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    Faith Power
    Faith Power
    Faith Power
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    Faith Power

    By Brian Anthony Bowen

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    Discover how LGBT people can unleash the supernatural forces of FAITH POWER and enjoy a life filled with the covenant promises God makes to us in the Eunuch Prophecy of Isaiah 56. FAITH POWER explores the Scriptural definitions of being led by the Holy Spirit into a fruitful, spiritually empowered life as LGBT Christians through the Bible accounts of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and reveals how to develop the same kind of Faith Power that landed these folks in the Great Hall of Faith of Hebrews 11.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Anthony Bowen
    Release dateSep 9, 2014
    ISBN9781311676672
    Faith Power
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    Brian Anthony Bowen

    Following his rededication of his life to the cause of Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit led Brian Anthony Bowen through an exhaustive study of God's Word which led to the discovery of hidden Biblical revelations regarding LGBT people, and the critical prophetic role we play in the Return of Jesus Christ. As a serious student of God's Word, Brother Brian shares detailed examinations of Scriptures most Christians are familiar with, as well as introduces us to Scriptures most have never heard of. It is Brother Brian's hope that these revelations will empower Church Shepherds and Congregants alike, as this message restores families that have been destroyed upon learning that a child or parent or spouse is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, as well as to restore the many Church bodies that have been sharply divided by traditional teachings on the subject of homosexuality over the centuries. More than another book about how the Church has been wrong, and what Scriptures LGBT people can feel free to disregard, this work bridges the gaps in both "pro gay" and "anti gay" schools of theology.

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      Faith Power - Brian Anthony Bowen

      Faith Power

      Copyright 2014 Brian Anthony Bowen

      Published by Brian Anthony Bowen at Smashwords

      Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the Amplified Bible

      Copyright 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation

      Used by permission

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter One: Spiritual Leadership

      Chapter Two: Faith Power

      Chapter Three: No Dry Trees!

      About Brian Anthony Bowen

      Other books by Brian Anthony Bowen

      Connect with Brian Anthony Bowen

      Chapter One: Spiritual Leadership

      While several men were sharing thoughts and Scriptures during the weekly Men's Ministry meeting in September 2005, God spoke to my heart with the following passage from His Word. First, it came to me as a logos word (meaning it leaped off the page and seemed to keep my mind drawn to it).  As part of our conversation on overcoming temptation, I read the Scripture aloud and suddenly felt this knowing in my spirit that God was not just giving me an opportunity to minister to others with that Scripture, but He was going to begin speaking to me about it personally. Sure enough, over the next 7 years, He began to refer me back to the Isaiah prophecy from Isaiah 56 over and over again, especially concerning this portion of it: 

      4 For thus says the Lord: To  the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths and choose the things which please Me and hold firmly My covenant-- 

      5 To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial and a name better [and more enduring] than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.  Isaiah 56:4-5

      So now this Scripture had also become a rhema word (meaning that I actually sensed God speaking directly to my heart)!  What was God saying to me?  As I began asking Him in prayer and as I matured spiritually, I began to receive new revelation insight into its meaning and purpose for my life, as well as the life of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people all over the world, and even in the life of all Christian believers.  As the Holy Spirit of God began to illuminate the path I am to walk in, He showed me the beginning sentences and paragraphs of The Rainbow Believers Series, and over the past 7 years, He has led me through to its completion as well, line by line, precept upon precept…just as Jesus said would happen: 

      But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future].  John 16:13

      Interestingly enough, this passage of Scripture immediately follows this verse:  I have still many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them or to take them upon you or to grasp them now.  John 16:12 

      Could it be that God’s prophecy to eunuchs would come to pass in the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender believers?  Could it have been that this was one of the things Jesus told His disciples that he had to tell them, but they were not yet able to bear them, were not quite prepared to take them upon themselves, and were not able to grasp them then? It would certainly seem so.  Does that make me a prophet?  I’ve been asked this by several people, and my response is the same, If I am a prophet, it is by the grace of God for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven…but you can simply call me Brother."

      As I began to realize that God was promising the Holy Spirit for eunuchs (and that through our belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of God) gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender people were soon going to be in a position to receive His Holy Spirit, and partake in the salvation Jesus died to give us, whether the Church ever taught it to us or not. 

      It’s also interesting that so many in the Body of Christ are familiar with the prophecy from Joel 2:28 which Peter confirmed was coming to pass on the Day of Pentecost, most do not seem to also consider the verse immediately after it:

      And afterward I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

      Even upon the menservants and upon the maidservants in those days will I pour out My Spirit. Joel 2:28-29

      Thankfully, Peter did not omit verse 29 when he referred to it in the account of Pentecost:

      17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, God declares, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels] and your young men shall see visions (divinely granted appearances), and your old men shall dream [divinely suggested] dreams

      18 Yes, and on My menservants also and on My maidservants in those days I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels and predicting future events pertaining especially to God's kingdom]. Acts 2:17-18

      What did God mean in Joel 2:28 by saying, even the menservants and maidservants? Had these folks been considered second class citizens?  Were they considered unable to grasp the things of God?  Were they excluded from full participation in God’s house of prayer for all people?  

      Even more pointedly, are not eunuchs considered menservants throughout Scripture? And would maidservants then include those God prophesied to in Isaiah 54 just before prophesying to eunuchs in Isaiah 56?  And could it be possible that even in the face of 2,000 year history of a willful intention of the Church to exclude eunuchs from the congregation, (even to the point of omitting any definition of born eunuchs that Jesus mentioned in Matthew 19:11-12 from any authoritative Christian study resources), that God was now choosing to set things right by revealing more of His Word through gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Spirit-filled believers?  Could it be true that as God says when beginning His prophecy to eunuchs that indeed,

      1 Thus says the Lord: Keep justice, do and use righteousness (conformity to the will of God which brings salvation), for My salvation is soon to come and My righteousness (My rightness and justice) to be revealed. 

      2 Blessed, happy, and fortunate is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold of it and binds himself fast to it, who keeps sacred the Sabbath so as not to profane it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

      3 Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, The Lord will surely separate me from His people. And let not the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

      4 For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths and choose the things which please Me and hold firmly My covenant-- 

      5 To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial and a name better [and more enduring] than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

      6 Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord to minister to Him and to love the name of the Lord and to be His servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath so as not to profane it and who holds fast My covenant [by conscientious obedience]--

      7 All these I will bring to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; for My house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

      8 Thus says the Lord God, Who gathers the outcasts of Israel: I will gather yet others to [Israel] besides those already gathered.  Isaiah 56:1-8 

      Could it be that the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord to minister to Him and to love the name of the Lord and to be His servants could be a reference to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people from other faith traditions like Jews and Muslims? (After all,

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