by Toni Gordon
Are you a lone ranger or a team member?
Are you able to be lead by another or do you insist that you MUST be the leader?
Has God appointed you the Leader? Or did you appoint yourself as the leader?
Have you got others following you? If not, why not?
True God appointed leaders have true God appointed followers and a true leader has the heart of the followers in mind all the time. This God appointed leader will only do what God tells him/her to do.
This leader will not “take it out” or abuse their followers in any way. Think about how the leader you are following treats others; how your leader speaks about other ministries and ministers; how your leader reacts when the going gets tough; how your leader gets money, possessions etc.
Does your leader make you feel guilty if you do not help them every time? What is God saying to you or do you not hear God over the drone or volume of the leader you are following?
Does your leader encourage or criticise you? Does your leader ask you what you feel you should be doing or want to do OR does your leader tell you what you will do according to what the leader thinks or wants?
Do you have freedom or restrictions from your leader? Is your leader a peace keeper or peace maker? Does your leader lead or does your leader wait to get suggestions/ideas from others?
Is your leader the model you want to become in every way? No? Then why are you following this person?
Join the team that GOD wants you on. The team that has YOUR best interest at heart and what GOD wants for you.
Spend time asking God what HE wants for your life then quickly hook in to the team that God has chosen for you. Remember God KNOWS you and how you operate and are made. After all HE is your creator.
The disciples were a team. Look at Acts 2: 42 – 46.
"And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart…"
No I, or my, or me, or you.
We are in this together. Followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are all parts of His body. “For we are members of His body, …… (Ephesians 5.30).
And he is the head of the body, the church:… Colossians 1:18
Max Lucado says “I am not His body, you are not His body. We – together – are His body.”
How true!
Is the leader you are following and the team you are with, wanting and working towards the UNITY that GOD wants with all of His children (and churches)? This unity must start with the LEADERS first.
Where is your leader?
ARE YOU ON THE RIGHT TEAM?
(Prophetic word given on the 17 June 2011)
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Saturday, 18 June 2011
My Beloved New Zealand. The Father’s Heart Cry!!!
Prophetic Declaration by Glenice Mills
My beloved New Zealand, so precious to Me,
Such beauty made by My hand, yet little honour, glory, and praise is given to Me.
You see My hand of beauty all around and about,
Yet you do not acknowledge Me, you take all I have given for your own glory.
You acknowledge Me in your anthem, you know you are God’s land,
Yet why oh why is it that you deny Me? That you proudly sing about Me,
BUT YOU DON‘T KNOW ME!!!
You say you are “God’s own” but are you?
Can you really say you belong to Me?
Do you REALLY see My hand at work in your nation
Or do you just turn your back on Me,
content with all I have given you?
Do you not hear My heart cry, the cry that says
“WHERE ARE YOU? WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?”
You acknowledge me in everyday speech,
BUT YOU DON’T KNOW ME!!!
You sing your anthem, “God defend New Zealand”
As some false security, as an unseen protection,
But do you truly believe that I defend your land
Or do you take My name in vain, acknowledging Me by name
But continuing in false complacency, and a deep sense of false comfort
You acknowledge me and My protection
BUT YOU DON’T KNOW ME!!!
You don’t know who I AM. You don’t know what I would do in your land,
for you see only the beauty all around and about, forgetting that this land is My land, that these people are My people, a people I am calling back to Me.
My people of New Zealand wake up!!!
Do not tarry, do not hold back, do not stay the same.
My church of New Zealand, it is now time to take your place,
As My voice to your people, to the nations, to influence, to bring change.
Arise to the challenge I am sending out, arise to My call to this nation
ARISE!!!
My beautiful New Zealand, why do you tarry, why do you tarry?
Why do you turn your back on Me?
Why do you think you have no need of Me?
Why do you think My hand is against You?
Why do you resist My Spirit? Why do you resist My Spirit? Why do you resist My Spirit?
