Five-Fold Today - A Radical Demonstration - K.O.'d - Some New Mystery Bagged - Choose Now - The Mature Spirit of Christ - No Compromise! - Be Attune - Come Out Of Your Caves - Deep Calleth Unto Deep

March 31, 2002

A Radical Demonstration

Debra Westbrook

As I awoke this morning the Lord placed an interesting word upon my heart. I pray that you will receive it with the grace with which it is offered. I heard the Lord speak these words to me:

"I am calling My people forth into a visible demonstration of the Gospel of My Kingdom. Radical revelation should birth powerful demonstrations of My Kingdom flowing through My people and throughout the earth today! A visible demonstration of My revelation that has been pouring into your lives over the years should put your faith into action when rightly applied by the leading of My Spirit within My people."

Suddenly I was reminded, quite humorously of a song from the musical "My Fair Lady." Let me set the scenario in relation to what God is saying above for it rightly applies to the excess of words coming forth within the Body of Christ today. There is much talk but very little power evident within the Church today. We must remember that the Kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power according to 1 Corinthians 4:20. The Lord is seeking a visible demonstration of Kingdom power that is not just talk but action to set the captives free, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, and powerful preaching of the Gospel.

The character, Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady" is being courted in different ways by Freddy Armstrong Hill as well as Henry Higgins. Freddy arrives one night to court Eliza and is wooing her with word upon word of endearment emanating from His lips. Yet, it was evident from the movie that he was all words but no action. Suddenly,Eliza begins to voice her frustration with these words in what will be an appropriate song for the Body of Christ today. (Please bear with me as I am remembering as much as I can about this song.)

Words, words, words
I'm so sick of words
I get words all day through,
first from Him, now from you
Is that all you really can do?

Don't talk of love, burning above
If you're in love, SHOW ME!!!!!!

Tell me no dreams, filled with desire
If you're on fire, SHOW ME!!!!!!

Here we are together in the middle of the night
Don't talk of stars, just hold me tight

Anyone who's ever been in love will tell you that
This is no time for a chat

Haven't your lips longed for my touch
Don't say how much, SHOW ME!!!!!! SHOW ME!!!!!!!
Don't wait until wrinkles and lines
Pop out all over my brown
SHOW ME NOW!!!!!!

This is what God is saying to the church today. It is time, in essence, to put up or shut up. Our words are producing little tangible effect without the clear demonstration of the power of the Kingdom flowing in signs, miracles, and healing. I began to see clearly that God is desiring less words from us and more faith to trust Him for a divine demonstration of His power. He could easily sing these words to us. SHOW ME! I then heard Him speak:

"Revelation flowing into a visible demonstration for My Kingdom is not a matter of talk but of power from on high. The demonstration of the reality of My Kingdom should pour through My people, wherever I have divinely positioned them on the earth today. Walk out the fullness of the Gospel that has been given to each of you. You are lacking in no good thing for the fullness of My Spirit and of My Son resides within each of you. What are you waiting for?"

There is a divine surge of Kingdom power and anointing that is coming into the Body of Christ. Why? The Kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. We are called NOW to act upon what we already know before we can expect God to give us more.

Act upon what you know and what has been revealed to you and you shall be given more. The Spirit of God shall flow through the people of God in unprecedented ways in the days ahead, but......be faithful right now to step forth on Kingdom revelation that has been given to you.

The promises of God are yes and amen in Christ Jesus. Look unto Jesus, the author and perfector of your faith. Put your faith into action - step out - step into the supernatural - the evident power of the Kingdom abounding to those with spiritual eyes to see and spiritual ears to hear.

NOW is the time - this is the hour - NOW!!!!

More will be poured forth upon those who exercise faith NOW - in the immediate present. Open your eyes to look at the opportunities that have been placed before each of us everyday. The commissioning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ awaits us to pursue a visible demonstration of its power to change lives, heal people, cast out demons, and set the captives free. What are you waiting for? The Kingdom of God is in our midst!!!!!

