Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
GUIDANCE
This is amazing that someone even thought of this!
Dancing With God When I meditated... on the word Guidance, I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing. When two people try to lead, nothing feels right.
The movement doesn't flow with the music,
and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky. When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead, both bodies begin to flow with the music. One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back or by pressing Lightly in one direction or another.
It's as if two become one body, moving beautifully. The dance takes surrender, willingness, and attentiveness from one person and gentle guidance and skill from the other. My eyes drew back to the word Guidance.
When I saw "G": I thought of God, followed by "u" and "i". "God, "u" and "I” dance." God, you, and I dance.. As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust that I would get guidance about my life. Once again, I became willing to let God lead.
My prayer for you today is that God's blessings and mercies are upon you on this day and everyday. May you abide in God, as God abides in you. Dance together with God, trusting God to lead and to guide you through each season of your life.
This prayer is powerful and there is nothing attached. If God has done anything for you in your life, please share this message with someone else. There is no cost but a lot of rewards; so let's continue to pray for one another. And I Hope You Dance Through 2010!
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Walking in the Spirit
This is about my favorite subject, trading(walking) in the Spirit. Matthew 6:33 (KJV) says:
But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
On New Year’s Eve at the end of 2007, the Lord spoke to me and He said, “As my people seek me and my will and go after the Kingdom things that I am calling them to do, I will take care of everything else for them.”
There is a story I like to tell, and it is about the man and the dam. There was a man who lived in the valley close to the dam. A news bulletin came across the television that the dam was about to break. Another man drives up to his house and tells him to “Come and get in the car, the dam is breaking!” The man says, “No, no, no! God will save me!” The man remained in his house and did not get in the car. The dam broke and the water rushed up to the second floor of his home. Another man comes by in a boat and he says, “Hurry up, hurry up! Get into the boat, the valley is flooding!” The man says, “NO, no, no! The Lord is going to save me!” The water continued to rise, and the man is forced to get onto the rooftop of his house. A man in a helicopter flies overhead and says to the man, “Come on and get into the helicopter so you won’t drown!” The man says, “No, no, no! The Lord God is going to save me!” Unfortunately, the man drowns. The next scene we see is the man standing before God in Heaven. He asks the Lord, “Lord, why didn’t you save me?” The Lord looked at him and said, “Look, I gave you a car, I gave you a boat, and I gave you a helicopter. What more could I have done for you?”
The man in this story believed that God would save him but not in the way God chose. Do you hear the Lord? Are we living in the last days? What part will you have to help bring in the end time harvest? I believe the Lord is saying to the church, “If you would get your mind on MY things and MY agenda, then I will add everything to you that concerns you.” The scripture in Matthew 24: 6-9 (NAS) says:
You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs. Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
The life of Joseph was one of great personal sufferings which led into a great ministry reaching out in a saving way into the whole world. The Joseph anointing is one that comes from God through a prophetic word spoken into one’s life. The anointing comes as we walk IN the word that God has given to us. Then we speak it forth! According to Romans 10:17 (KJV), speaking the word of the Lord will cause faith to come.
So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
This anointing is designed by God to manifest in the lives of His people in the last days. It is part of the fullness and the restoration of all things in Christ. God operates in both the natural and the spiritual. Today’s Joseph projects are designed to help God’s people through the famine (difficult times) and prepare for the Lord’s coming. During the end times of inflationary collapse of the world’s financial system, it will be the Josephs mission to sustain God’s people from the famine.
The “Joseph anointing” in the earth today has a primary purpose to extract real wealth out of the world’s system and judiciously channel it into the kingdom of God as the Lord commands. The goal for us as Christians is to use the finances of the world system to deliver the message of the gospel, which saves and sanctifies man from sin in the world.
In 2006 the Lord said to me, “I have given you a worldwide bank (The Forex Market) and an ATM Machine (A trading platform) to make withdrawals by My direction, to fund the end time harvest of souls into My Kingdom.” This is not teaching you trading; this is teaching you to take by His direction! The Lord wants us to learn how to take. He wants us to learn how to take the money out of the market to fund HIS missions. A good example of this would be my dear friend in Romania. Feri viewed one of our Wealth Transfer presentations and received a word from the Lord in John 21. God gave him a confirming word that he was to trade the Forex to fund his projects.
Trading in the Spirit is being directed by the Holy Spirit, which means you will have to get IN the Spirit in order to hear Him and allow Him to direct you in what you are doing. A lot of people I meet come to me and ask me, “What is the secret to what you do? What is the secret to obtaining wealth?” I tell them, “The secret is already there. There is no magic anointing. You are already anointed!”
