Perry Stone Prophetic Warning
- GOD IS REVERSING THE CURSE
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Thursday, October 19, 2017
Perry Stone Prophetic Warning - GOD IS REVERSING THE CURSE
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Friday, October 6, 2017
Lana Vawser: "Pioneers Are Birthing - A New Path Is Upon You!" - THE ELIJAH LIST
Lana Vawser: "Pioneers Are Birthing - A New Path Is Upon You!"
From the desk of Steve Shultz:
I know many of you have been waiting for a word like this as we have just entered a new season. Again, here is an excellent article about the birthing time we are in. God WANTS to birth something new in you!
Have you been called to take a new path with the Lord? If so, just read this word of the Lord through Lana Vawser:
"You are now moving onto a pathway of a new season, a new assignment, a new mandate and a new pathway—but this pathway is full of reward. The enemy has been coming against you with confusion and fear, but this pathway before you has changed. It's a completely new place where you are learning to do things in a different way. Your heart shall overflow with gladness as you move into a season of greater ease where your hearts' desires and promises are FULFILLED."
Be encouraged as you begin your new path! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
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Steve Shultz, Founder and Publisher
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Steve Shultz, Founder and Publisher
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"Pioneers Are Birthing - A New Path Is Upon You!"
I have had pioneers strongly on my heart and in this past week, the Lord has been showing me the "new paths" and the "birthing" that are upon pioneers right now. I saw a turbulence that many pioneers have been feeling. I saw a grief that many pioneers were carrying. I saw a restlessness and longing that many pioneers were sensing, and I saw the word "transition" over these pioneers.
I felt the Lord saying that many pioneers have come to the end of a season. The way that God has used you, the way you have pioneered, and what He has set up through you has been amazing. He has established much through you in the last season, but there is now a new season upon the pioneers. The new season upon the pioneers looks nothing like it has before. The Lord is about to move you in a way you have never moved. He is going to take you in a way that may seem bizarre to many.
A New Story
"This move of the Spirit will come through the family unit and will display the NECESSITY for healthy, strong, Christ centered family units. It will show the way to revival and a great outpouring of His Spirit—through the wineskin of FAMILY."
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The Lord is accelerating things around you and within you because of the birthing that is upon you. I saw the pioneers taking new paths following Jesus. One thing I noticed about these new paths was that the paths were going against the grain. That's what a pioneer does: he pioneers something new. Yet, as the pioneers were following Jesus in the new path He was leading them down, I saw pages upon pages being filled with writing.
I then saw Jesus writing in this book as the pioneers walked with Him. Each step the pioneers took added another line to this story. I was surrounded by the sense of a new story that is being written through the pioneers right now.
I saw that forerunning spirit so heavily upon the pioneers right now. I want to encourage you pioneers: follow the way that God is leading.
In the unexpected, unusual paths that the Lord is leading you down, you are going to see greater increase, favor, promotion and birthing upon what the Lord is doing in and through you than you have ever seen.
Confusion and Fear Hitting the Pioneers
I saw the whisper of the enemy coming against the pioneers saying, "That pathway...that can't be the pathway of God. That pathway isn't God." I saw many hearts and minds being hit with confusion and fear because of it.
However, I noticed there were angels on either side of the "new pathways" that the Lord is leading the pioneers down. The angels were declaring, "The pathway that makes the heart glad! The pathway of the King that refreshes the heart and refreshes the soul." I then heard excerpts of Psalm 18 exploding all around the pathway.
"When I was weakest, my enemies attacked—but the Lord held onto me. His love broke open the way and He brought me into a beautiful broad place. He rescued me because His delight is in me. He rewarded me for doing what is right and staying pure." (Psalm 18:18-20 The Passion Translation) (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
"I have done my best to be blameless and to follow His ways, keeping my heart pure, I have kept my integrity by surrendering to Him and so the Lord has rewarded me with His blessing. This is the treasure I have discovered when I kept my heart clean before His eyes." (Psalm 18:23-24 The Passion Translation)
"What a God You are! Your path for me has been perfect. All Your promises have proven true. What a secure shelter for all those who turn to hide themselves in you! You are the wrap-around God giving grace to me." (Psalm 18:30 The Passion Translation)
Refreshing and Revelation Being Released
I saw the Lord releasing refreshing and revelation to the pioneers of the new pathways. Many of the pioneers have been in a place of battle for so long—breaking hard ground and stewarding what the Lord has asked them to steward. All the while the enemy has been coming against them relentlessly attempting to take them out. But faithfully they have sowed, over and over again.
