In 1 Samuel 10:5-6
Activating the Kings Anointing
“After that thou shalt come to the hill
of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines:
and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither
to the city that thou shalt meet a company of prophets
coming down from the high place with a psaltery,
and tabret, and a pipe, and a harp before them:
and they shall prophesy:
And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee
and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be
turned into another man.”
As you may or may not know, it is the energy from
worship that I sense the spirit of the prophetic.
Revelations says, that the spirit of prophesy is
the Testimony of Jesus! Samuel tells Saul that
the same spirit upon the prophets will come upon
you! And YOU will begin to sing and speak under
divine utterance of the Holy Spirit! The beautiful
perception I love here is that Samuel told Saul
that he would be turned or changed into another
man.
Another man is defined in the Hebrew as the next
one, or the one that comes after. In other words,
tomorrow is the day AFTER today! It’s the
futuristic version of this day! I am declaring
that what may become of these meetings is a stepping
into the futuristic version of ourselves today!
I don’t have the time to reveal how to tap
into the future but trust me when I tell you that
it is very possible, and I’m going to say
probable!
I am hoping that you can make plans today to be
with us, come prepared to have a divine encounter
with your futuristic divine self! Please bring
people who are ready to go to the next level. Above
all come expecting God to embrace you and speak
to you in the inner chambers of your heart.
If you read on further in that chapter of Samuel
you see in vs. 26 “And Saul also went home
to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men,
whose hearts God had touched.” The Lord touched
the hearts of those in the overflow of what He
was doing in Saul in that moment. I don’t
have time to tell you that this type of anointing
for Saul was actually an activating event of His
Kingdom anointing and authority!
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June 15, 2007
Elijah the Tishbite
It
seems strange to some but to us who are prophetic
in Gifting, Calling and or in Nature will understand
completely what I'm about to say. Most of the prophetic
people I know, especially me, can hear God for
others very clearly. But to hear the specifics
about our own lives and the course we are to take
is sometimes very difficult. I have spent pretty
much my whole adult life in the church and ministry,
and still to this day it's not always easy to know
what my next step is.
Prophetic people tend to be way up,
and or sometimes way down. I don't think it's an
emotional thing as much as it the difficulty in
'seeing' into Gods world, but yet having to live
in the limited one. For some prophetic people it
drives them to being almost crazy. I've
been listening to the Father about some Divine
Pathways through the life of Elijah. Hopefully
it may bring some insight to where we are as prophetic
people and what our next step in life might be.
I've been meditating deeply for about
month or two in I Kings 17. If you read that chapter
I will be referencing by verse # without typing
out the whole scriptures:
In vs 1 we see that Elijah is a Tishbite which
literally means 'a captive that will lead others
out of captivity!' So right off of the bat we see
the prophetic position, circumstance, and purpose
of the true prophetic gift and call. We are most
definitely called to set people free from religious
captivity of any kind. Prophets are very keen to
this fact and will usually rebel against being
brought into this form of bondage. Most time in
the resistance to the system of bondage we tend
to seem very rebellious and uncommitted to the
untrained leader and or Pastor. It is not an excuse
to be a rebel but I know the Lord God has downloaded
something within us that is hyper sensitive to
this fact. We may not know a lot of techniques,
leadership skills, and message delivery but we
KNOW Bondage!
But we see the word Tishbite has
another meaning for Elijah: he himself is also
a captive. This is a very strange thing to the
normal believer. Prophet's usually have to live
out what the church is going through. So Elijah
HAD to be captive to free the captive! There is
no other way for the prophetic to work. And most
times we have to live out in advance what the church
is about to experience. I know this to be true,
It would take me a couple of months to show you
how and why this all works! The life of the Prophet
is an epistle for all to see where they are really
at. A part of Elijah's captivity was in his resistance
to the wicked leadership of Ahab, it created a
natural rejection from the system which in turn
created hardships for him.
On our level Pastors and leaders seldom
call the prophets, because it is risky to their
system. The Prophets will always come in by the
Spirit and try to free the hearts and minds of
the people from any forms that bind. So I'm sure
Elijah wasn't invited to the big conferences etc
of his day, but be rest assured he was a mighty
man for God just the same. He showed himself to
Ahab and spoke the drought into existence. We don't
know how that whole process took place but I'm
quite sure he was influenced by the Spirit of God
to speak those things into existence. The beauty
of the drought, even though it was hard times,
brought the church out of its lukewarm state.
I know God uses situations to help
people make the correct decisions. So we see the
captivity that Elijah experienced was the lack
that was created by not being the most prolific
speaker and or most popular intenerate. But God
the Father had a plan, and Elijah was a huge part
of the plan to bringing the Church to a major reviving!
