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FOUR MAIN SCRIPTURES FRAME the CONTENTS of THIS ARTICLE:

Acts 2:17 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.

2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

There is much being said about the "times" we are in, but it is more important than ever that we keep our focus accurate so that we communicate clearly the GOOD NEWS of God's Kingdom.

Often these days are referred to as the "end times" but scripture (in just about every credible translation) clearly distinquishes between the LAST DAYS and the END. In fact, no where in God's Word will you see the phrase "end times". Why make such  big deal out of terminology? Mainly because discernment of TIMES impacts our effectiveness greatly. If your glasses are foggy your vision is affected and you cannot function.

LAST DAYS refers to the PROCESS of TIME as in a SEASON. The word, DAY (light or activated revelation)  is defined by TIME. The purpose of time is to be a processor. There is no abilitiy to process without time, so God gave man TIME to process his purpose on the earth.There is no time in eternity because there is no need for process where God dwells because He is already the beginning and the end simultaneously. This is why, as it's clear in Acts 2:17 and 2Timothy 3:1 that in the LAST DAYS, God will pour out (process through) of His Spirit bringing visions and dreams and simutaneously corrupted systems will react bringing perilous times, but Jesus Himself said DO NOT BE TROUBLED (Matthew 24:6) the END is not yet.

The term "end times" is inaccurate because it cannot be both... it's either "the end" or there's still "time". Referring to the last days as the "end times" causes people to have a mindset that their TIME of producing is at an END, so they shut down, and they stop processing, but the truth is that visions and dreams are needed now more than ever as the birthing the process of a NEW BEGINNING of Kingdom restoration is RESULTING bringing an end of corrupted systems. It's not the end for God's citizens, but the restoration to the NEW of the original blueprint. Jesus IS returning, not because He's nervous, but because it's TIME to transition as His ambassadors prepare the way!

The anit-Christ system of men will set itself up to be God (and it is already set up) as it is a globalized governmental system that looks for those who want security and dependance on it's provision and it is anti-Christ because it is threatened by the true GOVERNMENT Christ brought on His shoulders (Isaiah 9:6). Corrupted governments will crumble because the government of God's Kingdom has NO END!

"End time" erroneously forms a mentality of dependence on "signs" that some seek to avoid destruction at the last minute, rather than producing an impacting God ordained purpose driven vision that brings the light into the last days. This point is made so clear when Jesus said; "An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign". (read Matthew 12:39) You can focus on avoiding the tsunami wave at the last minute or dive deep to find what causes it in the first place.

Of course there will be signs in the heavens and in the earth but while we are aware of the signs, we don't seek them. SIGNS are not the PROPHECY, but signs are the result of the prophetic message God is revealing.  All creation is waiting on the manifestation of the sons (and daughters) of God to activate the Kingdom renovative restoration, not abort through annihilation. The times and seasons of God's plan are not found on calendars or the configuration of codes, but it's found in YOU to produce the next wave (and not just wait on it as an observer).

Being aware of signs in the middle east, theories on red moons, statistics and scientific evidence are okay to bring some awareness around you, but stay focused on God's Word IN YOU. Don't get distracted by outward signs, but SEEK first His Kingdom and all the other elements will make sense in proper focus. Dependence on material proof to prove God's Spiritual principles is backwards, because the physical conditions did not produce the Spiritual, but the Spiritual produced the physical and this is why we walk first by FAITH, not by needing to see proof through physical sight.

Monthly Message for July 2015 The Protocol for Interconnecting a Global Kingdom Community

The life of God, His nature and His authority is in every citizen of His Kingdom quickened by the Holy Spirit who lives in us, empowers us and governs us according to the righteousness of His Constitution (the Word of God). Here in Acts 1:8 we can see that the "witness" we have is more than just occassional "sharing" but it's the PROTOCOL of COLONIZATION to bring God's government INTO ALL the WORLD.

The Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria were of course actual locations, but the principle Jesus was sharing was a protocol of how to colonize territories. The focus was not trying to localize the Kingdom into just one region, but to take His Kingdom into ALL the world.

Our goal is not to make our local ministry or church the premiere "Kingdom headquarters" where the whole world must come, (however, God's Kingdom must be the headquarters of our ministry). We must take the Kingdom into the whole world. The Kingdom of God is headquartered in the heavenly realm, God our Father sits on His throne and Jesus Christ is King and Lord. We are His ambassadors, called to be colonizers on the earth as His representatives in established embassies (the church). Our first focus is not to be representatives of our ministry, but representatives of His Kingdom. We are not here to promote a fad, a wave, a move, a religion or a denomination but we are citizens of the government of God's Kingdom and unique individual parts that make up the embodiment of God. It is the interconnected community networking together that will impact the entire globe... not just one ministry.

Credible Christian denominations were formed out of a particular past move of God or the revelation of a principle. The problem was that most denominations camped and headquartered in that past move. As denominations arose, instead of bringing distinctions and diversity, major divisions manifested.

As the rediscovery of God's Kingdom government arises we can see Jesus mission on earth with greater understanding, but we cannot afford wrap this revelation of God's government in an old religious or denominational wineskin of clubs, cliques and sub-cultures thinking we've arrived. We are to be an interconnected community to COMPLETE one another, not to compete with one another. The embodiment of Christ our King is ONE yet defined in many unique expressions. The foot cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you" (read: 1Corinthians 12:12-27)

SOME FACTORS TO CONSIDER... so not to BECOME OLD WINSKINS

While cultures can be celebrated, we must make sure they are not alienating people from discovering the culture of the Kingdom into every nation. The apostle Paul said; “I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.” 1 Corinthians 9:22

While in our individual ministries we are FAMILY, we need to remember Kingdom citizens (outside our ministry circle) must feel accepted also as brothers and sisters, and not like 2nd cousins.

While we have spiritual fathers (mentors) who help birth, form, and mature God's image in us, they are not godfathers building thier own carnal empires.

While governing involves ministries to be COVERINGS of accountability to launch saints, it should never become a SMOTHERING of rulership over people quenching their potential

We, in Christ, have various parts, assignments, and protocol of operation in God's government, but we MUST REMAIN an interconnected relational global Kingdom Community!

The PROTOCOL of Kingdom colonization is not about our assignment alone, but how we NETWORK as a global community. That PROTOCOL is 4 basic stages of colonization...

1. JERUSALEM: representing the base of operations beginning with biological & spiritual Family & Home, then Church relationships developing operation, equipping and mentoring

2. JUDEA: representing the city or region through influence in cooperation with those outside our walls who join hands to impact the city for colonization in the marketplace, government, the arts, and education.

3. SAMARIA: representing a NETWORK of Kingdom citizens outside of our local region who serve as extensions and resources to multiply saturation.

4. UTTERMOST: representing literal infiltration through communications, internet, and international connections with Kingdom citizens in all nations.

The greatest days for innovative world changers is just ahead, but stay connected and discover a community of global citizens you have not even met yet as we are no more strangers and foriengners, but FELLOWCITIZENS with the saints and the (global) household of God! (Ephesians 2:19)

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Monthly Message for June: The Lesson of the Trees

(This Article is inspired by my wife Liz who read this scripture to me at a time of decision about direction recently)

Judges 9:8,9 (KJV) The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, Reign over us. But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness (oils), wherewith by me they honor God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?

This is one of the first parables in the Bible presented at the time of Gideon's passing by Jotham (one of Gideon's many sons) depicting men as trees to reveal a principle of PROMOTION, and OPPORTUNITY.

Israel (in this parable) is described as the cedars of Lebanon, (trees) seeking a king to reign over them and looking for STATUS with other nations. Israel didn't need a man to be their king because God put everything in them to be strong CEDARS but they were oblivious to their own treasure INSIDE them. They didn't need to be competing for the appearance of STATUS by comparing themselves with other nations because they were called to be a representation of God's Kingdom government on the earth and to shine His glory into all the world.

Because Israel demanded a "king" to rule over them, they sought a man who could provide them with security, wealth, and protection. The "trees" came to...

The OLIVE TREE representing OIL,

 The FIG TREE representing FRUIT (sweetness v.10,11)

 and The VINE representing WINE (v.12,13)

and presented these three trees with the OPPORTUNITY of PROMOTION over them.

Not all opportunity and promotion is God, even though it might seem good at the time. The "end" does not always justify the "means". What seems to be an opportunity can be a distraction and promotion in the wrong position can become a demotion of purpose. Ambition in and of itself is not necessarily bad, but the wrong "WHY" of ambition can turn passion into lust for selfish power. Abimelech was also one of Gideon's sons who sought promotion for his worth and was willing to lie, cheat, steal, and even kill his own brothers to get into a kingly  postition that would ultimately bring his own demise. Abimelech is referred to as a BRAMBLE (a thorn tree with no life) and while he promised shade to the trees, he also threatened fiery consequences.

The olive tree's OIL= purpose

 the fig tree's SWEETNESS= passion

and the vine's WINE= potential

and when they were presented with what seemed to be an opportunity of instant promotion they turned it down because they were not willing to sell out their purpose, passion and potential for fame and power.

The opportunites God gives are from the INSIDE OUT and not produced just for us, but in us and through us. Open "doors" of opportunity don't give us our worth and the wrong door can rob us of our oil, but we are DOORS that open true opportunities because we have THE DOOR (Christ Jesus) in us,

True promotion (literally PRO-MOTION) doesn't come to those looking for it to determine their worth, but it comes to those who are discovering their God ordained purpose and worth by serving their gift and helping others to discover their purpose. Psalm 75:6 says; "For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south." (or from terrestrial men) but it comes from the celestial God! Proverbs 4:8 goes on the say that WISDOM, when embraced, will PROMOTE you.

Don't sell out your oil, your fruit or your wine for anybody, no matter how famous or wealthy. Don't compromise your purpose, your passion, or your potential for any opportunity or promotion that would cause you to be distracted from God's best for you. Ultimately it's not just about you, but it's about fulfilling your God ordained purpose to reconcile God's Kingdom back into His creation.

We take dominion, but not over the "trees" (mankind) but over our assigned places and spheres of Kingdom influence to reach and teach all people of the treasure and purpose they have deep inside of them. Don't underestimate who you are in Christ Jesus because it is the reason opportunities will present themselves, but just make sure God sent them. Your greatest days of serving your GIFT are inside you and ahead of you and PROMOTION will be the result... not declaring accomplishment, but continuation of the journey.

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Finding Your God Ordained Voice May 2015

The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters,

The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. Psalm 29: 3,4

The world is a noisey place! Voices out there are constantly giving their opinions, sales pitches, philosophies and all are crowding to compete for space in our mind to direct us, convince us and compel us in the direction they think we should go. Sometimes all this noise can make us feel we have no voice and that the best we can do is become a copy of a copy with no significant voice of our own. The problem is that many of the "voices" in society have no idea "who" they are or "what" they're talking about, and they speak from a perspective of religion, or hate, ignorance or preconceived notions and often are too immature to even grasp "where" they are.Too many want to speak before they have the content, course or character to understand what they're saying. In finding our VOICE, we've first got to understand WHAT the true meaning of a VOICE is. The Greek word for voice is PHONE (pronounced fo-nay) meaning a distinct sound, frequency, and call as a representation of authority producing a declaration of identity. Our voice is not the sound of our vocal cords vibrating together, (in fact, having a voice does not always involve "speaking" at all) but the life expression of WHO we are, WHAT authority we live in, and WHY we are here on this planet. Our VOICE is a reflection of the DNA of God. He is the source, we are the resource. The voice we carry is distinct to the PURPOSE, PERSON and PLACES He set in us for the assignments He gives for the cultivation of His Kingdom on the earth. God's Kingdom is realm of His rule and a government with a language. His WORD is the expression of Himself.

God SPOKE and  the earth was created, His VOICE rolled like thunder on the mighty waters, and He sent His WORD in the expressed image of His Son manifested by His Spirit in human form as man. In other words, God's VOICE is the expression of His Name (DNA), His Nature (Doings), and His Noise (Declarations, a SOUND). God's VOICE is the SOUND of WHO He is and that SOUND activated changes paradigms and dimensions back to their original design.

Jesus came as the 2nd (or last) Adam to rectify Adam's tresspass, redeem mankind to his original blueprint and to empower us and restore dominion. In John 10:27 it's recorded that Jesus said; "My sheep hear My VOICE, and I KNOW them, and they FOLLOW me (or discover who they are patterned after through Me).

When Psalm 29:3 declares God's voice is upon the waters and Psalm 77:18,19 reveals that His voice sets a PATH in the great waters... what does that really mean? PATH here means "a set passageway", pattern, blueprint, and literally the DNA. the WATERS represent LIFE and God releases His voice into the WATERS to declare His DNA that manifests His IMAGE in LIFE.

This is why it's recorded in John 7:38 that Jesus says; "He that believeth ON ME, as the scripture hath said, out of his BELLY (birthing place of purpose) shall flow RIVERS of LIVING WATER!". Now as God's Spirit lives in us, His DNA (path) is an absolute that activates His image through our individual personality, purpose and expression resulting in our VOICE distinctly designed by God for His Kingdom. Until you discover your voice it is perfectly normal to identify with the voice of someone (representing God's voice) who speaks into your DNA, but the goal is to identify the unique and original VOICE God has given you to speak His creative WORD into the world.

The key is not to focus on your voice, but to hear God's voice through His Word and in seeking first His Kingdom you will find you. Your voice in Him is significant and needed in your sphere of influence because when your life SPEAKS innovation results bringing reconciliation and Kingdom manifestation shaking the atmosphere and restoring God's presence back on earth making crooked places straight. All creation is waiting for your God ordained SHOUT!

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Arise Shine for Your Light Has Come April 2015

Arise shine for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall rise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee.  Isaiah 60:1,2

This word in Isaiah 60:1,2 is spoken at a time when Israel had known great suffering and would become a powerful prophetic Word to all engrafted into the Vine (Christ Jesus) as citizens of God's Kingdom.

To ARISE is more than to "get up" to a past position, but to ARISE is

1.   To awaken (a become conscious by beholding something set in you and ahead of you)

2.   To stand up in a positional stance of readiness to process forward ,

3.   And to advance into a new paradigm of innovative progress.

This ARISING is not accomplished in our own ability, but it's the GLORY of the LORD ARISING IN and UPON US. It reveals who we've always been in Him but never knew we were!

God's GLORY is defined as His Presence, Purpose, Power, and Progression revealed. Literally God's glory is His PERSON (His Name and Nature) manifested and acknowledged. 2Peter 1:17 refers to it as God's EXCELLENT GLORY ( ever exceeding, progressing and excelling). God's revealed glory never repeats the past, but continually progresses us into the destiny He set before we were formed in our mother's womb. God forgives (releases) us from our past so we can behold our purposed future and RISE to new levels of progressive discovery.

Jesus AROSE from the grave, but He EXCELLED into opening a NEW dimension and level of victory! He did not come out of the grave through the door of the tomb, and in fact He was already gone from the tomb when the stone was rolled away. So how did He get out? He IS the DOOR opening NEW LIFE and LIGHT.

Even now in our times of being trapped in a tomb of circumstances He makes a WAY for us where there seems to be no way and opens powerful purpose and destiny for us to step into. Now through Him we are the LIGHT of the world as a city set on a hill. (Matt.5:14)

Isaiah prophesied that gross darkness (ignorance, blindness, and deception) would harness the systems of the world. Even now we see that entire governments and nations have lost a consciousness of God through the false gods of religions and stiff-necked hard-heartedness, but the Good News is that right in the middle of all this... the GLORY of God is RISING IN and UPON those who take their STAND in His Kingdom mandate to a greater level of VISIONARY DESTINY than ever before! Things (in the world) are not what they seem, and no matter what it looks like... THE BEST IS YET TO COME!

 Don't miss it by laying down in despair or by looking backwards (hoping for God to repeat the revivals from the past)... but ARISE, STAND UP, position forward, and STEP UP to a new day of progress in your God ordained PURPOSE because all of creation is waiting for God's Kingdom citizens to manifest His GLORY. When we ARISE into the DNA of God's revealed LIGHT... we SHINE (reflect) His GLORY! This ARISING of God's visionary champions is not a weary task, but it is to ARISE into the REST (or assurance) of what God has already called DONE, as His Kingdom COMES through us!

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A PATH In The MIGHTY WATERS March 2015

Psalm 77:16-19: The waters saw Thee, O God, the waters saw Thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of Thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. Thy way is in the sea, and Thy PATH is in the great waters, and Thy footsteps are not known.

Isaiah 43:16: Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a WAY in the sea, and a PATH in the mighty waters...(v.19) Behold I will do a NEW THING; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a WAY in the wilderness and RIVERS in the desert.

The scriptures quoted above are amazing as they reveal that the waters "saw" God and were afraid and the sound of His voice was thunder that caused the whole earth to shake. Then it's declared that God's WAY is in the sea and His PATH is in the great waters. Why is God's path in the great waters?  What could this mean?

The word PATH is defined as a track, course or passageway set by design, blueprint, or pattern (literally the DNA of something).

