MMI Ministry Report

April 2014

The Seismic IV Consultation

This was an extremely busy month! On April 10-11 we had our annual consultation called “The Seismic Shift.” This gathering is an invitation-only event for some of the most influential Christian leaders centered in the Tri-State area and the East Coast. This is the only event I have experienced in which high-level marketplace leaders and full-time church leaders equally participate and are blessed.

This year we had several hundred leaders including presenters such as Antioch School President Jeff Reed, Pastor A.R. Bernard, Bishop Bart Pierce, Bishop Eugene Reeves, psychologist Dr. Paul Van Valin, Bishop Robert Stearns, myself, Bishop Mark Chironna (via personal video message), Bishop Mullery Jean-Pierre, Pastor Justin Mattera, Pastor Justin Kendrick, New York City Councilmember Dr. Fernando Cabrera, venture capitalist Chuck Stetson, former Senator Sam Rohrer, Dr. Raymond Rivera, Evangelist Kevin Palau, Pinnacle Forum President Steve Fedyski, New York City developer and City Action Coalition executive director Kristina Hosch, Apostolic Leaders Walt Healy, Gary Hartley, and Bernard Wilkes, as well as many other high-level leaders who attended and had private gatherings to network and strategize including United in Purpose President Bill Dallas, Economist Elijah Flew, entrepreneur and head of Business Ethics Institute Phil Clement, and some national leaders in the pro-life movement. This list does not include key pastors, apostolic leaders and marketplace leaders too numerous to mention.

Also, many prayer leaders of networks, key intercessors and more than 100 people stayed after the Seismic event to attend and participate in a five-hour prophetic prayer gathering called “The Harp and Bowl” which was led by New York City prayer leaders Jody Wood, Pastor Fran Mangano, Pastor Puro Coniglio, COPI Greater New York president Pastor Dimas Salaberrios, with exhortations and prayers from Christian Union President Matt Bennett, Apostle Luis Vargas, Pastor Dennis Bambino (who shared prophetically) and much more.

Truly every year the Seismic event becomes more strategic and powerful. Also, the prayer gathering gave birth to a quarterly “Seismic Regional Prayer Gathering” which will be held in a different location in the Tri-State area. The next one will be at Freeport Bible Center hosted by Apostle Luis Vargas in July.

Ministry at Comunidad Cristiana Church in Elizabeth, NJ

On Sunday April 6 I ministered at the congregation led by my dear friends Pastors Raul and Kareem Burgos. This vibrant church with more than 400 attendees has outstanding influence in its community. They are known for being one of the most relevant Hispanic churches in the nation with vibrant worship and amazing outreaches.

On this Sunday I preached a message entitled “Healing of the Soul and the Gospel.” In this message I dealt with defining the functions of the soul and how the gospel of Christ powerfully deals with each aspect of our mind, emotions and will. This teaching was powerfully received and many responded to the altar call and allowed God to touch the deep places of their hearts, minds and emotions.

Ministry at Words of Life Christian Center on April 13

On Palm Sunday I was invited by Pastor Ben Paz to minister to the congregation he oversees in the Bronx. This is one of the fastest growing (more than 1,200 pack their Sunday services) vibrant Spanish speaking churches in New York City, incredible apostolic government, leadership, worship, love and hospitality. The sky is the limit for this congregation and for Pastor Paz.

On this Sunday I attempted to preach on the Lord’s Prayer from Matthew 6:6-9 but in the first service I could not get past the phrase “Our Father” and God gave me a prophetic teaching related to healing “father wounds”, rejection and an “orphan spirit” with hundreds of men responding to the altar call and allowing God to heal their hearts, give them a sense of their heavenly Father’s affirmation, and using them to be instruments of healing to their biological and spiritual children. There was a powerful sense of God’s presence and the Father’s love as I called upon God to give them the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children according to Malachi 4:4-6.

In the second service I preached on “Being a Kingdom Church” and several hundred responded to living a kingdom life according to the assignment the Lord has given them in life.

