The
first thing that I would do is challenge your concept of
what church is. Church is a group of believers anywhere,
any time, any place on this planet. The first church
started after the resurrection of Christ and it consisted
of a group of people in any location whether it was the
Upper Room or the well or the street or the side of a hill
or the marketplace. It was Christians gathering together.
What is a church, but a gathering of many little
ministries. A corporate church is the gathering of
individual ministry and that is what forms a major church,
but the individual ministries go on and on and on until
the day that you stop breathing.
So, while yes, you must have a
vision of what you consider to be a corporate church,
never, never loose sight of the individual ministry that
you possess, because every little stream makes up the big
church as you call it. But individual ministry goes on and
on and on despite what happens with any group, any
denomination, any nation. Your Elijah ministry, your
Deborah ministry, your calling before God never ceases. No
matter what happens to a group you may be in or out with.
Your individual calling goes from the time you get up in
the morning ‘til you lay your head down at night! Even
in your dream life your calling goes on.
So while you can be concerned
about a nation, a denomination, a particular church or
group that is fine. But you do need to take your focus off
that and realize that you have an individual powerful
anointing, mantle and calling before the Almighty that
nothing or anyone can stop. You may be woven out of many
different groups. That’s fine. But your calling is what
matters. Do not forsake your calling when (a) your nation
is in trouble or (b) your church is in trouble. That does
not affect your call.
Unless I have specifically
rebuked you for disobedience, it actually is none of your
concern. Your concern is to everyday get up and if you
feel like singing, then you sing to God. The birds sing to
God whether there are hurricanes coming or not. They
don’t care what happens in the Bahamas. They don’t
care what happens off the coast of Africa. They don’t
care what the weather is like anywhere else in the nation.
When they rise in the morning, they lift their voices to
God and they sing.
So it is with you. You have an
individual calling before me and I want to hear you sing
to me, even in the roughest of hurricane seasons. When
things are seemingly going out of kilter in political
areas or in church areas or in other areas, that should
not and does not affect you.
Zero in on who you are before God
and what you are. If you are an Elijah then there are
times you are going to be brought before the king. And
everybody’s going to be buzzing and talking about you
and saying, “Why aren’t you in the ministry and where
are you and why aren’t you on the frontlines and why
aren’t you confronting Jezebel?” It’s because
I’ve pulled you aside to commune with you in a cave and
teach you. I have Jehu ready to nail Jezebel; I don’t
need you. I need you at times to shut up and draw aside
with me and humble yourself and learn lessons. Don’t
worry about other people’s callings. Fulfill that
individual call that’s in each one of your hearts and
you will be on time and be where you’re supposed to be
when you’re supposed to be.
It’s not that you have an “I
don’t care what happens to anyone else attitude.” You
do care, but there’s nothing you can do about it. What
can you do about the storms off the coast of Africa? What
can you do about the politics of Europe? The only thing
that you can effectively do is be on your knees communing
with me and being in my perfect will for you. That’s the
best thing you can do, because then there are times when I
can flow through you and give a word or direct something
to help a situation.
But unless I place you into the
key pivotal authority position over a church, over a
nation, over a situation, you cannot affect it. What you
can affect and what you can change is your own walk and
obedience with me – that you have power over. You have
power over your own house. You can tell your children to
come and go. You can tell your husband to do this or that.
You can affect what happens in your own home. You have
authority over that home. No one has the right to come
into your home and demand that you do the dishes at a
certain time. That’s been given to you. That’s your
authority sphere. Within your own realm of authority you
have power over things, but once you walk outside of that
and it has not been given you authority to you to control,
there’s not much that you can do.
So you’ve got to be able to let
things go. You’ve got to be able to let people rise or
fall according to the choices they have made, because you
will rise or fall according to the choices that you make.
If you choose not to do your dishes, if you choose not to
take out your garbage, your house will stink and it will
be your fault – not your neighbor's, not somebody
else’s. You have authority. You have responsibility.
That’s your job.
You can’t be held accountable
for your next-door neighbor’s house and what condition
it is in. It is not your responsibility. So it is with
many things. You’re not held accountable for the
condition of certain situations. It’s not within your
hand, so relax. You’re only held accountable for that,
which I put you in authority over. You are accountable to
stay up with me, current and you can get up everyday and
be happy.
There is such misery in this
world. Everyday people are dying. Everyday people are
sick. There are people rejoicing and people passing away
everyday. Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with
those who weep. But it’s O.K. to have a bubbly joyous
spirit even when there is calamity around you. If it’s
not your personal calamity and you didn’t cause it, then
you have nothing to do with it.
Rejoice, I say and again learn to
rejoice through the calamities and trials that hit this
planet and come upon situations, because that is your
strength. The joy of the Lord is your strength. If you
have not disobeyed me, if you have not neglected your
duties, then you have every full right to get up in the
morning and rejoice even as the birds of the air do.
You cannot change things.
