missionaries around the world, and today, the
United States is the 13th largest receiving nation of Christian missionaries
from around the world."
Taylor said, "They're way ahead of us. They're passionate--the Hispanics, the
Brazilians, the Asians."
Things are also starting to bubble up in New Hampshire, which desperately needs
it, as the most unchurched state in all the country.
Curt Nordhielm, who works with Clymer through Restoration House Ministries in
Manchester said, "Less than five percent would be in church on any given Sunday
morning here."
Nordhielm and Clymer start up churches for many of those Christian foreigners
coming to New England. "We have two Chinese works, a Cambodian work, a Korean
work, a Liberian work, and a Haitian church started last Sunday," Clymer
explained.
"He asked us to be ready,
to get ready, and to stay ready. . . "
Some feel that the Catholic Church may have a role in this coming revival, even
after the scandals that have roiled the priesthood and declining attendance
that's forced it to sell many of its churches--ironically enough, in some cases
to Protestant groups thriving in this renewal.
Father Tom DiLorenzo is a charismatic priest leading an on-fire congregation
near Boston.
DiLorenzo commented, "In the worship, God does mighty things. Like just a couple
of weeks ago at the Eucharist at Mass, a woman who was blind was healed. There
was a man with MS who was healed. But it's all during worship, and people are
coming expecting."
His people also are taking the Good News to the streets, ministering to the
homeless every week.
"And that's why we're here--because Jesus loves us," DiLorenzo stated.
DiLorenzo says that the Lord told him in 1990 that a time of mighty shaking was
coming. "He said that this would be a time of great revival, of great
evangelization, and that the salvation of many would depend on us. . . the
salvation of many. And He asked us to be ready, to get ready, and to stay
ready--and to be in His word and to be prayed up. I keep telling the people, 'Ya
know, find your knees now. . . avoid the rush when the big shaking takes
place.'"
So maybe, full-blown revival has not come to New England yet, but most of the
people we spoke to feel it is coming soon.
By Paul Strand
Washington Sr. Correspondent
The Christian
Broadcasting Network
CBN.com
You can find this article at:
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John Paul in high esteem, but because I believe this is a rare commodity in
these prolific days of book writing – one commanded by God, inspired by the Holy
Spirit, and desperately needed in the Body of Christ. Many possess one or the
other, but few possess all three.
As John Paul states in the preface, engaging in spiritual warfare has become
increasingly popular. Many are leaping in response to the call of God, eager to
serve as soldiers. This is good. If I thought that this book was in any way an
attack upon spiritual warfare, or on those of us involved in it, I could not
write even an endorsement, much less a foreword. I am myself greatly engaged in
spiritual warfare, and many of those most known for it are some of my dearest
friends.
Historically, when we in the Charismatic movement first discovered that demons
were real, we rushed into the fray inexperienced, and in many ways ignorant and
naïve. We blundered along, learning as we went – and the cause of Christ
suffered a number of casualties. It has been the same in nearly every area in
which the Holy Spirit has been rediscovering to us His ancient paths in which to
walk (Isaiah 58:12) – for example: the speaking in tongues, the giving of
prophetic words, or the Faith movement. The pendulum swings to zeal, mistakes,
embarrassments, and repentance, and then to the far side in reaction –
rejection, avoidance, harsh criticisms, and retrenching in the old ways that
maybe didn't work, but at least gave us a sense of security by being familiar.
We felt in control again. After several swings, usually we settle into balance
and find wisdom, and learn to serve appropriately, eventually even restfully, at
ease in what is no longer threateningly new.
Gaining Wisdom in the School of
Hard Knocks
I don't suppose there is much possibility of
avoiding such a history in any newly rediscovered area, nor perhaps should there
be. Pearls are a symbol of wisdom because an irritant gets inside an oyster's
shell and it has to work to weave a covering around it. There may be no other or
better way to gain wisdom than by "the school of hard knocks." Our loving
heavenly Father knew this, and from before creation He purposed to pay the price
for our freedom to bumble and sin and learn. He knew that the cost for raising
sons and daughters mature enough to give Him adult fellowship, person-to-Person,
would have to be His own suffering through the death of His only begotten Son on
the Cross.
Therefore, there should be no shame or condemnation laid upon us when we stumble
into new fields, swinging to revulsion and back again, eventually to find
balance and wisdom.
Since the Charismatic movement has grown more mature rather rapidly in recent
years, we may have entered into spiritual warfare with much less of the usual
foolish mistakes and wild pendulum swings. I have witnessed remarkable maturity
already for such a newly begotten movement. But I have also observed some
mistakes, sins, and consequent sufferings.
Therefore, there have been a number of needless casualties. Needless means
"without unnecessary risks and harms had we been operating in the fullness of
experience and hard-won wisdom," not needless in the sense of, "Shame on you.
You should have known better." It is to aid the swing of the pendulum to the
safer realms of wisdom that John Paul has written this book. The Holy Spirit has
put into his heart great love and concern for all of us involved in spiritual
warfare and laid upon him a burden of prayer and intercession for the entire
field, that it not fail to accomplish the purposes for which God has called us
to become His army for this critical time.
Reproofs are Unpopular
To that end, I believe God has mandated that
John Paul run the risks of writing a book containing many suggested corrections
in the way we think and act In spiritual warfare. Our fleshly nature being what
it is, reproofs and instructions are seldom popular. But we are trusting that
the risks of misunderstandings – and rejections because some do understand and
don't want to hear – will be lessened by the grace of God and the increased
level of maturity in the Body of Christ.
Proverbs 9:8-9 says that if you rebuke a wise man, he will love you for it, and
if you give instruction to a man of wisdom, he will become the wiser for it. We
believe there is, at present, maturity in the Body and a hunger for counsel and
instruction, so that we can conduct warfare without needless casualties.
The unique element in this case is that in many other fields, we could blunder
and mature by trial and error without much danger. Learning to do exorcisms did
involve some risk, and some Christians did get hurt, but that was minor compared
to the risks and injuries that can occur in spiritual warfare. That is what
makes this book so timely and crucial. The longer it takes to receive
instruction and gain wisdom, the more people can be potentially wounded.
Readers will find in these pages warnings, definitions, distinctions,
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risk, and practical suggestions for maintaining personal health and freedom from
defilement while engaged in warfare. Any one of these alone would be worth the
effort of reading. The keys of knowledge presented here may save your own life
much harm or even death, as well as perhaps your relatives, friends, and church
community.
I believe this book is a must for any who would enter the Lord's army for the
battles that are here, and the ones to come, as the climax of history draws ever
nearer.
John A. Sandford
Founder, Elijah House Ministries
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Founder, Cornerstone Network, Southampton, England
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Jesus gave us." - Carol Wimber, widow of the late John Wimber, Founder of the
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