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2014 – A Year of the Double Portion

Posted on by Dr. Meri Crouley

I believe that we are on the verge of the greatest move of God in history! God is going to give us double for our trouble! Double portion, double honor, double favor! But many of you have experienced so many trials and challenges you have come into a position where it seems like it will never happen.

It’s time for the Restoration of All Things

Two years ago at Christmas time I heard the spirit of the Lord speak to me, “Tell the people, I am going to make their dreams come true!” This is the time that God is going to restore everything that was lost, broken and forgotten. It’s always darkest before the dawn! It’s time for the restoration of all things and for the great harvest of souls to come into God’s kingdom before the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ!

As I was researching about the number 14, I found some very interesting things! The number fourteen is a multiple of 7 x 2. The number seven means spiritual perfection or completion. And so the #14 implies a double measure of spiritual perfection.

There are 3 sets of 14 generations between Abraham and Joseph (husband of Mary). So all the generations from Abraham to David are 14 generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon is 14 generations, and from the captivity until Jesus Christ are 14 generations.

The #14 represents deliverance and salvation and is used 22 times in the bible. The 14th day of the month is the Passover when God delivered the firstborn of Israel from death. On the 14th day of the first month in 30 AD, Jesus was crucified as the perfect sacrifice to save mankind from sin. Jesus death on Passover completed His ministry on this earth to free the world from sin.

I woke up on Labor Day of 2013 and heard the Lord speak to me, “It’s time for the earth to give birth.” I knew that God was speaking to me about a great harvest which was going to come forth! I believe that we are now at the door for this movement to come into fruition.

In 1996 I formed a foundation called “Youthwave Explosion” under the guidance of the Lord. God spoke to me and said there was a greater move of God coming Lonnie Frisbee than in the Jesus Movement. In the late sixties the Lord touched a Hippie named Lonnie Frisbee with the power of the Holy Spirit. Through a series of divine coincidences God brought Pastor Chuck Smith and Lonnie Frisbee together. It erupted into a movement and the rest is history. Thousands of people came to the Lord and Calvary Chapel (Chuck Smith’s small church) exploded on the scene where thousands of hippies found redemption through Christ!

The Changing of the Guard is At Hand

The changing of the guard is at hand. Many church fathers have recently gone home to heaven including Pastor Chuck Smith (October 3, 2013) and Paul Crouch who started Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) on November 30, 2013. Evangelist Billy Graham is very frail and also on the verge of being taken home to heaven.Calvary Chapel

In Malachi 4: 4-5 the Bible states: “Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.. And he will turn the hearts of the Fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their Father’s, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

The Lord is bringing forth another movement – only this will be a movement of the Father. The Lord said He was going to send the spirit of Elijah before the coming of Jesus. The spirit of Elijah is a double portion anointing!

In II Kings 2 Elijah is ready to be taken up into heaven. Elisha had been serving Elijah and by the spirit knew that it was time for his departure. He asked for a double portion of the spirit that was on Elijah as seen in II Kings 2: 9 – 14:

9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.

11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;

14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.

Do you notice that Elisha cries out in verse 12: “My Father, My Father”. Elisha did receive a double portion of the spirit of Elijah and in his ministry did twice the works of his spiritual father, Elijah.

Let Go of the Past, to Receive the New Thing

2014 is going to be a year of the double portion. The Lord is sending forth the spirit of Elijah and is going to be restoring families, finances and futures. But Elisha had to tear his own clothes in two before he picked up the mantle of Elijah. You have to let go of the past and what has not worked up until now to receive the new thing.

We have never walked this way where we are going. The Father God in heaven is going to be bringing forth the “Greatest Show on Earth.” It will look very different than any other movement in history. But it will turn father’s hearts back to their children and will restore the lost. This will be the last move before the coming of Jesus Christ to this earth. It’s time for the earth to give birth! It’s time for the double portion anointing! It’s time for the harvest of God’s sons and daughters! Get ready….on your mark, get set…..GO!

Mother’s Day 2012

Posted on by Dr. Meri Crouley

This is the season that we are going to be celebrating Mothers.   On May 13th it will be Mother’s Day!  Everyone who has ever been born has had a Mother!  I feel the Lord say that God is about ready to birth something new in the earth.  Another wave of His spirit is here!

