By Apostle Blake L. Higginbotham
Luke 1:26-38 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by Yahweh to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, Yahweh is with you; blessed are you among women!” 29But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was. 30Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with Yahweh. 31And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Yahshua. 32He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Sovereign Elohim will give Him the throne of His father David. 33And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.” 34Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”35And the angel answered and said to her, “Ruach Haqudesh will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of Yahweh. 36Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. 37For with Yahweh nothing will be impossible.” 38Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
HIGHLY FAVORED G5487 ÷áñéôüù
charitooô - khar-ee-to'-o - From G5485; to grace, that is, indue with special honor:—make accepted, be highly favored.
JESUS - G2424 EÉçóï™ò
Ieôsous- ee-ay-sooce' Of Hebrew origin [H3091]
YAHSHUA - H3091 òÇeLBäéŠ òÇLÝBäéŠ yehoòshuòa€ yehoòshuòa€yeh-ho-shoo'-ah,yeh-ho-shoo'-ah
Yahshua means; Yahweh is Salvation
Esther 5:1-3 Now, it happened on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, across from the king’s house, while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, facing the entrance of the house. 2So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court that she found favor in his sight, and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther went near and touched the top of the scepter. 3And the king said to her, “What do you wish, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given to you up to half the kingdom!”
The story of Esther is a Messianic prophetic similitude, typifying the heart and attitude that we all should have as it pertains to our relationship with Yahshua the King of Kings. It is with a humble, submissive and unassuming heart that we should approach the King of Kings.
If we are going to be highly favored we are going to have to enter into His throne room in a way that pleases Him. It is a Holy, uncompromising heart that will get His attention and when He turns to look on us He will see the beauty and glory of a chaste bride, adorned, prepared and ready to receive Him. It is then that Yahshua will favor us and give of His Kingdom to us. In that day, the third-day, we will rule and reign in life by Messiah Yahshua. This is the third-day. We must enter into Him in order to enter into His rest. We are the loved, blessed and highly favored?
Hosea 6:1- 3 Come, and let us return to Yahweh; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. 2After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His sight. 3Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of Yahweh. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, like the latter and former rain to the earth.
Proverbs 16:15 In the light of the king’s face is life, and his favor is like a cloud of the latter rain.
2Corinthians 4:13-14 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak, 14knowing that He who raised up the Sovereign Yahshua will also raise us up with Yahshua, and will present us with you.
Day One: In the first day He saved, healed, & delivered us; (Prophetic fulfillment of a type) Outer Court – (Altar, Golden Laver) = Thirty-fold understanding of Yahweh’s will and purpose of life.
Day Two: In the second day we were baptized in Holy Spirit, gifts, revelatory knowledge, etc. (Prophetic fulfillment of a type) Inner court or Holy Place (Show Bread, Lampstand) = Sixty-fold understanding of Yahweh’s will and purpose of life.
Day Three: In the third-day the Son (the corporate man) will rise in His glory and strength and be all the He was created to be from the foundation of the world. He will rule in life by Messiah Yahshua the world in which we live. (Prophetic fulfillment of a type) Holiest of Holies or Most Holy Place – (Ark of the Covenant, Mercy Seat, Beyond the veil) – One Hundred-fold understanding of Yahweh’s will and purpose of life.
Psalm 18:1- 50 I will love You, Yahweh, my strength. 2Yahweh is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; my Elohim, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3I will call upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. 4The pangs of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. 5The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me. 6In my distress I called upon Yahweh, and cried out to my Elohim; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came before Him, even to His ears. 7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken, because He was angry. 8Smoke went up from His nostrils, and devouring fire from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it. 9He bowed the heavens also, and came down with darkness under His feet. 10And He rode upon a cherub, and flew; he flew upon the wings of the wind. 11He made darkness His secret place; his canopy around Him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. 12From the brightness before Him, His thick clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire. 13 Yahweh thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered His voice, Hailstones and coals of fire. 14He sent out His arrows and scattered the foe, lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them. 15Then the channels of the sea were seen, the foundations of the world were uncovered at Your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils. 16He sent from above, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
17He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me. 18They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support. 19He also brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in me.20 Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. 21For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my Elohim. 22For all His judgments were before me, and I did not put away His statutes from me. 23I was also blameless before Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. 24Therefore Yahweh has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight. 25With the merciful You will show Yourself merciful; with a blameless man You will show Yourself blameless; 26With the pure You will show Yourself pure; and with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd. 27For You will save the humble people, but will bring down haughty looks. 28For You will light my lamp; Yahweh my Elohim will enlighten my darkness. 29For by You I can run against a troop, by my Elohim I can leap over a wall. 30As for Elohim His way is perfect; the word of Yahweh is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. 31For who is Elohim, except Yahweh? And is a rock, except our Elohim? 32It is Elohim who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect. 33He makes my feet like the feet of deer, and sets me on my high places. 34He teaches my hands to make war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. 35You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your right hand has held me up, Your gentleness has made me great. 36You enlarged my path under me, So my feet did not slip. 37I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them; neither did I turn back again till they were destroyed.38I have wounded them, so that they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.39For You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. 40You have also given me the necks of my enemies, so that I destroyed those who hated me. 41They cried out, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but He did not answer them. 42Then I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind; I cast them out like dirt in the streets. 43You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; You have made me the head of the nations; A people I have not known shall serve me. 44As soon as they hear of me they obey me; the foreigners submit to me.45The foreigners fade away, and come frightened from their hideouts. 46Yahweh lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let the Elohim of my salvation be exalted. 47It is Elohim who avenges me, and subdues the peoples under me; 48He delivers me from my enemies. You also lift me up above those who rise against me;
You have delivered me from the violent man. 49Therefore I will give thanks to You, Yahweh, among the Gentiles, and sing praises to Your name. 50Great deliverance He gives to His king, and shows mercy to His anointed, to David and his descendants forevermore.
Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said to her, “Ruach Haqudesh will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of Yahweh.
Overshadow G1982 dðéóêéÜæ episkiazoô ep-ee-skee-ad'-zo From G1909 and a derivative of G4639; to cast a shade upon, that is, (by analogy) to envelop in a haze of brilliancy; figuratively to invest with preternatural influence:—overshadow.
If we are going to be highly favored in the third-day, we are going to have to prepare and adorn ourselves like Queen Esther in the beauty of Holiness. With a righteous uncompromising heart we are going to have pursue the practical will and purpose of Yahweh for our lives. Like Mary we are going to have to humble ourselves, become teachable and attentive to all that the Spirit is saying to the Ekklesia. We must be overshadowed by Ruach Haqudesh. Immaculate conception must take place in us that we may give birth to the Son of Yahweh in the earth a second time. His second coming will be in and through us. We are the anointed one. We are the manifested Sons of Yahweh. All of creation is groaning and travailing until now. Now is today if you can hear it.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Transitioning is a way of life
{1} – The Church or kingdom community, local and universal is in Transitioning, from glory to glory, from faith to faith, from conception to perfection, from the cross to the throne, from Moses’ Tabernacle to Solomon’s Temple.
