6/28/2019 (Emily-Rose Lewis)

If you could see what I see when I looked at you there would be no way our enemy could ever convince you that you were a broken and flawed creature that can never measure up to My standard of beauty and strength. I have made you righteous through My Son Jesus Christ. You can be Holy because I am Holy. Allow Me to live My life through you.

When I look at you, I see perfection. I do not measure your worth by where you have fallen short of My glory. You are My dearest treasure and the recipient of My great mercy. I have loved you before the foundation of the world. You were birthed out of pure love and made to come alive by My very own breath. That's right, it is My Spirit in you reflecting back to Me a faucet of My glory that only you can reflect. You bring Me great joy. You did not chose Me, but I chose you. I have always wanted you and I always will.

You can't begin to fathom the depths of My love; if I did not hold back the weightiness of it, you would not be able to stand to your feet in My Presence. It hurts My heart when you stumble around with your eyes squeezed tightly shut, believing yourself to be walking around in darkness. I am the light of the world and I live inside of you. You are full of light because I dwell within you. Swing open the eyes of your heart and see Me as I am. I am not a far-off God that watches from a distance as you struggle on your journey. I am with you always. Everything that you need to walk in victory in this world is dwelling on the inside of you. Why do you continue to grasp and cling to things that are outside yourself to save you when I have promised to supply all of your needs? When will you learn to trust in My personal and everlasting love?

At no time did I promise you a problem free life. In fact I have told you there would be tribulation in this world. Why  do you think it strange when you face trials? Change your perspective on your life and begin to see those things that trouble you as obstacles that I have already overcome then they will become opportunities for you to glorify My name in the earth. Others will look at your life and how you have risen above the adversity and see My glory all over you. When they see My glory on your life, they will believe that there is a loving God that longs to do them good too. 

I am using you to draw the world to Myself. You have nothing to worry about and nothing to dread. I am.

2/23/21 I heard the Lord say, Supply!!! (Watch Him Do It) (Prophetic Drive Time)

The Lord says that we are intimidated by His goodness. Oftentimes there is only so much that we allow to the Lord to do for us, because of our mindset, our rational mind. But I hear the Lord say SUPPLY this morning. 

In John 15, the Lord begin to highlight to me being the vine. And He said to me, the branch needs what's in the vine. He said, "Do you know all the good that exists in Me?" When He asked me that question, I knew that regardless of what I thought about God and how much I profess God is good, and how much I think about the Lord, I realized that  there was more in the vine. 

But everything the Word reveals about the vine, the vine wants our life to reveal about Him. 

"My people perish for lack of knowledge." Not for lack of power, not for lack of God's ability or God's desire, we perish for our rational minds. 

Everything the Word reveals about the vine, about Christ, the Lord says, it's declared so that it could be available to be in your life. There's more in the vine. There's more in Christ that He desires to supply to the branches. So that we could bear fruit. Fruit in all areas of our life - spiritually, naturally. 

Even in the areas where we lack peace -  I could feel the desire for the vine to supply, I could feel the desire for the Lord to have His children set free from that spirit of fear, there's a lack of peace, which means there's a lack of supply. Not because the vine is not giving it. The Lord says it's not because He's not giving it to you, it's not because the vine is not supplying it. IT'S JUST THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN RECEIVING. Oftentimes there are things in the way, the number one hindrance to us, to man is the rational mind. Because something that the Lord was sharing with me this morning, "The enemy can't stop My flow." The enemy has no devices to stop God. Man can't stop God. If God has determined to supply you- how many of you know, that He will command the birds, He will command fishes, He'll command the earth to split open and pop out what you need. He can't be stopped. The greatest hindrance - oftentimes comes from our rational mind. But there is such a desire of the Lord to supply this morning. 

There is more of a desire from the Lord to supply you than you even have to be supplied. 

When I allow what's in the vine, to come into the branch, THE VINE IS GLORIFIED BY WHAT IT PRODUCES ON THE BRANCH. When Jesus saw the fig tree, that was unfruitful, He cursed it. BECAUSE THERE'S NO GLORY TO A TREE THAT HAS NO FRUIT. He cursed it. IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO JUST LOOK LIKE YOU GOT IT, BECAUSE THAT DOES NOT BRING GOD GLORY. WHAT ALLOWS HIM TO BE GLORIFIED IS IN THE SUPPLY IN THE VINE REACHES THROUGH TO THE BRANCHES TO PRODUCE SOMETHING. NATURALLY. SPIRITUALLY. If it can just produce something, to bring forth fruit, then the vine is glorified. WE'VE SETTLED SO MUCH FOR TRYING TO LOOK THE PART. We settle for trying to look the part, chasing one another, tracking each other down, fighting with one another because we're posturing. You see, but when you are really supplied, you don't have to pretend. Why? Because somebody can come and eat. It don't matter if you're looking the part, if nobody can come and eat. The glory of the vine- the branches. What brings the vine glory is if in the time that is appointed, there's fruit on that thing. Jesus says, "I don't want you to look the part. I want you to really allow Me to supply you." And sometimes through our false humility, we're like "Lord, don't supply me, You can't wash my feet, You can't supply me, I'm just you know..." He said, "If you don't let Me do this for you, how can you have a way with Me, because I'm glorified in My supply, and without Me, you can't do it. Even in the time that's contrary, even in the time where the world is at its darkest point, the vine says, "I'm still the supplier." 

He said something to me, "Son, am I not the supplier?" "Yes You are." But He was challenging my notion, and when I felt Him challenging my notion, He said, "Son, people don't have no confidence that I am who I am." 

John 15:7 If you abide in Me - meaning I got to abide in Christ. 

And My words abide in you. Now what is the Word? What God says about Himself, what God says about you. If it abides, if it lives in you. "I am the supplier." That is the truth about God, that is the Word of God - but is it alive in me? Not have I heard it. Not have I read it. But, is it abiding in Me? Do I acknowledge and accept this as the reality and as the truth about God that affects my disposition towards God. Is it alive in me? Everything that God declares about Himself and declares about you, must come alive within you. It must abide in you. And the word abide means to live, to dwell. It's a truth that is alive. 

If My Words abide in you, you shall ask what you will and it shall be done to you. Why then will I ask and it be done? Because the truth about Me has become alive in you. Who I am, what I say about Myself, what I say about you is now alive. So not only do you come to Me boldly, but you come to Me expecting because what I've declared about Myself is alive in you. THE FACT THAT I DECLARED THAT I AM A GOOD GOD IS ALIVE IN YOU. And because My Word is alive in you, you can ask Me and I'll do it. 

Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches and glory in Christ. 

IN CHRIST. 

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:

all spiritual blessings which means not just of the rational mind which means they go beyond your ability  to process what's in Christ for you.

Jesus says I am the vine. And what's in Me for you.

"What's in You for me, Jesus, that's going to bring You glory? What's in You for me that I am lacking, that I need right now? "

Not of the rational soul this word is saying. Not of the rational soul which means our prayers are often constructed with limitations. Because sometimes it's hard to fathom the above and beyond. It's because we don't have an above and beyond perspective of God. The type of perspective that the Word of God declares about Himself, His faithfulness to us, His promises to us, His word to us, they are already established as above and beyond. But when it comes time to petition, we petition from the rational soul oftentimes. Or we may even petition supernaturally, our expectation is from a rational. But He says, what's in Me, don't make sense. What I have for you, don't make sense. What I have in My heart, what's in the vine for you, doesn't make sense. The level of peace that I leave with you, is not rational of the rational soul. It's not like the world's kinda peace. The peace that I leave with you, it doesn't make sense. It's crazy peace, it's something extra. It's always above the world. 

When we find ourselves in moments, fearing tomorrow, and being in this place of fear,  that doesn't bring God glory, because the vine is not supplying it. The vine does not supplying me the fear.  What brings God glory is the peace. He said the peace I leave with you. He never said this great fear of tomorrow I'll leave with you. 

The only thing that brings the vine glory, is what He supplies. Because fear is bondage, it's torment. Have you ever had fear and peace at the same time? They oppose each other. Why? Because they originate from two different places. GOD IS NOT GLORIFIED IN DOUBLE-MINDEDNESS. God is not glorified in being a two-headed monster. So He's not glorified in something that He didn't give me. But He's glorified when He delivers me out.  He's glorified when He takes me out of. He's glorified when He breaks that stronghold. He's glorified when He breaks that bondage. He's glorified when He supplies me. 

