Non-denominational.
No Ministry name - completely independent.
A gospel ensign declaring the soon return of Jesus Christ.
A powerful evangelistic tool.
There were five ministers from various
backgrounds meeting with some others at a special Bible study every Monday and
Friday evening. We would just open the Scriptures and search out the truth, and
God revealed and opened up astonishing insight to us.
A powerful move of God graciously took
place during those times, resulting in awesome encounters in the holy Presence.
At the end of what sometimes would be a two to three hour study, we would begin
to wait on God. Often we would be standing in honour and awe of His majestic
Person for periods that seemed to be timeless. It was as though we had been
summoned to appear at the counsel of witnesses as spoken of in Hebrews 12.
We had come to Mount Zion, the City of
the Living God, the General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn, to an
innumerable number of angels and the Council Chambers of God. It was in this
holy place that we saw a great many seats as if set out around the chamber of
the Kings court. Each seat was set apart for those who were called and it was
required that we appear before this great King to receive instructions and give
our progress reports each one. Our names were placed in front of our seats and
it seemed that each time we met, if one on us were absent, there was a demand
as to why he had not appeared.
This is where we were to receive our
commission and charges. This is where they return from the battle-field to
report their accomplishments and hear the King's strategy for the next advance.
It did not matter in the least whether anyone else in the whole world knew who
we were or what our commission was. We only knew that this is where the
mysteries of the work of the Kingdom are truly carried out, for this Kingdom
comes not with natural observation, but works mightily in the realms of the Holy
Spirit.
For we wrestle not against flesh and
blood, for our warfare is with those powers and principalities that cannot be
fought with intellect, muscle, or argument, but only in the power of the Holy
Spirit and in the Name of the God of Jacob.
The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble;
the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.’ (Psalm
20:1)
‘Unto
you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in
parables; that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not
understand.’ (Luke 8:10)
‘Let a man so account of us, as of the
ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.’ (1Corinthians 4:1)
‘We speak the wisdom of God in a
mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our
glory.’ (1Corinthians 2:7)
Our names were not important 'out there',
for we serve the King of kings and we work without explanation and do whatever
he says because He tells us to. Our answer is to Him alone, and it is of no
consequence what others may think of our hopes and joys.
The King enters the great chamber and we
rise to stand and give Him honour and glory, wisdom and might, majesty and
praise. We stand, our heads bowed, the court now hushed to a silence, our
breath taken away at the sheer honour of being permitted, nay, I say, personally
invited to this most holy place.
We dare not move, in fact, we wish not to
move, but are held rooted in godly fear and a dreadful desire to just drink and
drink of this glorious moment. And time stands still.
And we have no words to speak; and even
if we did, no words could ever express the incomprehensible sight our eyes
behold. No wonder David cried, “My soul LONGS, yea, even faints for the courts
of the Lord,” (Psalm 84 v 2)
It was in this hallowed place that God first gave the vision of the church rising up across the world with the Crown Flag ensign. This is where the flag was first revealed and birthed. This flag was all about honour, and wherever His servants stand with this banner they give honour and praise to Jesus. They declare the excellence of our mighty warrior King and His soon return, and herald the majesty and power of His kingdom. The vision of the flag and its purpose was first imparted and drawn out at the table where we sat to study. The crown image was taken from a very old Bible teaching book which happened to be in the house.
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One Friday night, as we were waiting on
God, the vision was given to one of the ministers at the table. It was from
this very place that we would so often walk out to take that royal ensign to
some place where the Holy Spirit would direct us, and then stand in the authority
of the King and give honour to Christ. It seemed that just standing with the flag
was sufficient to draw the smile of approval from heaven; and bring fear and
terror to the camp of the enemy.
Wherever we stood with the flag it
brought immediate attention and curiosity. People seemed drawn to the flag unexplainably.
Vehicles would slow down and stop with the drivers or passengers asking what
the flag was. Other Believers would run over to tell us that they knew what
this flag was about, commenting on how awesome it was! We could not explain the
effect the flag was having apart from the fact that God was the imparter of the
vision for it and He himself was honouring our raising of this ensign for His
glory.
We thought very much about that verse in Isaiah
62:10, where the prophet says, ‘Go through, go through the gates: prepare ye
the way of the people: lift up a standard (a flag) for the people.'
