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Take Gods Picks for 2006!
© January 3, 2006
20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Take Gods picks for this year and see the best year of your lives unfold before you. As you choose the Lord and then obey then you will truly have the inheritance of the Land that God promised you in the Abrahamic covenant.
THIS IS YOUR BANNER YEAR IF YOU WILL HEAR!
The first half of this year is the year of years! However, you must obey and you must do exactly what God instructs you to do, however, to receive your inheritance! We must be ready to see prophetic fulfillment of Divine Appointments. I hear that the Lord saying to this nation that God is our agenda for 2006!It is His picks and only His that sticks! Take Gods Picks for 2006! Leave the others lay where they should stay! Flesh wants to decide on good things but God has already instructed us that we must now only settle for the God things! You wont have to break open doors or make paths happen for yourselves, IF you pray and obey, then the God-agendas will open wide! Gods appointments are now in 2006so Take His Picks for 2006! Amen!
We must be willing to lay aside our own personal agendas for the appointments that God gives us. That cannot be highlighted enough for the year 2006 and even into 2007. You will see the destiny of your family and loved ones come full circle as you obey this prophetic directive. God is bringing your prophetic connections to your door, and the pick that will stick IF you will obey to do as He directs. This is critical to the appointments that God is placing in your paths.
God appointments take obedience by faith that cost more than before. You cannot settle for personal comfort with orders to take the land!
God wants to bring to full circle your broken dreams, relationships and displaced family members. You have all rights to expect this year to see the prodigals of your family come home! As you say yes to the Lord and allow your life, your heart to draw nearer to Him and spend the time with Him by establishing a regular secret place, then you will be fulfilled in full circle! It can be both in your home or it can mean being in that intimate relationship with Jesus Christ as your Lord and your saviorno matter your geographic location! Have that intimate relationship with the Lord first, keep His appointments to have that divine fellowship with Him in your secret place, and you can be sure your life will receive divine connections that He has promised us this year! Amen!
HE THAT HATH AN EAR LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE LORD IS SAYING!
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. Isaiah 50:4 KJV
What God is doing to the obedient is to show us that during all the trials that we have been encountering through the breaking and shaking described would take place by the Lord even in last years words, we can still hear!
The New American Standard Bible translation says God awakens our ears to hear His voice so we can obey.
4) The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of disciples, That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
5) The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not disobedient, Nor did I turn back. NASB (Emphasis by author).
YOUR WORD IS DEPENDING UPON YOU CONTENDING!
When you have ears to hear God in your life, which means that you are spending time with Him and waiting to hear His voice. In 2006 you will get all your completions depending upon your obedience. Remember in the past two years words they have emphasized that God is the I AM of the IF.
IF you obey, IF you pray, IF you war over the Word or the promise God has given you, then you will see it come to pass! You must take the initiative to see your spiritual atmosphere transformed. Your contending with this word will not allow the enemy to continue stealing your promises. When you learn to war with the word and see it come to pass in your prayer closet first, then He hears that kind of petition and your word must come to pass! Yes
all blessings from God are conditional, or proportionally, depending upon the activation of your measure of faith. (Faith without works is dead.)
THE WAY OF DOING CHURCH AS YOU HAVE KNOWN IS SOON TO BE GONE!
By that the Lord is saying, I AM tired of your leaders of the churches taking ownership to control the move of God that has been prophesied.
CHURCH LEADERS BE ADVISED!
Leaders of User-Friendly and safe house methods keenly devised of man to instruct how saints must adhere to this flesh-developed code of manipulative conduct will be shattered. You can be sure that as God leads this latter day return to the way it was started, then many of the mainliners of denominational and foundational structures will immediately rail at this move and write it off as pure rebellion against authority! Nonetheless it will happen and you can see that many of the polls of the American grassroots citizenship have proven again that church-as-usual will come to an end or an abrupt adjustment. God is not involved in your activity. He is the only business. Not a better plan, God is the only plan!
Churches will spring up all across the land from the living rooms of homes in a neighborhood near you! Churches will be found in the most unlikely venues. From country homes to industrial locations, coffee houses, old pubs, cafes, old theaters and warehouses and even found in converted barns! God inhabits the courts of His Praise. When we give Him the praise and the glory He resides wherever He leads us. Where He leads we will follow!
