Last night I had an incredible experience. My husband and I sat in a home of a Doctor and his wife , down by the Skyway Bridge in St. Pete, whom I had never met before. In their living room were two Haitian brothers who now attend our church and play in our band, Jimmy and Samuel, their father visiting from Haiti who is a pastor over one of the largest churches in Carrefour, Pastor Joseph Metelus, Samuel's precious Haitian mother-in-law and an awesome nterpreter J.B., and on the phone was the Mayor of Port-au-Prince, Gael Jean.

We discussed our upcoming crusade arranged by Mayor Jean and Pastor Metelus in the soccer stadium of the capital in August. The Mayor was talking about the power of the Spirit of God that would bring the anointing to break the yokes off of the people during the crusade and how he would have large groups of people fasting and praying until the crusade. Jimmy and Samuel and J.B. shared their hearts out regarding the mentality of the Haitian people in poverty and how they must break that cycle of poverty in their minds first to experience it outwardly. They testified about their own transformations even since coming to New Destiny and how their lives have been forever changed. It struck me how they left Haiti and their father's ministry, only now to returned empowered bringing reinforcements of deliverance and hope to their nation and people. How I love Haiti, how I looked at those young men as if they were my sons and part of me. Only God and His Spirit can put that in a white woman's soul! The sense that I owe a debt to
those people and I owe them what I have to give.

Wow!

No presbytery, no committee, no approved and voted on church plant could have orchestrated such an arrangement! Even we ourselves, could not have put that together, and yet there we sat in a home of people who go to a church far from our style or background, yet sovereignly their paths have crossed ours in purpose and plan which will unfold in the next weeks and months.

I am so glad and grateful to be free from constraints that steal the purpose of God from our lives. How many opportunities and orchestrations had we missed and didn't know it? And yet I embrace the moment of now and grab it and savor it for what it is - miraculous.

Thank you Lord for Your grace that brought us to this place in this time. Thank You for allowing us to walk in Your will and ways. Keep us here, right here, in the middle of what You are doing so we can experience it all.

The Word for you today is this;  don't miss your GOD-OPPORTUNITIES because you are too caught up and distracted with man-opportunities.  The best place to be is totally "out-of-control" of your own life and totally "under-control" of the Holy Spirit of God Himself!  So get positioned today and watch what God will do!

I just wanted to share a little personal side of our African connection in Liberia with you today. It has been almost three years since man of great humility and even greater faith named Pastor Judah Flourish from Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa, contacted us via email.  He relayed that God had led him to contact us and become connected under our covering and implored us to come to Liberia to preach to the people and churches.  We had only three weeks prior received a prophecy from Bishop Eddie Long that declared international doors and connections were about to open up to us that would "blow our minds" - and it has!

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Much has transpired since that prophecy and since that first initial contact.  We have traveled twice to West Africa, completed and furnished New Destiny Chapel in Monrovia, from the ground up built and furnished New Destiny in Buchanan, Liberia, held several Pastor's Conferences and Conferences, seen miracles, deliverances, salvations, healings, restorations and have over 30 African Pastors and churches under our Apostolic Covering!  And this coming year we will send a Liberian Pastor to  establish and build a New Destiny Church in Lagos, Nigeria!  Praise be only to God!  But much thanks also goes to this humble and faith-filled man who obeyed the Lord to contact us, who responds to the leading of the Spirit of God as he travels West Africa as a forerunner to the ministry.  His vision is unlimited, his love for Africa is boundless and His obedience is steadfast!

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Deon and I truly love Pastor Judah and his wife, Faith.  They are "us" in Africa.  There is a connection in the Spirit that can not be fabricated.  Faith is a woman who has experienced the transforming power of the Spirit.  Her testimony of liberty from the oppression of depression is incredible.  It was only a year and a half ago that this woman was in a facility to deal with the deep oppressiveness of depression.  In the first pictures that I saw of her, she was listless and had no joy.  Her face had no smile.  During our first visit to Liberia great liberty came to her and she received complete healing and restoration and was completely made free!  Now when I see her and see her photos, her smile is the brightest thing of focus!  The power of God is amazing!

