9/21/2020 Faithful until the end! This is the Lord's expectation of you! (Prophetic Drive Time)

Finish the race. Be faithful until the end. 

There are so many people who are distracted by different things, and different times and different seasons. With each event, it causes people to stop and say, "What's going on and where am I with God?" With each event, people are tempted and they find themselves looking off their responsibility, looking away from what they are called to do and bringing into question their commission. But the Lord is saying to you, "Be faithful until the end."

When you don't allow the moments and situations to shift your focus, it keeps you on target, it keeps you on course, on path to achieving, to arriving, to doing the things God called you to do. 

Stop being concerned with everything that is going on around you. You have to know that you are in this world but not of this world. And it very important for you to know that whatever assignment God has given you, your requirement or God's expectation of you is to be faithful over the thing that He has given you until the end. 

We're subtly programmed to think that every time a situation arrives, then all of a sudden it augments what God has spoken, the first thing we bring into question is what God has spoken. We have to disavow ourselves from this ungodly, pollution of an idea and a notion. We are responsible which means I don't care if it's all falling down around you, God's expectation of you is to be faithful until the end. Faithful in your belief, that Jesus is who He says He is, that He is the author and finisher of your faith, He is your salvation, the key to your salvation. 

DIE BELIEVING.

If we are the ones chosen to be here when the Lord arrives, when He shows up, He made this statement here: 
Luke 18:8
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Faith is an action. Will He find the action of faith permeating the atmosphere? Or will people be so lukewarm, so broken by what they see, so enamored by their own situations that they have lost connection to what God has spoken?

A lot of people got a lot of things to say about what Jesus is looking for. But Jesus will tell you, When I come, you know what I'm looking for - faith. I wanna see it in action, I wanna see it in your belief in Me. I wanna see it in your belief to heal your body, I wanna see it in your belief to stay faithful to Me, while they're changing laws and doing all these things, I wanna see it in action. 

-The story of when angel Gabriel come to visit Zacharias and Elizabeth-

Luke 1:12-17

And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.

But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

The Lord is saying for you, there are some of you that the Lord is talking to you about something very dramatic, something very life changing, something that is so far beyond you and you have been struggling at the preponderance, weight or size of the Lord's communication to you. You're like, "Could God really do it?" You find yourself a little intimidated by it. You kind of don't believe it. Reality is you're struggling to believe what God has said.  

The Lord says, He can't even tell you what He has planned for you right now. He's going to strengthen your faith little by little to be able to even take.

The Lord says, I have so much more for you but you can't even stomach it. You can't even take what I have to say to you, you would throw it up, you would just vomit it, you wouldn't be able to take the word. So the Lord's gonna feed you that gerber food until you're strong enough to handle. Some of you don't even know the significance of what God wants to do, willing to do, is able to do for your life right now. So you are snacking on the very morsels of words that are coming through, that God has given you but they have not even tapped into the full weight of what He wants to do for you, what He's able to do for you, what He's willing to do for you. You haven't even been able to knock on the door of the provisions that are assigned to you. You're not even in the hallway. You're not even in the room. It's one thing to collect treats being in the favor of God, being in the goodness of God, but it's another thing to knock on the door and see what God has in store for you. 

In this passage (Luke 1:12-17), Gabriel is giving the run down of what's gonna happen, showing Zacharias what's at the door. 

Luke 1:18 

And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

This is the problem many people have is they look naturally to try to determine what God is able to do. But God don't care nothing about your age, bank account, about your natural conditions. Your natural situation is no limitation for God. He doesn't work by the constraints of your natural situations or environment. That's why He can take you out of the hood and put you in the palace, out of the pigpen and put you in leadership. There are so many people who are prophesying to themselves, opening their mouth and declaring what God can and cannot do based upon the natural limitations. Some of you have become your own worst false prophet. You have opened your mouth and limited God based upon your experience, your childhood, what you got going on around you, where you come from. You have lied. You have opened up your mouth and prophesied against your own self, your own destiny and what God is willing to do for your life. 

Luke 1:19

And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.

You struggling at a good thing that God's been. We're quick to grab some negative things but when God shows up talking about a good thing, we struggle at it. What is it about us that we can't take the goodness of God? Do you see how difficult it is for us to receive good from God? 

Luke 1:20

And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.

There was such an harsh response to his lack of faith, it's because the lack of faith is an abominable perspective in the Kingdom of God. With it, you can please God. Without it, God will cast you out. It's an absurdity in the Kingdom of heaven. It's offensive to the integrity, the righteousness, the holiness, the authority, the sovereignty, the might, the ability, the power of God. Gabriel was offended.

Some of us asks God for confirmation like Gideon. "Is this from You, Lord?" 

When your heart is for God and you have given yourself, God says, He's gonna make it hard for you who are submitted unto Him in this time frame to be misled. If it's not so, He's gonna tell you. If you're not going in the direction that God does not want you to go, He's going to tell you. He's not going to leave you subject anybody who is trusting in Him. God will not allow you to be destroyed. The Lord is saying, I'm not gonna to let your faith be turned over. All you have to do is seek Him. If you seek the Lord on any matter, He will not allow you to fail. 

Just be faithful until the end. You don't have to worry about any other thing. "My burden is easy and My yoke is light." Instead of worrying about every single situation that arises, just worry about being faithful. Your faithfulness will keep you in the right place and it's also going to be a format of protection for you. It's going to allow you to rest. 

2/10/2020 Proclamation of God's goodness (Prophetic Drive Time)

God is making bitter waters sweet. Your sacrifice has been a sweet aroma for God- your praise upon the struggle, your faith, your tears. Do you think that He will forget? He is faithful. 

Belief is a form of power, form of spiritual currency that empowers. What you believe you empower. You believe God, you empower the Lord. Look at what Jesus said when He went to His own town to heal, the Bible says that He went to do many mighty works but He wasn't able to do what He wanted to do. They limited Him because of their unbelief. So the attacks on your mind, you have to start disbelieving what the enemy is saying because you believe that they are effective, you have empowered them. And so your real struggle is how do I take back the power so I can find the strength of being hidden in Christ. How do I take back my power? Because people told you all the devil this, all the devil that, and you start believing, you lent them your power. You gave the enemy's camp your power to manifest themselves as oppressors in your life. So how do you take it back? You got to say, "I disbelieve you. I believe I'm hidden in Christ." The Bible says in the Book of Ephesians, 'for above all principalities, powers, mights, and dominions.' Now it doesn't mean that the enemy won't come against you, but you don't have to believe in his threats. You can choose to believe in the power, choose to believe in God's ability to hide you in Christ. If the Bible says you are hidden in Christ, then hidden from who? God can find you, God can see you. But who are you hidden from? That means the enemy has to always go through Christ. What the enemy has done is to convince you to come outside of Christ to take him on, make the enemy work. Get back in your safe place! It's one thing to be sober about the enemy's devices, it's another thing to lend him your belief to fear him. Jesus said, "Don't worry about those who can kill the body. Only fear the One who after kills the body will destroy the soul also." If you lend any of your belief to the enemy, he will put you on bondage. Because he is only coming to kill, steal and destroy. 

