Jesus Christ is truth and sets us apart for God's use only by the spirit of truth revealed through the words of life, the gospel of the Kingdom of God. Hear a small nugget from His truth.

Jesus Christ is alive and well now all over the earth. He stands at many church doors knocking to come in and be free to transform His people into Kingdom disciples. We, His body should be as alive and well and as sent into the world as He was. We, the church need to come away with the Lord and be transformed again from our soul powered traditions of religion. We need to surrender our control of church to the Holy Spirit who is the only one who knows how to build it God's way. God is not after a successful church according to the methods of man on the earth or the culture of the day in which we live. He is after an apostolic church that is focused on the whole body of Christ being matured into His stature, downloaded from heaven with His power and saturated with His love to reach the world with the gospel of the Kingdom of God.

He now rides, in the spirit realm, the white horse of Revelation 19, across this world as the mighty warrior but soon coming visible, conquering King of Kings, Lord of Lords. So we, His body, must mount up with Him and ride now letting Him hold all the reins. We, His body, are to hold only the sword of His redemption, as the words of God are alive in us and in our mouth. As Revelation 5 reveals the Lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed to open the books of the final act on the earth and the Kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdom of our Lord. Likewise we, the church are to walk with the Lion and prevail against the gates of hell. As the Kingdom of God is revealed in us and given to us we are to arise and shine bringing all glory, honor and power unto the King of Kings. We are to know and to encounter the very presence of His throne.

We, the entire body of Christ, are to reign with Him in His authority as kings and priests. As Jesus ascended to heaven He gave gifts to the church for one purpose and with one mission; they are to mature the whole body to be ministers and disciples of the Kingdom of God. These gifts are the leaders designated by God to build the foundation of the church on Jesus Christ alone. These are teams of men and women who lead from the heart, not as Christians in another class or as Kings and Queens in the Kingdom. There is no class in the Kingdom of God, as all are equal in worth. They are to be honored for their works sake as it is a great work with much travail to mature the body until Christ be formed in them. Jesus Christ has washed us in his blood and made us (all) kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever (Rev.1:5).

Oh so sweet is the executor of the Kingdom who lives in us. He the person of the Holy Spirit directs our steps and empowers our lives for the greater works of Christ, to bring forth 30, 60, and 100 fold fruit of the Kingdom and glorify our Father. The Holy Spirit of God in you, the church, woos you to live and decree before your Father in heaven whose name is hallowed, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

Oh how the Father's heart aches to give His Kingdom now to His remnant people on the earth. It is an undiscovered country to most of His church. We, the church, have lived in the religious system so long we cannot see the Kingdom. In this undiscovered country of the Kingdom of God on the earth are many inheritances for His people. Inheritances that were not pressed into and not taken by force and went to the grave unclaimed and are now falling from heaven for this generation of Kingdom disciples who will pay the price, press, and persevere until there is a breakthrough to destiny on this earth and beyond. The Father has many new inheritances to give as well. Prophesy to the inheritances that have gone to the grave to be resurrected in His living body today and receive them. In my Father's house are many mansions, mansions of spiritual and natural goods, the King's riches, inheritance's, abundant refuge places, and deep communion. There is a tangible ache of the Father's heart to give the Kingdom to His children.

The Father's heart aches to see the church come out of the religious activity, which actually kills the very life and move of His Kingdom on the earth. The Kingdom of God is about real God-life on the earth, not just good life, not just about the weekly professional successful services, great programs, writing books and marketing messages, or even the cultural methods of an institution that we call church. The church is to be the Kingdom of God in the kingdoms of this world and be passionately in love with the King of Kings. The Kingdom is about knowing the King and doing His will; it's about turning the injustices of this world to justices, destroying the works of the devil and bringing the equality of a full measure of the stature of Christ into His whole body on the earth. It is not about setting up kingdoms of religious activity ruled by a few. It can almost be audibly heard, as the Lord says, "prophesy to the wind that these dead bones of my church will arise again to my Kingdom." Prophesy that dead works and inheritances that have gone to the grave will be resurrected to His greater works now in His disciples on the earth. Prophecy that dry bones will be restored, that all the body will be put together on these resurrected bones and my glorious church will arise to usher in His soon coming. The spirit and the bride say "Come, Lord Jesus".

