Xtravagant Worship

Xtravagant Worship was mind blowing. There was such an air of expectancy amongst the team as we went into the evening. We started off playing Stacey Campbell and Sean Feucht’s prophetic words for NZ, which if you haven’t seen are powerful. You can check them out (along with our other clips) on You Tube by typing in extreme prophetic nz or xpnz or click on these links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RemHxhcfm6o Stacey Campbell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IRIzH2E8Yg Sean Fuecht

But back to Xtravagant worship – We started to worship and the presence of God just began to fill the room. Then I saw a vision of a huge angel with a sword in each hand moving and dancing  on the altar area. So I asked the Lord what the two swords were for and He said the angel was there to impart the ability to fight with both hands. We called people forward to receive the impartation of that and the power of God came upon them with force many ending up on the floor. Then Jesus came amongst us as the one who burns like fire from the loins up and the loins down, a consuming fire that would burn up those things that are straw hay and stubble in our lives.

As the night continued we worshipped, surrendered and interceded, all with a raw passion that astounded us and attracted God like crazy. Deliverances happened, impartations, angelic visitation and Jesus in the midst of it all. Bodies were all over the floor,as people either lay prostrate before God or the power of God put them there. We had an awesome time of intercession for family that are unsaved or away from the Lord and cried out for our nation. The muso’s and singers prophesied and interceded powerfully in song and on their instruments.

Rob shared from Ezekiel 37 where God tells Ezekiel to prophesy to the bones which Ezekiel did. He prophesied everything God told him to but the prophecy only came to partial fulfillment the first time he prophesied it. Then God told him to prophesy again and as he did the prophecy came to complete fulfillment. Rob felt it applied to many personally but also to the Church in our nation. Many have seen a partial fulfillment of the prophetic words God has given them but because they have not come to pass fully assumed God wasn’t wanting to do it. Or the enemy whispered to them that God was not going to bring it to pass. Maybe it’s time to refuse to listen to the enemy and prophesy again over our lives, and decree the fulfillment of all God has said. Regarding the Church – for some there has been a coming together but not a flow of life, for others – the Church is still fragmented and lying in many broken, scattered pieces. It’s time to decree the Word of the Lord over our churches and see the breath of life enter them again. The breath of life that is the life flow and power of the Holy Spirit.

At the end of the evening, after we felt we had broken through in prayer and done what God asked of us for the evening, a wave of spontaneous Holy Spirit laughter swept the room and many including me got gloriously drunk in the Holy Ghost. The night ended with an atmosphere of celebration and laughter and Holy Ghost drunkenness; and to think … we get to experience Him again next time and He will come completely different to what he did this time.

If you haven’t already, please check out the Prophetic insights for 2010 on the separate page on the main menu bar above. Already we are seeing them coming to pass and be confirmed in the meetings we have held so far this year. Alignment, expectation, acceleration and increase, these things are happening in many areas and the Church is being transformed.

A new sound rising from the ends of the earth – 1st video clips

Today we want to share with you two recent video clips of Stacey Campbell and Sean Feucht and a prophetic word that was given in December by a friend (Craig Mercer) who is currently at Bethel in their School of Supernatural Ministry. We shot these clips with Stacey and Sean when they were in the country a week or so ago. Interestingly the clips were shot at separate times yet both release the same word over NZ.

There is a new sound being released from the Church in NZ; both Stacey and Sean refer to it. In Stacey’s clip she shares that the sound is not just limited to a music thing but a sound that rises from the hearts of the people of God in this nation that will declare and proclaim the purposes of God into every area of society.

Sean shares more from the worship perspective and I want to address and expand on that a little. Hopefully what I share will clarify and confirm that word to you.

Over the last couple of years I have prophesied a new sound being released in this nation, especially in the area of Worship. A sound that is as unique as we are. I believe that sound is the sound of the High Praises of God which strikes down the enemy like a warrior with a sword. In a couple of previous entries I refer to this but I want to again release that and give some insight into what I believe those High Praises are.

