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Two precious days in life
Curious to know about those two days??? Read through this piece!!!
The first important day is the day you were born.
This day is significant, but you had nothing much to do about it. It’s your mother who pushed and there are words released words of blessings, or words of curses.
Some curse days and those words can remain in your life like a cloud and an iron ceiling above you until you undo them by superimposing the prophetic blood of Jesus Christ. You have to understand that authority figures in our lives like parents can speak carelessly and that can stand until a higher order comes and reverses those words.
Jacob cursed Reuben, but Moses came and said, let Reuben live.
Deuteronomy 33:6 King James Version (KJV)
Let Reuben live, and not die, And let not his men be few
This was a reversal by Moses from the curse below;
Genesis 49:4 KJV Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel
Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed
The second day is the day you discover why you were born.This is critical because it’s you who push, not your parents.
The day you discover Why is important.
The king proclaims the Lord’s decree: “The Lord said to me, ‘You are my son. Today I have become your Father. Only ask, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the whole earth as your possession.
Psalms 2:7-8 NLT.
The day you are fully convinced that God is your father and your identity is found in Him through Christ, Your purpose is in Him, and you can ask for what rightfully is yours. You see, for every purpose, there is provision, relationships, and grace already availed. Even the earth will start to cooperate once your sonship is confirmed. Check this verse:
Romans 8:19
New King James Version
For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God
The Bible encourages us to Ask questions.
We have to ask WHY ARE WE HERE Let’s stop just existing and start to live.
God is ready to take you through a journey of self-discovery.
How to achieve your goals faster
Prov 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
I met one or two people who once set goals and for some reason they stopped, saying it was not working. I mean, we have messages of the year in our churches, and some end the year and, “say we didn’t see anything said about the year”.For some reason, I felt that due to their deferred hopes and if they continue to live like that this year will pass again without something tangible. Psychologists have established that there is a hormone called dopamine that is released each time a desire is achieved. The feeling you will have propels you further in life. The opposite is true!!!!
The truth is that, unwritten goals are a vapor, we can only give them permanency when we write them.
Habakkuk 2:2-3
2Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.
3For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end, it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry”.
Well, there are things that you need to do even after writing them down. And you will get the results dependably. The process involves impressing these dreams in our subconscious (will).
They say anything impressed in our minds can be expressed outwardly. A biblical principle you will be observing here is that whatever you think about most of the time you become.
This comes from the King James Bible translation of Proverbs 23, which says: “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
Behavior and goals.
We make a mistake because we set goals but don’t set the behavior required. We need to establish how we will get there and how much are we willing to pay. Every goal has a cost attached to it.
Each time God requires you to do something new, He also demands a change of behavior and attitude, and usually, that’s your price.
Luke 14:28-29
28For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it —
29lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
Many of us do write goals, and we don’t ask about the cost, or we evade paying the cost.
Every new thing requires a new you
Whatever you want to get, you have to put in your life and energy to get something.
I gave an example in my last post, saying we give a month’s worth of our lives to get a salary. Salary becomes a representation of value, but the actual value is the life that we have invested.
If you would rather not give part of your life for something, you won’t get what you want in terms of value.
With time, we perfect our skills so that we end up getting more for putting in less, but at first, we might need to endure the reproach associated with humble beginnings.
Pursuing money vs. true value
Many people don’t know that what we want is already in us, not out there. You are the commodity, that’s why the battle between the dark kingdom and the kingdom of light is about souls. We need to pursue the obscured value in us. True value is where we put our lives, and our value is not measured in money or physical possessions.
Luke 12:15
Then he said, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.
For those who did macroeconomics, we know that money is just a paper.
A nation just prints money they think it’s equivalent to the value of its Gross Domestic Product (thus its true worth)
If they print more than they have as GDP, inflation usually is the result. And whenever the GDP declines even by successive famine, money fails. As in the case of the legendary famine during the time of Joseph.
Genesis 47:15
So when the money failed in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For the money has FAILED.”
So using that parabolic presentation we need to seek to improve our individual GDP as I shall coin it. The lazier we are, the less value we will fetch.
Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the lazy man kills him, For his hands refuse to labor.
We need to allow God to help us reveal our worth by seeking to understand our God-given purposes, break them into goals and get to work. These God-given purposes are typically things closest to our hearts, things we can do joyfully even for less financial rewards. Most people spend most of their energy and life doing things they resent doing, just for security. Security is good as a pathway, not as a permanent position.
You need to leap at some point, and for some of us, that’s the cost we will have to pay to improve our GDP.
