Process and Product Some fruit require a longer ‘time’ in the process stage before they can be considered ‘product’. If the farmer were to bypass this God given process of ‘ripening’ and pick the fruit early if could be disastrous. The fruit may not taste as God intended and in some cases could even make you sick. Process and Product in the Kingdom function much in the same manner. Often those in ‘process’ if not careful can grow impatient. A spirit of comparison then sets in and the individual opens the door to possibly short circuiting their ‘ripening’ or ‘process’ stage. The truth is, is that ‘process’ is often uncomfortable. It doesn’t feel good. It can be scary and believe me, it will stretch you! Don’t allow yourself to fall into comparison towards those who have endured process. Walk out the season where you are. The same God of the product is also the God of the process. Don’t despise the process. Trust God. The very fact you are in a process is a prophecy to the purpose and a destiny on your life. -Consider bamboo- There is a type of Chinese bamboo that when first planted produces nothing visible for the first 4 years... Can you imagine the frustration? Checking your seed every day for 4 years and seeing nothing.. However, while nothing was growing visibly for the first 4 years there was something growing deep below the surface during that time. When the bamboo seed hits its 5th year, a miracle happens, it begins to grow exponentially and by the end of that year can tower over 90 feet tall! Wow!!! You see..it took 4 years of process to build a root system that would properly support the growth that was destined to come in year 5. What many of you are going through right now is a Supernatural process that will prepare you for the exponential growth God has destined for you in the near future. Don’t short circuit that process through fear, doubt and comparison. Trust God where you are and walk out your calling wherever you are. As you are faithful to do that, God will give the increase.
How To Be Led By The Spirit- The Secret To Praying In Tongues
When you constantly allow yourself to be led by what you see, hear and feel, you will find yourself handcuffed to fear unable to break into the blessing of true Spirit filled living.
If you truly want to see the power of God operate in your life, you must be totally submitted to being led by the Holy Spirit. You must be determined to walk by faith and not by sight.
“For we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7)
Stop governing your life by what you see in the natural realm. Don’t be moved by what you see, be moved only by what you believe.
Understand this…that the supernatural realm-the unseen spiritual realm, is even more real than the temporal natural realm you observe and live in every day. In the Kingdom of God, the supernatural should be natural.
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1)
Faith is not just a verb, it’s a noun. Faith is a substance. It is the literal evidence of that which is unseen.
So while walking in, by and of faith we understand that true faith doesn’t create. True faith reaches from the natural realm into the unseen realm and accesses what already exists in the heavens.
Unfortunately, so many christians never fully walk in the full potential that Christ provided for them. They live a life trapped by the philosophies of men and bound by a system of fear.
Many times I'm asked after I return from an international crusade. "Why does it seem that more miracles happen in places like Africa.."
The answer to this has nothing to do with geographical boundaries. The power of God is not bound by geopolitical boundaries.
God is only bound by your ability to believe Him.
In America it has become too convenient to not have to trust God.
I often reply to those asking this question, in Africa they have the 'Great Commission' - In America we have the 'Great Prescription'
If you want to truly access the supernatural power of God. You must learn to hunger for the word of God. Spend time in prayer. Turn everything else off and get in turn with Holy Spirit.
“I want to talk with the utmost frankness and say to you, that tongues have been the making of my ministry. It is that peculiar communication with God when God reveals to my soul the truth I utter to you day by day in the ministry. Many times, I climb out of bed, take my pencil and pad, and jot down the beautiful things of God, the wonderful things of God that He talks out in my spirit and reveals to my heart.” John G. Lake
John Lake was one of greatest generals of faith and power to walk in the body of Christ in centuries.
This was a man who operated in the miracle working power of God so strongly that during an outbreak of plague in Africa he held a handful of infected vomit to prove that the virus would die on contact with his hand.
As he held the specimen up before the doctor, the medical professional couldn’t believe what he was seeing!
The doctor would record that the very plague did indeed die instantly upon contact with John’s body.
The anointing that Brother Lake walked in was directly proportionate to his determination to pray fervently in the Holy Ghost on a daily basis.
When I prepare to preach, as is my custom I usually fast for three days prior to the meetings. However, I make specific effort to pray extendedly in the Holy Spirit. Often for hours during the day I will pray in tongues. This is truly the secret to walking in the power of God.
If you have not been baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues, ask Jesus to fill you with the Holy Ghost. This is promised to all believers who will seek it.
This is one of the greatest keys to walking in the supernatural.
The key to your breakthrough is directly tied to your ability to pray fervently in the Holy Ghost.
