The Pursuer is the Possessor

'When the Pursuer awakens the Possessor rises and Recovery is born

I Samuel 30:8 'Pursue, for you shall surely overtake your enemies and without fail, you shall recover all'                                                                                                                                In the ashes of your meltdown God has appointed your turnaround. I Samuel 30 gives the account of David and his men returning from a business trip to find that their city had been sacked and burned to the ground.  Their families and their possessions had been taken captive and were missing.  In that moment David was literally standing in the ashes of what used to be. Can you relate to 'standing in the ashes of what used to be'? When David and his men arrived at Ziklag to discover it burned with fire and their families taken captive they wept until quote 'they had no more power to weep'.  Translation: they had exceeded their breaking point and were paralyzed in the chaos of exhaustion. Out of the ashes of great despair a chaos ensued that caused a break down of confidence in David's leadership. The men that knew David best, who understood his battlefield prowess and who had staked their lives on the prophetic promise that he would become king now spoke openly of killing him. This level of accusation and attack took David to a place of soul suffering that intensified the pain he was already experiencing.  In that moment he was 'excessively squeezed'.  Not only had he lost his family but now he had lost his support system.  Chaos reigned in the ashes of an unexpected meltdown. Can I be real for a minute?  The truth is, we're all like David.  No matter our destiny, gifting, prophetic promises or our resume' of success, each of us has a breaking point.  All it takes is the right enemy hitting us in the right place at the right time and it shatters us. Newsflash: You're susceptible to being breakable! One of the first casualties of transition is Confidence in your Sense of Being. Isn't it interesting that when David and his men were processing the chaos of their meltdown that they lost their sense of identity?  In essence, the 'ashes of what used to be' obscured their identity. These men were hardened warriors, battlefield geniuses.  They were entrepreneurs who had built a successful business providing personal security for wealthy men in the badlands of southern Judah.  They were possessors by nature and they had the resumes to prove it. Most importantly, they were survivors.  They had successfully survived the relentless attempts of King Saul to find and kill David.  Your enemy wants to create a disconnect between your prophetic identity and your present reality. Your enemy wants to so overwhelm you with negative emotions that you forget who God built you to be.  He wants to shatter your confidence.  He seeks to break your focus and to paralyze you with grief over all that's gone wrong so that you don't have the capacity to move forward. Make no mistake, you're enemy knows you've got what it takes to emerge from your meltdown in a posture of victory and success.  That's why he hits you so mercilessly, so relentlessly, so overwhelmingly.  In spite of your meltdown, you were built to bounce back.   The good news is that God will not leave you broken.  While ashes surrounded David's life and his soul was excessively squeezed by the chaos that sought to consume him, God had recovery on His mind. I Samuel 30:8 was God's assurance to David that the Amelekite victory over Ziklag would be reversed and that David would prevail if he pursued his enemy.  In the middle of his meltdown this prophetic promise gave David confidence that God would give him a turnaround. I've got good news: you're coming out of the chaos that has sought to consume you! In recovery you discover a renewed sense of Courage, Confidence and Conviction. In the midst of the emotional desolation David was experiencing, God awakened the anointing of recovery deep within David's spirit and he began to bounce back.  God supernaturally broke David's soul paralysis and romanced the pursuer in David with the promise of recovery. Suddenly, David began to act like the 'king' (his prophetic identity, not his present reality) he was, not the beaten man he had become.  This is a critical point.  In seasons of great warfare the temptation is to become so spiritual that we miss the simplicity of faith.  What God wants and needs from us is to believe Him in spite of the meltdown, then to base our behavior on that belief.  He will not place more on you than you can bear.  He's not after great sacrifice, He's after great faith. The result for David was that he experienced a supernatural recovery of his courage, confidence and conviction, all of which had become casualties of his meltdown.  Within a few moments, David recovered his capacity to pursue like the possessor he was and he shifted the atmosphere in the ashes completely in his favor.  He rallied his men, broke them out of their soul paralysis and forecasted a vision of recovery that completely empowered his men to come back also.  David recovered his sense of credibility (prophetically, relationally and politically) as God built him back and focused him on pursuing recovery. In a Kingdom sense, 'recovery' is a 'restoration that leaves nothing broken'. I'm writing today to provoke the pursuer in you! I firmly believe this is the direction that the Holy Spirit wants us centered and focused on.  God has recovery on his mind and He's provoking His kings to rise up and pursue the impossible dreams, desires and drives that He's placed in us. As I wrap up this word I want to leave you with several action steps that you need to take to realize the recovery that awaits you.  Remember, God's got your recovery on His mind.  He wants to partner with you to create miraculous outcomes in the scenarios you're facing.    Embrace your Prophetic Identity not your present reality Believe your time is NOW and build everything around that belief Focus on your turnaround, not on your meltdown Boldly pursue the things God is speaking into your spirit knowing that He's your partner in the pursuit process Don't be afraid to step out in faith.  Embrace the fact that God knows where your 'stuff' is and that He's orchestrating your steps to be in the right place at the right time    Refuse to allow your enemy to intimidate you into remaining 'where' you are    Refuse to be defeated by a fear of failure Allow yourself to dream again Allow the Holy Spirit to romance your hear and mind with the rewards of faith's pursuit, then go after them   Lastly, I want to remind you that the DNA of a possessor is resident within you.  You come from a long line of prolific pursuers.  You possess the DNA of an overcomer.    Embrace the fact that you were built to bounce back and to break through.  No matter where your enemy's hiding, he cannot keep what belongs to you.   Relentlessly pursue the things God has placed in your spirit, moving forward in courage, confidence and conviction.  You are not alone.  The God of Heaven has decreed victory over your life.  The only way you lose is if you refuse to pursue

