Thursday, June 4, 2020

"Lord, you are great and powerful.." - 1 Chronicles 29:11 (NCV)


I awoke this morning at 2:30 a.m., and the Lord gave me an urgency to pray, I didn't know what to pray for, but I knew I needed to pray. 

As I took the time before the Lord in prayer, He immediately told me that He loved me, I can usually recognize that when there is something that is on His mind when He prefaces what he wants to say with a declaration of love. The Lord often puts His love declarations in the form of a question, so that I have an opportunity to reflect and to respond. 

He then told me that it was essential that I partner with Him to declare (or speak into existence) what He wanted to be done. He expressed great concern to me over many major cities in the United States, and that he had angels at the ready (much like the national guard) to bring their message of hope to these cities. Still, they needed to be commissioned and released to do what needed to be done. 

He needed someone to stand with Him and the cities to speak His words over them. I was explicitly sensing that these angels (or messengers) assigned to the cities of concern (i.e., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Minneapolis, and others) had a name and a specific characteristic that would be released upon those cities. 

For example, the three angels I saw which were assigned to Los Angeles were "Mercy, Grace, and Unity." As I was praying, I was given instructions to commission these three angels to go to Los Angeles and visit the many disenfranchised people who needed these characteristics and to deposit these gifts as an impartation of the Spirit in their lives. 

I gave instruction these angels to go into the city and seek out everyone from the least to the greatest and impart these virtues that healing may be the result, physically, spiritually, emotionally and socially. I then saw these angels depart to go on their mission. 

Three angels can accomplish a lot, and in fact, even a single angel has the power to defeat an entire army that is threatening God's people with destruction.

 "That night, the angel of the Lord went out and killed one hundred eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead bodies." 
2 Kings 19:35 (NCV)

The time has come for binding and loosing, for the Lord is recruiting many to stand between Him and the people, that they may pray for an impartation of His Spirit. The Lord is making His desires known. He wants everyone to hear Him, and for us who do hear Him to speak as clarions so that others will come and taste and see for themselves the goodness of our God. 

We can ask the Lord to show us how to stand tall as sons and daughters of the King and begin receiving revelation and direction in how to pray with authority and power to bring an end to the rule of the evil principalities and powers that have kept the earth and its nations in bondage for eons.

"I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; the things you don't allow on earth will be the things that God does not allow, and the things you allow on earth will be the things that God allows." 
Matthew 16:19 (NCV)

God has given a lot of authority to His people, which is why we must put on the mind of Christ and allow our old nature to be crucified at the cross of Christ Jesus. The Kingdom of God is a place that resides within the heart of the Christian and is accessed by faith and released with power through God's people who are led by the Spirit.

Jesus, grilled by the Pharisees on when the kingdom of God would come, answered, "The kingdom of God doesn't come by counting the days on the calendar. Nor when someone says, 'Look here!' or, 'There it is!' And why? Because God's kingdom is already among you." 
Luke 17:20-21 (MSG)

The Kingdom of God is like a deposit that has been placed in our Spirit, that was activated when we came to Christ. Having received Him as our Savior, we have become alive (born again) into a new life in Christ. It is now taking what we have received and approaching God that He may teach us about our role as His sons and daughters. The bible gives us an overview, and as we press into the Holy Spirit, He fills in the rest of the details and opens the scriptures much deeper.

"But as for you, Christ has poured out his Spirit on you. As long as his Spirit remains in you, you do not need anyone to teach you. For his Spirit teaches you about everything, and what he teaches is true, not false. Obey the Spirit's teaching, then, and remain in union with Christ." 
1 John 2:27 (GNT)

We are on a new day with a mandate, a readiness to share what God has given us. What is this readiness? It is a new word from His Spirit; "It is time to build my house."  

There is an empowerment that takes us to this place of obedience, and this empowerment is to serve Him and love Him with everything that we have within us.

"This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: 'If you do as I tell you and serve me, you will be in charge of my Temple and my courtyards. And I will let you be with these angels who are standing here." 
Zechariah 3:7 (NCV)

How vitally important it is to give voice to everything the Lord gives us, so that we can speak what is spiritual into the natural world.  God is so God!

Be Blessed;
Stephen Barnett

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