Jesus is the“Prince of Peace”! He promised us one thing while we walk out our earthly sojourn. He promised us that we would have tribulation, John 16:33 (ESV)
“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Cheryl and I want to wish all of you a wonderful “Thanksgiving”! We have so much to b thankful for. We are thankful for family and friends such as the ones we have at Cornerstone! The last few years have been the most difficult years in our lives and ministry. However, God has been so faithful to us and the words of encouragement through all of you have kept us going. I truly believe that the best is yet to come.
Shaking can be disconcerting, especially when only a remnant remains. Don’t allow this shaking to discourage you but hold on to Jesus and one another as this shaking continues. Ministry that is built on giftings and anointings will not last. The only ministries that endure through this shaking will be based on love. Love for Jesus first, then love for one another. If you just love one another without loving Jesus first, your ministry and relationships will become incestuous as you try to draw from each other which you should only draw from the Lord. This is why much of the church is being sucked into the LGBT lie. We think God is only love. However, true love rests on His holiness and purity. Impure love lacks the fear of the Lord as its foundation. Love based upon the fear of the Lord is they only solution for purity in ministry. King Solomon said this in Proverbs 9:10 (ESV)
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.”
There was a man in the Bible named Samson. Samson's mother was barren, but an angel appeared to her and told her that she was going to have a son. He said that she was not to drink any wine and that no razor should come upon her son's head because he was called to be a Nazarite, dedicated to God from the womb. A Nazarite was an Israelite who followed a rigorous regimen of purity and was consecrated and separated unto God. The angel also told her that her son was going to begin to deliver Israel out of the hands of the Philistines.
In 1 Peter 5:5, we learn, “Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” The same Greek word “hypotasso” used for the phrase “submit yourselves to your elders” is also used for the phrase “be submissive to one another.” This tells us that it doesn’t matter if we are an elder or a babe in Christ, we must be humble enough to submit to one another, which naturally flows out of love. We must avoid the sin of pride (when we lift ourselves above one another) by becoming and remaining submissive to one another as a younger or elder brother in the Lord. In Hebrews 10:19-25, the writer is speaking to the brethren, both the brothers and the sisters in Christ.
Rick Joyner (Joyner, The Path, 2012) states that he was shown that the leadership that will get the church to the destination God has for mankind, is modelled by geese. When studying gees flying, scientists have determined that the V-shaped formation that geese use when migrating serves two important purposes:
This attitude of a god to one-self has led to men’s will be done, instead of God’s will be done. That does not change the fact that these leaders and churches still believe in Jesus Christ, but unfortunately this wrong foundation leads to unfruitfulness in the things that is in God’s heart. Leadership within the Kingdom of God is different than in the world. In the Kingdom the aim to be a leader is a very shallow goal (Joyner, 2012). Being in God’s presence and being revealed as His son’s is the goal according to Romans 8 (The Holy Bible, 1987).
If God is not in what have been created, everything is in vain. It could be the biggest mega church in the globe, but God sees it as empty and insignificant if it is not part of His heart and will. God promises to watch over His people with an intent to build and to plant.
David's friendship with Jonathan didn't happen by chance. It happened because God set it up (Cachila, 2019). We know that God raised David to defeat Goliath. We know that David met Jonathan after this. And we also know that later on, Jonathan would be instrumental in keeping David safe from Saul's hands - thus ensuring that he'd live to be King. God's hand was in their friendship. They know that: they made a covenant before the Lord (1 Samuel 23:18).
Jeremiah was in such a dimension that God told him that he, Jeremiah, sees well, good, beautiful, skilful, pleasing and accepted (H3190, yaw-tab’). Jeremiah did not even see the branch; he could identify which tree it was. Thus, he could see the original intent of the branch! This was the dimension that the forerunner leaders will move in. They will be able to see well. They will be able to see the original intent of a church, a person, a city etc. They will be able to see what God saw!
