January ’09 Partnerletter

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January 2009

Dear Friends,

“Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. And there was great joy in that city.”

·         Acts 8:5-8

2009 is here; and GJITCM and Bond Servants of Christ Ministerial Fellowship (BSCMF) members are excited about the Word from God we received about this year: “2009 – The Year to Step Up and Step Out!” I am not saying this is a Word for the Body of Christ in general, but this is a Word for GJITCM and BSCMF in Asia. When I received this Word in prayer with GJITCM Pakistan Country Director, Tahir Rafiq, who was visiting with me in Singapore in December, I believe that it was a clear signal from God for a new level of ministry in 2009.

Since coming back from Christmas holiday, this divine clarion call has been getting stronger and stronger in my Spirit Man; and I believe that God is saying, “It’s time to walk in the fullness of the apostolic calling and to make a greater impact upon the Asian nations. It is time for GJITCM to walk in the fullness of our calling to ‘Prepare the way of the Lord’s return’”…

I will say this in general to the Body of Christ: I clearly believe that God is saying it is time to walk in the fullness of what He has provided for us through Jesus Christ; and that it’s openly available; the windows of heaven are fully open and waiting for you to act and receive God’s fullness by faith. So, get prepared and receive!

So having enjoyed the holiday season and fully rested, it’s time to focus upon the work of ministry. I will be heading mid-January to the KCM Ministers Conference in Fort Worth; then to the New York/New Jersey/Long Island areas and Orlando, Florida for church meetings, before heading back through Dallas-Fort Worth to Bangkok and onwards to xxxx, Pakistan for an important ministry trip.

I would ask you to please pray about the following Pakistan itinerary. I am expecting the fullness of the apostolic calling to be in operation – especially as I head to the Afghanistan border area. As you are aware from news reports, Pakistan is the focus of the ‘War on Terror’; it being a safe haven for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighting in Afghanistan; as well as being a staging area for attacks against India (the terrorists in Mumbai terrorist attack were Pakistani). Besides cities like Peshawar, xxxx is a hot bed for Islamic fundamentalism, especially in regards to the Taliban. Our itinerary is as follows:

Feb 3:       Leave DFW area for Tokyo and Bangkok, Thailand.

Feb 5:       Arrive in xxxx, Pakistan.***

Feb 6-7:    xxxx Pastors Faith Seminar***

Feb 7:       GJITC Church of Lahore Sunday service.

Feb 8-9:    xxxx Evangelistic Crusades (major street meetings with thousands in 

                 attendance). ***

Feb 10-11:  Spending time with GJITCM-Pakistan staff in Lahore.

Feb 11:      Fly to xxxx, Pakistan.***

Feb 12-13:   xxxx Pastor Faith Seminar – City-wide and regional area participation.***

Feb 12-13:   xxxx Evangelistic Night Meetings.***

Feb 14:      Fly to xxxx, Pakistan; and fly out to Bangkok and to Singapore.***

Feb 15:      Back in Singapore.

I know it’s a rather condensed schedule, but due to security concerns, I want to make a Holy Ghost impact and leave the country as soon as possible. Pakistan continues to be at a critical juncture politically, and our ministry trip will have major spiritual implications around the nation. So, your prayers will be greatly appreciated.

You still have an opportunity to participate in sowing seeds towards this Pakistan trip. As I mentioned last month, we ask you to stand in agreement for the budget of $16,000 to be received into our ministry this month. GJITCM is at the forefront of Christian ministry in Pakistan, and Bond Servants of Christ Ministerial Fellowship (BSCMF) is the largest ministerial fellowship in the country. Your financial seeds will have eternal and earthly rewards; and you will actively partner and participate in impacting one of the most crucial nations in the world today.

I look forward to meeting some of you during the KCM Ministers Conference…Till next time -

You are loved and blessed of God – and by me,

Dr. Will Pantin

Dr. Will Pantin

January ’09 BSCMF Letter

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January 2009

Dear BSCMF Member, 

“… I’ve got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward–to Jesus. I’m off and running, and I’m not turning back.”

 ·        Philippians 3:13-14 (Message Bible)

A new year is here: 2009. It is a new beginning; and I want you to get that fact into your heart. I want you to forget 2008; and go to God with the elements of Holy Communion and give the year 2008 over to Jesus (all the sin, failures and problems) – it’s a new beginning; and get ready for 2009!

