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.