There are some of you are well aware that you've been through a time of suffering, a time of affliction, a time of trial. Your suffering season is over.

1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace who has called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus after that you have suffered a while make you perfect, establish, strengthen you and settle you.  The Lord said, your suffering is over. That you have been suffering for a while and now He's calling it over. And what He's doing right now is He's preparing your heart, He's opening your heart to receive the supply. Have you received all that Jesus gives? Have you received all that the vine is supplying? Some of you received some, some of you received a lot. Have you received all? The Lord is saying to you, there's more to give. It's not even a hard thing for Him. Can you imagine, that's what He actually what He purposed to do. Some people equate it to robbery to allow God to be good to them, when they don't understand that when they allow the vine to supply them , they're allowing the vine to be glorified. Because a branch with no fruit brings no glory to the vine. Jesus Himself said cut it down, one He said cut down the other said cursed are thee. I believe the Lord is really challenging our perspective. He's really bringing an end to the show, the pretense. We always wanna look the part, and as a result, because we're just pretending, and trying to play the part, we rob our own mind and understanding from the reality, that this is real. You got to understand, your heart will grow whatever you sow.  So if you tell your heart that all you got to do is just look the part, your heart will have no expectation for the Word to be real in your life. YOUR HEART WILL GROW WHAT YOU SOW. Just look the part - but why would I do that? If this Word is real, it's real. What are we doing? The Word is real, that's what I sow into my heart - the Word is real. So I see real things come from the Word. How long will you be satisfied by playing the part? Having no expectation that God is actually who He says He is. Your focus is always on you. So only thing you're getting out of life is what you are able to do. Focus is on yourself, so only thing you getting out of everything is what yourself can do with your own hands, your own self. It's because you've taught yourself to play the part, to look the part. You taught your heart, you sowed that in your heart. But if you could just submit and say, Lord I acknowledge that Your Word is real. And then ask by Your Holy Spirit that You quicken it on the inside, that You make it alive in me. I don't mind being challenged by God's truth. And I realized something, that everytime I think that I've come to a place that the Lord always shows me there's more. Everytime I feel like I've come to a plateau or a level of understanding, the Lord says, "Oh you think you know Me. Here's more."

The Lord is breaking off for you today the hindrances that have affected your ability to receive from the vine. And He's calling to life the Word that you once read about Him, the Word that you heard about Him, the Word that testifies of Him, He's calling it to life in you. That you will be able to ask. 

The Bible says, those who come to Him they must believe that He is - fill in the blank - the supplier, the healer, the provider. Those who come to Him you got to believe it. I don't make it true, but me acknowledging what is true, allows me to access what I acknowledge. If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, you shall ask what you will and it should be done to you. Why? What Word is abiding on the inside of you? The Lord says this, I am your supplier. 

That diligently seek Him. See, it's not those who diligently seek religion, it's not those who diligently seek traditions, it's not those who diligently seek error, diligently seek themselves. There's a difference between diligently seeking me and seeking Him. There's a difference between me diligently trying to strain and seeking Him. If I'm seeking You, then I got to humble myself to be wanting to know what do You say about You? He says I am love. I am faithful. I am the Vine. I am your provider. There's people seeking the Lord but they never find Him. Because they won't acknowledge what He says about Himself. 

The Lord is here in an abundant way, the power of the Lord, the Spirit of the Lord, the anointing of the Lord is here to supply. Some of the most challenging Words that we find ourselves dealing with has to do with God's provision and God's supply. The enemy has done a great work to slander the hearts of God's children to where when Jesus said if you being evil know how to give good gifts how much more will your heavenly Father. Attributing a level of goodness that far surpasses even the best of us. But the enemy has worked so hard to slander God in our hearts, to the point that we don't have any confidence that God is who He said He is. That the revelation of Christ is going unnoticed in the lives of God's children. And so the Word of truth, it doesn't live in us. It's something that we hear, and it falls to the ground. You hear about how good God is, and it falls to the ground. We read it then it falls to the ground. But that Word is supposed to be alive on the inside of us. We have to allow that Word to be alive on the inside of us. Because that's the reality and the truth about who God says He is. It allows the supply of the vine. 

Will you allow the Word to live on the inside of you? To abide in you today? That you will find the dimension of children and understand this particular dynamic to be able to ask your Father and know that He will do it. It's not even a question - why. Because who You are is alive in me. Your love for me, the Word of Your love for me, it's alive in me. The Word of Your faithfulness is alive in me. And whatever Word of God is living on the inside of you, these becomes the door, the avenues that grant access to the supply of the vine. Why? Because the vine will only supply you according to the Word of God. You must believe that He is. You got to. One of the greatest illusions of Christianity is just to want it. But the Bible says those who come to Him, you got to believe that God is and who He is. You got to believe that God is the someone to do something about what you're asking. It's hard for me to ask God to do something good for me if I don't believe that He is the someone who is good. It's hard to ask the Lord to forgive me if I don't believe that He is the someone who loves me enough to forgive. You got to believe that He is the someone. Do you believe that He is the someone to address the very thing that you're praying about? The someone who will address the very thing that you need supply for today.

Some of us need radical transformations of who God is, we need to allow our minds to be transformed by the Word of God through renewing of our mind - the mind of Christ. You want to know the testimony of Christ was according to Martha. Do you really have the mind of Christ? Martha said "You know Jesus, You're late, my brother's dead, but You know what, even now, whatever You ask the Father, He'll do for You." And do you really believe you have the mind of Christ? See for Me to supply this life to this dead thing was the natural thing that the Lord was doing by the way, it wasn't spiritual. He took a naturally dead body and brought it to life again. He supplied the life. Even more so, the Lord is here to supply for you the life.

You're wondering, just how much could God supply me? How much is in the vine for me? Look at the cross. It's a crazy amount of supply. 

It's on that level of sacrifice, His love, but it's also His goodness to you, His faithfulness to you, it's all on that level, they all follow on the same road, which is high and above. It all follows His love. 

That's just how much supply He has, that describes the yearning because the Lord says, I'm not glorified in you going without. I'm yearning to supply. 

4/8/21 The Lord said there will be a great deliverance (Prophetic Drive Time)

Sometimes you can be on a God movement, on a God mission and not make no progress. It can be the same Lord who sends you out and you get out there in the middle of the sea and just like the disciples will toil all night and make no progress. Lord, you send me out here but I ain't going nowhere. And then the Lord shows up walking on the very thing that's been troubling you, just to make you aware of who He is. It's to bring you deeper revelation, it's to bring you deeper insight. So you say, why would the Lord send me out here to this other side and there's great opposition. You see the disciples, they were rowing against that. They didn't stop, they were rowing and they were exhausted. It seems that the opposition against me is greater than the command You gave me. 

It's interesting because you see a lot of people make doctrine out of that. There are some people who on God's command faced opposition but instead of continuing to row or waiting for the help to arrive, they came back to shore and made a doctrine about how significant the opposition is against the Word of God, against the command. We become so affected when we get out there and we find the opposition we don't know instinctively we don't automatically connect to the fact that help's gonna come. Help's got to come. Because they turn around, we turn around and lose all perspective that the opposition is not greater than the command. There are some people who've gone out and they came back to shore. Now they don't know where they are, where God is, what's going on. They're in a space where I don't feel like where I'm supposed to be. - I put no stock on the One who said go.

