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.

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.

UC Berkeley: The Bear is Awakening!

This past weekend I was at UC Berkeley for a historic prayer meeting in which about a hundred students, representing about a dozen campuses, gathered to contend for revival at Berkeley. UC Berkeley is the crown jewel of the UC (University of California) system and has affected culture more than any other campus in the western United States. Berkeley is truly a culture shaper and what happens at Berkeley ripples across North America and, from there, the nations of the world.

The sleeping bear that is Berkeley is waking up and will rise up with Kingdom power within its veins. The spirit of apathy is being broken off. The chains that are over Berkeley will be broken and I see thousands casting their chains at the feet of Jesus. We are entering into a time of Jubilee in which things are going to be returned to their rightful owners.

There has always been a war fought over Berkeley for it has been ordained as a culture shaper. Those who hold the keys of Berkeley will choose how it effects the culture of our nation. The enemy has dispatched hundreds of his agents to war against the Kingdom of God so that he might remain in control of the land. I saw the satanists and witches around the campus and I was there for only a few hours. I could sense in the spirit that there were literally hundreds of people engaging in witchcraft and the occult. These agents of darkness are trying to oppose what God is doing on that campus.

We are going to see dozens of bears arise in the midst of Berkeley. These bears are going to devour the agents of darkness and chase them from the land. Some agents will actually be taken out (by them losing their lives) as a result of angelic judgement. Other agents are going to flee the land in confusion and despair. There are going to be others who will repent and come to Christ. I see hundreds of bears arising with holy vindication in the hearts. Many of these bears are going to be intercessors. There are going to be even more angelic bears. As the prayer movement continues to advance they will marshall an angelic response to their prayers.

The Lord is releasing His refined gold to the saints at Berkeley. His glory is being carried by them and will be released in magnificent wonder. Berkeley will carry the glory of God and be a revealer of His character to the nations of the earth.

I see a new speech movement arising upon the campus of Berkeley that will once again touch the nations of the world. This time it's not going to be a sound of rebellion- it's going to be a Kingdom speech movement. I see apostles, prophets, and evangelists arising upon the campus to release the word of the Lord. There will be massive moves of salvations in the open spaces of Berkeley. There will be prophets who will reveal the power of God through signs and wonders. Apostles will stand and establish new movements and expressions of the Kingdom.

God has sounded the alarm! He has released His sound and has called forth a new movement upon His favored campus of Berkeley. This year we will see the stirrings of the bear and in the coming two years we will see the bear demonstrate the power of the Kingdom. God's glory will come to Berkeley!

The Invitation of the Open Door

God has placed an open door before His people. There are corporate doors and there are individual doors for our lives. On the other side of these doors can be found the land of opportunity. But before we can see our opportunity we must first press through the open doors. Some of us have glimpses of our promised land but there are others who have no idea what their promised land is. All that we know is that there is a land of promise on the other side of that door that we must enter into.

In the past we often had to discern whether a particular door was within God's will or not. But I say right now that every open door is God's will. There are no bad doors. There are good doors and even better doors before you. God will make it plain which door you are meant to enter into. There will be no doubt in your mind and there will be an intense clarity as you choose which door to enter into.

God is giving His people an invitation to press through these doors as we leave this current season and enter into the manifestations of destiny. No longer will we languish in hope deferred. We must press through the door of promise and enter into the land of our opportunity. Once we press through the door we will see the promised land laid out before us as Moses did upon the mountain.

Before we can enter into the doors placed before us we must let go of those things that are encumbering us. There are mindsets, habits, and bondages that will keep us from entering through those doors. These things will keep us from entering fully into the land of our opportunity. We must leave these things in the current season and not take them with us. If we try to hold onto these things then we risk becoming misaligned in the land of the promise.

The land of the promise is one that must be conquered. It took the Israelites generations to take their promised land fully and yet even then they didn't remove the pagans from their land and rule it fully. This was because they were misaligned. They allowed themselves to become compromised. We must consecrate ourselves fully in order to take full possession of the promises of God. If we try to take full possession, without full consecration, then we will fall as the Israelites did.

We can't conquer the Kingdom of Darkness if we are aligned with what it stands for. We can't fully advance the Kingdom of Heaven when parts of us wish we were in the world. We can't burn with the fullness of Heaven's glory when parts of our hearts belong to the spirit of the world. We must allow the Holy Spirit to reveal to us those things that need to be purged from us and we must circumcise our hearts at this time.

This is not to say we must be perfect and without sin. All of us are with sin. And all of us have been made perfect by the blood of Christ. When the Father looks upon us He sees us without sin for the righteousness of Christ covers us. This is about what we choose to align ourselves with. The Israelites were not condemned for their sin (it was covered by the lamb of the atonement)- they were condemned by their idolatry. We must not allow ourselves to be aligned with the spirit of the world. We must not allow ourselves to be ruled by darkness but we must be ruled by the Holy Spirit. The days of the compromised middle are over- no longer can we waffle between two opinions. We must serve God and God alone!

