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June 14, 2006
Ivan Roman: "The
Goodness of God"
 Reformation
that Produces Revolution
Recently, the Lord spoke to me and said He's going to bring a Reformation that
will start a revolution. The impact of this reformation will be as great, if not
greater, than that of the Protestant Reformation, which began with Martin
Luther. The Lord said to me, "This Reformation is going to
be about our understanding of the nature of God." In the spirit, I saw
commentaries that had to be rewritten, because we have misunderstood the nature
of God. Many of us talk about the love of God and sonship, but we still have the
mindset of a slave.
"...the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious,
longsuffering and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin...." Exodus 34:6-7
When the church has a revelation of the goodness of God, it's going to begin a
revolution. We will become on fire, in love Christians, that will take the
Kingdom of God by force, using our greatest weapon, Love. This Reformation is
going to first begin in us, in our hearts and minds. With a revelation of the
goodness of God, we will believe the words to the children's song we all know,
"Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so," and I believe this will
bring a worldwide revival that will usher in the end-time harvest. An
understanding of the love of God and His desire for us, is what brings us to
Him. I once had a prophetic experience where I saw angels guarding a garden with
a flaming sword in the center moving back and forth, then the angels step
back, and I saw the hand of the Lord beckon me to come. I heard a voice say, "I
love your presence more than you love Mine."
The Goodness of God
In the original Hebrew language of Old Testament Scripture, the word used for
the goodness of God, is the same word used for the glory of God. It is "Kabod,"
which means "weighty, splendor and majesty." God spoke to Moses and said,
"...I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I
will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious, and I will
have compassion on whom I will have compassion. You cannot see My face; for no
man shall see Me, and live." (Exodus 33:19-20)
One of my favorite stories in the Bible is about Peter. After Peter proclaimed
that he of all people could never deny Jesus, he did. So what did Peter do after
falling so hard? He went back to doing what he did before, he went fishing. Can
you imagine the shame and guilt that Peter felt. When the news came about Jesus
being raised from the dead, John sprinted to the tomb, but Peter ran behind.
"Very early in the morning, on the first day of the
week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they said among
themselves, 'Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?' But
when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away--for it was
very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a long white
robe sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed. But he said to them, 'Do
not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen! He
is not here. See the place where they laid Him. But go, tell His disciples--and
PETER....'" (emphasis added Mark 16:2-7)
This is an amazing picture of the love and goodness of God. All of Heaven wanted
Peter to know that God still loves Him, and he was on God's heart. The angels
wanted to make sure that of all people, Peter should know. During Jesus' time on
earth after the resurrection, Jesus restores Peter and he goes on to even have
his shadow heal the sick.
I would like to illustrate another picture of the nature of God. In
Mark 4, we have the story of the wind and
waves obeying Jesus.
And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there
met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling
among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains, because he had
often been bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart
by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him. (Mark
5:2-4)
Jesus then proceeds to cast out a legion of demons from the man, and the man is
totally set free! Immediately they get back into the boat and leave. It seems
that the whole purpose for the trip and even crossing through and calming the
storm, was for one man to be set free! This is our God. This is the nature of
God that we must receive as revelation. I have read this story and thought, "If
Jesus would cross the sea for that one demon-possessed man, He would certainly
do it for me!"
The Bible says that God is love. We can see what He is in
1 Corinthians 13:4-8,"Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love
does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek
its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but
rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things. Love never fails...."
Hallelujah! God is not counting our sins against us! He is slow to anger, He is
love, and He is our Father! This is the revelation that will bring the
revolution.
Ready or Not, Here I Come
Again the Lord spoke to me recently, "Ready or not, here I
come. If you thought what I did in Toronto was weird, wait until you see what I
am about to do." Then He spoke to me about the release of the anointing
that rested upon Maria Woodworth Etter. Maria was born in 1844 in Lisbon, Ohio.
At the age of 13, she was born-again. She gave birth to six children and five of
those six children she lost to disease. Supernatural phenomenon was common in
her ministry. It was normal for people in her meetings to be frozen in a trancelike state. Many people would have visions of Heaven and hell. Miracles, signs
and wonders were common occurrences. Even then, many people would fall under the
power of God in her meetings. The glory of God permeated the atmosphere when she
ministered. I believe the Lord is coming with the fullness of His glory!
The Glory of God
God is releasing unusual manifestations of His glory today. When we look in
Scripture, we will find many prophetic pictures of what God is doing.
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord
sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the
temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his
face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried to
another and said: 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is
full of His glory!'" (Isaiah 6:1-3)
The whole earth is already filled with the Glory of the Lord. What the Lord
is releasing is the knowledge of the Glory.
For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of
darkness, who has shone out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the
light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2
Corinthians 4:6)
Under the old covenant, a man would die if he saw the face of God, as we saw in
the previous passage from Exodus 33. Under
the New Covenant, if we don't see the face of God, we will die.
