Resetting The Stones & Kingdom Worship

Many have been speaking of the shift that is taking place in the Body of Christ. We can sense it, we can see evidence of it, but many have not been able to really put a name to it. We know that false Christs are here, as they have been in every age, but we also know that as they prepare their false church, God is readying his Glorious Church, The True Bride of Christ. This Bride comes from every tribe, tongue, ethos, and language group but communicates one message: Jesus is Lord, The Father, Son, and Spirit, are one, and you must repent and be born again to enter into this Kingdom not made with hands. The Kingdom Age is here and your church-as-usual- clothes will not fit.

Revelation 22:17

¹⁷And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

The Spirit (God in the Believer) and Bride (The Global, Eternal Body of Christ from all Ages of Humanity) say, Come. They invite us to the greatest party ever: The Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

A Divine Dream

Recently (January 28, 2012), I had a dream that God gave the interpretation to. I have also shared this with other leaders who live a credible life and can judge spiritual matters. We know in part, and we prophesy in part. No one has the full interpretation on the Word of God but God himself. God created the Body in such a way that we should recognize our need for each other to really grow into the full mature Body of Christ that God intends. As I share, I believe that this dream will confirm for some and explain for others similar revelations about The Body of Christ:

I had a dream about a wedding band. It had many sections to it and diamonds in each section. Then the ring began to separate in sections, the framework begin to crumble. I thought maybe it was a fake ring, but as it crumbled, the stones fell out. I picked it up. The stones were real diamonds as I held them up to the light. The dream ended.

As I was in service, worshipping the Lord (January 29, 2012), the Lord replayed the dream to me and the Lord said, “This is what you saw;”

“The ring represented the structure of church and the symbol of covenant. The stones were the Body of Christ. The structure was crumbling, but the stones were real and genuine. The stones, the living stones (THE CHURCH) were good. They needed a new setting. I am resetting the stones. The church will go through a period of resetting into a more fortified structure that can hold the stones. Some things in the foundation have caused the crumbling. I am resetting the foundation so that it holds the stones.”

I believe God is resetting the structure, the Apostles and Prophets so that His Body may function at full capacity. In that re-setting, God is also doing a work in how we worship.

Whether you have sensed the shift or not, the structures that held church together is cracking. And God intends for it to crack. He will not put new wine into old wineskins. He told the disciples at Passover, “I will not drink the wine again until I drink it new in heaven with you.” As he demonstrated and showed a principle of the Kingdom at his first miracle of turning water to wine, Jesus is reserving his best for last. He is pouring out His best wine, The Outpour of the Holy Spirit in a Global Outpouring on the Last Age.

Late last year, I was in prayer and was taken up into the Spirit. I saw saints dressed in white robes. They were setting the table for the Marriage Supper. They surrounded the table, their arms were locked around each other and they were singing. The sound was unlike anything in earth. The Lord was speaking but he sounded like a shofar. I could hear them singing,

Jesus is coming

Jesus is coming

Jesus is coming

Back from God

Be ready

Be ready

Jesus is coming

Back from God

It took me about an hour to really recover and come down from that encounter. I shared this encounter at a Women’s conference in June 2011. I can still hear them singing in my spirit. Listen, you may not believe in encounters with God, but one thing is sure: Jesus return is imminent!

I asked the Lord about the sound I heard in heaven. He said it was a sound from a different order, a different priesthood. He said it was after the order of Melchisedek. It Is the Kingdom Sound. Now, if you have been near any church or worship conference, everyone talks about the Davidic order, the Levitical order of worship and how important it was and is. Don’t get me wrong: this order has certainly enriched, empowered us, and served the purpose to reveal God to us in worship, to open the heavens, but I am only relaying a message: With the Kingdom Age there is coming, and indeed is already here, the establishment of Sound coming from God’s prophetic men and women who are ministers of worship, indeed we all really are called priests and kings in the presence of the Lord. The sound that God is stirring up is not to build a fan base but to minister to God and God alone. I asked God to further explain and he took me to the following verses:

The Greatness of the New Priest

²⁰ And inasmuch as He was not made priest without an oath ²¹ (for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him:

“The Lord has sworn
And will not relent,
‘You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek’

²² by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.

²³ Also there were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing. ²⁴ But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. ²⁵ Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

²⁶ For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; ²⁷ who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. ²⁸ For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.

Here are some things God told me about why worship will change, and why it will begin here:

Jesus’ priesthood is not patterned after the Levitical, but after Melchisedek

But this leads to a WHY? Why is it NOT patterned after the Levitical order or the pattern David set up?

David’s pattern was a foreshadowing of heaven’s pattern. He instituted a pattern of night and day worship where those minstrels and singers were to worship the Lord by course. Even in this, they worshipped by shifts. In heaven we won’t need to worship by shifts. We will worship forever without tire, weariness, or other things our flesh is subject to.

So, why IS Jesus’ priesthood not of the old pattern? Here are some reasons taken directly from scripture:

·         His priesthood is eternal

·         His priesthood is incorruptible

·         His priesthood is unchangeable

·         His priesthood is undefiled

·         His priesthood is separate from sinners

·         His priesthood is higher than the heavens

·         His priesthood operates on a single acceptable eternal sacrifice

·         His priesthood is not weak through fleshly operation

·         He has been perfected forever

So, the Lord had to break it down for me. If we worship from the Levitical, what we offer God can never meet the above. As the Holy Spirit shifts us and allows us to put our ear to heaven, when we sing what heaven is singing and play what heaven is playing, rather than writing and singing and playing out of the soulish realm, we enter into worship that is eternal, incorruptible, unchangeable, undefiled, separate from the sin nature, and we step into the presence of Jesus, after the order of Melchisedek.  Our worship allows the place where we sit (in heavenly places) to begin to interact and encounter this earthly realm and things begin to visibly shift in the natural.

You may ask, does that mean the Levitical pattern that David set is wrong or is no more? I would not say it is either. I would say that God is releasing us to worship Jesus in a better covenant. I look at what has happened to the Levites. The commercialization and merchandising of music ministry into Gospel industry has done what was only inevitable: corrupted what should be for Christ alone. No, not everyone has let stardom go to their head, but the fame and fanfare and attention that was once God’s is now for distribution sadly in too many instances. But God is raising up kings, priests, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors, apostles, who are after the heart of God, a band that knows if they have Won Christ, and no Grammy, yet have his attention, it is enough. I won’t point to any one group of people that are operating in this flow, because I am not trying to point out or give credit to any particular movement, but it is happening. People are hungry for God. They are desperate to get in His face  to see themselves in His eyes; to be a part of the worship happening in heaven. To experience their heavenly seat while completing the assignment God has given them in this earth.

As a songwriter, psalmist, and minstrel when God calls on me, I want to offer up to God that which is eternal. I want to sing His heart back to Him, nothing less. It means I must be willing to shift in my thinking to pursue His mind. I encourage you to read and reflect over the verses above. Ask yourself, If the Levitical model ended with Christ, why are we so bent on remaining there? Ask God to take your worship life and show you what rituals you’ve instituted for the sake of ritual. Ask God to allow you to hear what they are singing in heaven. You won’t be the same. Here is the picture of heaven’s worship:

Revelations 4:8-11

⁸And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

⁹And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,

¹⁰The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

¹¹Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Day & Night worship, falling down is a good thing, your crown of achievement is thrown at his feet, and you know your purpose: to bring pleasure to God forever. This, my friends is the Kingdom AGE! Let’s go up together!

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