You have passed/crossed a major threshold and have come into a large expanse that is for establishment; an expanse where our feet will be shod and hearts will be assured in one thing; where children will be little and many will grow up. It is a place where I will reduce the number of children and bring many to maturity. You will see things clearly and true worship will ascend to me. I want to harvest worship, not the one you do not know but the one you know; for you have come to the place where knowledge will open unto you and enable you to journey to the end. You are welcome even to this threshold; for only few have found it and mercy has prevailed on your behalf.
It is a place where your joy will be full- where you will experience fullness of joy. You will rejoice always; the joy that knows no bound because it is the joy of our coming, hope and clarity. You can rejoice forever more and that is where we have brought you to; a place of eternal joy where nothing hinders your worship and ascension; a place of consistent joy even in the face of affliction. That is where you have come to; it is our commitment at this time. It is no more business as usual, as the whole heaven is upon you to bring forth. You will serve us with joy and our joy will come as our knowledge increase in your heart. Our joy will be the strength of your furtherance and you will further, for our joy will be plenty.
The present world we live in is upon a prophetic timetable. Some of us wish that this world will just continue. However, it is clear that it will not continue forever because it is not a world that God framed; it will pass away with every of its structure. We are just being given a short time for recovery of the seed of God on the earth. This world is sitting on the keg of gunpowder and the princes of the earth know that diplomacy can only go on for a short season, before it eventually explodes. The heavens are determined to raise agents of a new world that will not pass away. This world and its fashion/frame is passing away- passes away; 1 John 2:17, ‘And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever’. Therefore, we must begin to pay more emphasis on the things that we are receiving.
Isaiah 25:1-3
O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
This is a prophetic scripture speaking of things ahead in the spirit. It is amazing how the devil crafted evil tablet in men, people and nations. As long as the earth continues, the word ‘conquest’ will not stop; this intention is put in some souls to fulfil by all means and they will never repent from that. God can however save some of such souls from such conquest agenda. When men proclaim peace, the things that are capable of destroying them are underneath. Therefore, be careful that the days do not come upon you unawares (1 Thessalonians 5:3). Being moderate makes you have the necessary agility needed to fight to overcome (Matthew 24:20).
Church is a bought out space to keep your foot light and to help you respond at every point to the Spirit’s call. Even when it seems that there is peace, there is actually no peace anywhere as it seems. When God’s building is being raised, assault also increases against it. Therefore, we must be prepared and become agents of eternal counsels. This is why we are in church.
Acts 2: 22-24
Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
The Lord foreknew what he wanted to do but the enemy implemented it. In God’s counsel, it was not possible for death to hold Jesus down which was however unknown to the enemy. The enemy only had a part but God accomplished the rest of the whole thing himself. This is why you should not joke with the writings of the prophets for they contain the whole picture of God’s intention. If you don’t enter into the complete picture of God, you will only play your part, but you will still be a victim.
God’s picture is to terminate death and bring Life. Every one born on earth is born into the picture which one does not leave until one dies; it is what we participate in either consciously or unconsciously. The essence of Jesus’ coming is to be the medium to part the completeness of the complete picture; Christ is the executor of the complete picture. The third hour of the day is designed purposely to finish the age long agenda. The prophets specialize majorly in declaring the intention of God in the place called the third hour of the day or the last days. That is why Jesus is called Emmanuel- God with us; He holds custody of all things. Everything about the last day is put into His custody. He is the custodian of the agenda of the last days. Immediately you get born again, you plug into that agenda but most times we are not active to participate. This season is designed by God to break the cast that has held us down from responding to the motions of the Spirit. There is a motion of the spirit that is necessary to move us.
Acts 3:17-18
And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
Christ showed up and walked in the divine thoughts that many prophets had spoken. He fulfilled what was spoken by the mouth of all those ahead of him. The mark of the prophets of the scriptures is that they must generate words that have to do with the determinate counsel; they are different from seers. The prophetic is in line with those things that are yet to enter into the heart of man. (1 Corinthians 2:9-10). When we are born again we have plugged into a lineage that is activated to think what man cannot think and has not seen. The things that God has prepared are the eternal counsels spoken by the mouth of the prophets. Even if the whole world denies Jesus today, what God has in mind is still ‘he and his children’ and he is prepared to take children from nations of the world like China. His hands will stretch to the end of the earth and he will gather men unto himself. There is an assignment for these nations in the eternal plan which they are currently unaware of. Our lives were taken from us and plugged into a lineage that is propelled by the eternal counsel; this is what determines our living or dying. As we hear this word, we are being dipped into our baptism. This is why the Church must teach these things so that men may be aware of their agenda.
