PROPHETIC CHAMBER

Part of the great commission is the harvest of souls in salvation through the demonstration of the Spirit's power in our generation. Another part is the ministry of deliverance to set the captives free and liberate prisoners from spiritual dungeons.

Then there is the ministry of healing including restoring sight to the blind, unstopping deaf ears, and making lame limbs whole; but it also comprises inner healing of wounds to the soul and the spirit, which can take many forms. These are all wonderful and lofty purposes which we devote ourselves in preparation and equipping.

But, in the process of pursuing the Holy Spirit's power and anointing, we also discover an even higher quest for which we were created – to have intimate relationship and communion with Him. For most people, even some Christians, the Lord Jesus is not a living reality but an inference or an unapproachable influence in a far-distant domain.

He is often spoken or referred to in generalities or coined phrases – such as "the man upstairs" – and remains personally unknown to individuals. Creeds and dogmas are formulated from this form of thinking that converts our walk with the Lord from relationship to religion. We cannot love an ideal or express loyalty to an influence. Most people fail to consciously understand that the Lord is a Person who is perceivably present and ardently desirous of relationship and personal exchange.

While there is a collective acknowledgment of the Lord's existence, there is nevertheless an overriding misperception that He is unknowable or unapproachable on a personal level. That deceiving influence in the Church must be overcome in this generation. It is a form of spiritual wickedness that keeps us from the knowledge of God.

Comprehension of someone is best attained through intimate partnership and shared experiences. A holy dialogue – through spiritually granted access to hear His expressions and experience His Presence – promotes awareness of Him and energizes us from a dead religion to a living relationship.

We have the clear spiritual doctrine, verified through the Scriptures, that God can be known in personal experience. The pages of the Bible are filled with heroes of the faith who discovered this reality. We find God walking in the Garden with Adam, expressing Himself with Moses through a burning bush, talking with disciples on the road to Emmaus, meeting with His apostle on the way to Damascus and on the Isle of Patmos and promising to be with us, even in us until the end of the age. Personal encounters transform and equip us to function in the supernatural realms of Heaven and walk in God's anointing as well as to sustain that place of relationship and authority.

Perpetuating the Anointing

Far too often many devoted saints throughout history gave themselves to the work of ministry but somehow lost the intimacy and communion that brought them consistent anointing and power. A loving Personality communicating with His people is a dominant theme throughout the Scriptures. Where He finds a place of receptivity among humans, He shares insight, direction, correction, encouragement, and promise through various manifestations of His Spirit.

Consequently we must invest ourselves in intimate exchange and sacred fellowship with the Lord and be completely unwilling to compromise that relationship for any purpose. Notice the heart cry of the apostle Paul. Even after many years of powerful ministry, his passionate desire was to "know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings" (Philippians 3:10).

Besides the Great Commission to bring the Gospel of salvation and power and the more important necessity of having intimate relationship and exchange with the Lord, a third mandate that is perhaps equally as important – to be the agency through which the entire earth is to be filled with God's glory.

Revelation of His Glory

The Lord descended upon Mount Sinai in all of His glory and power and desired to use Israel to begin to fill the earth with His glory. Unfortunately they missed the mark. The Lord was so grieved with the unbelief and disobedience of the people that He was prepared to destroy the entire nation with the exception of Moses.

Because of Moses' intercession, the Lord stayed His hand of judgment but made a profound declaration: So the LORD said, "I have pardoned them according to your word; but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD." Numbers 14:20-21

There must be a generation who cooperates with the Lord to fulfill this solemn oath given so many centuries ago.

It was the Lord's desire to reveal Himself to the entire nation of Israel. The chief longing of His heart is still to present Himself to a holy nation and a royal priesthood and use them to fill the earth with His glory. Thus our directive along with winning the lost and healing the sick is to participate with the Holy Spirit in filling the earth with God's glory.

The Year King Uzziah Died

To better understand this great mandate, we can glean key insights from Isaiah 6:

In the year of King Uzziah's death, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. Isaiah 6:1

The Lord wonderfully blessed King Uzziah until his heart was lifted up in pride. This presumptuous arrogance caused Uzziah to enter the Holy of Holies and attempt to offer incense upon the altar without the priestly anointing and consecration essential for this duty. For this grievous error, God struck Uzziah with leprosy, as observed on his forehead by the priests.

