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The
Prophetic Voice Newsletter Issue 13
HOPE
of GLORY
God in us is the Hope of glory…
This
Issue of the Prophetic Voice
Newsletter is not written for the
casual reader. It is released to
bring Hope and build Faith as
well as expose us to the wonderful deep things of Kingdom
realities.
May you be challenged to press into all the awesome things
that God has provided. No one called
by God to work in His Kingdom
experiences the success of His full measure without pressing into
and holding fast
to the promises of God and walking guided by the Holy Spirit
One of the things we should have learned from this past
season is that we each need to personally
hear
the
Word of the Lord to navigate through what God is
bringing us
into in this next season.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Revelation. How can one
receive His enlightenment if the Word of the
Lord, "the Bread of Life" is not taken within one's
spirit? We must read and act upon the Word.
This month's
Prophetic Voice Newsletter will wonderfully bless you as
God pours out His Spirit
upon us and reveals His
sovereign rule... His Will, Ways and Purposeful Actions for the
Kingdom
of Heaven to manifest on
earth through the power of His Word and the power of His
Spirit!
As you read the Jewish Tradition article... "The Law and the Prophets."
You
will
learn how the apostate
nation of governmental leaders, both of civil
administration and
religious administration exercised their authorities.
But,
God made the
way for His plan and purposes to be accomplished in spite of the
adversities
of evil. He also did it within the laws
that He had given to creation and within the church and civil
structures. He did a New Thing
in the birth of His Son! You will be amazed how the Holy Spirit will
capture your soul and mind as He reveals the mysteries of the
Kingdom of Heaven... a golden thread
that weaves through the pages and
audios
of this month's out pouring of the Heart of God!
We need to be strong in spirit
and in
truth.
A
firm
foundation in both is a must as we make the transition into the very
courts of the Lord to call
for restoration and defeat all the enemies
that are warring against God's will in our lives both
individually and
corporately.
May you delight in the spiritual
feasts prepared and presented herein.
Apostle Paul charges the 1st century church to hold fast to the
message of the Kingdom as
preached as the Gospel of Word of God. There is great
reward to those hear the Truth and hold
to doing the works of the Kingdom.
2
Timothy 4:1-4 AMP
4:1
I
CHARGE [you] in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus,
Who
is
to judge the living and the dead, and by (in the light of) His
coming and His kingdom:
2
Herald
and preach the Word! Keep your sense of urgency [stand by, be
at
hand and ready],
whether the opportunity seems to be favorable or
unfavorable. [Whether it is convenient or
inconvenient, whether it is
welcome or unwelcome, you as preacher of the Word are to show people
in
what way their lives are wrong.] And convince them, rebuking and
correcting, warning and
urging and encouraging them, being unflagging
and inexhaustible in patience and teaching.
3
For
the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate (endure) sound and
wholesome instruction,
but, having ears itching [for something pleasing
and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one
teacher after
another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking
and to
foster the
errors they hold,
4
And
will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and
man-made fictions.
The promise of reward:
Zechariah 9:12
"Return
to
the
stronghold, you prisoners of hope.
Even today
I declare
that I will restore double to you."
Through Faith, Hope and Love we can
experience the Double Portion!
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Now,
let us focus our attention upon the prophetic Word of Knowledge God
released through this
ministry for 2008 and for 2009:
Word
of
Knowledge
released January 2008...
The
year
2008
opens us into a new realm of the
purposes of God!
We
must
not believe our eyes,
our human intellectual enlightenment,
but we
are to put our faith in
those things unseen...
the things of the
Spirit of the Living
God.
Everything in the heavens and on earth are
being magnified!
The
physical
world
will testify of the fact that the
heavens are open!
God is shaking all things that they may become new!
God
will
guide us as to
how to walk in the administration
of the
unseen works of the Holy
Spirit by His word and acts.
When
walking by the "word of
the prophetic" and "the actions of faith"
we
then
will "see" God's plan
revealed!
Ron Gann
Note:
Last
month we presented several resources and dialogs about
the prophetic year 2008: Newsletter
Issue
12
The
Lord has been speaking about the year 2009 into my spirit in a most
basic way.
He communicates many of the insights in a spiritual
numeric manner.
God is the great geo-mathematician! You
can learn more about this attribute of God at:
A Word of Knowledge has been released by the Word of God and
through His abiding presence...
Word
of Knowledge
released January 2009...
"Prepare the Way of the Lord for He is coming in the Clouds of
Righteousness and Judgment to
restore that which was lost.
