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Prophecy from Sharon Stone
April 26th 2009
God showed us your hearts (Pastors John & Nancy) and He showed us that you have a heart, that regardless of what you felt at the time, you were willing to adapt to the purposes of God. We know that that doesn’t cause you to just start the journey but it causes you to finish the race.
Today there are so many voices out there. With all these voices it is so easy to receive the voice of Fox News and all of the advisors out there. Our only true area of help, rescue, and deliverance is the voice of God.
When you do hear the voice of God it causes all the other voices to be shadowed. It causes that light to come upon your path. It causes boldness and a confidence to rise up within you.
I have never believed that the Body of Christ is reluctant to change like some people minister. I believe that the Body of Christ refuses to get excited about talking about change and not seeing any. We are all looking for surety in how to move ahead.
It is important to have a clarity of God’s voice. It’s important that we have the authority and a finality of the voice of God. But it is also important that we have the right interpretation of communication. When the Spirit of the Lord releases that to you, you want to be able to interpret it correctly. We have to be careful that we don’t interpret with our own hearts. Interpretation of a Word from God can be so filtered through our own desires that it sets us up for hurt. It sets us up for disappointment. It sets us up to think that a prophetic word has not come to pass; or that somehow we have been disqualified; or that the word has been delayed; or that the word was false.
Ruth 4:12 “May your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring which the Lord will give you from this young woman.”
This is a spiritual prophetic comparison to where you (Gates of Praise) are right now as a house. When it says “the house of Perez”- Perez means breakthrough and God has blessed this house as a house of breakthrough. Many see this as a family church or a place where you come and worship but the Lord sees this house as a house of breakthrough. The Lord says that there isn’t anyone here who hasn’t experienced breakthrough. God has used this house in times past and God will use this house again to bring people out of religious garments. Some houses are used more in the gift of evangelism where you see people getting saved all of the time. I believe that is a part of this house’s purpose but I believe you will always see more growth from God bringing people out of religious systems and He is bringing people into relationship. He is taking people out of their religious garments and He is clothing them in liberty. And that is your major area of influence and growth on this level.
So when God says He is comparing you to this blessing, “You’ll be like the house of Perez.” He is saying you will be a house of breakthrough. If you don’t know what your breakthroughs look like, how will you celebrate it when you have it? If you don’t know what your harvest looks like, how do you celebrate it when you have it?
Now let me share this about harvest: The Bible says that He takes laborers to the harvest. You see our idea of missions is that we go to the darkest parts and places where nothing is going on and we minister and we feel a little bit of effect. But God takes us to the places that are getting ready to breakthrough. God takes us to places where harvest is getting ready to arrive. So what God wants you to do is to know your harvest area so that you may be a people whose labor is not in vain and you are seeing a greater return upon your labor.
You labor is not limited to this but God says that he has called this house to be a house of all nations. And He has called this house to affect the nations. The Lord says He is bringing many different people groups into this area and into this region and they are going to fill this house. And the Lord says you will see that this will really be a house of nations but what it will do is build bridges to the nations.
Plenty of you sitting right here, that some of the things God has promised you over the years or said to you and you don’t see how they will ever be fulfilled but part of it is being able to recognize your harvest because you can’t have a bridge that only has one border to be able to start from, it has to have the other side built also so that people can come and go and come and go. The Spirit of the Lord says this is a mission’s house and there will be the ability to touch the nations inside here but also with a bridge where people will be able to go back and forth.
Father, we recognize that you are the Master of the breakthrough. And we are a people that have to realize that you have called us to breakthrough. And that there is an anointing and an authority in this house to deliver people from religious captivity.
