The Lord Shall Command the Blessing Upon You in Your Storehouse and in All That You Undertake

After my visionary experience on the morning of January 24, 2012 at 3:30AM, I knew we were coming into a great wealth transfer. I believe what I heard and what I saw is revealing. He is getting ready to "command the blessing upon you in your storehouse and in all that you undertake" (Deuteronomy 28:8). Fear has blinded the giver to their inheritance, their portion. God is destroying that fear and removing the scales from our spiritual eyes.

I heard: "I want to destroy the fear to release substance from your storehouse. When I see substance from your storehouse in My storehouse, by command I multiply your substance to return to your storehouse. I must receive substance from your storehouse. I watch over your storehouse. I destroy the enemy of your storehouse, the thief, the devourer..." says the Lord.

Three Storehouses – Your Spiritual Storehouse, Your Natural Storehouse and God's Storehouse

I then began to see these things as I began to write. There are three storehouses: first, your spiritual storehouse; second, your natural storehouse; and third, His storehouse. I saw a spiritual storehouse in Heaven's realm where peoples' offerings were on shelves with their names on them, like tags. They were your actual currency, or gold, or whatever the substance you gave; the offerings were simply lined in a linen cloth, tied with string. They were placed there so that angels would then reference your spiritual storehouse in order to release the multiplication to manifest back into your natural storehouse. Every offering given in faith is always recorded and always rewarded. Just as you give in faith, so you must receive back in faith.

Your spiritual storehouse is filled with "glorified" resources. Your offering is transfigured and multiplied in and by His storehouse and deposited into your spiritual storehouse. I saw in our spiritual storehouse not just currency multiplied; in fact, the packages were bulging, nearly busting, compared to the image of our offerings we gave. It really is a pressed-down, shaken-together, running-over increased return.

There were packages with vials of oil labeled Healing, Wisdom, Invention, Creativity. They were specific anointings returned to our storehouse to produce especially what your currency could not buy. The effect of the oil had a greater multiplication than even currency. I saw the oil applied based on its label and design; it was as though the vials of oil representing healing were transferred to us when we took natural oil like olive oil and placed it on people to see their miracle for healing (James 5:14).

Some packages were labeled or marked as "Redeemed From the Thief"; they had increased seven-fold from the day they were stolen from your earthly storehouse. The label shows the earthly value when they were stolen, the earthly interest, and the seven-fold increase. Everything that was lost or stolen is there multiplied.

I saw some peoples' spiritual storehouses brimming full like a hoarder, because they have never believed that God is a rewarder; therefore, they sowed but never received. Other spiritual storehouses people consistently accessed and manifested what they received by faith. The tithe is the highest offering, then sowing on behalf/into those who deliver revelation from Heaven. The sacrifice of the offering is the plumb line that establishes the value of what is received, hence returned. It is multiplied based on this factor and value of sacrifice.

God Will Liberally Supply Your Every Need

Our Father is getting ready to release out of His treasuries His wealth into your storehouse. Take these verses and begin to declare them over your life, over your storehouse.

Like a wind out of His treasuries His treasures are released... Jeremiah 10:13 When He utters His voice, there is a tumult [a violent or noisy commotion] of waters in the heavens, and He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind out from His treasuries and from His storehouses.

Bring your substance into His storehouse... He will release from His substance to your storehouse... Malachi 3:10 "Bring all the tithes (the whole tenth of your income) into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and prove Me now by it," says the Lord of hosts, "if I will not open the windows of Heaven for you and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."

When the enemy approaches to defeat, the Lord will command His blessing upon your storehouse... He will bless your land, your substance... Deuteronomy 28:7-9 The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. The Lord shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouse and in all that you undertake. And He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. The Lord will establish you as a people holy to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.

Out of our good treasure we sow, we fling forth our treasure to God... Matthew 12:35 The good man from his inner good treasure flings forth good things, and the evil man out of his inner evil storehouse flings forth evil things.

Our giving from our storehouse releases a multiplication from His storehouse in multiplication... Luke 6:38 Give, and [gifts] will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will they pour into [the pouch formed by] the bosom [of your robe and used as a bag]. For with the measure you deal out [with the measure you use when you confer benefits on others], it will be measured back to you.

