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January 1997

Highlighting the Work of His Hands

1997 is here and we have a joyful expectancy about what God has for Master Potter Ministries this year!! "Open heaven in 97" is a phrase that will be resounding throughout the body of Christ in this coming year. Accompanied by that will be an increase of miraculous healings!!

Southern California Tour

We would like to share some things the Lord did on a month long tour of these cities in California before going on our Christmas break: Northridge, Pasadena, Torrance, Fullerton, Moreno Valley, San Diego, La Jolla, Brea, Corona, and Huntington Beach.

We ministered in a church that is surrounded by 105 languages in a four mile radius and the Lord has used this church to birth 14 multi-cultural congregations. The pastor's 10 year old daughter experienced the fire of God touching her for the first time. As she was sitting in the meeting, she began to tremble and shake and did so all night. She didn't know what was happening to her but she said "yes" to Holy Spirit. When Jill released the fire or made prophetic proclamations, this fire would intensify on her. She was like a "spiritual barometer" in the room!

A cluster of radical young Hispanic, black, and white women slipped into the meeting and the fire of Holy Spirit also touched them! The Lord loves to cross racial lines and touch everyone!

Another meeting ushered in God's heart for the lost and 3/4 of the auditorium responded as they filled the altar area as well as the aisles. As the fire of God touched the people, an impartation for evangelizing the lost and prodigals was released. Many were experiencing weeping, trembling lips, fire on their feet and running rapidly in place, falling over, and crying out for souls. The Lord said, "If you want to give me a present for Christmas, then give Me souls!" It made many weep.

The Lord was extending a homecoming call to renew first love at another church. The majority of the room were on their faces at the front of the church weeping and shaking. The altar area looked like a battlefield and yet you could hear a pin drop as the sweet presence of Jesus bathed the room in silence and He challenged them to deeper intimacy.

A home meeting was the site for a power demonstration of Holy Spirit. The Lord led Jill to break the power of: the assignments of the enemy to stop people's destinies, pronouncements against the prophetic, spirits of insanity and mental illness, and lies spoken against those involved in worship and the arts. It felt like the Lord picked up the room and shook it until those things fell off people. The presence of the Lord entered the room and the people felt "lighter" and at peace again.

A church the Lord brought us to had been under siege and in a terrific battle for the last 5 years and the devastation was very real. Even though the battle has been rough, the Lord was asking them to say yes to Him again. A depth of God came into the room as people were being gripped by Holy Spirit with impartation, falling on the ground, trembling, and many of the youth being called to the nations as fire was touching their feet. It was heart-rending to see children weeping in their parents' arms.

A single mom and her daughter took the message on prophetic evangelism to heart during the meetings! When they were shopping at a mall on the weekend, they ran into a teenage cousin they hadn't seen in 10 years!! They invited him to church and he accepted the Lord during the meeting. Lots of tears were shed, yet what a time of rejoicing it was for each of them!

We ran into some New Zealand friends who have since moved to California and the Lord was impacting them with His power again and again. That was a great blessing for us to see them again while on the road!


Blessings on the Road

While doing another meeting, a corporate prophetic word mixed with the fire of God brought "spontaneous combustion" into the room. The Lord was addressing those who felt that life was too hard and they just wanted to go home (it is like Christian suicide, which is illegal!). To our surprise, many people responded to that word and stood for ministry. People were repenting and renouncing their words of death over themselves, crying out, shaking, falling down, weeping, and having heart issues healed.

Another corporate prophetic word was given to people who were eagles but felt caged in for one reason or another. As the Lord led Jill to break the power of captivity and release the people to be airborne again, the same kind of power surge hit the room. In the end, people were crying out, weeping, and clapping! Seeing people infused with courage and hope to move in God again is so rewarding!!

A radical church we ministered in meets in a former bar on Sunday evenings. It is called "Joel's Bar!". People from the streets were walking into the meeting because of the music, thinking it was still a bar!

