45 David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.”
1 Samuel 17:45-46
"'Pray for the sick! You means in the church!' I was flabbergasted. My mind raced ahead to alternatives. 'Couldn't we just get a lame person or a blind person and go off to a back room where nobody would know about it and pray for them there?"
"So I found myself believing one thing with my mind, but with my heart I wasn't quite sure whether I wanted these things in my life or in the life of my church. I knew, however, that if the Scriptures taught that God's healing and speaking should be significant in the life of the church, we had to pursue them even if we didn't desire them."
From Jack Deere's book "Surprised by the Power of the Spirit"
Quotes
"Apostolic ministry is a ministry of warfare. It entails commanding mobalizing, rallying and gathering the army of God to challenge and pull down the strongholds of the enemy. The apostolic invades new territories and breaks through. It has the ability to go first. It is the first to encounter the spiritual resistance of the powers of darkness and the first to penetrate the barriers they erect."
From John Eckhardt's book "Moving in the Apostolic"