They have maintained integrity and purity amidst the battle and amidst the onslaught of intensity of the past season. There have been many times they wanted to give up, but they continued to stay faithful for no other reason but their love and devotion to Jesus.
I saw that these pathways in this new season and new era upon the Church were such pleasant paths for the pioneers. It was bringing such refreshing and revelation but the pathway was full of hearts' desires and promises fulfilled.
I heard the Lord say:
"Pioneers, you have poured out and poured out and poured out for Me. You have remained faithful to Me. You have waited upon Me for your very own breakthrough and promises fulfilled while sowing into the lives of others and building My Kingdom. I am smiling upon you!
"You are now moving onto a pathway of a new season, a new assignment, a new mandate and a new pathway—but this pathway is full of reward. The enemy has been coming against you with confusion and fear, but this pathway before you has changed. It's a completely new place where you are learning to do things in a different way. Your heart shall overflow with gladness as you move into a season of greater ease where your hearts' desires and promises are FULFILLED.
"You will be carrying the harvest of the fulfilled promises and hearts' desires I have given you as you go. There are angels upon this path heralding joy, fulfilled promises, abundance and refreshing waiting for you in this new season. You are birthing something completely NEW but your heart will sing gladly in great joy as you see Proverbs 13:12 explode all around you. You will also see Proverbs 6:31 explode all around you as the thief that has stolen from you, is now commanded to REPAY SEVENFOLD!"
"Stay Hidden in Me and The Stones Won't Touch You. Keep Blessing Upon Your Lips and in Your Hands"
In this shift and new pathways upon the pioneers, I saw the enemy throwing stones and I saw words coming against the pioneers like stones from others. I felt the Lord say, "Stay hidden in Me and the stones won't touch you and keep blessing upon your lips."
I then heard the words of Jesus from Luke 6:27-28:
"They have maintained integrity and purity amidst the battle and amidst the onslaught of intensity of the past season. There have been many times they wanted to give up, but they continued to stay faithful for no other reason but their love and devotion to Jesus."
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"But if you will listen, I say to you, love your enemies and do something wonderful for them in return for their hatred. When someone curses you, bless that person in return. When you are mistreated and harassed by others, accept it as your mission to pray for them." (The Passion Translation)
In the throwing of the stones by the enemy, stay hidden in the secret place. Stay in that place of deep intimacy, asking the Lord for strategy and for protection. Delight in Him. Feast at the table set before you in your communion with Him. The stones won't touch you! You will be hidden and protected as you stay deep in the secret place!
In the place of negative words spoken against you, in the place where others may speak negatively of the new pioneering pathway, bless them in word, prayer and deed.
He is Bringing the Focus Back Upon Family
Another thing I saw in the midst of the pioneer pathways was the Lord breathing upon FAMILY. The Lord is bringing the focus back upon FAMILY—family units and the family of God. He is highlighting the need for healthy, whole, family units and communities. The new wineskin God is birthing is all through FAMILY.
Where the enemy has come against family with his relentless opposition, watch the pioneers and watch the move of the Spirit. These pathways the pioneers are creating and forerunning are for the greatest move of the Spirit of God we have ever seen.
This move of the Spirit will come through the family unit and will display the NECESSITY for healthy, strong, Christ centered family units. It will show the way to revival and a great outpouring of His Spirit—through the wineskin of FAMILY.
I believe that the Lord has showed me 2018 is the year of family.
So much of what God is going to do is in and through family. His heart is FOR family and the family unit and He wants to display the beauty of how He created it. Many pioneers are already birthing and walking in new vision and strategy of what God is doing in and through family. (Photo via Free Great Picture)
Chains Are Breaking, Things Are Changing and Breaking in the Spirit – Heaven is Coming Down to You!
In these new pathways, the Lord is breaking the chains that have held you down, pioneers. The chains of limitation are breaking off you and you are about to soar like you have never soared before.
