I want to share some things out of my heart that are new to me. It may be old to you but it is revelation to me. We are living in perilous times, testing times, fierce times. All you have to do is turn on the tube or pick up the daily news and relize our world is permeated with negative reports and there is mass fear and confusion. As we have just witnessed the inaugeration of a new President who many belive is a savior and there is false hope in a person that can't really help us. The enemy is using a false sense of security to hide the fact that God is breaking the spirit of materialism in our nation.
The bible tells us that faith that is seen is no hope at all for who hopes for what he sees. In other words faith is not tested when everything is going well, it is tested when all hell is breaking loose on every side and you don't have a clue what to do. Faith is not even materilaized until you are in an impossible situation. Some of us have never seen true faith manifested because we cling to what is safe and we run to what we can understand and hold together on our own. Peter's faith was not tested in Matthew 16 when Jesus asked who He was. Faith is not when you are surrounded by people of faith, or in a Church service when faith is high and you feel you can whip the world. No, faith is when you are surrounded by doubt, storms, negative reports, no hope, darkness...
Why is it that the stage of a downward economy has been set? Could it be that God has allowed the spirit of materialism to be broken so that the people that know their God shall begin to rise in downward times? Could it be that the stage is set so that the true source of prosperity can be revealed and the people who have put His Kingdom first and have not looked at the wind to determine whether they are to sow, but they have understood that our God is an unlimited source and their is nothing or no one can ever limit Him or put Him in a recession.
When God got ready to deliver His people out of captivity, the bible tells us that Isreal walked out of Egypt with their gross economy in their pocket. Pharoah then gathered his chariots and horses and began to pursue after them. Why? He was not chasing them for their worship, their rituals, their Church services. Satan is not fearing our shouts or high services on Sunday. He doesn't care if if we shout as long as we don't have nothing. Why? Because as long as we are broke and living in a limited economy, we are paralyzed from fulfilling the Kingdom mandate that has been given to us. As long as the spirit of poverty locks up God's people, we will not see the full manifestation of the corporate Kingdom blessing, the place called there, the place where God commands a blessing, where not one gets a breakthrough but everybody, not where one gets a financial breakthrough but from the ghetto to the mansion the blessing of God not on one but on many.
Here is where we have been guilty. It is that we have begun to speak our situation and not what we know inside to be true. If we are talking our situation, we are not in faith but we are in doubt. And doubt is always believing negative outcomes to be true. The word says having the same spirit of faith we belive therefore we speak. In other words what we belive is revealed by what is coming out of our mouth. Jesus said we are justified and condemned by the words out of our mouth. Proverbs says we are ensnared by the words of our mouth, locked up and paralyzed, causing the present negativity to become a viscious cycle, a wilderness of wandering and circling. We have to be careful that we are not so bogged up in the situation that we start talking it, rather than what we know. I have been guilty of this, allowing the negativity of the times so so creep within my spirit life that is causes us to be powerless. Faith arise and doubt cease in Jesus name, I call us into our rightful place of inheritance.
I prophecy that the stage has been set for financial transfer and Kingdom multiplication, to those who will not repeat what they hear but what they know and their tithe and seed does not vacilate with the times but they have built their house on the rock, God says you shall rise and the spirit of poverty that you see today, you will not see again. Even as God caused the waters of the Red Sea to return to drown Pharoah and his army and draw a line between God's people and their stuff and him, God is seperating you and your stuff from the curse of poverty. I declare that the spirit of prosperity blessing, the now blessing, the millionaire annointing, the hundredfold blessing that comes through much prosperity is being released in this day. You shall now see the plundering of the enemy and wealth trasnfer on a level not see in the histroy of the Church. I declare a corporate blessing of wealth transfer upon the Body of Christ, you shall see in this year money miracles break out on the right and the left.
Here is what I see, we have tried to change situations with no revelation. The people of God have been lockes up in darkness, destroyed for lack of knowledge. If you have no clue about marriage but begging God to fix your marriage, ignorant of what kids supposed to be but praying for God to save them, ignorant of what God says on finances yet crying for God to deliver. Have you noticed the devil fights preachers on a whole nother level when they begin to talk on finances. Why? Because when this spirit of poverty is broken off God's people, we will be a force to be reckoned with, an unstoppable force. Many of you have been force to become bivocational and you feel that for all of your labor of faithfullness, God has abandoned you, no God is about to reveal himself as your source in a way you have never seen before and there will not be one stream that waters your garden but multiple sources of income. If God had allowed you to stay on that level, you would have never known him as the God of more than enough, He would have been just enough...