We are prospering in our soul and expecting our life to prosper as well... 3 John 1:2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in every way and [that your body] may keep well, even as [I know] your soul keeps well and prospers.

Our Father dispenses "full gifts" to the giver... James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect (free, large, full) gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of all [that gives] light, in [the shining of] Whom there can be no variation [rising or setting] or shadow cast by His turning [as in an eclipse].

The Believer knows His God rewards the seeker... Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out].

Our God is liberal in His supply to us... Philippians 4:19 And my God will liberally supply (fill to the full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Mike Tate
Email: miketate@sbcglobal.net

John Mark and Sandy Pool: Purchase Your Field for Kingdom Multiplication!

Matthew 13:44 The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field.

Where you sow is where you will grow! The Lord is saying to us that this is our time to make good on the Kingdom seed deposit from Abraham's covenant purchase!

This is the time in 2012 when you must only obey the Father's voice. We decree in the Name of Jesus you will not be distracted by or listen to any other voice.

This is the time you will receive the funds necessary for the completion and acquisition of your Promised Land. When you are homesteading a property, you must not stop and do not hesitate to purchase the land and occupy the property. Do not underestimate the value and importance of title, deed and property ownership for total possession of the Kingdom land God has promised you.

Do not allow the enemy to cause you to postpone or delay purchasing your Promised Land, as he will try to get you to make excuses for delay, like just paying bills when you know the seed money is in your hands, which you received from releasing all material substance and selling everything for God!

The enemy hates us taking ground and possessing what Father God has promised! We gain the ground when we know our value and identity as God's children.

Sowing a Seed

Father Abraham needed a burial place for the love of his life, Sarah, who was also the "mother of all nations." They had quite a colorful sojourn in the new land God had directed them. God gave them all He promised He would, which included the miracle child, Isaac. However, just before it was the time for Isaac to have his bride, Sarah died. Abraham was living in the "one day Promised Land" for the soon-to-be birthed Jacob, who would one day become Israel.

Notice this account of Abraham purchasing the field, the cave, and the trees of Mamre where he and Sarah had camped when the Lord gave them their promise of their miracle child, Isaac:

Genesis 23:17-20 "So Ephron's field, which was in Machpelah, which faced Mamre, the field and cave which was in it, and all the trees which were in the field, that were within all the confines of its border, were deeded over to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city. After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field at Machpelah facing Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. So the field and the cave that is in it, were deeded over to Abraham for a burial site by the sons of Heth." (Importantly, Mamre in Hebrew means fatness, increase, and multiplication!)

God, no doubt, impressed Abraham to "purchase this field of great price" and not bury God's covenant ancestry in foreign lands or borrowed tombs. This is not only where God poured out the covenant to Abraham and Sarah, but it also is the very field in which Rebekah met Isaac to become the next generation that brought us Jacob – Israel. This was not only a "burial site," this was a memorial to all that God had promised our "father of all nations"; that special field must be deeded into the family of God. It then became a "first fruits" deposit for the Land of Promise where one day King David would assure Israel's conquered land was occupied by God's title deed and covenant dating back to Abraham's seed deposit.

We must know who we are as our Father's children in order to understand the value of our "heirship" for God's Promised Land – a Kingdom He gave us, including all authority in which to take dominion and multiply. You are indeed "royalty," and where you pay the price to sell all you have and purchase your field of great treasure, it will be your Promised Land, and then you can multiply God's Kingdom in earth as it is in Heaven!

God demonstrated this to Adam by planting a garden toward the east in Eden (see Genesis 2:8). Our Father's seed time and harvest covenant process began then. God demonstrated this all through His Word, and even Jesus used this in a parable in Matthew, chapter 13. God wants us to use His promise upon our seed, handed down from the deposit purchased in a foreign land, to one day become our very own Promised Land of the Kingdom of God. You have every covenant promise from the Father to go forth, sell all (commit totally unto Him), and then, with all you are, reproduce in your land in which God plants you.

The Pearl of Great Price

Matthew 13:45-46 Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.

