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• Repentance and honoring of our fathers and mothers
• The Moravian Lads and Slavery
• The Berkeley Burn

The rainbow is being cleansed over San Francisco!

Friday night May 16th, during the SFHOPFAN night watch, a young man from the California Job Corp on Treasure Island was prompted to walk out of the Castro District to find himself in front of Promised Land Fellowship at the SFHOPFAN Cleansing the Rainbow Worship Watch. He was wearing a rainbow t-shirt.  At this time he was cleansed of homosexuality, the occult, unforgiveness, and was healed from rejection…A prodigal came home. A first fruit of what the angel delivered in my home...

Here's the story…

In April,  my friend Pat Curtin: forerunner, skilled musician & worship leader, missionary, and now artist, was coming into town to have some of his artwork reproduced. Just two months before Pat had taken a two-day retreat to read the Psalms. At the end of the second day the Lord spoke, "Go paint".  Pat had never painted before but had been getting dreams and visions of colors and didn't know why. So he immediately went out and bought canvas, paint, and brushes.  Then he grabbed his decorative wall plastering tools. Within a short time, he was on the painting worship team at Bethel Church in Redding.

Pat said to me, "Mike, read the seasons… there are more than gold and diamonds coming from Heaven. The arts and more are being released now.  Just look up and receive!”

See I called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and ability,
 In understanding and intelligence, and in knowledge and in all kinds of craftsmanship.
Ex 31:3

One of the first paintings Pat completed with his plastering tool brushes was the Tree of Life found in Revelation 22:2 whose leaves are for the healing of the nations. This was the painting he brought to Berkeley to be reproduced. (Having just sold another of his paintings for $1,000, he was led to start making prints.)  Pat spent the night at my house after returning from Berkeley.  When he brought his artwork into my living room, I was particularly taken by the painting of the Tree of Life. The iridescent colors made it look alive. I brought it into my family room to spend time admiring it.

The next day, as we were having early morning coffee in the family room, in my minds eye, the painting of the Tree of Life appeared to be pulsating and the leaves falling.
So I decided to do a prophetic act of scooping up the leaves, putting them in my pocket, and then placing them in a basket.
When I sat down, there was a whoooosh and an angelic presence came into the room...
Pat said, "Did you feel that?"
“Yeah, I can feel that."
Pat continued, "It's an angel of the Lord and he has a banner with tassels.
 It's every color of the rainbow, and he's waving it over your head."  
Then the Holy Spirit said, "I am cleansing the rainbow over SF."

This was a powerful encounter with God concerning His plans and purposes for San Francisco.
Two weeks later Pat brought me a prophetic painting of what he had seen in my family room that morning. 

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Because of the State Supreme Court homosexual marriage decree issued on May 15th, I thought it was very important to share God's perspective and His plans for San Francisco. We gathered the SFHOPFAN watch and worship leaders for a time of fellowship, and presented both of Pat’s paintings with the testimonies. We placed the rainbow painting on the platform.  Over the next nine hours, the worship leaders took us into a glory realm while the Lord instructed us to start drawing from HIM.  Every time we did, we got taken up higher. During this time,  the young man from California Job Corp on Treasure Island arrived. He kept saying over and over again “I do not know what is happening to me ...my mind has been changed”.  
I said, “What do you mean? Are you saying that you do not want to practice homosexuality any longer?

When he replied, “YES” I answered, “Just tell that to Jesus and ask Him to cleanse you.”
As he did this, the power of the Holy Spirit came upon him and the fire of God began to purge and deliver…A prodigal came home clean… a sign confirming God’s word that “I am cleansing the rainbow over San Francisco."

NOTE: This is consistent with something the Lord gave me regarding the rainbow flag on the last day of the 5/5 – 5/15/ 05 UpperRoomRemix: The round the clock 10 day worship & prayer gathering that launched the SFHOPFAN. At that time, God showed me that many prodigals would be marching under the rainbow flag the next day during the annual Gay Pride Parade.  He said, "Come into agreement with the prayers of the mothers & the fathers, the brothers & the sisters, the aunts & the uncles, the grandmas & the grandpas, whose loved ones will be marching under (My covenant)  rainbow tomorrow during the parade. Pray for their deliverance from the spirit of homosexuality & the world.”

The Lord is answering the prayers of the saints;
The prodigals & children of the saints are coming home!!!!

