God’s Body Parts

GOD’S BODY PARTS
by Pam Clark (pamclark@prophetic.net)

“Redemption does not come so easily, for no one can ever pay enough to live forever and never see the grave.” Psalm 49:8 [New Living Translation]

Have you ever played games with someone who had to win, and if they didn’t win, they were extremely upset? When you see that side of their personality, it can be a spooky thing, depending on how far that passion goes!

We know there is a healthy competitive spirit that challenges us to do our best. Most parents when they play games with their small children will let their children win to give them that feeling of accomplishment. Even teaching them how to lose through your example can be an important lesson for good mental and emotional health.

But a parent who would intimidate their child and overwhelm them in an unfair competition does a great disservice not only to that child but to all society. They breed bullies who defy the riches of our world. We need to understand what is the most important thing in life.

Death is cruel many times. In the hands of the enemy it is a weapon against us. I love these words of Jesus where He says, “The thief’s (or the enemy’s) purpose is to steal, kill and destroy. My purpose is to give life in all its fullness.” [John 10:10 NLT]

Death in the hands of the Lord is a transition to a better place if that person is open to the Lord. Most innocent children are, but there is what is called “the age of accountability” – which can be different for different ones – where they are measured with the measures of life. And a lot of that measure is hearing internally the movings, if not the words, of the Holy Spirit inside of them.

The Lord wants to take those movings into words, and those words into a lifestyle, and that lifestyle into a relationship that is like a marriage with Him forever. But most people know even the best of marriages have their tribulations because the people have individual minds and wills. When they learn how to blend them, it can become joyful, but it requires some efforts.

While the power of the enemy is there to destroy things, the power of God is there to make things work and grow. But if we don’t tap into the power of God, we can miss the better portions.

If we become so fascinated with the changes of evil and destruction, we can miss the greater glories of the good. When evil is “exciting” and good is mediocre, many will gravitate towards the stimulation. But it’s better to be true than false, and there is no reason why we have to settle for anything less than the great and extraordinary. We just have to press into it.

I had a vision this morning of the Body of Christ like a car going down the road and it got a flat tire. The people got out, changed the tire and kept on going, but they failed to fix the spare tire. Later another flat was to occur, and they were stuck there, and had to not only live at that place but defend themselves as well. It was not the most ideal set of circumstances.

This society in many ways tends to have this all or nothing mentality. We find our “stars” or “leaders” and we decide competitively that this is the way to go. Then sometimes when they do let us down, we can be notorious for just dumping these people on the side of the road like discarded trash. But while they are players, we use them as weapons against what we perceive to be our enemy of rejection. Because everyone wants to be “cool” you know, and so whatever is “cool” at the current time is what we need and we will trash the rest. You know what I am talking about.

While it is fun to glory in the new, at the root of some of this is the spirit of rejection and if we do not reject rejection and its associated demons of death, we will fall for a deception that eventually hurts us, because the redemption of our souls is costly and precious, and we really do want to live forever. But for that to happen we really do have to pass the judgment test of God of relationship. And try as we might to avoid facing that issue, most of us do not get out of this world alive.

There is something in the human soul that knows how to place a value on things and people. Most children begin life by falling in love with their parents and caregivers. Most babies start off quite happy and they are so endearing to us, but babies grow up and they are required to take on responsibilities, even with of all their different personalities and ultimate skills or talents that become revealed.

The Body of Christ, or the Church, is going through a lot of transition right now. This is the day where not only is knowledge and travel greatly increased (Daniel 12:4), but the population globally is growing exponentially as well. There will be an anti-Christ (or anti-power of Life) spirit that tries to control it all, but those oppressions will fail by the power of the Living God. But we must learn to connect to that Spirit of Life and Power and learn how to overcome.

We are living in the conflict of these forces today and these exponential growths in society are things our individual lives will have to deal with. We must be on a quest for truth and it is good to pray for “the spirit of truth” in our lives. The Spirit of Truth will reveal to us the things that make for Life. Many of us have this temptation to have the “all or nothing” view that something or someone is absolute when truthfully, they may not be. They change, they fail, they die.

Jesus is an anchor because He is a God-Man who rose from the dead after a cruel brutal death and revealed Himself. He said He was God’s Son and has proved it in many ways. If you don’t know Him, you can ask Him to reveal Himself to you and come into your life. A process will begin that will do just that, because He is real. God is a Spirit, Jesus said, and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.

When we have been taught the basics of life and it works for a good season, sometimes we think the next thing we encounter will be good as well, but it doesn’t always work out like that. This earthly life can have some negative encounters, sad to say. We must learn to separate the precious from the vile, or the good from the evil. And it is something we can learn to do, especially with the help of the Scriptures – the Holy Bible. The Bible is nice because the print doesn’t change on the page like our views and opinions will.

We are that car going down the road as a people. And sometimes we can get a flat tire. That tire may be ours or it may be someone else’s but as a Body we still need it. We may do fine for a while without repairing the tire, but we must believe in ourselves and others enough to realize all our parts are not just wanted but really are needed. We can’t just take things for granted.

Revolutions are occuring all around the world today. Like the churning oceans are the peoples of the nations, seeking their expressions, and they don’t always know how to do it, but something inside is telling them that there is more and they are seeking it. And they don’t always play by the rules we think they should! Wars and rumors of wars are constantly in the news. It is a time to be aware and finely tuned. The chances are good that we can encounter some things we did not expect.