There was a significant event that happened on Mother’s Day 32 years ago.  John Wimber had been pastoring a church called Calvary Chapel in Yorba Linda.  He invited a young evangelist named Lonnie Frisbee to come and share that day.  Lonnie Frisbee had been a hippie during the Jesus Movement and God used Lonnie in a tremendous way during the late sixties and early seventies.  In 1967 Lonnie went up to Tahquitz Canyon and dropped LSD.  He cried out “God, if you’re real….reveal yourself to me!”.  He had an encounter where Lonnie had a vision of the Pacific Ocean.  But instead of being filled with water….it was filled with people who were in darkness.  Jesus appeared to Lonnie and told him that God was putting a light on him to reach lost people.  The rest is history.   God sparked a movement where thousands of young people came to know Jesus.

So now it is 1980 and the Jesus Movement had come and gone.  Many had been touched and still following after the Lord.  But something had shifted and many were crying out to God to see a fresh outpouring of His spirit.  John Wimber and Lonnie Frisbee had met a few months prior to this event at a pastor’s conference.  John had been seeking the Lord for a fresh visitation and believing that signs and wonders would follow.  He invited Lonnie Frisbee to come and share on Mother’s Day.  It was a typical Sunday morning.  John Wimber shared his message and then invited Lonnie Frisbee to come up.  Lonnie walked up to the podium and started sharing stories from the past about the Jesus Movement.  He called all the young people up around the altar.  He then raised his hands and said, “Come Holy Spirit”.  All of a sudden the power of God hit the place and all the young people fell to the ground under the power of the Holy Spirit.  They were all speaking in tongues and under a heavy anointing.

I have spoken to several people who were at this meeting.  They said it looked chaotic!  Half of the elders walked out of the church because they didn’t think it was God!  John Wimber just sat there looking around in amazement.  He had been praying for God to start moving with signs and wonders!  Was this the Lord?  John went home that night and got a phone call from a pastor in Denver.  God had woken up the pastor and told him to call John Wimber and tell John that what was going on in his church was of the Lord.  When John put the phone down he was truly amazed!  It was the Lord!  God was pouring out His spirit and the Lord was moving in signs and wonders.

The rest again is history!  The Vineyard church had been birthed on Mother’s Day.  John Wimber had been a Calvary Chapel but decided to branch out and become a Vineyard Church.  Chuck Smith blessed the ministry and they took off running!  The Vineyard Church started growing in a miraculous way.  Many people were coming and accepting Jesus as their personal Savior.  But they were also seeing the Lord moving in signs and wonders.

We are at the time in history for another movement.  It will be a movement which will affect the media.  God is doing a new thing and He is pouring out His spirit in a new fashion.  This Mother’s Day God is going to break the seal.  I see Him choosing a new wine which he is going to break the seal, pop the cork and start pouring.  It’s time for a fresh new wine…..it times for another outpouring.

The Lord is birthing something new in the earth!  Get ready…..it’s time for the sons of God to be birthed in the earth.  It’s time for another awakening!

“I Have A Dream”

Posted on by Dr. Meri Crouley

Last night I had a dream which startled me awake!  I was sitting on a hill with many young people waiting for an event to start.  I noticed there was a young man carefully walking around and putting his hands on some of the young people’s shoulders.  It was as if they were being targeted for something.

All at once I noticed there were tankers off in the distance!  As soon as a hand was put on their shoulders and they were “picked” – the tankers then fired a silver dart at them.  I knew that these were darts from the enemy!

I tried to hold up my hands to shield these darts from them.  But I noticed that I did not have my shield to protect me.  My shield of faith was down!  I awoke and realized that God was trying to speak with me through my Dreams.

Today is the birthday of Martin Luther King.  He was probably most known for one of his most famous sermons “I Have A Dream” which he spoke during the march on Washington in 1963.  There were many injustices taking place in our nation.  Dr. King spoke to them to rise up above these injustices and believe that we can change them. 

His voice was made silent on April 4, 1968 when he was assassinated.  Many people were shocked and outraged at this senseless killing!  But his voice is still heard today.  God is awakening a whole new generation to a cry for freedom against injustices.  At the end of the sixties there was a slogan circling that said “God was Dead”. 

 Also, in 1967 there was a 17 year old hippie who went up to a mountain named Tahquitz near Palm Springs.  He dropped LSD and cried out in the canyon, “God if you’re real – REVEAL YOURSELF TO ME”.  All of a sudden the atmosphere of the canyon started to change.  Jesus appeared to him and told Lonnie that a light was being put on him to reach lost people.  His name was Lonnie Frisbee.