The worship leader has a Levite anointing and the presence of the Lord was so deep and beautiful that we felt like the room had been washed with the gentle "rain" of God's love. This ushered in the presence of the Lord and there were continual surges of impartation throughout the room. Many different groups of people were ministered to and the fire of God touched each group (men, women, children, those under 30, those over 30, those called to the nations, etc.). It was truly a night to remember!!!!

A church that also loves to worship the Lord had invited us to do several meetings. Again, there were power surges touching the people with incredible bouts of laughter and piles of bodies on the floor. As a wave of the fire of God was released on musicians, artists, and the youth, the floor was covered with people who were radically shaking, falling down, trembling, and weeping.

A man who had never had an open-eyed vision shared what he saw. During one of the power surges, he saw the ceiling in the church open up and angels were flying all over us blowing trumpets. He saw very bright lights in the room too. During that time the lights in the church had been flickering on and off, were going bright to dim, and it seemed like strange electrical problems were repeatedly happening.

Our final night in California ended with an invitation for us to go to Bogota, Columbia, next July to minister to 50,000 women! Jill called a couple up for prophetic words because the Lord kept highlighting them in the audience. After the word, they fell under the power of Holy Spirit so Jill let them stay there while she continued giving words. Afterwards they asked to meet with us and asked if Jill remembered them. She didn't.

They had come to a home meeting Jill was doing almost 3 years before. She had given them a word that they would go to Columbia, South America, within six months and that the favor of the Lord would get them into places that would surprise them. The husband didn't think it was a true word for several reasons so he decided to test it. First of all, he had been a former drug dealer in Venezuela so he wasn't really interested in living in Columbia!! Also, there were several things they would need if they were to go to Columbia in 6 months so he put a fleece out concerning their needs.

Within six months, they were sitting in Bogotoa, Columbia, and all of the things they asked the Lord for were given to them to make the move possible! Within a year of being there, his wife was made the National Director of the Assembly of God's Womens' Ministry for the nation of Columbia! Being faithful to do a small home meeting has led to an invitation to speak to 50,000 women! God is the God of multiplication!


Watchmen on the Walls for Us!

January/February 1997
  1. Jill Austin
    There has been a turn for the worse concerning Jill's knees. She is going to get x- rays of them because the pain level has increased to the point that it wakes her up in the night several times and she feels a burning sensation. Her knees are usually more irritated when she has been standing for lots of meetings, but she has only done three sessions in the last five weeks.
  2. Linda Valen
    She is traveling on the road full time with Jill and has been in very good health, thanks to your prayers. Keep them coming!! This is not something we take for granted.
  3. Cheryl Seaburg
    Continue to pray for Cheryl while we are on the road! She needs to be covered in prayer as much as the team does! This is equally important to us!!!
  4. Andre Ashby
    In mid-January, Andre accepted a position as a youth pastor at Rivergate Christian Fellowship in Corona, California, with Pastor John Perez. He will still be traveling with us at different times as the Lord leads. Andre's partial facial paralysis is still continuing to show great improvement! Thank you for praying ... and don't stop!!!
  5. Book Project
    We are working on the book in January and February!! This is a faith jump for us to stay home and believe the Lord for our monthly expenses, which is about $6,000 per month. We want to thank those of you who have responded to this request! It means so much to us that you want to join us in this project! If others of you would still like to have a part in this undertaking, please mention "book project" when you write.

    Pray that there will be lots of "oil" to write the book! We are claiming Job 29:5-6 (Amplified), "When the Almighty was yet with me ... my steps were washed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!"
  6. New Tapes
    We are needing to get NEW tapes out right away! This will involve editing time in a studio, which can be very labor intensive and costly. Many people have asked us if we have any new materials, which we do, so it is time to do this project now too!
  7. Ministry trips
    Will you please remember to cover us before we leave on a trip and our re-entry. Both are as critical as the trip itself!!! Also pray for divine placement of our calendar bookings!

Kingdom Givers

Prov. 11:24-25, "There are those who generously scatter abroad, and yet increase more; there are those who withhold more than is fitting or what is justly due, but it results only in want. The liberal person shall be enriched, and he who waters shall himself be watered."


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