Wake Up Church!
2 'Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God. Revelation 3:2 NASB.
This is the opportunity of a lifetime for the church to have the best-blessed year in centuries. Do not allow the enemy of complacency to cancel your assignment of total completion. This is the year to have all your plans and a promise of God activated to see your purposes and plans to be fulfilled.
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Revelation 3:15,16 KJV.
God is not asking you to allow him into your businessGod is your only business! God is not asking you to include him into your governmentGOD is government! Jehovah is not asking you to include Him more in your schedulesGOD is your ONLY agenda!
God is Government!
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. Isaiah 9:6,7 KJV.
4 8- 12
The 2004 Word for the Year that God gave included these numbers, 4-8-12.
The Lord instructed me to prophesy and publish internationally in October of 1999 that President George W. Bush would be not only elected the next President of the USA, but he would be in two terms consecutively. During that time, as prophecy was miraculously fulfilled in our doubting eyes, we continued to see the second administration follow taking us into the 8 of this number progression. We are now entering into the 12. You who read the 2004 Word for the Year noticed that we did not go into the 12 portions.
This is coming ahead of us and it means many things but the one you will want to pray about for your nation is the twelve years of difficult transition just ahead! Twelve (12) is Gods choice to show you His discipleship takes place as you are made through trying times to continually seek HIS face! The year of the 12 will begin full meaning in the calendar year of 2008, yet you must know early on that God is reminding you now so you can be praying and contending before its too late! Will our country fare well with the first US Woman President? Time will tell, and so will God soon! We will take this up for sure this time next year! (that is not for now!).
CLEAN HANDS AND PURE HEART!
Psalm 24:3-4 states this transition into 2006 that God is requiring for His Church to practice daily,
3) Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4) He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. KJV. (Emphasis added by author).
God has to ready His people to be the true spotless bride. Please take note that the religious spirit in the church immediately comes in now to counterfeit even this powerful message. That religious spirit has the goal to undermine the work of the blood of Jesus that cleanses us of all our sins. That clearly means it is not how good we can do it it is HIS righteousness that has made us clean! Once you are made whole, then you have lots of choices to make that goes into the area of disciplined lifestyle.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:7-9 KJV.
Works and Self Righteousness Only enslaves and does Not set people free!
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8,9 KJV
Remember: Jesus Christ will convict and Religious Spirits Condemn!
He cannot do this if even our leaders are practicing sin while leading the people. As humans we are all born into sin and have a sinful past, as Romans 3:23 declares, For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. However, God is not talking of your past, yet He says that to take this land and go to the next level that He has desired, and then judgment must begin in the House of God first.
In other words, this is not about simply coming into the saving grace of God for the first time, it is leaders who know better and have chosen to play down the aisles of deceit at the expense of a very thin thread of grace that still abounds. But this wont go on forever, because the Hebrew writer plainly describes this as Christians who knew better and then taking Gods way of escape from sinthe blood of His Only begotten Son, Jesus Christ as it were nothing!
Exposure of Sin in Church Leaders Will Come to Light!
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? Hebrews 10:29 KJV.
More ministry leaders will be repenting, delivered and restored to do the work called as God requires or they will be exposed and deposed by Gods plans.
I heard the phrase, DEAD CENTER!
God has a Word for the Church this year of all years is to get off the middle of the road! What stood out to me when the Lord spoke this to me was the word dead. It is as if I just could almost hear His voice saying to me, Man of God, tell them that my leaders, my fivefold leadership, my church must get off the dead center, the fence they ride so carefully to please so many! The Game to claim the great compromised crowds is on the way out! IF you obey youll be blessed with a major harvest! If not the harvest you claim for your fame will ROT in your barn of plenty! This is a sure word to the User-friendly crowd. That is the pacification of sins in the pews does not have the teeth of Gods conviction of His Word in their lives enough to cause completion of His bride! I am coming for wrinkle-free, spotless bride! God will not have a half-hot church full of lukewarm lifestyles!
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Revelation 3:15,16 KJV.
THE GAME OF CHURCH IS OVER!
A New Cart or New Building is not what makes God more willing!
2 Samuel 6:3 shows King David built a New Cart for the Ark:
3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart. KJV.
