The Ghetto Anointing

⁴⁷Because thou served not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; ⁴⁸Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. ⁴⁹The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; Deut.28

²⁷And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing Isaiah 10:27

Ghetto- Any section of a city in which many members of a minority group live; or to which they are restricted by discrimination

Ghettos were originally formulated to identify, isolate and annihilate the Jews

God said to me,

I have released a Ghetto Anointing. I have released an anointing to free people from False Identification, Isolation, and Annihilation. Ghetto is not a person, it is a spirit. I have sent the anointing to destroy it.

I have been thinking about this issue for years, but God brought understanding and clarity to it.

Let me paint the picture for you:

I was born and raised in the Ghetto. I was the recipient of discrimination. It was played out in many ways. Discrimination means to be treated unfairly. It can happen in covert and overt ways. Discrimination in the ghetto comes from many sources and directions. It can come from Family, Friends, Law Enforcement, and Educational Systems. In the ghetto there is no escape from discrimination. You feel it. You experience it, and you begin to accept its restrictions and limitations without some form of divine intervention

Discrimination can have many faces:

It can be found in the way you treat the bastard child

It can be found when a school counselor decides the highest you can go is community college

It can be found in even making it into higher education and getting stuck with loans because no one told you were eligible for scholarships

It can be found in family members who say, “You’ll have 6 kids and never finish high school”

It can be found when you are profiled by law enforcement because your vehicle is too nice for the hood

It can be found when other people envy your desire for learning and destroy your materials

It can be found when mothers and grandmothers school their daughters on how to milk the system

The year I graduated high school, out of the hundreds that should have graduated, only 14 of us made it out of high school (13 girls/1 boy)

The last time I returned, many of my male friends had already died.

·        Some had been killed in shoot-outs and crossfire

·        Some had been murdered over drug deals

·        Some had died from lung cancer as a result of years of pot smoking

They never reached 40. They lived in the ghetto on the principles of the ghetto, that get glamourized by people who never lived there, or if they did they have now moved onto suburbia, selling an image that kills through ignorance, and doing it without conscience to the next generation!

This is why the yoke must be destroyed!

This capitalization off the ignorance and destruction of young people is about money, not morals. For some, the Ghetto-ization of American Youth is BIG BUSINESS! They make prey of the innocent with doctrines of devils, bearing the mindset:

·        As long as I don’t live there

·        As long as my kids don’t go to school there

·        As long as I don’t vacation there

I can turn their ignorance into a cash cow

They create the culture of violence with the Ghetto-Fabulous doctrine but they don’t have to see the effects of be immersed in what they created.

 God spoke clearly,

I have released a Ghetto Anointing. I have released an anointing to free people from False Identification, Isolation, and Annihilation. Ghetto is not a person, it is a spirit. I have sent the anointing to destroy it.

As I sought understanding, this is what He shared:

He has released the anointing to free people from

 False I.D.’s

·        The labels, prejudices, stereotypes placed upon you by men and the systems of this world have been cast off by God – He says you are his righteousness through Christ Jesus! (2 Peter 1:1)

From Isolation

·        The systems of this world that work in tandem with our sinful flesh nature bring separation from God, but God is calling us to reconcile with him so that he may set us apart unto himself

·        From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes. (Psalm 17:14)

·        The message of salvation and grace are available to us through the reconciliation by the Cross

From Annihilation

·        The enemy has come to steal, kill, and destroy, but Jesus came that we might have life and that much more abundantly (John 10:10)

God went on to say,

I’m doing away with the celebration of Ghetto

Ghetto in our culture has been normalized. At one point, ghetto was unfavorable, detestable, seen as something uncivilized, and something not to be associated with. Now, it’s the cool, hip, thing to be. Ghetto-fabulous lifestyles are promoted in music, in television, in movies, in commercials, this urbanization of the ungodly. The motto of the ghetto life, Get high, get laid, get paid, get revenge, is popularized and made acceptable, The celebration of death, suffering, and destruction, have been idolized and the anthem of Get Rich or Die Trying, has been glorified as the good life.  But God says, it’s coming to an end!

