Thursday, October 31, 2013

The time of divine grace!

Over the past two months I have been seeing 5:55 quite often. I can't count the number of times I have looked at the clock and it was exactly 5:55. I know that five is the number of grace and three is the number of the Godhead. Three fives equals fifteen which signifies divine grace or a greater intensification of grace. I have been praying into this and asking the Lord what He is trying to show me with this revelation. I firmly believe that we have entered into a season where God is revealing His divine grace to His people and moving us into a time of great favor. It is up to us to walk in that favor.

The favor of God is upon us as His children. We don't have to work for His favor as it is a free gift. Does a child have to earn their place with their parents? I've never heard a parent complain that they didn't like their baby as the baby hadn't done anything yet. Have you ever heard a parent say that they would start loving their child once they became useful? Of course not! That's how God views us. He loves us because of who we are- not what we do. We are human beings- not human doings! The Father spoke over Jesus at the time of His baptism "this is my beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased." The Father was pleased in the Son because of Who He was. This was prior to His ministry and all that He did upon the earth.

This is a time of revelation. Have you seen people who walk in radical favor? They don't know a life without favor. This is because they understand who they are in God. They live a life expectant of favor and are able to receive it. God wants to release this revelation of favor to all of us. This is a time of resurrection as we are being reborn into the communion of the Godhead. Allow yourself to receive all that God has for you. Open yourself up to all that the Lord has for your life.

God wants to exalt you. God wants to bless you. Don't live a life bound by the poverty mindset. Don't live a life thinking that you aren't worthy. Don't live a life thinking that you deserve anything less than blessing. God wants you to have good health. He wants you to eat and to have a roof over your head. God wants you to be able to meet your needs. Lack is not from God. The One who feeds the sparrows is the same One who cares for you.

Look for your dreams to come true. Look for the promises that you have given up upon come to fruition. But first you must allow yourself to dream again. You have to pick up the old promises once again. You have to remember the things that the enemy tried to steal away. God is restoring what the locusts have eaten. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal all of those things to you. Start to pray into them. Speak them forth. We must walk in faith that He who has begun a work will faithfully complete it. 

Start to sow into your promises. Sow into your destiny. Look for fertile soil to sow into. I know one minister who received a promise from God about a television ministry. This man sowed an offering into a very prominent television ministry. Shortly afterwards God blessed him with several open doors and this minister know has a television ministry that is touching hundreds of thousands, if not millions, around the world. I have numerous examples like this. Are you called to work among the sex-trafficked? Start to radically sow into anti-trafficking organizations that you value. Do you want to move in deliverance? Sow into deliverance ministers. You will reap what you sow. Be intentional about where you are sowing for you will reap accordingly. Now I am not talking about your tithe, which is a firstfruits offering, this is an offering that is above and beyond. The tithe unlocks other doors of blessing and prosperity. It breaks the curse (this is another teaching for a different time).

Stop focusing on what you don't have and focus on the blessings. If you have to praise God for a glass that is a quarter full then do so. Don't even look at the three quarters that is empty- it doesn't matter. If God provides money for you to pay one of your bills then praise Him and know that He will provide for the rest- don't focus on all of the other bills that still aren't paid. I have started walking in this. It is a lot more fun and a lot less discouraging. Over the past several months I have received enormous blessing. I had a traffic ticket completely dismissed as soon as I stepped before the judge (there was no reason why it should have been). I had an order downsized at work and still received the full commission amount because I wasn't properly notified of the change (this was $500 into my paycheck just because someone "dropped the ball.")

I have even more testimonies but these are just a few. We receive blessing when we walk in blessing. We receive blessing when we release it to others. Walk with a mindset of favor for you are royalty. The mark of Heaven is upon you! We are in the time of God's favor revealed upon the earth. We are in the time of God's favor being released into the lives of His people.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

God's House as a Depository of Wealth

God has always intended for His house to be a depository of wealth. We see this in Solomon's temple. If we total up the amount of gold and silver that David gave for the building of the temple we would have a modern value of $5.6 billion US. Other scholars have totaled up all of the gold and silver that the Bible mentions of belonging to Solomon (most of which was stored in the temple) and that comes out to over $50 billion. God ordained for His house to be a praise in the earth.

Our modern banking system traces its roots back to ancient Babylon where individuals would deposit their wealth into pagan temples for safe keeping in exchange for a hefty fee. Our modern debt structure also comes from these origins. The modern financial structure comes from a system that was built to control wealth and use it to sow into pagan worship. Promissory notes (paper money) were created so that bankers could increase the amount they loaned. This invention brought forth a debt economy.

Everything is intertwined. We see this in the Babylonian structure that has influenced so many segments of society. The debt structure was empowered through other pagan structures such as sexual immorality, etc. An example of this today is the hip-hop culture that makes flashy displays of wealth alongside of symbols of immorality and perversion.

The enemy only knows how to pervert- he doesn't know how to create. The enemy wants to control the wealth that is meant to be controlled by God's people. He steals, kills, and destroys. God has ordained for the wealth of the world to come into the house of prayer. We are about to see the largest transference of wealth that the world has ever seen. Solomon's temple was a mere shadow of this coming transference of wealth. Kings and queens came from around the world because of the glory of Solomon's temple and as they came they brought caravans of camels bearing offerings for the house of the Lord.

We will see the houses of prayer become the greatest depositories of wealth in the world. As we build a dwelling place for the glory of God it will attract wealth. But the Kingdom structure doesn't consume- it creates. The Kingdom structure doesn't hoard- it releases. The houses of prayer are going to be conduits of wealth as the apostles will direct it to where it needs to go. A major role of the apostolic office is the releasing and creation of wealth.

A key component of wealth is justice. They enemy has built his wealth structure upon slavery and the debt structure enslaves all those who come underneath its control and influence. The houses of prayer are going to be conduits of wealth and will direct massive sums of money to address and correct injustices around the world. God will marry the spirit of prophecy with the financial structure. The apostles will receive divine strategies from the Lord and they will have an abundance of resources to carry them out.

There are some key lies that need to be broken off of the body of Christ in this hour. Some of them are:
-That wealth is inherently evil
-That desiring wealth is wrong
-Poverty is Godly
-Individuals can't be trusted with wealth
-Government is meant to be the steward of wealth
-Ministers shouldn't be wealthy

We must renew our minds and come into alignment with God's truth before we can enter into the blessing of wealth. There is a corporate blessing that the Church must receive so that we might be the stewards of wealth that God wants us to be. We are at the cusp of the greatest move of God that the world has seen. We will see a billion souls come into the Kingdom and a great ransoming as the chains of slavery will fall off even more. Along with this clarion cry of freedom will be billions and billions of dollars laid at the feet of the apostles to be released into the world for the glory of God.