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In Jn. 4:19 the woman said to Jesus, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.” He wasn’t wearing a T-shirt or handing out business cards or demanding that everyone use the title “prophet” in front of his name. What He was and what He was doing coincided without additional promotion. You don’t have to start a ministry if you are a ministry. If you “be” what you are in Christ, you will, of necessity, “do” what you are. Perhaps if there is no evidence in a person’s life-style, they will find it necessary to try and promote the idea, to the minds of others, of being a certain thing.

Because we Don’t Want to be Weird

Melissa–“The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made both of them.” (Prov.20:12)  We are all capable of living a prophetic lifestyle without being a Prophet.  Sometimes we train ourselves to ignore the Prophetic Lifestyle because we don’t want to be weird. This really is an epic life we are meant to live. Don’t ignore it. This life is meant to be epic!

They Have Been There for a Long Time

Kathy—If you are breathing and reading this right now, you are already written into history’s script of an Awakening that is prewritten and predestined by God.  It is already happening and not just as a revival on the Church mountain of culture.  This Awakening will go down in history as more than a flash flood of souls coming into the church.  It carries an ever-increasing momentum that keeps leveling up in truth and revelation and clarity, and it will impact every mountain of culture.  In this 2020’s decade of Awakening, our eyes will be open with 20/20 vision to clearly see new things as well as things that we haven’t realized before now.  When God opened Elisha’s servant’s eyes, he suddenly saw the horses and chariots of fire, but they hadn’t just arrived.  They had already been there outnumbering the opposition, but Gehazi didn’t know it until his awakening.

Declaring Harvest in Our Lives

I declare that it is time for harvest in our lives, our churches and in our nation. It is time for harvest of that which has been long awaited; the victories that our Lord has been cultivating in us during times of trial, pressing onward and it is time for endurance. We have not faced what we have faced and wrestled with what we have wrestled with and stood through testing for nothing. God has plowed and planted His Word into our lives. He has used people, circumstances and time to work His character into our lives. It will all yield its harvest in this age before the coming of our Lord. All the afore mentioned factors have been growing and maturing in us for a harvest that brings glory to Jehovah in this earth.

Aware of Doors of Opportunity

Melissa—If we don’t stay aware there is a possibility we may miss or won’t be able to get through the doors of opportunity and promotion ahead because we lost the keys at the end.  What’s coming is something quite spectacular, but it requires resolve to embrace what Father is doing right now to acquire the fullness of what is just ahead of us. This does not require a formula, perfection or works.  It simply requires walking in the grace that is completely surrounding us right now.  Let’s finish out this next half of 2022 being present and aware of God’s grace that is the key to a dynamic ending and beginning.  What a time to be alive.

Agreeing With God’s Stirrings

Kathy Gabler—Ekklesia (Church) missions are not always carried out in group settings.  We are the Ekklesia corporate whether we are on location together or not.  Last week, I looked out the front door at the early horizon.  It was hazy and silvery gray. The only outstanding thing was a black silhouette of a utility trailer in a field.  In that momentary scan across the horizon, my thought was that the silhouette looked like a canon in a civil war scene.  It was a few minutes later when I remembered that glance and the unusual thought.  Then I realized it was a visionary prompt to pray for our nation so that division and bloodshed could not divide and destroy it.  That’s a big prayer mandate and I knew I was not praying alone.  The Lord had surely stirred agreement and prompted others to pray also.  Perhaps some glimpsed a canon or a flag or a soldier or heard a bugle call to arms, who knows, but the Lord musters His army as needed.  So again, because we are His Ekklesia, may we not hesitate to pick up the keys for a Kingdom intersection or consider His prompts as optional!

Be up and Awake

Rom.13:12-14,Msg—“The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing! God is putting the finishing touches on the salvation work he began when we first believed.  13 We can’t afford to waste a minute, must not squander these precious daylight hours in frivolity and indulgence, in sleeping around and dissipation, in bickering and grabbing everything in sight.  14 Get out of bed and get dressed! Don’t loiter and linger, waiting until the very last minute. Dress yourselves in Christ, and be up and about!

Walk in the Commandments

It is God’s will for us to walk in the commandments of the LORD GOD and keep His Word so that our days may be increased. God increases our days so that we, and our children, might walk in the realization of promise fulfilled.  (Deut.11:21-22, Amp) “That your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth. 22 For if you diligently keep all this commandment which I command you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave to Him—“  We are praying you discover daily that you are cleaving to God and keeping His life-giving Word.

The Right Questions

(Melissa Gabler) — We can ask the right kind of questions that lead down a path of deliverance, healing, and action.  When we ask the right questions we are able to hear the answers we need.  When we ask fear-based questions we have already come to the wrong, statistic-based, society-experienced conclusions.  These soulish conclusions make it really hard to hear a Spirit answer.  So, a good place to start asking the right question is to ask the Holy Spirit, “What questions should I be asking about this situation?” He will tell you, and most of the time these questions carry the answer in them.  The right questions are a key to unlock doors and chains.  The right questions give you the right perspective.

The Truth is Jesus

Kathy Gabler–If we just talk about what we sense or what is going on, that is like laying a ticking bomb in the laps of others instead of diffusing it! Anything that is contradictory to God’s will should be confronted with God’s Truth. The Truth is Jesus. The truth is His Word and character and purpose in earth as in heaven, and we can speak it and release it as a counterforce to contradictions, and it will make a difference. As believers and sons of God we cannot be more focused on conditions than the Truth. If we intend to pray in faith, we must think according to His Word and principles and character, instead of falling into upset over circumstances.