THE CHURCH IN WINNSBORO
(These are the words given to me from the Lord.)
In 1987, after the Lord told me to “lay down ‘my’ ministry”, He cautioned me
to wait upon Him and let Him raise up “His ministry” through me in His time
and for His purpose and glory. Meanwhile, I was warned not “make something
happen”. During the time from 1987 to 1994, the only words I heard from the
Lord were, “know Me, rest in Me, trust Me, wait on Me, learn to be My servant,
stay in My Word and be obedient”.
In 1994, the Lord told me to get the briefcase, containing six teaching
volumes, out of the closet and place it by my bedside. Then three years later
in 1997, the Lord told me to go through these teachings and take out
everything that He had not personally taught me. Also of significance in 1997,
He told me to sell the bed and breakfast “tent making” business. In January
of 1998, the Lord told me to log on the Internet to “house church/home
church”, where I discovered for the first time such information existed.
Also in December of 1998, He told me to move to Lake Winnsboro to a “hired
house”.
In 1998, after we moved to the “hired house”, the Lord began ministering to me
in several dreams. The first dream was about great human devastation where
the Lord commanded me to minister to the needs of hurting people. That same
night He gave me a new song, “Learning to Serve”. In a second dream on
Christmas Eve night of 1998, the Lord gave me another new song , “O Bless The
Name of Jesus”.
In January 1999, the Lord gave me a revelation concerning His remnant Church
about the “hewning” of “lively stones” that the Lord was silently placing
together in the building of His Church. In another revelation, the Lord
showed me His remnant Church as “little pools of water” scattered all over the
world. These pools began to be connected by small streams that turned into
rivers flooding the earth. Also in January of 1999, the Lord gave me
additional teachings from His Word and the six volumes of notebooks in one
briefcase became twenty volumes contained in two large suitcases.
In April 1999, the Lord told me to go to Clemson University in South Carolina
to teach about His Church, which I did on May 20th. Also of
significance, was that it was on May 19th, that the closing papers
were signed for sale of the bed and breakfast “tent making” business.
In June of 1999, the Lord told me to call a “gathering of leadership” to
Winnsboro and that this “gathering” was to be held the first weekend of
November, 1999. The “gathering” was to include itinerant laborers of
apostles, prophets and evangelists. The purpose of the “gathering” was to
“minister to the Lord, hear Him and obey Him by going out together as laborers
wherever He might send”. After the “gathering” concluded, He told me to equip
leadership by teaching the “apostles doctrine” at the “hired house” in
Winnsboro and to train leaders “as you go” throughout the world in response to
His Macedonian calls.
In November of this year, 1999, the Lord gave me a strong prophetic “message
to the remnant church”(See attached copy). In the same month, He gave me a
very unusual revelation that appeared as a curtain that had been pulled back
revealing the spirit realm where I saw a demonic plot to deceive the world.
Then on Saturday, December 11th, 1999, after 12 long years of
“waiting”(1987-1999), the Lord began stirring in my spirit that it is NOW “His
time” to raise up His Church in Winnsboro. Everything that the Lord had
ministered to me for the past 30 years suddenly culminated in my spirit. I
suddenly came to realize why the Lord had left me in Winnsboro for these past
30 years. I heard in my spirit, as it were a “clicking” noise, similar to
what Ezekiel must have experienced when he heard in Ezekiel 37:7 “a noise, a
rattling sound and bones came together.” It was like scattered pieces of a
puzzle suddenly coming together. A word of prophecy based on Isaiah 48:3
came forth in confirmation of this revelation, “I foretold the former things
long ago, my mouth announced them and I made them known; then suddenly I
acted, and they came to pass.”
The Lord said that the Church in Winnsboro was not to be a “house church
movement” but rather it was to be “His Church” and He was the Originator,
Designer-Architect and Builder. My part as an apostle is to simply lay His
foundation as He directs according to His Word and to “equip the saints for
the work of ministry”.
Other specific words from the Lord included the following:
1.
“The Church in Winnsboro is to include all The Body Of Christ gathered
(assembled) or scattered ‘as we go’ throughout Winnsboro. Believers are the
ekklesia , the Church. The Church is who we are, wherever we are.”
2.
“Every member of the Body needs to know what his gifts are and how to
function effectively within the Body of Christ in Winnsboro.”
3.
“There are three things that the Church in Winnsboro needs to implement
simultaneously: 1)Build and encourage the Church in Winnsboro and around the
world. 2)Witness to the lost in Winnsboro and throughout the world.
3)Minister to all the Body of Christ(hurting saints) in Winnsboro and in the
world.”
4.
“The Church in Winnsboro is to be built simultaneously after the
pattern of three New Testament Churches: 1) Jerusalem- foundation
building of the apostles’ doctrine which is Jesus. 2) Antioch-
witnessing, evangelism and being ‘sent out’ to the utter most parts of the
world. 3) Ephesus- ‘Unity’ and ‘Oneness’ of the Body.”(See chart
below)
5.
“To accomplish the building of His Church, He will send equipping
leaders(apostles, prophets and evangelists) to Winnsboro as illustrated in the
Scripture by the “church in Antioch”. Then some of these leaders will be
‘sent out’ by the Holy Spirit to the uttermost parts of the world.”
CHURCH IN WINNSBORO
(Collectively)
JERUSALEM |
ANTIOCH |
EPHESUS |
Foundation building by teaching Apostles Doctrine |
Outreach to the Lost by witnessing “as you go” and
throughout the world |
Unity & Oneness among all believers (Hebrews and Gentiles) |
(Individually)
JERUSALEM |
ANTIOCH |
EPHESUS |
Obeying His commands in Winnsboro & world |
“As you go” witnessing in Winnsboro & world |
Ministering to the Body in Winnsboro & world |
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