As we look at John 21:1-10, we see the miracle of the fish. The Disciples were on the boat all night laboring to bring in the catch of the day. They worked all night, but still no fish! They saw a man on the shore, and he called out to them and asked them how their fishing was going. They told him they had not caught a thing! The man then told them to try putting their net on the other side of the boat. The men did as they were told and dropped their net on the other side of the boat. Much to their surprise, they pulled up a net overflowing with fish! Suddenly, they realized this man was Jesus. When they got their eyes off themselves and all their problems, they looked unto Jesus only. They were obedient, and they prospered having all their needs provided for them. This is what the Lord is trying to tell the Body of Christ today; Look unto Him for all your needs!
Many of us have been given dreams, visions and creative ideas from the Lord but have been unable to bring these things to fruition due to a lack of finances. God wants to activate all those dreams and visions he has given to you. The Lord is activating those prophetic dreams and dusting them off! I believe after you read this book, you will not have any more excuses to give to the Lord as to why you cannot do what He has called you to do. The vision God has given to me for Cyros Karios Group has created a way for us to bring in the money to fund our missions and the end time harvest of souls.
It is my desire you will answer the call of God on your life, for it is God who has called you and not man. God has a purpose and a plan for you to fulfill in your life.
Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity. 2 Timothy 1:9 (NAS)
I pray you find a reason and a purpose that will create the need, to motivate you into action. By using the precepts in this book, I believe you can fund the project God has given you to do. You have a purpose and there is a need, so now it is time to bring your project to fruition. Let the Holy Spirit lead you, and once you have learned to trade in the spirit, you will have learned to walk in the spirit.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
FORERUNNER…Reclaiming the Kingdom
The Forerunner spirit is the spirit of a man or woman whom God has called to run ahead of the others to prepare the way for upcoming events. Those with this spirit will see around the corner and into the future to prepare God’s people for events unseen. God is speaking to the prophets today and sharing His heart with them.
Forerunner-Reclaiming the Kingdom is just that. It is a prophetic call to God’s believers to learn how to transfer the wealth of the wicked into the hands of the righteous. There is a famine coming and an eminent global economic collapse on the horizon, and God wants us to be ready. Whether you are a businessman, housewife or pastor, Forerunner-Reclaiming the Kingdom will empower and teach you by the direction of the Holy Spirit to trade the Forex Market.
Below is a prophetic word found on "Elijah List Publications" given by Jon Hamill on January 11, 2008. This prophetic word will give you further understanding of the Forerunner Spirit.
Jon Hamill:
"A Re-emergence of the FORERUNNER SPIRIT will Pioneer a NEW EXPRESSION of God's HEART"
Recently the Lord released me to declare a word that has been in my heart for more than a year. It is with great excitement and anticipation for 2008 that I share with you the Re-emergence of the Forerunner Spirit.
The Forerunner Calling
Let's begin with some context. Forerunners are called to go ahead of the broader Body of Christ to "prepare the way for the people." In other words, their labors are primarily to pioneer a new expression of God's heart and work. To me, the call of a forerunner is best summed up in Isaiah 51:16, "I have set My words in your mouth, and have hidden you under the shadow of My hand, to establish the Heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, you are My people."
Three primary missions of the forerunner calling are identified in this verse. The first mission is to "establish the Heavens"--to bring breakthrough in the spirit realm so that a move of God can have free course between Heaven and earth. Once a portal is opened, we have the honor of maintaining an open Heaven through the communion of worship, intercession and passionate obedience to His voice.
The second mission is to "found, or lay the foundations, of the earth." The work of a forerunner is apostolic in nature. Christ must be laid as the Chief cornerstone, and the foundations laid with much care. God desires in this season to recover our apostolic foundations--even as a nation--and build His Kingdom instead of our own.
Anointing to Prepare the Way
Part of the forerunner mantle is an anointing of preparation--to build by the Spirit for future realities we couldn't possibly know how to prepare for in the natural. Just ask Noah, Joseph, Elijah or Paul. They established works by the Spirit that impact us massively even today, when they had very little understanding of the scope of their labors.
The third mission is to say to Zion, "You are My people." In other words, God passionately desires to call back a covenant people who do not know that He cherishes them in His heart. We are all qualified through the Blood of Jesus as His covenant people! Part of preparing the way is standing with the Lord in prayer--until the hearts of those He claims are penetrated by the expression of His heart for them.
The Re-Emergence of the Forerunner Spirit
In a dream I had last October, I found myself talking with an apostolic leader who, in his calling as a forerunner, has been mightily used by God to call people to prayer for America.
