By Bill Winston
IS THERE NO KING IN YOU?
THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPET MICAH, GOD ASKED A QUESTION
OF HIS PEOPLE WHO HAD LOST SIGHT OF THEIR IDENTITY AND PURPOSE IN HIM.
“NOW, WHY DOEST THOU CRY OUT ALOUD? IS THERE NO KING IN THEE?”
(MICAH 4:9). IF THE CHURCH WERE ASKED THE SAME QUESTION TODAY,
I’M SURE WE WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT ANSWER:
“Yes, there is a King in us – the King of kings and Lord of lord!”,We know we’ve been made royalty as joint heirs with Jesus, and personally sent as ambassadors to bring the blessing of His heavenly kingdom to the whole earth.
So why, the, is the Church not making more of an impact on the world? Instead of living like we’re citizens of a kingdom that has all the provision this world needs, why do we, in so many ways, manifest what King Solomon foresaw? “There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler: Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth: (Ecclesiastes 10:5-7)
The Reason the Church has not yet manifested the fullness of her place and purpose in the world is found in God’s Word through the prophet Isaiah:
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the
Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it (Isaiah 55:8-11)
What we’ve lacked is not information about God, but kingdom perspective. We hear His words, but process to mean something entirely different than what He is saying. Our programming is messed up. What we need is a download of kingdom thinking!
WHAT ARE WE THINKING?
This download of kingdom thinking begins with an understanding that we have been chosen WE HAVE BEEN CHOSEN with a KINGDOM PURPOSE. Like Joseph, we’ve been chosen – from our families, our communities, our countries, even our planet, to be trained according to the ways of another kingdom and to come back manifesting THE BLESSING so men will not miss heaven.
Joseph was forced out of his family home by brothers who were jealous of The Blessing of Abraham manifesting in his life. Yet Joseph refused to take his identity from being a slave and a prisoner. And he refused to hold anger against his brothers, or resentment against those who accused him unjustly. Instead, he lived as an heir of the promise and assignment given to his great-grandfather that “in they seed shall all the nations be blessed. (Genesis 22:18). When the wisest men in Egypt ran out of answers, Joseph reached into the wisdom of a greater kingdom. As a result, he was raised up to the second-highest position of authority in the land by a ruler who observed: “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?” (Genesis 41:38) God had deliberately planted Joseph in Egypt. When his brothers cam seeking food during the famine, Joseph explained: “Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life” (Genesis 45:5).
God purposefully trains and deliberately plants His people where His light, life and Blessing will be needed most. He raised up Esther to be chosen queen of a Persian king, for example, to prevent a massacre of her people (Esther 4:14). And, He created such a great display of His kingdom in preserving Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that Babylon’s king declared: “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word … There is no other God that can deliver after this sort” (Daniel 3:28-29).
Daniel’s faithfulness to God and deliverance in the lions’ den caused the Persian King Darius to write “unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast forever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end” (Daniel 6:25-26).
All were chosen and taken out and raised up to represent the kingdom of God before the kingdoms of this world.
God’s assignment in your life is no less deliberate and purposeful. GOD’S ASSIGNMENT IN YOUR LIFE IS NO LESS DELIBERATE AND PURPOSEFUL. There IS a KING in YOU. As with Joseph, Esther, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, the situation where you’ve been put does not matter. As God directs you, He will raise you up. AS GOD DIRECTS YOU HE WILL RAISE YOU UP.
THE ADVANTAGE OF KINGDOM THINKING
As I began to hear these things and go through the Word looking at things from a kingdom perspective, everything shifted. I saw that once I got a kingdom mentality, I could go place I had never been able to go in my natural thinking. That’s when our ministry absolutely took off. Several years ago, God spoke to me and said, I want you to buy that mall. At first I thought that could not be Him. I couldn’t hear because I didn’t know of a church that owned a mall. Because I hadn’t seen it, my mind kept rejection it, But experience, whether your own or that of others, is not the final authority when you are learning when you are learning to think kingdom thoughts. God kept speaking to me until we purchased a 33-acre mall and began to develop it according to His direction.
Later He told me to start a school of business to educate kingdom thinkers in principles that would survive the failings of the world economy. WE WILL SURVIVE THE FAILURES OF THE WORLD’S ECONOMY WHEN WE FOLLOW KINGDOM PRINCIPLES. Most recently, He instructed me to purchase a commercial bank. The old way of thinking asks: “What does a church need with a bank?” That’s the WRONG question. The question should be: “What does the kingdom need with a bank?” IN 2002, nearly $120 billion came in to churches in the U.S. and made income for banks that did not have a kingdom purpose or vision. Imagine how many churches could be started and church buildings built debt free with the help of a bank that had a kingdom vision for the income off investments from those deposits!
The Church has not thought of all the ways God has to take the light of His kingdom into the darkest places – through people who will begin to think like He thinks.
CHOSEN, PREPARED, AND PLANTED
Don’t automatically reject the situation you are in right now because of the darkness that is in it. The best place for the light is where it’s dark – where you can go in and be the most effective. The Kingdom is in you, and Jesus teaches, “Let your light so shire before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify you Father which is in heaven” {Matthew 5:16). You and I are the mustard seed in Matthew 13:31-32, where Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is as if a man would plant a mustard seed in his field, and that seed would grow up, and be greater that all the herbs in the field.
God chose us to be brought out, trained with the good news and demonstration up and sent back, AND SENT BACK with the good news and demonstrations of another kingdom. He transplants us into a field with His Anointing on our lives. Just as the sons of Israel in Babylonian captivity were observed to be 10 times as excellent than all the other young men. The Blessing in us will cause us to rise up and take over the field we are in. Not only has God chosen us. He has also equipped us. He has given us an advantage – revelation knowledge. HE HAS GIVEN US AN ADVANTAGE – REVELATION KNOWLEDGE! Joseph was raise up and because someone recognized: “this guy knows something I don’t know.” And Daniel was promoted because he had information no one else had.
Revelation Knowledge is knowledge of what already exists, It’s not advance knowledge of something that’s going to happen. It’s something that has already happened. God has given you the ability to see, by His Spirit, things’ that are not visible to the natural eye (1 Corinthians 2:9-10) Equipped as ambassadors of His kingdom, we go tout into our various areas of influence – politics, media, medicine, education, government, sports, hospitality, and churches and neighborhoods and grocery stores and gas stations and the world etc – with His Anointing and giftings to be the people of influence in our fields. We go into these fields bringing resources such as love and righteousness that dismantle the hate, bribery and manipulation that are all they have know. And as we go, we find ourselves transforming things.
DISMANTLING A FAILED KINGDOM
It’s time to rewrite the script. We’ve seen a flood of the Word of God go forth throughout the earth in our generation as God raises up and trains His people. God is getting His Church moving again. He is getting our thinking right and moving us into a place where we can demonstrate what His Kingdom is really like.
We are learning to think the way God thinks, representing a different mentality, with a different outlook, with a different moral standard, different principles, different culture and values. We are bringing in a brand new kingdom. Not only are we going to recover what was lost – we are going to dismantle the devil’s system. NOT ONLY ARE WE GOING TO REVOVER WHAT WAS LOST – WE ARE GOING TO DISMANTLE THE devil’s system! The kingdom the enemy has set up seems powerful until in is confronted by kingdom-minded citizens – people who are in the kingdom of God. We’ve been sent to overthrow, WE’VE BEEN SENT TO OVERTHROW the kingdom of darkness AND ESTABLISH the AUTHORITY OF THE KINGDOM OF LIGHT!
YES THERE IS A KING IN US! And we have been equipped and assigned to establish His kingdom – to take dominion TO TAKE DOMINION BACK. The Church didn’t come to take sides. We’ve not come here to coexist with the kingdom of darkness. WE’RE HERE TO TAKE IT OVER! Victory!
Monday, October 19, 2009
To the stalwart in heart, the call is given!
OMGosh! I just woke from a dream you would BELIEVE! no seriously YOU WILL BELIEVE in all it's connotations, this is going out all over even on several of my facebooks and myspaces and google blocks, I have a million of them altogether, cha, cha, cha!
OMGosh! I can scream and flip out right now in spades. this is awesome!!!! The Lord's had me on the Armour of God lately so that I now carry a "sword" with me at all times, a big plastic one albeit but a SWORD nevertheless to remind me from Him that WE are the ones on the cutting edge here and no others. Now many of us KNOW how to do intercessary warfare and we DO do it mightily and see great results,For it's one thing to be praying in your prayer closet and wave your hands all around or not depending on your style of prayer warfare, But it's another thing entirely to have a physical sword in YOUR HANDS and start slicing the attacks of the enemy up in your prayer closet instead. IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE AND IT CHANGES YOU!
I've been buying up little swords from local dollar or family dollar stores lately and adding glitter and faux jewels to them for myself and for friends. and also getting the bigger ones from Walmart as well. my personal advice is to go buy yourself one and some for your friends as many as you may or may not be led to do quick as these things in the average stores are only out on the market at this particular time of year and will be gone very soon. it's just a silly type and shadow maybe play thing to some. But to others it will be the start of a whole new adventure in God!!! When you swing that sword around and stand at ready and do some of the battle swing manuevers, OH YEAH you ARMED AND DANGEROUS alright! And the enemy of all mankind doesn't stand a chance with you and God at your side in your heart and mind and now in your fully armed SPIRIT anymore. And like Carmen sings about "we become more of a threat to the enemy than the world around us had been a threat to us!"
When the children of God Rise up and take their rightfully ARMED positions as the SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE MOST HIGH GOD THEN THE WORLD CHANGES! WHEN THEY SEE US ROBED IN HIS RIGHTEOUS WALKING IN OUR CALL FROM GOD AS HIS SWORN FEALTY VESSELS [vassels became a distortion of the True dedication down through the ages] WALKING IN HIS ANOINTING AND POWER JUST LIKE THE MAN JESUS DID AND DOES AGAIN THROUGH US THEN THE WORLD WILL CHANGE!
BUT UNTIL WE SHED THE CHAINS OF THE WORLD'S WAY OF THINKING, UNTIL EACH OF US GET WITH GOD AND FIND OUT OR REDISCOVER OUR FIRST LOVE, WHO WE ARE IN CHRIST, NOT A THING WILL CHANGE IN OUR LIVES.
Many of us have looked into the palantir [lotr reference], the crystal ball of satan of shinning "promises" and false hopes and distorted visions of grandeur and recovery from rotten treatment down through the ages to follow this and that man or women who seems to have it all together, whom seems to have all there is for us to make it when all else around us has failed. But it isn't a woman here or a man there that has what we need. It is the real Sovereign Lord God ALMIGHTY who has the answers for ALLLLLL our needs. and it is HIM we must align ourselves with in these coming days. Mighty big hint here. They will only be as hard as we make them. as we accept the conditions of the world that they must be so. NOT! Under the Royal Hand of ALMIGHTY GOD we learn to work with the ARMOUR THAT HE HAS PROVIDED NOT THE WAYS OF MAN THAT WILL FAIL YOU!
HIS ARMOUR WILL NOT FAIL YOU, HIS PROMISES ARE YES AND AMEN.
In the Dream there was a woman, [weeell the dream was all about moi who has battles to win for the Lord too, you know] who had had her Kingdom stolen from her and in this dream she'd got it BACK, But getting it and keeping it or two different things. And She was walking around her castle making sure all was safe and secure against the coming night. [hint hint] [oh boy was this dream full of metaphors he he] And her men of the guard all volunteered to do this for her, but it was something she must do herself because it was HER Castle that she had the calling and the responsibility and the LEADERSHIP over just as well all have our own "castles" to guard and protect. So she was going out on the limb, out in the places she wouldn't even let her guards go, out where only she[he] could go, walking out onto the precarious battlements inspecting and examining and looking over every railing and forecastle and passaways of her castle to make sure all was secure. And the enemy has sent assasins to try and trip her up [he was still out there, still trying to steal from her, from us lest we be weary in well doing] and did make an attempt while she was out on the battlements preparing a spill of some sort as she crossed a narrow wooden bridge between one tower wall and another. But the attempt failed and she didn't fall to her doom on the courtyard below after all. The assasin got away and ran back to hide among her courtiers at the feasting table again. She came back into the banqueting room and she spotted the theives right off the bat, they were the ones trying to act their best and nonchalance but they were sweating in fear of discovery. the enemy always sweats and trembles and shivers in fear of discovery when we are on our guard in the Lord and know what to look for as far as the devious tricks of the enemy go. It was interesting that her place at the table, these two were sitting there just to her right for in their mortal disguise they were always trying to whisper subtle suggestions in her ear to go with this or that man's plans. Yet to her left was her strongest and most powerful Knight sworn to her and her's alone PROTECTION at the COST OF HIS OWN LIFE [ooohh getting chills now he he] And as she went to the tabor to select sweet meats for her meal the scene faded out into how this story all began. [did I say chills, now it's full blown goosebumps!!! he he]
When in the previous generation the enemy had full sway in the land and in the guise of a powerful noble who promised the Lords and Ladies, the nobility of the land many things, he had sent out to them each many gifts and and a wrapped item to each of them in beguiling cloth or wrapping and they were to come against a "Kingdom" he had wilely convinced them was the scourge of the land, the rot of all their problems and grievances. And when they got to the mighty walls of this King's Fortress they were to unwrap this item and look into it and recieve the power to tear it down and remove it's influence from the land [oh i declare you are getting what HE is saying here!] So here is this full army of Lords and Ladies in all their dark battle gear come up before the walls of the lone single huge fortress that had stood for eons against the ultimate darkness in their land and at the last moment as they sat on their horses they pulled out each their wrapped package and slowly unwrapped them and as each gazed into the palantir of the enemy a different spirit took them over and they had the power to call down fireballs to destroy the Fortress that had long protected them and keep them safe in the land. And it looked like the end for the King of this Fortress and the destruction of all that was right and good in the land.