I have a Word from God regarding 2009, that GJITCM and I are standing upon; and it is a Word from God for all BSCMF members:

“2009 – The Year to Step Up and Step Out!”

As this new year begins, I want you to get out of your own ability and thinking, and I want you to keep your focus totally upon Jesus. He is living inside of you now; the Holy Spirit is living inside of you now; and it’s time to move up to a higher level of ministry. It is time to walk as Jesus walked upon the earth and to fulfill God’s Word spoken by Jesus in John 14:12-13 (New Living Translation), “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in Me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. You can ask for anything in My name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father.”

Brothers and Sisters – It is time to walk like Jesus did upon the earth and to do the Signs, Wonders and Miracles that Jesus did; it is time to walk in the fullness of the victory that Jesus paid for; it is time to walk in the fullness of being a Witness of Jesus Christ: A VICTORIOUS WITNESS!

So, stop looking at yourself the way you have been your entire life – that old person is dead. Get a revelation that it is time to STEP UP into the fullness of the image of God through Jesus Christ living inside of you; and STEP OUT into the fullness of the victorious witness to a dying world! Only you can stop you from walking in the fullness of God this year, by looking at your self, ability, circumstance and the lies of Satan! Look only to Jesus living inside of you; keep focused upon God’s promises; and make every effort to walk in love – Step Up and Step Out into the Fullness of God in 2009!

May God bless you richly,

Dr. Will Pantin      

With a new year comes: A New Beginning!

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December 28, 2008

Dear Friends,

I don’t know about you, but I am nearly overwhelmed thinking about how quickly this year has flown by…A new year is upon us!

At the end of this year I will spend time evaluating my life, and take an honest account of the good and the bad that was produced in 2008; the things I learned during the course of the year, and the things I need to focus upon in the future; the progress made both spiritually and life goals acheived.  I will bring the 2008 year before Jesus in repentance and prayer, thanksgiving and worship and by taking Holy Communion. I will give all of 2008 to Jesus, and I will leave the past with him and I set my faith and focus upon the new year ahead!

With a new year comes a new beginning with God! It doesn’t matter how bad this year has been, or how much you have struggled and failed – you have a new beginning. If you had a good 2008, a year filled with blessing and prosperity, you can have a more blessed and prosperous year in 2009! The point that you need to focus upon is this: You are on God’s path for your life; and the path grows brighter and brighter unto a perfect day (Proverbs 4:18). Your best days are ahead, so forget the past and get excited about tomorrow – 2009 can be the most blessed and awesome year of your life; it’s up to you entirely - If you seek God’s Kingdom first in your life, your greatest hopes and dreams can come true in 2009; you can have it all, if you will believe God and focus upon God’s Promises and Ways!

Think of it – the book has been completed on 2008, and you are about to start ”Chapter 1″ for the new book of your life: 2009. You can fill your pages with anything you want; you are the author of your life; so fill the pages of your life in 2009, with God’s promises and have faith in His love to produce them. It doesn’t matter how badly you messed up, or how little you have acheived in 2008; forget about it – it’s the past! It states in Philippians 3:13 (New Living Translation) “No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead”.

Satan may be screaming into your ears – “You have failed in 2008, and you will continue to fail in 2009!” Just tell him in Jesus’ name, “SHUT UP!” Remember, Satan is a liar and the ‘Accuser of the Brethren’, and he will always try to bring up your failings and make you feel inadequate, trying to get your to dwell upon the past. But if you have given all of the 2008 year to Jesus in prayer and have repented and taken Holy Communion over it, the slate has been wiped clean and Satan has nothing on you. Forget 2008 and get excited about 2009!

As 2009 begins, go before God in prayer and get into God’s Word. Go through the Bible and get the promises of God that cover your life situations and goals for 2009, and bring them before God during Holy Communion: Remember, the Bread and the Wine is a powerful representation of the Body and Blood of Jesus. And “by the two immutable things” it’s impossible for God to lie. I like the Message Bible version of Hebrews 6:17-18:

“When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee– God can’t break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable. We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go.”