Genesis 1:2 reveals that before creation became troubled by man's transgression, the Spirit of God MOVED (or brooded) upon the face of the waters awaiting the Constitutional design, blueprint and pattern of God's Word to be spoken and when that Word was released, the LIFE of God's Spirit saturated into the waters down deep and the birthing of creation came up set in His DNA (path).

Adam was given stewardship and dominion of God's creation literally allowing His Kingdom to dwell on earth in an environment and atmosphere called Eden, but when Adam tress-passed (or literally came off the path), God's glory was cut off from man. Sin twisted and corrupted man's path and all creation felt the affects. The earth shifted, the planet's blueprint was altered, and the waters moved out of place. Debt became the system, and decay was the result of man's corrupted state.

Jesus Christ (the living Word of God) came to SET the CROOKED places straight and bring the original PATH back into the birthing WATERS of God's creation. He redeemed man back into reconnection to God's Kingdom and His righteousness (or path). He activated the process of restoration to His Father's creation.

Jesus said; (John 3:5) "..Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God". We are new creations being restored by the process of rediscovery to our original blueprint in God's image. The life of God's Kingdom, (the Holy Spirit) has restored the PATH through the LIVING WATERS of our rebirth. Through Christ Jesus we've been given power to become the sons of God (John 1:12) and all creation is awaiting our process into full manifestation. (Romans 8:19)

The PATH of God in us speaks into opposing mountains that need to be re-moved back into their proper place, and we represent His voice into the spiritually stormy tsunami waters that must be shifted back into place to open a WAY not yet seen.

The other scripture quoted at the top of this article declares; "I will make a WAY in the sea and a PATH in the mighty waters" (how?)... I will do a NEW THING (a restoration to My original constitutional design), shall you not know it? (it was your original design). I will make a WAY in the wilderness and RIVERS (will spring forth out of) deserts.

In other words, WE ARE THE NEW THING GOD IS DOING!!! We have the Kingdom blueprint and Spirit of truth in us as NEW CREATIONS. We are literally world changers as ambassadors of God's restored Kingdom.

Our mission is not to accept the "conventional" path of world systems, but we have the PATH of innovation to challenge stormy waters through renovation. Jesus never got "caught" up in trying to survive the turbulent seas, but He came strolling on the raging waters because He IS the PATH through them as the first-fruit of resurrection  (baptized) out of the grave.

In Christ Jesus you and I are now the manifestation of God's innovative PATH to OPEN a WAY and bring RESTORED RIVERS in what was once a dry place, we have the authority of God's voice to declare... "Peace, be still!" to stormy circumstances. We've been given the assignment to open the manifestation of God's Kingdom into every nation.

What mighty turbulent ocean are you faced with? Step out boldly and reveal the next opening of God's innovative path set in you. Don't be dis-tracked from your path. The truth is, "THE BEST IS YET TO COME"... because "The knowledge of the glory of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea!" (Habakkuk 2:14)

Kingdom Power: Article for February 2015

Our life speaks and demonstrates something. We are about to see the power of God demonstrated in the world beyond anything we've ever seen before. For what purpose? To cultivate God's Kingdom into all the world! Not a watered down religion or philosophy that blinds the mind, but a revelation of TRUTH that produces a STAND in the POWER of God.

The meaning of the word "philosophies" is to be in love with your own thoughts." Quote by Dr. Myles Munroe

Many men over time formed religions from vain philosophies seeking to become a rule of thought, but the POWER of God is demonstrated in TRUTH.

What does God mean by power? Two Greek words meaning:

1.EXOUSIA: menaing to have authority set by jurisdiction to establish.

2. DUNAMIS: meaning to have divine God given ability to manifest a result.

I want to challenge your thinking.  90% of God's power has been wasted... on occasional manifestations, resulting in going back to old patterns, but it's time we stopped having visitations and grow up into God's inhabitations that pour through our lives continually resulting in innovative renovations.

Let’s talk about demonstration... It's defined as the lifestyle character of the Kingdom. In Isaiah 55:8,9 God spoke about the lack of character development in mankind as He said; My thoughts are not your thoughts neither are my ways your ways so forsake your thoughts (philosophies) and draw near to me and I will teach you. Precepts become concepts and concepts become the WAY we live and cultivate who we are. The Holy Spirit in us is the governor of God's Kingdom and empowers us through the process of character development. We are not occasionally powerful, but the power of the Holy Spirit DWELLS.

Kingdom Power is not occasional ... (like Popeye and his Spinach). Of course there are times that an anointing activates for a specific assignment, but we live in manifested power daily.  People have the wrong concept of the Holy Spirit... He's not a mystical cloud, but he is a distinct person of the God-head. We are EMPOWERED to destroy the works of the devil, but even more, we have the authority to rule and have dominion.

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The Atmosphere and Environment of the Kingdom: Article for January 2015

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Habakkuk 2:14

NOTE: That scripture verse says; "...the earth shall be FILLED with the KNOWLEDGE of the GLORY of the LORD.." The word; "knowledge" here is not just intellectual information, but it's acknowledged awareness of God's GLORY.

That GLORY is more than a visitation of the Lord but it is a HABITATION that SATURATES and FILLS the earth. The GLORY is the weighty revelation of God's PRESENCE, His POWER, and PURPOSE in His people.

The corporate church of interconnected citizens is a vital embassy equipping the saints and celebrating God's continual presence, but the brick and mortar building is not the container of God's environment... it's the dispenser of His people who have His GLORY in them bringing a Kingdom environment and releasing an atmosphere into all the world.

In the past much of conventional church culture has spoken of a "visitation" of the Holy Spirit or seeking to stir up an atmosphere of God's presence in a two hour meeting, only to see it dissipate like a passing shower after the service, because it was relegated to a time frame of results inside the church walls. The church that experiences God's presence, environment, and atmosphere inside the it's walls is the church (Kingdom embassy) that sends saints outside the walls to cultivate God's presence, environment, and atmosphere through them into all the world.

 Activating the atmosphere only comes through an environmental lifestyle of consecration. The environment of God will change paradigms and dimensions permanently and is cultivated by a dedicated life that produces the activation of an atmosphere into every sphere of influence daily. In order to understand this we cannot continue to see God's Kingdom environment and atmosphere in one dimensional religious terms because they are governed multifaceted spheres.

God's glory cultivates the ecology of an environment and an atmosphere that Adam lost but Jesus Christ (our King) restored. Ecology is defined as the interconnected relationship of elements to one another affecting the complexities of physical surroundings. Environment is the conditions that a person, animal, or plant lives in forming a habitat, territory, or domain. Atmosphere is the mass of air and gases that cover, envelop and sustain the environment. God's atmosphere is the GLORY of His PRESENCE.

The ATMOSPHERE is ever moving but never absent from it's assignment and absolute in it's function but activated only by the environment. It's made up of the...

Troposphere: providing water/air/ sustaining LIFE

Stratosphere: (strategic) ozone air, planes sustains LIFT

Mesosphere: shield of protection from outer issues to GUARD

Thermosphere: radio waves/heat/regulates to GUIDE

Weather patterns change, but the atmospheric stations do not because they sustain the environment. If the environment is unstable the atmosphere will react.  The Thermosphere (thermostat) cannot regulate what environment will not yield to and disruptions result.

In Genesis 1:2 it says "...And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." You might say God's atmosphere, the knowledge of His GLORY covered the waters. God's glory saturated Eden and man was clothed in His glory sustaining the environmental dominion Adam and Eve was given to steward.

Adam and Eve sinned and the glory (atmosphere) of God was removed from the earth. Creation groaned as the environment of earth was impacted, but God sent His Son, Christ Jesus, to seek and save that which was lost! Through Christ our King the knowledge of the GLORY of the Lord has returned but reconciling God's Kingdom has met with the violence of corrupted world systems and religions. Now through Christ we have become His empowered Ambassadors and ministers of reconciliation to God's dominion.

In this year of 2015 there's an acceleration of God's Kingdom advancing and cultivating an environment of dominion and an atmosphere of God's presence that is permeating into all nations through those who demonstrate the government of God's Kingdom into the marketplace, government, media, education, ministry and all the other credible SPHERES of influence with the ATMOSPHERE of God's environment. Your inner environment of treasure will draw an atmosphere of wealth that you didn't know you could have as an explosion of Kingdom economy will impact the nations.

There is much going on in the atmosphere of the heavens (spiritually) because of what's God is doing environmentally in you at this time. He is preparing His saints for explosive assignments and all creation is waiting on the manifestation of His sons and daughters. Get ready! There's a thunder in the atmosphere on the horizon and it's not coming at you, but it's the GLORY of GOD coming through you!

Spiritual Fathers. Not Dependency, but Discovery: Article for December 2014

For some time now I have recognized that I am in another season of life. At some point I became an Elder. Not old, but considered seasoned. This Elder stage is not something I looked for and just about the time I became fairly skillful at being a “son”, God moves me into another season. Some may call it mentoring or being a spiritual father. It is not an office or a positional status, but it is a unique relationship birthed by God to reveal identity, purpose and discovery in an upcoming saint.

 There are basically four distinct seasons of life.

1.   We begin as sheep (babies) who need constant attention, care and have complete dependence on spiritual parents for security and credibility.

2.   We move into becoming servants as disciples following the example and serving another’s vision.

3.   Then we are heirs as sons (and daughters) of God, protégés in process through training.

4.   At some point we graduate to becoming saints or literally, maturing visionary leaders.

One level does not replace another level, but each stage builds on the preceding. Although we will always be the sheep of God’s pasture, we must realize we cannot walk like babies forever. We can no longer be co-dependent on those who cultivated principles into our lives, but now we transition into depending on God. Training time has to transition into guidance and guidance into leadership. This developmental cultivation brings visionary birthing agents into our lives not for dependency, but discovery.

In Matthew 23:9 Jesus said to call no man father upon the earth: for one is our Father, which is in heaven. We have to understand the context of that statement because He also spoke about fathers giving good gifts to their sons in (Luke 11:11-13) revealing no difficulty in calling men fathers on particular levels.

The Hebrew word for father is “ab” or (Gr.) “abba” meaning principal, founder, or beginning and the Greek word; “pater” or “patriarches” means progenitor of a nation, race, and tribe (lineage). Obviously there are biological fathers who carry physical seed and pro-generate a lineage, but when Jesus said not to call anyone “father” on earth He was addressing an issue with the scribes and Pharisees. They were dominating people and forcing complete dependency and submission to them as though they were God. People could not eat, buy, sell or move without the permission of these tyrants. The Pharisees demanded adoration, servitude, as they nourished themselves on followers.

Jesus said not to call anyone on earth your father (on the level of God) because ONE is your Father, the SOURCE of everything, but those who birth and cultivate the heart of God the father in His sons as spiritual fathers are RESOURCES.

Even today in some places there are Pharisees masquerading as Elders in the Body of Christ who demand followers to check with them before they make decisions and dominate people. True mentors don't tell people what to think, but they ignite the thinking process in people so they become innovators. It’s healthy for protégés to copy their mentors in the process of their own discovery but the goal is to cultivate God’s image and His DNA in them to be originals.

A denomination, fellowship, business and even a church cannot be a “spiritual father” because they are entities representing offices of accountability, covering and authority. It should also be noted that submitting under the authority of a pastor, bishop, or apostle does not automatically make them a “spiritual father”. A pastor, bishop or apostle can become a mentoring "father" to you but it is a relational dynamic not a positional one. Offices are functioning authorities that represent leadership but it is distinct from mentorship. A pastor may be referred to as the “spiritual father” of that particular “house” (church) because he/she founded the church or ignited God’s purpose corporately, and you summit to the authority of leadership in the Lord, but it does not mean they have instantly become your “spiritual father”. George Washington is called the father of America, (as a founder of principles in a nation) but he did not father or know everyone personally.

So what is a healthy description of a “spiritual father”? 1Corinthians 4:15  says; “For though you might have ten thousand instructors (teachers, instructors, leaders) in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ I have begotten (or birthed) you through the gospel”.

Paul does not say every person gets only one “spiritual father” in their walk through life, but he says there’s not “many”. The qualification of a spiritual father and son (daughter) relationship is the BIRTHING of God's purpose to be processed. This is a journey of discovery, training and releasing.  It is a relationship forged by God himself. A mentor’s goal is to become invisible as they are not walls blocking God the Father, but windows opening and pointing to God. The goal of a mentor is to become unnecessary in the training process, and rejoicing when a spiritual son or daughter excels them.

 Spiritual fathers are never about dependency, but all about another’s discovery. A mentoring “father” knows when training time is done and release of that student has come. This does not mean the relationship ends, but it’s a new level from training to guidance when needed. In Galatians 4:19 Paul says; “My little children, whom I labor in birth again until Christ be formed in you.” Note, the goal was not to form Paul’s DNA or dependency on him, but to cultivate the DNA of God the Father in them. In this article we cannot get into the aspect of mantles and succession of leadership, but we are defining the specifics in regards to mentors and spiritual fathering.

Pictured above are six men who have been sent by God to be surrogate fathers into my life so far. At times two or maybe three of these men were active as mentors at the same time because they were developing something unique in my walk but each one always emphasized that it was God who was shaping me and they gave Him all the glory. There are times one mentor must be primary in your development to effectively focus on a major aspect of your life.

(Pictured from left to right) My biological dad, Carl Richard Kendall was also a spiritual father to me birthing CHARACTER. Pastor T.L. Vibbert birthed VISION. My biological Grandpa Carl Alexander birthed HOLINESS. My biological uncle Paul Alexander birthed the NATIONS. Dr. Jack Strom continues to be a spiritual mentor and he birthed VICTORY. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Myles Munroe birthed the rediscovery of God’s KINGDOM to greater levels of revelation into my life and all these continue to impact me. This is not a complete list and it would include both men and women who have impacted my life, but these are six (including their wives) that especially believed in me and invested time in helping me birth my purpose.

While I know there will be more as I journey in this ever developing learning process, I find I am in a season where some are reaching out to me to be a representative of the Father’s heart for them, and this is the most rewarding time I have ever had, because it is no longer just about my visions and dreams but I have the honor of investing into the birthing process of upcoming champions who will excel anything I have ever done.

Change Brings Challenge: Article for October 2014

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Concealing Before Revealing: Article for September 2014

Monthly Message JULY 2014

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Monthly Message JUNE 2014: Faith Anniversaries

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Monthly Message May 2014: Pursuit of Purpose

Pursuing a current issue, accomplishment or opportunity is not the first focus of Kingdom citizens, but pursuit must begin with seeking the bigger picture of our Kingdom purpose and then all the goals, assignments, and plans will be released in us and through us.

PURSUIT transforms into SOMETHING MORE in the New Testament

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Monthly Message April 2014: Righteousness & Truth

Some are "Doing what seems right in their own eyes" by justifying their perspectives to the sifting sand of popular opinion. In many governments, laws today are being passed to actually benefit the lawless more than the lawful. Self righteousness is probably the most deceptive because it justifies "itself" for wrong decisions based on an imagined "good reason" of intent.

There are not many roads to truth, but only one as Jesus Christ Himself said; I am the WAY (that leads to) the TRUTH (revealed righteousness) that governs your LIFE (into discovery of purpose). TRUTH is not subjective and not voted on, and never amended, but TRUTH reveals the righteousness of God.

World systems are trying to introduce a new "normal" as a "fact of life" to blend and bend the truth from governmental "one world order" to "alternative lifestyles". Some in religious circles are compromising truth a little more with the "justification" of reaching more people, and then promoting that God is okay with it, but God is not okay with proposed amendments to His Constitutional TRUTH.

Truth is not brutal on people, but is brutal on sin that causes people to come short of their RIGHT STANDING and discovery of God's glory. (Romans 3:23) TRUTH reveals the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God in us that we never knew we had, and releases activation of our PURPOSE and PROCESS. This is why Jesus said; "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall MAKE you FREE (to see who you really are)." (John 8:32)

The simple choice we make is to decide that the TRUTH of God's Word is not just "a truth", but THE only TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH.

TRUTH can change current "facts" but facts will never change the TRUTH!

NOTE:The Kingdom Jesus declared has authority and it's THEREIN that righteousness is revealed, because the JUST live (are governed) by faith in God's unmovable TRUTH.

Proverbs 28:1 says; "The wicked flees when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion". This is because being in right standing with God means His authority flows through us as His citizens and all the resources of His Kingdom are available to be innovators that impact and influence the world with relevance and never any compromise of the truth.

Monthly Message for March 2014:

DISCERNING the SIGNS of the TIMES

Monthly Message for February 2014:

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Monthly Message for January 2014:

KINGDOM CHARACTER

In the latter part of this year (2013), God has been giving me four distinct words that are always a priority, but will become even more prominent and vital in the coming days of 2014. Those four words are; character, stature, integrity, and  authority.

