PROPHETIC WORD

Repent and turn from your wicked ways sayeth The Lord God, Repent from your ways and turn, Return unto me sayeth The Lord of Hosts. Why are you standing afar? Why do you look, but can not see? Why do you listen but heareth not? Repent and Return unto Me sayeth The Lord of Host, less I come and strike the land with a curse, Repent and return from your wicked ways. Let every ear that heareth, hear what the Spirit of The Lord is saying unto the Church. I have come and I have looked for my bride, and she is nowhere to be found? Where art though My beloved where art though, I am looking for My Bride, but she is nowhere to be found, repent and return unto Me sayeth The Lord of Hosts. Repent from your wicked ways, and seek Me and Seek My Face, and I will come and bring healing and restoration to this land. Repent. Look around you o shepherd, My sheep are scattered, because the shepherds are to busy looking at themselves, taking care of their own needs, looking at sways to ensure they have more than enough, Where is My flock o Shepherd, Where is the sheep, of my pasture? Sayeth The Lord of Hosts, Repent and return unto Me sayeth The Lord of Hosts Return unto Me, remember the height from hence though hast fallen and return Come and kneel before the Lord Your God, The maker of Heaven and earth, seek Me and you shall find Me sayeth The Lord, Call a solemn fast, Go to your neighbor, your friend and repent of your ways sayeth the Lord of Hosts, and I will hear your cries, and I will heal your Land. Repent Repent Repent sayeth The Lord of Hosts

I have told you these things

I have told you these things

This morning as I was taking my fdaughter to the people she is riding to school with, the Holy Spirit spoke to me about John 16V33, it is a scripture I am very familiar with, in fact it is my best. Loved scripture

As I was pondering on Vers 33 I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]

The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said “ Jesus said I have told you these things, what is these things? I just couldn’t wait to get home, to find out what all these things were that Jesus had told us, so that in order for me to have perfect peace,

aijaijai!!!!!

God is such an amazing God

Jesus is speaking to His Disciples and He says to them 6 times in John chapter 16 “I have told you”,

V1 I HAVE told you all these things,
V4 . . .I have told you these things
V7 . . .I am telling you nothing but the truth
V12 . . . I have still many things to say to you
V25 I have told you these things
V33 I have told you these things

Lets look at these verses

Joh 16:1-3 I HAVE told you all these things,
so that you should not be offended (taken unawares and falter, or be caused to stumble and fall away). [I told you to keep you from being scandalized and repelled.] (2) They will put you out of (expel you from) the synagogues; but an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think and claim that he has offered service to God. (3) And they will do this because they have not known the Father or Me.

Joh 16:4-6 But I have told you these things now,
so that when they occur you will remember that I told you of them. I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. (5) But now I am going to Him Who sent Me, yet none of you asks Me, Where are You going? (6) But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts [taken complete possession of them].

Joh 16:7-11 However, I am telling you nothing
but the truth when I say it is profitable (good, expedient, advantageous) for you that I go away. Because if I do not go away, the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you [into close fellowship with you]; but if I go away, I will send Him to you [to be in close fellowship with you]. (8) And when He comes, He will convict and convince the world and bring demonstration to it about sin and about righteousness (uprightness of heart and right standing with God) and about judgment: (9) About sin, because they do not believe in Me [trust in, rely on, and adhere to Me]; (10) About righteousness (uprightness of heart and right standing with God), because I go to My Father, and you will see Me no longer; (11) About judgment, because the ruler (evil genius, prince) of this world [Satan] is judged and condemned and sentence already is passed upon him.

Joh 16:12-24 I have still many things to say to you,
but you are not able to bear them or to take them upon you or to grasp them now. (13) But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future]. (14) He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you. (15) Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He [the Spirit] will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you. (16) In a little while you will no longer see Me, and again after a short while you will see Me. (17) So some of His disciples questioned among themselves, What does He mean when He tells us, In a little while you will no longer see Me, and again after a short while you will see Me, and, Because I go to My Father? (18) What does He mean by a little while? We do not know or understand what He is talking about. (19) Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him, so He said to them, Are you wondering and inquiring among yourselves what I meant when I said, In a little while you will no longer see Me, and again after a short while you will see Me? (20) I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that you shall weep and grieve, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. (21) A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief (anguish, agony) because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she no longer remembers her pain (trouble, anguish) because she is so glad that a man (a child, a human being) has been born into the world. (22) So for the present you are also in sorrow (in distress and depressed); but I will see you again and [then] your hearts will rejoice, and no one can take from you your joy (gladness, delight). (23) And when that time comes, you will ask nothing of Me [you will need to ask Me no questions]. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that My Father will grant you whatever you ask in My Name [as presenting all that I AM]. [Exod. 3:14.] (24) Up to this time you have not asked a [single] thing in My Name [as presenting all that I AM]; but now ask and keep on asking and you will receive, so that your joy (gladness, delight) may be full and complete.

