What is The Furnace Room?

The Furnace Room is an on line gathering of Spirit filled believers, in Spirit led intercession. Hosted by Deana Barnes and Crystal Rain of Deana Barnes Prophetic Ministry. The Bible says my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations. We are collectively and individually God’s house. Our basic ministry to Him is prayer. The Furnace Room is a place for intense spiritual warfare and prophetic prayer ministry. Normally, as the Lord leads we minister to one another, and take prayer requests later in the meeting.

When is Furnace Room Prayer? Starting at 9:30 in the morning in this season we are meeting on Saturdays. We are on line for 4 hours. While most leave before that, and others jump on later, a few take time to stay the entire session.

What does the Furnace Room look like and what is it’s mission? 

The Furnace Room has an amazing two fold testimony behind it, that I don’t have time to include all of it in this article, but begins with a dream of being in a furnace room watching intercessors and angels standing at its control panels, interceding as the fire was consuming dross pouring into it from main street America. The furnace stood in a place where there was actually a court house in real life. I believe this represented the righteous judgments of God. The second part was the fulfilment of a prophetic word given in 2009 of furnace room prayer gatherings all across this nation raised up by God, that we were not aware of until after the Furnace Room was created, as an on line intercessory prayer chamber, this prayer chamber evolved from our prayer house in 2009. It is in short, a place to minister to the Lord and have freedom in the Spirit to pray for the agenda’s of God. We are not moved by quantity but the quality and richness each encounter is with the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 3-6 are must read chapters to understand spiritual warfare and what brings church unity and true growth. Acts 13 sets the norm for how new commissioning’s and callings are generated in gatherings that “minister” to the Lord until He speaks. Paul’s ministry outpost we see in Acts 19, is the paradigm of what we are doing at The Furnace Room. Whether we be few or many we have callers that call in, on the phone, and zoomers on video. Of course we prefer face to face video but it’s not required.

What does the furnace room sound like?

Our zoom calls can sound like a few things heated up! Worship, warfare, and waiting. Prayer ministry and deliverance. It can also sound like absolute and  abstract silence in a Holy hush under the power of the Holy Spirit. At times the Lord uses whom he chooses to bring a word for the day.

Because of the unique circumstances making it impossible for everyone to sing together, (sound feedback) a song can be enjoyed one of two ways. Soaking it in as heart worship to the Lord, or putting yourself on mute and singing along!

Otherwise we encourage all to worship and lift up their voices, in intercession, in that no one cares about feed back. We join our voices in laudations to the Lord! Blending in style joining in song, when we sing in the Spirit, and joining in prayer when we are praying in the spirit. Yielding to anointed utterance in tongues and prophecy. All are encouraged to operate in their giftings, according to the subject we are on during prayer or prophetic declarations. I have been involved in prophetic ministry for decades beginning with God setting me among a company of prophets in 1980, in an apostolic work in the region we were in. From that place and through the years I received various commissionings from God to do the work of the ministry, in churches, outreaches, prisons and jails, and women’s meetings, always maintaining a House of Prayer in every city lived in. 

We endeavor to develop individuals who need it, to enter into a fluency in their giftings. With room to grow, and grace to sometimes get it wrong, and work on getting it right, we maintain this space as a believers meeting. Not a public outreach for everyone. It’s a launching site for the equipping of the redeemed to go out into the high way and hedges to seek and save those who are lost. Which goes back to the pattern of Acts 13 that many don’t take the time to do any more, that is seeking him as a unit of believers with no time restraints.
 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.  Isaiah 40:31

The gift of tongues and interpretation is present at the meetings. Waiting on the Lord is present. All our encourage to share Holy Spirit promptings to confirm prophetic words after one is given. The key to every thing is to stay on subject until we are moved on. Those that have unrelated burdens or sharing are given opportunity to do so in our wind down period. 

The Furnace Room recognizes two distinct manifestations of tongues. The gift ministry of tongues, (1 Cor 12:28) and the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues as  one’s prayer language, perfectly acceptable in audible congregational prayer, worship, and songs, unto the Lord. (1 Jude 1:20 1Cor. 14:14, 14:15) Different from the gift ministry of divers kinds of tongues that are spoken or sung out in a more distinct and bold way that requires the congregation to yield and listen to it where an interpretation, related prophecy, or prophetic impression follows after. 

Ephesians 4:7-16

NKJV Spiritual Gifts

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says:

“When He ascended on high,
He led captivity captive,
And gave gifts to men.”

(Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. Spiritual Gifts

1:Corinthians 12:1-14

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith  by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various  kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit,  who apportions to each one individually as he wills.

One Body with Many Members

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in  one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 

1Corinthians 12:28 And God hath set some in the church: first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracle workers, then those with gifts of healing, helpers, administrators, and those with diversity of tongues.

Roman 8:26

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.

Ephes 6:18

praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—

Jude 1:20 – But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

1 Corinthians 14:14 – For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

1 Corinthians 14:15 – What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

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