7 Keys of Renovation
Jane Hamon
Christian International
As we leave the summer season and enter fall, we are in a time of transition. We are leaving the old and entering the new. I want to share with you seven keys we have learned in this prophetic process of renovation so that we can leave the old behind and move in to the new.
- Get a plan and make a budget. Count the cost to move forward. Moving in to the new can be harder and messier, not to mention more expensive, than staying the same or going back. Nonetheless, when God shifts, we must shift with Him. Get a plan to move forward, then be flexible as God reforms you in the midst of your process. Stretch your faith expectation for God’s supernatural provision both for spiritual release as well as financial supply to help you move in to the new thing.
- Strengthen the foundations. Make sure the foundations of our personal faith are strong so that we might withstand the rising tide in the earth today. Ephesians 2:20 declares that the church must be built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief Cornerstone. Have you allowed your life to be aligned to God’s prophetic/apostolic purposes in this season? What has He said to you recently? We must continuously have our ears open to hear what The Lord is speaking.
- Deal with the leaks. Leaks are the holes that allow our covering of protection to be breached, making us vulnerable to the destructive nature of the enemy. Things such as sin, judgments, unforgiveness, addictive cycles and disobedience become holes in our armor. Now is the time to pursue righteousness and holiness and allow God to renovate our hearts by His Holy Spirit fire and to plug up every leak in our life that we might be fortified for the new.
- Make the tough decisions. During renovation we have had to decide what to keep and what to get rid of, what to change and what to leave the same. At times we must say good-bye to things that were precious to us in the last season but need to be transitioned to the new. Sometimes we need a friend to help us see what needs to change. To us, perhaps, “It’s just the way things have always been.” Our theme song for this season comes from the recent kid’s movie Frozen….“Let it Go, let it go!” It’s hard, but letting go is a necessary part of change.
- Tear out the old, outdated, redundant and damaged. When it came time to tear up the damaged carpet in our church, I had never seen our people so excited to destroy things! That’s because they understood what God was doing in our midst (and maybe because they had grown to hate the old carpet). Before Elisha could receive the double portion mantle from Elijah, he had to first tear the mantle of the last season which he had been wearing. The tearing can be a natural event, a disruption in plans, a shift in vision, new alignments for new assignments….but be aware of this: you cannot put new wine in old wineskins, nor can you put a new mantle on top of the old one. The old must be torn away!
- Repair the walls. This too is a part of renovation. Nehemiah had an assignment to rebuild the walls of the city of Jerusalem. It was a daunting task. But he had a strategy. He told the people to repair the walls in front of their own homes, then the whole wall would be built all around the city. In this season we must have a view to repair our own walls and to take personal responsibility for our own assignments. But we also need to have the view of the corporate assignment from The Lord for our local church and for our city. God isn’t just interested in renovating a building He wants to change cities and nations for His glory! Be sure your vision is part of a bigger vision to see Kingdom accomplishments come to your church, your city and even your nation.
- Get ready for the new! We can tear out the old, but we still must get ready for the new. Here is the trick in our walk with The Lord. We don’t often get clarity about what the new looks like until we get there. Human nature wants us to jump in to define what the new looks like, but we must be patient as The Lord reveals the full picture. So it can be a frustrating time of pressing in yet being patient at the same time. We must prayerfully and prophetically stay in a time of vision and discovery until God’s reformed, restored, reinvigorated and revived church takes shape.
God wants to break us through to this new season. It’s our time! Join us this October 21-24, 2014 at the International Gathering of Apostles & Prophets as we celebrate Bishop & Mom Hamon’s 60th year of ministry and Bishop’s 80th Birthday. For more information go to www.ChristianInternational.com/IGAP.
Blessings,
Apostle Jane Hamon
Floods of Glory! Momentum is Building!