Finding a stocked bunker to hide in until the mayhem is over is not truly functional. It may be a temptation, but being blissfully unaware for a season is not going to deal with or overcome the problems this coming society is going to face. Because not only are you going to have to deal with whatever man comes up with, but also God. He has expectations from you!

As we travel and travail down this highway of life, we are going to need our supplies and our tools, and in the journey of life, that comes through people. There are forces that may be out of our control but they are not out of God’s control, and as we learn to connect with Him, we can get a handle on what we need and our instructions on how to do it. God’s people will have a good will for man in mind, and they will not compromise. The Body of Christ is a real living organism.

The Spirit of God is a Life-giving Source and He does have a Plan. We need His Life and Godliness for this Great Marriage of Eternal Life. Tokens are good, but function is better. Don’t be afraid to engage in a good life through Him. You will not be disappointed. Strife and destruction in the Body is self defeating. You don’t want to be stranded needing a part.

The Importance of Gender Identity

 

THE IMPORTANCE OF GENDER IDENTITY
by Pam Clark (pamclark@prophetic.net)

Genesis 1:
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

I am very much a person who believes in the uniqueness of each human soul, and that that soul has a special interaction with God that is especially unique to just them. There is a God who set a Creation in motion – and it is vast and complex and it encompasses the Universe. But I do not believe in a God who completely then just let things go.

While freedom was granted, there is still a Sovereign override. In other words, the God who set it in motion can at any time intervene at His will to keep His will in order. It is not only His Nature, but also His perogative. However, this God is a God of self discipline and control and He orders His own Life according to this will.

This God is not just a physical force but a Spiritual force as well. The “body, soul and spirit” of man who was created “in His own image” has many dimensions within His Dimensions, and one can start with a simple microscope or telescope and begin to scratch the surface of those incredible eternal discoveries.

Besides the physical forces of a body life, and the internal dimensions and powers of the soul life, there is also the guiding force of the spiritual life that has been given to every human birthed on this earth.  In this design, there is an option for more life – or for death.

A mighty and powerful God chose fellowship with this manifestation of mankind created in His image. To “Him” it is a phenomenal concept – a creation made for His pleasure – one to commune with, share with, and even work with in establishing some of the many potentials of this Design expressed. The concept, is a noble one, and the crowning of His Creation.

The courses of all the heavenly stars and lights dance and respond and explode around this very pristine jewel called the earth that we live upon and are spawned from.  It is a wonder that our lives seem as short as they are, while at other times seem so very long and challenging. But there is a dynamic at work with a God who knows who He is – and who He is not. And it takes a contrast to show it.

In this One God is both male and female. It is utterly amazing at all the wars over the gender differences, as if one could be superior to that which in reality the joining makes the whole and creates more life. The dynamic is significant and vitally important.

When we understand our purposes and the reasons for our creation, we come to more understand what divine order is and the important role it plays in our self discovery. We find this discovery as well in who we are and in who we are not, in that the contrasts will show the difference and we grow in our evolving borders, just like the skin of a person grows to accomodate one’s growth expansions.

Part of the wonder is the evolution. That which affirms the Almighty Intent is blessed, and that which does not please can be put aside. But lest we become over simplistic and lose the true dimensions of the Design content, remember that it is the unique relationship between the Creator and His created that matters to Him.  A God with an expanding Universe has ideas and patience beyond anything our small minds can even imagine.

What we must come to terms with as individuals is our borders, for the sum of them responds. And as interesting as a microsopic amoeba can be as one of the most simplist forms of life, we are infinitely more complex and have a spiritual dimension that is dynamic, and can interact in conversation form with our Creator.

The dimension of language moves our expression to a higher form. And God calls Himself: “The Word,” the Living Word.  We do not just simply respond to stimulus but we have the dimension of thinking and making decisions. We also have a will that has been given to us and we can choose. And not only do we choose, but through that, we can fellowship.

To say that gender is all about our sexual identity sells it short. And there are forces that war against it and we can see this war against it is on the increase because the battle for its truth is a critical one. If the anti-God or anti-Christ spirit (and Christ means anointing or the dynamic power of God and His creative, even restorative, Life)  can win our hearts, then we do not prove worthy to carry on this Divine Intent and so we lose becoming all that the Divine Heart intended for us to be.

Until we encounter and engage this Divine Being in a significant way that marks us and changes us, we grope about blindly even if we do have orders of sorts. The God of the Universe is a God of Love, for Love is the highest Expression. Anyone can tear something down, but to build and create using components birthed from unseen dimensions to design an everlasting relationship is nothing short of a wonder of the yet unseen expression.

The borders are in place by God, those rights of Sovereignty, but the joy is anticipated with its sovereign and eternally expressed energies in shared relationship of freedoms.

It is important to get it as right as we can, seeking without being ashamed, and corrected without losing heart, and learning with Love abounding.

There was a man named Job who one time prayed: “Oh, that I had One to hear me! Here is my mark. Oh, that the Almighty would answer me, that my Prosecutor had written a book! Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, And bind it on me like a crown; I would declare to Him the number of my steps; Like a prince I would approach Him.” [Job 31:35-37]  And God has granted that request. Today we call that book the Holy Bible.

It is a Spiritual book and its dimensions are much more than first meet the natural eye. To have experienced the Spiritual relationship speaks for itself. To argue does no good. Once one has encountered the Almighty in personal encounter, the new search becomes others who have also had that encounter and who can somewhat relate.