II Corinthians 3:18 {Change is perhaps the single most important word in our process: 1 Corinthians 15:51-54}
{2} – Transition is the passing from one condition, form, stage, place, and activity to another. It is the period of passing. Out of Egypt , through the Wilderness, to the Promised Land {30-60-100 fold}
{3} – Transitioning involves a delicate and intense process of change. It may even involve transformation and translation. Colossians 1:13; 2 Samuel 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:6-18; Hebrews 11:5; 12:26-28 Romans 12:2
{4} – Transitioning is purpose through process. Process is not punishment. Purpose through Process {Abraham was MADE a father of many nations} leads to promotion, prosperity and posterity. {Includes P.I.T. – Prophets In Training and for others at times P.M.S. Or, Prophetic Mood Swings
{5} – Transitioning requires personal confrontation of oppressive positions and limited mentalities. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5; Deuteronomy 7:1-5; 12:1-2: 1 Tim. 1:18; Acts 10:38
{6} – Transitioning is linked with maturity. It is one aspect to be spiritual, and there is yet another to be mature. Maturity requires a pattern, and Jesus is the pattern son and the blueprint of perfection. He is the path that leads to the Father’s glory. Ezekiel 43:10; Ephesians 4:13-15; Colossians 2:10, 19; Hebrews 2:10; 5:8-9; 6:20; Exodus 25:8-9: Hebrews 6:20
{7} – Transitioning is not exclusive to the spiritual dimension only, but is applicable to the natural as well. Transitioning is evident in physical and mental growth, from childhood to adulthood, having many levels. 1 Corinthians 13:11; 14:20; 15:46; 1 Peter 2:2; 2 Peter 3:18
{8} – Transitioning is apostolic & prophetic in principle, nature, character, scope, and dimension. Transition recognizes the important stages and development of the saints. Whether individual or corporate in caliber, transitioning acknowledges the need to migrate into greater spheres and frequencies of the Spirit through the active force of Spiritual momentum. Thus, transitioning here enables you to pioneer new calibrations in the Spirit. 3:19; 4:13; Hebrews 6:5; Deuteronomy 31:2-3; Romans 8:37-39
{9} – Transitioning is seen in the scripture from name change to nature change. Abram became Abraham, Sarai to Sarah, and Jacob becoming Israel . Jacob was created but Israel was formed. Isaiah 43:1: 44:1-2; Galatians 4:19;
{10} – Transitioning is a way of life. From so called losses to gains, transition is inevitable. From kindergarten to College, and from being single to become one in marriage, transition is inevitable. Being married doesn’t make you a man or a woman. You must develop manhood before marriage, manhood before ministry. Genesis 2:24
Transition from the Tabernacle Pattern
{11} – The three dimensions of Moses’ Tabernacle reveal present truth of the progressive spiritual maturity of the saints. It reveals the maturing process, and the migration into new realities and thresholds of the Spirit. Note below some important principles of the Tabernacle pattern, and compare… Exodus 25:9
Outer Court Holy Place Holy of Holies
30-fold 60 – fold 100 – fold
water baptism Spirit baptism fire baptism
brass vessels silver vessels gold vessels
Jesus the way Jesus the truth Jesus the life
Live move have our being
Good acceptable perfect
Jesus Christ Lord
Spirit saved soul renewed immortality
Called chosen faithful
Out of Egypt wilderness Promised Land
Justification sanctification glorification
Thanksgiving praise worship
Belly temple throne
Righteousness peace joy
Prophet priest king
Little children young men fathers
Blade ear full corn
Divine healing divine health divine life
Foolish virgins wise virgins watchman
Born of Spirit filled led by Spirit
Jesus the babe Jesus the youth Jesus the man
Milk bread Meat
David’s 1st anointing Second Third
Common salvation great salvation eternal…
Workers warriors worshipers
Azusa Latter Rain Fullness
Latter Rain Latter Reign Latter Rein
New birth Holy Ghost Full maturity
Gleanings harvest first fruits
Rise take up your bed walk
Deny self take up cross follow me
Fruit more fruit much fruit
Holy Holy Holy
Run walk mount up
1st heavens 2nd heavens 3rd heavens
Sun light candlesticks Shekinah
M. Tabernacle D. Tabernacle S. Temple
Sight foresight insight
Evangelical Charismatic His body
Salvation anointing adoption
Gate door veil
Baptized in sea baptized in cloud Jordan
Born an heir earnest of inheritance possession
Dust sands stars
Passover Pentecost Tabernacles
Song about the Lord song to the Lord Lord’s song
5000 70 Peter/James/John
Noah’s Ark : lower level First level Second level
A B C
1 2 3
measure stature fullness
having church going to church his church
sun clothed woman remnant of her seed man child
Song of Sol 2:16 6:3 7:10
Leave cleave become
Visitation manifestation habitation
For all Israel priests high priest
Birthright blessing inheritance
Little faith great faith all faith
Babies’ children adults
Entry-level salvation spiritual gifts His fullness
Faith hope love
Hear understand bear fruit
{12} – The Principles of Excellent things recorded in Proverbs 22:20-21 is defined by the Hebrew word “Shalosh,” which is “Three-fold.” Here, it reveals how the Lord speaks in “3’s,” such as in Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit being one. Some call these persons, other’s as manifestations. But the truth is Jesus did not come to talk about the Father, but to reveal him. We are not here to talk about Jesus, but to reveal him. If you have seen HIM, you have seen the Father. In all of our doctrinal positions, what has it produced, the fruit of the Spirit or the flesh? Are we knowing him and making HIM known?
{13} – In Matthew 13:23, those that receive seed upon good ground are those that hear the word {30 – fold}, understand {60 – fold}, and bear fruit {100 – fold} – some 100 {notice 100 is first mentioned here, as oppose to 30 – some 60, and some 30. The higher number is given first, or in present truth language, the most holy place is first mentioned. Did you get that? For we were born in the Holy of Holies!
{14} – The Tabernacle pattern contains three dimensions each with its own pieces of furniture. Note below…
The furniture is patterned in the form of a cross. +
Mercy –Seat
Ark
Altar of Incense
Golden Candlesticks Table of Shewbread
Laver
Brazen Altar
In the pattern, the Altar of Incense typifies Jesus as the centerpiece of the cross. In addition to this, each piece of furniture reveals the progressive spiritual maturity of the saints from the outer court to the most holy place, although we are BORN in and FROM the MOST HOLY PLACE ! For the way to the throne { Ark – Mercy Seat} is through the blood and the cross {Brazen Altar – where sin is judged, where we are made righteous. The four horns of the Brazen Altar are covered with blood, symbolizing the four-corners of the earth. From one point our race may begin with the Father by view of the outer court, but HIS race begins with us from the most holy place. { Secret Place }
{15} – The Outer Court mentality is a beginner for many. But when you compare this dimension with the most holy place, you begin to see a vastly different dimension of grace and glory than the comforts and security of the outer court. You begin to get a passion for the manifest and eternal presence of the Lord beyond the outer court, from within the holiest.
For if you overstay your time, broad is the way to destruction. In other words, you can treat the outer court like a security blanket, a place of ease, no risks involved. For many, the outer court is satisfied with just simply being a Christianette, period. For many, they don’t want to grow up in the full stature of Christ. They like the idea of being pampered and teased in the outer court. Everything there seems to be safe, and no adventure ahead.
{16} – The Holy Place is the realm between the opposite ends of the Tabernacle. It is in the holy place where we begin to define what is going on in the most holy place. If we overstay our time here, it becomes duality and mixture, carnality to say the least.
It is here {in Spirit} where Jesus received the troubling {agitation and stirring} of the soul as confirmed in John 12:27 {vss. 23-28}
In this dimension, Jesus continued to go further into the most holy place as oppose to some that return to the outer court {Retreat mentality} for fear of what’s ahead of them. Like the Day of Atonement, there are two different kinds of Priesthood’s. One is the high priest that prevails beyond the veil of the holy of holies, and the other is the everyday priesthood that retreats to the outer court. Those priests can’t enter in for the nation of Israel , but the one high priest can. For here I see Jesus pressing forward into the fullness promise, while the other fat cats return to the outer court premises. {Hebrews 4:1-11}
In one sense, the outer court is the body, the holy place is the soul, and the most holy place is the spirit. According to John 12:25, we must lose the lower life of the psuche, and find the higher life of Zoë. For the soul must be caught up into the ascendancy of the spirit, as the spirit is caught up unto God.
The real battleground is in the mind, above your nose, and between your ears. Our biggest enemy is not the devil, but the way we think. Our greatest sex organ is not below, but above our shoulders. If we can get the Psuche {we’ll call her Sue} into the ascendancy, the soul will reflect the overcoming substance of the spirit, and the body will animate that life-changing nature being renewed in the soul. For again, the spirit is the source to the soul’s expression! From a present truth standpoint, a healthy and vibrant soul is in part, a result of your spiritual dietary modification and intake. The spirit then, only knows God, and is one with HIM. Here, God talks to God and manifests the glory of this communion. Through the quickening spirit, your inner man can only see, hear, and speak God!
{17} – The third dimension is the most holy place. It is liken to the third day resurrection of Jesus Christ, a realm of grace and glory that swallows up the other two realms of our maturity. The holy of holies is the realm of the overcomer. It is the realm of the Spirit that is far greater in vast dimension than the outer court and the holy place combined.
True, the physical Tabernacle structure in the wilderness afforded the larger compartment to the outer court, and the second largest to the holy place, but in Spirit, the holiest of all has the greater breadth, width, depth, and height than any of the first two combined. Ephesians 3:18
Christianity has lived much of its life in one or two dimensions. However, there is a vast beyond in the most holy place, a realm of substance and overcoming life that must be pioneered by a people of the Father’s passion. It is a realm where we vanquish beyond the ordinary, the mundane, and the mediocre, into the flowing streams of life that is prepared for those that enter in. Psalms 46:4
There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen: The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed it. Job 28:7-8
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ears heard, neither has entered into the heart of man, the things which, God hath prepared for them that love them. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yea, and the deep things of God. 1st Corinthians 2:9-10 {Hebrews 6:4-9}
Once again, the holy of holies is the largest spiritual dimension than both the outer court and holy place combined. Proverbs 25:2
Tradition teaches that it is over yonder in Beulah Land . However, the true realm of the overcomer is not to be experienced in the sweet bye-and-bye, but in the now-and-now. For as we speak, mortality is swallowed up by LIFE!
