Month: September 2020

One of the thinking shifts we as the body of Christ must make in this new era is related to God’s house. The Church is not a building we go to, it’s a people we are. Once we realize we are the Church, then we will start to operate in the authority we have been given. This mindset shift will be difficult for many, but is necessary for the kingdom of God is not brick and mortar buildings but flesh and blood people being built together as a holy habitation. The head of this house is Jesus the Messiah. Kingdom leaders are going to build flesh and blood houses not brick and mortar buildings.

Hebrews 3:6 “The Messiah is over God’s house as a son. What is that house? It’s us—those of us who hold on tightly to the free delight and confidence of our hope.” (Kingdom New Testament)

The word of God is like a treasure chest. The more you open it the more treasures you discover. This morning I’m praying Psalm 103 and the layered treasures are stunning. We are consistently reminded of the two benefits in this Psalm but did you know there are five benefits we are not to forget?

Psalm 103:2-5 Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget none of His benefits;

1. Who pardons all your iniquities,

2. Who heals all your diseases;

3. Who redeems your life from the pit,

4. Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion;

5. Who satisfies your years with good things,

Not only are we not to forget any of these benefits we are also to remember the reason we are not to forget these benefits.

Psalm 103:5 “So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.”

Today is a great day to remember the benefits of the lord because when your soul is reminded of these benefits it will realize there is nothing to complain about. For his benefits meet every need we have, fulfill every desire we long for, and we have access to these benefits. Open your mouth and declare the benefits of God for your life, for your family, for your nation.

Did you see what happened this weekend?

One new man (Ephesians 2:14-16) prayed together on Yom Kippur (Saturday) for the restoration of our nation. Jonathan Cahn (Jew) and Franklin Graham (Gentile) led thousands of people in person and online in repentance for restoration of our nation in Washington DC.

On the same day, a “Deborah” (Judges 4) was nominated to be on the Supreme Court of the United States. Our President needs her help to defeat many of the invisible enemies in our nation. No wonder she is a spirit filled believer, a wife, a mother, and a judge.

Wide open spaces are holy places and God is on the move restoring nations. Can you see it?

Rejoicing is more fun than ranting and raving.
Hope feels better than depression.
Resurrection has more life than death.
Love has more authority than hate.
Righteousness has more power than wickedness.
Grace gives more freedom than condemnation.
Honor produces more than disrespect.
Forgiveness is cleaner than unforgiveness.
Glory tells a better story than sin.
Healing speaks a better word than sickness.

We all get to choose where we live and I’ve lived in both places listed above. I can tell you with confidence abundant life is only found by remaining in Jesus. I choose life!

Deuteronomy 30:15 “See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity.”

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

The temptation to do naturally what God has spoken and wants to do supernaturally is strong. Often we miss the mark because the Lord shares with us what He wants to do supernaturally but we seek to execute it naturally, so it never reaches the glory God intended for it. Resist the temptation to do it naturally for God wants to do many supernatural things.

Zechariah 4:6-7 “Then he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts. ‘What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”’”

In prayer this morning the Lord opened my ears to hear in the spirit the hearts cries of men and women who recognize they have aligned themselves with a losing team. The ache in them is because they’ve gained the whole world, but lost their soul and now they see it.

The challenge they are facing is what they are going to have to sacrifice to get out. They have built their whole life around a losing lie and they hadn’t seen it until now. To get out would mean great loss and for some even death because of how controlled they are by the system.

I can hear their anguish in the spirit, they see where their alignment is leading them and they want out but the price of that decision is very high. I heard some specific names and prayed for the Lord to make a way of escape to snatch them from the fire. They want out, but their so deep in. I kept hearing the Lord assure them it will be worth the sacrifice, but the choice is theirs.

We are in a time of escape, rescue and deliverance right now. Many see what’s coming and will jump ship before the “Titanic” goes down.

Pray my friends for God knows the hearts cry of those who want out but recognize the price they are going to have to pay and it scares them. Pray they see the pearl of great price and leave it all for they see His value!

When hearing the voice of God it is important to understand if its a command to obey, a counsel to discuss, a conversation to enjoy or a correction to confess. Once we learn what God is saying, it makes responding accurately possible. For example, If we respond to a correction as though it’s just a conversation we will not confess (1 John 1:9) and repent so we can be healed. Or if we think a command from God is optional for us we miss the blessing obedience brings (Deuteronomy 28). A correct response comes from an accurate assessment of what God is saying. It is critical that we respond appropriately to what God is speaking.

On Saturday morning at 2:07am the Lord woke me up saying, “Lioness arising.” As I laid there I knew Lisa Bevere had a book called that so I said, yes Lord and tried to go back to sleep but the words “Lioness arising” kept repeating in my head. I knew there was more to these words.

I learned when Lisa Bevere heard this from the Lord she saw a lioness lying on its side on a pedestal with the inscription Numbers XXIII. I said to the Lord, okay message received. This morning the Lord brought me to Numbers 23-25 and said, “An agenda and anxiety are enemies of prophetic accuracy.”

We have heard a lot of “prophetic words” but much of it has been from an agenda or anxiety but now we are about to hear lionesses arising with prophetic accuracy and they will speak it confidently because the words don’t originate with them.

Numbers 24:12-13 “Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not tell your messengers whom you had sent to me, saying, ‘Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything contrary to the command of the LORD, either good or bad, of my own accord. What the LORD speaks, that I will speak’?”

Yesterday began the Feast of Trumpets with the Innaguration of the new year 5781. God has been making announcements in a major way already and we still have another day. Open wide your ears to hear and your eyes to see for God Himself is announcing the fall of the iron and clay kingdom once and for all! #Daniel2 #Daniel7

Somewhere along the line in my Christian life I learned I was not supposed to hear the enemy’s voice and if I did I was in sin, fear, doubt, unbelief or somehow doing something wrong. But the Lord just revealed me that we will always hear the voice of the enemy for he is the prince of the power of the air.

Even if we shut off everything and lived under a rock we would still hear his voice for he rules from the air. Therefore, the issue is not whether we hear his voice, but whether or not we obey his voice. Our obedience determines what voice we follow and whether we have faith, trust, belief, etc.

David said it this way in Psalm 3:1-2 “O LORD, how my adversaries have increased! Many are rising up against me. Many are saying of my soul, “There is no deliverance for him in God.” Selah.” He heard the voice of his adversaries but he didn’t submit to them, rather he said, “But You, O LORD, are a shield about me, My glory, and the One who lifts my head. I was crying to the LORD with my voice, And He answered me from His holy mountain. Selah.” (Psalm 3:3-4) It’s not the absence of the voice of the enemy we seek but the obedience to the voice of God. This was liberating for me and I hope it is for you too.

John 10:1-6 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.”