But God has brought a crises in your life to unlock a wealth release where you will never be poor again, you will never have to consult your bank account to fulfill His will, but you shall have plenty! Many of you have come to Jesus with one basket but God is askign is anyone have faith enough in this time to bring twelve baskets. The miracle of the five loaves and two fish (not enough)(lack) was not so mucha result of a special prayer by Jesus but it is the fact that somebody (the boy) had brought 12 baskets into a poverty situation. Will you allow God to enlarge your capacity and position you for a pressed down, shaken together, running over blessing, where you don't just have enough to meet your need but it will be enough to meet somebody elses need! A more than blessing!
How does this happen, it happens when you get a word on it> Jesus said, if you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask what you will and it shall be done for you. In other words, if you have a word on it, ask me for it and you shall have it. Don't ever ask me for something that you don't have a word on. You get a word on breakthrough and then breakthrough comes, you get a word on healing and healing comes, you get a word on financial prosperity and then... Why> Because everything in life follows a word. God has never created anything that He didn't first speak a word on. Everything started with a word, nothing has been created that didn't come out of a word. If you go to God with a problem, God will give you a word, If you share a need with God, he will give you a word, if you ask God a request, He will give you a word. I hear a sound of abundance being released from God's true prophet's and then the manifestation of that sound ill follow. If we are living in time where the world's focus is on money, what sound do you think needs to be released and what manifestation is waiting for that sound!
Here is how I want to finish this. As I have I want to give you the opportunity to repent for your doubt and lack of faith. Here is the good news, Jesus told the same Peter that would deny him and allow doubt to saturate his life, He said Peter satan has desired to sift you as wheat, but when you return strengthen your brothers. In other words after you repent of speaking what has surrounded you rather than what God says to be true, God is going to give you such a blessing that you will whip the devil with your blessing. God is about to take your trouble and put it on his payroll to destroy the enemy.
Blessings,
Craig
Thursday
What is true prosperity and how do I achieve it?
One of my goals in life is to know the word and secondly to know people. I strongly desire to be an expert of the word and people. Why? Because the thing I see constant in people is problems and the thing I see constant in the word is solutions, so if I can marry the two, that's what we call a miracle or a breakthrough. Wisdom is the ability to discern the problem, and then connect it to the right answer. In other words if you have a health problem, i don't need to try to sell you a car, i need to sell you a gym membership or health insurance. It is in connecting the right solution to the right problem.
One of the problems that I see that has created the economic crises we are living in is the desire to keep up with the Jone's. We go through life judging our success and prosperity by the achievements and the accumulation of stuff. We look at television and see a certain lifestyle and because we are living on a lower level, we think we are a failure. We see CRIBS, or Pimp my ride and see a certain lifestyle and then believe if I can get that house and drive that car or wear those clothes then I will have arrived. I even hear preachers who take the worlds definition of prosperity and then go to the bible and say this is how you get that.
Have you ever heard someone say if God this for me, He will do it for you, or if I have got it, you can get it too. That is erroneous thinking. Paul said to the Church in Corinth that true fulfillment comes when I stop comparing and measuring my life by someoneelses's ruler. He said it is not wise to compare yourself to everybody else. Comparisons lead to frustration, depression, inferiority, low self esteem...
The Bible tells me something that is powerful that will free us up. Here is a powerful truth. Are you ready for this? This liberated me! Everybody does not have the same equipment (metron). David says the Lord has chosen my inheritance for me, my boundary lines have fallen in pleasant places. Paul says the secret to fulfillment and peace is contentment at whatever level we are presently on (not containment). Yes we are all loved equally by God in His eyes and yes God is no respector of persons. But the fact is everyone of us has different measures.
According to scripture we have a measure of faith, a measure of gifting (this is why when Paul said you can do all things through Christ, He did not mean all things). I can prove this to you by getting on the stage and attempting to sing. No matter how much anointing I conjure up or how much you grease me with oil, the fact remains I can't do all things, I can't sing. Now, what Paul is saying is I can do all things through the anointing (my equipment)(resident ability or potential). In other words I can do all things according to the ability that God has placed in my anointing. Everything I need to be or do is already resident in me. That's why the trap of comparisons is to chase after something I am not graced for or with, therefore I end up like a pregnant woman always in labor pain but only giving birth to air. Why? I can't have your baby and you can' t have mine (That will preach).
