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Dr. Bill Hamon
Founder and Bishop, Christian International (CI)
Ministries
This includes CI Network of Churches, CI School
of Theology, CI Ministries Network, CI Business Network, CI
Publishers and Ministry Training College
Frequent speaker at conferences and seminars
Married to Evelyn for 49 years, 3 adult children
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MINISTRY
Apostles,
Prophets, and the Ministry of the Saints
By
The 700 Club
CBN.com
- The Coming Saints
Dr. Bill Hamon believes that God is changing our perspective
in the 21st century from seeing the church as a building with four walls
to the Church as a people. "The Church is wherever the saints are. The
people of God will do ministry and miracles as God directs in business
places also."
"It takes the same Holy Spirit, the same anointing, the same blood for
the full-time Christian worker as it does for the Christian businessman,"
he says. "We need to know how to pray and intercede. God will raise up
a great company of saints in the marketplace to demonstrate the power
of God in the Kingdom of God."
According to Hamon, founder of Christian International Ministries, Christians will
move in government and in the marketplace like Daniel and Joseph, in key
places at key times. "Christian businessmen will see this move as not
another way to get rich, but as a way to demonstrate the Kingdom of God
on earth. They will be salt and light."
He believes that some business people will have daily staff times to
train their people in the principles of God. "God is getting ready to
invade the earth. According to Daniel 7:18, 22, 27, the saints will take
the Kingdom."
Great Move
Dr. Hamon says that within the last 50 years of the 20th century God
has reset, re-positioned, and restored all of the five-fold ministries.
"God uses each decade to clarify, magnify, and reposition the church in
a place to fulfill the vision," he says.
- In the 50s, the church saw the restoration and rise to prominence
of evangelists like Oral Roberts and T.L. Osborn.
- In the 60s, great churches arose led by pastors such as David Yonghi
Cho. Once a church of 500 was considered large, but today churches of
5000 or more are not uncommon.
- In the 70s, the charismatic teacher renewal was led by people
like Derek Prince, Kenneth Hagin, and Dennis Bennett. These were not
Pentecostal expounders. There was no prophecy nor praying for the sick.
They taught and people came by the thousands. Prior to this move of
God the teacher was seen as someone only in a Bible college.
- In the 80s, the prophets were restored to the Body of Christ; men
like Bill Hamon and Paul Cain. Many denominations had not recognized
the prophets, saying they were not for this dispensation, that there
was no need for them since we had the Bible.
- The 90s, saw the emergence of the apostles, or the apostolic ministry.
This ministry includes leaders like Peter Wagner and John Eckhart. Most
Pentecostals have questions about the apostles; evangelicals practically
have no place for them at all. They had to be restored to the Body per
Ephesians 4:11-13, "And He gave some to be apostles, some prophets,
some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers…."
"When all five ministries have come together, we will relate together
and equip the saints," Hamon declares. "Then we will see the 'saints movement'
and they can go forth and compel people to believe with supernatural signs."
Prophetic Prayer
"Prophetic prayer is praying with the mind of the Holy Spirit," Hamon
says. When intercessors pray, sometimes they pick up and see things in
the spirit. They are watchmen on the wall, and God will share things with
them."
According to Hamon, once God shares His foreknowledge, the intercessor
must use wisdom on how to share that. "If they must share it with the
leadership, they should 'give it and forget it,' and move on to something
else," Hamon says. "They should not try to influence or impact the pastor
or leader more than they should. Trust God to work it out. It is possible
to make warfare in prayer."
Hamon believes that the prophetic warrior gets into trouble when he tries
to manipulate and control the reaction or obedience of others. Such manipulation
can border on witchcraft. "They are not the conscience of the leader or
the Holy Spirit. They are a vital part of the ministry if they stay in
their proper place."
"An ear should stay an ear, an eye should stay an eye," Hamon says. "Do
what you are called to do. All leaders need prayer. Prophetic prayer can
be some of the most effective prayer there is," he says. "Just know the
power and the pitfalls."
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