Touchdown Jesus

I’m not a sports fan, definitely not football but I enjoyed and was blessed at the Cotton Bowl, Dallas yesterday. It was refreshing to see a focus on Christ. The invocation was wonderful and a liturgical dance was presented by a mixed group of dancers from churches across the Dallas area. NOW that’s Ephesians 4:16 being demonstrated—a body fitly joined together. We as a collective body must return to God, back to the basics, and back to having Christ as of the foundation of our lives. It was a tremendous blessing to see him welcome and celebrated at the Prairie View A&M-vs-Grambling State University game. ~njs

~Praying For Impact

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There is much praying going forth, some of it effectual and some not. Many have stopped praying in discouragement because they are not seeing manifested results or at least not seeing results in the manner and the time in which they would like. Our prayers must be prayed for impact. When I say impact I’m not talking about praying with the ‘gimme attitude”. Although prayer is a petition of asking we cheat ourselves out of the power of power when we limit it to entreating God for stuff and things. When I talk about praying for impact I’m speaking of seeing results IN you. Many times the answer to your prayer is not a changed situation but a changed YOU in the situation.

We often enter praying knowing what we want and never asking God what he wants for us or how he desires a situation to conclude for us. Yes, I know his way of concluding things isn’t always what we would like to happen but he knows the end from the beginning.

1 John 5:14-15 brings us to a greater understanding:
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
If we want our prayers to produce something we have to align them with God’s will. When we don’t know God’s will, we have to ask and when we’ve asked and feel as though God is not answering we have to patiently wait.

Praying for impact is praying for influence and effect. What influences God? Your faith influences God. God knows the thoughts that he has towards us (Jeremiah 29:11) and they are thoughts of peace, not evil, to give us an expected end. ~njs

Woman Shifters...

I’m thankful that God has placed me In a position to be able to minister to women. I laugh now because around 2003 I was not so happy to have the opportunity. I recall the time when the Lord told me to start ministering to women and finally after much protesting I obeyed. Why I protested nobody knows because with me God always wins.

I’ve been thinking about women and the innate power God gave them to change an atmosphere. When I say “change” that could be positive or negative change. Women are shifters by God’s design. Something happens in the spiritual atmosphere when anyone prays but there’s the mantle of intercession that women seem to carry. Like it or not most of the praying in churches across the globe is being done by women.

I’m reminded of praying women like Hannah and Anna the prophetess, those that prayed for impact. Our contemporary culture calls women like Hannah and Anna Prayer Warriors. Unfortunately too many have adopted this title with little or no manifested fruit. It’s not that prayer moves God so much; it’s that prayers build your faith (Jude) and your faith touches God and is a sweet smell to him. Your faith is something God can work with!

So then, why are there so many faithless prayers going forth? Why are there so many prayers that don’t avail much? It’s an understatement to say they don’t avail much when the pray-er leaves their time of prayer down and out, dragging, doubtful and spiritually bankrupt. Women of God what’s happening?

Expand Me OH Lord!

Start being expansive; Invite the God of "more than enough" to orchestrate every aspect of your life!
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Just imagine what could happen in our lives if we took the limits off—NO, not the limits off of God but off of us. What would our lives be like if we operated in levels of faith that made us expansive? Why do we declare our allegiance to THE God of “more than enough” and spend so much time in “not enough”. So contradicting, don’t you agree? It’s time to step it up and start letting God be God in every area. When we don’t have the faith to believe like we should we can ask him to help our unbelief—OH yeah, faith comes by hearing the word of God so if we want that expansive level of faith we’ve got to get THE WORD on the inside of us where it can grow up and EXPAND.

Maybe He Was That Way With You....

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So I’ve been thinking, imagine that –me thinking. I hear so much about how God loves us so tenderly and how he deals with us in such a loving and tender way and we all know that he loves us but does he deal with everyone ‘gently’ and oh so sweetly? I mean we all have different personalities, temperaments and characteristics. I’m inclined to believe that the Lord meets us where we are individually so we can make kingdom impact collectively.

It may be a newsflash but not everyone is tender—some people only understand sternness. Am I saying God is sometimes stern, direct and to the point with some of his people? Yes, I am. The Lord does not deal with all of his people the same way, he just doesn’t. Ask any person who has more than one child if they deal with their children the same—they love them the same but no doubt their personalities will be different and they will interact with each child according to their personality and growth level.

I love it when children are tender and obedient but my son wasn’t --because he has a very strong evangelistic call on his life and is assigned to go in the ‘hard’ places he was divinely created to be persistent and not easily moved. And boy was he hard to move! I had to interact with him accordingly. That’s how God is with us, he works with us in a way that we can understand and catch a clue. It may feel tender and on the other hand it may not but God’s not boxed so he is able to move by his spirit in interacting with us. ~njs

Tell Me The Truth

Recently the Lord has been impressing on me in a very strong way concerning the growing trend for encouragement. In this down turned economy who wouldn’t want to be encouraged? In the midst of all the encouragement God wants to remind us that his ultimate desire is for us to come to repentance. Prophetically speaking the atmosphere is charged with a prophetic utterance here and one there all speaking of the shift, release and fulfillment of God’s promises for your life and for this season.

Today’s prophetic climate reminds me of the climate found in Ezekiel 13. Everyone is crying Peace, Peace in a time when God also wants to warn his people. In the midst of this economic downturn God wants us to return to him.
The message of and the call to repentance remains the same as it was in the days of captivity for God’s people. This is not encouraging you might say, but it is! God loves us enough to remind us that no matter what’s going on around us he is more concerned about what’s going on in us. ~ProphetessN

Please Affirm Me

PPL may neva undrstand where u R coming from , don't exert all ur energy trying to get them to...do what God ask & h/w take care of d rest.
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WOW, 2009 seemed to fly by so quickly. Soon everyone will explore and talk about their resolutions and goals for 2010. Many of the 2009 goals remain unmet and will roll forward into our 2010 wish list. I can never forget that many in The Body of Christ did not go forward and activate their God given purpose because they did not get confirmation and AFFIRMATION from friends and family. Some people feel like no one understands them or where they are coming from so rather than rock the boat, challenge falsehoods, upset the family or appear to be insane they do nothing. When we do nothing God’s purpose for our lives goes unfulfilled.

Trying to get the approval of man when God has already given us the ultimate approval does not bear fruit. You have all the approval you need-HIS! Just do what he ask you to do, launch out in obedience to Jesus and he will take care of the rest. He will!