Take stock of your emotions.
We often worship intellect yet most of our transactions in life are based on emotions or just say your will (mind will and emotions). Research has proved that 80% of our success is due to our Emotional Intelligence(EQ) not Intelligent Content(IQ). Most life-changing decisions are made through emotions. Whether positive or negative.
Saul was afraid and decided out of fear and lost the Kingdom to David. Moses was angry and killed a man, and he left Egypt as an Ex-Convict.
Positively, Abraham did the unthinkable out of faith, and He was accorded the father of faith when He almost sacrificed His son. Noah out of faith built an ark that preserved his family and nature. Sometimes we need to override intellect and what the inner man is suggesting. The intellect is slower, usually, it catches up later.
Now you have to understand that the environments we find ourselves in, affect emotions positively or negatively.
We fail to achieve our goals because we are not selective with the environments we find ourselves in.
There are environments, relationships, and social media platforms that drain us.
Instead of avoiding those circumstances, we choose to remain and use most of our energy resisting negative forces emanating from those environments. What I mean is, we dice with sin or play at the boundary of immorality. Sometimes it will be too late as in the case of Esau.
Hebrews 12:16-17
16lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
17For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears
Some of us it’s time we have one or two friends, but they bring the best out in us. They inspire us to righteousness.
We need to unfollow certain sites and pages. One wrong conversation with the wrong person will require a whole year or more to undo. What I mean is that the energy we are using to resist that toxicity or sin we can as well use it to pursue our goals and assignments from the Lord.
How to master your craft
The Bible commands us to be fruitful and to subdue the earth.
Fruitfulness is what the gardener or farmer expects when he plants a seed when he grows a vineyard. He expects that the garden will be fruitful, and that he will harvest fruits. Fruitfulness is the natural byproduct of the healthy believer. It is our nature that what we do yields results. If it’s a talent or gift like singing or writing we expect financial rewards at some point, that is if we are willing to work and develop these talents. That’s the spirit of this week’s installment. Without wasting time, let’s broach into the details.
Somehow we have developed a subtle and vague theory around money as believers. Money is not everything, but it is something. We don’t worship it, but we put it in its place, and we should respect that place because, in failure to do that, we will be incapacitated to reach out to the lost. Most of the time when a needy person comes to us, they will be in need of basic needs like food, shelter, and clothing. These things are accessed by money, and those with money plus a generous heart are those able to meet these needs.You see, money is not value but a representation of value, some of us give a month worth of a life and time in return for a salary and some we are paid an hourly rate .If I say we exchange our lives for economic value am I too canal? Anyway, sporadically, we think that you can’t have money and be a God-fearing person at the same time.Is that so? Let’s think about this man whom Matthew 27:57 describes simply as a rich man and disciple of Jesus, but according to Mark 15:43 Joseph of Arimathea was “a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God”; Luke 23:50–56 adds that he “had not consented to their decision and action”. I am talking about Joseph of Arimathea. The conclusion from those scriptures is that a person can be a rich man and a disciple of Jesus, eagerly waiting for the kingdom of God too!!
Now, the only way you can earn more from your talent or gift or an area of your passion is when you become a master at your craft. People pay thousands of dollars for a practitioner. When you are comfortable with your turf you can charge more comfortably and this is how we can become that person:
Go under a practitioner
You should be willing to be an intern. When you come from school, you will be an amateur most people can’t pay you what you think you are worth when you have a raw talent or skill. You will be prone to make costly mistakes, so you need a seasoned person to work under.
As a pastor, you become an assistant Pastor.
The biggest temptation in your role is a desire for EQUALITY. When you sit in that seat, you will wrestle with thoughts like I am also a pastor; I can also preach; I deserve that too; Why do they treat the pastor better than me; I am the reason the pastor is shining;
Added to this will be many insecure voices who reinforce this in your head and make you feel abused and used. Nobody is using you, you are working your calling and developing your skills, that is what someone in your role is supposed to do.
If you can overcome your sense of importance you will do extremely well, and you will be a blessing to your local pastor and your local church and eventually to the Kingdom of God.
Somebody should remind students that a degree doesn’t mean that they are already practitioners. After the apprenticeship, you have to ascertain your efficiency, professionalism, and productivity before you are entrusted to high risks involved with being a practitioner. Practitioners can’t afford to make mistakes because death may occur, and companies may close, souls may be driven into the kingdom of darkness because of one single mistake of an immature preacher.