This is the time of the open door and the land of the promise. It is time to cross over and to take possesion of what God has given you. Now is the time to walk into your destiny and to make it yours. Don't allow yourself to put it off any longer but press through that door!

September: A Final Push

At the end of 2008 God gave me a blueprint of the next several years and what He was going to be accomplishing within His Church. We are in an era of preparation as God is raising up His end-time generals who will lead His end-time Church.

2008 was a year of new beginnings and open gates for God's people to step into their identity and anointings.

2009 was a year of transition from those beginnings into a new natural order.

2010 was a year of establishment as the Church was put into order to receive what God has for us.

2011 was another transition between the natural order into a new governmental order.

2012 was a year of apostolic government as God established His apostles and released a greater authority into His Church.

Back in 2008 I was filled with excitement about 2012 but I had a holy fear of what was to come in 2013. I knew it wouldn't be good. I saw it as a year of rebellion and backlash against all that God was going to do in 2012. I didn't know what it would look like but I saw it as a year of all out war against the apostolic structure. As 2012 unfolded I was able to obtain greater clarity of what 2013 would bring. Much of what we are currently experiencing is the wrath of the enemy as he is desperately trying to cut off the apostolic structure. We are in the midst of a war as the religious spirit is speaking death over us. We must arise and speak life over ourselves. To read more about this confrontation go and read my word for 2013.

2014 is a year of rest and rebuilding. It is a foundational year as we prepare for a new era. 2014 is the floor of the coming apostolic age that is to come. I will be releasing more about 2014 in the months to come but I see it as a year of refreshment and divine rest as we emerge from the current war for the hearts of God's people. There is a coming war over the Church but right now there is a war being fought over the hearts and minds of those who have been called to lead the end-time move of God on the earth.

Right now we are in a season of refinement and purification. God is revealing those things that cannot remain in our lives any longer. This is a time of Babylon's influence being exposed. God is showing us the lies that we have bought into and improper mindsets that we have adopted. Daniel was able to stand pure in the midst of Babylon because Babylon wasn't within him. If we are to take the mountains of culture then we need to walk in a powerful measure of purity. We are in a time when the compromised middle will be impossible. Either Babylon will claim us or we will be instruments of righteousness within the Kingdom of God. 

Recently the Lord showed me that He is clearing the ceiling of 2013. He is clearing the air of all impurity and mixture. He is calling us to a higher level. But there is no limit to the ceiling. We are in a time where God is calling us to go higher than we ever have before. The ceiling of 2013 will determine the floor of the coming era. God is calling us into a season of consecration and contending for these last few months of 2013. We get to choose how high we will go in this current season. The floor of 2014 will be where the ceiling of 2013 is made. 

For the past week I have been pressing into what God is saying about 2014 and the next few years. I have been asking the Lord to give me His blueprint as He did before. I found myself saying that we were ending one cycle and entering into another season but I realized that this wasn't accurate. We are entering into a new era of the Church. I believe that the Church will never be the same again. We are going to see the emergence of the victorious end-time Church.

Both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur fall within the month of September this year. This is the holiest time within the Jewish calendar. This coming Hebraic year is one of the "door." I believe that there is an open door that God is calling us into. This is a time where we are meant to grab ahold of our destiny. We are to grab ahold of the angel of the Lord, as Jacob did, and not let go until we receive a blessing. No longer will we allow ourselves to look forward to destiny but we will walk our destiny out. This is the time of fulfilled promises as we are in the midst of a wrestling match of sorts. We are wrestling with God as we are coming into alignment with our purpose.

God has been reawakening past dreams and longings within your heart. Take advantage of this season. Ask the Lord for increased revelation. Ask the Lord to give you dreams and visions of your destiny. Don't allow others to define you but allow yourself to be defined by the Spirit of the living God! We have been created in His likeness to live according to His character. Push past rejection, self-doubt, disqualification, and the lies of the enemy. Enter into the garden of the promise as God reveals Himself to you. It is within the heart of God that we discover our purpose.

This is the time of revelation! 

The Mantle of Cyrus

The Lord is raising up His Daniels, Esthers, Ezras, and Nehemiahs within the midst of culture. We are seeing a company of consecrated ones arising within every segment of society. They have been hidden for such a time as this and they are being released into their destiny and purpose in this hour. As God releases them we will see the Cyrus anointing emerge as well.

The prophets have been speaking about a transference of wealth coming to the Church for sometime now. It is the mantle of Cyrus that releases this wealth into the hands of God's people. Cyrus was a pagan Persian king who the Lord anointed to rebuild His house. Isaiah uses a messianic term to describe Cyrus. If it was not for Cyrus we would not have seen the second temple. God is releasing His Cyruses but they will not be able to step into their calling until the Church steps into her purpose.

