We are called to be a prophetic generation, so we must prophecy.
Reject unbelief, embrace the truth as written in the Bible.
We are now given the opportunity to wash our garments with the Blood of Jesus Christ to prepare ourselves as the bride ready for His coming.
Notes from Ps Paul Keith's sharing on Aug 22, 2023 [TITLE: Prophesying the treasures of God
Things are going to escalate in intensity, as we enter a season of time for the bride of Christ to make herself ready.
In a letter to the church of Sardis (Revelation 3:1-6), we learn that only a minority of the church were prepared for the coming of the Lord. Only a few did not have soiled garments. That means the majority had stained robes, soiled garments, and they were unprepared.
Revelation 3:1-6 [NKJV]
1 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. 2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. 4 You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. 5 He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. 6 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
So, God gave them an admonition to overcome - reject those things that are not true, but embrace that which is true (and repent), so as to be presented to the Lord in pure white garments.
We are being given an opportunity right now to wash our garments in the Blood of Jesus Christ, in truth and in faith, rooted and grounded in love, rooted and grounded in truth, as the Lord continues to unveil greater dimensions of spiritual truth from the word of God to us.
We need power - more than what was needed by the first-century Christians - because of the difficulty of the day in which we're living.
Our day is the darkest day in history because it is leading up to the Great Tribulation. The Lord says there's never been a day like it and there'll never be another one like it.
Therefore, we need power to live above the spirit of this world. We need power to prophesy accurately with the motivation of heaven, not the agendas of men or selfish ambition, and not for unrighteous gain.
We're living in a prophetic generation - so we must prophesy, it's not optional.
According to Joel's prophecy, we in this last-day generation will be a generation of prophetic people, and there will be a people that prophesy the truth.
There is a message of truth that is going out to make ready a people without spot and without wrinkle - men and women that believe every word proceeding from the mouth of God. They believe in miracles; they believe in genuine Holy Spirit-inspired visions.
Everything we see in the book of Acts, we can experience today.
This is the hour.
This is the generation this is not to be complacent or apathetic, or even have hope deferred, as we broach this End of the Age season, and begin to prepare a people that will be ready for a bridal union experience with the Messiah.
We are called to be a prophetic generation, to search by the spirit the very depths of God's heart and to reveal and prophesy things that have been concealed, but now revealed.
Prayer:
Lord, make ready your people. Put Your word in our mouths and let us prophesy the unveiling, the disclosure, the very manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua, our Messiah.
We need to have a Kingdom mindset, and operate as who we really are - Sons and Daughters of the Living God
Revival is here already - don't say it is coming, or that it will come someday. Declare it is here NOW
Through the power of the Holy Spirit, the people of God can pioneer new things
The next three months (from June 2023) will be months of great anointing
There's going to be a supernatural reset towards greater glory for the people of God in this new era
Notes from Pastor Tim Sheets’ sharing at Oasis Church (June 4, 2023)
There’s a call for us to live with a Kingdom of Christ mindset, that is, being very bold and filled with confidence in Christ.
We must exemplify Christ and live out who we really are as Sons and Daughters of God.
God is now taking many of us through a journey to learn how we live as an heir, and be who God has called us to be - as Sons and Daughters of God.
We have to embrace that Kingdom mindsetas we have now moved into a Great Awakening and Reformation era.
The third Great Awakening has now begun. Revival will flow through the land and the world, and nations will be discipled.
The Holy Spirit said, “Don't say it's coming; don't say someday it is going to happen. Say now, now, now”.
He needs the remnant to live in the “Now Faith”.
“I need my remnant, My Ecclesia, to think with “Now Faith”; not just hope that Awakening is going to happen someday. Not just hope that it comes in the future. Declare “now”.
Faith is a “now thing”. Declare faith now to the promise of God, now to the promise of healing.
Bring Awakening and Revival into the “now”.
Hebrews 11:1 (Amplified Bible)
Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses].
We must think as stewards of Awakening and Reformation. We must think and we must act as though we are now in charge and are authorized managers of Awakening and Reformation.
We cannot continue to think the same thoughts we had in the Charismatic Movement era.
For this new era, we must renew our mind according to what the Holy Spirit is now saying to the church.
Isaiah 43:2 (Amplified)
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you.
What is God saying: When you're in rough waters, you will not go down. When you're between a rock and a hard place, it won't be a dead end. Someone has got to go into that wilderness and believe they're not going down.