Every assignment has an enemy.  Every anointing has an adversary.  Every dream attracts  detractors who seek to devour it. 

Your destroyer will not prevail against you.  The unholy alliances that have aligned against your destiny will not stand.  The arm of the Lord is warring against your adversary and victory is in the NOW. 

 

Your partner on the journey, 

Bishop Howard L. Bass

Transition & The Emergent Joseph Company

Many of you have been in a season of turbulence.  Be encouraged:  God's up to something strategic in your chaos.

You don't need me to tell you these are challenging times in the earth.  We've entered a period of volatility, uncertainty and shaking among the nations.  There is great anxiety among the masses as tremendous difficulties continue arising from every corner of the globe.  Economies are struggling, wars are raging and natural disasters are plastered all over the headlines.  It seems there's been an eruption of sorts that has released a wave of upheaval in a way that our generation hasn't seen.

I feel it important for us not to attach prophetic meaning to every natural disaster or conflict that comes across our TV screens and web pages.  Many in charismatic & prophetic circles assign prophetic meaning to every event that happens and some have erred because of this.  When we overstate natural events we become like the boy who cried wolf until people tune us out.  What good is legitimately having something to say if no one wants to listen to us anymore?

Not every event has prophetic significance.  In times of crisis it's important to release what God is saying.  It's equally important not to sign His Name to every thought or opinion we have.  I believe there is great need in the Body of Christ at this time for maturity, balance, wisdom and prophetic caution.

Since Adam fell the earth has groaned in pain, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.  While natural disasters can have prophetic importance, most often they are simply the result of the earth's groaning in it's fallen state.  It's important as believers that we have a well-balanced theology and world view.  We must avoid extremism and resist attaching a 'thus saith the Lord' to everything that happens in the earth. 

To be heard in the marketplace of ideas we must possess credibility with our audience.  To possess that credibility we must earn the right to be heard.  The wisdom of God must rule the day if we are to reign effectively as sons & daughters of God in secular realms.

The aforementioned being said, it does seem that we've crossed a threshold where the nations are entering a Time of Transition.  While I'm not referring to any singular recent event I do believe that the volatility we see on multiple levels in the earth is evidence that we've entered a time of global transition that has Kingdom ramifications.