BUT, [of coures there's always a but, in these stories and in this dream] the King had long known they were coming and had prepared for this day and he sent his son, his only begotten son, [chills AND crying now!] out into the world beyond his castle, in the guise of a little baby in what looked like a bowman but was really a peasant woman who "carried" the King's Child out of the castle as fireballs and destruction rained all around.
Well now that SON is grown up and HE'S COMING BACK TO CLAIM HIS KINGDOM IN US AND IN THIS WORLD. AND THIS "DAUGHTER" HAS GOT HER KINGDOM BACK AND HE'S RAISING UP HIS ARMY OF MEN AND WOMEN OF GOD WHO HAVE ALSO GOT THEIR KINGDOM'S BACK and oh by the way there were three people who also stood before that castle that seemingly doomed day in ages past. Two Knights and a Lady, and they KNEW the deception that was about to take place, and though they rode with the blinded army of darkness, [because once you take up the enemy's cause you become as dark as he is in spirit, soul and mind] once they were at the walls of the Fortress they unwrapped their items prematurely and threw them down! and walked off the battlefield refusing to take part in that evil destruction. So in the years that went by they became the guardians of this new and restored Queen at the start of this dream. [whoa!]
............
So then I woke up, but I was still seeing visions awake now and a presentation began to unfold itself in my mind to present on the stages of the auditoriums of churches all across this land. Of KNIGHTS carrying a CHEST that contain the ARMOR from stage left to the center and other Knights opening the chest and taking out the sword and the shield, and the breastplate and the helmet and the girdle and the sandals and re-arming a little child, a small boy, and they closed in around him so the congregation could not see him and when they were finished and stepped back BEHOLD THERE WAS A FULL GROWN KNIGHT FULLY ARMED IN THE LORD! and they challenged the people seated out there to join their cause and take back the Kingdom/s that rightfully belonged to them each and all. And hidden among them all wrapped up in a "new" cloak many folks throughout the auditoriums threw off those cloaks that had kept them hidden among them and stood up also as full grown KNIGHTS, MEN AND WOMEN throughout the whole congregation wearing the silver chain link armor and they thrust their swords in their right hands to the ceiling and cried "WILL YOU JOIN US?" and the entire congregations thus emboldened all cried "YES!" and then another figuare came on the scene seemingly to suddenly appear right behind the Knight on the stage. All clad in WHITE and RADIANCE with His Staff and Rod in His Hands declaring it's TIME for HIS ARMY to GO FORTH AND TAKE BACK THE LAND, TAKE BACK OUR KINGDOMS IN HIM!
............
The WHITE RIDER IS COMING PEOPLE! IT'S TIME TO LAY DOWN THE TRADITIONS AND METHODS OF MAN AND TAKE UP THE CAUSE OF THE LORD ONCE MORE AND AGAIN RE ARMOUR OURSELVES IN HIM, THE HELMET OF SALVATION, THE BRESTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE GIRDLE OF TRUTH, THE TWO EDGED SWORD OF TRUTH, THE SHEILD OF FAITH AND OUR FEETS SHOD WITH THE GOSPEL OF PEACE!
what is that Kingdom of God which is available RIGHT NOW for EACH OF US. JOY, PEACE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE HOLY GHOST.
WILL YOU JOIN US?
OMGosh! I can scream and flip out right now in spades. this is awesome!!!! The Lord's had me on the Armour of God lately so that I now carry a "sword" with me at all times, a big plastic one albeit but a SWORD nevertheless to remind me from Him that WE are the ones on the cutting edge here and no others. Now many of us KNOW how to do intercessary warfare and we DO do it mightily and see great results,For it's one thing to be praying in your prayer closet and wave your hands all around or not depending on your style of prayer warfare, But it's another thing entirely to have a physical sword in YOUR HANDS and start slicing the attacks of the enemy up in your prayer closet instead. IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE AND IT CHANGES YOU!
I've been buying up little swords from local dollar or family dollar stores lately and adding glitter and faux jewels to them for myself and for friends. and also getting the bigger ones from Walmart as well. my personal advice is to go buy yourself one and some for your friends as many as you may or may not be led to do quick as these things in the average stores are only out on the market at this particular time of year and will be gone very soon. it's just a silly type and shadow maybe play thing to some. But to others it will be the start of a whole new adventure in God!!! When you swing that sword around and stand at ready and do some of the battle swing manuevers, OH YEAH you ARMED AND DANGEROUS alright! And the enemy of all mankind doesn't stand a chance with you and God at your side in your heart and mind and now in your fully armed SPIRIT anymore. And like Carmen sings about "we become more of a threat to the enemy than the world around us had been a threat to us!"
When the children of God Rise up and take their rightfully ARMED positions as the SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE MOST HIGH GOD THEN THE WORLD CHANGES! WHEN THEY SEE US ROBED IN HIS RIGHTEOUS WALKING IN OUR CALL FROM GOD AS HIS SWORN FEALTY VESSELS [vassels became a distortion of the True dedication down through the ages] WALKING IN HIS ANOINTING AND POWER JUST LIKE THE MAN JESUS DID AND DOES AGAIN THROUGH US THEN THE WORLD WILL CHANGE!
BUT UNTIL WE SHED THE CHAINS OF THE WORLD'S WAY OF THINKING, UNTIL EACH OF US GET WITH GOD AND FIND OUT OR REDISCOVER OUR FIRST LOVE, WHO WE ARE IN CHRIST, NOT A THING WILL CHANGE IN OUR LIVES.
Many of us have looked into the palantir [lotr reference], the crystal ball of satan of shinning "promises" and false hopes and distorted visions of grandeur and recovery from rotten treatment down through the ages to follow this and that man or women who seems to have it all together, whom seems to have all there is for us to make it when all else around us has failed. But it isn't a woman here or a man there that has what we need. It is the real Sovereign Lord God ALMIGHTY who has the answers for ALLLLLL our needs. and it is HIM we must align ourselves with in these coming days. Mighty big hint here. They will only be as hard as we make them. as we accept the conditions of the world that they must be so. NOT! Under the Royal Hand of ALMIGHTY GOD we learn to work with the ARMOUR THAT HE HAS PROVIDED NOT THE WAYS OF MAN THAT WILL FAIL YOU!
HIS ARMOUR WILL NOT FAIL YOU, HIS PROMISES ARE YES AND AMEN.
In the Dream there was a woman, [weeell the dream was all about moi who has battles to win for the Lord too, you know] who had had her Kingdom stolen from her and in this dream she'd got it BACK, But getting it and keeping it or two different things. And She was walking around her castle making sure all was safe and secure against the coming night. [hint hint] [oh boy was this dream full of metaphors he he] And her men of the guard all volunteered to do this for her, but it was something she must do herself because it was HER Castle that she had the calling and the responsibility and the LEADERSHIP over just as well all have our own "castles" to guard and protect. So she was going out on the limb, out in the places she wouldn't even let her guards go, out where only she[he] could go, walking out onto the precarious battlements inspecting and examining and looking over every railing and forecastle and passaways of her castle to make sure all was secure. And the enemy has sent assasins to try and trip her up [he was still out there, still trying to steal from her, from us lest we be weary in well doing] and did make an attempt while she was out on the battlements preparing a spill of some sort as she crossed a narrow wooden bridge between one tower wall and another. But the attempt failed and she didn't fall to her doom on the courtyard below after all. The assasin got away and ran back to hide among her courtiers at the feasting table again. She came back into the banqueting room and she spotted the theives right off the bat, they were the ones trying to act their best and nonchalance but they were sweating in fear of discovery. the enemy always sweats and trembles and shivers in fear of discovery when we are on our guard in the Lord and know what to look for as far as the devious tricks of the enemy go. It was interesting that her place at the table, these two were sitting there just to her right for in their mortal disguise they were always trying to whisper subtle suggestions in her ear to go with this or that man's plans. Yet to her left was her strongest and most powerful Knight sworn to her and her's alone PROTECTION at the COST OF HIS OWN LIFE [ooohh getting chills now he he] And as she went to the tabor to select sweet meats for her meal the scene faded out into how this story all began. [did I say chills, now it's full blown goosebumps!!! he he]
When in the previous generation the enemy had full sway in the land and in the guise of a powerful noble who promised the Lords and Ladies, the nobility of the land many things, he had sent out to them each many gifts and and a wrapped item to each of them in beguiling cloth or wrapping and they were to come against a "Kingdom" he had wilely convinced them was the scourge of the land, the rot of all their problems and grievances. And when they got to the mighty walls of this King's Fortress they were to unwrap this item and look into it and recieve the power to tear it down and remove it's influence from the land [oh i declare you are getting what HE is saying here!] So here is this full army of Lords and Ladies in all their dark battle gear come up before the walls of the lone single huge fortress that had stood for eons against the ultimate darkness in their land and at the last moment as they sat on their horses they pulled out each their wrapped package and slowly unwrapped them and as each gazed into the palantir of the enemy a different spirit took them over and they had the power to call down fireballs to destroy the Fortress that had long protected them and keep them safe in the land. And it looked like the end for the King of this Fortress and the destruction of all that was right and good in the land.
BUT, [of coures there's always a but, in these stories and in this dream] the King had long known they were coming and had prepared for this day and he sent his son, his only begotten son, [chills AND crying now!] out into the world beyond his castle, in the guise of a little baby in what looked like a bowman but was really a peasant woman who "carried" the King's Child out of the castle as fireballs and destruction rained all around.
Well now that SON is grown up and HE'S COMING BACK TO CLAIM HIS KINGDOM IN US AND IN THIS WORLD. AND THIS "DAUGHTER" HAS GOT HER KINGDOM BACK AND HE'S RAISING UP HIS ARMY OF MEN AND WOMEN OF GOD WHO HAVE ALSO GOT THEIR KINGDOM'S BACK and oh by the way there were three people who also stood before that castle that seemingly doomed day in ages past. Two Knights and a Lady, and they KNEW the deception that was about to take place, and though they rode with the blinded army of darkness, [because once you take up the enemy's cause you become as dark as he is in spirit, soul and mind] once they were at the walls of the Fortress they unwrapped their items prematurely and threw them down! and walked off the battlefield refusing to take part in that evil destruction. So in the years that went by they became the guardians of this new and restored Queen at the start of this dream. [whoa!]
............
So then I woke up, but I was still seeing visions awake now and a presentation began to unfold itself in my mind to present on the stages of the auditoriums of churches all across this land. Of KNIGHTS carrying a CHEST that contain the ARMOR from stage left to the center and other Knights opening the chest and taking out the sword and the shield, and the breastplate and the helmet and the girdle and the sandals and re-arming a little child, a small boy, and they closed in around him so the congregation could not see him and when they were finished and stepped back BEHOLD THERE WAS A FULL GROWN KNIGHT FULLY ARMED IN THE LORD! and they challenged the people seated out there to join their cause and take back the Kingdom/s that rightfully belonged to them each and all. And hidden among them all wrapped up in a "new" cloak many folks throughout the auditoriums threw off those cloaks that had kept them hidden among them and stood up also as full grown KNIGHTS, MEN AND WOMEN throughout the whole congregation wearing the silver chain link armor and they thrust their swords in their right hands to the ceiling and cried "WILL YOU JOIN US?" and the entire congregations thus emboldened all cried "YES!" and then another figuare came on the scene seemingly to suddenly appear right behind the Knight on the stage. All clad in WHITE and RADIANCE with His Staff and Rod in His Hands declaring it's TIME for HIS ARMY to GO FORTH AND TAKE BACK THE LAND, TAKE BACK OUR KINGDOMS IN HIM!
............
The WHITE RIDER IS COMING PEOPLE! IT'S TIME TO LAY DOWN THE TRADITIONS AND METHODS OF MAN AND TAKE UP THE CAUSE OF THE LORD ONCE MORE AND AGAIN RE ARMOUR OURSELVES IN HIM, THE HELMET OF SALVATION, THE BRESTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE GIRDLE OF TRUTH, THE TWO EDGED SWORD OF TRUTH, THE SHEILD OF FAITH AND OUR FEETS SHOD WITH THE GOSPEL OF PEACE!
what is that Kingdom of God which is available RIGHT NOW for EACH OF US. JOY, PEACE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE HOLY GHOST.
WILL YOU JOIN US?
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Keith Miller:"Wisdom and a Fresh Anointing of the Holy Spirit for New Seasons and New Beginnings"
The Lord wants to anoint us with supernatural wisdom that will cause people to say, "How did he get so smart?" They said that of Jesus. "And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, 'Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands!'" (Mark 6:2b). You see, we need that again in the Church. We need to set the standard for the world.
Jesus lived His life plugged into the Flow of the Spirit of Wisdom, so His life, on a day to day basis, demonstrated skillful living that glorified and demonstrated the reality of the Kingdom of God.