I had the privilege this year of attending the Global Leadership Summit with Dr. Myles Munroe in Freeport Bahamas and the overall theme for the Summit was "Character in Leadership". That Summit was so timely revealing awesome concepts, and crystallizing things I have been receiving from God through the year about the importance of where we are in His Kingdom process. (please note Summit photo and Dr. Munroe's book on Character at the bottom of this article).

Returning back to Florida from the Summit, God showed me the sleeve of a suit jacket with four buttons in a row and He said; "This is the condition of some churches. They have become decorations with no declaration. Buttons with no purpose. Looking impressive on the side of a suit sleeve, but nothing more than eye candy" (that once serve a useful function).

The four buttons represent those churches that are wrapped up in:

1. Sub-cultural hiding  2. reactionary posture  3. Isolation  4. religious traditions of men.

God impressed strongly on my heart that there will be more (unknown and well known) "buttons" fall off the suit in 2014 because they felt their "appearance of success" or talent was their security and refused to walk in the next level of character and integrity. Make no mistake, religion will not fall off gracefully, but will put up a fight to appear as though it's business as usual even if "looking good" means dishonoring others.

God's answer to the four religious "decorative" buttons is the restoration of His Kingdom through the principle and process of four world changing "buttons".

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Monthly Message for October/ December2013:

A King Is Born In the Best Room in the House.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger Luke 2:11,12:

Mary and Joseph brought forth Jesus in a stable among the cattle because there was no room for them inn (overnight lodging).

Many have reflected on how refusal of entry in a hotel forced this miraculous birth to take place in the dirt and hay of a barn, but perhaps we should examine this further, because actually the King of kings was born in the finest room on earth.

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Monthly Message for October/ November2013: Destroying Old Economic Yokes

Economy has an ECOLOGY: Ecology is defined as the science of relationships between organisms and their environments. This is also the study of interconnected aspects of people and their integrated impact on social environments.

Adam's transgression could be summed up in that he took "ownership" of one "tree" instead of STEWARDSHIP of an entire GARDEN. When Adam transgressed it cut him off from God and that sin went beyond just being thrown out of the garden of Eden, but the ecological (domino) effect of being outside of Eden's environment produced a backward spiral that caused spiritual and physical decay, disease, and an economic "debt" system. That economic debt is called a system because became a cycle producing a result of toil and sweat to obtain fruit often at the cost of interest loans, usury, and burdensome mortgages.

A debt systems is a result of a fall from dominion into subjection. The simple definition of a "yoke" is to be ruled and directed completely by what one is paired or bound to.

A physical yoke consists of three main parts and can accurately describe a spiritual yoke.

The Beam: on the shoulders… represents GOVERNMENT/ AUTHORITY/ RULE

It’s time to destroy old yokes by the ANOINTING of God’s Kingdom in us as CITIZENS of His HOUSEHOLD… We declare ACCESS to the King’s COMMONWEALTH. Isaiah 45:3 says; “I will give you hidden treasure in secret places" and that promise applies to all those who have made Jesus Christ LORD and KING as well as Savior.

Monthly Message for August/ September 2013: Translated Into the Kingdom

Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath TRANSLATED us into the Kingdom of His dear Son: Colossians 1:12,13

Many in the traditional church-world describe this as a future event, but the scripture clearly reveals that we have already been TRANSLATED into God's Kingdom.... but what does that mean?

Some picture some kind of vaporous energizing, but it is actually a governmental description of transitional acclimation... but what's that?

The Bible speaks of two distinct descriptions of TRANSLATION. The first is immediate transportation such as experienced by Enoch's departure out of the physical world (outlined in Hebrews 11:5).... but the second definition of translation is a processed transition of exchange.

It is this second definition that we will focus on, because it is the process of Kingdom citizenship Jesus opened for all those who enter through Him. This TRANSLATION is not about dying or departing earth, but it is about LIVING and STAYING in the world to CHANGE it.

In order to understand being translated into God's Kingdom we must stop thinking of it in man made religious traditional terms and start thinking of it as a governmental process. Note: in 2 Samuel 3:10 there's an account of Saul's former corrupt kingdom being translated to David through setting up a new government established in obedience to God. This TRANSLATION simply meant a dismissal of an old system to bring the cultivation of a new government set in the constitution of God's Word.

Jesus Christ died and rose again to pay the price to get us into the Kingdom, but now we must die to carnal mindsets to cultivate the Kingdom into us. Anyone who has done any foreign travel knows that you cannot just plunge into another country expecting to do things like you did them where you are from but there must be acclimation and adjusting to the environment and government you have just entered. This is a translation process and it involves CHANGE through EXCHANGE.

TRANSLATION into the Kingdom of God involves three basic levels of CHANGE.

1. TRANSFORMATION: metamorphis: repent, (turn around, exchange old for new)

2. TRANSITION: reposition (process of cultivating)

3. TRANSLATION: rediscover (acclimate as a citizen in God's Kingdom).

This is why the apostle Paul said; "And be not con-formed to this world's current system, but be TRANSFORMED (translated) by the RENEWING of your mind.." (Romans 12:2a). What are we RENEWING our minds to? The original blueprint and pattern of citizenship in God's Kingdom.

Those who have entered into God's Kingdom take on His government and are translated into the LIFESTYLE of His realm. In the kingdom of God there is health, purpose, inner wealth but no debt, no recession, and no stress. The beauty of all this is that we, as His citizens, are called by God to cultivate His Kingdom here on the earth, and as His ambassadors, we are given all the resources needed to accomplish this TRANSFORMATION wherever we go.

This TRANSLATION in and through God's people is shaking things up in a corrupt world, because it is establishing restoration of the King to His domain. The world is in the midst of unsustainable changes but God's Kingdom is advancing with sustained change and things will never be the same. While there may be persecutions, mainly from man made religions, there will be miraculous innovations brought on by Kingdom advance through God's people and the world will take notice.

This is why Romans 8:19 says that the earnest expectation of creation itself awaits the manifestation (translational restoration) to be brought by the sons of God. We need not look at the crisis in the world, but be focused on being agents of CHANGE in the midst of it.

When my wife, Liz, and I first met we didn't understand each other very well because she was fresh out of Mexico with little understanding of the English language and all I knew to speak was English. We knew we were in love and this relationship was God's doing, but often needed TRANSLATION of language to understand what was being said. Over the past 42 years she has become fully translated not only in language, but cultivated lifestyle to understand what it means to live in America. The U.S. will be recognizing her translation in a few days as she takes the oath of citizenship.

According to Colossians 1:12,13; We have already been translated (and continue the process of transformation) into understanding what it means to be God's  saints, and PARTAKERS of His INHERITANCE as we grow in the LIGHT of Kingdom lifestyle.  We are called to go out into all the world and be TRANSLATORS (interpreters of His light) helping people understand how to return to their  citizenship in God's Kingdom.

In Victory, Dr. Rick Kendall, President, Victory Ministries & Global Embassy Network  www.rickkendall.org   www.globalembassynetwork.com

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Monthly Message for July 2013: Brass Ring or Pearl of Great Price

Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. Matthew 13:45,46

Much of the world is on a Merry Go Round seeking to capture an elusive "brass ring" hoping it will bring them an instant prize of happiness or success of fulfillment, but often if the brass ring is obtained the "prize" won is just another free ride on the carousel that only goes in circles.

The discovery of a "brass ring" can represent many things such as fame, money, or accomplishment, and it's allure is the possibility of fully developed instant fulfillment and satisfaction, but in time the glitter fades and the tarnish brings emptiness.

True discovery, however, does not happen from the OUTSIDE IN, but from the INSIDE OUT.

In Matthew 13:45,46; Jesus Christ Himself gives this amazing description of His Father's Kingdom as a merchant man who diligently seeks out fine pearls, no doubt as part of his business, but also as one who has a passion for the beauty of pearls. This involves exchange of money in the purchase of pearls to be sold at a profit in order to grow his business interests. This merchant seeks "many" pearls in the assumption that in much abundance of merchandise he will find contentment, success, and satisfaction, but no matter how many "cultured" pearls he buys and sells, they become nothing more than a "brass ring" of business deals.

The aspect of this analogy that compares it to being like the Kingdom is that one day this merchant finds something. The word "found" here is more than to casually "glance" or "look upon", but the word FOUND here is best described as a life changing REDISCOVERY and REVELATION. The merchant found one PEARL of great price (not many, but ONE).

The aspect that made it a pearl of "great price" was not a merchandizing "tag" in a business deal but the price became total commitment of what it would take to FULLY OBTAIN it. This PEARL is not some cheap brass ring of temporal happiness, but an answer of JOY and PURPOSE.

Many conventional scholars translate this merchant to being Jesus Christ who came to sell all He had to redeem us, and while He certainly gave Himself completely to redeem us, He did not come "seeking" many lost pearls, but according to Luke 19:10 He came to SEEK and SAVE (restore) SOMETHING (a singular pearl) that was lost to man and this world. Man was lost because through sin SOMETHING (singular) was lost to man and buried in the ground of a corrupted world.

 That PEARL is the Kingdom of God, and through the Son of God the process of restoration, reconciliation and revelation of God's Kingdom becomes FOUND, but the merchant described in Matthew 13:45,46 is MAN who is seeking that PEARL only REDISCOVERED by seeking first the Kingdom of God and willing to let go of any dependencies on other treasures.

As merchants of "goodly pearls" men try to find wealth through obtaining outward brass rings of money, fame, or popularity hoping to outwardly grab something that will "bring something to them" worth living for. Some seek religion as their pearls hoping to get to God through outward conformity to rules in search for peace. Many define themselves by "what" they do and make careers their pearls getting worth from promotions and advance financially... but ultimately, all those outward reaches are brass rings on a carousel, or hoops to jump through, and carrots on a stick dangled in front of them leaving the true pearl of Kingdom purpose undiscovered.

The question remains then, what portion of ground or what deep ocean is this PEARL hidden? This pearl is deep within you because even when we were dead in sin and without God's active life flowing through us, we were made in His image and the hard oyster shell that hid and covered over our knowledge of God's Kingdom became the cultivating ground for the pearl to form in the blueprint of God's Constitutional purpose. When revealed this PEARL is accepted by us, or rejected from us, but to the merchant who FINDS this PEARL of Kingdom purpose he gladly forfeits all brass rings to OBTAIN it.

Brass rings are outward conformed prizes to the one who grabs it for temporary worth, but the PEARL of the Kingdom transforms from within revealing purpose & eternal worth manifesting what we can do to take dominion again.

Once the PEARL is rediscovered, restored, and revealed to and through God's ambassadors, the knowledge of God's glory and His Kingdom covers the earth as the waters cover the sea. That restoration of the PEARL is shaking up corrupted systems of the world and innovation is making way for the King to reveal Himself to nations. As we seek first the PEARL of God's Kingdom within then all the outward advances, finances, and successes are supplied to us as agents of change and stewards of Kingdom economy impacting the world around us.

Have you found the PEARL of GREAT PRICE? Each day we should ask God to reveal any brass rings we may still have laying around and let them go, because we are now citizens of God's Kingdom that operates on the singular wealth of His PEARL. Seek Kingdom first, look within, and pour out.

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Monthly Message for June 2013: The Next Generation is already Here

In this day and time society overall is focused on the "needs" of the current generation as pressures of career, finances, and personal goals crowd in. Often the understandable passion for success can become such a priority that a growing perspective takes on the false assumption that our PURPOSE in life is all about ...us.

Our God ordained purpose will promote us, enrich us, give us success, and even accomplish the impossible through us bringing fulfillment and progress, but that purpose is not about us, it is about igniting the purpose of God in others, and primarily.. it is about raising Kingdom purpose in the next generation.

Often men and women feel their dreams and vision are drastically put on hold when a tiny little baby comes bursting on the scene. There was a time not too long ago that parenting was considered a high calling and the heritage of family was held in high esteem but the family distinctive has been under attack. Psalms 127:3-5 says; "Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them".

While most parents still cherish the birth of a child, it is becoming alarmingly evident that many kids are set aside to endless TV, videos or games. While much of this is due to society's demand for performance in the workplace there is a subtle dulling of the conscience in many cases that is leaving many children to fend for themselves and find their own way.

Somewhere along the way the consciousness of today's culture, especially in the U.S. got sedated into a self-centered philosophy of doing what's "right" in one's own eyes, and that slippery slope never looks ahead, but is based on what's needed right now so anything that speaks of a destiny or future is often forfeited. Religions are popular with some because they speak of a future but often postpones that future to an event someday. Young people are leaving churches because they are in search of purpose more than a deferred event.

The Kingdom of God is not a man made religion, but an active realm of government that brings innovative impact into the world through those who are actively living their purpose and potential NOW with eternal rewards. Young people MUST have mentors who share the importance of the church as an embassy, but also look beyond the walls  and know how to relate to the passion being cultivated in upcoming saints.

Children speak of prophetic promise, literally the NEXT GENERATION, and they are a perpetual heritage.

You may say; "This article doesn't pertain to me because I have no kids", but even if you have no physical children, you are impacting someone's life who is developing, growing and looking for a representative of God until He is formed in them and they are formed in His purpose.

How are CHILDREN such powerful Kingdom representatives, and what did Jesus mean when He said; anyone who will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it"?  There are three (3) basic things that explain this...

1. Children yield to their environment in the "now" based on total trust.
2. Children are not bound to erroneous thinking from the past.
3. Children speak of a future to be developed according to design.

I have often heard ministers refer to children as the "future generation" , but I would propose that the next generation IS HERE and needing Kingdom minded parents, teachers, instructors, coaches and mentors NOW to help them see who they are and their potential as world changers.

That little guy with the grape jelly on his face is not a "rugrat" but he is a representative of God's Kingdom awaiting discovery of who he is called to be. The little girl who talks nonstop and keeps singing the same aggravating nursery song over and over again is not preventing you from living your life, but she is fulfilling it.

Take note, those smiling faces on little people may demand much of your time, but your time IS all about their time, and while the investment into them seems endless, they will rise up to call you blessed and invest back into you.

This is why Malachi 4:6 makes it clear that the hearts of the fathers must turn to the children first, and then the hearts of the children will turn to their fathers.

The next generation is already here, their outstanding future is already in progress, and in understanding this we understand our part for such is the Kingdom of God..

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Monthly Message for May 2013 Laying Up is Lay Layaway

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Matthew 6:19-21)

The term LAY UP is not "lay-away" because God's Kingdom is not a storage unit for us to "send" stuff up into for the sweet by and by.

Definitions for the term, "lay up" are more accurately defined as to appoint, and to INVEST, but invest into where? There are two options, either earth systems or the Kingdom of heaven.

We are IN the world, but we are not OF it. This means that we know how to function in this world and operate in the perimeters of the world's economy, society, and government but we are not dependent on it.

Through time many people became dependent on world systems INVESTING their total trust into economic mindsets developed after the fall of Adam. A lifestyle of DEBT is now considered "normal", but debt was never God's original idea. Of course there are ways to make loans and credit work for you, but the debt system in the world (as a mindset) has become an addictive borrowing bondage while fattening systems that impose a usury of compounded interest rates.

Jesus (in Matthew 6:19-21) was saying that dependence on a debt system brings the...

MOTH: (undeveloped butterflies) that eat on things unseen at night when no one is looking (much like unseen compounded interest rates)...

RUST (degeneration) of paying off past purchases today on items often now decayed or long gone...

and THIEVES (contracts with usury institutions that tie up a borrower in bondage) often paying five times over what a product is worth.

The structure of corrupted world systems works backwards owing debt to the past, but the Kingdom economy principle works progressively forward tapping into a promised future with access to inward treasure freely provided by our King.

Kingdom of God is not a religious system but a government with an economy that breaks us free from a debt mindset and dependency on world systems. If you have a mortgage or loan of some kind, do not feel condemned because society has imposed much pressure into accepting debt as the only way to have what we need, but...

BE ENCOURAGED, because God has decreed in this hour, MIRACLE DEBT CANCELLATION. This will not start in the purse or wallet, but it will begin in the paradigm of our mindsets. This debt cancellation is not an excuse to be irresponsible in our commitment to pay bills, but it means that innovative ideas and FAVOR are arising for Kingdom Ambassadors to break free from debt.

Jesus made us free from the debt of sin, so why not also believe that He can make us free from the debt of financial bondage? This economy (or household management) of God's Kingdom has always been in the Bible (his Word) but it is a mystery being revealed more and more in this day and hour to those who are grasping Kingdom principles (read Colossians 1:25-27).

God is the only SOURCE, and everything else is, at best, just a resource. We are STEWARDS with ACCESS that has mostly remained untapped until now, but God is opening the VAULT of rediscovery.

Yes, heaven is a real place, and a solid realm, but Kingdom treasure is not laid up on a cloud, it is located in the vault of every Ambassador filled with God's wealth.

This is why Jesus went on to say in Matthew 6:21, "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." The heart is the inner man, belly. birthing place of purpose and where precepts form concepts resulting in a mindset. This is why Proverbs 4:23 says; "Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues (treasures) of life."