When I was going through all these things, "Oh the devil.." I have magnified the enemy so much that I could no longer define Jesus. I was so lost on the fear of the devil that I could no longer find where Jesus was. I couldn't even find my strength. And I was talking to the Lord one day about the devil doing all these kind of stuffs. Lord says, "Why are you afraid?" And I said, "Do you see what the devil was trying to do?" He said, "The devil's been trying to kill you since you were born." And when He said that, I said, "Wait a second... he was." God says, "If he was so powerful, why can't he do that when you're the most helpless?" If he couldn't do that when we can't protect ourselves, means we've extended too much belief in his camp. The enemy is looking for someone who he can destroy. God says, "Give the enemy no belief. Give all your belief to Me."

2/8/2020 Freedom Friday - Take no thought (Prophetic Drive Time)

Every thought don't belong to you, but the thoughts you take by saying.There are many people whom the enemy is pressing to get them to take thoughts that don't belong to them, which means that God has not intended for them.

When the enemy is pressing you, and then you open up your mouth and say those things- you have just taken it. In the spirit realm, it's life and death, everyday that is put before us. The enemy uses the natural things or situations to press, so that we can take out of the atmosphere by saying, so he can work trying to manifest those things in our lives. Do you really want what you're speaking? Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. So what the enemy does is he presses you to fill your heart with an abundance of worry, poverty, fear, so that you speak it and take it. 

Take no thought. Every thought that comes to you, you don't have to take it. If you don't want your life to line up with what you're saying, what those thoughts are, you can be like "No, I don't want that. That thought don't belong to me. Because it's not in line with what God has spoken over my life."

Depression begins with a thought, memory. It begins with a spiritual dynamic. Would you just let anybody walk into your house? We have doors for a reason and we have to put doors on our heart. You can't just let everything in. I am blessed with ALL spiritual blessings in Christ. ALL spiritual blessings, which means that the Holy Spirit always tries to funnel unto you the blessings in Christ.

The closer you are into the world, the greater the influence the enemy has over you. It's difficult to connect to the spiritual truths when you're connected to the natural disasters that is the system of this world. In Christ, we are spiritually blessed. In the world, we are spiritually cursed. The enemy justifies by situations. The Lord offers good thoughts, blessings, healing, provisions. And God justifies it by His Word and the blood of Jesus. If you're connected to the world, you lose your advantage. You could have anything that is available in Christ.

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. 

Power in Hebrew is "YAD" which means hands. Your life and death is in the hand (spiritual hand) - tongue. By the tongue we take spiritually. You can take anything you want either from the camp of God or from the camp of the enemy. Why do you think there's such an emphasis on the enemy to get you to speak? "Tell them how you feel. Say it." The enemy wants you to say it. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. So he pressures your heart, so that you speak. So you can take something. 

Every idle word that you speak, you gonna have to answer for. You're gonna answer for what you've taken out of the spirit realm, either bad or good. You're opening up your hands to receive, to take out of the spirit realm. What are you taking out of there? Depression? When you can take joy. Insecurity? When you can take Godfidence. Poverty? When you can take blessings. Loneliness? When you can take Christ Himself. 

When revelation comes, new possibilities come. What thought are you really taking that war with the life you really want in Christ? The earth belongs to God and we are joint heirs with His Son Jesus, therefore we can have anything that is in this world to provide our needs because it belongs to my Father. David said, "I've never seen the righteous forsaken or begging bread." 

The enemy's disadvantage is the Word, because he can't stop no good thing that God has purposed for you if you take it. 

1/13/2020 The David Challenge - Bible Study (Prophetic Drive Time)

Psalm 23  (David speaking) 

1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

There are three things that occurred in this portion of scripture. Three prominent keys:

First thing that happened, David considered God:

1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.  

2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

Before David addressed God, he considered God. Before he addressed God of his problems or needs, he considered God's goodness.

When was the last time, before you prayed and told Him about your problems or worries, you sat down and considered God's goodness, looking at God's heart versus looking at the situation?

There's nothing that strengthens your faith in terms of your communication with God than you considering God beforehand. 

* green pastures for sheep - means a place of abundance; lofty place

* lie down - there's a place of rest that God will lead you to

* still waters - Peace; He leads me by peace

Sometimes we want to know if we make decisions and the first thing we know is do we have peace or do we not. It is important for us to have a good opinion of God because if we don't, the enemy can ruffle your waters. God will lead you into this situation that you won't have any confidence in because you are full of fear and you don't really believe that God is that good. So your fear can cause the waters to ruffle and it won't be God. And there are some people who walked out of situations being afraid that God is leading them into.

The reason why David was able to hearken unto the peace was because, he was considering nothing else. And this is the benefit when you consider God. When was the last time you really consider God? People consider their problems and they talk to God, but they don't consider God historically. 

This is one of the keys David used. He constantly considered God, and it allowed David to look at God above every situation. The only thing that mattered to David was whether or not God was signed off on the matter, and if he knew God signed off on it, you couldn't stop David from doing anything there. There was no one who could fill his heart with fear because he had a life practicing considering God.

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. Why? Because He's my provider, He causes me to lie down in green pastures which means my Shepherd is always taking the sheep to somewhere green, somewhere abundant. Many people don't have that hope about God, that God wants to take you somewhere good, that God is a good God who wants to take you someplace good. They don't have that hope, they may have the want, but they don't have that understanding about God. 

I serve a good Shepherd who's always leading me to an abundant place.

3 He restoreth my soul 

Sometimes things happen, situations or life gets so heavy. These things may have us to wear down, break down our soul, can cause our soul to shrink and faint on the inside of us. But the Lord restores our soul.

When you begin to see God in a right way, when you begin to esteem God rightly, when you begin to rightly discern who He is, things happen for you. So regardless of the life events, the things that people have done, the ill will of others, the wickedness of others, regardless of the situation, God restores my soul. 

