Faith and Patience Obtains the Promise

"For when God made the promise to Abraham,

since He could swear by no one greater, He

swore by Himself saying,

'I will surely bless you, and I will surely

multiply you.'

And thus, having patiently waited,

he obtained the promise."

Hebrew 6:13-15

God is faithful. Be strong in the Lord. Stand, and having done all to stand, stand. Do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

1 Cor 1:9; Eph 6:10,13,14; Heb 10:35,36

Our Praise Creates a Throne for Him

"Yet You are holy,

O You who are enthroned upon the

praises of Israel."

Psalm 22:3

"And let them make Me a sanctuary,

that I may dwell among them."

Exodus 25:8

God wants to be with us.  He wants to dwell with us.

He says, "Draw close to Me, and I will draw close to You."   When we gather together corporately and enter into a praise, a worship of Him (the deepest part of us touching the deepest part of Him - our hearts touching His heart) it creates a spiritual throne, a place suitable and fitting for Him to come and sit upon, a place of honor and exaltation. In this God receives our heart-felt invitation and comes and sits and enthrones Himself upon our praises. The Spirit of God will come mightily yet in a measure when we individually worship Him in the private seclusion of our own secret place, but He will manifest Himself in an even greater measure in the corporate setting as we corporately join our hearts to praise and worship Him together and come into the sanctuary with an expectation of God coming by His Holy Spirit to sit and enthrone Himself upon our praises. 

When our hearts are in sincere worship, and we are sending our highest praises up to Him, God comes and fills the temple, the sanctuary with Himself, with His manifested presence, and the train of His robe fills the temple with His glory.  And it's in that glory that our spirit eyes may see Him seated upon the throne high and lifted up. And if we'll reach out in faith we can touch the hem of His robe, and His healing virtue will flow down through it and touch our bodies and our hearts or whatever area in our life we have that is hemorraging and needs a touch of the Master.  It's a flow of His anointing, His healing and redemptive grace that flows down through Him, through His robe, through His Holy Spirit and into you when you praise Him in adoration and worship Him in a heart of pure love and exaltation.

God loves us and wants to be with us. He's given us His Word and His instruction so that He can come and be with us. That instruction is to build Him a sanctuary that's dedicated to His presence, to Him alone, and for us to come together corporately to praise Him and worship Him, heart to heart. For it's then that God will come, and we will be touched and changed in His presence, miracles will happen, healings will manifest, and He will receive all the glory and honor and praise for the wonderful miracles performed there in His presence.

So Lord, we corporately join our hearts to create an atmosphere, a throne for You to come and rest upon, a throne created by our worship and our praise and devotion to You. We dedicate our hearts to seek You in the secret place of our private worship, but we join our hearts together corporately to seek You in the sanctuary of our churches to create with our heart-felt worship an atmosphere that not only invites Your presence but is worthy of Your presence. It's deep calling unto deep, Lord, the deepest part of us touching the deepest part of You. Come Holy Spirit. Hear our prayer, hear our heart cry. Come and visit our churches. Come and invade the sanctuaries that we have built for You. Forgive us, Jesus, for making them anything less than sanctuaries that have been made for Your presence. Clean the slate of our program-minded motives and purposes. Implant and impart Your pure and perfect will for Your house, Jesus. Help us to make the necessary changes so that our hearts and sanctuaries reflect Your perfect will and desire. Give us worshiping hearts that are hungry for Your presence, hearts that will not be satisfied with business as usual, but hearts that are passionately pursuing Your presence. Let our hearts cry out as David did,

"O God, You are my God,

Early will I seek You;

my soul thirsts for You,

my soul longs for You

in a dry and thirsty land

where there is no water.

So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,

to see Your power and Your glory."

Psalm 63:1,2

Amen

James 4:8, Is 6:1, Matt 9:20-22, Is 66:1

The Power of His Presence

"In Your presence is fullness of joy;
At Your right hand are pleasures evermore."

Psalm 16:11

God wants to invade your circumstances. He wants to come in and invade with His love, His power and His grace. The Spirit is saying, "Turn your heart and attention back to God. Come back to Him in total surrender. Come and sit in His presence, empty and open, and ready to receive. Come as you are. Come with your baggage. Come with the weights of your worries and lay them at His feet. Then open your heart to receive..........His love is supernatural. His love will fill your soul with peace, and  it will rest on you like a blanket."

That is a miracle.
You come in totally weighed down, heavy, worn, broken and waisted, and you leave refreshed, strengthened and renewed in your faith and able to go back into your circumstances as a new man, empowered by God, by His Holy Spirit, with a fresh mindset and a new attitude. It's the attitude of Christ, a heart and mind that's been reshaped and molded by the very power and presence of God Himself. His presence is everything.  His presence works miracles, first in us and then in our circumstances.

