Purification of the Prophetic

I have seen a coming cleansing. Father is about to purify the Prophets and the Prophetic.

No more show. Names will be brought to ruin.

Many who are pretenders, who have used words loosely, who have not been faithful, who prophesy for lucre will be exposed. Those using mental exercise instead of discernment will be brought down.

Many who have at one time made a name for themselves as platform prophets on tour will be set down or brought up to new levels. It all has to do with the purity of the call. God will not be mocked. Many have taken the name of the Lord in vain.

That is the word of the Lord.

On a personal note: As I heard this warning from the Throne, I begged, Lord keep me pure. Don't let your Holy Spirit depart from me. When I hear a word of warning like this I always imagine it's about me FIRST. So many trusted prophets I KNOW are not included in this. I do know this, you are about to hear and see God's hand of discipline and adjustment on the prophetic in the next several months.

The gift is not me, (or you), we are the gift wrapping, the box. The gift is inside. Thinking you deserve praise for being the box is warped thinking.

Thankful - From the City of our GOD

GIVE THANKS..with a Grateful Heart. Give thanks to the Holy One-

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

Ungratefulness stays the hand of God in our lives, Thankfulness releases the blessings of God in our lives. It's not just a good idea:

The people of Israel lost perspective and became unthankful Judges 6
When they cried out to the Lord because of Midian, 8 the Lord sent a prophet to the Israelites. He said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of slavery in Egypt. 9 I rescued you from the Egyptians and from all who oppressed you. I drove out your enemies and gave you their land. 10 I told you, ‘I am the Lord your God. You must not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you now live.’ But you have not listened to me.”

BUT GOD.. delivered them all from the hands of their enemies. You can read about it.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. ... Psalm 46

In the last 24 hours my Buick blew up, and I don't have a car anymore. My sister just broke her leg in several places and is now in a wheelchair and a friend has very bad cancer discovered.

YET...there is a river...that makes GLAD--the HOLY habitation of our GOD...that's YOU, ME

Thank You Jesus

The Grave Consequences of Being Unthankful

Recently I read about how 25% of all U.S. women suffer from some form of depression, and that more than 12 million women will suffer some form of clinical depression in their lifetime.

There is an epidemic of pessimism, anxiety and hopelessness that has erupted in the United States and beyond. This is par for the course for any sociological system that is not built upon being thankful to our Creator. Romans 1:21 teaches that being unthankful is the cornerstone sin of all other sins, with a trajectory that leads to covetousness, worshipping creatures more than God, all sexual sins including homosexuality, and pride, gossip and all kinds of malice that eventually lead to full-scale rebellion against God (Romans 1:21-33)!

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The Grave Consequences of Being Unthankful

The Foolish things to Confound the Wise: a word from ElaineTavolacci

As I was walking out of the store yesterday I heard a loud truck horn. I thought that a huge semitrailer truck was coming down the street but when I turned to look, I noticed that this blasting horn sound was coming from a small SUV truck. Then I realized that the man put that loud horn in his small truck. I remembered the time when I was a teenager, and my friend put one of those horn's in his small sports car. As I looked back at this small truck the Lord said; Don't judge anything or anyone from what you perceive or see in the natural.

The Lord says, I have created men and women and I have called, anointed and appointed those to be My mouthpieces for this time and season. This is the day that I am taking those who seem to be small and insignificant in the eyes of the world and raising them up to become My representatives, those who will trumpet My Voice, resound the words that I give them, and release my glory to a dry and thirsty land. They will speak as My voice with a mighty roar that will shake the nations. They will trumpet My voice and prophesy My word. They are those who know their authority and they have been chosen to change atmospheres. They are able to relate to all walks of life, because many of them have been delivered from a life of hardship. They will bring hope to the destitute, bring comfort to the lonely, heal the brokenhearted and ignite the flame again to those that have given up on their dreams.

