August 2015 – Fire Brands

31/8/15 Come and be filled

Beloved, Come drink of me, come taste, come and be filled by me. Will I not fill you to overflowing? Have I not already poured out upon you blessing, upon blessing? Have I not already given you everything that pertains to life and Godliness? Why then do you hold back and refuse to come and be filled?

I am not an angry distant Father. I am not waiting to punish you for the tiniest mistake. I see what is missing from your experience of me. I will teach you and equip you, to face everything that comes your way. I am gentle and lowly of heart, and I will lift you up. I will see you smile again. With such tenderness and compassion I will encompass around you.

28/8/15 Anointed Gifting

I have released to you my family, gifts that come with Holy Spirit anointing. These gifts carry such power and authority to shift atmospheres, and even change the direction of nations. As you speak in my name, every ear will hear and every knee will bow. When you play your instruments and sing the heavenly choir sings with you. When you pray for the sick they are healed, even when you lay hands, the lame shall walk and the wheel chairs will have no occupants. The dead will be raised.

27/8/15 A Fleeting Thought

When you awake in the early light of morning do you look for me? Am I the first thought of your day? As you rush around getting the children ready and out the house to school, do you stop a while and come to me in prayer with your family? Or when the rush is over, do you fall into a chair with coffee in hand and give me your exhausted five minutes?

I AM not a fleeting thought in your daily rush. I am the beginning and the end. Everything in your life, every second should be a place and opportunity for you to bring worship to my throne. When you are at work sing praises in your heart, pray without ceasing and watch as the circumstances around you begin to change and heaven begins to invade the earth around your life.

26/8/15 Nation Changers, Not Destroyers!

There is a hunger rising amongst many, to see the destruction of the wicked, and their nations. I have even heard the call for particular cultures, and individual nations, to be shaken and made an example of, for their mountains and lands to slip into the sea. This will lead to hundreds of thousands losing their lives.

I hear you calling for many to be punished. Their sins seem to weigh heavily upon your conscience.

Do you know me?

I AM the one who calls all to love thy neighbour, are you really able to pick up the stones that you are hurling at the nations around you? Will their destruction show my perfect love to them or satisfy your anger and hatred?

I called my people from the very beginning of time. I have known each of their names. They are etched into the very palms of my hands. They are called to be Nation Changers who will bring My love to the Nations. They will be known for bringing Life, where only death has been. They will comfort those in need. They will stand guard, shoulder to shoulder around the nations, releasing prayers of salvation for the lost, and they will also raise these Nations before my throne and intercede for them.

You are LOVE.

(NIV) John 8: 2-11

At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

“No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

(NIV) 1Corinthians 13: 1-7

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

25/8/15 Heart Life

My family, live out of the fullness of your hearts, and not from your mind, for you, this is your battle ground. All warfare comes in and through your thought processes and it is here that the enemy releases his snake eggs into your thoughts. When you allow them to hatch and become a thought, you will then have to do battle with each of them. When they gain ground in your imagination, their lies become truth. You then begin to live out that false truth in your own life.

24/8/15 Popping Corks

The fruit of the vine needs to be opened, so that my bouquet can be breathed in. The cork needs to be popped, so that the wine can be poured out into the glass, then it can then be tasted and many will see that it is good.

I am the vine where each of these grapes is grown. I tend to them and care for them. When the harvest time comes I prepare them, and then I harvest them. The wine needs to be extracted from the grape, which happens under pressure and yet this is a time of celebration for the flavour is released from every single grape during this process.

21/8/15 YOU! Are The Church

For too long the eyes of man has been fixated with the gothic structures of religious symbolism. These great buildings made of the finest material, and inlaid in wood and gold, have been the places of accommodation, to meet the needs of a world that wants to feel good about itself, without the heart beat of heaven, ever resounding about these monolithic halls.

My beautiful Bride, nothing in this world compares to you. I come for a spotless bride, whose perfume is carried upon the wind of change, your fragrance, gently bringing my church into my plan and purpose.

20/8/15 Light of Today

Do not allow the fingers of past memories to pull you back into the darkness of the life you once had. Stand strong and stay fully in the light of my salvation. There is no way back, and no way for the past to move into the present. When the whispers start, command them into silence and embrace the truth, you are free.

I have set before you a quiet place, filled with beauty, look around you, and see the greenest of grass, hear the bubbling of the stream as it slowly meanders through the fields, sense the gentile wind, as it blows across the wild flowers. Watch as my hand paints this masterpiece of your life, feel the heat of the summers day, as even the hairs on your arms rise to the closeness of my presence.

19/8/15 My Cross, Your Walk

We each have our part to play. When you gave all of yourself to me, I welcomed you as my family. We became one in spirit and truth. You now carry my D.N.A. It fills every part of you, inside and out. When the living word tells us to take every thought captive, it is because the enemy tries to sneak in his lies, to your mind. Walk in freedom by smashing every lie. My words spoken over your life will always be uplifting and filled with love. You are the apple of my eye.

18/8/15 Reflections

Beloved this is a time to allow my peace to wash over you. I would have you quiet yourself. Even as you look at your reflection in a pool of water, it needs to be still for that perfect reflection to be seen. And so I would have you still your inner self and know that I am at work. I am in the business of transforming you into my image, into my likeness. Your thoughts and your plans will become one with mine as you quieten yourself to see and know me in a new way. See even now I bring you peace and stillness.

17/8/15 Kingdom Keys

The greatest weapon that the enemy sends to you my church is a key. It is a named demonic spirit and it is called fear. He places this key into your hands, and when you allow it access to your life, it will stifle you and fear will lock up every gift that I have released to you in the vault of despair.