Joh 16:25-32 I have told you these things in parables (veiled language, allegories, dark sayings);
the hour is now coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but I shall tell you about the Father in plain words and openly (without reserve). (26) At that time you will ask (pray) in My Name; and I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf [for it will be unnecessary]. (27) For the Father Himself [tenderly] loves you because you have loved Me and have believed that I came out from the Father. (28) I came out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father. (29) His disciples said, Ah, now You are speaking plainly to us and not in parables (veiled language and figures of speech)! (30) Now we know that You are acquainted with everything and have no need to be asked questions. Because of this we believe that you [really] came from God. (31) Jesus answered them, Do you now believe? [Do you believe it at last?] (32) But take notice, the hour is coming, and it has arrived, when you will all be dispersed and scattered, every man to his own home, leaving Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

Joh 16: 33 I have told you these things,
so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]

The peace Jesus speaks of comes from the Greek word eirēnē i-rah'-nay G1515 Probably from a primary verb eirō (to join); peace (literally or figuratively); by implication prosperity: - one, peace, quietness, rest, safety, felicity, (because peace and harmony make and keep things safe and prosperous) + set at one again, security.

Jesus said so that In Him we may have Prosperity, safety, unity, quietness and rest. We cannot find these things outside of Him, why? Because He has conquered the world for us, He says in verse 33, in the world you will have trials and tribulations, you will feel frustrated and distressed, but know that if You abide in Me, I will give you all that you will need,

I will make you to prosper, I will give you rest, I will bring unity, I will make you feel safe.

You see beloved without Him, none of this is possible, it is only IN HIM that we can come to a place of perfect peace and unity

And because of this He says we must be of good cheer in other words we must salute one another with shouts of joy


WHAT A MIGHTY GOD WE SERVE

ELI ELI LAMA ZEBACHTANI

The real meaning of Jesus words on the Cross

We must remember that Jesus cried out in the Hebrew tongue and not in the Greek, as the soldiers mocked him and said that he was calling Eli the prophet

Mat 27:46-47  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.

Now did Jesus actually cry out my God My God why hast thou forsaken me?

Cross reference this with Psalm 22 v1

Psa 22:1  .... My God,(Eli) ^H410 my God,(Eli)^H410 why (meh)^H4100 hast thou forsaken (awzab) ^H5800 me? ...

H410    (My GOD)  אל  

'êl  ale

Shortened from H352; strength; as adjective mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity): - God (god), X goodly, X great, idol, might (-y one), power, strong. Compare names in “-el.”

H4100 מה    מ־    מ־    מה    מה  (WHY)

mâh  mah  mâ  ma  meh   maw, mah, maw, mah, meh

A primitive particle; properly interrogitive what? (including how?, why? and when?); but also exclamations like what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational sneses: - how (long, oft, [-soever]), [no-] thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby (-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.

H5800 (FORSAKEN) עזב

‛âzab aw-zab'

A primitive root; to loosen, that is, relinquish, permit, etc.: - commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, X surely.

Now if Jesus had indeed cried out My God My God why hast Thou forsaken Me, He would have said like King David said in Psalm 22

ELI ELI MEH AW-ZAB

 But Jesus words was recorded as

Eli, Eli, lama zebachthani 

Interpreted this would mean  

MY GOD, MY GOD THE SACRIFICE IS COMPLETE

The Hebrew word for sacrifice is 

H2077  (Sacrifice) זבח

Zebach    zeh'-bakh

From H2076; properly a slaughter, that is, the flesh of an animal; by implication a sacrifice (the victim or the act): - offer (-ing), sacrifice.

We Limit God by our lack of expectations

We Limit God by our lack of expectations

This morning as I had a visitor, Past John from Zimbabwe, we started to talk about God, and what God is doing, actually Past John was talking and I was just sitting there listening, as he spoke about his ministry, and what he wants to do, and what obstacles lies ahead of him.