Get into the circles of practitioners
You need to swallow your pride and penetrate the circles of those you admire. Here we are saying receive the impartation or the height of up to the level of where they have ascended. Here is how Paul used to train saints back then, which I believe we can do well following.
1 Corinthians 11:1 You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
Mimicking those who have gone ahead affords us an opportunity to receive that height they have ascended, so we can always start from the top, not always from the foundation. Nine out of ten of millionaires they didn’t inherit because we are yet to learn to bequeath the values to our children, not valuables alone. Jn
We make mistakes because we want the valuables from those who have ascended, not the values.
We want the fruit, not the root. Now the values, principles, and the learning curve is what I am referring to as the height or dimension which those people have ascended.
Never give children lump sums without training them how to earn the money. If our children learn to earn from us, they will have no problem earning elsewhere in the world. That’s why those who fail to receive the height, they always run down inheritances from their predecessors.
When you enter the circles of these experienced people, learn their speed of thought, their time sensitivity, hunger for research, and knowledge. Receive their scope. There is what is called speed of life, that is the speed they get results.
You will discover that their cars are moving libraries. Devour their material like books and YouTube content. Keep up to date because these people sniff changes from a distance because they have trained themselves to be sensitive. Receiving that dimension needs humility and a teachable spirit. Sometimes volunteering and not expecting money.
When you receive that, you will be able to do more than your enamored experts.
I wanted to share another thing that can help us to be masters at our craft that is ability to finish assignments, but I have shared much but think about this, many people push their goals up to 95% completion, and they fail to conquer the last 5% of the task.
It’s a temptation in many, and let me end here.
Blessings to you and your loved ones.
How to take a leap in 2023
Infomercials have it that about 60% of us lay the foundation on disciplines we have no interest in. The reason is
we prefer security than obeying the voice of God or at least paying attention to the ideas closest to our hearts.
Some of us grew up impoverished so the first thing we ever wanted was to establish security and pension-able jobs.
For some of us, it was our parents and relatives who imposed their projections on whom they think we are, much to our disappointments because they don’t know us and what we are called to do in life.
Enough of pleasantries, let’s huff to the gist of this installment.
The sign that you need to leap is the accumulation of unmitigated restlessness that comes within you. I am talking about feeling that is responsible for making everything you are doing to become tasteless and less desirable to do, and eventually, we lose motivation.
Jeremiah 20:9 (NIV)
his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.
When you are in that situation, it’s difficult to step out, particularly when you take security as a position.
My advice is to take security as a pathway.
When you take what you do as your identity, that’s a big problem.
I mean, when you are a teacher.
Say I do teaching as opposed to I am a teacher. When you are a farmer, let’s just say you do farming just in case you discover a passion for preaching. That way, you permit your psyche to obey that voice telling you to do something more fulfilling.
What you say has the power to shape your conscious mind.
Proverbs 23:7
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he
How do you know when you take what you do as a path? That is simple, the path allows you to turn left or right. A position has permanency and inflexibility.
Isaiah 30:21
Whether you turn to the right or the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’ NKJV
The challenge we have is sometimes we can’t read the handwriting on the wall. Just like in the book of Daniel, we sometimes lose our jobs or what we are currently doing, or relationships that are toxic, but we insist on holding on. The more we hold on, the more they became a mirage. You need to laboriously keep it in place.
Daniel 5:24-26
24 Then the fingers of the hand were sent from Him, and this writing was written.
25“And this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
26 This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it.
For some of us, it’s time to move on and pursue things closest to our hearts. It’s God who gave us those desires.
It’s never too late.
Think about Caleb, who at 85 years, is known for this statement of faith, “Give me this mountain” (Josh. 14:12). , and Colonel Sanders, who officially started KFC when he was 40, back in 1930.
The list goes on, talking of Grandma Moses, who did not start painting until she was seventy-seven years old and looking for something to do “to keep busy and out of mischief” after her husband died. She painted nostalgic scenes of American life and sold them at country fairs alongside her prize-winning pickles of painting and art.
Remember, the enemy can ask you to leap too …
Matthew 4:5-6
Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple,
6 and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘In their hands, they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.”
Just like he did to Jesus Christ during the temptation above. You need to have intimacy with the Holy Spirit to know His voice and separate it from the voice of flesh or the devil.
The year 2023 in prophecy
Greetings saints hope you are ready for 2023.
I found this prophecy for 2023 very compelling you might pick one or two things that apply to you. It’s very long but it’s very powerful and it’s not from me it’s from Cindy Jacobs.