Write down your 2009 promises from God’s Word into a journal or a notebook, and make a notation that you took Holy Communion over them. Continually remember what God’s Word says, “God can’t break his word”. During the course of 2009, keep meditating upon the promises; keep thanking God for His love and faithfulness; keep your focus upon God’s promises and keep looking ahead and NOT BEHIND!

Let God’s Word in Philippians 3:13-16 (Message Bible) be your your focus for 2009:

 ”…I’ve got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward–to Jesus. I’m off and running, and I’m not turning back. So let’s keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision–you’ll see it yet! Now that we’re on the right track, let’s stay on it. ”

If you will make the commitment as 2009 starts, to keep focused upon God’s promises for your life, and if you will make every effort to walk in love, you will experience the greatest year of your life – With God all things are possible!

Get excited, a new year is about to begin; and with that new year is a new beginning for your life. Make every day count - live for God every day – and you will walk in the fullness of God in 2009!

I pray that 2009, is the most Blessed and happiest year of your life!

Be blessed and full of Joy -

Dr. Will

God with us!

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December 21, 2008

Dear Friends,

Christmas week is upon us, and we are all busy shopping for gifts, or focused upon church programs, or (like myself) just relaxing a bit during the holiday season. But whatever we Believers are preoccupied with during this Christmas season, we should not lose sight of the meaning and significance of the Christmas season.

 It states in Matthew 1:23: “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.”  

Emmanuel has come to the earth; “God with us”. The world has an understanding that Christmas has to do with the birth of Jesus. But for those who have faith in Jesus Christ and who are Born-again Believers, Christmas is not a basic understanding of  “God with us”, but more importantly and impacting – GOD IN US!

What a gift from God: At the fullness of time (and tell me that He is not patient), God sent Jesus, His only begotten son to the earth to become the most important gift ever given to mankind. Jesus was born of woman, but whose seed was of God. Jesus came to earth to redeem mankind from the bondage of Satan, hell and death; to redeem mankind from the curse that has plagued this earth since the fall of Adam; and to bring God’s love and blessing upon all those who would receive Jesus as Savior. God gave the world a second chance to walk in His fullness; and to fulfill the commission to be a steward over the earth, and to replenish and subdue it!

Praise the Lord! You will never receive a greater gift while on this earth, than receiving Jesus as your Lord and Savior. By receiving the free gift from God and developing a revelation of the importance of the gift to your life, you will come to know the love of God in a real and intimate way. You will know and understand in a real way that with God all things are possible!

Think of it; whatever you are facing today that looks impossible to handle in the natural, there is an answer to your dilemma; there is victory and success over every seemingly insurmountable problem in your life: Emmanuel has been given to you – God living in you and working on your behalf is yours by faith. Love personified, who is yearning to fill you with all that He is and all that He has, was freely given to you as a gift!.

This Christmas season, take time to meditate upon just how wonderful a gift God has given you; spend time just praising Him for the goodness and agape love He has for you; go to church and get together with fellow Believers who are as excited about their ultimate “Christmas Gift” as you.

“God with us”: God loves you, and has a wonderful preordained life filled with all His love and blessings waiting for you to receive; the Holy Spirit was sent to Help, Guide, Counsel, Teach, Correct and ‘Show you things to come’, so you can walk in the fullness of that ‘good life’ gift; and “Emmanuel” – Jesus Christ, who paid the price for you to receive that wonderful gift free of charge. Mediate upon, believe and receive the fullness of Jesus!

My Christmas gift for you is a prayer – That God will show Himself real to you this holiday season; that you will truly come to know the love of God that passes knowledge and be filled with all the fullness of God.

I wish you a Blessed an joyful Christmas!

Be blessed and full of Joy -

Dr. Will

Comprehend God’s Love for you!

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December 14, 2008

Dear Friends,

God loves You - We have all heard about it; we have read Bible verses about it; and in a measure, we believe that God loves us and wants to demonstrate His love towards us as a loving Father. Yet, there are too many Believers in the world who are walking in failure and defeat. There are too many Believers who are sad and are overcomed with problems; and who have their souls (mind, will and emotions) vexed by hopelessness and depression. How can this be?

