The word I received at the Larry Randolph conference this month (Larry wasnt there).
John, He showed me very clearly that He is taking you to a prophetic level where it is Isaiah 62:10. “Go through the gates. Clear the way for the people. Build up the highway. Remove the stones. Lift up a standard over the people.”
He is taking you, John, to this level where you can speak those kinds of prophetic words that clear the way, make a path – that take away the bad stone and put back the good ones and that help the people.
He wants you to be very careful about who you speak that over and who you dont because there are some people that you will see need it desperately, but it is not for you at that time. Youre going to see some other people, and He is going to go, “Yes! You are free. Go ahead. Do it.” So, listen clearly for that, John.
And, I just see that there is a mantle being passed to you. A baton that is being passed to you. And, that youre supposed to pick up and to with it what the LORD tells you because it’s going to be different from what was there before. But, He says “you go with me.” He says, “I am giving you great and might things to do. And, it’s going to look different , but it’s all Me. I am leading you and guiding you to take the lead. I am leading you and guiding you to look at the people the way I show you to see them. You are a shepherd, but I am leading you, and I am showing you each little lamb, and I am going to give you specific assignments for each one of them because you are going to see so much of where each one needs to be, where they can flourish the best, where they can walk in the things of Me – in the light. That this mantle is something that is different, but I am going to give you freedom to do that. I am going to give you freedom mentally, emotionally, financially, physically and every way, spiritually that you can pick up this mantle and run wiht it because I am giving it to you.”
You have a ministry already but God wants that ministry to die so that He can raise up His ministry through you. He wants new things to come from you and not hte old any longer. But, it takes submitting and being a servant to everyone that God puts in your path – just esteeming others as greater than yourself. He wants to break barriers with you. He wants you to have the ability to permeate barriers without any difficulty so that you can be free of anything that has ever bound you. He wants you to break through to a new identity – even greater than what God has put in you. He wants a new identity that is something so pleasing tot he LORD. He wants you to be humble before Him that He might just be glorified and that through you life, He can bring His majesty, His glory, His sovereignty to everyone around you and that there will be such a realization of who God is through the ministry that He has for you because He is purifying and cleansing the old ministry and letting it die so that He can raise up the new ministry in you.
There some times when you are waiting for stuff, and it just hasnt happened. You’re in that place right now, and you have been there for quite a while, and you know what it is like. And, He wants you to not give up. And, it’s just like in Ehphesians where it says, “after having done all, stand”. And, just keep standing. You know, it is such an easy thing to say, and it is a whole nother thing to translate into real life – into really doing. And, you ahve been going through that for a while. And, it hasnt ended yet. It’s not ending today. But, it will end tomorrow. So, He wants you to keep standing knowing that hope fulfilled is right there. Hope fulfilled is right there. You cant see it yet because Jesus is the light to your path. He is the lantern shining over you. And, you can see around you because Jesus is with you and He is shining the light there. You cant see the end of the tunnel though because you havent gotten to that point where you can see that light. But, John, dont give up. Do not give up, John. Because it is there, and there is a reward. And,, the journey seems hard and difficult because it is hard and difficult. But, the thing is. God is doing things, teaching things, cleansing things, healing things, building things – in you and around you so that you will be able to handle what you see when you finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. It will come, John. It’s on the way. Dont give up. Dont give up.
I see that you are putting on a new robe. The new robe is like you have stepped into a new realm with the LORD, and it’s fresh and it’s new. And, it’s like you are a newborn into the Kingdom and sitting at His feet. And, it’s different. And, it’s like you are “yes, LORD”, and I saw your face looking at the LORD, drawing everything you could cause it’s a place you havent been before. And, I know that it’s hard to imagine that because you have been with the LORD so well. But, He said, “I am bringing you to a new place. A new place in Me that you havent been.”
And, He is keeping His hand tightly on you like no one can touch you. Non one can touch you. No one can take you away. You are His. He is protecting you. But, He is giving into you. And, giving into you. And, sometimes it feels like, “what? I didnt know that.” But, He is going to be downloading and downloading and downloading in your life. And, you do have a new robe on. You are a new man in the LORD. A new babe in Christ. In a different way than ever before.
You know, John, the training for difficult things is difficult. But, the beauty of it is that once you are fully trained, it’s not difficult any longer.
I jut see you changing your mindset about what meekness and humility mean. And, that you desire those things because as you desire, you desire to walk in meekness and humility in all that you do as a servant of the LORD, and who you have been in the past, God will then give you, everyday, expectation – anticipation of what He is going to do. When you turn to the right or to the left, He is going to let you see something. You are going to be expecting to see God move, as you develop this intimacy with the LORD, and you walk in that humility. And, ask God to show you what humility and meekness really mean. They are powerful in the Kingdom. They are powerful in the Kingdom of God. And, God wants you to walk in a powerful way in His Spirit. And, He wants to empower you to set people free to do great exploits in His name, and He is doing that by your seeking His face, by your seeking His will, by walking in the fruits of the Spirit. I just see God wanting to do these explosive things in your life. But, it stats with your humility and meekness.
So, Father, we just seal John. We seal these words. We seal his life. And, we seal his destiny with the blood of the living Jesus. And, I just pray, Father, that this whole thing would be shorter than it was planned. I pray, Father God, that all of this would come to pass better than we had hoped for. That it would be sooner, Father. May the end come soon. May this – this is a beginning. But, nay the new beginning come soon.
So, I bless John. I bless his life. I bless his destiny.
In Jesus’ name.