While he was talking, the Holy Spirit was ministering to my spirit, telling me about my own short comings and limitations, God spoke to me and said to me that we have put Him in a box, because of our limitations. As believers we are limiting God every day, just sit in a conversation and listen to the people

We have all put God in a box. for many there problems is bigger than God, for others God can only do this and do that, no don't pray like that, you can't ask that etc.

Our lack of expectation and our lack of response to our expectations limit God, When last did we have a great expectation? When last did we came to church expecting to receive a fresh infilling, a time of refreshing, when last did we expected something exceedingly abundantly far more than what we can think or imagine.

Agg you know man it will be like last sunday, ag we do it always like this, ag you know.....

Hear the Word of the Lord this morning, "My children it is time to broaden your horizen, it is time for you to step out of your self made molds, break down the walls around you and see Me and see My power. Stop limiting Me, stop placing boarders around your expectations, come to Me with an Expectant Heart and surely I will meet you, I am the Lord your God, beside Me their is no one, I spoke and the world came into existence, there is nothing that is too small or to big for Me, open up, broaden your hearts and minds, be like My servant Jabez and start to say Lord extent my boarders, widen my tent pens, extent my territory. Come come unto Me with an expectant heart, I am the Lord Your God I am faithful to My Word and to the promise of My Word, know this declares the Lord God Almighty My Word will never return unto Me void, I will do what I have said I will do."

LOOK WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE

We serve an Awesome and Amazing God

Almost four months ago I realized that my eye sight was deteriorating, every day it was getting weaker and weaker, then about three months ago one Friday morning I woke up, and had lost almost all of my eye sight, I could not see further than 1 (one) meter in front of me, everything was a blur, and I felt like I was dying. when I went to the doctor he tested my blood sugar it was 24.8, my blood preasure was very high, and I had problems with my kidneys. the diagnosis was that I am Type 2 Diabetic and I was placed on a diet accompanied with medication, from the Doctors office I went to the optometrist, the diagnosis was not good, there was nothing they could do for me, and it would take weeks if not months for them to determine the extent of the damage to my eyes and if possible for my eye sight to recover somewhat but it would never be normal again.

I went before God, and reminded Him of the promises of His Word.

I only recently started to fulfill a dream I had for 34 Years, and I can not go blind now, I mean come on I am 39 almost 40, I still want to work for the Lord, preach a whole lot of sermons, lead thousand to Christ, and travel the world, I can not go blind now.

God heard my cry, and He answered my prayers, my blood sugar have been within normal range for the past month and a half, and my eye sight is better than what it was, and to top it all Spiritually I can feel there is a difference, there is a new fire burning in side of me a new Zeal for the work of the ministry.

I learned the reality of my body being the Temple of God, and that we should take care of our bodies, eat a balanced diet, exercise and spend a lot of time in God's presence

Who Cares?

What is wrong with us??

 Have we no sense of pride in the God we serve? 
Have we no pride in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior?

When I look around at my christian "brothers and sisters" one get a feeling of who cares? who cares if the world is dying? who cares if people are going to hell? who cares if the world mocks our God and Savior? who cares?

Today one cannot say anything derogatory about Islam, Muhammad, Allah etc. and you have a holy jihad, But oh boy feel free to mock Jesus, feel free to use His Name, the Name that is above every other name, in vain, lets use that awesome name as a cuss word, lets use that Name, in profanity, who cares? They can mock our Savior in cartoons, movies, books, newsletter, hey who cares?

They can burn our Bibles, who cares? hey they can come and burn down our churches, and kill and destroy us, who cares?

 Do we only offer God lip service?
Do we only serve Him with our mouths, and not with our hearts?

I dare you, if you want to see if someone is truly worshiping Jesus Christ of Nazareth, attend a prayer meeting, attend an evening service, or be at church when the pastor is not there?

I dare you, if you want to see if someone is sold out to God, visit them at their homes, their work places, and see what they are doing?

I dare you if you want to see if someone is sold out to God, ask someone to pray with you?  

Are you sold out to God

Outreach to Malawi 29 March to 10 April 2012

I am back from our outreach to Malawi, with Harvester International Ministries, I left Polokwane on the 29th of March at 01H00, we arrived in Mozambique at 09H00, that night we slept over at Kasa msica in Mozambique, we woke up the following morning at 03H00 and at 04H30 we were on the road again to Kasungu Malawi. We arrived at Kasungu, just after 9 that evening, we pitched our communal tent and everybody slept in the open.