We must see that no matter the fact that King David made a new cart it was not the way God had instructed Israel to carry His Holy anointing around. The new cart did not save Uzzah from death when he tried to save the ark from toppling over. (2 Sam. 6:6,7) The anointing will not show up and take care of your church because you have a new building and exciting new agenda of hyped programs. It will be the anointing of the Lord and following His vision He gives you to do as a leader. It is the anointing of God that lifts burdens and destroys yokes! In the threshing floor waiting and travailing before a Holy God is the ingredient that will bring His clear voice to you. King David learned a valuable lesson from the experience at Nachons threshing floor. He also wanted to remember the experience and as all things that carry a new vision, get a new name. Name your vision the name God wants you to remember. It is now called Perez-Uzzah, or outbreak against Uzzah! (2 Sam. 6:8).
Its the Anointing that Breaks the Yoke!
Nothing will take the place of the anointing of Jehovah God. You can stir up a crowd and invent new games for gains but it will not produce the fruit that will remain! The fruit that remains produces fatness and it breaks the yoke! That is the fatness anointing that we need from the anointing of Gods Word and then obeying it to see it bring about the fruit He must have!
Isaiah 10:27 says, 27) So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness. NASB (Emphasis by added by author).
THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR IS FOR YOU!
2006 is your BANNER Year!
As we began this year I felt the anointing of a Banner Year!
Jehovah Nissi means He is the banner over you! Lift up the Lord this year and lift the banner high! It also means a bumper crop! Your harvest is in the banner year! Reap more in the first half of this year than in all of some previous years.
This is the year to see all prayers come to pass that you have prayed. Your household coming home and being saved will bless you! You have contended for your loved ones and they shall be saved! This first half of 2006 will have double the reaping than all your last years efforts. You will receive such divine appointments and connections that it will scare you at times! You will see the circle of your family come to completion and that circle will be unbroken in the sky Lord! They are coming home and they will be ready for the revival that is about to hit. They (your lost family and loved ones represent the attitude the world has had to come to before change is seen!) When the prodigal son got tired of eating the pigs husk and living in the slop of the worlds sins, then he came to himself one day (after enough of sins stripes across his back) and decided that being a servant of his Fathers household was much better than the devils taskmaster! Amen!
The stripes on the back of the prodigal, many self-inflicted, will drive him home to the family that will now show him love, acceptance and forgiveness! Yes, Fathers, you need to get your heart right as well, and just go ahead and get out the Robe, the Ring and the Sandals! (Not the sledgehammer of I told you so!).
THE ELEVENTH HOUR WAGE EARNER!
Matthew 20:8-11:
8) "And when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard said^ to his foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.'
9) "And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius.
10) "And when those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; and they also received each one a denarius.
11) "And when they received it, they grumbled at the landowner, NASB (Emphasis added by author).
This is the setting of the Church of our day. Present day Christians want to direct the moves of God although they are seeing young people being raised up that came into this fullness this last hour and it makes the religious spirits mad. If you do not allow the Lord to rend your heart and not your clothes (the clothing you desire that gives you a better financial vantage) then you will see the Lord step right by you and lift up this eleventh hour worker. God is supreme. We do not manipulate God to do us special favors over the less desirable in this latter day outpouring that is coming over our land. We really see the similarity of this spirit brought to the surface in the religious spirit of the older brother in the parable of the prodigal son. This is a spirit of jealousy that is really rooted in the bitterness of a spirit of rebellion.
Jesus Christ convicts us, religion condemns us!
If we get one thing this year in 2006 we are going to get the understanding of the convicting power of the gospel message that came from Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. If our laws take us to the cross and condemn us to death, then thank God over and over! That is what they did to Jesus and it is going to cause you to die to self and become resurrected into a new person in Christ Jesus, now your Lord and your Savior! This is the essence of the Gospel Message!
2006
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take Gods Picks! This is one of the major selections that the Body of Christ must embrace deep within! Why can this be so hard? It is not easy to see soldiers carrying guns and praying for the nation they walk daily upon! What does it mean to understand the crushing of sin and yet be praying for the sinner? It is a dichotomy that in the natural mind cannot be comprehended! This is the year to understand a double portion of Gods GRACE!