On a Kingdom level, many have already been in deep transition for some time. 

Interestingly, Joseph is the paradigm for this.  Joseph entered his time of transition long before his family or the nations did.  Simply stated, he was a prophetic forerunner for the coming moves of God amongst the nations.  In other words, there was a divine set-up in Joseph's storm.

Joseph spent time in deep transition so God could strategically position him to lead Egypt and the surrounding nations through their time of transition that was coming in the form of famine.

My point is that God always has prophetic forerunners that He processes in preparation for what's coming among the nations. 

I believe the transitions that many in the Kingdom have been enduring have prophetic & strategic significance in the times and seasons of God.  I also believe we're beginning to see the nations enter their time of transition.  As such, this will present tremendous opportunities to advance the Kingdom. 

I believe there is an emergent Joseph Company that has been transitioned in darkness, processed through brokenness and prepared via uncommon sufferings.

This Joseph Company is being strategically positioned by the mastery of the Holy Spirit to affect Kingdom outcomes in a multitude of marketplaces, both in the Kingdom and in the secular arena.

Let me be up front.  I am not a doom and gloom prophet.  God gave us a Dominion Mandate and the transitions many have been through are preparation for deeper levels of anointing, greater dimensions of influence and higher-quality mantles.

Transition and Increased Influence

Real authority lies in the ability to influence outcomes.  If you look a the Joseph Model you see that in every season of transition, God increased Joseph's influence.  Influence is what authority really is.  As the nations enter a time of transition, this Joseph Company is going to operate in an unprecedented level of divine influence that will create the victories God has purposed to affect.
 

Let me be clear: there are staggering victories that God has appointed for His people. 

With Joseph you'll recall that as the nations entered their time of transition, Joseph exited his time of transition and stepped into his time of promotion.  This is a model for us.  There is a prophetic shift that is coming.  There's a 'lift' in the 'shift' and God's bringing His forerunners out of their prisons, wildernesses and caves to strategically set them in times of promotion and places of influence.

For those of you who have been in deep transitions, be encouraged.  There are new mantles coming upon many in this season.  I'm not just referring to ministry mantles, although this is inclusive of that.  I'm also referring to marketplace mantles of influence.  God's setting-up 'marketplace moves' where He'll work through His Joseph Company to intersect a world in transition that is receptive to the wisdom and the prophetic perceptions of God.

Please hear me when I tell you that promotion is coming to many in this season.

Joseph's promotion was in direct connection to the shaking of transition that God was sending amongst the nations.  I have every confidence that the season of transition we've been in in the Kingdom has everything to do with what God is setting up to do in the 'marketplace of the nations'.

Over the past couple of years the Lord has made it clear to me that one of the assignments that He's set upon my life is to speak prophetically to the Body of Christ regarding the Kingdom dynamics of transition.  It's become evident to me that part of my leadership DNA lies in the realm of of leading others who are in transition. 

Interestingly, most of you are connected with me because of experiencing transition yourself.  Through the process, God has orchestrated the steps of our journeys to intersect us and bring us across each others' paths.  As such, it is my prayer that this ministry is having a deep impact in your life as your process through your transitions.

Much like Joseph's steps being orchestrated by the Holy Spirit to end up in Potiphar's house and to connect with the butler in prison, so has He ordered our steps.  We've connected with each other in the various stages of our individual and corporate transitions by the divine designs of the Master. 

Trust me when I tell you that He's a Master Strategist & Tactician.  There's a divine blueprint to the times & seasons of your life, especially and including the transitions you've been in.

It is my sincere desire that this ministry is an ongoing source of encouragement, strength, impartation and prophetic insight for you.  My greatest passion is to bring you the wisdom of God that it might become a critical weapon in your hands as you press your way through the seasons of your life.

Be encouraged today my fellow warrior.  God never leaves a Joseph bound in his prison: there's a palace assignment on your life

Transition, Hard Heavens & The Rainmaker

As we continue to 'shed the skin of an old season' many exciting truths are emerging. 