God is bringing the Church into the place where they, like Jesus, do what they see the Father doing. That cannot happen to its fullest unless we learn to see into the heavenly realms, into the Throne room itself. Part of the establishing of that and the ongoing walk in it will I believe be a nationwide waking up and arising of worshippers and musicians that will not only see into that heavenly realm but will worship in it and release songs and decrees back into the earthly realm from that place.

Those songs will carry the sound of heaven into earth. In that sound will be the power and love of God. In that sound will be the sound of war. We are not talking here about a style of worship or type of song but an attitude of authority that comes from knowing we are Sons and Daughters of the Living God with all the resources of heaven backing us. The sound of war will be the sound of the aggressive stance of heart of those who refuse to bow down to the enemy; who refuse to let go of God until he blesses our land and sets its people free.

We are entering a season where we move beyond what we have known into a whole new realm of worship that is Third Heaven based. Much of the church is still moving into operating in Prophetic Worship but this new reality will move beyond just hearing the sound of heaven, into being there, worshipping in that place, joining with the worship in heaven and in co-operation with God releasing heaven into earth. It’s what I call ‘Ascended Worship’ or ‘Third Heaven Worship’.

Is this even a possibility. Yes not only is it a possibility it is a reality already for some of us, both in this nation and beyond. These forerunners are already forging ahead, making a path for others to follow. The Word of God is clear that we are seated with Him in heavenly places (Eph 2:6) and have already come unto Mt Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem (Heb 12:22-24). So if that is so we can expect that our spirit is able to inhabit and operate from those two realms (the heavenly and earthly) at the same time just as Jesus did. We are entering exciting days and that new sound is being released even now. Get ready to experience worship in a whole new dimension.

To view Stacey’s clip click this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RemHxhcfm6o

To view Sean’s clip click this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IRIzH2E8Yg

This is the prophetic word from Craig at Bethell.

“There is a canopy of praise and worship arising over Australia and new Zealand. Arise New Zealand, arise! Your time has come, I hear a sound, the barest whisper among the people, carried on their lips from one to another. “He’s coming,” “Is He really coming?” “Oh yes He’s coming, He’s almost here.” It grows and becomes a mighty crescendo erupting as thunder from their lips as they welcome the King of Glory back into their land. “God’s own becoming God’s own again”.

I see your commander and chief walking amongst your ranks, assembling you into ranks, into divisions,, units and battalions; an organized assembled people, working together, moving toward the same goal. A people with agendas and differences laid down as they look to Jesus their cmmander and chief.

I see some being taken and trained by the Holy Spirit, trained to be covert operators, equipped with special Holy Spirit tools and anointing and then sent by the Spirit to various nations. Just as in the natural the S.A.S is one of the best in the world so shall it be in the Spirit.

I sense nations beginning to stir, not in fear but in anticipation of an army equipped and ready to be sent to them, as your pioneering and sending heritage is restored and you are sent fully prepared and able to do every good work.”

Media – first steps for XPNZ

We are entering an exciting new phase in the ministry of Extreme Prophetic here in New Zealand. We are entering the media realm. Some people will likely think “Oh what a fuss over a few video clips” but media and especially video is at the core of shaping our society today and has been since the mid 1900’s. More people have been shaped in what they believe to be true by media than by any other influence.

The Arts & Media are always the first to stretch the boundaries in promoting new ideologies. They set the standard in many areas of life even if we won’t admit it. Media pushes the boundaries in one area as to what is acceptable and before long what would never before have been acceptable is now an established part of our culture.

Many years ago the world was changed in the area of what was acceptable by one scene in a movie. In that scene Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster locked lips on a beach while waves crashed around them. That scene challenged the status quo and pushed the boundaries hugely. From that one scene came an explosion of sexuality onto our movie and later TV screens that has shaped the following generations.

