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Living In the "Until" Clause

Sometimes we all wonder, "Why does there seem to be a delay to answered prayers?" or, "When is that prophetic promise ever going to come to pass?" If you find yourself pondering these types of questions, you are not alone. We all live in the "until" clause to one degree or another. There is "promise revealed" and then there is "promise fulfilled."

Between these two positions, there is the gap we live in called the "until." But, we do not have to stay there. We can learn the ways of the Holy Spirit in this thing called, "Contending For the Prophetic Promise" and step into our Promised Land!

The following Scriptures and principles have helped me and others over the years to not remain stuck in a rut. They are tools to help us keep moving forward in Jesus' name. Contend "until"!

Scriptural Background For Contending

A. I Timothy 1:18
This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you fight the good fight.

B. Genesis 32:22-29
...Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob's thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him. Then he said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." But he said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." So he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob." He said, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed." Then Jacob asked him and said, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And he blessed him there.

C. Daniel Chapter 9 and 10 (especially 9:17-23, 10:12-14)
..."So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary. O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion. O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name."

Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering. He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, "O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding. "At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision..."

...Then he said to me, "Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia was withstanding me for twenty-one days; then behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia. Now I have come to give you an understanding of what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to the days yet future."

Why Contending Is Necessary

A. You are contending for more than just yourself – your breakthrough is for others!
Please realize that what you are going through is not just about you! Every personal breakthrough is so that you can release faith, courage, healing, and the grace package you just received from God to others. Maybe you are contending for a breakthrough in cancer. Maybe you are laboring for a victory over generational curses. Well, your individual, personal victory builds a testimony which helps others receive what you fought so hard for. You are contending for your family, church culture, city, and even nation. Come on now, you are contending for more than just yourself!

B. It strengthens you in God. It builds you up!
If you work out, you look buff. If you are a couch potato, then you will resemble one. In the ways of God, contending in the spiritual is a lot like lifting weights – there is a resistance factor that eventually works in your favor. Your contending causes you to grow up spiritually, cleanses your motivations, and builds you up. The process of becoming might seem intense at times, but believe me, it strengthens you in the long run.

C. There is a real enemy who opposes your promise. Your fulfilled dream is the enemy's nightmare!
Why is contending necessary? Because we have a real enemy and your success is a threat to the kingdom of darkness. We must put on the full armor of God because your wrestling match is not against your boss, spouse, pastor, or children. Our battle is against the powers and principalities of darkness and evil spirits in the heavenly places. Get over it. You were born in the middle of a great cosmic war and you were born for war. Enforce the victory of Jesus Christ won on Calvary.

D. We live and work with frail people
Reality check! Why is contending necessary? A part of the empowering of the Holy Spirit is because man is weak and frail. Part of the fulfillment does not just depend on us; it involves the will, attitude, and fortitude of others. Some people, some churches, some cities and nations, just give up too soon. I have seen promises of revival or breakthrough for entire cities seem to be dropped only for another generation to arise and pick up the dropped promise until it is birthed in earth as it is in Heaven. In all honesty, we all fail from time to time. But then God, strong in mercy and loving kindness, comes through, revives us again, and calls others to step up to the plate with us.

Requirements To Keep Moving Forward

A. Walk in faith
All progress in the Christian life is through faith. This is a truth for people of all ages, every background, and every gift mix! We walk by faith and not by sight! God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. He rewards faith!

B. Receive and release grace and mercy
This is a big one. Do you want to move forward in your personal or corporate destiny in God? Then you need to realize it is a relational community. We must learn to receive God's great love, grace, and forgiveness and turn around and demonstrate this upside-down Kingdom to others. We are never too old for the Sermon on the Mount. Be merciful and you will receive mercy.

C. Others – being a practical part of the community of Believers
Here is another principle that deals with our relationship with the Body of Christ. We need each other! We need the friendship, prayers, encouragement, and strength which come by walking with others. This is the victory that overcomes the world, even OUR faith.

D. Greater intimacy
It is a love war that we are engaged in. Look into His face. Get in His face. How do we continue? By engaging in the art of beholding. The fulfillment of the prophetic promise is just as much about us being transformed into the image of His Son as it is answer to a problem. Continue on the journey of earnest longings and gaze into the beauty of the Lord and cry out for greater intimacy with Christ.

E. Sacrifice releases power
Today's sacrifice releases tomorrow's provision and privilege. Today's humility releases greater grace for the future. What you do matters, and how you live determines, in part, your outcome. So stretch yourself in prayer, love, fasting, and acts of kindness. Sow some seed in desperation and faith, and watch God move in your behalf!

F. Fresh progressive vision
Without a progressive vision, the people perish. Are you keeping God first? Are you seeking first His Kingdom and His righteousness? Are you keeping the authentic, confirmed prophetic promise in front of your eyes? With renewed prophetic vision, you are strengthened in your resolve and you have grace for the journey.

G. Perseverance
Just don't quit! I have a word on a card from my late wife. As many of you know, it was her last word given to our family and me by an actual angel of the Lord. On the front of the card it states, "Never, never, never, never give up!" I carry that card with me in my Bible everywhere I go. Don't quit! Persevere! It will pay off. The promise will come! You will move from promise revealed to promise fulfilled! Just don't quit!