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from
glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2 Corinthians 3:18)
In 2 Corinthians 4:1, "Therefore, since we have this
ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart." What
ministry is he talking about? The ministry of beholding the Lord's face, and
being transformed into His likeness, this is the ministry of every believer. God
hid Moses in the cleft of the rock. The Scripture says we are hidden in Christ,
who is the Rock. We are commanded in Scripture to seek His face forevermore.
(Psalm 105:4)
"The earth shall be filled with the Glory of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea." (Habakkuk 2:14)
I had an open vision where I was attending a normal church service, and I saw a
veil being torn from top to bottom and a radiant light shone in the face of the
people that were worshiping. It appeared that no one knew that they had entered
the Holy of Holies. We must pray that God will open our spiritual eyes that we
may see His glory and understand when it comes.
Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn,
but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. After two days, He
will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His
sight. (Hosea 6:1-2)
The church has entered into the third day, the day of resurrection. There are
many examples in Scripture of things being in "threes." The Bible says, "for
Yours is the Kingdom, the power and the glory." The Kingdom represents Passover
in the feasts of the Lord, the power represents an outpouring of the Holy
Spirit as Pentecost, and the glory represents the tabernacles. We have entered
into the time of tabernacles where the glory of God will dwell with men. In
meetings today, people are receiving gold teeth, gold dust on their body,
instant weight loss, and instant hair growth. Diamonds and other gemstones are
falling from Heaven, and these are only a few of the things that are taking
place in the realm of the glory. This is only the beginning. I believe entire
services will be taken into third-Heaven encounters.
I was in a meeting with Todd Bentley where I had an open vision. I was in a
garden (whether my eyes were open or closed, I could still see it as I was
actually there). I freaked out and screamed out loud during Todd's message, "I'm
in a garden!" People from all over the congregation began to yell out, "So, am
I!." This is just first fruits of what happens in the glory realm. There will be
meetings where every eye will see the pillar of fire and the cloud of glory.
Every person with disease will instantly be healed in the atmosphere of God's
glory. These things are already beginning to take place, but this is only the
beginning.
The Glory vs. the Anointing
The glory is different from the anointing. Someone can release the anointing
through faith and the gifts of the spirit, but the glory is released by God.
When His glory comes, most often through high praise and worship, there is no
toiling or striving. After ministering to people in the anointing, very often
ministers are tired from laying hands on people and casting out demons. But when
the glory comes, you don't become tired. It's the difference between
Acts 2, where signs and wonders were done by
the apostles, and Acts 4, where the apostles
prayed, "Lord stretch forth Your hand to heal at the
name of Your Holy servant Jesus." In the glory, we watch what the
Lord does, and we enter into the promise of rest in Hebrews 4.
A key Scripture to the glory is Hebrews 12:2, "Let us
fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith...." In a
corporate gathering, if we could all come to a place of realizing that the veil
has already been torn, then the whole meeting could come into an experience with
the Holy of Holies. The priest in the Old Testament experienced the glory and
couldn't even stand in it. The book of Hebrews says that we have received a
better testament with greater glory. The mind cannot fathom what would happen if
this revelation left our heads and entered our hearts. There are no formulas to
the glory of God, but here is a key from a general, who went home to be with the
Lord, who walked in the glory realm daily. Ruth Ward Heflin said, "Praise
until the spirit of worship comes, worship until the glory comes, and when the
glory comes, stand in the glory."
The Bible says that man has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. But in
Christ we have been cleansed from our sins, and now it's time to return to the
Glory. The goodness of God is the glory of God.
Let us have the faith to pray like Moses
prayed, "Lord show us Your glory!"
Ivan Roman
A Friend of God Ministries
www.afriendofgod.org
 Ivan Roman--BIO
Ivan was saved after a dramatic encounter with the Lord where he was pulled away
from a bullet by an angel. After six months of knowing the Lord, Ivan traveled
around the world with Todd Bentley seeing miracles, signs and wonders almost
daily. Ivan now lives with his wife Erica and son Isaiah in Oregon, where he
continues to host Joel's Army conferences, as well as traveling to churches, and
creating a hunger in the people for more of God.
Erica Roman often travels with her husband and ministers along side him with
the love and compassion of Jesus.
A Friend of God
Ministries
A Friend of God ministries was birthed out of a prophetic experience that took
place in Homer, Alaska where Ivan saw the Lord stand in front of him, and He place a
brown mantle around his shoulders and said, "Today I call
you My friend." This encounter has lead Ivan and his wife Erica in
pursuit of a deeper friendship with the Lord. Ivan and Erica travel the nations
and share about friendship with Jesus, and the meetings are often accompanied by a
greater passion to know God, and a demonstration of the supernatural through the
operation of the gifts of the Spirit.
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Ivan Roman's Upcoming Itinerary:
June 15 - 17, 2006
Nashville, Tennessee
Contact: Jeff Jansen (615) 895-7757 or
www.globalfireministries.org
June 22 - 24, 2006
The Supernatural Generation
Olympia, Washington
Contact: www.revivaltown.org
July 5 - 8, 2006
Abbotsford Exhibition Park
32470 Haida Drive; Abbotsford, British Columbia
Contact: Fresh Fire Ministries (604) 853-9041 or
info@freshfire.ca
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