Saturday 31/03/2012 we started to pitch our tents, after we had some grub, we had a couple of hours to meet everybody in the team, we were a total of 13 people, the afternoon, we went to meet our interpreters, and they had to be shown which areas we will be working in

Sunday morning we had our official first church service in Malawi, and were honored to have the governor of the province there, Jaco brought a teaching on love, after that I was given the opportunity to bring the sermon.

God laid a prophetic message for this area on my heart, and I ministered to the people.

Monday morning we all woke UP at 05H00 am, and prepared to go out two by two into the various areas, we were 5 South African teams and three Malawian teams. What an experience to walk out in the rain, to preach Jesus

We entered the first village, and preached unto them Jesus, many came to the Lord, and accepted Jesus, we then went on to train this handful of people, a class room at the village school, was made available to us, more people came and joined us, My team mate Sonnette Ferreira taught the people how to use the bandanna.

We prayed for many people for healing, 114 people accepted Jesus on the 1st day.

The second day we went to another village, where we met 5 village chiefs, this was a group village, after telling them about Jesus the whole village accepted Jesus, over 80 people came to Jesus, including the village chiefs, that afternoon, we received our first testimony, on Monday we had prayed for two small kids in ICU, in the hospital, God through prophecy, said that the kids would be healed that same hour, the next day Tuesday, the father brought the 2 kids, healed, Praise Jesus.

Over the next couple of days we saw a total of 370 people coming to Jesus, we saw a deaf-mute girl, hearing and speaking again, a cripple lady, who could not walk for years, walking and leaping and praising God, we saw, people set free from witch craft, and cults, people receiving healing from diverse, disease, including malaria.

Averages of 500 people a day were accepting Jesus through the 8 teams, our team planted two Churches, and another team planted two churches, all other teams planted a church each.

A total of 3500 plus people had accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior, many, many people were healed, we baptized twenty people, and the other teams, baptized 50 plus people in total.

Sunday we had our first services in our newly planted churches, praise Jesus, we had led 11 chiefs to Jesus and all 11 were at church Sunday morning, the special group village chief, asked for prayer, he wanted me to pray for him for wisdom, to lead these villages, AMEN Hallelujah

Monday morning we left Kasungu just before 04H00 am, I arrived back home Tuesday afternoon, around 15H00 (pm)

A great thanks to all who had contributed to this outreach, Praise and honor belongs to God Almighty, thank you Jesus

A question

Early this morning while in bed, I was talking to God, pertaining to something that is really bogs my mind

God reminded me of the following scripture

Mat 9:37-38 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.

Now Jesus command was that we must pray that God send laborers into the harvest field, right.

As Missionary Pastor I have the following questions

1. Why do people pray Lord send laborers, but they never volunteer themselves
2. We are always so glad that God laid it on somebody else's heart to go into mission, so that we don't have to leave our comfort zone
3. Why must missionaries always struggle to raise the needed funds for an outreach
4. Why do people in church say, "I will not support missions to Africa, I will not give money to save black people, we have so many white people that have lack?, why not care for them?" But yet they have done nothing on their part to help, to contribute to the needs of these people. They shy away from the beggar, the malnourished, and those with ill health, they will not support their local missions, they use race as an excuse not to get involved
5. We all know Jesus last commandment was for us to go out and make disciples of all Nations, what happened to all Nations???
6. We pray Lord send laborers, but we do not contribute financially to help carry the load, of those whom God send to work in the Harvest field.

We expect the church to conquer evil, spread the gospel, reach the lost, help the needy, but we do nothing on our part.

As a church we are called to be warriors, to fight evil, but we send soldiers out, ill equipped to do the work.

All it takes to make a difference is a monthly contribution to your churches mission fund, if 100 people in church each give a R100 a month for missions, we will have R10 000 a month to reach the unsaved.

What can R100 buy you?
a large Pizza? 4 packs of smokes? 9 litres of petrol, 8 litres of Diesel, one Lazy aged steak at Spur? oops that costs more than a R100 rand, scrape the steak.

I want you to look at your finances, we can spend a R100 on many things, that brings no return, God promises us a 30 fold, 60 fold and 100 fold return on the seed we sow into his Kingdom. now what is R100 multiplied by 30, 60 or a 100??

Come on saints, get real about your faith, show me the works that accompany your faith

If you wish to start making a change and contribute to mission outreaches or to join an outreach please contact me.

What Happened? Where did we go wrong?

