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The Fire In Your Eyes

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lighteyes2I’m sharing this weekend with hundreds of women keen on a deeper experience with God. Hunger is palpable at Valor Conference this year! As promised earlier this morning, I’m making the Powerpoint from my session available for download. Unfortunately, it will make little sense unless you attended the session or take the time to view it (free of charge at the link below).

View the Power Point, here.

A certain fire illuminates the eyes of one who is enlivened with desire for the God-kind of life. More than a twinkle, this blaze is visible to the onlooker as a sign of an emboldened inner existence. This fire in the eyes elicits both envy and interest, making the spirited life attractive to others. During this prolonged season of transition, however, the fire within many has waned or even died. Eyes that once shone with eager hope, now smolder in grave disappointment. What is the essence of that fire? How does one get it back?

My Valor Conference address is now available for you to view on demand, here. Please feel free to chat back through the “reply” link, below. May your eyes burn ever brighter with renewed intensity as you forge your divinely inspired future.

Click now to watch “The Fire In Your Eyes”.

The Death of a Prophetic Word

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Sometimes a prophetic word has to die. Every hope of that word coming to pass, every hint of possibility must be exhausted before its season can dawn. Every seed I’ve planted in my garden soil this month, was dead. As every farmer and gardener does, I purchased dead seeds in faith, believing. Likewise, you have “purchased” or bought into a word of promise. Upon hearing the word, faith arose in your heart, allowing you to purchase it for future manifestation. At that point, the word is nothing more than a seed of potential. It must endure the process of death and burial before it can become a living word in you.

At the time of sowing, a seed is not even worth eating. Seemingly worthless to the naked eye, this seed holds innumerable, unleashed possibilities. When it’s fully dead, that’s precisely the moment to plant a seed, by burying it in the soil of the heart. That divine idea you’ve bought into, must now be hidden in your heart. Most divine seeds never make it this far. They lie on the shelf in the garage, or in the kitchen catch-all drawer, never reaching their destination. Believe in your dead seeds, enough to sow them back into your own heart. Revisit those packets of seed (journals, notebooks, cd’s, etc…). Cast your seeds by rehearsing them aloud and they will sink deep into your heart of hearts. Since your seed is of a supernatural nature, it will take supernatural stimulus to awaken it. There’s nothing more supernatural than the Word of God and spirit-induced worship. The more you read the supernatural stories recorded in scripture, the more active your worship life will become. These two very simple but supernatural practices will water and fertilize your seed, hastening the sprouts! Remember, the things of the Kingdom must be simple in practice and practical in application. You can do this. You can. Your supernatural seed does not respond to soulish stimulus. Many have attempted to awaken their seed by willing it to pass, or calling on the arm of flesh. Our best-laid plans and resources are incapable of bringing divine seed to life. Nothing but total devotion and focus on Christ will crack the shell that encases your new life.

Prophetic Words Are Being Resurrected

The Lord spoke clearly to me on Sunday evening, May 6. He said, “I’m resurrecting dead prophetic words!” The words of Christ flooded my thoughts, “I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life,“ John 12:24-25. This He spoke of His very death, burial and resurrection. He is the Word made Flesh, the embodiment of all we believe! Just the same, the word cannot live in your flesh, until you are willing to see it first dead and buried. Be willing to lose first, in order to gain.

Expect the following to happen in the coming days:

  • You will be drawn to old prophetic words that have not been fulfilled.
  • You will begin hearing other prophets declare things you heard long ago.
  • The Lord will begin placing you in assignments reminiscent of a prior season of your life.
  • Echoes of past prophetic words will come to you through various outlets (media and print).
  • Others will remind you of things you had forgotten.
  • There will be new wind on old prophetic imagery that once spoke to you.
  • If you are in ministry, the Lord will enliven the promises that birthed your ministry. Visit those early words.
  • You will move beyond hope to expectation. Your thoughts will be flooded with confidence of the fulfillment of prior promises.

Resurrection is possible, now, because many things have died in your life. Without waxing morose, let us agree that it has been a season of great loss. This pruning had to happen for the life of your promise! Because of your losses, you are now in position for resurrection! Say goodbye. Mourn no more. Get ready to rejoice as the day of resurrection has now dawned upon your life.

