To His Majesty

So God is moving upon me……..and others……He is changing my mindset…….changing my attitude and getting me to re-think my whole life………..He wants me to begin to see the  elements of HOW he wants these mountains taken…….like General Eisenhower planning the D-Day invasion.  He wants me to see how the different things I am engaged in my life are designed to connect together……..how my outside-the-church parts and the inside-the-church parts co-operate to fufill his vision.

More than that he wants me to be certain, 100 percent certain of what He wants me to do…….He wants me to really get it…….He really wants me to come to Him in Heaven and be changed.  God wants a face to face meeting, and I know it.

That’s just plain scary.

Know why?  Because it means you cannot go back to being mediocre.  Would I be happy being mediocre?  No…….but facing the giants in the Land is a pretty tall order, a huge order………and God says He will be with me the whole way………question is:  Do I trust Him and Do I trust His Judgment?  The greatest fear is NOT the fear of death, but the fear that your hero will not get through(that’s Oswald Chambers). 

Being left out in the lurch without a saviour to show up.  I have had a few times where I hung myself out to dry because I didn’t have a clue…….what if the one time I make the huge commitment and it’s just me?  Of course that’s the enemy talking……….The Lord will be with me in both FAILURE and in SUCCESS……and my pride and perfectionism wants to get it right the first time and not suffer through the embarassment of failing to get it right………….but how else will I get there if I don’t try. 

“Just try something!” God says, “I will be with you.  I’d rather have you fail trying then not to try at all.  That is why I am not TOO upset about your recent failures…..because son, at least you are trying………Just keep trying and don’t give up!”

It’s time to change your mindset quickly, change your attitude and focus.  See where God gave you your passions…..what fires you up and how they are connected together to fulfill a corporate vision.  So I have:  A writing gift, A passion for creativity, A passion for worship, A passion for the Tabernacle of David, A passion to encourage leaders, A passion to see creativity restored in the church and in the culture, A passion for computers, A passion for art and music, A passion to release people to be who they are creatively meant to be, A passion to break down the mindsets against creativity in the Church, A passion to see the Church realistically invade the culture without seeing their best soldiers get captured.   

I am beginning to connect the dots on ME……to see how one leads to another, and how they come together to form ONE complete thought:  Can you see it?

I want to recommend this teaching by Lance Wallnau that will help many of you creative people who are wanting to invade the culture and transform it to know what to do and how to clarify where you are going and how to get there.  The biggest issue that hit me was the issue of clarifying your secular assignment versus your ministry Vision. 

Oftentimes we are confused because we feel a sense of guilt about wanting something that is part of our secular assignment.  People who are called to secular arts…..like music for example feel guilty because they want to enter into a secular arena that is currently controlled by a false priesthood because they think that they should want ’spiritual’ things more not realizing that God has put that desire in their hearts on purpose and wants them at this time to WANT the secular assingment more. 

The reason is that the secular assignment is often the platform upon which the ministry vision is accomplished.  So God may give you a assignment to invade hollywood or secular music or wall street to lay a groundwork for a ministry vision either there or in some other region or area of the world.  God uses you in your secular assignment to bring His Order to that region or arena of the culture………You co-operate with HIS Spirit and His Spirit begins to control that region through you.  This allows the finances, the creativity, the systems of that arena to be used for the ministry vision in the church and in service to the Spirit’s vision in the Church.  One isn’t against the other, one is used to support the vision of the other.

So God may have both a secular assignment outside of the church and a ministry vision in the church…..and right  now you may want the secular assingment more……this is not a bad thing, but a good thing.  Because God is wanting to lay a foundation for the ministry vision which will come AFTER you begin to step into your secular assignment. 

 Stop feeling guilty about it…….God has made you that way on purpose.

Luke 4:18

18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed,”

The Main purpose of the invasion of the culture by God is to fulfill Luke 4:18

We are NOT trying to do what the world does better than them.  We are trying to do something that the world CANNOT do and has never even thought of doing:  Bringing a Level of Creativity that opens the door for a close encounter with the manifest presence of God.

To so infuse our creativity with the message that is proceeding out of the mouth of God that those that hear it are brought into an atmosphere and an  environment where they can genuinely encounter the Spirit of the Lord.

Read the Following from Exodus 31:

“2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

4 To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

5 And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

6 And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;”

This is not just your ordinary creative person here……….nor is this just creativity out of the soul, but it is a creativity that is in union with the SPIRIT OF THE LORD.  A literal co-operation with God that transcends normal creativity.  When a person reaches this place, they begin to co-operate with the Spirit of the Lord and He begins to reveal plans, designs and creative ideas that allows God to express His heart through creative lives in real and powerful ways:

1.  A person who likes to cook can receive recipes from heaven that bring the tastes and smells of heaven literally to earth.  When people smell and eat this food, it reminds them of a home they never knew they had

2. A person who likes to make clothes is given designs from heaven’s storehouse that reflect the beauty and glory of God in heaven and people cannot help but to wear them.

3. A person who is interested in business has dreams where he sees stock market symbols dancing up and down and God giving him foreknowledge on what to invest in

4. A person who is a musician being taken to heaven and hearing the sounds of heaven and being given divine sounds to release on earth.

All of these examples are for the purpose of creating an atmosphere and environment where God the Father can enter into different situations and engage people in a personal an intimate way.  But it is more that just excellent creativity, but a deep and personal co-operating that teaches us how to work WITH the Spirit of the Lord on a new level.  It’s more than what we have been doing…….its far closer and more intimate and involves close, personal encounters with the Spirit of the Lord.

How is this going to be done?  Through the Tabernacle of David that He will raise up in the last days, that’s how.  Think of it as a Holy Spirit Jacuzzi if you will…..a place where the whirlwind of the Spirit is constantly moving.  Different creative people enter into this whirlwind to learn to interact with the Holy Spirit in Real and tangible ways, because in this environment the veil between heaven and earth is lifted and we can begin to engage heaven directly in real and tangible ways.  When creative people leave this environment, they are like those in exodus 31……not just creative, but creative WITH the Spirit of the Lord.

That is what I believe the Lord is after…….not just creativity, but something significantly beyond creativity………a body of people who are like an open door between heaven and earth, giving the Father the access He needs to engage human lives in real and powerful ways.  Humanity and the Culture will never be changed by anything that comes out of YOU, but if through your agreement with heaven you can use your creativity to cause God to act, THEN the culture can be changed.  That is the heart of how we will do it and also the heart of why we have not been doing it up until now.