At the same time in history, there was another man who was crying out to God.  His name was Chuck Smith and he had been pasturing a fledgling little church in Costa Mesa, CA named Calvary Chapel.  He used to go to Laguna Beach with his wife and watch all the hippies lining the streets.  He would shake his head and say, “Dirty Hippies, why don’t you take a bath”.  His wife, Kay, would shake her head crying saying, “Chuck, don’t say that!  We have to pray that God is going to reach these kids!”. 

God caused these two men’s paths to intersect and the Jesus Movement was birthed.  Thousands of young people getting baptized in Corona Del Mar, CA at Pirates Cove.  Time magazine made Jesus “Man of the Year” – a Movement had begun. 

Another movement is here right now!  This is a movement of the Fathers.  It will be Faith of our Fathers to see the next generation birthed.  Injustices done will now be forgiven.  The Lord is going to “turn the hearts of the Father’s to the children, and the children to their fathers”.  Malachi 4

Pastor Chuck Smith recently informed his congregation on January 1, 2012 that he has lung cancer.  He has never smoked and didn’t understand how this could happen.  Because of this many people are looking back to the roots of where the movement all began.  God is going to breathe new life into a new movement and resuscitate the church.  They will be kissed to wake up to their Destinies.   The dreams where the enemy has tried to target and destroy will now be birthed again. 

The Lord is bringing forth His light to the lost!   On April 4th, 2012, it will be forty-four years since Martin Luther King was assassinated!  God is bringing forth the double portion.  The spirit of Elijah is being sent.  Even as thousands of people were baptized during the Jesus Movement so has another baptism begun.  It’s time for the new wave.

Get your boards and get ready for the ride of your life!  Surf’s up dude!

Lonnie Frisbee, ‘Hippie Preacher’ by Kari Browning

Posted on by Dr. Meri Crouley

I wish I could have met Lonnie Frisbee in person.  He died at the age of 43 on March 12, 1993.

Lonnie was known as the “hippie preacher” and was a catalyst for the “Jesus Movement” that began in the 1960’s.  Lonnie led thousands to the Lord and was the spark that ignited revival in both the Calvary Chapel and Vineyard movements, two worldwide denominations.

During the 60’s and 70’s, the country was being greatly impacted by the Jesus Movement.  Lonnie would walk the beaches during the day and convert the young people and bring them back to the church for the nightly services.  Frisbee’s appearance helped appeal to hippies and the youth culture, and Frisbee believed that the young people would play a prominent role in the Christian movement in the United States.

Acts 2:17-18 “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.  Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.  Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.”

His ministry influenced many, including Dr. James Maloney and Shawn Bolz who will be speaking at our upcoming “The Fullness of Time” conference.  They both were exposed to the raw power of God in Lonnie’s meetings and were forever changed.

Lonnie led Greg Laurie to the Lord in 1970.  Greg is the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, one of the largest churches in the United States.

In Greg’s Own Words:

“A young man named Lonnie Frisbee stood up with a Bible in his hand.  He was a youth pastor with Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa where the Jesus movement was in full swing.  With his shoulder-length hair and beard, he almost looked the way I had seen Jesus depicted in paintings and in the movies. He opened the Bible and began to speak. Although I listened to what he said that day, I don’t remember many of his comments except for one statement: Jesus said, ‘You are either for Me or against Me.’  What side are you on?

That really struck me. Never before had I heard that faith in Christ was an either or deal.  Jesus was just this wonderful historical figure who lived a long time ago, did a lot of good turns, and taught brotherly love. As a teenager, I thought that was cool. But for the first time, I had heard that it was actually possible to know Him in a personal way. It seemed too good to be true. I looked over at these Christians, all sitting cross-legged in a circle, and thought, undoubtedly, they are for Him. Knowing I was not one of them, it dawned on me that this must mean I was against Him.

This impassioned preacher told the group that anyone who wanted to know Jesus in a personal way should get up and walk forward. I found myself standing with a handful of other brave souls, praying with the long-haired minister to receive Jesus Christ into my heart and life.”

Jesus Freaks

“Jesus Freaks,” as they were often called, began to be featured in major magazines such as Life, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone.  Lonnie, because of his prominence in the movement, was frequently photographed and interviewed.