I believe that God’s Word in Ephesians 3:14-19, gives us insight into what is necessary to walk in the love of God. The Apostle Paul wrote it as a prayer for the Church at Ephesus; and it is for you today:

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Comprehend God’s love: If you press to comprehend the breadth, length, depth and height of God’s love for you, it will empower you to experience a greater measure of God’s Blessings, and you will walk in a higher level of faith. You will come to intimately know the Blessing of God in your life to such an overflowing measure that it will propel you to bless all the families of the earth!

Now there are some important aspects that are vital for you to comprehend the love that God has for you. The first is that you need to be “rooted and grounded” in walking in God’s love towards others. The word “rooted” means to be fixed and constant – you need to be making a constant effort to walk in love. Yes, you may slip up from time to time, but you must be pressing constantly with an effort to walk in love. The word “grounded” means your love walk needs to be the foundation where upon you build your life - love has to be THE foundational motivation in your life. You need to have a revelation that if you want to have more of God in your life, you need to build your relationship with God on the foundation of love. 

Now before you start thinking that it is going to be nearly impossible to have a ’love walk’ as your foundation, I want you to understand that you have a Helper who is the Holy Spirit. According to Ephesians 3:16, you are already strengthened with “might” in your inner man. This “might” is actually ‘dunamis’ power, which in the original Greek means “acheiving power”… So, you are well able to walk in the love of God, if you will yield to the Holy Spirit and not let your flesh have rule over your life!

But more importantly, there is an aspect of knowing God’s love that brings the Blessing and divine success in life not generally focused upon by Believers; and that is learning how to ‘comprehend’ God’s love.

You see, to ‘comprehend’ God’s love requires effort on your part. It does not come from reciting a few Bible verses every day and spending some time with God in prayer. Comprehending God’s love comes by pressing in and seizing hold of God’s love.

The word ‘comprehend’ in the original Greek is the word, “katalambánō”, which means: “To take, to apprehend, attain, obtain, find”. The original Greek word was used in reference to atheletes competing in Greek public games. The word ‘comprehend’ in the Greek pertained to an athelete’s focus ’to obtain the prize with the idea of eager and strenuous exertion, to grasp, seize upon’. It was not a less active word like ‘understanding’, that we would attribute to a modern meaning of the word ‘comprehend’.

This is where Believers are missing it: Believers are not making a ‘strenous effort’ to seize hold of God’s love. Once again, we must keep in mind that we have an enemy, Satan, who is trying to keep you far away from God; and to keep you from a revelation of God’s love. Satan’s primary strategy is to keep you fixed upon the problems of life; and to keep your focus upon negative circumstances. These problems, when you meditate upon them, bring darkness to your soul (mind, will and emotions); and if you will not resist Satan and his thoughts, he will bring darkness to your understanding. Satan is constantly attempting to bring as much darkness to your understanding as possible. He is trying to make that darkness so thick in your life, that you will never be able to have faith to believe you have a way out of your circumstances or problems. Satan wants to deceive you into believing that God does not really love you that much to want to help you.

You see – A revelation of God’s love IS THE ANSWER TO EVERY PROBLEM AND CIRCUMSTANCE IN YOUR LIFE: And Satan knows it!

You must exert effort to comprehend God’s love; it needs to be the focus of your life. You need to keep it at the forefront of your thinking and actions as you go about your daily routine. Meditate upon God’s love for you. Keep focused upon the fact that God’s has plans for you – plans to take care of you and not abandon you; plans to give you the future you hope for. You need to spend time with God just worshipping Him because He is a loving Father: Not asking for things (like the Gentiles do – Matthew 6:32), but just praising and thanking God…Why?

Because God loves you, and God has your life all planned out with good things; God is working on your behalf all the time!

If you will make the concerted effort to comprehend the love of God, then you will come to the place where you will have initmate knowledge of God’s love. There will be a growing of God’s presence in your life that will be tangible and real: And my friends, when you are walking in such intimacy with God, you will never question God again whether He loves you; or question whether you have the answer to your problem. In fact, as it states in Ephesians 3:19, you will be “filled with all the fullness of God” – your life with be overflowing with an abundance of God’s love in your life!

Dear friends – I can tell you from personal experience: Having a constant revelation of God’s love in your life will fill you with faith and expectancy. There will be joy unspeakable in your life because you will have an inner knowing that good things are always coming your way. It is only when we do not “comprehend” God’s love by putting in a ‘strenous’ effort to keep the revelation of God’s love before us, that we struggle with our faith and have failure in life.

