Prophetic Warning for those Called of God to Minister the Gospel of Christ

This morning I heard the Lord say (and it is for ME as well as any who will read this):

Keep your eyes on me. You have let things of the world distract you. Some are distinctly BAD for you. Some are simply worldly pleasures that on the surface are innocent. But they can take you from me. Create distance you choose, not Me.

Those distractions are not from ME. I didn't send them to you. Some are deceptions of your flesh, some from the world and some from the Devil. Do not assume that they are better or worse because they are just from your flesh. Or the world. Those can be as dangerous as the ones from the devil.

IF they take your eyes away from being doves eyes you will be hurt. And you will hurt others.

And you hurt yourself. And your ministry.

Flesh driven appetites, pleasure, World driven Politics, Economics, Sports, Entertainment (even Internet and TV), and the Devil's lies, half truths, bitterness, anger and temptations are all roadblocks and detours from my purpose for you.

None of these comes with a warning label. You must have the gift I gave you in discerning what is diversion and what is from me.

My desire for you is to finish well. To be what I called and equipped you to be.

Anything less is less than my best.

Watch for the little foxes. They are the most deceiving of all.

I love you too much to keep silent. Will you have ears to hear......?

A Mandate for the Church in 2010

Sometimes people who write or respond to a Facebook post are doing so by the Spirit of God. They are flowing in the Holy Ghost such that what they write overflows from the indwelling. This is such a series of comments and a post that started it all. One of the reasons I have come to appreciate the people with whom I am networked on Facebook is the the depth exhibited by this thread of understanding. I post it here because it matters. We must be challenged to make "Church" real and stop playing around.

From Brian Simmons:
Nothing is more important for a church than to disciple, equip, and release its members into active ministry. In 2010 I encourage you to begin an emphasis called – Discipleship Matters! The place to start is answering this question: What would a fully equipped and ‘discipled believer’ look like?

These profound comments followed:

Scary to the Enemy, Delightful to the King!

Psalm 149: 4For the LORD takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with salvation. 5Let the saints rejoice in this honor and sing for joy on their beds. 6 May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands, 7 to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, 8 to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles with shackles of iron, 9 to carry out the sentence written against them.

This is the glory of ALL his saints.

That spiritual fierceness is a combo of: All the gifts, all the fruits, and the sevenfold Spirit--each emulated, taught on, encouraged, challenged on (exhortations and rebukes), nurtured & developed, and practiced in the context of warning the idle, encouraging the timid, helping the weak, and becoming humbly patient--eek--w/ all, 1 Thess 5.

Clothed in humility but glowing in the dark

A Force to be reckoned with!!!...filled with LOVE...motivated by MERCY...moving in POWER of the Holy Spirit...extending FORGIVENESS.. doing all that is possible to LIFT UP THE POOR in mind , body and spirit...walking in WISDOM and DISCERNMENT...learning and speaking the TRUTH...ministering HEALING...leading the WAY...Being a WORSHIPER and a LOVER of Jesus...simply being the BEST OF THE BEST as we act like our ABBA, our Father God while walking in all humility and grace

I see an army of Jesus People who heal like He healed, live like He lived, threaten the status quo like He did, and are persecuted to the point of death like He was.

I see men and women, young and old realizing that something is terribly wrong with the lives of the average believer; who fall out of love with the world and who cut covenant together to change the world with the power of our ascended savior.

People who stop seeking to save their own lives, but decide that whatever the cost and whatever the consequence - we must pull a generation from Hell; empty the hospitals with the power of God; and raise the banner of holiness to the Lord, in a land where entertainment and worldliness has captivated the hearts of even the best of us.

God is looking for a people who will be committed to that which grieves his heart the most. I am continually convicted by my own lack of commitment and faith. Let the words of a godless communist convict the hearts of believers today. Fidel Castro said: "I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action." Why is it that the godless can so simply change the world, while the Church is left behind in the dust? If only the people of God understood absolute faith and commitment to this extent!

I am so broken to see the Church fully committed to Jesus Christ. We don't need more flash or more of the world. We need total devotion to Jesus. I know that I'm where I should be yet, but I'm going there. I owe Him too much to offer anything less.