Don't you want an impartation from the Spirit of Wisdom? I believe we're coming into new seasons and new times in the Lord. It's not that it's new to Him, it's new to us. The Church needs to operate in the Spirit of Wisdom and understanding now! We need to raise up a standard, not by our ability, but by being plugged into the Spirit of Wisdom; this is not information or performance, but skillful ability and understanding that releases authority and strong leadership.
Dear friends, we are seeing major changes all around that will affect, and have affected, each of our lives; and more are on the way. If there was ever a time for you and I to live and operate out of the Spirit of Wisdom, it is now! Please know that I'm not talking about what your ability is or a few nuggets of thoughts. These things are a blessing, but I'm talking about something more—something deeper, wider, and greater. I'm talking about living and operating out of a River of Wisdom.
A River of Wisdom is different. When I say a River, I'm talking about the perpetual flow of the Holy Spirit in the area of wisdom. O dear friends, how we need this now. My heart is to see God's precious people living out of the deepest part of the blessing of the Lord...to flow with all that He is in you. As you read this article, ask Him to fill you with all wisdom and understanding, for His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
The Bible in John 7:37-38 declares that out of your heart or belly will flow rivers of living water! Notice it declares rivers of living water. One of those rivers is the River of Wisdom! Let the River of Wisdom flow!
Spirit of Wisdom Defined
The Spirit of Wisdom is not just information. The Spirit of Wisdom is a supernatural endowment of an ability to do something above one's own ability. It is actually the skillful ability to do what God has called you to do. There is a river of wisdom being released to the Church right now, and it isn't analytical ability, but it is a skillful and creative ability.
The Church is about to minister out of a wisdom that is going to confound the wisest people on the earth. The world will start asking, "Where did he get that ability? He didn't go to school for that!" Believers say, "I got it in a dream." People will be mystified by this. The Spirit of Wisdom is supernatural ability. The Lord demonstrated this in Psalm 136:5a: "Him who by wisdom made the heavens." Wow! By wisdom He made the heavens.
Benny Hinn describes it like this: "Wisdom is living skills; it is the ability to apply the knowledge of God's Word to our lives daily. It involves the application of God's truth to human experience on a day to day basis. Properly mastered, it can lead to a happy, successful, and prosperous life." (from Welcome, Holy Spirit)
The Spirit of Wisdom flows from Heaven, straight from His throne; it comes out of communion with the Lord in intimacy with Him. It flows from His presence, which is the "center pipe" of the lampstand in Zechariah 4:2 from which all the other six operations of the Spirits also flow.
Gift of Wisdom versus Spirit of Wisdom
There is a distinct difference between the gift of wisdom and the Spirit of Wisdom. In 1 Corinthians 12:8, "...for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit," we see the gift of wisdom, or a word of wisdom. We give words of wisdom when the Holy Spirit uses us to deliver a particular piece of information, possibly about a healing, a wayward child, etc.
The Lord wants us to take it up a notch and experience the continuous flow of the Spirit of Wisdom. He is moving us into the function of the Holy Spirit where we will walk in the perpetual, ceaseless flow of the unlimited anointing on a day to day basis, not every once in a while. So we want more than just a word of wisdom, we want a river of wisdom; we want the Spirit of Wisdom.
Function of Spirit of Wisdom
Remember in John 7:38b it says, "Out of his (your) heart (belly) will flow rivers of living water"? (Emphasis mine) That's more than just one river. These rivers symbolize multiple flows or functions of the Holy Spirit. Think about the Spirit of Wisdom as a river of wisdom flowing out of your life. As it was stated earlier, wisdom is not analytical ability, but creative power. So the Spirit of Wisdom is an impartation or a river of creative ability to function in what God is calling you to do.
As I write this, I'm feeling the zeal of the Holy Spirit very strongly. Rivers represent several different expressions or functions of the Holy Spirit ministry. One of those flows is the Spirit of Wisdom. So, as a Believer, you have the potential to have a river of wisdom flow from you, flow through you, and around you, just like it says in Ephesians 1:19, "By His exceeding great power for you, through you and around you."
Wouldn't you like to tap into Jesus, the "center pipe" of the lampstand that is described in Zechariah 4? Jesus is pretty wise, isn't He? He sees the beginning from the end and the end from the beginning. He's the Alpha and Omega. Wouldn't you like to have that kind of wisdom? He has the blueprint plans for your life right in front of Him. He has what God has already ordained for you. He hears from the Father, "Jesus, go get it," and then He tells the Holy Spirit, who transmits it to you.
I know the potential for me in any area is unlimited because it is not based on how well I can do things, but it is based on how I learn to flow with the river of wisdom. Since He gives me supernatural ability to do things, I want to be able to cause people who have not seen me in three years to say, "Oh my, look at this guy! Where's he getting this stuff from?" And I can give the Lord the glory for it all.
So, the Lord wants to anoint us with supernatural wisdom that will cause people to say, "How did he get so smart?" They said that of Jesus. Mark 6:2b "And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, 'Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands!'" You see, we need that again in the Church. We need to set the standard for the world.
Benefits of the Spirit of Wisdom
Look at this passage in Proverbs 4:5-13 which is all about wisdom:
Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will keep you. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. Exalt her, and she will promote you; she will bring you honor when you embrace her. She will place on your head an ornament of grace; a crown of glory she will deliver to you.
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of your life will be many. I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hindered, and when you run, you will not stumble. Take firm hold of instruction, do not let go; keep her, for she is your life.
Promotion
The Spirit of Wisdom will bring promotion. Grace is favor, or supernatural ability to do what you can't do; He does it for you. I have always had this kind of favor. I would wonder, Why do I always get these breaks? I used to call it luck. Once a man told me, "By the way, I am going to give you a race horse." I said, "I don't need a race horse." He said, "Oh you don't have to do anything." I said, "Well, how much does it cost to feed that thing?" He said, "No, I'll feed it too. I just want to put your name on it." I asked, "Why?" He said, "Everything you touch turns to gold." It was because of God's favor.
I believe the Lord allowed me to touch that side of life because I came from such a bad background. We were very poor. When I was young, I stole clothes off the clothesline to help my brothers and sisters. Can you imagine going to school and being asked, "Hey, isn't that my shirt?" It's kind of embarrassing. I used to go to the grocery store at 4:00am to steal the food that was set outside the store for stock. I knew that side of life.
The Lord's goodness allowed me to know His favor, and that is what is so awesome about His plan. He sees the beginning from the end and the end from the beginning. He later allowed me to prosper in business, which released not only finances, but also important life lessons. Riches don't entice me anymore. I have already had them and I was empty. It can't compare to what I have now. I would never trade the anointing for any amount of money!
Long Life
Did you know that wisdom will extend your life? The Lord told me once, "Keith, a lot of My people are dying prematurely due to stress. If they would just embrace the Spirit of Wisdom, they would have a lot less stress." Remember, Proverbs 4:10 above says, "Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of your life will be many." When people try to live by their own abilities instead of plugging into His ability, stress increases.
God has purposes and plans for every Believer. His plans are bigger than what you can do. They will either drive you or excite you. We usually go through a season where we're driven by our vision until we get worn out and weary and give up, and that's when God kicks in and begins to do it through us. But we don't have to live like that! We can actually live in His wisdom. Jesus Himself said, "Take My yoke upon you...For My yoke is easy and My burden is light" (Matthew 11:29-30). Wouldn't you like to live in the ability of the Spirit of Wisdom?
An Ornament of Grace
Wisdom will place on your head an ornament of grace and crown your head with glory. God says, "Let Me put an ornament of grace on your head." Everywhere you go that ornament is there. Rejoice, because grace gives you favor with God and man. Grace gives you what you don't deserve. Grace makes things easy. 2 Timothy 2:1, "You therefore, My son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." The word strong means to be enabled or energized by grace; when we operate out of the function of Wisdom we are energized by Grace not our strength!
The reason why many things are so hard is because we are trying to do it out of natural wisdom instead of the Spirit of Wisdom. And we wonder why it doesn't bring the Lord glory when we struggle and finally get it done. I'm tired of what we can do. Let's see some things that only God can do.
Proverbs 4 refers to "a crown of glory." The Spirit of Wisdom and understanding will promote you, put an ornament of glory over your head, and then crown you with glory. Have you been in meetings where the glory was so strong that you felt the weightiness of the Presence? Remember when Moses had to put a veil over his face because of the glory? Wouldn't you like to be crowned with glory? When this happens, you become more God-conscious than self- or sin-conscious. Do you know what that would do for you if you became more God-conscious than sin or self-conscious? How much better is the new covenant? You want to be crowned with glory, the weightiness of His character, His nature and His power for your life.
Peace
Happy is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding, for her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, and her gain than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things you may desire cannot compare with her. Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and happy are all who retain her. The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding He established the heavens. By His knowledge, the depths were broken up, and clouds drop down the dew.—Proverbs 3:13-20
Christians should be at peace knowing that the things He is asking of you He is not asking you to do in your own ability. He will give you the Spirit of Wisdom to perform the very thing that He is asking of you. See, it is an incredible thing for the river of wisdom to flow in your life. You will look at yourself in the midst of it all and think, "I can't believe this is even me." Guess what? It's not!
When you begin to minister out of the Spirit of Wisdom, you won't be in a state of emotional reaction. Jesus operated in a constant flow of the Spirit of Wisdom. His works, words, and teachings astonished the multitudes. Jesus provided the disciples with a great supply of opportunities to marvel. He commanded the fig tree to wither (Matthew 21:20), calmed a raging sea with a word (Mark 6:51), and boldly declared to the skeptical Pharisees and Herodians, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's" (Mark 12:17). All who heard Him were astonished with His teaching (Luke 4:32), His understanding, and His answers (Luke 2:47). He did many wonderful things, even raised the dead, and things don't get much more astonishing than that!
In Acts 6:10, Stephen spoke with such wisdom, that those who were resisting could say nothing! "And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke." This is incredible manifestation of the Spirit of Wisdom through a person. Jesus said this in Luke 21:15, "For I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist." This is a function out of the Spirit of Wisdom rather an emotional response.
As a Believer the Lord wants you to function in the Spirit of Wisdom in everyday living, so that you will be able to speak life to the hurting. You can lead many to Christ through the operation of the Spirit of Wisdom. "The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens me morning by morning, He awakens my ear to hear as the learned" (Isaiah 50:4).
Many people will be lead to Christ through the operation of the Spirit of Wisdom. Daniel 12:3 says, "Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever." Wow, what a powerful tool to lead many to the Lord...by the Spirit of Wisdom flowing through your life! We are the light upon the hill, and His glory shall be seen upon us which will lead many to the Lord.
Living Wittily (Intelligence, Clever)
God's people should be the wittiest people on the earth. We should be the ones who set the standard. We have the advantage, but we seem to always make excuses like, "Well, if I had what they had..." The truth is you have the advantage over people who aren't born again. You have the advantage because you have the Holy Spirit living in you. Even Jesus Himself said, "It's to your advantage that I go away so He can come" (John 16:7). He was referring to the Holy Spirit.
Nehemiah 9:20a is one of my favorite Scriptures, "You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them..." God has given us His best, and the word for "best" means "beautiful, bountiful." The Holy Spirit is His best one who can instruct us. The word "instruct" means "to shoot like an arrow; to guide wittily, like a wise master builder." Christians should be the ones operating in the most skillful realms of ability and wisdom, because we're plugged into the One who is orchestrating and bringing forth everything that He has purposed since the foundations of the earth.
Don't you want to live your life wittily so that people around you start to take notice? The truth is God wants to do something in our lives that gives Him glory. You shouldn't limit yourself to your education and your natural ability. I believe with all of my heart that this is for every Believer, and it doesn't matter whether you're 10 or you're 70.
Heavenly Blueprints—God's Plans for Us
You can begin to operate daily in the river of wisdom. Courses of action from God will enable you to be a wise master builder, building by custom-made Heavenly blueprints just for you. God has rivers of wisdom available to us for our lives. He has ordained our days for us before they ever come to pass, as Psalm 139:14-18 says:
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.
I love that my days are fashioned for me in the Lord's book in advance! Ephesians 2:10 also speaks of Him knowing our days in advance. It says: For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
In John 15:15-16, Jesus Himself said, "No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you."
Do you want the fruit in your life that He has ordained and prepared? Do you want wisdom in order to walk out His eternal blueprints for your life? Wouldn't you like to have all those things? A river of wisdom will bring this about. Wisdom is more important than any riches of this earth, as Proverbs 8:11 says: "For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things one may desire cannot be compared with her."
Spirit of Wisdom Impartation is Transferable
In February I preached this message in a church in Austin, Texas. I told them, "I am going to ask the Lord to release this for you." I prayed for the impartation for the activation of the river of wisdom and understanding. In attendance was a gentleman who had a business; he could hardly pay his rent. After this, in March or April, he invented a product to refurbish computer components. Now he can't keep up with the orders. He just wrote me a check for $15,000 to build an orphanage, because the Lord is blessing him so supernaturally in the area of finances. God wants to do that for you, in the areas of ministry and for your family.
Since I preached that message we have had several people report that they received an impartation or activation in the Spirit of Wisdom so that their businesses, ministries, etc., have accelerated 20 times over. This is because as a man believes, so shall he receive. Every Believer can live in a river of the wisdom of the Holy Spirit—not just every once in a while, but daily.
