EXHORTATIONS - December 2022
Jesus declared that the gates of Hell would not prevail against you (the Church), and gave the keys of the Kingdom to His disciples (you) – the authority to bind and loose!
"I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; whatever you bind on Earth will be bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose on Earth will be loosed in Heaven." (Matthew 16:19)
Do not fear adverse worldly circumstances and conditions; Jesus has the keys to death and Hell (Revelation 1:8)! The enemy wants to keep you in fear so you will stop advancing the Kingdom of God through your Christ calling! You are to move from glory to glory as you take ground for the Kingdom. Do not believe the lies of the devil and his demons; they have no authority in your life – except what you give them!
Speak to every mountain in faith and they will move (Matthew 17:20)! God has the final word. Press into Him and speak His words towards the vision that He has put in your heart -- they will accomplish the purpose for which He sent them (Isaiah 55:11). The angels are waiting to hear His words (spoken by you) so they can perform them (Psalm 103:20)!
ZZ – 2627 DW3 03-26-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
"He refreshes and restores my soul (life); He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake." (Psalm 23:3, AMP)
If you are a Believer who is experiencing discouragement, wondering if God is ever going to send you a breakthrough, do you not know that your dry place has a purpose? Don't listen to the lies of the evil one, telling you that things will never change. He is a liar! Jesus Himself was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. It was that desert place that became the Lord's launching pad into His public ministry. You, too, will come out of your dry desert and be launched into your Christ calling!
God says to you now, "Take authority over the spirit of fear. Fear is not a feeling. It is a spirit, and it is from the evil one -- let your faith arise."
"'Yes indeed, it won't be long now -- GOD'S Decree. 'Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won't be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills. (Amos 9:13-14) MSG
ZZ – 2675 DW3 03-27-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
"For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed." (Roman 8:19)
You were made for this time. God will open up doors for you that no man can close, and that you will realize His dreams, purposes and calling in your life. You are the missing piece that this world needs -- never believe the lie that you are not. God had amazing plans for you.
Keep believing. Have faith and have courage. You were made to shine. You are not alone, and the best is yet to come! There is something new emerging. The breaking of an old mold is taking place. Like a caterpillar in a cocoon, it is not comfortable. You can't see what is out there. It feels dark. Something is happening inside you and around you that does not feel like anything you've ever felt.
New oil is being released and is about to fill your life. All that you have longed for is inside of you. Sounds, light, songs, fragrance and freedom are about to come alive in you and all around you. You are here to usher in the GLORY of the LORD that has never been seen before!
"Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.....the LORD rises upon you and His glory appears over you." (Isaiah 60:1-2)
"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go." (Joshua 1:9)
ZZ – 2677 DW4 03-28-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
Romans 8:33 - "Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies."
The book of Job tells us that Satan came to God's throne and complained about Job. (Job 1:6-12) God's throne is the most holy place. So why did God allow Satan to come before Him in the most holy place? Because of Adam's sin, He had the right to take Adam's place and come before God.
So, what happened to Job cannot happen to us. Job longed for a mediator, but he had none. (Job 9:33). Today we have Jesus as our Mediator, mediating the New Covenant between God and man. However, since the devil cannot come before God anymore, he comes to you on earth and accuses you in your conscience.
Satan cannot come before God to accuse you because it is God who justifies you through the terms of the New Covenant. Jesus' holy blood has given you continual right standing in the presence of God!
ZZ – 2680 DW4 03-29-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
The process you may be going through right now, where God is leading you into something so new that your emotions have felt like a mess. It's where you wake up feeling lost and displaced. It's where you feel moments of being numb and can feel a void of sorts in your soul. It's where you feel such a discontent for what you were once doing, the language you once used, and the vision you once had. You feel like your appetite and affections have somehow shifted overnight, leaving you reeling.
What you are feeling is the withdrawal of the Spirit on certain activities and expressions you once held dear. What you need to know is that there is nothing wrong with you and God has not withdrawn His glory from your life, just some of the things you were doing.
God is leading you into a season of breaking new ground and building something never seen before. That is why you have been in the deep 'wrestle' and place of emotional turmoil. You are being entrusted as a first-fruit pioneer of this new era.
• Don't internalize this moment. Don't take it on like you are here because you did something wrong.
• Don't let the enemy lie to you and tell you that you have lost the glory. This is a new mantle moment
• Begin to dream with the Lord in the midst of this. Dreams are about to increase and revelation is about to flood your life for leaning in.
• Don't get lost in the emotional tug of war, but hang on to the hem of His garment.
You are stepping out of your old and broken wings from the seasons behind you and being restored. This is a moment of healing and resurrection for you, where you will go from ground warfare to soaring again. You are moving out of the place of limitation and the old wineskin into the new and fresh move of the Spirit, in Jesus' name!
"But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." (Isaiah 40:31)
ZZ – 2681 DW4 03-30-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
You are invited by the Lord to leave your place of comfort and small thinking. You align yourself with the wrong people, the wrong future, and the wrong places because it's comfortable. But it's never comfortable to be courageous and move forward in life.
God is inviting you into a battle of internal transition. He is going after a retreating spirit that is empowered by the fear of pain, confrontation, shame, and the fear of people. Your own will and heart cannot give up now; you must march on into this battle. He will fight for you and cause the external transition, but you have to agree to it.
Transitions must happen internally so that external transitions can be sustainable. God is not asking you to make these internal transitions of the mind and heart on your own; He is inviting you to join Him in the battle that He is fighting for you. He has gone before you, just as He went before Deborah and Barak (Judges 5:15-21). He invited them to engage in a battle where He was waiting to confuse their enemies and bring about a great deliverance for His people. The Lord released angelic forces to help Deborah and Barak.