The year 2009 is the Year of the Holy Spirit.
His gifts are nine, His fruit are nine and His presence shall
birth the
new things released in dreams
and visions of 2008. All things
shall be magnified as the new things are swept into existence
through
the pangs of travail. Receive today, the blessings of the Kingdom
in the union of a man
and
woman: Christ and His Bride.
Nine months is the baby nourished. Now, the birthing day
of
miracle power shall come forth even
as a child from the womb.
Rejoice all you
faithful and committed children! Rejoice for the Lord is
your
strength! The Light of the Lord shall shine in the darkness that
rages upon the
earth.
Hold fast to Hope and walk in the Promises for you shall live
and
not die."
Ron
Gann
The number 9 is represented by both the spiritual and physical.
There are 9 Gifts of the Spirit.
God's
spiritual gifts to His Kingdom people.
There are 9 Fruit of the Spirit.
God's
spiritual nurture for Kingdom character development.
There are 9 calendar
months: represents gestation
season.
Chronos and Kairos time
are
governing
aspects of Kingdom Life.
Nine
months are required for natural
development of a human baby:
God's
physical time appointed for birthing... then the
travail.
If at
all
possible, before you read the rich full golden nuggets of the rest of
this Prophetic Voice
Newsletter, click the link that
follows and either download or listen to what the Lord spoke through
His Divine Word and the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit.
It is a
prophetic message that points
directly to what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to His
Citizens
of the Kingdom of God in this prophetic season.
It
is
the
Year of the Holy Spirit!
[A
SIDEBAR Teaching:]
If one
could
communicate the value of going all the way from your appointment in the
General
Assembly with all the
saints of the Church from
the
initiation of your calling and your
commissioning of that appointment, it would be as this:
"It is worth everything you have to go through on earth to
fulfill
God's destiny for your lives which
results in receiving that unfathomable
joy of your eternal reward in Christ Jesus!"
Hebrews
11:6 NKJV
But
without faith it is impossible to
please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is,
and that
He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
The Church is the instrument of the Kingdom of God on earth.
It was called forth on the Day of
Pentecost .
(click link)
It
was
birthed and seemingly grew to
full power and influence
in the then known world within 30
years. It began to
transverse from the apostolic foundations to
resemble
seasons of adversity in the
life and ministry of Jesus Christ,
Son of God.
The Church's apostolic foundations are built
upon
Christ the Cornerstone, the Apostles of the
Lamb, the
ascension-gift apostles such as James, Paul and Barnabas of Ephesians
4:11 and
the
old testament and new testament prophets.
i.e. "building the foundations = the counsel meeting in
Jerusalem when Paul presented the problem
of the Jews trying to induce law
of circumcision on the Greek Christians.
Gal 2:11-16 AMP
11 But when Cephas (Peter)
came to Antioch, I protested and opposed him to his face [concerning
his conduct there], for he was blameable and stood
condemned.
12 For up to the time that certain persons came from James, he ate his
meals with the Gentile
[converts]; but when the men [from Jerusalem] arrived, he
withdrew and held himself aloof from the
Gentiles and [ate] separately for fear of those of the
circumcision [party].
13 And the rest of the Jews along with him also concealed their true
convictions and acted
insincerely, with the result that even Barnabas was
carried away by their hypocrisy (their example
of insincerity and pretense).
14 But as soon as I saw that they were not straightforward and were not
living up to the truth
of the Gospel, I said to Cephas (Peter) before everybody
present, If you, though born a Jew, can
live [as you have been living] like a Gentile and not like
a Jew, how do you dare now to urge and
practically force the Gentiles to [comply with the ritual
of Judaism and] live like Jews?
15[I went on to say] Although
we ourselves (you and I) are Jews by birth and not Gentile (heathen)
sinners,
16 Yet we know that a man is justified or reckoned righteous and in
right standing with God not by
works of the Law, but [only] through faith and [absolute]
reliance on and adherence to and trust in
Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed one). [Therefore]
even we [ourselves] have believed on
Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ
and not by works of the Law [for we cannot
be justified by any observance of the ritual of the Law
given by Moses], because by keeping legal
rituals and by works no human being can ever be justified
(declared righteous and put in right
standing with God).
James, brother of the Lord, was an elder or ascension-gift
apostle. He was not one of the Apostles
of the Lamb and did not emerge in a leadership role until
after the death of the Lord. John 7:5
makes it very clear that the "brothers" of Jesus, Joseph
& Mary's sons did not believe Jesus was
the Son of God. Yet, James emerges as the Senior
elder or ascension-gift apostle as overseer of
the Jerusalem church. James led by the Holy Spirit
cites the prophet Amos.