Why did it do that? How can one scene change things so much? I believe it is because the Arts function under a Prophetic mantle. We see all through the Word the use of the Arts by the prophets to broadcast truth and revelations from God, and one of the functions of that Prophetic Mantle is to say “This is God’s standard come up to it”.

The arena of the Arts belongs first and foremost to the Kingdom of God. God himself uses the arts to communicate. In Hosea God tells us  I have also spoken [to you] by the prophets and I have multiplied visions [for you] and [have appealed to you] through parables acted out by the prophets. Hosea 12:10 Amp

Hosea 12:10 brings out some important points about the arts:

1) God chooses to speak to us through the use of the arts.

2) The artist should be a minister of God, separated unto God and under the direction of God.

3) The ministry of the arts is a prophetic call.

Up until the tenth century the church widely used the arts to proclaim God’s truth and the arts played a large part in their services and evangelism. In the era before the printing press, the arts – art, music, storytelling, dance and drama were, apart from the spoken word, the main vehicles of proclaiming God’s heart, intent and Word. But when the Church entered the Dark Ages we set aside the Arts and proclaimed them as being too worldly to use. We gave the arts over to the world and since then the world has prophetically set the standards. The world sets the standard low and prophetically proclaims “This is the new standard, abandon your old ones, come lower.”

I believe the world is influenced and shaped by media today more than any other thing. That is why as Christians we must use this medium to proclaim truth and righteousness and to again proclaim and prophetically set the standards. It’s time for a reformation and we are becoming part of it. We may be taking our first baby steps into the media arena but we are taking them.

We have some exciting first clips – these clips feature Stacey Campbell and Sean Feucht releasing prophetic words over the nation of New Zealand and clips from some young people seeing miracles and healings happen as they “go” in Jesus name. You can check out our first clips over the next few days as I post them here with comments, or you can go to You Tube if you want to see them now, simply type in – extreme prophetic nz or xpnz.

Prophesy – hear and share!

We have had an amazing weekend . We taught a school of prophecy in Warkworth to a group of hungry, God loving, God believing people there. All sorts of wonderful things happened as God turned up – peoples lives were touched and changed resulting in a more intense love for the Lord than ever.

Some of the people there had never prophesied before and thought they probably wouldn’t be able to do so but in activation after activation God came through for them and gave them words to share that were accurate and such an encouragement to both them and those they shared with. Others who had moved in the prophetic gift before saw the weekend as a time to be refreshed and challenged to go deeper into this realm. God didn’t disappoint either – giving them sharp accurate words that ministered to many of those there.

The worship times blew out into full on times of glory and the rich weighty presence of God, we saw angels turn up and minister to people, people got healed, laughter broke out, people had visions and heavenly encounters. Then on the Sunday morning we ministered at Gateway Church in Warkworth and I had a vision of Jesus walking into the room. Again the presence of Jesus was so palpable. Some people during that time danced with Jesus, others felt his touch and others saw visions. Again the joy of the Lord filled the place and laughter broke out.

You might wonder about the laughter thing and think “Why would God do that, isn’t it disrespectful? ” Well heaven is full of joy, in fact the scriptures tell us that in God’s presence is fullness of joy. They also tell us that God is the God who laughs in the heavens at the enemy’s plans and that the joy of the Lord is our strength. So it seems to me that laughter is not out of place in God’s presence and that those to whom it happens will feel strengthened and closer to God as a result of it. That doesn’t give us license to be fleshly in our exhibiting of that joy or to be disrespectful with it but it does give us permission to be joy filled believers who like God laugh with joy, and laugh at the enemy’s plans.

Just a little pastoral advice here. If you are in a meeting where the joy of the Lord breaks out and people start to laugh then ask God if he would give you his joy and allow you to experience it too. If the joy of the Lord hits you and it is happening to others and the meeting is at a stage where it is okay to flow with it, do so. If however the meeting is at a stage where your laughter is distracting (say during the preaching) then it might be wise to remove yourself from the room and continue to allow God to do what he is doing in a place where you don’t distract everyone else. Then when God is finished rejoin the others, that way we don’t become a source of possible offense to others yet we continue to allow God to do what he wants to do in us.