You are not alone as you march forward, for the Lord has released His army to help you. As you choose to transition internally and march forward, you are not alone. As you align with God and His partnership, He will confuse your demonic enemies.
Declare over your soul with Deborah, "March on, my soul; be strong!"
ZZ – 2684 DW4 04-01-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
We are continually reaping a harvest from what we have sown. Sow the goodness of God into the lives of others through your Christ calling and reap a harvest of God's favor.
Whatever your life looks like right now—wherever you are in your faith walk—you can begin anew. Recognize your current spiritual output, release it to the Lord (repenting as necessary and breaking any word curses you have spoken), and speak life into every famished place the Spirit of the Lord brings to your heart and mind.
Peter denied Christ three times, in John 21 we read about how Jesus showing Peter how to reverse the effect of that by asking him three times, "Do you love Me?" Peter responded "Yes, three times -- then Jesus gave him what he is called to do in his ministry -- Feed My sheep" (see verses 15-17).
We equip others with the word of God that has to do with their Christ ideintity -- the bread of life. God wants you to disciple others who have been bound by satan -- into a life where they are advancing in God's purpose for their life and bearing fruit that remains for God's Kingdom --- thereby, making them a world changer.
ZZ – 2683 DW4 03-31-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
"For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and dense darkness [all] peoples, but the Lord shall arise upon you [O Jerusalem], and His glory shall be seen on you." - Isaiah 60:2
He's rising upon you right now! You have purpose in His Kingdom; what you do with this seed and in 2024 will be determined by you. If you keep the seed (your destiny, business, family) in your hands, God cannot activate the fullness of His blessings and goodness.
This year, determine in your soul (your mind, will, and emotions) that this is the year you succeed in all that you do. Speak to the mountains and the circumstances in your life. Decree and speak into those things that have not yet happened that they will. Many have settled for the status quo for far too long, barely getting by.
This new season will be just that: new and refreshing. You will step into God's purpose for your life.
ZZ – 2686 DW4 04-02-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
"be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord..." Ephesians 5:18-21
This season is going to be a season of saturation and impartation of the Holy Spirit. It's time to get SATURATED! Drink well of the Holy Spirit. Welcome the Holy Spirit. Don't be casual, but be intentional about being radical for God's Spirit to saturate your life.
After Jesus was resurrected from the dead He spoke to His disciples saying, "Go and wait in Jerusalem until you receive power from on high" (Luke 24:49). He was telling His disciples not to try to do things in their own flesh, but to wait. Waiting can really be the "hardest part"? Believers typically don't like to wait. Jesus was making the point that apart from Him we can do nothing. Our dependency upon the Lord is crucial for us to have "overflow" in our lives. God wants us to be effective in our Christ identity as we bear fruit that remains for His Kingdom and moving from glory to glory.
As we are stirred in our Christ calling we will implement and witness impartation from one person to another. When God floods our lives there is an overflow that passes from one person to another. Religion and bad teaching has made people believe they have nothing to give.
When God pours into you His manifested tangible presence. Believe that you have something to give. Don't be shut down by the tentacles of religion. Find freedom in faith knowing that God's presence and glory is in you and is "transferable."
ZZ – 2636 DW4 04-03-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
ZZ – 2689 DW4 04-04-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
Job 33:4, "The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life."
When God breathes in us and upon us, we are receiving His inspiration. Our goal in worship is not just to sing a song to God but to get to such a place of intimate connection that inspiration takes place where we receive a deposit from Heaven.
The result of being inspired by God brings us into alignment with His thoughts, His heart and brings a flow of true worship in our lives. He is looking for those who want to be "one" with Him in worship. God wants to enjoin Himself with us in such a way that Heaven on earth will be manifested. The voice of God being released through us in worship causes the angels of God to be activated, ushering a greater realm of His glory in our midst.
Prophetic worship is not only something that flows from our intimacy with the Lord, but also aids our lives and Christ calling through activating angels of breakthrough – it will be revolutionary for us giving us victory from glory to glory.
Where are you needing breakthrough? Spend time in that prophetic expression of worship both personally and holding all that concerns you before Him.
1 Corinthians 1:9, "God is faithful, and by Him you were called to the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord."
ZZ – 2690 DW4 04-05-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
The first thing God did was speak with His voice. We are created in the image and likeness of God. When we speak through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, there is power to shift atmospheres from darkness to light.
The enemy always aims to shut down your voice. Our voice, anointed and inspired by the Holy Spirit, is one, if not the greatest, weapon God has given us to shift atmospheres. We've been created with a voice. In the beginning, God said, "Let there be light" (Genesis 1:3)!
Our voice is ordained to carry the prophetic power of God's Spirit, like a sword, to decree and manifest His Kingdom and will in the earth. Because of this, there is always an attack on your ability to praise, prophesy, and change the way people think through your voice.
Connect with God in the cloud of His glory. Be inspired by His Spirit. Stir the river of His Spirit inside of you and welcome the cloud of His glory upon you. Then speak and shift atmospheres, even your own situations, by proclaiming His divine utterances under the unction and anointing of His Spirit. Speak as one sent by Him to shift things on earth so they come under the transforming influence of Heaven. Speak against the self-absorbed Laodicean spirit that is so prevalent in the Church today. God is wanting to invade the earth through your voice!
ZZ – 2692 DW4 04-06-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
Break the bondage of a passive spirit. Take up the sword of the Spirit and embrace the fight of world challenging faith
Speaking to the mountains in your life and believing what you say transitions you from seeing God as far off in Heaven, answering your requests, to you recognizing that God lives by His Holy Spirit inside of you.