Things are changing and breaking in the spirit and in this new pathway of following Jesus on this pioneering track, you are making room for Heaven to come down. The turbulence and the thundering in the spirit is making room for the new.
There are going to be unprecedented demonstrations of the favor of God, the provision of God and the smile of God over you for following Him. For choosing obedience over opportunity. For choosing obedience over expectations of others. For following the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Do not be afraid, for the Lord is sending to you those with wise counsel and supernatural confirmation. They will continue to come to you time after time as you move down this pathway. God will do this so that you will know that you know you are on the right path.
The "out of the normal" pathway of pioneering is upon you. The change is going to delight your heart and you will receive a DOUBLE PORTION of increase, favor and creativity. You are going to see Him in a whole new way. You are going to receive His heart in a whole new way. You are going to receive His strategy and blueprints for this new pathway in a whole new way. This new season upon you is going to delight your heart and it will be CLEAR TO ALL that you have followed the pathway of God.
Lana Vawser is an active member of the Australian Prophetic Council and releases prophetic words for the Body of Christ and nations, and is featured regularly on The Elijah List and in Charisma Magazine. She is also an itinerant preacher and revivalist who is traveling regularly with her family, seeing powerful moves of God.
Lana has a strong, prophetic voice and has a heart to see the Body of Christ develop deep intimacy with Jesus and actively hear His voice each day. She also has a heart to see people set free and walk in all that Jesus has purchased for them as they carry Christ into their world each day, awakened to His nature and who they are in Him. Lana is married to Kevin, and they are living in Brisbane, Australia, with their two sons.
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Chuck Pierce: "A Time for Breakthrough and A Time for Cycles to Change" and "Pray for Texas!" - THE ELIJAH LIST
Chuck Pierce: "A Time for Breakthrough and A Time for Cycles to Change" and "Pray for Texas!"
From the desk of Steve Shultz:
We are hearing more and more prophetic voices saying that we are in a time of "breakthrough" unlike we've experienced before...and that word is both individually and corporately for the Church Body.
When my friend Chuck Pierce speaks, I simply listen and take heed. He is a true Issachar prophet who understands the times and season...and I always look forward to his insight!
Chuck Pierce shares this prophetic exhortation he received just this week from the Lord:
On Monday morning I woke up thinking about breakthrough. So many people need a spiritual breakthrough – in healing, finances and favor...
"If you are willing to submit, your light will BREAK FORTH like the morning and your HEALING will break forth speedily. Your righteousness will go before you and I will come behind you. Do not fear your past any longer. I am preparing a way of escape for you and I will rearguard you."
Now that's a good word! As Chuck Pierce also lives in Texas, he admonishes us to keep praying for the Houston and coastal areas! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
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Steve Shultz, Founder and Publisher
The Elijah List & Breaking Christian News
http://www.elijahlist.com
Steve Shultz, Founder and Publisher
The Elijah List & Breaking Christian News
http://www.elijahlist.com
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"A Time for Breakthrough and A Time for Cycles to Change" and "Pray for Texas!"
A Time for Breakthrough!
On Monday morning I woke up thinking about breakthrough. So many people need a spiritual breakthrough – in healing, finances and favor. I started reading in Isaiah from chapters 55 - 58. Through the prophet Isaiah, the Lord begins to invite us to an abundant life. Here is a prophetic word the Lord gave me from these chapters:
"Seek Me while I may be found, call upon Me while I am near. I am thinking beyond you! My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways. I have thoughts to interject into your circumstance. There are thought patterns within you that I need to change.
"I will send signs and wonders to help point you on the path ahead. As the rain comes down and waters the earth, seed will come forth for those who are willing to sow. My word shall not return void! I sent the word to accomplish something and from that word you shall prosper.
"I will raise you up and make you joyful in your 'House of Prayer.' I will heal any backsliding that has occurred in your life. You will need to fast, but only fast the way that I instruct you. This will be of great benefit to you. I am longing to break you out of old religious patterns!
"If you are willing to submit, your light will BREAK FORTH like the morning and your HEALING will break forth speedily. Your righteousness will go before you and I will come behind you. Do not fear your past any longer. I am preparing a way of escape for you and I will rearguard you." (Photo via Pixabay)
A Time for Cycles to Change!