Sometimes, the greatest offender to our lives is our own selves. It's one thing if they did it, then it's easy to blame- "If it wasn't for them, I'll be alright..." But what about when you are the cause? Out of that disobedience and rebellion, and going your own way, you reap the whirlwind called consequence. Jesus is still the one that restores your soul. But it's difficult if you don't know Him. Some people lived in condemnation way too long. They've tried to prune themselves, they try to do all these things that only the Physician could do, that only the Master of the vineyard could do. David said, "He restores my soul." When you don't know that about God, you won't allow Him to restore your soul, you won't allow Him to pick you up out of the mire, out of the pigpen that our own lust and foolishness, rebellion and disobedience have carried us away into. And when sin has had its full reward, it left us in a place of desolation. And we're like, "How can I come back to God now? I messed up. I got too far. Can God forgive me now?" And in that place, there is a sense that we're not worthy of the forgiveness that God so eagerly wants to pour out on you, that we can't reconcile receiving what we clearly know we don't deserve. But David said, "He restores my soul."

he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

After He restores my soul, He'll lead me in paths of righteousness for His namesake. Not because of who I am but because of who He is for His namesake, to bring glory and honor to His own name. 

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

The valley of shadow of death, the valley of difficulty, the valley of whether the enemy has come against me like a flood,  David said something amazing, "I will fear no evil." 

It robbed God's people of a right understanding of God when we have so many ministries that magnify the enemy. So many people walking around in fear and torment. What do you know about God? Do you think that just now the enemy was after you, he was after you since you're in your mother's womb. And if you think that all of a sudden that the enemy's after you, then you're crazy. Reality of it is, the enemy is only as effective as you are willing to give him credit for. There's nothing that brings the enemy to your doorstep like fear does. But David said this, "though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil." Not some evil, he said "I'm gonna fear NONE." 

Be aware of the enemy's tactics, be wise, be sober minded but don't be afraid. Why? 

Why will I fear none of that stuff? David said, "Because You are with me." 

From considering God, now David's transitioning to speaking to God: 

I will fear no evil: for thou art with me

Magnifying the enemy won't get him out of your life, but magnifying Jesus will.

The enemy's always been busy, always been after you. This is not a new adventure for the enemy. He's always down with the kill, with the steal, and the murder. That's always been his purpose- to kill, steal and destroy. But there's limitations to him, it says, he'll devour whom he can. But David said, "I will fear no evil." NONE. Even in the valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil. Why? Because God is with me. 

God is with you but you don't understand who He is, so He doesn't benefit you.

thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

The rod is for correction for me. The Lord will correct who He loves. What I love about You is, the reason why I find comfort, Your rod and Your staff they comfort me, because I know that You always have my best interests at heart. And if I'm walking in a way of destruction, Your rod will correct me, get me back in alignment so that I can arrive at my purpose destination, because You only want the best for me. 

But they've taught you to fear God's correction, God's wrath, and it made you think that God is mean and cruel when actually it's a point of love. David said, that brings me comfort, You don't want me in the hands of the enemy, that you don't want me to be led astray. 

Your staff is used to pull me out of harm's way.  So even if the enemy has devised the plan against me, You use Your staff to pull me out of harm's way, and then You'll use that same staff to beat my enemies into dust.  So I'm comforted by Your rod and Your staff.

5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies

Been saying, "Why so long Lord?" The Lord is cooking. Let Him set the table. Let the Lord cook. You've been a little too discouraged about your situation. If you consider God, you would know that He prepares the table in the presence of your enemies. Some of you, the crowd ain't big enough yet, all your haters ain't gathered around yet to see you eat. Because God will set a table.  'He prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies' - it means, that He will bring me into a place of dining, of eating, of abundance, of provisions, right in the midst of all those who spoke abut you, who talked about you, who had all these things to say about you, all those who wish your downfall. The Lord will cause you to eat because He is good. 

If we have the right perspective of God, sometimes what'll happen is, when we see the haters come out, what we should say is, "Wow, it must be time to eat. Because I sure do got a whole lot of people hating around me so it must be time to eat. I got too many enemies gathered around, it must be time to eat."

David transitioned from considering God, to talking to God. What's empowering his communication to God? Situations and circumstances can't always empower your communication with God. You want to have an effective prayer, consider God first. 

thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over

What God is doing inside of us, it runs over because we serve a God of abundance. He didn't give us just enough. He gave us too much. He gave us too much of Himself.

Some are looking for a deeper, stronger, a more intimate relationship with Jesus, and you've been wondering how to get there and the Lord says, "I got so much to fill you up with. I got too much to give you. That it's gonna cause you to overflow that you don't really know what to do with yourself." But your perspective has betrayed you, your perspective has been erroneous about Me, so when you come to Me, all you say is, "This is what they do Lord. This is what's happening Lord. This is what I need." It's the same old song. But when was the last time you considered God before you prayed, when you considered something good about Him?  

You got to build up yourself on the inside. Why? Because the enemy is doing contrariwise to you.

Now, David is transitioning again. This is the third transition.

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

3 keys:

1. David considered God

2. David spoke to God 

3. He declared his blessings 

Notice how before you go to God, you don't consider Him, you consider your problems, not that you can't make your petitions known unto Him. The enemy works to get you to consider the problem or what the enemy is doing because in your consideration, your heart becomes stirred one way or another. It's going to either stirred to your problems or stirred to God. I'd rather have my heart stirred about God and His goodness, and His ability to provide, to protect, to keep, to overcome the situation that I'm in. So by the time I start speaking to God about the situation, I'm already fully persuaded. Because I've considered Him from a historical perspective, from a personal perspective, which means just what He's done in my life. And if you feel like God ain't good enough in your life, then consider Him from a written perspective, from a historical perspective, in what He declares in His Word.

"Lord, You provide for me, You've always been a provider, You are a good God, You are an amazing God, You do have good plans for me." Now, I'm talking to God after I've considered Him, how amazing He is. "Lord You anoint my head with oil. You put the calling in my life Lord. You blessed me to be a blessing Lord. Now there's nothing else that matters but You Jesus."

Look at this outrageous statement that David made, after he considered God, spoke to God, and then he made a declaration, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all days of my life." When was the last time any of us had the audacity to say?

There's so many people that have an expectation, expectation of evil following you, of things not working out. But that's not what happens when you consider God, speak to God. This is what David said, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life." Your life is only as different as your ability to believe God and your ability to see God. 

Don't consider the problem, don't consider the situation. Consider the One. The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. Consider God before you speak to Him and after you consider Him about how amazing He is, how good He is, how awesome He is, then talk to Him. Because as you consider Him, your heart is going to enlarge and the Holy Spirit is going to open up more of Him to you. The Holy Spirit is going to move on you in such a way and begin to unveil God to where you are standing like a champion, like a king and a priest before God, standing victorious in that place of fellowship with God, as Him being your anchor, as Him being your strength, as Him being your possibility, as Him being your banner, your reward, your power, your supply, as Him being all and all. You're standing in that place knowing that this is true, and when you know that this is true, you will be able to do like David did, after you spoke to God, you'll be able to come out and say,  "Wow, that's who's with me. That's what You all about Jesus. Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." AMEN.