Truths from the trenches!

Dr. James W. Goll
Founder of Encounters Network • Prayer Storm • God Encounters Training e-School

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"Hear the clock ticking, for I have now catapulted you into the three years ahead. This month, the dearest of My months, I am moving you against gates that have never been moved against before. I am causing these gates that have withstood you in the past to come loose and open in days ahead! Move strategically day by day and month by month until the gate that has held back your blessing opens up. If you will move now, within the next three years the land you find yourself in will be producing great treasures.

"In the third year, the War of the Kingdoms will begin, and Kingdom will rise against kingdoms. The kingdoms of this world will also come into great conflict. I have a Kingdom that I am preparing. I will remember this Kingdom and the seed and the seed's seed of this Kingdom. I have a Kingdom that will triumph! Shout that the kingdoms of this earth are becoming My Kingdoms! Decree that the prisoners will be let go and they will come back to My house; this is a season when My altar will be filled! I'm going to open your eyes to those around you and you're going to say, 'They're of a different kingdom.' And I will say to you, 'They are Mine! Bring them in now!'

"Beyond the gates, I am opening up new highways. I am beginning a highway out of Egypt! I will redo the highway that you're presently walking on. The demons that have been trafficking and even creating trafficking throughout the earth, I Am now going to un-nest their headquarters.  That which the enemy meant to destroy through trafficking, I will raise up as an unstoppable army in the days ahead, for that generation will be My generation! I call you, 'My Army that is Unstoppable!' I call you, 'My Kingdom Swarm' and you shall invade the kingdoms of the earth. You shall extract that which is needed and you will bring it into My Kingdom.

"I will surprise you with the leaders of nations. I have ways to cause leaders that have been promoted, to bow their knees. You will think they're going one way, but you watch Me knock the feet out from under them; you watch them see Me in a way they've never seen Me before!

"Make "favor" with those that come onto your highway. Many of you will say, 'But they have evil character.' Just remember, I can cause every Pharaoh in this land and the lands that you're a part of to favor you in days ahead!

"You'll hear of shakings from north to west! You'll hear that I have come from Alaska to Maine to shake. But know this: I will shake the center of this nation called the United States of America. I will cause that which has been hidden and controlling the forces of this land, to shake down!

"A new baptism I'll give you, and My very finger I will place in My people's keeping.  When you point your finger, demons will flee!

"In this year of honey, I will cause a new hunger to arise throughout the lands for My Word.  And where you have known My Word in the past, you will taste and see My Word in a different way!"

Chuck D. Pierce
Glory of Zion Ministries

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Greetings friends,

I trust this E-Letter finds you blessed and prospering in the Kingdom.
As most are aware, I have been in a season of sabbatical over the last few months and have only taken a few meetings this entire year. It has been a good season to obtain strategy and a fresh outlook for new beginnings.

I know one of the main points of emphasis from the Spirit is for us to obtain and follow His will. The Lord did only what He saw the Father doing. It was "His meat" to do the will of the Father. That is going to characterize this next season.

Paul's apostolic commissioning will also have great relevance. He was appointed:

1. To know His will.

2. To see the Righteous One.

3. To hear utterances from His lips.

4. To testify or be a witness of what is seen and heard.

Lord, may that be our commissioning for this season as well.

Richest blessings of favor and grace,

Paul Keith & Wanda and the WhiteDove family


Preparation for Kings and Priests

The pain of the past is our preparation for the future. That is the expression I heard from the Lord in a visionary encounter a few years ago. Like Joseph, we must reconcile ourselves with the past in order to make our future more fruitful.
Though many aspects of the past season may have been unpleasant and difficult, they were nevertheless necessary to prepare us to function as both Kings and Priests. The agony of captivity clearly equipped Joseph for the ascension to the throne of Egypt, second only to Pharaoh. Joseph demonstrated this truth in the naming of his sons.

Genesis 41:51-52 Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said "God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household. He named the second Ephraim, "For," he said "God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

A new mature and extraordinarily fruitful priesthood is emerging in these Last Days in the order of Melchizedek. In order to posture ourselves for this we must reconcile in our hearts and minds the past season, no matter how difficult or trying, in order to be ready for what is coming.
As the Scripture teaches, the Melchizedek priesthood consolidates the two offices of King and Priest. This Presence driven ministry will take us from Church Age into Kingdom Age, removing the leaven of human reasoning and tradition.
The Church Age was a season of earnest or down payment but the Melchizedek priesthood is the promise for fullness. This grace is assured to God's people to usher in the great harvest and the Lord's coming. Part of that anointing is "godly jealousy" producing and unwavering devotion to God and His Word.

In the Order of Melchizedek

The concept of the Melchizedek priesthood is simply God as the Living Word fully occupying His people, the Body of Christ (John 1). Revelation 5:9 identifies a company of people who sing a "new song." In it they declare that the Lord is the only One worthy to take the sealed book and open it for His people.
Those described in Revelation 5:9 are an overcoming bridal company positionally placed to function as both Kings and Priests. As I began to ask the Lord about the qualities these will possess one of the key attributes that has been highlighted to me is being jealous for Him.