Nothing matches that personal unique interaction but there is comfort with those you know who have had the experience of the Encounter. And we call them the living “organism” of the Body of Christ, for it is a many membered single Body that carries an expression with the Divine, even likened as a Bride with Her Husband.

Others outside give many labels and definitions to what we call the Church, but when the Spiritual life is birthed, one truly will realize that they have become “a new creation.” We even struggle to define it ourself but the relationship is alive – it moves and breathes and has its “Being” within us!  It’s the birth of an endless life now, born of incorruptible seed.

All that to say that the Holy Book is worthy for divine instruction. And “God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’”

The earth carries our design, when two seeds, one of man and one of woman connect and begin to divide and multiply into unique individual form.  Anti-Christ spirit forces will war against it – in spirit, soul and body dimensions at times – but peace and life is found in the Creator. And the wholeness and “completion” of parts also will rest there.

Because there are body, soulish and spiritual forces, in one direction they carry the divine relationship design which can bloom and prosper, and in the other direction, they warp and diminish. It is not to say that man’s struggle is not worthy, for all people do struggle and it is hard for man to judge, and much more impossible to walk in another man’s shoes.  But insight requires instruction and that is what is being attempted here.

To gain the Spiritual growth that many desire, understanding basic and even primitive concepts are important for they carry the foundation for living.  And when the beginning things are the challenged things, the foundation is what is under that stress.

Yet truth will prevail and last into eternity. The mind of man is a powerful force, and it was designed to be that way. It is such a force that in fact it can often change the outward appearance and countenance of the physical person in a myriad of ways.

In Mark chapter 10, the red words of Jesus read:
2 The Pharisees came and asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” testing Him.
3 And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?”
4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.”
5 And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
6 “But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’
7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
8 ‘and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 “Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

The One who was crucified for His Love and was resurrected from a brutal disfiguring death into glorious and beautiful overcomer’s life, affirmed the foundation of the Design.

In Matthew 19, there is recorded continued conversation:
8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
9 “And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
10 His disciples said to Him, “If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”
11 But He said to them, “All cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given:
12 “For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it.”

These statements confirm that there are extenuating circumstances, but not a foundational change. There is not a third gender. Today many would have you believe that the GLBT (gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender) movement is the norm and optional standard. It can be an option, but it is not a norm. 

Even those who choose “making themselves eunuchs” do it apart from divine design for a greater good. Otherwise it is not a necessary or needed thing, but an aberration if expressed as a third gender and norm. It becomes a division through an anti-Christ form.

God created them male and female, in His Image, and blessed them. Only those who truly have ears that desire to hear will hear and find their personal inner freedom. I am not a sex expert and don’t plan to become one. But I have seen and discerned a warping that unravels Divine Design growth. I am just saying that there are limitations and hinderings to divine development.  The choices one makes, make a difference.

I have been single a long time but I am not confused over my gender identity. I realize many are, but it is the truth of all the inward parts that will set you free. Young children today are being taught that there are “options” before they can even comprehend what they mean. This is a serious matter. The laws of man will not change truth, so I have no plans to even be political over this. I simply seek to engage your spirit through His to this truth.

It is obvious that these are “end times” for the end of this age. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken and even the earth is groaning with increasing earthquakes, and society seems to find new depravities and terrors every day. But all these are the contrastings to the reveal of the Son of God in His Day of Power and Glory and Beauty as the book of Revelation foretells. The beautiful expressions of God are delicate and tender as well as mighty and strong.

The love a person can have for a helpless baby can cause a militia to be engaged for its protection and potential. People will pay large sums for a tiny beautiful fleeting flower. The tiniest of cells can explode into a lively growth. But the dimensions of life are exquisite and they are calculated by a Sovereign God.

I do not write to the world for the world will not have ears to hear this. I write to the Christian who has had the divine encounter and looks for the truth of its prospered growth. As you contemplate your life’s interactive dynamic, your discoveries can lead you into greater truths that work and expand your Universal relationship. I wish you that peace and love and joy.

 

 

The Importance of Confidence

The King James Version reads:

(Hebrews 10:35 ) Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great
recompense of reward.

The word “recompense” there means “a reward, as in wages.”

The New International Version reads:

(Hebrews 10:35) So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly
rewarded.

Most people who read ministry articles like mine, usually have a ministry at
work within them and this is the way it should be. Once the Word of God
becomes activated in a person, a desire to minister also comes up. It can
manifest in a number of different ways, but there is a life giving spring
(called the anointing) that has a force that wants to come up and out of
God’s Christian believers in expressions.

We know that is the power of the Holy Spirit. But some feel like they are to
squash it for the sake of the religious organization they may be around and
some feel they have to “fight” the organization to let it come out, and some
are in organizations that actually help them launch into their ministries.
If one is exceptionally blessed, there are those who encourage them to find
a way to do their ministry.

All of this is so important for Christian ministry fulfillment – personally
and practically. On some causes, there are still not enough volunteers, do
you know what I mean? I want to speak to anyone who has any kind of a
ministry, no matter how small or large it seems to be to them.

The five fold ministry is to equip others for the work of the ministry, and
that really comes out of learning how to do it and then just passing it on
to others. The older (or more mature ones) have to teach the younger (less
mature) in their giftings. It’s just how it works in every area of life.

We really don’t need exalted positions because you may be good at something
I am not and at the same time, vice versa! I may have a ministry meeting
somewhere, but I might need a mechanic to help me get to that meeting! We
all need respect, what ever our gift and calling is.

