Sunday, February 15, 2009

COVENANT TREASURE

A PROPHETIC WORD FOR THIS SEASON


THIS IS THE OF REVEALING HIDDEN TREASURES, REMEDIES, HEALING POWERS, AND VIRTUE NEEDED TO ATTAIN DESIRE.

So this is the season of manifestation, transfer of wealth, and release of miracles. Meaning that we need to ask the Lord to cause His desires or we will find ourselves attempting to satisfy desires that are not the best for our lives. desire is a function of the emotions.

HOW DO WE MOVE FORWARD IN THE HARVEST?

Joshua and God’s covenant people had to gain daily strategy over how to advance and “possess” God’s inheritance that had been promised to Abraham. In other words, if they were going up against another obstacle, whether it was a city, people, or whatever, they had to get their instructions from the Lord on how to advance and what to do with the spoils of war. All the examples in the Word of God become types and shadows for us and produce principles of harvest that we should grasp today. within every FIELD on earth, there is a harvest. When we study harvest in the Bible, we find that there was a SHORT opportunity to gather the crops in the field. I believe we are entering into a door of opportunity and need to begin to pray accordingly.

There is a great principle that runs throughout the Word of God in relation to BOUNDARIES, DOMINION, AND AUTHORITY. When God placed Adam and Even in the garden, He told them to TEND or WATCH AFTER the garden boundaries. They didn’t do to well in this area. Finally, we see the Lord finding a person - a man named Abraham. Abraham had been called out of Ur, a Chaldean city whose main worship was to the Queen of Heaven, to follow God into the boundaries of freedom and prosperity. When Abraham responded to God’s call to leave the form of worship he was practicing and follow Him, the Lord cut covenant with Abraham in GENESIS 15. In this covenant, He established the boundaries of Abraham’s inheritance. This established the precedent. God has an inheritance for us. But, our inheritance, or portion had physical boundaries determined with its portion.

In the New Testament, we find the same example of boundaries. In II CORINTHIANS 10, Paul is discussing spiritual warfare. He then begins to declare the reality of his apostolic authority and the limit of its territorial boundaries.

VERSE 13, says, WE, HOWEVER, WILL NOT BOAST BEYOND MEASURE, BUT WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE SPHERE THAT GOD APPOINTED US - A SPHERE THAT ESPECIALLY INCLUDES YOU.
The New International says it this way, WE WILL CONFINE OUR BOASTING TO THE FIELD GOD HAS ASSIGNED TO US...

So, in this season, at this time it will be important that each one of us know the boundaries and assignments that the Spirit of God has for us. Once these are established, we can UNLOCK the inheritance within those boundaries. This is a time of
UNLOCKING. A key in our unlocking process is to understand timing. Each new season has a transition time. TRANSITION means, CROSSING OVER. I believe we have now entered our CRONOS season, and we are being disciplined and established in this new time frame. But, now we have entered a shift that causes us to begin to look for key KAIROS times that will start breaking forth. KAIROS means, a set opportune time for spiritual breakthrough. This phrase also means a key time to unlock what has been held behind closed doors.

We need to pray that our emotions are made whole.

There are some ways we enter into this season and there are some key issues.


1. THIS IS A SEASON OF REALIGNMENT AND ORDER.

THIS IS A TIME OF REALIGNMENT. GOD HAS BEEN GATHERING HIS ARMY. NOW HE WILL ALIGN AND REALIGN THEM FOR VICTORY. I HEWILL CREATE A NEW ORDER. FROM THIS ORDER MANY TERRITORIES WILL BE SET FREE.

The word REALIGN means, TO BRING INTO A STRAIGHT LINE OR TO REARRANGE SO AN AGREEMENT AND CLOSE COOPERATION CAN OCCUR, OR AN ARRANGEMENT OF EVENTS THAT PRODUCES A PROPER GROUND PLAN.

REALIGNMENT is linked with timing and place.

The word ORDER is a mathematical and a military term. Order is also used in defining the law of arrangement. This law says that, THERE IS A SEQUENCE OF EVENTS ARRANGED, OR ALIGNED, IN A DEFINATE PLAN AND TIME THAT CAUSES THE PROPER FUNCTIONING OF A SYSTEM , RESULTING IN VICTORY.

Order is also linked with authority. When an authority gives a decree, order is produced, events are aligned, and victory occurs.

Another key word to understanding this season is TRANSFORM.

TRANSFORM means, TO CHANGE THE CONDITION OR NATURE OF SOMETHING, PARTICULARY PRODUCING A CHANGE IN OUTWARD APPEARANCE.

There is one necessary condition to accomplish the heart of the Lord with this realignment order, and transformation in each one of our lives:

HOLD ON VERY LOOSELY TO WHERE YOU ARE BECAUSE SUPERNATURAL SHIFTS ARE HAPPENING.