In the end, we will have a new Heaven and a new Earth, yet during our calling here, we must know the value of our seed, the very "pearl of great price," in order to step onto the land of promise and see it become our God's Kingdom, increasing and multiplying seed property. This is the covenant that indeed never stops and produces much fruit for those who know who they are in the Father's plan. You are the pearl of great price to our Father. God wants intimate relationship and fellowship with you because of His great love for us! This intimate relationship demonstrates His heart to increase His Kingdom through His own "priceless" children.

You are His creation, and His Word within you will never end but will succeed (success-seed), accomplishing all God said it will accomplish! Keep taking the authority given to you by God to take your fields, purchasing those with the most costly gift ever, Jesus, and you will be taking dominion now and ushering in the culture of Heaven on earth now! Receive the awesome, God-created, "Pearl of Great Price" title deed completion and revelation of buried treasure in 2012! Now is your time! This is your year of great favor!

Always a voice for God,

John Mark & Sandy Pool
Word to the World Ministries
Email: MarkandSandyPool@aol.com

What I have against the season of Lent as practiced by some:

I have been thinking about what a sin sin consciousness really is. We preach against all kinds of other stinkin thinkin, but we continue to remind people about their sin from the pulpit. YES, sin is a problem, people need to confess, repent, trust God that he made them clean, but there is a spirit about this time of the year in the Church Calender (Lent) where we can go overboard in the flesh and think it is spiritual.

Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? Gal. 3:3

Like the sweet souls who put up the little cross memorials where a loved one died along the road. Balloons, candles, pictures, flowers, notes, solar lights. You have seen them. Yet their loved one is gone. Dead. Probably better off if they knew Jesus as Lord. If not, there is nothing to this other than death consciousness. They are digging up bones. We need to see ourselves as dead to sin. Alive in Christ. Just like that person to whom the memorial was erected. We must get past this in our own lives.

In Colossians 3, Paul said “If you are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”

The deception is, "If I try hard enough, find the right steps, read the right book, hear the right sermon I will conquer this thing" Some people believe this is a "normal" Christian life.

Yet at this time of year, we erect memorials to the sin we were long ago forgiven of and if we have sinned recently the divine pattern is in place, Confession, Repentance and Faith in God. Instant. No remembrance. In the eternity of God, paid for on the cross in FULL. Trust him, tear down those memorials to your sin. You are truly NEW. Nothing remains of your sin. Unless you dig it up once more.

“The Recompense Begins!” (Henry J Falcone, 2012).

Prophetic Alert 2012, 1:
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Beloved of the Lord,

As I came to the office this morning praying in tongues most of the way here, the Lord dropped in my heart the word recompense. Three times He said, "recompense, recompense, recompense" in my spirit.

I usually don't generally write words of this kind. Not because I won't, but because of it is not the "type of communication" that the Lord and I have very often; so please allow the Spirit of God to test and prove these words whether they are from Him or not.

Since I heard it spoken three times within my Spirit, I pondered of what that meant. Here is what I believe I heard from the Holy Spirit. The Lord was about to bring recompense to "His bride to be who are making themselves ready for Him," "then to the Church at large", and "then to the nations of the world. I then proceeded to look up the meaning of the word and there were three distinct definitions that seem to fit each group of people.

The definition of the word recompense means :(to make amends to those who suffered loss or harm; pay or reward someone for an effort; punish or reward someone appropriately for an action according to their doings.)

The first three months of 2012 the Lord is going to begin to bring divine recompense in 3 unique ways and to three unique groups of people. The first is going to come to those "who are making themselves read as a Bride as found in Rev.19:7. (This is the church within a church, the Peter, James and Johns who were separated from the 12 to go up the mount of transfiguration." The second group would be the "church proper" "daughters of Jerusalem as in Song of Solomon. (This would be what we would call the "traditional understanding of church life, going to church, doing a ministry, etc) The third group would be for the nations of the world...


Prophetic Alert: 2012, 2:

To the "church within a church" here is what I believe the recompense will be to those who are making themselves ready. To you, beloveds, the Lord knows how much you have suffered for His name sake. He knows all the relationships that got broken. He knows all the misunderstanding you endured as being "out there," or to spiritually minded and no earthly good.

