From The Prophet's Desk

Arise and Show Yourself

ISAIAH 60:1 has an undertone which we as the Church have not comprehended fully. Arise !!!!! Get up, Rise up, Grow up, Come up into the fullness of what God has for you.

How do I do this ?

Break loose in the confines of your mind. Break free from that thought in you that says you can’t ! Oppose every contrary imagination ! Break the circumstance of frustration and depression by decree’s of freedom and life !

In our prayer meeting last night I saw this image of a bat hanging in a cave. To me his whole world looked upside down. Your world may be in mayhem today and feel completely upside down but it’s the time of recuperation and restoration. When that happens it seems as if all things are upside down (bat mentality) but the moment the pursuit of potential and destiny comes, ALL turns right side up !

Arise and Shine ! There is something in you that you must allow to break forth. Eli was in the temple for many years and his sight was dim when a young man called Samuel walked in. Eli had grown accustomed to the voice of God to the point that when God actually called in the night, he didn’t recognize it anymore. Within each and every one of us lies a Samuel that must hear the call for the new. The old way in us (Eli) can’t see the breakthrough’s anymore. The Eli in us can’t recognize the voice of the new call to break forth and come out !

Arise Samuel and sentence the Eli dimension in us ! This is our day !

Arise and Shine for your Light has come and your day has broken ! Step into a new frame of mind and give birth to newness of life. You are pregnant with the supernatural !

Arise !!!!!!!

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GATES OF CHANGE

I believe we are at a point on no return.

In our walk with God there are times that God pushes us through the gates of change, never to return to what we were. I believe we are at such a point in our walk with God.

God moved a shepherd boy named David beyond the field into the kingdom where kingship awaited him.

A young man called Daniel was moved beyond his city into a system where he as foreigner became second in command of the nation.

God moved an Esther out of her uncle’s home into a beauty pageant to steal the heart of a king and save a nation. After those gates they never were the same again ! To what would they return ?

This is our point of no return where we burn the ploughs of yesterday and slaughter the oxen that kept us going for so long. It’s a season to be unyoked and to turn our back on the days of old to pour out fresh water on the next generation. Move on from the heights praise and worship to higher. Move on from the plains of boredom and frustration to the hills of fulfillment and blessing. Shake yourself loose from the shackles of traditional relations and live !

There is a song of freedom in your heart that must be sung. There’s a prayer of release that must be declared. There’s a cry of passion that must be resounded! Let your voice be heard in the realm of the complacent.

Break the cycle today and press for more !

There must be more…..there must be much, much more !

Let that be the hunger in your life and don’t ever be satisfied with today !

There IS more !

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UPWARD FRUIT

The sound of Newness and Forward rings fresh in my ear!

Rain is a forerunner of new growth. As the rain fall in the natural and causes the hidden seed that was embedded to sprout, likewise when the rain of the Spirit falls, it will cause that which was hidden for so long to sprout and prove that the soil is not barren!

We consider a piece of ground and glance over it with a careless eye, observing nothing. The next moment we take a breath and call it barren because we see nothing! In the life of those around you, take great care when you look over the fields of their lives. Even though you may glance at the nothingness, there may be seed deeply embedded that was just waiting for the rain. Rain has the power to reveal what was hidden for many dry seasons.

In 2 KINGS 19:29-30 Hezekiah speaks of a sign. He breaks up the produce after rain in a few categories:

a) There is fruit in our lives that grows of itself, needs no assistance;

b) There is fruit that comes voluntarily and needs no coaxing or begging;

c) There is fruit that needs effort put in and contribution on your part.

Irrespective what is required to have the fruit manifest in our lives, we need the key ingredient which is RAIN!

In this awesome portion of scripture the key of fruit is explained!

First the root goes downward BEFORE the fruit goes upward!

At times we can’t understand the downward, but I want you to know that there is an upward afterward!

You were not born be caught in the downward forever but God has designed the upward as well.

Take heart, take courage, you are on the upward!

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NEWNESS

The greatest enemy of any marriage or relationship is that we grow use to one another. We lose touch with each other because we got so use to being in each other’s presence. I believe there is a sound of NEWNESS in the atmosphere.

There is a challenge out from the heavens that resounds NEWNESS ! This morning while we were praying, I caught on to something that God had been busy with me for quite some time ! I think I have missed this all along but finally my brethren I think I got it.

“You will always move in the opposite direction of what you were called into, before you move in line with what you’re supposed to be!”

Allow me to explain, Before any building is built up, it’s built down !

We have this passion to erect an awesome building or skyscraper with 20 or 30 levels. That building NEVER – NEVER goes up unless it first went down !

You’re right, the way up was the opposite direction in the form of the foundation !

That building NEVER – NEVER goes up unless it first went down !

You’re right, the way up was the opposite direction in the form of the foundation !

We are speaking and praying and confessing our 10 000 seater into being and suddenly we battle to get 50 people together !!!! Take courage you’re on your way up ! You may be declaring and confessing the blessing and abundance of God over your life and the next moment all hell broke loose and poverty moved in !!!!!! Take good courage you’re on your way up !

We are stepping into NEWNESS and the we are on the way up !

Break the mold and shake yourself loose from your bondage and captivity….and declare….”I’m on my way up !”

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FORWARD

We are in a period of Fasting as a congregation and we are being challenged by God to forget the old way of doing things. Your past shall be forgotten and irrelevant. A new thing, such a work as was never yet done in the world must come forth from you.

In LEVITICUS 26 the Word of God declares to make room for the new !

Clear out the old store of things kept too long. Your stock of old corn would be still unexhausted and large when the next harvest will bring a new supply. Make way for the new corn, which also is so plentiful, that of itself it will fill up your barns.

It was also Paul of old that aimed to do this one thing, forgetting what lies behind and reaching to that which lies ahead. We have to be able to turn our back on yesterday and go FORWARD !

Let it go and go FORWARD !

Get up from your captive place and go FORWARD !

It may be that you are caught up with such bad memories or even concepts about

yesterday that’s not God like. This is exactly where the children of Israel found themselves when they faced the Red sea before them and the Egyptian army behind them. In EXODUS 14 there was nothing behind them but:

a) Slavery;

b) 400 years of bad memories;

c) An army wanting to kill them !

It also states in the very same chapter that you will never see them again !!!!!

There is no turning back ! We have to continue moving FORWARD !

This is also the place where Moses cried out to God and the Lord said, FORWARD !!!!!!

We will never see lack again !

We will never see defeat again !

We will never see famine again !

You will never see me like you see me now !

We can’t remain the same……we were born for greater things !

Make the decision with your spouse and family and choose to go FORWARD !