Do you not see I am calling you, I am calling you, I am calling you,
My heart grieves for you, my heart grieves for you,
I am weeping over you, I am weeping over you,
Do you not hear My cry? Do you not hear My cry?
Do you not see I am stirring, I am stirring, I am stirring,
I am shaking, I am shaking, I am shaking,
I am stirring, I am stirring, I am stirring.
Why do you hold back? Why do you hold back?
Can you not see I need you in this hour?
I need you to arise, arise My beloved New Zealand.
Come out of hiding, come out of hiding, come out of hiding,
Stop hiding, stop hiding, stop hiding - behind, behind, behind,
Come out of hiding, come out of hiding, come out of hiding
Come into ALL I have for you,
Come into the provisions I want to give to you,
COME OUT, COME OUT, COME OUT!!!!
THIS IS A PROPHETIC DECLARATION OVER THE NATION OF NEW ZEALAND!!!
AMEN!!!
SO BE IT LORD!!!
(Prophetic declaration given on 14 June 2011)
My beloved New Zealand, so precious to Me,
Such beauty made by My hand, yet little honour, glory, and praise is given to Me.
You see My hand of beauty all around and about,
Yet you do not acknowledge Me, you take all I have given for your own glory.
You acknowledge Me in your anthem, you know you are God’s land,
Yet why oh why is it that you deny Me? That you proudly sing about Me,
BUT YOU DON‘T KNOW ME!!!
You say you are “God’s own” but are you?
Can you really say you belong to Me?
Do you REALLY see My hand at work in your nation
Or do you just turn your back on Me,
content with all I have given you?
Do you not hear My heart cry, the cry that says
“WHERE ARE YOU? WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?”
You acknowledge me in everyday speech,
BUT YOU DON’T KNOW ME!!!
You sing your anthem, “God defend New Zealand”
As some false security, as an unseen protection,
But do you truly believe that I defend your land
Or do you take My name in vain, acknowledging Me by name
But continuing in false complacency, and a deep sense of false comfort
You acknowledge me and My protection
BUT YOU DON’T KNOW ME!!!
You don’t know who I AM. You don’t know what I would do in your land,
for you see only the beauty all around and about, forgetting that this land is My land, that these people are My people, a people I am calling back to Me.
My people of New Zealand wake up!!!
Do not tarry, do not hold back, do not stay the same.
My church of New Zealand, it is now time to take your place,
As My voice to your people, to the nations, to influence, to bring change.
Arise to the challenge I am sending out, arise to My call to this nation
ARISE!!!
My beautiful New Zealand, why do you tarry, why do you tarry?
Why do you turn your back on Me?
Why do you think you have no need of Me?
Why do you think My hand is against You?
Why do you resist My Spirit? Why do you resist My Spirit? Why do you resist My Spirit?
Do you not see I am calling you, I am calling you, I am calling you,
My heart grieves for you, my heart grieves for you,
I am weeping over you, I am weeping over you,
Do you not hear My cry? Do you not hear My cry?
Do you not see I am stirring, I am stirring, I am stirring,
I am shaking, I am shaking, I am shaking,
I am stirring, I am stirring, I am stirring.
Why do you hold back? Why do you hold back?
Can you not see I need you in this hour?
I need you to arise, arise My beloved New Zealand.
Come out of hiding, come out of hiding, come out of hiding,
Stop hiding, stop hiding, stop hiding - behind, behind, behind,
Come out of hiding, come out of hiding, come out of hiding
Come into ALL I have for you,
Come into the provisions I want to give to you,
COME OUT, COME OUT, COME OUT!!!!
THIS IS A PROPHETIC DECLARATION OVER THE NATION OF NEW ZEALAND!!!
AMEN!!!
SO BE IT LORD!!!
(Prophetic declaration given on 14 June 2011)
Rise Up Men of God!
by Tony Clark
For decades, faithful women have filled church pews, have sought God for strength, have faithfully served Him behind the scenes – where no one has seen but God. And their reward is with Him.
