2007 - The Year of Acceleration and Expansion

"Surely you will summon nations you know not and nations that do not know you will hasten to you, because the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel has endowed you with splendor" Isaiah 55:5

Key Words: Proficiency, Stewardship, Accountability, Expansion

Before you make your list of New Year resolutions as is the habit of most people who look back over the year to analyze failures, flaws and faults, I implore that you seek revelation through the "Eyes of the Spirit". God wants to use all of you; all of your indifferences, faults, failures, peculiarities and imperfections. Therefore. give calm lengthy consideration to all you have endured and reflect upon all the ways in which you have prospered. In all of your trials, triumphants and even some tragedies, how did you thrive and grow? In what ways have you been sharpened, increased in wisdom, enlarged in statue through the essential lessons in life, service, love and leadership? How much more have you been endowed with splendor?

"God makes everything beautiful is it's time." Ecclesiastes 3:11

Have you yet noticed how quickly time is passing? God is making haste as He continues perfecting that which concerns you. There is a time and season for every purpose under heaven, and no time to waste. Stop procrastinating, making excuses, quit blaming the enemy every time things don't look quite the way you thought they would and take personal responsibility for all that God has put into your hand. Away with asking God to do for you what He has already given you power and authority to do in His Name! Your submission and obedience is required..... clothe yourself in the Spirit and Power of God, move swiftly, take your position, remain steadfast. "Behold I have given you Power.... and nothing by any means shall hurt you" Luke 10:19.

There is still much that God has prepared for you to do that has not yet been made fully manifest. He is working in you and around you to quicken your progress and proficiency in the affairs of His Heart. God desires that you be fully competent, properly suited and thoroughly skilled for the work He has assigned to your life. During this season of hastening there will be several vocational realms through which you will shift and move in 2007, each realm proving more exacting with accelerated activity in the development every talent, gift, skill and ability that God has given to you that has not yet been proven. Get out of your box, stop thinking so small, move out in your businesses, move out in your minsitries....it is no longer church as usual! God has something bigger for you. You are called to Kingdom Building and God has given you everything you need for life and success. To whom much is given, much is required! There are people waiting for you whom God has assigned to your life. And you will be required to execute the skill that is being perfected as He deploys you into new assignments and territories.

"Enlarge the place of thy tent and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations, spare not, lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes....for thou shall break forth on the right and the left." Isaiah 54: 2-3

"For I will Hasten my Word to Perform it saith the Lord"

Flourishing Fields

" The Seed is Word of God." Luke 8:11

I've been asked on several occasions why the ministry is called "Seedplanters".
Years ago I asked God, "Why am I here and what is my purpose?" His purpose for
me was made manifest in this vision.

There appeared before me a garden in which every flowering plant did bloom. In the midst of the garden stood the spirit of man, in admiration of all that had been accomplished by the hand of the God. The spirit of man inquired of God, "Every beautiful thing has already been created by your hand therefore what purpose shall I serve here?" God replied, "I am the Lord of the husbandry and you are the farmer. You must continue to cultivate the fields and make ready to plant seed." The farmer asked the Lord of the Husbandry, "What seed shall I plant?" The Lord of the Husbandry replied, "The seed you shall plant contain the embryos of God inspired thoughts, dreams and visions. These are called the seeds of truth. Of the seeds the farmer asked, where shall I plant them? " The Lord of the Husbandry replied once more, "There are many fields in which you will plant; some may appear dry and barren, unfit for planting. Others may appear dark and rich merely awaiting the seed and fullness of season; yet every field requires your tender cultivation. Therefore take heed to cultivate passionately and sow generously, only then to witness the flourishing evolution of full blossoms. Remember, everything is made beautiful in it's time."

Several years later, I accepted an invitation extended to me by a dear friend to attend a worship service at a church in a nearby county. It was during the time of prayer when the Pastor walked over to me and spoke these words, "When I look at you I see you walking through the countryside on the upside of a mountainous view; in every place you set your foot, I see red Poppy's springing up in full bloom and there are poppy's everywhere." In that moment, God used this Pastor to confirm the vision and mission He had shown me. To this day, the Prophecy still unfolds in my life; my trail ways have become flourishing fields of fragant flowers, the men and women, whose lives are the evidence of soil having been broken, seeds having been planted, embryo's having been formed, nourished, thrust forth and in full bloom. The poppy like many of us is wild flower that will thrive almost anywhere dating back to 5000BC in the regions Mesopatamia (modern day Iraq), within the orignal Garden of Eden. Many species of poppys continue to colonize and survive in the most hostile regions. We call that resilience!! Whatever your experiences, adversity, struggle or setbacks remember that you can bounce back with more power, more ability, better equipped then before. Like the poppy, you can be resilient but only when the Word of God dwells richly in you!