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Monday, August 12, 2019
"Here In Your Presence" Antioch International Church worship team led by Toni Bogart
"Here In Your Presence"
Antioch International Church worship team
led by Toni Bogart
Published on Aug 11, 2019
"I Just Came To Tell You" - Antioch International Church worship team, led by Toni Bogart
"I Just Came To Tell You" - Antioch International Church worship team, led by Toni Bogart
"Are You a Scout, Pioneer or Settler?" - Garris Elkins THE ELIJAH LIST
"Are You a Scout, Pioneer or Settler?"
Aug 12, 2019
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I think this is a question we can all ask ourselves in the times and seasons where we co-labor with God.
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"Are You a Scout, Pioneer or Settler?"
In What Season Do You Find Yourself?
Defining how you function in your current season of assignment will clarify your message and its application and help you lead others to the destination of a promise. To describe a season, I will use the metaphor of the westward expansion of the United States during the 1800s. In that expansion, three unique assignments were present – scouts, pioneers and settlers. Each one played a critical role in the settling of the United States, and if properly understood, these unique roles have an important application for us today as we invite segments of our culture to experience a God-birthed destiny.
The westward expansion metaphor is close to my heart. Shortly after arriving in Medford, Oregon almost 20 years ago, I found out my relatives were on the first wagon train into the Rogue Valley in 1846. I discovered that information after visiting a local museum and noting on the manifest of the Applegate Wagon Train that one of the pioneers listed was Alphonso Boone, the grandson of the historical figure, Daniel Boone.
I am a nephew of Daniel Boone. My mother's maiden name was Boone.It was an emotional discovery to realize God had positioned me in a small town where part of my history was waiting to be discovered. I later found out I had other relatives from the Boone family buried in the historic pioneer cemetery less than a mile from our home.
As the Church explores the subject of reformation, the unique role of those early explorers takes on new meaning. We can learn a great deal from those who went before us into new and unfamiliar places. (Photo via Unsplash)
When we ask people to consider something new in God's Kingdom and invite them to make a journey with us into the unexplored landscape of a fresh revelation, this metaphor will take on a personal application.
Scouts Explore and Persuade
The journey westward in the 1800s began with scouts heading out alone to discover a previously unexplored route leading to a new frontier. Scouts found safe passage through dangerous mountain passes and across swollen rivers. Returning from their exploratory venture, they invited people to make that same journey to pioneer a new land. Based on the intelligence the scout gathered, those who followed would experience far less jeopardy in the journey under their care and guidance.
In a spiritual context, scouts explore the expanding frontier of a fresh revelation where an apostolic blueprint is being considered. This is what John the Baptist did when he cried out from the wilderness, announcing the approaching Kingdom of God in the person of Jesus Christ. It is what Paul did when he returned from his missionary journeys and gave a report.
By the power and conviction of the Holy Spirit, scouts persuade and challenge the status quo. They extend an invitation similar to the invitation a scout would offer bands of wagons gathering in the Midwest, waiting for someone to lead them on their perilous westward journey. Scouts present pioneers with the details of an explored route and inspire those listening to entertain the risk required to move forward.
Pioneers Learn Survival Skills
The second group are the pioneers. They are the first to follow the intelligence gathered by a scout. Most wagon journeys began in the spring allowing the pioneers to travel during the summer months. The timing was critical because pioneers would need to arrive at their destination in the early fall before the winter storms came. Once they arrived, they would only have a few weeks to construct crude cabins to survive their first winter in an untamed wilderness.
Their courage against seemingly impossible odds was stunning. I've read accounts of how their clothing and shoes had either worn out or rotted off their bodies in the journey. They learned from mountain men and indigenous people how to make clothing and moccasins from animal skins. In many cases, they lived in these garments for a year or two until traders arrived with new clothing to sell.
During the journey and upon their arrival in an untamed wilderness of a fresh revelation, spiritual pioneers must learn how to survive the first season in a fresh revelation. Everything is immediate to a pioneer. They are surrounded by on-going threats to their survival. Like the children of Israel entering the Promised Land, a place of promise is not immune from hardship. It was hard for the early pioneers in the American West and it is a challenge for present-day pioneers. Some ways of thinking we bring with us at the start of our journey will either wear out or get discarded along the way to lighten our load. Once we arrive at our destination we need to be clothed with new ways of thinking and new methods of operation to prosper and endure. (Photo via Pixabay)
Settlers Create Culture and Community
All revelation must mature in its application. Without that maturity, our presence will not be sustainable, and our influence will eventually die off from exposure to the harsh elements and exhaustion.
A pioneer must make a transition, becoming a settler so the future fullness of the promise can be experienced. Having survived their first winter, settlers began to build community and culture. They created social structures, government, housing, transportation, and trade. Those elements would lead to the long-term socio-economic health of the community, and as a result, those institutions would create a positive and stable influence on following generations.