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” Matthew 6:6
While men have stayed at home, and trusted in their own strength, and have refused to rely on Him as their source and power. It is not a sign of weakness to say “I need help,” and it is not a sign of weakness to turn to Another for the Way. It is time for men to break, for the strength of man to fail, and for men to position themselves before God in humility, to position themselves for true power – a true man will rely on His Creator for true provision, true empowerment, and find their true nature.
God is a POWERFUL God! And He desires those who will serve Him in that power, He has made man to RULE and to CONQUER, and He is a vast resource to the one who will trust in his Maker. Man’s strength is weakness, but God’s power is limitless and it is the birth-right of His sons and daughters.
RISE UP MEN OF GOD!
It’s OK to feel weak and reliant, to feel like you can’t do it on your own – this is not failure, this is success! This is the key and the door to unfathomable strength and ability, to be the man you were created to be. Do not resist God in this. The Apostle Paul boasted in his weakness, and declared that God’s strength is made perfect in weakness. The strength of man is failing, because we are in a time when God will come forward in our lives, in our families, so that He would be glorified in us. No man can take His glory, we were never made that way. We were made to carry His glory, not to take it for ourselves but to give it back to Him. And we were created to know the Power of God.
(Prophetic word given on 12 June 2011)
For decades, faithful women have filled church pews, have sought God for strength, have faithfully served Him behind the scenes – where no one has seen but God. And their reward is with Him.
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” Matthew 6:6
While men have stayed at home, and trusted in their own strength, and have refused to rely on Him as their source and power. It is not a sign of weakness to say “I need help,” and it is not a sign of weakness to turn to Another for the Way. It is time for men to break, for the strength of man to fail, and for men to position themselves before God in humility, to position themselves for true power – a true man will rely on His Creator for true provision, true empowerment, and find their true nature.
God is a POWERFUL God! And He desires those who will serve Him in that power, He has made man to RULE and to CONQUER, and He is a vast resource to the one who will trust in his Maker. Man’s strength is weakness, but God’s power is limitless and it is the birth-right of His sons and daughters.
RISE UP MEN OF GOD!
It’s OK to feel weak and reliant, to feel like you can’t do it on your own – this is not failure, this is success! This is the key and the door to unfathomable strength and ability, to be the man you were created to be. Do not resist God in this. The Apostle Paul boasted in his weakness, and declared that God’s strength is made perfect in weakness. The strength of man is failing, because we are in a time when God will come forward in our lives, in our families, so that He would be glorified in us. No man can take His glory, we were never made that way. We were made to carry His glory, not to take it for ourselves but to give it back to Him. And we were created to know the Power of God.
(Prophetic word given on 12 June 2011)
Friday, 17 June 2011
Theme Coming Through Forerunners International
by Tony Clark
Recently a strong theme has been coming through in Forerunners International and during my latest prayer time, God showed me a picture of a seed falling to the ground and dying.
“Verily, Verily, I say unto you. Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” John 12:24
Jesus used this analogy to speak of His death and revealed its purpose: that His death would result in a harvest - that the single corn falling to the ground and dying would result in many sheaths of wheat in a golden harvest.
God began to speak to me about Jesus’ selfless example to us in this, and showed me that it is to be the same with our lives. Our lives are no longer our own if we have given them to Christ, they really do belong to Him, “not my will, but Your’s be done.” God requires our lives of us, that we might be sown, wherever He might see fit, so that He can bring a harvest. Our lives, while ever they are our own, don’t bear fruit, but as we give up our lives for His sake, and really die to our own selfish desires and plans, and allow ourselves to be sown into what He wills for us, we will bear much fruit.
It really is the call of the end time church to “Love not their lives unto death.” Revelation 12:11
If we want to walk in resurrection life then we need to pass through the veil of death to our own selfish desires, so that we can truly live. It really is about counting the cost in the seasons to come.
But there will great blessing and fulfilment in this. Those that lose their lives for His sake will TRULY find it.