God doesn't place a call upon us to go down, to lose between a rock and a hard place. He calls those who will receive His power to go in and make their stand; and when they skip to the river, they cross the river. When they come to the fire, they march through it and they are not burned. When the arrow is shot, the shield of faith comes up and stops it. Someone's gotta do it God's way.
Someone's got to believe greater is He that is in me than he that's in the world.
Someone's got to believe if God is before them, who's going to be a success against them - can government, education, media, religion?
The people of God can, through the Might and the Power of the Living God, pioneer new history.
Somebody's gotta believe they are pioneers of history. They're history makers. God is wanting us to pioneer some things so others can follow.
Being pioneers is an identity. It doesn’t mean we're better than anybody.
God wants us to pioneer some things for others to follow.
He wants us to help pioneer the third Great Awakening. We have to think that way now.
Sure, that can at times be difficult.
But God desires revival in the land; and someone's got to run with it.
Prophetic Word:
I'll use you to open new territory.
I'll use you to lead the way for the coming generation now.
I'll use you to change your nation.
I'll use you to build the altars.
I'll use you to build Ecclesia hubs in demon territories.
I'll use you to build bridges.
I'll use you to tear down barriers of walls.
I'll use you to build laws.
I'll use you to build strategies.
I'll use you to build families that have been destroyed.
I'll use you to rebuild walls that have fallen.
I'll use you to establish New Kingdom extensions, New Glory highways.
I will now deal with the oppressors of my people.
I will move swiftly and with jealous aggression with My first responders.
I've heard their cries and will break the hold of the taskmasters’ rule for them.
Though they bow their necks in stubborn resistance, I will lead them with nose rings to their place of destruction like oxen to the slaughter.
I will pull them to stalls of disgrace.
The commanding influence of the oppressor's curse will break from the hearts of my people.
The disheartening crack of the taskmasters’ whip will no longer be heard by my sons and daughters.
They will not carry the burden of their oppressors.
They will not toil for their enemies’ gain. They will not work as slaves of cultural brutality.
They will not glean empty fields because they worship Me. They will own the fields where they glean.
The breaking sound heard by My triumphant remnant will be the cracking sound of their oppressor's authority shattering.
The words of their Pharaoh will be as chaff in the winds as my angels scatter their defiance. Michael and his Chariots of Fire have received their orders. Gabriel has communicated strategies through all Angel Armies. Breakthrough angels are now activated.
Pharaoh will not have the final word. I will have the final word.
Ecclesia, contend in faith as the Lord hardens the heart of our enemies. That's what He did to Pharaoh - He kept hardening his heart. He will harden the hearts of our enemies for devastating defeat.
Set your heart on what the Lord says. Set your minds on “Now Faith”, expecting to live in promised places.
Move forward towards new times and seasons that the Lord has prepared for you.
Move forward into Reformation. Move forward into positions of authority.
Prophecy:
I have ordained for you to move forward into Harvest.
I have ripened it for you to move forward against giant strongholds for I am uprooting, tearing down and planting new just as My prophets have said.
Move forward, pioneers, through dark wilderness. Emblaze the way for families to follow.
Move forward, pioneers, and be pathfinders to milk and honey.
Open trails to new levels of glory. Respond to Me and reset history.
Know, says the Lord, that the next three months will be months of great anointing to bring Reformation rapidly here.
The seeds of faith planted by My people and their decrees of faith will accelerate to fullness, producing the fruit of the seed that was sown and My people will enter new times with lives having been reset.
Prophecy:
Yes, says the Lord, I am resetting lives. I am resetting personal history and regional, national history.
My world changers are now being called to mobilize. My promises are growing to fullness.
Enjoy the times before you in the new era.
Rejoice in the reset I have planned, now unfolding.
Embrace new freedom now. Embrace your new history now. Enjoy the reset of who you really are.
Embrace new history.
He promises the next three months your faith, your decrees, your prayers are going to bring you into a supernatural reset.
Supernaturally, a shift is coming into the mindset of the people of God. A resetting of thinking
to begin to think in ways they have never thought or have drifted from them.
In this new era, things are going to reset for you.
Our reset has already begun. It's coming. It's coming to us spiritually, it's coming to us emotionally, it's coming to our churches.
God is reassembling His Ecclesia in His last move before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ
Family of God must be united
Five-fold ministries must be allowed to function accordingly
Return to the First love, valuing intimacy with the Lord
Be faithful to the end
Focus on Israel - everything must end with Israel
The cries of the first born have reached heaven
Excerpts from Apostle George Annadorai’s sharing at the second session of 5782 Golden Gate Gathering
We believe we will be the last generation that will witness the last move of God.
His last great move is to reassemble His Ecclesia before His final return.