So beloved, we can move into a new realm of maturity where the very substance and pure nature of Jesus Christ transform through the image of God. For in this dimension the WORD of God becomes incarnate and not shadow. Here, the WORD is SPIRIT and LIFE, and not doctrinal battles. In this proceeding and NOW word, you become a quickened man, as revealed in part in Isaiah 11:2-3: 2 Corinthians 12:1-4; Galatians 1:12; Romans 11:33; Colossians 2:3;
Yes beloved, transitioning may experience roses and thorns, light and darkness, the heavenlies and the shadow of death. But the unfolding glory of the Lord awaits us. It is come to consume us, to envelop and engulf us. It is come outside the range of age and time, and is invading our time with eternity! It is making known the eternal will and purposes of God 1st Corinthians 15:51-54; Exodus 33:18
II Corinthians 3:18 {Change is perhaps the single most important word in our process: 1 Corinthians 15:51-54}
{2} – Transition is the passing from one condition, form, stage, place, and activity to another. It is the period of passing. Out of Egypt , through the Wilderness, to the Promised Land {30-60-100 fold}
{3} – Transitioning involves a delicate and intense process of change. It may even involve transformation and translation. Colossians 1:13; 2 Samuel 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:6-18; Hebrews 11:5; 12:26-28 Romans 12:2
{4} – Transitioning is purpose through process. Process is not punishment. Purpose through Process {Abraham was MADE a father of many nations} leads to promotion, prosperity and posterity. {Includes P.I.T. – Prophets In Training and for others at times P.M.S. Or, Prophetic Mood Swings
{5} – Transitioning requires personal confrontation of oppressive positions and limited mentalities. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5; Deuteronomy 7:1-5; 12:1-2: 1 Tim. 1:18; Acts 10:38
{6} – Transitioning is linked with maturity. It is one aspect to be spiritual, and there is yet another to be mature. Maturity requires a pattern, and Jesus is the pattern son and the blueprint of perfection. He is the path that leads to the Father’s glory. Ezekiel 43:10; Ephesians 4:13-15; Colossians 2:10, 19; Hebrews 2:10; 5:8-9; 6:20; Exodus 25:8-9: Hebrews 6:20
{7} – Transitioning is not exclusive to the spiritual dimension only, but is applicable to the natural as well. Transitioning is evident in physical and mental growth, from childhood to adulthood, having many levels. 1 Corinthians 13:11; 14:20; 15:46; 1 Peter 2:2; 2 Peter 3:18
{8} – Transitioning is apostolic & prophetic in principle, nature, character, scope, and dimension. Transition recognizes the important stages and development of the saints. Whether individual or corporate in caliber, transitioning acknowledges the need to migrate into greater spheres and frequencies of the Spirit through the active force of Spiritual momentum. Thus, transitioning here enables you to pioneer new calibrations in the Spirit. 3:19; 4:13; Hebrews 6:5; Deuteronomy 31:2-3; Romans 8:37-39
{9} – Transitioning is seen in the scripture from name change to nature change. Abram became Abraham, Sarai to Sarah, and Jacob becoming Israel . Jacob was created but Israel was formed. Isaiah 43:1: 44:1-2; Galatians 4:19;
{10} – Transitioning is a way of life. From so called losses to gains, transition is inevitable. From kindergarten to College, and from being single to become one in marriage, transition is inevitable. Being married doesn’t make you a man or a woman. You must develop manhood before marriage, manhood before ministry. Genesis 2:24
Transition from the Tabernacle Pattern
{11} – The three dimensions of Moses’ Tabernacle reveal present truth of the progressive spiritual maturity of the saints. It reveals the maturing process, and the migration into new realities and thresholds of the Spirit. Note below some important principles of the Tabernacle pattern, and compare… Exodus 25:9
Outer Court Holy Place Holy of Holies
30-fold 60 – fold 100 – fold
water baptism Spirit baptism fire baptism
brass vessels silver vessels gold vessels
Jesus the way Jesus the truth Jesus the life
Live move have our being
Good acceptable perfect
Jesus Christ Lord
Spirit saved soul renewed immortality
Called chosen faithful
Out of Egypt wilderness Promised Land
Justification sanctification glorification
Thanksgiving praise worship
Belly temple throne
Righteousness peace joy
Prophet priest king
Little children young men fathers
Blade ear full corn
Divine healing divine health divine life
Foolish virgins wise virgins watchman
Born of Spirit filled led by Spirit
Jesus the babe Jesus the youth Jesus the man
Milk bread Meat
David’s 1st anointing Second Third
Common salvation great salvation eternal…
Workers warriors worshipers
Azusa Latter Rain Fullness
Latter Rain Latter Reign Latter Rein
New birth Holy Ghost Full maturity
Gleanings harvest first fruits
Rise take up your bed walk
Deny self take up cross follow me
Fruit more fruit much fruit
Holy Holy Holy
Run walk mount up
1st heavens 2nd heavens 3rd heavens
Sun light candlesticks Shekinah
M. Tabernacle D. Tabernacle S. Temple
Sight foresight insight
Evangelical Charismatic His body
Salvation anointing adoption
Gate door veil
Baptized in sea baptized in cloud Jordan
Born an heir earnest of inheritance possession
Dust sands stars
Passover Pentecost Tabernacles
Song about the Lord song to the Lord Lord’s song
5000 70 Peter/James/John
Noah’s Ark : lower level First level Second level
A B C
1 2 3
measure stature fullness
having church going to church his church
sun clothed woman remnant of her seed man child
Song of Sol 2:16 6:3 7:10
Leave cleave become
Visitation manifestation habitation
For all Israel priests high priest
Birthright blessing inheritance
Little faith great faith all faith
Babies’ children adults
Entry-level salvation spiritual gifts His fullness
Faith hope love
Hear understand bear fruit
{12} – The Principles of Excellent things recorded in Proverbs 22:20-21 is defined by the Hebrew word “Shalosh,” which is “Three-fold.” Here, it reveals how the Lord speaks in “3’s,” such as in Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit being one. Some call these persons, other’s as manifestations. But the truth is Jesus did not come to talk about the Father, but to reveal him. We are not here to talk about Jesus, but to reveal him. If you have seen HIM, you have seen the Father. In all of our doctrinal positions, what has it produced, the fruit of the Spirit or the flesh? Are we knowing him and making HIM known?
{13} – In Matthew 13:23, those that receive seed upon good ground are those that hear the word {30 – fold}, understand {60 – fold}, and bear fruit {100 – fold} – some 100 {notice 100 is first mentioned here, as oppose to 30 – some 60, and some 30. The higher number is given first, or in present truth language, the most holy place is first mentioned. Did you get that? For we were born in the Holy of Holies!
{14} – The Tabernacle pattern contains three dimensions each with its own pieces of furniture. Note below…
The furniture is patterned in the form of a cross. +
Mercy –Seat
Ark
Altar of Incense
Golden Candlesticks Table of Shewbread
Laver
Brazen Altar
In the pattern, the Altar of Incense typifies Jesus as the centerpiece of the cross. In addition to this, each piece of furniture reveals the progressive spiritual maturity of the saints from the outer court to the most holy place, although we are BORN in and FROM the MOST HOLY PLACE ! For the way to the throne { Ark – Mercy Seat} is through the blood and the cross {Brazen Altar – where sin is judged, where we are made righteous. The four horns of the Brazen Altar are covered with blood, symbolizing the four-corners of the earth. From one point our race may begin with the Father by view of the outer court, but HIS race begins with us from the most holy place. { Secret Place }
{15} – The Outer Court mentality is a beginner for many. But when you compare this dimension with the most holy place, you begin to see a vastly different dimension of grace and glory than the comforts and security of the outer court. You begin to get a passion for the manifest and eternal presence of the Lord beyond the outer court, from within the holiest.
For if you overstay your time, broad is the way to destruction. In other words, you can treat the outer court like a security blanket, a place of ease, no risks involved. For many, the outer court is satisfied with just simply being a Christianette, period. For many, they don’t want to grow up in the full stature of Christ. They like the idea of being pampered and teased in the outer court. Everything there seems to be safe, and no adventure ahead.
{16} – The Holy Place is the realm between the opposite ends of the Tabernacle. It is in the holy place where we begin to define what is going on in the most holy place. If we overstay our time here, it becomes duality and mixture, carnality to say the least.
It is here {in Spirit} where Jesus received the troubling {agitation and stirring} of the soul as confirmed in John 12:27 {vss. 23-28}
In this dimension, Jesus continued to go further into the most holy place as oppose to some that return to the outer court {Retreat mentality} for fear of what’s ahead of them. Like the Day of Atonement, there are two different kinds of Priesthood’s. One is the high priest that prevails beyond the veil of the holy of holies, and the other is the everyday priesthood that retreats to the outer court. Those priests can’t enter in for the nation of Israel , but the one high priest can. For here I see Jesus pressing forward into the fullness promise, while the other fat cats return to the outer court premises. {Hebrews 4:1-11}
In one sense, the outer court is the body, the holy place is the soul, and the most holy place is the spirit. According to John 12:25, we must lose the lower life of the psuche, and find the higher life of Zoë. For the soul must be caught up into the ascendancy of the spirit, as the spirit is caught up unto God.
The real battleground is in the mind, above your nose, and between your ears. Our biggest enemy is not the devil, but the way we think. Our greatest sex organ is not below, but above our shoulders. If we can get the Psuche {we’ll call her Sue} into the ascendancy, the soul will reflect the overcoming substance of the spirit, and the body will animate that life-changing nature being renewed in the soul. For again, the spirit is the source to the soul’s expression! From a present truth standpoint, a healthy and vibrant soul is in part, a result of your spiritual dietary modification and intake. The spirit then, only knows God, and is one with HIM. Here, God talks to God and manifests the glory of this communion. Through the quickening spirit, your inner man can only see, hear, and speak God!
{17} – The third dimension is the most holy place. It is liken to the third day resurrection of Jesus Christ, a realm of grace and glory that swallows up the other two realms of our maturity. The holy of holies is the realm of the overcomer. It is the realm of the Spirit that is far greater in vast dimension than the outer court and the holy place combined.