7/26/2019 Confidence! (Prophetic Drive Time)

God is the strength of our confidence. If you're really confident in God, it changes your disposition. Yes, God is faithful and doesn't lie. But have confidence in God because He loves you. Love of God is revealed through the manifestation of Jesus Christ. When you know God's love for you, you will arise in power.

RAISE YOUR EXPECTATIONS!

The one who is looking for you will come and fight your battles. It'll have you in the level of courage in situations where you should otherwise be afraid. Key to accessing the power God placed inside of you, is to know His love.

People don't know how much God loves them, and so they created distance between God. And as a result you're constantly wanting God to do things but you never really have arisen in the confidence that it takes for you to go forward. For example, the enemy visits you and then you're full of fear and anxiety, and they go to God and say, "Oh Lord, please don't let this happen." And God is like, "Why would you even worry about that? I'm with you. I love you. I protect you. I keep you." When we know God loves us, we're able to turn to the enemy and say, "you can do nothing to me because of my Father."

Your greatest confidence you're gonna get because of God's love for you. Yes, God is righteous, His words doesn't return void. He is faithful to His words. But what really drives all of those things is His heart towards you. For God so loved the world, His greatest action didn't come about because of His righteousness. It came about because of His love. God's righteousness had nothing to do with His greatest gift for mankind. In His righteousness and in His integrity, what He had was absolute justification to destroy this place.

The enemy works so much through religion and tradition to keep you from discovering just how much you are loved, because if you find out how much God loves you, you will arise in confidence that would make you dangerous, that will give you access to the power within you, that would make you an absolute problem to the enemy. 

Love is everything. You go the extra mile for people that you love. You know when somebody loves you, it's when they're willing to go the extra mile, when they do what they don't have to do.

Some people have been walking around in fear and kind of doubting and a little bit of timidity. It's because they don't know how much God loves them. And as a result, they have not been able to rise up in confidence that it takes to go out and do the very thing that God called them to do. And so you're asking for prayer for situations that love will cover. 

God desires for you to arise in confidence, not confidence in yourself. It's really dangerous if we don't receive God's love, because soon as God brings forth the blessing, then guess you'll be more confident in? You'll be more confident in the thing that God is giving you and not confident in God Himself.

GOD WANTS YOUR CONFIDENCE IN HIM AND HIM ALONE!!!

To know that God loves you, this gives you a confidence and it lifts you up above the strategies of the enemy. It puts you in a ever pleasing place before God because now you're walking in faith. Faith works by love- God's love for you that will ignite your faith. Because of His love for me, I have help that affected my disposition in the face of my opposition, so I say you can't touch me not because I'm so amazing but because the One who is with me is more amazing. Don't touch My anointed! Because their Father will come on their behalf. 

Without that confidence, you won't be willing to go where God says, and to do what God does. You're only be willing to do what you can see possible in your own strength. So God wants to do the amazing in your life, but you won't allow Him because you don't believe that He loves you enough to keep you, to support you.

7/2/2019 See Your Help (Prophetic Drive Time)

If you can see your help now, you can benefit from what you see. So pray for it. Pray that God may open your eyes.

People won't have anything to say when we stand before God on judgment day, because when we stand before God, we will know all things. 
1) We will know that God is good
2) We will realize that our help was always there

HIS GOODNESS STANDS ALONE

We've been conditioned not to see our help, thus we have accusations before God. We've been conditioned to see our problems. 

You'll be able to see your help when you know something about God. When you know that He is good, and His thoughts about you, you'll be able to tap in what He has for you. God is good regardless of the situations and circumstances, regardless of the weapons that are launched their assault against us.

Instead of taking responsibility, we have this blame culture. We'll make bad decisions, we'll go off on our living our best life, do our own thing, and then when it goes haywire, we turn to God and say, "Well Lord, You could have stopped me from doing it." Instead of taking responsibility, we shift that blame to God. Even in the fact that we find ourselves going off on our own way. Just like the children of Israel in Jeremiah 29, it's the Lord who says, "I'll still build it again, I'll bring you back, and not only I'll bring you back, but My original thoughts for you still stands."

We're so busy that's why we can't see - the trees, the creation, is speaking to us of God's glory.

Paul and Silas were in the prison for doing God's work, but when they got locked up in the prison, it was unjust, unfair, unrighteous, but they begin to praise, and when they begin to praise, they were able to see the help manifest, because they didn't hold an accusation, or they did not get offended in God. When they begin to praise, God said, "I have no other choice but to manifest My power in the midst of their situation." It's one thing to praise and hope, and that's good, if that's all you got - praise and hope. But there's something else when you begin to praise in confidence. Paul and Silas weren't praising in hope, they were praising out of a place of knowing - I know something about God, regardless of what the prison cells say. And when they begin to praise Him, it could not restrict the matter, the power of God could no longer be contained or restricted.

God is good at His core, that there's few things that can get God to change His mind. It's difficult for God to change His mind about the good things He purposed for you, but even in bad situations, God is so good that you can get Him to change His mind:

- Israel's rebellion (Exodus 32)

- Canaanite woman (Matthew 15:21-28)

When we stand before God on judgment day, you will see what you were unable to see right now, that God was always there for you, and God is good, and that God always love you. 

We're so consumed by our own frustrations, unforgiveness, offenses, bitterness, disbelief, hence we could not see our help, so remove these things from you.

God knows what He's doing (Emily-Rose Lewis)

Whatever it is that you're going through, don't let that thing push you away from God. Don't let that thing get on top of you. Don't let the trials and worries of life push you away from God, because trials and tribulations must come. Jesus said it would come, but He said to cheer up, He's overcome the world. Don't let the painful things push you away from God. God does not intend for those things to push us away. If you look at the parable of the sower, the seed falls in different grounds, depends on the condition of your heart. If you just feel sorry for yourself, you complain, you push away from God, you don't trust Him anymore- this is the seed of your heart. Because the seed that's been planted in the right soil takes root. And the seed that's been planted in shallow soil, when trials come, it chokes out the word that's been planted in our heart. So we gotta let God change our hearts.

If you're having a hard time going to God in your trials, and don't understand what's going on, and you feel like God is unfair, unjust, or not loving you, and you just can't comprehend God's goodness in the midst of what you're going through- you know your faith is gonna falter. And it's by faith that you receive the good things from God, through the stuff that you're going through. So the enemy wants you to think that God's not good or just, He's forgotten you or He's not working on your issue, or He loves other people better, or that you're just a special case, that He's just against you or something, and when you think like that, you don't get the same benefit from the trial. You're going through trials either way, but when you have a right heart attitude about it, and you go to God, the trials and tribulations make you a better person. They make you more Christ-like. They tenderize your heart and you will get through them. God will bring you through and He does have a good plan, that He is working through all these things and you'll get to see that come to pass and unfold. Just because God has a good plan through the thing you're going through, doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to fully manifest if you don't get into alignment with God and trust Him and put your faith in Him working it out because we are co-creating with God. And so one person could have trial and tribulation and become ugly and bitter and resentful and make these decisions out of that place in their heart and not end up in the same place as somebody else who's going through those trials and tribulations who goes to God and becomes more loving and kind. 