James statement
of consensus expressed the decision of the "apostles, the
elders and the brethern in Jerusalem.
Acts
15:22-33 AMP
22 Then the apostles and
the elders, together with the whole church, resolved to select men
from among their number and send them to Antioch with Paul
and Barnabas. They chose
Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, [both] leading men among the
brethren, and sent them.
23 With [them they sent] the following letter: The
brethren, both the apostles and the elders,
to the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and
Syria and Cilicia, greetings:
24 As we have heard that some persons from our number have
disturbed you with their
teaching, unsettling your minds and throwing you
into confusion, although we gave them
no express orders or instructions [on the points in
question],
25 It has been resolved by us in assembly to select men
and send them [as messengers]
to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
26 Men who have hazarded their lives for the sake of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
27 So we have sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will
bring you the same message
by word of mouth.
28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not
to lay upon you any greater
burden than these indispensable requirements:
29 That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols
and from [tasting] blood and from
[eating the meat of animals] that have been strangled and
from sexual impurity. If you keep
yourselves from these things, you will do well. Farewell
[be strong]!
30 So when [the messengers] were sent off, they went down
to Antioch; and having
assembled the congregation, they delivered the letter.
31 And when they read it, the people rejoiced at the
consolation and encouragement
[it brought them].
32 And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets
(inspired interpreters of the will and
purposes of God), urged and warned and consoled and
encouraged the brethren with many
words and strengthened them.
33 And after spending some time there, they were sent back
by the brethren with [the greeting]
peace to those who had sent them.
Note: James wrote the Book of James possibly the 1st
of the new Testament to be written in
which he expresses the applications of true faith in
Christ.
Let’s get
a better understanding of today's apostolic move in the church…
The
sending actions of God are to establish the Kingdom of Heaven over the
whole earth
through Christ’s ascension gifts to the church of
apostles,
prophets, evangelists, pastors,
and teachers. These gifts of men set
in order the House of the Lord to build on that which
was entrusted to the apostles and prophets of the 1st
century church to expand
the
Kingdom
of God by bringing all nations under Christ’s reign. Through
the apostolic functions of the
church, the Body receives access to
supernatural power. Through this authority and power
in action,
the supernatural design and works of the ministry of the Church
accomplishes the
mission to establish one holy universal church of God
under the spiritual
Headship of Christ
that ushers in His return
as the
glory of God fills the earth.
Let us watch the " progression" in the fulfillment of the
word:
Ephesians
2:20-21 AMP
You
are
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ
Jesus Himself
the chief Cornerstone.
21
In
Him the whole structure is joined (bound, welded) together
harmoniously, and it continues
to rise (grow, increase) into a holy
temple in the Lord [a sanctuary dedicated, consecrated, and
sacred to the
presence of the Lord].
The progression..."as it
continues to
rise (grow, increase) into a
holy
temple in the Lord [a sanctuary
dedicated, consecrated, and
sacred to the presence of the Lord].
The
prophetic
activating Church: When the Apostles of the Lamb of the
City Church of Jerusalem
heard that a church had started in Antioch,
(an allotment or fellowship of Jews and Greek Gentiles)
they sent
Barnabas, a prophet and teacher full of the Holy Ghost and faith to
find out what was
happening. He was a Levite, and of the country
of
Cyprus who knew both the ways of the Jews and
the ways of the Greeks.
After he ministered for a short time in Antioch, he went to find
Saul
(Paul). Though Barnabas was
most likely in the midst of a
wonderful
time of teaching and ministering, he recognized his
need for
assistance and went to Tarsus to find Saul. When they
arrived back in Antioch, they taught together
for a
period of
one year as a dynamic team raising up disciples. They had a
powerful teaching
ministry. Barnabas was the lead teacher and Saul was
his associate among others who were
actively discipling the
believers. Paul did his internship under Barnabas. Then,
things
began to
change...
Acts 11:27-30 AMP
And
during these days prophets (inspired teachers and interpreters of the
divine will and purpose)
came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
28
And
one of them named Agabus stood up and prophesied through the [Holy]
Spirit that a great
and severe famine would come upon the whole world.
And this did occur during the reign of
Claudius.
29
So
the disciples resolved to send relief, each according to his individual
ability [in proportion as
he had prospered], to the brethren who lived
in Judea.
30
And
so they did, sending [their contributions] to the elders by the hand of
Barnabas and Saul.