Inner treasure (wisdom) brings riches (strength) producing inner wealth (ideas, creativity, vision) that manifests a supply of all that is needed to produce God's work. Jesus declared; "It is your Father's good pleasure to give you (access into) His Kingdom." (Luke 12:32)

Treasure is wealth in RESERVE (set in a time released vault) for this life NOW and treasures are the resources of PURPOSE in us. Treasure does not come from the outside in, but from the INSIDE OUT. This is why 2Corinthians 4:7 says; "We have this treasure IN earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us" (or our own doing).

Tap into the earnest of the treasure vault of your heart and find more than enough is available as God supplies ALL your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus!

In the Name of our King Jesus Christ, I declare debt cancellation has begun and the activation of outrageous FAVOR has opened into your life as you determine to LAY UP (invest) yourself into complete Kingdom rediscovery. AMEN!

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Monthly Message for March 2013: Change That Is Not More of the Same

This scripture is used in most churches at "offering time" to encourage people to give financially and while it is absolutely appropriate, this principle extends into a daily lifestyle.

Often, the term "lay up" is mistaken as a kind of "lay-away" plan evidently to be collected someday when people "go" to heaven. This is not the context of the principle Jesus was teaching.

I will go before thee , and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron. Isaiah 45:2

God revealed a strong Word to me in prayer recently that He has already released major accelerated CHANGE in three main arenas, (1.) the economy, (2.) the nations (governments) and (3.) the church. Some welcome change but only if it will get them back to the SAME they once enjoyed, The CHANGE God is releasing in this day and hour will not be more of the SAME, and will actually knock down the old "same" paradigms like a bowling ball hitting all the pins with one impact.

We've seen degrees of change in church history but often monuments or camps were formed around the SAME place where change initially happened, resulting in a stalled "movement". Some will miss this next level of CHANGE because they are looking for the "good old days" or old fashioned revival meetings, but God never repeats a former "same" to present CHANGE. Letting go of the old allows vision of the new God has ahead.

God is the SAME yesterday, today and forever because He is the Alpha & Omega, but it is we who are CHANGING into His image from glory (revelation) to glory (manifestation). God forms a NEW THING in us that is not new to Him but is a restoration to His original foundational blueprint.

The word; "form" means the shape, structure or pattern of something, but it is also a process of "forming" (or changing). The New Testament Greek word for "form" is morphe where we get our term morph meaning to shift or change into.

In Isaiah 43:18 God says to let go of the former things in order to grasp the NEW THING. Romans 12:2 goes on to say; "Be not CONFORMED (hardened in ignorance) to this world (system) but be TRANSFORMED (strengthened through the process of change) by the renewing of your mind".

In Isaiah 45:1, God used a king named Cyrus and Israel as AGENTS of CHANGE to subdue nations, loose the armor of kings, and OPEN the GATES (of government). This results in "making crooked places straight and breaking in pieces gates of brass". This is major CHANGE that shifts the atmosphere of nations and goes beyond an emotional experience.

The crooked places are the twisted path (DNA) of man resulting in the formation of controlling governments, a debt based commerce and societies cultivated in man made philosophies. The GATES literally refer to the entrance of those territories that became more of an enforced barrier made of forged metals. The corrupted "gates" of brass were formidable, but God sent innovative ambassadors of His Kingdom authorized to OPEN access and change paradigms.

While the account in Isaiah 45:1 refers to literal events, this prophetically points to Christ and God's regenerated citizens that rise through Him bringing CHANGE that impacts the nations with the cultivation and influence of the Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Jesus Himself ignited the first fruits of CHANGE introducing the Kingdom of His Father and declaring; "..Upon this Rock I will build My church (Kingdom embassy) and the gates (barriers) of hell shall not prevail against it". (Matthew 16:18b).

Please don't misunderstand, this is not about being adversarial at people in the world, but it's about being ambassadorial to get the cultivation of God's Kingdom influence into all the world. While this Kingdom influence will bring the favor of leaders in nations, it will also bring opposition at times, but the goal is access into the center of arenas where change is most effective and needed.

God is bringing this accelerated CHANGE through the innovations of God's saints and while gates will open and we become effective world changers, it is also breaking gates of brass in THREE main arenas...

1. The economy... God is releasing DEBT CANCELLATION to His citizens and revealing "hidden treasure in secret places" (Isaiah 45:3) even in the midst of crumbling world economies.

2. The nations... God's Kingdom principles are cultivating CHANGE in entire nations causing the devil to react by stirring up the dust of a deceptive "one world order".

3. The church... is shifting from emphasis on a focus of introverted attendance building to an OUTWARD thrust of ambassadors into every credible sphere of influence. There will be reaction from religious Pharisees who rise up vehemently against Kingdom advance because the "religious wineskins" resist the expansion of governmental Kingdom CHANGE.

Get ready, this accelerated CHANGE is HERE now. If we think this CHANGE will bring more of the SAME, we will miss it, but if we yield completely to becoming TRANSFORMED KINGDOM GATES this CHANGE will bring us into dimensions and access beyond anything we've ever dreamed. The bowling bowl of CHANGE is about to impact the PINS of our comfort zones, but the result will be a new dimension of the presence of the King into all the world.

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Monthly Message for February 2013: God's Kingdom Laboratory

In 2 Corinthians 9: 10-15 Paul, the Apostle is teaching concerning Kingdom economy and the King James version (in this particular case) is very accurate (in verse 13) as Paul calls this economic lesson an "experiment".

Kingdom economy is not dictated by the corrupted economy of world systems and so when God's economy is activated through the life of a Kingdom citizen, there is a "chemical" reaction of sorts, much like what happens in a laboratory when scientists experiment by bringing certain elements together. This will bring an explosion, but it will be accompanied by change!

When the word "experiment" is used here, it means to scientifically confirm and prove an absolute truth through activation and manifestation.

Genuine scientific facts don't dispute God's Word, they CONFIRM it". (quote: Dr. Pepe Ramnath: International Kingdom Ambassador, Pastor & President, Dove Environmental)

Paul's example of economy in 2 Corinthians 9:10-15 is just one aspect of God's governmental experiment, but everything the Kingdom touches will CHANGE either through rejection or yielded transformation.

A miracle is the initial chemical reaction of an activated Kingdom principle hitting the current world atmosphere igniting sustainable innovative change and the manifestation of God's absolutes.

While miracles in church meetings are vital and needed, it is only one dimension of Kingdom manifestation, and we must get people ready for explosive multi-dimensional levels of miracles in economy, government, the arts and other credible spheres of daily life. For example: We are about to see the miracle manifestation of kingdom banking, as it is already being cultivated in someone right now and they may not even know it yet.

Physical healing of the body is an important level of miracle manifestation, but we also need to move people into the miraculous dimensions of healing the whole man, spirit, soul (mind) and body by restoration of their Kingdom PURPOSE that brings CHANGE into the world on a daily basis.

A church meeting can set the spiritual thermostat, but the atmosphere is only changed with consistent cultivation of Kingdom government through daily lifestyle.

 "We must become the yeast in the dough" (quote: Dr. Myles Munroe, International Leader, Teacher, Author & Ambassador).

God never changes because He is already Alpha and Omega, but He changes us daily into His image. This CHANGE we present can bring influential favor but also at times, violent opposition. This is why Paul, the apostle said; "Think it not strange the fiery trial (or experimental test) that will try (prove) you.." (1Peter 4:12a)

We are in a day of accelerated change that is bringing a shaking but the devil does not dictate the terms, he is just reacting against God's immutable absolutes. These fires of laboratory testing will be too hot for old wine skins and those who play games when it comes to genuine Kingdom cultivation, but true Ambassadors of the Kingdom are beakers filled with the ingredients of God's government being poured out strategically on the earth to bring innovative CHANGE that shakes things up. Kingdom citizens are incubators of God's process until time for manifesting the CHANGE.

In Acts 2:1-4 about 120 Kingdom scientists gathered together in one place administering the chemical agent of governmental unity and suddenly perfect timing ignited the explosion of the Holy Spirit (the governor of the Kingdom) resulting in a rushing mighty wind with tongues of fire. This Kingdom laboratory continues to pour out life that impacts corrupted elements as old paradigms melt in the face of young saints with visions and old saints dreaming dreams.

The shaking in the world is not because God is out of control with rage, but simply a shaking to renovate the elements in the beaker of time. God is not a "mad scientist" who would destroy his own laboratory, but HE is bringing change to restore the original blueprint. TRANSFORMATION= CHANGE!

Don't allow a few explosions around you to distract you from your God ordained purpose and vision, because it's just the Kingdom forcibly advancing (Matthew 11:12). Expect change first IN you as God cultivates the next level of His CHANGE through you to pour as a Kingdom beaker of wealth into the world.

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 Monthly Message for January 2013: Timed Released Vault

This HIDDEN MANNA is spiritual nourishment & wealth unknown to the systems of the world. It is literally a re-discovery of God ordained mysteries and TREASURES IN US that produce purpose driven ideas and innovations through revealed wisdom & understanding!

Too many people, especially in religious circles, assume that the instabilities of current economies and collapse of governments means that it's the "end" because they have become so dependent on world systems that they cannot fathom a life without it. We are at an end of times for corrupted elements, but this is not termination, it is transition!

Corrupted men seek a one world government without God, while an anti-Christ will rise falsely declaring he is God. We know Jesus is returning, but it is not because He is nervously reacting to the enemy's threats. Jesus is returning to transition the culmination of God's restored Kingdom. He is coming for a glorious church (an embassy outpost) that has occupied ground and cultivated the yeast of His Kingdom into the dough of the world.

Some think God has already revealed everything He has, but there is still much more, it is HIDDEN MANNA (wealth) and He is about to open another portion of it NOW in this time! This hidden manna is not crazy mathematical equations but it is genuine revelation that confirms and adheres to the Constitution of God's written Word. If you are stuck in the past with what God has done, you will miss what He's doing TODAY that is cultivating tomorrow set in His purpose for you from the beginning.

In a time where economic experts are scratching their heads and nations rise against nation, God has preserved and protected His HIDDEN MANNA in the most protected place He could find...you and me! This is literally a wealth of TREASURE deep inside those who know Christ as King. 2Corinthians 4:7 says; "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us? This is more than a little "rainy day" cash to draw from time to time, but it is the ongoing perpetual economy and governing of God's Kingdom within us until the vault of ideas, vision, and innovations is OPENED for the next level of purpose and fresh assignments.

God is not trying to hide His Kingdom from anyone, but only those who seek Him with all their heart will find Him, know Him, discover who they are and find the wealth in them. There are HIDDEN TREASURES in us right now that we don't even know we have but God is opening that level of His VAULT in His people. They may do it through churches, businesses, government, the arts, and other legitimate God given avenues, but resources we didn't even know we had are opening up even NOW.

1 Corinthians 2:7, Colossians 2:2,3, Ephesians 3:9 &calls this time released treasure "hidden wisdom", riches of understanding in Christ, and a mystery of interconnected destiny. This economic TREASURE opens God's  resources bringing everything we need because it all belongs to Him and He has given us access! Expect your financial breakthrough NOW. We must stay in the presence of God to hear the tumblers of His vault moving inside us and prepare for this time released opening. In these unstable times, now more than ever, we should expect greater vision and ideas that will rock this world and bring the melting of old elements! Jesus said: "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Matthew 6:21) Proverbs 4:23 says; "Keep your heart (vault) with all diligence; for out of it are the ISSUES (release of ideas, purpose, vision) of LIFE."

God gave me this prophetic Word to share for 2013: This is your season for turnaround to super-abound, as treasure is FOUND inside you. God is opening His time released VAULT bringing accelerated progress into the specific purpose of His ambassadors worldwide. Expect miracles, a new company of people are being added in addition to long time faithful friends, expect overwhelming financial supply according to His riches beyond anything you've ever seen before and look for debt cancellations.

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Monthly Message for December 2012: Getting Back to Our Kingdom Roots

Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? (Luke1:34)

This was Mary's response to an angel sent by God to tell her that she, a virgin, would become pregnant and bring forth a son. It was surely a logical question because everyone knows a WOMB (ground) must have a MAN (SEED) to reproduce, but her answer came in the startling revelation that the power of the Highest would overshadow her and she would bring forth the Son of God.

This is the only way "legally" that God could reconnect back into the earth and make sure that no man or nation would try to take credit for redemption that they could never give. This preparation did not "just happen" but the cultivation took generations (lineage) to become the ground (womb) suitable for Kingdom Seed.

The first Adam was formed physically out of the dust and only became alive when God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (Genesis 2:7). Although Eden was a real place, it was more than a geographical location, but it was the "presence" of God giving life into all the world.

Eve came out of man and became the WOMB of man (woman) and God gave them dominion. When Adam fell the presence of God was cut off, Eden was shut off, and the covering of God's glory was removed revealing absolute nakedness.

As a result, things got twisted, decayed, backwards and corrupted. At best, man's seed and his seed after him was dust and void of God's life. In the Old Testament God had limited connection through His laws, atonement, and prophetic promises to those who would obey His Word and began cultivating a people to become the chosen GROUND (Israel) for a coming Messiah. True Israel has never been about owning ground exclusively, but BEING the CHOSEN GROUND for Kingdom Seed. This is the significance of the PROMISE LAND. It was not just about the land, but the PROMISE in the LAND (His people).

Back in the very BEGINNING, God knew man would need redemption, and He would need a legal way to reconnect the Kingdom into His creation (even before man fell) and that is why He said; "It is not good for man to be alone, but I will make a HELPMEET for him" (literally a key to a solution). God speaks of the SEED of the woman (Genesis 3:15) as the key element in restoration of God's original plan. HOW CAN THIS BE? The woman is not the SEED giver, but is an incubator, and physical corrupted man could not generate the seed of a redeemer. The SEED of the woman was literally a Kingdom SEED to be generated by God Himself into cultivated chosen ground through the womb of a virgin named Mary.

Until Christ came, man's seed produced the spiritually dead in dirt suits, but the seed of Abraham, David and other obedient champions began to generate a lineage of yielded, cultivated ground to become the chosen WOMB of blessing. In other words, their seed of obedience sanctified the ground needed to make Jesus fully man while God's SEED made Him fully His Kingdom Son.

Jesus Christ is the Vine that grafted us back into our Kingdom roots because only Kingdom Seed could produce a Kingdom Vine, and while the VINE needed the chosen ground for nurturing, it is the Vine that produces the branches (us).

Both the Old and New Testaments (Covenants) are needed to bring a balance and understanding to Kingdom cultivation, but we can miss the full picture of the SEED'S HARVEST if we gaze too long at only a piece of the puzzle and fall into religious blindness. We hear a lot about finding our ROOTS these days. Some want to research family trees, some are interested in the roots of church history, and there are those who feel the need to identify with Jewish or Hebrew roots, and while it's enlightening & enriching.. that lineage alone does not define our roots, but more accurately, it describes the cultivation of CHOSEN GROUND. The focus MUST always be our ROOTS set in KINGDOM SEED.

This is one of the reasons God says to BLESS ISRAEL, and pray for the peace of Jerusalem, because she represents a WOMB where eternal SEED came forth. We have not replaced Israel's position, but in Christ we are Kingdom SEED to fulfill His plan

Jesus (our Kingdom Vine) gave a parable and said; Now the sower is the Son of man, the field is the world, and the seeds are the CHILDREN of the KINGDOM!.

To rediscover your ROOTS... go back further than the first Adam, and celebrate the 2nd ADAM who was in the beginning, the WORD and became the revelation of eternal SEED born to bring the rediscovery of God's Kingdom and JOY to a world that desperately needed it!

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Monthly Message for November: Get Ready for the Kingdom Boom!

Hebrews 12:26-28: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now He hath promised, saying, yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

Psalm 29:3, 4; The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

In prayer for the past couple of days, I have heard a prophetic sound like a distant, yet approaching thunder (an echoing boom). The vibrations resonate deep and it is the rumble of a sudden manifested change that has been processing for a long time. What is this sound?

God began to reveal to me that it is the sonic BOOM of Kingdom manifestation. A "boom" (or thundering) does not just happen out of nowhere, but significant factors collide in the atmosphere to ignite an explosion of sound. These BOOMS are not purposed to be destructive but introductory of a renovative paradigm shifting transition as God is ushering His Kingdom into full manifestation on earth as it is in heaven. Jesus Christ is coming resulting in corrupted elements shaking and melting, an anti-Christ will be Satan's reactive tool for an attempt at an orchestrated hostile takeover, and governments will fall, but all this is happening for one reason...the Kingdom of God is culminating a full restoration to a renovated earth where Jesus is Lord!

Every time the BOOM (thunder) of God's voice resonates the sound of His Word, significant change immediately ignites, new seasons are released, and revelation becomes activation.

There are three specific definitions and therefore three dimensions of this approaching Kingdom BOOM that has already begun...