True, the physical Tabernacle structure in the wilderness afforded the larger compartment to the outer court, and the second largest to the holy place, but in Spirit, the holiest of all has the greater breadth, width, depth, and height than any of the first two combined. Ephesians 3:18
Christianity has lived much of its life in one or two dimensions. However, there is a vast beyond in the most holy place, a realm of substance and overcoming life that must be pioneered by a people of the Father’s passion. It is a realm where we vanquish beyond the ordinary, the mundane, and the mediocre, into the flowing streams of life that is prepared for those that enter in. Psalms 46:4
There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen: The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed it. Job 28:7-8
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ears heard, neither has entered into the heart of man, the things which, God hath prepared for them that love them. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yea, and the deep things of God. 1st Corinthians 2:9-10 {Hebrews 6:4-9}
Once again, the holy of holies is the largest spiritual dimension than both the outer court and holy place combined. Proverbs 25:2
Tradition teaches that it is over yonder in Beulah Land . However, the true realm of the overcomer is not to be experienced in the sweet bye-and-bye, but in the now-and-now. For as we speak, mortality is swallowed up by LIFE!
So beloved, we can move into a new realm of maturity where the very substance and pure nature of Jesus Christ transform through the image of God. For in this dimension the WORD of God becomes incarnate and not shadow. Here, the WORD is SPIRIT and LIFE, and not doctrinal battles. In this proceeding and NOW word, you become a quickened man, as revealed in part in Isaiah 11:2-3: 2 Corinthians 12:1-4; Galatians 1:12; Romans 11:33; Colossians 2:3;
Yes beloved, transitioning may experience roses and thorns, light and darkness, the heavenlies and the shadow of death. But the unfolding glory of the Lord awaits us. It is come to consume us, to envelop and engulf us. It is come outside the range of age and time, and is invading our time with eternity! It is making known the eternal will and purposes of God 1st Corinthians 15:51-54; Exodus 33:18
Pulling Down Strongholds
By Apostle Blake L. Higginbotham
The world is unprincipled. It’s dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn’t fight fair. But we don’t live or fight our battles that way, never have and never will. The tools of our trade aren’t for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. We use powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity. 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 The Message Bible
Before taking on this subject, I challenged myself by asking several difficult questions. One thing that I asked myself is, what are we really supposed to be doing with the tools with which Yahweh has empowered us? Another part of that same question is what am I going to do with the discovery of truth concerning the answer to that question? It is with that in mind that I am going to address what I believe to be one of the warped philosophies that must be smashed. The warped philosophy to which I am referring is the concept of the sovereignty of the local church apart from the corporate work.
There is absolutely nothing in the scripture that teaches that the local church is a sovereign entity governed by one man and his hired associates. The Scripture does not teach that the “church” is separated from or different than the rest of the body of Messiah, or the house that Yahshua is building. In my estimation one of the reasons that we are still embracing the idea that the local church is the sum expression of all that Yahweh is doing in the earth is because of our limited view of the big picture. Now before you hang up on me or send this article to the recycle bend, take a minute to read and comprehend where I am going with this thought. Most of the people that I know are either in denial or they have just come to the conclusion that nothing can really be done about the religious rote in which they find themselves. They have come to believe that attending a gathering several times a week, or belonging to a local assembly equals fulfilling the plan and purpose of Yahweh for their lives.
Many of them have been preached into an apathetic slumber or lethargy and have come to believe that the small isolated group of people with whom they meet on a weekly basis is actually making a lasting difference in the world. Again before you check out on me, remember it has been said that over 80% of the local congregations meeting in America are fewer than 100 people. The other day I read that about 2% of those who are called to some area of ministry are actually serving in a paid capacity in the local “church “ where they attend. Unfortunately, that leaves 98% percent of the people, who are also called to some area of ministry, the limited opportunity to volunteer their time and effort in a part time capacity. While a lot can be said about the volunteer sweat equity of millions of precious people down through the centuries, I think that it is past time for us to upgrade our understanding and to abort our obsolete and unsuccessful practices.
If for a moment you will associate and compare what I am saying about the limited view of most local churches with the business understanding of most successful entrepreneurs, you too will have to conclude that the “church” as a ministry endeavor or as a enterprise has been one of the most unsuccessful ventures with which you have been a part. But for whatever reason we never consider any new approaches or ideas that would broaden our reach. We just continue to grit our teeth and bit the bullet, so to speak, as our attendance records go up and down and our finances fluctuate with whatever the economy is at the time. In my estimation, the “church “, has been one of the most unsuccessful enterprises functioning in the earth, for a very long time. Now do not get offended by the thought that you might be a part of something that is not working very well; but if you can hear it, it is time to examine your own heart and ask yourself some difficult questions.
The time has come for reform. The first change that must take place is that all of the paralyzing paradigms by which we have lived our lives must be challenged with new and fresh ideas from the heart of the Father. It is past time us to get a new view of the house that Yahshua is building. It is time for us to break out of the old mindset that our individual contribution and the local expression of the body of Messiah is all that is important. The house that Yahshua is building is a lot bigger than most of us can fathom.
If we are going live long enough to fulfill the plan and purpose of Yahweh in this lifetime, we are going to have to open our hearts to people today with whom just yesterday we might have considered to be out of our reach and sphere of influence.
Yahweh is moving in an unprecedented way in the streets and marketplace in this hour. Millions of people worldwide are being spiritually awakened to their spiritual desperation. This is the third day and multitudes of people from all walks of life are beginning to emerge and come forth into the light. If you can hear it, there are people with whom you are supposed to be joined who have never attended a “church” or read a bible in their life. They are looking for you and searching for answers to life’s questions as I speak.
The real question is, will you rise up where you are in the protected confines of the local “church” and begin to go out, being sent into the land of your own world? Will you seek those who will be found, or will you wait until it is too late for the people of your world? If you hesitate, the darkness of this hour will snuff out the light by which multitudes might find their way into Yahshua the Messiah and live? I know that it has been said, that the smallest light can drive back darkness; but I tell you this if you hide under the bed; the light of your life in Messiah will not be seen.
2 Corinthians 6:2b-10 Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 3We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed. 4But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, 5in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings; 6by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, 7by the word of truth, by the power of Yahweh, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; 9as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; 10as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
By Apostle Blake Higginbotham
The world is unprincipled. It’s dog-eat-dog out there! The world doesn’t fight fair. But we don’t live or fight our battles that way, never have and never will. The tools of our trade aren’t for marketing or manipulation, but they are for demolishing that entire massively corrupt culture. We use powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity. 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 The Message Bible
Before taking on this subject, I challenged myself by asking several difficult questions. One thing that I asked myself is, what are we really supposed to be doing with the tools with which Yahweh has empowered us? Another part of that same question is what am I going to do with the discovery of truth concerning the answer to that question? It is with that in mind that I am going to address what I believe to be one of the warped philosophies that must be smashed. The warped philosophy to which I am referring is the concept of the sovereignty of the local church apart from the corporate work.
There is absolutely nothing in the scripture that teaches that the local church is a sovereign entity governed by one man and his hired associates. The Scripture does not teach that the “church” is separated from or different than the rest of the body of Messiah, or the house that Yahshua is building. In my estimation one of the reasons that we are still embracing the idea that the local church is the sum expression of all that Yahweh is doing in the earth is because of our limited view of the big picture. Now before you hang up on me or send this article to the recycle bend, take a minute to read and comprehend where I am going with this thought. Most of the people that I know are either in denial or they have just come to the conclusion that nothing can really be done about the religious rote in which they find themselves. They have come to believe that attending a gathering several times a week, or belonging to a local assembly equals fulfilling the plan and purpose of Yahweh for their lives.
Many of them have been preached into an apathetic slumber or lethargy and have come to believe that the small isolated group of people with whom they meet on a weekly basis is actually making a lasting difference in the world. Again before you check out on me, remember it has been said that over 80% of the local congregations meeting in America are fewer than 100 people. The other day I read that about 2% of those who are called to some area of ministry are actually serving in a paid capacity in the local “church “ where they attend. Unfortunately, that leaves 98% percent of the people, who are also called to some area of ministry, the limited opportunity to volunteer their time and effort in a part time capacity. While a lot can be said about the volunteer sweat equity of millions of precious people down through the centuries, I think that it is past time for us to upgrade our understanding and to abort our obsolete and unsuccessful practices.
If for a moment you will associate and compare what I am saying about the limited view of most local churches with the business understanding of most successful entrepreneurs, you too will have to conclude that the “church” as a ministry endeavor or as a enterprise has been one of the most unsuccessful ventures with which you have been a part. But for whatever reason we never consider any new approaches or ideas that would broaden our reach. We just continue to grit our teeth and bit the bullet, so to speak, as our attendance records go up and down and our finances fluctuate with whatever the economy is at the time. In my estimation, the “church “, has been one of the most unsuccessful enterprises functioning in the earth, for a very long time. Now do not get offended by the thought that you might be a part of something that is not working very well; but if you can hear it, it is time to examine your own heart and ask yourself some difficult questions.