Fathers love is pouring out…now!

Keep your eyes open, watch out, Daddy God is sneaking up on you and you are going to be enfolded in the biggest hug ever. That hug is going to undo in moments what has taken years to erect – walls of protection are tumbling down, being breached by love that will surge in; it will come in power and wash clean. Hurts, fears, protective masks are going to be washed away and instead of feeling exposed and unsafe you will know healing.

There is a new outpouring of the Fathers love for you now! Ask Him for it, ask Him to wrap you in His arms and love you.

Over this year there is going to be an increasing awareness of the Fathers love and for some, Daddy is going to surprise and overwhelm them with love like they’ve never known before. Love is going to pick you up, hold you to itself and never let you go. Enfolded, protected, sheltered, safe and other words like these are words we will hear over and over again, as people try to find words to describe the feelings of being loved by the Father who is love itself.

For some who have not known a Fathers love that feeling will at first be strange yet at the same time everything you have longed for. It will become your strength, your safety, your trust because you will know that one who loves like that can be trusted and where he leads you can go, knowing He goes with you into every circumstance of life.

When the Word of God says there is healing it doesn’t mean ‘learning to cope’. It doesn’t mean living behind a mask in case other Christians see you aren’t really healed and you will be exposed as a fraud somehow. There is real healing available in Daddy’s love. Allow Him to love you to wholeness. Allow the orphan heart/spirit to be removed from your life and the spirit of sonship to be implanted within you. It is absolutely critical in this season for those in the Church to allow Father to love them. The sons and daughters of God that the earth has longed for will never be revealed without it.

Ask Him to love you now. He will you know, and you will be changed by His love!

Father I pray you will wrap your arms of love around every wounded person and in doing so will wipe away years of hurts and woundedness. I pray that those who know your love will know a fresh reality of it filling and refreshing them, now! I pray that your love will become our place of strength and trust this year.

Father, I pray for a removing from hearts and minds of arrows that have pierced and words that have wounded. We cancel the assignments of words that wound. We cancel the assignment of words that tear down and demolish people both within and outside the Church. We cancel every curse spoken by Christians who spoke before thinking and spoke before loving. We cancel every curse spoken by Fathers, Mothers sisters and brothers. We cancel and break every curse spoken by people in positions of authority that brought wounding and hurt into peoples lives. We break the power of every word curse, every incantation and every image used to bring curse upon people; we decree their power broken now!

Instead we decree a releasing of the oil of healing, the balm of the name of Jesus to be applied and the love of the Father to wrap around those things and bring healing to those wounds. Holy Spirit, pour in the oil of healing and Father come and bind their wounds with love. Wrap them in your arms and love their hurt away I pray.

Let the outpouring of love come… now!

Prophetic Insights for 2010 – Day 8

Day 8

Part 2 of Increase…

Increase of the glory

There will continue to be an increase in the glory – the manifested presence and power of God. Manifestations of that glory will increase. Correspondingly, as human bodies encounter the glory of God, they will be affected. Spontaneous healings will take place, miracles will occur, shakings, falling to the ground, etc will increase. At the same time God is releasing an understanding that this is not new – it has happened in every move of God in every century, but now God is releasing more. Oil, supernatural weight-loss, gold fillings, glory dust, gemstones and more; what we’ve seen in the past is just the beginning as God pours out afresh in this land. Expect it. Don’t say “It was nice for a season, but that season is past.” It is not past! What you saw before was a foretaste of what He will release.