Father, right now I speak a stirring of that up on every life in this place. That there would be the understanding of it. That they would be drawn to those that are bound, that they would be drawn to those in captivity. They would be compulsed toward those that are searching and just don’t know; those that are the Sauls that You have called to be the Pauls. Father, that they would be the bright lights, the salt in the earth even toward those. Father, right now we afresh instead of just giving them the whole target and we release a bull’s eye in this whole house this morning. That there might be the understanding of what joins this house together, what’s the glue, what’s the mortar that holds them together. That they might all realize that they all have anointings in these areas: to see the captives set free; to see those that are in religious bondage come into liberty; to see those who have had only a portion of truth come into a greater truth; those that just come to church all of a sudden realizing that they have a destiny; those that believe there is just an elect few that are anointed beginning to realize that they have gifts and callings upon their own lives.
Father, we speak right now a greater release of that bull’s eye, in the name of Jesus.
Genesis 38:6 –
Judah is selecting a wife for his first-born son whose name is Er. Verse 7 says that the Lord killed Er (not Tamar). In the culture of that day if you had a young man who was married but died before having children, his wife was given to his brother and his brother would lay with her and the child from that union would be the heir to the first brother’s inheritance. So Judah gave Tamar to Onan (verse 8). Verse 10 says God killed him also because he displeased God.
Judah then sent Tamar home to wait for his younger son to grow up. Tamar is put in a place of delay and a place of loss of expectation. She did not do anything wrong and yet here she is in a place of delay and a place of loss of expectation. By covenant alone, she is called to be a part of that family, married and to have children, and to have a destiny in that lineage. She has a covenant with God in many areas and yet it is not being followed through.
Can you imagine the gossip in her home town when she comes back after being married into a prestigious family? She comes back with no husband and no children. They probably assumed she had done something wrong. Naturally they would assume she is cursed, barren and possibly being disciplined by being sent back to her father’s house for something she has done. When ever you feel like the fullness of what God has promised you and He has said to you is not coming to pass, it affects expectation. One of the major reasons it affects expectation is because when we don’t see God do what He has promised we begin to lower our expectation.
What does this have to do with this church? What does it have to do with this region? The Lord says that there is a low ceiling over this area. How does that affect the church? The enemy occupies the second heaven and there has been a pushing down over this area and that means the ceiling is low here. When the ceiling gets lower and lower, your expectations become lower and lower. This has nothing to do with you, no fault of your own. For the Lord is saying that what the enemy has strategized against this area to keep it from coming into its full activity, full destiny and its full purposes to other states and even the world. The enemy has meant to halt that. His strategy is to lower the expectation because people who don’t expect much don’t get much and they certainly don’t push the envelope very often. They don’t come out of the box very much.
Father, You said that You can do more than we can think, dream or ask. We are recognizing through no fault of our own that the enemy has this strategy over this area and this region. Father, in the name of Jesus, You said that we don’t battle flesh and blood, but we battle powers, principalities and wickedness in high places. We come against that strong man over this area that is pushing this ceiling low over this region. This is affecting the people by losing and lowering expectations. This morning we shake the high places of the enemy and we declare that you can no longer trespass here, in Jesus name. Our God reigns over heaven and earth. Heaven and earth are going to see the glory of God because our God reigns. He can reign governmentally, financially, educationally, in the areas of our families. We are made in His image and He is transforming us even more into His image that we might be one that can do more than Jesus did when He walked upon this earth. Today we are called to areas of demonstration of His Spirit for others and also ourselves, in Jesus’ name.
This is a picture of delay and a low ceiling. When you are in delay it feels like the goal line has just been moved a little further. Just about the time we get to it the goal line is moved. This causes us to pace ourselves. It is no longer a sprint but you begin to pace yourself. The Spirit of the Lord doesn’t want you to just have the ability to stand when all has been done and you have a strong faith within you. Did you hear what the Lord said? He said you have a very strong faith within you. You are like a clown punching bag that you blow up and little kids punch. There is a resiliency when all has been done you just bounce back up. There are true faith foundations and faith expressions at work in the midst of you that give you that ability to stand. That is perfectly right when it is the time to stand. But what about when it’s the time to run? What will bring the victory is to operate in the strategy God gives you. You are operating in a time when there has been a delay and there needs to be sprinting.
Back to Genesis 38. We see that Tamar was positioned for all of the blessings but she didn’t have them. Verse 12-14. The third son gets older but Judah still doesn’t call her.
Tamar realizes that she has to shift something in order to get breakthrough. So she dresses like a prostitute and sits in the road. Tamar was shifting her opportunities. It often takes outrageous action to bring a shift when there has been a delay or when there has been a lessening of expectation. This has to do with this area and this region. God is so pleased with you, He is speaking about the strength of your faith. He is speaking about the strength of your faithfulness and the healthiness of the church. But because you are called to breakthrough, and because He has called you to target those who have been bound in religiosity and bring them to freedom, you have to be ones that know how to shift some things. You have to shift them for yourselves so that you can also shift them together for others.
So here is Tamar sitting in the road and Judah is coming by. And when Judah comes by it says in verse 16, Then he turned and saw her he said, “Please let me come into you”; because he did not know that this was his daughter-in-law. So she said, “What will you give me?” Verse 17 And he said I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She asked for a pledge until he sent the goat. She asked for his signet, his cord and his staff. What was she asking for? She was asking for his identity. The next day he send his servant to give her the goat but he can’t find her.
Then Judah hears through the grapevine that his daughter-in-law is pregnant. He says to send her to him so she can be burned. When she arrives he asks “Who did this to you?”
He wants to know why she defiled their family this way. So she shows him the signet, cord, and the staff that belong to Judah. She basically says, “Guess who the daddy is?”
In verse 26 Judah acknowledges that Tamar has been more righteous than he has been.
Outrageous action is needed for shift. Tamar had to position herself, she had to shift and push her authority to see her promise fulfilled.
For this house, you are already in position. God is not saying that you are doing anything wrong. You have the promises of God but you are in a position where you are going to have to shift from delay and loss of expectation. It will take some outrageous actions to be able to do so. You are also in a place where there is an authority that has to rise up.
My husband had a dream last night. In his dream someone came and stole his identity. They stole his credit card and his driver’s license. He got the police involved. As soon as they got to the house of the people that had stolen his things, they went in and the people were on the computer and they unplugged the computer and they turned off the power because the people were just getting ready to send all of his information out. If the info had gone out many people would have had his identity but by pulling the plug the information was stopped from being sent.
One of the reasons you are in the place where you have to push and use your authority at this time is that the enemy is out to steal your identity. I don’t know all that you have been through in the last 18 months and without knowing those things I can honestly say this – you don’t battle flesh and blood, you don’t come against different people. The enemy’s wiles against this house were to steal your identity. It was identity theft. That’s God’s point of view on what it is, not man’s point of view. When I find out that my point of view doesn’t match God’s what happens? My point of view has to change. It may even rewrite history for us sometimes because we have to get into alignment with what the Spirit of the Lord is giving me.
So here we are in a place when the time to push is just like in the dream when Greg’s credit card and his driver’s license were stolen. The police ran into the house and the first thing they did was unplug the power. There is an authority that you have got to rise up in that is going to pull the power right out of the enemy. It is meant to unplug that and it is meant to halt it. Do you realize that you can have things that are no longer effective in the natural but they are still effective in the spiritual? That power has got to be unplugged and it has to be disconnected. You cannot let someone steal your identity. We are very generous with the things the Lord has given us but no one else can be you. No body else can be you corporately. Others are called to be something else. They are called to diversity in their reflex ion of Jesus Christ, but they can’t be you.
Lord, You talk about that one of the reasons that we gather is for the corporate anointing and corporate authority. God, we have not come here to get a diagnosis this morning, we have come here to bring a shift in the heavens and we have come here to do business. So Father, right now, in the name of Jesus, as we stand in this place, we acknowledge that there has been an identity theft but it has not been fully followed through on. We cut that off in the spiritual realm (remember, we are not dealing with people). The Bible says that you know the wiles of the enemy. The reason to know the wiles is to cut them off.
