The Great Turning - Get Ready for an Explosion of Glory in 2009 in Miracles of Restoration

You would have thought seven years of war was enough. I know I did. But the glory of God is increasing with greater frequency and bigger waves. So it stands to reason that, according to Isaiah 60, as the light of His glory is arising, so is the darkness. But this is becoming the Church's finest hour in spite of outward circumstances and conditions. We are entering into the blessings of the Kingdom of Heaven more and more.

I was surprised by what the Lord impressed upon my heart for 2009. When we came to the annual ElijahList conference, "What is God Saying for 2009?" I actually had little initially that God had spoken to me for the year. But it was an amazing weekend filled with revelation and hope. Jesus has been working on me for some time to change my paradigm.

I have believed, like many others, that there is a reformation coming to the Body of Christ that will propel us into Christlikeness and a release of the fullness of His redemptive power, but I never thought it would be so fundamental and so deep. Here is what I believe is happening to us and how we should cooperate to see it hastened.

"The Key to Revival is the Restoration of Family"

I heard the Lord say, "The key to revival is the restoration of family." I will never forget coming down a hill into a poor neighborhood outside of Sao Paulo, Brazil. There were families, individuals all over the streets making drug deals, drunks, kids, and general mayhem, but the compassion of the Lord fell on me when I heard Him speak those words to me.

That word has exploded inside of me to mean the fullness of restoration of humanity on every level. When introduced with our team from the School of the Supernatural that Wesley and Stacey Campbell put on with Kelry Green, the only thing I could think of to say was, "God wants to restore your families."

The people cheered, and soon all Heaven came down. We saw healing fall on a woman with HIV, blindness and devils come out as the love of God moved in the people we came to minister to. America needs this kind of revival just as much. We need a national awakening of the love and power of God to hit our families, communities and nation on every level.

It Must Start With the Church

Useless religious fervor, tradition and thinking must fall by the wayside and be replaced with radical love and grace that flows from the foot of the Cross of Christ. Until we realize that we are in need of redemption and begin to build cultures of grace and love in our Christian families and churches, we cannot hope to bring freedom to the masses needing to get a revelation of Jesus' redemptive power.

It's time for a new wineskin. I don't mean just new structures and networks but a covering that can contain a new level of love and grace that will embrace the broken of the broken—in and out of the Church.

God's Covenant Will Meet More than Just Our Needs

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is a covenant-making God. God made a covenant with Abraham to bless him so much that all the nations of the earth would be blessed through his seed. Jesus made a covenant with all who put their trust in Him and follow Him into a new life in the Spirit that surpasses anything humanity has ever been offered. He will never leave or forsake us.

The love and grace that saved us can bless us so much that we have more than enough to bless others in the same way. No matter what happens in this present world or in our personal lives, we are blessed and made to be a blessing.

This year is a time to discover how to move into covenant blessing and see miracles of redemption more than ever before. Let it start with our nuclear families and spill over into our communities of faith and into the world. Need is temporary, but God's blessings are eternal. Don't settle for getting your needs met, reach for His covenant blessings.

God Wants to Birth a New Culture and Mindset in the Church This Year

In December of 2008, I saw in a vision a baby in breach position in the womb. God wants to birth a new culture and mindset in the Church this year that will release His love and compassion at a new level. Therefore it is a time to seek His face and let Him turn our hearts so He can bring to birth an awakening of His love and redemptive power in the world.

During the ElijahList conference "What is God Saying for 2009?" I saw this vision again, but the baby turned in the right position. I take this to mean that God is giving great grace to turn things the right direction in the Church so we can display His love, His power, and His glory to the nation.

Our wineskin must be more flexible, forgiving, loving, and accepting if we are to be as Jesus is in this present world. Dead religion still looks for a legal remedy for life's problems. But the Kingdom of the Son of His love looks for a redemptive solution. A great turning is coming to us. Let's pray—even travail—till it's birthed.

Unity Will Come from the Joining of Generations

I believe the unity we have been longing for in the Body of Christ will come from the joining of generations. The younger generation is not that impressed or concerned with doctrinal distinctions. In fact, they are looking for fathers and mothers—not just denominational structures—to bring stability and security to their lives.

This is exactly where we need to be - to begin to focus on being sons and daughters of God instead of ministers with a title. It's not wrong to identify that one is an apostle, prophet, etc, but what we really need is community and a loving family of people who understand and live in covenant love.

