January 2015
Seeing a lot of 555, 444, and 333?
I believe in 2015 you will see these sequences of numbers on license tags, clocks, and all over the place and let me suggest some of what the Lord might be saying to you. 555 speaks of a mature grace being available and is connected to Isaiah 55:5. This is about the Lord glorifying His people so that nations respond to us. If you are seeing this frequently it is the Lord calling you into the work of reformation of society and that special grace is on you for this work. The more often you see this number the more you are to do your best to be positioned to be available.
444 speaks of the Lord's fingerprint being on what you are presently involved in, the moment you see it, and that there is a glory available for you or through you as you see the thing through. Psalms 44:4 and Ezekiel 44:4 are key passages telling of victories being orchestrated on your behalf and of a great glory as you walk through a door. If you see a 444 in the midst of a significant conversation then pay attention to what was being talked about and press through and find the door for it going to the next level.
333 has to do with the Lord having a secret, or revelation available to give you- if you will ask Him for it and then turn aside and make time to hear it. It is associated with Jeremiah 33:3 where He speaks of wanting to show you things you presently do not know. If you suddenly begin seeing it everywhere He is preparing to give you a scroll that you really need to advance with your assignment. Many of you should see a spike in this number sequence. He is looking for those who are paying attention and hungry for Him.
Feedback from my last post has many of you asking and telling about seeing 111 and 11:11 on a very frequent basis. When seeing these or any other number sequence in a repeat pattern that extraordinarily defies normal odds, there really is something God is wanting to speak to you. With the numbers I just mentioned, here are some things the Lord could be wanting to say to you and it is appropriate to ask Him which of these it might be. Paying attention to what was going on when you saw the pattern of the numbers is always an important piece of the puzzle, so remember that as well. Here are some relevant scriptures:
Gen. 1:11- "The whole earth had one language and one speech". God could be urging you to bring unity to a specific situation or telling you you have a call to bring unity.
Deut. 11:1- "Love the Lord and keep His statutes, judgments, etc." It could be a correction if you were in a moment of sin. A signature moment that it is "time" to repent.
Mt. 11:1- "teach and preach". God could be confirming to you a call to do teach and/or preach. It should be confirmed in some other way as well.
If you are getting a lot of combination 111 and 11:11 then key verses are Isaiah 11:1 and 11:11 and Romans 11:1 and 11:11.
The Isaiah references speak of a Rod from the stem of Jesse that the Lord sets His hand to extend again to recover a remnant from Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Ethiopia and the islands (Indonesia, Philippines- as well as all islands). This speaks of God at this time going after the Muslims with His love and that you have a part in it in some form or another.
The Romans passages speak of the preeminent call to Jews and Israel. Romans 11:1, saying God has not cast out His people Israel and verse 11 stating the same and adding that the Gentiles are being reached as well and they will provoke Israel to jealousy towards God.
So the 111 and 11:11 could be telling you of a special call to Muslims or Israel or both. At minimum to pray for one or the other or both.
If you find yourself in a very stressful situation and 1111 stands out this could be a sign to follow the Psalms 111:1 instruction to praise the Lord radically with your whole heart and this is His answer for you.
Finally, Joseph was the 11th son of Jacob, and also 11 is the number of the prophetic. The Joseph call is the call to receive divine solutions for reformation and restoration in society and an economic blessing is attached to it. Getting 1111 repeatedly could be a confirmation to you that this is a call He has for you.
Additionally, the Lord may have spoken to you that these numbers mean something else for you and if that is clear to you then of course trust that. However, if you have primarily been unsure as to what He has been telling you through the numbers then ask Him as it regards the options I shared here.
Let me add here that John 11:1 and 11:11 is also huge as it is where Jesus comes to find a dead Lazarus but tells them in verse 11 that he only is "asleep". God is waking up things and promises that seem dead.
Here is the breaking news of the day. God is on the throne and He is rocking back and forth with expectation and excitement as He is gazing at us His kids. He is so alert and eager to show Himself strong on our behalf. He is so for us. He is infinitely better than any one of us has perceived. He knows many of us have had adverse circumstances facing us, but it has touched His heart how we have persevered and remained hopeful. He loves the resiliency we have developed. He is aware we have been developing spiritual muscle for things we don't even know we need yet. Now He is about to release the forces of heaven to dismantle some core systems of evil that have been around for centuries. Every foundation of darkness is about to go through a severe shaking and thrashing. They are going to soon be in shock and awe at what God does in our time and in our day- as He has decreed a season of onslaught for His courageous ones. Take heart sons and daughters of the King because His kingdom is pressing in on us as never before. You are being resisted but you will rise up and roar and you will rise up and romp.
