ARISE

This message is for the watchmen in our days. ARISE. This message is for the intercessors. ARISE. This message is for a whosoever who loves the Lord. ARISE.

         The Lord is doing something right now and all I can say is, my heart cries for this is, ARISE. Everything that has kept you from seeking God, everything that has kept you from interceding, everything that has killed your passion for the Lord. REMOVE IT! Let every dead thing come alive. Judgement starts at the house of God and yes I know that there is a famine in our nations for hearing the Word of the Lord because we have turned from the Lord, we have removed Him from that number 1 position in our lives. LET US REPENT and TURN in order that we may hear the WORD of the Lord again. We so desperately need it right now. Arise people of God! ARISE! The day of the Lord is at hand!

JOSHUA GENERATION
Prepare for the glory!

Joshua 5:1-12 (AMP)

1 WHEN ALL the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until we had crossed over, their hearts melted and there was no spirit in them any more because of the Israelites. 2At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make knives of flint and circumcise the [new generation of] Israelites as before. 3 So Joshua made knives of flint and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth. 4And this is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they came out of Egypt. 5Though all the people who came out were circumcised, yet all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way after Israel came out of Egypt had not been circumcised. 6 For the Israelites walked forty years in the wilderness till all who were men of war who came out of Egypt perished, because they did not hearken to the voice of the Lord; to them the Lord swore that He would not let them see the land which the Lord swore to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. 7So it was their uncircumcised children whom He raised up in their stead whom Joshua circumcised, because the rite had not been performed on the way. 8When they finished circumcising all the males of the nation, they remained in their places in the camp till they were healed. 9And the Lord said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. So the name of the place is called Gilgal [rolling] to this day. 10 And the Israelites encamped in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. 11 And on that same day they ate the produce of the land: unleavened cakes and parched grain. 12 And the manna ceased on the day after they ate of the produce of the land; and the Israelites had manna no more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

All the Canaanites and the Amorites were afraid of Israel because of what their God had done by parting the waters of the Jordan so that they could pass through. The Lord wants to reveal Himself through us, the Body of Christ, just like He did with ancient Israel. He wants to show the nations that He lives and cares for them! Just like the Lord used the Israelites in the past to represent Himself likewise He wants the Body of Christ, every person that believes in God and is a doer of the Word, to represent Him.

The interesting part about this chapter is that the men in the Joshua Generation were not circumcised, while their fathers were. In Numbers 14 and in Psalm 78:8 you can read some things about their fathers (in Psalm 78:8 it tells what is it like to have an uncircumcised heart). They were circumcised physically but their heart wasn’t, while the Joshua Generation was not circumcised physically but their hearts were. Just like Caleb and Joshua they had a different spirit in them as well. When you read Joshua 1:16-18 you see that this generation was obedient to their leader and they knew he was a man of God, something their fathers lacked.

The Joshua Generation heard of miracles, they heard of the things the Lord did with their fathers. They might have saw some things as the manna that fell each and every morning but they did not see the glory, the manifested presence of the Lord. Many of us heard of the things the Lord has done. We saw a few things but the manifested presence of God, the burden removing, yoke destroying power of God, the amazing power of the Living God, we haven’t experienced it yet. When you walk on the streets and the glory is so powerfully and beautifully upon you that people around you just know something is different and start crying out and repent on the streets! When you pass by people and the power of God is upon you and people get instantly healed and delivered! I am talking about that kind of power where the Lord can get the positive attention in the world, that the world can see that there is a God and that He is alive and well, that He cares and loves them so much! We haven’t experienced that power yet BUT NOT FOR LONG. The Lord is saying it so clearly “prepare for the glory, prepare for the glory”.

                PREPARE FOR HIS OUTPOURING!

The Lord wants to use us so badly but we have to be vessels that He can work through. The Lord does not give His glory just like that, we need to be holy and with that I am not talking about being perfect, I am talking about being set apart for His work. When you set something apart you do it for a purpose, you want to use the thing you have set apart, you don’t want it to get dirty or you don’t want it to get lost. Likewise the Lord wants to set us apart and totally train us in His Word and guide us by His precious Holy Spirit! For this reason our hearts need to be circumcised. So that we can hear when the Spirit of the Living God is speaking, that we are quick to obey when He speaks. We need to know that we have a covenant relationship with the Lord. We need to know what it means and what we can expect of the Lord, we have to know Him!