They kept on rowing and they kept on going and then the Lord showed up. It's interesting because the Lord knew the storm was going to come. The Lord was watching them row. The Lord says, He selected the hour. He was in the mountain praying, as He sent them forward, go to the other side, He watched them toiling, fighting against the opposition, and the Bible says, He selected the hour in which He would come, and bring deliverance. Your opposition is not greater than the command. Sometimes, the Lord shows up personally. For those of you who didn't turn back to shore, but stayed in the midst of confusion just rowing, I have no energy. What do you think happened to them when they saw Jesus walking on the water, exercising authority, the same water that they were rowing, the same water that would not let them make any progress, Jesus came walking on it, water under His feet, exercising authority over the very thing that was opposing them. Sometimes we get lost on moments, Lord why did you allow it? Why did you allow this impossible situation? Sometimes it can be difficult for us to move beyond that point. Why did you allow it? You told me to go. Now, I'm stuck rowing against the opposition, and then He shows up. So that you may know, and understand the God who is on your side. It's about covenant. He said, He's about to slay it before you. He is showing you His might, He is showing you He is for you, you need to know that. He is showing you He is for you. He is showing you His covenant. He says, He is there for you, now you're about to see in greater detail what that means. He is about to bring clarity to what you suspect, clarity to what you heard, clarity to what you thought. I can say God is with me, but I don't know if any of us who ever really know the levels in the depths of what that means. That's why you can talk to somebody who will acknowledge that God is with them, and when you say God is with you and He will do this, this is when they part ways because they haven't seen God come through for them like you've seen God come through for you. While you can both acknowledge that God is there for you, you part ways at the depths of what that means because there are some people who saw God come through at the very depths, and so that's where you part ways. It's not that they won't say God is here, but they don't know the depths of what that means to have God with them. But it's when He shows up, that's what creates the depths, that's what creates the understanding, that's what creates the knowing. The Lord says, I'm about to create some depth in you. THERE IS NO OPPOSITION GREATER THAN THE ONE WHO CALLED. Sometimes, it's necessary for us to see that if it wasn't for God who was by our side, sometimes it's necessary for us to encounter opposition so significant, that we create depth, and understanding of the God who's with us. ALL STORMS DON'T COME TO DESTROY, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING THE LORD. They come to reveal. We enjoy the Lord on a day to day, but the depth of who He is is revealed in the impossible. It's hard to have a textbook understanding of who the Lord is, a very academic understanding of a very real God. It's hard to have an academic understanding of who the great I AM is. Because all that He is doesn't fit in the confines of your theological breakdown. Somewhere along the line you will limit Him, in all that you believe you know. BUT IT'S IN THOSE IMPOSSIBLE SITUATIONS WHERE HE SHOWS UP, IT'S WHERE HE REVEALS, THE I AM THAT I AM.

Joshua 10:8-10 And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.

Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.

And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth–horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.

Beth-horon - means hollow  place which means empty in the middle; 

The Lord says, I'm fighting for you. 

Some of you are gonna look back at the opposition and you're going to remember the time when it made you cry but it will become a point of celebration for you, because you're going to look back and say, that's when I saw the Lord come walking on the water. That's when the Lord showed up for me. And my intimacy grew, and our relationship grew, and where He made Himself known to me, where He snatched me into His heart, so I could understand who He was for me. It made you cry, you were on your knees, you were faint, weak, tired, exhausted, you were discouraged. It's ironic how the Lord is about to change that moment, change that memory to a point of celebration because you're going to say, this is the place where God came through. Isn't it amazing how the Lord will change a situation around from one place will be the place where you wept, will now become the place where you rejoice. 

3/17/21 Everything is revealed in it's time (Prophetic Drive Time)

There is a great reveal coming to many of you. Some of you, don't even know who you are. And there's a push by the Holy Spirit to begin to share with you and to convince you that you are who the Lord says you are. But oftentimes people have a tendency to look at where we are to determine what we are, but no one knows the plant like the One who sowed it, no one knows the tree like the One who sowed it, no one knows the identity of what is growing like the One who sowed the seed. The Lord says to you, there will be many people who will say to you, 'I had no idea, this is who you were.'  When you get enough of that feedback, you have a tendency to believe it. You have a tendency to fall for the misdiagnosis, you have a tendency to fall for the misconception for those who are assessing you based upon your growth.

What the Lord showed me was the life of Christ, His very own life how. There was a couple of different moments where you saw the Lord:  at His birth, who He was was revealed only to a few people - the wise men, the shepherds, Mary and Joseph. And even though the star representing the great prophecy being fulfilled and Herod was aware that a King was born, no one had a real idea of the scope and the dynamic of what had taken place. What happens is after that, a brief moment where Christ was in the temple where He stayed behind and Mary and Joseph were looking for Him and they were a bit frantic and they came to find Him, and they were like, "Why'd you do this?" "Don't you know I had to be about My Father's business." But it wasn't time. From that point, He began a life that wasn't synonymous with the Son of God, but of the Son of the carpenter. He was born the Son of God, but He became identified as the Son of the carpenter, filled with all the greatness that will be revealed in time, to which when He showed up when it was this time of reveal, people said, "Isn't this just the carpenter's Son?"

At the time when you're revealed, when you know what you are, when it's your time of reveal, nothing changes. You don't change up. Because you're like, "Yeah. I've always been this. Now it's just being revealed." The Lord wants you to understand, you've always been what's about to be revealed. If you understand this dynamic, you see how the process of growth is, and you see God's perspective. This is why we carry so many heavy burdens that don't belong to us . The Lord often refers to us as plants, flowers, trees, throughout the entirety of the Word of God, you see us being referred to as these elements that start out as not what they will eventually be. They don't start out as what they will eventually become. But this is God's perspective, and if you can grab hold of God's perspective, you can grab hold of freedom, life, benefits and the blessings today. 

The reason why we're constantly being referred to as plants, as flowers, as trees, is because the wisdom of God speaks this wise. He knows. That's why the Bible says He call it those things that be not as though they were. Because the Lord sees you as what He plants. 

If you ever go to a farm, those who are familiar with the farm- He said, "What's in the field?" He's gonna tell you "That's corn." Even if you see nothing in the field, or even if you see one little bitty shoot, He's gonna call it, what it's going to become. He's going to call it what is soon to be revealed, He's not gonna call it where it is. "What's in the field?" "Those are bitty shoots, just little bitty stems sticking up." You see, and you've allowed people to convince you that you was just a little bitty stem, but the Lord says this, "There is a great reveal coming for you." And in this great reveal, what the Lord is going to do, He's going to bring out, or bring to manifestation, or bring to the time and place, what you've always been.

Greatness is not something that you've acquired through genealogy or logic, greatness was something that was given to you, with the deposit of the seed. And so the Lord says this, "Everytime I look at you, I see greatness." It's funny how people can look at a corn and see nothing but a nut. And we know how it's like to be young in this walk and be a little nutty. And the Lord says, it's time to plant you deep. And you go through this time frame where it's dark and you go through this time where it's like "This wilderness, this whole thing, I'm dying out here." When in actuality, you're giving birth to greatness. Now people in the early stages may walk by and say "Oh, I can't tell what that is." They can't tell what's growing out of you.  They can't tell, what the Lord is drawing out, the greatness. They can't tell. But when the Lord looks, He says to you, "I see a mighty oak tree." Soon people will begin to see the mighty oak tree, that the Lord has deposited in you, the mighty oak tree that the Lord is revealing in you, who the Lord has purposed you to be, who the Lord has put in you to be, and who the Lord is drawing out of you. The same people who refuse to acknowledge, will be the same people who can't help but acknowledge, "I didn't see this in you." 

The Lord says this, "No one can identify the tree, the plant, or the flower, like the One who planted it." And it takes a real botanist, it takes someone who's sent by the Master to recognize the potential in His field. Everybody who claims to be somebody and knows something can't recognize. But when you are sent by the Master, and you know how He values the field, then you speak to the field, like the Master speaks to it, you see what the Master sees. I can't call you something different, than He calls you. If I don't see what the Master sees, then I'm not fit to tend His garden. 

Everything must be revealed in its time. 

Throughout the process, throughout the time frame, there's different stages where we're growing, when we just need to be watered, or we just need to be nurtured. Before the mighty oak can provide shade for anything, it must take shade, take cover. It must learn to find protection, before it can give protection. 

It's interesting because when you come in contact with something God has done, then it tends to bring you to a place of awe, especially when you see the kind of transformation that the Lord is doing in your life. You were almost convinced that you were nothing, but the Lord is declaring to you today, that what you are truly is being revealed. In its time, what you are will be revealed. And you've been looking forward to because you want the truth about who you are to answer your critics, so you can feel comfortable. The Lord is saying for you today, "This word is coming so you can take heart NOW." Be confident in it now. You see, Jesus said, "My time's not come yet." You see, and because I know who I am, I don't mind you mislabeling Me, I don't mind being introduced as the carpenter's Son, until it's time for the Son of God to be revealed. When you know who you are, it will stop rattling your cage when people can't see you. 

John 2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.

