Wednesday, August 10, 2011

It's time for another Passover

Hi there to you all,

Once again, I feel that the Lord has been speaking to me and I just have to share it with you.

I'm not too sure if you all know this, but on the 1st of August, there was a huge spiritual shift that took place and we are experiencing the unfolding of this as a family in our lives and ministry.

At this time, it is definitely a time and season of visitation. God is visiting us....

A couple of mornings ago, the Lord spoke to me about the Passover just before the Exodus happened in Egypt and He told me to tell everyone that another Passover is happening during this time.

Read on for more about all of this.....

Exodus 11:4-7

Then Moses said, "Thus says the LORD: 'About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt; and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the animals. Then there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as was not like it before, nor shall be like it again. But against none of the children of Israel shall a dog move its tongue, against man or beast, that you may know that the LORD does make a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

Exodus 12:12-13

'For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

  1. In these two portions of scripture, we see God warning His people about a coming Judgement and that He was going to be "visiting" Egypt at midnight on a certain day for the purpose of carrying out His judgement on Pharaoh and his people.
  2. We also see here that at the time of the visitation of judgement on Egypt, that God said that there would be a difference between His own people and the people of Egypt under Pharaoh.
  3. The only difference would be that the houses where His people were, would have the blood of a lamb applied to the doorposts and lintels, but the houses of the Egyptians would not.
The Lord spoke to me that we as His people now, are experiencing a time of visitation. This visitation is slightly different from the visitation that happened just before the exodus of Israel from Egypt in that it would be a time where God will pass over the houses that DO NOT have the Blood of Jesus applied to them. This means that those who are indeed His people by the new birth and who are being cleansed daily by the blood of Jesus and are walking close to Him every day, will at this time experience a time of God's visitation of BLESSING and those who do not have the blood of Jesus applied to their homes and lives will not.

This visitation is a time of blessing. This blessing is an empowerment upon us that will enable us to reflect the presence and person of Who Jesus is to the world around us. Whenever God speaks of His blessing to us, this is how He wants to empower us for the expressed purpose of declaring who He really is.

I would also say in response to this word that we make ourselves ready for this visitation. I believe that it is not too late. As God's people we need to be pressing in to Him daily and allowing the Holy Spirit to lead us in any repentance or change that is necessary for us to be ready for the Lord's visit.

We need to be ready, or else we could be PASSED OVER by God's visitation of Blessing.

I pray that the Lord will confirm this word to you.

Thanks so much for taking the time to read this.

Blessings to you all....

Friday, July 22, 2011

Provision & the flow of God

Hi all,

I was recently in Tongaat, Natal, South Africa where I was ministering to a church there for a week. During that week, God enabled me to release His message to them over all the nights that I preached.

During one of the nights, I was busy preaching about Eliajah and how the Lord spoke to him about going to the brook Cheirth.

Today, I want to share some thoughts with you along the same lines of what I spoke to the church in Tongaat about.

Read on for more....

1 Kings 17:2-6

Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." So he went and did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and stayed by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.

Today I want to share something very important with you about the Provision of God which is linked with the flow of God.

From the scripture above where God spoke to Elijah, His prophet, we see that the Lord told Elijah to go to a specific place. God is very specific when it comes to His will for our lives. If Elijah had gone anywhere else, he would not have had the flow of God or His provision. Notice that God said that He had commanded the ravens to feed Elijah at the Brook Cherith, not at any other brook.....

The place of God's perfect will for us is where His provision and flow will be. Some christians think that they can simply "do their own thing" or if it is a good idea it will work. A good idea is not a God idea.

Wherever God places us, is the realm where He has given us the following....
  1. Provision
  2. The flow of the Spirit
  3. Authority to overcome
  4. His grace
  5. Victory over the enemy
  6. Vision & Revelation
  7. Purpose and fulfillment
In the scripture above, you will notice that God told Elijah that he would "drink from the brook". This speaks of being sustained by the flow of the Spirit of God wherever you are. The flow of God is how He works in us and through us. This flow is firstly there to sustain us and then to flow through us to others. If the flow is not flowing through us, then there is a problem. Usually, the problem is that we are not drinking in enough. Notice that God told Elijah that he would drink from the brook. If there is not enough of God's flow coming through us, it just means that we are not filled ourselves and that we need to change our focus. We can easily drink in other things that are not really the flow of God to us.