Acts 2: 14- 18
But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
The third hour is the hour of executing eternal counsels and of declaring God’s faithfulness and mercy; of fulfilling the promise of God to the fathers and of His wonders on the earth. These counsels are locked in Christ. It is not only that they will see vision as written in Joel 2:28 but that they shall prophesy. To prophesy by the Spirit is the elementary part of the Spirit which we shouldn’t forbid because it is going to be a journey into the very hard core of Prophecy. There is the beginning of prophecy and the hard core of prophecy. What Jesus did, which he called the determinate counsel, is the hard core prophecy; fulfilling and not just saying what had been spoken. However, without the Spirit of Prophecy, we cannot move to the core of prophecy; we cannot meet what God wants to do. The apostles were first plunged into the spirit of the Holy Ghost so that it can bring them from their carnal arrangement. They were Jewish people who had the law in their mind (Joshua 1:8); they did what they observed from their mind. But the prophet said the law will first be put in their inner man, then it will be written in their hearts; it was a writing from within. To break Jewish men (the children of the promise) from their mental composure, they will be given a dose of the Holy Ghost so that the Faith of God that believes in the Spirit than that which the mind can think may be given to them.
What the Spirit says does not negate what has been written. That’s why it is necessary to link the move of the Spirit to the scriptures to ascertain that it is consistent with the writings of the prophets. Apostle Peter was able to connect to Prophet Joel when the Holy Ghost was poured upon them in Acts 1:8. Man can do anything under the outpour of the Spirit as occasion serves him (1 Samuel 10:7). But if man is not careful, he can misbehave under the flow of the anointing as King Saul did. The Spirit gave the apostles faith to freely give all they had during the early days of the Church; it was a community managed by the Spirit (Acts 5), but Ananias and Sapphira misused the outpour of the Spirit.
It takes the baptism of the Father, Son and Spirit to express God fully. Despite the activities of the Spirit on the apostles in the early days, they were not meant to tabernacle there, they needed to move forward. Men were needed to bring the divine thoughts of God (Isaiah 11: 2-3). When it was time for things to move further, the administration of the Spirit needed to be changed. King Saul did not know that the Spirit upon him was for him to obey the Spirit of the Lord. God will not require what he has not provided (1 Samuel 15:22-23). God therefore chose another man (David) that will receive the same Spirit on Saul and then do all of God’s Will, not his own.
In every of God’s economy, there are seasons where you will misbehave and God will overlook it, but if you are going to make progress, you must make use of every season. There are seasons that when you serve, your heart is watched (to see the rhythm) to know if you will do it as ordination serves you.
God grew his son (in the inside) with the seven spirits; he had the spirits upon him from childhood (Luke 2:40). The spirit/grace trained him to learn; he was quick to learning. David must have something that looks like Jesus (the growth of the inward man/ of the rod) to be called the father of Jesus and for Jesus to be called his son (Isaiah 11:1). What rested upon him was what raised him which is a figure of sonship that is available to all of the sons of God. You cannot prosper in the testimony or the eternal counsel if your inward man is not growing. What makes things of the Spirit weighty are because they are of the holy place/ the sanctuary; the things of the sanctuary are weighty and precious like gold. The heavens won’t give you the Kingdom if you are not weighty (if you lack circumcision in the heart). They want us to grow and have root. They want us to know the dynamics and the seasons of the Spirit.
As you drink of the Spirit in this season, understand that there is a place ahead (that you are going) that you must not miss. David waited for many years to build strength to overtake Zion until he finally took control and built Zion (2 Samuel 5:7). The heavens must have rejoiced exceedingly when David finally built Zion. If you live without hitting such moment where heaven rejoices over you, then your life is a waste. Reading the scriptures shows us that we can also do/get it right. That’s why it is important to build strength by the words coming to us now.
In the midst of the earth, God can raise people, though this raising is unknown to men, which is why it is by revelation. If you are under an atmosphere where the mystery of Christ is not been revealed, then your future is in jeopardy; flee from such places.
May the Lord strengthen our hearts for raising. Amen!