“For whosoever will save His life shall lose it: but whosoever loses his life for my sake, the same shall find it.” Luke 9:24
Jesus Christ was the greatest example of this.
(Prophetic word given on the 12 June 2011)
Recently a strong theme has been coming through in Forerunners International and during my latest prayer time, God showed me a picture of a seed falling to the ground and dying.
“Verily, Verily, I say unto you. Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” John 12:24
Jesus used this analogy to speak of His death and revealed its purpose: that His death would result in a harvest - that the single corn falling to the ground and dying would result in many sheaths of wheat in a golden harvest.
God began to speak to me about Jesus’ selfless example to us in this, and showed me that it is to be the same with our lives. Our lives are no longer our own if we have given them to Christ, they really do belong to Him, “not my will, but Your’s be done.” God requires our lives of us, that we might be sown, wherever He might see fit, so that He can bring a harvest. Our lives, while ever they are our own, don’t bear fruit, but as we give up our lives for His sake, and really die to our own selfish desires and plans, and allow ourselves to be sown into what He wills for us, we will bear much fruit.
It really is the call of the end time church to “Love not their lives unto death.” Revelation 12:11
If we want to walk in resurrection life then we need to pass through the veil of death to our own selfish desires, so that we can truly live. It really is about counting the cost in the seasons to come.
But there will great blessing and fulfilment in this. Those that lose their lives for His sake will TRULY find it.
“For whosoever will save His life shall lose it: but whosoever loses his life for my sake, the same shall find it.” Luke 9:24
Jesus Christ was the greatest example of this.
(Prophetic word given on the 12 June 2011)
Sunday, 5 June 2011
God Is Very Interested In What We Want
by Tony Clark
God is very interested in what we want. The Christian walk can be very difficult at times, and the things we find ourselves wanting, can clash with our own personal values, the Word of God, our consciences, and can work against our desire to know God and to honour Him with our life and actions. God is pin pointing this subject of what it is that I want.
When it comes to the flesh, it wants what it wants to satisfy our base desires and these wants are defined by what it is we think we need to meet our own needs and what has worked in the past to comfort, to ease us from the pain - but they have never worked in the long run, and have only been temporary, like the sacrifices under the Old Covenant, they appease only for a time, and really only cover up a problem, they bring no real permanent resolution.
As a young Christian we still rely on many of these mechanisms, but as we become more intimate, and grow closer to God, the very things that have brought us comfort and peace become the things that separate us from Him and His true comfort, and as we come to know His holiness and we learn why it is we do the things we do, and the shame that binds us because of the compromise we make in doing them, the very real battle of Romans, “I do that which I don’t want to do” becomes very real and we see the dual natures within us warring over what it is we want. And I think that even the fleshly wants are really just us trying to get what God wants us to have – only our way, not His. We want peace, we want healing, we want the comfort of knowing we are loved, but it’s not our way that will cause us to obtain it, but coming into God’s Way.
We learn obedience through the things we suffer – it can take a long time to realise that what we think we want is not really what we want at all, and that it harms us instead of doing us good, and what we really want is what God wants for us - and He is making a way for us to enter in. He is teaching us to receive from Him, freely, instead of trying to obtain what He has by our own efforts. Jesus is the door we must come through, not some other way.
That other way might be sexual interaction – to feel loved or accepted, or it might be self harm just so we can feel. But God is liberating us into His Will, by showing us what these things really are, and showing us the truth and how He intended things to be, the way He designed them, so that we can come into true acceptance, true identity, true worth. The Truth really does set us free.
It’s amazing when we find out that we don’t need these inferior crutches to find the peace we need, that the gift of God is freely given in Christ – and it does take time to realise this in a way that we can really walk in it. But this is the time we are in, where God is liberating those that truly want Him. Because He’s always known what it is that we want, what it is that truly satisfies, when we thought we have known. He knows what we have lost, what we have gone through, why we have tried to cope in various ways, and He is the answer. And He is drawing us up, and drawing us out, of the mire, out of the quicksand of our lives into the glorious liberation, the freedom of the sons of God into our inheritance.
