Thursday, May 22, 2008

The Lord World Awaits Your Manifestation PART 3

Lets talk about the practical ways to manifest God's glory and His purpose for our existence on earth.  First, we must recognize that God has a divine arrangement and order in the affairs of men and that we are placed in that divine arrangement for a specific purpose.  
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Ephesians 1:9 says this,
"Having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, in Him.  in Him also, we have obtained an inheritance being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should to the praise of His glory."  
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We may not understand completely or believe the truth that we are in the right time, the right place, with the right stuff for a purpose, but it is true.  Even if it seems like our life and our surroundings and our inability can not possibly be God-ordered, we have to take His Word as complete truth!  Just like Ephesians says, His will is a mystery!  Regardless of what we think He is performing and He still can perform His will through us!  That is the grace of God!
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We also have to rid ourselves of a "My World" mentality.  Paul breaks up that mentality by telling the Ephesians that there is a dispensation of time.  Dispensation literally means God's divine involvement in the affairs of mankind.  That is a powerful and sobering thought!  It's really not all about "ME"!  Perhaps what is about "me", has to do with the bigger picture and where we fit into it!  
There is a lot of talk about destiny, purpose and gifts and it is a good thing.  But it becomes distorted when destiny, purpose and gifts are all about "me".   We don't have those things for us, we have them to fulfill the dispensation of time in God's plan for all of mankind!  Now that is BIG THINKING!   Obviously we must expand our thinking today!  Not only do we have destiny, purpose and gifts, but we have them to manifest them at the just the right time so as to fulfill God's purpose for mankind that in the end all things will come together and glorify Him! WOW!
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When you manifest, you are keeping His plan going!   So in essence THE WORLD does AWAIT YOUR MANIFESTATION!  When you manifest, you are fulfilling the plan of God not only for your life for mankind and His Kingdom!  You have something deposited in you by God that He designed to be released in your times.  Fill the earth with your creativity, ability, gifts, capabilities that God deposited in you and God's investment in you will bring Him a profit! Manifest the wisdom, knowledge and increase that has been deposited in you since you arrived on the earth and make an impact upon the earth!   The only risk of making a mistake is when you fail to manifest!

The final installment of "THE WORLD AWAITS YOUR MANIFESTATION" will focus on Hindrances to Manifestation.  Keep checking in!



Wednesday, May 14, 2008

THE WORLD AWAITS YOUR MANIFESTATION- PART 2

I wrote a few weeks ago about the revelation that hit my spirit when I read the words at the end of an email from a Pastor in Nigeria to my husband, "Until you come Sir, THE WORLD AWAITS YOUR MANIFESTATION!" I had to wait three weeks until I could develop and release that Word in a sermon; it was like fire shut up in my bones. My next few blogs will be excerpts and portions from this word of the Spirit to the Church today.
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The world awaits your manifestation…
Rom 8:18-22
" For the earnest expectation of creation eagerly waits for the revealing/manifestation of the sons of God.... because creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God...For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now."

We are truly in the moment of time when a seed of destiny in the Church and the seed of desperation in the world, have been in gestation and the Church is groaning and the world is groaning as if in labor to birth a new thing upon the earth that will nourish it, replenish it, sustain it and bring forth hope.

It’s vital that you understand what time it is in history, in destiny for the Church and the world, as well as your place in God’s plan for man. Every time and every season has a purpose and a reason. We have to COGNITIVELY CONNECT with the time and the season AND PURSUE to understand of the purpose and the reason.

1 Chronicles 12:32 says, "...the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do..."

The name "Issachar" literally means reward and payment for labor. Therefore, sons and daughters who follow in the ways and the spirit of Issachar will reap the reward for understanding the times and doing what they should be doing in response to the times their in time and generation.

It’s one thing to have any understanding of your season and to discern the times you are living in, but the reward will only come when you find out what your role is and do what you should be doing in that time and generation. It’s also vital that you understand what you are to be doing in this time in the church, the world and in your place in God’s plan for man.


