2 Corinthians 10:3-6 says (emphasis mine), "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled."

The Greek word translated "war" means to "execute the apostolate."  Apostolate literally means the "office of apostle."  The word translated "warfare" comes from the Greek word that means "apostolic career."  The word translated "thought" is the same word used in 2 Corinthians 2:11 which says, "lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices." 

The word translated devices, means a perception, or the intellect, or a device, mind, or thought.  Now that.... is revealing! 

The real warfare begins in our mind and in our thoughts.  Second, Satan's goal is to trip up our thinking. He does this by setting traps in our thoughts and minds and God gave us the apostolic gift specifically, to help with our strategic thinking.  Satan's goal is to blow up God's plans in people's lives while Jesus calls us to follow Him and Jesus' purpose is to destroy th works of the enemy (1 John 3:8). 

Satan's devices are like the IED's (improvised explosive devices) used by Islamic terrorists to kill, maim and destroy using great violence or the threat of violence to intimidate and manipulate a people to comply with their wishes.  Unbridled fear is a very useful tool for the devil and his children.

Paul's admonition in 2 Timothy 1:7 gives insight into how to guard against unbridled fear.  He says, "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."  God did not give us a "spirit of fear."  But He has given us love perfect love which casts out all fear (1 John 4:18).  He's also given us power and the ability and the choice, to develop a disciplined thought life.  When we do that we can pull down strongholds, arguments and every proud that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. 

Tim Taylor - April 22, 2020:  The signs and wonders God gives never ceases to amaze me.  Last Monday hours before the first session of an 8 session series on "Developing Apostolic Resource Centres" hosted by Prophetic Communities in Australia I saw a prophetic word shared on Elijah List by James Goll.  It was titled "​As in the Days of Noah, Build and Ark of His Presence."  Then I found Patrica King had interviewed Jim just days before about this dream from which this word came from on Youtube.  Click The Days of Noah & Today with Patricia King and James Goll.  Go to the 18 to 22 minute mark as he refers to Noah and the blueprint.  

Why did that catch my attention?  It was because God in 2008 God spent 1.5 hours with me in my office where He showed me the blueprints.  He preceded that saying to me, "as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it before the coming of the Son of Man.  I had Noah build me an ark, but I want you to build me an ARC, an Apostolic Resource Center.  Only I don't want just an ARC, I want a fleet of ARCs."  Then I understood from my Naval background what He was saying.  

The ARC is a class of ships like the Arleigh Burke class of destroyers or the Nimitz class of aircraft carriers. God was restoring His "apostle-ships."  

So, in September 2008 we sent this card out to invite people to meetings where I shared what God showed me.  I've spent years after that discovering how to put the revelation into action based upon the love of God and informed by the wisdom of God with measurable, reproducible, supernatural results.   

On Feburary 24th, 2011 Kingdom League International was launched.  It is an ARC.  It provides the foundation for the strategy.  Without any planning on our part it just so happened to coincide with the launch of the space shuttle "Discovery."  In fact, on the last day of the Kingdom League Summit, about the time our prophetic presbytry entered into a time of prayer for the commissioning of the "Apostle Ship" the space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station.  

During the 1st session, last Monday, my friend Ross, a seer whom I've known for years and was unaware of this series and that I'd be teaching for for Prophetic Communities about ARCs.   He was cleaning out his office and found this card from 12 years ago.  He texted it to me just as Carl, my host, was introducing me in the 1st session.  What are the odds?

The blueprints God gave me are incorporated within the ORT/1Church1Day strategy I've been equipping leaders with for years.  It's the key to the results produced.  

Was James Goll's prophetic word and Ross's text just a strange conicidence or do you think  God is trying to get our attention through His prophets, signs and wonders?  To me it's a huge sign that this training is so very timely!  So what do you think? 

Session 2 of 8 - Developing Apostolic Resource Centre's Details

Tim Taylor - April 19, 2020 - Carl Vanderpal of Prophetic Communities in Austrailia has asked me to train churches, five-fold ministers and prophetic intercessors near Brisbane Australia. 

Developing Apostolic Resource Centers session 1
Click here for Session 1 on Youtube.  

What's in the video?

Jim Goll's prophetic word on the day of the 1st Session!  As in the Days of Noah, Build the Ark of His Presence.  Elijah List click.  The word of the Lord marked this session. 

Jim Goll was interviewed by Patrica King five days before on Youtube.  Click here for The Days of Noah and Today. Listen to 18-22 minute mark to hear about the ark and the blueprints.  

God used the same scripture he spoke to me in 2008 about the ARC's. Then He showed me a blueprint.   Discover the blueprint He showed me when He spent an hour and a half in my office in 2008.

Discover how that blue print in used the 1Church1Day strategy and the amazing results that follow.

Discover the amazing supernatural testimonies God has given to mark God's word. 

Discover the two critical characteristics that will mark every apostolic resource center and much much more. 

If you'd like to access the 1Church1Day Course with 10 powerful lessons that we are offering at 50% off for the 1st 20 people click here.  You'll see what's contained in these amazing lessons and this special offer. 

Duty-bound is a concept which resides deep within me.  It was driven home during my service in the Navy.  It is based upon fundamental Biblical values of love and honor.  

It was used in this context.  I was "duty-bound" to obey all lawful orders.  