So your prophetic word has died, has it? Congratulations! You can now receive your word in the process you were destined to walk.

Prophetic Patience

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A person without patience cannot prophetic be. The critical virtue of patience is most central to the character of a truly prophetic man or woman of God. It is not something that comes naturally to any of us, but is cultivated through relationship with the Revelation Giver. Many ascribe to the prophetic, but fall by wayside after the passage of time and events. Hopes delayed can dishearten even the most determined. Patience, not determination, brings to us the fruition of the spoken promise.

Patience: The Key to Words of Destiny

“Perseverance (patience) must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything,” James 1:4. Patience is fascinating in that it is both the facilitator / promoter of maturity, and the distinguishing mark of it. The impatient soul is far from being seasoned in the Word he carries. Still believing the word is just supposed to happen to him, he bemoans every setback as persecution or cosmic interference. In immaturity, he misses the point.

Any prophetic word given, is powerful to recreate us in its likeness. Instead of happening for us, it first happens in us. The timetable for the fulfillment of any prophecy lies in how long it takes for the word to renovate our own mentality and behaviors. Of course, this takes time… and patience. Should your destiny be greatly removed from your current state, more time will be needed for this word to recreate you from the inside out. Joseph, regent over Egypt, was decades in process. As a dreaming teenager, he couldn’t be further from the sophistication and regality of the night visions he received. However, the distance between teenage Joseph, and fully matured Joseph was more than geographical… it was also developmental, psychological and spiritual in nature. Why did God reveal the promise of such grandeur to an adolescent? I believe it was because it would take years of Joseph’s life to cultivate the compassion, wisdom, savvy and sophistication needed to preserve nations during famine.

It is spoken of Joseph in Psalm 105:19, “Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.” Tried is the Hebrew word, tsaraph, meaning to purge, test and refine. The word of the Lord literally purged Joseph, tested him and refined him for His purpose. More specifically, the word given to Joseph set in motion certain circumstances that would precipitate change within him. Any adverse circumstances surrounding his story were merely tools of purging, testing, and refining.

Prophetic Purging

The Hebrew word for tried in Psalm 105:19 also includes a reference to smelting. Smelting is the process of melting down metals for the purpose of separating it from other metals or impurities. Joseph’s separation from family at an early age, was just the beginning of the smelting process in his life. The later separation from Potiphar’s household and society at large, was part of the continual work of smelting. Joseph was isolated for the purpose of identifying and cultivating his character and gifts. As this process happens in our lives, it may feel that we are the ones being tossed aside or purged out of the picture. Friend, this is the path of destiny.

Prophetic Testing

Any accurate prophetic word of destiny over your life with test you… every day of your life. No doubt, Joseph daily revisited his boyish dreams of regality and authority. In the worst of circumstances, his dreams played over and over again in his head – challenging his resolve and sanity. In our immaturity, prophecies will first test our faith in self. The arm of the flesh will generally try to muscle a prophetic word into existence. This is guaranteed to fail. Until we flunk the test of the flesh, we cannot begin to be tested in our reliance on Father God. Once our resolve to make it happen wanes, we discover our resolve to follow His faithful leading.

Prophetic Refining

Because a prophetic word has refining power, it must be rehearsed often in our hearts and minds. Write, frame, or speak out your promise. In doing so, you are subjecting yourself to the chisel and hammer of the master sculptor. Not only is the heard word overwriting your former, flawed expectations, but it is creating the capacity to believe in the new.

The very act of declaring your promise is powerful to set in motion certain circumstances that will hasten its fulfillment. As in the case of Joseph, these happenings bring refinement of character and much-needed experience for the days ahead. WIthout these tests of refinement, we would never arrive at the expertise or confidence needed to walk our out destiny. Refinement brings mastery in matters of skill – and humility in matters of heart.

In closing, allow me to encourage you in your prophetic journey. You may feel time has ruled you out of your promise. Your destiny, however, has never been nearer. Ironically, the development of patience requires the manifold exhaustion of composure and fortitude. How else will we learn that our times and seasons are in His hand? Persevere in believing against all hope. The word is making something marvelous of you.