I want to share some things with you that I think will stimulate your prophetic self and provoke your faith on multiple levels. 

Today I want to focus on battling Hard Heavens and the moves of the Rainmaker.
 

The Dawning of New Era's are preceded by Hard Heavens

Many of God's people have been an intense time of battling 'Hard Heavens'.  Contrary winds and Hard Heavens are partners in the transition process.  If you've walked through any level of transition at all then you understand what I'm talking about.

Consider the results of Hard Heavens:

• Hard Heavens create Extreme Seasons of harsh difficulties

• Hard Heavens produce stiff winds of opposition & resistance

• Hard Heavens create sterile environments that are hostile to the fulfillment of desires, dreams and drives

• Hard Heavens birth famine & drought 

• Hard Heavens produce harsh 'earthly' outcomes 

'Earthly' in both the external conditions created by the lack of rain (a type of favor, blessing and resource) and the internal 'earth' of one's thoughts, feelings, emotions and stress points.  One of the byproducts of a Hard Heaven is harsh mental & emotional stress.

                      

Hard Heavens and the moves of the Rainmaker

The quintessential Hard Heaven is found in I Kings 19.  You'll recall that God had closed Israel's heavens and for 3 1/2 years there was no moisture in Israel. The season was so harsh that there wasn't enough moisture to produce a drop of dew on a single blade of grass.  Israel's heaven closed up and their 'earth' became hard.  Drought ensued.  Famine set in. Hard Heavens produce harsh climates.

A 'Prophetic Pattern' is the dominant spiritual climate that governs the times & seasons of your life

Most importantly, while Israel was under the prophetic pattern of a hard heaven, the prophet Elijah entered a time of transition.  It's essential to see that Elijah was under a Transition Pattern while Israel was under a Hard Heaven Pattern.  In this we see the pattern of personal transition accompanying, indeed result from a Hard Heaven. 

Hard Heavens and Transition are partners in the overall process of destiny fulfillment.

It's important to recognize that God kept Elijah in the transition. God provided for Elijah in transition.  He had to endure the harshness of the Hard Heaven but God orchestrated his steps, outcomes and provision in every stage of transition.  At every moment God strategically positioned Elijah where he was supposed to be. 

I state this because when you're battling Hard Heavens in times of Transition it's easy to feel ineffective, insecure and out of synch. Rest assured, those thoughts and feelings are stress related responses to the chaos and lack of clarity that you have in transition. 

An interesting fact about a snake that's shedding it's skin: it goes blind for a few days while it's shedding the skin of it's last season and totally loses it's ability to see anything!

Elijah is a type of a Rainmaker

A rainmaker is defined as someone whose 'influence initiates progress and ensures success'   

There is a Heavenly Rainmaker and there are earthly Rainmakers. In the marketplace, a rainmaker is someone who possesses the ability to create success and bring in new business.   

In the Kingdom, a rainmaker is someone who battles hard heavens in times of transition and emerges from the process mantled to release the success of heaven into earthly environments.   

Rainmakers birth the release of miracle moments.  Rainmakers are human conduits to the heavenly Authority, Voice and resources that shift the dynamics on the ground.

• In Transition God qualifies you to become a Rainmaker!

When God shifted Israel's Hard Heavens pattern, the Heavenly Rainmaker sent His earthly Rainmaker (Elijah) to release into Israel's natural atmosphere the miracles God had appointed that were waiting the heavens, desiring to emerge for them.

   

You'll recall that Elijah declared there to be 'the sound of an abundance of rain', then positioned himself in a posture of intercession at the summit of Mt. Carmel until the natural atmosphere reflected that the pattern of Israel's Hard Heaven had been broken.   

You know the rest.  In the space of a few minutes, the heavens were filled with clouds and wind and there was a great rain.   

      

Not only was Elijah Israel's national Rainmaker but he was also Elisha's personal Rainmaker.  He was the one God had appointed and assigned to 'rain' on Elisha's destiny, to activate the dormant DNA and dreams that were resident in Elisha's life.   