Next thought we will discuss the process
of change that Elijah had to make: he went to three
places in the process of the reviving...and we
must note that the reviving happened before the
rain came! This we must know that the churches
of today need Prophetic influences to challenge
and minister to the hearts of the people to make
quality decisions to follow the Lord. The churches
as a whole are needing relationship to the Prophetic
gift to get the people unstuck from their indifference!
Three places that Prophets will visit
in their divine process:
The Brook
The House
The Mountain
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June 21, 2007
The Brook
What we are about to see is a 2 for
1. God always does a 2 for 1 when dealing with
His people. Like if there are problems and situations
arise in a marriage He will almost usually work
on both parties at the same time! Even in difficulty
in relationships the Father almost always works
a 2 for 1.
The same is here in 1 Kings 17, Elijah
is living in the effects of the bad leadership
of Ahab and Jezebel! The macro view of the times
was the prophets had lost their place and power
among the people, the people were double minded
and serving Baal and God at the same time. The
prophets were hid in caves eating bread and water.
The Father obviously used Elijah to
bring the heart of the people back to Him, but
the real secret here is that Elijah went through
a process of pruning. Before Elijah would come
on the scene he had to spend three years in a process
that I call, "Purifying the Prophetic".
Vs 3 "Get thee hence, and turn thee
eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith..."
The first level or the 30 fold level
of the process for the prophetic is to into a season
of isolation and hiding. The word Cherith actually
means to cut, and is also a derivative of the word
that means covenant; or to cut the flesh into two
pieces! Elijah went through this phase and the
Lord re-established the covenant with him. I'm
sure that the cutting place was where the Lord
showed him the inner man in this season of isolation.
Elijah enjoyed divine providence from
the most unlikely sources, the ravens. The brought
him bread and meat in the morning and evening.
The profound thing to me is that the ravens if
they were actual birds or not, some people try
to spiritualize everything, brought borrowed bread
to Elijah! The prophetic process of purification
is to be removed from having anything that steals
your affection. The true power of the prophetic
is to be free from the affections of this world.
So the purification process was to reaffirm covenant
and call!
He was living on the mercy of God
through the unclean providing borrowed bread! But
even in that Elijah got comfortable because the
brook dried up and he became ashamed, disappointed
and confused. God will dry the brook up to get
us to move to the next phase of the process. It
does not mean we have failed, but rather on the
contrary, it means we have passed! We are now on
to the next phase in the process of the purification.
We must know that the purification process is for
an ultimate divine purpose.
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July 14, 2007
The House
Vs 9 "Arise and get thee to Zarephath,
which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell
there: behold
I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain
thee."
In the next phase or step of the journey
for Elijah was to go to Zarephath and dwell there.
In the Brook experience he is in hiding and the
Ravens are feeding him. In the House phase he is
to dwell, (remain, abide, sit, settle, tarry &
wait). But another great thing about God's leading
is the divine providence! He had already commanded
a widow woman to sustain him! The only problem
it was probably 'news to her!'
Zarephath means a 'refining place'.
Again we are talking about the 2 for 1 that the
Lord does in our lives. One is Elijah in the next
phase of the process of purifying the prophetic.
I can guarantee you by the Spirit the Lord is purifying
the prophetic in preparation to manifesting a new
enlightened word from heaven! The church is about
to get unstuck from it's indifference and selfish
ways via the word from the purified prophetic.
And again the drought is most likely in another
phase of preparation for the people of God to receive
the true prophetic!
God sends prophets! Usually to a people
that are in need of direction, change, and or heart
reviving. He may send a prophet to be a warning,
but usually as a vehicle of change of momentum.
The life of the TRUE prophet (not the one that
just tries to see visions all the time, and or
the ones who just like to give out generic prophecies)
is one of life intercession! In other words the
TRUE prophet MUST live out the word prior to preaching
it! When he delivers a word from heaven it is threaded
with his very life experience. True prophets must
live out what the church is going through as a
living witness to them.
We see Elijah going into bankruptcy
and lack, when the brook dried up. Then his 'deliverance'
is a widow woman that has absolutely nothing but
a 'little oil, and a handful of meal'. This is
the life of the prophet. Elijah had to go to this
level of purification because it creates a strength
for what God is about to do! Another reason
Elijah had to be in Zarephath was to come
to the widow which was a typical picture of the
'church' in that day. Broken down, not because
of the drought and lack of rain, but rather that
was the true condition of the heart for serving
God and Baal! The drought just EXPOSED what the
true condition of the heart really was! The purification
process of God does not create poverty and lack,
but rather REVEALS what is already present and
therefore (God was all along preparing the heart
of God's people for the prophetic).
Till next time
Mark |