The time has come for reform. The first change that must take place is that all of the paralyzing paradigms by which we have lived our lives must be challenged with new and fresh ideas from the heart of the Father. It is past time us to get a new view of the house that Yahshua is building. It is time for us to break out of the old mindset that our individual contribution and the local expression of the body of Messiah is all that is important. The house that Yahshua is building is a lot bigger than most of us can fathom.
If we are going live long enough to fulfill the plan and purpose of Yahweh in this lifetime, we are going to have to open our hearts to people today with whom just yesterday we might have considered to be out of our reach and sphere of influence.
Yahweh is moving in an unprecedented way in the streets and marketplace in this hour. Millions of people worldwide are being spiritually awakened to their spiritual desperation. This is the third day and multitudes of people from all walks of life are beginning to emerge and come forth into the light. If you can hear it, there are people with whom you are supposed to be joined who have never attended a “church” or read a bible in their life. They are looking for you and searching for answers to life’s questions as I speak.
The real question is, will you rise up where you are in the protected confines of the local “church” and begin to go out, being sent into the land of your own world? Will you seek those who will be found, or will you wait until it is too late for the people of your world? If you hesitate, the darkness of this hour will snuff out the light by which multitudes might find their way into Yahshua the Messiah and live? I know that it has been said, that the smallest light can drive back darkness; but I tell you this if you hide under the bed; the light of your life in Messiah will not be seen.
2 Corinthians 6:2b-10 Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 3We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed. 4But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, 5in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings; 6by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, 7by the word of truth, by the power of Yahweh, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; 9as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; 10as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
By Apostle Blake Higginbotham
The Passion Is The Purpose
By Apostle Blake L. Higginbotham
A perspective of suffering that includes the grace and faith to endure it. The scripture teaches that Yahshua suffered and learned obedience through the things He suffered. He is the pattern Son and we will not enter the Kingdom of Yahweh, nor will our lives be filled with purpose without learning how to overcome in painful and less than desirable situations.
Philippians 3:7:11 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Messiah. (Christ, Anointed One, Anointed, Anointing) 8Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Messiah Yahshua my Sovereign, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Messiah (Christ, Anointed One, Anointed, Anointing) 9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, (Religious Criterion, Modified Behavior) but that which is through faith in Messiah, the righteousness which is from Yahweh by faith; 10that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Fellowship - G2842 êïéíùíßá koinoônia koy-nohn-ee'-ah From G2844; partnership, that is, (literally) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction:—(to) communicate (-ation), communion, (contri-), distribution, fellowship.
Suffering G3804 ðÜèçìá patheôma path'-ay-mah From a presumed derivative of G3806; something undergone, that is, hardship or pain; subjectively an emotion or influence:—affection, affliction, motion, suffering.
Acts 1:1-3 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Yahshua began both to do and teach, 2until the day in which He was taken up, after He through Ruach Haqudesh (Holy Spirit) had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, 3to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering (Passion – KJV) by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of Yahweh.
Passion- G3958 ðÜó÷ù, ðÜèù, ðÝíèù paschoô pathoô penthoô pas'-kho, path'-o, pen'-tho Apparently a primary verb (the third form used only in certain tenses for it); to experience a sensation or impression (usually painful):—feel, passion, suffer, vex.
If we are going to walk in covenant with Yahshua and one another, we are going to have to be prepared to experience some uncomfortable situations. It is a part of the maturation process and we must learn to embrace suffering and painful places in our lives with the right understanding.
Acts 14:21-23 And when they had preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, 22strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations (Pressure, Pain, Suffering, Trouble & Sorrow) enter the kingdom of Yahweh.” 23So when they had appointed elders in every church (local assembly), and prayed with fasting, they commended them to Yahweh in whom they had believed.
Tribulation - G2347 èëßøéò - thlipsis - thlip'-sis From G2346; pressure (literally or figuratively):—afflicted, (-tion), anguish, burdened, persecution, tribulation, trouble.
In order to enter and stay in the Kingdom of Yahweh, you must come to realize that the journey is your destiny, and that the things that you experience and endure while on the journey, are specifically designed for the purpose of working the Kingdom of Yahweh into you.
Yahshua became a partaker of flesh and blood, was tempted, and endured suffering so the he would know how to help us when we suffer being tempted. Yahshua did not suffer because of rebellion, disobedience or sin.
He did not experience or endure what He did because of mingled seed, or the mixture of a divided heart. He was not suffering from spiritual schizophrenia and the split personality of a dual life. He suffered and endured what He did as you, and by do so fulfilled the practical will and purpose of Yahweh for His own life.
Hebrews 2:14-18 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
15and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16For indeed He does not give aid to angels; but He does give aid (helps, sends a care package) to the seed of Abraham. 17Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to Yahweh, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted; He is able to aid (help, send a care package to) those who are tempted.
Hebrews 5:8 - though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
Yahshua learned the importance of obedience by enduring what it would mean to suffer as you, in Humanity. He did not suffer because He needed to become obedient. Yahshua was an obedient Son; but because He needed to know what it meant to be confronted with the choices that temptation brings, He suffered so that He could rightfully help those who do not make the right choices in life. Because He was a Son, He overcame in every area of His life.
1 Peter 4:1-2 Therefore, since Messiah suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of Yahweh.
Proverbs 20:30 Blows that hurt cleanse away evil, as do stripes the inner depths of the heart. (Literally – the rooms of the belly) NKJV
I Peter 5:10-11 But may the Elohim of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Messiah Yahshua, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.11To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
“The degree to which you are actually dead, is the degree to which you will really live” blh
A perspective of suffering that includes the grace and faith to endure it. The scripture teaches that Yahshua suffered and learned obedience through the things He suffered. He is the pattern Son and we will not enter the Kingdom of Yahweh, nor will our lives be filled with purpose without learning how to overcome in painful and less than desirable situations.
Philippians 3:7:11 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Messiah. (Christ, Anointed One, Anointed, Anointing) 8Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Messiah Yahshua my Sovereign, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Messiah (Christ, Anointed One, Anointed, Anointing) 9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, (Religious Criterion, Modified Behavior) but that which is through faith in Messiah, the righteousness which is from Yahweh by faith; 10that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Fellowship - G2842 êïéíùíßá koinoônia koy-nohn-ee'-ah From G2844; partnership, that is, (literally) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction:—(to) communicate (-ation), communion, (contri-), distribution, fellowship.
Suffering G3804 ðÜèçìá patheôma path'-ay-mah From a presumed derivative of G3806; something undergone, that is, hardship or pain; subjectively an emotion or influence:—affection, affliction, motion, suffering.
Acts 1:1-3 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Yahshua began both to do and teach, 2until the day in which He was taken up, after He through Ruach Haqudesh (Holy Spirit) had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, 3to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering (Passion – KJV) by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of Yahweh.
Passion- G3958 ðÜó÷ù, ðÜèù, ðÝíèù paschoô pathoô penthoô pas'-kho, path'-o, pen'-tho Apparently a primary verb (the third form used only in certain tenses for it); to experience a sensation or impression (usually painful):—feel, passion, suffer, vex.
If we are going to walk in covenant with Yahshua and one another, we are going to have to be prepared to experience some uncomfortable situations. It is a part of the maturation process and we must learn to embrace suffering and painful places in our lives with the right understanding.
Acts 14:21-23 And when they had preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, 22strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations (Pressure, Pain, Suffering, Trouble & Sorrow) enter the kingdom of Yahweh.” 23So when they had appointed elders in every church (local assembly), and prayed with fasting, they commended them to Yahweh in whom they had believed.
Tribulation - G2347 èëßøéò - thlipsis - thlip'-sis From G2346; pressure (literally or figuratively):—afflicted, (-tion), anguish, burdened, persecution, tribulation, trouble.
In order to enter and stay in the Kingdom of Yahweh, you must come to realize that the journey is your destiny, and that the things that you experience and endure while on the journey, are specifically designed for the purpose of working the Kingdom of Yahweh into you.
Yahshua became a partaker of flesh and blood, was tempted, and endured suffering so the he would know how to help us when we suffer being tempted. Yahshua did not suffer because of rebellion, disobedience or sin.
He did not experience or endure what He did because of mingled seed, or the mixture of a divided heart. He was not suffering from spiritual schizophrenia and the split personality of a dual life. He suffered and endured what He did as you, and by do so fulfilled the practical will and purpose of Yahweh for His own life.
Hebrews 2:14-18 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
15and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16For indeed He does not give aid to angels; but He does give aid (helps, sends a care package) to the seed of Abraham. 17Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to Yahweh, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted; He is able to aid (help, send a care package to) those who are tempted.
Hebrews 5:8 - though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
Yahshua learned the importance of obedience by enduring what it would mean to suffer as you, in Humanity. He did not suffer because He needed to become obedient. Yahshua was an obedient Son; but because He needed to know what it meant to be confronted with the choices that temptation brings, He suffered so that He could rightfully help those who do not make the right choices in life. Because He was a Son, He overcame in every area of His life.
