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This year that you will
experience blessing and undeserved favor to
fulfill your destiny. It is God's pleasure and my
delight as a teacher to give revelation about spiritual
principles that will allow you to pinpoint your destiny,
to identify the blocks to your destiny and to be
released to fulfill it this year. As we begin our new
semester, there is an excitement in the air, knowing
that this is the year of release, of answered prayer and
fulfillment of our God-given purpose in Christ.
The big question on my mind was
how to get rid of the blocks in my life and
how to be activated in the spiritual gifts and calling
that God had confirmed to me so many times. I knew I
was called to not only preach the gospel, but to be a
demonstration of God's love and power. If you will
allow God to give you personal revelation of how to
apply His principles to your life, how to get the beam
out of your own eye, He will be happy to give you the
keys to be activated in your spiritual gifts and
calling.
This year God will offer each of
us critical opportunities to respond
according to His spiritual principles so that he can
promote us and release us to be a demonstration of his
power in our sphere of influence. It will be up to us
to choose to respond in the spirit or to react to these
opportunities with fear, doubt, worry, limited thinking
and hesitation, to walk through the open doors that God
provides or to stay in our comfort zone.. We will
choose to believe that we can rise up over the
circumstances believing God for supernatural power and
intervention or we can react to critical opportunities
of promotion out of our flesh and our own strength.
Throughout the Bible, God has
always had His school of faith, teaching His
ministers to trust Him regardless and to prove His will
for “Kairos moments” (brief windows of opportunity.) In
God's ministry training school, God orchestrates
circumstances and challenges that are designed to
develop us in power and strength to fulfill the purposes
that He has for us in these last days. He provides an
Elijah for every Elisha, who will prepare them, teach
them and train them to receive a double portion of God's
anointing and to depend on his supernatural power. They
learn to operate in God's miracle working power, to
defeat the false prophets, to break the power of
Jezebel, to command the weather and to make disciples of
all nations.
This year there will be new open
doors for those who are committed to being
transformed, to aligning with the truth of God and to
taking everything to the cross that is not Jesus. God
is going to shake everything that can be shaken and
purify our motivations, until we hunger to know Him, to
know His resurrection power and to partner with Him even
in His suffering. With our own mouths, we will speak
our own destiny into existence as we agree with God and
live in the spiritual realm -- OR we will speak lack,
scarcity and limitations according to our natural
strength.
In order to receive a double
portion anointing, we must commit ourselves
to being mentored and be accountable for radical change
in our lives. If we allow our minds to be renewed, if
we present ourselves as a living sacrifice on God's
altar (Romans 12) God will flow through us mightily in
these last days to change our world. We have known how
to apply Christ’s blood to receive forgiveness of sins
but we have not known how to bring every block and sin
in our lives to the Cross to be crucified. We will
either believe that we will go through the Christian
life, asking for forgiveness of sin after sin, or we
will learn how to live the crucified life, bringing
fleshly structures to the cross once and for all.
Psychologists might tell us
that we can simply re-decide and make better
choices with positive thinking. Motivational speakers
may tell us that we can do anything that we put our
minds to. Prosperity preachers, tell us that God will
provide the funds for anything that we can believe.
Personal coaches would help us to overcome our
weaknesses with a powerful self-image. We find
different "keys to release" however, in the Bible.
In God's training school, He
creates opportunities for us to trust Him more,
to become radical lovers, to grow in our passion
for Him and our compassion for others. In order to walk
through these open doors, we have to choose to die to
our self-centeredness and to live in Christ. Sinful
reactions and sinful behaviors have to be brought to the
cross so that Jesus can bring them to death. Instead of
defending our strongholds, tolerating and minimizing our
sin, we choose to allow God to circumcise our hearts.
The Holy Spirit will
orchestrate challenges that are designed to develop us,
not to destroy us. As we focus on Jesus, we learn a
lifestyle of focusing on Jesus rather than on problems.
As we partner with God, instead of focusing on disease,
we focus on the opportunity to minister healing. As we
live by faith and walk by faith, we don't focus on lack
or poverty but we speak God's abundance and provision
into existence for all that He wants done. We learn
that every apparent problem is simply a stage set for us
to agree with God, to declare and to decree His miracle
working power.
I believe the reason that we
are afraid to step out and allow God to
activate us in supernatural power, is that we know that
our hearts are not pure. We are afraid to speak
blessing and miracles into existence, because the Bible
says “out of the same mouth will not come cursing and
blessing.” We know that in the past that we have spoken
judgments of others, dishonor of our authorities and
have doubted God. While we may have been able to modify
our behavior, we know that our hearts still need to be
purified. In this series we will learn now to ask
forgiveness 5 ways and to be cleansed.
Romans 12 says that we need to
present ourselves as living and holy sacrifices
allowing our minds to be renewed. In Luke 9 Jesus said,
"If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny
himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me!” In
Galatians, those who belong to Christ, are to crucify
fleshly passions and lusts. Jesus died to bring flesh
to death, to resurrect His life in its place and to
redeem all the rewards and blessings that we missed
because of our sinful reactions and behaviors.
Are you ready to get rid of
long-term fleshly sinful patterns in your
life? If we are to be transformed, we have to come to
the end of trusting in ourselves, our own righteousness,
our own strength and learn to "enter into God's rest."
(Hebrews 4)
Paul said it best in Galatians 2:20 but Carlotta’s
paraphrase is:
My old fleshly
self-centered unredeemed nature has been crucified with
Christ, but nevertheless, the real me, partaker of a new
divine nature, is still living, yet not I alone but
Christ is living His life in me and through me. The
life I live now is not
even by my own faith but with the faith of the Son of
God, who loves me and gives Himself daily for me. Amen?
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Have a wonderful year of
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