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Topic: 2016 - The Year the Jonah Spirit is Pruned from the Church!
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Julie Gilbert
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Posted: 01/20/2016 at 3:46pm
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2016 - The Year the Jonah Spirit is Pruned from the
Church!
Last May the Lord spoke to me and said prepare for the
‘Summer of the 10 Spies’. I felt Him saying that the
atmosphere of the nation would be charged with doubt,
unbelief, fear, reports of impending disaster,
conflict, and in general doom and gloom. This would be
fueled by the news media and even fanned by believers
and those in the body of Christ with an Old Covenant
model of prophecy
However the Lord declared, I want my people to be of a
‘different spirit’ to pick up the mantle of ‘Joshua
and Caleb’ and declare “But GOD”. It was not a denial
that ‘there are giants’ in our land, that is true,
nevertheless we are not to see ourselves as
‘grasshoppers’ but as the people of God, empowered by
Holy Spirit and favored by our Father who desires us
to take back the land and recover the inheritance!
This Christmas I felt the Lord saying that this will
be the year that He will expose the “Jonah” spirit
that much the prophetic in the body of Christ have
been weaned on. Jonah was angry, bitter, judgmental,
and self-focused. He wanted God to judge Nineveh and
give them what they deserve and yet he knew God was
merciful and full of compassion and would forgive and
forestall any judgment if the people of Nineveh turned
to Him, this was to a nation that was not in covenant
with Him, idolaters, and Gentile’s. We all know the
story and how Jonah was frustrated and bitter that his
prophecy of Judgment did not come to pass due to the
Ninevites turning to God, that he was upset that the
gourd that was shading him died and left him in the
hot sun. The Lord rebuked him that he had more
compassion for the gourd, his own comfort and agenda
than even the children or livestock of Nineveh.
We are called not to model the prophets of the law of
Moses we are to model the Lord Jesus who is the very
Spirit of Prophecy! Moses does not bring us into the
land, our Joshua does, Y’shua, Jesus! Jonah’s message
was repent or judgment, however the Lord gave us a
prophetic mandate to declare repent, the Kingdom of
God is here! A kingdom of love, joy, peace and
righteousness confirmed with signs and wonders and the
miraculous. A judgmental, sin focused, finger
pointing, powerless, church will not take back this
nation. An advancing, mountain taking, troop, with the
spirit of Joshua and Caleb, filled with the
unconditional love, grace and mercy of our Father,
bringing down the giants of deception and bondage,
with a message that His heart for us is one “Hope, a
future, prosperity, and blessing”, a heart desire for
His children to indeed inherit the land!
The United States of America is not a Nineveh, though
it is not perfect, we are a sheep nation, we have a
covenant foundation that was birthed with the colonial
battle cry of “No King but King Jesus”. God’s heart is
not angry and against America. If He loved Nineveh how
much more does He love this nation that has sent more
missionaries and birthed more of the greatest moves of
God in redemptive history!
This is the year to throw off the ‘Jonah mantle’ and
put the “zeal of the Lord” on as a mantle (IS. 9:7)
and declare the “acceptable year of the Lord” (IS.
61:2), His Jubilee! We are now in the 7oth Jubilee
year since Joshua and the Israelites crossed over the
Jordan and into their inheritance. I believe this is
the year that the Lord wants His 3rd day people to
“arise and shine”(IS. 60:1) as His glory fills the
temple, made not of brick and mortar but of “precious
living stones” (1 PET. 2:5), filling this nation His
message of the gospel of the Kingdom. A prophetic
message of amazing grace, mercy, total forgiveness of
and deliverance from sin, restoration to Father God,
healing, and freedom confirmed with signs, wonders,
and miracles.
A people who believe the report of the 10 spies will
be filled with doubt, fear, unbelief, criticalness and
negativism. They will not possess the faith, hope, and
confidence of Joshua and Caleb who declared “but our
God is able”, they will not believe God wants to use
them to do the miraculous and take back this nation!
We are not of the prophetic mold of Jonah, ours is a
different spirit, one that believes our God wants to
give us our inheritance and in this Year of Jubilee,
2016-5776, he wants us to recover all, to possess this
land, take back what has been stolen and truly reap
the full benefit of the debt cancellation that Jesus
purchased on the cross.
This is the year that the prophetic, in this nation,
will have the Jonah spirit pruned away as unfruitful
and destructive, we are instructed in Romans it is
“the Kindness of God leads us to repentance” (ROM.
2:4). The prophetic voice of the New Covenant is an
encouraging voice, one that is filled with the faith
and declaration of the Good News of the Kingdom of
God, and with an anointing that declares and
demonstrates “The acceptable year of the Lord”!
Tony Cavener
NE Metro Christian Fellowship of Atlanta
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Dewey Whitworth
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Posted: 01/22/2016 at 10:44am
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 YES AMEN to this word !
Dewey Whitworth
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Rose Cooper
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Posted: 01/22/2016 at 11:07am
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This word certainly brings some enlightenment. Especially this:
I felt Him saying that the atmosphere of the nation would be charged with doubt, unbelief, fear, reports of impending disaster, conflict, and in
general doom and gloom. This would be fueled by the news media and even fanned by believers and those in the body of Christ with an Old Covenant model
of prophecy.
Total light bulb moment reading that.
Reminds me of what Jesus said about "When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to
come."
Edited by Rose Cooper on 01/22/2016 at 11:09am
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