Tuesday, August 30, 2011
IN THE MIDST OF, INSPITE OF, JUST BECAUSE: I'LL PRAISE THE LORD!!
I will bless the LORD at ALL times: HIS PRAISE shall CONTINUALLY be in MY MOUTH. Psalm 34:1
We were created to Praise the Lord! In all things, at all times, for every blessing, every disappointment, every up and every down, no matter what the situation or circumstance we must give God Praise. I know for alot of us when things are not going the way we think or feel they ought to go we can't and don't praise God. When tragedy hits, or we get a bad report from the Doctor concerning ourself or a family member, we cannot and do not give God Praise. But in whatever we go through PRAISE should always be our first response. Why? Because the Bible tells us in James 1:1-1 "To count it all Joy..." It is in the midst of Praising God that we release the stress, heartache, disappointment, misunderstanding, confusion, etc. and every other negative thought and feeling that comes to keep us from praising God. When we praise God we receive peace, assurance that God is working all things together for our good and that TRULY, GOD IS IN CONTROL, we are also letting the enemy know that we have the VICTORY no matter what. We can rejoice and praise God because we know that our trials come to make us strong. Our praise to God is a spiritual weapon of warfare against the enemy. Our praise also brings us to a place of regaining focus for what God is doing and wants to do in our lives. Our praise cannot be limited to "Sunday Services" where we get our dance or shout on in front of people with the organ and drums. We must praise God when there is no crowd or musicians. We must be able to war alone as well as corporately. When we praise God, our praise releases our miracles, blessings, deliverance, healing and everything else we need from God. Our praise summons the very presence of God in the midst of our situations and circumstances. Our praise moves God to move for us (together with our faith). Our praise confuses the enemy. Our praise causes breakthrough in the atmosphere. Our praise is powerful and we must learn to use it at all times. It's time out for just quoting scriptures because they sound good, are easy to learn or because we heard some one else say it. The Word of God is the Sword of the Spirit so it must be active in us as well as for us. "In everything we must give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning us".1 Thess. 5:18. DECLARE THIS DAY AND EVERYDAY: I WILL BLESS THE LORD AT ALL TIMES: AND HIS PRAISE SHALL CONTINUALLY BE IN MY MOUTH!!
TAKE THE LIMITS OFF, GOD WANTS TO ENLARGE (YOU) YOUR TERRITORY!!
ENLARGE: to make larger; expand, to become larger, expand.
How many of you are in this place? You feel the stretching, the pulling, the expansion, the enlargement of your Spirit? Go with it. It is good for you.
I woke up this morning in praise and worship to God. I was listening to Israel and New Breed's-TAKE THE LIMITS OFF. As the song ministered to my Spirit, the voice of the Lord spoke to me in a still small voice and said "EXPANSION HAS COME FOR YOU AND IN YOU, PREPARE YOURSELF TO GO".(not that I have not heard this or been in this place before). I began to weep and just tell the Father THANK YOU for the NEW Journey that lies ahead for HIS GLORY.
Then I began to think about my journey and what it has taken for me to arrive in this place only to realize that the whole journey has been one of ENLARGEMENT and EXPANSION. I thought about how my journey began, not knowing anything other than what I was told and what I saw and how I began to mimic others, not aware that what I was mimicking was wrong. Moving on, I thought of how I came into the knowledge of the TRUTH of God and His Kingdom and what HE required of me. My first step of enlargement, dying to the flesh and living in the Spirit. Allowing God to detox me of the former teachings and information, learning HIS way. Next, I just reflected on how the Father has grown me up in HIM. The hard lessons and places I've had to walk through (and yet do). The many nights of wondering, questioning and being of afraid of what "tragedy" was to come next in my life and God, are you really there? Is this your will for my life? The suffering, the pain, the agony, the disappointment, the slip ups, rejection....how can anything good come from all of this, I thought.
