Month: October 2020

There is more life around us than death. The trees are alive, the grass is alive, the stones beneath your feet are alive, the birds that fly above your head are alive, the fish that swim in the sea are alive, the animals that roam in the fields and the jungles are alive, and every human being that you meet and see they are alive. Never forget life is all around you. Life is the winning team. Make sure that today and every day you choose life so you’re on the winning team.

Deuteronomy 30:19 “ 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.”

Have you ever realized the people who preach judgements on nations and people are the same people who have a rapture theology that removes them from earth before what they say is going to happen actually happens?

Have you ever been disciplined by God? I know we have all experienced the discipline of men and women, but have you ever been disciplined by God? If you have, you know, like I do, that God corrects you up, He doesn’t speak of your destruction.

I used to be very harsh, judgmental, rapture like, but when I spent time with God, I mean a lot of time over many years, I learned that I knew men’s doctrines more than God and His kingdom. God is not a destroyer and He is not looking for us to escape. He is not negative at all. He is God, He is life!

Once the Lord healed me of the doctrines of men, introduced me to the kingdom of God and gave me the heart of His word, I was forever changed. Now I can only see life, speak life, overcome and occupy because I’m not trying to escape I’m trying to steward what He gave us here on earth.

Most of our issues are not biblical they are theological. We were taught a theology of death, destruction and punishment/judgment not the gospel of the kingdom which is righteousness, peace and joy. The kingdom builds the body it doesn’t tear it down.

Ephesians 4:29-32 “Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.”

The Lord has moved on from the election to the renovation and manifestation of the church. Once people get a short reprieve to recover from this election season, the Lord is sending us head on, full throttle into the renovation and manifestation of us His people He calls the church.

Intercessors and digital soldiers your work has brought success to the nations. God has heard your prayers. Thank you! Now it’s time for the kingdom builders to arise and lead the church into her greatest days. Everything is coming alive for righteousness, peace and joy is the kingdom culture and it is manifesting in every sector of society.

In prayer this morning I was thanking the Lord for Hos presence and immediately in the spirit as I spoke the word presence I saw in the spirit the word presents 🎁. The Lord said “My presence and My presents are being released in this new day”. I changed my prayer to thanking Hom for Hos presence and His presents. Get ready my friends we are about to experience God’s presence and His presents 🎁!

The first thing the Lord said as I was waking up this morning was, “MATURITY IS FREEDOM”. I wanted to know what He meant and so I looked up all the verses that say maturity and I learned to be mature means to be stable in all seasons.

Ephesians 4:11-14 says leaders are supposed to mature us so we are stable. “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.”

Then Hebrews 6:1-4 says we should seek truth that matures us “Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits.”

Finally, 1 Corinthians 14:20 says it very clearly and succinctly “Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.”

As we come to the end of this pandemic/election year, we can look back and see how unstable this year has been in so many ways. The Lord knew we were immature in our thinking but we didn’t. Now that we’ve seen how easily we are moved by external situations, God is going to reveal people to us who will walk with us into maturity so we won’t be moved next time the wind blows violently in the land.

Maturity is freedom and we as believers will be a powerful witnesses when we manifest freedom in every situation. The next season in the church will be one of maturity so we can be truly free!

On Thursday in Franklin, TN I had the privilege of joining my women’s ministry partner from Malaysia, Ms. Sharon Ward Shirley, for a time of sharing and praying with her women’s group. One of the themes that day was facing the reality of the pain they had experienced. Then as I went to Beersheba Springs, TN yesterday I faced head on the issue of slavery in our nation. Painful experiences are hard to face, but facing them brings healing to you, others and the land. Everyone even the land has had painful things happen to them. Which is why the cross is the gate we all must go through to come into the kingdom.

With these two days in my heart this morning my Psalm to pray is Psalm 130 and God as He always does brings words to what we all need to hear so we can move on into the kingdom attributes of righteousness, peace and joy. May these verses activate forgiveness in you toward whatever has brought you pain .

Psalm 130

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Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD.

Lord, hear my voice!

Let Your ears be attentive

To the voice of my supplications.

If You, LORD, should mark iniquities,

O Lord, who could stand?

But there is forgiveness with You,

That You may be feared.

I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait,

And in His word do I hope.

My soul waits for the Lord

More than the watchmen for the morning;

Indeed, more than the watchmen for the morning.

O Israel, hope in the LORD;

For with the LORD there is lovingkindness,

And with Him is abundant redemption.

And He will redeem Israel

From all his iniquities.

The keystone to success in the kingdom is to seek the King of the kingdom with all your heart. When you seek the King His healing flows into every area of your life. There is nothing else you can seek only and have multiple results.

Jeremiah 29:13-14 “You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’”

Every region has an atmosphere and being able to discern the atmosphere helps in navigating the region effectively. To assume every region is the same is why people bring their one size (they believe) fits all message to a region and nothing happens. The Lord is more spontaneous than us and learning to flow with Him is key to kingdom success in every region. When you walk by the spirit you can’t have an agenda but you must know the voice of God.

2 Corinthians 5:7 “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”

Every morning I use a psalm as a prayer leader in my prayer time. The Lord is faithful to reveal the truth through the psalm that I did not know and has me pray a prayer or multiple prayers for people, the nation, or even nations. I have found it to be a real joy.

This morning as I went to pray psalm 127, The Lord spoke to me to look at who the author of the psalm is. I learned it is Solomon that wrote this psalm and what that revealed to me is knowing the author of some thing that’s been created gives greater understanding into that which has been created. For what is created is an extension of the author.

When you know the author it adds substance to that which has been created. When we know the parents it adds substance to understanding the child. When we know God as creator, it adds substance to the creation called earth on which we live. When we know the songwriter it adds substance to the song that we are singing. The reason being Is because what we are seeing is only an extension of the person that created it. It’s one thing to enjoy the creation it’s a whole other to let the creation point you to the person that created it.

Psalm 127:1 (a psalm of Solomon) “Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.”

The Spirit of God who is light is initiating a fight with the darkness. This battle God started because He has heard the prayers, decrees and cries of His people for breakthrough, deliverance and salvation. The darkness will not go silently, but it’s increasing volume is evidence not of its victory but it’s defeat. We are in a spiritual war God started and God is and will win because He loves His people. Worship from victory not defeat, pray from authority not pity, prophesy encouragement and life not death and destruction. God never loses a battle and never picks a fight unless there is massive salvation as just one of the spoils of war!

John 1:5 “The Light is shining in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.”