May 2024 Newsletter
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By Mario Murillo
Mario Murillo rose from poverty in San Francisco, California. After being revolutionized by Jesus, he felt a call to evangelize at the University of California at Berkeley. The students rejected his efforts until a desperate prayer led to an unprecedented supernatural outpouring marked by miraculous healings. After a four-day conference in San Jose extended to six months—with nearly 250,000 people in attendance—Mario launched his international ministry. Since then, his voice has been heard by millions around the world, bringing a message that zeroes in on the hurts of society and Jesus’ power to end addiction, racism, violence, and disease.
Do you possess a deep frustration, an inward turmoil, that makes you dissatisfied with the level of your walk with God? What if I told you that your profound yearning for more had an amazing explanation?
It is very likely that at the root of your agitation of heart is a call by God! Not just any call but a wondrous invitation. You are being drawn and prepared for an event, an impending marvel that will stun our nation with a fiery awakening.
With each day that passes, your internal desire grows stronger and stronger, begging for expression. Each wave that comes in your spirit tells you that your time on this planet is precious and strategic. You dare not miss your destiny!
A Baptism of Fresh Fire
What is the answer to our deep hunger for more? We must seek a fresh fire. We must see that we have relegated the Holy Spirit to one baptism when there are many subsequent overflowings.
This is a solemn warning to everyone who speaks in tongues. We must repent and be re-baptized in the Holy Spirit so that we have legitimate authority to do the true work of God.
What is your greatest enemy in your quest for fresh fire? The arrogant presumption that your need is not urgent because you are already Spirit-filled. Why can’t we just admit we need fresh fire? We are powerless and need a new outpouring of the Spirit.
You cannot truly want to change the world around you unless you cut to the chase by seeing that the most effective and lasting results come from a baptism of fresh fire. When God empowered you to be a witness, it was the first of a series of encounters with the Holy Spirit. You must have repeated infusions of power at key points in your life.
Corporately, the church must learn that such returning to God for fresh fire is a reaction to crisis. In the early 1900s, the pioneers of the Holy Ghost movement recognized this need and called solemn assemblies based on the words of Joel:
Consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly; gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord (Joel 1:14, NKJV).
Today, we have replaced the solemn assembly with the seminar. Some roving teacher blows into town for a one-day, instant-victory workshop. We assume that our need is for a new fact, not a new fire.
Don’t Get Sidelined
Look at Peter in Acts 3 and 4. He was in the Upper Room; he saw tongues of fire; he tasted the Day of Pentecost! Yet, barely two chapters later he is ordering the church back together for another infusion.
He is not doubting or diminishing his Pentecostal baptism! On the contrary, he is building upon the boldness acquired in Acts 2. He is asking for more of self to be buried in a new wave of Holy Ghost power to face the enemy.
You may be thinking, “God is already in me in full power.” This is not the issue. Fresh fire is about getting us deeper into God, pressing further into His power, being clothed in more of Him, confronting added challenges of spiritual warfare.
The first baptism put us in the Spirit; now a lifetime of reducing self-dependence has begun. Self-dependence is the great enemy of all that the Lord does.
Self is not only conquered by daily choices of surrender, by prayer, by reckoning the work of the cross to ourselves, but also by seasons of seeking and receiving new downpours of the Holy Spirit.
What you crave is a full measure of fire, a deeper baptism. You do not want to be sidelined during the next wave of God in America.
Above all, you are convinced that God has more for you than what you imagined. So now doubts are gone, excuses are buried, and you will accept nothing less than fresh fire.
A Model Prayer
Now back to Acts 4. After the healing of the lame man at the temple gate, the Jewish religious leaders commanded Peter and John not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus (v. 18). Peter saw what we couldn’t see: only an additional empowerment would help the church answer this threat. His prayer is a model for how to ask for and receive fresh fire.
“Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.” And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness (Acts 4:29-31, NKJV).
Peter understood that the threat was from satan, ultimately against God. In other words, we are under a supernatural siege and only supernatural power can answer it.
The next part of Peter’s prayer revealed his motive for wanting power—he asked for boldness to preach the Word. There is not a hint of petition for personal safety, emotional blessing or lifestyle enhancement. His passion was for the Word of God to have its full impact on the lost and hurting.
God’s power cannot help but overtake the heart that has reduced itself to only wanting the Kingdom advanced!
You may have to pray alone, or you may be able to gather a core of right-hearted believers. Find the place; create the time; fall before God in the discipline of waiting. He is the God Who answers by fire. Soon you’ll be engulfed, and your fears will be ashes. The ensuing sense of purpose will astound you. Do not wait…because the stirring in your heart right now is a signal from Jesus. Fresh fire is about to fall on you!
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By Sid Roth
I was just a guest on Daystar TV Network and God was so gracious! I gave a teaching on their worldwide live broadcast for 45 minutes straight, with no notes. And God even changed my topic as I started speaking! Yet some say it was the strongest and best message I have ever given. It’s as if, when I was totally dependent on God, He showed up in a BIG way!
I’m not going to tempt God and expect this every time, but it’s so good to know He is backing me up! I spoke on tongues, revival and the Golden Global Glory! Much of what I said was such revelation, I had never even heard it before!
I know we are coming into a new season in God. And this prophecy just arrived from recent TV guest Yvon Attia confirming what God is showing me.
I was praying for you this morning and lifting you up. I kept hearing God say, “Remind my son, he is not alone. I am with him, and My Glory is surrounding him.”
Regarding the ministry, I heard Him say, “I am doing a new thing, the old has passed and the NEW has come. Get ready, for what’s happening is opening up a way for a fresh type of Glory.”
Many believers, including me, are passionate for the new to turn the world upside down—one more time!
I am filled with enough expectancy for the new Golden Glory for all of us. Please help raise up my hands in prayer and financial support for all Israel to be saved!
The Islamic brand of anti-Semitism is rising rapidly in America. Our universities are rampant with this demonic racism! God is telling me Jewish evangelism must expand exponentially soon as time is running out for Jews worldwide. But John 9:4 (TSB) is still available!
“We must do the works of Him who sent us while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work” (personalized).
Thank God we still have Israel as a refuge nation for persecuted Jewish people! The Golden Global Glory will start with Israel and spread rapidly throughout the world! The best evangelistic season in history is ready to erupt any day! As Mordecai said to Queen Esther in Esther 4:14 (TSB):
“For if you, Esther [a type of the end-time, Gentile Church], remain silent at this time, protection and deliverance for the Jews will be ordained from some other place, but you and your father’s house shall be destroyed. And who knows if you may have attained royal position for such a time as this?”
That says it all. Thank you, Jesus for my partners and me having a small part in Your end-time masterpiece!