Only to get to the other side of it all and realize that it was my making process. God showed me and told me it was necessary for me to go through this process (me being the clay and HE being the Potter) to be made the vessel HE needed and wanted me to be for HIS use. I had to totally release and relinquish myself to the WILL, WAY, WORD and into the HANDS OF THE LORD to be ENLARGE AND EXPANDED. The purpose? I had to be made ready to hold the anointing, wisdom, word, understanding, and power of God so that HE could yet have access in this earth realm to manifest the Glory of HIS Kingdom.
Why do you share this Apostle? I'm glad you asked. I share this because many of us are still in a struggle of knowing who we are and what our God given purpose is in the earth and in the Kingdom. We are still running here and there looking for man to confirm or validate our existence, when the reality is what we are searching for we already possess. Some of us have allowed ourselves to be placed in positions (in ministry and life) that do not fit us, are not beneficial for us or to us and are not fulfilling us or the Will of God for our lives. We sit frustrated and angry because we know there's more, but don't know how to get to it. Well my brother's and sister's your DELIVERANCE HAS COME. The inner turmoil you are going through is your Heavenly Father getting your attention to say, it's time to COME UP HIGHER, it's time to EMBRACE and EMBODY the true essence of who you are IN HIM. IT'S TIME TO TAKE THE LIMITS OFF!! The limits of yourself and the limits that man has placed on you. Simply, it's time to follow the REAL, TRUE ORDER OF GOD.
When something or someone is ENLARGED/EXPANDED there is a greater capacity to hold more, there is more room to manuever. That's what the Father desires of and for us. Isaiah 54:2 says: Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitation: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes. (KJV). The NLT says it like this: Enlarge your house(YOU, emphasis mine); build an addition; spread out your home! What is God saying? He is saying go beyond what you know or think you know, build or add onto what you have been taught (all has not been wrong or bad), don't be afraid to be different, take heed to HIS voice, stop being stiffled by the opinions of others or yourself. God is saying make room for the more HE has for you and what He wants to put in you. It's time to JUST DO IT!! (like Nike says). When we outgrow clothes and shoes,etc, we get rid of them(either trashing them or blessing some else) to make room for new, right? The same principle applies here. Be encouraged my brother's and sisters. Take heed and obey what YOU hear the Father speaking to you. Don't worry, stop holding back just do it. The Father has need of thee. TAKE THE LIMITS OFF and ENLARGE YOUR TERRITORY.
Going Forth in KINGDOM POWER,
Apostle Denise Chase
How many of you are in this place? You feel the stretching, the pulling, the expansion, the enlargement of your Spirit? Go with it. It is good for you.
I woke up this morning in praise and worship to God. I was listening to Israel and New Breed's-TAKE THE LIMITS OFF. As the song ministered to my Spirit, the voice of the Lord spoke to me in a still small voice and said "EXPANSION HAS COME FOR YOU AND IN YOU, PREPARE YOURSELF TO GO".(not that I have not heard this or been in this place before). I began to weep and just tell the Father THANK YOU for the NEW Journey that lies ahead for HIS GLORY.
Then I began to think about my journey and what it has taken for me to arrive in this place only to realize that the whole journey has been one of ENLARGEMENT and EXPANSION. I thought about how my journey began, not knowing anything other than what I was told and what I saw and how I began to mimic others, not aware that what I was mimicking was wrong. Moving on, I thought of how I came into the knowledge of the TRUTH of God and His Kingdom and what HE required of me. My first step of enlargement, dying to the flesh and living in the Spirit. Allowing God to detox me of the former teachings and information, learning HIS way. Next, I just reflected on how the Father has grown me up in HIM. The hard lessons and places I've had to walk through (and yet do). The many nights of wondering, questioning and being of afraid of what "tragedy" was to come next in my life and God, are you really there? Is this your will for my life? The suffering, the pain, the agony, the disappointment, the slip ups, rejection....how can anything good come from all of this, I thought.