It was not until God sent Elijah the Rainmaker to Elisha plowing in the field that Elisha's destiny, dreams and DNA awakened within him.  Elijah walked in a dimension of divine influence that was directly linked to the future Elisha carried within him but did not know God had purposed for him.    

Rainmakers carry the prophetic influence to unlock the gifting, assignment and destiny DNA that God has deposited within you.  Their presence in your life releases things in you that you were never aware of.  In reality, their presence releases His Presence in new dimensions in your life and new seasons of forward movement are born from the experience  

• Recognize the Rainmakers God's assigned to you and pursue them with relentless perseverance

Rainmakers and the Perseverance Factor

To close this word I want to shift from the Elijah Model of Hard Heavens and Transition to the Elisha Model of Hard Heavens and Transition.  Just as Elijah endured personal transition and battled a hard heaven, so did Elisha in order to get his hands on the mantle he'd been dreaming of.

In 2 Kings 2, when God was shifting Israel from the Elijah Era to the Elisha Era, Elisha had to endure a significant transition cycle of resistance, opposition and Hard Heavens.   

In order to possess his destiny and dream (the double portion of Elijah's spirit) Elisha had to press through repeated resistance and opposition from his personal Rainmaker when Elijah repeatedly, vehemently opposed him in Gilgal, Bethel and Jericho.  Each of those cities represented a dynamic spiritual season of victory and breakthrough, yet because Elisha was in the transition of shedding the skin of his old season, he could not experience the blessings those seasons represented.

Instead, he kept encountering repeated resistance from his Rainmaker and opposition by the other prophets who were located in these cities.  This is a type of a Hard Heaven and weird warfare.  It's one thing when your competition opposes you but how do you handle it when your 'Rainmaker' opposes and resists you? 

• Resistance from your Rainmaker is evidence that you're transitioning through a Hard Heaven 

Elisha's response was powerful in that he kept speaking what was in him and continued walking it out no matter what he endured in the transition process.

When they got to Jordan, everything changed.  They crossed over Jordan after Elijah parted the waters with his mantle.  Once they were on the other side of Jordan, everything changed for Elisha.  His atmosphere, experiences and dynamics were completely different from those he'd just endured in the repetitive transitions and Hard Heavens from Gilgal to Jericho.

• Jordan is the place of a Positive Shift

• Jordan is the place of your 'Finally'!

• Jordan is the place where you step out of the jurisdiction of old prophetic patterns 

Suddenly, Elisha's Rainmaker stopped resisting him. Instead of opposition, he discovered:  

• A prophetic audience that was in synch with Heaven's intentions
• A new dimension of dream hospitality  
• A Rainmaker's attention turned in his direction 
• An affirmation of his Right to Possess what he'd been Pursuing 

Elijah suddenly asked Elisha 'what can I do for you?'

Translation: Now that you've persevered through transition, you've broken the jurisdiction of your Hard Heaven, SO HOW CAN I MAKE IT RAIN FOR YOU? 

What a stark contrast.  The contrary winds of resistance ceased.  Elisha was comfortably distanced from his competition (the sons of the prophets in the cities) and he had an exclusive audience with his Rainmaker.  After 14 years of service, sacrifice and seed sowing, the Rainmaker wanted to know how the Sower wanted it to rain!

The key to it all lies in the prophetic revelation God gave Elisha about the experience he'd just been through.  When Elisha said he wanted a double portion of Elijah's spirit, Elijah said qoute 'you have asked a hard thing'.

The word 'hard' literally translates 'fierce, harsh, severe, extremely difficult'

The Heavenly Rainmaker was releasing a prophetic key to explain why Elisha had kept experiencing harsh opposition, fierce resistance and severe testing in the repetitive transitions from Gilgal to Jordan.  Elisha's Hard Heaven was in direct proportion to the scope of the future that was in him and the destiny that lay before him!