From
where
did the prophets come? They emerged through the teaching
ministry under apostolic
authority in the City Church of Jerusalem.
This
was
the first return of Barnabas to Jerusalem. The Scriptures later reveal
this wisdom of
Barnabas for if he had returned earlier, the Judaisers would
have quenched the work with the
Gentiles with their practice of circumcision. (Later, It
took Paul's' boldness to challenge Peter
on
this issue. The 1st apostolic counsel meeting to establish
doctrine by the governmental leadership
of all the apostles...Apostles
of the Lamb and apostles of the ascension gifts, convened to build
on the foundation over
the issue of circumcision. Doctrine was added and reported to all
the
churches.) It was during this first visit to Jerusalem to
take money for the
coming famine that
Barnabas gave testimony to Saul's work and the
apostles listened to Saul give his testimony and
revelation of the
Gospel of Christ.
The
apostles
then extended Saul the "hand of fellowship."
In
other words, he was received and became one in the communion and
fellowship of the
"apostolate" [the whole governmental headship of the
church].
After delivering the
offering,
they returned and continued to work with the City Church of Antioch
for
two more years. It has always been God's plan to raise up ministries
out of the Body of Christ.
That is why we are appointed for
discipleship to a fellowship by the Holy Spirit. God had set
things
in motion to commission Saul into his apostolic
calling and change his name to Paul.
Acts 13:1-3 NKJV
Now
in the church that was at Antioch
there were certain prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon
who was
called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with
Herod the tetrarch,
and Saul.
2
As
they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said,"Now
separate
to Me Barnabas
and Saul for the work to which I have called
them."
3
Then,
having fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them away.
There were several prophets and
teachers
headquartered in Antioch.
These
were
mature prophets.
When
Scripture states that the ["Holy Spirit said,"] it does not mean
a
mighty voice thundered from heaven. It implies that one of
the prophets heard the thought and
intent of the Holy Spirit and
verbally expressed them.
Luke
recorded
the incident of Acts 13; 1-3 long after it had taken
place.
The prophetic word spoken had already been proven to be a
Holy Spirit
inspired word, so he wrote,
"the Holy Spirit said." This incident is
shared to open our understanding in several areas of what
has been thus presented.
[Note:
We
use certain spiritual language to specify different ways God makes
known His thoughts
and words. A Rhema
word,
a word of wisdom or
knowledge, is given when an individual receives
prophetic
insight and divine illumination from within.
The ministry of
www.thepropheticvoice.com is built upon the following
foundation:
Our course to the gift
of prophetic words of wisdom and
knowledge is the road of prayer,
meditation, study of Scripture and
communion with the Lord.
The
gift
of
prophesy released in our writings and podcasts is a mix of the Holy
Spirit drawing upon
us, our knowledge and experience of God, our
understanding of Scripture,
times of prayer,
communion with the Holy Spirit, and spontaneous
utterance.]
Apostolic
commissioning
is a God given grace not limited only to
apostles.
An apostolic, prophetic presbytery of prophets and
teachers laid hands
on Barnabas
and Paul,
prophesied to them and gave a prophetic charge that
launched
them into their apostolic ministries.
For Paul especially, who
had had the Damascus Road experience 17 years prior, it was the
transition from "called to be an apostle" to officially
"becoming an
apostle" to the Gentiles, being
sent forth with the revelation of
Christ's Corporate
Church.
The commissioning changed the apostolic order of Paul and
Barnabas'
relationship. Barnabas had
been the lead prophet and
teacher under which Paul matured and learned the order and functioning
of apostolic church life. It had been 14 years after the
Lord had
called through the prophetic word of
wisdom delivered by Ananias before
Saul had entered into full ministry. He served at Antioch as part
of
the apostolic team
for 3 years. Now Barnabas, commissioned an apostle, would be submitted
to
Paul's leadership.
The church would grow in exponential proportions through the
revelation
of Christ's headship
ascension-gifts of five fold ministries as He had
revealed to Paul. Apostolic Teams would be
formed
consisting of the 5-fold "headship ministries."
As we fast forward, looking into the building of the church in
its
early days has been shared that
we may see other dimensions in the
working of Christ in His Church.
Eph
4:13-16 NKJV
...till
we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the
Son of
God,
to a perfect man,
to the measure of the stature of the fullness of
Christ;14 that we should no longer be children,
tossed to and fro and
carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in
the
cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,15 but, speaking the
truth
in love, may grow up in all things
into Him who is the head -- Christ --
As
presented above, the One Holy Apostolic Church was birthed on the day
of Pentecost.