The battle is great for the Kingdom of God to come in His church. The church was born out of the Kingdom. The devil will rage much more over Kingdom activity than he rages over regular church attendance, or religious activities. The religious spirit will war against the Kingdom of God and many are the adversaries, but this revelation imparted into His church is a great effective door that has been opened to us from heaven. Our prayers now for one another daily and our exhortation for one another daily are critical.

Scripture:

"By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place, which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." Hebrews 11:8-10

If we see the promise of the Kingdom then as they did in Abraham's day (verse 13) we must embrace the promises of the Kingdom, and confess them, and live like we are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

"For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country, And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they come out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is and heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God for he hath prepared for them a city." Hebrews 11:14-16

We must daily remind ourselves and decree what is truth, the gospel of the Kingdom, as our spirit needs to develop its hearing by our words of faith. He that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying and decree it!

Pray with me if you can,
"Father help me to seek first and foremost, with all my heart, soul, and strength the King, the person of Jesus Christ. Give me grace to seek earnestly to live and move and have my very being only in Christ, and to cast far from me all fear of man, for it is Your good pleasure to give me the Kingdom. "

So be it!

We stand for hours watching women walk into the Abortion Mill to kill the life that's in them. And we see the women walking out of the clinic…hurting, limping, struggling. A few hours earlier, the young baby, who can actually feel pain, was struggling to get away from the instrument….the instrument that would eventually kill it. We play worship music on the loudspeaker. We hold signs saying "Jesus Offers Hope", "Abortion is Not the Solution", "Abortion is Murder", and "Please Don't Do This". We hand out tracts to all who will take them. We preach until the words don't come anymore. We pray for breakthrough, for God's heart, for conviction, for salvation. The fruit is few and far between in Western Church standards. And then…..

There's the couple that stays in the car and reads the tract and hears the music and preaching. And they weep and talk it through and eventually decide to have the child. And all of heaven rejoices for the one. Are the dozens that don't turn around a deterrent for the one that does? Not on your life! God gives us these treasures and we keep coming back because He did the same for us. He's proven Himself faithful to stop for the one…for us, and we will do the same for those who have no voice.

We go to malls and outside the hospital because Jesus didn't say "stay until they come to you". He said "Go, and proclaim the kingdom of God is at hand and heal the sick". So we do. The teenager at the mall 2 weeks ago with Spina Bifida, was weeping and shaking as we prayed and exclaiming with hands raised that she "could feel her body". Or the woman in front of Grady Hospital, who's knees were so painful she could barely walk….screaming to her friend that the pain was gone!. Something man cannot manufacture. Something only God can do, where He gets all the glory. We will continue until we can say "they were all healed".

To the poor in local neighborhoods we go. Not just to preach, but to offer a cold cup of water or help them clean out their trailer or patch their roof. We host cookouts and pray for healings and salvations and play games with the kids. We knock on doors and pray for the sick. Lucy limped because she had bursitis and really didn't want us to pray for her. Her trailer was hot and she had just gotten off work at a local hotel. After prayer she said she could feel something happening in her hip. I told her not to tell us a story, we didn't need the TV preacher confirmation :). She said she was serious and that they pain had left her and she was able to walk immediately with no limp. May His Name, Jesus, be praised as we delight in undoing all that the devil has done. His Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.

The Word of the Lord comes saying, "today there are many in my church who are stuck in the River." "Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty" (there is freedom) 2 Corinthians 3:17. The Lord wants to loose your feet from the muddy swamp and set you free to move with the river of His Spirit again.

Some of you know the influence and power of “the river of God’s Spirit” but you have turned aside to a little outlet where there is more control and you can feel your feet on the ground; it is a more familiar place. This could be traditions you cling to when God has moved on to fresher waters, or it could be religious concepts that you hold tight to like a dead trunk of an old tree along the side of the river. However there in that place you have lost your flow in the River. Your feet are stuck in the marshes and the swamps. God wants to set you free now and set you back in His mighty flow. You need to cry out to God for eyes to see where you have turned aside and let go and let God take you once again to the middle of the river where you are free of your own control and all other religious controls. Only the Holy Spirit is worthy and only He can take you to the place you are destined to go to find your Kingdom inheritance on this earth.