The Lord wants you to enter into another level of the Spirit of Wisdom. I am going to ask and believe for you to receive the activation of it. The Holy Spirit is the wisest person on the earth, isn't He? He knows what is going on in Heaven. By one Spirit we have access to the Father. So, when you connect with the Spirit of Wisdom or the river of wisdom, you are truly plugging in to a greater level of the wisest Person on the earth. You are going to flow with the Person who knows everything that is going on in Heaven and who has access to the One who has your blueprints.
Why don't you make these faith declarations with me out loud now in prayer:
We're coming into sync right now with the plan of Heaven for our lives upon the earth. As it is in Heaven, so shall it be in our lives. We're going to walk in such a realm of the Spirit that we're going to gain strength; we are going to increase and we're going to be fruitful because we're going to operate by the Spirit of Wisdom. We're going to build as wise master builders, not with wood, hay or stubble. We're going to build with gold and silver.
The Holy Spirit is going to search out the deep things of God and reveal them to us, then He is going to give us wisdom to be able to implement and see the fulfillment of those things. We thank You that we're a people who are being led and instructed to live wisely and wittily by the Holy Spirit. Our steps are ordered by the Holy Spirit. Our lives will confound the wise.
This year is going to be the greatest year that we've seen for building the Kingdom. This is going to be the greatest year of building according to the blueprints of Heaven. We're going to be amazed at what You are going to do this year. And Lord, because we've embraced the Spirit of Wisdom, You're going to promote us. And because You're going to promote us, You're putting that ornament of grace on our heads right now. And I thank You for the crowning of glory. And I thank You, Lord, that we're going to have long life, because we're going to know a sense of rest in the Spirit that we've never known before, because we're not going to do it by our strength and our ability but by the river of wisdom.
Now, Lord, I thank You that right now You are releasing an ability to teach like we've never been able to teach before. I thank You, Lord, that You've given us patterns to build by, but now the Spirit of Wisdom is going to see the fulfillment of those patterns. I thank You, Lord, that some of those things that we have waited for for ten or twenty years, that this year there is going to be a 30, a 60 and a 100-fold increase of them. I thank You for it in Jesus' mighty name! Amen.
Keith Miller
Stand Firm World Ministries
Email: info@sfwm.org
The Lord wants to anoint us with supernatural wisdom that will cause people to say, "How did he get so smart?" They said that of Jesus. "And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, 'Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands!'" (Mark 6:2b). You see, we need that again in the Church. We need to set the standard for the world.
Jesus lived His life plugged into the Flow of the Spirit of Wisdom, so His life, on a day to day basis, demonstrated skillful living that glorified and demonstrated the reality of the Kingdom of God.
Don't you want an impartation from the Spirit of Wisdom? I believe we're coming into new seasons and new times in the Lord. It's not that it's new to Him, it's new to us. The Church needs to operate in the Spirit of Wisdom and understanding now! We need to raise up a standard, not by our ability, but by being plugged into the Spirit of Wisdom; this is not information or performance, but skillful ability and understanding that releases authority and strong leadership.
Dear friends, we are seeing major changes all around that will affect, and have affected, each of our lives; and more are on the way. If there was ever a time for you and I to live and operate out of the Spirit of Wisdom, it is now! Please know that I'm not talking about what your ability is or a few nuggets of thoughts. These things are a blessing, but I'm talking about something more—something deeper, wider, and greater. I'm talking about living and operating out of a River of Wisdom.
A River of Wisdom is different. When I say a River, I'm talking about the perpetual flow of the Holy Spirit in the area of wisdom. O dear friends, how we need this now. My heart is to see God's precious people living out of the deepest part of the blessing of the Lord...to flow with all that He is in you. As you read this article, ask Him to fill you with all wisdom and understanding, for His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
The Bible in John 7:37-38 declares that out of your heart or belly will flow rivers of living water! Notice it declares rivers of living water. One of those rivers is the River of Wisdom! Let the River of Wisdom flow!
Spirit of Wisdom Defined
The Spirit of Wisdom is not just information. The Spirit of Wisdom is a supernatural endowment of an ability to do something above one's own ability. It is actually the skillful ability to do what God has called you to do. There is a river of wisdom being released to the Church right now, and it isn't analytical ability, but it is a skillful and creative ability.
The Church is about to minister out of a wisdom that is going to confound the wisest people on the earth. The world will start asking, "Where did he get that ability? He didn't go to school for that!" Believers say, "I got it in a dream." People will be mystified by this. The Spirit of Wisdom is supernatural ability. The Lord demonstrated this in Psalm 136:5a: "Him who by wisdom made the heavens." Wow! By wisdom He made the heavens.
Benny Hinn describes it like this: "Wisdom is living skills; it is the ability to apply the knowledge of God's Word to our lives daily. It involves the application of God's truth to human experience on a day to day basis. Properly mastered, it can lead to a happy, successful, and prosperous life." (from Welcome, Holy Spirit)
The Spirit of Wisdom flows from Heaven, straight from His throne; it comes out of communion with the Lord in intimacy with Him. It flows from His presence, which is the "center pipe" of the lampstand in Zechariah 4:2 from which all the other six operations of the Spirits also flow.
Gift of Wisdom versus Spirit of Wisdom
There is a distinct difference between the gift of wisdom and the Spirit of Wisdom. In 1 Corinthians 12:8, "...for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit," we see the gift of wisdom, or a word of wisdom. We give words of wisdom when the Holy Spirit uses us to deliver a particular piece of information, possibly about a healing, a wayward child, etc.
The Lord wants us to take it up a notch and experience the continuous flow of the Spirit of Wisdom. He is moving us into the function of the Holy Spirit where we will walk in the perpetual, ceaseless flow of the unlimited anointing on a day to day basis, not every once in a while. So we want more than just a word of wisdom, we want a river of wisdom; we want the Spirit of Wisdom.
Function of Spirit of Wisdom
Remember in John 7:38b it says, "Out of his (your) heart (belly) will flow rivers of living water"? (Emphasis mine) That's more than just one river. These rivers symbolize multiple flows or functions of the Holy Spirit. Think about the Spirit of Wisdom as a river of wisdom flowing out of your life. As it was stated earlier, wisdom is not analytical ability, but creative power. So the Spirit of Wisdom is an impartation or a river of creative ability to function in what God is calling you to do.
As I write this, I'm feeling the zeal of the Holy Spirit very strongly. Rivers represent several different expressions or functions of the Holy Spirit ministry. One of those flows is the Spirit of Wisdom. So, as a Believer, you have the potential to have a river of wisdom flow from you, flow through you, and around you, just like it says in Ephesians 1:19, "By His exceeding great power for you, through you and around you."
Wouldn't you like to tap into Jesus, the "center pipe" of the lampstand that is described in Zechariah 4? Jesus is pretty wise, isn't He? He sees the beginning from the end and the end from the beginning. He's the Alpha and Omega. Wouldn't you like to have that kind of wisdom? He has the blueprint plans for your life right in front of Him. He has what God has already ordained for you. He hears from the Father, "Jesus, go get it," and then He tells the Holy Spirit, who transmits it to you.
I know the potential for me in any area is unlimited because it is not based on how well I can do things, but it is based on how I learn to flow with the river of wisdom. Since He gives me supernatural ability to do things, I want to be able to cause people who have not seen me in three years to say, "Oh my, look at this guy! Where's he getting this stuff from?" And I can give the Lord the glory for it all.
So, the Lord wants to anoint us with supernatural wisdom that will cause people to say, "How did he get so smart?" They said that of Jesus. Mark 6:2b "And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, 'Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands!'" You see, we need that again in the Church. We need to set the standard for the world.
Benefits of the Spirit of Wisdom
Look at this passage in Proverbs 4:5-13 which is all about wisdom:
Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will keep you. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. Exalt her, and she will promote you; she will bring you honor when you embrace her. She will place on your head an ornament of grace; a crown of glory she will deliver to you.
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of your life will be many. I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hindered, and when you run, you will not stumble. Take firm hold of instruction, do not let go; keep her, for she is your life.
Promotion
The Spirit of Wisdom will bring promotion. Grace is favor, or supernatural ability to do what you can't do; He does it for you. I have always had this kind of favor. I would wonder, Why do I always get these breaks? I used to call it luck. Once a man told me, "By the way, I am going to give you a race horse." I said, "I don't need a race horse." He said, "Oh you don't have to do anything." I said, "Well, how much does it cost to feed that thing?" He said, "No, I'll feed it too. I just want to put your name on it." I asked, "Why?" He said, "Everything you touch turns to gold." It was because of God's favor.
I believe the Lord allowed me to touch that side of life because I came from such a bad background. We were very poor. When I was young, I stole clothes off the clothesline to help my brothers and sisters. Can you imagine going to school and being asked, "Hey, isn't that my shirt?" It's kind of embarrassing. I used to go to the grocery store at 4:00am to steal the food that was set outside the store for stock. I knew that side of life.
The Lord's goodness allowed me to know His favor, and that is what is so awesome about His plan. He sees the beginning from the end and the end from the beginning. He later allowed me to prosper in business, which released not only finances, but also important life lessons. Riches don't entice me anymore. I have already had them and I was empty. It can't compare to what I have now. I would never trade the anointing for any amount of money!
Long Life
Did you know that wisdom will extend your life? The Lord told me once, "Keith, a lot of My people are dying prematurely due to stress. If they would just embrace the Spirit of Wisdom, they would have a lot less stress." Remember, Proverbs 4:10 above says, "Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of your life will be many." When people try to live by their own abilities instead of plugging into His ability, stress increases.
God has purposes and plans for every Believer. His plans are bigger than what you can do. They will either drive you or excite you. We usually go through a season where we're driven by our vision until we get worn out and weary and give up, and that's when God kicks in and begins to do it through us. But we don't have to live like that! We can actually live in His wisdom. Jesus Himself said, "Take My yoke upon you...For My yoke is easy and My burden is light" (Matthew 11:29-30). Wouldn't you like to live in the ability of the Spirit of Wisdom?
An Ornament of Grace
Wisdom will place on your head an ornament of grace and crown your head with glory. God says, "Let Me put an ornament of grace on your head." Everywhere you go that ornament is there. Rejoice, because grace gives you favor with God and man. Grace gives you what you don't deserve. Grace makes things easy. 2 Timothy 2:1, "You therefore, My son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." The word strong means to be enabled or energized by grace; when we operate out of the function of Wisdom we are energized by Grace not our strength!
The reason why many things are so hard is because we are trying to do it out of natural wisdom instead of the Spirit of Wisdom. And we wonder why it doesn't bring the Lord glory when we struggle and finally get it done. I'm tired of what we can do. Let's see some things that only God can do.
Proverbs 4 refers to "a crown of glory." The Spirit of Wisdom and understanding will promote you, put an ornament of glory over your head, and then crown you with glory. Have you been in meetings where the glory was so strong that you felt the weightiness of the Presence? Remember when Moses had to put a veil over his face because of the glory? Wouldn't you like to be crowned with glory? When this happens, you become more God-conscious than self- or sin-conscious. Do you know what that would do for you if you became more God-conscious than sin or self-conscious? How much better is the new covenant? You want to be crowned with glory, the weightiness of His character, His nature and His power for your life.
Peace
Happy is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding, for her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, and her gain than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things you may desire cannot compare with her. Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and happy are all who retain her. The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding He established the heavens. By His knowledge, the depths were broken up, and clouds drop down the dew.—Proverbs 3:13-20
Christians should be at peace knowing that the things He is asking of you He is not asking you to do in your own ability. He will give you the Spirit of Wisdom to perform the very thing that He is asking of you. See, it is an incredible thing for the river of wisdom to flow in your life. You will look at yourself in the midst of it all and think, "I can't believe this is even me." Guess what? It's not!
When you begin to minister out of the Spirit of Wisdom, you won't be in a state of emotional reaction. Jesus operated in a constant flow of the Spirit of Wisdom. His works, words, and teachings astonished the multitudes. Jesus provided the disciples with a great supply of opportunities to marvel. He commanded the fig tree to wither (Matthew 21:20), calmed a raging sea with a word (Mark 6:51), and boldly declared to the skeptical Pharisees and Herodians, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's" (Mark 12:17). All who heard Him were astonished with His teaching (Luke 4:32), His understanding, and His answers (Luke 2:47). He did many wonderful things, even raised the dead, and things don't get much more astonishing than that!
In Acts 6:10, Stephen spoke with such wisdom, that those who were resisting could say nothing! "And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke." This is incredible manifestation of the Spirit of Wisdom through a person. Jesus said this in Luke 21:15, "For I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist." This is a function out of the Spirit of Wisdom rather an emotional response.
As a Believer the Lord wants you to function in the Spirit of Wisdom in everyday living, so that you will be able to speak life to the hurting. You can lead many to Christ through the operation of the Spirit of Wisdom. "The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens me morning by morning, He awakens my ear to hear as the learned" (Isaiah 50:4).
Many people will be lead to Christ through the operation of the Spirit of Wisdom. Daniel 12:3 says, "Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever." Wow, what a powerful tool to lead many to the Lord...by the Spirit of Wisdom flowing through your life! We are the light upon the hill, and His glory shall be seen upon us which will lead many to the Lord.
Living Wittily (Intelligence, Clever)
God's people should be the wittiest people on the earth. We should be the ones who set the standard. We have the advantage, but we seem to always make excuses like, "Well, if I had what they had..." The truth is you have the advantage over people who aren't born again. You have the advantage because you have the Holy Spirit living in you. Even Jesus Himself said, "It's to your advantage that I go away so He can come" (John 16:7). He was referring to the Holy Spirit.