OK, so the 2's have it. So many of you have apparently been seeing a lot of 222 and 2222 as well and are wondering as to what the Lord might be saying there.
Three scriptures that I get for this are Eph. 2:22, Rev. 22:2, and Acts 2:22. Eph. 2:22 is about us being built into a dwelling place for God. Rev. 22:2 is about being trees of life that bring healing to the nations. Acts 2:22 is about being a person of signs, wonders, and miracles. All three go together and as you see the 222 you are being reminded that you are one that is to carry the power and presence of God everywhere you go. A life of the supernatural is yours to step into as you host Him.
Seeing 2222 at key times is about Is. 22:22. This is the passage about being given the key of David to open and no man can close and shut and no man can open. It is about being given a new level of kingdom authority.
22 is also significant as it connects with Is. 2:2 and Acts 2:2 and is really on the same spiritual wavelength as 222 and even 2222. Is. 2:2 is the reference scripture for the 7 Mountains and speaks of the days when the Lord's house would be positioned on the top of the mountains and nations would come running. Acts 2:2 speaks of the suddenly from God that ushers in the sound from heaven that comes with a mighty rushing wind and of course spoke of the day of Pentecost. This is the empowerment for all the above.
I hope this helps some of you. The 2's are all about empowerment, authority, agreement, and the supernatural. You're supposed to get a good, heavenly buzz when you see it at key times.
I have been asked to be a part of an amazing event that is taking place next week at The Potter's House in Dallas, Texas. It is "The Reconciled Church Summit: Healing the Racial Divide" and it is being convened by my friend Bishop Harry Jackson. This event is meant to kick off a movement that will respond to the racial tensions and separation that are felt in our nation from our churches out to the streets of Ferguson, NYC, etc.. Among those coming together are TD Jakes, James Robison, Gordon Robertson, John Hagee, Dr. Tony Evans, Bishop Joseph Walker among 30 or 40 well-known leaders who will come together not to preach but to humbly seek God together as to solutions towards reconciliation at all levels. Please be in serious prayer on behalf of this Summit as it could go all wrong without the assistance of the Holy Spirit. However, I believe great assistance of the Holy Spirit will be there and it will release something good and unprecedented in our nation. Your prayers could greatly assist the process.
College Football Championship Prophetic Message:
As you football enthusiasts will know last night Ohio State defeated the Oregon Ducks 42-20 in Dallas, thus become National Champions. Last night the Lord gave me a prophetic message woven into the win. The key individuals in the win are Coach Urban Meyer, QB Cardale Jones, and RB Ezekiel Elliot.
Urban Meyer is 50 years. Urban has to do with the Inner City; Meyer means "one who shines". This is the Lord's focus in and over America at this time. 50 is the number of Jubilee when the captives are set free. Ferguson, NYC, and other cities of America have been the focus of national attention in recent weeks as the unacceptable plight of Urban America has come to the forefront. Amazingly this Wednesday in the same city that the Championship game was decided (Dallas) there will be a Racial Reconciliation Summit convened by Bishop Harry Jackson at TD Jakes church and attended by many prominent black, white, and Hispanic Christian leaders (I will be there as well). Beginning January 6 a swarm of earthquakes has shaken up the city and there have been at least 17 of them in the days since then dominating the news. Something is brewing in the spirit.
Cardele Jones is the 3rd string quarterback that came out of nowhere and directed the last three stirring victories of Ohio State. Nobody had heard of him before then and now there is talk he could be the best QB to go into the NFL next year should he so desire. Appropriately enough the news has told how he came from the very "mean streets of Cleveland, Ohio" to now shine in the public stage. He overcame the perils of the dangerous inner city he was raised in and became the leader of the National Champions. A truly great story. His uniform number 12 is the number of government and divine order and the game was also played on the 12th.
