No one will get out of here alive in this body.. you will be GLORIFIED

Repeated Requests from good friends and pastors who must minister to those who are facing certain death, I offer up the portion of this year's "Word of the Lord" to help those facing the end face it with faith and courage. When you are facing death, most of what we thought mattered will not matter any more.  There will be a recognition of the hopeless worthless materialist things that costs so many everything, even their lives.  For the saint of God... it doesn't have to be this way.  We have a blessed hope.

This is how people can face the pain, the difficulty. The key to overcoming is grasping an ancient yet now forgotten way of death and dying and the solid trust we can have in an everlasting Father.  Our modern culture no longer faces death with the power of the Holy Ghost and a life lived for God.  We see our life as one thing and our purpose in God as another.  Yet, I can make this promise to you; You will not see death until your eternal purpose in the Father is completed.  If you have lost a child or a loved one prematurely, you might question that.  But it's true.. You are immortal in the flesh until then.

The fear of death has created a culture that grasps at life above its value.  How did the martyrs of old face death?  Bravely, welcoming, fearlessly, with joy and hope. How did the ancients as they lay dying pronounce blessing to others and then were laid up with their fathers?  How do those who fight in wars are often killed for the cause they fight for and die with courage?  How did the Apostle Paul or Peter face the executioners?  They knew death was coming but with little fear.  They had a revelation of what happens at death.

Facing the End .. Overcoming the FEAR of DEATH

Satan has caused many saints of God to allow the sting of death to return. He has deceived many into clinging to our mortal meat shells without Godly reason. Yes, we want to live, we can't do much for the Kingdom when we are dead, but we will all die. There is no escape. It is, was and always will be appointed unto man ONCE to die. There is a second death. It is the death of the lost. To the pagan, those lost for eternity, death does and should hold fear. I will not address those things that they fear. There is a way to enter into eternal life. It's visible at nearly every football game. I am more concerned with Christians who fear death needlessly. We need to know with confidence how that last breath happens and means.

What happens when we die? There is great confusion; it's the second time we go thru such radical change. Change is confusing. All change is perceived as loss. Birth was confusing. Darkness to light, Warmth to something new and colder. We cried out. We were confused in this transition. Uncertain. Death has the same effect. As we lie on our deathbed, sometimes we face this with fear, sometimes amazement, a metaphysical roller coaster ride. I understand that as Steve Jobs lay dying, just before he took his last breath, his eyes opened and he said, WOW!. I don't know what that means but I am sure WOW fits. Some withdraw further and further. Sleeping more and more. Recognizing the end and accepting it without struggle. Some do struggle right up till the end in fear. It's understandable.

Yet there is a way to understand death and overcome the fear, the sting, until we can say, “Oh Death where is your sting?”

Is there pain in death? Yes, momentarily. Particularly in a gruesome death. A gunshot, stabbing, bad car accident, execution, torture, a painful death by drowning, suffocation, heart attack or hanging.

Most people imagine they are going to die lying on a bed with friends and family surrounding them. That is not always the case. What of these more difficult unexpected situations of dying in pain. To deny pain is to deny the reality of death. There is however good news, pain is the last ditch effort our flesh fights with to keep us here.

Those who have gone thru this and come back say the pain was momentary, brief, intense and then erased from all memory. Like having a really bad tooth pulled. Pain for a moment and then no more pain. Mortality is not sloughed off easily. This flesh doesn't want to become an empty shell to be buried, burned or eaten by worms. It wants to hold on as long as it can. But like a teenager who becomes such a pain in the neck that a parent is glad when they leave, so too our flesh causes us more and more discomfort as we age until staying in it is no longer acceptable. It's very much the same syndrome and if we must learn to accept it as normal.

Not that there isn't regret and pain in separation from those we love. That's part of it too. Yet to the Christian, it is those loved ones left behind that suffer. Once death happens for the Believer all pain is gone, all memories that would cause grief dissipates. The sentiment is I'll see you soon. An eternal perspective offers that.

If we could grasp the temporary nature in dying we might not enter into it as full of trepidation as we do. Much of the heroics we commit ourselves to in the false hope that we might live forever in our bodies (or longer anyway) are vain attempts to postpone that which will take us all. It's not a sin. Doing battle with disease is part of life. Jesus (the great physician) healed the sick and raised the dead. Yet all died. It's that eventual reality that must be recognized as we step from time into eternity.

We come into a new reality as a believer who dies in Christ. No pain. No grief. No fear. In the next chapter I will tell you what happens right AFTER you die. And what it's really like on the other side of the veil that stands between time and eternity. Most people don't understand this. If we can.. it will change us forever and we will live in victory --fearless and purposed.

It IS Fathers intent for you to know this as he has downloaded this to many prophets who are speaking the same thing right now.  This is why I am so confident in sharing this at this time.

Facing the End - Entering Eternity Fearlessly

Imagine that you are one and then the other of the two thieves on the cross on either side of Jesus as they died.  One mocked him.  Bravado.  Anger.  Pain.  The other appealed to Jesus.  “Remember me” he said.  Jesus assures him thru his anguish, pain of scourging and beatings, pain of torture on a cross designed to make the dying as long and painful as possible.  All three were suffering.

The mocking thief faced his final moments in terror.  Not knowing what would be next.  His last breath was a desperate attempt to forestall the moment of life's termination.