You can bear the burdens of others and you are the go-between for them before God. You ask on their behalf, in faith, believing, then GO and minister to them and His power becomes available to set them free.
Every battle we face in life is over the word and whether or not we can build our lives upon the faithfulness and integrity of God.
You don't need a "prophetic word" to prophesy God's will—His will for your life is in His Word. Prophesy what God's Word says about you and what belongs to you. You will prevail!
Declarations:
I refuse to sit any longer in a low place. I arise now. My provision is waiting at the next level. A new height, a new momentum, and a new strength enters my soul.
ZZ – 2687 DW4 04-07-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
Hosea 2:16 - "'It will come about in that day,' declares the Lord, 'that you will call Me Ishi....'"
Ishi, in Hebrew, is a name which means, "my husband" and expresses the intimacy of a close relationship. You might be in a desert, but the desert doesn't have to be in you. Jesus said there are springs of water in you, "springing up into everlasting life."
The springs begin to well up, and praise and adoration flows out of you. Before you know it, the springs are watering everything around you. You see things differently, you feel differently about people in ways you didn't notice before.
"...And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom like as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing..." (Isaiah 35:1-2). This happens when the water of life flows out of you, and it flows as you respond to Him.
Look for scriptures that focus largely on adoration to God -- then personalize them and visualize rivers of living water flowing out of you up to God -- make them a part of your prayer life and walking in the Spirit.
The Beloved is here, touching the very springs of life in you. "My Beloved is mine and I am His" (Song of Solomon 2:16). There's a sweet aroma now in the desert, there are flowers of praise, and blossoms of thanksgiving. It's a beautiful place.
ZZ – 2696 DW4 04-08-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
THIS IS YOUR MOMENT! God is raising up a radical movement of misfits for the Kingdom to go where no one else will go and to SAY what no one else will say! This is the season God is giving the remnant of misfits a new name, a new vision, and a fresh new start.
Sons are repenting into a right relationship with God and BACK INTO POSITION. Many have been out of position, diverted from their original Christ calling and purpose through the attacks against what they carry –- BUT NO MORE!
You can't keep identifying as an orphan or a victim. What God placed inside of you was before its time, so it was never intended to "fit" but to "REFORM." So, even that revelation is going to start defining for you why you are valuable to the Kingdom. What God is doing in you, right now, is revealing through the scriptures your Christ identity to you, where you haven't known or truly believed it. This revealing of identity is important because in the past, when the Church or other believers rejected you, it easily took you out.
Let it all go. This is your season, this is your time and you are a move of God waiting to happen...so let it happen!
ZZ – 2798 DW4 04-09-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
Luke 5:16 - "...Jesus often withdrew to lonely places to pray."
Many want the spiritually intoxicating new wine God is pouring out in this hour, but to hold that new wine, you must have new wineskins. You cannot keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
There is more prayer on Earth today than ever, yet most of it is temporal prayer for everyday things. What if, instead of praying for things you started praying the Psalms?
The Psalms are unique in that they contain many other books of the Bible, including God's dealings with men, God speaking to men, God conveying truth to men, and men speaking back to God.
If you will pray and meditate daily in the Psalms and let God's Word get in your heart, this will open a whole new gateway of encounters with the Lord, and you will become like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bring forth fruit in their season.
ZZ – 2700 DW4 04-10-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
Hebrews 4:9-11 LB - "So there is a full complete rest still waiting for the people of God. Christ has already entered there......let us do our best to go into that place of rest, too..."
In the life of faith, when you learn that you are living FROM victory and not FOR victory and yield yourself entirely, to your CALLING in Christ, living a life of walking in the Spirit -- that is when you enter the rest of God. You live in your Christ identity, from heaven -- in your God-given authority to advance and bear fruit that remains for His Kingdom in the earth,
It is the soul that thirsts for God, for the living God, that will have the spiritual understanding of how Jesus, the High Priest, brings us into God's presence so we can receive revelation for our next assignment in our God-given calling.
Psalm 63:1 - "O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water."
ZZ – 2701 DW4 04-11-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
"The winter is past…the flowers are springing up, and the time of singing birds has come…the fig trees are budding, and the grapevines are in blossom," and then he repeats his invitation for her to arise and come away with him (Song of Solomon 2:13).
Like in the Song of Solomon, you have entered into a new season. The Lord is beckoning you, wooing you, inviting you to come away from where you have been and arise into a new place with Him – a place of greater revelation and demonstration of all that He is.
If you have noticed lately that things seem different, or you're not quite finding God "how" or "where" you have in the past, do not despair; do not be discouraged. He is simply answering your prayers. He is moving. He is inviting you to come along with Him.
Arise Beloved!
ZZ – 2704 DW5 04-12-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
John 15:1,2,4 - "I am the Real Vine and my Father is the Farmer. He cuts off every branch of Me that doesn't bear grapes. And every branch that is grape- bearing he prunes back so it will bear even more....Make your home in Me just as I do in you.....When you're joined with Me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant." - (The Message Bible)
God must show us the great darkness we are in when our soul tries to find its ultimate happiness, consolation, and security in this world.
For He has revealed the endless crop of boredom you will harvest when you base life on pleasure-seeking -- instead of seeking His PURPOSE FOR OUR LIFE --- bearing fruit that remains as we advance His Kingdom in the earth.
Be the Joshua God has ordained you to be – cross over and possess your land of promise and fruition (your Christ calling).