Ezekiel Elliot was also a virtually unknown name until he started his amazing play 3 games ago rushing for over 200 yards in three consecutive championship type games. Ezekiel was born in St.Louis which is where Ferguson is. Quite appropriate that a young man born in that area would arise and shine and be the star of a national championship under a coach named Urban Meyer. His name itself is indicative that it is a prophetic message (Ezekiel was a Biblical prophet for those not aware) and of course, Ezekiel 37 on the dry dead bones coming back to life is perhaps the best-known passage and story of the book of Ezekiel. Ezekiel was asked by the Lord "Can these bones live?" and they not only came alive but became a great army. This story is applicable to what God is about to do in Urban America as we agree and speak life to her. Ezekiel Elliot carried number 15 meaning again that this arising is for this year.
God has looked down and seen the plight of Urban America and He is going to shake us up and come in with power and favor and He is going to rearrange everything and what has been a seedbed for crime and difficulty is going to be a seedbed for rising and shining champions. He is specifically interested in His people coming into agreement that this is next on His agenda and that it needs to go to the front of the line in our church and national priorities- because it is on His. It is a Jubilee year for this to happen.
Wow, wow, wow! I just got back home after a whirlwind trip of two days in Dallas and three in San Diego with Heart of the Father Ministries. The Dallas Reconciliation Summit was truly historical and what was and is being released in the spirit from that event will be nation-changing for us here in America. I hope all of you get a chance to get the video or report from that event as it is extremely important in the spirit to step into this spirit of reconciliation that God is helping us with. In San Diego, it was so good connecting with many new friends some that came to be ministered to from Tijuana which is going to be a place and city of transformation and a beachhead for God's presence. Where darkness has abounded a great grace will be made evident. So many new Kingdom connections were made in the last 5 days that we are only now beginning to process the magnitude of it all. No matter where you were these last 5 days you should have felt the major shifting into fruitfulness that is taking place. There is a rumbling in the land as God's kingdom comes in on the wings of a massive host of angels.
As we look to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. it becomes important that we chose to become ministers of reconciliation as they are in short supply. 2 Cor. 5:18 tells us that we have ALL been given the ministry of reconciliation. Reconciliation starts with understanding the disadvantaged one's position- as opposed to seeking to instruct them (as is the norm). This is what God Himself did sending His Son Jesus to walk in our shoes and to experience life as we experienced life. A New Covenant was made available to us the disadvantaged ones based on that experience that provided a new and living way for us to experience life .
Overall, whites consume 5 times as many drugs as blacks do and yet blacks are incarcerated at 10 times the rate as whites. This is a systemic bias that must change and that we the majority need to care about. Blacks' average prison sentence for a drug charge is 5 years -which is roughly the same prison sentence that whites receive for a violent crime. This is another systemic bias that must be amended and again this is a matter that needs to bother us as the white majority as it represents a structural inequality. Connected to the above inequalities, 1 in every 11 black males is in prison as opposed to 1 in every 40 white males. Additionally, 1 in every 5 black males is either in prison or was in prison or in some way on record with the department of corrections. 70% of imprisoned blacks are there over minor drug charges. There should not be long term sentences for the accumulation of minor drug charges.
These legal inequalities are clearly a significant factor in creating an "absent fathers" reality in the inner city. It also is a major factor in the 50% unemployment rate among under-30, black males. If it is hard to get a job simply for being a black male that reality is greatly compounded after serving time. Additionally, 80% of all those imprisoned are functional illiterates meaning they have been greatly let down by the government's educational system which is rife with its own subtle biases. I could go on with more. The point is that is not only racism in the heart that keeps many blacks - and many Latinos as well- in a disadvantaged position in American society today. There is systemic, structural racism that can and must be looked at and then reformed. This is something all ministers of reconciliation should look to care about and then lift our voices so that it be addressed.
Martin Luther King Jr. is honored today because he contended for equality in treatment and opportunity regardless of one's skin color. His message was righteous, from the heart of God, perspective. May an army of white sons and daughters of the King begin to heed that message and arise with the same passion- as the minority races already have. I am committed to doing my part in ensuring that the cry for justice comes not only from those experiencing injustice. May many of you chose to join me in this ministry of reconciliation. A great angel of Reconciliation has been sent to us and may we cooperate with our Papa's heart for racial healing among us.
