There is a major sensing that this year’s “Rosh Hashanah” will bring major changes from both a prophetic and global perspective. Time will certainly tell if this is true but it would seem that our world is demanding change. The dates of this year’s Jewish New Year begins this Sunday at sundown and will end on Tuesday, September 27. We can read about “Rosh Hashanah” in Leviticus 23:23-25 (ESV)
I imagine they would need to remember that promise over and over because being used by God to birth something brand new is often incredibly lonely and difficult. They along with the Apostle Paul, were foundational to the “mystery” that was about to be revealed, the church. Tradition tells us that every one of the disciples would die a martyr’s death. All except the Apostle John who was most likely the youngest of the disciples who walked with Jesus. Jesus said this about him in John 21:22 (ESV)
Does putting Jesus first allow me to live life as I please and treat people any way I like? Is it correct to call oneself and “follower” of Jesus or a “Christian” yet never crack open the scripture or even spend one minute in prayer and believe you’re putting Jesus first?
In the late 1990’s, Cheryl and I traveled to Argentina with team organized by Ed Silvoso. We had a truly awesome time and we learned so many things that remain a part of our ministry philosophy.
One of the principles we learned is that of “spiritual mapping”. Spiritual mapping involves a study of any given area and understanding what Lucifer has done to defile the area thus limiting the flow of God to bless the given area. Both God and Lucifer are into real estate and there is a cosmic battle raging for control of the area. Lucifer first waged war in Heaven then according to John in the Book of Revelation, chapter 12 was cast down to the earth; verses 7-12 (ESV)
I want to start out with a blog from our dear friend Susan Hawkins who writes a blog daily. The Lord has really had this topic of “tithing” on my heart for the last several weeks as I have tried to objectively examine it without guilt or condemnation. I loved Susan’s approach that “You can’t outgive God”. Susan wrote the following from Luke 6:38.
“Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.
If you have seen the movie “The Passion” by Mel Gibson, you might remember a scene when Jesus was on His way to the cross on the “Via Dolorosa”. He stumbles by the weight of the cross and while He is on His knees while regathering Himself, He says to His mother “you see mother, I make all things new again”. Although it’s nice scene and is indeed what Jesus is doing, the verse is way out of Biblical context. That verse is actually from Revelation 21:5 and is spoken by the Father;
From Salome
“As I woke up this morning I heard the voice of the Holy Spirit alert me to an URGENCY for Watchman to come into POSITION and the BODY of Christ to TRIMM their lamps and to be READY, for we are to discern the TIMES!
I continued hearing and writing….
I wanted to expand a little further on what I spoke about last Sunday. Why? Because it is imperative that we get this right before the last great move of the Holy Spirit! There is a portion of Scripture in the Book of Genesis that is a fascinating read. It is the first “special forces” rescue and recovery in the Bible. Apparently, sometime after Lot had moved to Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities were taken captive during a war with the neighboring Kingdoms of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim.
Charlie just sent Cheryl and I a word that he recorded on his Rumble channel “School of Bass, Treble & Troubled Prophets, Vol 4”. I will set up the prophetic word with the following verses from Janes 1:2-8 (ESV)
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
When Cornerstone moved into its present facility over 22 years ago, I sensed the Lord telling me that we would know when He was done with us and would have another place ready for us to go. Well, that notification came last Thursday when our Muslim landlord asked us to be out by the end of August (he later changed it to September after my dear wife asked him for a month extension). After letting the shock pass, we both began to get excited about the future realizing that the Lord in constantly moving to increased levels of glory, 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 (ESV)
We had the privilege of knowing Kim Clement and his team since the middle of the 2000’s. I had filled in for him one night while we were in Oregon at a Steve Schultz’s “Elijah List” conference. He came to Frederick as a return favor. However, we hosted Kim and his team a total of three times in the Frederick region. It was always a powerful time. Little did we know that so many of his words were so applicable to the present-day scenario. In the process, Charlie Jordan, Kim’s bassist became a very good friend of ours. In leu of Charlie being with us this Sunday, I thought it would be great to include one of the last prophetic words he spoke over Cornerstone. Enjoy it prayerfully and be sure to come Sunday to hear Charlie both play and speak. Here is the word from Kim.
There is an awful price that one pays for disobedience. The Scriptures are full of examples of such. Not only does disobedience bring broken relationship with our Lord, it always fills the heart of the disobedient with tremendous anguish. The closer one walks with Jesus, the deeper the anguish of the broken relationship when one sins. Perhaps the greatest example of this in the Old Testament is King David. David had spent his entire life worshipping the Lord. He had spent countless hours under the stars as a young shepherd boy perfecting his craft both as a worshipper and a warrior. Psalm 144:1-2 is a record of how David understood this.
I believe that we are in transition from the church moving from the place of being an institution and becoming a family. Ever since the beginning, God has been into building family. It was a structure that God put in place even before the church.
There is new sense of excitement in my spirit as I look to the future. I believe we are living in the greatest time of human history. Everything seems to be increasing in intensity day by day. The harvest from both good and bad seed sown for centuries is being realized before our very eyes. Neville Johnson spoke of this years ago. The groans of the earth are getting louder and louder with each passing day. I hear the groans every time I pull into the gas station to fill up my Jeep. Today, I spent more money on groceries for both Cheryl and I then I have spent in 44 years of marriage. It was during this very time prophesied by Jesus that He gave the following instruction found in Luke 21:25-28 (ESV)
I think we’ve all been in a season of shaking, sifting, pruning,etc. The one thing that has come up in my heart over and over during this season is the act of forgiveness and confession of sin in the form of holding un -forgiveness. This seems to be a key in these times- to allow the Lord to humble us into a deeper life of repentance whereas we lose our right to hold grudges against others.
There is so much more instruction that he gave me that is too long to blog about. I’ll speak about it once I’m home. But he showed me a couple “markers” to show me that this final awakening has already started in Cornerstone.
You could say that this tribe was the “intelligence” department of all the ancient tribes of Israel. They not only knew the times and the seasons, they also knew how to instruct the rest of Israel in what to do. In these incredible days of chaos and confusion, I am grateful for prophetic voices that can keep us appraised in what is going on and how to navigate the days in which we live. Even in the early days of the new millennium, God gave us Kim Clement who had incredible accuracy in the season we’re living in now.
One of the most encouraging things in coming into relationship with the Holy Spirit was the receiving of prophetic words and words of knowledge. It is safe to say that the first prophetic word that Cheryl and I received on January 11th, 1992 totally changed our lives and ministry. The Apostle Paul said this about the importance of prophetic words in 1 Corinthians 14:1-5 (ESV)
Over the years we have had many words about “Cornerstone Fellowship” being part of a spiritual awakening that would take place in the last days. Years ago, Bonnie Chavda gave Cheryl and I a word about Cornerstone being like a nuclear warhead that would eventually bring great destruction to the kingdom of darkness. When the papa prophet, the late Bob Jones last came to Cornerstone with the “Elijah List Conference”, he prophesied that Cornerstone would be part of an awakening/revival that would continue until the second coming of Jesus. We’ve also received prophetic words several times by a couple of different prophetic voices that the ‘fear of the Lord” would be one of the characteristics of this awakening, that the Spirit that took out Ananias and Sapphira would return in the last days of the church. I would like to take a minute and review the scripture that shares this event; Acts 5:1-11 (ESV).
The Apostle Paul knew this was available by inspiration or He wouldn’t have written the words given to him by the Holy Spirit. History shows that the church at Ephesus grasped this encouragement from Paul and literally saw this perverted principality of “Dianna” come crashing down. Ephesus was free from this sexual cult for the next 200 years.