Only when his Ecclesia has been reassembled can He bring the nation of Israel to the fullness of her destiny, and restore the nations at large to fulfill their God-given destinies.
This attempt by the Lord to reassemble his Ecclesia in our day and time is taking many forms and shapes in the name of many different movements that are alive today.
There many other movements raised by God, but six movements from different parts of the world are converging. It can also be referred to as six streams coming together, converging together into the river of life.
As in the six days of creation in Genesis 1, there will be six days of recreation of the Ecclesia.
So, all these movements converge where all these rivers converge, and the centre is what we call Ecclesia. The Apostle Paul will call this movement: unity in diversity. They look very different, but they are all united in the core.
Movement #1: Family. For this purpose, God had raised homecoming from Canada. We are all members of one family (in Christ) and relationships are the key.
Movement #2: Function. For this purpose, God had raised the Apostolic networks from all of Taiwan. The emphasis is that there must be the government of God within the body of Christ.
We need to allow the apostles and the prophets to function within the Body of Christ, just like pastors,
teachers and evangelists.
Movement #3: First love. For this purpose God has raised IHOP from the USA to put the emphasis on first love in the heart of every believer where intimacy becomes the primary emphasis.
Movement #4: Faith followership. Many believers simply live out their faith, right where persecution is happening. These are the people who are teaching the rest of us, who belong to the body of Christ, hat real faith is and what real followership is.
Movement #5: Focus. We know that all other things are important but the focus must always be on Israel. Everything must end with Israel, and with Israel to the nations.
Movement #6: First born. Biblically, Israel is the first born. Biologically, Ishmael is the first born.
The Islanders are first-born. In our day and time we are hearing the cry of the first born. The cry of the
first born Israel. The cry of the other first-born Ishmael. And they cry on the Islanders.
We are living to witness the convergence of the Isaiah 19 Highway and the Isaiah 62 Highway. This is happening in our day and time. And speaking about the first born, let us not forget the ultimate first born in heaven, Jesus himself. The first born in heaven is hearing the cry of the first born on Earth. And something is about to happen.
The last great move of Jesus is to reassemble his Ecclesia. Ecclesia is not one local church in one country.
It is the body of Christ scattered throughout the earth. They come from every tribe, every tongue, every people, every nation. But together they become the government of God on earth.
Jesus says I will build My Ecclesia. And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
The greatest sign that the Second Coming of Christ is near is the birth of John the Baptist company.
The Second Coming of Jesus Christ will be in the Feast of Tabernacles
This time He is coming for the nations
We are invited to build a highway for the return of the King of Glory, but our heart must be right
We must decrease. He must increase.
Excerpts from Apostle George Annadorai’s sharing at the first session of 5782 Golden Gate Gathering
The first coming of Jesus happened in the month of Nisan, fulfilling the calendar of the Jewish people.
When Jesus comes the second time - the final time - He will come during the Feast of Tabernacles.
Why is that? Because this time, He is coming for the nations.
So, this period is very personal to us.
We are not Jewish, we are Gentiles. We do not belong to the nation of Israel. We belong to the nations (e.g. one may belong to Singapore, another to Taiwan, another to Indonesia and another to Malaysia).
We represent the nations.
Therefore, as we prepare the way for the final coming of Jesus, the preparation has to be done by the nations.
Anyone can say this is a time for the prophecy to come to pass, but we must be able to back it up.
In the gospels, how did Zechariah and Elizabeth know that the Messiah was coming? There must be a sign before the coming of the Messiah.
In the gospels, the greatest sign that the Messiah was coming was the birth of John the Baptist.
What then will be the greatest sign for the Second Coming, the final coming, of the Messiah?
Answer: The birth of John the Baptist company - not one man or woman. This time it will be every tongue, every tribe, every people, every nation.
And that's the greatest sign that we can say to all others that the time for the final coming of Jesus Christ is drawing near.
There must be a company of people from every tongue, every tribe, every people and every nation who are preparing the way for the Lord - a highway for the Lord.
We are building a highway for such a time of this. Not just anywhere, not just anyhow, but the Golden Gate (highway).
Blessed are you and I for we are invited to be in this company.
What's unique about this company is that they must say, “I must decrease, but He must increase”.
This is not about any individual nation, but it is about the King of Glory.
We must decrease, He must increase.
Only those with this heart will be invited by the Father to build this highway.
Get ready. Get dressed. Both outside and inside. More so on the inside.
When we are coming to a banquet, we must be dressed rightly.
May our hearts be right before God and before man. Amen.