It ain't time for the awesome wonder. It's not time for the great reveal. It's not time yet, BUT. You see, being aware of your time frame, when Jesus went to His own hometown, they said, "Isn't this just the carpenter's Son?" NO. 

You see, Jesus never walked around warring with the label, of the 'Carpenter's Son' prior to. He never worried about the mislabeling, because He knew the dynamics, the dunamis, the anointing, it wasn't time to be revealed. 

You thought it was a big deal that they couldn't identify you. Because you were hanging your hopes on them seeing you correctly so that you can give your self permission to see yourself correctly. This becomes a snare to our soul. You were waiting for people to see you correctly, to give you permission for you to see yourself correctly. But the Lord says this to you, "Your identity does not hang in the balance of man's opinion." He said, "Because they have not created you, because they have not formed you, because they have not redeemed you, they cannot speak to you and give you the assurity that can only come from your Creator." The Lord says to you, "I formed you, I know what you are about, I created you, I know what is yet to be revealed." 

When you seek the pleasing of man and the acceptance of man, the enemy will walk you right into a snare, and the Lord says to somebody today, "You don't need their permission to be great. If they mislabel you, what is preparing to be revealed, what is getting ready to be revealed, will leave them with no doubt." You don't need their permission. They didn't form you in your mother's womb. They didn't plant you, so you don't need their permission. 

Even if the Lord Himself went through a time of being mislabeled, how could we possibly think that it was over for us and not see that it just wasn't time. How could we allow ourselves to be under any other persuasion? 

The Lord says, A GREAT REVEAL IS COMING that has everything to do with the One who called, that has everything to do with the One who purposed, and people will say, 'I had no idea, that was in you. I had no idea, that's who you were. I had no idea, I'm blown away.' 

GLORY TO GOD.

Everything revealed in His time. It was always who you were. It was always what God determined. 

Flower doesn't start off revealing all its beauty. It first grows, and it can be quite unclear at times, what type of flower it is. And then it grows, and grows, and then the stems start to shoot out, and then it starts to bud, and even as it's budding, it's still hard to tell, what is that. And the moment when it's revealed, and He's like WOW, have you ever seen such a beautiful array. You see, the reason why the Lord refers you to those things is because you grow like those things - that is the system. When we don't know that, we work against it. When we don't know these truths, we don't flow with God, we start to flow against God, crafting our own ways, getting to our own minds, leaning on our own. When we don't understand that, insecurities and frustrations- they move us into a completely different field /space. It's in these moments that we need correction. You'd be surprised just how alright you would be if you knew HOW FAITHFUL GOD WAS. You ain't got to pretend, you ain't got to do none of those things. 

Take heart and understand your process. The Lord sees you as what you will become. He ministers to you, He comforts you, He protects you, He keeps you. 

• You don't even know that you're blessed, because you don't know the different stages of being blessed. Sometimes the blessing keeps you from danger. We look at the blessing as automatically as the supply. Guess what, what is about to be revealed to you, is the other dynamics of the blessing, and that is the supply. You were always blessed. If you look at the life of Abraham, the Lord called him out, war broke out, kingdom Sodom, he's in this conflict- what kept old man Abraham and his servants who were not trained in war, that allowed them to go out and defeat men who were trained in war? It was the blessing. The fact that you got out of what you got out of means you're blessed. But you've been looking at, you've been determining whether or not you were blessed by the fact of what you have, or have not. But the blessing takes on many forms. Sometimes it protects you. If the blessing is protecting you now, then you still got to know that you are BLESSED. The blessing has many stages and it encompasses many different dynamics. Sometimes you can tell that you are blessed by what didn't take you out. What wasn't allowed to claim victory over your life, the blessing kept you. Now, there's a greater level of blessing, another aspect of the blessing that the Lord says, "I'm calling out." - that's about to be revealed. Because of the blessing, I wasn't utterly consumed. But because of the same blessing, I'm about to touch a promise. Because of the same blessing, the unlikely me, is about to do something highly unlikely. I'm about to bear fruit. 

You have been so blessed, and you didn't even know it. And because you didn't know, compromise was always around the corner, it was always at the door, insecurity was always at the door because you didn't know how blessed you were. But the Lord is calling forth a greater level of glory, a greater reveal of the blessing that's on your life. At one point it sustained you, at one point it protected you, but now it's about to cause you to walk in victory. 

2/25/21 Do it God's way (Prophetic Drive Time)

• There's a way that we think a thing should be done and we grew up learning the process from point A to point B.  And there could be a difference between families and friends, you could have different ways from your neighbors across the street.

• Oftentimes without us knowing, we tend to pose the way we believe a thing should be done onto God.  And oftentimes our breakthrough or victory hinges on that fine line between wanting it, believing it, but finding the way to execute it sometimes eludes us because it's at that moment, that fine line, we start to interject how we think a thing should be done versus relying on the simplicity that is in Christ. The Lord is saying, I have not crafted things to be so difficult, the answers to be so difficult that you can't find. There's a simplicity that is in Christ that we oftentimes struggle and stumble with because sometimes it can be hard to see how - "if the Lord tells me to do this, how it could relate to producing these things to my life." And so oftentimes, we lean on the more complicated processes of - "this is how I grew up believing a thing should come to pass, this is how I grew up believing how you accomplish a certain thing."  And so we tend to interject some of those things. It's the simplicity that's tripping some of you up. Who would have thought that for Naaman (2Kings 5:14) the answer to his prayer was just to go dip seven times. And as a result,  people bring all these convoluted extra dynamics to the Body of Christ and present them as answers and people fall for it a lot of times because there'll like, the more complicated it is, the more it seems so deep. In actuality, where you really find the power of God is in the simplicity that is in Christ. He has not made it complicated. 

• Confidence triggers the power. The enemy is bringing in relentless pressure. For My people, to find the peace that I have for them, to find the victory, cast the cares. When the Lord says "Cast your cares upon Me because I care about you." That becomes a way the things that you think you have the right to worry about, or to be concerned about are the doorways that the enemy will come and thwart you, derail you, it's a constant pressure , the unrelenting pressure on the mind on the heart in dreams in thoughts, in your daily. The Lord says, these things cannot continue to have a hold.

• When you can rightly align your sight and your mind and see God clearly not everybody see the benefit of that but this becomes your ability to access your power. Because nothing happens to the Lord by you seeing Him as He really is, but something happens to you. because it empowers your confidence. Once my confidence is empowered, then I am no longer available for the enemy to devour me. 

• What The Lord is showing me was really about peace, how to find your peace and in this time that we're in, one of the most important dynamics is to be able to cast our cares. This is also a form of laying down your life. The reason why the enemy's been so successful over many of us at times, is because we're trying to figure out how we protect ourselves. But the Lord makes it very clear, those who look to save their lives, they're gonna lose it along the way, but those who lay down their lives, they're gonna find it. When you effectively cast your cares onto the Lord and you're no longer worried about you, you find something. 

But the devil wanna tell you and some other people, that's wisdom - you got to take care of yourself. If the Lord is not in control, then what are my efforts? So they discourage people from discovering the life. When you are no longer worried about you, what you find is how much God is concerned about you. The Lord says, IT AIN'T NO NEED BOTH OF US WORRYING. IF YOU'RE GONNA STRESS, I'M GONNA REST. IF YOU GONNA REST AND I'LL TAKE ON ALL THE STRESS.  That's the dynamics. If you would just do it God's way, what you would see is the life. The enemy wants to wear you out, he wants to stress you out. But the Lord ain't gonna stress with you. Jesus will never come into the hall with you and be like, "Lord I'm stressed out." "Yeah, Me too. What we're gonna do?" No matter what the storm is saying, no matter how bad the winds are. If you're going to Jesus, "Lord I'm so concerned." He'll be like, "Why?"

As soon as the enemy loses his advantage, you gain the advantage. Never underestimate the part you play. 

The Lord wants you to know that He is good. The Lord wants you to know that He loves you. You got to see that. You got to know that to be true. Because It's not that the Lord won't take your burdens, but you won't give it to Him. Jesus will be like, if you give it to Me, I'll take care of it, if you keep it you deal with it. That's the agreement. YOU GIVE IT TO HIM, YOU LET GO. The first thing is you're gonna find the life, you're gonna discover the peace that comes with your trust. And that would be your receipt, that the Lord has it under control, and as that peace begins to move into your life, as you begin to receive that peace what you're also gonna start seeing - things begin to level out and the Lord begins to lead you to a different direction. Some of you will find your way of escape, some of you will be catapulted into promotion. And what you're gonna find out is that there's actually life in the Word of God, if I am willing to do it God's way.