1 Peter 4:1-2 Therefore, since Messiah suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of Yahweh.
Proverbs 20:30 Blows that hurt cleanse away evil, as do stripes the inner depths of the heart. (Literally – the rooms of the belly) NKJV
I Peter 5:10-11 But may the Elohim of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Messiah Yahshua, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.11To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
“The degree to which you are actually dead, is the degree to which you will really live” blh
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It’s a new day and we must arise every morning of our lives with a heart to hear Yahweh’s voice and move in the direction in which He is taking us. With renewed commitment and a true passion for the purpose of Yahweh, we must continue throughout the day to say what He is saying and only do what He is doing. The walk that I am describing is the reality of living in by Him, in Him.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Messiah; (We were crucified, buried, resurrected and ascended with Messiah) it is no longer I who live, but Messiah lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of Yahweh, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (The life that I am now living in the earth is being determined by what I am hearing and seeing from where I am seated today, in Heavenly places, in Messiah Yahshua) 21I do not set aside the grace of Yahweh; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Messiah died in vain.” (If you can be made righteous by keeping the law then Messiah’s death was for nothing).
Colossians 1:15-18 He is the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn over all creation. 16For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
Psalm 50:1-2 The Mighty One, Elohim Yahweh, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its going down. 2Out of Zion, (Out of us) the perfection of beauty, Elohim will shine forth.
Isaiah 45:1-7 “Thus says Yahweh to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him and loose the armor of kings, to open before him the double doors, so that the gates will not be shut: 2‘I will go before you and make the crooked places straight;
I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. 3I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places that you may know that I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, am the Elohim of Israel. 4For Jacob My servant’s sake, and Israel My elect, I have even called you by your name; I have named you, though you have not known Me. 5I am Yahweh, and there is no other; there is no Elohim besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me, 6that they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none besides Me. I am Yahweh, and there is no other; 7I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, Yahweh, do all these things.’(There is nothing happening in the earth for which Yahweh does not accept some responsibility)
Isaiah 59:19-21 So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun; when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of Yahweh will lift up a standard against him. 20“The redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” Says Yahweh. 21“As for Me,” says Yahweh, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says Yahweh, “from this time and forevermore.”
Colossians 1:27-29 To them Yahweh willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Messiah in you, the hope of glory. (The manifest presence of Yahweh is the hope of the world in which we live) 28Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Messiah Yahshua. 29To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.
Roman 8:19-22 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of Yahweh. 20For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of Yahweh. 22For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. (Remember, it’s a new day, today is the day of salvation)
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It’s a new day and we must arise every morning of our lives with a heart to hear Yahweh’s voice and move in the direction in which He is taking us. With renewed commitment and a true passion for the purpose of Yahweh, we must continue throughout the day to say what He is saying and only do what He is doing. The walk that I am describing is the reality of living in by Him, in Him.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Messiah; (We were crucified, buried, resurrected and ascended with Messiah) it is no longer I who live, but Messiah lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of Yahweh, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (The life that I am now living in the earth is being determined by what I am hearing and seeing from where I am seated today, in Heavenly places, in Messiah Yahshua) 21I do not set aside the grace of Yahweh; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Messiah died in vain.” (If you can be made righteous by keeping the law then Messiah’s death was for nothing).
Colossians 1:15-18 He is the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn over all creation. 16For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
Psalm 50:1-2 The Mighty One, Elohim Yahweh, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its going down. 2Out of Zion, (Out of us) the perfection of beauty, Elohim will shine forth.
Isaiah 45:1-7 “Thus says Yahweh to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him and loose the armor of kings, to open before him the double doors, so that the gates will not be shut: 2‘I will go before you and make the crooked places straight;
I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. 3I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places that you may know that I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, am the Elohim of Israel. 4For Jacob My servant’s sake, and Israel My elect, I have even called you by your name; I have named you, though you have not known Me. 5I am Yahweh, and there is no other; there is no Elohim besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me, 6that they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none besides Me. I am Yahweh, and there is no other; 7I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, Yahweh, do all these things.’(There is nothing happening in the earth for which Yahweh does not accept some responsibility)
Isaiah 59:19-21 So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun; when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of Yahweh will lift up a standard against him. 20“The redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” Says Yahweh. 21“As for Me,” says Yahweh, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says Yahweh, “from this time and forevermore.”
Colossians 1:27-29 To them Yahweh willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Messiah in you, the hope of glory. (The manifest presence of Yahweh is the hope of the world in which we live) 28Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Messiah Yahshua. 29To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.
Roman 8:19-22 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of Yahweh. 20For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of Yahweh. 22For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. (Remember, it’s a new day, today is the day of salvation)
A Passion for the Prophetic
By Apostle Blake L. Higginbotham
2Corinthians 9:2 for I know your willingness, about which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal [Passion] has stirred up the majority. (NKJ)
Prophetic: Is about hearing from Yahweh and then speaking through words, lifestyles, and actions.
Passion: Is intense emotion compelling action. Is a strong devotion to some object, activity or concept.
Why people lack Passion
1. They become familiar with and make things just ordinary.
2. We want acceptance and approval.
Passion draws and repels people at the same time.
3. Our society is passive! The one concern we should all have for
America and Yahshua’s church is the apathy and passive mind- set that has crept in. Garfield said that his pet peeve was people who start things and do not finish them. Therefore, he stated he just never started anything he would have to finish. People without passion never start things. They are much talk but no action.
4. Apathy tends to increase with age! We must fight to not give in
to apathy as we grow older.
5. When we have no purpose beyond our selves! People who are
selfish are people who lack passion. Passion has energy. Passion fuels our souls to take action.
? – WHAT MOTIVATES YOU?
Matthew 6:21 “ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (NKJ)
People who live only for themselves are in a mighty small business.
A Gallup Poll study shows: The number one factor for credibility in the passion of the leaders.
A Prophetically Passionate Person
· Is goal orientated (Visionary)
· Is a self starter
· Has a positive, optimistic attitude
· Gives 100% all the time
· Strives for excellence
· Is creative at getting things done well, no matter what it costs
· Is not satisfied with just “ good enough”
· Has a whatever it takes attitude and sees beyond the obstacles
· Always accepts responsibility
· Does not shift the blame or make up excuses
· Believes in people
· Inspires others to do their best
· Rises to leadership
What the Power of Passion Will Do For Us
· Passion is the first step to achievement! The starting place of all achievement is desire. Always remember – If you got it you will achieve if you don’t you can’t.
· Weak desires bring weak results – Apathy will not get you anywhere in life, but who cares.
· Passion increases willpower! The key to willpower is
“ wantpower. “ People who want something badly enough will find the willpower to achieve it.
· Passion changes me.
· Passion for souls will change your priorities.
· Passion for growth will change your methods of doing things.
· Passion for people will change your ministry.
· Passion to be a leader of leaders will change your goals.
· Passion changes others.
A Leader’s Greatest Gift is Passion
· Followers need passionate leaders. People are instructed by reason, but motivated and inspired by passion.
· Passion is the birthplace of dreams. Passion turns a dreamer into a doer.
· Passion insures results. Results bring victory.
People can be instructed by reason, but they are only inspired by passion.
There is a difference between interests and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you do it when it is convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
Bill Hybels quote: “People do not drift into commitment, they do drift into complacency.”
Commitment without prophetic passion is focus without fuel.
Passion without commitment is heart without backbone.
Commitment without passion will only cause you to become a has been or burned out.
Commitment with prophetic passion will cause you to become a history maker. Passion is influence.
A.W. Tozer’s quote: “Passion is the foundation of every great move of Yahweh.”
Jonathan Edwards’s quote: “Passion, it is the heart of every great leader.”
Preached this morning at 6:00am to 1200 ministers and was thrown out of church.
Preached at 10:00am to a crowd and it was totally unsuccessful.
Preached at 2:00pm and they hated me.
Preached at 5:00pm and the response was negative.
Preached at 10:00pm and 150 were saved. Praise Yahweh the religious went home.
Andrew Carnegia quote: “Passion, it is the difference between Good and Great.”
Michael Jordan quote: "Heart is what separates the Good and the Great."
Where and When Should We Invest Our Passion?
Galatians 4:18 But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, not only when I am present with you. (NKJ)
1. Where the purpose of our passion is good!
2. Always, not just when our leaders are with us.
Walter Lippman quote: The final test of a leader is that they leave behind in others, the conviction and will to carry on.
Preference and Conviction
Preference- is something you hold
Conviction – is something that hold you
Prophetic Passion Will Produce Courage.
Courage Comes From a Heart Convicted by Passion.
· George Patton – Courage is holding on a minute longer
· Karl Barth – Courage is fear that has said it’s prayers
· John Wayne – Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway
· Andrew Jackson – One man with courage makes a majority
· Edward Everett Hale – I am only one, but I am one, I cannot do everything, but I can do something, and what I can do, I ought to do, and what I ought to do by the grace of God I shall do.
The French Foreign Legions are taught to say this:
If I falter, push me on. If I stumble, pick me up. If I retreat, shoot me.
Signs of No Prophetic Passion
· Words with no actions.
· Busyness without purpose.
· Calendars without a Sabbath. (No quiet time)
· Relationships with no mutual nourishment. (One way flow)
· No self – examination.
· Natural giftedness, but no Spiritual power. (People of Oz)
· Theology/religion without relationship.
What You Commit Yourself To Is What You Are
Three questions to ask yourself:
1. What am I committed to?
2. Where do you want to go from here?
3. Once you get there what do you want to be?
People who have not answered these questions are people who have no identity, no personality, no direction and most of all no passion.