We were never meant to be slaves, but we were meant to serve, He uses everything for good. The amount of treasure that He will extract from our hardships and our darkest hours will be amazing and it will furnish the very Temple of God. There is no one like God. He has wrought a work like no other. He is the True Victor, and He conquers like no other.
So He has put His finger on this subject of want. And He says, “I know what you want, and I know what you truly need.” And honouring our free will completely, He answers the deepest cries, and longings of our hearts, and although we might not know what it is we need at times, and we look in places where there truly is no help, trying to find a way, crawling in the dark on our hands and knees, He hears our cries, and the utterances that are not heard by any other ear – He can interpret the cries of our heart! – and attends to our need. He is the author and finisher and He is a good God – how GREAT IS OUR GOD!
God is very interested in what we want. The Christian walk can be very difficult at times, and the things we find ourselves wanting, can clash with our own personal values, the Word of God, our consciences, and can work against our desire to know God and to honour Him with our life and actions. God is pin pointing this subject of what it is that I want.
When it comes to the flesh, it wants what it wants to satisfy our base desires and these wants are defined by what it is we think we need to meet our own needs and what has worked in the past to comfort, to ease us from the pain - but they have never worked in the long run, and have only been temporary, like the sacrifices under the Old Covenant, they appease only for a time, and really only cover up a problem, they bring no real permanent resolution.
As a young Christian we still rely on many of these mechanisms, but as we become more intimate, and grow closer to God, the very things that have brought us comfort and peace become the things that separate us from Him and His true comfort, and as we come to know His holiness and we learn why it is we do the things we do, and the shame that binds us because of the compromise we make in doing them, the very real battle of Romans, “I do that which I don’t want to do” becomes very real and we see the dual natures within us warring over what it is we want. And I think that even the fleshly wants are really just us trying to get what God wants us to have – only our way, not His. We want peace, we want healing, we want the comfort of knowing we are loved, but it’s not our way that will cause us to obtain it, but coming into God’s Way.
We learn obedience through the things we suffer – it can take a long time to realise that what we think we want is not really what we want at all, and that it harms us instead of doing us good, and what we really want is what God wants for us - and He is making a way for us to enter in. He is teaching us to receive from Him, freely, instead of trying to obtain what He has by our own efforts. Jesus is the door we must come through, not some other way.
That other way might be sexual interaction – to feel loved or accepted, or it might be self harm just so we can feel. But God is liberating us into His Will, by showing us what these things really are, and showing us the truth and how He intended things to be, the way He designed them, so that we can come into true acceptance, true identity, true worth. The Truth really does set us free.
It’s amazing when we find out that we don’t need these inferior crutches to find the peace we need, that the gift of God is freely given in Christ – and it does take time to realise this in a way that we can really walk in it. But this is the time we are in, where God is liberating those that truly want Him. Because He’s always known what it is that we want, what it is that truly satisfies, when we thought we have known. He knows what we have lost, what we have gone through, why we have tried to cope in various ways, and He is the answer. And He is drawing us up, and drawing us out, of the mire, out of the quicksand of our lives into the glorious liberation, the freedom of the sons of God into our inheritance.
We were never meant to be slaves, but we were meant to serve, He uses everything for good. The amount of treasure that He will extract from our hardships and our darkest hours will be amazing and it will furnish the very Temple of God. There is no one like God. He has wrought a work like no other. He is the True Victor, and He conquers like no other.
So He has put His finger on this subject of want. And He says, “I know what you want, and I know what you truly need.” And honouring our free will completely, He answers the deepest cries, and longings of our hearts, and although we might not know what it is we need at times, and we look in places where there truly is no help, trying to find a way, crawling in the dark on our hands and knees, He hears our cries, and the utterances that are not heard by any other ear – He can interpret the cries of our heart! – and attends to our need. He is the author and finisher and He is a good God – how GREAT IS OUR GOD!