Each time dryness comes -- and it will come back with greater ferocity, like a consuming hot wind -- stand your ground and retreat in quietness of soul.
Thankfulness takes the sting out of adversity. Thankfulness opens your heart to His presence and your mind to His thoughts. Let His love flow into your heart as you abide in Him.
ZZ – 2705 DW5 04-13-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
You may be in a season of trials and feel there is no hope. Peter talks about the fiery trials we go through so our faith can come out as pure gold – glory!
Lay down your thoughts, your will, your plans; lay them under the winnowing fan of the glorified Son of Man.
You are set free from the bonds of the past, the flesh, the soul -- all your sins are forgiven and you are always in right standing with God. Now let His glory be revealed through your Christ calling as you bear fruit that remains for His advancing Kingdom and move from glory to glory. Declare yourself wholly His, created for Him by His design. Into this truth, you must be aligned.
For His glory to flood the earth, you must walk in the reality of the love of Christ pouring forth from your heart into the lives of others as you disciple them into their Christ identity so they can be effective in advancing His Kingdom.
Now move forward from the place you are in today -- DECLARE you are a new creation, with your eyes fixed on Jesus (Hebrews 12:1,2), fully equipped with nothing missing and nothing broken -- ready for Kingdom service and advancement.
With your eyes fixed upon Jesus -- give Him full exultation among all people and nations. For His Bride to be seen in full array, let His glory be seen through you today!
ZZ – 2706 DW5 04-14-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
You are tapped into and grafted to the olive tree, where you function and flow in works out of the rich and flourishing oil of the Lord's anointing.
When you remain tapped into the oil source, you burn continuously with the light of Jesus. He wants to turn up the lamp, and He does it by pouring more oil into it. You are the lamp that dispenses His glory, He wants to pour more oil into you.
John 7:37,38 - "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink, He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."
This quiet-flowing, endless stream of water is not unlike the ceaseless oil that flows from the olive trees' branches into the lampstand (Zechariah 4). The living water is the Holy Spirit.
You are extremely conscious of the workings of Christ and of God's energy at work in you. Rivers--ceaseless rivers of living water flow out of your heart as you equip others by discipling them into their Christ identity so they can be effective in advancing His Kingdom through their Christ calling.
ZZ – 2708 DW5 04-15-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
"He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag." (Deuteronomy 32:13)
Where the sting of hope deferred, heartbreak, and devastation has struck your life, He is now striking the rock on your behalf. From the rock will flow honey as a healing balm, to restore and repair the ruin caused from the pain and trauma of the onslaught of enemy attack. He will nourish you with honey and oil from the rock, for He is your Rock. His honey will bring deep, nourishing, and lasting healing to your soul. (Proverbs 16:24).
Where life has stung you and left you rejected, robbed, and wounded, Jesus was wounded for all our transgressions. We are invited to exchange our hurts and pain to live empowered in the ascended life that He modled for us as co-heirs, adopted into the Kingdom of God, and authorized citizens of Heaven. God is pouring out His healing balm into your every wound and healing and restoring you from all their effects. Receive it!
Even those that you thought would be impossible to reach will now become as the land where milk and honey will flow.
This speaks of the river of living water you have been hoping for that is now flowing from you into the lives of the other new believers you are discipling into their Christ identity. These things are now being touched by the miracle-working God of the impossible to manifest in and through your life, and your "land" – your Christ calling.
ZZ – 2696 DW5 04-16-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
Revelation 4:1 - "After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven..."
The first and foremost revelation of Revelation 4 is that of the open door that is perpetually open and available to you.
You press into the revelation of your oneness with Him in order to release the Kingdom of God in the earth which may seem abstract because it is so different from ordinary daily living and mindsets.
You expect to go from glory to glory as God opens impossible doors to implement your Christ calling for the advancement of His Kingdom and glory.
It is time for your Christ identity to become a Kingdom-quickening reality.
You do not just want to go to the revival -- you want to carry the revival -- you want to be what starts the revival.
ZZ – 2711 DW5 04-17-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
"For nothing will be impossible with God." (Luke 1:37)
God is filling you with fresh wonder and eyes to see the possibilities of developing a new Kingdom vision.
Suddenly things will change as God fills you with hope. You will feel the burden and weight you've been carrying lift suddenly, and you'll be able to breathe deeply and relax. God is shifting your perspective to allow you to see what's possible with Him -- that which seemed impossible before. Excitement and hope will bubble up inside of you as you shift into believing it's possible. From this place, it becomes easy to develop vision of the future and of what's possible through your Christ calling.
You receive fresh faith as you persistently affirm and meditate on the promises of God that are related to your vision.
God is shifting your vantage point so you can see that nothing is impossible with Him. You may feel hopeless or not know how to move forward. Allow God to shift your way of thinking. Give your burdens to Him. Trust Him to help you and move on your behalf. Spend some time in His presence focusing on fruit-bearing for His Kingdom and watch what He does!
ZZ – 2713 DW5 04-18-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
"Surely Your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever." (Psalm 23:6)
Ask Him! What do you need? What does the destiny He has placed in you require? Dream with Him again. Go back to the drawing board and believe beyond where you have been, and don't stop until what you envision looks impossible. You will now advance and plan -- move out of lack and into more than enough! Pioneer again with Him!
It is time to finally move on from the place you are presntly in.. It has served its purpose, but now the scenery must change, just like everything else has. You mustn't think your whole existence will be in the trenches. You are called to a war, but that doesn't mean you are meant to live in the valley of the shadow of death. He has been teaching you how to come up out of that place and live higher. He has been calling you up into new ways of viewing all that opposes you, so you aren't surrendering to the wrong thing. So now you are moving on from this place into a brand-new adventure.