He has seen the suffering you suffered even in your own homes, the rejection, heartache, the nights that you cried yourself to sleep. He understands how "alone you have often felt" with no one really to give you comfort but the Lord Himself.

He has seen those who have turned away from the lust of things, money, nice houses to follow Him wherever He led you no matter what the cost or the price was to truly know Him.
To you the Lord is bringing the first definition of recompense: "make amends or compensate you for all that you lost unjustly." He is now going to restore to you the years the "locust" has eaten. He is going to give you beauty for ashes. He is going to bring your forth like He did Joseph who was sold to slavery by his brothers.

He is going to bring to you the things that you gave up for His name sake and have you now ready to have the true supply spiritually and naturally for the very brothers who sold you into slavery.

You are now being positioned to be part of the "great deliverer company" that God is bringing to their feet in the nations. The Lord is going to bring you much supply to your hands so you can feed your brothers. When those who opposed you had the last 7 years of plenty you had 7 years of supposed famine and suffering, but now their time of famine has come and will come upon the world, but you will have the "plenty" to feed them. God is restoring all that you lost just as He did with Joseph.

God gave Joseph recompense. He even named his first son Manassah, "The Lord caused me to forget." That is what the Lord is bring to His "own ones," His bride to be. He is bringing your Manassah, so you to will forget the years of heartache because of the goodness of the Lord.

Though your vision and promises tarried and seemed like they would never come, they are now here. Joseph was in prison one day, and the Governor of all Egypt the next, even as God had shown him in his dreams. So it will be with you.

A total place or restoration is coming beginning in the first 3 months of this year. God's favor is going to come in ways you could never believe for you.

Those who persecuted you and did harm to you will begin to see how much God truly loves you and has been working in your life. Many will repent of the cruelty that they caused you by their ignorance and hardness of the heart. Some of the relationships that can be restored will be restored.

Prophetic Alert: 2012, 3:

To the second group, "the church at large who is busy doing his works" yet not pursuing being a bride to the Lord," to you, the Lord is also bringing recompense in 2012. The Lord is going to measure back to you what you have measured to him, if it be good that you will reap good, if it be bad then you will reap the consequences of the bad that was sown. His word says, "whatsoever a man sows, that and that alone will he reap." "To whatever measure a man sows, that and that alone will be measured back to you."

If you have sown to the flesh instead of the spirit, then you will receive even more fully that what must be reaped in the flesh. If you have sown to the spirit, then you will receive even more fully that which you have sown to the spirit. These first three months are "months" of God's measurement. The time where God is trying all mans hearts and motives. It is time where you will be allowed to decide "who is on the Lords' side?"

If you placed the love of money before God, then you will reap and receive recompense accordingly. God spoke of Israel after they asked for meat and weren't satisfied with the manna, "he sent leanness into their souls." This means their ability to know God was diminished. God must honor his word and be just in doing so.

So if you have sown to the flesh and made this world your desire instead of the Kingdom of God, He has no choice but to reward you accordingly. If you don't repent you will see the love for God in you become lean.

Because of this choice, many in the "great body" love for God and one another truly begins to "wax cold" as the word of God says it would. You will see many begin to desert the Lord who they should have remained loyal to. Because of the hardness of their hearts to know Him and His ways, they will begin to speak against the God they said they loved. You will begin to see even more clearly that many "will have a form of godliness, but will deny the power there of."

Yet in the midst of this recompense there is still an opportunity to repent and turn around. As some will begin to say, "What have I done?" What is my life really about?" "Why am I reaping all these things in my life?" They will turn and repent and join the first group and will begin to receive that "definition" of recompense.

To the last group which represents the nations of the world, those who don't know the Lord, God will bring the third recompense to begin manifesting more in the world. More calamities are coming. There will be many more major earthquakes, droughts and flooding.
There will even be new atmospheric conditions that are going to arise in air quality making it harder to breath clean air, and there will be a great shaking in many nations financially that will begin to leave many wondering if the end has come.

Prophetic Alert: 2012, 4:

But not yet, the birth pains are not fully developed yet before the end is to come. Recompense is going to come to nations that oppose God, His will and who oppose Israel. It looks like they now are gaining the upper hand, but God is about to blow on their "man made and demonic intentions."