I want to encourage you to comprehend God’s love – Ask God to enlighten the eyes of your understanding concerning His love for you; and then just be still before God and wait upon the Lord. If you will give God the open door, He is going to reveal himself to you; and it will motivate you to press into comprehending God’s love more and more. In time, you will come to a place where you will truly have intimate knowledge of God’s love.

When you have intimate knowledge of God’s love for you, then the fullness of God will be manifested. You will be in position to demonstrate God’s love to a dying world that has no hope or a knowledge of love. Through comprehending God’s love, you will be in position to bring in the end-time harvest upon the earth!

Be blessed and full of Joy -

Dr. Will

Win the Battle of the Mind!

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December 7, 2008

Dear Friends,

Throughout this past week, the Lord has been drawing me back to a primary reason why many Christians fail to receive from God, and why they are struggling with their faith – The battle of the mind.

This week, I want to give you an important key to walk in more victory in life, and how to receive more of the Blessing of God through answered prayer. Yes, we receive God’s Blessings through faith in His Word, but we actually obtain victory and answered prayer by winning the battle that is fought in the mind. If Satan can get a hold of your thoughts and control your mind, you will always fail to receive; but if you allow the Holy Spirit to control your mind through God’s Word, you will always win and receive answered prayer!

The Bible states in Romans 8:6 (New Living Translation), “So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. The Spirit-controlled mind brings life and peace. The Spirit of God controls your life when God’s Word is preeminent. Remember: The Word of God is living and powerful, and will change the way you think. Romans 12:2 (New Living Translation) states, “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” The mind that is focused upon God’s Word is a Spirit-controlled mind that brings “life and peace”. The “life” spoken about is “zoe life” (the life of God); and if you have zoe life in YOUR life, things are going to go very well for you! The word “peace” talked about is more than you are familiar with in the English language. In reality, it is an expression of the Old Testament word, “Shalom” which actually means, ‘wholeness, soundness, hence health, well-being, and prosperity’.

So the choice seems to be obvious: you can either have a carnal mind that will lead to death, the curse and failure – a mind that focuses on circumstances and is full of worry and fear about those negative circumstances. Or you can have a mind controlled by the Spirit of God through God’s Word, that will bring the life of God into your life, and will result in well-being and prosperity. It seems like an obvious choice: But the thing is, Satan realizes the importance of such a decision and the impact it can have upon his plans and your victorious witness in life. And that is why the outcome for the battle of your mind is a key factor in whether you have success or failure in life!

There are many Born-again Believers who believe the Bible earnestly and love God, but who fail to protect their minds and do the things necessary to keep the Holy Spirit in control long enough to gain the victory. To be honest with you, in almost ever case when it comes to receiving by faith in God’s Word, winning or failure comes down to a Believer putting the proper effort (“pressing”) long enough to obtain the victory. You have to understand that Satan is work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week trying to infiltrate your mind with worry and fear (focusing your thoughts on the circumstances and the “impossibility”, in the natural, of you receiving) that will ultimately cripple your faith and make it ineffectual. To win and receive from God, you need to put in a constant daily effort of keeping the Word of God before you to combat Satan’s attacks.

The following wisdom of Proverbs 4:20-27 (New Living Translation) states perfectly what you need to do on a daily basis:

“My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words. Don’t lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body. Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Avoid all perverse talk; stay away from corrupt speech. Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you. Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path. Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil.”

There are two nuggets of wisdom mentioned in Proverbs 4:20-27, which are key for victory in your life: 1. Don’t lose sight of God’s Word; and 2. Don’t get sidetracked!

If you were to honestly examine your life, you would see that Satan’s avenue of attack is to keep God’s Word away from you; because he understands better than you, that faith in the living Word of God will defeat him every time. When it comes to the battle of the mind, Satan will use every tool at his disposal to keep your focus off God’s Word and to sidetrack you by distractons, and (what I like to call) “smoke screens”. Have you ever been believing God for a while for a particular thing, and you feel in your spirit that you are on the verge of it coming to pass? All of a sudden, out of no where a minor crisis comes your way that seems beyond the norm: This is Satan’s last ditch attempt to draw your attention off of God’s Word. I can’t tell you how many times Satan has tried this tactic with me. But after some years of experience, I am “battle-hardened” and wise with experience to know Satan’s obvious attacks.

