Prophetic Equipping Ministries: The NOW WORD of GOD

Sunday, February 27, 2011

The NOW WORD of GOD

John 15; 5 “I am the vine and you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” (NIV)
NOW WORD: Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. He will change you into His image and likeness and cause you to prosper in all your ways. Nothing is impossible for God. God will cause you to bear fruit in every circumstance. You will bear fruit in every area of life, and your fruit be for the healing for the nations. You are called by the Lord to be a blessing and to be blessed. The desire of God for your life is to bless you and cause you to produce fruit in you. The fruit of the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the Holy Spirit will be evident to those around and will be a blessing to many. This fruit will be blessing in every area of your life.
Our prayer for you is: Lord God we worship You and thank You that You are the Alpha and Omega. You are the beginning of life and all good things come from Your hand. We thank You that You will cause fruit to grow in our lives. We call on You now to come and to bless Your child and cause growth to come into their life. Cause them to bear fruit Lord God. We pray that fruit will be evident in all seasons and in every occasion of life. We give You all the praise for the new season that is coming to Your child and that they will bear much fruit. Amen

Please pray this over yourself: Thank You Lord God for Your Word. This is the season of bearing fruit. This is the year of Your promise. I thank You Father God that I walk in Your favor and Your goodness fruit will develop and grow in my life. I worship You and bless You. As I submit to You, to Your will and to Your ways in my life, I will bear fruit that is pleasing to You. I love You and bring to You my offerings. I bring to You the fruit of my life. I call on You Lord god and ask You to change me into Your image and likeness and let the fruit of Your Holy spirit be evident in me and through me. Amen

THE FRUIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Have you noticed that there seems to be an extraordinarily large emphasis on spiritual gifts today?
You seldom hear anyone talking about spiritual fruit anymore.
The fruit of the Holy Spirit in us is far more important than any spiritual gift. Many people seek the power and manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit, but they do not place a priority on living a holy life. Our desire should be to seek the Giver of the gift and not the gift.
The fruit of the Holy Spirit comes to us as a small seed which must be nurtured and developed in our lives through prayer, reading the Word and by putting your faith into action.
The Bible begins and ends with talking about fruit (Gen. 2:15-16 and Rev. 22:1-2), and the purpose of God for your life is for you to bear spiritual fruit through your relationship to Jesus Christ. This is described as Christ being the vine and you being the branches.
YOU ARE CALLED TO BEAR FRUIT.

• God is the divine gardener and bearing fruit is a supernatural process. John 15:1-2 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth (prunes or refines) it, that it may bring forth more fruit."

• We are called to reject sin and submit to the pruning from God in our life Luke 13:6-9 "A certain young man who had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, 'Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it in the ground'? And he answering unto him, 'Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down'."

The Nine Fruit of the Holy Spirit:

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." Gal. 5:22-23

1. Love, Joy and Peace focus on your relationship with God.

2. Longsuffering, Gentleness and Goodness focus on your relationship with others.

3. Faith, Meekness and Temperance focus directly on the individual.

LOVE

The spiritual fruit of love is not just a feeling or an emotion, but rather it is a decision. This fruit of the Spirit causes us to make decisions to love even when we don't feel like it. Paul writes in Philippians 1:9 "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more."

The word abound means "to grow." When we walk in the love of God, everything else will fall into place.

JOY
Joy is defined as cheerfulness or calm delight. Joy has nothing to do with your emotions. Joy is is the fruit of the Spirit that gives strength in face of adversity. The Psalmist and the Prophet Isaiah both refer to it as the joy of salvation. (Psalm 51:12; Isaiah 12:3 Nehemiah 8:10).

PEACE
Peace must be maintained in three important relationships:
1. Peace with God. We maintain peace with God by believing and trusting Him.
2. Peace with our fellow man. We maintain peace with our fellow man by not allowing strife to be a part of our relationships with other people.
3. Peace with ourselves. We maintain peace with ourselves by refusing to live in guilt or condemnation thus recognizing that God is greater than all of our sins.

GENTLENESS
Gentleness is a quality that makes you great in the eyes of God (11 Sam. 22:36) and the Apostle Paul illustrates gentleness by example of a mother nourishing her children (I Thess. 2:7)

GOODNESS
Goodness is holiness put into practice and results from knowing God. Goodness enables you to love God and hate evil.