Rivers of Eden
Debra Westbrook
http://www.riversofeden.com
d.westbrook@att.net

K.O.'d

Cheri Henderson

With a grieved heart I was seeking the Lord's counsel this morning and asked "Why, Father, does it seem you so often move in power in a body of believers, and then almost without any notice, you've left the scene? The party continues, but the power is gone."

His response: K.O.'d.

K.O.'d?

And then a phrase I've heard time and time again came to my memory: "pride goeth before the fall". "But this is not correct", He said. "Read the scripture." And on reading Proverbs 16:18, He showed me it wasn't "pride" that "goeth before the fall", but rather "a haughty spirit goes before a fall."

"Pride goeth before destruction."

And then it was as if I could see a wrestling match. A muscular wrestler was standing in a boxing ring, wearing a shirt emblazoned with the words, "the presence of the Lord". He bounced back and forth, pumped up and feeling strong. He'd won a lot of matches, and he was on top of the world. He had it "goin' on". And then, in a display of over-confidence and self-importance, he ripped off the shirt, shouting, "I'm the man!" All of a sudden, an opponent (a haughty spirit) flew across the ring and dove at his legs, knocking him to the ground. He wasn't injured, but he lay there, making no attempt to get on his knees, so he could regain his previous stand. After all, it wasn't his fault he was knocked down. He didn't do anything to deserve this. He's the man! How dare someone knock him to the ground! So he just lay there, refusing to get up. And vulnerable for the kill, a bigger opponent flew into the ring, pounced its full weight upon him, and drove a knife engraved with the words "pride" into his heart.

The Holy Spirit spoke, "A haughty spirit will knock the legs out from underneath a move of God . . . in a body of believers or even a single believer. If that body doesn't quickly get up on its knees in repentance so that it may stand again, pride will be its destruction."

Knocked down and then knocked out. K.O.'d.

--Cheri Henderson
http://hometown.aol.com/cheri144/myhomepage/poetry
Cheri144@aol.com

Some New Mystery Bagged

A. W. Tozer

For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. --Acts 17:21

The temptation to forget the few spiritual essentials and to go wandering off after unimportant things is very strong, especially to Christians of a certain curious type of mind. Such persons find the great majors of the faith of our fathers altogether too tame for them. Their souls loathe that light bread; their appetites crave the gamy tang of fresh-killed meat. They take great pride in their reputation as being mighty hunters before the Lord, and any time we look out we may see them returning from the chase with some new mystery hanging limply over their shoulder.

Usually the game they bring down is something on which there is a biblical closed season. Some vague hint in the Scriptures, some obscure verse about which the translators disagree, some marginal note for which there is not much scholarly authority: these are their favorite meat. They are especially skillful at propounding notions which have never been a part of the Christian heritage of truth. Their enthusiasm mounts with the uncertainty of their position, and their dogmatism grows firmer in proportion to the mystery which surrounds their subject. The Next Chapter After the Last, 12-13.

"Lord, keep me faithful to Your Word, give me understanding of the unfathomable truths contained therein, but deliver me from that danger of seeking some new insight to enhance my reputation as some kind of brilliant scholar. Amen."