In fact, I took the following oath.  It's the oath officers in every branch of the United States military and civilians elected or appointed take as well.  Click here.   It says:

“I, _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God.”

Now, the enlisted soldier or sailor takes a similar oath which says "they will obey the order of":

“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”

That was the context.  We were duty bound to obey lawful orders.  But the question is, what does duty require when unlawful orders are given?  

Unlawful Orders

Tim Taylor April 14, 2020 - Guess what?  I am truly a blessed man. I believe my wife just provided an excellent example of the kind of actions that mark a Proverbs 31 woman.  This is one of the main reasons I'm blessed.

We pray early every morning.   As she consider the pandemic, the impact on peoples loss of jobs, the fear of illness and more her heart, or should I say God's heart for our neighbors weighed heavy upon her. She shared this concern with a neighbor whom we pray with several times a month.

She thought about the isolation, the fears, concerns and she just wanted to discover a way to share Christ's love with everyone.   She wanted to let them know that someone cares and was available to help or pray for them.   

Then she got a God idea for a Neighborhood Food Locker along with a creative way to share it with the neighborhood. 

This is how she did it! 

We are Tim Taylor April 10, 2020 -  Some have asked where this coronavirus, the Wuhan flu, Covid 19.... came from.  Regardless of its orgin, which I do believe the truth will come out in the near future, this I am sure of (Amos 3:7).  God knows how to take every situation and make "all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose."  Romans 8:28

One of the things God is doing is purifying His Church (see We are In the Furnace of Affliction).  He's using this situation to help us mature.  Hebrews 5:14 teaches us that this occurs when we learn to discern both good and evil.  

That's why I've posted this excerpt from worldmeters.info.  It reveals something about this current situation.  Please know that in my opinon the virus is a serious situation.  Why the Bible even provides guidance in Leviticus 13 as to how to isolate or quarantine sick people who could infect other people.

But this virus is not anywhere near as serious as the hyper-fear would have you believe and there are bad actors trying to take advantage of this situation to advance an unholy, unrighteous agenda.  I share these statistics to make just one point and that is, life and death are not really the primary issue nor is it the primary goal of those who drive the hyperfear narrative.   Note that I'm not saying that about everyone.  There are many noble civil servants laying their lives down for us.  We should be so grateful.  Here, I am emphasizing those whose motive is less than noble.  They have a hidden agenda.

The data cleary indicates that if life and death were really the motive,  our nation's attentions and resources would be redirected and prioritized elsewhere.  But that's not the case is it?  It's kind of like when the Democrat socialist focus on demonizing and legislating semi-automatic rifles, which they renamed assualt weapons, which is the firearm used the least number of crimes according to the FBI statistics (ie. average under 300 incidents per year in a nation of 350 million).  There are other firearms and weapons used in thousands of more crimes annually.  The point is, there is another agenda in play and it is about control.  

During our "Call to Pray for our Nation" over the last three weeks I've heard numerous prophetic voices raise great concern over the counsel being given to President Trump.  We began to pray about his administration's counselors. Then Jeremiah Johnson and other prophets like him had dreams or visions of rats in the White House.  For example, click here for Trump Warning Prophecy; Rat in the White House.   1 Corinthians 13:9 says we know in part and prophesy in part.  Amos 3:7 says God does nothing unless He reveals it to His servants the prophets.  So, when unknown prophets on the Call to Pray for our Nation, and well known prophets in our nation begin to speak the same thing, we take note.  The question is, how does God want us to respond? 

King David & God's Promise of Sure Mercy Gives Insight into How to Pray
For an in depth understanding of the "Sure Mercies of David" I highly recommend you get Al Houghton, my mentor and dear friends book.  Click here. 

When the nation of Israel in 2 Samuel 15 faced an overthrow of its government we find King David praying "O Lord, I pray, turn the counsel of Athithophel into foolishness," in 2 Samuel 15:31.   In verse 34 King David then sends another counselor to "defeat the counsel of Ahithophel."  What can we learn from this example?

Tim Taylor April 5, 2020: In Isaiah 48:10 God says through His prophet, "I have tested you in the furnace of affliction."  Why?  Because God won't give "His glory" nor share His glory with an idol.  Israel had wearied God through their wanderings (astrology, stargazing, monthly prognosticators, their carvings and images) therefore God sent a fire.  

The scripture likens each of us to a cup in a house in 2 Timothy 2:20.  It lists four types of cups; gold, silver, wood and clay.  It says some of the cups (silver and gold) are for honor and some are for dishonor (wood and clay).  Verse 21 says "Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work."  

The Purpose of the Furnace
Heat causes impurities to rise to the surface in metals like gold and silver. Fire purifies certian things while it destroys others.  For example, fire consumes and destroys a wood cup but it would harden a clay cup.  That's good.  That is useful.  But, if you drop the clay cup it will shatter.  It will be destroyed.  But if you drop a gold or silver cup, it may or may not bend or it may be marred but it certainly won't be destroyed. 

God is looking for vessels of honor.  Vessels that will last.  Gold and silver are shiny while wood and clay are not.  He's looking for those who can reflect His glory.  The fire is used to purify God's vessels for an eternal purpose that also has to do with the here and now.  For example Malachi 3:1-3 says: