Dear Friends,

So many of you have prayed for Master Potter through the years and I want to thank you for your diligence. God recently granted me a wonderful visitation and I'm sure the accumulation of your prayers and intercession helped to bring heaven's touch to earth.

As your prayers were so instrumental in releasing this experience, I pray that God brings you a heavenly visitation like this one in the days and months to come. As you read this, let your hope be stirred that God answers prayer and is on the move. I don't believe God gave this experience for me only, but to let you know that He is getting ready to release a holy invasion in this hour.

Pools of Glory

I'm going to make an attempt to paint in words an experience the Lord allowed me to have as a forerunner for you while in Washington D. C. last week. Picture yourself lying flat on the floor, the consuming fire of God moving over your entire body with the Spirit of burning causing your frail human vessel to shake under its power.

You're not sure how long you've been there, but you know you never want to rise out of this very holy and intimate place. As you lie there, you begin to feel the presence of Jesus radiating out from your being into a twenty-foot sphere of glory.

As you sit up, the heavenly portals open wider and a heavenly pool of glory forms at your feet. Suddenly people rush toward you, only to fall to the floor as they enter the pool and God grips and shakes them in His passionate embrace of fiery love.

A Sovereign Launching

All the while you are simply sitting there doing nothing, saying nothing, just as overwhelmed and radically touched as they are. You sit there while the power and heavy glory of God begins to move like hot velvety gold throughout the room.

When you are finally able to get to your feet, the atmosphere is saturated with His presence. Bodies are lying all over the room and others are rushing forward to encounter this awesome sphere of glory. You just point to a section in the room and whole groups of people would go down. You can feel the angelic and visitation realms as heavenly portals open.

For hours, waves of His presence sweep across the room, bringing an astounding impartation and weight to the sanctuary. At one time a pool of intercession opens in the room, igniting flaming fires for the lost. Your mouth releases fiery prophetic words, awakening destinies and purposes. You have just been given a new mantle and are being launched sovereignly into a whole new place. Sound good? It is! But, it's only the beginning of what God wants to give to all of us. Now I'll tell you the rest of my story.

Inaugural Weekend

The weekend of January 20th and 21st found me in Washington, D. C. attending the Third Annual Inaugural Prayer Breakfast for President-Elect George W. Bush on the morning of his inauguration. It was such an exciting time! We could feel the birthing of the governmental shift in the Spirit before the meeting even started. I was honored to attend and to see so many old friends and make many new ones.

That Saturday night I ministered at Chevy Chase Baptist Church with Overflowing Life Ministries. God moved powerfully that night in healing. One woman came in wearing heavy braces, with two broken ankles, and left dancing without them. It was an evening where everyone prayed for everyone, radical deliverance happened and impartation intermingled with prophetic words.

Seeing is Believing

On Sunday evening, Tracy Ruleman (our head intercessor) and her husband, David, and I joined Pastor Dennis and Donna Pisani at Glory Tabernacle. I had met a wonderful prophet, Jan Painter out of Louisville, Kentucky, at the prayer breakfast. She and a former pastor of mine, Dr. Gary Greenwald, were ministering there that weekend .

When Jan and I first met, she had a glimpse into eternity and saw something God wanted to bring to earth. What she saw was a new garment He wanted to give me, but she was waiting for God's timing to bring it into being and invited me to come to their meeting.

Divine Ambush

When I attended this meeting, I had no idea that God had brought me to this governmental city, on the inauguration weekend, to use three apostolic/prophetic vessels to raise me out of Joseph's dungeon and governmentally establish me in a new place. This is only part of a prophetic journey that I'm on, like many of you. There are many installments as He establishes us into the 21st century.

That night, after the worship service, she called me to the front and framed what she had seen with words and spoke prophetically. That brought the mantle from the heavenlies into this present realm of time.

God Gives Witness

Pastor Pisani anointed me with oil and Dr. Gary Greenwald joined in as they prayed for me. I was slain in the Spirit, which normally doesn't happen to me. The Lord gave witness from heaven and the glory of God fell on me first, then it moved sovereignly throughout the room.

Gary began to speak about the mantle of visitation and glory I've carried for years. He was reminded of a video he saw of a leadership meeting in New Zealand where I had ministered. He had watched a pool of glory coming into the room while I invited the New Zealand pastors to get into it. As they entered it, Gary shared that God had so change their lives and ministries that it brought a move of the Spirit to the entire nation.

Faith Comes by Hearing the Word of God

The faith level in the room began to soar as Gary was speaking. Here again was a framing with words that brought into the realm of time the things of the Spirit. Jan saw the pool of glory around me as I was lying on the floor and told the people what she was seeing. They spontaneously got out of their chairs and ran to my feet where they encountered the glory of God.

I'm relating this wonderful experience with you to encourage you! What I want is to make you so hungry for what God is doing that you will not be satisfied with anything less. What happened to me is just a picture of what God wants to do for all that thirst after Him. He wants to release realms of glory and He wants to use you and me to do it. The Lord is bringing a holy invasion of heaven to earth.

Three Prophetic Keys:

• We see it in the realm of eternity.
• We speak it, framing it in words, which brings it into the realm of time.
• God gives witness from heaven.

A Challenge to the Apostolic Leadership

1. Have you established the prophetic in your movement? Yes, the prophetic should operate in the back rooms and in the marketplace of everyday life, but seasoned prophetic voices should also be given a platform in the church to help establish and put into place the mandates of the Lord.
2. Where is the clarion call of the prophetic that is sounding forth with cutting-edge accuracy? Could they be sitting in your pews waiting to be released? The way to break judgments off the prophetic and unlock them is to establish them.
3. Do you have prophetic voices giving divine strategies for your church? Do they give confirmation and clarity? Does the government of God back them up? If so, are they backed up by you?
4. Are you more afraid of a few "flakes" than you are of barrenness? Have you judged the entire prophetic movement by one or two voices that fell into sin? Wisdom is needed and it is important that character and humility has been worked into their lives. I'm not talking about budding voices that have not spent their time in the wilderness of training and equipping, but rather mature, proven vessels.
5. The heavy mantle of government that rests on you as apostolic leaders must be used to recognize and establish the seasoned, mature prophetic voices in your midst while allowing the young eaglets to be raised up under their wings.
6. God wants the prophetic, in fact all believers, to be golden retrievers. Carriers who can see things in the realm of the eternal, bring it into the realm of time, frame it with words and establish it in the earth.
7. We're coming into a season of release for some of the hidden Josephs. The apostolic and prophetic is going to be taken out of their old, tattered garments and adorned with new mantles of government wrought in the fires of affliction. They will be clothed in humility and intimacy. Are you ready?

Gatekeepers Welcome the Prophetic

I want to give my blessings to David and Tracy Ruleman of Overflowing Life Ministries and Dave and Maureen Freshour of Chevy Chase Baptist Church. I also want to express my gratitude to Dennis and Donna Pisani of Glory Tabernacle and Tom and Sue Breuner of Abundant Life Fellowship for opening the gates of their city to me.

When apostolic gatekeepers embrace and welcome the prophetic, it establishes them so they can unfurl their mantles and release their anointing. These wonderful Washington D. C. gatekeepers welcomed me that weekend and what you just read about is the result of it.

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