It will mature... grow up in all things into
Christ.
As we study the Scriptures of the life of Christ we are able to
see the
apostolic measure of the
Church. The headship
ministry gifts
(apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teachers)
and the Gifts
of the Spirit and the Fruit
of the Spirit endues and empowers the Body of Christ to
mature to the
fullness of Christ. What the Lord experienced in His personal
maturation or
"perfecting" on
earth, the Church will experience if we are to be "perfected"
to become the full
measure of His "stature."
As we progress through the development stages of the church, we
see the
times and seasons
of the perfecting process over the
centuries.
"The Church went through its "David's Wilderness, "Joseph's
Prison,"
"Abraham's Ishmael
Ministry," and "Israel's Egyptian Bondage" for
over a thousand years."
Dr.
Bill
Hamon Christian
International
A
Season
of Restoration
The Good News is that the Holy Spirit was sent as administrator,
to
lead and guide as well as
bring full restoration to Christ's Church so
that
the Universal Church could be commissioned
for restoration in AD
1500. The Holy Spirit, having given Martin Luther the revelation
and divine
understanding of "the just shall live by
faith," the church was made free to progressively be fully
restored and be restoring
all
things. This Reformation Move of God broke the bondage of
controlled Orthodoxy.
"Return
to
the
stronghold, you prisoners of hope.
Even today
I declare
that I will restore double to you." Zechariah 9:12
Over
the past 500 years, the Church has
experienced double periods: Spiritual Revivals and
Spiritual
Refreshings! The offices of evangelists, teachers, and pastors,
have been
restored.
The
offices of the prophet and the apostle are experiencing a renewed
acceptance in
the church
at large. Apostolic churches and
ministries are being built upon valid Scriptural doctrine.
We are experiencing
the season of the New Apostolic Reformation. The resurrection of Jesus,
he First-Born from the dead, His ascension and His
enthronement as King of the Kingdom of
Heaven initiated the New Testament Church. The
sending of the
Holy
Spirit on the Day of
Pentecost gave apostolic power to the Church which will ultimately
establish
the
nations with
the Glory of the Lord to fill the earth!
The following are excerpts from Brother George Kouri's
ministry:
"Another
thing that needs restoring is our joy.
The
Kingdom of God is
righteousness, peace and joy
Three things we
are in
desperate need of
in this 2009 season of the Holy Spirit!.
If
we can
operate in these three things we will
stand as a light on a hill in
the
days
to come!
I
believe
it is part of
the package of restoration that is coming.
"For
the
Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and
peace
and joy in the
Holy Spirit." Romans 14:17
"Restore
to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous
Spirit." Psalm 51:12
"Then I will make up to you for the years
That the swarming locust has eaten,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing
locust,
My great army which I sent among you. Joel 2:25 NASU
As
we
embrace this special season of the Holy Spirit we need the wisdom to
determine what it
was of "locusts eating off of us" and what it was
of the
Lord's doing - a little "spirit/soul surgery."
To
make it
even more of
a challenge, sometimes it's BOTH! What
is
this about "... My great army
which I sent among you"? You
mean
to tell me that God sent those
locusts?
The
Hebrew
words here are "piel preterite," meaning "which I
sent."
PIEL:
Generally indicates some shift in meaning, such as "to break"
becomes "to shatter."
PRETERITE:
Generally indicates past of completed
action, but may also
be translated as present
or
future actions which can somehow be
thought
of as complete.
It's
hard
to explain as we are dealing with spiritual-eternal concepts within
the
limits of our physical
time-based reality. But what is
basically being said is that He took drastic measures to shift and/or
reposture us, by
removing something from us, so that He might add
something even greater
to
us.
Is that perhaps the big SHIFT everyone
was referring to this
past
year? That is what we have to hold
onto as
well, as we transition from
the
prison
to the palace, so to speak. He
is graciously bringing us
to
a
keener place of discernment, aligning us
with HIS wisdom and understanding."
George
Kouri
You
will find him a master teacher of the Word of God as you listen to
the podcasts.
Ron's Note:
What do
you think? Is the following a part of
"the Big Shift" ?
There is Great Harvest made ready for the Church!
End: [A SIDEBAR Teaching]
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Trust
in
His Word
"For
the
Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, piercing even
to the division of soul and spirit, and of
joints
and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of
the heart." Hebrews 4:12
We
could
save ourselves a lot of pain if we really would dive into the Word of
God and ask Him to
blow on it with His Breath, His living
Spirit, and
bring
us into the Truth of what He is saying to us.