Written By : Apostle Jane Hamon
By now I am certain you have heard of the flooding that occurred last week in the sanctuary of Vision Church @ Christian International leaving at least $100,000 in uninsured damage (we don’t live in a flood zone so didn’t have coverage for this loss). Something I haven’t mentioned is that during our New Year’s Eve service this year I saw a vision. I wrote the following the first week of January:
“I had a vision during our New Year’s celebration where I saw a rising floodwaters. I knew what I was seeing was not a destructive evil flood, but a flooding of God’s glory into the earth. Everywhere the flood water touched was revived, rejuvenated and restored. It was like the Claritin commercial where I viewed the earth through a dull film which was then stripped away leaving things crystal clear. I believe this release of God’s glory will bring forth the Awakening and Revival that we have been crying out for. Lord, show us your glory!”
So we have had a growing sense of excitement here at CI. This is certainly part of God’s prophetic process for us and for those who are crying out for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The flood waters were a fulfillment of prophecy in our prophetic house. We believe this is a sign that God is baptizing the whole prophetic movement and His prophetic people with rivers of living water from heaven! This is not robbery…..this is renovation and rejuvenation! It is Revival and Restoration! It is a manifestation of the release of the glory of God in our territory. Even now, the effects of the Gulf Stream Revival are sweeping through the panhandle of Florida! God is on the move! Momentum is building! One thing I know for certain: God always loves to take a mess and turn it into a miracle!
The flood is a symbol of God’s mighty hand. The scriptural symbol of the flood is used as a destructive force as it was the instrument used to destroy a wicked world in the times of Noah. But after that time God gave the rainbow as a sign of covenant that He would never use this destructive force against the earth again. Isaiah 59:12 is translated in the NKJV this way: “When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of The Lord will lift up a standard against him.” In this translation the flood is attributed as the tactic of the enemy and The Lord then rises against him. However, upon closer examination a more accurate translation would be (note the comma placement), “When the enemy come in, LIKE A FLOOD The Spirit of The Lord will raise up a standard against him!” Whoa! What a difference! NIV says it this way: “For He will come like a pent up flood that the breath of The Lord drives along”. So we see that the flood is actually a prophetic sign of God arising against our enemies! It is a time of victory for his people! It is a time God is fighting for us!
The flood is also a symbol of God’s blessing. Isaiah 44:3 says “For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.” Psalms 66:12 also says, “we went through the fire and through the water, but you have brought us out to rich fulfillment.” God wants to quench our thirst! He wants to bless our generations with the reality of his presence and power! He longs to bring us into rich fulfillment!
Get ready for a season of prophetic fulfillment, a time of the glory of God being demonstrated, and a time of tremendous victory for the people of God! Momentum is building! Lord, open the floodgates of heaven!
You can partner with our ministry in this time of repair, rebuilding and renovation by clicking on this link. If everyone does even a little, we can accomplish a lot!
Praise Reports from South Africa
Christian International & Vision Church is proud to partner with missionaries from all over the globe. They express the true heart and vision of CI and we could not be more proud of them and their heart to serve the nations. Here is a clip of the impact being seen in the nation of South Africa.
Next Dimension
Dean Mitchum is a proven prophetic worship leader, psalmist, and teacher. Having been the worship pastor and director of worship ministries for Dr. Bill Hamon for the last 17 years, he has taught thousands the understanding and implementation of prophetic and apostolic worship. Dean serves as worship leader for Pastors Tom and Jane Hamon at Vision Church @ Christian International. He is the author of Prophetic Worship 101 and Apostolic Kingdom Praise, which has been published in several languages. Dean has recorded 16 worship albums, four prophetic instrumental albums, and recently published a songwriter’s course on how to master the process of writing great worship songs. Dean and his wife Lisa have written over 100 songs, many of which are sung in churches around the world. Dean and Lisa have been married for thirty years and have five children and three grandchildren.