There will be many unknowns and many new roads to forge, but you will find your passion again and know He is running with you. It will keep requiring courage and letting go of doing things how you once did, but it will be full of so much joy as you move from glory to glory in your Christ calling. Yes, the pages of history are before you, and you are going to write them with Jesus. Will you join Him?
ZZ – 2715 DW5 04-19-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
If Believers were called to "eat" of the Lord's body and blood (John 6:53–58), what did He eat? Answer: He feasts on your praise and your worship!
True worship, whether offered in strength or in weakness, is real food to Christ, just as the sacrifice of His body and blood is real food—living bread and water—to us. Our worship and intimate fellowship is a reasonable service and a "fair exchange." God has chosen to be with us in this realm, just as He hopes we will choose to be with Him in His!
The incredible beauty of Christianity is that abiding in Christ is not limited to our strength alone; when we abide in Him by seeing His love flow into our heart and then, back to Him --, He also abides in us by nourishing our hearts and imagination with His love. Healing for the body and hope for the soul are forever accessible through open-hearted intimacy.
The ascended life – living from our intimacy with Jesus – dwelling in that sense of His presence and living from there releases revelation into our life. Feel His cross – feel His blood – It is real. It is! You must have spiritual hunger, a strong prayer life, as well as time affirming and meditating on the Word to have the Holy Spirit move you into higher and more efficient states of mind.
ZZ – 2717 DW5 04-20-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
Before you actually come to recognize your authority in Christ, there may be resistance to the new work of the Spirit in you. This resistance can be internal or external, and sometimes it can come from those around you.
Maybe others haven't fully realized what God is doing in you yet. But as you stay yielded to God, you can trust Him and be secure in your oneness with Jesus, even when it takes time to get established.
Give glory to God by magnifying the Blood of Jesus and the power that abides here. You are never out of right standing with God - all of your sins are forgiven (past, present, and future) and there is nothing that can hinder you from actively bearing fruit that remains for God’s Kingdom.
Recognize how important it is for you to understand that you walk in the favor of God as you implement your calling in Christ. Be awakened and be aware of the authority that Jesus has given you as part of your Christ identity as a son of God.
Here is the key to standing in the authority God has given you: Declare His covenant by saying, "In Jesus' name it shall be done!"
It is time to prophesy over the waters—polluted waters of discontent, waters of insufficiency, waters of unfruitfulness and barrenness, and waters of sickness and ill health. Declare, "God is healing the waters and turning the bitter into sweet!" Decree as Elisha did: "Never again!" (2 Kings 2:21)
ZZ – 2719 DW5 04-21-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
Overwhelming fear will open you to a world that isn't realistic, but to your mind, you genuinely believe that your only hope for freedom is through former bondage(s). You will convince yourself (through fear), that it is better to be bound by some things, rather than it is to be free and face a difficult thing (Exodus 14:10-16). There is no accountability in fear, only the opportunity created to keep you bound by a false reality.
"Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will also help you, I will also uphold you with My righteous right hand." (Isaiah 41:10)
The Lord is saying to you in this hour that you cannot afford to look back at your enemies or the former things. You cannot afford to be fearful of what might be coming. You cannot become overwhelmed by the obstacles that are before you. You cannot long to be what you once were at a specific time in your life -- whether good, bad, or ugly. You must be willing to see beyond the circumstances.
"This is what the Lord says, He who makes a way through the sea and a path through the mighty waters." (Isaiah 43:16)
You are seeing beyond the offense, beyond the disappointments, beyond the hurt, beyond the trials, beyond the bondage, beyond the manipulations, and beyond the snares -- God is calling you to see with His truth and not with your reality.
"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal." (2 Corinthians 4:18)
You cannot settle in this season. Renounce the spirit of fear now, of bondage now, of apathy now, in the name of Jesus. Look forward and press onward. There is Kingdom advancing ground to walk on.
ZZ – 2721 DW6 04-22-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
Luke reminds us that Christ was journeying toward Jerusalem and, therefore, the Cross. He was focused on His mission and refused to be deterred.
Having arrived in Jerusalem, Christ went directly to the Temple and drove out those who were selling their wares, making His "house of prayer... a robbers' den..." (see Luke 19:45–46). This was indeed anger, but it was not a temporary loss of self-control. His actions were prophetic. The Temple was intended by God to picture us, created to be the dwelling place/temple of God (1 Corinthians 3:16). The defilement Jesus was seeing reminded Him of the defilement in us, which He was about to cleanse at the Cross, just days from then. He was demonstrating what He had come to do: cleanse His temple – US! And Christ was very intense about this.
"There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus." - Romans 8:1 NKJV. There is no guilt, punishment, sentence, or shame – all our sins have been forgiven and we are always in right standing with God so there is nothing hindering or delaying our advancing His Kingdom and bearing fruit that remains. through our Christ calling. (John 15:16)
As part of your daily walking in the spirit, reflect on the passion of Christ. Thank Him for the price He paid. Worship Him not only as God the Creator, but also as Son of Man, the Redeemer.
ZZ – 2723 DW6 04-23-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
"And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years." (Luke 1:18)
Notice that Zechariah spoke against the prophetic word from God. He rehearsed with his mouth all the reasons why it would not happen. This serves as a warning to you today. Refuse to partner with circumstances that go against the words that God has promised you. It is time to get your hopes back up and believe again!
Elisabeth protected the promise she was carrying. She knew there would be some people who would speak against that which God had done for her. She was unwilling to allow anyone to hurt her faith or speak against the promise of God.