As your perception with the Lord changes, you'll find out that the dynamics change. When I know that I am loved, then I am aware that God is here. But He's here as the Person who loves me. It's not that Jesus is here, some see a powerless Jesus with them, that's why they are crying every single second, 'I know that God is with me but.' You got to take the 'but' out of the situation. When you know that the Lord loves you, not only you know that He is here, but His love for you is here. That changes everything. Faith works by love. 

3/28/21 there is no substitute for relationship with Christ!! Major revelation (Prophetic Drive Time)

• the systems of God remain: I put before you life and death, blessings and cursings
When we choose to follow Christ we choose life. We choose to remain in ourselves we choose our flesh.

• In relationship with the Lord is what you begin to see all that the Lord has for us that await inside the Kingdom. that's why the Lord says this, "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all of these things will be added unto you." Why would all these things be added unto me just by seeking the Kingdom? Because you never have to labor for what God has already in store for you in His Kingdom. If it wasn't good, if it wasn't right, then God would never add it to you.

But He says seek first the Kingdom, so you can discover what belongs to you. And the Kingdom is where you find your inheritance, and the Kingdom is where you find God's heart, and the Kingdom is where you find relationship. 

You don't have to feel bad for what God has for you in this hour. You don't have to feel bad for what God has purposed for you in this hour. 

• A young lady said, "You know I just want to have a relationship with the Lord." And the Lord began to speak to me, "How will she know Me if she don't see Me?" There's no other way to know God than how He has made Himself known. Most people struggle with a relationship with God or knowing God because they won't accept the fact that He is love. They won't accept the fact that He is good and because of that it's hard for them to come into intimacy based upon who He really is. You can't have a relationship with God based upon a misconception, based upon your insecurities, based upon what you feel comfortable with Him being. You can only have a relationship with the Lord in truth, which requires humility sometimes. If I want to know who He is, then I gotta allow Him to speak, and them I make a decision, do I want to accept this kind of person in my life. Do I want to accept Him? Because you want Him to be something else and that's why you can't find Him, you can't touch Him. But He makes it clear who He is. He wants to be made known, He's not hiding from you.

• How many people don't understand, in darkness, what does light do? Don't you know that you were born for times such as this? We are made the light for a specific reason, and that's to shine. To shine, to reflect Christ in this darkness. However the Lord chooses you to do it through your personal relationship, whatever He's placed on you, is to be focused on Him.

• One of the scariest portions of the Bible is Matthew 7 where the Lord says depart from Me for I never knew you. People's like, "Lord did I not do all these things..." "But I never knew you." I was never intimate with you, we never had a relationship, but I never knew you. Which sets the precedent of what's important to God is that we are in a relationship. So when you think about this, after repentance, when you see these things change and shift, and it's like the Lord is coming back. Now's the time for us to get to knowing Him. 

All this revelation coming forth about who God is and bringing us deeper into knowledge and deeper into revelation about His heart and seeing His heart. Why? So we could see Him and begin to establish intimacy, which is He is craving to establish intimacy with you, which is what - He's preparing the bride. You see, the Lord is coming back for a bride that He knows, not one that He doesn't. So when people see these things, they automatically get offended, because they're emulating. And what's happening is, what they don't understand is they're bringing conflict to the work of God. They're bringing conflict to what He is doing- to merge His heart to your heart. Bringing confusion. You want victory over sin, fall in love with Jesus. Let Him reveal. 

• How do I have a relationship with the Lord?

Paul said this in the Book of Galatians, as you have begin in Christ, continue in Him. This is the foundational truth, which means, I begin by hearing the gospel, receiving the gospel, believing the gospel, that produced my transformation. So when I hear the man of God, the woman of God speak about how God loves me, everything I do in God must be done in the same way. The same way I started with Christ, it's the same way I continue with Him. So if I want to know God, if I want a relationship with God, I got to hear God's love for me, I got to receive God's love for me, and I got to declare it and what will happen is, this process, will bring forth the manifestation, of that reality, that transformation. So you got to accept it. The Lord designed us. We have a specific design that affects how we interact and relate to one another. It's not a simple process. We hear about a person, we hang out with them, we like them, I just love being around you, I'm just free in your presence. Whatever the process. And you begin to fall in love. And as you begin to learn, He said take my yoke upon you and learn of Me. You got to learn of Me. But there's places that are so busy speaking against you, speaking at you, that they're not revealing the One, the way for you to see Him, for you to see. 

• It takes relationship to value what's important to God, not what's important to you. You think these things are important and everybody's out of line except for you, you believe that because you're emulating, you're not relating. But when you relate, you see what's important to the Lord is what's important to me so I see the value in you because you're important to the Lord. 

3/29/21 Something very significant is about to happen for you! (Prophetic Drive Time)

• Situations don't change who God is. And if I don't understand something at the moment why this thing happened, once I count God faithful, the revelation will come later, and then I'll be like, "Oh Lord, now I see. Now I get it."   But we live in a time where since we don't count God faithful, we're not attributing any honor and glory and if you don't attribute any honor and glory and esteem to God, you're not attributing the level of righteousness to God that is due Him then how can you be intimate with Him, and as a result, this is why religion is so appealing to people because in religion, you don't really have to commune with God, you get to commune with yourself and tell you how good you feel, how good you doing but there's a criteria to communing with Christ. Those who come to Me, you must believe. 

• The Lord will attack you with His love. 

• You should never want to pretend to be whole for nobody when you can be whole for real. You should never pretend like you got it all right when you can have it all right for real. I don't want to wear a mask but sitting here entertaining all these demons. I don't want to pretend. I want to be free for real for real. That's what the Lord offers, He offers real freedom, for real. You never have to pretend. Amen.

2/18/21 The Lord said He's not done (Prophetic Drive Time)

Oftentimes, situations arise to expose our own frailty. You try to hold everybody up so the Lord's got to show how weak you are. You leaning on people so the Lord's got to show you how weak they are. Because the only One to be glorified in any work is the Lord.

How you supposed to hold them up? By prayer. By your faithfulness to God. When you get into that space with the Lord, and that faithfulness with Him, and you surrendered your life to Him, and it becomes just about you and Him, the Lord will protect and hold everything that is pertaining to you. He'll do it for you.

It's interesting because at the same time that you could be a natural offense to some of your family members, to some of your friends, at the same time you could be a saving grace because they don't know that the Lord will be sparing their life for you. That's why it's so important - your relationship - it goes beyond you. They don't know how valuable you are in their life. They may be seeing you as the black sheep, the outcast the whole time, but your relationship with Jesus is covering them. "I'll save them for you." 

The Lord is loving on you by sparing them. Sometimes, you can't even quantify just how much God loves you. And sometimes we look at just the things and the Lord is showing His love in so many manifold ways.

3/21/2021 The Grace was meant to flow freely! Watch the blessings that follow this word (Prophetic Drive Time)

Matthew 6:28 consider the lilies of the field
• How do they grow? So my question is, how do you grow? How are you growing, lily of the field? You thought you were growing by all the toiling you've been doing, but Jesus said, the real way to grow is to toil not, neither do they spin. 
How often times you and I found ourselves toiling and spinning into exhaustion and always seeing very little on our return, working and striving for the blessing?

• Lord says, "How can I be revealed to you, if all that you are considering is you?
I'm not revealed to you through you. I'm revealed to you through Me. And what you see in Me, affects you to where now you understand Me. You go out and do what- you begin to replicate Me, you begin to demonstrate Me.
There's little on your table because you have foregone the knowledge of your Maker. There's little on your table because of what you have not been willing to see about Me. And whatever you cannot see about God, you cannot reflect of God.
Look at the life of someone who's been touched by God, who's been set free, or who God has been good to. You will watch them and whatever you see in God is what you will replicate of God.
Those who see God as selfish, stingy, nasty, harsh, mean, judgmental, you gonna find them and they're gonna talk, they're gonna be to you exactly what they see in God.
Whatever you see in Him is what you will reflect of Him.