Receiving the Prophet’s Reward & Blessing
One of the ten truths that Christian International pioneered in the Prophetic Movement was sending prophets to the nations. I, and several of our ministers, travel regularly to the nations, fulfilling God’s purpose in the Third Reformation by demonstrating the Kingdom of God to bring transformation to the nations. I was in the Dominican Republic last week and had an audience with the President. I laid hands on him, commissioned him to be a righteous President of the nation, and prophesied to him. I then went on to Venezuela, and met with all the leading ministers of the nation. I taught them the Third Reformation, and led them in warfare for an open heaven and transformation of the nation. This year alone, our prophets will have gone to the nations of Barbados, Canada, Colombia, Dominican Republic, England, France, Guyana, Honduras, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Scotland, South Korea, St. Lucia, South Africa, Taiwan, Trinidad, Ukraine, Venezuela, and more. We truly do send prophets to the nations!
Your prayers and financial support make this ministry possible. King David, the man after God’s own heart, established the principle that those who stay and support the ones who go to the frontline battle receive equal rewards. As we send more prophets to the nations we are in greater need of the support of our co-laborers. As Paul declared to his co-laborers, “It is not just your offering I am interested in receiving but the rewards and blessing you will receive by co-laboring with us in establishing God’s Kingdom in the nations.”
I will send one of my best books, “The Eternal Church”, to everyone who sends an offering. It is the foundational book of all the books I have written. Every Christian who wants to be established in all restored truth and ministries needs this book. The other book I am making available to you is “Prophets and the Prophetic Movement”. If you send an offering of at least$50.00, I will send you one of the books of your choice. If your offering is $100.00 or more, I will send you both books. If you have both of these books then you can request any of my other ten books.
I want you to be blessed with prophetic apostolic truth and receive the prophet’s reward for blessing the CI prophets to the nations. I decree the prophet’s reward to you which is not only financial prosperity but also the miracle you need that money cannot buy. Bless you for co-laboring with us.
Love and Blessings,
Bishop and Mom Hamon
The Final Church Reformation has been Birthed!
On Thursday night of our Watchman Intercessor Assembly, we had a powerful, divine encounter with God. Dutch Sheets delivered a tremendous message and then prophesied and encouraged the leadership to come to the platform. The Holy Spirit began to move mightily. As we continued to worship, I sensed that the birthing spirit was sweeping over us and more prophetic utterance came forth. I began to declare to the people that the Lord was birthing the Third Reformation in our midst. Several began to actually sense birthing pains. Several had visions of what was taking place and others saw angels ministering in our midst. I encouraged everyone to press in to God and make sure they received the birthing within their lives. Reports came later from some of our ministers who were watching by internet that they were entering in with us and experiencing the same things.
It was a time similar to the birthing of the Prophetic at the Wednesday night during our International Gathering of Apostles and Prophets in 1988. It so happened that our birthing of the Apostolic was on the Wednesday night of the IGAP in 1998 after Dutch Sheets had preached. Dutch asked me to come to the platform and pray and release the Father Heart of God to the people. After five minutes of praying I saw a vision of an angel bringing a great big flaming heart and placing it inside my chest. I went to my knees in intercession and for the next twenty minutes there was a birthing of the Apostolic within myself and CI. In 2007 we had a Saints Movement birthing at the Watchman Intercessor Assembly. Now in 2010 we have had the birthing of the Third Reformation.
Years ago I asked the Lord what is CI’s position and membership ministry within the Body of Christ. He said we were positioned and commissioned as a womb in the Body of Christ. We conceive the revelation of the new moves of God and then are pregnant with it for a period of time until God’s preordained time for birthing. It is now time to nurture the new child and help it grow to maturity and prophetic fulfillment. I believe that we are now to start receiving what God promised we would receive as those who worked with Him to propagate His Third Reformation purpose. God promised unlimited wisdom, power and financial resources to fulfill His purpose for the Third Reformation.
Those who plan to fully participate need to read my new book that brings the revelation of the Third Reformation, what it takes to fulfill and the time period it will cover. The book is titled Prophetic Scriptures Yet to be Fulfilled During the Third and Final Church Reformation. At the bottom of the front cover two statements describe more: “Kingdom Demonstration for World Transformation” and “The Church Fulfilling the Seven Mountain Mandate.”