On the other side was the thief that heard the word of the Lord; “TODAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE”.  His last breath was welcomed.  He knew that Jesus, the Creator of the universe opened heaven's welcome center for him.  Fear was gone.  He may have been in pain.. But he entered into eternity with hope.  That is Gods best for his children.  Fear of the sting of death is gone...as we will lay dying He says once more ... “TODAY YOU WILL BE WITH ME”.

So what happens to us right after we die? It's the moment after.  Time has now ceased.  We enter eternity. All pain is gone.  Our carcass is empty.  Body and soul are no longer one.   What do we see or experience? What is that moment like?

What we will experience in Heaven

There are scriptural evidences and testimonies of a some who have witnessed these things to help us grasp what happens.  We can construct what it will be like using clues with Biblical support.

The song we can only imagine, as wonderful as it is, comes short of the mark. We can and if we can grasp the vision, fear dissolves.

The moment the thief Jesus Promised died, all people who die in Christ, the moment you die here's what happens:

There is a shock into well being.  We suddenly feel indescribable peace.  Beyond all understanding.  It's overwhelms us.  We can hardly take it in.  Then there is the unimaginable beauty.  It is a manifestation of the fullness of Jesus beauty. Every color comes so alive that we can taste it.  In fact we will taste colors.  Music is everywhere.  All at once.  Remember this is eternity where everything is now.  So our experience in non linear.  It's all now.  Hard for those of us trapped in time to grasp, but to get a small glimpse of what that might be like, think back to a wonderful childhood memory.  A good one.  Think of it.  All the color, music, joy, fun, and love you felt. Now let that emotion come over you.  You see it not in linear fashion but as one good memory, all at once.  The parts you really enjoyed come back again and again.  That's a bad imitation of what eternity is like.  All at once, but able to be parceled out. 

I hear people ask what kind of music will I hear?  It will be your fullness of joy to experience... whatever fits you will be heard. For some hymns, for some chants, for some choruses, for some classical, for some a gospel song, or even a joyful rap.  It's your eternity and Father will speak to you in the context you understand.  You will grasp that it's all one.  Yet differentiable, yet we will not know of the differences others have.

You will have unspeakable joy.  No remembrances from earth that have contain any regret or pain. The pain you had in life will fit into your understanding and there will be no questions.  The Idea that you are going to ask questions of Jesus when you get there will be needless.  You will have full understanding of all.  You will know who you really are.  There will be no more self doubt.  How you fit in the whole time while on earth will make perfect sense in a supernatural way.  That is why there is no recognized hierarchy in heaven.  One saint is as another.  Fullness and fitly joined together.  This sudden recognition of your place in the universe will take your breath away.

Your capacity for experience will multiply a thousand times or more.  You will experience heaven as if you had 5000 senses instead of 5.  Every color, every sound, every taste, everything you hear, everything you feel, and the fragrance... it will be amazing.  You will understand what a vapid colorless place life on earth was.  You won't regret it...but wish everyone could experience what you are experience.

You will live without confusion. No question. Your only desire will be to worship.  It will all be so clear.  Bowing in worship, raising hands.  Singing.  The Sea of Glass is a desire hidden in the hearts of every person.  We want to be there.  Whatever we do will make all the sense in heaven.  It will be automatic.  You will want to enter into who HE is so completely as to be lost in Him.  You were created for this.  The beauty of Jesus will be revealed again and again. It will be all one, but eternal.  It will never be boring.  Love will be overwhelming.

You will have a form.  A spirit form.  Yet you will look to others as you were remembered.  Known as you were known. Recognized... yet it is your spirit that they see.. the rest is construct.  In fact you are a spirit.  It's hard to explain, but you won't have arms, legs or a head as you know yourself, but to those who see you, you will look as you did to them.  Sometimes someone walks up to you and you don't see him or her, but before looking you know who it is... you sense their spirit man. I know that's hard to understand but think of a child who dies young.  Her daddy is 25 years old.  She will see him thus when he arrives.  His brother who dies at 50 will remember him as about his age and his wife who follows him in death will see that man thru the eyes of love. His mother who bore him and died in childbirth will see him as a young boy.  They will all know him, but all in context and construct.  Its how people who die see grandparents and such waiting for them... as they knew them.

It will not seem an unfamiliar place to be explored.  You will already know all about it.  It will seem normal, someplace you already knew.  In a strange way, heaven was always in your heart. Eternity written on the hearts of man. Ecclesiastes 3:11

You have had glimpses of it.  This is why the idea of reincarnation keeps coming up in false religions.  There is a sense of going back, so people try to explain the origin of all life (JESUS saying let there be) as a reincarnation.  It's not.  But it is a type of returning... Remember, once there, all here is now.  To grasp this scripturally, you are already seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus...yet you are here.  In that way you return to heaven.  Yet you are already there.  It's a paradox.

It is impossible to describe so those who have had a glimpse of Heaven are lost for words. One thing is certain, once you have been there and come back the fear of death, even the fear of the pain of death is gone.

People don't GO to heaven.  They enter heaven.  Heaven is infinite in proximity.  Right here. Right there.  Just there.  It is easier to think of it a long long away somehow out there, but it's here. Not on earth, well kind of.  More on that in the last part.

When people die they step from the cloak of time into the uncloaking of eternity.  We are locked in a box called time and enter into an unlimited vista called NOW..  Eternity.

