Hi All - I just wanted to share an email I got this week - it is a message from Shawn Bolz about BREAKTHROUGH in California! This message really excited me because of what God had spoken to Teruah and I about traveling through California from October through November and praying and declaring over the entire state. If you haven't read this yet - please enjoy this good news for God's Beloved - California!Shawn Bolz:"The Release of Breakthrough in California!" (Not Another Cliche Breakthrough Word)
Since January, something has been stirring up in California! Recently one of our friends from England came to California for a month-long "prayer journey." She entered into deep intercession for our ministry, along with one of our other team members. Days and days of intercession went by until one day, they had a "power encounter." Our friend from England saw an angel and said the angel's name was "Breakthrough." The angel had come to bring revival to California and breakthrough for our ministry, our city and the state. She had seen this angel of breakthrough at the beginning of February over a few different encounters, and when she shared this with me, I was encouraged but it did not fully register. In the past ministry I was involved in, WhiteDove Ministries, we did a series of conferences on a similar encounter that Bob Jones and Randy Demain had with an angel of breakthrough who was instrumental in revival. Much happened, but I was not personally impacted at the time, at least not in a visible way. I was not discouraged because I saw other people, places and regions impacted. I personally just didn't have a breakthrough. I thought perhaps our friend from England was picking up on these encounters and applying them to us. However, I found out that she hadn't heard of these encounters and her encounter was completely separate from the others.
Visible Breakthrough Just Started Happening!What caught my attention was when many things we have been praying and believing for (during the two years we've been in Los Angeles) started to happen in the two weeks following the encounter our friend had in February. We had breakthrough with our ministry's 501(c)(3) non-profit filing which is now complete; I sold my house in an impossible market I left in Alabama, and was given the money to pay the significant loss that occurred as a result of the sale; and several of our team members have had breaks in the entertainment industry. Also during this period of time, a significant breakthrough happened for one of our key leaders who's been given an incredible position to help rebuild an African nation from a governmental level and to advocate for aids in the nations. We knew something was up!
I recently went to a conference with Randy Demain who had a previous encounter in Nigeria, while on a ministry trip in 2004, with who he also called "the angel of breakthrough." This angel had been involved with the charismatic preacher, Benson Idahosa, during the great Nigerian revivals of the 1990s. Bob Jones had a similar encounter later with similar details about this angel of breakthrough being released in America (click here to read). In February, I told Randy about our friend's encounter with the angel named Breakthrough, and he looked surprised. Randy said the presence of the angel had left him and the Lord told him that he was taking breakthrough somewhere else for a while, however, the angel of breakthrough would be back with Randy in the future! Randy said, "So that is where he is!"Randy then began to unravel what he has seen happening when he prays for breakthrough in a church, city or region.
I believe it can be summed up in the following process:
Consecration/purification of Believers. Breaking through of promises given to Believers and the purposes for their lives, as well as for the harvesting of the harvesters. The release of Believers into all the world to bring the Kingdom and give Jesus His reward!
Our church has been in phase one and partially in the second phase of this word (although there has been evangelism and placement into the secular arena lately that has been beautiful). Lou Engle and TheCallOn February 24, two significant things happened to us. Lou Engle and approximately 50 members of his team from "TheCall" came to my house in Hollywood to pray. We prayed over Hollywood and California, and during this time, I felt led to talk to them about the angel of breakthrough. I began to see that Lou Engle, who has been an intercessor for California for over 20 years, was about to see a breakthrough in the answers to many of his prayers. We were also reminded of a word he gave me at Harvest Rock Church in 2003. He had prophesied the following to me: "Son of California! Come home! You will be one of the main inheritors of my prayers for the last 17 years of revival in California!" This was a few years before I moved out to California. As we reminisced about the word he previously gave me, Lou and TheCall team prayed again for us to inherit the prayers that went before us. I knew I was not only standing for myself, but for Believers in the land who have hoped for radical things to happen in their lifetimes and for California to be ripe for revival again.
On the same day we all prayed with Lou Engle, our friend from England and I shared about the breakthrough angel with our church body in Studio City, California. I loved the language because it put total emphasis on this angel being empowered to release a breakthrough so we can see Jesus and bring Him everything He deserves—the fullness of His reward! What if God is about to break through again in a historic revival? Bob Jones had prophesied to us that by 2010 we would begin to see a measure of revival, and by 2012 revival would be historic! When I was with Lou Engle and his team, I realized that 2009 is a countdown year toward promise. I really felt this word was for them personally, but now I also see a corporate dimension to this prophetic parable. We are in a countdown year.