• Freely you have received, then freely give - I'm empowered from on high. I'm supplied from on high. The Lord says, I would not ask you to do anything that I have not given you the power to do. That's why so many people find themselves stuck with a stuck on a command, stuck on a command to forgive, because they don't understand as they look at themselves and all they see is their hurt, they don't look at the supply of the new life that God has given them. So they don't see themselves as having, or receiving. The Lord says, it would be unjust for Me to ask you to do something that you weren't able to do. The rub is, you never do anything that the Lord asks you to do looking at you, because in you, all you can see is deficiencies, inability, lack, the hurts. Oftentimes what the Lord asks you to do is often hindered by you. But the Bible says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Not through me who evaluates my ability to perform a task given by God. It's not about me evaluating me. It's about my estimation of the One who calls, the One who qualifies, the One who judge. 

• The provisions of the Master, tells a story about the Master. It tells a story about the Master, the spread, the dinner table. It tells a story about the Master that begins to etch itself on my heart, and when I go out, people begin to read me. They begin to read the etchings of the Master on my heart. And as opposed to me offering them myself, or I,  and I did this, when they see me, they see the handwriting of the One who's calling them. 
Let God write on you. The doodles that you are making on yourself ain't helping nobody but bringing more people into bondage. Let God write on you and watch some people get free. Let the Lord write on you and watch Him be magnified. Let the Lord write on you and He'll tell a story about Himself. He'll tell a story about Himself that will move the hearts of men to come running unto Him. 

• If you wanna reflect Christ, you got to get out of the way. If you really wanna see God's best then you really got to get out of the way. 

• For those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, they will reign in life. By what- themselves? You will reign in life because of who Christ is. 
That's why it's hard to be transformed, you find it hard to be consistently doing what God is because - it's one thing to hear what the Lord wants you to do and then try to do it out of your own strength. It's another to see who God is and do it from the supply of heaven. It's one thing to be touched by God and do it as a result of being touched by Him. It's another thing to be trying to go. It's another thing to see the glory of Lord, receive the glory of the Lord, and walk in the glory of the Lord, then all of my testimony leads back to Him. All my praises lead to Him. 
Those who receive. Not those who toil. Not those who strive. 
The way you grow in God, is how you receive from God. You haven't grown to the next level, because you haven't received. The Lord says, "If you would just let Me be who I am to you. If you would just let Me do it to you. If you would just let Me reveal Myself, If you would just let it come freely, receive.

• Grace /HESED/ - graciousness, a manner or act abstract or concrete, literal figuratively or spiritual especially the defined influence upon the heart, and its reflection in life, including gratitude, acceptable, benefit, favor, gift, grace, graciousness, joy, liberality, pleasure, thanksgiving, thanks worthiness, merciful, kindness, by which God exerting His holy influence upon the souls turns them to Christ, keeps them strengthened, increases them in Christian knowledge and faith in all these things, loveliness, sweetness, delight.
You see, I gotta receive the fact that God loves me, the fact that God is good to me
As you bask in that generosity, bask in His love, what it does is, it opens up the door for you to grow in your understanding of Him and as your understanding changes, your life changes. Your ability to reflect God only comes by what you see in Him. I can't reflect what i don't see. I can only reflect what I perceive above me. So you look at the water, you go to a lake, you'll see when it's a nice still day, quiet day, the lake will always reflect what's above it. What's over your head? Is it not the love of God? What's over you? Because regardless of what you say, you're going to reflect what's over your head. And the Lord says My love, My kindness, My glory, I want you to freely receive it. Not because you deserve it, not because you earned it, not because you're straining and toiling to receive it, but because of who I am. And that's going to imprint you in such a way that you will begin to reflect that. It's going to etch and carve the initials of the Lord and you will be like the psalmist who pens an understanding about God that will draw many people to come and understand who God is through the writing of God on your life, a living epistle is what you'll become. 

• The religious they hardly receive but then there's a group of people that you see who the Lord is just good. You get to see the Lord do these explosive things in their life. He's free to reveal Himself in their life, because they receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. 

10/1/2020 This is still important to God (Prophetic Drive Time)

Matthew 7:12 
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Lord says, "This still matters to Me right now"- how we treat each other. In fact, this is Jesus making the statement that, however you want people to treat you treat them, sowing to others what you want out of others, sow into other people, the kind of things that you want from them, and He said, "This is the law and the prophet. It's all contained, if you would just treat people like you want people to treat you. This still matters to Me, how you guys treat one another." 

How the Lord showed me, this was the spirit of the law. The Bible goes on to talk about how the letter kills but the spirit gives life. This was the spirit of the law behind the letter, and there are some people who believe that they keep the law, but they're trying to pursue the essence of God through the letter. But the letter gets you killed. It's the spirit that brings life. The spirit of the law remains, which Jesus summed up this way, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." This can be a tough word for some people who don't love God, who have every excuse, every reason not to do what He says. But for those who love the Lord... This is a cord that strikes tenderly on the heart of God. 

2 Corinthians 3:6
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Matthew 25:40 
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

There is something very significant in this process as well, because the Lord takes personal what we do to one another. Which means, whatever we are doing to who we perceive to be the least of us, whatever we are doing and sowing to somebody else's life, we're actually doing it unto the Lord. It's how He perceives it. Sometimes we can think, "No, I'm just doing it to them. This ain't nothing to do with Jesus." But the whole time, Jesus was like, "They're made in My image, I see that as a direct offense or a front to you doing it to Me."

Remember, 'THEREFORE' is a word that connects two thoughts, the previous thought with the one that will follow.

Matthew 7:11
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

On face value, these statements don't seem that they connect to one another. 'Therefore' seems like an inappropriate word to connect verse 11 and 12. 

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

In this dynamic, when we are walking after the Spirit of the Lord, and we are treating each other the same way that God says for us to treat one another, then what happened is this, everything that comes before verse 12, you have the access to. 

Matthew 7:7-8
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

You bring yourself to a place where you open up the freeway of heaven into your life, you change the very dynamics to where you could ask God something, and it will be done unto you. You can knock on the door and it will be opened. What the Lord is saying here, this is emphatic. This is not subjective, like, "Maybe it will happen." He says, "Ask and you shall receive. Knock and it will be opened." And sometimes we find ourselves saying this, "I've asked, I've knocked. I've sought." But the question, how have you been treating your brother? Because this is a tender matter to God. 

At some point, we have to stop allowing what our relationship with God to be dictated by men. The same way we didn't deserve what Jesus did for us, is the same way sometimes people won't deserve what you do for them. But you don't want people to allow you to be out of place with God. When I go to my Father and I can ask, when our relationship is established and strong based upon our unity and intimacy, based upon who He is to me, and me reciprocating all that back to Him, it's not by works, this is about relationship and this is about my submission to Him. This is about my faithfulness to God in return, "Will you do what I ask you to do?" And what happens is, we allow so many people to trip us up, but this has nothing to do with you, but this has to do with who I am to God, it has everything to do with the Lord. Why? Because that's the One I love. Jesus said this, "You call Me Lord, Lord. But you don't do what I ask you to do." And oftentimes we think we have legitimate reasons to not do what the Lord says. 

When Jesus was talking about the brethren, the least of men, He was talking about all those who are in the family, all believers. We should do this to all men, because we wanna reflect Christ, and the only way to reflect Christ is to reflect light, is to reflect who Christ is. And sometimes we have to take it out of merit system, whether people deserve it or not, let's just be led by the Holy Spirit. This is not about you putting yourself in a position that is unfavorable. But, I'm gonna treat you like I wanna be treated, because this is me saying who I am, the way you treat me, speaks of who you are. You've announced yourself by your character, and your conduct, you declare who you are. As believers, you make sure that we don't allow them to replicate themselves in us, we don't allow them to make us who they are, but it's more important for us to be who Christ is. So it's whether or not people are going to love you, it's not those things that demands a response, because you don't need a response for them, you only need a response for somebody when you're doing it for somebody. But if you're doing it for the Person of Jesus Christ, then His response is "Ask, and you shall receive. Seek, and you will find." How many of you want to ask and receive and seek and find? The Lord says this, "I have good things to give you." But when we sow discord, nastiness, these things become hindrances to us spiritually. It doesn't mean that God doesn't send, God doesn't give, but they affect our ability to receive.