1. A loud deep sound: a reverberating (causing ripple effects) into every place it penetrates.

2. To grow, develop, or progress rapidly; flourish.. literally an acceleration of purpose.

3. A significant, sustainable, and sudden explosive increase economically.

First: There is a reverberating SOUND of God's voice rumbling deep inside every person who has made Jesus Christ Savior, Lord and King, and a frequency of destiny that says something is happening in Kingdom dynamics. This is not an hour to be distracted by world instabilities, but the truth is, all creation is waiting for God's ambassadors to manifest His Rock solid BOOM! (Romans 8:19)

Second: Accelerated growth (the BOOM of successive progress) is here meaning that what used to take years to accomplish will be done in months. There was a season where it seemed everything was slow, but prepare to see twice as much accomplished with half the effort. The BOOM of rapid process is here and we must lift up our heads above the obstructions and distractions to see it. Don't miss it. Our time of overcoming victory is HERE!

Third: A significant and sudden change economically has been released to those who shift dependence from world economies into dependence on Kingdom economy. A decree has already gone forth declaring debt cancellation by our King and now we MUST seek first His Kingdom (Matt.6:33) for a shift in mindsets to cultivate and understand *COMMONWEALTH economy. This increase is BOOMING now to those who have become stewards of God's resources with access to all that is His.

* NOTE: We have thought about finances on an individual basis, but God is now revealing a collective Kingdom commonwealth (or corporate) multiplication of citizenship that is coming on us and overtaking us in multiplied dimensions. (Duet. 28:1,2)

So what does this mean in practical terms? Simply it means that innovative opportunities are about to open for God's Kingdom citizens on a scale we have never seen before and it will take place right in the middle of collapsing world systems. YES... it is happening NOW.

Those who are dependent on world economies and look to governments for stability and security will be on the wrong side of the BOOM as they witness the crumbling of what they thought was solid, but those who have transitioned into total dependency on the Kingdom of God will find that the BOOM is taking place inside them and exploding opportunities to cultivate God's Kingdom into places they never thought they could go and do things they never dreamed they could do. In other words.. the ordained PURPOSE in us is like a timed released vault that is about to open in the BOOM and reveal treasures you never knew you had.

Take note that following the BOOMING thundering voice of God, there's a simultaneous activation of the collective voice of His citizens becoming thunderings of His Word like the saturating rush of many waters spreading into every part of the earth to declare the Kingdom of God is here! (Rev. 19:6) This is not the time to pack up or quit, but your God ordained purpose and vision is just now activating to new levels and needed now more than ever as the best is yet to come.

CAN YOU HEAR THE BOOM?

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Monthly Message for October 2012 The Authority of the Kingdom Visionary

Habakkuk 2:2-4: I will STAND upon my watch, and SET me upon the tower, and will watch to SEE what he will SAY unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

And the Lord answered me, and said, WRITE the VISION, and make it plain upon tables, that he may RUN that reads it.

For the vision is yet for an APPOINTED TIME, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

BEHOLD, his soul which is lifted up (proud) is not upright in him: but the JUST shall LIVE by FAITH.

There are some KEY WORDS highlighted in those four verses, and they are: STAND, SET, SEE, SAY, WRITE, VISION, RUN, APPOINTED, TIME, as the JUST, LIVE by FAITH.

NOTE: All these "words" are descriptive of a VISIONARY who is more than just a dreamer, but a GOVERNMENTAL messenger with AUTHORITY who points beyond the conflict into the CONQUEST of victory.  

NOW, MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, WE MUST HAVE KINGDOM VISIONARIES!

Habakkuk (in the scripture quoted at the top of this article) is speaking during a time of great conflict when the armies of the Chaldeans are destroying entire regions and it appears there is no end to the devastation, yet this basically unknown prophet makes a statement that changes everything as he declares: "I will STAND upon my watch, and SET myself to SEE what God will SAY to me!" This VISIONARY is not content to just "hear" what God will say, but he is determined to SEE (comprehend and gain a greater perspective) of WHAT GOD IS SAYING! This is only accomplished as he STANDS (set) in the presence of God that takes him HIGH above the conflicts. This VISION will REPROVE (renovate) the visionary who receives it before it is delivered through him.

In Habakkuk 2:2 God tells the prophet something that is a vital principle as He says to WRITE the VISION! Writing is not just so the runner will not forget it, but WRITING what God says is a manifestation of a legal document. His WRITTEN WORD! This becomes a CONSTITUTIONAL Kingdom  guarantee before the INSTITUTIONAL activation of the runner to insure ABSOLUTE success.

NOTE: The visionary is not the AUTHOR of the written vision, but the AUTHOR is God. The word author means: creator or originator and while the runner is receiving a written document at that moment, the BOOK (God's Word) has already been fully accomplished before the world was formed, but this is an APPOINTED TIME for insight to be revealed through the visionary runner.

The AUTHOR (God) gives written, AUTHORITY as the Word is more than a literary set of poems, but it is the Constitution of His Kingdom. The AUTHOR then gives authority to the visionary runner to become His representative of what's written with POWER.

The VISIONARY now RUNS with the VISION. There are two types of RUNNING. Someone is either running "away" from something in fear, or running "with" and "toward" something in purposed destiny. Too many people (even in some traditional church settings) are running in reaction to the current turbulent world conditions (the Chaldeans) as their eyes have focused on uncertainties, instabilities, and an escapist mentality.

This is not an hour for visionaries to disappear, but genuine God ordained visionaries are His innovators ignited in an unmovable Kingdom that overcomes the world. The VISION is the manifested comprehension of purpose. Vision is not "what" we do, but "why" we do it and "who" we are.  Vision is IN US NOW and set AHEAD of US to run into what God has already ordained. Visionaries have tomorrow in them, today.

The visionary RUNNER is aware of current uncertainties, but they LIVE in the promises, possibilities and potential set ahead in absolute Kingdom purpose. These champions run through troops and leap over the walls of adversity with the AUTHORITY of the AUTHOR who overcomes the world. Especially in these "end times" the visionary is already looking into NEW BEGINNINGS. The VISION is not a little self-made project, but God ordained governmental revelation that will change entire nations. Vision brings a crisis to the crisis.

No matter how it looks currently, a visionary has hidden written absolutes in the tables of their heart becoming activated LIVING treasures that manifest at the appointed time God specifies. Even though it seems to tarry (or linger) it will never be late.

VISIONARIES SEE what God is SAYING and SPEAK in due season with AUTHORITY that shakes nations as the Kingdom is manifested on the earth. Who are these visionary RUNNERS? It's YOU if you SEEK FIRST the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, governed (running) by His Constitution. This is why verse 3 of Habakkuk chapter 2 says that the JUST (justified, righteous carriers) shall LIVE by faith. Even as things in the world are crumbling, the Kingdom visionary stands solid with an unmovable blueprint of promised victory.

Psalm 126 is written in a time of captivity, but in the midst of it there were those that DREAMED and had a mouth filled with laughter and singing because the promise of God became their VISION of destiny beyond the conflict. There are innovative ideas in you right now that people are waiting to see and hear that will unlock God's Kingdom even more into the earth. Champions of the Kingdom MUST shake themselves and STAND upon their watch again. This is the greatest hour for God's people!

Now more than ever before, we need Kingdom visionaries who are pioneers that triumph and continue to influence and infiltrate the world with the GOOD NEWS of God's Kingdom. Keep dreaming, keep building, and keep running with the GOOD NEWS throughout the world because your APPOINTED time of manifested victory is here. VISIONARY RUNNERS have beautiful feet!  Isaiah 52:7

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Monthly Message for September 2012: From Meager Mindset to Mansion Mentality

In John 14:2, Jesus is recorded as saying; "In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."

What did He mean by this? There's much traditional and religious discourse on these words often culminating conventional reasoning that says: "Jesus has gone to prepare a place for us to live in heaven." ..but since we originally came from God's eternal realm, there would not be a whole lot to "prepare" up there. There are others who assert that Jesus is constructing mansions, or "big houses" for us to live in."...but could it be some have had an incorrect perception of what He meant by mansions?

John 14:2 is a fascinating scripture as Jesus is preparing to transition and He can see that His disciples are looking concerned. Again note what He says here in verse 2; In My Father's house are many MANSIONS. That word "mansions" is only in the Bible once, but the words that define it are in the scriptures many times. Mansions are not just elaborate or expensive celestial houses for strumming harps, but a mansion is described as: an abode, a residing, and "a place" as in a designated ROOM, a distinct position, for a specific purpose.

Jesus goes on to say that these "mansions" are in His Father's HOUSE. While heaven is a realm of God's rule, the house Jesus is talking about here is not "heaven", but His government. The Greek word for "house" is oikia meaning a governed family or citizenship, oikonomeo (stewardship), and oikonomia (economy). All of these interconnected words refer to God's Kingdom.

Jesus goes on (in verse 3) to say; "And if I GO to prepare a place for you, I will COME again and receive you unto Myself: that where I am you may be also." Those two words; GO and COME are transitional language. Jesus had to GO, (not to get us out of the world), but to bring the Kingdom into the world by COMING and igniting us with the Holy Spirit (Kingdom governor).. the very life of God IN US... making us NEW CREATIONS (back to the original blueprint) of God's house. Of course Jesus is coming again, but this scripture here is not referring to that coming, but here He is talking about coming IN US by the power of (the comforter), the Holy Spirit.

Thomas, feeling totally clueless in his current state of mind said to Jesus; "We don't know where you are going, and how can we know the way?" No doubt he was looking for a roadmap to get up to heaven, but Jesus responded; (v.6) "I am the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE.." In other words, the WAY and the PLACE (His Father's house, the Kingdom) was standing right in front of them.

We don't physically die to get to our mansion, but we die to sin and the old meager mentality to behold a mansion mindset (a huge room in our hearts and minds we didn't know was there before) in expanded dimensions of life bringing cultivation of God's Kingdom as we live on this earth.

So, while heaven is a real place for saints in reserve, God, opened His Kingdom, presence and atmosphere on the earth to cultivate His dominion through His saints... making ROOM (or mansion places) to grasp the magnitude of our PURPOSE, PERSPECTIVE, and POSITION.

As redeemed fellow-citizens everything has changed.. old things begin to pass away by beholding all things are becoming new. We've been delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of God's dear Son. Did we leave earth yet? No... but we are (even now) sitting together in heavenly PLACES (mansions) in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:6).

The problem Jesus faced with many who could not understand the Kingdom of His Father, was a "meager mentality" or carnal mindedness that had people trapped in the so called "normal" of a corrupted world system. Before Christ came there had been generations of ignorance and cultures set in false gods and systems of debt, disease, and decadence that blinded them to their Kingdom purpose. They huddled in the hut of circumstance.

Also there have been some religious traditions of men that aided this bondage of the mind as often they painted the gospel as welfare for victims, dependency on clergy, and a hope always put off to a future obtainable only after leaving this earth. Too many, even today, are trapped living in a small portion of their potential with limited thinking, but Jesus came to restore His Father's Kingdom and bring a mansion mentality that says, WITH GOD, ALL THINGS  ARE POSSIBLE NOW and we are position as more than CONQUERORS (not victims)!

This is why He continually had to give a snapshot of the Kingdom though visionary examples. This gospel of the Kingdom gave hope for a future, but it is also emphasized activation in the HERE and NOW  TRANSFORMING the hearer with a RENEWED MIND into new dimensions and expanded paradigms they never even knew was hidden in them. (Romans 12:2) This is not just a dim hope for the sweet by and by, but a quickening of VISION and PURPOSE for the vital NOW and NOW that launches a promised destiny beyond anything we ever dreamed.

Even in these "end times" God is cultivating a NEW BEGINNING and it's time for His ambassadors to shake themselves again and expect spiritual, physical, and economic paradigm shifts like never seen before. Break out of that old spiritually mortgaged shed, stretch your cords and strengthen your stakes in greater borders to take dominion as stewards of the King.

It's time for God's citizens to recognize that we have a great King who  has given us POWER, AUTHORITY, and DOMINION over anything that would try to stand in the way of our purposed future. To activate the OVERCOMER in us, we MUST become MANSION minded and get out of the tiny "meager shed" of yesterday's wrong thinking. Time to demolish that old faulty house  so we can see the huge ROOM God has provided for our vision and purpose.

When we talk about mansions, we're not just talking about having more "stuff", but we are referring to breaking out of those limitations of apathetic survival and moving on into Kingdom dominion where nothing shall be impossible with God.

We are more than conquerors through Him that loves us, so we MUST snap the chains of current circumstances and activate our expectancy again. He is able to do EXCEEDING, ABUNDANTLY, ABOVE all that we can ask or even think... SO LET'S THINK BIG AGAIN. Jesus said that even a little mustard of FAITH can move mountains because in that seed is Kingdom government, authority and the potential of a huge destiny.

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Monthly Message for August 2012: Kingdom Constitution

At the heart of all nations & kingdoms is a constitution. In my country of America, most people think of the Constitution of the United States, but that is only one and there are many Constitutions representing nations around the world. The U.S. Constitutional document was fashioned for a republic. A Republic form of government is the covenant the people make with themselves initiated by themselves. The Kingdom of God, however is not fashioned after that form of government and it is not fashioned after any world system (oriented) "isms"

In a kingdom, the constitution is the documented will, purpose and intent of a king. It is a royal contract that the king has with his citizens (quote from Dr. Myles Munroe's book: Kingdom Principles).

The Bible is God’s constitution (His Word) with Old & New Testaments. It is a legal document (with statutes) containing and outlining the basic laws or principles by which His country is governed. In a constitution, these principles together make up, or constitute, what the entity is. The term constitution comes from the Latin word “constitutio”, used for regulation and order. Most commonly, the term constitution defines the nature and extent of government (or how things  are  governed).

The Kingdom of God is not a fad, religion or even a movement, it is the complete destination and includes the journey that cultivates to it.  When we talk about a MOVE of God, it is not really God who is moving because He's already there, but it is we who are moving into Him. His Kingdom is UNMOVABLE and IMMUTABLE. Hebrews 6:17-19 speaks of the intent of God to show His citizens the IMMUTABILITY (unchanging) of His CONSTITUTIONAL counsel by confirming it with an oath so that we can LAY HOLD onto HOPE (assured promise like an anchor) SET before us.

The constitutions established in countries by men were set containing laws with the desire to shape a course for the development of a system of government with a goal of cultivating a specific society of citizens.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE: Anything that is INSTITUTED must be CONSTITUTED because if not, it will have no foundational structure to form development and the result is collapse. If you institute (construct) a house before you constitute (or blueprint) it, the result will be something slapped together, short sighted and unsustainable.

The corrupted mindset of mankind (due to Adam's reverse) developed disorder in first INSTITUTING rule, and then afterwards forming a CONSTITUTION to govern it....

... but God CONSTITUTED (blueprinted) the end result first and then He INSTITUTED (began initiating construction) calling it GOOD (complete). While His constitution is cultivating us and restoring His Kingdom back to the earth, He is not launching this government as though it were a fledgling  test idea, but His Kingdom is already COMPLETE and IMMUTABLE because He started with the end (result) and then He BEGAN!

This is why Matthew 6:10 says; "Thy Kingdom COME (be revealed complete) ...how?.. Thy will be DONE...where?.. in earth as it (already) is in heaven. The constitution of the Kingdom is ABSOLUTE with all the promises, benefits and even consequences if disregarded. The King of kings has decreed things that cannot be changed from His original intent and that includes His ordained purpose set for each of us.

As Kingdom citizens, we are not at war with people (flesh and blood) and we are not motivated by adversarial reactions, but we are Ambassadors of the King. While we love people we also stand for a Constitution that will challenge and change whatever is unconstitutional. People may think they can vote on alternatives, but God has not changed His mind on how He set His law of life and it cannot be amended. People can collectively decide to do away with gravity but will find ultimately that it is still in force if they jump off of a mountain.

As the Kingdom progresses into influencing, infiltrating and impacting this world, there will be times of great receptivity but also challenging reaction from the current systems of the world. Whatever the price, the prize is victory. The GOOD NEWS of the Kingdom is actually astounding people from all major spheres of life in business, science, governments and more, but it is also causing corrupted elements to react and making the devil nervous as the heat of God's eternal Constitution melts old paradigms. Things look disturbing in these times, but no matter what "one world order" may be planned by some behind the scenes, God is on the throne and His Kingdom has an immutable constitution that has already overcome the world systems (1John 5:4) Psalms 2:4 says; "He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them (corrupted principalities) in derision". So don't get distracted, but stay full of PURPOSE and VISION because the Kingdom of God has already triumph absolutely.

The Constitution of the Kingdom is more than just a written document to refer to once in awhile to see if laws are being upheld. In fact, while some of the laws of the Constitution applied to corrupted man's penchant for violating all laws, the ultimate purpose of revealing these laws were intended to reveal God's nature in redeemed man so he could become truly FREE. This is why Romans 8:2 says; "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death". This constitution of God's Kingdom is more than the letter of words on paper, but it is LIVING WORD personified through Christ the King and NOW in Him WE are LIVING CONSTITUTIONS known and read by all people.