From Psalms 48:4 we read, "There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God." This is the river that runs from the throne room of God in heaven. It is a spiritual river. Rivers are made up of many springs. From Psalm 87:7 we read "All my springs are in you." Jesus said in John 7:38 "He who believes in me, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." Everywhere this river goes there is life. As this river from the dwelling place in heaven touches the river within the throne of our heart then God is meeting and moving with us and giving forth His life. We are connecting Sprit to spirit. When the river runs through the heart and life of a believer then the injustices of life are turned to justices; the works of the devil are destroyed and the glory of the Kingdom of God happens. This river is the moving and the working of the person of the Holy Spirit. The river is not the Holy Spirit, but it is the His flow on the earth as He proceeds from the Father to witness and work the greatness of God’s redemption in Christ.

In Ezekiel 48:1-12 we read about this river that cannot be crossed for the water was too deep. The water is to flow to the nations, and everywhere the river goes there is life. There will be great multitudes of fish, (many nations of people) because these waters go there; for they will be healed; and everything will live wherever the river goes. But the swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt. In other words they become hardened and miss their whole purpose in this life.

If we hold on to our own ideas, our traditions, our abilities, our safe familiar places of religious form then we are in danger of becoming hard like salt in the swaps and marshes. That is not the desire of those who know the flow of this mighty river, so today let God open your eyes and show you the truth, and set you free again. God is a God who never changes in who He is but He is constantly changing in what He does and where He goes. He is always moving.

Surrender once again to be carried by this river where He holds the course of your life and everywhere you go there will be His life-giving source in you and through you. Surrender to be submerged down under His river, where the breath of God keeps you and you find a whole other world and learn how to live and move and have your very being in the mighty Spirit of God.

If you are feeling that God may be speaking to you through this word will you just pray with me now? Father, I am coming again to you to let go and let you have control of my life and ministry completely. I do not want to fight against your river. Show me what it is I cling to that is hindering me from your flow. Set me free to find greater measures of moving with the Holy Spirit than I have ever known. Father do not let me limit you, or deceive myself and miss your glory being released in this hour of great need all over the world. In Jesus mighty name…above all else…amen!

The fire of God in the eyes of Jesus Christ, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, rides this earth today to prevail in His people. He is the now exalted as King of Kings, the Lord of Lords. As we know one day He will come again, this time visible, riding a white horse to the earth. However, He now rides it first invisibly to impart the same fire into His body on the earth. He will come for a glorious body that looks like Him, acts like Him, and is performing His greater works on the earth In Him. His body will have His fire in their eyes.

The fire flows from His eyes with love and power to see the Kingdom of God fill the whole earth with His knowledge and glory. He rides to put down all rebellion, sin, and death in this world. He is riding to impart this fire into His people as He equips them to ride with Him and bring heaven to earth now. He asks us to pray, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth and it is in heaven.” He is looking for hearts that will be well kept soil to bring His will to pass on the earth. The Holy Spirit is looking for the ones that will surrender to be a living sacrifice that God can and will be consumed with His holy fire.

Only God can start this fire. Jesus came to baptize his body in the Holy Spirit and Fire. The fire of God burns off the fetters from our lives that keep us from close communion with our God. The fire of God burns first to purify, to refine, and to test us in order to enable us to be one who can hold this great fire of God. This is the fire that must first come into the remnant body of Christ before it comes in a real tangible way to renovate the earth once more to His divine will and intentions for its creation. You can see it in third chapter of 2 Peter.

Only as we see Jesus Christ in this world for who He is, was, and ever shall be can we get a revelation that will impart this fire within. His entry into this world was a sacrifice sent from Heaven. He lived a sacrificial life, acquainted with grief, persecution, and sorrow. He willingly laid down His body and soul to the sufferings of the path of the cross to buy back the Kingdom of God on the earth and in all who would believe for an eternity.

The shadow truth of the Old Testament, Jesus fulfilled in the New Testament and now, by the Spirit of God, His body fulfills it in the Kingdom of God on the earth. Just as the Fire came down from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar the burnt sacrifice and fat in the Old Testament shadow in Lev.9: 24; so Christ fulfilled it at the cross. He left His home, His position, and His power in Heaven. He forsook the riches and the company of Heaven to become God’s burnt sacrifice, Gods all and best given for mankind, the Savior of the all creation. Fire burns in His eyes to redeem all that was lost for God.

Now, as His remnant body identifies with the Master, let us become the living sacrifice and put ourselves, giving 100% our best, on our altar before our God in this world and let Him bring the fire that consumes us and leaves us IN CHRIST with the same fire in our eyes. Father God let the fire in His eyes begins to permeate our beings filling us up and over until we are submerged into the atmosphere of the same fire that exist around the throne of God. Then will our eyes burn with compassion to see you and our hearts burn to do your will on earth.