Facing the End.. Left Behind

The hardest part for those still here after someone steps from time into eternity is the sense of being left behind (there is still pain in loss).  Once our loved ones step from time into eternity they are unaware of us.  They don't forget us, they know who we are, but they are not aware of us once they are in eternity.  They are not part of any cloud of witnesses.  They are oblivious to us after the point of death.  Think about what it would be like for them to be aware of our actions, reactions and rebellions.  They do not become angels. Not even Mary the Mother of Jesus. She is there, but she is not an angel.  I don't want to upset my Catholic friends but the apparitions of Mary are supernatural communications but not Mary.  People saw her because it was a form of communication.  Sometimes perhaps even demonic. Measurement of that must be made in the light of Scripture.  An Angel taking a form acceptable to us can be a way Father uses His messengers to communicate something he can't get done another way.  Look at all the times angel messengers were used and documented to communicate something. It's still happening.

Those people now in heaven don't see or sense us.  They are in glory.  BUT we can sense them.  They can't come to us, there are no ghosts.  We will only go to them.  They can't come to us.  David proclaimed that when his infant son died.  It's a truth we must grasp.

When someone who has lost a loved one says, "It feels like they are still here or I can feel or sense their presence" it's true.  They are just there.. just on the other side of the veil.  A very thin veil.

You can feel it. You sense them. Yet this is not so for them.  They wait for you.  They remember you in the completed tapestry that was their life in time.  But you are now frozen in their memory.  After they die, they don’t see you again.  You can talk, pray and cry out to them, but they are deaf to your cries.  Praying to saints is fruitless.  YET... of your loved ones gone - you can sense the love they had for you and bask in it... as they wait for you to come.  The veil between you and them is very thin and sometimes is breached for a moment.. you to them but not them to you.  They are in Glory and you are still here in the battle.  They are right there... just there, you can almost reach out and touch them on the other side of the veil.  Think of what the transfiguration was like for Moses?  Did he see to our side?

Jesus and all the angels have no problem moving from time into eternity and back again.  There is no confusion for them.  That's how Jesus ascending into heaven and returning seemed to break thru some veil.  I wonder how high it appeared Jesus was when he seemed to disappear?  Fifty feet, a hundred, a thousand?  It seemed as if he entered a cloud and then was gone.  In the same way he came back again.... in a cloud.  The veil appears like a cloud.  Not that it is a cloud.. it is the separation between time and eternity.

Cloud is the only way someone seeing it can describe it.  It's a portal that opens and as angels step thru it looks like stepping into or out of a cloud.

Jesus appears often on earth. Has to many.  He sees us.  He is God.  Your uncle Art is not.  He is now like Jesus in bodily form in heaven, but not God.

Angels are assigned messengers and with messages come from and return to heaven.  Your uncle Art will never be an angel.  Your uncle Art will be one who came into heaven a little higher than the angels yet never assigned to return to earth.  That's for other created beings.

This is also how supernatural provision comes.  Remember the storeroom of heaven is just over there.  Just the other side of the veil.  Very close in proximity.  So when we look to heaven's provision we are able to receive as the veil is breached and those things stored up for us are delivered into our hands.  Sometimes it's manna.  Sometimes it's rain when you need it.  Sometimes it's deliverance.  Sometimes its protection.  Sometimes it's money in a fish.  Those things happen as heaven touches earth for a moment in answer to prayer.

One thing that becomes clear in heaven when the revelation comes of HIS greatness and majesty. The earth, the sun, the moon, the solar system, the galaxies, all the galaxies, all of creation suddenly fade into proper perspective in our sight of the Creator.  Will earth exist...?  Yes but in proper perspective.

All of creation will roll up like a scroll into the proper relationship to her creator.  You won't be in awe of them any more, but in awe of the maker.  There will be very little to cause you to want to be other than in HIS presence... except that HE is everywhere.  If you decide you want to visit Jupiter or Mars (like the old song says) you can think it and be there.  You won't need air or a spaceship.  You won't --- not moving, you'll just be.

All the things you read and memorized from scripture will make sense.  There will be things you were taught or believed here on earth that will seem like nonsense. But that was then.  In eternity the silly things you thought will fall away as the TRUTH takes center stage.. I AM the TRUTH HE said.

Not everyone will make it to heaven.  Will you know if your loved ones are missing and grieve?  No.  There are no tears in heaven.  No grief. No pain.  So from the moment you die till your loved ones appear at heaven's portal you will be unknowing.  It's not a sanitized experience; it's one that provides only for your fit into the whole of eternity.

These things are hard to explain.  The centrality of Jesus is what makes it all hold together (according to Scripture).  He will so overwhelm you with His glory you will not notice so many things that distract on earth.

You can live like this.  You can grasp your eternal nature now.

Epilogue

There is much more to say, but like Paul the Apostle said,


“It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord: I know a man in Christ who fourteen years whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven. And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. Of such a one I will boast; yet of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities. For though I might desire to boast, I will not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above what he sees me to be or hears from me” (2 Corinthians 12:1–6)


I won't tell you how I know all these things, you must measure them all by scripture.  They will prove to be true as they are.

60 TRENDS THAT WILL EMERGE WITH THE RESTORATION OF APOSTLES AND PROPHETS by Apostle John Eckhardt

I have become a willing student of the things that Apostle John Eckhardt Teaches.  He has opened so many things to me over the last few years I have been connected in one way or another to his ministry. So when he writes on this topic, I not only listen and endorse, my heartbeat is to live this out. 