Never underestimate the Prowess in your Perseverance  There's an Interceding in your Persevering Recognize your Perseverance as a type of Intercession.  It's interesting that under the Elijah Era, effective intercession came in the form of Elijah's 'effective, fervent prayer posture (James 5:16-18) at Carmel's summit. In the Elisha Era however, effective intercession against the jurisdiction of Hard Heavens came in the from Elisha's relentless pursuit and perpetual perseverance as he kept walking in the direction of his destiny.  He persevered in the path that his Rainmaker had awakened in him years before.  The result was that his perseverance broke him through the hard heavens and positioned him in the place of destiny possession.      You must embrace the truth that your relentless pursuit & perpetual perseverance has an intense intercession element about it    When you're in transition battling hard heavens you may well feel inadequate and ineffective in your prayer realm.   The lack of heavenly response and the limited results you see work together to bring confusion and discouragement. The real truth is, while you're persevering through transition your walk becomes intercession.  Your enemy wants you to miss this because he needs you to underestimate the power of a relentless pursuit & and perpetual perseverance.    Interestingly, Jesus never taught His disciples spiritual warfare prayer.  He did teach them to relentlessly pursue and to perpetually persevere.    I point this out because your testimony, your authenticity and your authority don't come exclusively from your prayer closet: they come from your walk through times of Transition when you're battling Hard Heavens! When Abraham was entering the era when Isaac would be conceived, God showed up and told him 'walk before me...'  He didn't tell him 'pray to me'  but rather 'walk' because he was about to walk out of the transitions and hard heavens he'd been in straight into God's Promised era of fulfillment. There is something essential, dynamic and prophetic about your walk, your endurance, your relentless pursuit & your perpetual perseverance.   Real, effective intercession takes place when you walk out what's in you!  By no means am I mitigating the importance or place of your prayer life.  You know me better than that.  What I'm releasing to you is that He wants you to know how effective your relentless perseverance is, especially when it seems your prayers are blocked by Hard Heavens. Many of God's choice servants are enduring harsh seasons of discouragement, exhaustion and fatigue in direct proportion to the depths of their transitions and their hard heavens.  In the harshness of their warfare the enemy has sought to overwhelm them with feelings of inadequacy.    Like the snake, when you're shedding the skin of an old season, you can't see clearly.  Your enemy knows this, so he speaks against you in the language of discouragement and fatigue.  He's told you to quit.  He's told you that you're ineffective.  He's told you that your endurance, pursuits and perseverance are all a waste of time.  He's told you that God doesn't want you to have the things you're pursuing. He doesn't want you to know is that your perseverance demoralizes him!    You need to know that your walk is effective warfare!   You must keep walking because your perseverance is positioning you to be in the right place at the right time.  It doesn't matter that you can't see it or feel it.    If your perseverance wasn't working your enemy wouldn't be attacking it and resisting you.  Embrace the contradictions as confirmation that you're still headed in the right direction. Recognize that your relentlessness is having a greater impact than you've been able to perceive while you've been in transition. Every transition has an appointed conclusion and Hard Heavens always precede seasons of Divine abundance.   Your old season is losing it's grip on you! Believing for your success! Pastor Howard L. Bass The Destiny Center

 
 

 

Shedding the Skin of an Old Season

There is a 'right-now word' emerging from the heart of the Spirit, emanating from the Heaven of heavens and I felt it necessary to release it to you now. 

Somebody's life is shifting.  Somebody's world is changing.  Somebody's destiny is awakening at this very time.  Times and seasons are shifting and a company of people are coming out of their nightmare scenarios.

Earlier this evening the Spirit of the Lord spoke the following to me to:

'Tell My people that they are coming out of their caves.  They are coming out of their prisons.  They are coming out of their wildernesses.  They are entering 'the Time of their Rising'

They're being realigned, reassigned and repositioned out of their Nightmare Scenarios into their Dream States 

(Your 'Dream State' is the place you've dreamed of being but have been unable to access because of the warfare, opposition and transition cycles you've been stuck in.  It's the places God told you He would take you before all hell broke loose).

Tell them they are shedding the skin of an old season.   