1. He saved you. Otherwise you would be headed to a hell not made for man!
2. You are commanded on a mission not asking your permission! What part of Acts 1:8, did we not understand when we became followers of Christ?
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. KJV.
(Emphasis added by the author).
We are not encouraged to witness, we are not to have a better emphasis on outreach, Christians, we are commanded to be His witnesses, in our homes, our area, our regions, our states, our nation and the world! We do not need a prophet to give us a word to go and tell others about Jesus! We do not need to sit in the office of some specialized five-fold gift to take the message of Jesus Christ to a hurting and dying world! Churchthis is an order from heaven!
So you have been asking God how to bless you and bring your word to pass in 2005 and 2006, etc.? I have a good word for us allpractice taking the Gospel to everyone you know God has sent you this year!
That is Taking Gods Picks in 2006!
Seek ye first the Kingdom of GOD!
The Kingdom of God is not a democracyits a Kingdom with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords as the Ruler of All!
Matthew 6:33,
33) But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. KJV.
In light of this above statement, I cannot find room for me to live a life of Gods judge to the world around me. So many want to be self-appointed judges of others around them that live in sin, run from the calling, hate the Christians, and even worse, hate the Jewish nation, are rank-and-file pagans that practice sin for a lifestyle. This is a concern now as the Lord had me take this word first decreed to the nation by voice and now to publish by written word:
Presidents appoint judges for earthly laws as ours has for two who will be appointed, but...
God never appointed us to be His judge!
Not by mans might nor intellect will be judge or discern. We are to try the spirits, not to judge Gods creation in His image!
(Remember in the spirit
6) Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. KJV.
Human flesh wants to rule over the spirit man that God gave us when we became a god-completed spirit accepting Jesus Christ our savior. After this we are to try the spirits and to view the track records and the fruit that is produced from the vine.
I see this as one of the most hazardous areas presently in the Body of Christ that God is about to shake out of us as we have never experienced to date! You are about to see shaking like never before!
The BEST for LAST!
You will not like what you are about to read. This is dangerous to you of the religious spirit! You say this does not sound as a prophetic word for my year! I head this in my secret place and the conversation that the Lord gave in this dialogue is like this:
I AM the I AM and I AM the judge of the living and the dead! Tell my people to not take My position upon their shoulders lest they bring judgment upon themselves!
Wow!
I am desperate to see this heard and practiced! Folks hear these words from the Word of God, not from me! But better yet, Practice these words so that the law of God is thus fulfilled! Not our wants and biased mindsets from lenses of flesh! In the flesh we want to retaliate. God wants us to love the unlovable, to pray for those that despise us, reject us, abuse us and even want to destroy us! This is cannot be done in the flesh!
God is the Judge! He proved it so many times in the Old Testament and this is not the Old Testament today in 2006! Hear this well, you are to seek and to save that which was lost! You are to have the heart to save those who will respond to catastrophe with desperation for the answer! There is NO SUCH thing as the very special ones that get to be pre-arranged, or known as pre-destined to be His and the others are just playing out their hands! This is twisted theology and God is going to shake this out of the earth!
2 Peter 2:4-8 explains the case of Gods judgment best:
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;
5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly thereafter;
7 and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men
8 (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day with their lawless deeds),NASB. (Emphasis added by author).
JUDGMENT:
ONE THING I SEE AND HEAR ACROSS THE NATION AS I TRAVEL IS THE ACT OF JUDGING OTHERS!
WELL-MEANING, YET MISGUIDED PEOPLOE IN THE CHURCHES ARE CONTINUING TO WRONGFULLY JUDGE GODS WORDS AND HIS PROPHETS. EVEN WORSE IS THE SAME PRACTICE OF SENTENCING THE LOST, HURTING HUMANITY .
If we practiced what many voice today in the churches and conferences, then we would have a select few left and the rest of us would be in ashes from having fire called down upon us by theses self-appointed justices of Gods court system! This is one reason we have such a shifting taking place within the church establishment today.