Staking My Dream
On February 25, I had a dream I believe is significant and specific to California (but feel free to take it if you are from another region). In the dream I went to the store and bought "22 stakes." I painted the word "breakthrough" on eleven of the stakes and also painted images of "keys and crowns." I left the other eleven stakes plain. In the dream I went to 11 regions in California during 2009, with an emphasis on the timeframe of March through June. I presented a stake to different pastors/ministry leaders throughout California—to stake the land out for breakthrough to happen for them and for their region. The painted stake was kept for their ministry, but the plain stake was taken to a significant place in their region. I had the ministry leader pound the plain stake into the ground to mark a covenant—declaring that in our lifetime, there would be historic breakthrough in politics, entertainment, business, education, family and Church throughout the State of California. In the dream I also asked the California pastors to begin to release "stories of breakthrough" on the Internet! I knew it was the Hebrews 10:24 principle: "And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds." In the dream it was important that Believers in California hear from each other and spur each other toward the love of Christ as a state. I saw as we did this, God would release a strategy as contained in Hebrews 10:25, "Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the day approaching." We are about to have historic breakthrough "revival reports" from our very state! When I woke up I knew God was marking out territory in California, to inherit for His purposes. I knew we were entering into a "season of consecration" with a measure of breakthrough which is a "preparation season." I also knew it was going to be easier than ever to find unity among the churches that are centered around "the desire for the love of God" to visit our state.When I awoke from the dream, I was excited to realize that the 22 stakes also represented Isaiah 22:22, "I will place on His shoulder the key to the house of David; what He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open." We had just prayed this as a release over California with Lou Engle and TheCall team.
I also felt that the stakes were divided into two groups of eleven because God wants to release the Spirit of Revelation over California (see Ephesians 1:17), which is summed up by the attributes contained in Isaiah 11:1-4. God is also going to reclaim His purpose in this land one more time. Isaiah 11:11 states the following: "In that day the Lord will reach out His hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of His people..." This passage represents the bringing together of God's people for His purpose.
You Are California's Breakthrough!Whenever an area faces crises, like California is facing at this time, it's normally a set up for God to shine His marvelous light. In this time our economy is threatened, our politics are failing, our education system is in turmoil, and our families are in crises. But there is a God of breakthrough who has a Kingdom that is higher then what we see. The strategy of Heaven is to release the GOOD NEWS of who Jesus is, and of His Kingdom, to cause us not to fail but to THRIVE in love and good works. The KINGDOM of CHRISTIANS is the ANSWER for THIS SEASON in CALIFORNIA! I encourage pastors, business owners, entertainers, politicians, educators, and families in California to come into "prayer agreement" with the Scriptures just mentioned (Ephesians 1:17, Isaiah 22:22, Isaiah 11:1-3, and Isaiah 11:11) over your family, occupation, and the land itself. One of the names of God in Hebrew is Baal-Perazim which means
"Master of the Breakthrough." This is seen in 2 Samuel 5 when David defeated his enemies in a land he named after this mighty principle.
For those in Los Angeles, we just found out that in the center of the city, there is a plaque which states that 11 men, 11 woman, and 22 children came to pioneer the great City of Angels! Our city was formed with 11:11 and 22 in mind! This is just one of the dozens of signs we've seen in the natural to confirm what is happening in the Spirit.I will be going throughout the state during the rest of the year—walking out my dream in the natural. I don't know if we will be doing this publicly or privately, but we would love to report on what is happening as we walk this out. We would also like to hear about some of the breakthrough testimonies of what happens with YOU. If you are a pastor and want to respond to this word, please contact my office at
office@expression58.org. If you have had a testimony of breakthrough since January 2009, please share it with us! We will be trying to go to all 11 places (which as of yet have not been identified) during the next few months. Pray with us for the God of breakthrough to come to California! Shawn BolzExpression58 Ministries Email:
office@expression58.orgAbout Shawn Bolz and Expression58: Shawn moved to Los Angeles with some of his closest friends to start a church in Hollywood, California, to minister to the entertainment industry, and to bring about social change with issues of extreme poverty. Bringing with him well over a decade of experience in leadership and life coaching, as well as a unique set of giftings, Shawn's passion is to connect peoples hearts and give language to take on their destiny. As an expert in real life issues, he now coaches and consults in the film, television, fashion, video game, athletic, art, entertainment industry as well as the ministry world. Shawn currently resides in Hollywood Hills, is addicted to peanut butter M&M's, and is rarely seen without his dog Maximus by his side. Shawn recently republished his book The Throne Room Company, which is now available again. He is also working on four new book projects coming out in the next 12 months starting with his new book The Non Religious Guide to Dating & Being Single, which is a follow-up to his popular blogging and video series and will be available in May 2009. His popular Radio Show and Podcast: Your Life with Shawn & Sally has some of the most exciting interviews with entertainers, humanitarians, business leaders, and ministries and they are just releasing a whole new lineup (find them on iTunes or visit their website). Shawn and his team are currently working on starting a ministry school called "The Activation Center" to open in September of 2009. They are also launching monthly entertainment meetings starting in June of 2009 for all forms of artisans.
