Month: July 2024

Are you a citizen of a decreasing or increasing government? If the government you are a citizen under is decreasing then you will look for death, decay, destruction and the works of the devil and the demonic. If you are a citizen of an ever increasing government you will look for signs of life, joy, peace, prosperity and daily deliverance. The direction of the government you are a citizen under determines what you look for and what you speak about.

Isaiah 9:6-7 says “For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore.” This child that Isaiah prophesied about is Yeshua the Messiah who was born in Bethlehem, lived in Galilee, died and rose again in Jerusalem. He came in the flesh, died on a cross, rose from the grave and is currently seated on a throne at the right hand of God Almighty. This is my government that is ever increasing.

Revelation 18:2-3 speaks of another government which is not increasing, but is decreasing. “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.” This government has been falling for many years and is about to seeing a major blow even right now. But it is a government and it does have citizens who are about a deceasing, falling system.

The government you are a citizen of will determine what you see and what you say. One is falling, one is increasing. One is a culture of life, the other is a culture of death. They are not the same governments, they are not going in the same direction. From Genesis to Revelation there has been two governments and you get to decide which government you will be a citizen of. If you are unsure which government you are under, listen to what you say, pay attention to what you see, that will tell you. I see increase everywhere in the government I am under and we would love for you to become a citizen of this government, but you must come out from under the other one first.

Those who have been teachers of religion and the doctrines of man are about to become students of the kingdom of God. Those who have been students in the kingdom of God are about to become teachers of the gospel of the kingdom. The Lord wants us all to come to the knowledge of the truth, so this flip will be massive and some will not make the flip, because of pride, but those who humble themselves will be transformed in a way that will revolutionize their lives.

The Holy Spirit has been speaking to me all week about the seismic shift that has taken place. First He said, the church has moved from being built at the gates of hell (Matthew 16) to the wicked bowing at the gates of the righteous (Proverbs 14) and this week we have seen that happen in so many different ways. Next the Holy Spirit said, “I know how to humble those who walk in pride!” (Daniel 4:37). Humility is a kingdom reality all believers in Jesus Christ will be walking in and this alone will change the trajectory of Christianity as we have known it. Then today, Holy Spirit said to me, “You have been taught how to escape, but you have not been taught how to enter.” (2 Peter 1:4, 11).

Friends, everything is changing!!!!! Not for our demise or destruction, but for our good. Esthers are replacing Vashti’s; Mordecai’s are replacing Hamaan’s; Nehemiah’s are replacing Nebuchadnezzar’s; Joshua’s are replacing giants; David’s are replacing Saul’s; Apostle Paul’s are replacing Pharisees. Psalm 103:1-4 says “O LORD my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind; he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire.” This is what He is doing and He knows exactly what He is doing and why. Everything is changing for our good!!!!

You have been given authority now exercise it!!!!! Authority is not something you wear as a badge of honor; authority is to be used for the sake of everyone’s benefit. Authority is not to be used as a weapon to subjecate people under you, but to lift up others that are around you. We have been given authority as believers in Jesus Christ, but we have not been taught how to use it. Here with sit with the King of kings living inside of us, yet we do not know how to make a decree, we do not know how to wield a sword in the spirit and we do not know how to operate by design. We are so much like our phones, watches and computers, we have more we can do but we have no idea how to do it. Would the teachers, trainers, and kingdom equippers please stand up and lead, so we the body of Christ can become who Christ died for?

I was praying Psalm 108 this morning and it says, “Oh give us help against the adversary, For deliverance by man is in vain. Through God we will do valiantly, And it is He who shall tread down our adversaries.” The Psalmist is saying, God treads down our enemies and the Holy Spirit immediately said, “You now have authority to tread down your enemies.” I jump to Luke 10:19 and it says, “Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you.” Authority that used to be God’s alone, has now been given to us. The Creator of heaven and earth has entrusted us with His authority; He has placed His Holy Spirit inside of us; He has made us His temple. We are fully equipped to execute the command to have righteousness exalt our nation, but we must exercise our authority over the seed of the enemy.

The cross was a place of transfer of power. The power the enemy had over the earth was transferred to Jesus Christ, and then Jesus transferred the authority of the earth to us, His people, both Jews and Gentiles. Friends, we have been given authority to disciple nations and to tread on serpents and scorpions. You are in charge, first of you, then of your kids, then of your city, state and nation. We are on the offense not the defense, we, collectively have been given authority, it is long past time we excercise it. The kingdom of God is at hand!!!!

I have been lingering in the presence of the One my soul yearns for daily, not wanting to write something of my own, but something of His heart, His thoughts for us today. The voice of God speaks with such crystal clear, pinpoint accuracy, my interpretation is not necessary. I am one who believes the Holy Spirit is so powerful, He does not need to use many words when He speaks. Most of what we call the prophetic is actually our interpretation, our commentary on what the Holy Spirit said. Sifting through the rhetoric to hear the roar of the voice of God can be challenging, time consuming and is what causes disappointment fatigue. The desire of people to be seen and heard by other people is what muddies the waters of the pure unadulterated voice of God. We have had to learn to eat the meat and spit out the bones, but the days of men’s commentaries is over and the days of God’s voice is upon us.