You have been barren. You have not seen the fruitfulness or the harvest in your life. You have felt like giving up, but you remain standing. God has seen your faithfulness, and has heard your prayers -- even the prayers that you have stopped praying because it hurt too bad to believe anymore.
Get ready for past-due promises coming forth. It has seemed as if God has been silent, This is a mind-blowing season -- partner your words with the moving of the Holy Spirit -- you will see them fulfilled and experience that which you have decreed!
ZZ – 2725 DW6 04-24-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
The enemy has lured many of God's people into a spirit that has caused huge weights and burdens to become attached to people's souls; it has built strongholds in people's minds.
This spirit works by getting people to believe that their voices don't deserve to be heard, or that they are not important and cannot make a difference. It has stolen from their dignity and honor, causing them to fear being rejected, and much more.
Jesus gave us the glory that the Father had given Him (see John 17:22).
God is calling us to see ourselves as He sees us and to walk in the light of our Christ identity. This is part of His plan to bring His children, the Church, to maturity through equipping the body of Christ so that we can truly advance His Kingdom -- shine as lights placed on a lamp stand, bearing fruit that remains -- shining like a city set on a hill -- being the children of God that the earth itself has been groaning for and longing to see displayed (see Matthew 5:14-16 and Romans 8:19).
ZZ – 2728 DW6 04-25-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
'You were made queen for just such a time as this?" Esther 4:14
It takes much effort, faith, and courage to worship when you feel like crying -- to walk around your home declaring victory over things that have been the same for years -- to speak life into those dead relationships, into your body, into your finances, into your business -- to speak the opposite of what you see and feel -- to go against everything the world says.
No one in scripture ever accomplished their calling without going through much testing, or without stepping out in faith and obedience.
It is time for you to RISE UP, shed your garments of mourning and mantle yourself with your royal robes, because the King of kings is waiting with open arms, ready to give you what is already yours!
The Holy Spirit wins battles for you by worshiping, declaring, prophesying and thanking God for the victories you do not yet see but know are already yours because of what Jesus did on the Cross.
You have to rise up! You don't have to fear, His scepter is ALWAYS extended toward you. You don't need an invitation. His Son tore the curtain. He made it possible for you to enter His courts at any time! Are you going to rise up and use the authority He has placed in you?
ZZ – 2730 DW6 04-26-2023 December 2022 Exhortations
The enemy would love to abort the promises of God in His people right now by baiting us into discouragement, disillusion, faint-heartedness, offense, apathy, and selfish ambition. Any of these can lead us down a path to miscarry the promises of God.
When a woman goes into labor she is taught to breathe. We can do this spiritually by meditating on Christ. We fill our lungs with His breath by focusing our thoughts on Him and following the lead of the Holy Spirit.
"For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God." (Romans 8:19)
Many Believers are getting ready to birth. The Holy Spirit and angels will be your coaches to help you successfully birth. God is getting ready to birth the next stage of your Christ calling. Again, the Lord is reminding us: "'Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?' says the LORD. 'Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb?' says your God" (Isaiah 66:9).
ZZ – 2725 DW6 04-27-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
Father God births dreams within you, and you will know it is Him because He will continue to confirm His word. You will be filled with great joy, and the dream and vision will keep you awake at night dreaming of the endless possibilities.
For as you move with Him in obedience and boldness, you will see favor fall upon you in significant ways. What He has shown you, given you, and is calling you to spearhead and walk in HAS to be different, because He is doing something completely new and wants to release something NEW into the earth THROUGH YOU!
As these new visions are being given to you; as these new pathways, creative ideas and new strategies are being released, there is a temptation to hold back in fear or to doubt but do all you can to step forward in the vision He is releasing and expect to receive ABUNDANT provision.
There will be more provision for these trailblazing pathways and "off the beaten track" adventures with Him than you have EVER received before. You will see how radical obedience to Him brings forth RADICAL provision.
"See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland." (Isaiah 43:19)
ZZ – 2703 DW6 04-28-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
Even now, the Holy Spirit is hovering over you. God is stirring your passion for Him. Angels are ready and waiting on your yes. Answer your calling in Christ today. While the cost is great, the reward is so much greater.
Give your heart completely to Him. A radical calling will require a radical path and radical faith, but it will result in radical vision, radical blessings, and radical fruit. Your Christ calling will produce radical Kingdom exploits that release God's plans and purposes on Earth.
Don't be surprised if you are tempted to lose your vision or become apathetic, bored, or even fearful of the expanding cost to bring forth the purpose of God for your life. The greater the discomfort, the closer you are to birthing the manifestation of God's promises.
God doesn't test us in order to punish us. God doesn't delight in our suffering. God tests us to make sure that we are worthy of stewarding His promises well.
We cannot bring forth the purpose of God for our life until we have submitted to the fiery tests of preparation that result in our brokenness, dependency, and radical obedience to God.
Don't be surprised if great fire consumes you, and your promise doesn't look like what you thought it would. It's only by living a life of radical obedience, even unto the fires of death, that great resurrection life, and power can come forth.
ZZ – 2734 DW6 04-29-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
In some of the first and last mentions of God in Scripture, He is moving: "…and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters" (Genesis 1:2), and "…' Surely I am coming quickly'…" (Revelation 22:20).
Between the moving of the Spirit in Genesis and the coming of Jesus in Revelation, Romans 8:14 says, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God." You also want to be moving from glory to glory in your Christ calling through the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Not everyone has a grid for what God is doing in your life. A key to promotion in this season is staying faithful to the process God has you in and managing what He gives you charge over.
