While the Lord hid Rule & Reign from the serpent’s attack in 1997-1998, Leo Jadormio blazed the Mindanao trail ministering in the truth & principles learned at SWII Batch 5.
Revival, healing, and deliverance from demonic oppression stirred Mindanao to hunger for more of God, so Leo J. brought the team to teach SWICTS. (Spiritual Warfare in Commando Tactics and Strategies)
On April 1, the Calderons and Sanglaps boarded Superferry9 for Mindanao. The San Agustins followed shortly; the Lazartes stayed to wait for Kairos.
The boat trip was a time of storing energy in preparation for a great battle that was waiting ashore. Spirits of rejection were poised to block our path. With 22 people to accommodate, our hosts were unprepared to take us. The conspiracy of interruptions in communication and coordination tested cultural hospitality as well as the team’s mandate to minister as a family. Finance, luggage, and children were no problem. Declared: It is a privilege to serve our God, expense paid or not. The warm enthusiasm at this truth won over the cold shoulder, and God worked marvelously in warmed hearts. Soon they began to see children were indeed a blessing rather than a burden. Child nihilism, an influence of the pagan god Molech, may yet be defeated, even as it crept into the Church when many began to limit children in families by artificial birth control. God is sovereign. He is sufficient. He looks after His own.
Pagadian City
When our host, because of a death in the family, was ill-prepared to accommodate us, God was there. In the heart of the city, on the 2nd floor of a commercial building, was a mother’s provision for a homecoming daughter. Furnished by Zeny’s family, it became the mission team’s base in Pagadian.
The Conference on Spiritual Warfare in Commando Tactics and Strategies (SWICTS) was a new thing to our host church, Assembly of God. Even the death in Pastor Ronnie’s family, symbolic of the old going and the new coming, lost its sting and frustrated the devil’s plan to frustrate God’s people. Prophetically stirred, experiencing healing and deliverance and manifestations of the Holy Spirit, many hungered for more of God and desired to pursue him. Lives were changed. God is good.
In one of the sessions while worship was going on, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my right foot. I asked the Lord to open my spiritual eyes and show me what it meant.
Angel with a drawn sword
Standing in front of me was an angel with a drawn sword. Its tip was pressed on my right foot. I felt the sharp pain. The angel told me that a wife in the congregation is stepping on her husband’s foot: utterly controlling and ruling over her husband.
A couple came forward. The wife confessed.
Ozamiz City
The Happy Church, the biggest church we’ve served so far with over 500 workers and 6000 members, welcomed the team to hold a 3-day SWICTS conference that 300 workers attended.
Again, initially prepared to host only 7, they were flexibly enabled to provide for thrice the number. When the team was simply grateful for doors opened to minister, God moved on our behalf.
As S.I.S (Sensors & Immune System) warriors, we saw that in spite of intense and constant prayers, heaven may still not open when doors were opened to wicked spirits by ungodly attitudes, resentments, bitterness, and lust defiling relationships.
Prophetic Discernment by Role-Playing
By this time, God was leading us on another level of prophetic discernment by role-playing within the team. Surely the Lord does nothing without revealing it to his servants, the prophets.
Pastor Nathan, a member of our team, led the congregation in worship. Moments later, he felt a strong feeling of resentment toward me. Both of us were on the stage, so he whispered it to me. Upon hearing it, immediately, the Lord revealed its meaning.
Pastor Nathan and I were prophetically role-playing. He was symbolizing the worship leader of the church, and I was symbolizing the church pastor. So I asked the worship leader and the pastor to come forward.
The worship leader confessed. He resented the pastor. The issue: the pastor’s habitual interruption while worship was going on disturbed him, and he resented it.
Repentance and forgiveness mended their relationship.
In the glorious presence of God, secret sins are unveiled. But sinners are not shamed. His grace is powerful and tangible. It is like a warm light that shines and melts the heart with conviction. Then repentance unfolds dramatically. Spawning tears of remorse, reviving the heart in spirit and in truth. It works like an anesthetic. Because bitter roots and iniquity are divinely uprooted, wounds instantly heal. Sinners are transformed.
Prophetic role-playing is two-fold: dramatizing the problem and the solution. As role players, we act and emote the feelings of the characters we are symbolizing. This requires us to be vigilant of our role-playing in order to regard the drama as a classic symbol of someone’s problem, not ours.
Personal prophecies were Given
Consequently, those who attended were healed, set free, refired, and revived in the Lord. There were ladies who received prophecies about their future husbands from a foreign country. Years later, they got married, and we had the privilege of meeting their Norwegian husbands.
We give the glory to God.
Cagayan de Oro City
This is a bigger city, but the Lord led us not to the big churches nor to air-conditioned lodgings planned by men but to a church that God wanted to heal. Our accommodation underlined to us that godliness with contentment is great gain. In a small parsonage under construction, it became fun sleeping on the floor like canned sardines to the music of heavy rain beating on the tin roof, the versatility of human curtains for doorless T&B’s, the ingenuity of our team cooks to keep food flowing at all costs, low or high. The spirit God infused in us was imparted because the church that hosted us was about to die. Now she is alive. Glory to God!
Davao City
Tucked away in a depressed section of this big city is Sin Kuang Church. Glowing metal roofing on white masonry, it was mute testimony of foreign aid that needed the transforming power of God to smooth out the incongruence of such an edifice among indifferent folks. Many young people attended the conference, many new and some older in the Lord. Teachings on discipline, basic truths on the Father Heart of God, and principles on prayer, intercession, and warfare led many to their healing as they accepted the Lord, forgave their parents, and allowed God to recharge them with His truth. God is doing many mighty things in that small Korean church.
Digos
The enthusiasm of ’98 was scarcely seen in the faces that greeted our advance party of 4: Leo J., Carol, Leo and Zeny. Planned 6 months earlier, dates had been set, together with logistics. A miscommunication altered the plans of some people, leading to conflicts in schedule. Many could not come. Sounds familiar by this time. We had reserved Digos for last in this Mindanao tour. We sensed God was doing a mighty thing here. So pursue and persist seemed to be our April slogan.
We decided we’ll come even for only one. Two signed up, Carol and Judith. Their gesture opened miracles. Many came with their families. The venue problem, unsettled for months, was solved in 2 days. Our 5-day stay in that sprawling bungalow, perfectly providing training opportunities in community living, proved to be a fun time. Group and individual experiences in the spiritual gifts were often a practicum in discerning spirits in the atmosphere. On Day 5, four squads deployed in different locations engaged in actual combat in the heavenly places. The banner of victory was raised over Digos. Hail Lord Sabaoth! These new SWICTS graduates are now fast becoming part of the S.I.S. of the Body of Believers. On May 3, twenty of us flew home on wings of faith for indeed God exceeded our expectations of Him. We may try to walk on water. The world tells: Fly now, pay later. But God says: Fly now, pay now. Great God, isn’t He? —–Leo & Zeny Calderon
Feedback
Pastor Leo & Zeny, hello! ……If you can recall, my mother, Grace, and I had a short conversation with you at The Assembly of God Church here in Pagadian City. Your coming here touched my life and undoubtedly the lives of many others. I thought that the ( Warfare ) seminar would be boring, and I didn’t expect it to have such an impact on our lives. And the touch of God has stayed even if you’re gone. I thank God for you. It was by no mistake that you came here. I believe that you came here because God loves the Pagadianons so much!! I thank God for your lives as well as for the lives of your children. God bless you.I hope that we can keep in touch.
Thanks. Lovingly,
Charity
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