Over the last couple of eons there were many things in the Kingdom of God that was hidden, even highly secretive that the Lord revealed to a handful of people in order to let His Kingdom come. The twelve-tribe assignment will not be one of those assignments. This is an assignment that the world will know about. Even nature is expectantly waiting and seeking for this assignment to come in fulfilment. This is not a position, because if it is a position, “flesh” will be able to change it. Because, a human being has the ability to change a position. This happened to Adam, he chose to change his position. By his choice of submitting to Satan, he changed from being a son of God to being a fallen human being.
In a world that seeks to pull you down, look up! Then you’ll see Me. You’ll see My arms have been extended the entire time, eager to lift you out of that hole and into My loving arms where you belong.
We have witnessed the same trend not only in our country but globally under the rule of the cabal. However, I don't believe the result will be the same as it was in Germany in the 1930s. I believe that the many prayer movements which have promoted both identificational confession and repentance over the past 30 years are having their impact globally as well as nationally. God's word is the same yesterday today and forever. What he says in 2 Chronicles 7:14 holds true even today.
“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
One of my favorite movie series in the “Jason Bourne” series. It is both dramatic and suspenseful. It is about mind control where the government trains predisposed individuals into brand new identities to become trained assassins to take out “targets” determined to be enemies of the state. Another movie which handled the same subject matter was “Manchurian Candidate” starring Denzel Washington. Most of the public considered all these just good fiction until reports started surfacing that there were actual programs training MK-Ultras to do the biddings of the government. Of course, the CIA was the three-letter agency which coined the phrase “conspiracy theory”.
However, we learned from Gina Phillips how the government used companies such as Disney to use “umbrellas” to trigger MK-Ultras back in the 1960’s. I find it interesting that there was a man holding an open umbrella in Dealey Plaza in Dallas Texas on November 22, 1963. He was standing a mere 50’ from JFK when the then president received the fatal head shot. Why the open umbrella when it was a bright and sunny day? Walt Disney provided a possible clue.
It was in 2016 that we started hearing about the “deep state” or “shadow government”. We have learned from Eric Colton and his organization “Untrafficked” how movies and video games are used by the sexual predators to “groom” our children and grandchildren in mind-control to become possible targets. The recent movie “Sound of Freedom” did nothing but validate this. ”BEWARE PARENTS!
The greatest lie that Lucifer has duped the world and the church with is that the world is not as evil to the extent that it is even though the scriptures say this about the heart in Jeremiah 17:9 (ESV)
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”
Jesus said this about the heart in Mark 7:21-22 (ESV)
“For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.”
All Lucifer is doing is counterfeiting a scriptural principle for evil. He understands that the human mind is a major battle ground. If he can captivate and defile the human mind, he can control it and keep the individual captive until Jesus can set the person free. I’ve been told that the movie “Nefarious” shows the methods of Satan quite clearly. Who ever thought the day would come that a person could learn more spiritual truth from the movie house instead of the church house? The Lord will get the truth out!! Our mind is an incredible creation. Francis Frangipane has written a must read for every believer called “The Three Battlegrounds”. In it he describes the battle for the human mind.
The word of God says much about the Human mind. Jesus wants to bring us to a place that our mind and thinking is under His control. Once a person receives Christ, the process of mind renewal begins, Romans 12:1-2 (ESV)
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Becoming a living sacrifice is followed by a process of transforming our minds from the ways of the world to the ways of God. This involves putting a filter in place and allowing our minds to only dwell on the things that please the Lord, Philippians 4:8 (ESV)
“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”
This takes absolute discipline to focus in the above. However, the goal is possessing the mind of Christ. The Apostle Paul was able to follow the above discipline to the point where He was able to confidently say this in 1Corinthians 2:14-16 (ESV)
“The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.”
The mind of Christ comes through constant communication with and living in the Holy Spirit. As we learn to walk in the Spirit, He will begin to train our mind in the ways of the Lord and give us peace, Isaiah 26:3 (ESV)
“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you.”