Whats on The Inside of You
As I survey the landscape of much of the church and the nation as a whole, it seems that panic and fear has paralyzed many. How is this possible, I ask myself. While I cannot blame those outside of the church for giving into pandemonium and panic. There is an indictment surely to be levied against those who claim to possess the truth of the gospel. The greatest threat to the body of Christ and even our nation, is not the #Wuhan or #Coronavirus. The greatest threat comes from nominal Christianity. We live in an era when vast segments of supposed believers don’t even know the word of God. If asked, they probably couldn’t even name all 66 books of the Bible. Let alone have large portions of scripture memorized and etched into their souls. Truly sad. For many, the only time they even hear a scripture is possibly on a Sunday morning. And that is even if they happen to attend a church that actually preaches from the Bible. It’s quite to contrast when you consider Islam. In Islam most actually spend time memorizing large portions of the Koran. In fact many actually have memorized the entire book. How disciplined they are, and they don’t even possess absolute truth. We possess the Holy Scripture-God breathed and inerrant word of Almighty God. Yet we consider it so flippantly. So today I challenge you, in the midst of a society propagating fear. Get the word of God on the inside of you. Memorize it. Cherish it. Declare it. Believe it. The word of God is the sword of the Spirit and it is your very weapon to wield against every spirit, onslaught, calamity, trial, and tribulation that may assail you. The word of God will not fail! Learn it. Jesus said... “the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63
Coronavirus COVID-19 and You
In the early 20th Century, John G Lake arrived in South Africa. It was during this time that a great pestilence of bubonic plague had broken out ravaging both villages and cities. The dead soon became too numerous to track. In his autobiography John G Lake would write;
“During that great plague that I mentioned, they sent a government ship with supplies and corps of doctors. One of the doctors sent for me, and said, “What have you been using to protect yourself?
Our corps has this preventative and that, which we use as protection, but we concluded that if a man could stay on the ground as you have and keep ministering to the sick and burying the dead, you must have a secret.
What is it?”
I answered, “Brother that is the ‘law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.’ I believe that just as long as I keep my soul in contact with the living God so that His Spirit is flowing into my soul and body, that no germ will ever attach itself to me, for the Spirit of God will kill it.”
He asked, “Don’t you think that you had better use our preventatives?”
I replied, “No, but doctor I think that you would like to experiment with me.
If you will go over to one of these dead people and take the foam that comes out of their lungs after death, then put it under the microscope you will see masses of living germs.
You will find they are alive until a reasonable time after a man is dead. You can fill my hand with them and I will keep it under the microscope, and instead of these germs remaining alive, they will die instantly.”
They tried it and found it was true. They questioned, “What is that?” I replied, “That is ‘the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.’ When a man’s spirit and a man’s body are filled with the blessed presence of God, it oozes out of the pores of your flesh and kills the germs.”
Let me remind you that today the very same Holy Spirit that dwelt in the inside John Lake can and will dwell on the inside of you. If you are blood bought and Holy Ghost filled there is a power flowing through you that when activated by faith dispels demons, depravity and disease. Yes!, that even means Coronavirus (COVID-19).
A believer has NO business being apart of this pandemonium breaking out that is paralyzing communities and entire nations with fear. When you give into fear or ‘PANDEMONium’ you are actually giving place to a demon. A demon of fear and panic.
The ancient Greeks and many who dwelt in Caesarea Philippi actually sacrificed to and worshiped this deity known as ‘Pan’. It was depicted as a half man- half goat demon. Very similar to the satanic baphomet used in demon worship today. This principality ‘Pan’ was called the god of fear, fright and panic. Hence, the very root of the words we use today for ‘pandemonium’ and ‘panic’.
So when you yield to anxiety, fear, fright and panic. You are coming into agreement with demonic power. STOP IT!
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2 Tim 1:7
I rebuke that demon spirit of fear now in the name of Jesus. Be set free from the grip of Pan and his vices by the power of The Living God!
Walk in faith-walk in the Word-walk in the Spirit!
Don’t fall victim to the spirit of fear being purveyed upon the masses by the main stream media. They indeed have an agenda
“There shall no evil befall thee,
Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.” Psalms 91:10
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Buried Dreams
“And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.” (John 11:34)
John 11:1-43
The story here begins with Jesus receiving word that his friend Lazarus was gravely ill. Martha and Mary had been with the Lord as he wiped away blindness, drove out demons, and made crippled limbs straight. Surely, they knew what to do when their brother Lazarus had fallen ill.
They had to get word to Jesus! So they did just that. They sent word for Jesus to come and heal him.