And it is true that we will not find true happiness and fulfillment until we
DO the calling that God has for us to do. It does not mean we will enjoy
every day of it because a lot of ministry is a SACRIFICE for Love. But there
will be a God pleasured satisfaction in serving Him and knowing it.

So I want to speak to ministers of any kind and encourage them to impart
confidence to others. And sometimes it might even get to someone’s head
temporarily, but God will pick them up from their fall to pride as they seek
Him. So really, not only do we need to impart confidence, but we also need
to do it the right way!

Everyone benefits from encouragement and some are more gifted at imparting
it than others, but it really is not something that is all that challenging
to do. It is AMAZING at what even a little bit of encouragement can do for a
person! Even if they are highly skeptical at first.

And some are skeptical because they have been burned in the past by people
taking advantage of them, or they have been approached by “salesmen” making
grand promises of an impractical non-reality. Disappointments can cause
people to walk with a limp and Jesus came to heal the lame – in whatever
capacity that is!

God exhorts us to have faith and even says that is what pleases Him, but for
some it is hard to have faith in some areas. The littlest things can make
the biggest difference and you may have a powerful ministry and not even
know it! Just by doing the little things that you do, being you!!!

God does not have to please our moods all the time, but He will work with
those who honestly want to work with Him. He is always looking for laborers
in the Harvest field and even tells us that we need to pray to the Lord of
the Harvest (Him) for the laborers, which is you and me.

Think about it like this. Every town needs a doctor for situations that come
up, but what if all the doctors were only in one place and not spread
around? As you know, we have to travel sometimes as it is to get the help we
need that way. But God needs ministers for the people who pray to Him the
same way! How many in these different areas of life are crying out and have
no sufficient answers? But the knowledge and resources for them are in the
earth, but are just not fully available in every area!

And when you think about it, the more needy a location is, there are
probably less resources. God needs qualified Christians to answer their
prayers. We have to realize that God truly does have need of us, and we just
need to connect to our callings! It may be a full time missions work or it
may be a ministry to someone that you meet out in the marketplace somewhere.
We need to be on “on.”

But to be on “on,” we need to be equipped. That is what the Church and
Christian ministries and conferences and schools are all about! We need the
head knowledge and we need the Spiritual experience knowledge with that
proper interpretation, and we need confidence in what we do.

Faithfulness has a lot of power, even when we are not “feeling it.”
Faithfulness encourages in a mighty way. I think all of us know how
important inner security is to just living life. That confidence that things
will work and be there means as much to us as the sun coming up every
morning for a new day.

Not only do we need confidence in the things around us, but we also need
confidence in ourselves. It may come more natural to some, but to some
others, it can literally mean the difference between life and death. God is
good and after creating us, He declared it was very good! But we also find
there is an enemy who wants to take away our confidence in the goodnesses of
God within and about us.

As ministers we need to realize that when we impart Spiritually, we need to
pass on confidence. It really generates a lot of love and it really builds
the Kingdom of God and the people in it. Not only does it do a good work but
that good work also will come back to us in due season. Like any seed, you
have to plant it, and water it and tend it, but there is great reward, the
Scriptures say, for this one.

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of
reward. Do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. Be a
blessing and get blessed!

Be Properly Equipped

The Church is only as good as the people in it – even globally. So we need to be practical as well as Spiritual.  Many think God is going to do a “poof” transformation for good and while He will give us a taste of what we can walk into, He still expects our spirit man to mature in it.

God will give us wisdom, and advances because of agreement, but if we do not have – as a Body of individuals – a foundation that will hold through stress – we will not hold our position or keep on advancing significantly – until we do have that.

We can look for a leader, we can look for a meeting, we can look for a “Revival” even, and the good ones will be there, but God provided Jesus, not man to be your constant Source. Men will disappear and some men (or women) will fail in your eyes. But the Spirit of God does not change, so are you equipped???

We are the wax of a candle, Jesus is the wick, and the Father through the Holy Spirit lights the fire. Some of us will be burned up in our ascension to Him, used up to His Glory. But we will not be lost! Let’s ask, what is the fragrance of our wax? But remember that some light is better than none! It is the light that dispels the darkness.

Do you appreciate structure? Without it, without respect for it, there is no sustaining strength. God is building a GLOBAL group and He knows the “rubix cube formula” so to speak for all the needs to be met and for all the Glory to be seen. And there is sufficient available to all of us, if we learn how to access it.

If God allows a revival, but there is no equipping for the new or delivered, it will wane fast and just be talked about meetings of the past. ALL revival is borne of prayer. You may have a charismatic leader, but he or she did not get there except through prayer. The equipped cannot function without the fuel of prayers.

God answers the prayers of hearts, not the wishes of the mind. You can have a great building, a great speaker or three, or even more, great advertising, even a great media ministry, but if the anointing is not there, then you are just a good idea. I used to want someone else to pray for me – and we all need prayers – but if I don’t pray, then I don’t have the enabling encounters.

Some even pay others to pray but you know, the chances for mess ups are stronger I believe. The anointing comes through encounters with God. You have to experience His Presence and learn how to call on Him in the day of trouble with His Word. Head knowledge and human experience is not the same thing as Spiritual knowledge and personal encounters with His Presence.

All things DO work together for the good of those who are the called (Romans 8:28), but you can’t have one without the other – if you want to have a real move, that is. You can hold your own and maintain for a season, but if there is not Spiritual HUNGER, then there will not be Spiritual encounters. You will only get indoctrinations without them, and if they are false, they are targets for truth by The Truth!