To defeat Satan’s tactics against you, and to gain the victory of answered prayer and the manifestation of God’s Blessings in your life, you need to keep your mind focused upon God and His Word. Now, before you start to tell me that you are too busy to do that, let me stop you and tell you that I know better. I am a full-time minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ now, but about 20 years ago when I first seriously got into God’s Word, I was an investment banker on Wall Street who managed a $1.2 billion portfolio (it seems like a life-time ago). When the Lord started to teach me these things, I still managed to keep God’s Word before my eyes, in my heart and out my mouth while busily doing my work. While sitting at my trading desk and doing emerging market deals worth tens of millions of US dollars, I still managed to keep little scripture cards taped against my trading screen and a pocket size Bible on my desk. Every free opportunity I had, I’d look at the card and the written verse of scripture which I was basing my faith upon for an answered prayer, and mutter it under my breath and thanked God for the answer. I’d take a subway to work 5 days a week, that took me about 45 minutes door-to-door from my apartment on the eastside of Manhattan to Wall Street. During that time, I’d have my “Walkman” (no IPODS back then) going with a faith teaching tapes from Kenneth or Gloria Copeland, Jerry Savelle, etc. So, there is no excuse for you: If I was able to put the proper effort in while being extremely busy as an investment banker, so can you. The truth of the matter is (and what it normally comes down to in obtaining life’s best): Do you want victory badly enough? Are you desperate enough to do the necessary things that will bring you victory in life?

Let’s get serious: God has preplanned the victory for your life; Jesus has paid the price for your victory; and you have the Holy Spirit as your Helper, Guide, Teacher, Counsellor, Comforter and “revealer of future things” to assist you in walking in the fullness of God’s preplanned victorious life. But you have a crucial part to play in winning or losing: You are the determining factor - Not God; not Jesus; not the Holy Spirit; and not Satan or circumstances. NO – You and the effort you put into doing the things necessary to win, determines the level of answered prayer you receive in life!

This next week, take an account of your faith: What are you believing God for? What scriptures are you standing upon to obtain the answer? Make an honest evaluation of whether you are ‘pressing’ with the proper amount of spiritual effort on a consistent basis. After you have taken an honest account of your faith walk and made the proper adjustments, write this scripture down from Numbers 23:19-20 (New Living Translation), and keep it constantly before you till you see the victory:

“God is not a man, so He does not lie. He is not human, so He does not change His mind. Has He ever spoken and failed to act? Has He ever promised and not carried it through? Listen, I received a command to bless; God has blessed, and I cannot reverse it! “

Win the Battle of the Mind by keeping God’s promises in your heart and continously coming out of your mouth. If you do – watch out: God’s Blessings and answered prayers will abound!

Be blessed and full of Joy -

Dr. Will

December ’08 Partnerletter

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December 2008

Dear Friends,

“Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. And there was great joy in that city.”

·         Acts 8:5-8

As I write this letter, I am overwhelmed with the thought of how quickly 2008 has flown by… My walk with God has grown over the course of this year; and I have come to know the love, patience, mercy and kindness of God; and I can truly say I have been blessed abundantly. I want to encourage you as the year draws to a close, to renew your dedication to the Lord and get prepared for 2009.

God has some awesomely wonderful things planned for your life next year. I have a real sense of excitement. Trust in the Lord with all your heart; lean upon Him; listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit more earnestly. The restoration of all things is on the horizon – it must come before the ‘Latter Rain’ manifests fully (Joel 2: 25-29). So get before the Lord – declare, “Not my will but thy Will be done”; and get ready for a glorious year. Amen!