The former things are passing away.  As I spoke to Moses and released him from his personal wilderness in Midian, I am awakening the warrior/leader in my people and sending them forth into new seasons and new assignments.   

I am breaking the patterns of the former things.  I am setting a new call upon the lives of many.  New things do I decree.

Tell them that they are indeed emerging from the shadows of their transitions and that they will walk in a dimension of My Light they have never known.   

Tell my people that their season of preparation and transition is ending'.  

As the Lord dealt with me tonight regarding the word I just shared with you, He has further emphasized several other things to me that I feel to share at this time.

First, this word is not for everyone.  Indeed, the Lord spoke to me that this word is exclusively for His 'Coming Out Company'

Over the past few years the Lord has shown me that there is a company of saints whose battles, seasons, and sorrows have been more intense than others.  These mighty warriors have been through staggering transitions, losses, and sorrows.

Subsequently, they've been in extreme seasons of isolation and abandonment.  They've been left alone to wrestle some big devils in dark shadows. They've been rejected, forgotten and disconnected.  They've warred against an unrelenting sense of hopelessness and despair. 

Be of good cheer: new oil is flowing out of old pain and these wounded warriors are being called to the forefront of a new season clothed in victory, opportunity and strength.  They're being armed by the Spirit in the garments of favor and success.  This 'Company's time' is changing!

Their warfare has been of a greater intensity than the normal battles we face.  Please hear me on this:  everything this Company has been through has been preparation for an unprecedented shift of the Holy Spirit. 

What's coming is not merely a revival in the former sense that we've known it.  The Spirit of God is raising up, authenticating, mantling and releasing a new breed of Kingdom leaders who will take their worlds by storm. 

There are significant apostolic mantles being possessed by these warriors in this season.   You're about to discover why your transitions have been so deep, so long, so intense and so unjust. 

Today, as the Lord spoke to about this Coming Out Company (that's what He called it) He gave me the following paradigms:

• Joseph coming out of prison to take possession in the Pharaoh's court
• Moses' release from his 40 years in Midian to lead Israel out of Egypt
• Elijah's emergence from the cave at Horeb & the devastating season of Jezebel's torment

There are two distinct common denominators with these three men that the Spirit of the Lord is emphasizing in this word:

• Deep, intense personal transitions
• Destiny Doors that only God can open

There is an emphasis in this season on Doors that Only God can Open!

Those of you for whom this is a right-now prophetic word, please hear me on this: God's orchestrating the opening of destiny doors on your behalf.  They are strategic, miraculous and will close out your transition season. 

The Holy Spirit wants you to know that He is opening doors that only He can open.  Your deliverance, recovery and repositioning will have His fingerprints all over the door knob. 

He's going to strategically reposition your steps in right places.  You're going to walk in an element of synchronicity with the Holy Spirit that you've never experienced.  It will be heavenly and the results will be anything unlike the results you've been experiencing.

Do not wrestle at this time: rest.  God alone can open the doors you need to walk through.  Avoid unnecessary warfare, He's warring on your behalf.  Listen intently to the Voice of the Spirit.  He will gently lead you into His paths of peace. 

Like Joseph emerging from prison, Moses emerging from the wilderness and Elijah emerging from the cave at Horeb, this Coming Out Company is emerging from their transitions mantled with new authority, clothed with a spirit of fearlessness and postured in a state of dominance.  You will dominate in this season!

This 'Coming Out Company' is emerging into the Time of their Rising.

The word 'emerge' means 'to rise to a position of prominence from a position of obscurity and inferiority'.  This is the move that the Spirit of God is making in this time. 

Be encouraged my brother, my sister, my fellow warrior.  Your labor is not in vain.  Your course in transition is over and you're indeed shedding the skin of an old season. 

It's Time!

Behind Closed Doors

'What God cultivated in your life in your last season He's using to elevate you in this season'

 2 Kings 4:1-7 gives the account of a widow who's husband (a prophet who'd served in Elisha's prophetic school) had died, leaving she and her two sons in crippling debt with her creditor coming to take her sons to be slaves as payment for the debt.