Who are you? People will know you by your fruit, by what you're sowing into them, and we should be sowing into them who we are in Christ, not by what they deserve. Because I wanna go to God at any moment and ask, and have my asking be unhindered by the yuck that I'm sowing into other people's lives. We say, "Lord give me all these good things." But I'm sowing all these bad things into the lives of people around me, it's uneven. It doesn't mirror heaven. It's not on earth as it is in heaven. It's not in alignment, not reflective. I want You to give me good things while I sow all of these bad things, and you wonder why your blessings can't find you and you wonder why it's hit and miss, and now you're bringing God into question of whether or not He is good but the question is, "Have you sown any good?" But then you turn around and say, "Well Lord, they don't deserve it." But once you say Lord, they don't deserve it, how can you go to God and tell Him to do it to you even you don't deserve it. You see the disruption you're bringing into your own life. At a certain point, we gotta put our relationship with God above everything, and above everyone. 

And it's not just who we say abide to, but our relationship is predicated on us doing what God said for us to do. You're not putting your relationship with God first, until you can do what God says. 

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.  

Most people look at the law, and they see the commandments, "Touch not, taste not. Don't do this. You do this, you're gonna die. You do this, you're gonna live." They see the letter. But behind the letter is the spirit of the law.  "Don't go stealing from nobody, if you don't want nobody stealing from you. Don't go hurting nobody, if you don't want nobody to hurt you." The spirit of the law is revealed. Jesus said, if you do this, you have successfully fulfilled the law and the prophet. You've just come out of the letter of the law. You're keeping the Sabbath, not eating pork, not eating shellfish, keeping the newmoons, keeping the feasts, but nasty to everyone else, and you think you are keeping the law- it's dead works, you are in full-blown deception. And you think you got God on your side, but you are stuck in Mount Sinai and have not transitioned into Mount Zion. 

These things that are important to Him, when you allow them to be important to you, it puts you in a space of clarity, spiritually. Because it doesn't change God's love for you, it's not like God's gonna love you anymore, but it puts you in a space of clarity, it removes the clutter out of your life, that allows you to ask and then receive, that allows you to seek and find, that allows you to knock, and watch that door swing open to you, because you are not sowing contrary to what you are petitioning God for. Which is I'm not relying on my good works to get God to bless me, but what I'm doing is I'm cluttering the highways, the exchange between heaven and earth, so everytime if I'm sowing nastiness into the lives of my brothers and sisters, I'm sowing no good but then I go to God and petitioning the Father for all these good things, and He says, your highway is clogged. 

I know this is a difficult message. Most people won't be able to grab how much of a blessing this message is, because they'll immediately look around and say, "They don't deserve it." But we want to always be able to go to God, not bringing that conflict of whether or not we deserve it, because if we establish that parameter, "Well, I'll do it if they deserve it." It's not who deserves what. It's about the same grace You poured out on me, it's the same grace I'm gonna pour out on somebody else. What You have freely given me, Lord, I'm willing to freely give. It's about being reflective. I don't want to put nobody on the merit system if God don't put me on the merit system. 

This is not a mandate for relationship. It's a mandate to reflect who Christ is. So we don't have to be in a relationship, but I'll still love you. It's a mandate to release bitterness, to pour out forgiveness, and mercy. I'll treat you like how I wanna be treated. But does that mean I'll trust you? No. If you have proven yourself unfaithful, unworthy, then guess what? I would be unwise to enter into any kind of relationship with you because we're not equally yoked, when you have proven yourself unfaithful and untrustworthy. But don't ask if I can treat you right or with respect, or be kind to you. But I'll just have more "No's". But I won't hold any bitterness against you. You can love somebody from a distance. I can love you in truth and in spirit without being obligated in a relationship with you, but I will be kind to you, and treat you with respect and give you food when you're hungry, but we can't partner together. 

Anytime you make your life about God, God reveals how He's made His life life about you. You never come up on the losing end.

That's when we're talking of walking into the blessings, the goodness, the faithfulness of God, the open doors of God. The quick exchange and before you can even ask the Lord, and He's already answering you "Here I am"

Value your blessings, value God answering you speedily, because that's life. Me being able to ask and receive, seek and find my answers everytime I go to God , and knock and the door is open, that's life. Me being hung up on you, no life at all. And you can tell by how many blessings have been hindered by what you've been sowing into the lives of other people.

There is a blessing in this word for you. The aforementioned word that goes from Matthew 7:7-11. Because with this word the Lord has brought clarity and He's giving the opportunity to remove those hindrances that affect our exchange from heaven. The Lord wants to bless us.

Your walk in this life is about you and God first. Your responsibility is that, we can't continue to allow people to affect our blessings. So we have to make sure that we are structured spiritually, that we're structuring our house right, and Christ is the foundation, "What's on Your heart, what do you want me to do, what's in Your mind?" Not about people, people are sand. Don't hang your blessings on people, hang it on the Rock. And you can build your relationship with people based upon God. 

Oftentimes, because we focus on doing, we fail to see the real key to success in Christ. It's not about doing, it's about being. Because it's hard to walk out something that you're not. So it's about being. As Christ is, so am I in this world. This is about getting it in your heart, when you can see it as this is who God made me to be, because the reality of it is, anything we do outside of the spirit of God, we do it in our own strength. The reality of it is, God made you a brand new person, so it's already true, it's already something your spirit man is already loving, desiring to do, it's already who you are, it's already a spiritual instinct. But oftentimes we try to do it for God in a way to try to do it, as opposed to this is just who I am- this is who I am in Christ, this is who that new man is. And we take away the struggle when we can integrate our mindset- having a renewed mind with who we are truthfully already spiritually. It's not something that God is gonna do for you, it's something that God has already done for you, you've got to walk it out. And the only way to walk it out is to realize that you are who God says you are, and it becomes less of a struggle in the work of the flesh to always try to do, but it becomes just a process of being. This is just who I am in God, I am a son, I am a daughter, I am blessed, I am loved, I am a king, I am a priest, all that He says that I am, I am these things and it just becomes a process of walking it out. A bee would never make honey if it wasn't instinctually, he would never know because there's no books to read, he would never make honey if he wasn't doing what he was. The ant would be trying to strain to make that honey, you'll never see a jar of honey again in your life. 

We all wanna do for God. But it's not what we do for God. It's about who we are to God. From the reality of who we are, perceives all of the actions, the fruits of the Spirit (love, joy, peace...) and the resemblance of God just come forward. Amen. 

8/30/2020 Revelation 12:11 Major Word from the Lord (Prophetic Drive Time)

Love not your life unto death.

Revelation 12:11
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

There are some people that your hindrance is you love your life too much, even though it may not be the life you desire to have, you want something different. You want what God is talking about, you want to move with God, you want to transition with God. In order to follow God into the good, you got to be able to follow God where He goes and where He leads.

There are some people who've gotten comfortable. When you love your life, you're holding on to your life. What happens is that, there are people who won't say what God needs them to say. Why? Because they got something to lose. In order to follow God, you can't have nothing to lose. 

But there are some people who've got a name that they don't want to lose. Even they got nothing at all, they don't want to look crazy following God. In a sense, it's like saying, "Lord, I love my life too much. I love people's opinion of me too much. I love what people are going to think about me even though I'm asking you to bring me out of this, to bless me, to promote me." The Lord says, "The problem is, I can't do  none of those things because you love your life too much." That's why certain people won't say what they need to say, or touching the topics important in the church, because they love their life too much. 

The Lord is swapping some people out. While the enemy is busy causing and wreaking the havoc, the Lord is also busy exposing people, but at the same time, the Lord is swapping some people out. 

The Lord have been preparing you to get yourself together because in the movement of God, you always got to be sensitive to how God moves.

There are people being swapped out and they don't even know it. They don't even have time to fight you on the position that God has given you because they're too busy distracted. That's part of the judgment that God has placed on them, is their distraction with other things. The fact that they're so distracted, they don't even see the Lord putting you in place. Just like Saul, he was so distracted with all his folly, he didn't even know that another one had already begun to take his place.