The Holy Spirit is turning hearts and restoring the main and plain to take us to a level of the manifestation of the Kingdom far beyond what we have ever seen just through faith in our faith. We are about to encounter the Father. And when we do, like sons of God and sons of man, we will see the glory of God manifest in signs and wonders more than what we have ever fasted and prayed for.

The love Jesus spoke about in John 17 will release a glory that makes the impossible possible and will draw people to Jesus who would never have considered Him before. We will suddenly begin to love each other in the Body of Christ and wonder how it could be after all of our vain efforts to tolerate each other.

Get ready for an explosion of glory in 2009 in miracles of restoration.

Feb 23, 2009, Denny Cline, Albany Oregon USA
Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Albany
denny@vcfalbany.org

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Elisha Rising—What Do You Have that the Next Generation Needs?

By Denny Cline

Remember the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal? What an amazing encounter and kingdom confrontation. It was clearly one of Elijah's most memorable feats and what many see as the high point of his ministry. Yet, when John the Baptist comes on the scene as a forerunner to the ministry of Jesus, he was said to have come in the spirit of Elijah. What was the purpose? It was to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers. This turning was seen as essential to the release of the ministry of Jesus Christ who would both teach and demonstrate the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

After his great victory at Mount Carmel, Elijah experienced a demonic attack, sending him running in fear and despair to a cave with a death threat over his life. In his state of mind, Elijah felt alone, finished and hopeless. But God finally opened his heart to see that the most important influence he would have was yet to come. Elijah would then go on to form four schools of the prophets, and in particular, mentor a young man named Elisha. I believe this story represents something very important for the Church—the Body of Christ today. Jesus is leading many sons and daughters to glory as it says in Hebrews 2:10, and He is doing it in partnership with fathers and mothers in the faith who have been experiencing the glory of God in this present generation.

The Ministry of Elijah and the Ministry of Elisha

More was accomplished by Elijah pouring into the next generation than his own personal ministry exploits had recorded. So too, will more be accomplished by fathers and mothers in the Church by pouring into the next generation—helping them step into their calling with wisdom, support, and loving relationships to fall back on.

In this day and age of so much "fatherlessness" it is ever so crucial for the Church not to mirror our modern-day culture in this regard. So, here are some questions we must ask:

• What are some of the things we can do to help young leaders emerge and succeed?

• Is the Body of Christ aware of how many young leaders are already stepping into their callings with a great deal to offer now—not just in the future?

• Are we ready to put our money and time where we say our hearts are?

• Do we realize what a double portion really represents?

Although both Elijah and Elisha worked signs and wonders, Elisha was more prolific. Further, Jehu, a spiritual son of Elijah's ministry, brought down Jezebel—something Elijah was unable to do on his own. By the time Elisha came on the scene many other prophets were rising up into their callings—unlike Elijah, who was recorded as feeling all alone (although, in fact, he wasn't), showing us just how few relationships there were between Elijah and his contemporaries.

This was not so by the time Elisha received the mantle of Elijah and began to move in power and influence in the nation. Elisha was the most prominent of the spiritual sons of Elijah, and we notice that when Elijah was taken up, Elisha and many of the other prophets who received mentoring in Gilgal, Bethel, Jericho, and Jordan seemed to know each other. Elisha was clearly respected and already recognized as a leader in his generation—moving quickly into a ministry which carried double the miraculous power of Elijah.

I would liken the ministry of Elijah to that of John the Baptist, and the ministry of Elisha to that of Jesus. And it is the ministry of Jesus that we are really after—isn't it? There will always be a need for the forerunner ministry to call people to the next level. But as much as we love, thank God for, and honor the ministries of the saints of the past, we need to reach for the ministry of Jesus in His Body—in the fullness of redemptive character and power today. The entire earth is groaning in anticipation to see this type of ministry in the sons and daughters of God.

We can talk all about the next generation and tell them what they should become until we are blue in the face, but unless we commit ourselves to them and the cause that faces them today (not in the future), they will continue to be held back—or like many of us, try it alone. It's a long, lonely journey without fathers and mothers in the Church who really love and are committed to help you rise up into your calling. I am not suggesting this is not going on now to some degree, but I do believe it is certainly a now priority.