God’s releasing His anointing to destroy the culture of death and to pierce through the Kingdom of darkness. He’s releasing you and me with the power of the Cross, the bloodiest event to destroy this yoke, this war on Urban communities! It’s time to take your Hood Back!

The Gospel of Christ frees us from discrimination, limitation, intimidation, when we have VISITATION from God! The Gospel takes the Hood mentality and transforms it! We no longer live after the flesh, but after the Spirit of God! Grace empowers us to live beyond what happened to us, around us, our parents, our siblings, our hood

The Family of Christ is the New Hood. I don’t have to be beat in, sexed in, or take another life to become family! We are the Body of Christ and God is mobilizing us in this hour to take back the Hood! I asked, “Holy Spirit, to give us insight into ways to take back our communities”

The Holy Spirit said,

The enemy has stolen from the Hood for far too long!

·        Too many pharmacists have become drug dealers

·        Too many lawyers have become criminals

·        Too many doctors have become addicts

·        Too many inventors have become creators of evil

·        Too many teachers have become original gangsters

Too many gifts have turned into curses through Ghetto Mentality

The enemy seeks to keep the HOOD in steal, kill, destroy mode, to turn America into a Nation that devours its young, to steal dreams, kill babies, and destroy the hope of the future generations
But the devil is a LIAR!

God urges me to challenge you in 5 ways:

1.   Don’t be silent (Esther 4:14) You are in the Hood, your hood for a reason! You are a gatekeeper for that community in a hostile territory

2.  Educate yourself- don’t wait for someone else to do it, to give you the upper hand God’s people perish for lack of knowledge, not lack of passion, or lack of prayer. We must know what to pray, when we are not praying in the Spirit; Knowledge is power and the “power (stake) holders” will always limit the dispersal of knowledge to the poor. You must go get it!

3.  Organize and Connect with those of Like Faith, who know Good can be done in the Hood. Pray together, study together, seek God for your Hood

4.  Get to know the Decision-makers for your community- make yourself available and begin to demand better for your Hood. Ask the hard questions

5.  Find three young people (under 21) who you know are without spiritual guidance; motherless, fatherless, and begin the process of discipleship; Listen to them; ask them to tell you how they see the community and what needs to change; what injustices do they see? What ideas do they have? Invite them to become a part of the solution

God has given the anointing to destroy systematic discrimination that restricts the Hood. He wants to:

Provide better Physical quality of life

·        Better health

·        Better food

·        Better environmental conditions

·        Better living conditions

We must offer the Bread of life if we will see this transformation!

Provide better quality of Spiritual life

·        By personal revelation and relationship with Jesus

·        By creating places to worship, right in your community

·        By taking the restrictions off your expression of worship

We must offer the Living Water, the source of our life to see community change

Provide better quality of Relational life- This is the heart of God

·        To end infant mortality

·        To end genocide by abortion

·        To provide care to mothers and widows

·        To care for the orphans (children with incarcerated parents)

·        To end the single parent epidemic

·        To promote sexual purity and integrity from young to married

Provide better quality of Intellectual life

·        To end the cycle of debt

·        To counsel on stewardship

·        To empower people to find and retain emplo

·        To bring healing and resources to the mentally challenged

·        To end high school dropout

This is not an exhaustive list, but God’s Anointing has an answer and plan for FREEDOM from every Yoke!

This is a call to take back your Hood!

Not by violence, but by discovering the vision God has planned for your community and then demonstrating the love of God to those around you who lack direction and are filled with hopelessness! The ethnos are coming together for the cause of Christ. Let me remind you once more of what God is equipping His Believers to do:

I have released a Ghetto Anointing. I have released an anointing to free people from False Identification, Isolation, and Annihilation. Ghetto is not a person, it is a spirit. I have sent the anointing to destroy it.

God calls you forth to receive his anointing for the part you will play in piercing the darkness and bringing light and the power of the Holy Spirit into your Hood! You want to have Outrageous Church? Let the Outrageous God transform your Neighbor and your HOOD!

Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God (Micah 6:8)

Blessings