According to Levitical law, when the priests identified leprosy on the forehead of a person, that person was pronounced unclean and required to cover his lips and cry "unclean, unclean" (see Leviticus 13:43-45).

To comprehend the significance of King Uzziah's transgression let us begin with the statement of the prophet Isaiah as he stood before the very throne of God witnessing the exchange of the seraphim giving glory to God:

And one called out to another and said, "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, the whole earth is full of His glory. And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of Him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke." Then I said, "Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts." Isaiah 6:3-5

When Isaiah found himself not in the type and shadow on the earth but in the literal Holy of Holies in Heaven before God's throne, he clearly must have remembered the grotesque and distorted appearance of King Uzziah before his death. With that image in mind, Isaiah in essence stated, I am like Uzziah stricken with leprosy; I am likewise unclean and unworthy to stand in this Holy Place.

A Divine Provision

Interestingly an angel flew to the very place in which Uzziah was stricken, the altar of incense, and extracted a coal and applied it to the lips of Isaiah. There was an atoning provision for Isaiah. The Lord had made a redemptive provision allowing atonement and cleansing for the condition in which Isaiah found himself.

No correction of the statement was made by Isaiah that he was unclean. Rather, the Lord's atoning attribute altered the condition of Isaiah and made him cleansed and worthy to participate in the exchange of glory taking place before the throne of Heaven. Uzziah entered the Holy Place on earth with pride and presumption, while Isaiah appeared with lowliness and contrition.

Filling the Temple with Glory

Then the Lord asked Isaiah the question: Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us? Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!" Isaiah 6:8

When Isaiah yielded himself to this commission, he heard the unusual instruction coming from the Lord concerning the eyes and ears of the people of his generation. They were to be rendered spiritually blind and deaf. Grace was not given for that generation to see with their eyes nor hear with their ears God's unfolding plan of redemption and His determination to fellowship with a Body of people on the earth, spreading Kingdom authority.

Jesus emphatically quoted this passage in His discourse to the religious leaders during His earthly ministry as well. From among all the people living in Jesus' day, only a small remnant received the Messiah and the life He imparted (see Matthew 13:14-15; Mark 4:12; Luke 8:10).

As Isaiah's instruction continues, the Lord states "lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and return and be healed" (Isaiah 6:10). Healing occurs when our eyes and ears are opened and our hearts are permitted to understand.

Healing the Breach

Healing is not merely the restoration of bodies and emotions, but more importantly the restoration of the breach between God and humanity. That is why our adversary has so emphatically opposed the impartation of revelatory gifts.

We can only participate in this Kingdom plan to the extent that we "see" and "hear" with Spirit "eyes and ears," thereby eliciting comprehension to our hearts. This insight cannot be the mechanical articulation of words with merely an intellectual perception of the Almighty's sovereignty and glory. We are recruited when we are "overcoming" saints anointed with the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation who view, comprehend, and experience the unveiling of God's kingly authority, dominion, and glory and give expression to it.

The prophet Isaiah was granted the great privilege of seeing Heaven's design at the throne of God as seraphim declared to one another: "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts." They were allowed to see with their eyes demonstrations of His majesty and authority and give expression to it. Their words began to fill the temple with smoke and glory through the witness of their eyes and the expression of their lips the revelation of God sitting upon His throne in absolute and perfect supremacy and sovereignty.

As the seraphim gave glory to God and God received the glory due Him, more of His divine attributes emanated to them causing an even greater demonstration of praise and glory. This Kingdom exchange and heavenly design continued filling the atmosphere with the glory and illumination of God until the entire temple was saturated with the appearance and revelation of His glory.

That is the fashion of Heaven to be transferred to earth and our assignment – to create an atmosphere on the earth that is consistent with His nature and character in which He can dwell. If we can fulfill this mandate, all the other purposes and desires for which we long will naturally be established and achieved by His Presence and anointing resting in us.