A Loyal Priesthood like Phinehas

As A. W. Tozer once wrote, "within the fold of Christianity there are to be found increasing numbers of persons whose religious lives are marked by a growing hunger after God Himself. They are eager for spiritual realities and will not be put off with words, nor will they be content with correct 'interpretations' of truth. They are athirst for God, and they will not be satisfied till they have drunk deep at the Fountain of Living Water."
There is emerging today those that Tozer prophesied about who are desperate for God with a holy jealousy. This reality is typified in the Old Testament figure of Phinehas. This loyal priest received a divinely issued covenant of peace because of his jealousy towards the Lord and his commitment to the Word.
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned away My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was jealous with My jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy.

"Therefore say, 'Behold, I give him My covenant of peace; and it shall be for him and his descendants after him, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.'" Numbers 25:10-13

The Bible teaches that God's dealings with Israel are given as an example. The lives of the patriarchs and faithful men and women of old are adopted for our instruction in the ways of God and the different aspects of His Person and anointing. We see this truth especially exemplified in the life of Elijah and the anointing resident in his life that will also characterize a company of people in this generation.
Likewise, many will begin to emerge in this hour with the "anointing of Phinehas" and enjoy personal covenants with the Lord. These will be priests providing to God's people inspired revelation of the Word by calling upon Him that He might show us great and mighty things which we know not.
They will bear a heavenly "jealousy" and integrity by rightly dividing the Word of Truth without mixture or compromise. This anointing will produce in many a healthy ardor and "Zeal of God" for the Spirit of Truth; Furthermore, they will not shun to declare the whole counsel of God nor tremble at the fear of man (Acts 20:27).

Mouth of Brass

The name Phinehas means "mouth of brass." This is a depiction of those who will begin to "judge and discern the thoughts and intents of the heart" and help others identify the entanglements that so easily distract them (Hebrews 4:12). When the Living Word is present, all things are open and laid bare before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Nothing is hidden. This is not something to fear but embrace to facilitate maturity and purity of soul to access Heaven.
The Bible depicts the revelation gifts unveiling the secrets of the heart so those who observe it will fall on their face and say, "surely God is in this place" (1 Corinthians 14:24-25). This manner of revelation is not rooted in suspicion, but genuine insight from the Lord and disclosure of divine secrets ministered in charity and faithfulness.
This work of the "Phinehas anointing" will usher the Fear of the Lord back into the Church and pave the way for divinely granted repentance leading to the knowledge of the Truth. This will produce a more righteous Body with whom the Lord will become intimate and share His mysteries and power.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; love therefore is the fulfillment of the law. And this do, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed. Romans 13:10-11

The Anointing Released

There have been two specific occasions in which I have witnessed this anointing being imparted to leaders. The first occasion took place several years ago during a MorningStar conference. On this unique morning, Bob Jones was taken into the realm of the Spirit.
In the experience an angel approached who had been sent from Heaven with a unique commission for a specific individual. He disclosed that he had been released with the "anointing of Phinehas" to be imparted to one of our close friends, Bobby Conner. Bobby later confirmed that an angel visited him that morning and imparted to him "the spear of Phinehas." Clearly, possessing jealousy for God is evident in the life of Bobby.
On a separate occasion, Wanda and I were involved in a conference in Louisiana and were instructed by the Lord to release the "anointing of Phinehas" on a specific leader chosen by the Lord for this region. Since that time, this brother has told us that he is specifically aware of this anointing when it comes upon him.
In his ministry, this anointing assists in releasing a quest for purity and righteousness among those being groomed for a significant release of anointing and authority.

Eleazar—A Faithful Example

In giving true expressions with a heart of jealousy towards God, we will then begin to ardently obey the doctrines of Christ. According to John 14:23:

Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him."

All those willing to make this commitment will begin to be adorned in fresh garments and endowed with the Spirit's gifts and anointing. These will then be delegated a commission like the one given to Eleazar.
Eleazar, the faithful servant of Abraham, was sanctioned with the great responsibility of obtaining a bride for Isaac. He was given notable gifts, jewelry, clothing and oil to take to the one set apart to be the chosen bride of the promised son. In like manner, the Holy Spirit desires to impart to us the gifts, anointing and the Spirit's manifest Presence to prepare a bride for the Royal Seed of Abraham, the Lord Jesus.
In order to flow in this great responsibility, we must also possess the faithfulness that characterized Eleazar. Great was his devotion and loyalty in the presentation of the gifts. He made certain that Rebekah fully recognized they were not from him but from the one by whom he was sent.

Speak the Truth in Love

Whenever we speak the Word of truth in love, it will have significant effect and will not return void. The present work of the Holy Spirit is to cleanse and nurture a Body of people to faithfully represent the Living Christ to this generation.

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. Ezekiel 36:25-27

We are being delegated with a new heart fully devoted to God with jealousy. That will enable us to speak the truth in love allowing our words to be galvanized with charity. As the Scriptures point out, love never fails.

Paul Keith and Wanda Davis
WhiteDove Ministries

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