If you don’t know the Bible definitions of quality life, you won’t build accurately. You won’t know what to defend or what to let go of. If you do not have vision beyond where you are and where your natural mind is, then there is no prophetic revelation with you. And we need to discern these visions!

God wants us to be natural AND Spiritual. People who miss that, are probably up to something! Just saying  ”Be warmed and filled” and even trained are nothing without substance. God wants wholeness – spirit, soul and body! And He is good for it!  But if we don’t understand that or know how to apprehend it and if your gift is not contributing and working with other gifts, then we are ALL missing out.

We have to do our part and respect others. It’s a BIG creation that God wants us to be a part of. If the Church doesn’t think as big as the world does, they will continue to mock us.

A drunk man lost his wallet one night and was looking for it under a street lamp. A cop came up and asked him what was going on. He said he lost it down the street but he was looking under the street lamp because there was more light there. How much is the Body like that?

Sometimes we have to take care of the “little things” before we can take on the big! Wisdom is knowing how to apply your attention and your focus to make these advances. It is God’s good pleasure to give us His Kingdom, but we must apply ourselves through personal prayers and application.

Pam Clark
Wings on the Wind
www.pamclark.wordpress.com

The 9-9-11 Dream

I just had a dream that I think pertains to the “big picture” so to speak.  I don’t feel alarm from this dream, more that it was the Lord showing me what was going on.
 
I was in a familiar old small town I used to live in – the kind where everyone knows everyone almost – and there was this long time community cafe downtown where all the local business folk would go, just like in a typical town, with the big glass windows.  The downstairs was the cafe and there were 2 stories on top of that.
 
I was with someone whom I feel represented the Holy Spirit as a friend, and as I walked by this old cafe building with some business offices on one side of it, I saw that the building was getting ready for demolition.  There was was a hill behind it and I asked if they were going to remove that too and they said “yes, to make it a level playing field.”
 
I looked at the building and saw that it was very dark brown, and made of wood and stones mixed together with mortar, and it was wearing out (the wood was rotting) and getting old and needed to be replaced.  I also saw that the top story of the building had been cut all the way around and it was turned a little bit, like it was about to be removed.  (I felt in the interpretation the Lord saying He was starting at the top of man’s structure.)
 
There was this big crane with a wrecking ball and it was getting positioned to come whack the building but as it lowered the ball, it hit this black lady walking down the street.  My Holy Spirit friend and I rushed over to her but she was going to be okay and we got her into a wheelchair to take her home.  (I felt like she was part of the new thing, representing something different, since so many of us here are white with the “white” mindset.  It’s just our demographics.  When I lived in Houston, we were very mixed.)
 
I fussed at the people in the office for not being more careful and I feel like now that this is the Lord telling me that revival will not be without incidents.  We took the lady on to her home nearby on 17th Street, which was by a university and their offices, and in the lobby of her apartment building, people brought out clothes for me, my Holy Spirit friend, and to the black lady as gifts, and we were told it was because they loved her.  My understanding is that 17 stands for Victory.  I feel the nearby school implies needed institution instructions (foundational teaching).
 
I feel this dream is telling me that change is coming and the old man-made (social) structures will be taken down and a new structure is coming with a level playing field.  The new and different to many of us will seem to get injured but really will be okay.  God will clothe us and we will be okay, even if we are restless and unsure.  He is starting at the top but those who rest in the Lord will be a part of the new thing.  (Part of the clothing I received was a new red and white pajama gown, which could symbolize rest.)
 
I feel the Church Body is only as good as the people in it.  We need to hear the Lord for what the people really need, be it instruction, clothing, and activities, helps, etc.  We need to use caution and wisdom, and not give up when we miss it.
 
God is not disappointed but He will do what He has to do for our best good. 
 
I always want us to remember Israel because I feel that those who bless her will prosper in the Lord, Spiritually and in the physical realm.  I feel that if we bless her Land, our land will be blessed, and that we need to do practical things as the Lord leads us for that Land to prosper. 
 
I feel that as a Church if we don’t, we only delay our blessings.  That is why I believe that a tithe of our tithe should go to Her.  I think it will preserve us in the difficult and challenging times and that it speaks to God prophetically that we believe Him and His Word is true.  For God, I feel this is affection to Him.
 
The cafe in the dream is the church community and the “offices” (office gifts) are on the side of it (paraclete).  It’s the place of “the mindset” that affects the whole community.  Leaders have to see what is going on with the people and help them Spiritually and practically, because the Church is only as good as its people in it.

And even now as I ponder this, I wonder if this represents our national government, with the two branches as “covering over us” (the top two stories) and the “hill” behind.
 
I hope there is something in this that blesses and ministers.
 
In His Shalom Peace,Blessings and Love,
 
Pam

 
Right after this dream, a friend of mine (who happens to be a black lady) sent me this article which I have posted here:  http://www.prophetic.net/Isaiah911.pdf and then another friend sent me a link to a Sid Roth show that is also covering the same thing!

The Speckled Bird

 

[Thoughts in meditation - The message is in the Spirit.]

 

This verse is on my mind this morning:

 

Jeremiah 12:

9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under… foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

 

The speckled bird…  

 

The nit pickers – who look for things to find wrong.  

 

Instead of building up, they tear down.  

 

People often go along with the crowd more than the Lord.

 

They get bothered or disturbed, so instead of going to the Lord about it, they attack.

 

They aren’t concerned about others, even if they act like it.