Michael Dowling
San Francisco House of Prayer for All Nations

A story portraying the essence of the San Francisco House of Prayer For All Nations…

“MY GOD, THIS IS WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT!”
REFLECTIONS ON ONE NIGHT AT THE PRAYER CENTER ON TREASURE ISLAND
By Anne Trumbo, Co-Director

Here we are as the worst storm of the season cranks up.  It is after midnight, and the Go Team, me included, has just returned from a very wet time sharing Jesus and praying for folks in the Castro District of San Francisco. We are greeted at the prayer center by a group of 15 or 20 already gathered in prayer for the third watch.  Many of them are young, with a smattering of oldies like me. There are quite a few Asian kids…Chinese, Korean, Japanese-Americans. Some are from San Jose. The young girl at the keyboard has just returned from an internship at the Kansas City IHOP. She is leading in song. Her voice is lovely. As I look around, I can see that San Francisco, Santa Clara, Marin, San Mateo, Contra Costa, and Alameda Counties are all represented. A Hispanic girl has a word of prophecy, which she shares in a simple non-religious way. A young African-American sings his prayers spontaneously. There is a charged atmosphere of real faith and love…for one another, and those for whom we are praying.

The beauty and variety of the worshipers and their styles of worship are quite stunning, as the Word of God is proclaimed again and again. We flow from high praise to quiet adoration as the sprit of intercession begins to descend. Some of the young people begin weeping for friends trapped in a nightmare of hopelessness, drugs, suicide, perversion, and abuse. Conviction for my heartless indifference thickens. A young girl has a vision, which she shares. All of us agree in prayer to see it fulfilled. The Presence of the Lord is almost palpable. All of a sudden I realized, my God, this is what James was talking about!

James Trumbo went home to be with the Lord the first day of spring, March 21, 2005: just five weeks before the sudden & unexpected launching of the SFHOPFAN with 10 days of round-the-clock worship & intercession.  In the 8 years prior to his home going, James lived, breathed, preached, and sang prophetically all that God showed him concerning San Francisco’s destiny as “a city of glory”, and the beautiful overcoming bridal company that would be birthed here.  The SFHOPFAN literally arose from his ashes.

“Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies,
it brings forth much fruit.” John 12:24

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The San Francisco
Citywide Church Gathering
“San Francisco City Wide Church Gathering”
on the National Day of prayer last Thursday May 1 was a Huge success!   

Over 300 believers from 32 local congregations & ministries came together to worship, pray, and lift up the Name of Jesus in the heart of San Francisco @ the Cathedral Hill Hotel last Thursday, May 1 for the National Day of Prayer.  Among these were 15 San Francisco Pastors & Ministry Directors from 15 different local churches & ministries.  Many of these came with their core leadership team.  We had a wonderful time greeting & enjoying one another’s company, worshiping, and praying together for our city, region & nation.  God spoke to us one year ago, that if we would just blow the trumpet & provide the venue, He would gather the church!  This He did! 

The emphasis for the evening was “TOUCHING THE FATHER’S HEART”. As parents of grown children, we are delighted when our kids get together because they WANT to spend time with each other. How much more does it bless our Father in heaven when His children do the same!!Thank you to all the Host Churches & Ministries: their pastors & leaders for helping to make this gathering such a precious expression of Christ alive in His Body here in San Francisco:

SF Aglow International, Donna Legenza
SF City Harvest International Church, Pastor Matthew & Ivy Wakkary
SF First Baptist Church, Pastor & Mrs. Phil Busbee
SF Greater Life Foursquare Church, Pastors Leroy & Leversie Johnson
SF Homeless Church, Pastors Evan & April Prosser
SF House of Prayer For All Nations, Directors Michael Dowling & Anne Trumbo
SF Promised Land Fellowship, Pastors Michael & Diane Brodeur
SF Urban Missions, Rev. Caroline Ransom-Scott
SF Voice of Christ Full Gospel Church, Pastor Pagaloa & Tufue Tilo
SF Voice of Pentecost Church,  Pastor Richard & Sandy Gazowsky
SF Youth For Christ,  Director Mike Di Taranto
SF Youth With A Mission (YWAM),  Director Dr.Tim & Karol Svoboda

Lets do it again soon....  Next time, gathering MORE of The Family to worship Him: lifting up the Name of Jesus & praying together for our city & a mighty harvest!

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July 14th & 15th, 2007
REPENTANCE & HONORING of OUR FATHERS & MOTHERS
[ BREAKING THE GENERATIONAL CURSE ]
Malachi 4:5-6
A repentance and reconciliation act was accomplished between the parents and sons & daughters who, in their rebellion of the '67 Summer of Love, dishonored them and brought a curse upon our land.