In Christ, you are grounded -- grafted into Him. He wants to get you to the point where you are looking up, living, up, coming up, and rising up as you bear fruit that remains for God's Kingdom. Be the Joshua God has ordained you to be -- cross over and possess your land of promise.
ZZ – 2736 DW6 04-30-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
You are in a new season where God is giving upgrades and new vision that will take some learning to get used to and will require you to run the race at a faster pace. As you seek the Lord, God is going to be giving an increase in ability that will have different ways of doing things as you accelerate forward in His purpose for your life.
John 1:14, "And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth."
Jesus, as our ultimate example, came to live His life through you. He calls you to be a living tabernacle of His presence in the earth. Open the door to the Holy Spirit to fill and flow through you to reveal the reality of God to others.
As the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of glory who dwells in you and is Christ in you, the hope of glory, you become a world changer who is equipped to witness and disciple Christ to a dying world.
In the Old Testament, you had to go to the Tabernacle to experience the presence of God. Now we are the living tabernacles that can carry the glory of God to the world.
ZZ – 2738 DW6 05-01-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
"If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God … so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen." 1 Peter 4:11
The sound of Heaven is resonating in your heart. Your part is key to His unfolding plan to bring His Kingdom to earth. He has not planned only to bless you -- other people are waiting for their treasures that He has deposited in you. They are waiting for the anointing on your life to BREAK OUT!
Connect with God in the cloud of His glory. Be inspired by His Spirit. Stir the river of His Spirit inside of you and welcome the cloud of His glory upon you. Then speak and shift atmospheres, even your own situations, by proclaiming His divine utterances under the unction and anointing of His Spirit. Don't seek as much to be relevant to men, but rather seek to be relevant to God, pleasing Him through carrying out your calling in Christ. Speak as one sent by Him to shift things on earth so they come under the transforming influence of Heaven
ZZ – 2741 DW8 05-02-2024 2022 December Exhortations
Romans 16:20 encourages us that "…the God of peace will swiftly pound satan to a pulp under your feet! And the wonderful favor of our Lord Jesus will surround you."
Do not be afraid but engage and contend in prayer, in praise, and in making decrees. Partner with God in this great victory! Your setback is only a setup for a mighty comeback! The word "comeback" can be defined as a regaining of success, health, prosperity; recovery, revival, resurgence; to return to a former good position or condition after a loss.
What the enemy meant for evil will be turned for good! The places where your voice has been silenced will be at the forefront of the revitalization of God's purpose for your life! He will supernaturally turn hearts. Your ministry to others will grow and expand. Prodigals will return. Miracles will break out in abundance. A harvest of souls is at hand!
You must align with all that Heaven is declaring. The Lord has declared a time of overcoming and victory – a super bloom season of crazy increase and prosperity and a time of a massive harvest of souls which is already breaking out. Shake yourself from fear or any sense of doom and gloom. You will replace your past with revelation of new frontiers to conquer. Get in the battle to contend and get ready to see a mighty comeback for yourself and your Christ calling as you discover new ways to bear fruit for His Kingdom that remains!
ZZ – 2745 DW8 05-04-2024 2022 December Exhortations
"In those days I will pour out My Spirit even on My servants – men and women alike – and they will prophesy." (Acts 2:18 )
The Lord declares in Acts 2:18 that there is a very specific reason He pours out His Spirit on His people – so we will prophesy! God wants you speaking His truth in season and out of season like this, because the lost, hurting, broken, victimized, scared people of the world need to know there is an alternative to all that has failed and frustrated them.
In Genesis 1:1-25 God shows us how He brought forth creation and also a model of one of the main ways we operate in the authority that He called us to in verses 26-28. The words He spoke brought Kingdom order to chaos and confusion (Genesis 1:4-25). Now it is your turn to do the same.
In Him, with Him, and for Him, God has made you His dominion steward in the earth. Just as He spoke to creation to bring it forth, you can speak to creation to bring it into alignment with His truth. After all, you are made in His image and according to His likeness (see Genesis 1:26), called to do the works that the Word Himself did (see John 14:12), and we see evidence of all this throughout the Bible (e.g., Isaiah 55:5, Jeremiah 1:10, and Job 22:28).
ZZ – 2752 DW8 05-06-2024 2022 December Exhortations
"As for us, we have all of these great witnesses who encircle us like clouds. So we must let go of every wound that has pierced us and the sin we so easily fall into. Then we will be able to run life's marathon race with passion and determination, for the path has been already marked out before us." (Hebrews 12:1)
The enemy has tried to thwart and rob us this season by derailing many of us from our purpose through deep wounds of disappointment. These wounds have been so deep for many that it has been difficult to imagine life beyond them.
So whatever you have been facing; whatever demonic forces have been trying to keep you bound; whatever deep wound and trauma you have been carrying; whatever betrayal you have been trying to be free from—the past memories and sting; the disappointment or bitterness that you have been dealing with—the Blood of Jesus speaks a better word over you today.
Declare The Following -- I am cleansed, I am healed, I am restored, I am forgiven in Jesus name. He did this for me 2000 years ago.
The sound of heaven is resonating in your heart flowing from a devoted relationship with God through His Spirit. Invest yourself in another Believers spiritual development.
It is only through doing things at high altitudles that we get used to the height, and pretty soon we are soaring! He wants to get us to the point where we are looking up, living up, coming up, and rising up as we live out our Christ calling while we minister His Kingdom to the world.
ZZ – 2754 DW8 05-08-2024 2022 December Exhortations
Acts 1:8 - “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
The fire that the Lord placed inside you is being reignited, even as you are reading this!