 

Nit pickers.  

 

They have an appearance, but deny the power.

 

They say what they think you want to hear and what sounds “good” to them, but they are insincere.

 

Selah. Sigh.

 

Earlier verses in this same passage:

 

5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

 

Toughen up, believers!  

 

Strong words.  

 

People can cry for mercy over and over but if they never change… God can make a judgment.

 

Psalm 55:

18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

 

And you know the definition of the word insanity – Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. 

 

 Does God have an opinion?  I think so!

 

Maybe more like a will!

 

“Come, let us reason together,”  He says!  

 

He can win your thoughts.

 

We never like to get out of our comfort zones.

 

But we need to get more uncomfortable there when it becomes a rut!

 

If you are not challenged by HIS Spirit, then you are not in His will! 

 

The flesh will resist, but the Spirit within will give Life.

 

 Know the evidence?  Know the fruit?

Cross Examination

Written August 23, 2011 – the day we had an earthquake right after I wrote this!

I am feeling especially sensitive in the Spirit today. And I don’t feel that I am alone in that. In seeking the Lord, I sense He is saying that He is drawing near to His Church to deal with it, it is a season for that. If He does not deal with the Church, He cannot logically and righteously deal with the world…

He is drawing near to deal with our issues, if we will let Him. We can turn and run away, we can act distracted or put a wall up, but if we let Him in, He will help us and even change us. He is dealing with us for at least two reasons.

One, He is a Good Father and He knows we need discipling. That involves teaching and correcting. Secondly, He is preparing us for what lies ahead. We are also approaching the Shepherd’s Rod season, I don’t know the exact date of that at the moment, but the Spiritually sensitive will sense it approaching in the degree of their sensitivity.

The Shepherd’s Rod is where the sheep come under the Shepherd’s staff for inspection. The Shepherd then deals with the issues that the sheep has. The Good Shepherd cares for the sheep.

What I hear the Lord saying is that LOVE is approaching us, and He is examining us, every part of us, for what is coming, things that will be required of us. He is a good Father and He wants us to be prepared. He may adjust some things that are very sensitive to us but if we allow it we will really be better for it in the future. It will alleviate some problems and make us stronger.

God is going to deal with America, and some of those dealings will be hard. America has had the Light, it has had the Word and even those who want to criticize preachers will have no excuse for they have had access to His Word to do it better. Since some seem to know better, then they should DO IT!

God holds us responsible for rightly dividing His Word of Truth. That means if “another way” comes along, we may check it out, but if it is not fruit bearing in the Lord, but fruit limiting, then we should look for the better way.  God EXPECTS US to understand things by the Spirit, because He has poured out His Spirit and if we take another path, that is not His fault!!!  He has revealed Himself.

Jesus said, “God is Spirit, and they that worship Him worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.” That means there is much that we understand in two dimensions. We have our intellect where we process things through our soul, or our mind, will and emotions AND we hear, see and understand also via our spirit by His Spirit! We mature in both areas, but a spirit that is in His Spirit will never die. We are responsible for our body, soul and spirit in this life.

If we fall sway to another man’s way and God has given us His Light, it is up to us to get ourselves corrected.  God wants to come with blessings for His people but if they do not allow themselves to become corrected, they will reap the judgments and corrections of those who follow the world.

When we have the Light, God expects us to ADVANCE with the Light. It is not just to sit in our little corners and enjoy ourselves. Things are expected of us!!! Sometimes we inspect our blessings for too long. We fail to see the needy and the lost and the dying. When we do that, it disqualifies us from the next event.

And if God has called us to shepherd, then we need to be first in allowing His dealings. WHO ARE those ministers who weep between the porch and the altar? Do you understand THEIR SIGNIFICANCE???

I have been weeping this morning. I feel weepy now. Too many want to put the burden on the shepherd(s) when the Shepherd is working to train THEM to shepherd! When we realize our responsibilities, we will not put undue adulation or responsibilities on the shepherds we see and that have been given to us.

When WE are about our Father’s business, we will be more concerned for our sins than another’s. Our concern for them will be that travail of Love that they get it right. We will not judge. When WE are about our Father’s business, we will sense the weight and gravity of His call upon our lives. We will realize that WE are held accountable for this calling. And we will be judged for it!

It’s a serious thing. When we realize that, we will put all our focus and efforts on pleasing Him. We won’t have time to look at the specks in our brother’s eyes, we will see the log in our own. And God is not in the condemnation business! We so need to learn that. We will realize that we are not seeing and doing all that God wants us to see and do. We will cry to wash that log out! Then we will be able to gently pull the splinter out of our brother’s eye.

As we mature we will find God’s uniqueness in dealing with us. As young ones we all need the basics of doctrine and even Spirit understanding. But as we mature into our “missions,” we will find we are not all the same in our callings. This means we have to adjust to the uniqueness of our callings and our assignments. It takes maturity in God to even understand it.

We have to learn how to get along with each other and we have to learn how to accept each other, even when we are different. We are also called to minister to one another, and support the work of God’s developments in the lives of others. We are not to hinder God’s works.

We honor each other with respect to their callings. We are not to monitor and judge it, but to work to see how we can receive or bless it. Along the way we will find these “fits” where “every joint supplies.” But even these need to be flexible. As we know, God can prune! But it is for our good and greater and healthy growth. This is the reason we need to discern with the Spirit and with Truth.