Tell the Youth "Elijah has Come"

I had a spiritual encounter in Germany while doing a conference with Steve Shultz for the first German ElijahList Ministries conference in 2005. My wife Ann and I were resting between sessions on Saturday afternoon. She was reading and I was soaking to worship music in our little room. Suddenly I sat straight up in bed thinking I had just awakened, and said, "Why did you wake me up?" Ann's response was, "I didn't wake you up." And then suddenly the vision I was in came right back at and into me. In the vision a man walked up to me and said, "Tell the youth, 'Elijah has come!'" It exploded in my spirit, awakening something within me.

I had no idea what this could mean at the time and asked Stacey Campbell that afternoon. She said, "Well, the Bible indicates he has come, and he will come. But I am not sure either." Over the next couple of years I watched young men and women intentionally looking and asking for mentoring—father and mother-type relationships in the Body of Christ. They want what Elisha had—relationship with those who have experience in their calling to help them step up and into theirs. They honor and want the experience of mothers and fathers.

They also want to go further than we have gone—but not without a safety net. It's amazing to me the quality and heart of these young leaders—not just their giftedness, which is also incredible. One of the saddest messages I ever saw was on the back of an RV. It said, "We are Spending our Kid's Inheritance!" How heartbreaking and unbiblical. Parents are to lay up for their children—not the other way around.

Freely You Have Received, Freely Give

My prayer for this year and the next few years is this: I pray that fathers and mothers will recognize the emerging leaders in the Body of Christ and reach out to them like Elijah did to Elisha.

Elijah made a commitment to help Elisha rise up into his calling, and Elisha stuck close to Elijah for as long as he could—serving, gleaning, and ministering alongside of him—and then received a double portion. It's time for the next generation to rise up and begin to step into their inheritance. If we do it right, perhaps they will do the same for the next generation. Sadly, Elisha did not. The result was his anointing went to the grave with him instead of being imparted to the next generation. Each generation has its own particular calling and anointing—but the next one needs what the former has.

What do you have that the next generation needs? Is it wisdom in business, a prophetic mantle, gifts of worship or a deep understanding of the Kingdom, etc.? Whatever it is, give it away and insure that it will multiply until we see the fullness of Jesus in His Body.


Denny Cline, Senior Leader
Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Albany
Email: denny@vcfalbany.org

Vision of this Whirlwind of FIRE Trailblazing Across OREGON

"I saw a Vision of this Whirlwind of FIRE Trailblazing Across OREGON"


Dear Denny,

I had a vision of you while Todd Bentley was praying for you at the meetings in Lakeland, when we were up on the platform together.

I saw a vision of this whirlwind of fire--trailblazing across Oregon, and it was burning up forest trees and the fire was spreading and it was getting larger and larger and it began to consume towns and cities--all across the State of Oregon.

As I watched, I also saw that it began to pull "golden stones" (people) out of the ground--they were alive. As these came out of the ground, they swirled within this whirlwind of fire and they were full of life. I saw these golden stones begin to shine really bright and then they were flung out all over the nation of America. Hot, golden living stones.

The Lord is showing me that what is taking place with you and your ministry, Denny (based in Albany, Oregon), is going to set Oregon on fire.

The Lord is also showing me a city--Medford, Oregon. The reason I know of this city is because my parents used to live there. I also saw that this fire touched Medford in a great way. The wind is blowing and the fire is burning and watch out Oregon, here it comes! Many people will be sent out from Oregon--golden stones to touch the nation.

Prophetic word for Albany and Medford by Rob DeLuca, May 13, 2008
via the ElijahList.

Todd Bentley, Lakeland FL, Washington State

In case you didn't see the May First, Lakeland Revival evening service, Todd gave a very special word for Washington.

He was talking to Denny Cline, and Ivan Roman. He then turned to the camera and gave the word for Washington. He repeated Washington five times. That has to be hugely significant. I recorded the message so I would have the exact words. Here it is: "It's going to shake in Washington State, get ready Washington, mighty outpouring is coming to Washington my friends, in Washington, come and get some fire and bring it back to Washington."

Via Diane Rieger
(Thanks, Diane!)

WIND STORM PROPHETIC WORD

Chuck Pierce said, “I’m going to tell you, as a sign, you watch the winds start hitting Oregon as a sign that says, ‘I am blowing away the old season out of this region.’”

