To: The City of Lights Community

       The Prophetic Voice Newsletter


Let us dwell upon the Creator of all things in a very special manner.
Since God is the Master Designer, the Architect and the Builder of all things,
why is that in so many ways we place Him in confinements of our little finite minds?
Assuredly, if confronted with our ways of thinking about God in such small measures,
we would quickly assert that we really have no ability to confine Him. 
Nor would we wish to do so.  It would be most mistakenly arrogant to imagine that the creature
He created could contain Him.  But isn’t that what has been done in the church as ministers
preach a me-centered Gospel message with me-centered ministries declaring a me-centered
God who exists to take care of me, me, me?

No, wait!  Is the church really preaching these kind of messages? 
You know,  the message where God only exists to bless us with whatever we want
if we are good. Whatever it is called, ( to make a point) call it the package of messages
that have been digitized to offer for a generous donation that have been created in
"our own image of who God is" that limits the greatness of God.
(Mind you, I am not against digital products.  They are wonderful teaching aides
and they are the basis for online ministry to share the Gospel in all its digital formats.
This web page is a digitized format!  )

The premise of this Newsletter is to bring our attention into a reality check to help us focus
on just how mighty and wonderful our Heavenly Father is in all that He has provided. 

Almighty God cannot be put in our containers… even though He made
provision through His Son to be housed in His creation through His plan
of Salvation.  Through repenting and understanding our position in Him,
believing the Gospel of the Kingdom, and acting in faith, the end result is that
we are to take dominion over His creation through Jesus Christ in us. 

When we receive God’s perspective on His ways and purposes, we find our thinking
changes and with it comes enlightenment!  Jesus is our hope of glory…
His glory will always be God's plan for us!  No longer shall we be willing to be amused
by the Me-Centered God messages.

In the New Covenant we are to be the carriers and containers of His glory,
housing His presence wherever we go.  To be a container for God’s glory
is the most awesome promise we have! 

It is the treasure Paul spoke of in Second Timothy…
Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you. 

That treasure is the gift of the Kingdom of Heaven through Christ, the Son!

Colossians 2:6-12  AMP
As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk
(regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him.
7 Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him],
being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established
in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving.
8 See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men's ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of] Christ (the Messiah).
9 For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine nature].
10 And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead--Father, Son and Holy Spirit--and reach full spiritual stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority [of every angelic principality and power].
11 In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, but in a [spiritual] circumcision [performed by] Christ by stripping off the body of the flesh (the whole corrupt, carnal nature with its passions and lusts).
12[Thus you were circumcised when] you were buried with Him in [your] baptism, in which you were also raised with Him [to a new life] through [your] faith in the working of God [as displayed] when He raised Him up from the dead.

You may wish to reread this scripture passage.  It is so wonderfully provisional of the love of God for His creation… us. 
With such an awesome God and wonderful promises, why has God become the “Me-Centered God?”  The divine nature is all about Him not about us.  We Christians haven’t allowed people to see a God
of the miraculous, of the impossible, of unimaginable good and of incredible love.  Instead we have presented the Me-Centered God. 

We have shown the world an intolerant, impotent, angry God.  We have shown them a god who requires us to be qualified and perfected for many years before He can use us in His ministry. 
We have shown them a god of the possible… a god of hypocrisy and false hope. 

When we no longer try to contain God in our image, but allow Him to possess us in His image,
He can be seen in all his beauty, goodness and power!  We then find ourselves unashamedly
standing up for Him!  
We are then able to accurately demonstrate His love, mercy and grace!  When the focus is on Him
and not on what He can do for “Me,”
we are able to tell the world about His healing nature, His miraculous creation, and His desires to welcome them into His forgiving arms.

The church must get focused on the Kingdom as Jesus came and demonstrated it.  Until we understand the simplicity of the Gospel,
we will not see the Gospel message of Jesus more clearly. 
When there is a lack of focus, we cannot represent Him accurately.
We miss the demonstration of His power that resides within us.
 
We need to open our spiritual eyes to see Him as He really is. 
All our wrong concepts, unbelief and wrong doctrine must be replaced with a passionate
and true knowledge of God!
We owe people a supernatural encounter with a supernatural God…
not just messages about Him.

God is moving in the supernatural in a mighty way this year!
Expect to encounter Him in your life for that special change you have been seeking Him to bring about!  He loves you and He is faithful. 

This is the season for that revelatory encounter with the God of all creation!

May God Bless you with a new and powerful spiritual thirst,
       Ambassador of Christ,