The Hebrew word for mind is the word יֵצֶר or yester. One of the interpretations of this word is the word “imagination”. The word for “stayed” is the word סָמַךְ or samak. These are the different meanings of the word used in scripture, braced (1), holds (1), laid (6), laid siege (1), lay (17), lean (1), leans (3), relied (1), rested (1), steadfast (1), support (1), sustain (3), sustained (2), sustainer (1), sustains (3), upheld (4), uphold (1).
When our imaginations rests or leans on Him, we have perfect peace in any situation. Perhaps this is what King Solomon was thinking about when he penned these words in Proverbs 3:5-6 (ESV).
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
As humans, we have a walnut sized gland right in the middle of our brain called the “pineal gland”. It is the gland that connects us with our God consciousness. It is the gland of “imagination”. From the moment we can understand, Lucifer tries to defile this gland’s function by what we see or hear. Viewing porn absolutely destroys the function of this gland. But God can cleanse and renew the focus of this gland with His precious blood as we confess our sin and begin to protect what goes in both the eye and ear gate. The Psalmist said this in Psalm 101:3 (ESV)
“I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.”
What a man feeds on, he becomes. Proverbs 23:7 (ESV)
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.”
I believe in the days ahead, there will be a whole new breed of believer who lives in signs and wonders because they have learned to engage Him with the imagination, and He shows them His secrets and strategies. God will use us to unlock nations by His Spirit. In this age, we are being trained to live and walk by the Spirit and live in complete obedience to what He has called us to do. My encouragement would be to cast down vain imaginations and to begin to think and meditate on Him. My prayer for all of us is what the Apostle Paul prayed for the Ephesian church in Ephesians 1:17-19 (ESV)
“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power”
Imagine the possibilities.
Because we are created in His image, we all have shadows of all His attributes in us. They only find their fulness as we are obedient and allow the Holy Spirit to complete His work in us. He is the only one who can bring us to maturity and consistency as we daily surrender to His leading. At the same time, we are told to seek these characteristics by the Lord, Himself in Matthew 6:33 (ESV)
“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
As we enter this new season from the Lord, we don’t have to have it all figured out. We need to rest in our love for Him and for one another. Let our relationship with each other come to the point that we become inseparable in Christ, committed to see His kingdom come to earth. He will bring it about as we learn to obey the sound of His voice, trust in Him and be intentional in our love for Him and each other. When that happens, gifts, knowledge and prophecy will not longer be needed according to 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (ESV)
While the majority of the church has been completely oblivious to what’s been happening, God has been using faithful men to expose travesties that have been put in all men and women over the past hundreds of years. I believe we are going to see a major shift in the coming months where we will begin to operate in our rightful inheritance. The reason? A final huge harvest coming in. The Apostle Paul gives us a great exhortation in Ephesians 5:8b-14 (ESV)
Much of today’s churches often shun those who experience difficulties because suffering has no part in the life of the modern believer. It shows weakness and not strength. Thus, people are forced to bury their difficulties and put on a “spiritual” face for the church body. Even though there is a growth in Christian counseling and inner healing, the church at large has also done a terrible job ministering to people with disabilities or mental illness. Many feel that medicines “are of the devil” and have no place in the church. However, in reality, the use of medicine is not a lack of faith but often time is necessary in helping the individual become even keeled in their own life.
I believe, instead of the celebration or humanity, we are moving into a time of worshipping the God of the universe. I believe, the church as we knew it in the age of “Pisces” will no longer be effective. There will be a knew revelation and understanding of “Christ in me, the hope of glory”. God will rule in the hearts of the “sons of God” (Romans 8:19) as they take and teach the “Gospel of the Kingdom” throughout the world and the universe.
When you choose to love and worship Jesus amid tough circumstances, you release the Lord to release His purposes in and through the circumstance. Jeremiah, who penned the above verse had one of the toughest ministry assignments in all of history. Even though the Lord knew Jeremiah from before his mother’s womb, his ministry was to preach and prophesy to a people who would not listen or repent, Jeremiah 7:27 (ESV)