I
believe if we will give ourselves wholeheartedly to His Logos Word, He
will grant us revelation into
the fullness of what He has for us. We
must meditate on His
Word. We will find that place of refuge,
that
place of peace, and will have a firm foundation - the very Rock of our
salvation to stand on.
"Your
Word
is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." Psalm 119:105
Thank
God
for the sayings of Ecclesiastes that tell us there are times and
seasons and they last for
a bit and then change. For if that be
true, and
of
course it is, then we sure have a good season to
look
forward to - because the past one has been pretty challenging to say
the least!
We
look
forward to the coming relief as we call on Him, not
losing Hope and not letting up on Faith.
We take a deep, deep breath,
gird up our loins, and having done all - we stand. It's what we must do
to do our part.
When
the
army went to battle and they sent the singers ahead with "the
Lord is good and His mercy
endures forever," I
can
imagine they took a
deep breath, closed their eyes, and shouted at
the top
of
their lungs,
trembling with uncertainty as to what was about to
happen.
They moved
in faith, putting
their trust in His Word that was being released from
their own mouths into the atmosphere - even
doing their part to shift
what was in the air up to that moment.
May
we
have the wisdom and courage to do the same, with heads held high in
the
hope of our
calling as the
manifest sons of God, who are about
to do some serious damage to the enemy
because of the One who lives in
us - Christ in us, the hope of glory!
Dr. George Kouri, The Kings Church
Bob Jones who
flows
in the prophetic, declares that January 16th is prophetically an
important time
of year. "The almond
tree, which represents biblical leadership, blooms at this time of the
year,
signifying God’s approval."
On
January 16th
1994, Bob Jones was instructed
to bring together a round table of prophets for the
purpose of sharing
what would begin to happen that year. Each year since then
on the 16th
of
January Bob and a group of other prophets meet for that same
purpose.
ROUND
TABLE
OF THE PROPHETS
January
16, 2009
Prophetic
insights
that
were listed from the Round Table
of Prophets:
The cord that
has
been around the baby’s neck, which is the fear of
man, will
be
removed so
the
Father will hear the cry of the babies.
It is
not still born but alive in Me says
God. It will breathe and give living substance to
those who will
only believe. They will cry out in
your judgment and remember mercy.
Habakkuk
3:2
O
Lord, I
have heard the report of You and was afraid. O Lord, revive
Your work
in the midst of the years, in the midst of the
years make [Yourself] known!
In wrath [earnestly]
remember love, pity, and mercy.
Mercy shall be the
inspired word that comes out of the mouth of the
Father.
Matthew
4:4
But
He replied, it
has been written, Man shall not live and be upheld
and sustained by bread alone,
but by every word
that comes forth from the mouth of God.
For
this is the year
of separation of the wicked and the righteous.
And the
righteous
shall come forth with divine grace which is the nine
gifts of God.
It
shall
bring forth
free grace which is great salvation.
1
Corinthians 12:4
Now there are distinctive varieties and
distributions of endowments gifts,
extraordinary
powers distinguishing certain Christians,
Women
have birthed
this season in the history of mankind.
We need wise
women to deliver us this year.
The
Spirit of
holiness coming forth will have resurrection power in it and this power will
bring the
obedience of what Christ called us to.
"Now come into the
closet and praise Me, says God.
See the
reality of hope arise. Amen."
(end ROUND TABLE
OF THE PROPHETS
January 16, 2009)
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The Lord has been
stirring my spirit through the transition of 2008 into 2009
about
HOPE.
Hope is
divine
grace,
the demonstrational signs and wonders that release free grace
experienced
in power evangelism.
Ephesians
2:7
AMP
"He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages
to come
the immeasurable
(limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His
unmerited favor) in [His] kindness and goodness
of heart toward us in
Christ Jesus."
Romans 4:18 [For
Abraham, human reason for] hope being gone, hoped in
faith that he should
become the father of many nations, as he had been
promised
due to the power of divine grace
operating in their souls by the Holy
Spirit) and they vary, but the [Holy] Spirit remains the same.
Hope is not optimism, it
is not looking on the bright side, it is not
wishful thinking.
(Are you sure about this, Brother
Ron?)
Hope
in our Western culture contains a "hunk" of resignation!...
passive
acceptance that whatever happens is unavoidable.