Some nations are truly going to return to the Lord in earnest... Other nations are going to be known as "godless nations, and others as "God fearing nations." Their God will be the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob through our Lord Jesus Christ. Some nations will receive recompense because of the prayers that have gone up to God. God has heard them and a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit will come to those nations as they have prayed for it.

Other nations have done all they can to remove the "TRUE GOD" from their midst, even to purge out any traces of the "True God" to have their "own god" will experience shaking and great tribulations. These nations will face famine, civil wars, and outbreaks of sickness like never seen before, they will face difficulties that would begin to be known as the judgments of God in their midst.

Their wickedness has reached heaven and is now about full and God is going to bring the recompense to these godless nations. Some in those nations will turn to God find the TRUE GOD, THE IAM THAT IAM. Some will receive visitations and appearing of the Lord in open visions and dreams to gather the remnant in those nations, but the nation itself will be known as "against God" and not "for God. "

This recompense will begin in 2012 in earnest and may continue longer as needed by the Lord. It is going to separate the chaff from the wheat, the fat sheep from the lean sheep, the Truth from the Lie, the Holy from the profane, and it does begin in God's house. Those who have sown to the good and have tried to find the Lord will find Him in this time. God will recompense them according to their hearts desires.

God is going to begin to give people over to their true hearts desires whether to good or to evil. Psalm 81: 8-12 will be the measuring stick of the Lord, "He is going to use in the nations.

8Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you--O Israel, if you would listen to Me! 9There shall no strange god be among you, neither shall you worship any alien god.
10I am the Lord your God, Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it. 11But My people would not hearken to My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

12So I gave them up to their own hearts' lust and let them go after their own stubborn will, that they might follow their own counsels.

This is the "recompense" that is about to truly be seen in 2012 in an even more fuller way. It has already been delivered in seed form, but now the true nature of all things is about to revealed. The day of fire has come to test and critically appraise all things as they really are.

Prophetic Alert: 2012, 5:

So there are three types or recompenses to come:
1. To His "Bride to be" it will be a restoration and a bringing forth of the fullness of the Lord to their lives. What was done in secret will be revealed. A divine placement has been given like Joseph to be ready to care for their brothers and sisters who may have sold them into slavery. God is going to restore the years of suffering to bring forth the years of plenty in your lives.

2. To the "church at large." God is going to recompense according to what you have sown. If you have lived your lives mostly to sow to your fleshly need and desires, then you are going to reap from that same fleshly desires that could even produce a leanness in your souls. There will be a time to repent and turn to God, yet also a time of true reaping of what was sown either for good or for evil.

The Lord will allow you to taste what it means to truly have what you wanted apart from God. This will cause a part of the Body of Christ to truly repent and turn to the lord. It will cause another part of the Body love to wax cold and have a form of godliness and deny the power there of.

Then another part of the Body will begin to desert the Lord that they should have trusted and turn away from them because of the hardships they will face. They will actually blame the Lord as the cause of their problems instead of the sin that they never removed from their hearts.

3. The Last group will be the very nations of the world. God is giving each nation a choice to become a God fearing nation under His power and authority, or a "godless nation" under the full power of the god of this world. In those nations God will bring true recompense and punishment for rejecting Him, yet even in those nations a remnant will turn to find the Lord. God is going to give to each one the beginning of that recompense as the definition says, "punish or reward someone for their actions."

The first three months of the year 2012 you will begin to see these things come to pass in a way that are unmistakable and undeniable that God is truly in our midst and in the affairs of all mankind.

This word is submitted to the Holy Spirit to discern in you on whether this is a Word from the Lord or not. The Bible says, that the "natural man can never understand the "spiritual things of God, because the Spirit of God is not in him. Spiritual things must be discerned by spiritual people who have been Born Again and filled with the Holy Spirit of God.

This is the second Word from the Lord that God has given me for 2012. The first was to His Bride, and this second is to every person, every tribe and nation and His church. Pray over this and allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you concerning these things.