Nehemiah 9:20a is one of my favorite Scriptures, "You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them..." God has given us His best, and the word for "best" means "beautiful, bountiful." The Holy Spirit is His best one who can instruct us. The word "instruct" means "to shoot like an arrow; to guide wittily, like a wise master builder." Christians should be the ones operating in the most skillful realms of ability and wisdom, because we're plugged into the One who is orchestrating and bringing forth everything that He has purposed since the foundations of the earth.
Don't you want to live your life wittily so that people around you start to take notice? The truth is God wants to do something in our lives that gives Him glory. You shouldn't limit yourself to your education and your natural ability. I believe with all of my heart that this is for every Believer, and it doesn't matter whether you're 10 or you're 70.
Heavenly Blueprints—God's Plans for Us
You can begin to operate daily in the river of wisdom. Courses of action from God will enable you to be a wise master builder, building by custom-made Heavenly blueprints just for you. God has rivers of wisdom available to us for our lives. He has ordained our days for us before they ever come to pass, as Psalm 139:14-18 says:
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.
I love that my days are fashioned for me in the Lord's book in advance! Ephesians 2:10 also speaks of Him knowing our days in advance. It says: For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
In John 15:15-16, Jesus Himself said, "No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you."
Do you want the fruit in your life that He has ordained and prepared? Do you want wisdom in order to walk out His eternal blueprints for your life? Wouldn't you like to have all those things? A river of wisdom will bring this about. Wisdom is more important than any riches of this earth, as Proverbs 8:11 says: "For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things one may desire cannot be compared with her."
Spirit of Wisdom Impartation is Transferable
In February I preached this message in a church in Austin, Texas. I told them, "I am going to ask the Lord to release this for you." I prayed for the impartation for the activation of the river of wisdom and understanding. In attendance was a gentleman who had a business; he could hardly pay his rent. After this, in March or April, he invented a product to refurbish computer components. Now he can't keep up with the orders. He just wrote me a check for $15,000 to build an orphanage, because the Lord is blessing him so supernaturally in the area of finances. God wants to do that for you, in the areas of ministry and for your family.
Since I preached that message we have had several people report that they received an impartation or activation in the Spirit of Wisdom so that their businesses, ministries, etc., have accelerated 20 times over. This is because as a man believes, so shall he receive. Every Believer can live in a river of the wisdom of the Holy Spirit—not just every once in a while, but daily.
The Lord wants you to enter into another level of the Spirit of Wisdom. I am going to ask and believe for you to receive the activation of it. The Holy Spirit is the wisest person on the earth, isn't He? He knows what is going on in Heaven. By one Spirit we have access to the Father. So, when you connect with the Spirit of Wisdom or the river of wisdom, you are truly plugging in to a greater level of the wisest Person on the earth. You are going to flow with the Person who knows everything that is going on in Heaven and who has access to the One who has your blueprints.
Why don't you make these faith declarations with me out loud now in prayer:
We're coming into sync right now with the plan of Heaven for our lives upon the earth. As it is in Heaven, so shall it be in our lives. We're going to walk in such a realm of the Spirit that we're going to gain strength; we are going to increase and we're going to be fruitful because we're going to operate by the Spirit of Wisdom. We're going to build as wise master builders, not with wood, hay or stubble. We're going to build with gold and silver.
The Holy Spirit is going to search out the deep things of God and reveal them to us, then He is going to give us wisdom to be able to implement and see the fulfillment of those things. We thank You that we're a people who are being led and instructed to live wisely and wittily by the Holy Spirit. Our steps are ordered by the Holy Spirit. Our lives will confound the wise.
This year is going to be the greatest year that we've seen for building the Kingdom. This is going to be the greatest year of building according to the blueprints of Heaven. We're going to be amazed at what You are going to do this year. And Lord, because we've embraced the Spirit of Wisdom, You're going to promote us. And because You're going to promote us, You're putting that ornament of grace on our heads right now. And I thank You for the crowning of glory. And I thank You, Lord, that we're going to have long life, because we're going to know a sense of rest in the Spirit that we've never known before, because we're not going to do it by our strength and our ability but by the river of wisdom.
Now, Lord, I thank You that right now You are releasing an ability to teach like we've never been able to teach before. I thank You, Lord, that You've given us patterns to build by, but now the Spirit of Wisdom is going to see the fulfillment of those patterns. I thank You, Lord, that some of those things that we have waited for for ten or twenty years, that this year there is going to be a 30, a 60 and a 100-fold increase of them. I thank You for it in Jesus' mighty name! Amen.
Keith Miller
Stand Firm World Ministries
Email: info@sfwm.org
Sunday, August 30, 2009
"Wake Up, O Sleepers! All that I Have, and All that I Am I Give to You, Says I Am!"
Theresa Phillips:
"Wake Up, O Sleepers! All that I Have, and All that I Am I Give to You, Says I Am!"
An Awakening Dream
I had a dream that was shocking to me. It certainly brought me to my knees...with joy! The dream: I was driving with my husband down a hill when I saw some people driving next to us in a car. I saw the other car drive out of control and hit a column of concrete near a bridge. The car was totaled. We felt the impact. Both cars were damaged.
I dialed 911 immediately and went toward the victims in the car. I saw one child bleeding and covered up that child with a blanket and began to carry the child to a nearby hospital. I dialed 911 again. I soon got a second victim to that hospital, and while in the hospital, I called the police because no one was coming to help these victims—even when we were in the hospital!
I noticed my husband had lost consciousness and I called for help! No one came. I found a roll of masking tape and began to care for the wounds of a woman who was severely torn across her abdomen. As I began to bind her wounds with what I had, I tried calling for help again...I whispered, Jesus. Then the wound stopped bleeding and she sat up. I was relieved, yet no one came. I saw my husband come to. I saw the child awaken and start to show signs of life. ALL bleeding had stopped. I called the police again...no one came.
Then standing in front of me was a man with tan trousers and a crisp white shirt. I said, "Where were you, Doctor?" He said, "I was watching you...you did better than I was allowed to do." He was in fact a doctor NOT allowed to work on the patient. In my dream I was so upset that the professional medical people of that hospital were not available.
As I woke from this dream I was actually shaking. I knew what it meant. I knew something drastic was on the mind of GOD: I knew I was being awakened from a different slumber—a slumber of forgetting Who He really IS. I knew it was wake-up time for many, and I wanted to be included!
Then I began to feel HIM—His Presence about me! I had said out loud His name in the dream. YES, I USED HIS NAME and I saw Him honor it. I saw results in the dream! I was keenly aware as I was awakening from my sleep. The Church could and would be willing to change things. I shouted this out loud: "WE MAKE THE DIFFERENCE!" We will and must make the change...SHIFT!
The man in the dream was in fact Him, our Good Doctor, Jesus. He was NOT allowed to move. He said, "I was" when in the plain, simple truth, HE IS "I AM." I knew Holy Spirit was awakening us to fresh revelation. We can and must take the I AM at His Word.
We Must Take "I AM" at His Word
And Moses said unto God, "Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, 'The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you'; and they shall say to me, 'What is his name?' what shall I say unto them?" And God said unto Moses, "I AM THAT I AM": and He said, "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you."—Exodus 3:13-14
God sent I AM to help the people that Moses was entrusted to tend to. That is an I AM word: present, active, alive and moving. GOD gave something of Himself—He gave to Moses a revelatory moment that changed the course of history and time. To Abraham and Isaac and Jacob He made covenant, but to Moses He gave His NAME! He is a GOD that changes NOT!
If you read the Scripture, He says to Moses, "to Pharaoh YOU will be GOD" (meaning Me). Why? Because I AM is with you. It is relational, it is powerful, it is revelatory! Moses had seen GOD reveal Himself. Today, many are facing their burning bush. Why? Because many today will see the need for I Am to be moving.
In this very moment we KNOW He is very present. This is vital, for He says, "I will never leave you or forsake you..."
The LORD Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.—Deuteronomy 31:8
...and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.—Matthew 28:20
"I AM" is Released to You NOW
See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.—Exodus 23:20-21
I AM has given an angel His own name! He is dispatched from the Holy City of Heaven. It is here we see the "ministry of angels doing the Lord's bidding to protect Israel." I AM has shared His name. Why? To protect His people. BUT, it does not stop there:
And God said moreover unto Moses, "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations."—Exodus 3:15
TO ALL generations, the powerful name of the Lord GOD Himself is sent to all of us to do what? To use and declare His works among the people! His name is the most powerful demonstration we could have! It makes the pharaohs to bow. It causes knees to bow. It cleanses the lepers, heals the sick and drives out demons. AND, whatsoever you ask in the name of the Lord, He will give it!
"O, you," says the Lord, "as you wring your hands in worry and you hear the disturbing reports about you, lean your ear to this, O My children! O you who have an ear.
"I AM is released to you NOW. I AM is revealed to you NOW. Go in power and revelation of I AM PRESENT among you to do mighty exploits. Heal the sick! Cleanse the lepers! Cast out the demons! Bind up the brokenhearted! Set captives free! Tell them I AM has sent you! I give you permission to bear My name; I give you rights to use it and demonstrate it—I call you to it!
"Wake up, O sleepers, wake up! All that I have, and ALL that I AM I give to you, says I AM!"
Theresa Phillips
Senior Pastor, PMI Glory Institute
Email: Info@ChicagoPropheticVoice.net
"Wake Up, O Sleepers! All that I Have, and All that I Am I Give to You, Says I Am!"
An Awakening Dream
I had a dream that was shocking to me. It certainly brought me to my knees...with joy! The dream: I was driving with my husband down a hill when I saw some people driving next to us in a car. I saw the other car drive out of control and hit a column of concrete near a bridge. The car was totaled. We felt the impact. Both cars were damaged.
I dialed 911 immediately and went toward the victims in the car. I saw one child bleeding and covered up that child with a blanket and began to carry the child to a nearby hospital. I dialed 911 again. I soon got a second victim to that hospital, and while in the hospital, I called the police because no one was coming to help these victims—even when we were in the hospital!
I noticed my husband had lost consciousness and I called for help! No one came. I found a roll of masking tape and began to care for the wounds of a woman who was severely torn across her abdomen. As I began to bind her wounds with what I had, I tried calling for help again...I whispered, Jesus. Then the wound stopped bleeding and she sat up. I was relieved, yet no one came. I saw my husband come to. I saw the child awaken and start to show signs of life. ALL bleeding had stopped. I called the police again...no one came.
Then standing in front of me was a man with tan trousers and a crisp white shirt. I said, "Where were you, Doctor?" He said, "I was watching you...you did better than I was allowed to do." He was in fact a doctor NOT allowed to work on the patient. In my dream I was so upset that the professional medical people of that hospital were not available.
As I woke from this dream I was actually shaking. I knew what it meant. I knew something drastic was on the mind of GOD: I knew I was being awakened from a different slumber—a slumber of forgetting Who He really IS. I knew it was wake-up time for many, and I wanted to be included!
Then I began to feel HIM—His Presence about me! I had said out loud His name in the dream. YES, I USED HIS NAME and I saw Him honor it. I saw results in the dream! I was keenly aware as I was awakening from my sleep. The Church could and would be willing to change things. I shouted this out loud: "WE MAKE THE DIFFERENCE!" We will and must make the change...SHIFT!
The man in the dream was in fact Him, our Good Doctor, Jesus. He was NOT allowed to move. He said, "I was" when in the plain, simple truth, HE IS "I AM." I knew Holy Spirit was awakening us to fresh revelation. We can and must take the I AM at His Word.
We Must Take "I AM" at His Word
And Moses said unto God, "Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, 'The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you'; and they shall say to me, 'What is his name?' what shall I say unto them?" And God said unto Moses, "I AM THAT I AM": and He said, "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you."—Exodus 3:13-14
God sent I AM to help the people that Moses was entrusted to tend to. That is an I AM word: present, active, alive and moving. GOD gave something of Himself—He gave to Moses a revelatory moment that changed the course of history and time. To Abraham and Isaac and Jacob He made covenant, but to Moses He gave His NAME! He is a GOD that changes NOT!
If you read the Scripture, He says to Moses, "to Pharaoh YOU will be GOD" (meaning Me). Why? Because I AM is with you. It is relational, it is powerful, it is revelatory! Moses had seen GOD reveal Himself. Today, many are facing their burning bush. Why? Because many today will see the need for I Am to be moving.
In this very moment we KNOW He is very present. This is vital, for He says, "I will never leave you or forsake you..."
The LORD Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.—Deuteronomy 31:8
...and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.—Matthew 28:20
"I AM" is Released to You NOW
See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him.—Exodus 23:20-21
I AM has given an angel His own name! He is dispatched from the Holy City of Heaven. It is here we see the "ministry of angels doing the Lord's bidding to protect Israel." I AM has shared His name. Why? To protect His people. BUT, it does not stop there:
And God said moreover unto Moses, "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations."—Exodus 3:15
TO ALL generations, the powerful name of the Lord GOD Himself is sent to all of us to do what? To use and declare His works among the people! His name is the most powerful demonstration we could have! It makes the pharaohs to bow. It causes knees to bow. It cleanses the lepers, heals the sick and drives out demons. AND, whatsoever you ask in the name of the Lord, He will give it!