People
are
out of jobs today! They are going about everywhere to
apply for a new one. Ask almost
anyone of them if they will get the job
for which
they just interviewed and more times than not, you
will hear a reply
such as "I hope
so! I would like the job, but I have my doubts that I will get
it."
"I
probably have 50% chance to get it, but all I can do is hope."
In
this
scenario,
hope is based
upon resignation and some forlorn wish to
be
fortunate.
Another way to express this "hope" is
having a demeanor to passively comply without protest.
However
privately one
has given up on the inside, "hope' is used as a face saver.
Inside one's heart , there is little faith on which to hope.
Let
us dig
into God's will for his people. In the Jewish
tradition, Hope
is something completely
different. Jesus
is
a
Jew, he came as the Jewish Messiah. Being such we shall see two aspects
of
Jewish tradition; God's purposeful plan and actions and
rebellious
Israel's
manner of "tradition to
exercise the law of Moses."
Four hundred
years before the virgin birth, Zechariah (9:9)
proclaims…”Rejoice greatly, O Daughter
of Zion!
Shout aloud, O Daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King comes to you; he is
[uncompromisingly] just and having
salvation [triumphant and
victorious], patient, meek, lowly,
and riding on
a donkey, upon a colt, the foal of a donkey. {Matt.21:5; John 12:14,
15.}
This scripture is directed
to Spiritual Zion
and Spiritual Jerusalem. {See: Hebrews
12:22…
But rather, you have come to Mount Zion,
even to the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
and countless multitudes of angels in festal gatherings!
Law and the Prophets
"The ultimate
expression of Christ’s Kingdom is the resurrection of the dead! The Hope of
Messiah’s
Kingdom was the Hope of the resurrection of the body and
eternal life! Christ’s death and
resurrection brought to light the Father, the
Kingdom of Heaven, and life and immortality!
Finally,
at Rome,
Paul called together the leading men of the Jews and declared to them,
“For I am
wearing this chain for the sake of the Hope of Israel…” They set a day and
a large number gathered
to hear him. Luke tells us that he was
“explaining…and solemnly testifying about the Kingdom of
God and trying to persuade
them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and the
Prophets…” (Acts
28: 20, and 23)
The point is that
Paul was proclaiming the Hope of Israel!
He
himself declares
that he was arrested, placed in chains, tried by the Sanhedrin, Felix,
Agrippa
and Caesar for the Hope of the resurrection. Paul, the apostle,
was not proclaiming a postponed,
future, earthly, Jewish
Kingdom; instead he
was preaching Jesus Christ is Lord and King and in His
Name alone is
forgiveness of sins, salvation, the new birth, eternal life and the Hope of the
resurrection. Can you
see that today is the blessing of David, the New Covenant?
It is the
mercy and grace of God in the person of Jesus Christ!
This
New
Covenant is
not simply the Old Covenant redone, but a whole new covenant, based
on
better promises, a better sacrifice, and a better priesthood!
● It is the
foundation
of a whole new administration of the Kingdom of God
that has as its
eternal
purpose the destroying of all the works of the
Devil, abolishing
all rule (dealing with principalities
and powers of
darkness),
● heading
or summing up all things in Christ,
● bringing the
nations under the
government of King Jesus and building Christian civilization,
● ultimately at
Christ’s final appearing the destruction of the
last enemy
death, the final eradication
of evil, and the bringing forth of many sons to the
glory of the perfect day.
(Ephesians 1: 9-10; I
Corinthians 15: 24-28; Colossians 1: 28; Hebrews 2: 9-10)"
George Kouri
Saints, the purpose of the
Messiah’s Kingdom is to bring forth a New Creation!
Again,
God has
done a New Thing! The birth of His Son (even today)
gives Hope to a perverse and dying world.
Because He lives by a double portion birth... (first the physical
and
then the spiritual), He gives
Hope to all
mankind!
1 Corinthians 15:46 AMP
But
it
is not the spiritual life which came first, but the physical and then
the spiritual.
Hope as God presents it is
awesome to experience!
It translates one's spirit into a
new creature! Not only are we
born of the flesh, but in Christ, we are
born of the spirit and made
into a New being! We have received a Double
Portion Blessing!
We become a peculiar people. We are no longer people of the
kingdom of
darkness.
We now walk in the Light of Truth, Light of Life and
Light of the Spirit!
We walk in Faith, Hope, and Love
in the Holy Spirit.
Galatians
5:16 AMP
But
I
say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and
controlled and guided by
the Spirit]; then you will certainly not
gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature
without
God).
Shall we behold God's definition of
Hope?