INTRODUCTION:
It is imperative that apostles and prophets come into their appointed positions of leadership in the church. These are governmental gifts that have tremendous authority to execute the plans and purposes of God. In order to do this they must be identified and released.

When apostles and prophets come into their place, the church will experience great blessing. Individuals must begin to walk in these callings with confidence and boldness. They need to know the functions of their offices in order to execute them faithfully. Clarity and understanding of these gifts and callings will help them to walk in them fully. This includes planting, activating, imparting, and demonstrating the kingdom of God.

These gifts need to be confirmed and strengthened. The church will advance and experience great breakthroughs as a result of these gifts coming forth. The saints will experience a new level of perfecting, maturity and release. Fear, ignorance and unbelief will hinder these gifts from coming forth fully. Overcome fear with courage and boldness, overcome ignorance with knowledge and revelation, and overcome unbelief with faith.

Apostolic alignment is important in this hour. We must align ourselves with the apostolic and prophetic movement. The following are 60 trends that I see emerging in the church with the full restoration of apostles and prophets.

1. A greater emphasis of the importance of signs, wonders, and miracles (especially deliverance). This will prevent the church from depending too much on rational, intellectual ways of approaching ministry. (2 Cor.12, Matt.10). Greater demonstrations of the power of God.
(1 Cor.2:4)

2. A greater release of revelation and insight into the mysteries of God. Many portions of scripture will come alive and be relevant for this current move of God. (Eph.3, 1 Cor.4)

3. Continue to expand the vision and outreach of the church in order to break complacency, apathy, and limited vision. This includes expanding into new nations and territories. The release of a pioneering (proton) anointing. (1 Cor.12:28)

4. The raising up of new leaders and ministries, confirming, ordaining, and activating new gifts and callings. This will assure a continual supply of new ministries for the expansion of the kingdom. Increase of emerging apostles and prophets mentored by more seasoned apostles and prophets.(2 Tim.2)

5. Enforcement of biblical standards for leadership including elders (bishops). This will help to stem the tide of immorality and bad character in leadership. Standards concerning marriage, family, and divorce will be once again emphasized as a standard for leadership. (1 Tim.3)

6. Establishing the kingdom into new regions and territories through church planting. This includes the release of apostolic, church planting teams. Raising up of Antioch churches that will have a sending and releasing mentality. (Acts 13)

7. Greater emphasis on spiritual warfare, including binding and loosing. Greater authority over territorial strongholds including principalities and powers. (Matt.16, 18)

8. Release of greater grace to handle increased persecution and suffering of the church worldwide.

9. Release of greater boldness to press forward in spite of suffering, persecution, and increased opposition to the message of the kingdom of God.

10. Release of greater resources for kingdom advancement, including finances and human resources. Greater release of missionaries, both long term and short term for the expansion of the kingdom. This includes kingdom businessmen and marketplace apostles. (Acts 4:34-37)

11. Strengthening of existing churches and confirmation of new churches. This will greatly strengthen the church worldwide. (Acts 14:22, 15:32)

12. Releasing and maintaining an atmosphere of liberty in the churches that will be conducive for the moving of the Holy Spirit and operation of the gifts of the Spirit, including prophecy.
(Acts 15:10)

13. Contending with heresy and doctrinal divisions that keep the church separated and divided. Defending the truth and preventing apostasy from infiltrating the church.

14. Releasing the saints into their individual destinies and purposes. Releasing churches into their corporate destinies and purposes. Activating believers into their callings and empowering them to do the works of Jesus Christ.

15. Releasing the spirit of faith in believers and assemblies for kingdom exploits. Apostles and prophets help us to believe for supernatural breakthroughs. As power ministers they often operate with the gift of faith and release the spirit of faith. They help destroy and overcome the spirits of doubt and unbelief that hinder the saints from operating in faith. Warning the church against the dangers of unbelief. (Acts 13:40-41)

16. Releasing the fear of the Lord for greater reverence and respect for the things of God.
(Acts 5)

17. Greater release of the spirit of prayer and intercession. Increased burden for prayer and intercession. The release of prophetic prayer warriors for regions and territories. Restoration of all night prayer, city wide prayer, watch of the Lord, and corporate prayer. (1 Tim.2)

18. Encouragement of fasting that releases humility and greater grace. (2 Cor.11:27)

19. Encouragement of individuals and churches to embrace a global vision and sending mentality. (Acts 13:47)

20. Emphasis on foundational and important truth that establishes believers in the faith and prepares them to go to perfection (maturity). Rejection of teachings and any emphasis that are not important and do not matter. Bring re-definition to terms and doctrines that have been taught erroneously.

21. Encourage the baptism of the Holy Spirit as the doorway into the supernatural realm and Spirit filled living. Emphasize the importance of utterance including tongues and prophecy, along with impartation and release of these things through the laying on of hands. (Acts 2, 8, 10, 19)

22. Upgrade of churches and regions into present truth. (Acts 19)

23. Creation of new wineskins to receive the new wine that is being released from heaven. Renewing of old wineskins including denominational structures and churches. (Mark 2:22)

24. Bringing reformation and change. Establishing and releasing new models for ministry.
(Heb. 9:10)

25. Helping the churches transition into new moves and patterns for ministry. Apostles are raised up during times of transition. (Joshua.1)

26. Help interpret new moves and validate them scripturally. (Acts 2)

27. Changing and shifting spiritual climates over regions and territories causing a new receptivity to the gospel and the things of the Holy Spirit.