I remind you my beautiful bride that perfect love casts out all fear, and my love for you is perfect in every way. I place into your hands the keys of the kingdom, which bring freedom to every area of your life. Watch as the key of fear melts away as butter in a fire.

14/8/15 Snap the links

As you move deeper into relationship with me, you will become more aware of who is around you. There will be those who have such a heart of love for you, and they will always want the best for you, these are healthy relationships.

Beloved there are also those who hold your ear, people that you have high regard for, when they speak you listen, and at times you may even divert from your course or journey, because of what they say or do. These people become the links that you create around your own life. At times these links have more power over you than I do, and what they think becomes your direction.

13/8/15 Unity, One Body many Parts

My family, we are moving into a time of complete unity between many people and organisations that do not look alike, or even speak alike. All will have one thing in common and that will be the name of Jesus.

My name will be the banner over all who come into unity together. I am joining together ministries and people from all over your nation. They are coming from the far north, to the deepest south, from the east to the west. What drives their hearts is for the more in me and heaven on earth.

Revival is a healing word. It can only come from a body that has been completely healed in my name. I release that healing to every part of my body, and call you to bear witness to one another, as you open your arms and hearts to one another in complete unity.

By accepting your differences, the arms need the legs of the body, for one carries revival, the other delivers it to the nations. The body needs the head, the heart embraces revival, the head brings direction and understanding of how to move all these parts together at the same time.
(NIV) 1 Corinthians 12: 12-31

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honourable we treat with special honour. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honour to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.

12/8/15 Mine

Do you ever look at yourself and your life, and sense that you don’t seem to fit into the normal pattern of church, family and even society?

My family does not look like this world or even the pattern of this world. My brothers and sisters stand out. You will recognise them. They stand on the streets offering comfort and support to the night tribes. You will hear their voices calling for justice for those without a voice. The sick shall know their touch as they lay hands in My Name and they will be healed.

11/8/15 Refreshing Fire

I am stirring up the embers in your heart. They will become a roaring fire of flame. Nothing will stand in your way, as you bring Heaven to earth. As my refreshing fire pours into all areas of your ministry and family life, watch as the doors that have been closed to the words you speak, will slowly begin to open. They will feel the heat of your heart as you release my fullness and love into their lives.

The doors of their lives will open more and more, until the refreshing fire of my Kingdom, will become a roaring fire in their hearts also.

10/8/15 Momentum

You my friends are like a steam train sat in the station waiting to pull out and start on your journey.

Everything is ready. The engine has been stoked and has a full head of steam. The throttle is opened, and the train starts to gently move forward and out onto the open tracks. As the throttle is opened more and more the train picks up speed and where the countryside is passing by at a slow speed, it will suddenly begin moving faster. Suddenly, the speed at which the countryside is passing will be increased exponentially. The train will begin to transition.

The train is no longer a steam train, but that of a new high speed one, fully connected into the power source of the lines above.

I heard the Father say, “Even now I am creating a forward momentum within you and around you. Look and see what I am doing. The chains of the past have already been cut away. The old has gone and the new has come. There is no longer anything to stop you or hold you back. Everything is in place and even now is gathering speed. There is a continuing shift of focus from the old to the new. The acceleration of this time is seen in all that is around you. The days blur into weeks, the weeks into months, and the months into years. I am taking you on a journey of discovery and adventure, such as you could not imagine, even in your wildest dreams. The things that you have longed for and that seemed out of reach are now within your grasp. This season is one of acceleration and forward momentum for all.”

(NIV) Philippians 3:7-14

But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

(NIV) 2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

(NIV) 2 Peter 3:11b-13

You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.

7/8/15 Dates in My Diary

My diary is filled to the end of the age, you are on every page.

When you awake from your slumber I will be there, as I was during the dark hours of the night. When you step out of your home and go to work, I will meet you there. At dinner time and when work is over, I will walk you home. When you have eaten and sit down to relax, I will hold you until sleep calls you to bed. Then I will sit with you throughout the night.

6/8/15 My Word a Raging River

As my word fills you and brings you to the point of bubbling over, you my friend will begin to release me to touch all the lives surrounding you. I will flow into the homes of your neighbours and friends. I will reach out and touch the lives of everyone in your family.

Those in need of healing will know my true comforter as Holy Spirit releases power and fire into their needs. Watch as those, you have released tear filled prayers for, come to know my saving grace upon their lives.

5/8/15 Too Many Voices

When you listen to every voice that has something to say, about my Kingdom, my will, my plan and purposes, you will eventually become confused. There are many out there who do not speak for me. They try to sound and look like me but they come from another master, who has his own plan and purpose.

4/8/15 Battle weary

There are some among you, who trudge along as battle weary soldiers, dragging your feet and complaining mile after mile. You are very aware of the heaviness of your battle armour and the scars of battle that you carry. You are tired and need to rest, and yet there is a new battle front ahead of you and you trudge on into battle, unprepared, unready and exhausted.

Hear me my warriors, your greatest battle is with stubbornness. I call you to rest, to lay down your arms, take off your battle armour and rest before me. Allow me to take your tired, bleeding feet and wash away the miles of pain. Let me pour over a healing balm, from the top of your head to the base of your feet. Ease back into my arms while I hold you and you can sleep at peace, until you regain your strength.

3/8/15 The Bridegroom and the Bride

Whatever fills your vision or eyes, you will eventually follow full heartedly.

My family when your vision is filled by regret, impatience, rejection, hopelessness, shame and especially fear. These emotions are like a cancer in your spiritual life, each one will try to spread throughout your whole vision and eventually blind you to the truth in your heart.