As we get ready to close out this year and head into 2009, I want to give you clarity of GJITCM’s vision and purpose. The staff and I have been focusing upon fully comprehending and expecting the manifestation of ‘the fullness’ of our ministry calling next year. I want to share with you GJITCM’s vision and calling –

Great Joy in the City Ministries is an Asia-based apostolic ministry; and has been given ‘apostolic keys’ of power, dominion and power to tear down strongholds and turn Asian unbelievers to Christ. GJITCM walks in the fullness of the apostolic gifting and anointing according to 2 Corinthians 12:12 – the proof of the apostle being “signs, wonders and miracles”. The apostolic message given to GJITCM is to prepare the way for the Lord’s return by preaching the unlimited love and compassion of God, and demonstrating the love of God with signs, wonders and miracles. The ‘demonstration’ of the tangible love of God through Jesus Christ breaks through entrenched mindsets and religious traditions; we are called to demonstrate “the reality of Christ’ to a world without hope. GJITCM is commissioned to “feed God’s children” with the Word of Faith, so that they will truly know a loving God who cares about them and their needs, drawing believers to a closer walk with God. GJITCM also has a ministry focus towards leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ: Teaching pastors and church leaders that the way to true Godly success and impact in ministry, is through Godly servanthood, humbleness, submission and compassion; to become a “Bondservant of Christ”. That he who would be ‘greatest in the Kingdom of God’ would be servant of all.

This is our ministry purpose and focus; and GJITCM staff and I have been pressing into the vision and believing that ‘the time of fulfillment is here’.

This past month, GJITCM has experienced an awesome increase in ministry that confirms our vision and calling. I made a ministry trip to Pakistan last month and held a “Victory By Faith” seminar for pastors and church leaders in the city of Gurjanwala; which is also known as “The City of Scholars”. Within the city, is located some of Pakistan’s major Christian seminaries; albeit, main-line denominational Christian seminaries (who dominate Christianity in Pakistan). The largest Christian university/seminary is established by the US-based Presbyterian Church; and this was the location of our pastor faith seminar in the city. GJITCM is the driving ministry force in bringing the uncompromised Word of Faith to the nation of Pakistan. With the evidence of awesome results gained from this faith seminar, we believe God has opened up a tremendous new door for GJITCM to bring salvation and the Faith teaching to traditional denominations.

We had over 500 Presbyterian and denominational pastors, church leaders and seminary students as our seminar participants: A pretty impressive number considering we are a Spirit-filled, evangelical ministry with no prior ties within the area. Although all attendees were denominational Christians (including Roman Catholic priests) with limited revelation of God’s Word, the spiritual atmosphere in the audience changed with each scripture and revelation. The Holy Spirit led me to give an altar call during the first hour, and we had over 150 pastors receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior (the others were already saved). The first day I taught on the Basics of Faith, and the second day taught on Redemption from the Curse. Breakthrough was gradual but tangible. The Lord moved through Holy Spirit power confirming the Word of God taught throughout the seminar - including some awesome pinpoint accurate Words of Knowledge that made great impressions upon the denominational leadership. God moving in a ‘real way’ makes all the difference in breaking down strongholds; and is a key to success in apostolic ministry.            

Breakthrough came the second day with the culmination of over 520 church leaders shouting for joy and shouting “I am Blessed of God!”…it was wonder to behold! I have been invited back already; and I have been promised an audience of over 1,000 pastors and church leaders for the next seminar – That is truly apostolic anointing in manifestation: Praise the Lord!

We have already received some awesome testimonies from the seminar – Our office in Lahore and our organizer in Gujranwala have been receiving a number of phone calls from pastors who are testifying how blessed they were by the faith teaching.

Our Pastor Faith Seminar was the first seminar in the history of Gujranwala where leadership from all Christian denominations gathered together for one seminar.

We also had an awesome testimony from a Catholic priest, who stated that his following Sunday service had the same anointing upon it as we had at the pastors seminar; and that his church service lasted for 8 hours! He also shared that there was a “mighty wind of the Holy Spirit” in the Sunday service that led people to spend most of the service praising and worshipping God. The Catholic priest stated that it was the first time in his church’s history that they had such a move of the Spirit – Praise the Lord, what an awesome testimony! 

We also had over 125 Bond Servants of Christ Ministerial Fellowship (BSCMF) members ordained at the end of the seminar. GJITCM now has close to 3,500 members of Bond Servants of Christ Ministerial Fellowship – making BSCMF one of the fastest growing ministerial fellowships in Asia; and the largest in Pakistan!

We thank all of you who helped finance this trip – you have an awesome harvest on the way. I believe that the seeds you sown for this trip have tremendous eternal rewards attached, as you have helped GJITCM breakthrough a major spiritual wall in Pakistan, and helped bring Unity of Faith among the Body of Christ in Pakistan.