New mouthpieces will carry the sound in the airwaves; the message will not be muddied any longer; the character of the communicators will not be stained any more. It is as though the Lord is cleaning the glasses of His people and pulling the wax out of their ears so they can hear, not the voice of people clearly, but the voice of God. Once you hear the voice of God, the voices of people will fade into the distance and dissolve from your mind. The voice of God will vibrate inside of you, for Christ in you is the hope of glory. Listen to the vibrations in you, follow the voice of the Spirit of God, for obedience to His voice will propel you, strengthen you and restore peace to you.

Here is what I am hearing right now, “Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” (1 Peter 5:5) 5:5 in the military means loud and clear. Can you hear what the spirit is saying to us the church? We have stepped into a place of everyone being humbled so God can release grace. The imagery I saw is that of an airplane flying into the wind and how much work it takes to fly against the path of wind, versus how when a plane flies in the direction of the wind, there is an acceleration that happens. Pride is why we are resisted, and humility is how we acclerate. God is humbling humanity right now, so we can be graced with acceleration. It is time to get dressed in biblical humility which is confidence in and obedience to the voice of God.

I love it when the prophetic catches up with the natural. It is a convergence of the likes you cannot describe, especially if you have a prophetic word on your life, or if there is a prophetic word on a nation that you know about. The whole point of the prophetic is not to speak into now time but to speak of a coming time. Now time prophetic words according to 1 Corinthians 14 are for exhortation, encouragement and comfort, those happen in now time, but when a prophetic word that has a future reality is spoken, it is a declaring the end from the beginning word, so you have something to hold onto while you walk out the process to its fulfillment. If you are still in the prophetic process, keep walking, a convergence is coming.

Yesterday I told you everything changed the other day, when the shot that was heard around the world was released. The change that happened was we moved from the Matthew 16 gates to the Proverbs 14 gate. It is truly a new day for the nations and the manifestations will continue and increase, for they shifted in the spirit first, but now we are seeing it and hearing of it in the natural.

While praying this morning, I sensed four shifts we are going to see and hear. What I hear is we have gone from rapture to reigning on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6); we have moved from flippant and flaunting to the revealing of the foundation of righteousness and justice (Psalm 89); we will see a change from flipping over tables to setting tables in the presence of our enemies (Psalm 23); and there has been a move from throwing stones to the Chief Cornerstone has been placed for building (Ephesians 2).

This change has been gradual, but now is picking up momentum in a significant way. The old ways of doing church, life and government are over, the new is here, we must pivot or we will miss what God is doing in this hour in reality. The narrative has shifted and people are not going back to the old, they are rushing full steam ahead into the new. I hear the sound!!!!

Everything changed the other day. Did you hear the shot heard around the world? Could you hear what the spirit was saying amidst all the voices of the media in both the world and the church? God will never shout over all the other voices trying to prove they prophesied it; they saw it; they know who did it. No, the Holy Spirit will whisper just like He was not in the wind, the earthquake or the fire in the days of Elijah, but He was the gentle whisper that caused Elijah to pull his cloak over his face and stand at the mouth of the cave (1 Kings 19:11-13). Did you hear the still small whisper in the midst of all the noise? If not it is okay, the voices are loud and they all want to be heard, the Holy Spirit whispers and sends you to your knees not to the streets.

Here is what I heard. I heard the Lord say we have changed gates. The church has notoriously been in a defensive posture living off of Matthew 16 which says, “And I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” Well, His church is built, it may not look like you think, it may not be who you think, but God has built His church not out of brick and mortar, not on the back of men’s names, but in the hearts of His people. He may not have the largest church all gathered in one building, but the Lord has the largest church in the hearts of men and women world wide and they have heard the the Lord say, “Will the real church please stand up.” And stand up they have. So, we are no longer building a church at the gates of hell. We have changed gates.

We are now the gate of the righteousness, we now, with the Lord are in charge, we now are on the offense. Proverbs 14:19 says, “The evil will bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.” The gates have shifted from a church at the gates of hell to the evil bowing down at the gates of the righteous. It is an Esther moment in history, the tables have turned, the wicked are now bowing at the gates of the righteous. Everything changed and now nothing will be the same again. We, the church, are the gate of the righteous and the wicked are bowing down. Can you see it, can you hear it? It came as a whisper, because authority has nothing to do with volume and righteousness exalts a nation.

Words are seeds and those seeds are either producing in us a harvest of life or a harvest of death. In seed form the words we listen to may not feel like they are causing us to come alive or to decay, but those seeds, those words are working on us every moment of every day for life or for death. When we were little kids we were told becareful little eyes what you see, becareful little ears what you hear. These were seeds of life, that have been choked out by seeds of death, because the older we get the more we seed ourselves with the news, social media, pop psychology, self-help and so many other seeds of death that we do not even consider may be producing death in us, because they are only seeds not the harvest.