Increase of the supernatural

At the same time hunger for the supernatural will continue to grow, both in the church and in the world. Christians will become increasingly dissatisfied with church as usual and hunger more and more for the reality of a power filled Christian life. The Church is in a state of radical reformation – much needed and longed for by many. Supernatural sons and daughters are rising up in the love and power of God and will more and more work miracles in daily life. They won’t wait for a church service or crusade meeting. Out on the streets boldness is increasing as more and more the church wakes up to who Jesus is in us. There is a release, an impartation of boldness today for those who will take it. Father, I release that impartation of boldness now, in Jesus name. There’s a fresh infilling of the Holy Spirit coming upon people today also, be filled in Jesus name! Can you receive an infilling, an impartation by internet – too right;  there is no time or distance in the spirit realm, God works beyond those, so be filled – now! Tell God right now you receive it and then begin to walk in it. Don’t wait for the feelings of boldness step into faith, open your mouth and the feelings will follow as the power of God is released through you.

There is an increase of visions and heavenly experiences this year. Expect to have them they are part of your inheritance. Jesus walked in them so can you. Father, open their eyes to see, their ears to hear and their heart to receive all you have for them in this area. I release vision now in Jesus name!

Sons and daughters will more and more openly talk about their heavenly experiences with a supernatural God. Where before they hid their experiences for fear of being ridiculed now they talk openly about them, not to glory in the experience but to glory in the God who can do those things. As the true wheat grows along with that will come a rise in tares – those who for one reason or another fake experience or teach that the flesh can take you into heavenly experience. Be aware so you don’t get caught up in that deception but do not throw the true out with the false. Seek the true and let the Holy Ghost lead you into truth. He knows all about the glory and supernatural realms of God and only He can guide you safely into experiences in heavenly realms.

In the world there will be a rise in hunger for the demonic side of the supernatural. We see this already with mediums and other things blatantly filling our TV screens and enticing young and old to dabble in that realm. But there is an increase coming.

Increase of Joy

The Joy of the Lord that is our strength will increase in our land. There will again be outpourings of joy coming upon people, in their homes, in their churches, and even in the market place.

“This outpouring of joy will also become a weapon in my children’s hands. My people will join me and begin to laugh at the enemy’s plans. As they do strongholds will be broken, bitterness dealt a deathblow and healing released. My joy will deliver many from the hands of the enemy,” says the Lord.

Lord, I stand with you and I release it now. Let the waves of joy surge across this nation from top to bottom and from side to side. I decree that your people will gain new strength as it does and that the works of the enemy will be brought to nothing in their lives. Blessing and favour will increase instead as a spirit of joy is released in the land.

We are called to release heaven into earth – and have fun doing it. It is okay to have fun serving God. The joy you feel as you see God work through you is born of Him. Revel in it, marvel at it. Thankfulness, joy and fun in service will increase this year as people step from striving into rest.

Wrap up

Well, there you have it. These are the insights I have received so far from God for this coming year. I pray that they have witnessed with your spirit and with what you have heard from God as you have prayed into 2010. I pray that God’s plans and purposes for both you as an individual and the church in New Zealand will be fulfilled in total, with nothing missing.

I asked in Day 1 of these entries if you know what is on the Lord’s heart to accomplish in you and through you this next year. If you haven’t had time yet, to ask God, why don’t you make time during this Christmas season to do so. God is doing exciting things in our nation at the moment and I’d hate you to get to the end of next year having missed out on what He had for you.

Please feel free to feedback to us constructive comments on this series of prophetic insights; we can be contacted through the email address here on the blogsite. I’d love to hear what you believe God is doing in our nation.  Bless you all as you walk into this New Year.

Release heaven into earth – and have fun doing it!

Prophetic Insights for 2010 – Day 7

Day 7

Increase

Increase of revelation – an increase in the release of the spirit of wisdom and revelation.

“The revelatory realms will continue to open. Heavenly encounters and visitation will increase this year. This is an ongoing release that will continue to build and break on the land as I ready my people and make them more heavenly minded so they will be more earthly good. They will be blessed to be a blessing and to release my blessing,” says the Lord.

We are openly encouraged to ‘seek those things which are above, where Christ is seated…’(Col 3:1) we must see what God is doing to be able to co-operate with Him in it.

