I purchased a book written by Marc Dupont last year at a sale but never came around to reading it until last week when I found it by coincidence (that’s another way of my saying, “I think God led me to find it.”) As it turned out Marc was an associate pastor at the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship, and he went on to establish and lead the Mantle of Praise Ministries, a ministry concerned with revival and restoring a prophetic edge to the whole body of Christ,and focused on speaking and impartation.
The speaking has to do with what the Spirit of God desires to say to the individual church, that particular region, or to the Body of Christ in general, and teaching on themes such as Healing and the Kingdom of God. Impartation is the releasing by the Spirit of what the Father desires to do in “Encouraging and releasing of spiritual gift; the Holy Spirit speaking clearly and directly to peoples hearts about the Father’s compassion and sovereignty; and Ministering in healing.”
Marc also serves with Vineyard of Dayton in Ohio as their associate pastor when he is not traveling.
Do visit Marc’s website to see the full prophecy for 2008 as I believe that it dovetails with the words spoken over NLV and will encourage you. Some portions of Marc’s prophecy are extracted and shown below.
Post Script: There is an opportunity for Susan and I to travel to Dayton Ohio in October to relate with Marc and the small group of leaders that meets with him once a year! More details at Marc’s website.
Extract
2008 will be a year that God brings many into the “broad place” of 2 Samuel 22.20 (NASV) & Psalm 18.19 (NASV). It will be a place of blessings and freedom, as opposed to a place of restraint, Job 36.16 (NASV). It will be a season when many will experience more than their eyes have seen, ears heard, and their minds have understood (1 Cor. 2.9). It will also be a time of those who have, being given much more to the point of abundance (Matthew 25.29).
It will also, however, be a time when many who have made attempts before in serving God, or stepping out in faith in a particular area, only to have met with futility will be set up by God for a fresh opportunity to step into the desire of their hearts. One of the many fascinating characteristics of God is that He, in His great heart, is the god of multiple opportunities. Like with the apostle Peter denying the Lord Jesus three times in one night receiving complete forgiveness AND being re-commissioned for the apostolic call on his life. In fact, it was this same disciple that had denied Jesus publicly that then stood up on the day of Pentecost and preached the good news resulting in thousands being saved and the early church being birthed…
…When Ezra and Nehemiah came to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls of the city and the temple they were mocked by Sanballat, the Horonite. He said to them “What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore it for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish in a day? Can they revive the stones from the dusty rubble even the burned ones?” The stones that Ezra and Nehemiah were using to rebuild were the burnt stones from the original walls that had been torn apart and scorched in the fires and devastation that the enemy had brought Jerusalem. This is a powerful picture of how God can take humans who have met with failure and devastation and in His timing use us as the living stones to build His spiritual house to make sacrifices of praise and worship to God.
The devil, the hater of our souls, is saying to many “do you really think God can accomplish those old desires of your heart when you have experienced so much failure and destruction”? Nehemiah’s and Ezra’s answer would be “absolutely, YES”!
God wants to freshly reveal and release the miraculous power of His compassion in our lives for His redemptive purposes. And as we walk in the love AND the fear of the Lord, we will be living testimonies of God Himself for all of mankind. We will become like those memorial stones of old in Gilgal.
His heart for many this year is to roll away our shame and failure and bring us into the land of promise He has for us. Will there be giants, fierce enemies, and battles in the land? Absolutely, yes. But, as we have learned to walk in a greater intimacy with God and greater dependency on Him, we have come into a greater heart knowledge that Jesus really did come so that we might have life super abundantly in Him. Just as the scars on the hands of Jesus are a beautiful eternal reminder of His great love for us so too the scorching we have experienced will be testimonies of God’s amazing redemptive love in our lives.