When the Lord is preparing the church for the next iteration of believers, now it's time. As the time change so do we. We don't change to accommodate the times, we are transformed, we are moving to another level to reign in the times. As the enemy adjusts, the Lord adjusts us. So when there's new warfare, there's new spiritual dynamics, then what you can expect is new spiritual dynamics birthed in the church, to combat so that we are never outnumbered or overtaken by the sudden surge of demonic oppression, it must be met by the rise in power of the Body of Jesus Christ. So the Lord will start amplifying boldness in places, and you're like, I'm hearing things, revelation, insight, hearing the fire of God move in a way that I haven't heard a move before. Because it goes against what was necessary then, because the warfare was different. Look at how this year has forced the devil to come out of hiding. How many of you can remember a year like this in recent memory? Where the enemy is not subtle, for those who are spirit-led and spirit-filled. The carnal man or the natural man or unbeliever, they see just a bunch of situations and circumstances, but to the men, women, children of God, you can see the devil come out of hiding, and you can see him. But also this reveals not so much about him, but you can see what God is doing as well, there's a new boldness arising in the church, there is a new anointing, a new power that is arising from the remnant, from the children of God; a new power to combat, to see, because if there was nobody able to see, then many people will be led astray, and even though there's those who see and say, some people won't even listen. But sometimes, it's very necessary, even if they don't listen that but there always must be a witness that the word was declared. Jesus said, "If I had not done these works, then you would have been covered. Or if I had not spoken."

Love not your life unto death. There are some people who won't go to say what God puts on their heart to say, because they're wondering how people are going to respond to them, wondering how people are going to feel about them. And when you allow that to be a controlling factor over your life, what's happening is you are loving your life, or you are not loving your life unto death and that becomes a hindrance unto, it becomes an impasse unto you. Likewise for those who've been wanting God to do something for you, to bless you, but you have been unwilling to take that leap of faith, because you were so focused and concerned about failure, you were so focused and worried about not succeeding, you were so focused and worried about how you are gonna look in the open spaces of faith, you were not loving your life unto death and because you weren't willing to lay down your life, you weren't able to find the life that Christ has prepared for you. 

Matthew 16:24-25
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Let not yourself get in the way. Cross: sacrifices - some people won't like you, some people will persecute you etc.

The life that you've been looking for, is on the other side of your obedience. It's on the other side of you not loving your life unto death. It's on the other side of you not worrying about looking crazy to people, not worrying about their opinion, it's on the other side of being vulnerable. It's the willingness to go where Christ says go, say what Christ says say. The promise is- the life that you laid down, you're actually going to find the life in Me - abundant life - love, peace, joy. 

There are times of suffering, but just as Peter said that we will have trials and testings but when it is over- there's more to the life of Christ than just suffering. But some people get into suffering and never find their way out because the suffering becomes a doctrine, that they no longer have the sight to hope and believe themselves out of it, through the Word, and as a result, they don't see goodness in God. Even Jesus' suffering came to an end. Even Jesus arose from the grave. To suffer with Christ is not supposed to be a perpetual situation, it's times. But in those times, we also see the goodness of God, the love of God, the grace of God, the promotion of God. In those times we also see the variations that make up the completeness. It makes up a complete picture of life in Christ. Even the systems of God tells us that, that sometimes the night season comes, and it's darkest before the dawn, but the Bible also says that joy comes early in the morning so it tells us that there are times of darkness, dark season of trials, testings. But it was never designed to be dark always, we need times for the light to shine.

What's in your heart is eventually going to manifest. It will overtake your life. Plant the Word of God in your heart.

2/14/2020 as much as they could carry (Prophetic Drive Time)

The Lord says, "You can't exhaust Me." 

2 Chronicles 20:25 
And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.

So what the Lord was showing me, in this new space in time of life, what the Lord was pouring out, as much as you could carry. Some people can carry more than others. You will only be limited by your capacity to carry. When Jesus multiplied the bread, you got to know that these supernatural events are common with God. These type of events are common, this is nothing new. This is a historical truth about God, an outpouring from the Lord. He said, "Some people can carry more than others." What He's been working on, is all the words, what has it been doing, He said, "I've been working on their capacity to carry." You will only be limited by what you can carry. 

When Jesus multiplied the bread and fed, He gave them each until they are full, which means some people got full before others. You were allowed to eat until you were full. And what the Lord is saying, "In this outpouring, don't get upset if you see the Lord doing more in somebody else's lives. Why? Because their capacity to carry more is different than yours." That's why these words have been coming for to increase your capacity to carry. Because whatever your capacity to carry, that's what the Lord is pouring out on you. Remember when Elijah was with the widow woman, and he said go get the water pots, and he filled until she ran out of capacity. If she had a hundred more water pots, that thing would have kept on pouring. This is biblical truths about God. You know why people don't believe God, or believe these things about God, because they have not seen it. But do you know what it is to be in a chosen generation like you are in? It's amazing, you've gone through a level of trial and testing, even though the world itself was not in, like a depression, or we were in a situation that didn't affect the world, but it was affecting God's people. Which means, while people were increasing, God's people were decreasing. It was something specific. We were being drawn out of the world, led through these very dark and difficult times, that in itself was astounding for others. The same way it was astounding for people to see you in that situation, is the same way it's going to be astounding when God turns the situation. It was a miracle for people to see you, it was a sight to behold for them to see you, it caused a lot of stirring for people to see you in the place that you were in. What's happening to you is not consistent with what is happening with everyone else. It's not like the economy was bad, the stock market was bad- it wasn't a natural occurrence that puts you in the situation that you were in, which is what caused people to look and gaze. So if the hand of God could cause a visible observation of you coming down, then how much more will the hand of God cause the same visual observation of you coming up. Because collectively, the Body of Christ, for us to all have this kind of experience in this time of trial, and it's very rare. It's usually sporadic- this person over there, that person over there, but for the Lord to gather a remnant, for the Lord to gather a group of people, send them to a series of difficulties that wasn't consistent with everybody around, it was as much of a supernatural display of our going down, as our arising- it's all the same. It isn't an event that is uncommon that God has performed. And see people had no doubt, they didn't doubt when you were going down. Because you felt so alone, but you didn't know it was a group of us in this place, there was many of us taking through the wilderness. Have you seen the amount of people traversing through the backside of the wilderness, the Lord is doing something, that's a whole lot of people, but it was still the hand of God leading.

The Lord says this, "As much as you can carry." The display of what God is doing, it's the same spiritual dynamic, I bring you down, people marvel, people point, they mock, they do all these things. I lift you up, people are amazed. But it's the same phenomenon, and it was isolated for a remnant of people. He's been working on your capacity to be open to receive, to strengthen your hands, arms for what God is pouring out on you. This is like a historic biblical context we're living in, where we see the kind of things the Bible talks about. It is not uncommon for God, but it's been uncommon to the world around. They've lost perspective, like God is not the same yesterday, today; like He's not the same, like somewhere between Him being amazing, being all powerful, being faithful, Him being the One who would do the above and beyond, somewhere He got to our generation and lost all kinds of power, ability, He don't do this anymore. And it couldn't be further from the truth. 

As much as you can carry. I don't even know how to really describe this kind of season, but there is a witness, there is an Amen in the spirit of those who hear, of those who know the voice of the One. I can point it out to you historically, look at how God moved there. Even when you look at 2 Kings 7, when the four lepers went out, it was the turn of seasons - a season of great drought or great depression, of great lack, of great hardship, to a season of great increase. How would we think that God is different? You think that's a time and that season of lack wouldn't equal a season increase? That's how He turns the tables. That's just His way. That's just how He does it. That's just Him. 

Do you know why I can count on Him? Because I don't allow men's opinion to change my mind about Him, I look at the consistency of Himself through His word. And because I don't allow my mind to change because of somebody's hardship, this or that, then I'm always able to see Him come through for me. I'm blessed, I'm blessed because of my understanding. Whatever you believe God to be, remember this, you'll always have access to it. 

The same way it was divine for you to go down, the same way it's just going to be as divine for you to arise. It's no difference. It was divine, because there was no natural event that brought you into the pit that you were in. It was divine ordination. He's been working on your capacity to carry, your capacity to widen the breadth of your hands, strengthening your hands for as much as you can carry, is what the Lord will be pouring out on you in this time. He's been working on our hearts and our understanding and our focus and our ability to carry what He purposed to pour out. 

When you see somebody carrying a little bit less, or a little bit more than you, don't get mad, don't get upset, don't get envious, don't get none of that stuff, because the Lord has been processing your ability to carry, more to the full. Amen.