God Bless You all in 2012!
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Henry J Falcone, 2012

You cannot come into your Destiny in God unless you come to HATE your Culture

I heard a word from the Lord the other day. I have been pondering how to share it. Here's what HE said (in my inner man),

"You have allowed the world to mold you, you are a product of your culture, not mine. I recreated you to be formed into my image, not the one you cling to. Shed your culture, shed your old ways, free yourself from the world, the flesh and sin. The culture you honor is the one to which you will be conformed. I have a better plan for you; Transformation in the image....of ME."

It wasn't rebuke. It was encouragement to examine myself and to put off the old for the new. This is a process I have been in for a very long time.

Yet, I have to admit, my cultural roots have potholes, dangers and traps that if I allow them to manifest above the culture of the new creation I was destined to be transformed into, I will never reach the destiny HE planned for me when he redeemed me.

I am culturally northern European, German and Norwegian. I speak pretty good German, and almost no Norwegian. I am white as white can be. I love the culture of my ancestors. I have read, studied, learned from and honored the Germanic heritage I enjoyed when I lived there. Spent more time in Museums, Churches and old castles than you can imagine. I have a family tree (Stambuch) that goes back to the middle 1200s in Estonia (Then a German outpost). The LUTHERAN church my family built 100 years after the reformation (late 1500s) still stands in the little town of Naugard in what was then Pommerania Germany, now Poland. The Pommeranian Christians adopted Luther's teachings more quickly than much of the rest of Germany. I have photos of this. This is a lot of history, culturally and spiritually.

The Farms from my mothers side in Fatland Norway still stand. I have relatives there to this day. My Grandmother came to the USA in the 1900s at the age of 13. One of my distant Norwegian relatives was the Violinist Ole Bull. Looking at his picture reminds me of this connection even to this day.

I can trace back my ancestry even for the last two centuries precisely. I know who I am. I know what my history is. That should make me stronger, right? My family name is a big deal.

Yet in all this there is a trap. I have been informed by my culture who I am supposed to be in the culture (the world), not in Christ. The two are in opposition to one another.

My eyes were opened to this truth last week, my culture can become my enemy. I began to see that it's true for every culture, every historical paradigm, every root. They are good to know so we can be effective in rejecting the chains that bind us to a past that would keep us from our destiny. What we came from can hold us there.

Hispanics have cultural things that keep them in bondage. I work with them. They are great people, but until they are set free from the cultural inhibitions of who they think they are and should be, they cannot reach their potential.

I worked for a while in Japan. Japan has been hard for the Gospel to invade. The issue is the Culture. They are steeped in a cultural framework, much of it good, that makes become a new creation difficult.

Europe is a dead pool spiritually, mostly because of a culture.

Arab cultures informed by the Muslim religion is very hard to break out of. Almost impossible.

In African countries, there IS a willingness to break free from a destructive culture in many cases and the complete changes that take place in people's lives is remarkable.

In China because much of their culture was destroyed in the cultural revolution, the ability to come out into the newness of Christ is easier it seems.

This is much less the case in the USA. The African American, the Black Culture, which has much good about it, has also cultural presses, cultural molds that if as a black man or woman you break out, as you are conformed to the image of Christ, you can find the divergence difficult. The peer pressure will be too much to take. For that reason, changing the culture in the black community has been less than a successful venture. Those things destructive in the culture seem to persist more than they should.

What I find interesting is, I have come to embrace much of what I see and hear as I spend more and more time in the culture. I have come to love Gospel music. I find much else not very uplifting. I love the purity and depth of good preaching and teaching such as I hear from many of my Apostolic friends and associates. I don't hear much of that in the Churches I frequent less and less. I love the LOVE of the people. Accepting. There is much in this that is culturally different from my roots, it IS conformed to the image of Jesus. In my vision, this is what it must have been like to be among the 5000 hearing Jesus speak and engaging in whatever worship existed. Pure. Love. Truth.

YET, the cultural bias that comes with this has the potential to mold people in ways that only perpetuate a lifestyle that destroys it's destiny.

Here's what I believe the Lord is saying in all this. We must come to HATE our culture. Turn our backs on our culture. Not to embrace another worldly culture (which I am in danger of doing) but to press toward our high calling, to come out from among them, to become a holy people, a Royal priesthood, peculiar to the world (culture).

