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Prayer and the Prophetic
Ken Rodriquez - ministry leader
(email: prayer@vineyardgainesville.org)

A Prayer "Warrior's" parting words for Vineyard

Tim McKeon has been the leader of our Prayer Ministry for quite some time. He is being relocated (through his job at DuPont) to Mississippi, and we will miss him. To many who don't know him well, he's the guy who was always dancing and waving the flags around when the Holy Spirit would so move him during Worship. For those who knew him, he was a Prayer Warrior, a true fully armed and armored soldier for God. Tim is responsible for many untold hours of intercessory prayer for each of God's family and the church (both in and outside Vineyard's walls).

Vineyard's prayer front is being left in the capable hands of Ken Rodriquez. On Tim's last Sunday with use he shared a bit of prophesy for our church:

What I see are Giftings …

Teaching & equipping the body of Christ
Stewardship of Worship and ‘teaching worship'
A place of healing for the wounded. A safe place.

I see Warnings for traps…

Teaching

We need to go from knowledge to intimacy.
Be careful that as we train and equip, that we go beyond the “Tree of Knowledge” to the “Tree of Life”
Go from knowing God's love to knowing the God of Love.

Worship (not directed at our praise and worship bands, but directed at all of us in ‘our' worship)

Be careful that we don't get stuck on one style
Watch out for pride that ‘we do it right'
Let our praise be an “offering” (with humility) before the Lord
Use worship to teach intimacy

Healing

That we don't let people get away with “keeping their wounds”
That we see that people are healed

I see Blessings…

YAHWEH-NISSI : "The Lord Our Banner" - And Moshe (Moses) built an altar, and called its name; YAHWEH NISSI, that is, Yahweh is my banner, For he said; Hands will be lifted up to the throne of Yahweh. (Exodus 17:15)
That this would be a house of healing
In our Stewardship of Worship
In our Teaching, Training and Equipping

The June 'Leadership meeting'
Grant Raudenbush - web reporter (email)

Ken shared a glimpse of what God has been speaking to him about Vineyard of Gainesville and our leadership at the June 6 th Monthly Leadership meeting.

He feels that God says that we are a " Church of Burden Bearers ". In prayer we sometimes gather up the burdens of the person we pray for (including ourselves). However we are supposed to pass this burden onto God. This burden is his!

When praying we are but a conduit for/of God. Keeping the burden (bearing the burden ourselves) is not His intention. It is not ours to bear. God has already taken care of it.

Ken shared that in our holding on to some of these burdens we are preventing ourselves from fulfilling our purpose. It keeps us weighted down unnecessarily.

He shared a vision that he got from God of great fire-balls falling in our church. Not meant for destruction but for impartation - A heavenly barrage. These are the fire of the Holy Spirit falling to empower us. In the vision some of the people were holding up black umbrellas to protect themselves from the falling fire-balls. Ken shared that these umbrellas were the burdens we are holding on to. And that we are holding on to them like these umbrellas. The sad thing is that these umbrellas are protecting us from God. We are holding tightly to these burdens (of past pain, illnesses, broken hearts, etc.) and because of this God's heavenly barrage of empowerment ( They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit - Acts 2:3-4) is not reaching us as He intends.

Ken feels that God is in the process of releasing us from our burdens. Now is the time to take the focus off of ourselves and onto God. Pray and release your burdens to God and allow His Holy Spirit to fall on you.

Ken recommended a message for us to read called " Unoffendable" by Francis Frangipane.

"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh" (Ezek 36:26)
God has a new heart for us that cannot be offended, an "unoffendable" heart. Beloved, possessing an unoffendable heart is not an option or a luxury; it's not a little thing. (.read more)

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