Yet Jesus didn’t respond for four days! Didn’t he care?
Often when we are facing a trial, crisis or dilemma we do just what we should do. We call on Jesus. Yet often it seems that the answer doesn’t come right away or certainly in the way we expect. Finally, in this story Lazarus dies. Mary and Martha were heartbroken. If only you had been here Jesus, they cried out!
Have you ever felt that way before?
By the time Jesus has shown up, the people in Bethany had given up on their miracle. They had buried Lazarus in the tomb and just assumed they wouldn’t see resurrection power until the sweet bye and bye.
It’s here in this circumstance of doubt, unbelief and hopelessness the resounding words of our Savior thunder. “Take me to the place where you’ve laid him”
Today I want to challenge you by the Spirit of God to take Jesus to the place where you’ve laid what you were believing so hard for. You know that one thing that you once believed for but now seemes so distant and dead that you’ve buried it in a tomb and given up on it.
Maybe it’s financial, perhaps it’s a marriage, perhaps it’s a medical condition, perhaps it’s the call of God on your life. Whatever it is. Let me remind you, that Jesus is the resurrection and the life and no matter how long ago you’ve buried it- when Jesus shows up it will come forth!’
Take Him today to place place where you’ve buried that thing and it will live again!
The Reward of God
After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. (Genesis 15:1)
If the reward for seeking God was a million dollars and a Bentley-I could venture to guess the world would knock themselves over to get to God.
However the reward for seeking God is not things or physical blessing. It is not even healing or answer to prayer.
The reward for seeking after God is Jehovah Himself!
The LORD declared to Abraham -I AM your exceeding great reward!
Stop seeking God's hand and start seeking His face.
He is not just your provider He is your provision! He is not just healer-He is healing! He is not just savior-He is salvation!
In the presence of the Lord there is fullness of joy!
When you learn to seek Him, you will find that the reward for seeking God is more of God.
When you get to that place of seeking Him and being satisfied only with God and God alone- It's there that you find yourself abiding in Him and He in you. It's when that happens as Jesus said "When we abide in Him and He in us"-it's then and only then that he promised we could asked anything in His name He would do it.
Quit seeking an anointing and start seeking the Anointer! Quit seeking miracles and start seeking the miracle worker- Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God- The King of Glory!
I'm not satisfied with stories and testimonies of what God has done, I am only satisfied with the God of those testimonies.
Abraham was blessed because He sought God and God became His reward!
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Go and Possess The Land
Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. (Deuteronomy 1:21)
The command of the Lord here is seemingly simple. 'Go and possess it'
God had set the land as an inheritance before the children of Israel and simply declared "It belongs to you- Go, occupy and plant yourself there"
You know the story however of what occurred next.
The children of Israel sent spies into the Land to assess the strength of the people who lived there. The spies came back and reported to the Israelites: 'It's a beautiful and wonderfully prosperous land but not so fast- Did you see the size of those guys they declared...'
"And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there"(Deuteronomy 1:27-28 KJV)
All of a sudden fear and unbelief had crept in. Instead of moving into the land in obedience to the command of God the people rebelled against the word of the Lord through unbelief.
Did God tell them it would always be easy? No!
In fact God told them to go and possess the land but He also commanded them not to fear and not to be discouraged. God understood that there would be some foes in that land that may strike fear in the hearts of ordinary individuals, but these were not to be ordinary individuals moving to possess this land.
These were the chosen people of God and the LORD Himself declared that He would be with them.
How soon had these people forgotten of the delivering power of Jehovah that broke the yoke of pharaoh from off their backs.
How soon had they forgotten of the miraculous parting of the Red Sea.
How soon had they forgotten of the tangible power and presence of the Most High that led them daily as a pillar of fire by night and cloud by day.
They had refused to see with the eyes of faith. They had refused to see through the eyes of the 'promise'. Rather, they chose to view things through the eyesight of rationalization and the lens of doubt.
Sure the occupants of that land were fierce.
Sure they were ferocious.
Sure they were Giants and their cities were heavily fortified.
In fact the spies returned and struck panic and fear in the hearts of the people as they declared that 'they were as grasshoppers in the sight of the Giants'.
Unbelief and doubt soon spread like cancer.
The people began to turn on God and harbor resentment.
They began to spiral into depression as they murmured and began to accuse God of bringing them there to die.
They allowed the word of men to trump the word of God.
God Himself had declared that He was going to fight for them.
If God is for you, who can be against you?
God has commanded you to 'Go and possess the land'.
So I ask, what Giants are in your way?