Only to get to the other side of it all and realize that it was my making process. God showed me and told me it was necessary for me to go through this process (me being the clay and HE being the Potter) to be made the vessel HE needed and wanted me to be for HIS use. I had to totally release and relinquish myself to the WILL, WAY, WORD and into the HANDS OF THE LORD to be ENLARGE AND EXPANDED. The purpose? I had to be made ready to hold the anointing, wisdom, word, understanding, and power of God so that HE could yet have access in this earth realm to manifest the Glory of HIS Kingdom.
Why do you share this Apostle? I'm glad you asked. I share this because many of us are still in a struggle of knowing who we are and what our God given purpose is in the earth and in the Kingdom. We are still running here and there looking for man to confirm or validate our existence, when the reality is what we are searching for we already possess. Some of us have allowed ourselves to be placed in positions (in ministry and life) that do not fit us, are not beneficial for us or to us and are not fulfilling us or the Will of God for our lives. We sit frustrated and angry because we know there's more, but don't know how to get to it. Well my brother's and sister's your DELIVERANCE HAS COME. The inner turmoil you are going through is your Heavenly Father getting your attention to say, it's time to COME UP HIGHER, it's time to EMBRACE and EMBODY the true essence of who you are IN HIM. IT'S TIME TO TAKE THE LIMITS OFF!! The limits of yourself and the limits that man has placed on you. Simply, it's time to follow the REAL, TRUE ORDER OF GOD.
When something or someone is ENLARGED/EXPANDED there is a greater capacity to hold more, there is more room to manuever. That's what the Father desires of and for us. Isaiah 54:2 says: Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitation: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes. (KJV). The NLT says it like this: Enlarge your house(YOU, emphasis mine); build an addition; spread out your home! What is God saying? He is saying go beyond what you know or think you know, build or add onto what you have been taught (all has not been wrong or bad), don't be afraid to be different, take heed to HIS voice, stop being stiffled by the opinions of others or yourself. God is saying make room for the more HE has for you and what He wants to put in you. It's time to JUST DO IT!! (like Nike says). When we outgrow clothes and shoes,etc, we get rid of them(either trashing them or blessing some else) to make room for new, right? The same principle applies here. Be encouraged my brother's and sisters. Take heed and obey what YOU hear the Father speaking to you. Don't worry, stop holding back just do it. The Father has need of thee. TAKE THE LIMITS OFF and ENLARGE YOUR TERRITORY.
Going Forth in KINGDOM POWER,
Apostle Denise Chase
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
KINGDOM MOVEMENT vs CHURCH MONUMEMT
In this hour God is looking for a people that will hear and do what HE is speaking to accomplish the work of the Kingdom in this earth realm (James 1:22). But we are missing what God is speaking because our ear is not attented unto HIS voice, but to the voice of man. We have become so "systematic, programmed and ritualistic", that we've made going to "church" our God and forget above serving the True and Living God. Is this you? Are you frustrated within yourself because there is a burning desire to do more for God? Are you restless at night because you sense the Holy Spirit summonsing you to a higher place in prayer? Is God speaking revelation in your Spirit that has you wondering "if it's really God or your own thought"? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then it is my pleasure to let you know that THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS CALLING YOU!!!! The call of the Kingdom extends far beyond the "church". Let's explore for a moment the differences between the two. We will start with "church" .
When you talk about a monument it is something that is stationery, non-moving, still. The problem with the church as we know it is that it functions or operates as an orginization, and organized movements brings about stationery, isolated results. How are we suppose to build the Kingdom of God if we always make our main focus ourselves and never go to the outer parameters of our ministries. I believe God wants less yelling inside the building and more yelling outside of the building to push forth the clarion call of repentance for the Kingdom. Notice, the forerunner of Jesus Christ (John the Baptist) did not come crying in the wilderness "get saved" for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, but he cried "repentance" which means to turn away from. We need to preach and teach repentance more than we preach salvation. Salvation means security where you are, and I believe that salvation is good but it has also become a crutch. We are teaching people that they are fine staying where they are instead of teaching them, yes, come as you are, but turn away from your life of sin. However the thought of the "church" is just come, the more people in the seats, the more money we receive and the bigger the membership roll!