We have a measure of faith, gifting, talent, and grace. How do you determine your equipment? How do you determine what is within your reach? Is is by first discovering your assignment in life. God never promises to give you whatever equipment you chase after, He only promises to give you what you need to fulfill your assignment. For example if a faith preacher gets up and says because God gave me a jet, He will give you a jet. That is preposterous and what it has done is painted a false picture of prosperity and made God out to be a liar. No, the reality is to accomplish your assignment, you don't need a jet, you may need a degree, a broom, a paintbrush, a slingshot, a 5 loaves and two fish, a rod, a axehead, a pen... We spend our life chasing something we don't need and end up wasting our life, never finishing what God has assigned us to do. What is true prosperity?
Prosperity is not cars, jets, boats, a bigger house, clothes, millions of dollars. Prosperity is defined as this, it is you having everything you need to fulfill the assignment on your life! If it takes a plane for you to fulfill your assignment, then a plane is in your prosperity potential. If your assignment is a motorcycle ministry then God will give you the motorcycle. But I can't get up and say God is going to give everybody a Harley. Why? Most of you wouldn't know what to do with a Harley if you had one. Wouldn't be a shame to spend your life chasing after a Harley because so and so got one only to get one but never leave the garage.
Prosperity is you having enough to do what God has called you to do and never having to consult your checkbook to see if you can do it. Poverty is not that you live on a lower level than Donald Trump, poverty is lacking the necessary tools you need to do what you were born for. God never intended for us to get a word from God then have to consult our wallet or bank account to see if we can do it.
So what do you do when you lack the necessary equipment? You begin to call into your life what is necessary for you to do what God has called you to do. He has given you everything that pertains to life and godliness. This means He has already given everything you need to do what is within your metron, and it has your name on it, waiting for you to call it into your life. Here is one of the ways I judge this. Whenever I see something that I desire or I think I need, I check my faith meter. If I have faith for it, then it is mine positionally. Why? Hebrews tells us that Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence (title deed) of things not yet seen. Let me break it down. In order for me and Tara to fulfill the assignment of launching Freedom House this year we need and estimated $110,000. How do I know this is mine and that when I call for it, it will come. Hebrews tells me that the substance of what is in my future that I need in the present is brought into the now, from the unseen to the seen by my faith. How do I know what I have faith for? Jesus said, whatsoever things you desire, when you pray believe you receive them and you will have them. The actual Greek translation says, that whatsoever things are in your heart (desire), when you articulate those inner desires, you already have them (locked up in desire) and when you call for them, they are released in your life. Why? Because the boundary's of your capacity is determined by the measure of faith, ability, grace, and talent that is already inside of you. Therefore when you tap into your assignment, you are in a birthing position to give birth not to air, but to everything that is necessary for you fulfillment in life. In other words I come into my (moment) when I release what I am already full of. Say this out loud, prosperity is learning to push out what God has already put in me. It is learning that there are no limitations to my life, everything I need to do what I was created for is waiting on me to 1) discover my assignment 2) articulate the inner desires 3) Pursue the voices or mentors that unlock new levels in me 4) Command my mornings by calling for me desires and everything neccessary for fulfillment.
Blessings,
Craig
One of the problems that I see that has created the economic crises we are living in is the desire to keep up with the Jone's. We go through life judging our success and prosperity by the achievements and the accumulation of stuff. We look at television and see a certain lifestyle and because we are living on a lower level, we think we are a failure. We see CRIBS, or Pimp my ride and see a certain lifestyle and then believe if I can get that house and drive that car or wear those clothes then I will have arrived. I even hear preachers who take the worlds definition of prosperity and then go to the bible and say this is how you get that.
Have you ever heard someone say if God this for me, He will do it for you, or if I have got it, you can get it too. That is erroneous thinking. Paul said to the Church in Corinth that true fulfillment comes when I stop comparing and measuring my life by someoneelses's ruler. He said it is not wise to compare yourself to everybody else. Comparisons lead to frustration, depression, inferiority, low self esteem...