You were created and placed on the earth for a specific purpose and for a specific thing for you to manifest on the earth for your time. So important is this truth – knowing the times, and knowing what to do, that a failure to manifest hidden glory of God in you results in a wasted journey and a wasted investment by God through you in the world.

Eph 2:10
"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. "


Eph 1:11-12
"In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will."

God planned you. You aren’t an accident. You aren’t an after thought. Your life isn’t an random occurrence in the universe. You were purposed. God thought of you, he thought of the times, he thought of your purpose, he formed you and put in you everything you need to do what he purposed you to manifest on the earth in this time and season…and what you need to know is that...THE WORLD AWAITS YOUR MANIFESTATION!
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All of the staging is set for the infusion of the Glory of God being released upon the earth…
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Isa 60:1-2
Arise, shine;For your light has come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.
For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people;
But the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you.

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Notice that this scripture is telling us that His Glory is on us; the earth is in darkness but the Lord will arise and show forth His Glory by manifesting it upon us!
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The world is in desperation; nations are in starvation, peoples live in violence. Fears of economic disaster, disease and terror attack grip the hearts of people. Social depravity and moral decline decay our societies. And in the religious world we see confusion from human control, deception, and lack of integrity. The basic stress of living, no moral codes of conduct, and no absolutes of truth define our generation.

And the world groans as if in the pangs of labor and you were created to manifest His Glory to the earth! This is your significance: your meaning, value, purpose, importance in existence -to manifest upon the earth!
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So stop searching for your significance from someones spoken approval. Your significance isn’t in whether a group of people accept you or whether you are a success in business. Your significance isn’t in how educated you are or how much stuff you accumulate or how wealthy you can become. Your significance is how you manifest His Glory on the earth.
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"Until you come Sir, THE WORLD AWAITS YOUR MANIFESTATION!"
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Check back in for Part 3 of this series!

Friday, May 9, 2008

A HOLIDAY OF SIGNIFICANCE!

A big weekend is approaching when Moms are celebrated for all they are and do.

Because of this holiday, I want to put up a post not only for MOMS but for EVERY WOMAN and I hope that before women who have no children, who usually do all they can to avoid any talk about Mother's Day, will not stop reading this post and trust me that this is not just about MOMS but for EVERY WOMAN! I say that because I have lived through the painful Sunday's of Mother's Day sermons and celebrations, enduring the heart-wrenching sense of frustrating insignificance and I have a deep sense of empathy for women who will stay home this Sunday because they dread facing their present reality of having no children. I also share along with the sentiment that this Sunday is a fulfillment of a year-long anticipated day of appreciation and showering of gifts and words of love for moms who do mundane and sacrificial labor and desperately need to hear an affirmation that they are not insignificant.


Isn't that ironic? Each of these women, moms and the women who aren't moms, are needing one thing which links them in comparison: SIGNIFICANCE! Significance means to be accepted, to have a sense of value and importance, to know and embrace a sense of meaning and purpose. Both women, living in their realities of the moment, are longing deep within for significance. On this holiday weekend one of them is showered with assurance of significance and the others will ache inside with discontentment and disappointment in their need for significance.

To each of you this Mother's Day weekend I would reach out through this computer and give you the gift for which you were created to desire, pursue and fulfill; the gift of significance! May you find your significance in the very thing that makes you significant; your God-designed meaning and purpose, which goes far beyond the miracle of bearing children in the natural.

Yes, yes, I hear some of you...you were created to "be fruitful and multiply". But God intended more than just physical bearing of children from mankind (womankind). When God created us and gave us our meaning and purpose through His spoken declaration, He was not speaking of only procreation, but of fruitfulness. Fruitfulness is to produce good results and be beneficial and profitable. I know a lot of mothers with children who are not fruitful! Significance comes when you are fruitful!

This Mother's Day - Let's make it a day of SIGNIFICANCE! I will be delivering a SIGNIFICANT Word this Sunday at NDIC that will speak to your purpose! As we celebrate SIGNIFICANCE, your purpose will be stirred and fanned into a flame through the prophetic release of the Word, "The World Awaits Your Manifestation! I will see all of you there!