Certainly, Isaiah must have been compelled to likewise participate in this exchange of glory, yet he recognized the unworthiness and impurity of his own lips to give glory to God in such a holy surrounding. Fortunately, the provision of Heaven purified him and removed his uncleanness allowing him to give glory to God.

Who Will Go For Us

This commissioning of Isaiah was not as a prophet. The Scriptures plainly report that he was already functioning in the office of a prophet long before the experience of Isaiah 6. Perhaps, Isaiah was being asked "Who will go for Us?" to begin filling the earth with the glory of the Lord of hosts as witnessed in Heaven before God's throne.

Isaiah observed the atmosphere surrounding Heaven's throne. He saw Heaven's design created around the kingship and dominion of the Lord and the unveiling of His glory as seen by those witnessing the nature and character of His kingly authority.

In a similar way, this same atmosphere must be created on earth in His Bride, for the Lord's dominion and Presence to be fully manifested in our generation. That is the will of Heaven being done on earth. It is the creation of the environment in which the Lord is able to dwell. This eternal atmosphere of glory and beauty provides a surrounding consistent with His divine nature and holy character. This is our lofty mandate.

Paul Keith and Wanda Davis
WhiteDove Ministries

PROPHETIC CHAMBER

1.Samuel 15,17:
Und Samuel sprach: Wurdest du nicht, als du gering in deinen Augen warst, das Oberhaupt der Stämme Israels? Und der HERR salbte dich zum König über Israel.

In jenem Moment als König Saul größenwahnsinnig wurde, sah Gott einen König im Herzen eines junges Schafhirten namens David. Er war zu unbedeutend, um in das Haus seines Vaters gerufen zu werden, als der Prophet Samuel kam, um einen der Söhne zum nächsten König Israels zu salben. Samuel hat, dem ersten Augenschein nach, die Wahl des Herrn verpasst, weil er sich von Äußerlichkeiten blenden ließ.
Als sie nun kamen, sah Samuel den Eliab an und dachte: Fürwahr, da steht vor dem HERRN sein Gesalbter.
1. Samuel 16,6 Wenn Gott Samuel nicht gesagt hätte „Dieser ist es nicht”, hätte Samuel vielleicht den falschen Sohn gesalbt. Die Bibel sagt uns, dass Isai seine sieben Söhne vor Samuel vorübergehen ließ. Aber Samuel sprach zu Isai: Der HERR hat keinen von ihnen erwählt. Und Samuel fragte Isai: Sind das alle deine Söhne? 1.Samuel 16,10-11

In der ganzen Aufregung, einen seiner Söhne gesalbt zu sehen, vergisst Isai den Schäferjungen, der da draußen die Schafe hütet. Schlussendlich wird David ins Haus gerufen – er riecht nach Schafen und ein süßer Wohlgeruch wird freigesetzt, als er vor seinen sieben neidischen älteren Brüdern gesalbt wird. Später, als er dem Bären, dem Löwen und dem Riesen gegenübersteht, wird Davids Bedeutungslosigkeit angesichts der Widrigkeiten zum ausschlaggebenden Vorteil.
Davids Leben erinnert mich an einen Jungen, den ich kürzlich traf.
Während ich in Kansas über einen kindlichen Glauben sprach, bemerkte ich einen elfjährigen Jungen namens Brody, der so aufmerksam zuhörte, als ob er allen die Botschaft vom Teller wegessen wollte. Zwei Wochen später erhielt ich folgende Neuigkeiten von Brody.
Brody ging mit seinem Cousin Bogenschießen. Während sie zu ihrem Jagdplatz spazierten, dachte Brody darüber nach, wie schwer es sein würde, auch tatsächlich ein Wild zu erlegen. Es war sehr windig und ein Bub von Brodys Statur hat nicht die Kraft, einen so schweren Bogen zu spannen. Er erzählte später seiner Mutter, dass Gott ihm, während er über diese Dinge nachdachte, sagte, dass er ein Wild erlegen würde. Seine Mutter fragte ihn, was Gott ihm denn gesagt hatte, und Brodys Antwort war, dass Gott sagte: „Brody, ich werde dir heute eines Meiner Tiere geben.“
Kurze Zeit später sah Brody in ca. 30 Meter Entfernung (eine schwierige Distanz für Brody und seinen Bogen) ein Reh. Er schoss und sah, dass der Pfeil sein Ziel verfehlen würde, doch im letzten Moment traf ein starker Windstoß auf den Pfeil und der Pfeil traf das Tier mitten ins Herz. Es war ein perfekter Schuss.
Als ich dieses Zeugnis hörte, konnte ich nicht anders als daran denken, wie viele von uns diese starken Windstöße an Widrigkeiten erleben, die uns kraftlos zurücklassen, sodass wir uns zu bedeutungslos fühlen, um unsere Bestimmung und unsere Träume zu verfolgen. Doch dann sah ich im Geist, dass genau diese starken Windstöße im Grunde genommen viele genau in die Richtung treiben, in der Gott sie haben möchte. Diese widrigen Stürme waren für viele zu Freunden geworden, die sie genau in das von Gott bestimmte Ziel manövrierten.