Don't judge them by their outward appearance. Those that may seem small in the eyes of men will come forth with My anointing upon them and they will become as another man or woman. Don't despise those that have come out of the pit. Welcome those that I have delivered, transformed, and set free because I desire to use them mightily. I will raise up those whom I choose. Those that have been released from chains will be given the keys to unlock the chains of others.

They will do no more than what was assigned to them, neither will they be less than who they were called to be because their hearts will be aligned with My will. I will raise up those that are the least of them and make them mouthpieces resonating My word to the ends of the earth. They will know their assignment and minister in the authority that I have given them. So be watchful and pray for them as this divine shift transforms into a magnificent reality says the Lord.

1 Samuel 10:6

Then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.

1 Corinthians 1:27

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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What we DO know for SURE is SUBSTANCE - What we DON'T know for SURE is HOPE

Faith is blessed assurance.

Hebrews 11:1 --faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Faith creates concreteness in things we KNOW for SURE and firms our hopes. There are essentials of the Faith that we all agree with or we miss God.

I Know for SURE:

• That Jesus Loves me this I know...for the Bible tells me so
• That my Redeemer lives
• That He paid the FULL price for my sins, I can do nothing in myself to atone for my sin
  
• That He will come again in glory
• That He ever lives to do me good for HIS name's sake
• That Sin Distances me from GOD but doesn't condemn me to hell as a Christian
• That God is a Spirit, and Jesus is God in Flesh and that Holy Spirit is His presence in me
• That He is ever faithful, never turns His back on me, never rejects me, always calls to me
• That nothing can ever separate me from Him, not height, depth nor any thing
• That I will dwell with Him in eternity when my time ends

What I DON'T know for sure.....(and neither does anyone else). These non essentials of the faith are those that cause great division. Tools of the devil:

• IF there is a rapture or not
• IF we go directly to heaven or hell when we die, or sleep, or face a judgment first
  
• IF we know what heaven or hell is really like, we have clues, that's all
  
• IF we will go thru the tribulation
• IF there even is going to be a tribulation
• IF the mark of the beast is an actual mark or something else (like our flesh)
• IF the Anti Christ is a spirit, a man, many men, many women or what he or she is or isn't
• IF Jesus showed up in 70AD at the fall of Jerusalem. I wasn't there and neither were you.
• IF the Beast is the pope, or Islam, or something not yet known
• IF Mary is special or not, or just another lost sinner needing a savior
  
• IF Jesus really is manifested in communion or not
• IF Jesus will come with an army of saints on a white horse
• IF The Kingdom of GOD is now, soon, never or eventually
  
• IF the news of our day reveals a soon coming Lord, or if we just have more news
• IF the signs of the times are indicators or if they always were
• IF everyone should speak in tongues. Or IF tongues even are for today

There are many more non essentials. Yet books are written, ministries are built and divisions created over such foolishness. This has been going on since the first century. Paul had young Timothy placed over the Church in Ephesus. The problem was, there were lots of people who had absolute certitude about all kinds of myths, mysteries, old wives tales, speculations and just foolishness. Read how often Paul warned against this spirit.

1 Timothy: 3-5
-----command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer ⁴ or to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God’s work—which is by faith. ⁵ The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. ⁶ Some have departed from these and have turned to meaningless talk (argumentation). ⁷ They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about that they so confidently affirm (certitude).

I Timothy 4:1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. ² Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. ³ They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. ⁴ For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, ⁵ because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

1 Timothy 6:4-5 They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions ⁵ and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

We are little different today. The divisions are still there. Some ministers make their mark by capitalizing on these divisions. Paul advised people to avoid them, mark them well and not to listen to them.

Romans 16:17 --watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.

^{1 Timothy 4:7} Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales

2 Timothy 2:16 Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. ¹⁷ Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, ¹⁸ who have departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some.

2 Timothy 2:23 Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. ²⁴ And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. ²⁵ Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, ²⁶ and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

The difficulty in dealing with the things hoped for, the things about which we are not certain is I can make an opposite case of whatever you believe using Bible Bullets to beat you over the head. And so can you. Our discourse will descend to scholarly pedantry.