No matter what you're going through, the grace of God is there to help you through it. So if you're not able to bear up something, you need to ask God for a greater measure of His grace to come and enable you to go through what you're going through. A lot of people don't get the grace of God because they're too busy begging Him to get them out of whatever situation they're in.

Be grateful that God knows what He is doing in our lives. God is trying to get us to those places and He's trying to get us our character built so that when we get to those places, satan can't destroy us. Because as you grow in the Lord, and as He releases more blessing and more influence, the character flaws that we have hurt more people. 

God knows what we need, He knows what He's created us for. He knows where He is taking us. Trust His goodness. Trust in His plan. He's purifying us. 

11/2/2020 Watch God Work! He's good & He's not done!!! (Prophetic Drive Time)

*** When you become the evidence of what God says, and what you believed, speculation no longer matters. God says who He says He is, and what He does for one, it's to show He will do it for another! And He is about to do it for you! Major miracles and breakthroughs! ***

God says, "WATCH ME WORK!"

The judgment of God - it comes to set order or render verdicts, but it does not come to help you grow. And so people have been so addicted to these dark musings about God and as a result, their lives are being destroyed because they're not growing in Me. The only way to grow in God is through love, joy, favor, grace, mercy... through the goodness of God. You can't grow in God from constant dark musing - their lives are replicating that dark utterances that they find themselves addicted to. And the Lord is saying, "You need to shake that off of you." He's saying you need to move out of that realm. And you wonder why your life, you can't grow, and things are not working for you, because you're so addicted to the dark utterances, but they're not helping you grow in God. You're wondering, "Where's my favor, where's God's goodness?" And as a result, you're not seeing God's face. Because when God wants to reveal His face, it's kindness, goodness, favor, blessing, love, grace, mercy... You can't find intimacy in My judgment. What people don't understand about correction, is even correction is love. Even correction emanates out of a place of goodness, because the force of the correction helps to prevent you from a more deadlier consequence of destruction. 

We are in this world but not of the world, thus our time frame is different, hidden in Christ. When people hear judgment upon the world, what's the most amazing thing as believers is we often equate ourselves with the world, instead of looking for ourselves in Christ. Your time frame is not the world's time frame. People get afraid as if they're one with the world. That's why there will be darkness upon the world, gross darkness upon the people but My glory - but there's gonna be something happening different in you than you're gonna see happening in the world. 

When judgment comes, it pours out according to each man's work. Judgment will come and hit one house different than they hit another house. One house will prosper or flourish, another house will fall. Because the judgment must be just. He will not punish the righteous with the wicked. For the faithful He says, "Well done." For the unfaithful He says, "Depart from Me."

He wants to establish His Name in you. The goodness of God, He wants to establish that, His essence in your life. 

WATCH HIM WORK!

Sometimes, you have to be willing to forsake all, to take all. It's hard for you to follow God when you're constantly concerned with saving yourself. There are so many people who get out the fire, who try to force themselves out of the fire, before the fire has completed its work, before the fire has weighed you. Because what the fire of God would do is it will weigh you out. Are you looking for an escape route? Or will you stay? Will you hinge it all on My Word? Or will you seek to save yourself? And while at times it's very tempting, and more convenient to want to leave, the problem becomes when the Word becomes your life. I didn't like it there, I wanted to run, but the problem I had is where else would I go. Some people's biggest problem is they got other places to go. Your biggest problem is that you got too many options. I wanted to run so far from the fire, the humiliation, the rejection, the heartbreak, but there was no confirming Word to say "Okay, go!" The only Word that kept coming was "Trust Me." And it was like, "Lord, this is destroying me." It's shattering everything that I thought about myself, every image I thought about myself - how anointed I thought I was, how important I thought of it, it was crucifying all that stuff. I was left reduced to nothing. And then the Lord said, "Now, I can use you. Because it ain't about you. Now I can use you because the fire has weighed you out." What the fire showed is not how perfect I was, the fire revealed was that my life hinged on the Word. 

The options have been your limitations. As long as you got options, you will never put your full trust on God. The other options have hindered them, from touching the miraculous, from touching the hand of God.

The Lord says, "Don't you dare be ashamed of My goodness. Put it on and wear it." Because God's goodness doesn't testify of you. It testifies of Him. 

8/19/2020 Kingdom Conversations! How to find the Kingdom of God (Prophetic Drive Time)

Mark 12:28-34

And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

When the man acknowledged that the greatest commandment is to love God and love thy neighbor, Jesus said unto him that he has just come close to the kingdom. What love will do for you is it will put God on your side like you have never seen Him on your side. 

How will you enter the kingdom? It's to do love, prioritize love. Do you understand how love actually puts you on top? It connects you with the strength and the power. Do you know how much power and strength it took Jesus to say "Forgive them for they know not what they do."  

We draw our strength from the kingdom. When you pursue love, you prioritize God. But it doesn't make you a doormat. It actually lifts you above, but in our carnality, "People gonna walk over me..." People think that walking in love automatically, "I gotta do everything that everybody says" - NO. Jesus said, "I only do what I see My Father do. I only say what I hear My Father say." It doesn't make you a doormat to everyone, but it makes you inclined to serve. Why? Because I am now higher. The Bible says the greatest of all will be the servant. But people who can't serve are people who are already low. Regardless if they project this image of - they may buy different things to camouflage that they feel this small and so they can't serve. Bible says that Jesus know who He was, knew where He came from, was able to humble Himself, knew that He was from a higher place, was able to come down and serve. People who can't serve other people, it's close to how they really feel on the inside. They already feel small and serving feels too close to their fears, and so they either need to be served. And that's why they're putting up this big smoke or big pretenses that there's something, but to say to serve, they're gonna be like, they're offended. It's almost like, you're telling them to get in your place, like you're speaking to their fears now or speaking to their insecurity, they already feel small. But those who are great can come down and serve because they know that they are kings. But you can't even just adjust your crown, can't even put your crown on until you've prioritized love. At the end of the day, it's not about people. You want it to be about you and the Lord. 