We don’t have to accept every “word” that comes our way but we do have to make every effort to discern and discover His Way. We will make some mistakes but some errors are even allowed for greater truth revelation. When we can accept that, we will not condemn ourselves but put more of our trust in Him.

When we work with Him, we will come to discover more and more that He is Good and His intention and end for us is good. That will build our confidence and make us even better as ministers. We will understand how He works through grace and has a great redemptive Plan.

We will need His “Cross Examinations” to prosper in our individual paths of Life.

The Fruity Tree

I am grateful for my upbringing, no telling where I would be without it, probably nowhere very good, if still here.

My parents were nominal Christians, they took me to our mainline denominational church, got me into activities, and those activities were my Spiritual training.

God has His Hand on my life, (Thank God!), and I did have a few encounters but I would have been clueless without my Christian training that pointed me to the Word of God.

I learned the basics, about Jesus and His life, the Ten Commandments, tolerance and respect for other people and their views, and the Bible verse that “God is Love.”  One day that verse would literally save my life when I was younger and condemned harshly (to die) by a preacher who did not share my views!

Had it not been for the love I was shown, I probably would have rejected church altogether after that!

Then in 1976 I found out about and received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.  It DRAMATICALLY changed my life.  A well spring opened up inside of me and my zeal had no bounds!  I was ready to defy every devil, save every soul, and raise the dead anywhere I might encounter that, even deal with institutions and government if need be.

Well, it doesn’t take that long to figure out that there are some personal limitations on your strength, but I was still greatly impressed by the Life that had been made available to me.  I was right in the middle of the charismatic wave and God was near and I did encounter His incredible Presence and saw a number of impressive miracles and ministry.

It was a whole new world.  At one point, I gave away everything I had with my zeal to be like the early disciples and live by faith.  Well, that faith landed me back at home with my parents who were the nominal Christians with a daughter “on steroids” so to speak. They didn’t know what to do with me, even though God was using that to speak to them.

The only peace that came to the wild household  is when I went to church with my mom who had quit going.  My dad was content to watch it on tv.  (He later got wonderfully saved, but that is another story.)

I was going to every exciting meeting I could get to, and needless to say, my young faith was being tested on a number of levels.  I look back and laugh at all that now, but it was a serious development stage in my faith walk.  Thank God for patient loving parents!

One Sunday morning at our downtown Methodist Church, trying to suck in every bit of life I could get from those services, I was silently telling God how “dead” it was.  Now I had learned a lot of incredible truths that really did hold my life together.  But at this stage, all that seemed BORING!!!

As I sat there, explaining that to God, I was telling Him how this church, that had held strong for over a hundred years, was so lacking.  I envisioned this incredibly big tree with large extending branches and told him how great the fruit was on it.  To me, where I was, was just a tree with no fruit!  Not like the fruit I saw!

He just played me along and said, “Really?”  Now this conversation is all silent, but very real.  I said, “Yes!!!  These people are missing it!  They are missing the gifts of the Spirit, these wonderful works, this great excitement, they aren’t studying about the fruits and gifts and seeing miracles!”  He replied, “That fruit is really grand, is it?”

I replied, “Oh yes!” and just went on and on with Him.  And so quietly He said, “What if I cut down the trunk of that tree?  What happens to all those full branches and that fruit?”

I was stunned.  I knew this was God I was talking to and He could do anything He wanted.  I had no choice but to reply, “Then all the fruit is gone!”  He had made His point with me.  I was not honoring my roots.

All this inner disdain I had (and probably some outwardly) suddenly withered.  I realized He was taking me back to the basics, and those basics are not only good but necessary.  If the storms came, where was my foundation?  It needed to be on His!

I realized there was a progression of truth.  And even if some limbs get pruned, you really do still want the trunk of the tree an its root system.  It makes for life!

I laugh at this experience but not at what I learned from it.  A loving God taught me His ways.  My zeal was precious but it needed to be grounded.  The fruit was not greater than the tree it came from.  My folks were pretty simple folks when it came to Spiritual things, but they were honest and ethical and lived pretty well and content.

I realized that I needed to be a bridge and not a bomb.  It just worked better.

While looking for a picture to go along with this of a big tree similar to what I saw in my vision then, I came across this one called “The Salad Tree.”  It’s an artist’s mock up but it seems to fit so well.  We need it ALL.  And we need to have good sense and be planted on the sure foundation.

There are requirements for full life and if we ignore that, we will miss what God wants to do through us and in us.

God bless you~

Pam

Prophetic Word through Pam Clark 7-26-11

There are things in the Church that God is changing. Much of the old church system is being torn down. People are leaning on “the structure” more than the Lord.

This is a revolutionary time. What worked in past ministry is not going to work right now. Filters have been created that have skewed the View. Faith will not be through people as much as it will be through prayer.

God wants us to “get real” and stretch and lean on HIS Creativity. Hearts are being tested as never before. The test is not about “us” but is about Him. Do we really perceive Him the way HE wants us to perceive Him? The enemy has been seeking to hijack and short circuit many things to confuse and render impotent the true powers and Plan of God, but he will not succeed.

God is stripping many to make them call upon His Power, His ways, and His Life. It is really His offering of Love and Anointing to us.

Some people are going through financial battles, some people are going through physical battles or even family and reputation battles.

We cry, “Where are you God?” and He says “I am within you.” Too many are looking for power in a social context. The power within will manifest without.

People are looking for the outward signs and God is correcting that. This stripping is a blessing. Here you will find that His Kingdom holds, and it delivers.

It delivers The Promise! 