Before Cyrus could proclaim the rebuilding of the temple, the time to do so had to come to pass, and Ezra and Nehemiah needed to be prepared. Daniel was instrumental in paving the way for the circumstances that were required. We must position ourselves to receive the wealth that the mantle of Cyrus will release while God is stirring in their hearts. But we can't wait for the Cyruses to emerge for we must step out into our destiny before they can. We can't wait for the wealth of the world to be released before we begin those things that need that wealth.

We must exercise a gift of faith and step into what God has for us. We must step into the projects that God has called us to. As we step into our destiny God will align us with the Cyruses that He has prepared for us. There are men and women of wealth who are burning with a passion to release that wealth. Many of them do not know it yet but they are waiting for God's people to emerge. They will be filled with an excitement and they will write checks of great magnitude- above and beyond what we need. They will say things like "this is what we have been waiting for" and "the world needs projects like this to be released."

If God has called you to something then He has already prepared the provision. Many of us have had Cyruses prepared for us but fear is holding us back. We won't discover who our Cyrus is as long as we remain in fear. Fear is an attack of the enemy to keep us from destiny. God is calling us to get out of the boat, and go before the kingpins of industry. God is releasing the mantle of Cyrus on kingpins within each and every industry and segment of culture. We must not be afraid to step out and we can't be afraid to receive the wealth that has been prepared for us.

The mantle of Cyrus will release wealth with no strings attached. A prominent prophet recently told a friend of mine to not be afraid to receive government money for her ministry. I believe that this is a word for many of us. Yes, there will be some who will come and try to control through their funding. But the mantle of Cyrus is not one of control. We are going to see billions of dollars come into the Kingdom as a result of the mantle of Cyrus being released upon the earth. I see the mantle of Cyrus coming down right now! We have seen a few forerunners emerge but we will see an entire company of Cyruses arising! Let us step into what God has for us so that He might align us with the Cyruses of the world and release a provision above and beyond our needs and desires.

Revival among the LGBT community

Almost six months ago we moved our house of prayer into West Hollywood. West Hollywood has one of the most influential homosexual communities in the world. Demographics from the city state that 41% of Weho's population is comprised of gay and bisexual men. Gay pride is part of the city from its culture, landmarks, and even the city logo. Because of this, and my interactions as I walk the streets of the city, I have been meditating more on how the Church must respond to this community and how God feels towards it.

Lonnie Frisbee, on his deathbed, prophesied that the next great revival would be comprised largely of gays and lesbians. Many other prophets have prophesied similar prophecies. I firmly believe that God has planted something great within this community. I don't condone their lifestyle. The enemy has attacked them greatly and brought confusion into the place of their identity. But these people hold a great destiny and I believe that it is for that reason why the enemy has attacked them so greatly.

This past week, during pride weekend, I had the Lord speak to me. He reminded me about how the rainbow was originally created by him as a sign of His covenant with mankind and the mercy that He demonstrates to us. There are those who have perverted it as a sign of rebellion. But as they wave the rainbow flag they are in fact engaging in intercession unknowingly. They are waving the sign of God's covenant of mercy over themselves. God is saying that He will demonstrate His mercy to this community. His law states that they are engaging in sin and rebellion but He is proclaiming mercy over the gays and the lesbians. He is declaring His destiny over them.

Revival is always demonstrated through the unlikely ones- the ones that religion has discounted. The Church has stated that you can't be gay and Christian at the same time. But I am saying right now that we are going to see the gays come to Christ by the thousands. Many of them already know Christ but are prodigals. They have wandered from the truth because they don't know how to reconcile it with their feelings. As they come back to Christ they will encounter the Holy Spirit. We are going to see mass revival within the LGBT community. But we will have to be patient with them. We will have to let God take His time with them to bring full freedom.

I don't understand all of this. I don't understand what this revival will look like. But I know that we need to have love and grace to those who struggle. It doesn't matter what the sin is. What matters is the person's heart before God. There is a passion within the LGBT community that will make the rest of us jealous. There will be a dedication to the prayer room as they come to Christ. I see prayer rooms being established in places where most of us would be uncomfortable going. I see a worship movement arising of dance and music being advanced by men and women waving the rainbow over their communities.

The expression of the rainbow will change as revival will release transformation into the LGBT communities of North America and beyond. The rainbow will no longer signify rebellion but will be a sign of freedom and joy within the Lord. There is a breaker anointing that will be carried by men who once were enslaved but are now free.

As the Church we must welcome this coming move of God. It will challenge our thinking. It will cause us to reevaluate what we once thought true. It will cause us to look more closely at our own sins and shortcomings. But we must welcome this move and we must welcome our brothers and sisters as they return to us.