Both in the church and in the field - if we lead people to the Lord but leave them to flounder before they know how to 'chew their food', we drop the ball. The unchurched and now the unparented generations in our midst even need retroactive discipleship - more mothers! more fathers! They're so hungry! That and the glimpse of the heart of God for all of us has to be the juice behind our passion to GO

Disciples have been with Jesus. Maybe unschooled, uneducated. Maybe people the world considered foolish (so God could confound the wise). Uncompromising. True disciples will be like their teacher, and they will obviously be different because they've been 'with Jesus.' And disciples will be recognized by their Love. Following the new commandments Jesus gave to fulfill the law. Our hearts in tune with Hìs. Understanding His will as 'He causes our thoughts to be agreeable to Hìs will'... Out of Love and obedience- the power will flow. Probably more than we realize if our eyes and hearts are fixed on Him!

A fully equipped and discipled believer would be "armed and dangerous"- able to turn the world upside down....ready to start a revolution.

Going off line

Heading for Family. I have a conspiracy of Truth to share. Psalm 103. Why we should be thankful. See you after several days.

A prophetic word from New Wineskins regarding the Rust Belt and Detroit

Art is at his best with this:

Detroit. However one pronounces it, the city whose name means ’strait’ in French, (as in, the channel of a river) has become a city of death and decay.

The abandoned corpses, in white body bags with number tags tied to each toe, lie one above the other on steel racks inside a giant freezer in Detroit’s central mortuary, like discarded shoes in the back of a wardrobe.

Some have lain here for years, but in recent months the number of unclaimed bodies has reached a record high. For in this city that once symbolised the American Dream many cannot even afford to bury their dead.

Unburied bodies piling up in the city mortuary — it reached 70 earlier this year— is the latest and perhaps most appalling indignity to be heaped on the people of Detroit. The motor city that once boasted the highest median income and home ownership rate in the US is today in the midst of a long and agonising death spiral. [The number seventy symbolizes perfect spiritual order -- or in this case, the exact opposite: perfectly ghastly decay and disorder.]

The word ’strait’ carries very different connotations from its homologous cousin, ’straight’ (i.e., not crooked). In Hebrew scripture, it is translated from Strong’s H6887, צרר, and pronounced tsä·rar’, meaning:

to bind, be bound, or make narrow; to cause or suffer distress, to besiege; to tie up or shut up; to be scant or cramped; to show hostility toward, to treat with enmity; to vex, or harass

The word that first shows up in 1st Samuel 13:6 (key to establishing meaning):

When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

If we were to hop from Hebrew directly to an Engligh-French mash-up, the verse might read, “…they were in Detroit… distressed…” In the ESV, with the preceding and following verses (i.e., 1st Sam 13:5-7) it reads:

And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven. When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns, and some Hebrews crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

There is much much more to all this, And I recommend you go to his website to read the whole thing. It's pretty earthshaking stuff and worthy of Judgement as you are always supposed to do with the Prophetic.

Fear is the Matrix as in the Movie

Everywhere I look there's fear. Fear of flu, war, natural disaster, economic collapse.

All are true...and false.

True inside the matrix of the world in which we live, True for those who are fearful.

False for those hidden in Christ.

Jesus isn't up late worrying. He's quite at peace. He is the Peace of God....GOD!.

So can you be.

Be. Hidden. Filled. Overflowing. With HIM!

"Fear Not" is still the first thing we must be told when the storm rages.

The Spirit of God just DID.

Follow the Rules written on your Heart by the Pen of God

Don't let those who write the rules put you in bondage: Everything Hitler did, was legal. Everything our Founding Fathers, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, did, was illegal. -- Wayne Dyer.

“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.” Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The only rule for living must line up with the word of God and be written on your heart. Be careful not to comply with that which is legal but ungodly.

Many will convince you that they are the same. They are not. Learn to hear the voice of God saying, NOT everything is Legal, Not everything is illegal.

We need a renewal of the voice of God speaking once again to his people.

Only a Flood will wash away the filth

I see a mess. There are some righteous. But the blood of the innocents cries out from the earth. The tipping point has been reached.

Sin is rampant and increasing. God is about done.

There is evil all around. It is now as it was in the days of Noah...except I think Noah's day wasn't this bad.

God's only answer is to have an ark of his covenant where he is present built in the spirit of true believers. He must protect them. And then he must close the door and seal it.

Only a flood of Judgement along with a revelation of His Spirit can wash away the filth. It will be brutal and loving all at once. Now the book of Revelation and the plagues come to life.

Man has once more fallen to a place where only a flood can wash. The age of Grace for the unbeliever is almost over. Grace was given because of the salvation of Sodom promised. That for 10 righteous he would spare. Some will come, most will not, they will curse God as they die.

We are now at a tipping point. God is not mocked and if you believe it, you are deceived.

I hear the sound of rain falling. Time to get into the ark. A flood is coming.