LONGSUFFERING
Longsuffering is love on trial. It is patience that enables you to forbear and forgive others. The real test of patience is not in waiting, but in how you act while you are waiting.

TEMPERANCE
Temperance means self-control. It is control over the whole man (spirit, soul, and body) which enables us to live a victorious life. A person who has self-control is mild and calm, avoids extreme behavior, and exercises self-restraint in both actions and speech. Although restraint and self-control aren't easy, they are necessary if one ever wants to operate in the fruit of the Spirit.

MEEKNESS
Meekness is not "weakness", but rather a controlled strength or slave-like submission to God. Meekness or humility is defined as "freedom from pride and arrogance; modest estimation of our own worth." Humility or meekness is the opposite of pride. The Bible says that God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble, and it is the meek which will inherit the earth.

FAITH
Faith is a gift and also a manifestation of the fruit of the Spirit. The gift of faith is imparted from God through the Word, but the fruit of faith is produced by the Holy Spirit. The gift of faith can move mountains, but the fruit of faith is what is required for daily living. The fruit of faith enables us to walk and live by faith. Without this kind of faith, it is impossible to please God.

A PASSION FOR LOVE OR THE PASSION FOR WAR

SOUTH AFRICA
A PASSION FOR LOVE OR THE PASSION FOR WAR

I strongly urge you as you read this and to seek the Face of God with an increasing measure of passion.

I saw a vision of South Africa being a hand and a breadbasket for Africa. The church of Jesus Christ rose up and became passionate for the presence of God and the Lord gave much blessing into the national treasury and storehouses of the church as well as to the people individually. In my vision there was an increase to meet the needs of the destitute and hungry. South Africa started moving nationally and across the boarders to meet the needs of others. I saw this hand and breadbasket going to starving children and setting programs in place in other nations to bring change so that the gospel of the Kingdom of God may be preached on full stomachs. I also saw South Africa strong because of being a blessing to Israel.
Then I saw the picture change and the Hand of the Lord come against the nation of South Africa. I saw how we divided our selves into camps in the church and said that this group belongs to the Baptist, this group belongs to New Covenant, this group belongs to the full Gospel, this group belongs to charismatic and this group belongs to the house church movement, and so it went. Then I saw the house that is divided starting to fall. I saw that the economics of the house and nation became unstable and household debt start increasing. I saw the nation align itself with Muslim countries and stood against Israel. I saw at this point violent crime increase and get out of control, and the South Africa took their own babies and handed them over to abortion clinics, and lower the age of legal consent for the right of abortion. This vision of South Africa became a scorpion to the nations of Africa, which brought control and fear over the other nations. The scorpion lifted then its tail over it’s own body and stretched it up over Africa. The tail of the scorpion came down onto the nation of Israel and stung it with venom and poison.

I believe these two pictures are what could transpire in South Africa.
We as a church do get passion for God’s presence and not allow the enemy to come and bring in foreign god’s into our nation.

We need to humble ourselves in reverence and worship, and intercede for our nation, turn from our wicked ways and then we will see the Lord remove the curse and bless our Land.

South Africa is destined to be a nation of blessing to the nations of the world, let alone to Africa.

The Kingdom of God is love, joy, peace and righteousness in the Holy Spirit. We are called to violently press into God through being passionate for His presence and seek the unity of faith.

When we seek first the Kingdom of God in a manner of passion for His presence in all we do – we then will have all the things that He has destined for us.

But if we neglect to seek His Face and turn away from Him, the enemy will come and destroy what God has intended for blessing.

It is my firm conviction that as the spirit of Islam tries to take control of South Africa we will jeopardize every thing of good that we as a nation stand for.

The judicial system, financial markets, education system, national security, medical fields, transport and communication, farming and all other areas of national interest belong to us. And we want peace and love to rule in our land.

Let us make a stand today and fight in the spirit realm for what is our inheritance.

I speak over this nation and say to you South Africa – FREEDOM

The spirit of islam and the terror of allah declares:

Surah 9:5 “Fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war”

Surah 5; 33 “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and his messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the is; execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet opposite sides, or their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the hereafter.”

Ayatollah Khomeni said “The purest joy of Islam is to kill or to be killed for Allah”

IN JESUS NAME – WE STAND AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF DEATH AND FORCES OF WAR AND BLOODSHED THAT RISE AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA.