Cindy Jacobs is a respected prophet who travels the world ministering not only to crowds of people, but also to heads of nations. Perhaps her greatest ministry is to world influencers who seek her prophetic advice.
Here is the link to the actually word but I have posted the whole prophecy here.You can proceed to read from this blog or visit the actual authors’ blog.
https://www.generals.org/blog/word-of-the-lord-for-2023
“The Year of Bountiful Blessings and Turmoil”
As we enter into the year 2023, it is important to see the full spectrum of what the Holy Spirit is doing, both locally, and internationally. This year’s theme, Bountiful Blessings and Turmoil, may seem to be contradictory! How can we have both bountiful blessings and turmoil? The explanation is that we will see blessings in the midst of turmoil.
As the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, we have set our hearts to issue prophetic words, warnings, and admonitions, as well as calls for prayer. Prophetic intercession is an important part of our meetings as we both hear from the Lord and intercede.
When we were founded twenty-three years ago, we agreed to release words that we have consensus about. Individual members may have their own prophetic take upon what they are hearing. However, we have chosen, according to the Acts 13:1-3 model, to only write in this record words that the “Holy Spirit” has said which we all agree upon.
Looking back in our collective history, we see that the words we have issued have been remarkably accurate. One year it was that the European Union was going to fragment. This was before Brexit was announced and the United Kingdom left the EU. Another word was that a virus was coming upon the earth that would seemingly be incurable, and that, of course, was COVID-19.
One significant word that one of our elders gave us over ten years ago was that there was Satan would try to escalate regional conflicts into going to be a regional conflicts into a premature world war. This was something that Satan would try and do to stop the great harvest in the earth. This actually happened around the beginning of the 1900s with the Student-Led Volunteer Movement, in which 20,000 university students pledged their lives for world missions. However, World War I stopped this great move of God and numbers of young people died on the battlefields. From that time, we have been praying during regional conflicts, such as the Arab Spring, to quell a coming world war.
Here are significant words for this new season:
Goshen
The Lord has spoken to us that He is going to help each of us establish ourselves as a Goshen. Goshen was the land given to the children of Israel when Joseph was the Prime Minister, in effect, of Egypt. It was the choice land. This land provided for them during the lean years of famine. There are some lean years ahead, and God will reveal to us how to establish our Goshens for the days ahead. There was an admonition given not to let the enemy feed our fears, but to trust in God for our well-being. How this is to take place will vary. Some will plant gardens. Getting out of debt is important. Others will physically relocate to areas where a Goshen is already established. Still, others will stay and establish their Goshen in the midst of great darkness.
There will be cities of refuge that will be Goshens and experience supernatural prosperity. They are already in the process of forming now.
Psalm 23
Psalm 23 will be a very significant scripture passage for the days ahead. The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. He prepares a table for me in the presence of my enemies.
Around the table this coming season will be restored families. Prodigals will come back to the Lord. Family unity is going to be restored. Another important part of this will be the restoration of hospitality, where believers invite non-believers to dine with them in their homes.
Generosity is going to be poured out as we come to the table of the Lord. Sharing of goods and finances will bless many. This will also manifest through the taking of Communion around the table of the Lord.
Covenantal friends will sit around the table and dream God’s dreams, and then go out and manifest them together throughout the earth. They will form companies together and will literally be “companies of people”. People who have felt lonely and out of place will find lasting friendships. These friendships will provide “nets for harvest.” This will be the harvest of souls and the coming together of disconnected people around the table.
God is going to reveal Himself as the Good Shepherd to us, Who will lead us beside still waters and green pastures. The admonition is to stay very close to Him, and He will lead and guide us in troubled times.
A Time of Fruitfulness and Bounty
Businesses that have struggled will have their breakthrough. Bounty in the hands of God’s children will be a sign and wonder to many.
This bounty is not just for personal security and safety, but to eradicate poverty and misery in others.
Isaiah 60
This chapter is thematic as to what God is doing worldwide today, and especially inIsrael today. Gross darkness will encompass the earth, but the glory of God will shine out of the midst.
Provisions are coming for God’s people. We were given the analogy that the “camels are coming” with all we need for our financial harvest.(Is. 60:6). As the Body of Christ drinks deeply of the Word of God, revelation will flow to show the directions we need to take in our lives. A cursory knowledge of scripture, of the milk of the Word, will simply not be enough to release you into what God wants to show you.
World War III
World War III is going to take place in the future. The word of the Lord was that it can still be delayed. Prayer teams had already independently planned to go to Taiwan and Wales, to the school that Rees Howells founded to pray about war. They have also subsequently gone to Israel to pray against a world war started by Iran.