For those who did not participate in helping to support this breakthrough trip – no problem: As I want to give you an opportunity to invest in good ground with our MAJOR PAKISTAN TRIP IN FEBRUARY! We are planning for a major 2-day street crusade in the city of xxxx with thousands in attendance; a pastor faith seminar in xxxx; and a pastor faith seminar in the city of xxxx, with night evangelistic meetings planned! I declare by the Spirit of God, that this trip is going to shake the nation for Jesus unlike any ministry trip prior. The budget for the Pakistan trip is $16,000, and we ask you to stand in agreement with us that it’s paid in full by next month. Partnership in reaching this vital Muslim nation has great rewards!

**(Please note that due to security concerns, the website version of the partnerlette does not list cities in Pakistan prior to the trip – For trip details, please contact our office in Lahore, or write us at gjitcm@greatjoyinthecity.org)**

GJITCM is also planning some major ministry expansion in Pakistan at the beginning of the year. We plan to plant two ‘Great Joy in the City Churches’: One in the city of Gurjanwala in January; and one in the Afghan border city of Quetta in February (a city-wide church, unlike the GJITC Women’s Church we now have in the city). Please stand in agreement with us for successful church plantings, and the increase in budget to meet the church costs. Throughout 2009, GJITCM plans on planting GJITC churches throughout all of Pakistan. We will also be expanding our ministry activities throughout India – going into new areas in the south. Also, we are in the planning stages for major ministry projects in Malaysia – pastor faith seminars, evangelistic meetings, as well as helping to build the Body of Christ in Muslim dominated areas.

2009 will be a year of major expansion for our apostolic ministry in Asia: Preparing the way of the Lord’s return; demonstrating the love of God; feeding God’s children; and blessing the nations of Asia: Pray about becoming a partner with GJITCM in 2009, as the Lord breaks down major spiritual strongholds through our unique apostolic gifting and calling, and help bring in the end-time harvest in Asia!

Finally –

GJITCM and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!

Till next time -

You are loved and blessed of God – and by me,

Dr. Will Pantin

December ’08 BSCMF Letter

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December 2008

Dear BSCMF Member,

“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed…And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:”

·         Joel 2:25-26; 28

The other day, I was reading the prophetic Book of Joel, and I received a startling revelation that I never saw before. All the Body of Christ has been talking about the “The Latter Rain”: the time when the glory of God would fall, and great signs, wonders and miracles would take place. We all have been talking about this prophetic time soon coming; and how “The Latter Rain” will usher in the Return of Jesus Christ, and the Rapture of the Church.

But I did not see till the other day, that a major event is suppose to take place prior to the “Latter Rain” – The Blessing of God and the restoration of what Satan has stolen from the Body of Christ! Read v.25-26, you can see that the Lord states He will restore the years; that “ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you.” This scripture is talking about the Blessing of God in manifestation! Also when the Word states, “and my people shall never be ashamed”; my Word study revealed that the original Greek translation of the word “ashamed”, uses a word associated with “a farmer with no harvest”. Praise the Lord: My Spiritual Father, Kenneth Copeland has been talking about The Blessing of God recently, and that according to the Word of God in Galatians 3:13, 29; Genesis 12: 2-3, we are Blessed of God; and that “the Blessing of the Lord maketh rich and there is no sorrow with it” (Proverbs 10:22) – GO TO “DR WILL’S WEEKLY WORD OF JOY” FOR MORE TEACHING ON THE BLESSING OF GOD. The time of the Blessing of God is NOW. We are Blessed, and blessed to be a blessing, and all of the families of the earth are blessed through us (Galatians 3:29; Genesis 12: 2-3).  You are rich because you are ‘Blessed of God’; not blessed because you are rich. God is going to restore all that Satan has stolen!

For the Body of Christ to walk in the “Latter Rain”, there needs to be first the Blessing of God and a restoration; an end-time financial blessing. Meditate and develop your faith in the Blessing of God: Be blessed and bless the families of the earth. Through blessing, bring in “The Latter Rain” upon the earth. We need to have faith – that we are blessed Now!

May God bless you richly,

Dr. Will Pantin