28. Relieving and helping the poor, orphans, and widows. A greater release of good works. (Acts 11, Titus 3:8)

29. A greater release of angelic activity through worship. prayer, and utterances (Including apostolic decrees and prophetic declarations). (Acts 12:5-7)

30. Redigging old wells. Re-establishment and restoration of truth that has been neglected or underemphasized.(Gen.26:18)

31. Greater release of judgments against immorality and sin both within the church and society. Pronouncement of judgment upon wicked rulers, governments, wicked religious, economic, and political systems. (Acts 12:23, 13:6-13)

32. Release of greater peace and grace in churches, especially persecuted and suffering churches. (Eph.1:2)

33. Release of greater favor for churches with local governments. (Acts 2:47)

34. Greater multiplication and church growth through evangelism and discipleship. (Acts 6:1,7)

35. Pulling down of strongholds and ideologies including humanism that have kept people from receiving the truth. (2 Cor.10:4)

36. Greater acceleration of the purposes of God worldwide including the fulfillment of bible prophecies and prophetic utterances. (Jer.1:12)

37.Greater manifestation of God’s glory in the church including the manifest presence of God and the restoration of the tabernacle of David. (Acts 15, 2 Cor.3:8).

38. Greater release of the prophetic, including personal prophecy, corporate prophecy, prophetic teams and companies, prophets, prophetic worship, arts, dance, banners, and prophetic teaching and preaching. Apostles will encourage the prophetic in local churches and regions. (1 Cor.14)

39. Greater clarity and understanding of the purposes of God including the Great Commission. (Isa.14:24-27, Matt.28:19-20)

40. Greater unity and cooperation between leaders and ministries in localities.(Eph.4:3)

41. Greater release of women and minorities into ministry and authority. Destruction of spirits of racism and sexism in the church. Smaller nations and people groups being released into their destinies and redemptive purposes. (Acts 2)

42. Greater release of small groups through cell structure releasing more believers to share their gifts with the body. (Acts 2:46)

43. Greater testimony released in the earth including martyrdom.(Rev.12:11)

44. Greater impact and breakthrough into Jewish and Muslim people and those who have been historically resistant to the gospel. Historical and generation rebellion will be confronted by apostolic leaders. (Acts 7:51)

45. Greater breakthroughs into media for the promotion of the gospel, including Hollywood.

46. Greater manifestation of demons, hardness of heart as the demonic realm reacts to the advancement of the church and increased breakthrough. (Acts 16)

47. Restoration of proper government in the church including the restoration of governing presbyteries of apostles, prophets, and teachers. Challenging false government including congregational and episcopal control. (1 Cor.12:28)

48. Greater emphasis on holiness and righteousness in the church. This will help stem the tide of worldliness and carnality. (1 Thess.4:1-7)

49. Greater impartation through the laying on of hands and prophecy. This will accelerate people into their callings and giftings. (Rom.1:11; 1 Tim.4:14; 2 Tim.1:6).

50. Greater unity and team ministry. This will be especially true of apostles and prophets working together to build, plant and breakthrough. Greater understanding of these gifts will help believers walk in them accurately and bring greater blessing to the church. The result will be the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry and the edifying of the body of Christ as all five ministries are released and work together. (Eph. 4:11).

51. Establishment and recognition of spiritual gatekeepers and gateway churches that operate in apostolic authority in cities, regions and territories. (Lam.5:14)

52. Increase of knowledge and breaking of spiritual ignorance and darkness including superstition and idolatry. (Dan.12:4)

53. Greater breakthroughs in inner cities and areas that have been neglected and abandoned. (Isa.54:3)

54. Greater emphasis on justice and righteousness in society. Dealing with unfairness, inequality, racism, and discrimination. (Isa.56:1, Isa.59:4)

55. Greater emphasis on outreach, street ministry, prayer walking. Greater visibility outside of the four walls of the church. (Acts 5:15)

56. Greater encouragement to sell all and forsake all for the sake of the kingdom. More radical conversions and commitment from the saints. (Matt.19:27)

57. Greater release of youth and children in salvation, gifts of the Spirit, and ministry.(Isa.44:3)

58. Greater release of apostles and prophets and more ministers step into these callings being inspired to move into these gifts because of others who have preceded them. The fear and unbelief that have prevented many from walking in these callings will be overcome. The restoration of these gifts means that an abundance of these gifts will be seen in the church as it advances the Kingdom. Multiplied thousands will come forth in different cities regions and nations. (Deut.1:11)

59. The church will begin to contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints. (Jude 1:3)

60. Continuous revival and refreshing released to the church (Acts 3:19). This is a result of repentance that comes from the conviction of the Holy Spirit (Acts 3:20). Restoration of all that have been spoken by the prophets. (Acts 3:21)

Do you feel Invisible? By Lance Wallnau

  Do you ever get the feeling that you have been overlooked? Or worse yet, like you are invisible?

I once had a women in Detroit stand with a group of others because I called out a certain need and they all came up on the platform. I ministered to all of them but completely missed one women. I caught it as she was leaving and said "its like you were invisible" and she said "it's been that way my whole life." I broke that off of her right there.

Some of you don't feel deserving of being seen and make yourself invisible. You know which ones you are. This is the Word for you:STOP THAT! God wants you to be seen so you can be heard and He can be glorified.