Increase of angelic activity – new angelic assignments.

Angels of breakthrough are being released into the land. Angels bringing provision are coming with supply trains filled. “New supply chains are opening – provision will come from the right and the left, from the North and the South. Get ready to see and receive provision. Angels to minister refreshing to weary ones are rushing into the land to make ready the harvesters. Get ready, get ready, get ready, I am coming suddenly.”

The harvest is upon us, and we need to make ourselves ready for it. Make sure you are rested and refreshed this summer. In several meetings lately we have seen angels coming with basins of water and towels to minister to and wash the feet of the weary ones. God is refreshing and restoring His Church so that we are ready to ‘go again.’ Yesterday I mentioned an acceleration in evangelism and that things will happen quickly. We must make sure we are always ready so we don’t miss opportunities when God opens them to us.

Angelic assignments to reveal Jesus to Muslims & Hindus

As we were in the Spirit during a meeting a few days ago I very clearly saw ‘Angel of the Lord’ encounters for Muslims and Hindus happening in New Zealand. I saw them having face-to-face encounters with Jesus or the angel of the Lord, awake and in dreams. I saw incredulous looks on their faces as the realization of whom they were encountering hit them. I saw revelation break through in their eyes as they saw the Lord. I saw person after person accept Christ and swear loyalty to him.

Father, I stand with you in heavenly places and release that now into New Zealand. Let the revelations increase, let the encounters come. Angels, we come into agreement with your assignments. Go and do what God has called you to do!

Angelic assignments to reveal Jesus to Children

At the same time I clearly saw angelic encounters for children happening, especially children who are broken and hurt. I saw children lying in bed, afraid of what might come n the night, and those who encounter night terrors because of demonic activity. I saw angels who bear peace and the revelation of Jesus coming to them and even teaching them to stand against the demonic that would seek to attack them. Some of them will be transported to heaven and come back and tell of the wonders they see, causing many to hunger for that reality. These young children will begin to see their families changed and saved as a result of their encounters.

God we come into agreement with you on this. Let the visitations begin! Let the little ones come to you without hindrance. We decree the release of revelation and heavenly encounters, we decree the ceasing of demonic encounters, we bind their activity and we release the angels of God to work in the lives of children across this nation. Face to face encounters with Jesus – increase! Heavenly visitations – increase!

There is too much in this section for one days entry so I will continue this section on increase in tomorrow’s entry.

Prophetic Insights for 2010 – Day 6

Day 6

Acceleration –

Accelerated destiny and breakthrough shifts into the promise

New birthing – conception, growth, development, birth…

There is an acceleration of breakthrough for birthing and the membrane that has held people back from the promises of God being fulfilled will suddenly give way; it’s about God’s timing. Barrenness is giving way to God’s promise. Hannah wanted a son and God wanted a prophet – someone that would hear and obey, and in doing so bring a nation out of spiritual apathy and disobedience. We want something to come from our lives, to birth something we can call our own. God wants to birth something through us that sets a people and a nation free. Allow His purposes to be conceived and birthed through you.

Accelerated possession – There is a possessing of the land happening. Churches that had no home will find homes this year. Title deeds to land and buildings will be handed over – this is a sign of a greater possessing of the land that will happen in the spirit.  There is also a grace for those who long to own a home. There is strategy available for the ‘how’ of making this happen; ask God for your strategy.

Acceleration in healing emotional issues – “There is an acceleration in healing emotional issues coming for those who will run toward healing, not away from it. Insecurities will bow, shyness will be broken, wounds of generations will be healed and iniquitous holds destroyed. Face the giants of hurt and woundedness so you don’t repeat destructive cycles. The orphan spirit will be dealt a death-blow in those who will recognise its work in them and come to me, allowing me to father them,” says the Lord. “I am releasing the knowledge of my spirit of sonship into peoples hearts. Where before they knew they were sons with their head now they will know with their heart and they will come into a place of peace and rest.”