We Are In A Time Like Never Before In History
by Tony Clark
We are in a time like never before in history. There is much in the world that calls itself Christianity, and there is such variation that the onlooker would surely think, “How can I know what is true!” My God! It makes it obvious to me that the Word of God can only be revealed to us by His Spirit, and that man has interpreted based on his own pre-conceived ideas and premises. When God moves in the earth, truth is established, His ways are seen and when man makes assumptions beyond what He is doing, men fall into error, and the false enters. God is doing so much good, but man has always been frail, and weak and without God we are lost and have no way of finding truth. So God moves in the midst of the miry clay, His pure and perfect Spirit in the midst of lifeless clay.
It takes discernment to see what God is doing, and it takes discernment to see where God ends and man begins, what is God and what is not. There is an unprecedented mix in the body of Christ today. There is a unity in the Spirit (What God is doing) but there is SO much division in the flesh (What man is doing).
I believe we are on the brink of the most massive move of God upon the earth that has ever been witnessed, and it’s going to be world-wide. The work that God has been doing behind the scenes (in the unseen realm) will come to the surface and be seen in the natural realm. And religious mindsets, and systems will go into panic and great fear will be felt by those who adhere to them - because it means an end to these systems, they have been found wanting, and they are not pleasing to God.
I feel like this is an eagle view of what God is doing, and on the ground there is much more detail and specifics as to how it will all play out and what it will look like to the individual. It may take years for final events to play out, but we are definitely in the times of the end, these are final things that are taking place.
It would make sense that the end time church, would be Holy and unspotted by the world, and that it would be glorious – after all God is its maker. The end time church will not be full of man-made systems, and it will be free of all idols. The church at present does not look like this, but is filled with idolatry and she is unfaithful in so many ways. But God is in control, and His work is sure, and His plan is perfect. God is not moved, because He sees the beginning from the end. He is not moved (from a place of perfect peace, to fear) by our circumstance. He has got it in hand. The wisdom of God is unparalleled.
We are in a time like never before in history. There is much in the world that calls itself Christianity, and there is such variation that the onlooker would surely think, “How can I know what is true!” My God! It makes it obvious to me that the Word of God can only be revealed to us by His Spirit, and that man has interpreted based on his own pre-conceived ideas and premises. When God moves in the earth, truth is established, His ways are seen and when man makes assumptions beyond what He is doing, men fall into error, and the false enters. God is doing so much good, but man has always been frail, and weak and without God we are lost and have no way of finding truth. So God moves in the midst of the miry clay, His pure and perfect Spirit in the midst of lifeless clay.
It takes discernment to see what God is doing, and it takes discernment to see where God ends and man begins, what is God and what is not. There is an unprecedented mix in the body of Christ today. There is a unity in the Spirit (What God is doing) but there is SO much division in the flesh (What man is doing).
I believe we are on the brink of the most massive move of God upon the earth that has ever been witnessed, and it’s going to be world-wide. The work that God has been doing behind the scenes (in the unseen realm) will come to the surface and be seen in the natural realm. And religious mindsets, and systems will go into panic and great fear will be felt by those who adhere to them - because it means an end to these systems, they have been found wanting, and they are not pleasing to God.
I feel like this is an eagle view of what God is doing, and on the ground there is much more detail and specifics as to how it will all play out and what it will look like to the individual. It may take years for final events to play out, but we are definitely in the times of the end, these are final things that are taking place.
It would make sense that the end time church, would be Holy and unspotted by the world, and that it would be glorious – after all God is its maker. The end time church will not be full of man-made systems, and it will be free of all idols. The church at present does not look like this, but is filled with idolatry and she is unfaithful in so many ways. But God is in control, and His work is sure, and His plan is perfect. God is not moved, because He sees the beginning from the end. He is not moved (from a place of perfect peace, to fear) by our circumstance. He has got it in hand. The wisdom of God is unparalleled.
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