We must take time to come to God, to come into His presence. We must take time to put Him first in our lives by coming to Him and waiting on Him, learning to hear His voice and receive His guidance. God is the One that knows all things. He is our Father. He is the One that created us and knows what is best for us. He wants us molded and made into the image of His Son, Jesus. He wants us to learn to live in this world but to live in it through another realm, the realm of His Spirit. He wants to invade this world with His light and love and make a clear definition and contrast of the two kingdoms, the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness, His kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven. It's heaven invading earth through broken vessels healed and made whole in the very presence of God.

We are imperfect vessels, but in His presence, as we sit upon the potters wheel, our Father places His hands upon our lives and He molds and shapes us, pouring the water of His Spirit and love upon us to soften the hardened clay of our stubborn and rebellious hearts and minds. It's supernatural. But it's the way of the Master. It's the way of God. We must surrender and give it all to Him. We must learn the power of His presence, the power of waiting on Him and being yielded to His reshaping and timing. God is making imperfect vessels into vessels of honor for His glory. Only He can do that. Only the hands of the Master and the love of the Father can change us and make us new and make us the vessels of honor that we are created to be. 

The Spirit of God is calling and drawing us today into His presence, to surrender all, to let the Father place His hands upon our lives and shape us into the image of His Son. Won't you hear and answer the call? Won't you respond to the Spirit and make practicing His presence a priority in your day. It's vital in this hour. We MUST have His presence in our lives.

Help us, Lord. Let this word from You go deep into our spirit and cause us to prioritize our time with You everyday. Help us to come to You and sit upon the potters wheel and let You complete Your work in us. Help us yield and surrender all and trust that You truly are working all things together for our good. We want to be like Jesus. We want to be vessels of honor fit for the Master's use. Amen

Phil 2:5; Matt 6:33; Jer 18:1-4; Rom 8:29

You Will Know the Truth

"You will know the truth and

the truth shall make you free."
John 8:32

"It's not by might, nor by power,

but by My Spirit," says the Lord.
Zechariah 4:6

As I was praying in the Holy Ghost, I began to hear the Spirit of God saying inside of me, "Dig deep. Dig deep past all the garbage of this world, past all that's covered up that well that releases the rivers of living water in you. Dig deep past the doubt, unbelief, fear, confusion, and frustration with a passion and determination to know the truth that will set you free. Take up that gift that has been given you already, the one that I told you would give you power when you received it. Activate it by your faith. Submerge yourself in it and get out of your own limited reasoning, and align yourself with My will and power to bring forth My kingdom blessing and inheritance for you.  I've given you a gift to dig it up out of "your stuff", to see it by your spiritman and bring it forth out of the realm of the spirit into the realm of the natural, but without taking up that tool and activating that gift by your faith you will fall short of seeing the blessing in the natural."

I praise God for this word of encouragement, because in this world our circumstances are screaming at us to get our attention, to get control of our mind so that we will focus on them and not on what the truth of what Jesus has done and how He has triumphed over them. It's the victory that Christ has won over the devil, the god of this world, that we need to keep at the forfront of our minds, and it's this gift of the Holy Spirit that helps us to do that.  It plows through the garbage of doubt and unbelief into the clearing of the truth of God's Word, which is the lamp to our feet and the light to our path and which speaks the very will and heart of God.  It helps us to pray without ceasing, to remain focused on the truth of the matter, and to stay in the attitude of thanksgiving and praise, for the truth and victory is ever before you. Sometimes you are plowing through the garbage with the Holy Ghost and sometimes you are souring into the heavenlies. Sometimes you are speaking and communicating to the Lover of your soul in the sweet intimacy of your prayer language and other times you are commanding and declaring your authority IN Him to the enemy. It's a gift, a supernatural gift given to us by a supernatural God to accomplish supernatural things, to communicate supernaturally to Him and to get past our own limited mind and reasoning. 

Yesterday I was telling the Lord how I wished more people would receive and use this gift. And as I imagined all that would be accomplished and manifested in the natural if more believers did, I heard the Lord speak, "I just wish the ones that had it already would use it."

So the Spirit of God is wanting to encourage us today to dust off this supernatural, God-given gift of the Holy Spirit and begin to activate it again, to use that heavenly prayer language that's been given you once again. He's encouraging us to begin to dig deep past all the doubt and unbelief, past all the discouragement and frustration and get desperate and deteremined enough to see the things that God has promised and ordained for us to come forth as we dig afresh the wells of our salvation and our kingdom inheritance. Let the gift of the Holy Spirit through your heavenely prayer language begin to flow and dig into the depths of the love and the treasures of His kingdom, keeping our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, while we see His kingdom come forth here on earth as it is in heaven. Amen

John 7:37,38; John 8:32; Acts 1:8; Heb 11:6; 2 Cor 10:4,5;

Ps 119:105; 1Thes 5:18; Matt 6:13

Making a Withdrawal

"The wealth of the wicked

is laid up for the righteous."

Psalm 13:22

I take my position in Christ, and I declare that I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I have been made righteous by His blood, and by His righteousness I place a demand on the anointing to make a withdrawal from this wealth of the wicked that's been laid up for me.