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In fact, just a few weeks later, a senior
pastor in Coventry, here in England, was shown the Crown Flag. He looked at it
and said, “I have already seen it”. This did not make any sense, as the only
people in the world who knew about it were this small group of ministers! On
being asked how he could possibly know anything about it, he told us that just
three weeks earlier he had been in a minister's conference waiting on God. During
that anointed session, God had given him a vision of the church rising across
the world with a great banner! He said that the Crown Flag was the very flag
which he had seen!
Back at our base, God imparted the plan
to secure our town with the authority of His kingdom. We were to place certain
scriptures (the Crown Flag Declaration, sealed in a waterproof packet) around
the base of 6 feet long wooden stakes and hammer them into the ground at the
side of each road that enters and exits the perimeter of the town.
So early one Sunday morning, around the
time of the sun arising, the five of us took nine wooden stakes, some blue cord
and a huge sledgehammer and buried those stakes into the ground, leaving three
feet of the wood exposed. We then tied a three-fold blue nylon cord to the top
of the stake and stretched it back away from the town anchoring it to the ground
with a smaller wooden stake. This, to us, symbolised the stretching of a canopy
over the town as in Isaiah 54:2 and 'lengthening our cords and strengthening our
stakes'. The three strand blue cord symbolised a threefold cord which 'cannot
be easily broken'.
After doing each one, we declared aloud
the Crown Flag Declaration at each place which we called a 'Prayer Gate'.
The Crown Flag Declaration:
A sound of battle is in the land!
The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at
hand.
Repent and believe the gospel.
And all this assembly shall know that the Lord
saves not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give
you into our hands.
Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be you lifted up
you everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in!
Who is this king of glory? The Lord strong and mighty,
the Lord mighty in battle!
Lift up your heads, O you gates; even lift them up,
you everlasting doors; and the king of Glory shall come in.
Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of hosts, He is
the King of Glory.
This is the generation of them that seek Him, that
seek your face, O Jacob.
Open the gates! that the righteous nation which
keeps the truth may enter in.
And thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in my life, in my family, in my town, in my nation, in all the earth as it is done in
Heaven.
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We encircled the entire town and declared
that the Kingdom of God was at hand.
Every
day for the next eighteen months each one of us would go to pray at least once
a day at our designated gates. Sometimes we would prayer-walk the whole
circumference of the town which we had marked out with boundaries and key
prayer points.
We all
carried a special map of the area which showed every place we had buried the
scriptures, and the line of our boundary. A visiting minister from America who
was overjoyed and amazed at seeing the flag, asked us ‘why this town?’ We said
we did not know really, but just that this is where God had placed us at that
time.
It was
like sowing the seed, the word of truth for the present generation and
generations yet to come.
Nothing
we did was done 'lightly', but everything was born and nurtured in prayer.
We
launched a special evangelism campaign throughout the area and delivered the
Gospel to every one of the 10,000 homes in the town. Over
the period of eighteen months of praying round the town, we saw crime reduced
by fifty percent (government statistics), drug dealers captured, no serious
vehicle accidents, nightclubs and drinking houses lose half of their punters,
and the Gospel impact the entire area with outstanding results.
We walked in the authority of the kingdom
and began to realize something of who we were in Christ, and why one day this
world will see and acknowledge all the true sons of God and the influence they
exerted whilst they walked this earth.
This flag flies in different places around the world right now, and perhaps it will be raised in your hometown before long, either doing battle secretly over the fields, or flying as a witness and testimony on the streets.
In Papua New Guinea (PNG), the flag was
received as the fulfilment of a vision which was given some years before of a
great ensign that would be raised over the nation. When it was first raised
there, the clouds parted and it seemed that the reflection of the flag was seen
in the sky as seen in the actual picture below taken by Louis Apurel, a native
Believer in PNG.
‘So shall they fear the name of the LORD
from the west and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come
in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard [a
flag, an ensign] against him.’ Isaiah 59:19.
‘Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard [a flag, an ensign] for the people.’ Isaiah 62:10
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The great thing about a flag is the
effect it has on those around it. Flags unite people under their colours,
enthuse and encourage their supporters, and galvanise soldiers to fight to the
end on the battlefield. They can also stir up hatred and strife, bring
antagonism and violence, as we have seen in recent days around the world.
There are flags associated with business,
religion, protests, movements, armies, and of course nations. Anywhere you look
these days, whether it is political agendas or those seeking to impose their
own demands upon society, flags and banners are still a major point of
reference in our troubled and dying world.
The Crown Flag speaks of the kingdom of
God, the majesty of our Saviour Jesus Christ and his soon return to this world
in power and glory.