The Bible tells me something that is powerful that will free us up. Here is a powerful truth. Are you ready for this? This liberated me! Everybody does not have the same equipment (metron). David says the Lord has chosen my inheritance for me, my boundary lines have fallen in pleasant places. Paul says the secret to fulfillment and peace is contentment at whatever level we are presently on (not containment). Yes we are all loved equally by God in His eyes and yes God is no respector of persons. But the fact is everyone of us has different measures.
According to scripture we have a measure of faith, a measure of gifting (this is why when Paul said you can do all things through Christ, He did not mean all things). I can prove this to you by getting on the stage and attempting to sing. No matter how much anointing I conjure up or how much you grease me with oil, the fact remains I can't do all things, I can't sing. Now, what Paul is saying is I can do all things through the anointing (my equipment)(resident ability or potential). In other words I can do all things according to the ability that God has placed in my anointing. Everything I need to be or do is already resident in me. That's why the trap of comparisons is to chase after something I am not graced for or with, therefore I end up like a pregnant woman always in labor pain but only giving birth to air. Why? I can't have your baby and you can' t have mine (That will preach).
We have a measure of faith, gifting, talent, and grace. How do you determine your equipment? How do you determine what is within your reach? Is is by first discovering your assignment in life. God never promises to give you whatever equipment you chase after, He only promises to give you what you need to fulfill your assignment. For example if a faith preacher gets up and says because God gave me a jet, He will give you a jet. That is preposterous and what it has done is painted a false picture of prosperity and made God out to be a liar. No, the reality is to accomplish your assignment, you don't need a jet, you may need a degree, a broom, a paintbrush, a slingshot, a 5 loaves and two fish, a rod, a axehead, a pen... We spend our life chasing something we don't need and end up wasting our life, never finishing what God has assigned us to do. What is true prosperity?
Prosperity is not cars, jets, boats, a bigger house, clothes, millions of dollars. Prosperity is defined as this, it is you having everything you need to fulfill the assignment on your life! If it takes a plane for you to fulfill your assignment, then a plane is in your prosperity potential. If your assignment is a motorcycle ministry then God will give you the motorcycle. But I can't get up and say God is going to give everybody a Harley. Why? Most of you wouldn't know what to do with a Harley if you had one. Wouldn't be a shame to spend your life chasing after a Harley because so and so got one only to get one but never leave the garage.
Prosperity is you having enough to do what God has called you to do and never having to consult your checkbook to see if you can do it. Poverty is not that you live on a lower level than Donald Trump, poverty is lacking the necessary tools you need to do what you were born for. God never intended for us to get a word from God then have to consult our wallet or bank account to see if we can do it.
So what do you do when you lack the necessary equipment? You begin to call into your life what is necessary for you to do what God has called you to do. He has given you everything that pertains to life and godliness. This means He has already given everything you need to do what is within your metron, and it has your name on it, waiting for you to call it into your life. Here is one of the ways I judge this. Whenever I see something that I desire or I think I need, I check my faith meter. If I have faith for it, then it is mine positionally. Why? Hebrews tells us that Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence (title deed) of things not yet seen. Let me break it down. In order for me and Tara to fulfill the assignment of launching Freedom House this year we need and estimated $110,000. How do I know this is mine and that when I call for it, it will come. Hebrews tells me that the substance of what is in my future that I need in the present is brought into the now, from the unseen to the seen by my faith. How do I know what I have faith for? Jesus said, whatsoever things you desire, when you pray believe you receive them and you will have them. The actual Greek translation says, that whatsoever things are in your heart (desire), when you articulate those inner desires, you already have them (locked up in desire) and when you call for them, they are released in your life. Why? Because the boundary's of your capacity is determined by the measure of faith, ability, grace, and talent that is already inside of you. Therefore when you tap into your assignment, you are in a birthing position to give birth not to air, but to everything that is necessary for you fulfillment in life. In other words I come into my (moment) when I release what I am already full of. Say this out loud, prosperity is learning to push out what God has already put in me. It is learning that there are no limitations to my life, everything I need to do what I was created for is waiting on me to 1) discover my assignment 2) articulate the inner desires 3) Pursue the voices or mentors that unlock new levels in me 4) Command my mornings by calling for me desires and everything neccessary for fulfillment.
Blessings,
Craig
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