The provision of God at Cherith was quite unusual. God said that the ravens would feed Elijah. The ravens where just the vehicle that God used to get His provision to His prophet. If we obey the Lord to go where He sends us and to do the task that He has assigned to us, then His provision will be brought there. The ravens where not the source, but the vehicle, God was the source. Never forget that God is the source.

Let's read on in 1 Kings 17....

And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you."

In the next verse it says that after a while, the brook dried up. I have learned over the years that there always comes a time when the brook or the flow will dry up. Remember that the flow comes from God Himself and nowhere else. God is in control of the flow. At this time, it says that the reason for the brook drying up was that there had been no rain in the land. God has a lot to do with the rain which falls in the natural and also in the spiritual. Wherever you read in the bible about rain, it usually refers to the blessing of God or to His presence. Where He is honoured and trusted in, that will be where it will rain. God was in control of where the rain fell in the days of Elijah and He was working together with His prophet on that. Elijah was to pray that it wouldn't rain and God would stop it from His side.

Now, this rain was needed to supply the brook Cherith so that Elijah would be able to drink. The rain had stopped falling over Israel at that time and many of the rivers and brooks dried up.

The drying up of the brook was the first sign that the time had come for Elijah to move to the next place of God's choosing for him. The next place of God's choosing was Zeraphath. This was the place where God would command His provision for Elijah. It was to be at the widow's house.

God always has a time and a place for where He wants us to be. If we try and stay at our brook Cherith after it has dried up, then we will find ourselves going in a downward direction... this means... things will die. What this means is that God's flow brings inspiration and revelation... these are the two things we need from God. If the brook dries up it means that there is another place where the flow will be and the time has come to move there.

The provision and the flow are always linked up together. If the one dries up, so will the other. When the brook dried up, the time had come for Elijah to move.

Maybe your brook has dried up or is in the process of drying up. Make sure you hear the word of the Lord to direct you to the place where He wants you to be.

I hope todays entry has helped you...

Friday, June 24, 2011

The church is not prepared for what is about to happen

Hey there to you all,

I've been traveling quite a bit and it's been a long time since I've posted something up here on Prophetic People Blog....

So, today I want to release to you some of the things that God has been speaking to me about.

What would you do if I told you that God is about to bless you completely out of your socks... I mean.....so much so that you will be totally overwhelmed by it and you just won't be able to contain it to the point that you will have to involve others to help you with it.

Perhaps you are in a place where you can't see anything on the horizon or you've tried so hard to break through to the next level and it has left you frustrated and confused. Or... you are focused on some issues that have grown so big that you just can't see further than all that is surrounding you. Take heart... God is about to do something really huge in this season and time.....

The story opens in the book of Luke chapter 5 from verse 1 onwards.
Jesus is down at a lake and there is a very large crowd around and they are pressing in to Him for a word. They are thronging Him and hungry to hear another message that will open up their understanding to who God is....

As Jesus was about to open His mouth and begin to teach them something very profound... He looked off to the right and noticed two boats that had been dragged out of the water and brought up higher on the beach. These two boats had just come back from a fishing trip and the fishermen were busy packing everything away and washing their salty nets so that they wouldn't rot before the next fishing trip.

In particular, he noticed one of the boats and decided to get into it. This boat was Simon Peter's boat. What a strange thing to do.... Almost like He wanted to use it for something. Perhaps He wanted to go on a fishing trip some time later on in the day and was just checking it out to see if it was ok...

No... He was planning to use it for something incredible. The message to you today is this....
JESUS HAS NOTICED YOUR BOAT. Your boat speaks of something very specific to you that God has given you. It may be your business, your skills, your gifting or your ministry. This is something that is pertinent to you and you alone. Your boat is something that God wants to use.

The next thing that happened is that Jesus politely asked Peter if He could sit down in the boat and be pushed out a little way from the land so that He could preach a life changing message to the hungry crowd who were busy finding a place to sit on the beach. Peter is more than happy to do this for Jesus.

By the time Jesus had finished His message, the people were amazed and things have happened there. Everyone is blessed.

Suddenly... Jesus turned to Peter and spoke these words....