"O, you," says the Lord, "as you wring your hands in worry and you hear the disturbing reports about you, lean your ear to this, O My children! O you who have an ear.
"I AM is released to you NOW. I AM is revealed to you NOW. Go in power and revelation of I AM PRESENT among you to do mighty exploits. Heal the sick! Cleanse the lepers! Cast out the demons! Bind up the brokenhearted! Set captives free! Tell them I AM has sent you! I give you permission to bear My name; I give you rights to use it and demonstrate it—I call you to it!
"Wake up, O sleepers, wake up! All that I have, and ALL that I AM I give to you, says I AM!"
Theresa Phillips
Senior Pastor, PMI Glory Institute
Email: Info@ChicagoPropheticVoice.net
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
*God Chose You*
*God Chose You*
He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame in Him in love. (Ephesians 1:4)
The devil likes to condemn us and keep us down by whispering in our ears,"Look at you trying to act as if you're somebody when you know you're nobody! You've come from nowhere, and you're going nowhere." the devil uses the same old tactic in every battle. He deceives, lies, accused, and seeks to destroy every on of us.
When he does, remember David faced similar attacks form the enemy. When Samuel came to visit David's family, his father, Jesse, didn't even call him form tending sheep (1 Samuel 16"11) Samuel came to anoint a king, but no one in David's family believed that he had the right stuff to be king. His brothers were older, wiser, taller, more handsome, and more experienced Saul and his men laughed when David wanted to take on Goliath. These things don't count when your in God's hands.
Now what David accomplished in his life for God had nothing to do with where he started and everything to do with the fact that God picked him out. God did this with David so don't you think He'd do the same for you? Be not dismayed--regardless of your circumstances, God will take you out of wherever you are and bring you to wherever HE WANTS YOU TO BE. Let's remember God knows what's best for our lives.....
O Lord, Your calling on my life is Greater then any man can believe, I cannot look to others for my self-esteem or self-worth, so O LORD, I turn to You my Lord, in you I AM ROYALTY!! Lead me O Lord in Your way for My Life ... In Jesus Holy Name AMEN
Peace be with you always
Pastor Elisabeth Stewart
He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame in Him in love. (Ephesians 1:4)
The devil likes to condemn us and keep us down by whispering in our ears,"Look at you trying to act as if you're somebody when you know you're nobody! You've come from nowhere, and you're going nowhere." the devil uses the same old tactic in every battle. He deceives, lies, accused, and seeks to destroy every on of us.
When he does, remember David faced similar attacks form the enemy. When Samuel came to visit David's family, his father, Jesse, didn't even call him form tending sheep (1 Samuel 16"11) Samuel came to anoint a king, but no one in David's family believed that he had the right stuff to be king. His brothers were older, wiser, taller, more handsome, and more experienced Saul and his men laughed when David wanted to take on Goliath. These things don't count when your in God's hands.
Now what David accomplished in his life for God had nothing to do with where he started and everything to do with the fact that God picked him out. God did this with David so don't you think He'd do the same for you? Be not dismayed--regardless of your circumstances, God will take you out of wherever you are and bring you to wherever HE WANTS YOU TO BE. Let's remember God knows what's best for our lives.....
O Lord, Your calling on my life is Greater then any man can believe, I cannot look to others for my self-esteem or self-worth, so O LORD, I turn to You my Lord, in you I AM ROYALTY!! Lead me O Lord in Your way for My Life ... In Jesus Holy Name AMEN
Peace be with you always
Pastor Elisabeth Stewart
Turning The Negative Into The Positive
*Turning The Negative Into The Positive*
Turning the negative into positive can sometimes be a very heard thing to do. It could be the hardest thing you do in your life, because you most likely will have to do something you don't want to do, like give up or cut back on something. But it is worth it, being Positive is important because it effects our everyday walk in life. When you get up in the morning how you get up and what kind of mood you have will trigger your emotions, and your emotions can cause you to react in a negative way.
One thing that trigger's off or gets it clicking is the words that come straight our of your mouth, as soon as you speak. A lot of times we speak before we think. I've been guilty of this. When you get up in the morning you can leave a cloud over you that can and will most likely be with you all day until we do something, or say something to change it. But in order to do this we must do it positively. This something we must do before God can move on our behalf, because God does not bless Negative actions or words.
Like for instance if someone does you wrong it is not your place to try to or get revenge .(Romans 12:19) declares Vengeance is mine; I will repay; saith the Lord. See we really can make matters worse, we must forgive, that's our job. That is Positive action on our part. Forgiving someone is one of the Greatest Positive Movements I believe in. Yes change is a very important thing. I know that sometimes we do not like to admit to it but we have to change.
Change how? We must realize that in life there is someone greater who must be in control and that is Jesus Christ. When we as Christians try to do things on our own without God involved, we usually mess it up. When God is in control we will not fall back, but move forward and that is Positive, which is not moving back , and when we keep moving forward that is Powerful. (Ephesians 3:20) Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.
And that power is Jesus Christ and Jesus is Positive.
May God Bless you always as you Seek Him.
Pastor Don Stewart II
Turning the negative into positive can sometimes be a very heard thing to do. It could be the hardest thing you do in your life, because you most likely will have to do something you don't want to do, like give up or cut back on something. But it is worth it, being Positive is important because it effects our everyday walk in life. When you get up in the morning how you get up and what kind of mood you have will trigger your emotions, and your emotions can cause you to react in a negative way.
One thing that trigger's off or gets it clicking is the words that come straight our of your mouth, as soon as you speak. A lot of times we speak before we think. I've been guilty of this. When you get up in the morning you can leave a cloud over you that can and will most likely be with you all day until we do something, or say something to change it. But in order to do this we must do it positively. This something we must do before God can move on our behalf, because God does not bless Negative actions or words.
Like for instance if someone does you wrong it is not your place to try to or get revenge .(Romans 12:19) declares Vengeance is mine; I will repay; saith the Lord. See we really can make matters worse, we must forgive, that's our job. That is Positive action on our part. Forgiving someone is one of the Greatest Positive Movements I believe in. Yes change is a very important thing. I know that sometimes we do not like to admit to it but we have to change.
Change how? We must realize that in life there is someone greater who must be in control and that is Jesus Christ. When we as Christians try to do things on our own without God involved, we usually mess it up. When God is in control we will not fall back, but move forward and that is Positive, which is not moving back , and when we keep moving forward that is Powerful. (Ephesians 3:20) Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.
And that power is Jesus Christ and Jesus is Positive.
May God Bless you always as you Seek Him.
Pastor Don Stewart II
*The Authority Of The Believer*
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*The Authority Of The Believer*
According to (Ephesians 6:12) we wrestle against principalities, powers, and the rulers of darkness. These are evil spirits. Our combat with the devil should be with the confidence that we have authority over him. (Luke 10:19) Jesus says," I give you authority to tread on seperants and scorpions and over all power of the enemy." What is authority? Authority is Delegated Power.
(Ephesians 1:20-23) tells us when Christ was ascended, He transferred His Authority to the church. Christ is seated at the right hand of the father-place of Authority. The source of our Authority is found in the resurrection and exhortation and exaltation of Christ by God.
(Ephesians 2:5-6) deals with the conferring of authority. The authority was delegate not only in the body but also upon the head because the head and body are one. (Mark 16:17,18 and Revelation 12:11) show in three resources we use in exercising authority over the devil. They are the Name of Jesus the Word, and the Blood of Jesus.
The Authority is Yours whether you feel like you've got it or not. Authority has nothing to do with feelings. (Mark 16:18 & James 4:7) indicates that in exercising authority over the devil we must Resist him, then he will FLEE US.
I truly pray that this has Blessed you . Please take the time and continue reading through our web-site and Please Sign our Guest-Book.. Thank you
Love & Prayers
Pastor Don Stewart II
*Quit Worrying & Give It To God*
Why do we tend to worry about the things we cannot change? We only need to remember that God has our lives arranged. For He new us when we were being formed within our mother's womb. He planned our life ahead of time from our birth until the tomb.
Remember He knows our problems and our fears we have to face each day. We need to just Trust that He'll walk beside us and know He'll be with us every step of the way. When we think we can't get through the day and let despair set in our way. We just need to Look above and ask for the Help that He's always ready to send our way.
Rather then placing our trust in God , we often think we can do it alone. This is just part of our human nature; the sin of pride as it is known. God Loves us dearly and wants to help us; He's just a Prayer away..
Let's call upon His wonderful name; Yahweh( I Am Lord), Abba Father, Jehovah-Shalom(Lord Of Peace) El Elyon (The God Most High) He'll get us through our day.. through the storm's of life. For He is our Redeemer, Our Messiah, Our Mighty King!
I have had many days I thought I would never get through. BUT when I stopped and talked to God , He said,"I'm here for/with you." When I heard His tender soft voice, it gave me the Strength I needed. With GOD you CAN'T be Defeated!
Remember there is No worry or Problem that's too Large or to Small for our Lord to handle. Remember that on our darkest days, His LOVE is like a candle. His Love for us will light our way with the Beam so very Bright.. No Matter what we have to face, God will help us WIN the fight..
Beloved Our Jehovah-Jireh is in Control
for He is Our Provider!!!
Glory be to GOD!!
Peace and Joy be with you always
Pastor Elisabeth Stewart
Faith-Power-Ministries International
*The Authority Of The Believer*
According to (Ephesians 6:12) we wrestle against principalities, powers, and the rulers of darkness. These are evil spirits. Our combat with the devil should be with the confidence that we have authority over him. (Luke 10:19) Jesus says," I give you authority to tread on seperants and scorpions and over all power of the enemy." What is authority? Authority is Delegated Power.
(Ephesians 1:20-23) tells us when Christ was ascended, He transferred His Authority to the church. Christ is seated at the right hand of the father-place of Authority. The source of our Authority is found in the resurrection and exhortation and exaltation of Christ by God.
(Ephesians 2:5-6) deals with the conferring of authority. The authority was delegate not only in the body but also upon the head because the head and body are one. (Mark 16:17,18 and Revelation 12:11) show in three resources we use in exercising authority over the devil. They are the Name of Jesus the Word, and the Blood of Jesus.
The Authority is Yours whether you feel like you've got it or not. Authority has nothing to do with feelings. (Mark 16:18 & James 4:7) indicates that in exercising authority over the devil we must Resist him, then he will FLEE US.
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Love & Prayers
Pastor Don Stewart II
*Quit Worrying & Give It To God*
Why do we tend to worry about the things we cannot change? We only need to remember that God has our lives arranged. For He new us when we were being formed within our mother's womb. He planned our life ahead of time from our birth until the tomb.
Remember He knows our problems and our fears we have to face each day. We need to just Trust that He'll walk beside us and know He'll be with us every step of the way. When we think we can't get through the day and let despair set in our way. We just need to Look above and ask for the Help that He's always ready to send our way.
Rather then placing our trust in God , we often think we can do it alone. This is just part of our human nature; the sin of pride as it is known. God Loves us dearly and wants to help us; He's just a Prayer away..
Let's call upon His wonderful name; Yahweh( I Am Lord), Abba Father, Jehovah-Shalom(Lord Of Peace) El Elyon (The God Most High) He'll get us through our day.. through the storm's of life. For He is our Redeemer, Our Messiah, Our Mighty King!
I have had many days I thought I would never get through. BUT when I stopped and talked to God , He said,"I'm here for/with you." When I heard His tender soft voice, it gave me the Strength I needed. With GOD you CAN'T be Defeated!
Remember there is No worry or Problem that's too Large or to Small for our Lord to handle. Remember that on our darkest days, His LOVE is like a candle. His Love for us will light our way with the Beam so very Bright.. No Matter what we have to face, God will help us WIN the fight..
Beloved Our Jehovah-Jireh is in Control
for He is Our Provider!!!
Glory be to GOD!!
Peace and Joy be with you always
Pastor Elisabeth Stewart
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Mark Chironna:"A New Day is Dawning: There is Coming a Breaking Through, a Rising, and an Opening"
Mark Chironna:"A New Day is Dawning: There is Coming a Breaking Through, a Rising, and an Opening"
Prophetic word of the Lord given by Dr. Mark Chironna on Sunday, July 26, 2009 at The Master's Touch International Church in Longwood, Florida:
For there have been days of sadness and sorrow. For some, there have been days of strange warfare. For others, there have been days of taking thoughts captive that never entered the minds of sons before. For some, there have been deep longings. For others, there have been deep yearnings. For some, there have been long seasons of silence. For others, there have been long seasons of pleading.
But for all, there is coming a dawning. There is coming a breaking through. There is coming a rising. There is coming an opening. For the eyes of the Lord are turned toward His sons, His daughters, His children, and He sees and knows and is intimately acquainted with the sufferings and the tests and the endurances that His people have been going through.
He will make His people a praise in this season. He will make His people a glory in this hour. For His affection is upon His people. His Church is His Beloved. His Church is His Bride. He will not forsake her. He will not disown her. For He now is revealing, through the tests of the sons and daughters of God, to principalities and powers, His manifold glory.
This season has not been for naught. This season has not been to wear you out. This season has not been to tear you down. This season has been to prove and manifest to the forces of darkness that the Church cannot be hindered; the Church cannot be stopped, and the Church cannot be thwarted for she will rise in this hour with greatness and glory. She will have weapons on the left and on the right. She will have dominion in arenas she never had dominion before. And God will make her young again.
