A PROPHET IS BORN
BY: JULIA GARRETT
GIVEN A ROYAL MANDATE
A mandate is an authorization or a formal order from a superior court or official to an inferior one or lesser one.
In the beginning of this decade in 2003 the Lord began to call me into a time of close
intimate fellowship with him. He woke me up many, many times to speak to me about some
very important matters concerning my family and my standing in the gap for them and also for the Body of Christ, The Bride!
As he did this he begin to speak to me about my calling into the prophetic ministry. He reminded me of the time that he called me and all of the preparation and the training that I have had to endure over the years. He said, not all understand the ruggedness of the preparation and training and are fainting along the way. They do not have anywhere to go to find the training they need because of various reasons some having to do with finances and the raising of families, etc. etc.
At that time, I was in the wilderness and only attending a church. The Lord began to deal with me and then he called me back into full time ministry and service and let me know that he was authorizing me to train others to rise up into the Fivefold Ministry and especially in
the area of the prophetic because that is what I had been called to do and at the time I did not know that the Lord had also called me up into the Office of Apostle.
He began to instruct me and let me know that I was to be a part of the end time movement of training the prophets and even those called into other areas of ministry or service.
He told me to tell his ministers, his prophets that I would be there to help them birth their own babies. He let me know that I am a midwife, so to speak and that I will help others to move into their own ministries and have great success and that their success would be much greater than mine.
He told me to tell them that the journey would be long and it would be hard but that most of the journey had already been done...much of the preparation had already been done throughout their lives.
He told me to begin a ministry school on line that would be affordable for those that would normally not be able to attend a formal school and pay the high prices that these schools require.
You see when a Royal Mandate is Given it Must Be Obeyed!
When I first began my own journey I did not quite understand where I was going and I did not even really understand what I was being groomed to do. Although, I had many signs and many prophesies that pointed me in this direction. It was still not quite clear until the Lord gave me the Royal Mandate that I was to adhere to in the training of the prophets for the End-time Harvest!
1 Corinthians 13: 11 The Message
When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
You see when I was yet a child I spake as only a child and I understood as only a child can do. But with maturity comes more responsibility and so the journey began for me with very humble beginnings.
My ministry began as a very humble Worship leader. I say that because at the time I did not play a musical instrument real well. I could barely plunk out the tune on the piano with one finger. I had a very average voice! But the Lord stepped in and pulled me out of a church where I was the Children Church Pastor and placed me in another even more obscure place and I sat and listened as another Lady led the Praise and Worship.
She was actually quite good and had even made a few records and one album that they played on the Christian Radio Station. She was pretty much everything that I was not. She was very loud and very bold and she was the one up front.
Someone at the church found out that I could play the piano, so they thought. As I mentioned before I could plunk out some notes but that was the extent of my skills. There was a group called the Glory Bound Sounds that had lost their piano player and lead singer and needed one to replace her.
They came to me and asked me if I would like to try out for the group. I was very hesitant to do so. Now I knew that I could sing but the things was that they needed someone to lead with the piano. They had a bass guitar and a drummer but needed someone to play and lead them.
I had never done this. After much persuasion on their part I was convinced to take the music home and practice and show up for practice on a Thursday night. Well, that night I was simply going to take the music in and tell them thank you for the try. I felt I had to be upfront and honest. I was one of those kind of people that simply could not walk and chew gum at the same time and they were wanting me to play the piano, lead the songs out and also sing the lead part!
I went in that night to the practice and gave them my little speech and they listened but they said well we understand but will you please come on Friday night because we are scheduled to sing at a revival and we cannot cancel with such short notice. They will not have time to get someone else.
I was really not wanting to get involved and I sure was not wanting to set myself up for such terror and utter failure. They were so insistent and I really felt so bad for them because they wanted to do this gig so badly. I very reluctantly agreed to go with them and try.
Let me tell you how bad it was. I could not get through even one song. Even when I messed up they would just keep on singing. Most of the time they were singing I was not playing or doing anything because it was so difficult.
The night of the meeting, it was our turn to go up and sing and they called us forward and we opened with one song of which I did not play all the way through. The Lady who was the leader of the group stopped during the first song and so I thought she was going to have to sit me down but that is not what she did.
She stopped and said, “We have a new piano player and she is very anointed but she is also very nervous would you please stretch your hands towards her and pray. The pastor came over and anointed my hands and my mouth to sing and play. Now I wish I could say that I was instantly able to walk up and down the keys and to sing like an angel but that would not be true.
It was a pretty bad night but one that I will never forget. It was a very humble beginning!
We are told not to despise humble beginnings. So that is where I began with a very humble humiliating start. I made it through that night and that was about it.
I was not going to do this ever again. I just simply was trying to help them and I was sure they would find someone else and would not even consider me at all in the future. I felt like I had really convinced them that I could not do it and that would settle the matter.
Well, it did not settle the matter and they still did not have anyone to lead them. They simply would not take no for an answer. I did not understand it? I did not know why they would want to torture me or anyone else with my lack of ability! I was convinced that these peoplewere not quite right!
These people were different from the folk I was normally around in the other church. They believed much in faith. They talked faith, walked faith, breathed faith, and it just exuded from their presence.
They were determined and had faith to believe that I was going to be their next piano player/lead singer. Just being around them made me feel like I might could actually do this although in the natural it wasn’t happening very fast.
The one thing about them is that even when I messed up the songs they just kept on singing and praising and worshiping the Lord. They did not quit and they did not let my lack of ability keep them from doing what God had called them to do.
After some time I got better! I began to be able to play through the songs. At this time in my musical career I was able to read the music a little and so I would take the musical sheet home and practice and pray and practice and pray.
I became more confident and that was good. I was a very shy person and I was a very private person and stayed to my self. All this was to change!
They became my family and they became my mentors but most of all they became my friends. They wanted me to succeed and they wanted me to finish the race that was set before me.
Now all the time not only do I get better at playing their songs but I am gaining confidence and faith in what I am doing. I also begin to be able to see a little more of the Lord’s plan for my life.
I knew that I was called to be a minister and I knew that I was called into intercession because that is what I had a desire to do even from my youth. I just did not understand how all of this played into the role of Prophet and also Apostle. At this time, I did not know exactly what my calling was. I did not understand! I was only a child! I did not have all of the pieces of this puzzle.
Perhaps this is where you are and you have a few pieces of the puzzle and you have wondered how all it was ever going to come together? Let me assure you that the pieces of the puzzle are going to come and they are going to start being put into place as you begin the studies with us at Apostolic Restoration Ministries International Training School. We are going to help you put the puzzle together!
(This is a portion of my new training book, "A PROPHET IS BORN."
With Much Love,
Julia Garrett
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