Of course there is the other scenario also….One of the devil's choice weapons in his arsenal against emerging leaders is the subtle suggestion that serving another person is somehow producing a second fiddle destiny on your life. He will say that serving another is robbing you of your own opportunity to shine. Now there may be a time when you need to stand alone, but typically this follows a period of character formation serving another.

This voice comes and says “you need to make your own mark, get out of their shadow and do what God called YOU to do.” As if heaven gives higher rewards to people who run their own enterprise.

Here’s a judgment seat ALERT- you are not more rewarded by being number #1. You are rewarded for faithfulness in service, not ranking in authority. A person called to be a number #2 on a team who insists on being number #1 on their own will diminish or perhaps entirely forfeit their reward.

Jesus said: "...if you have not been faithful in that which is ANOTHER MANS, who shall give you that which is your own?" (Luke 16:12)

I sometimes wonder if the blessing God wants to bring on entrepreneurs is short circuited by the fact that some people are self employed only because they cannot endure working for someone else’s success. (Heck, for all I know there may be Pastors who split or plant independent churches for the same reason.)

The question is this – have you ever, EVER, EVER... labored exclusively for someone else’s success? If you cannot point to any such time, I suggest you force yourself to do so for a season- NOW. If you are a businessperson, ask God to show you a ministry in your church you can serve with all your might. If you are a Pastor do this with some person on your staff. Just go animal on unselfish mentoring.

The truth is that "favor" is a bank account and your obedience to help someone else's success is not lost. In the economy of heaven this sort of seed is sown directly into your future success.

There is something so very powerful when we realize that GOD SEES IN SECRET and rewards openly. Serving another for their sake and not ours is an action so sacred it falls into a special category. Whatsoever ye do, do heartily as unto the Lord and He that sees in secret will rewards you openly. Be willing to do what you do - for His eyes only and He will open the right peoples eyes to you.

It’s a shame we overuse this saying “doing it unto the Lord” because it is such a powerful concept: "Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, KNOWING (being certain, aware, convinced) that FROM THE LORD YOU WILL RECEIVE ..
..you WILL receive…
..YOU will receive...
the REWARD of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.…” (Col 3:23)

The result? God will “give you that which is your own,”

This is the story of all Daniel's and Joseph's (as well as Josephine's) and David's as we enter into 2014! You don't forfeit anything by making another shine.

Be invisible when God desires and the invisible God will PROMOTE YOU OPENLY in your season!

pass it on!
Lance

JANUARY PROPHETIC WATCH WORD “WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME?” By Lance Wallnau

WARNING: I sense the enemy is going to try to rob many of you of your rendevoux with breakthrough and want to harm you!

(READ prophecy at end of post)

“ALTER THE ALTAR AND BREAK THE CURSE”
This is a true story about a young man who altered his home, family business and his career by defying a demonic spirit and building a family altar.

He was a good man who loved God and worked hard, but every time his harvest was due, a demonic spirit of strife would come and rip off not only him but also his entire household. God actually SENT AN ANGEL to address this problem, by using frustration to drive the young man to prayer where he lodged his complaint. The Lord told the youth that God was with him and this man would change the nation with just a HANDFUL (a remnant) - rallying them "as one man!"

THIS MAY BE YOU!
This is the story of Gideon in Judges 6. His nation and family suffered severely 7 years because of idolatry toward Baal. He tore down a family Baal altar (his fathers altar) and built IN ITS PLACE AN ALTAR TO THE LORD and sacrificed a bull on it. This started a cycle of deliverance in others.

“…the LORD said to him, "Take YOUR FATHER'S bull and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father…. and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold in an orderly manner, and take a second bull and offer it … (Judges 6:26)

The men of the city were mad. Manifesting a spirit when they saw the altar turned down. BUT this wasn’t them - it was the dispossessed Baal spirit working thru them. The devil will attack you thru people when he is under attack thru your obedience. So…. “Then the men of the city said to Joash, "Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has torn down the altar of Baal…

(WATCH HOW HIS FATHER IS NOW FREE!)

"But Joash said to all who stood against him, "Will you contend for Baal, or will you deliver him? Whoever will plead for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has torn down his altar."

Wow! Once Gideon tore down the family stronghold and built an altar in its place, the older living generation got delivered and actually DEFENDED the son.

This is FAMILY level strategic warfare – the most powerful and fundamental level of engagement.

WHAT WAS DISCOVERED in all this?
The blessing breakdown has nothing to do with you- but YOU are the one GOD ANOINTED to FIX IT! Where there is generational sin further back stream there is a stronghold set up further down stream. This stronghold authorizes a demon to come in thru cycles in the life of the family - and steal and destroy.

It will require someone to STOP IT! ONE member needs to rise up and do what SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE EARLIER, and break down the agreement established with hell.

SO WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO YOU?
Don’t be surprised if you, the innocent, get drafted into the battle. Bear with me…..What if the sins of the Fathers has consequences hitting the sons of the Fathers? (daughters too) What if the Midians are familiar (or familial) spirits sent to enforce a curse in your house and you are the next target?

Sweet little you? YES!

What if theft or idolatry in the bloodline manifests in a cycle that seeks to rip you off? Could be a divorce or violence or poverty or whatever. And you didn’t do anything to deserve it?!?! Why is this trying to get on you? It was supposed to be your harvest time!

Maybe God has a bigger harvest in mind.