My God delights in my prosperity, and He desires that I prosper and be in good health just as my soul prospers. It pleases my Father for me to receive and take part in that which He has provided for me in the kingdom and for me to know the surpassing greatness of His power in them that would believe. It pleases Him when I receive of my inheritance that has been predestined for me for a good work that He has prepared beforehand that I should walk in it. It blesses and pleases my Father to bless me so that I may be a blessing and glorify His name.

So in pleasing My Father I receive of His grace, and I place a demand on the anointing that He has given me to make a withdrawal from this wealth of the wicked that has been laid up for me in Christ Jesus.

I thank You, Father, for Your blessing. I thank You for Your gift of grace and Your love that I may advance the kingdom and be a blessing. I thank You, Father, for choosing me and bringing me into the kingdom for such a time as this. I thank You, Father, for loving me and never giving up on me. Amen

Eph 2:6; 2Cor 5:21; Ps 35:27; 3John 2; Eph 1:19, Eph 2:10

Angels on Assignment

"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,

whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy."

Psalm 107:2

I am the redeemed of the Lord. I have been purchased and redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. I have been redeemed and reinstated into the kingdom of God. I am seated with Christ at the right hand of the Father, far above every rule and authority and every power and dominion and every name that is named, and everything has been put into subjection under my feet.

And I take my position in Christ and I dispatch angels on assignment to deliver the blessing of God to His house and to His people. Angels go now and deliver the blessing. Angels go now and take that blessing which is ordained for God's people to advance the kingdom and to bless them that they may be a blessing.

This was the direction the Lord led me in prayer the other night, taking my position in Him and receiving the ministry of angels that He has given me to release and deliver His blessing. Later the next day as I was just praising God and rejoicing that the angels had been dispatched and were delivering the blessing, that they were on their assignments and that God's people were receiving their blessings, I heard the Lord say, "Speak to the prince of the power of the air and command him to split and separate and give access to these angels for their destination, and then begin to pray in the Spirit and it will be like a mighty arrow that hits the target."  I realized then that there was a hinderance to these blessings that the angels were carrying and that they would not reach their destination unless this hinderance, this spirit, was spoken to. So in obedience I took my position in Christ and I began to speak to the prince of the power of the air and command him to split and separate and give access to the angels to reach their destination. I told him that I came in the name of Jesus Christ and that he had to obey me and seperate. With this command I began to pray much in the Holy Ghost with a confidence and an empowerment of His Spirit directing these words to hit their target. Then in the Spirit I could see the seperation taking place and angels sweeping through the opening.

Praise the Lord! Glory to God! 

I rejoice that God gives us the direction for our prayers and then empowers us to see and know and understand what needs to be done to see the answer. We are coming to a new place in Him. The Holy Spirit is being poured out, and if we will receive and believe we will be empowered and anointed to do things we've never done, go where we've never been, see what we've never seen, and be who we've never been.

Thank You, Lord, for Your love and grace. Thank You for Your mercy and lovingkindness that never ends. Thank You for Your Holy Spirit and Your blessing that is being poured out, for angles on assignment that have been dispatched and that are on their way bringing gifts and blessings from Your heart and hand. Thank You for giving us eyes to see, ears to hear and hearts to undertand. Thank You for Your Word and promises that You stand behind and that You use to teach and guide us with. You are and AWESOME God, Jesus, and I love and cherish You and seek You with all my heart. Amen

Is There Not a Cause?

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,

because He has anointed me."

Luke 4:18

I come in the name of the Lord, and I square off with the Goliath of Lack and Poverty and declare, "Who is this uncircumcised giant that defies the children of the living God? This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you."

And with this declaration I take the smooth stone of my gift of giving, and I hurl it at this giant, and by the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit that stone will hit him right square between the eyes and bring him to his knees, defeated, powerless and no longer a threat to God's people.

This cinerio has been in my spirit since Sunday morning following the Spirit filled and inspired ministry of our pastor. Because of the anointing upon the delivering of that message my spirit has been so charged to come against this Goliath of Lack and Poverty, this spirit of the anti-Christ that has taunted and oppressed not only the children of God but even more so those that don't know Jesus and don't have a clue of the love and life that is theirs in Him. This giant of Lack and Poverty has been allowed to remain and oppress, beat down and torment God's people long enough. It has been allowed to lie and steal and rob from God's people too long. The Spirit of the Lord in me spoke to me to take up my smooth stone of the gift of my giving, that giving amount that the fear of lack has kept me from moving on, and in the name of the Lord to hurl it at this Goliath of Lack and Poverty and to declare that THIS DAY the Lord was giving him into my hands, that he was coming down and would be defeated in my life and in the lives of those that He had called me to stand in the gap for. 

So in faith and obedience to the Spirit of God that is in me, that works with me and now has come upon me for this, I charge and run at this giant and sling my stone in the face of fear of lack and declare, "THIS DAY YOU ARE DEFEATED in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ!"  Hallelujiah!

"For the oppression of the poor,

for the sighing of the needy,

Now I will arise," says the Lord.

Now I will set him in the safety

for which he yearns."

Psalm 12:5