Read "Insight for Leaders" online at:
http://www.litmin.com/tozer.php3

Choose Now

Darcia Sharp

This is a pivotal point in history concerning the governmental positioning in the Spirit world of God, His church that He is building. A season of transition that God has ordained and will allow to come to pass for those who have been faithful and obeyed. The intricacy of articulation regarding the instructions of His will will be revealed now to these that have crossed and Passover into this positioning by the hand of God who holds the world in His palm from the foundation of time. His outstretched arm and thunderous voice of unlimited waters shall guide and lead those He is opening the heavens for at this time. For those who NOW go forth and do as He has required presenting themselves at this hour of preparation as a sacrifice Holy and acceptable to God , only ,will come to pass this which He has revealed. He is opening a door of His treasury regarding the works of His Spirit. For those who shall obey to behold with their eye. The coming days are vitally significant and one must completely submit oneself to the hearing of HIS voice. Eyes will be opened at this time by His Spirit as He alone BOWS and opens the heavens for the blind to see. At this time as Jesus and Moses who spoke, did and wrote only what God the Father revealed, there is a called out people who stand at this cross road of depths in intimacy who simply choose it is now that they put on humility and love unto death of flesh and enter into this place of rest walking with God like they never have. This is a work that has been revealed in the Spirit. A caution to obey. A cry to be obedient. As the Holy ink and Word given to Moses instruction and direction as a scribe shall be imparted in this Holy place of communion and fellowship in His body by His Spirit confirming His Word. A folded note of Word in illumination and revelation shall be opened and you shall see. It holds a treasury of sweet Word oh, in great abundance. To this point it has been locked and folded but the remnant people, the elect and chosen knowing this hour shall forth rightly and without delay submit and humbly consecrate themselves for this hour. You have never been this way before. The time of singing has come. For those who stand and wait the very hand of God shall select and raise you into this new order of positioning. It has been done “nigmar” it is finished from eternity.

Move now.

Consecrate this day.

Come, Oh, Come

In the Name of Yeshua, Jesus Christ

Darcia Sharp
Canada
wordpray@nb.sympatico.ca

The Mature Spirit of Christ
Undrai Fizer

The apostolic/prophetic dimension will usher in the fullness of Truth in the earth. It will birth new movements from the foundations of the Church. It will be a mature natured expression of the Kingdom.

As a matter of fact, it's already here!

I don't believe everyone recognizes this, however. People have a way of describing something "they have yet to see." And when they see that what they described "looks far differently than what they expected," they "crucify" it!

The Jews "knew" about a Sent One (Messiah; i.e., Chief Apostle). They expected to see this Sent One. The tragic thing, however, is that they described "the fantasy of their own deliverance," and not what the Father desired to deliver to "them"! They did not describe the Destiny of the Sent One. So, when they saw Jesus, a barefooted, thirty year old man, born on the wrong side of the tracks, THEY FELT HE WAS NOT THE ONE!

They could not recognize the anointing beyond their misery. They could not see beyond their abuses. When you are in constant misery, your dreams are the "only freedom you have." You will find yourself creating "your own expected end," without receiving counsel from the One Who created "your true end." We have different aspirations than what God has for us at times. You will never "daydream" rejection. You will never daydream others saying "no" to you. We always dream positively. We create doors that are always open in our spirits. You will never find yourself creating "closed doors," when you are expecting to break out!

We are experiencing the same things that Christ experienced during His time in the earth. The "uncalled" were in authority and He came to express the Truth (beyond the uncalled authority). He was even told, "He doesn't speak like the scribes or Pharisees. He speaks as one with authority." We have experienced many believers who have been tormented by "uncalled leadership/authority." The tragic thing is when this authority "uses the truths of the Word" to enslave the spirits and the minds of those who are the "justly called" of the Father. Certain abuses come when the wrong people are in office, using the Word of God. The people in sincerity, will follow the Word, but receive another impartation (which is one of pain, destruction, and spiritual abortion).

The apostolic dimension is in operation as we speak. It is not "coming later." It's here now! It's not recognized fully because the "church" has described something it has not seen or experienced yet." And they are still waiting to see what they are comfortable with! Those who have been abused by false authority, have become apprehensive of the Spirit of the Sent One. They have become reluctant to follow after the thing that will set them free to destiny. They have had enough, to the point where they are afraid of even the mature life of Christ.

This is the time where the Mature will handle the Word. The wrong spirit had control of the Word, but now is a new time! The apostolic dimension is a Mature Dimension, and One of Justice. It will set the captives free and release those who are in the prisons of their minds and purpose. It will create an essence of freedom of life. This Spirit of God will not visit the churches on Saturday or Sunday morning. It will visit the personal lives of those who are "at home" per se. It will visit the lives of men and women who will create a new essence of fellowship. This dimension will not be confined to a stage with a sound system and registration fees. This dimension will consume the lives of individuals who have seen the Lord! There won't be a conference for it! ( we will still "confer,,," however).