Jesus did what He did because He knew who He was. He was the express glory of God. You can't let people be a hindering block because of what you fear, that people might do or can't do. Ain't nobody take advantage of you when you are in heavenly realms because the supply of heaven is constantly. Like, if you think people can take advantage of you, it's almost like a person running to the ocean and stealing a cup of water. Will the ocean ever miss it? You can steal a cup of water, if all I got is 2 cups, I'll notice it. But if you steal a cup of water from the ocean, the ocean never flinches. Because it's constantly supplied and can't be diminished. This is what happens to you when you're a kingdom citizen. That's why Jesus said, "If they come and ask for your coat, give them your shirt too." Why? Because you can't be diminished as a kingdom citizen. If they come and tell and ask you to walk a mile, He said, "Walk with him too." You're a kingdom citizen and you can't be diminished. The deception is, you're taking a loss, but when you understand that you are a kingdom citizen, the supply of heaven will always be at your ready disposal. They can't take nothing from you. They can only expose themselves. They can't diminish you. That's the one reason why it kept so many of us out of the kingdom. We've thought that they were getting away with it. In this love here and the supply of God, I'm in the ocean. I'm an ocean. Because I'm constantly supplied by God. 

As soon as the enemy convinces you that you're diminished, you automatically cut yourself off from the supply. Bible says, they came to Jesus even though He was tired, everybody who asked, the Bible says, He would heal them all. Why? Because He couldn't be diminished. He was the ocean. Even to the point where He hung on the cross after being betrayed by all the people that He was there to help and love on. He said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." Why? Because what He was revealing there is the real strength of love. So many people can't forgive. It's not love. You think it's really the crime is the issue. But it's a matter of spiritual strength and that's what the Lord says to forgive, because He wants to grow us in what it is to be spiritually strong, and to not be ruled by the enemy. Because in that weakness- it's a spiritual weakness, but notice how nothing good comes from that. Out of that spirit of unforgiveness comes torment, bitterness. You don't get blessings there. It's not good for you. It takes strength to forgive. You want to be a son of God, He expects you to walk in some power and strength. Because God is strong, He expects His seed to be what He is. Not independently birthed from our own sins, but from Him. He's expecting us to connect to Him, to be all that we are, to be all that He is. But notice how you get nothing there. You get torment, you get oppression, you get bitterness, you also miss out on your blessings because of unforgiveness. Being weak in the spirit cost you. Some people want to cuddle their victim mentality, when the Lord will tell you "Pick up your bed and walk." If you're in the kingdom, it's not a strength that I've mustered up in myself. It's a strength that comes from being connected. 

In the Kingdom of God, you're the ocean. But fear the One who won't steal a cup, but whose rebuke will cause you to dry up, will cause that ocean to dry up. That's what you should fear! You weren't about people. Fear the one, who at a glance, at a sight will cause your ocean to dry up immediately, who has the power to destroy the body and the soul. 

Love casts out fear. It exposes you to the fullness of the Godhead, bodily. Many of us have never even known God, like God is available to be known, but because we have not prioritized love. We seek in the kingdom, but you can't seek the kingdom of God, without seeking love, because God is love and His kingdom is a representative of who He is. The kingdom is established by who He is.

When you love, you're actually walking into the kingdom. People have a lot of perverted perceptions of what love is, based upon their experience. Love is not about the fleshly construct of what is. Love is a person. It's not about arousal, it's not about who you choosing as a mate. That's not what we're talking about here. Love adequately described in 1st Corinthians 13 - it's not being arrogant or being puffed up, not thinking about your own things all the time, but considering other people. 

When God got you, you don't worry about who doesn't. When God got you, you can take care of other people, you can help other people, because the supply is so constant, and it's consistent. That's why you're able to be a blessing to others. Why? Because everytime I give, ten times is coming back this way. Everytime I give, it's just being flown back into my life, because I'm a kingdom citizen and I'm constantly supplied. But you notice how, outside of love, that's where you're getting that infirmity, depression, suicide thoughts, bitterness, warfare, anxiety, fear - because you haven't taken your place as a kingdom citizen. Thinking you're gonna break into the kingdom- no you're not. You have to walk in the Lord ordained. When you do what the Lord says, He will give you everything that He says. Just do what He says, you'll be alright. 

8/18/2020 The Grace Will Show Up (Prophetic Drive Time)

God says, "Grace will show up."

When people are generally confident on tomorrow, they're generally looking at their own strength, because they got the qualifications, experience, the know-how, etc. But when the Lord is taking you to places that you've never been, or heights that you've never been, taking you beyond yourself to reveal Himself, it can be a little daunting to your sense of logic or reason. But one of the things that you learn, and how you will learn when you move, when you do great exploits - THE GRACE WILL MEET YOU.

Matthew 6:34

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

In the day, generally, the Lord is pouring out enough grace to deal with the matters of the hand. Have you ever been in a situation where you thought it was going to overtake you, but there was enough grace for you to make it through that day? Though it looked insurmountable, you got through it,  because the grace came. There's a level of love, kindness, goodness and favor, that's going to meet you there. If you spend a lot of time looking at yourself and exploring, assessing yourself, it's going to be hard for you to determine what's going to meet you because it's going to come - what's going to come and meet you is coming from God, not coming from you. What God has is going to meet you there. And it's going to be that favor, love, kindness, that's going to take you over, that's going to grant you favor in that situation. Look at Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, they didn't know that the grace was going to meet them in the furnace. 

No doubt that the Lord is a lot of different things to a lot of different people. But the question is, who is He to you? To the wicked, He's wrath, He's vengeance. To the disobedient, He's correction. But to the lost, He's salvation. To My children, I am love, a good Father. To His children, His light is shining upon you. When you can see God in truth, who He is becomes a living experience in your life. It benefits you in ways that you can't even fathom. 

What do you think happens for those who reject the so great of love as the work of the cross? It's the ultimate slap in the face. Part of the religious spirit is to hide the face of God from you, so that you can't find Him and benefit from Him and be blessed by Him. 

9/13/2020 New Dimension of Favor! It's not suppose to be that hard (Prophetic Drive Time)

It's not supposed to be that hard. 

Favor, miracles, and wonders are supposed to follow you. They are supposed to create a dynamic that shows that there is a disparity or difference between who you are and who the world is. 

Some have been laboring about some things about some prayers - toiling. Toiling for your breakthrough or answer or Gods favor. When you're dealing with the kingdom dynamics, it's the flow of grace, flow of favor, flow of blessings. It's what God uses to establish who He is and who you are to Him. But all of us have been in a place of wilderness or testing, where we've gone into the habit of toiling - physically and emotionally exhausting. 

God wants for you to shift your mindset. When we toil for what God has given freely, for what God has already declared, what we're saying is that it's hard to get some out of God's hand, that God gives with a closed fist and a tight fist, and we have to pray it over for God to peel off his fingers. God doesn't give with a closed hand and a tight fist, but how many of us pray to God like that. It's not that hard. Favor is supposed to follow you. 

It's supposed to be creating a distinction. It's supposed to be declaring to the world that God is for me. Blessings are supposed to be flowing in. You should not have to be striving. Because the only thing that we need to strive for is to enter into the rest of God. 