What things seem to tower over your circumstances and cause you to lose hope and thus lose faith?
Your present circumstances are not greater than your promise. Your promise is greater than your present.
Don't look at your dilemma or your adversary through the natural eyes.
Look at it through the lens of the word of God.
What did God say?
If God said it then He will do it!
Arise in faith and go possess the land! The battle is not yours but the Lord's.
Stumble not at the promise through unbelief but stand in faith and be steadfast.
Don't Count Me Out
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen 1:1-2
It was here in the darkness and chaos that ensued the Spirit of God literally moved upon the face of the darkness. It was here in the chaos of a fallen world after creation that it seemed bleakness would prevail. But here in the midst of the darkness the Spirit of God began to move. Something began to happen….
The darkness of your life, your need, your situation is about to be moved upon by the Spirit of God! God is about to move in your situation.
It may be bleak right now.
The doctors may have looked at you and said you have to die and cannot live.
Perhaps your spouse has walked out on you.
Maybe your children have walked away from God.
Perhaps it’s financial.
It might even be discouragement and confusion flashing through your mind.
But whatever it is-
It’s about to meet with a God with which it cannot contend!
The Spirit of God is about to move in your situation.
The actual Hebrew word translated ‘moved’ in this scripture is more accurately translated ‘brooded’ or ‘hovered’. Much in the same sense that a mother eagle broods over her eggs to bring life, it was here in the midst of cataclysmic darkness that the Spirit of God began to brood over the face of the deep.
Like an eagle, the Holy Spirit began to hover over creation and bring life. When an eagle broods over her eggs she completely sets herself down on top of them, she envelopes them completely in order to incubate those eggs until they are ready to burst forth with life.
I hear God saying in your situation; “Life is about to burst forth!”
Can you hear it as faith begins to rise in your heart?
I don’t know what kind of darkness and disaster you may be faced with but the Spirit of God is about to begin to brood over you.
He is about to set down over your family, your health, your mind, your children, your finances.
He is about to cover you with His wings and begin to incubate you until your miracle is ready to be birthed.
Your miracle is on the way! I know it may look dark. It may seem impossible- But not with God, for with God all things are possible.
The bleakness and chaos of your circumstances is just the incubation chamber for that which the Spirit of God will birth your miracle from!
Faith-The Key to God's Abundance
Heb 11:1,2,6
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report."
"But without faith it is impossible to please Him; for he that cometh to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."
God will never create a life for you that makes Him unnecessary in your life. Faith exists in the NOW. The scripture here states that faith is the basis of those things hoped for. It is the literal vehicle from which you can access the tangibility of that you have hoped for.
It is important to understand however that many have hope but lack faith. While it is possible to have hope without faith, it is impossible to have faith without hope. Hope without faith is simply presumption. Faith operates on a promise.
There are many who travel to Las Vegas with misplaced hope that they will strike it rich or that they will win big. Hope without true faith is empty. This is why the scripture says that faith is the true substance (tangibility) of that which we hope for.
Faith is simply confidence. It is confidence that God's track record is faithful and that He will perform His word. Once you realize that it is impossible for God to lie you will realize that it is impossible for Him to not perform His word on your behalf. (Heb 6:18), (Num 23:19)
The bible declares that faith is the evidence of things not seen. What does this mean? It means that just because you cant see it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Rather faith manifests those things into the physical realm that already exist in the world of the spiritual.
Faith is standing on the promises of God and declaring that those things hoped for are manifested because they already exist. Heb 11:3 "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."
Faith implies that we rely on the track record of God himself. We are confident that no matter what we may see with our natural eyes we now see with the eyes of our spirit. We know with assurance that God will perform His word regardless of what the circumstances of life say.
Faith demands a level of expectancy. The battle of your faith is always won or lost in the arena of your expectancy. What are you expecting God to do for you?
Hebrews 11:6- Demands that without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God.
Why? Because those who come to Him must do 2 things:
1. You must believe that He is. They must believe that He is God and rules with all power and authority. After all He is the Creator of heaven and earth, He is The Lord Almighty and nothing is impossible for Him. He is the Great- I AM that I AM. The Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and The End.
2. You must believe and understand that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. There is nothing wrong with expecting God to move on your behalf. He is a rewarder! Many often errantly say "I don't expect anything from God" Well no wonder they don't ever get a miracle! You must expect God to move!
Grab ahold of the word of God and begin to believe for your miracle. Your breakthrough is on the way!
Be healed in your body; Be set free in your mind; The bondage of oppression is broken; Be prosperous and be blessed in the name of Jesus!
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for your miracle.