The Melchizedekian priesthood is a combination of the offices of a king and a priest
It is the highest authority of the believer
This anointing is not something that can be claimed by faith
We need to be yielded to God and allow Him to mould and transform us to be a Melchizedekian priest
We have to grow up (mature) into the image of Christ to bear that kind of authority and power
God is preparing us for His end-time move and harvest
Notes from Ps Yang Tuck Yoong’s sermon on July 3, 2022 (Cornerstone Community Church Singapore)
One of the privileges a priest has is he gets to come close to God.
When the Apostle Peter gave us a vision of what the church is called to be, he said, you are a “royal priesthood”. You're not just any priesthood you're a royal priesthood.
We have to grow into this and we have to have a revelation of what entails a priesthood.
One of the greatest revelations that's going to be released upon the church in the last days is the revelation of the Melchizedekian priesthood – highest authority of the believer on planet earth. It's a combination of both the priestly anointing and the kingly ministry.
God is going to bring these two key ministries together in the last days. There's going to be a marriage of the offices of the priests and the king, and when this happens, we're going to see cataclysmic results.
Pray that God will do something in our hearts and that we will not be dull of hearing today. The dullness of the Hebrew believers prevented one of the greatest revelations from being released to the Body of Christ. When we don't understand a revelation, when it's released, Satan comes and he steals the word.
Satan will fight tooth and nail to prevent the church from receiving this revelation (Melchizedekian priesthood), so we must contend for this.
This is one of the most powerful revelations that awaits the church in these last days.
This obscure King Melchizedek is mentioned in three portions of scripture in the bible:
Genesis 14 - when Abraham meets him and gives a tithe to him;
Psalm 110:4 - speaking of the Messiah it says the Lord has sworn and will not relent; You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek; and
Hebrews 7 - where the writer explains a few things about this very mysterious person.
*Melchizedekian priesthood > Levitical priesthood
Hebrews 7:1-3: “For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, and Abraham gave him a tenth of all [the spoil]. He is, first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, which means king of peace. Without [[a]any record of] father or mother, nor ancestral line, without [any record of] beginning of days (birth) nor ending of life (death), but having been made like the Son of God, he remains a priest without interruption and without successor.
Historically, Melchizedek was the king of Salem, the original ancient name for Jerusalem. Not only was Melchizedek a king, he was also a priest.
This is important because our priesthood in the new covenant is not after the order of Levi, but after the order of Melchizedek. In other words, in the New Testament, God takes the functions of a priest and marries it to the kingly office, making us kings and priests.
When the bible talks about us being kings and priests, it's a vision God is offering to everyone.
It’s not an automatic thing. It has to be qualified. You have to qualify for it.
Old Testament: the priesthood went to the tribe of Levi, the scepter (the rulership) went to the tribe of Judah.
Jesus is not from the tribe of Levi. He's from the tribe of Judah, coming from a long line of kings.
This is the will of God: He has made us kings and priests (Melchizedekian priesthood).
It involves a process of transformation. This is not something we claim it by faith.
You've got to be moulded and shaped by God for your destiny.
Melchizedek was a king and a priest not by genealogy but by election. His ministry continued into eternity and did not consummate at his death. He remains a priest forever.
Psalm 110: 1-4 The Lord (Father) says to my Lord (the Messiah, His Son), “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet [subjugating them into complete submission]. The Lord will send the scepter of Your strength from Zion, saying, “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.” Your people will offer themselves willingly [to participate in Your battle] in the day of Your power; In the splendor of holiness, from the womb of the dawn, Your young men are to You as the dew. The Lord has sworn [an oath] and will not change His mind: “[a]You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”
Psalm 110 was a David, who was not just a great king, but also a great prophet.
The position of the Melchizedekian priesthood - they sit in heavenly places at the Lord's right hand, which is a place of “supreme power”, not just any kind of power. The Melchizedekian priesthood is a reigning priesthood that rules from heaven, and not from earth. It is the highest place of authority for the believer. Whatever we have witnessed in the past is going to be insignificant in comparison to what is coming.
What we have right now is so limited in its capacity. When the Lord said the works that I do, greater works shall you do.
But why aren't we seeing this yet?
It's because we are operating in an authority that is far inferior to the alternative that's presented to us in Scripture. Although it's been given to us, we are not operating in it, and the reason for that is because that kind of authority and power can only be given to a mature people.
Too many things come out from our mouths, too many things come out from our hearts, that if we are given this kind of authority, the results would be catastrophic. Like James and John, we all have the tendency to call fire at the slightest provocation.