Here is a word that was released by James Vincent and Tobias Lyons at our Firstfruits gathering. This word is very important. Look at every old cycle in your life – especially those that have been in place the last 10 years. Then allow the Spirit of God to speak to you.
"The Lord showed me a picture of a round, turning cycle. As this cycle continued, the Lord suddenly came and made a BREAK, or disruption, in that cycle. There was a breech created, and the people who were previously held within this cycle had the opportunity to jump into the breech, freeing themselves from the cycle."This picture the Lord showed me represented TEN-YEAR CYCLES. Because the cycle was round, the beginning was indiscernible from the end. As the Lord BROKE the cycle, He said: 'I am bringing the END of these ten-year cycles into TODAY.'"Ten year processes are suddenly coming to an end, although ten years have not necessarily been completed. Another way to word it would be that the finishing of these processes are being brought into today in defiance of the cycle. Death processes are being disrupted by healing and deliverance TODAY and dry bones are experiencing resurrection TODAY!"This disruption is throwing the plans and movement of the enemy against you into complete disarray. The things he had waiting at the end of ten years are now in confusion. There are things the enemy had planned that depended on the cycle running its course, but the Lord has now disrupted it and brought the end of that cycle into TODAY. We agree with His word and jump into the way of escape that He has created for us!""God says:"'This is a month when I am going to deal with blunt-force trauma to the Body. I have come up from My throne to address that fear that has kept your success pinned down, and I am there to meet you. This is a month of success. Although the enemy swung and hit you and pinned you down in trauma, I have unseated Myself from My throne."'My resurrection power and life-giving glory is coming to meet you and cause success to come where there is death, and life to come where there is death. My perfect love casts out all fear. Where the swelling from the trauma has caused a bruising reproach, I am causing the manifested power of My love to open up and make new what has swollen shut.(Photo via eyesright)
"'So enter the field that I am calling you into. Know that I have empowered your hands this month to cause what has pinned you down and created trauma in past seasons, to now turn to success.'"
Praying for those Impacted by Hurricane Harvey
I (Chuck) have many connections and friends in Houston. With the impact of Hurricane Harvey, please pray for that city and all those affected in the entire coastal region.
Dutch Sheets and I have chosen "Houston" as one of our 22 gatherings for "Changing a Nation from City to City!" Some of you might want to fly in for that meeting hosted by New Life Church on Wednesday, September 27 at 7pm as we release "healing" back into that city! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce
Glory of Zion International Ministries
Email: chuckp@glory-of-zion.org
Website: www.glory-of-zion.org
Glory of Zion International Ministries
Email: chuckp@glory-of-zion.org
Website: www.glory-of-zion.org
Charles D. "Chuck" Pierce serves as President of Global Spheres, Inc. (GSI) in Corinth, Texas. This is an apostolic, prophetic ministry that is being used to gather and mobilize the worshipping Triumphant Reserve throughout the world. Chuck also serves as President of Glory of Zion International Ministries, a ministry that aligns Jew and Gentile. He is known for his accurate prophetic gifting which helps direct nations, cities, churches, and individuals in understanding the times and seasons in which we live. Chuck and his wife, Pam, have six children and seven grandchildren. He has authored over 20 books, including the best-sellers Interpreting the Times, Redeeming the Time, and Time to Defeat the Devil.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Fire and Favor on Families by Lana Vawser - Identity Network
Fire and Favor on Families
Lana Vawser
Identity Network Feb. 3, 2016
I have been feeling the Lord saying "fire and favor" on families. The Lord is doing a DEEP work right now in the family unit. His Spirit is moving powerfully and bringing healing, restoration and freedom to families.
Last year, I had an encounter with the Lord where I saw the fire of God falling on houses and restoring family unit's and Jesus walking through houses bringing healing. When I felt the Lord begin to speak again on "fire and favor" on families, I asked Him for greater clarity.
I then heard the words "Now is the time for the DOUBLE PORTION." There have been breakthroughs that have begun in family units that began last year for many, but suddenly now there is a momentum in the Spirit that is happening in an acceleratory way. Where ground has begun to break, double portions are going to begin to manifest. Where there has been shame and dishonor in families, as the people of God have not given up and remained positioned, the Lord is doing a sudden work in families.