The Spirit of the Lord has been speaking to me on a prophetic level out of this passage and I'm convinced her story is a prophetic paradigm for many at this time.  As such, there are some truths that I feel impressed to share with you.

Let me begin with a strong word of encouragement.  Like the widow, many of God's people  have been in an extreme 'emptying season' where dreams, connections, revenue streams, and favor has died.  It seems every meaningful door in your life has been shut and you've discovered that, try as you might, you can't make the right doors open (if you can't relate to this you need to acknowledge how blessed you are, then take a minute to give God a shout for the sweet place you're in)

The result is that you're left in an empty and exhausted state without the resources to bring resolution to your crisis.  Indeed, it seems that chaos has become the order of your life. You've been crying out to God with little results, if any, to show for it.

2 Kings 4:1 'Now there cried a certain woman...'

 The word 'cried' implies that she'd been in a crying season but that something rose up within her to place a demand on that which yearned to emerge for her that she could not see and did not possess. 

A 'flow' rose up within her that placed a demand on something in the realm of the Spirit that desired to move on her behalf. 

There are blessings, breakthroughs, connections, revenue streams, and destiny events God has appointed for you that desire to emerge in your life in this season.

Her crying to the prophet speaks of a war cry that arises out of our wounding that touches a nerve with God and provokes a season of new movement in our lives.

'There is a war cry rising out of your wounding that is shaping the battle in your favor'
 

You need to know that your relentless perseverance in this season is highly impressive to God.  Your results may not show it yet but you've touched the heart of the Father and there is a new season of 'God movement' being released in your direction.

'Your cries in this season have touched a nerve with the Father'

 

The 'crying' you've been doing has cultivated a reservoir of great favor in the heart of God.  Subsequently, there is going to come a rich flow of favor, miracles, and newness out of your season of 'emptying endurance'.  You're about to be rewarded out of a reservoir of divine favor that your cries have tapped into. 

Hear me on this: there is a new season of fresh flow that is emerging out of the 'emptying season' you've been through.  In coming days you're going to be rewarded out of a reservoir of divine favor that you've never before tapped into'

The Dynamics of a Set-Aside Season

 
 2 Kings 4:4 '...you shall shut the door...and set aside that which is full.' 

Many of you have been wrestling with the dichotomy of being 'full in a Set-Aside season'.  By that, I mean that God has filled you with substance, greatness, vision, desire, and drive.  As a result there is a divine flow that He's cultivated in your life but He's not yet released you to the time, place, season, or right situation where you can flow in it.  Indeed, you've been processing the tension of possessing 'A flow' in a time of 'No Flow'. 
 

It seems as though God filled you with 'great substance' then set you aside for a season without clarity as to what's coming next.  The result has been a season of confusion, frustration, and uncertainty due to being 'full' in a Set-Aside season.
 

The 'flow' God's been cultivating behind the closed doors of your life is being repositioned to the 'market place' where He's been creating a demand for the flow you move in 

Anytime you process your way through a Set-Aside season of closed doors, limited opportunity, and personal isolation, what follows is a season of unprecedented enlargement. 
 

If you don't believe me just take a look at the season Moses spent in Midian before God called him to lead Israel out of Egypt.  Joseph's unlikely promotion over the state of Egypt was preceded by the closed doors of a prison where he flowed prophetically for others but could not find a flow to free himself.

The season you've been in is a precursor to uncommon opportunities and unprecedented doors being opened.  Indeed, a Set-Aside season always precedes the opening of destiny doors that only God can make happen.

In coming days you're going to experience the dynamic of divine release that unlocks closed doors, opens your destiny doors, repositions your feet in right places, and connects you with the right people.  Doors are being unlocked, your flow is being unblocked, and your time is reviving.

 The closed doors of your 'Set-Aside season' are opening, your time is changing, and your flow is going to find it's place of fulfillment.

 Get ready, God's sending good things your way.