 Further defined, the word CONSTITUTION is also the composition or structure of something or someone, the makeup or literally the  DNA. It is the PATH set in a PATTERN The body's ability to remain healthy and withstand disease is based on this active living design. It is the physical strength of a person based on activity to build fortitude to a pre-designed reference point. You may have heard someone say they were "Going out for their daily constitutional" (meaning, a walk to fortify their body). To CONSTITUTE: means to establish, initiate from a specific point, and to form a CONSTITUENCY (interconnected union).

Before we were born (instituted) He CONSTITUTED us and then activated us to be cultivated into His set course of victory.

The constitution of the Kingdom of God cannot be amended, so your purpose and destiny are sealed in victory, but like any constitutional contract, it is a covenant that involves our entering into it completely with full trust in the Creator that designed us. It's time to stand up with the courage of a LION knowing the immutability of the unmovable Kingdom we represent, and then go out with the joy that causes all creation to shout for joy at the manifestation of God's sons who have been given power to be living Kingdom constitutions.

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Monthly Message for JULY 2012: Discerning the Signs of the Times

Some religious rulers came to Jesus with the very clear agenda to outsmart Him with a request. This collection of Pharisees and Sadducees asked that He show them a "sign" from heaven. With their ulterior motives, they awaited His answer with mocking smirks on their faces hoping to embarrass Him.

While not reacting to their demand for performance, Jesus answered with a question as He said; "When it is evening you say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, it will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowering. Hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky; but you cannot discern the signs of the times? (Matthew 16:2,3)

This must have left them pondering greatly as they were standing there dumbfounded. These prideful religious men had no real interest in what was going on in heaven, but they only wanted to tempt Jesus into giving them the inside scoop on how it might affect their empires here on earth. This was not because they believed He really had heavenly insight, but simply to try and outsmart Him into giving them His strategies so they could be one step ahead of Him and appear to be superior to the people.

It is usually those with no vision who are intimidated by those who genuinely have it. This is unfortunate because everyone has been given purposed vision by God, but some are unwilling to die to "self-will" and yield themselves completely to God, and so they seek to imitate someone else's vision as if it is their own then build their superiority by downgrading the true visionary. A true God ordained visionary is not disturbed by another's God given vision, but celebrates it.

In truth, these Pharisees and Sadducees were reactionary blind leaders who were inadvertently admitting they needed the visionary insight of Jesus.

A visionary views and leads NOW in what's ahead, learning in each step and growing beyond their past, but sign seekers try to prepare now based on misconceptions from their past and miss their future.

Due to the "storms" raging around us politically, economically,  and in many other arenas, too many people (even many in "churches) are discarding the VISION set in them by God and focusing on how things currently seem. Seeking signs has too often taken the place of VISION & PURPOSE and that is a trick of the devil. Proverbs 29:18a says; "Where there is no vision the people perish (or cast off their strength)". This is not a time to discard vision, but this is the greatest time for innovative VISION beyond anything we've ever experienced before.

We who are Biblically sound Kingdom citizens all can agree that Jesus Christ is coming, but not because He's nervous or reacting to how bad things are in the world. When Jesus culminates His return it will be concerning TRANSITION of God's Kingdom because it's TIME!

God never reacts to the demands of the devil but the devil is very nervous and is reacting to how short his time is and his biggest weapons are deception and distraction. 

Yes, Jesus is coming, but He did not tell us go wait by a spiritual bus-stop and "seek signs", but in fact He went on to say  (Matthew 16:4) that it is a wicked and adulterous generation that seeks after signs.

Too many people still run after SIGNS. We know that there are great men & women of God who are genuine vessels of pure anointing operating in true miracles & signs, but the Word of God also warns to be aware of lying signs and wonders brought by false ministers (2Thess. 2:9). Manifestations are not the only proof of God given credibility, but ingredients like integrity and obedience to God's Word are even bigger factors in the equation. The key to knowing the true from the false does not start in suspicious scrutinizing of ministers, but it starts in examining your own motives and what YOU are SEEKING.

WE DON'T SEEK after signs, but WE must grow up and BECOME the SIGNS (billboards) that confirm the WORD by SEEKING first the Kingdom of God!  The signs did not approve Jesus, but God's approval of Jesus brought the signs. The signs did not make Paul an Apostle, but His calling as an Apostle resulted in the signs following. (Acts 2:22 & 2Cor. 12:12)

There are TWO distinct functions of a SIGN and they are

CAUSE (reason) &  EFFECT (activation)

To gaze at the EFFECT of creative colors & design on a billboard may amaze people in astounding wonder, but will not do anybody any good until (at some point) they focus on the purpose of the sign and the message it brings. Discerning the ORIGINATION, reason and message of the sign is what makes it a SIGN.

The definition of a SIGN is: an indicator of a message, conveyor of information, and signification of change into a specific direction.

An opportunist SEEKS A SIGN to either avoid oncoming consequences or to get ahead and ride the wave of advance at the expense of someone else, but a VISIONARY (prophetically) discerns the purpose (cause) of a SIGN and actually becomes an incubator (or resource) of the sign that causes the wave of manifestation (effect). VISIONARIES don't ride waves, they make them as innovators who impact the status quo.

In 1 Chronicles 12:32 it speaks of the sons of Issachar who had an UNDERSTANDING (discerning) of the times and what to do (wisdom).

Some only see the manifested storm and panic, but don't discern that the red clouds mean something has impacted the atmosphere to bring an EFFECT and IMPACT. As God's ambassadors rise up in Kingdom dimensions more and more, they bring IMPACT of a NEW government shaking the earth. All creation is waiting on the CAUSE & EFFECT of manifested sons!

 Let's be effective billboards (visionaries) with CLEAR direction to show the nations the HIGHWAY of our KING!

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Monthly Message for JUNE 2012: Overcoming Normal

It could almost sound like God just arbitrarily decided to re-arrange the "furniture" of His creation, but the PREPARATION (process) of the coming King shifts His creation back into the original pattern and design He intended.

When the first Adam fell, the earth began to degrade and man decayed into a "crooked" state. Mountains moved out of place and systems in the atmosphere began to mutate because the protective layer of God's glory was cut off.

The word, "crooked" means warped (distorted), perverted (backwards), and twisted (deceptive).

 When Luke 3:5 speaks of "crooked" places being made straight, some think it simply means bad things will get out of our way so we can get our lives back to "normal"... but what are we calling NORMAL? Most people point to a reference point they remember as being normal, but by what standard do we set the NORM? Norms are cultivated over time and thus become a culture of a society.

Most people in the world call mortgages, loans, and a debt system... NORMAL. Paying 10% to 30% on borrowed money is called a normal economy, but now that these systems are buckling under unsustainable weight, some are panicking... and actually praying that God will get our debt system back to "normal"... but that is not the correct prayer, and in fact, if John the Baptist were alive today, he would be saying; "The mountains, the valleys, and the systems are supposed to be shaking in PREPARATION of the re-entry of God's Kingdom being presented by His Ambassadors.

We are stewards of another ECONOMY with inner WEALTH yet to be discovered. God is opening time released mysteries in this hour with His DECREE of DEBT CANCELLATION for His people, but that means allowing His thoughts to become our thoughts eliminating a debt mentality. Is it possible to live without debt? Of course! Is it normal? YES.. but more it's God's purposed plan with promise!

Even now, we who are Kingdom citizens through Christ Jesus (the 2nd Adam) are cultivating God's dominion back on His planet. Romans 8:19 makes it clear that "All creation is waiting on the manifestation of the sons of God". 

Will there be shaking, fire and melting, yes.. to shake and burn those things that are "crooked places" and simultaneously prove those things that cannot be shaken or moved.

Jesus made it clear that wars and instability of times would come, but He also said "See that you be not troubled" (literally), don't get wrapped up in what appears to be happening, because God is up to something amazing in the culmination of reconciling His Kingdom. Stay focused keep heads lifted up, and eyes filled with vision.

Jesus, the King of kings was the 2nd Adam who came and brought the atmosphere and life of the Kingdom into the world and even when He died (like seed going into desperate soil) the scriptures say that the rocks ripped apart because creation was already beginning to be reset, and when He resurrected the paradigms in the ground were changed to produce many seeds (you and me) to multiply over all the earth.

Often people speak of how "abnormal" miracles, signs, and wonders" are when they manifest, but in truth, genuine miracles are restoration back to the original pattern in the Kingdom, but they ignite and amaze in an abnormal world. We thought the world was walking normal until we became justified in Christ (set upright) and now see it's the world that's walking crooked.

Many things we have called normal are being challenged by God's Kingdom in this day and hour. The corruption in the world is being accelerated by a nervous devil who knows his time is short, so he is trying to sear the conscience with perversions to be accepted as the "new normal".. but make no mistake, the crooked places will get straightened out as the the KING of GLORY comes in and is already here through His ambassadors bringing infiltration, influence, and impact into every level of nations. God is at work, not against people, but to restore people to His original purpose and plan for their lives. We bring GOOD NEWS and a NEW day bringing an END TIME to crooked places!

This is why Isaiah 55:12, 13 makes it clear that as we GO OUT into the world with effective strategies, we will actually see mountains and hills break forth into singing and trees shall clap their hands... Instead of thorns shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier, shall be the myrtle tree as we PREPARE the WAY of the LORD!

Our NORM is set in the prophetic process of Kingdom purpose, changing paradigms and opening the PATH to make WAY for the RE-ENTRY of our King! The best is yet to come!

In Victory, Dr Rick Kendall

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Monthly Message for MAY 2012: Kingdom Banking

In Matthew 6:19-21 Jesus talks about what could accurately be called: Kingdom Banking. He speaks of "laying up" (or depositing) treasures in a heavenly account protected by what could be called the FDIC (the Father's Dominion Insured Commonwealth). This is the vault protected from moth, rust and it is where no thief can break through or steal. When we speak of this "heavenly" Bank, we are not talking in vaporous puffy terms but it is a Rock solid economy that even guarantees an earnest down payment now. The Kingdom of God is an eternal city and government functioning within each one of the redeemed who have become fellow-citizens. The Kingdom of God has never had a recession and has never been in debt. It is so solid that material things (seen) on earth actually came out of the Spiritual realm and nature of God.

While most tend to think of "banking" in the simple terms of depositing and withdrawing money when needed... there's much more to what banks have evolved into. Banking began with merchants  of the ancient world who made loans to farmers and traders that carried goods between cities. Due to Adam's transgression the world got corrupted and a "debt" system brought the development of usury. Usury is the practice of charging excessive, unreasonably high, and often illegal interest rates on loans. The "bank" in those times was nothing more than a bench or small table where these transactions took place. Lenders  were often based in temples making loans but also added two important aspects: accepting deposits and changing money. The "moneychangers" as they became to be known were making huge profits through usury at the expense of people who did business with them.

This is why Jesus overturned the tables (banks) and drove the money changers out of the temple. He said; "My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves." He was not mad at the concept of entrepreneurs and He was not against business people, but these were thieves embellishing the practice of money changing through high interest rates and the selling inferior products... in other words, they were opportunists using the Temple for their own agendas and doing it with a debt system that was opposed to the government of God's Kingdom. (Matthew 21:13) When Jesus spoke of His house it went beyond the physical temple building, but He was speaking of His governmental "household", management, and Kingdom economy. This economy is a commonwealth and it all belongs to God. We are not owners of the King's resources, but stewards with access.

Mankind, in a fallen condition, set the formation of loans. Over time the debt systems cultivated into the fabric of society as accepted norms. People automatically assumed they had to have these "loans" to purchase a house or buy a car because it's considered the "normal" process.

Many of the things called normal are really crooked but have been that way so long people think it's straight. It's time for the upright people of another economy to manifest God's principles that make crooked places straight.

There are corrupted men in secret places processing a world system to bring nations into bondage. Our battle is not with flesh and blood, but the enemy is the devil who brings greed and lust into these arenas. Technological advances within themselves are not all bad, and in fact, we should be on the cutting edge with innovative answers that cause financial institutions to sit up and take notice. It's about relevance with no compromise.

We know Jesus Christ came to redeem us from the debt of sin, but that redemption includes all resulting forms of spiritual, physical and financial debt. Christ came to seek and save (restore) opened access back into His Kingdom so that cultivation of His dominion could manifest through us.

We are in this world's economy, but not of it. There is another economy, and it is the Kingdom of God. In order to stand in God's authority we must break free from dependence on systems that operate from a debt mentality.

In recent months I've been hearing God declare that He has already released miraculous debt cancellation. Look for it, expect it.  Hidden wisdom is being opened even now, and the world systems cannot see it, because it is only for the eyes of those who earnestly seek first God's Kingdom.

 God is even now revealing innovative avenues to responsible debt cancellation that will actually cause many in the world's economy to seek you for wisdom and answers.

God's Kingdom banking does not start with money, but begins with the wealth of inner purpose, investments into relationships, and deposits of God ordained ideas. The Kingdom vault within you is FULL and ready for dispensing into the lives of people... and yes... it will bring financial victory as well.

The house of God is a great exchange center for transfer of wealth, but will not tolerate usury.  Did you know that when you bring an offering into the house of God (His Embassy), it is exchanged from one country's monetary system and transferred into the economic value of God's Kingdom government? Every DEPOSIT (of trust & dependancy) we lay up into Kingdom reserves brings a prophetic return for distribution in God's time. It is a time when the reaper is simultaneously walking alongside of the sower. The yoke of debt is being destroyed by reason of the anointing of God's economics.

As we give all we are and all we have into the King's depository, He simultaneously invests all He is into us.  Get ready for greater wealth transfer than you ever dreamed in coming days. In God's Kingdom Bank your investments are not only insured but assured by the seal of the King.

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Monthly Message for April 2012: Religion Analog or Kingdom HD

Technology is accelerating so fast that things, once thought innovative, are quickly vanishing off the scene like the audio cassette player, video VCR, and the old black and white TV's. Even functions on the TV are changing. There are no more "horizontal hold" tuning knobs  but there was a time when that feature was imperative on TV's because the picture on the screen would start moving upwards until it literally began flipping! Horizontal tuners are nearly a thing of the past since analog systems brought stabilization in the transmission of the picture on the screen. Analog, and projector screen televisions, now however, are sitting out by sidewalks for trash pick up because of the entrance of HD and other current technologies making them obsolete.

The goal is not to hold on to the days of old technology when an antenna sat on top of your TV, but the GOAL is to SEE THE PICTURE. Lamenting the days of static radio or trying to re-ignite the day of silent movies is really missing the point...because what we need is to clearly GET THE MESSAGE.

Jesus said: You do not understand my speech...because you cannot hear  (or receive) my Word. (John 8:43) In fact He also said: I have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear (or perceive) it right now. (John 16:12)... Why? Because they were listening with the analog ears of religion, but He was transmitting with the HD frequency of God's Kingdom.

Churches that only focus on the "horizontal hold" of keeping people out of trouble, have missed the second half of the plan where the Rock sets saints into cultivating their HD (or Holy Dominion) of purpose & destiny. Hebrews 6:19 calls this an anchor (no more horizontal rolling picture). Kingdom mysteries are being revealed, but only to those who are on the frequency of revealed wisdom will see it.

Here's the HD (or Holy Dominion) components God is cultivating in His citizens to perceive with His perspective and receive clearly and accurately what He is transmitting.

Kingdom perspective begins with God's PRECEPTS (or laws, principles, and foundation). Out of these precepts form CONCEPTS (cultivation, birthing of ideas & vision) opening PERCEPTION (comprehension, understanding) that results in our PERSPECTIVE (way of thinking, discernment, view). This is not a complete list, but just the main components of Kingdom HD.

If our precepts are set in man's traditions, religious static, or in past events, then our ultimate perspective will become irrelevant, out dated, and tainted,  but if our perspective comes from the frequency of God's eternal Kingdom, we will advanced continually into the unfolding mysteries and revelation of His glory that RENEWS us daily.

Lamenting the "good old days" of the computer that was so huge that it filled a whole room distracts from the revelation in a laptop that downloads information in a split second. The technology is just the vehicle to communicate. Making the technology the message, blocks the message and forfeits the need for the technology.

A huge church building is impressive, but if it becomes void of transmitting the Constitution of the Kingdom (the living Word of God), then that building will become an obsolete museum filled with past moves and memories (much like the faded images on an old TV that cannot fully tune in a channel).

Perspective has a point of origin (a beginning reference point). Where are you getting your overall PERSPECTIVE? What frequency are you on?

Is it coming from the current events happening on the earth? Jesus told us not to let it trouble us.

Is your perspective getting a snowy picture due to what men say about the economy?... Well we are of another economy.  The Kingdom of God is never in recession and has no debt.

In fact, God has just activated a release of debt cancellation to His ambassadors to position them for taking ground as His stewards NOW, and this is releasing innovative treasure that the world systems know nothing about because it is only being transmitted to His people for Kingdom infiltration and influence.

This is a day and hour, that we must do some spring cleaning in our hearts and minds. Whatever is slowing you down and gaining dust in the attic of your thoughts, toss it out, including that old transistor mindset with the broken tuner, and open up to the frequency of ever expanding borders given freely by our King. Your VISION is becoming HD!