Truly let us prepare for the glory, let us not just watch from the sidelines and just hear what the Lord is doing, let us be a part in these last days!
PREPARE FOR THE GLORY!!

JOSHUA GENERATION

Don’t miss your moment of visitation

Pass through the camp and command the people, Prepare your provisions, for within three days you shall pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

                                                                                          - Joshua 1:11 (AMP)

The Lord is doing an amazing work at the moment. Many are called, just like Israel was called to possess the promise land when they got out of Egypt, but they missed it. Don’t go around the same mountain, don’t stay in the desert any longer. DON’T MISS YOUR MOMENT OF VISITATION! Don’t run from your promise land but prepare yourself and get your life in order.
When you know you are called and you have a calling on your life, get totally in the thing you are called to do, if it is to preach, get yourself totally in the Word and soak yourself in it. If you are called in the prophetic, same thing, get yourself in the Word, get your spirit totally in tune with the Lord so that when He speaks, you will know that you know. 

If you think you are not worthy or you think you have sinned so badly or your relationship with the Lord God is not what it is supposed to be, confess it and repent, fast and cry a week or whatever you need to do and then move on. Ask forgiveness, turn away from that sin, apply the blood of Jesus and ask the precious Holy Spirit to fill you and immerse yourself in the Word.

We DON'T have much time any more. I wish I could say we did, but we don’t. Too long we have been camping in the desert and going around the same mountain, when the time is now to prepare ourselves for the promise land. Are you ready?

WHO DO YOU SERVE?

We were born/created to have fellowship with God. That’s the main reason man was created. If we wouldn’t fulfil anything else, but that one thing, we would have accomplished so much.

The plans God has for His children are always good, plans to give them hope and a future. He wants what is best for His children and because of that He doesn’t want us to guess what those things are. So He wrote it down through His servants, which now is THE Love Letter to the Church.

Even back in Moses’ day, God told His people the things that are important to Him and summed them up in the Ten Commandments. The first commandment says, “you shall have no other gods beside/before Me”. For He knows we are created to worship Him.

If we truly want to find our purpose in our lives we first have to find God. And because He knows this fact very well, He told the Israelites not to worship anything else other than Him. There is a spot in our heart to worship. If we don’t worship God, we will worship something else. The question is, WHO ARE YOU WORSHIPPING?

2 Chronicles 7:19 shows a few steps that are needed to stray from the Path. You can never be a Christian today and tomorrow serve something else. There is always a process. It never made sense to me how some could be so on fire on Sunday and then a few weeks later be in such a terrible backslidden state. The Word shows us what the thing is that got so many to that backslidden state.

“But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them..”

We know the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy. Not giving him any props but to know some things, we have to look at his character. So the enemy will do everything in his power to get you distracted. For instance, Person A can’t steal something from Person B if Person B is watching over that thing constantly. Likewise the enemy distracts us so that we will loose our focus. He throws arrows our way with the word “B-U-S-Y” on it. You become so occupied with things that aren’t that important in the first place. When you go to bed, you are too tired, so you don’t want to read the Word and pray. So firstly the enemy comes to distract you with whatever fits for your life and you do the first thing that is mentioned in 2 Chron 7:19, you turn away.

Instead of looking straight/in front of You, to Jesus, you start to look to the left and right. You look at people to be your measuring stick, you look at situations around you, thinking they are bigger than the God you once served. When that happens, when distraction is being rooted in your life, you focus on situations, things and people instead of God’s Word. And you don’t read the Word, you don’t keep the Word either, cause it is not your focus any longer, you do the second thing in 2 Chron 7:19, you forsake the decrees and commands He gave you. And now the enemy has you where he wants you. Where the Word is taking out, he can show his ugly head. He always tries to steal the Word out of your life, cause that is the thing that keeps you in line and in contact with God.