Time for a Double Portion
Many have felt like they were at the end of their rope with contending, praying and believing for breakthrough, healing and restoration of family, but I want to encourage you, not only is there breakthrough and healing in the atmosphere but it's time for a double portion of fire and favor of the Lord in family units. Don't stop crying out to the Lord. His heart is for family. His heart is for restoration and healing. Keep your heart in check before the Lord in the area of forgiveness and love. He is bringing healing to your heart!!
The fire of God is falling in exponential ways to bring a cleansing, a purifying, a strengthening, a refining and a sharpening. Passion is being reignited. As the people of God are crying out for their family units, where hurt, pain and issues have become so overwhelming and the focus of Jesus has been lost, He is taking His place again. He is taking His place again as the center. Revival is breaking out in families. It's time for a mass revival of the family unit on a corporate scale.
Marriages are being and are going to be restored suddenly. I saw "honeymoon" periods being restored in marriages. Do not give up seeking the Lord for your marriage. The Lord is bringing increase and strengthening to many good, strong marriages, and He is bringing healing, refreshing restoration and freedom to the marriages that have been struggling and broken as His people cry out.
I also saw many children holding keys. Many children are about to have encounters with the Lord that are going to be given keys to release healing, restoration, healing and impartations into families. Listen to what your children are hearing from the Lord, listen to the encounters that they are having, allow them to pray for you, for the Lord is using the children to bring significant impartations, atmospheric shifts and 'game changers."
Fresh Air and Refreshing
Favor is being released on family units that is going to release financial pressures, releasing heavy burdens and crippling circumstances. I saw the favor the Lord is releasing on family units bringing a "breath of fresh air and refreshing" over those family units that are being stressed, stretched and pressed on every side. The Lord is releasing surprise moves of His favor that is going to bring an "ease" upon many family units.
Don't give up contending for your family unit, for your marriages etc. The Lord is doing a deep, sudden work in the family unit and revival is and will increasingly break out in the family unit.
The Lord is doing this accelerated work in the family unit not only to bring breakthrough and healing to His people, but to move His people further forward and out into society as an example of how to do marriage and family well. The testimonies that come out of this season of seeing the Lord bring healing, refreshing, revival, strengthening and increase is going to see MANY broken families in society come into the Kingdom BECAUSE of your testimony.
Fire and favor is falling on the family unit! Keep crying out. He not only hears, He is moving on your behalf.
Lana Vawser
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
"September – a Month of Sudden Unlocking!" Lana Vawser
"September – a Month of Sudden Unlocking!"
Lana Vawser, Brisbane, Australia
The Elijah List
Strategic Doors are Opening
At the beginning of every week, I ask the Lord what is on His heart for the week, and for this week He said, "Isaiah 22:22" to me again. I have been hearing this verse from the Lord over and over lately and seeing the numbers 22:22 everywhere.
"...What door He opens, no man can shut, and what door He shuts, no man can open."
STRATEGIC doors are going to open for many this week as they continue to walk in faith and follow the prompting of His Spirit. The Lord is unlocking strategic doors this week that is going to usher in the beginning of THE GREATEST SHIFT the people of God have yet seen in their lives personally and corporately leading into Rosh Hashanah.
I saw these doors opening this week for many and these doors will position them perfectly as we enter into Rosh Hashanah to see the winds of change land suddenly in lives, rearrange much, put all things in heavenly order, and they will be positioned ready for takeoff into the greatest demonstration of "unlocking" they have seen. (Photo via Wikimedia)
September will be a month of SUDDEN UNLOCKING. I saw the Lord bringing an unlocking over the lives of His people as they are "intentional" in pressing in and not giving up.
I saw the enemy attempting to bring a STRONG HEAVY fatigue all across the Body of Christ, especially as we move into September, to pull the people back into a place of "complacency" rather than "intentionality" of seeking Him.
The enemy will attempt to bring increased fatigue. Shake that off through worship and know that a great awakening is upon you! The Lord is awakening you!
Intercessory Prayer Bringing Huge Shifts
I saw between September 1 to September 13, huge intercessory burdens being released. Many will feel a need to "withdraw" to the prayer closet more than ever between these days as the Lord will break ground in the spirit through your prayers that are going to see REVIVAL and the POWER OF GOD burst open through the new year.
