"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old is gone,
the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17
"And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being
transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the
Lord, who is the Spirit." 2 Corinthians 3:18
"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made
perfect in weakness.' Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my
weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me." 2 Corinthians 12:9
Is it any wonder that only fifteen-percent of those entering America's
school system actually graduate from college? Questioning relevancy for commitment
and attendance, youngsters are rarely provided accurate and viable answers.
Thus, getting out of bed, not missing that yellow bus, sitting through long
and often boring classes, completing homework assignments, and pulling off
impeccable grades, simply don't make a whole lot of sense to the uninspired. In
the absence of encouragement and motivation, one's vision and perception of
outcome remain miniscule and bleak.
Furthermore, short of perfection and a perpetual, competitive challenge to
excel above and beyond one's classroom peers, the student anticipates and, in
too many cases, experiences academic and parental dissatisfaction, rejection,
and a certain degree of emotional abandonment. From there, hopeful of
approval and praise, he becomes externally-oriented, compulsively striving all the
more to accomplish and appease.
This vicious cycle feeds on itself and is never ending. A compliment may
facilitate further quests toward perfection, an unhealthy focus on achievement
for all the wrong reasons...acceptance by significant individuals, and
attainment of identity from an ever-changing, confusing grading system, unreachable
standards, sending inconsistent and inaccurate messages. "Failing" readily
translates into, "I'm a failure!" Apathy, indifference and complacency are
birthed from this insidious misconception.
Again, we seek worldly approval, instead of recognizing our God-given
freedom to choose respective paths, and bask in Heaven's unconditional love,
Glory's empowerment for astute choices and much needed self-validation. All that
leads to jumping through more proverbial hoops, in a quest for appreciation and
acceptance. Thus, we excel through good works and other means, for what is,
in actuality, an "automatic" from Heaven's perspective...full approval,
praise and matriculation into the Body of Christ through the Blood, by
Grace...unmerited favor.
The written Word becomes the Christian's relevancy for being, underscoring
several facts, inclusive of Glory to Glory's progression of sanctification. We
profess a newness of identity, comprised of Covenant and Commission.
It's all meticulously spelled out. When stumped by unanswered questions,
even then, the Bride receives an invitation to approach the Father without
reservation, as though sin had never existed in Her walk. Why would we make the
trip? For acquisition of wisdom, knowledge (a knowing) and understanding (the
revelatory). God's classroom will never be short of relevancy!
The Father wants us in a position whereby informed and unctioned decisions
are made through personal crises, venues of introspection and vote-casting,
while we consider the worth of quality decisions, from whence there's no
return. I'm talking about a higher walk in Christ, where His thoughts are directly
linked to corresponding actions, the epitome of seeking and obeying Him, a
mode where lack simply doesn't exist any more, only full sufficiency in
everything pertaining to life and godliness. Supernatural success follows. Nothing
becomes impossible on that highway.
This is indubitably the fruit of a Spirited-directed journey, Covenant's
reward for acknowledging Him in all matters, an anointed enhancement and
clarification of thinking for oneself, a championing of intimacy through the Holy
Spirit, our connection to Glory and the One we glorify.
Toward that end, the Bride salutes no man along the way. She shuns external
influences and dutifully goes about the Father's business...working the
works, reflecting His heartfelt intent, and infusing Heaven into each earthly atom
and molecule.
Being pleasers of men, and not the Most High, entraps and compromises self,
inhibiting an assurance of peace, joy and well-being. That could never be His
best for the Family. As He is, we have become in this world, exemplars of a
living, Resurrected Christ!
Furthering the previously mentioned premise, and I've shared this thought
with educators, let me say this. Most students really and truly don't know why
they're in the classroom. Many in the Church identify with that dilemma. Few,
in positions of authority, have taken the time to sit them down and define
academic and spiritual relevancy. Actually, the two are closely related.
People aren't told about the many benefits linked to their commitment and
investment, those long and short-term rewards for hard work, steadfastness and
diligence.
Such is the case in the Body of Christ. We have lost our of sense of
relevancy! The Holy Spirit has been working overtime to change all of that. Dreams
and visions have never been more bountiful. There's a revelation in the land.
Unquenchable Fires are burning in bellies. Those marvelous dreams and visions
won't leave us alone, because they are a part of Him and His Beloved,
previews of destiny, what is yet to come.
We have become Glory's Depository, the Ark of God's Covenant, containing and
conduiting the miraculous, a Blood-bought and fueled harvest of what was
seeded by Believers over the years, through the fivefold ministry, this Army's
martyrs and prophets. Their blood has placed an unfathomable demand on this
planet, the ground, for an antithesis of Satan's initial intent, God's
onslaught of resurrection, restoration and reconciliation.
A noted psychologist once remarked, "An incredible amount of psychopathology
could be healed in five minutes, if guilt were instantly eradicated from
humanity. The physical body's wellness would concentrically follow." We heal and
lose weight from the inside out. This world, focusing on the tangible and
palpable, has erroneously reversed that model. We are to lay aside all that
opposes transition.
Nothing could be more accurately stated, since a full spectrum of emotional
and physical malaise, disease and disorders, gains genesis from an
undercurrent of rejection, abandonment, guilt, shame, foreclosed and fragmented
identity. Men, women and children push themselves beyond their anointed limits.
The upshot and consequence of that, far too often translate into
psychological and medical challenges. Why? The answer is simple. Spirit, soul and body
are intricately connected. "As a man thinks and speaks, so is he!"
Jesus is our Lord, Savior and Redeemer. At the beginning of this Church Age,
the Holy Spirit was dispatched from Heaven and received in that Upper Room
by one-hundred-and-twenty. Those in attendance bucked the natural tide and
accepted Glory's call. More were invited, but they apparently became sidetracked
by subservient priorities.
Many are called, but few choose to go. The indwelling Revelator places
utmost priority on Supernaturally teaching, imparting wisdom, knowledge and
understanding, as He unveils the Risen Christ, who we have become in Him. Once
more, relevancy is deemed paramount in His eyes!
Those following the Spirit are regularly prompted and encouraged throughout
their journeys. The Third Person of the Trinity has no difficulty connecting
dots of relevancy, while assembling components of destiny, piecing together
that proverbial puzzle of life and godliness, as the Follower of Christ
marches to the beat of a different Drummer. Directed steps lead to an exponential
increase of manifestation, a demand that brings Heaven to earth.
Additionally, God knows how important encouragement and validation are to
the Family. Hope deferred makes the heart sick. Though visions and promises
tarry, we are instructed to wait for them. Having done all to stand, the
Christian strictly does nothing but that. In his weakness, the Father's strength is
made perfect.
Prior to the "Dark Ages," during which a remarkably oppressive span of
spiritual stillness and non-creativity was apparent, miracles became commonplace,
and were freely discussed on a daily basis. Many had been chronicled by the
respected men of that day. Unusual signs and wonders presented as Heaven's
norm, a contemporary spiritual baseline, acts far beyond human imagination.
Although unbelievers were, and always will be, walking this earth, the
majority weren't overly awestruck when the sick were healed, and the deceased came
back to life again. A desensitization rapidly followed, hell's lethargy, a
numbing and "dumbing down" of society. In fact, people went from believing
anything and everything, to throwing the baby out with the bath water, becoming
naysayers over the richest of miracles. Resurrections and healings led to a
crucifixion. Black and white, dichotomous thinking, had taken precedence.
Relevancy didn't seem to matter.
Millions are acquainted with Santa Claus, but few know about the real
man...Nicholas of Tolentino (Saint Nicholas), who was awesomely used of God in the
miracle ministry. Supernatural providence, in addition to a myriad of signs
and wonders, was the signature of his call. The sick were healed. Death
couldn't survive the Law of the Spirit of Life flowing from Nicholas. One day, he
resurrected the partridges on his own dinner plate! That wasn't an aberrant
act for him, but merely business as usual.
We have rounded a corner in the Church Age. Unusual, unprecedented,
unparalleled exploits are poised to leap into our midst at the mere mention of that
Name, Divinely elevated above all others. The curser, and I say this
prophetically, will win souls and move mountains, when flippantly and irreverently
referencing Heaven's Holy Child! No greater Power exists. Explosions of Life are
before us. Tripwires will be triggered by even the smallest acts of
obedience.
Heaven's Teacher has entered the Classroom of Relevancy. Let's attend to His
words!
"How often have you read about that lifeless Valley of Dry Bones? Indeed, it
physically and literally existed. Such is the case today. Deadness can be
found everywhere. Contemplate Heaven's presentation back then, and now. What
did the Most High say to Ezekiel? It all commenced with a question...'Do you
believe that I can make these bones live?' The eyes of the Lord scanned this
planet, seeking a single individual who would listen, understand, obey, and
agree with the Word. Nothing has changed, to date. Ezekiel was in that Secret
Place. I Am calling forth the Bride to prophesy, even in the face of death.
Gifts of faith are slated for liberal disbursement. So, once more, the Almighty
seeks a gapstander, a person of agreement to prophesy, or call those things
which be not as though they were, until each becomes. Never underestimate the
Power and ability of the Holy Spirit. He is the Wind beneath your wings! Upon
My return, will faith be found...a witness, yielded Vessels of Honor who
call upon the Breeze in the most difficult and darkest of places? That which
appears lost and dead is strategically placed to hear the Voice of God's Word
and live. The Lord's response will be in the form of creativity, restoration
and reconciliation. Remove those eyes from the circumstances of life and
ministry! Behold, newness is commissioned to overpower the contrary, as goodness
and mercy, blessings of Covenant and Commission, impregnate the atmosphere.
Speak life to your body, that city, those situations and circumstances! The
Beloved are Heaven's Mouthpiece in the forthcoming days of Outpouring. Again, who
will believe My report? Once you do, articulate what's unveiled and shared
during those Throne Room visits, and that One Who suspends and sustains the
universe will put meat on parched and dry bones, imparting resurrection and
animation, where the antithesis of irreversible death and decay once ruled. The
Alpha and Omega is just that...the Beginning and the End. Nevertheless,
listen clearly. I also have My being in the 'middle' and around the edges,
sustaining all things by the Word of My Power. Heaven operates from unfathomable,
multiple dimensions, one of many reasons why you have been called to a walk of
faith, a position from whence Glory's Presence is drawn. In the natural, one
couldn't live long enough to comprehend an iota of what's behind Glory's
destined move. Without faith in the unseen, it's impossible to please the
Creator, since that which assumes visibility gains origin from another realm.
Having done all to stand, stand! You're there, in that place, for a reason. The
Wind will precede Heaven's arrival. I shall not be early or late. The God of
all existence doesn't wear a watch. Neither is He impeded nor limited by time.
To the contrary, the One you follow abides and operates in the moment,
riding upon every unctioned breath from lips of life-generating anointings. Sell
out! Brush away the dust of doubt, those hurtful comments from vision killers
and dream annihilators, the trash that has collected on former promises.
Speak to each, as you are led by the Spirit. Your call is above and beyond man's
common. Mowing the lawn and raising the dead will be on equal par, as the
natural and Supernatural merge and converge. Like approaching a sleeping baby in
his crib, so shall the greater works be. It's all about willingness, being
in the right place at Glory's designated time. Refuse lies, such as, 'You've
blown it, are not good enough,' and all of that nonsense. What did man bring
to the table? Not much. Actually, nothing at all. Your greatest gain came
from the finished work of Christ, where the Children became bone of My bone, and
flesh of Divine flesh. All righteousness and holiness is found in a Person,
that of Heaven's Son. Those attributes are not a temporary behavior or
doctrine. Hold a funeral for the flesh, that old man, and watch your
Commander-in-Chief move mountains, rocks and stumbling stones of all sizes. There won't be a dry eye or dull moment in the House!"
Be certain to visit the Ministry's Partner Page. We need you!
I want to personally thank those who have sown precious seed into this
Ministry of the Miraculous. Our outreach is fertile ground. You have approached
the Lord with a gift. Your reward will be equal to mine. In plain terms,
partnership is a committed process of locking arms. Prayers and financial
sacrifices have never gone unnoticed in God's Kingdom. Both allow me to take the
Father's Word, signs and wonders to hurting people, those whose lives and eternal
destinies depend upon this synergy. Without question, scores are on their way
to Heaven, have been healed, thereby avoiding an early grave, because of Him
and you. Thanks for that! Together, in total obedience, let's conduit
Glory's Electricity, a creative presentation of God's love, to the four corners of
this world. No gift is too small or big. He'll anoint every sown seed. In the
meantime, expect Heaven to invade your life with Love Letters and a rich
display of Covenant! For the ones called to sow:
Dr. Paul Gervais
Speak The Word:
As I hear the Word of God, faith comes to me. Romans 10:17
For Further Study:
John 20:24-29
Revelatory Relevancy!
"When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who
dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then
it was said among the nations, 'The Lord has done great things for them.'"
Psalm 126:1-2
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