2 Timothy 4:3 the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. ⁴ They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

ONE THING I know with absolute certitude. People are dying without Jesus, on this side of the veil and the other. The world must know. It isn't helped when we manifest division.

2 Timothy 4:5 keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

No matter how much you think you know today, when you add 30 or 40 years to that, you will know less than you do now. You will regret the certitude you may have today. You will repent of it. Keep the main thing the main thing.

After almost 4 decades of serving God, I know Far Less than I did when I was 30 years old.

So will you.

"NEW RECESSION THREATENS the GLOBE" -Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Nov 10).

The OECD's index of leading indicators for China, India, Brazil, Canada, Britain and the eurozone have all tipped below the warning line of 100, with the pace of the decline in Europe exceeding the onset of the Great Contraction in early 2008.

Professor Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the IMF, rattled nerves earlier this week by warning the world is "looking straight into the face of a great depression".

The grim data is coming thick and fast. Japan's machinery orders fell 8.2pc in September as the post-Fukushima rebound lost steam and the delayed effects of the super-strong yen began to bite. Export orders have been declining for eight months. "Outright contraction is possible in the quarters ahead," said Mark Cliffe from ING.

Exports in the Philippines dropped 27pc in September, the sharpest fall in two years. Korea's exports have showed sharply, caused by a 20pc slide in shipments to Europe. Manufacturing has been contracting for the past three months.

Christine Lagarde, the IMF's chief, warned in Asia that "there are dark clouds gathering in the global economy. Countries need to prepare for any storm that might reach their shores". She said "adverse feedback loops" are at work as financial stress and economic woes feed on each other.

China's carefully managed soft landing has turned uncomfortably hard, with ripple effects through the commodity markets. Spot iron-ore prices have dropped 30pc since July to $126 a tonne. Copper prices have fallen 20pc since August.

Barclays Capital said the risks of contagion to China has become serious. The bank is monitoring the country's "key high frequency data" for early warning signs of the sort of sudden crash in metals demand seen during the Lehman crisis...

"The credit spigot has been turned off in the US," said Chris Whelan from Institutional Risk Analytics...

Fiscal and monetary stimulus has disguised the underlying sickness in the debt-laden economies of the West over the past two years. This heavy make-up has at last faded away, exposing the awful visage beneath.

It is a delicate moment. The risk of a synchronised slump in Europe, the US and East Asia is bad enough. What is chilling is to face such a possibility with the monetary pedal already pushed to the floor in the US, UK and Japan.

Worse yet is to do so with Europe spiralling into institutional self-destruction...

MORE THAN PREACHING AND TEACHING by David Wilkerson

I believe the gospel should be accompanied by the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost—working mighty wonders, proving the gospel is true!

Paul boldly stated, “And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power” (1 Corinthians 2:4). The Greek here means “with proof.” Paul was saying, “I preach the gospel with proof. God and the Holy Spirit are backing me up with signs and wonders!” Hebrews 2:4 says that God did confirm Paul’s message with signs and wonders: “God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will.”

The New Testament believers had one prayer: “That signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus” (Acts 4:30). These apostles went everywhere fully preaching the gospel.

“Many wonders and signs were done through the apostles” (Acts 2:43). “And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. . . . And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women” (Acts 5: 12, 14).

Here is one of the most conclusive of all verses—proving that a fully preached gospel must include signs and wonders: “They stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who was bearing witness to the word of His grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands” (Acts 14:3). This verse says that the apostles ministered boldly for a long time, preaching grace and repentance, and then God granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

God’s last-day church will go “out and [preach] everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs” (Mark 16:20). That is what God envisions for us.

The miracles of this last-day church will be genuine, indisputable, undeniable,and yet they will not be well known. Instead, they will issue forth from the hands of ordinary, holy, separated saints who know God and are intimate with Jesus.

These believers will emerge from the secret closet of prayer—a small, prepared army full of faith, with no other desire than to do the will of God and glorify Him. They will be fearless and powerful in prayer. They will open entire nations for the gospel and God will confirm His Word by their mighty deeds!