Review your line of authority and influence. Many who have felt displaced or out of place will find themselves connecting with you. Others will find many connected with them that they have not been associated with in the past. The Lord is in the process of releasing new assignments for His people.

The Lord is aligning and connecting the gifts of His Body in such a way that a new maturity will come forth in His Kingdom and permeate the world. This alignment will loose wisdom in the earth. Wisdom dismantles demons and releases harvest. We need to be careful to not resist this adjustment.

When we think of order and alignment, a key verse is I CORINTHIANS 12:28. We are all members of the Body, but the Lord gives special abilities, or gifts to maintain His headship on earth. We see God’s order in this verse,

...FIRST APOSTLES, SECOND PROPHETS, THIRD TEACHERS, AND AFTER THAT, GIFTS OF MIRACLES AND HEALINGS...

2. THIS IS A TIME OF RELEASE OF GOD’S POWER AND DEMONSTRATION.

This order is a functioning order of gifting resulting in power evangelism. Ever notice in the Bible where one healing, one miracle, or one deliverance caused and entire region to be set free? The Gospel spread quickly after Aeneas was healed. He had been bedridden for eight years, and Peter declared: JESUS CHRIST HEALS YOU. He immediately arose, and all of Lydia and Sharon turned to the Lord. (ACTS 9:32-35).
This is a season in which apostolic order produces miracles, healings and transformations.


3. THIS IS A SEASON WHEN THE SPIRIT OF FEAR WILL BE ADDRESSED IN THE CHURCH.

We need to be a bold people. Even though there is a growing awareness of evil growing by leaps and bounds around us, we have to be bold. Daniel is a good example. He prayed three times a day and even went into the pit (with lions) for praying. But, he kept praying and ended up ruling in the midst of his enemies. Fear is an emotion and it’s a spirit - a demon force (II TIMOTHY 1:7).

When we agree with this spirit and allow it to bury itself in our emotions, we grow confused and unstable. Fear agrees with a spirit of poverty. The voice of fear says, “There’s a lion in my path, I must hide out.” This stops us from going forward. Poverty says, “God is not able to deal with what is ahead in my path.” The Body has been bogged down in this over the last few years. Even though plots of terrorism, financial instability, increasing legalities, and government oppression lay ahead of us, we can advance with confidence.

4. THIS IS A SEASON WHEN WEALTH WILL BE TRANSFERRED.

When we study Canaanite history, we find that the ruling god of the Canaanites was mammon. We also find the Lord looking for a corporate people hat could go into the covenant boundaries established with Abraham and unlock all the inheritance within those boundaries. The assignment, or mission, that Joshua and the tribes of Israel had to accomplish was a TRANSFERRENCE OF THE WEALTH from all the inhabitants of Canaan into God’s covenant, Kingdom plan. Finally, 470 years after the Lord spoke to Abraham and promised him total victory within territorial boundaries, the god of mammon was defeated and the wealth held by its false worship was transferred.

WHAT IS WEALTH?

There are different ways to look at wealth in the Bible. But the Lord says in, DEUTERONOMY 8:18, ...IT IS HE WHO GIVES YOU POWER TO GET WEALTH THAT HE MAY ESTABLISH HIS COVENANT THAT HE SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS...

POWER means, VIGOR, STRENGTH, FORCE, OR CAPACITY, whether physical, mental, or spiritual.

WEALTH means, MATERIAL SUBSTANCE, STRENGTH, AND THE SPOILS OF WAR NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH GOD’S PLAN ON EARTH.

The Bible has two basic attitudes towards wealth. Know that wealth is known to be a blessing from God. All the men in the Bible became very wealthy. Solomon’s wealth is seen in God’s favour. Job had wealth, lost it, he regained a double portion. Jesus also admonished us to multiply whatever we have (LUKE 19). But He did warn us that the pursuit of riches and pleasure could keep our faith from maturing.

Jesus looked at wealth as spiritual power (MATTHEW 6:24), warning us not to let it become a rival with God. The issue of wealth should only be for the advancement of God’s Kingdom. With one of the greatest spiritual Harvests ever witnessed by a generation about to come on this earth, we need to begin to see a transfer of wealth like what we read about in Joshua.

This is a season in history when wealth needs to be channeled into ministries that serve the Gospel and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

5. THIS IS A SEASON OF AN INCREASE OF GOD’S MANIFEST GLORY THAT WILL PRODUCE HARVEST.

We are the Third Day, End-Time, Prophetic Church and we are ARISING.

JOHN 2 is a record of when the Lord first began to operate in His ministry and miracles on earth. He did this to manifest His glory and propel his Kingdom forward.

We are shifting, changing season where this is going to happen again.

BE READY!
BE EXPECTANT!
BE FILLED WITH JOY!
TRANSFORMATION OF OUR CITIES,
AND OUR NATION,
IS ON THE WAY!

The Harvest is Now!