Many years ago I had a vision which had a very profound effect on my life and ministry and on the direction that we took.

It was in the early days of GMR/AMI when we really didn’t know what it was to be yet, and when I didn’t fully understand what a mandate was yet. This vision became the very first mandate that I felt God ever gave me.

In this vision I saw a giant lying down on the ground. It seemed as though he was pinned down and couldn’t move. It reminded me of a story I read many years ago called Gulliver’s Travels.

Have you ever read that book? Gulliver visited these different lands, and one time he was amongst the giants. Another time he was amongst some tiny little people in a place called Lilliput.

The Lilliputians had caught him. He was lying on the ground and they had tied him with ropes and pegged them to the ground.

There he lay, all stretched out and helpless, although he was a great big giant. These little people had captured him and trapped him and he couldn’t move.

That was the kind of picture I saw. I saw this giant lying there sleeping, unable to move, covered in dirt and filth and tied down.

I thought, “This is a strange vision. What does it mean?”

The words ‘Sleeping Giant’ came to me. Then the Lord said,

“This is a picture of my church. My church is lying asleep. It has been captured and overwhelmed by the forces of this world. It is covered with dirt, garbage, and grime. The church is asleep and helpless, weak and in captive to Satan and to the powers of the world.”

The Giant Awakes

Then I saw the Giant began to stir. He started to wake up and began to move. I saw him first lift one arm, then he shook off all the dirt and broke the ropes that were holding him.

Next I saw him lift his other arm and break the ropes. After this I saw him release his legs and he sat up. Then I saw him stand and throw all the dirt off and stand bold.

The vision changed and I saw this Giant again. He was no longer clothed in rags and dirt, but he was clothed in golden armor with a sword in his hand. He looked awesome and terrifying.

The Lord said, “The Sleeping Giant must awaken. He must put on the armor of light and become the mighty warrior to go forth in my name to conquer the kingdoms of this world. My church must wake up. My church must rise up and become militant.”

I said, “Lord where do I fit into it?”

He said, “Start by waking the Sleeping Giant. And when he is awoken, begin by clothing him and putting armor on him. Then equip the Mighty Warrior to go forth in my name.”

The First Mandate

The very first mandate of Global Ministry Resources was to wake the Sleeping Giant. How did we do it?

We began to bring the prophets together and they began to pray and decree. We began to go into coin warfare, hidden away from the world and with nobody knowing what was going on.

God started to move and the Spirit began to wake the Sleeping Giant. And as time progressed the Lord gave us the armor that we needed to equip the Church.

Training the Fivefold Ministry

And so the mandate to train the Fivefold Ministry was set in motion. That mandate was to raise up the body of Christ to be the Mighty Warrior.

It came to full fruition, and the Fivefold Training mechanism that we put together in GMR/AMI was set into motion. It was an awesome vision and an awesome mandate which will continue until Jesus comes.

But today the church is rising up. Today there are apostles and prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers rising up. This is especially true of the apostles and prophets who were asleep before.

They didn’t exist and the church didn’t believe they existed anymore. But they are rising up and beginning to take their place, and it has been such an exciting vision to see the church come to life.

The Mighty Warrior will rise up. It will go forth and conquer, and it will take this world for the Kingdom of God.

Finances Needed

But the Mighty Warrior needs something else, and this is something that has plagued the church from the beginning. It is the one thing that has destroyed ministry after ministry, starting right from the beginning.

What has that need been? It has been a lack of financial provision; a lack of financial ability to do in this world what God has called us to do.

We have the tools, we have the weapons and we have the power. But we do not have the financial resources to accomplish it.

The church is going cap in hand and begging to the world. People are going to beg a bank manager for a loan and saying,

“Please can you give us a loan so we can build a church; so we can start a ministry?”

People are groveling to this world. The Mighty Warrior is standing on the street corner with cap in hand saying,

“Please will you donate?”

This is not the way it should be. God never ever intended His people to live and to walk in poverty. And so the Lord has given me a new mandate. He said,

“Go and teach my people the way to wealth.”

I have taught people The New Way of Blessing. I have taught them the Way to Success.

We have taught them how to minister effectively, but they don’t know how to accumulate wealth. And wealth is going to be needed for the church to accomplish the end times vision that God has given to it.

Back to the Beginning

For the Mighty Warrior to rise up, reach out and conquer this world for the Lord, it is going to require a lot of financial provision. This is because we live in a world where you cannot do anything without financial provision.

So in this first Section I want to start my new mandate. I want to start a new teaching series and it is going back to the beginning.

We learned about Moses. We saw how he took the children of Israel to the Promised Land and how Joshua took the land. We also learned about David and Solomon. But we learned all those things spiritually.

We are going to learn it again now where temporal things are concerned. We are going to learn how the body of Christ should rise up and should take the wealth of this world.

The Lord has promised that the unjust will accumulate wealth, but they will accumulate it for the just.

Wrong Teaching on Prosperity

The Lord has promised and it has been prophesied again and again, that in these end times there will be a transfer of wealth from the wicked to the church.

And preachers have stood up and have tried to preach it to believers. They are trying to preach the way of prosperity. You can go and see all the ministries out there that are preaching prosperity. They have one message. That message is,

“This is your key to prosperity. Tithe more and give more offerings. Give until it hurts.”

This is their key to prosperity.

How can poor people make the Church rich? People are giving all that they have but they have nothing. Right now the wealth of this world does not lie in the hands of the body of Christ.

The wealth of this world lies in the hands of the wicked; of the underground, of the criminals and of the wealthy of this world who have no regard for the Lord whatsoever.

It is time the body of Christ rises up and takes the land. It must take the land literally, by taking possession of the resources and the wealth of this world as God intends.