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When I left her in Monrovia, Liberia in May, she was due to deliver her fourth child.  We were all believing for a girl to add to the three brothers.  I asked her about what she would do when she went into labor.  At that time she and Judah did not have a car.  As an American woman, getting to the hospital is priority so my question was legitimate to me.  Faith responded, "I will walk to the hospital."  The hospital was several miles from their home.  We American women are too spoiled!

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Last week she finally had the baby - a healthy beautiful boy.  We were able to have already sent the funds to purchase a wonderful vehicle, so they drove to the hospital!  By the way, the baby's name is:

Giffy Deon Flourish!

ARE YOU A NEW BREED?

Today I ran across this video which encompassess the message that I consistently deliver regarding destiny, personal freedom and empowerment.  I want to clarify that my message is not humanistic in its foundation, for I know full well that He must increase and we must decrease and that we are nothing without His grace and power.  

But for too long the generations before this one in the church,(with a few exceptions),  have spent their lives nominal, exclusive, and isolated.  If anything, the message regarding destiny, personal freedom and empowerment is by far the most selfless, because when you understand your destiny, reach personal freedom and become empowered by His Spirit, with His strength activated within you, you don't live for yourself any longer, but you live to give to the world, the lost and the dying.   This generation is a New Breed of believers, because we are doing as Hebrews 12 admonishes us to do.  We are throwing off everything that entangles us to run the race.  We are throwing off bands of religion, denomination, man-made and established boxes of legalism and expectations and embracing eternal truth and passion.

I AM NEW BREED

THE WORLD AWAITS YOUR MANIFESTATION - 4

This is the final portion of this message, but one of the most relevant and practical.  I want to talk about the HINDRANCES OF MANIFESTATION.  

Everyone has the ability and th

e "stuff" to manifest on the earth, but so few actually do it.  There is a saying that says the 

graveyard is full of unwritten books, unsung songs, and unfulfilled dreams.  What a saddening thought.  God placed music, words, acts of compassion, creativity, inventions, ideas, ideals, ability, innovation within the human soul as an investment to bring forth a profit for His Glory and yet so many people end their lives with untapped resources, wasted opportunities, unexploited potentials and unrealized dreams.   The words that Paul wrote to the Romans mean so much  with that in mind.

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"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,

 that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,

 which is your reasonable service.  And don't be conformed to this world, but be

 transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.  "

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I truly believe that every invention, innovation and advancement made by man is simply man manifesting what God intended him to do when God Himself placed the dream, ability and gifts within that individual when He created Him and placed that individual in that time and place.  Now that is PURPOSE AND DESTINY!

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Unfortunately many great things never manifest because of the hindrance that we allow to steal and subdue our purpose.  We must wake up and not allow anything to hinder our manifestation.  

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1.  SELF:  This includes our own self-indulgence, self-pride, self-righteousness and 

     even self-pity!

2. SIN:  Anything that we do to satisfy the desire of the flesh and not the Spirit is sin.  The

     Word tells us that the flesh and the Spirit are at war, and the flesh does not lean toward your

     God-given purpose but will lead you as far away from your destiny as possible.

3.  INDISCIPLINE:  Ouch!  No one wants to talk about that!  Many times we squander our

    provision, gifts and purpose by living a life with no discipline and obedience to the leading

    of His Spirit.

4.  LAZINESS:  It takes more than dreaming to get to destiny!  The cheapest decision to make

    is to become a beggar!

5.  LACK OF FOCUS:  To manifest you have to stay focused!  Don't get distracted and give up.

     Don't be tossed from one thing to the next.  Stick to it until you manifest!

6.  ENEMIES:  Adversaries wish to block your manifestation.  But remember, opposition

    will lend credibility to your manifestation!

7.  SATAN:  The devil will use an arsenal of weapons to hinder you:  poverty, intimidation, 

     discouragement, sickness, and fear of failure!  Build your faith and resist him!

You have something in you that God placed there to be manifested NOW, in this generation.

Tap into it and release it.  THE WORLD AWAITS YOUR MANIFESTATION!