I Am Going to Restore the Seasons of Loss
For hear now what the Spirit of Grace would say to those who have ears to hear: "I am making you young again. I am going to restore the seasons of loss. I am going to restore the seasons of denial. I am going to restore the seasons of betrayal. I am going to restore the seasons of strife, and when I restore them, and it will be in yet a little while, I will turn the captivity of My people and there will be laughter again in Zion. There will be joy again in Zion.
"I have seen the sacrifice of praise that has gone up from the ends of the earth. I have seen My people, who in the midst of their warfare, have lifted their hands high and have shouted the shout of victory even while the powers of darkness have seemed to prevail over their minds, hearts and spirits. Yet, even in the face of demons, My people still praise. Even in the face of dark forces, My people still rejoice. Now watch, for I am about to crush satan under your feet."
Song of the Lord, Bishop:
The Spirit and the Bride are calling deep within
The Spirit and the Bride are calling deep inside
Even so, come Lord Jesus; even so, come
Even so, come Lord Jesus; even so, come.
We're waiting for You right now
To come in Your splendor and power
The yearnings deep within us cry
We want to hear Your lullaby
Even so, come Lord Jesus; even so, come
Even so, come Lord Jesus; even so, come.
My heart within me cries
And the Spirit testifies
A new day is dawning in my life, even now.
The roaring of the lion has ceased
The powers of Hell cannot be released
For lo, He comes to bring increase
To your life
He rides upon your praises, high
He comes to you and you draw nigh
And as you lift His Name on high
He comes
Even so, come Lord Jesus; even so, come
Even so, come Lord Jesus; even so, come
Even so, come; even so, come
Even so, come.
Dr. Mark J. Chironna
Mark Chironna Ministries
Email: markchironna@markchironna.com
Prophetic word of the Lord given by Dr. Mark Chironna on Sunday, July 26, 2009 at The Master's Touch International Church in Longwood, Florida:
For there have been days of sadness and sorrow. For some, there have been days of strange warfare. For others, there have been days of taking thoughts captive that never entered the minds of sons before. For some, there have been deep longings. For others, there have been deep yearnings. For some, there have been long seasons of silence. For others, there have been long seasons of pleading.
But for all, there is coming a dawning. There is coming a breaking through. There is coming a rising. There is coming an opening. For the eyes of the Lord are turned toward His sons, His daughters, His children, and He sees and knows and is intimately acquainted with the sufferings and the tests and the endurances that His people have been going through.
He will make His people a praise in this season. He will make His people a glory in this hour. For His affection is upon His people. His Church is His Beloved. His Church is His Bride. He will not forsake her. He will not disown her. For He now is revealing, through the tests of the sons and daughters of God, to principalities and powers, His manifold glory.
This season has not been for naught. This season has not been to wear you out. This season has not been to tear you down. This season has been to prove and manifest to the forces of darkness that the Church cannot be hindered; the Church cannot be stopped, and the Church cannot be thwarted for she will rise in this hour with greatness and glory. She will have weapons on the left and on the right. She will have dominion in arenas she never had dominion before. And God will make her young again.
I Am Going to Restore the Seasons of Loss
For hear now what the Spirit of Grace would say to those who have ears to hear: "I am making you young again. I am going to restore the seasons of loss. I am going to restore the seasons of denial. I am going to restore the seasons of betrayal. I am going to restore the seasons of strife, and when I restore them, and it will be in yet a little while, I will turn the captivity of My people and there will be laughter again in Zion. There will be joy again in Zion.
"I have seen the sacrifice of praise that has gone up from the ends of the earth. I have seen My people, who in the midst of their warfare, have lifted their hands high and have shouted the shout of victory even while the powers of darkness have seemed to prevail over their minds, hearts and spirits. Yet, even in the face of demons, My people still praise. Even in the face of dark forces, My people still rejoice. Now watch, for I am about to crush satan under your feet."
Song of the Lord, Bishop:
The Spirit and the Bride are calling deep within
The Spirit and the Bride are calling deep inside
Even so, come Lord Jesus; even so, come
Even so, come Lord Jesus; even so, come.
We're waiting for You right now
To come in Your splendor and power
The yearnings deep within us cry
We want to hear Your lullaby
Even so, come Lord Jesus; even so, come
Even so, come Lord Jesus; even so, come.
My heart within me cries
And the Spirit testifies
A new day is dawning in my life, even now.
The roaring of the lion has ceased
The powers of Hell cannot be released
For lo, He comes to bring increase
To your life
He rides upon your praises, high
He comes to you and you draw nigh
And as you lift His Name on high
He comes
Even so, come Lord Jesus; even so, come
Even so, come Lord Jesus; even so, come
Even so, come; even so, come
Even so, come.
Dr. Mark J. Chironna
Mark Chironna Ministries
Email: markchironna@markchironna.com
Chuck Pierce Clarifies More About His Prophetic Insight
Chuck D. Pierce:Follow Up: "Chuck Pierce Clarifies More About His Prophetic Insight on the Economy and Gives Strategies for Action"
http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word/7945
I am a watchman and try to watch carefully for patterns and trends that affect each of us. The enemy loves to change times and laws. Therefore, he will use worldly structures and controls to hinder Kingdom advancement.
If you have not been able to watch this month's Zebulun School class, "Positioned for Growth", you can still register to watch that "on demand" through August 30. Go to our webstore to purchase that e-ticket. We have some great leaders to help you in the future to understand the faith realm God is calling us to NOW! For our next class we have invited Peter Roselle, a minister leader in New Jersey, and a market leader with Morgan Stanley. We will be discussing trade structures. Blake Morris, another business leader, recently shared some financial insights that I will share below.
Praying for Supply Lines to Open, Economic Shifts to Occur, and the KINGDOM TO ADVANCE!
The Word from Florida: I want to encourage you to reread what the Lord spoke to me while we were at the Let the Eagles Gather conference in Florida. I want to be sure we are processing the word correctly. Therefore, what God said was: "Watch for an economic shift by the end of this month. Between August 24 and October 17, there will be great changes in the financial system. Be aware that the banking system has not finished making its changes. We will start into an accelerated shift in structure. The government is in an open rearrangement." (To see this previous word, click on the link at the end of this article.)
I do not believe that the Lord is talking about a big Stock Market Crash or a Bank Run. This could happen, but that is not the overall issue to understand. There is a full rearrangement of the economic system going on worldwide. If you have not read The Future War of the Church and God's Unfolding Battle Plan, there are chapters in each book on wealth that could help you.
Here is one perspective that is important for you to understand: even though the dollar is changing and fluctuating, this is a time your dollar could really work for you to acquire resources.
Many banks have resources they have acquired from loss. These resources could be redeemed by those who have extra dollar buying power. You could seek to acquire resources. Some banks must move now to alleviate themselves from the over abundance of failed loans and corresponding properties. This could be a catalyst for Kingdom advancement.
However, no one seems to have extra dollars to "take the land." If we look at the "giant" that is controlling economic structures and choose to shrink back, then we could lose ground and miss an opportunity to advance now. Also, this could leave an open door for a thrust from a dark side to control the land and keep the land from being occupied with those who hold God's plan.
So here is what I have done personally: I cashed in my retirement and paid off debts; I gave to the future of the land; I helped some others advance; I made sure the Eagles of God accounts were up to date; I helped two children advance; we analyzed foreign currency, such as the Australian Dollar, Euro, Turkish Lira, etc., to see how currencies are moving worldwide.
I do not think that this is a reactive type of prophetic word—just a word to be prepared by October 17. The economic structure as we have known it will not be same. So if you are buying stocks on the same basis and understanding of a system of yesteryear, you will probably not see the return you are looking for.
Wisdom from Blake Morris
I always like to get perspectives from others. Yesterday, I visited with a successful business friend of mine, Blake Morris, who gave the following wisdom:
"There is a way out of this famine supernaturally, and what the Lord has begun He will finish. He did tell me to prepare myself to negotiate very shrewdly and consider all options! I know that I must let go of some assets, and if this requires drastic cuts that is ok. Bankruptcy may be an option to be evaluated and considered. I feel we must understand and know all options in order to see our way into the future and receive strategy to take a key turn.
"I believe it is a time to expect the supernatural and place a high demand on the Spirit of God to move. I hear the Lord reminding me of a word you gave last year around September that said we must move and do something even if we make a mistake. This is a mentality of 'I refuse to stand still and perish in the famine.' The example you gave was climbing up on the highboard and jumping when you did not know how to swim.
"I hear the Lord saying, 'Out of desperation comes creativity, and for a season I will be like an artist that paints a new picture with many colors.' My normal personality is to focus in on one or two things to maximize profits, and now I am painting all over the canvas to find the new. I am not sure what I will create. Hope that makes some sense! I feel we should move in the entrepreneurial anointing and pioneer...there is not a path to follow that has been cut out for the season ahead. Therefore, we must open the way.
"We have to cut the path and be the forerunners in this season so others may follow. Businesses must be birthed and others are being linked into their destiny and choices will be presented. If we will dig the well, God will fill it with water for us to drink from in the future.
"I also hear that many 'churchy people' or 'religious people' will not be able to see the new thing God is doing to impact the world. The wealth is there to be transferred. But we must see and move in His timing. Businesses are coming forth that 'church people' will say, 'You should not have linked up there and you can't take money out of that arena.' However, the Lord is saying, 'Align and watch Me give you entryways to fields you have never entered before!'"—end of quote by Blake Norris
Here Are Some Points to Watch NOW!
The way the Church gathers and strategizes is very key for days ahead! Here are some points for us to embrace at this time in history:
Shifting, Changing Laws! The enemy loves to change times and laws. Therefore, he will use worldly structures and controls to hinder Kingdom advancement. We must stay active in Civil Government. How we vote is how we are visited in the future. Politically motivated shifts in laws and governmentally influenced ventures and investments will produce blame and create power wars that divide and control certain institutes of societies.
Changing Supply Lines! Go back and review the Gold Market in every decade so you can find your pattern for the shift that will take place in currency in each season! Money, economic regulations, and changing financial structures do not affect the Kingdom, but do affect how we build the Church in days ahead.
Unregulated derivatives will continue for a while longer. This will cause the Banking System to change drastically and expand the supply of money and credit. This creates another bubble waiting to burst. For instance, in the United States, individual states are losing revenue and beginning to cut services. Some effects from this are: the poor will get poorer; a decline in state workers; a cut in medical services; a lack of Medicaid funding for the elderly; a decline in education; a potential for violence; and the exhaustion of unemployment benefits.
Slavery structures must be reviewed. Watch your debt structure! Develop a plan for debt management and alleviation. Ask for favor with institutes. Watch governmental manipulation beginning from July 2009. Many institutions will attempt to manipulate debt to make money. Debt produces poverty. We must watch debt patterns in our lives, counties, cities, and nations.
Changing Economic Structures Worldwide! Inflation could happen at any time, so always have a plan for inflation. Consider your ways! Have plans to diversify your investments and resources. Do not put all of your eggs in one basket. Do not have a basket so "tight" that you cannot remove or add or redirect resources into Kingdom purposes and plans; your funds must not be so restricted that you cannot move in God's timing of shifts.
For instance, keep watching and moving your natural resources, like gas and oil to gold and silver stocks at the appropriate timing. Watch the emerging markets of China and India. (I am sold on watching this!) Watch products that enhance the land such as fertilizer and other agricultural-related ventures. Biotech developmental groups are always key for us to watch. His Kingdom is a sure thing in times of shifting economic trials!
Restoring Waste Places! Carefully watch the cities where bulldozers begin to demolish old structures. Watch as the Repairer of the Breach calls us into a rebuilding season. Certain cities must be transformed.
Realignment of Nations! There will be "chess move" made by Russia and China to counteract the dollar base of world currency over the next 18 months. This will affect many systems, but will fall short in complete governmental dominance and control. Israel will become more and more the center of discussion and division in nations in days ahead. China is attempting to create a new reserve currency. China is gathering and securing gold resource throughout the world. The effect will be that a new world currency base is developing.
A Major Shift in Training in God's Kingdom Plan. We must develop creative skills! We must become sensitive to the problems of people. We must address every obstacle as a challenge with a solution that is available. We must not fear causes because we know the Spirit can produce results through us. We must be motivated by a covenant expression of God's plan in the earth through His vision rather than through money.
We must be adaptable and observant to the changes around us. We must see the world around us differently, ask a lot of questions, and synthesize things from an intuitive perspective. We must become a fluent, flexible and imaginative people who are not afraid to be original and divergent in our thinking processes.
We Must Align and Be Trained for the Future! God has a battle array and an order that will reflect His holiness in days ahead. We will have a new vocabulary, a new presentation of identity, and a new dimension of authority as we enter the next season. New training structures are being developed to help God's people understand their covenant blessing and spiritual inheritance.
To read Chuck Pierce's previous word "Between August 24 and October 17, There Will Be Great Changes in the Financial System" click here.
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce
Glory of Zion International Ministries
Chuck D. Pierce's Itinerary:
http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word/7945
I am a watchman and try to watch carefully for patterns and trends that affect each of us. The enemy loves to change times and laws. Therefore, he will use worldly structures and controls to hinder Kingdom advancement.