This is the fire of Godly compassion that moved Jesus to do the miraculous works of His Father God. This fire gave life. This is the fire of Christ’s love that He would endure the cross seeing that through His sacrifice many sons could be brought into God’s Kingdom. This fire gave much more than insight or foresight, it also gave an eternal vision.

What a great price Jesus Christ paid for us. How can we neglect so great a salvation? God we long for you to burn us up with the love of our soon coming King of Kings and fire our whole beings for the Kingdom of God now. Make us aware that this life is to prepare for an eternal one. God’s heart cries for His people to choose God’s fire now. Now is the day to burn with a Holy Fire!

For further study, please see the following Scriptures: Rev.1:12-16; Rev.5:5-7; Rev.19:11-14; Eph.1:20-21; Eph5:27; John 14:12; Mt.6:10; I Peter 1:6-7; Isa.53; Romans 12:1-3; Mt.14:14.

The Lord sets the table for us and puts on the table exactly what we are to eat and the right amount for our personal time and season, or corporate season.

Where is your table?

Where are you eating, from what table? And how much are you eating? Is it God's choice for you? God forbid that we should try to eat from the devils table and God's table both. But even if we are not eating from satan's table at all we can be deceived by the mass amount of food put out in the "so called table of the lord", Christian material. We go after all the food on the shelves and in the refrigerators that are available that looks good and it is fast revelation, but it does not feed our spirits what the Lord prepared for us at the time. It feeds our mind and makes us junkie's on someone else's anointing and revelation that never really becomes ours, but it does pacify our minds and makes us think we are feeding ourselves properly. For the most part we do not pick the right amount or the right diet for our spiritual wellness. We want it sweet and fast.

Where is your table?

Why do we not just desire His table set for us? And surrender to His will only for us. First he sets a table in the quiet of your intimate time with His person and scripture. There he will give you His first course. It takes time and discipline at first but when you taste of its benefits and blessings and you allow a habit and stronghold of God to take over you can't live with out it. It is your personal table with Him. Then he may set your table in the wilderness where you dig deep for the food and water but it is priceless when you find it. Or He may set your food in a situational circumstances that drives you to almost exhaustion or death, but then the food He gives is so special and wonderfully life changing. Secondly, If you surrender, He will appoint your table and set you in the God destined places with people where the anointing will teach you through another what is His divine provision, purpose, and time for you. His table set for you is when you are faithful to get in the right place at the right time; hearing what He has provided for you, what He has appointed for you for the now. He may point a certain book out to you but if He does not, then leave them alone and stay in THE BOOK. He may point out a certain tape, or certain conference or whatever, but if God does not point it out then leave it alone. We have an overload, excessive, surfeiting culture and church. It is a sign of the end of the age. There is an overload of stuff available, too much, but it is not all for you and not for you at this time. If we will only stop the incessant hunger for just information, If we will only stop our cultured influenced desire for the excessive overeating.(spiritually) If we will only wake up and just rest and follow Him for what we are to eat and drink of spiritually, then we will grow much quicker and easier into a full healthy and whole spirit/soul measure of Christ. Our lives will be richer and less cluttered and less confusing. What are you allowing to come through the portals of your body, through reading stuff, watching stuff, hearing stuff, company you keep, who you talk with regularly also becomes, activities, and etc. Are all influencing what you spirit is able to discern, able to receive, able to respond to, able to hunger after, and able to love. The portals of your body are first entry, the portals of your soul are the second entry to your spirit……………..STOP! LOOK! And LISTEN……….What do you allow your mind to focus on, to feed on, what do you allow to touch your emotions, to experience, what do you go after that you think you have to have to feel good about you. Stop! Let God show you! Let Him choose your food, and your table, and your influences. Let the portals of you whole body soul and spirit be His, and be wholly sanctified for His use only. God alone knows what your spirit needs now. The love and power of the Kingdom of God will only come as you eat of Him and drink of Him from the table of the Lord set for you.

TOZ is sponsoring a community event Saturday, November 19th.

TOZ will be sponsoring a community event in a local neighborhood on November 19th. This is a great opportunity to get out and server others as well as minister the love of Jesus. There will be food and games for the kids, so it is a perfect outing for the whole family. Please consider joining us. For more information, call 770.331.9009 or email samuel.clough@trumpetsofzion.org.