God has been speaking since the beginning of time. God created us to communicate with us. The prophetic flow is God communicating His thoughts, desires, plans and purposes for His creation to those who are willing to hear His heart. In this present age, the Lord continues to release fresh revelations of His plans, purposes and will to those with ears, and a desire, to hear what He has to say.
We enter into the prophetic flow of Life and Truth as we: (1) listen to the Living Word of the Living God, and (2) as we submit to the direction, or leading, of the Holy Spirit through that Word. God is longing for those who are willing to draw closer to His heart, listen to His voice, and carry His heart to those He wants to touch in this earthly realm. We must hear what the Father is saying and do what He is telling us to do in this last hour.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
New Breed
There is a new breed of Christian arising from the ashes which are the present-day church. These will be on fire for the Kingdom of God and will no longer be content to “play” church, but to be the church. “You are God’s house, you are God’s building.” These have a passionate hunger and thirst for God’s righteousness and God’s Words. These carry the seed of His Word in the womb of their spirit, to birth forth the Lord’s will and purposes in this earth. These will not turn aside to the left, or to the right, but their hearts are fully surrendered to the Master and their spirits are completely yielded to the leading of His Spirit. Their hearts beat with His, for they have surrendered the whole of themselves to the Master, without reservation or hesitation. These seek the glory of the Lord and are crossing over to new realms of revelation concerning the Father’s will and ways. These have shifted into supernatural realms (supernatural provision, protection, and revelation), the heights of which are beyond finite human reasoning or the sense realm.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
What is Holiness?
"Be holy for I am holy." - 1 Peter 1:16
The LORD our God is holy. He tells His people to be holy, as He is holy, in the Old and the New Testaments. What does it mean to be "holy"? How are we, as mere mortals, to become as holy as our God?
The Hebrew word for "holy" is qadash. It is defined as clean, pure, consecrated, or dedicated. Many Christians have interpreted this definition as something that we do externally. However, while holiness may be manifested externally, it is more a state of being that is an internal (i.e., in our hearts, our minds, our souls and our spirits) reality.
Consider our Lord's discourse with the Scribes and Pharisees, during His earthly ministry.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like white washed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. - Matthew 23:25-28
Jesus referred to many of the religious elite, of that time, as "hypocrites". They appeared to be religious on the outside because they did all the things that made onlookers believe that they were super spiritual, or religious, but it was only to gain the approval of man. God was not impressed! That may have been because they needed an inner transformation to become what they could only pretend to be externally.
The same holds true for the modern day "saint" of God. Holiness must first become an inner transformation that leads to an external reality. That can only happen by the grace of God, as we submit and commit ourselves to Him to do the work, within each of us, that only He can do.
Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but, as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy." - 1 Peter 1:13-16
The LORD our God is holy. He tells His people to be holy, as He is holy, in the Old and the New Testaments. What does it mean to be "holy"? How are we, as mere mortals, to become as holy as our God?
The Hebrew word for "holy" is qadash. It is defined as clean, pure, consecrated, or dedicated. Many Christians have interpreted this definition as something that we do externally. However, while holiness may be manifested externally, it is more a state of being that is an internal (i.e., in our hearts, our minds, our souls and our spirits) reality.
Consider our Lord's discourse with the Scribes and Pharisees, during His earthly ministry.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like white washed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. - Matthew 23:25-28
Jesus referred to many of the religious elite, of that time, as "hypocrites". They appeared to be religious on the outside because they did all the things that made onlookers believe that they were super spiritual, or religious, but it was only to gain the approval of man. God was not impressed! That may have been because they needed an inner transformation to become what they could only pretend to be externally.
Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but, as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy." - 1 Peter 1:13-16
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