“Nicht durch Macht und nicht durch Kraft, sondern durch meinen Geist, spricht der HERR der Heerscharen." Sacharja 4,6

Es gibt Zeiten, in denen ich mich so unbedeutend fühle. Kann ich irgendetwas bewirken in dieser Welt, die völlig auseinanderfällt? Ich erkenne ein Muster, das sich durch mein Leben zieht. Nach Zeiten undurchsichtiger Bedeutungslosigkeit geschieht etwas, das mich hoch an erhabene Orte hinauf stößt. Und ich erkenne von diesem bedeutenden Ort aus, dass Gott mich die ganze Zeit verwendet hat, vielleicht in jenen Zeiten, in denen ich am liebsten aufgegeben hätte, sogar in noch größerem Ausmaß.

Du siehst nur die Spitze des Eisbergs dessen, wie Gott dich verwendet!

Ich sehe eine Eisbergspitze des himmlischen Königreiches. Zehn Prozent des Eisbergs sind sichtbar und neunzig Prozent sind unter Wasser und für das natürliche Auge unsichtbar. Doch gerade diese neunzig Prozent sind die gewaltigsten. Diese neunzig Prozent des Reiches Gottes bewegen sich nun in den dunklen Gewässern der Erde. Davon wirst du nichts erfahren, wenn du die Nachrichten schaust oder hörst. Du wirst dies erkennen, wenn du deinen Blick auf den Herrn gerichtet hältst. Viele haben das Gefühl, dass sie nicht das Licht sind, das sie sein sollten. Doch du siehst nur ca. zehn Prozent von dem, wie Gott dich verwendet. Doch gibt es da neunzig Prozent deines Lichtes, das leuchtet und das Leben von Menschen auf eine Art und Weise berührt, die du im Moment nicht sehen kannst. Gott verwendet dich auf großartige Weise.
Viele sehen nicht nur die Spitze des Eisbergs des Bösen in der Welt, sondern richten ihren Blick gebannt auf die neunzig Prozent darunter.
Doch das Böse, das die Ausmaße der Titanic besitzt, wird in Kürze die Eisbergspitze des Reiches Gottes rammen und wie bei der Titanic werden viele der Verlorenen schreien und viele werden aufgrund der zehn Prozent des Lichts, das nach außen hin sichtbar scheint, zu dir kommen. Du wirst erkennen, dass Gott dich die ganze Zeit über in den Leben vieler Menschen gebraucht hat – du hast es nur nicht gewusst.

Und Heidenvölker werden zu deinem Licht kommen, und Könige zu dem Glanz, der über dir aufgeht. Jesaja 60,3

Bill Yount
Blowing the Shofar Ministries

Übersetzung:
Karin Meitz

PROPHETIC CHAMBER

Erase the Borders of Limitation

Memory is the expression of imagination. It is ability to retain or recall things or events that have been imagined or experienced in the past. Memory lost is the obsession or passionate dream one fails or refuses to remember.

Foresight is the act of looking forward with a careful, thoughtful regard for the future. It is the ability to imagine things that can take place in the future. The imagination finds pleasure when it sees something that is new or exceptional. The presence of the Holy Spirit teaches our spiritual eyes of faith to see this way into the invisible. God grants us visionary access to walk into a reality that is superior to the natural realm where we exist most of the time.