At this time, doing what the Lord instructed you to do is paramount. When you do, you'll experience the turnaround and blessings you've been waiting for. You may have been running from your assignment, like the prophet Jonah. Like Jonah, God is shaking up your boat (your environment) and allowing you to be 'thrown off' on purpose, for a purpose. While in the water, you initially tried to stay afloat by your own power and will. This caused you to be swallowed up by the very problems which hid your promise. God used these issues to transport you to where He was trying to get you to go in the first place!
While en route to the place that the Lord has for you, time in the belly of your adversity will cause you to hear His voice as never before. You'll be situated in the "belly of the beast" long enough (free from distractions) to truly listen to what He's been saying to you all along. God is allowing your problems to move you closer to what He wants you to do.
When released, you will have gained a new outlook and resolve to declare what the Lord speaks! Then will the deluge of blessings begin to fall upon you like rain! Rejoice in your season of rain! It's the rain that revives and heralds the new perspective in advancing God's Kingdom.
Pray as never before! You will walk in new wine, oil, and power! Fear will be replaced with faith. Mighty acts will be your portion.
ZZ – 1766 DW8 05-09-2024 2022 December Exhortations
2024 is a year to have great anticipation, expectation, and confidence that you will see the momentum that brings a harvest of biblical promises for your life, family, business, ministry, area of influence, and the Believers you are discipling.
As you come to understand your Christ identity, you can boldly claim, trust, and move in expectation of God's Supernatural Majestic Realm fully flowing through God's purpose for your life.
Take some time to ask God to help you understand and carry out His purpose for your life so you can be the light of the world by advancing His Kingdom in the earth.
Ask Him to reveal to you how you transform the atmosphere around you, and how you bring understanding, light, and life into the lives of others.
Focus on the light that you are releasing from the love of Jesus flowing through your heart and watch what happens.
ZZ – 2760 DW8 05-12-2024 2022 December Exhortations
Paul said in Galatians 2:20-21 (KJV), "I live by the FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD ...",
HOW DO YOU WALK IN GOD'S FAITH?
In order to walk by this kind of faith you need to give the Holy Spirit something to work with. You need to rise above the current troubling situation by affirming and meditating on the scriptures that give you the Christ authority over the situation. Then you must listen and believe the answers He gives you, and meet Him there with expectation and action. This opens you up to the impossible. Miracles happen in the impossible. Since God can believe in the impossible in all situations, you can too. This is the faith of God you need, to see miracles happen.
Hebrews 11:6 (NIV) says, "And without faith it is impossible to please God,"
ZZ – 2762 DW8 05-13-2024 2022 December Exhortations
See the future and live like you are there, not like you are still bound by your circumstances. All of the fathers of the faith in Hebrews 11 lived their lives by the future that they saw in the now.
Hebrews 11:1 - "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Notice it says "Now faith is."
When you live in the now like you are in the future, it becomes the "substance" of what you are seeing. Your faith doesn't become tangible until you act like it is the truth in the here and now! In other words, THERE IS NO "EVIDENCE" UNTIL YOU LIVE LIKE IT.
ZZ – 2765 DW9 05-15-2024 2022 December Exhortations
"He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and cameto Jesus." - Matthew 14:29
If you are waiting for the perfect conditions to step out in faith it probably won't happen. Just believe and do not doubt. When the waves and fire come, speak to them and tell them you have the authority to do what God has called you to do.
When we step out in faith it is important that we don't over-think what we are about to do. We must just step, trusting that our foot will meet the water because the invitation came from Jesus to do it.
ZZ – 2716 DW9 05-17-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
Because of the time in which we live we cannot afford to just sit around and play church. It is our responsibility to follow the example of the Apostle Paul and make it our determined purpose to know Him, the Anointed One and His Anointing, to know His burden-removing, yoke-destroying power, and to know the power of His Resurrection, which, according to Romans 6:5, is the Glory of God (Philippians 3:10).
It's our responsibility to press on in to Jesus until we come to understand and carry out God's purpose for our life and experience the Glory! (2 Corinthians 4:6). "Christ in us is the hope of Glory" - Colossians 1:27
08-02-2023 EXHORTATION
God doesn't test us in order to punish us. God doesn't delight in our suffering. God tests us to make sure that we are worthy of stewarding His promises well. We cannot bring forth the purpose of God for our life until we have submitted to the fiery tests of preparation that result in our brokenness, dependency, and radical obedience to God.
You shouldn't say things about yourself that God says are not true. eg. "I am a work in Progress" (false humility) Colossians 2:18 - "Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement." v.2:13 ..." having forgiven us all our transgressions." You are giving yourself an excuse to sin occasionally and live short of God's full will for you.
By wet-nursing this mindset you disengage yourself from living up to your full potential in Christ. eg. I am an old sinner saved by grace. Colossians 2:10 "And in Him you have been made complete." You have the power to change things that don't line up with heaven.
ZZ – 2760 DW9 05-10-2024 December 2022 Exhortations
When difficulties come against us we call those things that are not as though they were, remembering our power and authority that are part of our Christ identity. We begin to recognize that beneath our vacillations is a layer of spiritual strength and hope that had been deposited within us through His death and resurrection -- which is confirmed by the finished work of the cross.
We need only to realize that we are a new creation - that old things have passed away and our life is hidden in Jesus, and that our strength comes from Him. With David, we should be able to say, "The Lord is my light and my salvation..." (Psalm 27:1). If we will meditate on His purpose for our life, and our hunger to bear fruit that remains for His Kingdom, and the past victories that we gained by placing our lives in His hands, this will become personally real to us.
ZZ – 2769 DW9 05-20-2024 2022 December Exhortations
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