I know who I am, I know where I came from. I don't know if I am wise enough to know what to embrace or reject from those cultural roots. I don't know if anyone is. We must learn to hate that which we think is our culture and become conformed...to HIM.

Anything less is double-minded. OR as John Eckhardt would call it--- Schizophrenic .

Come out from among them..that is your culture.

Kim Clement: This is the Year of the Youth

Throughout Biblical history you will see that God used young people, even children, especially when adults became spiritually redundant and the only progress was to recreate history, or "bring back those good old days." Looking back has its rewards but unfortunately creates feelings of nostalgia and morbidity.

Imagine that you are driving a car up a hill... what happens to the car if you stop halfway up the hill and put the car in neutral? You slide back down the hill, erasing all your progress. No matter how many times you re-run this routine, you get the same result. What it means to be neutral, instead of engaging, is that you either stay in one place or you begin to slide down backwards, in this instance. In order to create a future for yourself and your children, you have to engage, and at times make war in times of peace. In other words, when things are stagnant and there is no progress in sight, someone has to complain and disrupt the mundane with a challenge.

A story that comes to mind from the Bible is the story of the king of Israel who was besieged by Samaria. They were eating the bare minimum, stuck behind walls and in a grip of stagnation. Anything that is stagnant contains death. Elisha the prophet disrupts their stagnancy with a word of hope and life. He claims that they will have an economic revival and breakthrough within 24 hours. This word not only receives criticism, but also a sarcastic remark from a top authority figure.

Nevertheless, someone had to respond, and it took four lepers outside of the gates of the city to decide that enough was enough, and if the prophet said it, let's move toward the promise. They walked toward the camp of the very enemy who was surrounding the Israelites, and as they got there they found that there was an empty camp with food, supplies and riches. The rest is wonderful history. You can't change your present by neutrality, and certainly not stagnancy.

You have to be dissatisfied with your present conditions, surroundings and supply of joy, peace, happiness, etc. before you will really look forward.

So inevitably, God will allow things to run their course and people will become dissatisfied. Suddenly what was once exciting, fresh and tantalizing is now boring and repetitious. You are dull and the self-environment is uninteresting, dim and blunt. You can either sit and complain for as long as you can, or you can CHANGE IT.

Make war with repetition, be at odds with dullness, spit out lukewarm-ness and start a fight with blah, blah, blah. You weren't born to be satisfied with "just enough" to keep you going. Once you've tasted of the better that is to come, YOU NEVER WANT TO GO BACK.

Imagine driving a car forward, while looking in the mirror, hoping that what is behind you will assist your progress.

Positive Velocity

If the velocity of the past is negative, then what you will experience is deceleration – something a young person does not want to experience. Retirement is not in the mind of a young person. They are constantly looking for the fruit of HOPE, in order to be nourished by it, not the seeds of fruit that have been consumed. They want to experience for themselves that they may also observe the invisible, and in so doing begin to create the image (armor, suit of clothing) that fits their makeup and personality.

King Saul of the Bible, the strong, tall adult king of Israel, stood in amazement as David, a young shepherd boy, used a simple stone and sling to destroy Israel's greatest enemy – a Philistine giant named Goliath. Prior to that happening, King Saul had commanded that his suit of armor be placed onto David, but David could not fit it onto his body. It wasn't suitable for this rugged young boy. Saul had lost the prophetic edge being rejected by Samuel the prophet, and therefore a young person had to use his childlike faith to bring excitement and morale back into the nation of Israel.

Samuel

The story of Samuel is as fascinating. He was born during a time of acute spiritual famine and corruption. Eli, the high priest of the day, had lost all connection with God and his entire household was corrupt, causing the people of Israel to sin in the temple and at the altar. The Word of God even says that "there was no open vision" in Israel due to this. Samuel, as a young boy, ministered to the Lord in the presence of Eli, and during that time, the Heaven opened up and God's voice was once again heard clearly. While Samuel lay sleeping in the temple in the presence of Eli, God spoke to him and called his name, "Samuel!" Samuel thought that it was Eli calling him so he ran to Eli and inquired what he wanted. Eli said, "GO BACK to sleep." It's amazing how dull and dim-sighted a religious spirit makes men. Eventually, when Samuel did hear God's voice, what he heard was shocking. God basically informed Samuel, the young boy, that He was going to destroy Eli and his family in order to bring an end to the stagnancy and the spiritual lack in Israel.