At the finish of this statement, Denny Cline, pastor of Albany VCF, stepped up on the platform and announced, “Yeah, we just found out that there’s a storm that’s supposed to hit tomorrow like the Columbus Day Storm [of 1962].They’re comparing it to the 1962 storm that hit. That’s the biggest storm that’s ever hit Oregon that we know of. In 1962 on Columbus Day, it had 100 MPH winds. They’re comparing this. They said it’s supposed to hit tomorrow (Sat 12/1/07). Now I don’t know if we should pray to lessen this thing or what. I don’t know. I’ll leave that up to you (speaking to Chuck Pierce) ya know, but I mean that’s incredible!”

Chuck Pierce: “You know, I always prophesy in the nick of time! I’m mean, really now, I’m shocked! I’m just going by the word here [he had just read from Is. 41: 14-16 and was commenting on this passage being fulfilled in the church this coming year.] Now what we want to do is ask the Lord to lessen any damage, but to awaken the people of God because the cleansing wind is going to come and blow away the past season.”

His teaching this night had been centered on Zech. 2:13 as well as Is 41:10-16 and he said we were already in the new season and that it started in the 7^th month, which is the Jewish New Year. He says prophesy is based on the Jewish calendar, not the Roman one we use. Therefore, he believes we are already well on our way to seeing the new season of victory promised to us last year, a year of warfare and contending for the breakthroughs we have believed are on the way.

CHUCK PIERCE PROPHETIC WORD 11/30/07
What is God Saying for 2008? Elijah List Conference
[Given at Albany Vineyard Christian Fellowship, 2:00 PM]

for reference:

Storm's two-fistedness is what gave it near-record punch

by The Oregonian
Monday December 03, 2007, 7:30 PM
The effects could challenge those of the Columbus Day Storm of 1962

By the time it rumbled ashore late Sunday night, the storm dubbed a "monster" by forecasters began to show its teeth. It mowed down large swaths of forest, severed electrical, transportation and communication lifelines and dumped copious amounts of rain.

In meteorological terms, it was a mid-latitude cyclone, churning with power that began as typhoons, and exploded with hurricane-force winds over the Pacific Ocean as it was energized with cold air from Alaska.

"We usually get big windstorms or big rainstorms, but not both at the same time," said George Taylor of the Oregon Climate Service. "With this one, we had near-record wind and near-record rain at the same time."

At the height of its fury, the storm stretched more than 4,000 miles, with its main impact felt from Florence north to Bellingham, Wash. Triple-digit winds -- 129 mph at Bay City on the northern Oregon coast -- and sustained winds of 60 mph to 70 mph wreaked havoc on coastal stands of trees, their roots weakened by as much as 10 inches of rain.

Wolf Read, a meteorological consultant with a keen interest in wind in general and Pacific Northwest windstorms in particular, said peak gusts at Newport and Astoria topped those recorded during the infamous Columbus Day Storm of October 1962. Wind gusts during the Columbus Day Storm reached 127 mph in the Willamette Valley, and many stations had gusts between 75 and 100 mph.

The winds might even have been higher at Newport and Astoria this time, he said, although he can't be sure because weather data was interrupted when the power went out.

Read said although the triple-digit gusts Sunday and Monday were impressive, the sustained winds of 60 mph to 75 mph are what caused "windthrow," a natural phenomenon that affects thousands of acres of forests in the Northwest when it happens once every 10 to 20 years. Large patches of trees -- often near clearcuts or roads -- get blown over en masse, knocking out power and blocking roads.

"Those are Category 1 hurricane-force winds, and that doesn't happen very often. The potential for tree damage is incredible," Read said. "Such storms – mid-latitude cyclones -- have a reach far beyond that of a typical hurricane . . . and can cause damage into the hundreds of millions, even billions" of dollars.

Read said he was skeptical last week when forecasters with the National Weather Service in Portland first mentioned the storm's potential impact -- until, he says, he looked at wind speeds over the ocean.

"The truth is, the weather service went out on a limb and that takes guts," he said of the early warning. "But they were justified in doing it. This storm was a once every 40- or 45-year event, even for the coast. It's storms like this that may slowly erode the memory of the Columbus Day Storm."

Although rainfall amounts totaled less than during last year's record-setting rains in the coastal mountains near Tillamook, fast-responding rivers such as the Wilson, Trask, Nehalem, and Willapa in southwest Washington, rapidly reached flood stage.