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Monthly Message for March 2012: Globalization

Trying to define the word; "globalization" is not an easy task and it depends on who you talk to that determines what meaning you may get. Whether you think globalization is good or bad, the fact is... it is here.

The dictionary basically qualifies "globalization" as global integration of the culture, government, and economies of people from all nations. Most often it refers to the economics of global distribution and production of goods and services in international trade.

Through the internet and other technologies it would seem that the world has gotten smaller and international has become trans-national. Our back yard is less local and the world is on our front porch. Should we be threatened or excited? 

Psalm 24:1 says; "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein." The world (Gr. kosmos) is defined as the original orderly arrangement, pattern and design of the earth and space. The world is not sin, but is out of order through sin (or transgression).  It's true that we are separated from "corrupted worldliness" but that should not mean withdrawal from people in the world. Going out into all the world is really KINGDOM GLOBALIZATION! (Matthew 24:14, Mark 16:15).

The church is God's embassy on this planet and should never become a sub-cultural religion. The embassy of God must come out onto the world stage with influence, infiltration, and strategic impact like never before. Why is this so imperative? ... because while globalization of cultural exchange, international relationships, and market trade should be a good thing, it can become something else when corrupted governmental forces omit God and use it for self seeking goals.

World leader groups such as the G-8, IMF, and others have formed international consortiums to develop what is often termed as the goal of a One World Order The term One (or New) World Order is formally defined as, a development of global governance to address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual nation-states to solve. While that sounds okay, it becomes problematic when the devil deceives men into thinking they own the world. God never gave man ownership, but He gave stewardship and dominion to cultivate His Kingdom on His planet.

Mankind in a corrupted state set his own "order" that really amounts to "dis-order" as it is framed in a debt system. The rising formation of the seven mountains, and ten horn governments are no surprise to God as He already outlined it in Revelation 17 and we know that unholy alliances will ultimately come down.

It is not the concept of "one world" or "order" that is the issue here, but it is the manipulation by Satan and the greed of corrupted men that turns a philosophy into a deceptive governmental tyranny. When mankind (in his lost state) took ownership of God's property, he also got deceived into thinking he could take domination over people and in a perverted attempt to take over the world, he thought he could also build a tower to God. The result was the tower of Babel, but God confounded their languages and scattered their self-serving one world "order". Globalization is distinctive from what we know today as "one world order". The concept of globalization (meaning: all as one yet many) was God's original idea. In fact His Body (His people) are ONE BODY yet many MEMBERS (tongues, tribes and nations).  While God had to scatter the greedy efforts of a "one world" Babel, He brought globalization into proper perspective on the day of Pentecost when men glorified Him in many languages as ONE!

So what should we (as Ambassadors) do in these unstable times of international conflict? Should we hide under a table or huddle together at a heaven bound bus stop and peer into the sky? NO!!!... because even though we know nations will shake and our King is coming to transition us, we also know we are not victims looking for escape, but victors with a directive from our King to OCCUPY nations.

We need to unite and GLOBALIZE to bring the GOOD NEWS of God's Kingdom into all the world. We as Kingdom ambassadors need to form some G-8's. G-20's & G-1000's (God's connected saints) to summit innovations and ideas for cultivating His Kingdom in the nations. Beginning now let's combine resources, to work together as one, yet MANY distinctive unique parts and activate international interconnections. It's time to cease being divided into our own walls and begin to NETWORK as a community of Kingdom citizens who are cultivating God's government back into every sphere of influence. Don't reject globalization, but embrace it, stand together and let's fill the earth with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. This is God's ORDER and it will make all things NEW!

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Monthly Message for February 2012: SUPERABUNDANCE

JOHN 10:10, records an incredible statement made by Jesus Christ. He says I AM COME that they might have life and have it more abundantly.  MORE ABUNDANTLY is not more of the same, or more preconceived notions. The (more) abundant life our King is speaking of here is defined as SUPERABUNDANCE.. or literally the OVERFLOW of

1. Paradigm Changing, perimeter reshaping... INCREASE.

2. Exceeding excellent, and ever expanding revelation (unfolding of His mysteries)

3. The sonic boom of Kingdom lifestyle bringing infiltration, influence, and innovation

God's Kingdom Economy (or wealth transfer) is not coming from the outside in, but from the inside out. This superabundance is already inside God's people, but is often corked by carnal, cultural or circumstantial thinking. It's like pouring the ocean into a teacup. God makes it clear we must discard the old dimensions of our thinking and expand into His thoughts and be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

This MORE ABUNDANTLY (superabundance) is set in the vault of God ordained purpose where no thief can break through or steal. This treasure (within us) is set in reserve until purpose strategically opens the vault for wealth transfer. This wealth is not money, but will produce strong financial wealth.

While treasure is being cultivated within us, the LIFE of God is always pouring through us daily with the overflow of an earnest down payment (or seed) as representation of a greater wealth in development. (Ephesians 1:14) Superabundance is not abundant until there is perpetual overflow of everlasting eternal life. This is not a "religious" term, but a LIFESTYLE of POWER released through Kingdom citizens.

Genesis 1:20 speaks of LIFE in the WATERS. "And God said, let the waters bring forth ABUNDANTLY the moving creature that has life, and the fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good." Did the abundance of water just bring forth "more wet?" NO, but it brought forth living breathing creative and innovative LIFE! This LIFE is POWERFUL but it is administrated by the GOVERNOR of God's Kingdom... the Holy Spirit.

NOTE: Acts 2:1 describes the entry of this powerful LIFE shifting Governor bringing a mighty rushing WIND, with renovating FIRE and an overflow of abundant living WATER. This did not make the people Pentecostals or Charismatics but they became saturated in Kingdom manifestation. It produced instant interpretation of languages unlearned by the natural mind for global communication to glorify God, and released a heavenly language once communicated between God and Adam before he transgressed... but... it does not stop there.

THIS SUPERABUNDANCE of LIFE giving POWER by the Holy Ghost did not just give them an emotional soaking, but it says in Acts 2:17 that the result of this SUPERABUNDANCE is an outgrowth of creative visions, dreams, and innovations as sons and daughters prophesy (literally speaking life into their God ordained purpose and destiny). Old men dream dreams (wisdom) that invest into the young men with vision (knowledge and productivity).

This is what Jesus was talking about when He said: Out of your belly (birthing place of vision) shall flow RIVERS of living waters! (John 7:38). Don't be deceived by the way things appear. Even in this time of unstable world economies and uncertain global crisis... PREPARE FOR SUPERABUNDANCE. God is opening mysteries of His economy that will bring debt cancellation and new understanding of His pro-vision, but we MUST pop the cork into unlimited mentality.

This is why the apostle (ambassador) Paul said that it's time to comprehend the breadth, length, depth, and height of Christ who is able to do exceeding, ABUNDANTLY, above all that we can even ask or think... but it's according to the GOVERNING POWER that we allow to work IN US. Pop the cork and OPEN up the ocean of innovative purpose exploding inside you. Start splashing OVERFLOW all over everybody you see because we are in the day that the knowledge of the glory of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. SUPERABUNDANCE is the language of Kingdom economy.

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Monthly Message for January 2012: God's Gold Standard

We just celebrated the birth of Christ. The Wise men did not bring gifts for a baby, but for a King. As recorded in Matthew 2:11, they opened their treasure of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. These were not just arbitrary gifts, but of royal significance. In the larger scope, these "gifts" represent US being presented to the one who is the GIFT of God. These three gifts also represent a process of Kingdom citizenship.

The myrrh (listed last) is really the beginning of the process as it defines being anointed and preserved with absolute purpose ordained by God, but that brings us to the Frankincense, (literally, the frank-incense). This is activated by refining fires as we become living sacrifices (Romans 12:1). Jesus Himself paid the price to get us into the Kingdom, but we must die to self-centered carnality and pre-conceived notions to cultivate God's Kingdom government in us. The frankincense refining process is intense, but the good news is that it produces us as pure (refined) GOLD!

God impressed this prophetic Word on my heart for 2012: His GOLD STANDARD is being released in greater understanding and measure than ever before. The gold emerging through our lives is far more precious than a rare glimmering rock dug up from the earth, but is the tangible gold of God's wisdom that will produce innovations beyond what we have ever seen. This will not be occasional "gold", but a gold standard (lifestyle) that will become the KING'S STANDARD revealed on the earth through wise-dominion.

The dictionary defines a "gold standard" as a monetary standard set by a government or cooperating countries where the basic unit of currency is equal to and exchangeable for a specified amount of gold (a tangible commodity). This has not been the standard setting for currency for some time now, but most nations operate on a shrinking promissory note and a huge amount of debt. The "economic crisis" of the world is not a lack of resources in the purse, but a debt mentality in the head (spending the future on the past).

We may be in this world's systems, but not of it. We are of Kingdom economy, and His Kingdom has never been in debt, and has untapped resources in reserve for all future needs to be supplied throughout eternity. WE ARE HIS DEPOSITORY, His vessels containing His GOLD. We do not own the wealth but are STEWARDS of His economy!

There's nothing wrong with storing food in a shed for rough weather, but God has not called us to be survivors, but thriving influences as His GOLD STANDARD BEARERS! No matter how rough things get in the world, our King declared; "I take care of the lilies, how much more will I take care of you".

NOTE: God is even now revealing innovative ideas and plans to free you from mortgages, loans and other debts. Don't be in condemnation if you have financial debts, but look for His open doors that will eliminate debt so you can take debt free ground. It's happening, expect miracles!

The other part of the definition of a "gold standard"... is the exceeding excellence of various arenas of life, considered the best, a benchmark, and the highest perfection to attain.

God is calling His Ambassadors (citizens of His Kingdom) to rise up and become declarations of His GOLD STANDARD into all nations. I love the focus Dr. Myles Munroe has shared for 2012 and it is; Kingdom Commonwealth Economy. Let's get ready to emerge as economic champions spiritually, physically and financially in this specific time when God has mandated a gold paradigm shift. This is YOUR TIME for expediential advance. 2012 is not the end, but just the beginning of greater vision and exploits in the Name of our King!

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Monthly Message for December 2011: Annihilation or Crowning?

Many disturbing predictions have been set forth by some concerning 2012 causing a degree of uncertainty in people concerning their future on this planet. Many try calculating "the end" by way of Mayan calendars and even some by the tabulation of current calendar dates but the timing of God is set from an eternal perspective having more to do with mandates than lunar dates.

It's interesting that Paul, an Ambassador (apostle) of the Kingdom of God, wrote to the Galatians that he was concerned that the investment of his ministry to them was becoming a waste of time because of their obsession with days, months, times and years. He wrote this to a group of people centuries ago yet even today many people seek to capitalize on chronological clocks and often miss the "kairos" (set) times.

Will world systems crumble? Yes. Will the devil seek to unite false gods and governments to bring an anti-Christ anarchy? Yes,.. but this is not the bigger picture of what is taking place. Over the years the word; "apocalypse" has been tossed around in scary terms, but the Greek word apocalypse simply means: revealed, or to take off the cover (discover). God is unfolding a mystery but some are getting caught up in the wrapping paper.

The scriptures speak of the world's current elements (or elemental systems) burning up, but it never indicates that the earth will "burn out" or be annihilated. So... what in the world is going on? While we know Jesus will return, do we fully understand why He's coming? Could it be that the times we are in are not set in catastrophe but a crowning moment?

The meaning of the word "crown" is a fascinating study as it is described as: a consecrated border of governmental rule or protected territory with honor and power signified on the head of the King reflecting dominion. A CROWNING moment is when something extremely significant takes place to bring a paradigm shifting result, resolve or change.

In II Samuel chapter 12:30 David's army defeated the Ammonites and he took the crown off the head of the defeated king and placed it on his own head signifying the transfer of rule, rights and restoration of God given territory. As God's Kingdom is making progress (through His citizens here on earth) it is becoming increasingly clear that the King's presence is shaking the corrupted systems and letting the devil know his time is short. God is opening doors of influence and entry for His Ambassadors to go into nations not as adversaries, but to win people in all legitimate spheres of life while simultaneously taking ground violently away from the devil. Does this shake things up? Sure! Kingdom dominion is manifesting a CROWN minded stance that challenges all the false kingdoms of this world systems to a fight. We, as Kingdom citizens, become gates and doors to usher the King in!

The lighter version of a crown is called a chaplet (or cap) that does nothing more than keep hair from blowing in the winds of adversity, but God has adorned His citizens with the full authority of a King's crown to take ground for His Kingdom. He has arrayed us in the crown of His loving-kindness (Psalm 103:4) His wisdom (Proverbs 4:9) and much more to cultivate His presence and take dominion. We absolutely must put on the whole armor of royalty, including the helmet (or crown) of authority, and become innovative world changers.

Whatever importance some place on 2012 numerically or as a calendar date, the greater significance will not be the next horrible act of a corrupted dictator, but it is the explosive progress of God in His saints with innovative ideas and Kingdom economy to change global paradigms in dimensions we've never seen before. God will send us into places we never knew we could go. The King of kings and Lord of lords is accelerating the infiltration of His Kingdom back on earth through His Ambassadors and ultimately bringing the crowning moment when the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ. Prepare now for fresh new dimensions of vision and cultivation of God given dreams. There will be massive explosions in 2012... not to annihilate but to renovate, and that explosion is YOU.

Monthly Message for November 2011: Kingdom Dimensions and Expanding Vessels

"No one sews a patch of unshrunk (new) cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the will will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. They pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. Matthew 9:16, 17 (NIV)

The new wine (mentioned in Matthew 9:17) is often equated to the Holy Spirit, and while there are scriptures referring to the Holy Spirit as new wine, this particular scripture is about a larger dynamic as it also references an example of new cloth on old clothes. The context here is that the Pharisees were asking why Jesus and His disciples did not fast according to a cultural custom (that was set loosely in a premise of ceremonial law). The Pharisees got stuck in outward works in an attempt to show superior spirituality, but were only achieving carnal pride that blinded them from the purpose of fasting in the first place. Jesus brought them up to date in His role as fulfillment of an expanding paradigm in Kingdom restoration. In other words... while fasting is fine, there was no need to "fast" for the purpose of awaiting the Messiah (bridegroom) because He was standing right there in front of them.

Many are stuck in old paradigms and have even forgotten why they still do much of the things they do, and many times, those old dead works are preventing them from catching a vision of expansion already at work in them. Foundational and fundamental principles are set to be prophetic springboards into cultivated progress but not to be confined in religious ceremonies that make the outside of our vessel look holy but in reality, empty inside. God's eternal purpose is already set (He is the same yesterday, today, and forever), but we are the ones growing into it from glory (revealed) to glory. We must expand to release His wealth.

To put new (expanding) wine (or vision and revelation) in old wineskins (hardened mindsets) is going to result in something like a volcano erupting in a teacup or a nuclear explosion in a soda bottle. The framework provided is just too limiting. The failure of the container to expand and increase cannot hold the overwhelming groundswell of innovative wealth that is ready for dispensation (distribution).

It is not just religious traditions that hold back the wealth of God from pouring through us, but it's the "cork" of misconceived past evaluations that only allows "drops" to manifest even though there's a ocean of creativity inside us. God is not just sending His power TO US, He is releasing His power and authority THROUGH US but many don't even know what they have expanding inside them! There is a treasure in our earthen vessels needing to be released but it cannot fit through the small cracked opening of a limited mentality! (2Coronthians 4:7)

No matter how far we've progressed in our journey we must constantly examine ourselves and ask; "Am I limiting God's potential in and through my life?" This questioning is not to bring condemnation, but evaluation. If you think you only have enough in you (to barely make it), then a tiny little window opening is all you think you need to distribute, but when God reveals to you that the wealth in you is greater than the size of Mount Everest, then a little "window" is not going handle it. What do you do? You expand your paradigms and perimeters to accommodate God's growth in and through you. You submit more of you to Him so He can become your door of increased distribution. We can no longer afford to think too small or too conventional. This is not just about large church attendance or a big business deal... it's about Kingdom expansion being revealed THROUGH YOU!

Ephesians 3:18-20 reveals the need to continually comprehend the breadth, length, depth and height of God's fullness and that He is now doing exceeding, abundantly, above, all that we can ask or think... according (to what?)...the power that we allow Him to work (produce) IN US!

We are in a very specific time where God is expanding His Kingdom power on and in the earth. His vessels (individually) and His collective church (embassies) will expand into new paradigms and dimensions of becoming world changers into many spheres of influence but those who will not let go of dead works and old wineskins will shatter. There will continue to be those with carnal agendas who may still appear to be successful but will be as empty clouds without water.

Do not be distracted or dismayed by what "appears" to be happening around you, but behold (look) into the face of Jesus Christ our King deep within you and discover that the of wealth (wisdom, innovation, supply, assignments, favor, health and more) is ready for distribution through you as God is up to something huge in this day and hour. God has already opened us to be His doors but we must allow Him to enlarge those doors, and increase the place of our dwelling to accommodate what He wants to expand through us to change dimensions, parameters, and paradigms with the gospel of His Kingdom into all the world.