"Launch out into the deep and let down your NETS for a catch".
Peter was dumbstruck. They had just got back some hours earlier from one of the most frustrating fishing trips and they had come back empty handed. Why on earth would they want to get everything ready again to go out. They were tired and ready to go home and get into bed for a much needed rest.
Peter looked at Jesus and said these words. "Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing, nevertheless, at your word, I will let down the net".

One thing I noticed here was that Jesus gave an instruction to Peter in order to connect Him to the supernatural blessing and supply that He was about to release. The instruction was to launch out into the deep..., Not the shallow places, but deep waters.... Next, Peter was told to let down some nets for a catch.... Notice, Jesus said NETS, not net. This was so important. One net would not have been enough to capture what Jesus was about to release to them. Jesus knew that this would mean that Peter would have to get James and John involved in order to bring in the catch, but Peter was just too short sighted to see this. In fact no-one was read for what was about to happen.

Then, Peter launched his boat out and just simply let down the net. All at once, fish began to fill the net and it began to stretch beyond its limits and began to break. Peter began to panic as Jesus started to giggle. I can just picture the scene there. Peter was about to loose this whole catch. Quickly he signaled to James and John to come and help them and they went out and filled both their boats to overflowing and the boats started to sink.

The message to you today is this.....

We have entered into God's time line. You see, when we are doing things according to our timeline, we sometimes get results, but at a great cost. God's time line has an element of the supernatural in it and all it requires is that we listen to Him for His instructions. During the past season in the life of the church, many have experience toil and frustration.... This is about to change. An instruction is about to be given that is going to change everything for you, but you need to be listening for it.
What God is about to do, we are completely and utterly unprepared for. It is going to be so big that we ourselves will not be able to contain it or capture it. We will need to get everyone else involved in it so that this great Blessing from God is not lost.

The time and season in the church is changing from a time of toil to a time of supernatural harvest and release. I know you have probably heard so much over the years about harvest that by now, you have had enough... Let me tell you, the season is changing and a shift is taking place.

Get ready.......

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Do you know your jurisdiction

Do you know your jurisdiction

Hi there everybody,

While on my last trip to Australia, I shared some insights with the churches there which I thought I should share with you today. This is to do with our jurisdiction and the authority that the Lord has given to us where He has placed us.

The word jurisdiction means :- Power, authority and control. It also means an extent or range of judicial law enforcement. It is also the territory over which authority is exercised.

It is very clear in scripture that Jesus is the Head of the church and we are His body. Also, he has given or delegated authority to those whom He has placed in leadership to exercise His authority there. If there were no authority, then we would be divided and as Jesus said, "A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand". So we can see that it is important for us to understand God's delegated authority through people who He calls.

Also, everyone of us has been given spiritual authority to be exercised as followers of Christ over the forces of darkness. This means that the enemy has no God given authority over us, as long as we stay connected to the Head, Jesus Himself. This connection is vital. Without it, we will easily be defeated. If this connection with Christ is nurtured and developed, then it will not be easy for the enemy to defeat us.

As prophetic people, we are called to hear God's voice and to know the signs of the times. We also have a responsibility to encourage one another with revelation that the Lord gives us. We have also been given giftings and anointings that we are responsible for before the Lord. What I mean is, that the giftings and anointings of God are given so that the Kingdom of God can move forward and the people of God can be mutually edified.

With all of that said, it is important to understand that wherever we are given an opportunity to exercise our gifting, we affect the area where we are. Jurisdiction is an area that God has given to us to operate in His gifting and authority for the furtherance of the Kindom of God. In other words, my home is where I have authority to deal with the onslaughts of the enemy. Where God has placed me in ministry is where He has given me authority to deal with any other onslaughts of the enemy as well. Another example would be that any place the Lord sends me to, would be a place where He would seek to manifest His Kingdom power through me. Any opposition of the enemy in that place would be forced into submission to God's Kingdom, just because He sent me there. The result would be :- people's lives would be changed, the blessing of God released, the sick would be healed, the oppressed would be set free and God's glory will be seen.

The issue is that we need to know where God has placed us and where He has called us and also where He is sending us. I cannot exercise God's authority in a place where He has not sent me to or called me to. It would just be useless effort there and no Kingdom advancement.

I've seen so many well meaning people going all over the place and doing things that God had not called them to do. This is what it means to be outside of one's jurisdiction.

In future, please keep in mind what God has called you to do and where He has placed you. Be a blessing in that place and listen to His leading as you serve Him.