WE DECLARE - SOUTH AFRICA BELONGS TO GOD.

2Ch 7:14 “if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

“God expects that his people who are called by his name, if they have dishonored his name by their iniquity, should honor it by accepting the punishment of their iniquity. They must be humble themselves under his hand, must pray for the removal of the judgment, must seek the face and favor of God; and yet all this will not do unless they turn from their wicked ways, and return to the God from whom they have revolted. 3. National mercy is then promised, that God will forgive their sin, which brought the judgment upon them, and then heal their land, redress all their grievances. Pardoning mercy makes ways for healing mercy,” (Mathew Henry commentary on the whole Bible)

A Prophetic Word for the CHURCH - " THE FACE LIFT"

I am coming to touch my house once again.
I am calling my bride for a face-lift.
I am the Lord that heals you and I the Lord am coming again to touch you by My Spirit and cause you to have a face lift. The operation that I am about to perform on you my bride WILL TRANSFORM YOU SO MUCH into my image likeness that many around you will not recognise you for the change that has taken place.
I am calling you to lift up your head toward the mountain’s where your help comes from. For your help comes from Me the Lord, the maker of heaven and the maker of earth. Some of you will say, that is not the Lord and the Lord does not work in that fashion. But, I the Lord say to you that many will suffer tension in the neck while others will suffer from whiplash and others will die from a broken neck. There are those who will frown on what I am about to do, some will scorn and others jeer and laugh. Do not associate yourself with those who will not have a part of My move, for I am coming to change the face of the church. The way you have seen the church to be, will cease to exist. For my children come to Me day after day and cry out to me for understanding and revelation. I will come to them and blow on their garden. I will blow from the east, the west, the north and the south. I will release fresh rain of My Spirit on My people and they will come to Me. As of now many have come to Me through a priest, a pastor, a prophet, a teacher, a leader and an apostle. I say to you that I am calling my beloved to look to Me. Lift up your head for I will reveal Myself to you and show you the secrets of My heart. Your revelation of Me will not be the revelation that someone else has of Me. Your revelation of me will be the revelation that I reveal to you as you look into My Face. In the light of this I will change the face of My bride to such an extent that that the way you have seen the church in the past will not be the same way you see the church in future. The Image that my bride will carry will be My very image. Come now and press into Me. Come let Me show you, who I am. Many have told you, who I am, and you have heard of the revelation that others have had. Come let me give you the Face Lift that is needed to change your perspective of who I am.

Do not be afraid of what you will see. Many will fall off their lofty thrones. I come with purifying fire as you press into Me. I will cause My rain of righteousness to start in My house. A fear for presence will descend on my house and those who do not submit to righteousness will be removed from the house. I will cause judgement to begin in the house. I say to you, what you read in the book of Acts concerning Ananias and Sapphira, will come upon this house in the these days. I will send my purifying fire once again. Do not be afraid. Stand true to My Word and you will stand secure. You will see the leaders fall, be exposed and die in the seat of authority. What happened to Eli the priest will happen again. Except, this time it will be behind the coffins that men have made to preach from. Men have made themselves thrones and platforms that have separates them from My presence. Now they continue to preach slanderous accusations against those who are My true and anointed sons and daughters. I say to them, Woe to you Bethsaida and woe to you Chorazin, for you have lifted your hand against your brother and against sister. It would have been better for you to lift your hand against yourself than to raise your hand against your own family. I say to you that I will show mercy to many of you and remove you from your position so that your soul may not be destroyed.
I speak to you South Africa. I call you to come again and cry out to Me. For there is a spirit of death against you and you have closed your eyes and turned your head away. I call you my bride to rise with urgency. Rise to authority. Rise to your knees in repentance and turn from your arrogance that says, we are building God’s house. I call on you to take that what I have given to you and to go into the highways and into the fields. God heal the sick, raise the dead and set the captive free. I have not called you to build My church. I have called you to preach My Word. I have given to you South Africa; I have given you the rest of Africa. South Africa, the world is watching you. South Africa, the demons are waiting to see what you will do. I call you to march out in My authority. Look up and see that I am the Lord and I go before you to give you the victory. I give you the victory in your own life. I give you the victory in your family; I give you the victory in your country. I give you the victory, in MY CHURCH.

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Sunday, February 27, 2011

The NOW WORD of GOD