Here you will find people who really do (or really don’t) believe as you do. Here the scourge of opinions will singe your heart and soul. But you will find that God still remains.

Is God doing this to hurt you? No, He is doing this to help you. He is doing this to reach you. 

God is preparing us for Visitation. He is looking for a people to manifest through, and He wants the manifestation as real as our cries are to Him for it to be Real. 

Our desperation moves His Heart. He wants to meet us but He cannot compromise who He is.  His Order establishes the Heaven and the Earth.  We are firm and secure in Him. 

When all that can be shaken is shaken, we will still remain…  Because our lives are kept in Him, because we have chosen that. 

It is Betrothal!  Let the Romance begin! 

When the Beloved calls out to her Bridegroom and He responds, it will be pure faith. Not hyped up, not pumped up, not gimmicked up, or even slicked up. 

Oh what a wonder to behold this Bride of His. She mystifies the world with this supernatural Relationship where all of earth and creation responds to her. 

God wants to bring Heaven to Earth.  He will bring Heaven to Earth!  It belongs to Him!

He will claim and reclaim what is and has been His all along. 

We limp and think things are okay. We have fallen so short. But He will restore, restore, restore!

And all creation will praise Him for the wonderful God that He is.

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GOD says Call For The Women!

Understand the atmosphere of the context of this…   See the conditions that were going on in Israel that God and the prophet Jeremiah were dealing with.  The prophet was interceding passionately in a backslidden era. He was seeking the heart of God to find remedy…

Jeremiah 9:

15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

16 “I will scatter them also among the Gentiles [nations], whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.”

17 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider and call for the mourning women, That they may come; And send for skillful wailing women, That they may come.

18 Let them make haste And take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may run with tears, And our eyelids gush with water.

19 For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How we are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because we have been cast out of our dwellings.’”

20 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O women, And let your ear receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And everyone her neighbor a lamentation.

21 For death has come through our windows, Has entered our palaces, To kill off the children; no longer to be outside! And the young men; no longer on the streets!

22 Speak, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Even the carcasses of men shall fall as refuse on the open field, Like cuttings after the harvester, And no one shall gather them.’”

23 Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches;

24 But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the Lord.

25 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that I will punish all who are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

26 “Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.”

God was responding to a man who was crying to Him over the conditions of the land. War was going on, the land was plundered. Hearts had turned away from the Lord.

Children were dying and the nation’s strength of the young men was dissipating. He was standing “between the porch and the altar” (the place of intercession in God’s courts) crying out.

God was angry because people had turned away from Him, so judgment was coming now for the believer and unbeliever alike. But God has mercy and God has answers because God has a Plan. And God will speak.

With all that deterioration and hopelessness, the prophet cried out in tears. And what did God answer?

Call for the women. If you read the whole passage there, the women were also under attacks and suffering. It was not like they were the stronger of the two at that point.

This was God’s answer and this was part of God’s Plan. Call for the women and give respect to the women. Was there another option? Not here, there wasn’t.

Women are not better than men, nor are men better than women. This was not God’s statement of “Women rule.” In fact we know that God names men as the head of their families. But I believe there comes a time when God thinks we have missed it and when we ask Him for help, He will respond with what HE wants.

The Lord has always wanted balance and respect for all His people. He never denied anyone from any nation who wanted to join the Company of believers if they were really believers. Women don’t have any special graces or charms that touch God more than men do. God wants respect for His grand Creation, in the manner and order that He designed it.

I think it is very interesting at this time in America that the news is full of the story about our country’s loans defaulting having the potential to dramatically the wreck the country even more, and the LDS trial of Warren Jeff facing child/girl/women abuse charges. I think there is something to it. (I have preached this Jeremian 9 message years before, so this did not just come to me.)

God wants honor for the men as well as the women. He wants them to have their respect. This is not about ego, but dignity. But I am making a point beyond that, too. When you look at the Church, the Body of Christ believers, who are crying out long and hard for revival and revolution in our lives, you will start to notice something – the women pray-ers.

The women intercessors are rising up. They are gaining a Godly recognition for their roles in seeking God. This is a sign that revival is coming! God has a fashion and order in the way He does things. We are not self designers in this call on our lives to live before Him and then receive His blessings. There is an order and a plan! And our fullfillments will be found in that.

As God is preparing us for a Visitation, you will find more and more anointing on the prayer groups of the women interceding. They will not be just women only, because God is no respector of persons. Men who are sensitive are not despised by God. He is not blessing hanky-panky (wrong actions) by either gender, but He will address the issues of what means something to Him and the way He wants to see things done.

We have much today going on in the way of social engineering, attempting to reorder the ways of God and it is just not going to work. He can shut it down. He has done it before and He can do it again – dramatically. He will let things go way beyond what most decent people think He will. But that does not mean He is not going to act. His ways are higher and grander than our ways are.

When He talks about us entering into His Life and Blessings, and what it takes, He is sincere. The reality that He is even willing to communicate with us on any level is mind blowing. But He knows what He is looking for. And He gave Scriptures to assist us.

Christians who have been around prayers know that they can change things. Prayers have the potential to do amazing things, but they are not “our” design tools. We are not the Designers. We are co-laborers with a great work in redeeming the earth.

God knows what He wants and He wants both men and women and children respected in the right spirit. We do need to search that out and we do need to follow His order, not in legalisms but in honoring the Life that He has designed.

Look for those weeping, wailing women intercessors and join them and bless them. According to God’s Word, it is going to make the difference.