So, we have to grow up into the image of Christ to bear that kind of authority and power, and grow into the mantle that the Lord has promised to the Church.
Ask the Holy Spirit to fast-track you to growth, because we don't have much time left. The Glory is coming.
*Jesus is returning for a Bride without spot and wrinkle.*
He's returning for a beautiful Bride with the Melchizedekian priesthood and garments on her.
We need to grow up, we need to mature.
Start thinking about your vocation - your true vocation, which is a priest unto the Lord.
You must function in the office of a priest.
How do you do that? The first thing you got to do is to stand before God every morning and give Him praise and thanksgiving.
*The first duty of the priest is to offer praise to Him, the sacrifice of praise.*
Rev 3:21 He who overcomes [the world through believing that Jesus is the Son of God], I will grant to him [the privilege] to sit beside Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down beside My Father on His throne
Jesus wasn't referring to after we have died. He's offering this to anyone who will overcome in this life and reign in his life - right now. Right now, we can be seated in heavenly thrones and walk with great authority in this lifetime.
We’re operating at a level so far short of His true glory. We cannot fully represent Him until He brings us up higher to that place of glory.
Psalm 110:2: There is an authority and power that is coming to the church where the enemy will always be under our feet.
This is the Lord’s desire, the expressed will of the Father for His Church of Jesus Christ - the Ecclesia, the ruling governing authority on this planet.
Psalm 110:3: When this mantle is poured out upon the Church, the hearts of the Christians will rise in an unprecedented faith and they will be willing. The day is coming when the Church is going to rise up, they're not going to enter into battle with fear, they're going to rise up with a willing heart.
The Melchizedekian church is going to be a holy church, with a holy aura. Our garments will be the garments of warfare - the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, girding the loins with truth, wearing the sandals of the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the sword of the spirit. That bridal gown is the Armor of God - it's devastatingly powerful.
Psalm 110:4 - Jesus is not just king over the church, He's king over the whole earth.
A priest carries a sensor, a king wields a scepter. The scepter symbolises authority, the sensor symbolises worship. One releases power, one releases fragrance, and we need both.
1 Peter 2:9:
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a [special] people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies [the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections] of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
That word royal makes all the difference - we're not just a priesthood of believers, we are a royal priesthood. One of the functions of the priest is to proclaim praise, if you're not proclaiming the praises of him who called you out of darkness into light every day, then I question your role as your understanding of a praise, and I question your faithfulness in being a priest.
As a royal priesthood, we're called toproclaim the superiority of God over darkness every day.
The Lord's prayer has both kingly elements and priestly elements.
God is preparing His church for this end-time harvest. He is also preparing the church for the coming power and authority.
Understanding the times and seasons gives us wisdom and great success in everything we do
We need to ask God for the Issachar anointing to align with God's timing
God desires to give us this anointing, we need to receive it by faith
Notes from Ps Robert Heidler teaching on April 23, 2023 (Glory of Zion International)
Four steps to get an Issachar anointing?
Align with God’s timing
Pursue the prophetic
Understand the time in the light of eternity
Ask God for it
God wants you to ask Him for the Issachar anointing… and receive it by faith
1 Chronicles 12:22-32 (AMP): 22 For day by day men kept coming to David to help him, until there was a great army, like the army of God.23 These are the numbers of the [armed] units equipped for war who came to David at Hebron to turn [over] the kingdom of Saul to him, in accordance with the word of the Lord. 24 Those of the tribe of Judah who carried shield and spear were 6,800, armed for war; 25 of the tribe of Simeon, brave warriors, 7,100; 26 of the tribe of Levi, 4,600. 27 Jehoiada was the leader of [the house of] Aaron, and with him were 3,700, 28 and Zadok, a courageous young man, and twenty-two captains from his father’s house. 29 Of the tribe of Benjamin, the relatives of [King] Saul, 3,000; for until now the majority of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul. 30 Of the tribe of Ephraim, 20,800, courageous men, famous in their fathers’ houses. 31 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh, 18,000, who were designated by name to come and make David king. 32 Of the tribe of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, two hundred chiefs; and all their relatives were at their command
When David was assembling his army, many tribes came to help him. But only the tribe of Issachar “understood the times and knew what Israel should do”.
Issachar was a prophetic tribe.
God wants us to be like the tribe of Issachar.
God wants to raise up a prophetic people who understand the times.
If you can discern the times you are in, you can walk in wisdom and have great success in everything you do.
Having the Issachar anointing means you see how God works through time… You see how you fit into time… You begin to gain an understanding of God’s purpose for your life… You see why God is moving you through various times and seasons…