PAY ATTENTION to these burdens He is releasing, and as you pray them through, KNOW that this area you have been interceding for is going to be an area of HUGE breakthrough, HUGE SHIFT and a MOMENTOUS move of His Spirit and great unlocking, as we move into Rosh Hashanah.
What the Lord has you intercede over from September 1 to September 13 will have ripple effects of breakthrough for the ENTIRE YEAR following.
As I saw the keys of Heaven unlocking HUGE doors, these strategic doors were setting up destiny pathways for the people of God for the next 12 months. I felt the Lord say that we must "watch and be alert" for the areas that HE is opening these successive doors in, because these doors are going to be indicators of where He is going to bring a momentous shift which will unveil runways of destiny.
He is going to unlock doors of dreams that seemed SO impossible, and they will suddenly FLY OPEN. A greater release of vision of the "new day and new morning" and what that looks like is opening up in September.
September will usher in revelation of the NEW MORNING, moving away from MOURNING!
These are doors of tremendous favor, setting up the people of God for runways of destiny revealed, where revival will be released all across the earth.
The Lord went on to say that with the HUGE SHIFT and HUGE DOORS that are being unlocked in September, with radical provision, the people of God MUST stay alert.
The people of God MUST stay alert IN the unlocking to move forward through these doors with wisdom, with increased discernment, and greater levels of stewardship.
"Step Up in September"
There is going to be a "STEPPING UP" required in September. The sense of many being placed in their, "It's time," moment. This is the manifestation and realization of, "My time has come," and being "ready" to move forward. There will be greater areas of stretching and testing in September, but these stretching and testings will be in the midst of whirlwind changes, and there will be much joy and also a deeper call to surrender and intimacy to carry the increase He is releasing. (Photo via public domain image)
SEPTEMBER will be a month of strategy! He is releasing keys of strategy for breakthrough, revival and increase in cities/nations. Specific strategy from Heaven will be released in September to the leaders in the Body of Christ for their cities and nations to pray into and see the Lord come as a rushing wind, to see the fire of God fall, and see pockets of cities and nations being "lit up" and "set on fire" for Him.
Moves of His Spirit, demonstrating greater demonstrations of the revival we are moving into, is going to begin to be seen through the implementation of these strategies from the heart of God. These breakthroughs that will begin rising out of these strategies will refresh and strengthen leaders, intercessors and forerunners that have become weary in the contending process.
September, will be the open door for much, unlocking all across the Body of Christ, as the people of God are "intentional" in their seeking of Him and will have heavenly, ripple effects that will be seen into the next year.
Lana Vawser
Lana Vawser is married to Kevin, and they are living in Brisbane, Australia with their two sons. Lana and Kevin's heart is to see the Body of Christ develop deep intimacy with Jesus and actively hear His voice each day. They have a heart to see people free and walking in all that Jesus has purchased for them as they carry Christ into their world each day. Lana is an active member of the Australian Prophetic Council and releases prophetic words for the Body of Christ and over the nations through both the pulpit and the internet. Lana preaches regularly and ministers prophetically calling people into a constant pursuit of His heart and hearing His voice for themselves and others.
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Thursday, May 28, 2015
God of the Turnaround - A Prophetic Word by Steve Porter
God of the Turnaround
- A Prophetic Word by Steve Porter
Identity Network
"I am the God of the turnaround! For some time now you have been asking Me when things are going to turn around - when the winds of change are going to start blowing, when the winds of favor will head your way. Well, the time is now, and I'm going to begin to restore everything that the locust has eaten!
"It's time for your turnaround. Did I not make a pathway for My people through the Red Sea? Did I not provide water from a rock to give refreshment? Did I not send manna and quail to feed My people? Did I not give direction by a cloud during the day and a pillar of fire during the night to lead them?
"If I did that for My people then don't I care just as much about you? Can I not bring order from your chaos or refreshment from the dry places in your life? Can I not resurrect even the dead things?"
"For I know the plans I have for you,' says the LORD. 'They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope." (Jeremiah 29:11)
"This is not a time to fold your hands and fall asleep. It's a time to decree and declare that you have victory through Me. So ask Me today for your turnaround.