These three unique assignments of scout, pioneer, and settler are present in any fruitful enterprise whether it is the fulfillment of the Great Commission, starting a business, establishing a new direction for civil government or an artist exploring a new genre. There may be times when we actually move between all three of these roles as our vision or mission changes direction in the journey. The clarity of knowing in which season we are currently assigned goes a long way in helping us prosper and finish well in our Kingdom assignment.(To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
Garris Elkins, Author and Prophetic Minister
Prophetic Horizons
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Prophetic Horizons
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Website: www.garriselkins.com
Garris Elkins and his wife, Jan, are a spiritual father and mother to many, both in the United States and abroad. Garris' ministry, Prophetic Horizons, is a ministry of teaching, writing, and prophecy committed to raising up a prophetic generation to speak to the cultures of our world with the empowered voice of Heaven. Garris and Jan live in southern Oregon.
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Time For The Church To Gather And Pray In Revival (Day 2) - Charlie Shamp on The Jim Bakker show
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Quotes
It’s not government that is going to change this nation, it is the Kingdom of God and it is the preaching of the Gospel that brings people out of bondage. –Charlie Shamp
The Lord will keep President Trump in his position so that America can shine again. –Charlie Shamp
Scriptures
2 Timothy 3:1 MEV Know this: In the last days perilous times will come.
Genesis 1:14 MEV And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons, and days, and years.
Ephesians 2:2 MEV In which you formerly walked according to the age of this world and according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience.
Ezekiel 22:30 MEV I sought for a man among them who would build up the hedge and stand in the gap before Me for the land so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.
Psalm 75:10 NIV Who says, “I will cut off the horns of all the wicked, but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”
2 Chronicles 7:14 MEV If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Mark 8:36 KJV For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
James 2:17 MEV So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
Exodus 13:18 MEV Therefore, God led the people around, through the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea, and the children of Israel went up prepared for war out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 60:1 MEV Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
Matthew 24:7 MEV For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines, epidemics, and earthquakes in various places.
Psalm 37:4 MEV Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Revelation 6:2 KJV And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
1 John 4:4 MEV You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
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Tenacity Through Tumultuous Times - Dr. Peter Wyns
Tenacity Through Tumultuous Times - Dr. Peter Wyns
Streamed live on Aug 11, 2019
Whosoever Will - Now Think On This by Steve Martin
Whosoever Will
“And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples
also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after
me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” Mark 8:34, KJV
The popular ad proclaimed on TV years ago by the USA Armed
Services, “looking for a few good men” brought the attention of many. These days, it would have to include women too, to avoid the wrath of some.
It was also a popular movie starring Tom Cruise and Demi Moore.
As the preacher declared on Sunday, “Some of the best men are women.” (And I am not speaking of transgender illusions.)
It was also a popular movie starring Tom Cruise and Demi Moore.
As the preacher declared on Sunday, “Some of the best men are women.” (And I am not speaking of transgender illusions.)
Jesus wasn’t one to mince words, and because of it, He lost
followers when He spoke directly to the hearts of men and women. He wouldn’t
have made it on the “politically correct” scene today, now would He? He would
have been considered too radical, intolerant of religious people, and one who
was just thinking too highly of Himself.
After all, He was proclaiming, rather publicly at times, that He
was God. Can you believe that?!
Read what He said to the crowd gathering, who did give Him the time of day, as they were a bit curious as to who He was, and what He was saying. “When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.” Mark 8:34-38, NKJV
To give you another sense of what Jesus (Yeshua) was clearly saying to the crowd surrounding Him, here is how The Message has this same passage of Scripture, “Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for?
“If any of you are embarrassed over me and the way I’m leading you when you get around your fickle and unfocused friends, know that you’ll be an even greater embarrassment to the Son of Man when he arrives in all the splendor of God, his Father, with an army of the holy angels.” This doesn’t sound like one who was going after the populous vote, does it? When Jesus spoke truth, it certainly divided the crowd. Some got angry. Others just simply walked away. Many chose to go back to what they are doing, believing this wasn’t for them. Now that was an eternal mistake on their part. Here was Someone offering them life, but they instead kept on down the road to anything but that.
“Whosoever will”, the choice to take the first step, and then to keep following the rest of your life thereafter, is offered to all of mankind, but as the Bible also says, “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.” Matthew 7:13, NASB
This day, as in every day, we are called as believers to walk in the steps of our God, Who came to this planet to show us the way. It can be a hard walk. It can get very difficult. It is not a rose garden as some would have thought they were promised.
And it even gets more treacherous, especially if you are brave enough, courageous enough, to stand against the tide, to support the unborn, the sanctity of marriage, the nation of Israel…
Whoever will. Will you?
Now think on this and see what good things the Lord has in store
for you and those around you.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People, Inc.
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