We were talking at length around a white table, outside in the sun. Then this leader suddenly got up and took a walk. As he did, everything but the table turned very dark,
almost as if an invisible dimmer switch had been turned in the Heavens. Then the leader re-emerged and sat down again at the head of this white table.
In the dream, I then asked him what the Lord was showing Him for 2008. He said to me, "This year, God is giving apostolic authority in prayer to release the River of God and to direct its path."
Dream Interpretation
Darkness of the Hour: Many things are being conveyed in this dream. First, darkness is increasing. Nationally and perhaps globally, we have entered into a new season of spiritual engagement. Perilous times have come, and the stakes for the Body of Christ have become much higher.
Individually, many have been in a season described in Matthew 25 where the Bridegroom was delaying. Life and circumstances have grown more challenging. Darkness is increasing. Hearts are being tested.
Retooled for Advancement: Secondly, this dream represents the Lord drawing many into a season of communion with Him. God is inviting us to the Table of the Lord, to daily receive Christ's life-redeeming Body and drink deeply of His precious Blood. In the dream, the table never lost its luminance even as the darkness increased. His communion is the only place of safety, light and true satisfaction.
In the midst of this season, God has been retooling many of His forerunners for great advancement in 2008. We will find a recovery of vision and apostolic momentum that we could not have received any other way. There is a re-emergence of the forerunner spirit.
Releasing the River: I also understand from this dream that the release of the River of God is a top priority for 2008. The Lord is now calling His Body to forerunning prayer so that this substance of Heaven can be released and directed to the churches, regions and nations that are on His heart. He is releasing a perpetual stream of justice and transformation. "Let justice roll like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" Amos 5:24.
Forerunning Prayer for Awakening
A cry for lost souls has been strangely absent from our prayer meetings these last few years. But this cry is now being restored to many in the Body of Christ.
During the second great awakening, an intercessor affectionately known as Father Nash worked with Charles Finney for regional evangelism. Nash's job was to go ahead of Finney, find a few intercessors, and literally weep for souls between the porch and altar until God broke through. He would then summon for Finney, and the lost would literally be swept into the Kingdom by this river of awakening.
This year, God is again uncapping this well. The anointing of the forerunning prayer for awakening is being restored to the Body of Christ. Tears of compassion and travailing prayer will again flood our prayer rooms--because God is releasing apostolic authority in prayer to release this river of awakening and to direct its path!
Don't be surprised if Ishmael again discovers a well and becomes addicted to the springs of living water. Heaven's resources are now being extended for a great awakening in the Islamic world. In the days of Finney, no ground claimed by spiritual darkness remained impenetrable to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. God is again looking for intercessors who will cry out until this river of Christ's salvation breaks through into hearts, homes, cities and nations of the Islamic world.
Heaven's Gates Are Opening --No More Delay!
Many prophets have shared how God is using storms in the natural to represent the work He wants to release. Early last May, my wife Jolene and I were en route to minister in Lawrence, Kansas. As our plane was landing in Kansas City, God told me to decree that, "the angelic blockade is over."
I have been familiar with demonic blockades--strategies of the enemy to withhold needed resources in the spirit and the natural. But I have never heard of an "angelic blockade."
Then the Lord showed me a vision of four angelic hosts, very tall and strong, struggling to keep shut what appeared to be four gates in the sky, which held back great resources. They were responding to immense pressure from Heaven's side to keep the gates shut. But the pressure to open the gates came from the substance of accumulated answers to prayer.
In a flash, I knew that these resources were being withheld by these angels until God's heart had been satisfied through repentance, and His Body had matured enough to properly steward His substance. I knew that it was time to decree the release of these covenant resources. Later in the week, Kansas and Missouri were deluged with flooding as rivers and streams overflowed their banks!
In 2008, the Lord is saying to many people and even many movements: "NO MORE DELAY." The angelic blockade is over. A maturity has been gained that will propel this move of His Spirit forward with a depth we have never before seen. He is again releasing a forerunner anointing to bring salvation and transformation to the earth. Let's tap into this river and prepare the way of the Lord!
Jon Hamill Lamplighter Ministries
Thursday, March 11, 2010
THE HOLINESS of GOD - excerpts by A.W. Tozer.
THE HOLINESS of GOD
-excerpts by A.W. Tozer.
“God is not now any holier than He ever was. And He never was holier than now. He did not get His holiness from anyone nor from anywhere. He is Himself the Holiness. He is the All-Holy, the Holy One; He is holiness itself, beyond the power of thought to grasp or of word to express, beyond the power of all praise.”