Brazil, April 16-23

Organized by a brilliant young apostolic leader named Fernando Guillen, I felt I was sent specifically by God to this nation to give them an understanding on how to be a generational people and to release the Elijah anointing that restores the role of fathers to their spouses and children. All the concepts were from my latest book Walk in Generational Blessings.

The city of Las Palmas

More than 5,000 pastors, leaders and youth packed a convention center and on Good Friday evening I preached on “Six Steps to Biblical Dominion” in which I showed clearly how the foundation of all civilization is biblical marriage, and how passing down our faith to our biological children to make them greater leaders than us is the foundation of civilization and the key to advancing the Kingdom of God. God gave me great liberty to preach and teach and there was a powerful move of the Spirit at the altar call as more than 1,000 men came up to the altar weeping to be healed of an orphan spirit as well as to receive the Elijah anointing to bring healing to their families and break the generational curses of family fragmentation over their nation. During the altar call I ministered prophetically to the apostolic leader of this network of churches. Then Fernando called up onto the stage a prominent national political leader and we both prophesied over him. I had no idea who he was and the prophetic words really shook him and he wept. Senator Magno is one of the leading presidential candidates this coming October.

The City of Brasilia

I ministered on Saturday and Easter Sunday night in a key church called “Community of the Nations Church” with about 5,000 members and 10 campuses led by Pastor J.B. in the political capital of the nation. On both Saturday and Sunday night there was a powerful move of the Spirit as I taught on the importance of marriage and perpetuating a generational blessing as I taught on the first three points of “Six Steps to Biblical Dominion.” Each night I attempted to preach all six points but both nights God would not let me get past the third point dealing with “thinking generationally.”

Practically every man responded to the altar call each night and there was a very deep move of the Spirit as God healed father wounds and men received the “anointing of Elijah” that turns the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children back to their fathers. After the service on Sunday night I met with the pastor and some of his leaders for dinner and I taught them privately the last three points of the message. Pastor J.B. is one of the most brilliant young leaders I have met in Latin America who is well read and has a great future in the kingdom.

The City of Porto Seguro

The last several days of this trip I joined my spiritual father Apostle John Kelly and Apostle Rene Terra Nova in his annual convention in this port city. Rene leads the largest movement in the nation called the “M12” (movement of 12). He has a church well over 100,000 in the Amazon region and claims about 6,000,000 adherents nationwide. He is considered by many to be one of the 10 most influential apostolic leaders in the world.

On Tuesday morning I ministered to 2,000 pastors and apostolic leaders from all over the nation on “Six Steps to Biblical Dominion” and God gave me an extraordinary preaching/teaching anointing. For 45 minutes I hammered them with the generational message. God sent shockwaves across the room and we ended with a general prayer because we had no time to do an altar call. Many of the leaders purchased my book Walk in Generational Blessings that was translated into Portuguese.

On Wednesday morning I ministered to between 15,000 to 20,000 people on “The Generational Kingdom.” It was perhaps the most powerful part of the whole trip as God gave me a great prophetic preaching anointing to prove how, starting with Genesis 1:28, we cannot interpret the Bible properly without a generational mindset and how all true spiritual warfare is between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15). While I was preaching the moderator of the meeting signaled to me to keep on preaching and gave me as much time as I needed, so I took another 20 minutes.

Virtually all the men in the convention center made their way to the front for the altar call with all the women praying for them from their seats. There was an extraordinary move of the Spirit as perhaps as many as several thousand men came to the front weeping, repenting and asking to receive the Elijah anointing to break the curse of fatherlessness and family fragmentation in their great nation. Afterwards there was a long line and hundreds of my Portuguese Walk in Generational Blessings books were sold.

Apostle Terra Nova and his key leaders said that the teachings were much needed, went perfectly with their vision for families, and that it was a great blessing to their whole movement. I praise God that I was given this extraordinary assignment by God to go to this great and significant nation during this time in their history.