You’ve not been given authority. That’s why those who
have been given authority are held incredibly into high
account, because what they do affects literally thousands
of people around them. They’re given great honor, but
they’re also given great responsibility. So be not many
teachers knowing that you shall receive greater
condemnation and correction.
Take out your own garbage. Do
your dishes and be thankful that your authority sphere
protects you even from great judgments that fall. Moses
hit the rock and missed the Promised Land. Be thankful
that you’re not in charge of millions of people. Be
thankful that hundreds of millions of dollars are not
under your leadership realm and that you are to give an
account for it.
You know, all you have to do is
give an account for what I’ve given you and I said I
would not overload you. It’s an easy thing. You can give
an account for what I’ve given you. I haven’t
overloaded you. If you’re overloaded, it came from
somebody else; it did not come from me and I tell you,
throw those burdens off your shoulders. They are not
yours. I did not burden you down so low that you
cannot walk. I did not put things on you that you can’t
carry. You put them on yourself or you let other people
put their problems on you so they could go fishing - so
that they can go fishing! And then you bear their burdens
and their responsibilities and their problems.
What nonsense, saith the Lord.
I’ll poke a hole in their boat and they’ll drown out
in that lake for their laziness and their slothfulness and
their abuse of what I’ve given them. I’m about to sink
some boats and there’s nothing that you can do to stop
it, so wake up! Smell the coffee, saith the Lord.
Enjoy your life. Have a good day.
Rejoice in your Lord. You’ve not failed under your
authority sphere. You’ve kept your house clean. You’ve
taken your garbage out. You’ve done your dishes.
You’ve taken care of your children and your
responsibilities. Why do you have such a long face? Others
have neglected their duties and they will pay the price
for it.
I’m an equal opportunity
employer. I’m fair, saith God; I’m fair. I will not
allow you to judge those that I’ve placed in certain
places, but that does not mean that I will not judge them
if their correction is not swift and sure. Just as it is
with you, your children are not allowed to rise up and
spank or bring correction upon you, but correction does
come from many forms. It’s there; it’s there.
I am not unfair
and I am not unfair even to those that I correct. I give
them space. I give them season. I give them time to repent
over and over and over. I delay my judgment even upon you
and your house; I delay my judgment. I do not judge you
every time you make a mistake, but I do send you a lot of
correction. So I do with everyone in every position. They
are given chance after chance after chance to change, to
repent, to think, to mend their ways and then eventually
when nothing will turn them, then correction comes. That
is how the mechanics of the Kingdom of God work.
But get excited about what you’re individually called to
because my burden’s easy; my yoke is light and you can
do it. And throw off the burdens of other people. They are
not yours. I don’t require you to take care of ten
households while other people go fishing, and you go clean
their house. What nonsense. Let each one clean their own
house. You’re not a slave. I didn’t make you a
slave. I didn’t put you in bondage and chains and demand
that you work your whole life for someone else. I made you
lord of the creation. I made you free. You have but one
Father in heaven. Call no man on earth “father” –
one Lord, one baptism.
I’ve given you freedom in the
Holy Ghost. Stand up for your freedom. Don’t allow
people to enslave you, to make you lords of their manor,
to cause you to serve while they drink lemonade and play
croquet. I say, “No.” You are free; you are free to
serve me.
And my field is vast. It’s
worldwide. I can plug you in anywhere, anytime I choose.
Start looking up and let your radar scan the sky. Begin to
talk to God about some things. Begin to ask God, “Hmm…
what can I do for you, God? What else do you have
available? Is there something else that I can do for you
that might even be fun?”
Ah, my burden is easy; my yoke is
light. My burden is easy; my yoke is light. My burden is
easy; my yoke is light. My burden is easy; my yoke is
light – mine is. Other people’s burdens are iron yokes
of depression and oppression and huge bondages. If you
find yourself in a yoke that is not easy, that is not
light, cast it off, saith the Lord.
Come back to me and say, “Lord,
is there some place where I’ve allowed myself to be
ensnared here and that I really shouldn’t be in or
belong?” And if you’ll ask in sincerity, I’ll show
you what to do. I’ll show you. I’ll show you how to
gracefully get out of things. I’ll show you how to break
contracts that you got yourself into that I never asked
you to and now you can’t get out because (a) it’d be
socially embarrassing and (b) it would look like you’re
a traitor or (c) you’re so hooked into it you don’t
know how to function without it.
But I’ll show you how to get
out of these contracts. I’ll show you how to break free,
saith God. I’ll give you the wisdom I gave Solomon.
There’ll be a solution to this that no one had thought
of even, to free you from even the self imposed trap
you’ve walked into – the times you committed yourself
when you shouldn’t have. That’s ok. It’s how you
learn, but go back to the premise of your own house, of
your own responsibilities and the freedom that I’m
allowing each believer to have.
I don’t want you weighed down.
I even said, "...as the birds of the air ... as the
lilies of the field..." I take care of them. I
desire to array you, to take care of you as the birds are
taken care of that you could get up and simply trust me
and have a good life. It’s actually that simple.
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