The commission of the Kingdom is: "Go ye"... Matt. 28:18-20. Jesus never kept the disciples to himself or in one place. In Luke 9:1-2 we read this: "Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over the devils, and to cure diseases. V2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick." The Kingdom of God is a "moving organism" not a stationery monument. Notice, when Jesus walked the earth, He went many places to do the will of His Father. The message of the Kingdom Jesus preached and taught wasn't preached or taught only in one place. The people came from everywhere to hear and receive the message, and when Jesus finished, he move on to the next place. He even met people where they were (i.e. the woman at the well, the lame man at the pool of bethsaida) in order for them to get what they needed. The purpose of the Kingdom is to take what we have received and reproduce it. The Kingdom does not wait for "souls" to come, Kingdom "goes" to the souls, meets them where they are and stays where they are (if need be) until the soul(s) get what God has for them.
So, people of God... the jist of this message is this, that God did not send His only begotten Son to die for our sins for us to sit (as if we are at some type of social gathering) and keep the good news of the Kingdom to ourselves or just in "church. There is a mandate for us to go and tell what the Lord has done, is doing, can do and going to do. So if you know that the Spirit of the Lord is calling you higher and to come out of the "traditionalism" of "church", meaning if you are hearing things that make absolutely no sense (to your natural mind) and know that it is something you would never hear in "church" , if there is something burning on the inside of you that the Spirit of God is urging you to do and you know you will never be able to do it in "church",etc. Then it is time for you to transition in to the Kingdom Movement and out of the Church Monument.
"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty." 2 Corinithians 3:17
Much Kingdom Love,
Apostle D
When you talk about a monument it is something that is stationery, non-moving, still. The problem with the church as we know it is that it functions or operates as an orginization, and organized movements brings about stationery, isolated results. How are we suppose to build the Kingdom of God if we always make our main focus ourselves and never go to the outer parameters of our ministries. I believe God wants less yelling inside the building and more yelling outside of the building to push forth the clarion call of repentance for the Kingdom. Notice, the forerunner of Jesus Christ (John the Baptist) did not come crying in the wilderness "get saved" for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, but he cried "repentance" which means to turn away from. We need to preach and teach repentance more than we preach salvation. Salvation means security where you are, and I believe that salvation is good but it has also become a crutch. We are teaching people that they are fine staying where they are instead of teaching them, yes, come as you are, but turn away from your life of sin. However the thought of the "church" is just come, the more people in the seats, the more money we receive and the bigger the membership roll!
The commission of the Kingdom is: "Go ye"... Matt. 28:18-20. Jesus never kept the disciples to himself or in one place. In Luke 9:1-2 we read this: "Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over the devils, and to cure diseases. V2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick." The Kingdom of God is a "moving organism" not a stationery monument. Notice, when Jesus walked the earth, He went many places to do the will of His Father. The message of the Kingdom Jesus preached and taught wasn't preached or taught only in one place. The people came from everywhere to hear and receive the message, and when Jesus finished, he move on to the next place. He even met people where they were (i.e. the woman at the well, the lame man at the pool of bethsaida) in order for them to get what they needed. The purpose of the Kingdom is to take what we have received and reproduce it. The Kingdom does not wait for "souls" to come, Kingdom "goes" to the souls, meets them where they are and stays where they are (if need be) until the soul(s) get what God has for them.
So, people of God... the jist of this message is this, that God did not send His only begotten Son to die for our sins for us to sit (as if we are at some type of social gathering) and keep the good news of the Kingdom to ourselves or just in "church. There is a mandate for us to go and tell what the Lord has done, is doing, can do and going to do. So if you know that the Spirit of the Lord is calling you higher and to come out of the "traditionalism" of "church", meaning if you are hearing things that make absolutely no sense (to your natural mind) and know that it is something you would never hear in "church" , if there is something burning on the inside of you that the Spirit of God is urging you to do and you know you will never be able to do it in "church",etc. Then it is time for you to transition in to the Kingdom Movement and out of the Church Monument.
"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty." 2 Corinithians 3:17
Much Kingdom Love,
Apostle D
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