God’s Government and the Nature of Christ
The government of God is coming forth one way or the other. This is a major event and a thing the enemy has wanted to destroy so viciously. There does exist NOW those who God has chosen to spearhead this government that will bring the body of Christ into order, thus making it much more powerful and effective in the earth. What has the enemy done to try stop this? Everything possible from trying to kill those who were called to this to perverting the whole thing to raising up his own false decoys to confuse the whole issue. He has raised up many false apostles to try step into this move and take it down a road that is not of God. He has raised up many false prophets to take this whole thing down the wrong road. And, I MUST SAY THIS LOAD AND CLEAR… it is not necessarily that he has raised up his own NON BELIEVERS to do this. He has come into the lives of believing people and convinced or motivated them down this road and caused them to believe various perversions of the truth to enlist them in his plan to thwart the government of God that is pressing to come forth. There is an abundance of outright false apostles and prophets alongside legitimate true Christians with a call on their lives who have been enticed away from the pure truth into excepting a perverted form of it and then stepped out and instigated things, doctrines, revelations, moves… etc, that are not from the heart of God. We all are anxious for this move of God’s to come forth, but it is human nature to step out and to try get something going on our own. This is where the enemy has found an inroad… by using our own desire to see something come forth. In their desire to see the government of God come forth many have stepped into presumptuous positions thinking themselves to be the apostles and prophets that are to spearhead this - God’s government, and in truth there are many who are in this false move who are called to be in the real move. They have simply stepped out ahead of schedule in the same way Abraham tried to “implement the vision” on his own and brought forth Ishmael.
In those apostles and prophets and others that will bring forth the government of God that is from Him there must exist a certain nature that is able to carry this call. None will be bent on their own secret agenda that desires a kingdom or ministry to attain prestige, recognition or some other benefit that caters to the flesh. The entire drive of the true apostles and prophets is for the reputation of Christ to be protected above all. They seek to reveal Christ as He IS, and not how He has been portrayed in the many and various insanities that have risen up over the years. The time for the true nature and character of Christ to be presented in the earth is here and the time for the silly, mislead, and false depictions of Christ needs to be put away. If your heart is NOT fully dedicated to presenting the true nature and character of Christ above what you think you can get out of a ministry then you will be trapped in the snares the enemy has set up and you will be aiding him in his efforts and not God in His desire to bring forth HIS truth. True apostles in this time will walk in humility and in a spirit of meekness. Someone who thinks himself an apostle and walks in a very intolerant way and demanding way is NOT walking in the manner that will define those real apostles and prophets that are called for the building up and perfecting of the body. NOTE! – this does not mean that the apostles and prophets that are being established will not call a spade a spade… they will, but they will do it in a manner that seeks to bring healing and not hurt and further destruction to the body. I have met several who have called themselves apostles for this time and I can fit the amount of mercy and grace they have on the head of a pin. They were and still are intolerant, demanding and have no time for the hurting in the church… after all… they are apostles and have no need or time for those of lesser callings… they must be about their most important business and none of the peon Christians should be getting in their way as they do. So… let this writing here be a word of repentance to those who are false apostles and false prophets and a word to those who have such a call, but have stepped out too early and gone down the road of assumption, presumption and immaturity.
The government of God is coming forth and in vessels God has chosen and is raising up we will come to know the nature and character of Christ in a greater way because these will exemplify it in their lives. They will be full of mercy and meek and loving and quick to forgive and re-establish the brethren back into fellowship. Their walk will be characterized by the working of the Holy Spirit in the various gifts, but again the teaching will be about drawing near to Christ and not about the seeking of gifts. They will be consumed by the desire to be continually in the presence of God.
