2016 - The Year the Jonah Spirit is Pruned from the Church!
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Topic: 2016 - The Year the Jonah Spirit is Pruned from the Church!
Posted By: Julie Gilbert
Subject: 2016 - The Year the Jonah Spirit is Pruned from the Church!
Date 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 ------------- See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you. Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See I am doing a new thing |
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Posted By: Dewey Whitworth
Date Posted: 01/22/2016 at 10:44am
 YES AMEN to this word !Dewey Whitworth ------------- Psalm 1 |
Posted By: Rose Cooper
Date 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." |