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October 2011: The Kingdom of God is not a Fad, Fantasy or a Fast Food

"And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as My Father hath appointed unto Me; That ye may eat and drink at My table in My Kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." Luke 22:29-30

In Luke chapter 22, the disciples were partaking of what would become known as the "last supper" but in fact it was transition to a new beginning. These disciples had no idea of the magnitude of the meeting around that table. These men who had followed Christ still had notions of titles and positions. Even though this was Passover, they did not fully connect the dots, and to them this "dinner" was a celebration of their new realm of leadership.

In the middle of all this, Jesus says that the dinner bread represents His body and the cup symbolizes His blood of a NEW COVENANT (testament). The disciples could only see that the party was apparently over. They did not know, that this TRANSITION was about to bring a resurrection to change major paradigms. The gospel of the Kingdom is not a quick climb on a "ladder" of instant success, but it's eternity infused into a time released successive process of cultivation, colonization, and renovation.

The Kingdom of God is not a fad... In Matthew 20:21-23, James and John's mama comes to Jesus requesting that her two sons sit with Him, one on the right and one on His left IN HIS KINGDOM. She wanted instant promotion for her babies. No doubt she was thinking this was going to bring her two boys into something that was going to be very popular. Jesus responds by saying; You have no idea what you are asking for!

The Kingdom of God is not a FAD, FAME or a FAN CLUB and it is not a MOVEMENT or a PHASE. Throughout time we've seen Healing movements, Pentecostal, and Charismatic movements (among others) and those aspects are parts of the bigger picture but the Kingdom of God is not a movement, it's  the DESTINATION.

Our roots are more than any one denomination, and go deeper than even Hebrew roots, because we are established in an eternal Kingdom that was our lineage before the foundation of the world, formed by the Word that was set before any language was developed and sprung as Seed (out of the chosen ground) of a people to impact and restore every tongue tribe and nation as His Kingdom ground through the blood of His Son.

The Kingdom of God is not a fantasy... In Orlando Florida there is an amusement park with a castle dedicated to a fictional talking mouse where (they say) "dreams come true", but it is fictional fantasy. Too many have made the "church" a place to escape from the world, but the purpose of the church (as God's Embassy on earth) is to heal, refresh and equip saints with revealed purpose to go out into all the world. Imagination is a great tool if it is set in the IMAGE of God who is the creator of visions and dreams, but vain imaginations are the attempt of man to get God to do something to promote their own hidden agendas. God ordained VISION is not "fantasy" but it is a pre-destined path of promise set in purpose to establish the glory of God in all the earth.

Finally...The Kingdom of God is not fast food...

In Luke 22: 29-30 Jesus makes it clear that being appointed to His His Kingdom gives access to His TABLE, and that TABLE is set with the blueprint of purpose, plans and destiny. This is not the table of "fast food" but the partaking of mysteries to be revealed in the belly, cultivated as development and colonized through our lives.

We cannot chew on a few brilliant Kingdom teachings and think we've got it all, but in fact, the revelation of God's Kingdom we partake of is just an introduction to an unfolding mystery that MUST process in and through us. The Kingdom works in us before being manifested through us. It's about BEING before DOING. Some would like the Kingdom to work like a fast food order. They would say; "Give me some Kingdom nuggets with an order of miracles, signs and wonders on the side." These who want to make the Kingdom a marketing ploy for their own nourishment will shoot up like a rocket, but fade fast like a falling star. Just putting the word "Kingdom" in your ministry name does not mean you are walking in Kingdom understanding any more than being in a garage makes you a car.

Genuine miracles, signs and wonders are not a circus or a "side of French fries" to attract people to a man's ministry, but SIGNS are indicators that activate WONDER (or alert to an inner move of God) releasing MIRACLES (uncommon to the present world system) revealing that the King of kings has impacted the atmosphere of this world with a significant change of paradigms. The focus is not to try to make miracles happen, because it is dangerous to "follow" miracles, but healthy Kingdom protocol makes it clear that miracles will follow the Word of the King in His saints.

All creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons (offspring) of God. These "sons" are not carnal babies chewing on religious candy or self-centered junk food, but these are Ambassadors who are seasoned in a process of strong meat and skilled influence into all the world. Let's take our place at the King's table and savor His presence.

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Monthly Message for September 2011: Leadership in Abased Times

In Philippians 4:12, the Apostle Paul says; I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound

The Apostle Paul is an interesting study in LEADERSHIP. In Philippians 4:11 he says; "Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned IN whatsoever state (current situation) I am, therewith to be content." Paul goes on to qualify that "state" as being abased as well as times of abounding.   Most considered to be successful leaders today are measured by their ability to ABOUND, but the real test of a successful servant leader is how well they LEAD in times of being ABASED.

Pride suffers a big hit in times where one does not appear successful to the general observer. Often those desiring to be leaders quit because they think the embarrassment of one season is the final chapter. This is a result of misunderstanding what God ordained leadership is all about. Did you know that leadership is at it's most innovative in crisis and transitional during times when the leader is being abased?

We find out what's in us when we are squeezed and even though people are quick to assess based on current appearance, they continue to observe how a leader deals in the long term with situations such as rejection, humiliation, and other circumstances often not considered part of ultimate success.

All throughout scripture in the Bible there's example after example of champions who were thrown down, cast out, beaten up, but it was their LEADERSHIP (trusting God) in the crisis that actually brought the answer to greater victory. If you read the biographies of God ordained leaders who continue to impact generations, you will find there are chapters where they failed many times but continued to be VISIONARIES who dwelled beyond their current circumstance of seeming impossibilities.

Virtues such as INTEGRITY, CHARACTER, FORTITUDE and COURAGE, are not revealed so much in times of ABOUNDING, but they shine in the true leader through times of being ABASED. Let's be clear here, that when we refer to being ABASED we are not talking about conditions brought on by our own moral failings, (although God can deal change in us there too) but to be ABASED is to find yourself in places of challenge and humiliation not brought on by your personal doing. It may be that you have every right to be promoted, honored and accepted, but instead there are those who demote, degrade and reject who you are.

It's not IF leaders go through being abased, but it's WHEN they go through it, HOW they will navigate through. Did you know that you cannot ABOUND (spring board) without a good BASE (abasing)? More fruit can only spring through pruning back to the VINE. The Apostle Paul said; When I am weak (abased, I discover a new level of dependency on God's strength) to be strong (abounding) 2Corinthians 12:10.

Paul (in Philippians 4:11-13) makes it clear he had learned (cultivated) how to draw from God's STRENGTH and therefore had no "want" but knew how to flourish no matter if the season was abased or abounding. When Paul says he was CONTENT, he was not saying he had become mediocre or "accepted" the "status quo", but he had learned to GROW beyond where he was into where he was going by the PURPOSE of WHO he was in God's Kingdom. These are Kingdom principles at work.

Note: It is the abased challenge of today that is positioning you for the level of your ABOUNDING just ahead. Complaining about what's being done to you today will get you stuck there tomorrow. A true visionary does not grumble at today's circumstances, but plucks off any old feathers that may hinder upcoming flight and lives NOW on what he/she BEHOLDS ahead as though they are already there. No matter what it looks like, your best days are WITHIN YOU and AHEAD OF YOU, so show this world how a King's kid triumphs in every place no matter how things seem and get ready to launch HIGH!

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Monthly Message for August 2011: God's Real Estate Agents

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have DOMINION over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, AND OVER ALL THE EARTH, and over every creeping thing that creeps upons the earth. Genesis 1:26

REAL ESTATE is defined as "real" or a specific thing of value and "estate" means the original condition, position, territory and the right of authority to it in a realm. Psalm 24:1 says; The earth is the Lord's (ownership and authority), and the fullness (potential of all things) therein.

Note: Genesis 2:7 says; "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and BREATHED into his nostrils the breath of life (or literally, the LIFE, NATURE, and PERSONALITY of GOD); and man became a living soul". This LIFE became the TREASURE in an earthen vessel. God took the mud of His physical real estate, and then breathed His Kingdom image inside it to become the person within the skin! Then He gave this new Kingdom agent DOMINION over the real estate.

Adam was given authority to be a steward by taking DOMINION over the fish, fowl, cattle, creeping things and over all the earth. Instead of realizing that he had all of the Kingdom's knowledge within himself, Adam fell into the deception that a piece of outward real estate, (an apple), would give him power. Adam committed high treason causing him to be cast out of the garden realm allowing the thorns with briers of a twisted perception to corrupt the earth and the mud of man's flesh to decay. The lust of outward "things" for power resulted.

One of the biggest factors in current global economic instability is real estate involving houses, buildings, and LAND from local properties to international borders. Nearly every war fought by nations are over taking land from one government to be owned by another. Man has ceased to understand he is a STEWARD of God's property and has sought OWNERSHIP. This  results in greed, competition and depletion of natural resources. This thirst for territorial monopoly has taken mankind from true DOMINION into a system of DEBT.

The devil knows that the way to bring a false one world government is by gaining territory border by border through a DEBT infused system. The only way the enemy can appear to assume power is by creating the illusion that he has a SEAT of authority (or apparent GROUNDS to take a place). He will do this through corrupted systems that appear to have the answers for all the problems that the same system caused in the first place. This DEBT and TOILING system has resulted in creation crying out for a manifestation of God's sons. We are not experiencing global warming, but global groaning! No matter how fiery current world calamities seem and no matter how far the devil "appears" to progress in attaining a SEAT of power, it will ultimately come down because GOD, the KING is on His THRONE and OWNS it all.

God instructed Israel to TREAD OUT GROUND for "takeover" but that was not so they could OWN it for themselves and retain it exclusively into their customs, but it was to colonize the land for the restoration of His Kingdom. Israel was chosen not because God loves her more than other nations, but because His SEED sprang from that nation and through that SEED named Jesus, she was chosen to be a base of Kingdom operations to reach all the nations with the GOOD NEWS of His Kingdom. Now through Jesus Christ we have also become engrafted as citizens of His Kingdom to redeem back what was lost. God has delivered us from DEBT to restore our promise, purpose and  place of DOMINION.

Taking our PLACE as AGENTS of CHANGE means TAKING PLACES (treading out ground) like our Father OWNS the PLACE (because He does). Get ready for the manifestation of sons (men and women of God) with TITLE DEEDS in their hands. 

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Monthly Message for July 2011: Beholding What You Cannot See

The word, "behold" is in the Bible many times, often simply meaning to "look", (take note) or become "aware", but there are those times when God Himself proclaims things like; BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW! (Revelations 21:5) and then that word takes on an even deeper definition. The word, BEHOLD becomes a pronounced decree, a resolute proclamation, and with it a literal SHIFT into a NEW DIMENSION that transitions everything.

God is taking a deep transforming breath and preparing to declare another BEHOLD and we cannot treat it with a distracted glance, but we MUST set ourselves to GAZE UPON HIM FULLY. This is the same intensity Jesus said to SEEK (behold) first the Kingdom of God (Matthew 6:33). While this most certainly includes prayer, it is a consecrated lifestyle. To BE-HOLD is to HOLD our BEING at complete attention and receptivity to what God is cultivating in us. This is the birthing point of VISION and the key to grasping it fully.

God ordained VISION is the ability to BEHOLD what our physical eyes cannot yet see. Vision (revelation of purpose) begins to define the WHY to WHAT we are BEHOLDING. People who live by sight (physical eyes) are short-sighted. Living by the physical eye can only build perspectives by what's going on now through the lenses of past reference points. To BEHOLD a prophetic destiny requires a forsaking of our past misconceptions... so we can BEHOLD NEW. This can be applied to what the Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5:17 about our BEING in Christ... WE ARE NEW CREATIONS, (how?), old things (corrupted mindsets) are passed away, (by) BEHOLDING (holding our being in transformation to), all things BECOMING (or cultivating to the) NEW. No more "living" in the past, but our TODAY is about setting ourselves in purposed destiny ahead.

God calls us to BEHOLD (become Kingdom visionaries) I MAKE (fashion) ALL THINGS NEW (to the original blueprint)! God's NEW is always NEW, and it does not start to exist only after the old passes away. The NEW has always been there, but we could not see it because Adam's sin covered it up with the "old" (or degenerated ignorance).

Through our King Jesus, that old corruptible mud was excavated through and dug out to REVEAL and QUICKEN the NEW that got buried so we can BEHOLD the treasure in our earthen vessels and RESTORE the Kingdom that was lost! Even now we are BE-COMING re-acquainted to the NEW God says we already are. BEHOLD a new day, new levels of vision, new stages of purpose are already at work IN YOU right NOW. Stop depending on your physical eyes to tell you where you are in your process, and BEHOLD that you are further ahead than you "think". No more looking behind you or around you, but look for God's Kingdom within you and BEHOLD!

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Monthly Message for JUNE 2011: The End?... or Just the Beginning!

There is a lot of hysteria currently about THE END OF THE WORLD as some refer to ancient Mayan predictions with astronomical alignments and numerological formulae pointing to 2012 as an "end date". Over the years many self proclaimed "prophets" set specific dates for the "end". Sad to say, many people buy into these predictions and allow fear to govern their actions.

Does the book of Revelation speak of coming cataclysmic events with an antichrist waiting in the wings? Yes, but it is not the "end" for God's saints.

Most of the church world has pointed to the rapture as an open exit to get us out of the world before all hell breaks loose. It's important to note here that the Lord Jesus Christ is absolutely coming back...but not as a "rescue" mission in nervous reaction to world events to get fearful victims out! According to Ephesians 5:27 our King is coming for a glorious (fearless and influential) church.  We have not been called to wrath, so we need not be afraid no matter how violent the times are. The "catching away" of saints at the last trump is not focused on an "ending exit", but transitional preparation.

So then what are the END TIMES all about? To answer that, we have got to redefine the word; "end".

Some preach that God is so "mad" at the world that He's ready to destroy it altogether, but John 3:16 says; "..God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son"  Of course Jesus loves mankind and the price He paid reconnected us to God, but Jesus (the second "Adam"), came to restore "what" was lost and as redeemed sons of God we are agents of reconciliation to restore God's Kingdom and dominion. God's wrath is not aimed at His original world pattern (cosmos), but it is against a twisted world system whose elements will melt with a fervent heat. This is renovation fire that will eliminate the corruptible but not destroy His creation.

While the "END" involves "termination" of corrupted systems, the greater definition of END is; COMPLETION, RESULT, FULFILLMENT and TRANSITION.  International author and leader, Dr Myles Monroe teaches that; God sets the ULTIMATE END (or purposed result) at the BEGINNING, and then commences the journey to process toward it. In that process there are many transitions (endings of one season) to BEGIN (the next season) not to terminate, but to transition us.

You cannot have a BEGINNING without an expected END (or result). Many people don't let go of "what was" and forfeit their next level of  BEGINNING. Relationships need not END (or be terminated) if they are set in God's ordained END (or ultimate fulfilled result) but these relationships will last and grow if past disputes are allowed to END (be resolved) to BEGIN each day NEW.

The END of the world as we know it, is NOT ABOUT THE END, but about the BEGINNING of the next stage of advance to God's original Kingdom plan. TRANSITION IS VITAL. Jesus (after His resurrection) told His disciples: "I've got to GO (end this phase and transition), because if I don't GO, I cannot COME (begin a new level)!"

People who want God to DO what He DID, are missing the NEW THING He is doing? Jesus Christ, is the same yesterday, today, and forever but we are the ones transitioning into His eternal plan. What is it that we need to LET GO OF, so we can RECEIVE what God is giving now? Time to let some things END so there can be a BEGINNING (or activation) of the next level of our Kingdom assignment.

God Himself has no beginning and no end eternally, but He brings His presence into the framework of man's TIME and becomes ALPHA and OMEGA, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. For the Kingdom citizen, the beginning and the end (result) are not decided by world events, but by God's ordained plan and purpose. This is not a time to stand idle, but we MUST keep infiltrating and influencing this world with innovative ideas and vision that glorifies our King.

The Kingdom of God is being restored to the original pattern of a NEW heaven and a NEW earth. The NEW does not begin when the corruption ends, but it began at the BEGINNING and is already being uncovered, and rediscovered. God's NEW never gets old, and we are His NEW CREATIONS, (His agents of change). Get ready, your best days are just BEGINNING.

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Article for March 2011: No Longer Aliens but 1st Class Citizens

"In time past you were not a people, but now are THE PEOPLE OF GOD.." 1Peter 2: 10a

Some will never know fully what it feels like to be an alien living in another country under the scrutiny of citizens in that land. In some places even legal residents are made to feel like second class citizens having to watch their step at all times so as not to face deportation.

When we say "aliens" of course we are not talking about little green men from another planet, but some people might feel as out of place as that little green guy not knowing what country to call home. Upon further observation we might discover that all of us have felt a bit alien at times. "Do you think you have to apologize for occupying space on this planet? The good news is...our Father owns it!

As people of God... where is our country, where is our citizenship, and what CLASS of people are we? All three questions can be summed up in the 4 elements of our DNA listed in 1Peter 2:9 that says; In Christ our King we are a...