Acceleration in Evangelism with Power

“There is an acceleration here, now, in the area of evangelism. What before took ages of careful working and building relationships to speak into lives will happen quickly. It is coming; do not despair if it seems harder at this present time than before, it is a false wall, push against it and it will dissipate before you. Where before you shared with words now you will share with words and power. There is an acceleration, I am coming quickly into peoples lives and they will run, they will run, they will run to me, says the Lord. Ask for the release of my power, then be bold, do not hold back and you will see, I will come though quickly. “

Acceleration In World situations

There will continue to be an acceleration of darkness and an increase of shaking in the world – the dark will become darker but the light is and will continue to become increasingly brighter!!! I am not talking doom and gloom here, far from it. I am talking about the releasing of the glorious sons and daughters of God to shine brighter and become more full of God’s power as the world becomes increasingly more hopeless, despondent and violent with famines and wars increasing. As they do, many will be saved, healed and delivered as a result of that revealing of the sons and daughters of God. The harvest is upon us – let us make sure we are ready to take part in it and reap.

Prophetic insights for 2010 – Day 5

Day 5

Expectation

Expectation / Hope – there is a rising release of hope again in the body of Christ. Sons and daughters who have been dissatisfied or despondent are beginning to be filled again with hope. An expectation that God is going to do good things in and through them is awakening within them.

There has been a lack of hope that has been fueled by an inability to see what God has been doing, and that has brought God’s people into fear and unbelief. Where there is no vision the people perish (Prov 29:18). Too often we have taken that to mean ‘where there is no project to get on board with’ but its meaning is simpler and deeper than that – it is about our ability to see. Where people cannot see what God is doing, or wants to do, they get discouraged, and slip into fear and unbelief. That causes their hope to perish and they then slide into passivity and apathy; spiritual decay sets in and the end result is loss of spiritual life. Remember – the thief comes to steal kill and destroy (Jn 10:10)

Expectation to see & hear – Expect that there will be an opening of your eyes and a sharpening of your hearing in the Spirit. This ability to see is critical for our Christian walk in the days ahead. Many Christians are living frustrated lives because of their inability to see and hear what God is doing.

Expectation to know God’s will – Too many don’t know what God’s plans are for their lives and so they lack purpose, causing a drifting from day to day and a slow slide into passivity. They wait for God to reveal to them whether they should become a lawyer or whether they should go to university; but those are in some cases being used by the enemy to sidetrack people when the will of God that has already been revealed lies unwalked in. Expect the plans and purposes of God to be unfolded to you. Expect that you will discover more of your true identity this year and in doing so there will be an unfolding of God’s will. So  much of God’s will for us is written plainly in the Word. Expect the Word to be opened more to you so those things that are written there, that are His will for you, will become rhema’s that release faith into your life and propel you into supernatural divine encounters.

Expect miracles, expect the supernatural – “Expect them, expect them. expect them! Expect the miraculous, expect the supernatural, let the power of expectation fill you, it draws and calls me to act. True biblical expectation is irresistible to me, it draws me like a magnet to the one who walks in it. It is the precursor to my releasing the word that gives faith. Expect the supernatural, expect miracles, they are here for you to grab hold of and release into the earthly realm, says the Lord.” There will continue to be an increase in the release of the supernatural, press through your fears, press through your personality barriers, press through passivity and unbelief and look with expectation for God to act.

Learn to rest in your expectation– There is a place of rest and not striving in expectation that is there for you to step in to. Expectation that causes’ striving is not what the Lord has for you. Don’t go into your mind, stay in the Spirit. Surrender to the Lord and rest in Him, you can’t make miracles happen but you can position yourself in faith and rest and expect God to work through you.

In line with that, there is a place of seated authority that God is bringing people into. Seated authority is that place of rest in the presence of our enemies. Psalm 23 will become more and more the reality people walk in as they rest at that table God has prepared for them in the presence of their enemies and decree from that place of seated authority into situations and see them change. No striving, no flailing reactive warfare but strategic well placed blows that cripple enemy resources and supply lines.