On Mother’s Day 1980, Lonnie was invited by John Wimber to speak at his Yorba Linda Calvary Chapel church. After speaking, Lonnie invited all the young people 25 and under to come forward.   Shawn Bolz was 8 years old at the time and was in that service.  Lonnie said these now famous words, “the Church has for years grieved the Holy Spirit, but He’s getting over it!  Come Holy Spirit!”   Hundreds were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to shake and speak in tongues.   Chairs were falling over and the young people were falling on top of the chairs.  Everyone was in shock, including John Wimber.

That night, John Wimber could not sleep.  He stayed up with books on church history and past revivals.  He was praying, seeking the Lord for answers, and trying to understand what had taken place in his church.   About 5 am, he received a phone call from Tom Stipe who was a Calvary Chapel pastor in Denver.  Tom said, “I don’t know what’s going on there, John, but the Lord woke me and told me to call you and tell you that it’s Him.  Does that make any sense?”

The young kids, many in Junior High and High School, were so “filled with the Spirit” that they soon started baptizing friends in hot tubs and swimming pools around town. The church catapulted in growth over the next few months and the event is credited with launching the Vineyard Movement.  Lonnie began to travel with John Wimber to many nations and they taught on the Kingdom of God and equipped others in power evangelism and signs and wonders.

I was greatly influenced by John Wimber and the Vineyard movement in the early 90’s and attended conferences at the Anaheim Vineyard.   I am very grateful for the equipping I received and John’s message that “we can all do the stuff.”

Both Lonnie Frisbee and John Wimber have gone to be with the Lord; Lonnie in 1993, and John in 1997.  On November 17, 2003, I had a strange dream where John Wimber’s secretary called me and told me that John was going to come “the weekend before the Dews come.”  When I awoke from that dream, I realized the weekend that Bill and Carol Dew were scheduled to speak at our church was the last weekend in February 2004.  The weekend before that was the weekend of February 22 (2-22).

After I had that dream, I picked up a book on John Wimber’s life entitled The Way it Was.  I was shocked and amazed to learn that he died on the same date that I had the dream, November 17th.  That really got my attention!

Dreams

God speaks in parabolic language and dream language is often symbolic.  I felt that the date 2/22 was important in understanding the message of the dream.  I felt it had to do with Isaiah 22:22:  “I will place on His shoulder the key to the house of David; what He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.”

On February 25, 2009, Shawn Bolz had a dream about breakthrough coming to California.  In the dream, he was given 22 stakes, and on 11 of them he painted the word “Breakthrough” and also painted images of keys and crowns.  When he awoke from the dream, he felt that the 22 stakes represented Isaiah 22:22.

In the dream, he went to 11 regions and presented a stake to different pastors/ministry leaders throughout California – to stake the land out for breakthrough to happen.  He felt it had to do with Isaiah 11:11 that states the following:  “in that day the Lord will reach out His hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of His people…”    God is going to reclaim His purpose in California one more time!

One of the names of God in Hebrew is Baal-Perazim which means “Master of the Breakthrough.”

After Shawn had the dream, he found out that there is a plaque in the center of Los Angeles that states 11 men, 11 women, and 22 children came to pioneer the great City of Angels!

I remembered reading in Lou Engle’s book “Digging the Wells of Revival” that Lou had gone to the place where the Azusa Street Revival of 1906 began.  He, and a group of intercessors, drove a stake into the ground, declaring that the Azusa Revival well in Los Angeles would break forth again.  When Lou got back in his car, the clock read 2:22 pm.   He thought of Isaiah 22:22 and realized that God had given him the key to open that well.

When Shawn told me the dream, I remembered that John Wimber’s birthday was February 25th, the date Shawn had the dream.  John Wimber and Lonnie Frisbee both ministered in the Los Angeles area and it was the epicenter of the Jesus Movement.

God is Looking for History Makers

I believe that God is looking for candidates in this generation who will imitate the faith of John Wimber and Lonnie Frisbee and become history makers.  He uses ordinary men and women who are surrendered to Him to spark revival and change the world.

Meri Crouley is currently working on a major feature film of Lonnie Frisbee’s life story.   She will be showing the trailer from the film and sharing about the project at an added session  at “The Fullness of Time” conference.

Lonnie’s art teacher, Barbara Irvine (who Lonnie led to the Lord), will be painting at the conference.  Lonnie lived with Barbara and her husband at one time and commissioned her into the ministry.

I have a sense that both John Wimber and Lonnie Frisbee are cheering us on from the cloud of witnesses as we continue in their footsteps and contend for historic revival.

Kari Browning