This is the time where the Mature will handle the Word. You must understand something. The first visitation of Christ (Messiah, Anointed, Sent One=Apostle) was one of rejection. The "scribe" spirit always rejects apostles or the apostolic spirit. So I guess that if it rejected the Chief Apostle, it will also reject His Spirit! It didn't look like they described it. The immature authority, no matter how sincere, described something wrong in our spirits, thus causing us to look for something "that wasn't there."

But the Mature ones (those whom God is raising up by His Spirit; those who have embraced the fullness of maturity. We are not talking "elitist" here) will describe the essence of the Father and we will be ushered into it's many dwelling places!

The scriptures are being redefined and reproduced before our very eyes. Our own nation is becoming somewhat of a modern day "Holy Land." Your own cities are becoming Jerusalems, and Nazareths, and Samarias, and Capernaeums. Our own fellowships are emulating the "places of scribes and Pharisees." Our own level of Christianity as we know it, has taken on the look of a Pharisaic dimension (in some cases). It's almost as though we have to be freed from "christianity [in the pharisaic sense of the word. Not from the faith of Christ. I want you to understand what I am saying here). Immature leadership and church as we know it, is continually denying the Dimension of the Kingdom and it's purposes. It has a way of revealing Christ in a dead form instead of the Prophetic Life He really is! It has a way of reducing Him to a ritualistic form, to the point where Christ being "alive and moving" will cause individuals to be frightened, and scared to move forward.

Oh yes, it's time for the Mature to handle the Word. This is not an elitist viewpoint. This is what you are praying for. You hunger for the fullness of God to be expressed. You don't like when the Word is not spoken in full maturity. You desire for God to be expressed in all that He is. You desire for the fullness of His Love and His Will to be expressed. You desire for lives to be consumed with the liberty of destiny and not the death of stale dreams. That's what you desire, right?

The Mature to handle the Word?

His Spirit is already here. You "do" see it, right?
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from the series "Is Leadership Bad?"
Undrai and Bridget Fizer
Exploring the Vision Ministries International
www.exploringthevision.org
DominionTODAY@aol.com

No Compromise!

Marsha Burns

I say, there is no room for compromise in your life. Take the sharp knife of My Word and circumcise your hearts. Cut off all flesh. Refuse to be drawn away by the desires of your flesh, for surely you shall become as the Pharisees, white-washed tombs full of dead-men's bones. Now is the time to arise from the flesh pots of worldly pursuit and seek Me with a whole heart. I speak to those who justify carnality by applying a christian label to that which is ungodly. Awaken, you who sleep; arise, you who slumber. Shake yourselves from fog of deception, for you have been given the mind of Christ. Walk in the light of My truth. Psalm 1:1-2 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night.

Faith Tabernacle
Kremmling, CO 80459
http://ft111.com
ft111@ft111.com

Be Attune

Hugh Molanders JR

The Lord has said...

"You must be in tune to My Voice and My Spirit. Stay in your closet that you may know My Will.

"For many are here and many more are coming that will prophesy falsely in My Name. They do not speak for Me, but only out of their flesh. If you are not attune to My Spirit you will walk astray of My Will. Seek and Ask that I give to you My Keen Discernment and My Wisdom. For satan shall increase his influence upon those that are blind to Me. He shall attempt with greater force to sway the Body of Christ to seek after their own flesh. They shall perceive they are doing for Me, yet it will only be of the flesh. They know not of the things of My Spirit for they have not been anointed in My Spirit. Therefore they can not speak in the Spirit nor speak of the Spirit, for My anointing is not upon them.

"There are many speaking of My blessings to come. My blessings are waiting to be poured out upon My children of Righteousness. This is true. Yet you must realize that with these blessings I am getting ready to pour out upon you, come great responsibilities. Know also that with these blessings come greater attacks from satan. For he knows that his time is short. Yet I will see that My true remnant shall prevail through these attacks. Yes the attacks will increase. Yet remain steadfast in Me and I shall see you through. For no weapon formed against you shall prosper. Look not at what you see, but dwell only upon Me. You must discern My word and My word alone.