If you answer these three questions you will then:
1. Stand when no one else is standing!
2. Keep standing when others sit down!
3. Standout when no one else is speaking!
Outline provided by Apostle Clay Nash with Purpose To The Nations. Reformatted by permission for use by Apostle Blake L. Higginbotham & C.A.M.P. Publishing
2Corinthians 9:2 for I know your willingness, about which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal [Passion] has stirred up the majority. (NKJ)
Prophetic: Is about hearing from Yahweh and then speaking through words, lifestyles, and actions.
Passion: Is intense emotion compelling action. Is a strong devotion to some object, activity or concept.
Why people lack Passion
1. They become familiar with and make things just ordinary.
2. We want acceptance and approval.
Passion draws and repels people at the same time.
3. Our society is passive! The one concern we should all have for
America and Yahshua’s church is the apathy and passive mind- set that has crept in. Garfield said that his pet peeve was people who start things and do not finish them. Therefore, he stated he just never started anything he would have to finish. People without passion never start things. They are much talk but no action.
4. Apathy tends to increase with age! We must fight to not give in
to apathy as we grow older.
5. When we have no purpose beyond our selves! People who are
selfish are people who lack passion. Passion has energy. Passion fuels our souls to take action.
? – WHAT MOTIVATES YOU?
Matthew 6:21 “ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (NKJ)
People who live only for themselves are in a mighty small business.
A Gallup Poll study shows: The number one factor for credibility in the passion of the leaders.
A Prophetically Passionate Person
· Is goal orientated (Visionary)
· Is a self starter
· Has a positive, optimistic attitude
· Gives 100% all the time
· Strives for excellence
· Is creative at getting things done well, no matter what it costs
· Is not satisfied with just “ good enough”
· Has a whatever it takes attitude and sees beyond the obstacles
· Always accepts responsibility
· Does not shift the blame or make up excuses
· Believes in people
· Inspires others to do their best
· Rises to leadership
What the Power of Passion Will Do For Us
· Passion is the first step to achievement! The starting place of all achievement is desire. Always remember – If you got it you will achieve if you don’t you can’t.
· Weak desires bring weak results – Apathy will not get you anywhere in life, but who cares.
· Passion increases willpower! The key to willpower is
“ wantpower. “ People who want something badly enough will find the willpower to achieve it.
· Passion changes me.
· Passion for souls will change your priorities.
· Passion for growth will change your methods of doing things.
· Passion for people will change your ministry.
· Passion to be a leader of leaders will change your goals.
· Passion changes others.
A Leader’s Greatest Gift is Passion
· Followers need passionate leaders. People are instructed by reason, but motivated and inspired by passion.
· Passion is the birthplace of dreams. Passion turns a dreamer into a doer.
· Passion insures results. Results bring victory.
People can be instructed by reason, but they are only inspired by passion.
There is a difference between interests and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you do it when it is convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
Bill Hybels quote: “People do not drift into commitment, they do drift into complacency.”
Commitment without prophetic passion is focus without fuel.
Passion without commitment is heart without backbone.
Commitment without passion will only cause you to become a has been or burned out.
Commitment with prophetic passion will cause you to become a history maker. Passion is influence.
A.W. Tozer’s quote: “Passion is the foundation of every great move of Yahweh.”
Jonathan Edwards’s quote: “Passion, it is the heart of every great leader.”
Preached this morning at 6:00am to 1200 ministers and was thrown out of church.
Preached at 10:00am to a crowd and it was totally unsuccessful.
Preached at 2:00pm and they hated me.
Preached at 5:00pm and the response was negative.
Preached at 10:00pm and 150 were saved. Praise Yahweh the religious went home.
Andrew Carnegia quote: “Passion, it is the difference between Good and Great.”
Michael Jordan quote: "Heart is what separates the Good and the Great."
Where and When Should We Invest Our Passion?
Galatians 4:18 But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, not only when I am present with you. (NKJ)
1. Where the purpose of our passion is good!
2. Always, not just when our leaders are with us.
Walter Lippman quote: The final test of a leader is that they leave behind in others, the conviction and will to carry on.
Preference and Conviction
Preference- is something you hold
Conviction – is something that hold you
Prophetic Passion Will Produce Courage.
Courage Comes From a Heart Convicted by Passion.
· George Patton – Courage is holding on a minute longer
· Karl Barth – Courage is fear that has said it’s prayers
· John Wayne – Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway
· Andrew Jackson – One man with courage makes a majority
· Edward Everett Hale – I am only one, but I am one, I cannot do everything, but I can do something, and what I can do, I ought to do, and what I ought to do by the grace of God I shall do.
The French Foreign Legions are taught to say this:
If I falter, push me on. If I stumble, pick me up. If I retreat, shoot me.
Signs of No Prophetic Passion
· Words with no actions.
· Busyness without purpose.
· Calendars without a Sabbath. (No quiet time)
· Relationships with no mutual nourishment. (One way flow)
· No self – examination.
· Natural giftedness, but no Spiritual power. (People of Oz)
· Theology/religion without relationship.
What You Commit Yourself To Is What You Are
Three questions to ask yourself:
1. What am I committed to?
2. Where do you want to go from here?
3. Once you get there what do you want to be?
People who have not answered these questions are people who have no identity, no personality, no direction and most of all no passion.
If you answer these three questions you will then:
1. Stand when no one else is standing!
2. Keep standing when others sit down!
3. Standout when no one else is speaking!
Outline provided by Apostle Clay Nash with Purpose To The Nations. Reformatted by permission for use by Apostle Blake L. Higginbotham & C.A.M.P. Publishing
Picture of a Prophet
By Apostle Blake L. Higginbotham
The prophet in his day is fully accepted of God and totally rejected by men. Years back, Dr. Gregory Mantle was right when he said, "No man can be fully accepted until he is totally rejected." The prophet of the Lord is aware of both these experiences.
They are his "brand name." The group, challenged by the prophet because they are smug and comfortably insulated from a perishing world in their warm but untested theology, is not likely to vote him "Man of the year" when he refers to them as habituates of the synagogue of Satan! The prophet comes to set up that which is upset. His work is to call into line those who are out of line! He is unpopular because he opposes the popular in morality and spirituality.
In a day of faceless politicians and voiceless preachers, there is not a more urgent national need than that we cry to God for a prophet! The function of the prophet, as Austin-Sparks once said, "has almost always been that of recovery." The prophet is God's detective seeking for a lost treasure. The degree of his effectiveness is determined by his measure of unpopularity. Compromise is not known to him. He has no price tags. He is totally "otherworldly."
He is unquestionably controversial and unpardonably hostile. He marches to another drummer! He breathes the rarefied air of inspiration. He is a "seer" who comes to lead the blind. He lives in the heights of God and comes into the valley with a "thus saith the Lord." He shares some of the foreknowledge of God and so is aware of impending judgment. He lives in "splendid isolation." He is forthright and outright, but he claims no birthright. His message is "repent, be reconciled to God or else...!" His prophecies are parried. His truth brings torment, but his voice is never void. He is the villain of today and the hero of tomorrow. He is excommunicated while alive and exalted when dead! He is dishonored with epithets when breathing and honored with epitaphs when dead. He is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but few "make the grade" in his class. He is friendless while living and famous when dead.
He is against the establishment in ministry; then he is established as a saint by posterity. He eats daily the bread of affliction while he ministers, but he feeds the Bread of Life to those who listen. He walks before men for days but has walked before God for years. He is a scourge to the nation before he is scourged by the nation. He announces, pronounces, and denounces! He has a heart like a volcano and his words are as fire. He talks to men about God. He carries the lamp of truth amongst heretics while he is lampooned by men. He faces God before he faces men, but he is self-effacing. He hides with God in the secret place, but he has nothing to hide in the marketplace. He is naturally sensitive but supernaturally spiritual.
He has passion, purpose and pugnacity. He is ordained of God but disdained by men. Our national need at this hour is not that the dollar recover its strength, or that we save face over the Watergate affair, or that we find the answer to the ecology problem. We need a God-sent prophet! I am bombarded with talk or letters about the coming shortages in our national life: bread, fuel, energy. I read between the lines from people not practiced in scaring folk. They feel that the "seven years of plenty" are over for us. The "seven years of famine" are ahead. But the greatest famine of all in this nation at this given moment is a FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORDS OF GOD (Amos 8:11). Millions have been spent on evangelism in the last twenty-five years. Hundreds of gospel messages streak through the air over the nation every day. Crusades have been held; healing meetings have made a vital contribution. "Come-outers" have "come out" and settled, too, without a nation-shaking revival. Organizers we have. Skilled preachers abound. Multi-million dollar Christian organizations straddle the nation.
BUT where, oh where, is the prophet? Where are the incandescent men fresh from the holy place? Where is the Moses to plead in fasting before the holiness of the Lord for our moldy morality, our political perfidy, and sour and sick spirituality? GOD'S MEN ARE IN HIDING UNTIL THE DAY OF THEIR SHOWING FORTH.