The 1967 Summer of Love age group representatives:
Mike & Christine Dowling, Leslie Callan, Cynthia Bosworth, Anne Trumbo

The dishonored parents' representatives:
representing the mothers
Marilyn Gazowsky: who founded Voice of Pentecost Church in 1966
Her first SF converts were hippies, saved in the Jesus Movement.

Representing the Fathers
Robert Scott, Associate Pastor Promised Land Fellowship
NOTE:When Pastor Michael Brodeur read him the email outlining our intentions,
he knew he was to stand in for the fathers because "Phil Easton prophesied years ago that I would be doing Malachi 4:5-6 prayer"

The Lord prompted us that we, as representatives of the Summer of Love Generation, needed to repent and reconcile with our parents' generation for casting them, their values and standards aside in the rebellion that began in 1967, opening the door for all kinds of evil. This prayer initiative turned out to be more than we thought or hoped for. 

VOP Pastor Gazowsky brought his mother (founder of VOP) and family.  His daughters led in prophetic worship for two hours. A spontaneous song of the Lord concerning reconciliation between the generations bubbled up. This was our cue from the Holy Spirit to begin. We had no outline - only a goal… Several of us from the 60’s generation repented to our father’s and mother’s representatives for the sins of dishonoring them: trashing their values, choosing the false fire of LSD, drugs, & sexual promiscuity, and speaking word curses such as "Like father, like son, like hell!"  

Following this, we lined up in rows, the mothers and fathers standing behind the repentant sons and daughters, and then the consecutive generations: 40 year olds, 30s, 20s, teens, and preteens - each group blessing the ones following. Then the youngest in turn released the blessings back through succeeding generations all the way to the mothers & fathers.

We thought we had finished when Robert Scott said there was one more thing to do. As the mothers & fathers of the Summer of Love Generation they repented for the sins of racism, segregation, sexism, and hypocrisy that was their part in the evil released.  We had a deep sense that heaven had marked this repentance in a Kingdom history book.  Although there were only 20 of us, we felt the Lord taking these prayers to repeal the curse operating in our land, and our few loaves and fishes of repentance have been blessed and will multiply.

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THE MORAVIAN LADS AND SLAVERY
By Mike Dowling

“That the Lamb that was slain (Jesus) may receive His reward for His suffering.”

These were the last words of a final farewell spoken by two English lads to their weeping parents and friends when their ship was pulling away from the docks on its way to the West Indies. You see, these two Moravian Christian boys had just sold themselves into lifetime slavery in order to go into the bowels of hell on earth. This hell hole was a British slave colony owned by the wealthiest of England’s Lords, businessmen, parliamentarians and the Church of England.  No Christian workers, doctors or any gifts of mercy were permitted to set foot on this island. The only way these young men could minister the love of God to the slaves who were being brutalized: men, woman and children ripped from their villages; abused by starvation and rape; and sold to Europeans and Americans after working the plantations of the West Indies…. the only way to go to them was to become one of them!!  So they sold themselves to the West Indies trading company, not for a few years, but for life; a lifetime sentence of servitude and slavery. Their payment?…only that they could work and live among the slaves in this island hell. They were never heard from again, but their last words have gone around the world…  “That the Lamb that was slain (Jesus) may receive His reward for His suffering.”

These two Moravian Christian lads were the seeds of a revival that would sweep through England and end the horrors of the slave trade business.

William Wilberforce (8/4/1759 – 7/29/1833) was an Evangelical Christian elected to the English Parliament who devoted his life to the abolition of slavery and social injustice. He led a coalition of Evangelicals called The Claphams that included scholars, scientists, prayer ministries (including the Moravians) arts, theatre, music, education and business. Every sector of the culture was enlisted in this cultural war. His first anti-slavery bill was submitted to Parliament May 1789 but was not passed until July 26th 1833. The Slavery Abolition Act was passed after 44 years of dedication to the cause.  Wilberforce died 3 days later……

Keep the prayer fires going. We do not know when the victory will manifest, but it has begun in your hearts. Your unrelenting dedication will bring these two Goliaths down: The aborting and the homosexualization of America’s youth cannot stand against your unrelenting prayer...we serve a God who manifests justice...and judges injustice.