“Language cannot express the holy, so God resorts to association and suggestion. He cannot say it outright because He would have to use words for which we know no meaning. He would have to translate it down to our unholiness. If He were to tell us how white He is, we would understand it in terms of only dingy grey.”
“It was a common thing in olden days, when God was the center of Human worship, to kneel at an altar and shake, tremble, weep, and perspire in an agony of conviction. We don’t see it now because the God we preach is not the everlasting, awful God, ‘mine Holy One’ (Habakkuk 1:12), who is ‘of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity’ (Habakkuk 1:13).”
“We’ve used the technical interpretation of justification by faith and the imputed righteousness of Christ until we’ve watered down the wine of our spirituality. God help us in this evil hour!”
“We come into the presence of God with tainted souls. We come with our own concept of morality, having learned it from books, from newspapers and from school. We come to God dirty – our whitest white is dirty, our churches are dirty and our thoughts are dirty – and we do nothing about it!”
“If we came to God dirty, but trembling and shocked and awestruck in His presence, if we knelt at His feet and cried with Isaiah, ‘I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips’ (Isaiah 6:5), then I could understand. But we skip into His awful presence. We’re forgetting ‘holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord’
(Hebrews 12:14).”
“O God, soon every person must appear before you to give an account for the deeds done in the body. Father, keep upon us a sense of holiness so that we can’t sin and excuse it, but that repentance will be as deep as our lives. This we ask in Christ’s name. Amen.”
-A.W. Tozer.
For I have called you and I will do it declares the Living God!....look not to your right hand or your left hand, but look to me!....I am alive and real!....Do not lean into the help of man!...as you seek Me with all of your heart, you shall find me, ….For I am not a God that is afar off, but I am at hand....yes even in your very mouth!
Open your mouth and I will fill it with Myself...I am the living God that inhabits the praises of my people.....as you praise, you still the avenger....as you praise, my life and light confuses and confounds the enemy!......the light of My life in you shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it, the darkness cannot overcome Me, says Jesus Christ alive from the dead!...My life in you is greater than anything in this age – greater than anything you are going through – greater than your present circumstances!...
Who is a man that you should fear him, and that you forget Me your Maker?....For you did not choose me, but I have chosen you and ordained you...I have called you and I will also perform it....I have drawn you with the cords of My love and disciplined you with the rod of My correction that you might know me as your Father!...I will not leave you!...You are mine!...I will not forsake you, but will complete and accomplish that which I have ordained for you!...I have purposed to bring for the the Life of my Son through you, says the Living God!
I have wounded and I will make whole!...I have broken your reliance upon the power of your flesh!....Behold it is I and not another!...I lift you into myself....I fill you with the grace and ability to walk with Me as you take My yoke upon you!...I am meek and restore you from your brokenness!...In My presence is the fullness of your life....you were created for Me....you are My glory in the earth!....have not I said that you are my witness? – that through you the world may know and understand that there is no other God?!....behold darkness shall cover all the peoples of the earth, yes, gross darkness, but it shall not be upon you says the Living God, the Creator of the ends of the earth!.....my glory shall arise upon and within you and you shall be called the redeemed of the Lord! I have called you by my name!
Only look to Me and know that I am for you and not against you!...I have set you as one that is among snakes and scorpions....and yet, fear not...Behold, I give you power to trample snakes and scorpions....for you shall go to all that I send you to, and shall speak My Words!...say not that you are not able, for I will give you a mouth and such wisdom that your adversaries will not be able to resist!
Come into Me as I come into you, says the Redeemer of your soul!!...We are one - and I will keep you!..I will hide you in My secret pavilion and keep you from the strife of tongues....only look to Me says the Lord that redeems your life...I will cause you to ride in the high places says the Judge of the whole earth!....for promotion doesn't come from the east, or west, or south, but I alone lift one up and put down another!......
I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling and you shall no more drink of it, but I will put it into the hands of those that afflict you!....Have not I said that vengeance belongs to Me?....I am not a man that I should lie, nor the son of man that I should repent!....I have spoken this and it shall come to pass!
Behold it is I and not another!....I prepare a table before you in the midst of your enemies!...I am with you and I will hold your hand1...I will not leave you – only be bold and be strong....receive My life and let the strength of My Word live in you....I have prepared you in the secret place and because you have set your love upon me, I will exalt you, I will deliver you and set you on high....I alone will lift you up!
Be you lifted up oh you gates!....be lifted up you everlasting doors and the King of Glory shall come in!....Who is this king of glory??....the Lord!...the Lord Strong and Mighty.....Your God that stands with you and says that you shall reign with me!...fear not the reproach of men – only look to Me and you will see that I am your present help in this time of trouble!