Once we gain God's vision for our future, then we are able to prophesy it into existence. If we will take a leap into the future, boldly decree the things we see from God's perspective, He will establish them for us. The Holy Spirit reveals knowledge that supersedes the rationale of carnal reasoning and possesses an internal power that transforms us from the inside out.

Focused faith will cause one to realize the profound possibilities that exist in the invisible realm. Faith gives us access to the invisible realms of the spirit so we can erase the borders of limitation. The fundamental fact of existence is that faith and trust in God is the firm foundation that makes life worth living. The world was called into existence through faith in an unseen God. He commanded creative words to reveal the concealed and bring it forth into being.

Faith is the Spiritual Substance

Faith that is mixed with hope brings forth the fertile ground of a new reality out of the invisible realm of nothingness. Faith reveals the plans God has concealed in His heart. When we maintain our focus on the Lord, we are able to rest in hope, knowing we have a good inheritance. When we bless the Lord, the Holy Spirit gives us counsel and shows us the path of abundant life. Entering God's presence releases the fullness of joy so we can experience the pleasures of God forevermore.

The curious soul yearns to explore innovations and pioneer the unknown. The unknown is an open door that invites us to participate in engineering a new life. In sculpting our brilliant futures, we will encounter the unexpected as we dwell in and walk through dimensions that are beyond our control.

This season of discovery brings us to the realization that our steps are ordered by the only, all-knowing, powerful, loving God. He pours out grace, mercy and revelation knowledge to empower us to embrace the new journey every morning. Creative ideas flood the imagination, bringing gratification and delightful surprise to the ardent searchers, as they behold amazing sights that have never before been possessed, documented or even known in existence.

Faith is the spiritual substance that brings proof to the unseen eternal realm of promise and possibilities. Faith makes real the things we hope for. Faith is the proof of what we cannot see. The things we see were made by God, Who cannot be seen with our natural eyes. Faith must see through the eyes of understanding with an enlightened heart. Faith in God's Word enables our mind to be renewed by the Spirit to think like God. When our minds and hearts are renewed by hearing the words of the Holy Spirit, we become doers of the Word.

Revelation is the meat of the Word, illuminated by the Holy Spirit, that comes to us as rhema, or a "now" expression of God. Faith moves us into the now. God's Word lays a broad, strong foundation in our life for Him to build upon. God dwells in earthen vessels (see 2 Corinthians 4:7). God wants to set up His habitation within us. When God possesses us, we will imitate Him. We reflect or imitate that which we believe. Faith will cause the invisible power of the Kingdom of God to manifest in and through our life.

A Hope and a Future

God the Father grants us the Spirit of Wisdom so we can discern the future. We are instructed to have faith in God. We must also have the faith of God to see mountains removed from our life. God does not doubt. He knows and believes that the things He says will be done – they will come to pass. Therefore we must adopt this powerful, godly life principle.

Whatever we ask, when we pray, believe that we receive it and we will have it. To receive answers to our prayers, we need to pray in the name and character of God. Pray and believe that you have God's answers. See things through God's perspectives of grace. When we agree with the grace in God's heart, He will give us the desires of our heart. When sin abounds the world is terrorized, but when God's grace thrives the world is given a hope in a future.

If we do not agree with God's supernatural ways and plans, our imagination moves out of the higher realms of the Spirit and into the inferior natural realms of doubt and unbelief. When doubt reigns, faith is then limited to the temporal, that which we see with our natural eyes or know in our intellect. Unbelief sets a narrow limit on our achievement by defining what we believe is possible, so nothing great can be accomplished.

When we worship God in Spirit and in truth, we are able to see with the eyes of our spiritual imagination. Faith allows us to access what is available in the realms of the invisible. Once we imagine a thing, it can be drawn into actuality. Holy Spirit opens the realms of vision so we can see His heart's desire and speak them into existence. We become the channel the Holy Spirit flows through to bring Heaven to earth. When we give expression to the move of the Holy Spirit, His presence and power will manifest on earth. The greatest power in the universe is love.

Dr. Barbie L. Breathitt
Breath of the Spirit Ministries

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