Favor - God uses it as a weapon against the unbelievers. It is a witness. You are supposed to walk with evidence - God's favor, blessing, protection. It's clear that even those who believe in their money and worship money, they will say that it's clear, your God is greater than my god. 

Isaiah 60:2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you.

It talks about a transfer of substance because what's in you becomes greater than what people have been relying on. 

Oftentimes we think favor and blessing is about us. But what it is about, is God over our lives. They come into the light of the glory of the King over your life. And so sometimes we can get lost and think it's all about us. And that can skew our perspective on how we can receive and what we allow God to do for our lives. 

If you try to measure God's goodness, the first thing you're going to do is take yourself into account "Am I worthy?" and oftentimes, the initial reaction is "No" and so what happens is people subconsciously start sabotaging the outcome or outflow of favor, grace, provisions, blessings, over their life because of what they feel like they don't deserve. Because they look at the blessings for themselves just solely being about them and God. When Abraham in himself had nothing to contribute to the outpouring and the outflow that God had purposed to visit upon his life. 

God is blessing you for his namesake, not for you. Get out of the way and let God be God. 

It's not supposed to be that hard. It's supposed to come, flow or happen. There's supposed to be an ease to it. The journey is one thing but what exists between me and God is not supposed to be hard. That flow from heaven to earth is not supposed to be hard. Like I need to pry God's hand open to get Him to bless me, like He's not good, generous and you need to beg Him for favor. 

God is making distinctions. It is supposed to show a difference between you who believe vs those who do not, so that they can see the light of your God and come to it, so that your God can distinguish itself as greater than their god (themselves, their thoughts or minds, money, status, position, etc). But God has to show up in a way to show them that even all the things that they believe, in that they trust in, is futile in His presence. That they are less than HE is. So sometimes the Lord will move on somebody to bring terror to other people because of His people. Not because of the stature or faithfulness of His people, but because of who He is to His people (example in the Book of Joshua, people heard about their God and refused to fight them). God knows how to make His name famous and know how to create a witness. It's equally important not only for you to know who God is, but also for the world to know who God is. 

We speak a God who speaks and does. Even though Jesus didn't work the miracle on them, but saw the miracle on you, what He did for you became the witness for them that there was no excuse. Jesus did - heals the bodies, raise the dead, multiplies the bread. Kingdom work is all good. 

If God decides to close the door, who's going to open it? If His fist is closed, how are you going to get it open? You can't. But the Bible already says that any blessing that you ask from the Lord, He's already done 

Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ

Toiling is not kingdom. In Luke 12:22 - consider the ravens, they neither sow nor reap or consider the lilies, how they grow, they toil not they spin not. Toiling was part of the curse, that the Lord passed down to Adam for his fall and disobedience. We're risen in Christ yet we still approach God as if the ground is cursed for our sake. 

The tree of knowledge of good and evil brought self-awareness and that disconnected them. Before, Adam was God-conscious (kingdom minded). You think that being so aware of yourself is bringing you to God, but it's not. It's about being God-conscious. Am I aware who God is? What are God's thoughts for me, His perspective? 

Toil is not kingdom. It's punishment, judgment. In order for it to be kingdom, that must mean that the Kingdom is established by toiling, they must be toiling in heaven. If they're toiling in heaven, then I'll toil on earth. We've been instructed by God to pray like this "On earth, as it is in Heaven." But you still got a toiling mindset. Toil work is hard work, labor, strain.

It's supposed to flow. 

You don't understand just how significant your belief system is that's why the Lord works so hard to align or renew your mind. What you believe has given more power to the enemy or to every opposition because the enemy has no power of himself to work against you. That's why he relies so much on deception, cunning, trickery, so that he can use your power. Now, if you've been hindered all this time, guess what? Now, you can see how powerful you are, as created in the image of God - because he's using all your belief, to tear you up. The majority of power that the enemy uses emanates from us. That's why he has to work so hard to make you insecure, put you in doubt, make you unbelieving, believe erroneously. If the enemy didn't need you to participate in your own destruction, he hates you so much he would never even talk to you, but he's got to buy you in to your own destruction. 

You know what real power does - it doesn't have to convince you that it'll destroy you. It will just destroy you. When the Lord says it's judgment time, He don't have to convince you. Judgment will come whether you believe in it or not, because that's real power. You can be like, "I don't believe God is real..." all you want to, "I don't believe that God is the judge of the earth..." all you want to. You can be unbelieving all you want to, but because it's real power, He's gonna show up. And you're like "What is this, what's happening to me?" - Judgment. "I don't like this at all. I didn't believe in it." You don't have to when you're dealing with real power and real authority.

Look at what the enemy did to Eve, "Did God really say?" Why did he need Eve's consent? Her ear to destroy her? Because he wasn't given the power to, so he convinced her to destroy herself by going against God. 

7/23/2020 You are an overcomer (Prophetic Drive Time)

 * Overcomers are overcoming. Victims are being victimized

* The sower sows the WORD. Whatever word you allow to get inside your heart that's what's gonna grow

* Denounce that victim mentality

* Distinction will start to be made, who belongs to God and whose not

* Your mindset must be set on being an overcomer

* Matthew 13 - the sower sows the word

* Revelation 12:11 

 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony

TESTIMONY - WORD

Word that you speak. When you speak the word, you're sowing it. When you're listening to certain WORDS it is being sown into you, that's why watch your ear gates. 

* Become synonymous with the power of God that lives on the inside of you by being an overcomer. You can't connect to the power within with a victim mentality. Why? Because the same power that raised Jesus from the dead won't sync with a victim. It's not the ways or heart of God or mind of Christ. There's no unison with two mindsets. One says, I'm above all and not beneath. Another says- Oh woe is me, I'm not this, I'm not that. 

* Look at how significant this is. Look at how the enemy's fight against you. How you feel or think about yourself. Always tries to disconnect you or bring you low.

* You can't be out of alignment with God and think you're going to have godly breakthroughs.

* Victims - becoming increasingly difficult for them to find their way out of situations. As a victim, you look around to see a break in the atmosphere. And when no break comes, it continues to swallow you up and engulf you. But when you're an overcomer, you can look above to see your answer or power

* When God wants to do something in your life, He starts with a word

* The Lord is not sending you word just to be talking. He wants it to bear fruit. There's life in that word that He wants to spring out. But the enemy is gonna war with you. Like - Oh you're not this, you're not that.

I'M NOT A VICTIM! I'M AN OVERCOMER

* A victim is always left at the same spot. Understand there's something about Jesus. When He comes in contact with you regardless of what happened to you or what your situation is. He is always trying to life you up. He doesn't come in contact with anybody who He wants to see left there, regardless of whatever happened to them, regardless of how they got there. When He comes in contact with you, He wants you to get up. He'll tell you, "Pick up your bed and walk!" When did Jesus come to somebody and is like "Oh, they did you so bad... Oh, ok, I'll just leave you there."