As fast as the rivers rose, they began to recede, said Andy Bryant of the Northwest River Forecast Center. He said the Wilson and Nehalem rivers crested above flood stage at about 2 p.m. Monday. The Wilson River never matched the level it reached last year, but the Trask rose higher than 2006, pushed there by massive rains, and Bryant said, "much higher seas."

He said that after the cold front moves to the east by Tuesday morning, northwest Oregon and southwest Washington will be looking at showers, a bit of rain and cool temperatures, and a slow drying trend into the weekend.

Stuart Tomlinson
stuarttomlinson@news.oregonian.com
The Oregonian

A Warning Against Impatience

I dreamed that I was walking adown a country road toward my home. As I approached open fields there were many earth movers lined up along the side of the road, with drivers and motors running, but not moving. I complained to the Lord "Why aren't they moving? They are just sitting there with their engines running not moving anything."

Earth Movers

Immediately I heard the sound of a smaller earth mover coming from behind me at a high rate of speed, plowing up dirt everywhere. As it passed by me and came to a curve in the road the thought came to mind that this guy was going to lose it. Sure enough the earth mover went out of control and went off the road into an open field. He had pushed up a huge pile of dirt and was just sitting there by himself.

Gold Imbedded In Rock

The dream instantly changed and I found myself in a deep gold mine looking at a huge vein of gold imbedded in a rock wall. Again I complained to the Lord and said, "How are we ever going to get this gold out of here Lord?"

I could just imagine how painful it would be and tedious to use pick axes to get it out. I had no sooner asked the question than I witnessed from a distance a huge explosion. Rocks, dirt, debris went flying everywhere. I instantly found myself standing before a sluice box with water and dirt going by. As the machines shook screens in the waterway-- people just picked the gold out in huge chunks and threw it over their shoulders. The dream ended.

Impatience Toward The Work Of The Kingdom

The first part represents impatience toward the work of the kingdom being accomplished. The earth movers are the workers, their engines are running, but in this instance there wasn't anything being accomplished-- yet.

The smaller earth mover that was out of control represents just that, a worker who is zealous and going after it, but in a way that could end in shipwreck.

It's About Attitude - Not Activity

What I am describing is an attitude more than activity. Have you ever felt frustrated at the lack of your own personal fruitfulness and that of the body of Christ in America in general? Do you sometimes dwell on how hard you are working, but how little seems to get done?

I have come to believe that God mostly gives dreams like this, because we are either unaware or have a blind spot to our attitudes sometimes. I believe the Lord was graciously warning me not to get impatient about what He is doing in transforming the church in

America or the harvest.

The second part of the dream represents a hope of the gold coming forth, the treasure of Christ in you the hope of glory. God's dunamis power can accomplish more in a very short time than all our human efforts. It's explosive and shocking, but it makes the work look easy and the glory goes to Him. There is dunamis power-- more to come. That's not to say we should not use what we have and tend to the work of the kingdom. But if you are getting impatient, know that God is in control.

Worst Decisions Made With Impatience

Some of the worst decisions made in the Bible were made out of impatience and led to great harm and disappointment. To mention a few--

1) Abraham, not waiting for Isaac produced Ishmael.

2) Moses in frustration struck the rock instead of speaking to it. It cost him the blessing of entering the Land of Promise.

3) Saul, sacrificing instead of waiting for Samuel to come, cost him his kingship.

4) And there are many other accounts of impatience leading to sin and loss in the bible. God wants us to rest in the work and work in a place of rest, trusting Him for the end result. The gold is coming. a Trust and obey.

- Denny Cline, via Firefall Zine

Opening a Gateway in the Heavenlies Over the Columbia River Basin and the Northwest Region

From June 2005:

"[In a vision, I was shown] There was an exchange, in the past, of grain (like corn) for guns that created an unholy alliance in the spirit realm. [This had to to do with the Native Americans in the NW Columbia River Basin]. This alliance clouded the spiritual atmosphere, and still does to this day, in the Columbia River Basin.

The Columbia River Basin is -- I believe I was shown again by the Lord -- a gateway in the heavenlies for the Northwest region, and this issue is important concerning revival.

It needs to be cleared up somehow so the gateway can be open again in this region.


by Denny Cline
Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Albany
www.vcfalbany.org
denny@vcfalbany.org

from the Elijah List