You have to destroy every present hindrance before you can move to your next level.

I want to give you a task to do:

Take a pen and write down every hindrance that you can see is stopping you from moving to your next level of freedom, liberty and happiness.

Spirit of Daniel

As prophesied at the beginning of the year, this is the "Year of the Youth," and the year for us to conquer our mountain. Many mountains were conquered because of youth. The mountain of religious corruption and stagnation was conquered by Samuel, in the presence of the corruption – the high priest Eli. The mountain of manipulation, intimidation and fear was conquered by young David in the presence of Goliath and King Saul. The mountain of slavery and bondage was conquered by young Daniel in the presence of the King of Babylon, as Daniel stood surrounded by hungry lions and courageously survived.

The list goes on and on. But what is important for us to understand is that if God revealed to us that He is about to cast a mantle upon the youth, then we must suppose without a doubt that there is deliverance from a certain corruption, stagnation, religious witchcraft and the grip that humanity has found itself in at this present time. We are about to conquer many mountains. What is the mountain that you wish to conquer?

This is your year to do it and this is your time.

Kim Clement
Prophetic Image Expressions
Email: hope@kimclement.com

Jesus IS the Presence of God by Jeffrey Stewart

Is 7:14 “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”

Matt 1:23 “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”–which means, “God with us.”

Immanuel means “God is with us” (Is 7:14)

Immanuel means the Presence of God

Jesus IS the Presence of God

Heaven is Heaven because of My Presence

Heaven is Heaven because of My Son Jesus

Heaven is full of Love, Life, Light, Joy, and Peace, because of My Presence. Jesus is the Love, Life, Light, Joy, and Peace of Heaven

My Presence lives WITHIN YOU

Everything that makes Heaven Heaven lives in your heart, right now

You are the Light of the World because the Light of Heaven, Me, resides within YOU

You are to be Heaven made visible in the earth realm

Heaven becomes visible in you when My Son becomes visible in you

My Son is My Word

As you fill your hearts with My Word by saying it, My Son Jesus becomes more and more visible in your life

What is invisible in your heart becomes visible on your face

What is invisible in your heart becomes audible in your voice

People will begin to see and hear Heaven in you more and more, as you fill your hearts with My Word

My Presence will go wherever you go

There are no sick in Heaven because My Presence is there

In MY Presence, no sickness can stand

You saw My Presence walk the shores of the Galilee in the Gospels. No sick person who came to My Son left sick

In My Presence, no darkness can stand

The enemy cannot abide in Heaven, because My Presence is there

As you fill your hearts with My Word, My Presence in your life will grow to the point that the enemy will flee before you. This is because the enemy cannot abide Heaven, and Heaven will radiate from your heart wherever you go

In My Presence death cannot stand

My Presence showed up at Lazarus’s tomb, and the dead came forth alive

Where you go, My Presence goes

The same one who raised Lazarus from the dead, lives in your heart

Everything Jesus did in the Gospels, He can do, through you

The same one who did all the miracles in the Gospels, lives in you right now

Meditate on that. Renew your mind to that fact

The one who replaced missing limbs, lives in you, now

The one who raised someone dead for four days from the dead, lives in you, now

The one who calmed the storm, lives in you, now

Your creator, for whom NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE, lives in you now

No longer look at YOUR LIMITATIONS when it comes to ministry

The LIMITLESS ONE lives in you, now

Not only does the One who stopped the Sun in the sky in Joshua live in you, the One who MADE the Sun, lives in you

Meditate on that. Let your mind be renewed

There is NO LIMIT to what I can do through any of My Children. This is because I LIVE IN ALL OF MY CHILDREN

Let your mind be renewed to that. Set aside the lies of religion, and step into the reality of what it means to be My Child

Walk in EVERYTHING My Son purchased for you on the Cross

Go forth and change the world in Jesus Name