Trust – Trust is a key foundation for expectation and faith to blossom within us. Trust will again be a focus this year as God deals with the things that rob us of our ability to trust Him. There will be situations that God will allow because we must see where our trust lies. Our trust must be in Him, not in our efforts, our bank balance, our families etc. It must be only in Him.

Prophetic Insights for 2010 – Day 4

Day 4

Alignment…

Alignment with God and the Kingdom of God

This year decide where you stand. Commit to living a life of obedience to God, of hearing and obeying. Make a commitment to live a Kingdom lifestyle – one of words and power (1Cor 4:20). Think with your renewed mind – let the ‘mind of Christ’ work in your thought life. (Rom 12:2, 1Cor 2:16) Expect the supernatural; expect the miraculous to become part of your everyday life. Expect to walk as an ambassador of that kingdom, not just know in your head that you are one.

Alignment with God’s Word – logos and rhema – we need to know God’s word and come into alignment with it. So many Christians don’t know what the Word says about things or else don’t live by what it says.

God is saying – “Hear from me, come into agreement with me, stay in agreement with me no matter what your circumstances say, then watch your circumstances give way to what your faith creates.” Have no plan B and don’t allow your plethora of choices to steal your faith. Living by faith takes the stance – “My only option is to believe what You have said. You can use any means you like, God, to work the miracle I need, but the baseline is – it’s You. You’re my only option.”

Abandoned into deeper relationship with God – How far will you let me go God? How abandoned will you let me be? How deep is too deep in God? What is our fear? Is our fear that when we find out how far out the boundaries of God are, and what He has for us, that we will be responsible to walk in it? Is our fear that we won’t be able to live up to the greatness that is God within us? That we will let Him down, so it’s simpler not to try? We need to face the fear, whatever it is, and know that God has already made provision for all our fears and that we can trust Him. There’s that word ‘trust’ again.

Alignment with Identity- “Align yourself with who I say you are. Prophesy – decree my purposes over your life. Believe you can do what I call you to do, go where I call you to go, release miracles where I call you to release them. Believe!”

God is causing sons and daughters to realise that that’s who they really are – sons and daughters of God. They are beginning to believe they are inheritors of the Kingdom of God and that doesn’t mean when they die but now here on earth, and that they are called to release that Kingdom wherever they go.  These sons and daughters are rising up in presence and power. They know their power walk comes from the secret place of intimacy of relationship with God. They are ones who, like Jesus, see what the Father is doing and do it and hear what the Father is saying and say it. As they do, the Kingdom of God is released and situations change – often in an instant.

Alignment with others

Recognise people by the Spirit. Listen to the promptings and checks of the Holy Spirit so that you won’t step into alignments, friendships, submission situations or contractual agreements that either aren’t godly or aren’t what God has for you. Make godly alignments. Disentangle yourself from ungodly alignments and that doesn’t mean just ungodly alignments with non-Christians. This doesn’t mean that we should cut off all contact and friendships with non-Christians. We are to be in the world but not of it.

Some ungodly alignments with Christians may need to be severed in order for you to move on to what God wants for you. Yes, they do happen unfortunately and we need to be aware of that.

It’s heart alignments and soul ties that are the issue here. A soul tie does not just happen in a sexual relationship. It happens when your heart becomes bonded and submissive to another person, either by your will or their manipulation and control.

Alignment with a Kingdom perspective

There will be an increasing call from God for Churches, Pastors and congregation members to align themselves with a global Kingdom perspective, not limiting themselves to just their local Church perspective. In other words, we all need to know what God is doing in this hour and season and come into alignment with it. We can continue to focus solely on ‘our vineyard’ but if we do we will find we will become insular and introspective, and may at best have to play ‘catch up’ or at worst miss out on what God is releasing.