Again, over ten years ago, the Lord showed us an alliance of Russia/China/Iran would form as an axis power in a war. Already this has formed on many different levels, and we continue to pray against this alliance that would embroil the world in a horrible war.
(Note: While the teams were in Wales, a bomb fell in Poland that could have started WW3. This was a spill over from the war in Ukraine. However, after the team prayed at the school in Swansea, the news was, “War delayed!” Thank God for intercessors!)
During the future world war, the harvest will still take place, although many of the potential harvesters could fall on the battlefields. The Billion Soul Harvest will still happen, although a great cost will be paid as a result of the war.
The war will go nuclear although it will not affect the whole world with its destruction.
A word was also given about a fight around the North Pole and potentially from space itself. The world as we know it will experience great change.
The empire-building spirits want their territories back! Some unknowing rulers are being manipulated by these powers of darkness. Territory belongs to God, however, and we must pray that all false alignment of nations be broken apart.
Global Reset
While the world has declared a global reset, God Himself is resetting the world for the great end-time harvest. The Isaiah 19 Highway of Holiness is forming right before our eyes. This was hastened by the Abraham Accords. There is indeed a highway forming from Egypt, Assyria, and Israel! Many missionaries are going forth to this significant Middle East region. Prayer gatherings are taking place all across the region and revivals are breaking out.
In fact, many nations in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon and others, are experiencing a great harvest of souls in the midst of terrible persecution and unrest. Egypt will experience a great and powerful move of God as the governmental anointing of Joseph is released from its borders once again to shape nations. God is up to great things in the midst of turmoil!
Watch North Korea and its threatening of South Korea and Japan. Massive prayer needs to take place for the whole region, including China, Taiwan, and Indonesia. The “Ring of Fire” nations will experience new turmoil as well.
There are warnings of new terror attacks in Europe and the US. The watchmen must get on the wall.
Many prophets have focused on Haggai 2:6-8 as God shakes nations and releases the wealth of nations.
The whole economic system of the world is in a reset. God is warning that Satan will take advantage of this reset to persecute the church economically. The spirit of anti-christ has loosed on a level we have never seen as we are marching into the end-time hours.
We are in the midst of a global meltdown of nations. Jeremiah 1:10 states it well: it is a time of tearing down, and then there will be a time of building up.
Great exposure of corruption will take place across the earth during this global reset. Man thinks that he is resetting the nations, but God has an over-arching plan that He is working out behind the scenes.
Divine Recovery
This is the season of “recovering all”, as God divinely intervenes to restore lost finances, property, relationships, and other seemingly impossible situations.
Demonstrations of Power
We are on the eve of the greatest demonstration of God’s power in the earth! This is what has been called the “Saints Movement” where ordinary Christians do extraordinary things. This power demonstration will capture the news and make headlines. Persecutions will arise against these moves of God and the leaders. Don’t be surprised by this, but keep persevering in the middle of turmoil. Satan is going to try and bring divisions and separate close friends, but remain steady in the work of the Lord.
Seemingly small moves of God will grow big, like what happened in the Welsh revival under Evan Roberts. We will be surprised and delighted at the hot spots of revival here and there. There will be a renewed interest in the history of revival as a new generation cries out for God to “do it again!”.
Instantaneous healings will take place and will come like the lightning of God. People will be delivered from mental illnesses, addictions to drugs and pornography, and all manner of terminal illnesses.
The power of God will come in waves of glory. It will be like a tsunami wave of revival.
The Spirit of Offense
There is a spirit of offense that has been loosed in the earth. This is not a low-level type of spirit. It is very high-level. God is working in the hearts and minds of believers to be “unoffendable.” There are testings taking place to see whom God can trust to steward this coming great move of God. Even those who feel that they cannot be offended are going to be surprised at the level of offense they are capable of in the coming days.
Pride is a stumbling block. It is usually the root of offense. God admonished us that He is purging and testing the prophets first, as we are called to steward the fresh word, along with other ministries, into the earth. Don’t be caught in the snare of offense! If you are, quickly repent and do not let yourself be separated from those God is calling you to walk with in a close way.
We received a strong admonition not to get caught up in a war of words. Even though we are right, we should not get in a protective defensive mode where we try to justify ourselves. We have one justifier, and it isn’t any of us!
The Leviathan Spirit
The Leviathan Spirit will work with the Spirit of Offense. It causes your words to be twisted and used out of context. When it works against individuals, you will manifest it by becoming defensive and even belligerent. Don’t fall into its snare!