Church, God is now talking to all of us, we had better wake up! I saw a vision of the representation of the church on a high wide fence way above all the needs and it had all it wanted and was very satisfied to the point of just sitting and gorging itself to death! I then was reminded of the account of Ely the fat old priest that fell off the wall when he heard the news that both his undisciplined sons were killed and the Ark of the Covenant was taken. God is going to cause some fat, obese, self-indulged, judges of the rest of His body to fall off their Dead centers backside onto the ground and God says He is breaking the necks of the arrogant and prideful rulers in His houses! Listen, leaders, this is for you: The time of holding back the people and the move of the Holy Spirit is over!
Of course this will be itself judged as from the source, or as from the voice of the un-settled rebellious variety that often gets hurled at advocates for revolution, but it is coming. People are moving outside your four dead walls that surround them and they are going to meet in homes all over your districts and they do not care about names, titles, denominations, nor do they care about business as usual. They do care about getting to hear the voice of God from His prophets, the Lords anointed vessels, no matter the shape, the size, the color, the label, or the variety, they just want to do His will too!
You can be ready to see the Church be in the most unusual of places and faces! Its already happening but many pastors and leaders just refuse to accept this an ordained Move of God!
They did not like it when the last move came in and it has never been any different. If you teach walking in the Spirit, then look out, because they are going to walk! They are going to run and they are going to get more than the lazy, undisciplined Elis ever thought about! Yes, this new breed is a real mixture of old & tired, young & hungry plus the tried-true but held back too are going to get houses, cafes, old buildings, old bars and lounges, barns, abandoned shopping centers and etc. Your new churches will meet because they want the Lord to be present and the praise to go up to Him and not be held back to three songs, a special, 3 to 5 point sermon and the local lunch buffet! This is out!
PASSION IS THE PURSUIT OF THE NEW CHURCH THAT IS RISING!
As many are making snap judgments on this word and writing it off as another support for the restless generation of church shoppers and swappers, then you need to think again! Judgment must begin with you and I as leaders and that is at home in the Body of Christ.
Judgment Begins at Home...By Almighty God...not man!
17 For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 1 Peter 4:17 NASB.
I cannot emphasize the need for clarity on this problem in the Body of Christ. You are to view the source, you are to try the spirits, and check the fulfillment of the sources record of prophetic words coming to pass. You also may want to inquire as to their ministry fruit and experience. That is using sound wisdom! Also, bear in mind that many prophetic words from the Old Testament Prophets are yet to be fulfilled. Also, keep in mind that in the days of the Early Church, they relied heavily upon discerning of spirits and that is something that must be emphasized more than ever today!
The person is either authorized to be doing what he or she is or they are not. Many, for the most part, out of ignorance and because most pastor-led leadership has not been willing to adjust to finding Apostolic and Prophetic schools to train, or they simply do not want to submit to any spiritual authority, and thus appointed themselves without a spiritual covering in the Body of Christ. This causes even more mud in the spiritual waters across the land. If you hear a word from an authorized or accountable prophet, then pray about it and pray about the person, but please do not make snap judgments because of your lack of understanding in this area.
That can cause further damage to the body of Christ and even to yourself if you touch Gods anointed and His voices to do them harm.
Prophets of God do know the true voices of God! I am subject to many prophetic leaders accountability locally, statewide, nationally and internationally. Nonetheless, my spiritual package is called human flesh! Humans are not perfect! Humans regenerated in the Spirit of Christ, although they are being fashioned into His likeness, do make mistakes. This is in no way a loophole to plan an escape from consequences of sin. Leaders must know that when they take on the next level of public ministry, then they are held to a different standard than before.
When asked if my words from God are always 100% accurate? my answer is like that of a man that I have highest respect for and is a Leaders Prophet, Dr. Bill Hamon. I stand along with most Christians and church leaders today that continue to acknowledge Dr. Hamon as undeniably the Father of the Prophetic Movement in America, states in His books that Jesus Christ is the only perfect prophet!
I could not agree more with Dr. Hamon and I do live by this code of prophetic conduct! We will do well to remember that every idle word we speak will one day be judged and it wont be by your piers as now, it will be by the supreme judge of all, Jehovah God!
VIGILANT! Not Vigilantes!
We as Christians are not the judges. When we walk about this earth looking into everyone elses lives to judge how much and what type sins they are carrying, we have missed the point for Gods gifts. Any Christian should be able to judge sin in the surroundings. As a matter of fact, that is who