I'm releasing favor over you. I'm restoring your honor and giving you a fresh mandate from heaven. I am ready to arise and scatter your enemies." (See Psalms 68:1)
New Influence and Favor
New territory, New anointing, New favor!
Time is short; your days on this Earth are numbered. Don't squander the precious moments you have left. Life's curtain will close suddenly before you know it, but today I see The Lord Jesus reaching out to you and gently calling your name - wooing you closer to Him in 2015.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33
Jesus was pretty clear when He said to forsake all and follow Him. What He said then He also means now; even if that means doing things with which we're not comfortable, pushing away anything that hinders our relationship with Him, or sacrificing the things we want most. "I desire to give you new territory, a new anointing and divine favor...but will you seek me first? I desire to establish you but will you first establish me in your heart?"
As you seek the Lord first and make Him your first love, He will honor you and bring you forth as pure gold.
God honors us when He is honored as our top priority. He's jealous of us. (Deuteronomy 4:24)
I encourage you to let Jesus Christ be at the forefront of your thoughts and the guide of your heart this year. He will put everything else into place. He will establish you; give you a new beginning and a fresh start. He will place a fresh anointing and favor on your life as He has already promised. Seek intimacy with the Lord, lay at His feet, resting in His presence this coming year and watch Him establish you beyond what you could ever imagine!
"Begin again! New beginnings! Fresh Starts," says the Lord!
Steve Porter
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
Favor Verses Entitlement by Paulette Reed
Favor Verses Entitlement
by Paulette Reed
Identity Network
Living Epistles
One thing I love about growing older is how the Word of God becomes more alive to me with each and every passing day. As a living epistle, I've had the honor of experiencing the Scriptures in deeper and more unique ways. One verse that jumped off the page as I was reading my Bible recently was Psalm 37:25: "I have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his descendants begging bread."
As I pondered this word in my heart, I reflected on the fact that I have never had to beg God for the necessities of life. Strong's Concordance defines begging as "to seek, require, demand, or request." Does that mean if someone seems to be consistently asking for money, goods, or reduced prices, they are lacking in righteousness? Does it mean they are not righteous in the way God defined it? It is something to certainly think about.
Confusion in the Camp
I am deeply concerned when I see Christians living a life that does not line up with the plumb line of God - Psalm 37:25 included. When people beg, living as entitled Christians, they are giving the devil a foothold as deception leads them into believing that a demonic spirit of entitlement is really the favor of God. But they are not the same at all! In fact, they are the complete opposite of each other.
If indeed the righteous do not beg, then why do we hear so many believers asking or begging for special treatment and favor? Why do we constantly hear the innuendoes that are in opposition to Psalm 37:25? For example, when someone is standing with a group of believers and says, "Oh dear, my back is stiff and I need a massage so badly but I just can't afford one," knowing that a massage therapist is in the group, is that person exuding favor or entitlement? Did that really have to be announced to the group? Would that person have said the same thing had not a massage therapist been part of the group?
Psalm 33:13 reminds us, "When the Lord looks down from heaven, He observes every human being." God knows every sparrow that falls to the ground, He knows every hair that is upon our head, so certainly no one has to share their plight with a group of people in order to manipulate others to have mercy on them and give them something for free. It is God who supplies all of our needs according to His riches in glory.
Or what about when people who use the calling on their life as their business card to achieve their needs? Someone may say, "We're missionaries, so we're hoping you would serve us for free." How in the world does that glorify God? Should Christians have to "beg" a dentist to provide services for free to fix their teeth? Our Father owns the cattle on a thousand hills, so certainly He can sell a couple of those cattle to meet our needs.
Being a Christian does not give anyone the right to pull too hard on someone's mercy gift or compassion, demanding or manipulating them to give us something for free. In fact, pulling too hard is a sign of entitlement, not a sign of God's favor upon our lives. These are just two of many examples I'm witnessing frequently in the Church today. Begging grieves the Holy Spirit.