The recent movie Amazing Grace, and the must read book by Eric Metaxas William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery tells the story of  Wilberforce’s struggle to end slavery, including white slavery, the sexual exploitation of  children and how his coalition changed the culture of injustice that prevailed in England in his day.
 It was a repentant former slave captain who instilled in him the zeal for the downtrodden. Perhaps one of the prayer seeds of the Moravians took root here!

 “The Claphamites demonstrated the difference that a handful of Christian people can make. They are a kind of case study for effecting social change” Ken Curtis, Christian History Institute. Briefly, here are a dozen characteristics they exemplified.

1. Set clear and specific goals
2. Researched carefully to produce reliable and irrefutable evidence
3. Built a committed support community. The battle could not be carried on alone.
4. Refused to accept setbacks as final defeats
5. Committed to the struggle for the long haul, even if it took decades.
6. Focused on issues, not allowing opponents' vicious attacks on their person to distract them, or provoke them into similar response.
7. Empathized with opponents' position so that meaningful interaction could take place.
8. Accepted incremental gains when everything could not be achieved at once.
9. Cultivated grassroots support when rebuffed by those in power.
10. Transcended a single issue mentality by addressing issues as part of overall moral climate.
11. Worked through recognized channels without resort to dirty tactics or violence.
12. Proceeded with a sense of mission and conviction that God would providentially guide if they were truly acting in his service.

From Glimpses of Christian History:

The Clapham Group: They Set Out to Change Their World

A Slave asks, "Am I not a man and a brother?"



A porcelain cameo by Josiah Wedgewood the potter (whose name is still known for fine china!).  In it, a slave asks, "Am I not a man and a brother?"  Used by Claphamites as a visual aid in their efforts against slavery.

“Is not a person a person, no matter how small?”  Used by the Pro-Life Movement today. (From Dr Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (Random House 1954) and using an animated film based on the book (Blue Sky Studios 2008) as a visual aid.) 

“That the Lamb that was slain may receive His Reward for His Suffering…”

The Lamb’s reward…?  Us!  Our deliverance from the pits of hell and the powers of darkness that motivate and drive mankind to depravities of injustice and the brutalization of the innocent… The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Spirit has anointed me to preach good news to the poor and oppressed (physically and spiritually). He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed and to proclaim the year of God’s favor.” Jesus, from Luke 4:18-19 
vs. 20 “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing”

Michael D.Dowling

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THE BERKELEY BURN

Here is a vision I received in Berkeley on 9/3/2007
It was recorded by Enrique Morales, an apostolic leader. 
By Mike Dowling, director of the San Francisco House of Prayer for all Nations

On Sept. 3rd SFHOPFAN participated in a 24 hour Burn at The Way Christian Center in Berkeley California. During the 2 hour watch preceding ours, a prophetic word was released again & again that “The earth is groaning, awaiting the manifestation of the sons of God!” Romans 8:19. Our watch also went down that vein in worship & prayer.

After we finished, I was on my way to the parking lot to retrieve my guitar for the next worship leader .In the church parking lot I was stopped in my tracks by the Holy Spirit, as I began seeing a vision, like a movie, of molten fiery lava running under the ground where we were standing.  This lava was like a river flowing under Berkeley.  I saw saints standing on what appeared to be UC Berkeley Campus’ Sproul Plaza proclaiming Christ. (The story of Philip going down to Samaria came to my mind.)  When these saints stood up and proclaimed that Jesus is the Christ fire came up from the lava under ground and consumed them… they became living torches; and their proclamations created intense heat, & the crowd around them began to cry out,  "I'm on fire, I'm on fire!"   Some ran away, and I sensed it was into perdition's fire. Those that stayed literally caught on fire just like the proclaiming saints.  They were consumed / engulfed by the fire of God. Then I saw these flames of fire, like living torches, walking into churches, where the fire cleansed the people who were there.  I then saw them proclaiming Christ outside, & many around them ignited & burst into flames of fire that could not be extinguished.  Those that heard their words or were touched by them were stuck with a hot tar like substance that wouldn’t come off... The tar began to burn through their flesh until it got to their souls.  When it  touched their souls they were born again.  I knew that the tar like oil was the GIFT of the Holy Spirit…CONVICTION OF SIN, burning through until it completed its work of radical salvation!

There is a Phillip anointing coming directly from the Throne of God, a river of molten Holy Spirit fire coming upon those who proclaim Christ in public. The earth is groaning, awaiting this purifying river to be released through revivalists who stand & proclaim. They will draw it to themselves IN THE STANDING / IN THE PROCLAIMING!

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