* Victim mentality - form of spiritual paralyzation. You can't move.

* When God told Abraham to leave and go to another place God will show Him, the place that Abraham was led to didn't look like what God said it would be, or he has some issues along the way. Why? Because the place wasn't the blessing, Abraham was the blessing. So it wasn't until Abraham got there that the blessing on him would begin to change the atmosphere in the area. This is why you need to understand the kingdom dynamics. If you don't, what will happen is you will get to a place that you know God has spoken, you will get there and be like up and down by what you see. It's not what you see that has to jive, it's about what you say. Because the blessing is in your mouth. If it doesn't look like currently what you imagine it to be, then you begin to speak, because GOD IS NOT A LIAR! And so if I get to a place that is formless and void, what did God do? He speak, Let there be light! It really only matters how you treat the word of God, how you stand on the word of God.

* Transition to the level of blessing

* Be led by the word. Be willing to lose everything for the word, to find everything in the word.

* Look at Christ. Don't look at yourself. Find what Jesus is saying then you'll get your answer. The enemy will fight you and if you are a grasshopper in your sight, you'll run. Get in God and be led by the Spirit of the Lord and not by the panic in the land. Sons of God are led by the Spirit.

* God's word won't fail.

7/26/2020 Wisdom is to fill your house (Prophetic Drive Time)

* Sometimes we think we are waiting on God, but truth is God is waiting on us

* What is faith if it's never been tested

* The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and it's not the end of it.

Beginning - opening or where it starts. First time you encounter wisdom is when you become aware of the severity or awe of God

* Until you can acknowledge God, you have never experienced wisdom. Foundational on how you go forward. 

Proverbs 2:6 

For the Lord gives wisdom from His mouth come knowledge and understanding

Matthew 7:11 

If you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him

Matthew 4:4 

Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God

* Before the substance comes the wisdom, that's why the mouth of God is enough to sustain, to cause you to live

* Wisdom is spiritual, it is what God says. Take God at what He says! 

* Ask 

* Every good gift and perfect gift comes from above.

* God is a healer, provider, lover

* Take God at His word. Meditate on God's word day and night.

* Many people hear wisdom, not many people take wisdom

Proverbs 24:3-4

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established, by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches

* In Psalm 107, people were in distress or in difficult situation naturally and He sent His word and delivered them / sent His word and healed them that we would be unto the praise of God

Psalm 107:20-21 He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

* When you're in a situation and the Lord sent His word, the situation no longer matters. If you can grab hold of the word, the word is there to change your situation. Wisdom grabs hold of what God says, and it doesn't let go. 

*Wisdom is how you see God. When God seems isn't answering, know that God is in control. Just because you determine that's a sense of urgency, doesn't mean that it is. Lazarus is the prime example of that. You're not in control.

* A submitted heart to God:

God started a good work in me, He will continue it until it's done. God is with me. God ain't left me, He will not forsake me. So if He isn't answering now, I'm still protected. 

* Getting fleshly into my situation didn't profit me. Once I begin to look at my situation and see the word of God- as soon as I begin to talk into my situations about what the written word of God says - my answer came

* What is faith that's never been tested? Sometimes you got to discover how real the word is. Be sensitive to the heart of God because the Lord has a way of hiding things in plain sight. 

* Sometimes the situation will come to find out how thirsty you are or how hungry you are. If you're not thirsty don't expect to pour you out of drink. 

* Lord says "Come all of you who are thirsty." 

7/17/2020 You are not cursed stop carrying it around! (Prophetic Drive Time)

What you carry in your heart, you allow to manifest in your life.

You cannot curse what God has blessed. There's a subtlety that the enemy working against His people to the point where we've allowed the experiences that we've had to convince us in our heart that we have been cursed. We've allowed the trials to convince us that we have been cursed, even the correction. But the devil is a liar. 

Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ

who has blessed - past tense, which means it's already done! 

We gotta walk upright. When we allow to get it in our heart, or allow our experiences to convince us that what God's word declares is not true, is that we testify against God from a heart level. 

We are supposed to be a unique people in the sense that whether trials or tribulations or difficulties, that nothing can separate us from the love of God, which means we are always under the impression that we are blessed by God always. 

We are always in the blessing in Christ, that situations and circumstances, that whether demons arise, that whether opposition arrives, it doesn't change the fact that we are blessed by God. And the reason why this is significant because "As a man thinks in heart, so is he."

Notice how the Bible says that David walked upright with a divine perspective. He kept a divine perspective, of whether he was in the cave, whether being chased, whether being corrected by God. 

Every blessing is spiritual before it's natural. 

Remember when David took down Goliath, how did he take him down? He took him down through experience- "I remember how who God is for me." Saul didn't have that experience with God. Saul said, "You're gonna need this,that" and David was like, "Nah, I haven't proven that, but I know who God is for me." Isn't it amazing how the way that some people know God, doesn't allow them to take down the giants before them. The way they know God, still has Goliath constantly tormenting them in their face. What caused David to take down Goliath is how he recalled God. And so if you have any history with God, recall God who is on your side. Recall how He revealed Himself to you. 

Because that Goliath in front of your face, you've been trying  to address it based on Saul's perspective, and he's been unmoved. But David said, I'm not gonna approach the problem based on your perspective because I know God. Some people needed to have their perspectives changed because they were raised by a bunch of Sauls. Two people, one tells you more about God than the other. It wasn't that Saul was not anointed to be king, it wasn't that he was a king. But David could tell you more about God than Saul could. Saul hasn't found a man in comparable size and stature to address the giant, because Saul didn't know that it wasn't the size of the man, it was the size of God. 

Don't despise David because he shows with a slingshot and five smooth stones. Because David is not coming with confidence in himself. He is coming with confidence in God. 

Even when our mouth speaks, our heart speaks. We can't have our heart testifying in opposition of our mouth not because it looks a certain way, not because the weapons don't form against you, but because God's word has declared it.

You live by a spiritual truth from the spirit realm, from inside out. If from the heart we release an adequate witness unto God, a righteous witness unto God, that His word is true, then that will become the issue of your life. That word will not fail you, it will not return void. It will unite and empower, bring dunamis to the words that you speak and produce.

My heart can't be witnessing something separate than what my mouth is saying. So if in my mouth I declare that I'm blessed, but in my heart I believe that I'm cursed, because I got corrected by God or tested by God - know that you are blessed! You can't curse whom God blessed. I'm blessed in Jesus Christ. I'm born again. My new birth is not connected to the lineage of my mother or father.

How can you address a spiritual perspective between God and man, or between kingdom of light and darkness, without the Word of God. So if God is declaring one thing, who is it that can come and convince you of another. 

Always renew the mind, the curse follows the mindset.

Flourish with Christ than perish with men.