"There are many voices that will come up against you, both in the world and in the church. Yet only the true Church, the true remnant will be able to discern My voice. They will not hear you nor will they understand you. For they have not My heart nor My Spirit upon them. There are many false witnesses that desire to see you fall. They are not Attune to Me. For they follow after the spirit of the flesh. They refuse to yield to Me. They refuse to yield to My Spirit and to become intimate with Me. For only in being intimate with Me will you discern My voice and know My heart intimately. If that is your true desire, I am waiting to pour out My Spirit upon you in ways you have not known before. Yet the price for this intimate relationship with Me will cost you all of yourself. Through this intimate love with Me will you come to true peace and victory. Not many are willing to pay the price. That is why many are called, but only few are chosen. Your only goal should be to seek and follow after the Son. My only Son Jesus. That is and should be your only desire. Seek Him and you shall find the kingdom. For Jesus is the kingdom. I am truly not complicated, My children. I am not a mystery at all. Only seek and you shall know. This is the time to seek as never before. I am desiring a more intimate walk between us. For I am you Father and I formed you and placed you here for My desire and not your own. But you must be willing to yield all to Me. All of yourself to Me. I say again, ALL OF YOURSELF MUST BE YIELDED TO ME. Your heart must be yielded to My desire and will for your Life. Yield to Me, My children, that I may bring you closer to Me.

"For the time is coming, and I will woo you no more."

HULYNN@msn.com

Come Out Of Your Caves

Bill Burns

I hear the Lord saying that many of you have been in caves. You have even had understanding of the fact that you are supposed to be an Elijah. But, you have gone and fought against the Baals, and you fought in spiritual places of wickedness, even against the powers and rulers of darkness of this age. Even as Jezebel came to Elijah, she has come to you and forced you into doubt and unbelief and put you in a cave. But, if you will listen to the still small whisperings of My voice, to the very urgings of My Spirit, I would have you to understand that I will not leave you in that cave. Yea, you have been there for awhile, but I say that is not the end of your journey. That is not your destiny!

The cloud of heaven is coming, even if it only the size of a man's hand in this moment, it shall be a great cloud of glory that shall cover the whole earth. I will use you as My voice in this earth. You are My people of the end; you are the last generation; you are the Elijah's of this age. That is why I am bringing you into the House of Restoration first. When I came to Elijah in the cave, do you know that I restored him? I called him out of the cave and restored his vision, and I gave him purpose and instruction. I gave him direction and told him to go anoint a king and to raise up a prophet. Did you hear what I said? I told him to anoint a king and anoint a prophet; you are the kings and prophets of this age. You are the kings and the priests of the Most High. I am going to bring the spirit of Elijah to anoint you for your kingdom position, that in which your destiny will be fulfilled. I am going to raise you up beyond the places of your own limitations, for you have this understanding that when I manifest Myself your limitations will leave. When I come to you and speak to you face to face, your limitations cannot stay. When I come and place My hand upon you, healing will come, freedom will come, deliverance will come. So, do not give up. Though you have been in a cave, it is time to come out.

Faith Tabernacle
Kremmling, CO 80459
http://ft111.com
ft111@ft111.com

Deep Calleth Unto Deep

Mona McReynolds

This is the time I would call unto you deeply in your spirits. Can you not feel My calling...a pulling of your spirit...a dawing unto Me? That which is born of Me is the essence of your soul and spirit. I would say unto you that not only as the earth is calling forth new life from the midst of it, so I am calling forth new life within you as well.

Yes, I am calling to you deeply in your innermost being....I have spoken...who can resist My call? Did I not say unto you that as many as are called, to them will I give the POWER to become the sons of God? I am the source of your supply and power...as I call, I empower. Therefore you feel this deep pulling and drawing unto Me. Even now you feel the resurrection life springing up within calling you to come forth in newness of life and in boldness and confidence.

Behold, I make all things new!

Love Father

Respectfully submitted
Mona McReynolds

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