The Cluster Anointing
God is raising up teams who will work together on a covenantal level, such as the Clapham Group with Wilberforce in England. There are reformers who will work together to bring about the marriage of righteousness and justice. (Ps. 89:14)
These teams will have the “cluster anointing” such as given in Isaiah 65:8 which says that “new wine is found in the cluster”. Reformation teams will see the needs of nations on many levels which will lead to their transformation.
The moral reformation is going to take place as even the Hollywood industry swings the pendulum to more family-friendly entertainment.
Part of the “cluster anointing” will see the partnering of the Apostle/Prophet/Evangelists. There will be a deep relational partnering and love for each other that will greatly advance the Kingdom of God.
A beautiful partnering of worshiping prophets will arise that will lead in the new song with a new sound for the new day. Choirs will once again sing. This will help release the fulfillment of the Tabernacle of David being rebuilt in our day.
The east and west coasts of America will be shaken by the power of God and new teams will go out to both plow the ground for revival and steward it to keep the rivers of revival flowing.
The relationship of different gifts working together will give momentum to furthering the gospel, as well as great advances in releasing God’s will in the earth.
The Prophetic Movement
It was prophesied by Bishop Bill Hamon in the 1980s that God would raise up 10,000 prophets in the US and 100,000 around the world. We have certainly seen an escalation of this in recent days. There were very few recognized prophets even in the ‘90s, but now there is an abundance.
A cautionary word is important here, as we saw revivalists who were prophets veer off into deception in former days. God is requiring prophets to be aligned with local churches and other mature leaders in order to avoid this deception from getting into the prophetic movements.
Satan will bring a false prophetic movement that will “smear” the real prophets and try to take away from their integrity. We were given a warning to guard our hearts and not be on the attack, but to walk in love. Great discernment is needed to know who is a false prophet and who is simply prophesying in a manner that occasionally misses the mark.
Many prophets have been in seasons of distress. We are in a Jeremiah season where it will not be easy to be a prophet; but it will be glorious!
The Ekklesia
The understanding of the ekklesia is going to cause the local churches to shake off old wineskins and move into seeing the establishment of apostolic centers. Great spiritual authority will come into manifestation, and these centers will become discipleship centers to heal the nations. Revival and Reformation will be the theme of the day. The Body of Christ will move from the sidelines to the frontlines.
Ekklesia leaders from many countries will form multinational alliances and respect and esteem each other’s strengths. One prophet likened the weaknesses in nations as ‘soft spots” that we need to work together to cover. The ekklesia leaders in nations will celebrate one another and not be in competition.
The prophets, in particular, need to celebrate and cover one another as we manifest our different callings. For instance, we need to rejoice at what is happening with the prophetic evangelists and their role in revival and the harvest.
Some churches will be divided in the coming days. Churches will persecute other churches and the polarity will increase. Some churches have even made science what they bow down to rather than hearing what God is saying. There is a religious spirit that will raise its head and try to tear down the new moves of God. The next generation must be protected by the ekklesia leaders and not let them become jaded by infighting in the church itself. Beware of a marriage between the religious and political spirit.
God will give solutions to weighty problems through the ekklesia. In order for this to happen, leaders must have these Three Cs: Character, Competence, and Capacity. God spoke to us that great ethics and character cannot necessarily solve the problems of the earth. We need the power of God to solve the earth’s problems. God’s power through understanding these Three Cs will equip us to be reformation leaders.
Humility was deeply stressed for the coming days. The word that came to us was, “Bend low, for the sword of the Lord is coming.” Part of this humility must be to give the glory to God, and not look for credit for what we have prophesied. Do we require credit?
God warned us that there is a divine urgency in the coming days to be holy and prepared for what is to come. Not to be afraid, but to walk in holiness.
Part of the move of God among the ekklesia will be the importance of honoring Israel and an understanding of God’s timetable through the feasts.
The ekklesia will see the raising up of “Architectural Forerunners” who have a building gift and see the vision and help make it happen, while honoring those who have come before them.
Prayer Movements
We received another important admonition for the prayer movements of the earth to not grow weary and lose hope as if their prayers were not being heard. God is moving whole civilizations around and it is a process. Keep praying during God’s process, for though the answers seem to tarry, they will not be late! God’s timetable seems to be “wait” and “suddenly.” Your prayers are availing much.