They will come. The prophet is violated during his ministry, but he is vindicated by history. There is a terrible vacuum in evangelical Christianity today. The missing person in our ranks is the prophet. The man with a terrible earnestness. The man totally otherworldly. The man rejected by other men, even other good men, because they consider him too austere, too severely committed, too negative and unsociable. Let him be as plain as John the Baptist. Let him for a season be a voice crying in the wilderness of modern theology and stagnant "churchianity." Let him be as selfless as Paul the apostle. Let him, too, say and live, "This ONE thing I do." Let him reject ecclesiastical favors. Let him be self-abasing, nonself-seeking, nonself-projecting, nonself- righteous, nonself-glorying, nonself-promoting. Let him say nothing that will draw men to himself but only that which will move men to God. Let him come daily from the throne room of a holy God, the place where he has received the order of the day.
Let him, under God, unstop the ears of the millions who are deaf through the clatter of shekels milked from this hour of material mesmerism. Let him cry with a voice this century has not heard because he has seen a vision no man in this century has seen. God send us this Moses to lead us from the wilderness of crass materialism, where the rattlesnakes of lust bite us and where enlightened men, totally blind spiritually, lead us to an ever-nearing Armageddon. God have mercy! Send us PROPHETS!
The prophet in his day is fully accepted of God and totally rejected by men. Years back, Dr. Gregory Mantle was right when he said, "No man can be fully accepted until he is totally rejected." The prophet of the Lord is aware of both these experiences.
They are his "brand name." The group, challenged by the prophet because they are smug and comfortably insulated from a perishing world in their warm but untested theology, is not likely to vote him "Man of the year" when he refers to them as habituates of the synagogue of Satan! The prophet comes to set up that which is upset. His work is to call into line those who are out of line! He is unpopular because he opposes the popular in morality and spirituality.
In a day of faceless politicians and voiceless preachers, there is not a more urgent national need than that we cry to God for a prophet! The function of the prophet, as Austin-Sparks once said, "has almost always been that of recovery." The prophet is God's detective seeking for a lost treasure. The degree of his effectiveness is determined by his measure of unpopularity. Compromise is not known to him. He has no price tags. He is totally "otherworldly."
He is unquestionably controversial and unpardonably hostile. He marches to another drummer! He breathes the rarefied air of inspiration. He is a "seer" who comes to lead the blind. He lives in the heights of God and comes into the valley with a "thus saith the Lord." He shares some of the foreknowledge of God and so is aware of impending judgment. He lives in "splendid isolation." He is forthright and outright, but he claims no birthright. His message is "repent, be reconciled to God or else...!" His prophecies are parried. His truth brings torment, but his voice is never void. He is the villain of today and the hero of tomorrow. He is excommunicated while alive and exalted when dead! He is dishonored with epithets when breathing and honored with epitaphs when dead. He is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but few "make the grade" in his class. He is friendless while living and famous when dead.
He is against the establishment in ministry; then he is established as a saint by posterity. He eats daily the bread of affliction while he ministers, but he feeds the Bread of Life to those who listen. He walks before men for days but has walked before God for years. He is a scourge to the nation before he is scourged by the nation. He announces, pronounces, and denounces! He has a heart like a volcano and his words are as fire. He talks to men about God. He carries the lamp of truth amongst heretics while he is lampooned by men. He faces God before he faces men, but he is self-effacing. He hides with God in the secret place, but he has nothing to hide in the marketplace. He is naturally sensitive but supernaturally spiritual.
He has passion, purpose and pugnacity. He is ordained of God but disdained by men. Our national need at this hour is not that the dollar recover its strength, or that we save face over the Watergate affair, or that we find the answer to the ecology problem. We need a God-sent prophet! I am bombarded with talk or letters about the coming shortages in our national life: bread, fuel, energy. I read between the lines from people not practiced in scaring folk. They feel that the "seven years of plenty" are over for us. The "seven years of famine" are ahead. But the greatest famine of all in this nation at this given moment is a FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORDS OF GOD (Amos 8:11). Millions have been spent on evangelism in the last twenty-five years. Hundreds of gospel messages streak through the air over the nation every day. Crusades have been held; healing meetings have made a vital contribution. "Come-outers" have "come out" and settled, too, without a nation-shaking revival. Organizers we have. Skilled preachers abound. Multi-million dollar Christian organizations straddle the nation.
BUT where, oh where, is the prophet? Where are the incandescent men fresh from the holy place? Where is the Moses to plead in fasting before the holiness of the Lord for our moldy morality, our political perfidy, and sour and sick spirituality? GOD'S MEN ARE IN HIDING UNTIL THE DAY OF THEIR SHOWING FORTH.
They will come. The prophet is violated during his ministry, but he is vindicated by history. There is a terrible vacuum in evangelical Christianity today. The missing person in our ranks is the prophet. The man with a terrible earnestness. The man totally otherworldly. The man rejected by other men, even other good men, because they consider him too austere, too severely committed, too negative and unsociable. Let him be as plain as John the Baptist. Let him for a season be a voice crying in the wilderness of modern theology and stagnant "churchianity." Let him be as selfless as Paul the apostle. Let him, too, say and live, "This ONE thing I do." Let him reject ecclesiastical favors. Let him be self-abasing, nonself-seeking, nonself-projecting, nonself- righteous, nonself-glorying, nonself-promoting. Let him say nothing that will draw men to himself but only that which will move men to God. Let him come daily from the throne room of a holy God, the place where he has received the order of the day.
Let him, under God, unstop the ears of the millions who are deaf through the clatter of shekels milked from this hour of material mesmerism. Let him cry with a voice this century has not heard because he has seen a vision no man in this century has seen. God send us this Moses to lead us from the wilderness of crass materialism, where the rattlesnakes of lust bite us and where enlightened men, totally blind spiritually, lead us to an ever-nearing Armageddon. God have mercy! Send us PROPHETS!
Apostolic Kingdom Dominion
By Apostle Blake L. Higginbotham
If you can hear it, you were born to serve the King and to walk in Apostolic Kingdom Dominion. If you can embrace this truth, the Kingdom of Yahweh will be established in your heart, and your life will glorify His Name in all the earth.
· Kingdom = King’s/Domain (Where the King rules and reigns)
· The King’s Domain has to be established in your heart and life before you can represent the
King to someone else.
Note: (If you are not a man under authority then the people under your authority will not be submitted).
· “You were born to serve the King and nothing else really matters” blh
Luke 17:20b The kingdom of Yahweh cometh not with observation: 21Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of Yahweh is within you.
Psalms 8:1- O Yahweh, our Sovereign, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, who have set Your glory above the heavens!
4-6 - What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? 5For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. 6You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
Psalms 145:10-13 All Your works shall praise You, O Yahweh, and Your saints shall bless You. 11They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your power, 12To make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom. 13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Malachi 4:5-6 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Yahweh: 6And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
· Apostolic fathers are coming to you and government is coming with them. Order will be restored and authority and power will bring reformation.
· The enemy of our souls has been dealt with and his day has ended, our day has only begun.
· This is the day that Yahweh has made I will rejoice and be glad in it.
· This is the great and dreadful Day of Yahweh.
· This is the Third Day and we are under an open Heaven.
Isaiah 26:12 - Yahweh, You will establish peace for us, for You have also done all our works in us.
13-14 Yahweh our Elohim, masters besides You have had dominion over us; but by You only we make mention of Your name. 14They are dead, they will not live; they are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
Luke 11:20 But if I cast out demons with the finger of Yahweh, surely the kingdom of Yahweh has come upon you.
Colossians 2:13-15 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,14having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
Daniel 7:13-14 “I was watching in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him.14Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed.
Acts 5:12 - And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon’s Porch.
If you can hear it, you were born to serve the King and to walk in Apostolic Kingdom Dominion. If you can embrace this truth, the Kingdom of Yahweh will be established in your heart, and your life will glorify His Name in all the earth.
· Kingdom = King’s/Domain (Where the King rules and reigns)
· The King’s Domain has to be established in your heart and life before you can represent the
King to someone else.
Note: (If you are not a man under authority then the people under your authority will not be submitted).
· “You were born to serve the King and nothing else really matters” blh
Luke 17:20b The kingdom of Yahweh cometh not with observation: 21Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of Yahweh is within you.
Psalms 8:1- O Yahweh, our Sovereign, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, who have set Your glory above the heavens!
4-6 - What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? 5For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. 6You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
Psalms 145:10-13 All Your works shall praise You, O Yahweh, and Your saints shall bless You. 11They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your power, 12To make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom. 13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Malachi 4:5-6 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Yahweh: 6And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
· Apostolic fathers are coming to you and government is coming with them. Order will be restored and authority and power will bring reformation.
· The enemy of our souls has been dealt with and his day has ended, our day has only begun.
· This is the day that Yahweh has made I will rejoice and be glad in it.
· This is the great and dreadful Day of Yahweh.
· This is the Third Day and we are under an open Heaven.
Isaiah 26:12 - Yahweh, You will establish peace for us, for You have also done all our works in us.
13-14 Yahweh our Elohim, masters besides You have had dominion over us; but by You only we make mention of Your name. 14They are dead, they will not live; they are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
Luke 11:20 But if I cast out demons with the finger of Yahweh, surely the kingdom of Yahweh has come upon you.
Colossians 2:13-15 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,14having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
Daniel 7:13-14 “I was watching in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him.14Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed.
Acts 5:12 - And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon’s Porch.
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