RHEMA 12/07/12 HOW TO BUILD HIS KINGDOM THROUGH DECLARING HIS WORD

HEARD:  Wedding dress.

VISION:  I saw a bride briskly walking down an office hallway and turn into an office cubicle.  She had a veil on her head but her face was not covered. 

HEARD:  My bride, she has work to do.  Industrious.

pIX:  I saw a busy bee flying in the air and it was carrying something.

HEARD:  A builder. 

BECOME BUILDERS IN HIS KINGDOM

1)  The Lord is asking us to be BUILDERS, (to create, form and frame) what we hope or wish for by speaking His Word.

TO BUILD

Heb 11: 1-3 NLT

Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. 2 Through their faith, the people in days of old earned a good reputation. 3 By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God's command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen.

Hebrew 11:1-3 

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

HEARD:  The declaring of a king, use your time wisely. 

REDEEM THE TIME

2)  He is asking us to not waste our time, because the days are numbered and the time is short. Spend our time wisely in being builders of His kingdom.

John 9:4

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.

Col 4:5

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. 6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Eph 5: 16

…redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

HEARD:  When she needs it, power.  It’s a lifeline,  Declare My Word.  Bold.  We need your help to decree.  Speak it exactly as you want it. 

RHEMA 12/08/12 THE BRIDES BEST WISHES

PIX:  I saw a beautiful shiny emerald green card that said BEST WISHES on it.

RHEMA 12/11/12 WARM WISHES

HEARD:  A time to reflect.  When you look into My eyes, you will see what I am seeing.  Deep pools.  Of tender love.  Warm wishes for you and yours.

HEARD:  There are so many details to take care of.  I will help you take care of them all. Game plan.  Mark My Words. 

PIX: I saw Words that had been written, then they stopped in the moderation for approval, and then were released.

HEARD:  Let them work through the process.  In God’s timing.

WHATEVER YOU SAY

3)  When He gives us the authority and power of speaking His Word, we shall have what we say.  It is always screened first, like being moderated and passing through inspection.  After it passes through those filters, the wishes we speak are sent forth to form and build something of His Word.  Here are some filters our Words pass through:

·        Through His Word and that it be not for our own carnality.

James 4:3

You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

·        Always through faith

Matt 21: 21

So Jesus answered and said to them, " Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea, ' it will be done. 22 And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

Mark 11:22

So Jesus answered and said to them, " Have faith in God. 23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea, ' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

·        According to His timing. 
 

Ecc 3:1 To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:

HEARD:  Death and life is in the power of the tongue.  You shall have what you say.  The authority in which you speak.  The power of the spoken Word. 

Prov 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

HEARD:  It’s important to decree appropriately.  How?  Confess your testimony filtered through My Word as an overcomer.  To battle, defeat and overcome.  Each time you speak, it’s a battering ram.  Against the forces.  Make a positive confession. 

LEARNING HOW TO DECREE APPROPRIATELY

He has called this generation to be overcomers. We are taken before the accuser of the brethren and put to trial.  It is by the Word of our testimony, His blood and the fact we love our lives not unto death that we overcome. 

Rev 12:11

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

1)  We battle the situation through the word of our testimony and His Word

The Word of our testimony is how we speak about the trials we go through in a positive way that defeats the enemy.  It is really hard to speak the truth of what we are facing, without confessing negative things!  We speak the truth by confessing the battle of a negative the situation.  “I am fighting such n’ such right now.” That is a mere statement of truth.  It is not owning the situation as our own, it is not claiming it, but actually stating that we are fighting it, battling it, resisting it through the Name and blood of Jesus Christ.  Many people make the mistake of saying “I have such n’ such.  Or “my” arthritis is acting up, etc.”  Instead say, “I fight arthritis.”  There ways are explaining the negative truth without owning it as your own.

Then once a fighting statement is made, then we confess what the Word of the Lord says about that issue.  An example, “But His Word says that I am more than a conqueror through Christ Jesus.”

2)  We defeat the situation by the blood of Jesus Christ

It is the power of His blood that stands as a covering for us.  It is His blood spread upon the mercy seat that defeats the devil’s accusations.  We do not have the personal power to defeat the devil, but Jesus Christ overcame him for us, by becoming the sacrifice for our sins.  When we lean upon His mercy and forgiveness, knowing our sins are blotted out of our books, it defeats the trials in which the devil has brought against us.

3)  Finally we overcome the situation by embracing the cross

Loving not our lives unto death is literally embracing the cross.  It is accepting that God is totally Sovereign and allows what touches our lives, and it also acknowledges that we reap what we sow.  When we understand that a situation is allowed by God for His purposes, it brings about a heart change where we see our choices are not lining up in obedience with His Word, His wishes for our lives. 

HEARD:  Build your house upon the rock.  The rock of My Word.  My Word can be paraphrased, yes.  It’s declaring My truth that matters.  Jesus is My Redeemer of my destructions. Positive decree based on the authority of what I have said.  Hold on and stand.  A hope that does not waver. Solid upon My rock.  It’s a strong tower a fortress. 

Psalm 107:19

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. 20 He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their  destructions. 21 Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!

IT’S OK TO DECLARE SCRIPTURE WITHOUT QUOTING IT

Speaking the scripture is like sharing it with someone:  “The Word tells me that I am His beloved and favored.  The scripture says that He strengthens me and I can do all things through Christ.  He has told me that He is my refuge in my time of need.  He is My Rock and I am building my life upon Him.”  Each one of these are positive confessions of what He promises in scripture. They are not exact quotes, but they are His truth and He backs His Word with His power and angelic hosts.

HEARD:  Here’s the key.  Joel.  Restore.  Bless and not curse.  Keep positive.  Stay within those boundaries.  Continue to press into your infrastructure.  What do you say?  Your body will heal.    Be bold.

Joel 2: 23

Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the Lord your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you— The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month. 24 The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. 25 "So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.

PIX:  I saw some chartreuse colored scrapbook paper. 

HEARD:  The angels will work with you.  Abundance.

PIX:  I saw rain fall from the sky. 

THE KEY TO RESTORATION OF HIS PEOPLE IS THE RAIN OF HIS SPIRIT

We are earnestly praying that His Joel 2:23 rain will come.  This is not when He rains His Spirit upon all flesh.  Rather this is a culmination of the early and latter rains of what He has poured out in other generations, He will pour out again all at once to restore the church.  He is not going to bring in His harvest until after He restores His church with these early and latter rains.  When these rains of restoration come, there will be great power and authority released, along with angels to go forth on the positive Words we release in restoring the years of loss.