Richard Maisenbacher
After a time of teaching and prophetic lab training with Don Franklin this March 2023, he called for those desiring prayer and personal ministry. Many were touched and encouraged as Don spoke a revelatory word of life and encouragement to each person while Bonnie worshiped and interceded. At the end of this special evening, Bonnie and Don both shared a word of encouragement and guidance to Becky and I as well as our TCC family and friends. Even though some of this appears as a very personal word, please know we all are standing today because of your love and support. Because you acknowledged and chose to align with us and the vision our Father placed in our hearts. So, I wanted to share this with you as we say “Thank you” for being a part of The Covenant Center family, and standing with us all these years. As we look to the future, entering a new era and the 25th anniversary year of The Center, we thank our Father for His grace and faithfulness - and again we thank you! God bless you and keep you always, Richard
Don and Bonnie Franklin - www.franklinministries.org
Bonnie - Father God, I thank you for these friends. Brother and Sister who have been more faithful than natural brothers and sisters on this earth. Who have been more faithful than any other Pastor in the city or even in this nation. Faithful to you, faithful to the call upon their life. Faithful, faithful, faithful to the blueprint that you have placed within their hearts and their spirits of how to form a church and a congregation. How do you think it was when the Lord Jesus sat down with different ones and had the fish around the fire. He was not standing up in the priestly robe, was he not? But he was their counselor. He was their friend. He was a father. He was a brother. In this you have been the example in the body of Christ of how to be a family. Of how to be led of the Spirit. Of how to use the wisdom of the Godhead.
But most of all, that companionship, that friendship, that loyalty and trust and love. The welcoming in of the unlovely at times. They are not shooing the beggars away, but are feeding them, clothing them, helping them. Do the scriptures not say? Did you not bring me drink when I was thirsty, to visit me when I was in the prison? These folks have. They have fulfilled scriptures. And the blessing of God is upon their house, their family, their generations. The blessing of God is in your midst this day. What you have prayed for you are seeing being fulfilled. What you have prayed for you are seeing being fulfilled! What you prayed for you are seeing fulfilled! Hallelujah! Your God has heard, and He has answered! And the blessings of the storehouse are coming in.
Don – Every son or daughter that the Father sees he corrects, he chastises, he prunes. The pruning has been hard on the house. There’s been a pruning, a chastising, a correcting says God. But now comes the growth. Now comes the influx. Now comes the new wine. Now comes the new vine. Now comes the fruit of your labor. It’s not over. It’s not over. God says the only reason I prune is so there will be great fruit. And there will be great fruit coming up out of this house. There is a new anointing starting. There is a new flow coming into this house. A new mantle, a new wave, a new understanding of how to do the things that God requires.
There is going to be a very, very, very, strong emphasis on prayer. There has been an emphasis in the past, but this one is going to be different. There is going to be a rolling forth out of this house of hours and hours and hours of prayer and tongues. The perfect language of God, where you cry out to God in the Spirit and it gets stronger and stronger. And there is no more guessing and no more supposing. There is no more wishing or hoping or mental dreaming. There is just the power and the anointing of the Holy Ghost beginning to roll in a new way. A new way in this house. There is a new beginning happening. There is a new understanding coming. There is a depth. You have been crying for understanding, crying for a depth, crying for a change. God said I’m granting it. I am granting it. It is going to start small. But you’re going to notice the difference.
And there is going to be a flow in this house that hasn’t been here. Not because you’ve done anything wrong, but because you weren’t ready yet. You are ready now. You are ready saith God for what I am going to do! You’ve been chastised, you’ve been cut back, you’ve been prepared to handle that which I am going to put upon you. Hallelujah. It’s wonderful. It’s glorious. It’s glorious, glorious. You’re not even going to be able to speak about it, it is so marvelous. You’ll look at each other and just smile. You’ll say oh my gosh I can’t believe this. You’ve been planting for years. You’ve been sowing for years. You’ve been working for years. I won’t leave you without a harvest and fruit. You’re going to have that which you have labored for. Before you close your eyes, you will see it. And you will go with a smile on your face, and a joy in your heart and a knowing that you have accomplished everything God has sent you out to do, even though it was severely hard at times.
You’ve been tested. You’ve have tried to raise up a house of prophets. Are you crazy? Do you think the enemy is going to let that go? When you’ve got everyone in the house prophesying? Learning, making mistakes, but growing? Repenting and going deeper? Huh! You couldn’t have hung a bigger target on your back! He hates the prophetic. He absolutely despises the prophetic! But I don’t. God says I love it. My son was a prophet. The greatest leaders in scripture were prophets. I thought so much of prophets I put them over my people. They didn’t get a king until they totally disobeyed. Prophets led the nation. Prophets judged the nation. Do you know why? Because they only see black or white. They will keep the nation clean. You can’t have them sheep. That’s a Malachite sheep, get them out of here. They belong to the devil. Yeah, but the people want them. Baloney! You get Israeli sheep, or you don’t get any. You keep this nation clean.
Prophets can’t tolerate a Malachite sheep in the house. And that’s when my anointing can fall. That’s when I can bless. That’s when I can consume the sacrifice placed on the altar, when the house is right. I will not bless a Malachite sheep. And when you got a couple of Malachite sheep hanging around, it’s difficult to receive all that I want to pour in. But God says this house is right. This house is headed for a major encounter with the Almighty. The Spirit will fall here and there will be meetings that will go on for hours and hours and hours as the Holy Ghost lingers and finds great pleasure in the house that He’s in. It is not over. You’ve been faithful, you’re weary. Many people are weary, but the strengthening power of God, the peace of God will come, and the joy of God will sustain you. Well done thy good and faithful servants. You will be honored before this is all over. There will be great honor coming to you and to your house. Amen.
Don Franklin was born into the gifts of the Spirit in the Catholic Charismatic prayer meetings of the 1970s. As a pastor on staff with Teen Challenge Ministries, Don was offered the directorship but instead felt called to attend bible college. Upon graduation from Southeastern University with a Pastoral Theology degree, he settled in Lakeland, Florida with his wife and co-intercessor, Bonnie. They went on to lead prophetic intercessory prayer meetings in Carpenters Home, Ignited Church and The Covenant Center for two decades.
Don has taken multiple ministry trips over the years within Germany, Belgium, Turkey, Italy and Israel imparting life and power in the Spirit through prophetic ministry, teaching and intercession. He has ministered in Pentecostal theological seminaries in Germany and Brussels, and was honored to address the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus on several occasions. His meetings bring timely words from the Lord for the body with teaching on historical and biblical events as they relate to modern day unfolding of events. In prophetic teaching, Don conveys what he’s learned in the Spirit with clarity and historical insight.
It is his prayer that America continues to be the land known for sharing the gospel of Christ around the world. His heart’s cry is for the mantle that rested upon our Founding Fathers be resurrected within patriotic hearts across the land of the red, white and blue; his prayer is for America to remain a safe haven for those who believe and trust in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for generations to come.
Don is available for speaking engagements. You can contact him and also reserve a copy of his soon to be released prophetic book, “The Destiny of America & Her Sons,” through his email address.
Bonnie Franklin ministers in music flowing in the song of the Lord, prophecy, and prayers during times of prophetic worship before the Lord’s throne. She sings to the Lord and lets the people listen in. Sometimes in worship, it is as if the Lord and his angels come down into the garden to listen, as well. During services, Bonnie ministers along with her husband prophetically and in intercession.
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