Here's the deal for this year. There is, in fact, a great victorious grace available for us this year (555). However, to fully access that great grace we really do have to stop the pointing of the finger at all the people we are used to pointing the finger at. Think of our pointed finger as a drain on our grace. Our measure of grace get's reduced based on our inability to extend grace towards others and it gets increased based on our choosing to view things through a mercy lens. Jesus said we would get meted out the same measure of judgment that we dole out to others. These "others" include President Obama, the Democrats, the Republicans, "the illegals", and whoever else makes it on our list of ire. I so want to be like Jesus on this one, and I so want abundant grace in and on my life, and I know you do too. He said:
Luke 6:37 "Judge not and you will not be judged. Condemn not and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.
John 7:24 "Judge not according to appearance."
John 8: 15 "You judge according to the flesh; I JUDGE NO ONE.
John 12: 47 "FOR I CAME NOT TO JUDGE THE WORLD, but to save the world."
If we really are going to step into being the ministers of reconciliation we are called to be, and if we really want great grace on our own lives, then an unsanctified opinion is the most dangerous thing to our own well-being and a much more important factor than how many demons might be opposing us. Can we let Him touch us with the sweetness of His mercy towards us and then play it forward?
I had a dream last night where the essence of it was we were all moving from living out in the countryside to the city. We had been out there for many, many years but we were all closing up shop and moving into the city. It was a new assignment time. When I awakened I felt a good seriousness from it all. Something has changed in the spiritual landscape of things and the kingdom age is on- and an extended era of reformation and renaissance is upon us. I feel like many are getting new marching orders right now. These new orders are a strategic positioning that will direct us into much fruitfulness. It is as if the Lord is playing chess on many boards and He is making many, many key moves all at once. The enemy is being checkmated all over the place by these moves- and it is opening up a time of unprecedented kingdom advancement. The double that He has for us this year is a double fruitfulness based on His strategic positioning. Our greatest assignment is to recognize what He is doing and agree with it. Let Him strategize and let us recognize.
OK, so I have turned into Johnny the Dreamer. I have never had a season like this where I was receiving almost nightly a dream or more of significance. I think it is part of the array of wisdom angels that have been sent to give us understanding as to the season and how we move forward in this age of the kingdom.
THE DREAM: The dream was simple. We were all getting brand new 4x4 RamTough pickup trucks. (you should know I have never naturally desired one) The 4x4 was something on the vehicles in a very visible way and it was in two visible places. I saw the ram on the end of each truck and there was shiny silver chrome all over as well. A unique thing was that all the pickups had 8 tires (4 double wheels). The trucks came in all kinds of colors but red, green, and dark blue were the most common. I also noted how the high-end shock absorbers stood out and thought about how we would not feel the bumps with these.
INTERPRETATION: We, His kids, who know we are His kids, are all getting new upgraded vehicles. We are getting a pickup truck as this is a service vehicle and it is all about serving the Lambs/Rams agenda. We have 8 tires as this is going to make our vehicle a virtual all-terrain vehicle. 8 is the number of new beginnings and this is a present reality for many. There is silver chrome leading the way and all over the vehicle because it is all about redemption- and silver means redemption. The Lamb is redeeming everything right now and He wants us taking hope for things being restored- everywhere we go. We are being outfitted with high-end shock absorbers so that nothing surprises us or knocks us off course. We will absorb any bumpy thing that might happen in 2015 because He is gracing us to stay on course and mission. The 4x4 on there twice- is about Eph. 4:4, which is all about unity, "one body, one Spirit", and Rev. 4:4 which is the throne room setting and tells of the 24 elders and 24 thrones around the throne room. This speaks of a new heavenly authority we will now step into as we carry the Lamb's agenda into every place of society. The feeling in the dream was that with these new vehicles we could go anywhere. There was also a feeling of a lot of power in these new vehicles. Finally, the dominant red, green, and dark blue are the colors of the mountains of media (red) economy (green) and education (dark blue), and they each respectively also speak of His blood, provision, and revelation. These three will begin to impose and make a difference this year. We really did catapult to a new place last year and now things are "picking up". So you have your new pickup this year and now make sure you get in it and use it. All creation is groaning and travailing for us to do so. Vrrrooommm. Vrrroommm.
There is a massive bombardment of hell's forces on earth taking place now through March 1. Get ready to take unprecedented ground as the enemy is receiving a relentless pounding from the huge forces of heaven-sent for this time of accelerated advancement of the kingdom of God. The prince of Persia is in for a particular beating. Blind eyes are opening in the Muslim world as never before. The One who gave His life for them is going after them with a relentless passion. This year alone millions will get to know Him as Savior. Great grace is on us now- and remember that every time the number 555 stands out to you.