Hebrews
11:1-2 NKJV
Now
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.
Elders are the ascension-gift Leaders of the Church... the 5-fold
ministry who are to govern the
affairs of the church and care
for the saints. They spiritually lead, build and govern.
When they
exercise the
unseen and see it manifest in the physical, they obtain a good
report! The work and
demonstration of the Holy Spirit manifests the gifts of the
Spirit operationally in the midst of the
people! The reports are awesome.. a good testimony!
God made man in His own image... In the creation, recorded
in
Genesis, God spoke and His Words
were expressed in manifestation of His will. He spoke where there
was nothing and it manifested!
His report or testimony was:
"God
saw
that
it
was good."
The
full
attribute of His Faith, the evidence of things not seen was empowered
in His HOPE and
brought forth the substance!
Be encouraged to obtain a copy of "Developing Your
Prophetic Gifting" by
Graham Cooke for an
indepth study on the biblical principle of Hope:
Hope is a confident,
unshakable
expectation of God's character!
Hope is an active response to faith... what one conceives is
manifest.
Hope is imparted in intimacy as one conceives God's presence:
1. "You know who God is"...He is the Almighty One who has
power
and dominion over all
things.
He reigns supreme!
2. "You know what He is like" ...He is the kindest Person
you
know. He is your Heavenly Father the
source of all things and has chosen you and
set
his love on you.
3. "You know what he has promised" ...He has made so many
great
and precious promises.
You
serve a God whose will is always in His Word. When He
speaks, He acts.
4. "You know He has the power to back up His Will"...Your
Father
is all powerful. He has given all
authority and power to
his Son who has given His life for you to receive the
gift of eternal life from
the Father. He has given you His Spirit and all
that
pertains to this life and godliness. His power
has been
bestowed upon you. The power of Faith and Hope is a personal
gift that
you may
receive every spiritual blessing from your
Father above.
Hope is an active response in you that
you know that you know God is
unchanging and will
always do what He says and will always continue to
be unchangeably Who He is! That is HOPE;
a confident expectation of God's grace
and goodness because He is unchangeable!
God has put His Hope where His light of Truth, Life and Spirit
will always shine on you... in Christ
Jesus, His Son!
He has put His Hope in you where you can always be accepted by
Him...in Christ!
He has put His Hope in you where you can always receive answers
to your
prayers and hear His
voice...in Christ!
God has put his Hope in you where no devil or circumstance, or
unbelief, or hateful person can
touch you...in Christ!
Hope looks to the future and declares (prophetically proclaims)
God
will continue to be the same
toward you as He always has been. He is
unchanging in His perfect Love towards His Kingdom
Kids!
Hebrews
13:5 'he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
Amplified
text:
...for
He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor
give you up nor leave you without
support. [I will] not,[I will] not,
[I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you]
down ( relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]
When
God
speaks either through revealed truth or by prophetic ministry, He seeks
to impart the
strength of His power as well as the assurance of His
Will. Forever, all the days of your life, He will
be unalterably
the same... THAT IS HOPE!
Your confident expectation that God is unchangeable in His heart
towards you gives the necessary
support to release your faith towards
His
nature!
Hope leads us to confidently walk in faith. Faith, Hope
and Love
always remain. It remains because
it is Who God is in His Son and you are ...in Christ when you
have been
initiated into the Kingdom of
God, diligently seek Him and are obedient to His Kingdom Life.
Hope is the anchor point between faith that takes possession in
the now
sense, and the deep
abiding love of God which demonstrates towards you
in the person of Christ.
Hope, that confidence expectation, joyfully keeps faith and love
in
your
heart and experience.
Hope is full of joy and laughter.'
Romans
15:13 NKJV
Now
may
the God of hope
fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
that
you may abound in hope
by the power of the Holy Spirit.
God has given us unlimited grace and spiritual foundation in
which we
may Hope! In His Hope,
God is real. It is the Hope that
is the object of the things not seen!
Join in the podcast messages God is Hope to wade into the
ankle deep, the waist deep and
the full measure of
what God has given to us! God has given of Himself.. it is our
option to
thirst and
pant after
him!
1
Corinthians 15:46 AMP
But
it
is not the spiritual life which came first, but the physical
and then the spiritual.
Don't
miss out on the exposition and the
anointing progression of the following 3 part message
of Hope...
There
is
an awesome blessing you will experience!
May
God Bless
and Keep You In His service,
Ambassador
of Christ,
Ron
Gann
... schedule a dynamic life changing
meeting!
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