We cut off the wiles of the enemy over this house. And where there has been an identity theft. Where there has been that which is come in and tried to steal vision, and steal purpose, and steal corporate authority and identity, in the name of Jesus we cut you off right now. The Word says when the robber has been found that he has to pay back. We call forth a paying back individually and corporately in the midst of this house. There will be a paying back. There will be a giving back. As was the culture of ancient days, when the robber was found his hand was cut off, we cut off the hand of the robber so he cannot come and steal in this area of identity theft any longer, in the name of Jesus.
God, we rise up in our authority and we push at this place and we say, “God, we will not allow this to continue to happen.”
Some of you will have to watch that and sustain that until it becomes the new place God has for you.
Genesis 38:27-29
In verse 29 the midwife said, “How did you break through?” So the first one out they called “Perez” which means breakthrough. The second son was called Zerah which means “glory.”
You have to have breakthrough to be able to release the glory of God.
The Spirit of God is speaking to this house and this area. He has double anointing for you. He has multiplied anointing for you. He has you at a place where you are going to bring forth multiple births simultaneously. He has given you the ability to birth several different things, not just one area only. And this truly is what the Spirit of God has to say to this house.
This is the same vision but the Spirit of God wants you to look at it a little bit differently. You are in that place where you could be just sent back to your father’s house to wait with a loss of expectation and some will say, “See I knew something was wrong.” There could be an area of delay affecting you. Or you can come to a place where you say, “God, what is the outrageous action we need to take right now?” “What is this we need to do to fully break this delay and to lift the ceiling that has been coming down on our expectations?” This is not something that you can say it’s done. This is a battle you are in. This isn’t just a skirmish.
And then there is that area of authority. When I got up this morning I was pacing back and forth in my hotel room, which I often do when the Lord’s giving me something. This is what the Lord told me, “Lean to the left, lean to the right. Stand up, sit down, fight, fight, fight!!” I knew that the Lord was speaking this over this house and that He was putting His emphasis on the “fight, fight, fight.” The Lord said, “You have been so successful in your maneuvering and following His Spirit, “to the left, to the right, up, down. You have so made sure that your hearts are right.” That’s incredible to hear the Spirit of God say that about you. That’s like, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
“You have done so well in that area but it was never meant to rob you of the fight.” You have done so well on this aspect of the journey and this part of the transition that the whole church world is in right now. You have done so excellent in this area. But what happens sometimes when you get hit real hard, it affects the fight; it affects the authority and then you don’t even really know what your target is. You may think the target is yourself because you are the one that had to die and be resurrected. You are the one who has had to put down and adjust. You are the one who had to get pruned. You are the one who had to go through all of these areas. And so what happens is I believe in this house that you have been relying on the strength of the principles of faith that God has put in this house, which are absolutely tremendous. These are a basic that some people don’t even have and they have to be revived. Some of us will choose to stand because we know that has given us victory in times past. We say, “I am going to stand and operate in the principles of God. I am going to speak the Word of God. All of those things are necessary. But the fight, fight, fight is absolutely necessary, too. And the Spirit of God wants to put that back within you. And that is that release that brings forth the double anointing. That’s the release that brings forth the glory of God.
Father, right now I pray for this house. We thank you this morning, Father that this was tailor made for this house. This is a Word that You are speaking individually as well as corporately. We know that You have people that are going to pick this up and carry it. There will be people that will feel commissioned by it. There will people that will see a totally finished work and move on to the next phase so that we can see those who are caught in religious captivity released. That we also might see greater harvest come in. That we might see the nations within the house and even bridging to the nations. Father, we rejoice before you that there is not one bit of this house’s destiny that is lost in the process. Father, You have a way of redeeming our time.
Father, I release the violence that takes the Kingdom of God by force in this house and in each of our lives. The aggression that puts the growl and the roar back on the inside of us. The clarity and the focus that brings the bull’s eye into full view. Father, we ask You to put your hand over ours and as we draw back the arrow in this next season we are asking for Your strength upon it. That it will be that which can hit the target. Whatever outrageous acts are needed we release because this is a house of extremes. We remind them of who they are: a house of extremes, a house of great liberty. And we say, “God, there will be many that will have individual outrageous acts but there will also be some corporate outrageous acts. And maybe even some regional ones.
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