The next generation is going to catch the fire of intercessory prayer. All night prayer meetings on college campuses will become normal. These “boiler room” prayer meetings are birthing rooms for campus revivals. Universities across the world will see great moves of God likened to the Jesus People movement in the United States.
New England, in the United States, is going to feel the rumbling of God’s power as the wells of revival are opened! Look to Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, as well as others to experience God’s power and presence. God is preparing His “firebrands” who will be instruments of stewarding these moves of God; just like Whitfield and Wesley.
Nations
Nations must be discipled and taught of the Lord. The 7 Mountain teaching is one structure that will help the ekklesia do just that. This movement is no longer in the “early adopter” phase, but now in the mid-adopter phase where many people in nations are understanding their role as believers in seeing that their nations are righteous.
New power sources will be released into Europe and the nations of the earth with technologies that will cause many to marvel.
Global Josephs and Daniels
In looking at the world’s powers, we see that the war over nations is also an economic one. For instance, Taiwan is the world’s largest chip manufacturer. Although the sand from Egypt is imported to build the chips, the nation that has the chip production is largely Taiwan. Therefore, it is a critical part of China’s desire to rule the world economically. It was noted that Arizona is becoming an important part of Taiwan’s production of the chip industry. Chips are used in computers, smart-phones, and other technology.
As mentioned earlier about the Josephs, God is anointing Daniels as well, who will work internationally with the cluster anointing to release funds into the Kingdom. Nations, such as Kenya in Africa, will be the recipient of the bounty being released through international entrepreneurs. Look to Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda, and other African nations to begin to move into transformation economically because of the leaders of these nations.
The Josephs and Daniels will be in the lead in East Africa as a great revival will break out in the region again.
The United States
There is already an awakening happening in the United States. Many fires are burning bright, including what is being called “face down glory,” in which people are falling on their faces and weeping before a holy God. Tears water the seeds of harvest. God spoke to us many times from prophets of various nations about powerful moves where the glory of God would be manifested.
The pressure on the Church will increase. Further persecution is coming, but there is a remnant arising with great power. There will be pockets of light even in the political sector and they will be given great power even in the midst of a wicked generation.
The US is going through a reset meant to shake even its very roots, but God has His righteous remnant through the ekklesia who are going to be able to release godly legislation at the state levels. It is now obvious, even as we have been prophesying for many years, that there will be sheep and goat states; or those who will be holy and following God, and those who will be more and more wicked. The economies of the righteous states will grow and grow, but some goat states will be practically bankrupt. However, God has a remnant even in those states and revivals will break out which, over time, can turn these states toward righteousness.
The overturning of Roe v. Wade gave some breathing room to the nation that stayed God’s hand of judgment. However, it also exposed what was in the hearts of many state governments.
Dear Writers
Happy Holidays my fellow readers and writers
Numbers 6:24-26
“The Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.” ’
How to win over Babylonian spirit
I looked up, and was surprised by another vision: four horns! I asked the Messenger-Angel, “And what’s the meaning of this?” He said, “These are the powers that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem abroad.” Then God expanded the vision to include four blacksmiths. I asked, “And what are these all about?” He said, “Since the ‘horns’ scattered Judah so badly that no one had any hope left, these blacksmiths have arrived to combat the horns. They’ll dehorn the godless nations who used their horns to scatter Judah to the four winds.”
Zechariah 1:18-21 MSG
You have to note from our previous post which is the first part of this series and the link is here
We learned that this spirit whether it attacks the family setup, nation, business, or ministry, it aims to scatter and weaken godly institutions.
From the scripture above we see through Zacharia’s vision what was happening in the spirit to address this problem. The four blacksmith-like spirits from God were deployed.
In the natural world, the blacksmith uses fire to smelt iron and other metals to force them to take a shape to the specifications and the design preferred by the blacksmith. So it is but actually better in the spirit, these spirits are superior in strength and loftier than the horns-like spirits which are used by the enemy to scatter the saints.
We see that saints are overwhelmed to the extent that they cannot lift their heads when it comes to the mountains of culture in our nations.
These mountains are but are not limited to media, health, government, finance, business, family, church, science, and technology
The enemy according to Revelation has seats in these mountains and suppresses the saints of God not to lift their heads or not to have a say about bringing the godly cultures into these spheres of influence.
Check this verse
Revelation 17:9
Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.
Revelation 18:4-6
And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her(Babylon) my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues
For her sins have reached heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.
Below I will give you an activation prayer and afterward expect victory.
When God wants to deal with something troubling you, He first judges the spirit behind your misery and when you get your favorable judgment you can then enforce it.