Jesus spoke a parable in Matthew 13 saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ But he said, No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

The enemy has come at night, when we were sleeping, when we were not careful what we heard and has sown seeds of death in us and now we are seeing the harvest of what was sown. Fear is a seed of death that has many fruits which are producing decay in our lives. The Lord of the harvest is sending workers into your life to bind and burn the weeds, so the wheat can be brought into the barn, but you must be willing to let the workers do their work, for they can see the weeds the enemy sowed, and they are there to deweed you if you will let them. For we were created to live and not die!!!!

It is time for an outfit change!!!!! Someone that wears a winter coat in the summer is identified as one that does not know what season we are in. Someone who wears a swimsuit to a ski resort reveals they do not know what location they are in. In the natural this sounds so obvious to us, but what we don’t realize is that in the spirit it is so obvious to the Lord that many of us are in desperate need of an outfit change, for we are not wearing what is appropriate for the season we are in.

Psalm 102:25-26 says “Of old You founded the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands. Even they will perish, but You endure; And all of them will wear out like a garment; Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.” The garment of despair is worn out; the garment of debt is worn out; the garment of sickness is worn out; the garment of defeat is worn out; it is time for an outfit change. God is changing your clothes in this moment and He is wanting to put on your new garments for this new season.

We have been told we are in an Isaiah 61 season, but how many people have not put on the new garment? Verse 3 says, “To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.” We have been given a garment of praise, it is a new outfit for a new season. It is time for an outfit change!!!!

The season has changed, it is time for an outfit change. Here the voice of God calling out to you…”The season has changed, the bondage of your barren winter has ended, and the season of hiding is over and gone. The rains have soaked the earth and left it bright with blossoming flowers. The season for singing and pruning the vines has arrived. I hear the cooing of doves in our land, filling the air with songs to awaken you and guide you forth. Can you not discern this new day of destiny breaking forth around you? The early signs of my purposes and plans are bursting forth. The budding vines of new life are now blooming everywhere. The fragrance of their flowers whispers, There is change in the air.” (S of S 2:11-13)

Don’t deviate from design!!!!!

Did you know we were made for love, joy, peace, grace, community, power, authority, rulership, righteousness, prosperity and so many more things? We were literally made for these things. We were not made for strife, anger, immorality, death, depression, anxiety, fear, defeat, poverty, sickness or any other thing we have accepted as a normal part of life. We were not made for these things, that is why we are exhausted, because we are fighting against that which is seeking to deviate us from design.

While walking the dog this morning the Lord and I were talking about who He is and how He walked on the face of the earth. He revealed to me that He never capitulated to anything that would cause Him to deviate from design. He saw a blind man, so He said, “What do you see?” He met a dead girl, and He said, “Talitha Koum! Little girl wake up!” He encountered a demoniac and He said, “What is your name?” Jesus never capitulated to any situation He encountered, for He never deviated from His design and today He told me, we are never to deviate from our design.

We were created for liberty, power, authority, love, prosperity, wholeness and forgiveness. We sing, we were made for more, but I would say we were made by design and we have deviated. We don’t need more of anything, we need to access what we were designed for. Jesus never deviated from His design, and He always remained in design no matter what He encountered. I hear the call of God to stop capitulating to situations that come on your path, you were created for health, love, joy, peace, righteousness, prosperity, hope, you were created for the kingdom culture, stop deviating from design, stop capitulating to another kingdom. You weren’t designed for the world, you were made for the kingdom. Don’t deviate from design, you were made for this!

In the world’s system you need a paper document that tells of all the work you have done in order to get hired for a job or get promoted to a position. In the world we call that a resume or CV. People are proud of their résumé’s, their CV’s for it shows their accomplishments in business or ministry. On a typical paper document you will find educational qualifications, work experience, or even certifications one has received. People are proud of this paper document and use it to get hired in a world system that gives wages based on what that paper says.

In the kingdom system you need people as your documentation, for people tell of the work you have done, the love you have shown, the fruit you have bore. If you want to increase your influence in the kingdom, if you want a different position in the kingdom, God looks at the hearts of people you have served in order to determine what rewards you receive, what promotions you get, what influence you gain or what position you obtain. In the kingdom, Paul says in 2 Corinthians 3:1-3 “Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you? You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.”

There are two types of resumes on earth, those on paper and those written on people’s hearts. The question we must ask, the documents we must analyze, the résumé’s/CV’s we must update are people not paper. How are you treating people? How are you resourcing people? Who is on your resume that could represent you? Paper is what gets you a position with men, but people are who God is listening to when He is deciding where to position you in the kingdom. People are God’s treausure and if you don’t have a people resume you will not get a kingdom position, for the kingdom is all about people.