Mar 16:16-20 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

What happened to us as so called "believers", why is it that we do not find the following in the church anymore

Do we still see demons cast out?
Do we see the sick healed?
Do we see the dead raised?
The Lame walk?
The deaf hear?
The blind see?

According to Mark chapter 16, these attesting signs will accompany those who believe, attesting according to the online dictionary is defined as

at·test (-tst)
at·test·ed, at·test·ing, at·tests
1. To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine: The date of the painting was attested by the appraiser.
2. a. To certify by signature or oath: attest a will.
b. To certify in an official capacity.
3. To supply or be evidence of: Her fine work attests her ability. See Synonyms at indicate.
4. To put under oath.To bear witness; give testimony: attested to their good faith.

If we read Mark 16 correctly it says these confirming signs, will accompany those that believe, the signs will confirm that you not only believe, but have believed, and as a result of your faith these signs are accompanying your ministry.

In verse 20 of Mark 16 we read "the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following"

If I am a believer and a disciple of Jesus Christ, and I preach the good news of the Kingdom of God then according to Mark 16 God will confirm that I belong to His Kingdom, and that what I have preached is from Him, with signs and wonders.

Yes my dear ones throw your stones, ask me, does this then mean that we do not believe?. If you believe you will be busy spreading the gospel to all nations, you will be about winning souls, and adding souls unto the Kingdom of God. Sadly however this is no longer the case, the church no longer believes, the church no longer has the burning flame in her midst.

when you talk to people about miracles and wonders, about the Holy Spirit and the gifts, they have a lame excuse, all these have fallen away, quoting Paul in 1Corinthians 13, where he speaks about love, Paul was speaking as to when Christ would return then all these things would seize to be, and the imperfect will be replaced by the perfect, but until then, we ought to be busy about the things of the Kingdom.

Ever wonder why there are so few miracles and signs today, go and look what is proclaimed from the pulpit, go and hear what is being said. Church has become a platform for encouraging people, pastors have become motivational speakers, and proclaimers of doctrine, and not the Good News.

Doctrine and motivating people is taking president, next up is prosperity, and wealth, all the time deceiving people that all is well, while their is no evidence that God is there.

When last did a demon manifest in your church?
When last did people ran to the front, confessing sins?
When last was the actual gospel preached in your church?

I am just wondering, why we do not see the Acts of the Apostles duplicated in our churches today

Ever asked your pastor/reverend/bishop/apostle/priest why Mark 16 is not happening in your church? I dare you this day, ask them and see their response, Ye of little faith, will the son of man find any faith when He cometh again?

Recalculating

I've been doing some recalculating, looking at where I was, where I am right now, and where I went wrong.

While sitting in a restaurant last night, my wife and I started talking about the supernatural, those things we deem not normal, or natural, and she said to me, that it is not right, that it borders on what is bad.

I started to explain to her about the people of the bible and how they had supernatural natural life's.

ADAM had a face to face encounter with God on a daily basis, Abraham had a supernatural natural life, he was called the friend of God, he had more than one encounter with angels, so did Enoch, Moses had face to face meetings with God, he did many signs and wonders, how about Joshua, Daniel, Ezekiel, Joel, the apostles, all of them had a supernatural natural life.

My wife then replied, yes but what about today? As she said that, I was reminded by the Holy Spirit, of the numerous supernatural events that happened in my own life, and for the most part of 7 years, the supernatural was natural to me, (but of such things I do not wish to write about myself)

When we got home, I realized what it was that I was missing, I am missing that supernatural natural life, all those events I was earlier reminded of, the visits to paradise, the physical walls of protection, the spectacular hosts of heaven, the encounters with the Almighty.

Then I realized that I had become so involved with trying to figure out the truth, and gaining knowledge, that I allowed myself to slip out of the supernatural natural, to a mere natural, thirst for knowledge, I had lost my hunger and thirst for the supernatural natural way of living. for ten years my only thirst was for knowledge and recognition, before I went to the mission field, my life was supernatural natural, now it is just plain natural.

This morning I am sitting in my office remembering the height from which I had fallen, I am standing humble before an Almighty God, acknowledging that I have fallen from that place I once had. I had traded that which was awesome and spectacular for religion, for doctrine, and knowledge, I was stupid, thinking that if I had all the answers I would be better of, I fell for the same lie that Eve had fallen for, I fell for knowledge, I traded the supernatural for knowledge.

My prayer today is that God will have mercy on me, and forgive me, that He will help me, to find my way back to Him, back to the supernatural natural. I long for that place once again