AN OPPORTUNITY is getting SET UP for you. For years Gideon's household was getting ROBBED BY MIDIANS RIGHT AT THE TIME OF HARVEST!

But think about it. Gideon was the WRONG GUY to rip off. He became the champion who broke the cycle of iniquity and idolatry (an idol is anything loved more than obedience to God) and in the very place of the sins of the fathers, RIGHT THERE he built an altar and altered a nation. If he had been skipped over and protected from harm that spirit would have seized the harvest of all his neighbors and continued to the next generation after. By touching Gideon - he became the deliver who cast it out.

TURN THE ATTACK INTO A PLACE OF BLESSING!
Gideon built the altar and made an offering out of one of the bulls…a part of the family business. In return the family was set free, the locals were set free and the nation was set free. The “Midianites” who kept steeling were driven back by a remnant – a small but powerful group who REFUSED TO THINK LIKE UNDERDOGS OR VICTIMS!

May each of us have the presence of mind to remember at the moment of the CONTRADICTION that God is not playing games with us. He is FOR US and if something shows up to rip you off in 2014, you have authority to REVERSE THE CURSE and ALTAR that situation. Do so and you'll get an authority upgrade and an anointing to lead others at a whole new level.

Midnight Watch: PROPHETIC WORD!

“I SENSE the Lord saying, Surely I will be WITH YOU, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man! For there is a line drawn in time and you are stepping over the dividing of times in your generation. I bring you UP another level so that you can DRIVE OUT another level. That which laid claim upon your house and your inheritance in times past is about to be shattered. It will not get past you into the next generation for in meeting YOU it meets ME.”

“You are entering an hour when they that KNOW their God shall be STRONG and do exploits. It is not truth alone but the TRUTH YOU KNOW that sets you free! Therefore know that I AM FOR YOU. Do not believe every spirit but TEST the spirits, whether they be of God. I am with you for good and not bad. As you set yourselves in agreement with heaven the angelic hosts will surround and all that pertains to Zion, even the HOUSE THE LORD BUILDS (including you and your house as well!) I am building my church for the Last Days. It is not an Arc or an exit but a dwelling place of living stones called together as a habitation of God in the earth. A Tabernacle of David where you can enquire of Me in the place of worship - and find Me.

"For I am giving you access to blueprints in your battle- songs in the night- revelation in the contradiction of your circumstance, even access to my counsel in the place of contention. You will build a "thin place" for intimacy with Me in this hour. For I am building MY Church, My ecclesia in the earth, and you will come together "as one man" - not as separate, but AS ONE, and the Lord shall MULTIPLY your strength beyond your size, and so shall you overcome and occupy the land I give to you. Even a land of giants.”

P.S. "Mideans" - the Hebrew Root Word means
"brawling, contention and STRIFE." The Mideanites create "strife" and discord.

But "the God of peace" has plans to crush Satan underfoot.

A Dead Dog Can't Bark

Many prophetic voices are pointing to the times and seasons as harbingers of the end times.  Others are warning of the collapse of our society.  Some are advising people to store up in barns money, gold, sliver and goods for a season of great difficulty.  Some advise becoming well armed to defend one's self against the imminent time of the end.

The dispensationalist are looking for an easy out.  The rapture that will save all true believers.  Those nasty pagans will just have to endure the tribulation and the oppression of the Anti Christ.  If ONLY they had listened to "us" (much wiser and more alert then they) they would have been sucked up to heaven and not left here to writhe in pain from the sting of scorpions or some such.  Sure I saw all the Holy Horror movies back in the 80s.

Now we have a new one coming out.  Isn't it interesting that godless Hollywood is now desperately preaching the exact same deception that has paralyzed the body of Christ.

Only truth sets people free.  But truth can only be conveyed by living witnesses.  People can't be saved unless there are examples of the fruit of being saved in crisis situations.    That is witness.  You don't witness by sharing a half dozen or so spiritual laws, you witness by being Jesus in flesh here and now in plain view of the world.  IF however you are gone, raptured, dead, whatever, you aren't much value to the kingdom of God on earth. 

It is this illusion, this great deception that must be confronted by the True Prophets of God.  Father needs every saint on the planet to be there to help the lost and desperate souls find truth, Jesus.  It's not going to happen in churches.   When the collapse comes (yes one IS coming) churches will cease to function.  Informal small fellowships of those who need peace will be all there is.  These organic cellular pods will become the only body of Christ manifesting on the earth and it will be more powerful by a magnitude of ten then all the Churches and so called Christian TV on the planet today have been able to effect in their efforts.  Sure there will be larger gatherings.  These small pods will assemble from time to time, sometimes they might even USE a church building sometimes (now empty).

I am called as a prophet to warn and encourage Christians to prepare themselves for this day.  Become spiritually grounded.  Allow the Five Fold to equip YOU for the work of the Ministry. Learn to build community.  Connect with your neighbors.  When it all goes dark they will be all you have and you must be light for them.  Forget about escape.  It's a myth.  Begin now to prepare for the end with courage and looking for a new beginning.  IF you die, you die in Christ, but your true destiny is to be a voice and a witness that draws people into the Kingdom.  The Kingdom of God expands on earth as it is made up of living souls redeemed from sin and destruction.   You can't do that if you are dead.  Or raptured.

Prepare to face the end and usher in the new beginning of what will in fact be the greatest expansion of the Kingdom of God ever seen on planet earth. 