It points to the reality of eternity and
the destiny of mankind. It speaks of salvation and the only hope for a world
headed to disaster and eternal ruin. It speaks in every language and is the
simplest of messages to every culture, calling people everywhere to turn around
and face the way, the truth, and the life.
Wear a Crown Flag cap or badge, and when
anyone asks what it means, send them to crownflag.com
It is the
simplest and easiest way to evangelize which anyone can do without getting all
flustered about what they should or shouldn’t say. It puts the gospel into the
hands of every believer and gives them the opportunity to spread the word on
social media, Gospel Arrows (tracts), business cards, or simply flying the flag in or on
their property. Just think how many people you could reach online through
posting a picture with a link to crownflag.com!
I often looked at the map and tried to make some shape of our boundary line. The best I could imagine was that of a rather awkward fish.
It was
two years later that I saw something quite remarkable. I was about to visit
I had on
my desk a print of the map of
As you can see, the remarkable likeness cannot be
mistaken, and even where the Prayer Gates are positioned on our map, they
coincide with towns or cities in
We knew we were praying in a much broader sense than to just the little town we occupied, and knew that we were standing in authority for something much more strategic. India needs the gospel and a mighty move of God in that nation of 1.4 billion souls, most of whom having never heard the real gospel.
True Testimonies:
Salvation at
32,000 feet!
On board an intercontinental flight a Christian sat with his Crown Flag pin badge on his jacket. One of the flight attendants noticed the crown and quietly asked who he was working for. He did not say at first, but entered a good friendly conversation with the young man. Just 20 minutes before the plane was due to land, the same steward came to him and knelt down by his seat. He asked him who he was, and how he seemed to know so much about him!
He explained the meaning of the Crown Flag, and then shared the Gospel of Jesus with him. At 32,000 feet in the air they went through the sinners’ prayer together! He was in awe and amazement, and said, “Why me? Out of all the people on board this flight, why choose me?”
In an evangelistic meeting a few weeks ago in the
Silent witness of the flag wins souls!
A man carried the Crown Flag on a pole into the High Street in his town
and stood there silently. He declared in his heart that the
He was approached by many people who all were curious to know to whom
this flag belonged. He told them of the King who was coming back to take His
people home.
Without standing and preaching, he simply answered the questions from those whom God provoked to curiosity. People everywhere are drawn to this majestic flag. You cannot explain it except that God is in it, and He is using this awesome ensign in these closing chapters of history to bring the good news that, ‘Our God Reigns!’
Prayer meeting erupts!
The pastor of a local assembly showed us a photograph on his mobile
phone of the Crown Flag draped over the pulpit. He had been holding his regular
prayer meeting at church that week, but it was very hard and disappointing. For
ages it seemed a struggle to breakthrough in prayer. Then suddenly the whole
place erupted into life with spontaneous praise and prayer on the lips of all!
He turned to see what had happened, and saw for the first time the Crown Flag
hanging over the pulpit. A young man had gone to his car after finding the
meeting difficult, and brought in his flag. When the people saw it they
rejoiced and broke into praise as they recognised its meaning, even though none
of them had ever seen it before.
Drug Haul - Gang
arrested!
One Friday night a group of five men felt compelled of God to take two Crown Flags and go and stand outside a farmhouse on the perimeter of their town. They just stood by the roadside with these great flags flying in the wind, and quietly prayed. They were concerned about the traffic of drugs getting through to the teenagers in their area.
As they stood there in obedience to the prompting of the Holy Spirit,
they were uncertain of the purpose that God had sent them there, but were
confident that He knew.
Three days later the local police raided the same farmhouse, arrested a
gang of drug dealers, and confiscated £1 million worth of heroin and ecstasy
tablets.
Praying with the Crown Flag
“It has been such a blessing to
me to place and wrap inside the Crown Flag the photographs of all my loved
ones. Every morning I open up the flag and lay out all the pictures so that I
can pray over each one of them. When I have finished praying, I wrap them up
again in the flag as a sign that they are placed under the care and love of a
great and faithful God wherever they may be in the world today. I carry that
flag and its contents wherever I travel around the world. God is so good!”
Move of God in
The main speaker at a recent Bible conference in
The Crown
Flag goes beyond language barriers and different cultures. It speaks of the
gospel when carried on the lips and lives of Believers everywhere. It is an
amazing and powerful tool for evangelism .
It is
non-denominational, neither carries any ministry name. Every Christian Believer
can use it to become an Every-day Evangelist both online and out there in the
public.