For the Word brings and gives LIFE, it speaks life in death situations. It enlightens your eyes, it shows you which way you should go. The Word is as a bath to your soul, it brings healing and restoration to your spirit, soul and body. It is such a powerful tool. It keeps you in perfect peace in the midst of life’s storms. It is food to your soul. It sanctifies you. It fills you with His nature. It gives you wisdom and insight. Angels work when you speak the Word. It builds up your faith and love-walk. The Psalmist writes “I have hidden your word in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.” “How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to Your Word.” So it shows how vital the Word is. Psalm 138 also shows how important God finds His Word. “For Thou hast magnified Thy Word above ALL Thy name.” It gets more interesting when you know WHO the Word is. Revelation 19:13 shows that the Word is Christ, the Messiah. The Word became flesh! The Word, Christ has defeated the enemy, disarmed the power and authorities, made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

That is WHY the Word is so MEGA important. It is everything that you will ever need, it has everything that you will ever need. Not just what you want but what you truly need to live your life for God on this planet.

          You can’t say, “I love God and I have a relationship with Him” and then say, “I don’t read the Bible”. SIMPLY NOT POSSIBLE. That aint agape love but love that is based on the way you feel, it’s based on your emotions that are so fragile. 1 John 5:2,3 says, “This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome”.

So when the Word is taking out of your life, the enemy can do what he wants. You haven’t given him a foothold but you have opened the door wide-open. Then you will serve other gods and worship them. You will be so blind, that you don’t even see how much you have straight from the Path. Now the last two things in 2 Chron 7:19 are fulfilled.

God hates it when we serve anything other than Him. It is called spiritual idolatry. It’s dangerous too! If God is the only God who gives life & is LIFE, than everything outside Him is darkness and death, so you end up in the realm of the enemy. There is no kingdom in between the Kingdom of God or the kingdom of the enemy. You are either in or out.

The Lord knows how important the Word is and He knows our nature. He is so kind and patient to remind us constantly of His Word. That’s why you hear ministers always say, “READ THE WORD”. It’s not just to kill some of your time. It is vital. In Numbers 15:29, the Lord instructed Moses to make tassels on garments, so that the Israelites would remember all the commands of the Lord, so that they would obey them and not prostitute themselves spiritually by going after the lust of their own hearts & eyes. Now a days, since most of those who come to the faith aren’t Jews and are not wearing those garments with tassels, God has given us something so much greater, HIS HOLY SPIRIT! His Holy Spirit prompts us to read the Word. You have this feeling inside of you that draws you to the Word. Now you don’t have to look at the tassels of people around you, but simply listen and follow the Holy Spirit in you and feed on the Word.

Just like our natural body can’t live very long without food, likewise our born again spirit needs to be fed daily with the Word. Non of us just eats one time per day, we eat constantly, if it’s aint candy, it’s chips or cookies, we always need something to chew on. Don’t you think your spirit needs to be fed in the same manner? It aint enough to read the Word in the morning and then spend the whole day and go to bed without reading it. As if you would only eat in the morning every week. Eventually you pass out cause you are not getting all the vitamins and nutrition that you need. We should stress it to read the Word just as we find it important to eat food or we will pass out spiritually or we will only have enough Jesus in us for ourselves. Instead of having so much of Jesus in us that we can share it with others, so that God can work through us. We are still His hands and feet. But okay that is another message.

 The Word keeps you focused. When the Word is planted & rooted in your heart, outward things won’t be able to distract you, cause your eyes are fixed on the Lord. The enemy can throw as many fiery arrows your way, but the armour of God, which is made out of the WORD, will catch all those arrows so that it won’t come near your heart.

So the Word is important. The Lord knew we would easily stray from His Path, that is why He gave us His Word & His Holy Spirit, so that we can remember and READ of His goodness, faithfulness and love.

Make time to read the love letter that has been written to and for you, I bet you will enjoy it!

“So be very courageous and steadfast to keep and do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning not aside from it to the right hand or the left, that you may not mix with these nations that remain among you, or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them. But cling to the Lord your God as you have done to this day.”

                                                                                      - Joshua 23:6-8 (AMP)