Daniel 7:21-22
21“I was watching, and the same horn was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them,
22 until the Ancient of Days came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom.
Activation prayer
Father, I repent from my dealings and trade with this insidious Babylonian spirit. Since you are calling us out of her, I renounce all covenants and contracts with this spirit in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ.
I agree with the judgment of heaven and the testimony of the blacksmith-like angels you have deployed to deal with this spirit.
Above all, I give all my heart to the Jesus Christ to handle this transition.
Amen and amen
Decommissioning Babylonian Spirit
2 Kings 24:10-12
[10]At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
[11]And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against the city, as his servants were besieging it.
[12]Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon, and the king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, took him, prisoner.
Greetings saints.
As I was studying the word and praying, I found something that the enemy is using against the saints. There is a Babylonian spirit-like attack going on against the saints and the work they are building for the glory of God.
It can be a ministry, business, or even our families.
As I was searching about the history of this term here is what I came across ;
We first discover this region in Genesis 11:2. The context is the tower of Babel. Hence the name Babylon. Following the great war in heaven where Satan and demons tried to set up their kingdom apart from God, this demonic effort continued as godless people wanted to make a great city and great name for themselves, complete with a high tower that reached up to the heavens so they could act like god. God creates a Kingdom, Satan counterfeits with Babel.
Babylon is an ancient nation. But, it is important to note that behind Babylon was the demonic spirit of Babylon. God creates a Kingdom that is called His bride. Satan counterfeits with a kingdom that is called Babylon, the “mother of prostitutes” (Revelation 17:5)
God took time to reveal what this spirit does when it’s deployed in 2 Kings 24 and 25.
The enemy is laying siege-like pressure on believers, and the intention is to put so much pressure that the elect will feel like they are being choked and as a result, they surrender to this devious spirit.
Vs 12… Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon, and the king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, took him, prisoner.
The Aim of this Babylon Like the spirit
√ The intent is to replace the saints (kings and priests) from their offices with their vassals or puppets. These people, when they are enthroned, they secretly bring the Babylonian(Anti-Christ) culture. Remember, it’s about influencing the culture and directing the worship to the enemy, not God.
This spirit presents itself or assumes positions as gatekeepers to the financial systems and demands worship from saints in exchange to access.
Jesus Christ showed us that we don’t need to worship the devil for us to have access to the wealth of nations.
Luke 4:5-7
Then the devil took him up and revealed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment. 6“I will give you the glory of these kingdoms and authority over them,” the devil said, “because they are mine to give to anyone I please.7 I will give it all to you if you will worship me.”
8Jesus replied, “The Scriptures say,
You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.”
For the plan to work, right heirs are dethroned and puppets are appointed.
2 Kings 24:17
Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah
If it’s a ministry the faithful people are replaced with unfaithful and some are put in place without biblical merit or endorsement of the Holy Spirit. The faithful are frustrated with this evil and some leave the church but those who remain are affected and weakened.
√ The enemy intents to take God’s army of believers, those gifted by the Holy Spirit, the talented in worship, administration, etc., and draft them into the Babylonian structures and ranks.
The aim is to leave the body of Christ poorer and enrich the enemy’s camp.
2 Kings 24:14
[14]Also he carried into captivity all Jerusalem: all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land.
When it comes to the family, children are drafted into prostitution, homosexuality, drugs , gang banging, etc.
The father abandons the family morally, spiritually, emotionally, and financially.
The wife takes over as the head by default and though she might stand in the gap the pain and abandonment are felt by the children and even the wife.
When it comes to the church.
The skilled and talented musicians abandon their worship posts and go into the entertainment world.
Those rising to the service of the house of God are mysteriously transferred to other branches with their companies. Some asked to work during church worship times for more money.
God willing, in the next post, we will discuss how to deal with this spirit because God has a judgment for it that we just need to appropriate and break free from it.
Revelation 17:4-6
The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.
And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, AND THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.
Shalom!
DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE
Hello saints as we enter into festive season, I have noted a general slumber in some believers, some actually leave their prayer posts.
On top of the definition of prayer you have, I just want to add another dimension.
Prayer is your declaration of your dependence on God.
The opposite is true, prayerlessness is a declaration of independence from God. Isn’t that a scary disposition with how the enemy is prowling looking for someone to devour?
Acts 17:28
for In him we live and move and have our being
There is no holiday from prayer for a serious believer.
May God protect all those who will be travelling and restrain any bloodshed through accidents and injuries. Amen.
Enjoy your holidays!
Shalom.
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