Bob Jones: The Coming Promise And Peacemakers Will Fully "Bloom" By Spring

Vision of the Apple Tree
While in a time of praise, Bob saw an apple tree in full bloom. As he prayed for understanding the Lord revealed to him that many people have been in the bud. They have been waiting on promises that go back many, many years.
Now the Lord is saying that before the apple tree blooms this spring, their buds shall bloom. Although some of them are ancient promises they will bloom in the spring before the apple tree does and they will begin producing the fruit of righteousness.

Peacemakers Bloom
In the fruit of the spirit of prophecy, the apple represents peace. Therefore, this means that a lot of peacemakers shall bloom or come into their divine calling by this spring and they will bring forth the fruit that God has called them to bear. So get ready for the peacemakers to come forth with the fruit of God and reveal the Son of Peace to the world.
The peacemakers that are coming forth in this next season are those who can make peace between the human soul and the Father. As they reveal the Father's love to the human soul, it will bring stability to the Body in every way. Through the administration of these peacemakers, first and foremost, they will bring man's soul into the place where it can enter into the peace of God. And this peace is beyond all human understanding. They will also enter into the love of God, which will create the fruit that He wants produced in the Body now. This is literally the beginning of the fruit that's needed for harvest.
And God's peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7
Peace beyond understanding is what God is offering us. Unfortunately much of the Body has seen the Father from a wrong perspective. They see Him as the cruel master and judge instead of being the God of love and justice. Ninety-five percent of the Body of Christ thinks the Father is the judge that is squashing them all the time. They accuse the Father of bringing calamity and traumatic situations where in fact it is satan.
The Father simply removes His hand where He is no longer welcome. But now we will begin to see Him as He really is; LOVE and love beyond any expectation of love. When we have peace with the Father then the bloom will begin to turn into fruit. And this fruit will begin to come forth this year yielding more next year and even more the following year.

Armory of God's LOVE

The Lord has opened His armory, and has brought out the weapons of His indignation; For this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. Jeremiah 50:25
God is arming the Body of Christ with weapons of His divine love that the enemy has no defense against. We'll begin to see the army of God come together in unity, a common union, to where the enemy will have to leave entire cities. This army is getting ready to take entire cities and eventually entire states. In certain places in the world, they'll take entire nations.
This is the year the army of God comes together with angels beyond number and weapons that cannot be defeated by the enemy. Angels are here now preparing the Body for the harvest and there will be a mighty victory. This year, even the blooming of the trees is something that satan can't stop from happening.

Vision of God's Armory

In a vision Bob was shown the armory of God that is now open and the Father is releasing weapons of warfare that has never been available to man before. In this vision there were weapons put into my hands that terrorized me to even touch them. There's nothing in the entire world that can withstand what the Father is bringing out of His armory. Some of the first things He will deal with are in Jeremiah 51. In fact the first thing He'll deal with is the Church that's been withstanding Him.

Jeremiah 51:20-25:

You [Cyrus of Persia, soon to conquer Babylon] are My battle-ax or maul and weapon of war--for with you I break nations in pieces, with you I destroy kingdoms, with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider, with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer, with you I break in pieces man and woman, with you I break in pieces old man and youth, with you I break in pieces young man and maiden, with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock, with you I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen, and with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.
And I will [completely] repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all the evil that they have done in Zion--before your very eyes [I will do it], says the Lord. Behold, I am against you, says the Lord, O destroying mountain [which is burning out, you who will be as barren and desolate as an extinct volcano], you who [would] destroy the whole earth. I will stretch out My hand over and against you and roll you down from the [burnt] crags and will make you a burnt-out mountain [of combustive fires].

Ministry of the Peacemakers
What He's doing right now in the Church is uniting whosoever will with one another. Because these weapons that are being released cannot be handled by one person. It will take teams to handle them and usually teams consist of about twelve people. These teams will be united with one purpose in mind and when they go to war they will make decrees and declarations according to the heart of the Father. These decrees will be established according to the will of the Father (Job 22:28).

You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light [of God's favor] shall shine upon your ways.

This is what I see; the blooming of the apple tree will be our blooming in the spirit and worshipping the Father in spirit and in truth. It's our human soul making peace by the knowledge of the Truth. It's bringing the soul in submission to the spirit and allowing the spirit man to be in control of our conscience (actions, deeds and thoughts). Then the Body will understand the Father's divine nature – love. He loves you! Scripture plainly shows that God loves us; it's His nature because He is LOVE (1 John 4:8). The peacemakers' entire nature will be characterized by His love and love will be the fruit they bear.
Now come the peacemakers and they make peace with God and with man. They show the Father's nature, LOVE! The love of the Father is all authority to His sons and daughters. I don't know how fast the fruit is going to mature after they bloom. But I do know that by the middle of May the blooms will be over and the fruit will begin. And from what I see, this fall will be awesome.
Bob and Bonnie Jones
The Prophetic Ministry of Bob and Bonnie Jones
Website: bobjones.org

The Danger of Accepting Premillennial Theology - The truth about the lie of the rapture

If you are trapped or confused by the rapture, you need to see this. It IS 24 minutes long but you will begin to see how we have become enslaved as Christians by a defeated theology... one I oppose.

The Rapture: History and Influence in America from Derrick Sims.
This short documentary was created as a final for a masters of theology class. Make sure to watch through the end, the most powerful part of the entire picture.