There is a Season for Everything
I understand that to everything there is a season, and a time for everything under heaven (Ecclesiastes 3). So I don't have a problem with people using government assistance or church food banks or an offering to supplement health insurance needs for a season when it is truly needed. Ultimately, however, insurance is truly our responsibility for us and our children, as we are taught in the Word to obey the laws of the land (Romans 13:1). I'm speaking from experience here knowing that he Lord truly is my Maker, my Husband, and my Provider.
I know there are reasons the government is looking at limiting some assistance programs to one year. I agree with some of those reasons while disagreeing with others. Perhaps this is a good place to say, "Alleluia!" because, sometimes - and I mean sometimes - assistance can give the enemy legal rights to release a spirit of entitlement on a person. And no one wants those evil hitchhikers attached to them.
Since 1 Corinthians 15:46 teaches us that things in the natural realm often take place before things in the spiritual realm, could it be that the Lord is showing us something in allowing the government to cut back assistance? Is God trying to set people free and empower them to rise up and believe what they believe - that the government truly does rest on His shoulders? Perhaps God wants to show Himself mighty as His Kingdom has everything we need and we need everything His Kingdom has.
People who are deceived as to what's truly the favor of God and what's an entitlement spirit might say, "I'm living by faith." Well, that may be true, but it's not their faith they are living by - it is often someone else's faith. Every time a person gets something for free, or at a reduced price, someone somewhere is paying for it. The products and services and food weren't really free, rather someone who is paying Caesar what belongs to Caesar (Mark 12:17) just paid for those "free" services.
And where in the world does any believer get the idea that living by faith means not working? Even God works, for Genesis 2:2 tells us, "By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done." And He expects hard work from us as well. One of several Scriptures teaching us to have a good work ethic is Colossians 3:23, where Paul says, "Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men."
Work is not a result of the fall, a curse that we are to endure while on this side of heaven. God established work before the fall of humanity. Before Adam and Eve ever sinned, before they ever ate of the fruit they were told not to eat from, God had given them the mandate to work and keep the Garden. It is true that after the fall work became much harder - it was by the sweat of his brow that Adam was now to till the ground. We might ask ourselves, "How am I doing in maintaining my portion of God's garden?"
Since God created work before the fall, and since God Himself worked in creating the heavens and the earth, we have a mandate to work and contribute to society. This is one of the ways we fight the spirit of entitlement in our lives. Paul admonished the Ephesians, "He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need" (Ephesians 4:28).
Personally, I love working heartily for the Lord and sharing thousands of dollars with the poor every year. But what really defines those who are poor? Again, Paul tells the Thessalonians, "For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either" (2 Thessalonians 3:10).
Exposing the Lie
Entitlement, according to Webster's Dictionary, is "the condition of having a right to have, do, or get something; the feeling or belief that you deserve to be given something (such as special privileges); a type of financial help provided by the government for members of a particular group." Having a spirit of entitlement goes against the gospel itself, the fact that Jesus saved us when we were dead in our sins.
Beloved, we have no rights when it comes to entitlement. We gave up our rights the moment we were born from above and stepped into the Kingdom of God, thus letting God rule and reign in our lives. We were not saved to be entitled people, but people who are called to walk in the favor of God.
Favor, on the other hand, is the Greek word charis, which means grace, favor, or kindness. The favor of God is a gift or blessing brought to us by Jesus Christ. It's both unmerited and undeserved. The fact that we have been born again is a result of the kindness of God - we didn't do anything to deserve it or be entitled to it. We weren't good enough, righteous enough, or holy enough to deserve salvation. Rather, it was a gift freely given by God when we were dead in our sins. Ephesians 2:8-9 says, "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God…" That doesn't sound like a gift given because someone was entitled to it.
Please know that my heart in writing about this subject is to glorify God and train, protect, and set the captive free for those who may be confusing God's favor with a spirit of entitlement. As I have said for many years, "People who are deceived don't know they are deceived because they are deceived." Let's learn to quickly recognize when the enemy is trying to deceive us regarding a spirit of entitlement and when we are really walking in God's favor.
God's grace is freely given to us, so we should always seek to be a blessing to others. We should seek to be the greatest givers, the greatest tippers, the greatest employers, and the greatest employees, contributing to the betterment of humanity. Let us be people who never demand that someone else is required to take care of us. Rather, let us be people who rest in God's favor on our lives.
Paulette Reed
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