If you have not been able to watch this month's Zebulun School class, "Positioned for Growth", you can still register to watch that "on demand" through August 30. Go to our webstore to purchase that e-ticket. We have some great leaders to help you in the future to understand the faith realm God is calling us to NOW! For our next class we have invited Peter Roselle, a minister leader in New Jersey, and a market leader with Morgan Stanley. We will be discussing trade structures. Blake Morris, another business leader, recently shared some financial insights that I will share below.
Praying for Supply Lines to Open, Economic Shifts to Occur, and the KINGDOM TO ADVANCE!
The Word from Florida: I want to encourage you to reread what the Lord spoke to me while we were at the Let the Eagles Gather conference in Florida. I want to be sure we are processing the word correctly. Therefore, what God said was: "Watch for an economic shift by the end of this month. Between August 24 and October 17, there will be great changes in the financial system. Be aware that the banking system has not finished making its changes. We will start into an accelerated shift in structure. The government is in an open rearrangement." (To see this previous word, click on the link at the end of this article.)
I do not believe that the Lord is talking about a big Stock Market Crash or a Bank Run. This could happen, but that is not the overall issue to understand. There is a full rearrangement of the economic system going on worldwide. If you have not read The Future War of the Church and God's Unfolding Battle Plan, there are chapters in each book on wealth that could help you.
Here is one perspective that is important for you to understand: even though the dollar is changing and fluctuating, this is a time your dollar could really work for you to acquire resources.
Many banks have resources they have acquired from loss. These resources could be redeemed by those who have extra dollar buying power. You could seek to acquire resources. Some banks must move now to alleviate themselves from the over abundance of failed loans and corresponding properties. This could be a catalyst for Kingdom advancement.
However, no one seems to have extra dollars to "take the land." If we look at the "giant" that is controlling economic structures and choose to shrink back, then we could lose ground and miss an opportunity to advance now. Also, this could leave an open door for a thrust from a dark side to control the land and keep the land from being occupied with those who hold God's plan.
So here is what I have done personally: I cashed in my retirement and paid off debts; I gave to the future of the land; I helped some others advance; I made sure the Eagles of God accounts were up to date; I helped two children advance; we analyzed foreign currency, such as the Australian Dollar, Euro, Turkish Lira, etc., to see how currencies are moving worldwide.
I do not think that this is a reactive type of prophetic word—just a word to be prepared by October 17. The economic structure as we have known it will not be same. So if you are buying stocks on the same basis and understanding of a system of yesteryear, you will probably not see the return you are looking for.
Wisdom from Blake Morris
I always like to get perspectives from others. Yesterday, I visited with a successful business friend of mine, Blake Morris, who gave the following wisdom:
"There is a way out of this famine supernaturally, and what the Lord has begun He will finish. He did tell me to prepare myself to negotiate very shrewdly and consider all options! I know that I must let go of some assets, and if this requires drastic cuts that is ok. Bankruptcy may be an option to be evaluated and considered. I feel we must understand and know all options in order to see our way into the future and receive strategy to take a key turn.
"I believe it is a time to expect the supernatural and place a high demand on the Spirit of God to move. I hear the Lord reminding me of a word you gave last year around September that said we must move and do something even if we make a mistake. This is a mentality of 'I refuse to stand still and perish in the famine.' The example you gave was climbing up on the highboard and jumping when you did not know how to swim.
"I hear the Lord saying, 'Out of desperation comes creativity, and for a season I will be like an artist that paints a new picture with many colors.' My normal personality is to focus in on one or two things to maximize profits, and now I am painting all over the canvas to find the new. I am not sure what I will create. Hope that makes some sense! I feel we should move in the entrepreneurial anointing and pioneer...there is not a path to follow that has been cut out for the season ahead. Therefore, we must open the way.
"We have to cut the path and be the forerunners in this season so others may follow. Businesses must be birthed and others are being linked into their destiny and choices will be presented. If we will dig the well, God will fill it with water for us to drink from in the future.
"I also hear that many 'churchy people' or 'religious people' will not be able to see the new thing God is doing to impact the world. The wealth is there to be transferred. But we must see and move in His timing. Businesses are coming forth that 'church people' will say, 'You should not have linked up there and you can't take money out of that arena.' However, the Lord is saying, 'Align and watch Me give you entryways to fields you have never entered before!'"—end of quote by Blake Norris
Here Are Some Points to Watch NOW!
The way the Church gathers and strategizes is very key for days ahead! Here are some points for us to embrace at this time in history:
Shifting, Changing Laws! The enemy loves to change times and laws. Therefore, he will use worldly structures and controls to hinder Kingdom advancement. We must stay active in Civil Government. How we vote is how we are visited in the future. Politically motivated shifts in laws and governmentally influenced ventures and investments will produce blame and create power wars that divide and control certain institutes of societies.
Changing Supply Lines! Go back and review the Gold Market in every decade so you can find your pattern for the shift that will take place in currency in each season! Money, economic regulations, and changing financial structures do not affect the Kingdom, but do affect how we build the Church in days ahead.
Unregulated derivatives will continue for a while longer. This will cause the Banking System to change drastically and expand the supply of money and credit. This creates another bubble waiting to burst. For instance, in the United States, individual states are losing revenue and beginning to cut services. Some effects from this are: the poor will get poorer; a decline in state workers; a cut in medical services; a lack of Medicaid funding for the elderly; a decline in education; a potential for violence; and the exhaustion of unemployment benefits.
Slavery structures must be reviewed. Watch your debt structure! Develop a plan for debt management and alleviation. Ask for favor with institutes. Watch governmental manipulation beginning from July 2009. Many institutions will attempt to manipulate debt to make money. Debt produces poverty. We must watch debt patterns in our lives, counties, cities, and nations.
Changing Economic Structures Worldwide! Inflation could happen at any time, so always have a plan for inflation. Consider your ways! Have plans to diversify your investments and resources. Do not put all of your eggs in one basket. Do not have a basket so "tight" that you cannot remove or add or redirect resources into Kingdom purposes and plans; your funds must not be so restricted that you cannot move in God's timing of shifts.
For instance, keep watching and moving your natural resources, like gas and oil to gold and silver stocks at the appropriate timing. Watch the emerging markets of China and India. (I am sold on watching this!) Watch products that enhance the land such as fertilizer and other agricultural-related ventures. Biotech developmental groups are always key for us to watch. His Kingdom is a sure thing in times of shifting economic trials!
Restoring Waste Places! Carefully watch the cities where bulldozers begin to demolish old structures. Watch as the Repairer of the Breach calls us into a rebuilding season. Certain cities must be transformed.
Realignment of Nations! There will be "chess move" made by Russia and China to counteract the dollar base of world currency over the next 18 months. This will affect many systems, but will fall short in complete governmental dominance and control. Israel will become more and more the center of discussion and division in nations in days ahead. China is attempting to create a new reserve currency. China is gathering and securing gold resource throughout the world. The effect will be that a new world currency base is developing.
A Major Shift in Training in God's Kingdom Plan. We must develop creative skills! We must become sensitive to the problems of people. We must address every obstacle as a challenge with a solution that is available. We must not fear causes because we know the Spirit can produce results through us. We must be motivated by a covenant expression of God's plan in the earth through His vision rather than through money.
We must be adaptable and observant to the changes around us. We must see the world around us differently, ask a lot of questions, and synthesize things from an intuitive perspective. We must become a fluent, flexible and imaginative people who are not afraid to be original and divergent in our thinking processes.
We Must Align and Be Trained for the Future! God has a battle array and an order that will reflect His holiness in days ahead. We will have a new vocabulary, a new presentation of identity, and a new dimension of authority as we enter the next season. New training structures are being developed to help God's people understand their covenant blessing and spiritual inheritance.
To read Chuck Pierce's previous word "Between August 24 and October 17, There Will Be Great Changes in the Financial System" click here.
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce
Glory of Zion International Ministries
Chuck D. Pierce's Itinerary:
Summer is Not Over Yet
Daily Golden Footprints
Summer is Not Over Yet
Friday, August 21, 2009
There are things that the Lord has been speaking to you that haven´t happened yet. The Lord has been telling you several things for example the fact that this is a summer of fulfillment and even more things. He is telling you some of those things again today. Be encouraged.
1. Summer is not over yet. The Lord told you that this is your summer of fulfillment. The Word He is speaking to you today is, summer is not over yet.
2. As the Lord has been telling you in His Word, you will be either bringing life or death into your situation by what you speak. There are some folks that just have to have the last say. Be careful. That will get you to speaking what satan is saying and not what God is saying. You are now moving into another realm in Him and you are even more accountable than ever before. What you say is what you get. You get to open the right doors. Use your authority wisely. God did finally give His people a King they kept asking for. It was never God´s will and it was not a blessing for them. (Pro 18:21) Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. To be sure that what you are asking for is God´s will, consult the Word of God. It won´t fail you.
3. You have been making excuses instead of living in obedience. This is why things have not been working out right financially. You have struggled so to pay your bills. No matter which way you look at it, you are required to give 10% which belongs to the Lord. You have a choice. You can have 90% left to you which is blessed or you can have 100% which is cursed. (Pro 3:9) Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
4. There has come a time that you have the knowledge about what you are to do or to not do. Now it is required of you to act God´s way. God wants you blessed, therefore make up your mind today that you will never allow those negative words out of your mouth again. (Pro 4:24) Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
5. The Lord is pleased that you have been seeking for more of Him lately. When you live in obedience, your financial blessings are met when you are following Him with all your heart. (Pro 8:17) I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. (Pro 8:18) Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
6. The Lord has placed a new anointing of favor on your life. Nothing will ever be the same. (Pro 8:35) For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
7. Because you have and do love Him, He will give you substance and treasures in your life. (Pro 8:21) That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
8. Your gift from the Holy Spirit is opening a door for you. Your gift is causing strategic people to notice your ministry. In so doing they will receive what God has for them. These next weeks will be a season of networking via the Holy Spirit. He is placing you in just the right places to do your next assignments from Him. (Pro 18:16) A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
9. The enemy has a plan today to really step on your last nerve. Bind the enemy in the name of Jesus. Then you must resist the devil. Put a special guard on your tongue today. It will spare you a lot of trouble. (Pro 21:23) Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
10. There will be some more changing of the guards. (The going home of saints who have finished their tasks) It is just their time. Celebrate a job well done.
11. The fall is to be so special that you cannot imagine it. God has some special plans for His body. It is to be very exciting.
12. However, until then, again, the Lord is telling you that this is your summer of fulfillment. The Word He is speaking to you today is, summer isn´t over yet.
In Him,
Prophetess Frances Lloyd
(Scheduling & Contact Information)
www.dailygoldenfoot prints.com
footprints@dailygol denfootprints. com
Summer is Not Over Yet
Friday, August 21, 2009
There are things that the Lord has been speaking to you that haven´t happened yet. The Lord has been telling you several things for example the fact that this is a summer of fulfillment and even more things. He is telling you some of those things again today. Be encouraged.
1. Summer is not over yet. The Lord told you that this is your summer of fulfillment. The Word He is speaking to you today is, summer is not over yet.
2. As the Lord has been telling you in His Word, you will be either bringing life or death into your situation by what you speak. There are some folks that just have to have the last say. Be careful. That will get you to speaking what satan is saying and not what God is saying. You are now moving into another realm in Him and you are even more accountable than ever before. What you say is what you get. You get to open the right doors. Use your authority wisely. God did finally give His people a King they kept asking for. It was never God´s will and it was not a blessing for them. (Pro 18:21) Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. To be sure that what you are asking for is God´s will, consult the Word of God. It won´t fail you.
3. You have been making excuses instead of living in obedience. This is why things have not been working out right financially. You have struggled so to pay your bills. No matter which way you look at it, you are required to give 10% which belongs to the Lord. You have a choice. You can have 90% left to you which is blessed or you can have 100% which is cursed. (Pro 3:9) Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
4. There has come a time that you have the knowledge about what you are to do or to not do. Now it is required of you to act God´s way. God wants you blessed, therefore make up your mind today that you will never allow those negative words out of your mouth again. (Pro 4:24) Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
5. The Lord is pleased that you have been seeking for more of Him lately. When you live in obedience, your financial blessings are met when you are following Him with all your heart. (Pro 8:17) I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. (Pro 8:18) Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
6. The Lord has placed a new anointing of favor on your life. Nothing will ever be the same. (Pro 8:35) For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
7. Because you have and do love Him, He will give you substance and treasures in your life. (Pro 8:21) That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
8. Your gift from the Holy Spirit is opening a door for you. Your gift is causing strategic people to notice your ministry. In so doing they will receive what God has for them. These next weeks will be a season of networking via the Holy Spirit. He is placing you in just the right places to do your next assignments from Him. (Pro 18:16) A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
9. The enemy has a plan today to really step on your last nerve. Bind the enemy in the name of Jesus. Then you must resist the devil. Put a special guard on your tongue today. It will spare you a lot of trouble. (Pro 21:23) Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
10. There will be some more changing of the guards. (The going home of saints who have finished their tasks) It is just their time. Celebrate a job well done.
11. The fall is to be so special that you cannot imagine it. God has some special plans for His body. It is to be very exciting.
12. However, until then, again, the Lord is telling you that this is your summer of fulfillment. The Word He is speaking to you today is, summer isn´t over yet.
In Him,
Prophetess Frances Lloyd
(Scheduling & Contact Information)
www.dailygoldenfoot prints.com
footprints@dailygol denfootprints. com
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