The government of God is coming forth to put the body in order, to have a bride without spot or wrinkle. That is the course of things set forth. This is all a work of God and of the Holy Spirit… it is NOT a work by our own will. The way holiness will come into the body of Christ is NOT by us in our own power trying to rid ourselves of the old nature. It will be in submitting our will to the will of the Father as He reveals each step to us in the matter. It is a work of God and the Holy Spirit… I can’t stress that enough because there is such insanity going on again by many trying to bring in the holiness of God by the efforts of the flesh. As if the Holy Spirit of God is going to show up by an invitation sent out by human flesh. It is the other way around… as God sends out HIS invitations to holiness to us - “IN THE FLESH” we will respond and come to sit at His feet; and by sitting at his feet and beholding HIM… we shed ourselves of fleshly desires and enter into a walk that is more in character with the nature of Christ.
There are a multitude of prophets who continue to put out words almost every day. They HAVE NOT come into the call that is pure and so needed. The fact that they prophesy almost every day and often prophesy contradictions every other day is an indication that they are not bringing forth the nature and character of Christ to the body as is needed… it is more an indication of their own appetites. It is an inherent danger with any of the gifts that exercising them can become an addiction and I have found that prophesy is about the most addictive gift and really does take someone a time of “recovery.” We must be able to prophesy without becoming addicted to the elements of the prophetic. It is a high calling to prophesy. It is a “fleshly” high when other people listen. It is a “fleshly” high when many affirm us as prophets, but if it is not the desire and effort of the prophet to bring forth the nature and character of Christ into His body than what that prophet has fallen into is the addiction of the office that is an inerrant occupational hazard. Addiction and confusion will continue to permeate this arena until much repentance and turning has been accomplished.
Individuals who promote the doctrine of “contingent prophecy” alleviate themselves from accountability concerning their own prophetic words. If the promises and prophecies they spoke do not come true - it is never their fault. It is the fault of someone else failing to fulfill their end of the bargain. Those who prophesy and continue to use this as their excuse are ADDICTS who have become addicted to the prophetic and the prophetic has become their daily FIX. They need to prophesy, they need to be heard, they need to have the continued affirmations of people who will listen to them and it is this ADDICTION without repentance and turning from it that has them continuing to prophesy about things that never do come to pass. These can be as much addicted to the prophetic as any alcoholic or drug addict. This is a time to stop, repent and be healed of the prophetic addiction. Mind you… I am also writing to a large number of people who have a real and sincere call to the prophetic on their lives, but they have become addicted to the elements of the prophetic and the focus of bringing forth the nature and character of Christ into the Body is NOT present in what they do and minister to the Body.
I desire to announce that God is establishing and bringing forth His government and to give insight as to the elements that should and will exist in those vessels He has raised up for this purpose. Their heart, and I cannot stress this enough, will be to re-establish the nature and character of Christ. They WILL NOT BE habitually prophesying. Many of these prophets that are called to this building up of the Body in this time and in this form may not prophesy much or at all. One will find that the office of a prophet is NOT to prophesy, though he may have and may still, but the office is held by one called by God to work to establish the body of Christ, the government of God and to seek to get the nation to turn back to a God they had once known or the call to a nation to turn to God that they had not known before. For one to say they hold the office of a prophet and involve themselves everyday in a multitude of prophecies being produced like a “rubber stamp” factory – that individual is really not one called to that office… or if he/she is – they have not yet walked in the purity of the office.
God is bringing forth His government and He is calling forth those true apostles and prophets who are of the nature of Christ in bringing forth the nature of Christ. It is my hearts cry that the foolishness stop that continues to portray itself as the prophetic when it has taken on the form of a spiritual opium den. Not only are many prophets addicted to the gift and put out daily words, but many of those who read what they write have become prophetic word addicts - needing to read prophetic words everyday for their own fix. These things feed on each other. One group addicted to giving the words and the other addicted to receiving the words. These two groups give each other the daily fix they have come to need and rely on.
This is a proclamation that the government of God is coming forth and it will be revealed and God and Christ will be raised up in a pure way. This is a call to those still spinning their wheels in the prophetic and those who continue to read everything “new” everyday to stop the merry-go-round, take a breath and get re-directed… No matter how potent your visions and prophecies of the past have been, they do not, will not and cannot compare to the revelation of the nature and character of Christ that is revealed by sitting at His feet.