Is this not the fast that I have chosen.. Isaiah 58:6-12

by Johnette M. Moore

Isaiah 58:6-12

⁶Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?  
⁷Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
 ⁸Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy reward.
 ⁹Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
 ¹⁰And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
 ¹¹And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
 ¹²And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

People are living in extreme poverty and dying of hunger still in some parts of the world today..  A remark was made that while some are dying in the streets of some parts of Africa of starvation people are suffering from obesity in other parts of the world. Believe it or not.. Obesity is also a symptom of malnutrition. One who is over weight is not necessarily over fed.. but more than likely ill fed..

2 Chronicals 7:14 speaks to this problem and every problem that besets our lands. many of these impoverished areas and dying people have never been afforded the opportunity to hear the preached word of God.. however.. there are those who stand by and watch helplessly.. who not only have heard, but say they have received and CALL THEMSELVES Christian.

God has given us the power to get wealth so that He may establish His covenant. Wealth in this context far exceeds finances and material substance. The wealth that God speaks about is spiritual, and rightfully applied gives access to the keys of the Kingdom thus evoking the Power of God to subdue the kingdoms of the world and take DOMINION.

When we aquire the mind of Christ through obedient submission, exercising absolute faith, walking circumspectfully before Him.. then and only then will we see the fruit of our labour in the land of the living.. Favor will come knocking on our doors.. answers will come SUPERNATURALLY and deliverance will be realized in great magnitude.. We could labour day and night and never see change in these situations, however, let us submit to the principals of Kingdom living and the God of our salvation will move mightly..

Let us look at the tower of Babel. There is nothing that men cannot do when they speak the same language and have the same mind. When they are of one accord and absolute agreement. Let us who are called by the name of God come into perfect alignment with His word, His way and His will. Let us walk HOLY before God. Then we can command mountains to be moved and they will be moved.

The fact is:  people are dying in the natural, but more importantly to note.. many are dead already, spiritually, and we, the body of Christ must take on accountabilty. Let us first present ourselves blameless before God then watch as He provides us with answers, solutions as well as resources.

We are to be the beacon on a hill, the salt of the earth.. the place where the unchurched are churched.. the place where the hungry are fed, the homeless receive shelter and the broken hearted receive hope.. We are called to be Repairers of the Breach and Restorers of paths to dwell in..

Come on people of God!  There is dying world out there! We say we have life and life more abundant.. Let us feed the hungry! We have not the resources of our own but our Father in heaven owns the cattle on a thousand hills.. He is rich in houses and land.. all belongs to Him.. We are stewards of His wealth.. We must learn to rightly appropriate His resources. However we cannot lead where we have not gone.

The people of God must stop wallowing around in the soul realm, led by the dictates of their flesh, pointing fingers and judging .. when God has given us RESOLVE...

3John 1:2 "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth" 

Let us bring our souls into a prosperous state through our obedience to the word of God He might use US as INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE.. Selah!

A child lies with an empty sufuria waiting death because no food and the parents either have died from starvation!! Pokot, Kenya.

The Impact of the Testimony

by Johnette Moore

You might have all the best at your fingertips now but I am confident that the testimony of WHERE GOD HAS BOUGHT YOU FROM holds more POWER OF INFLUENCE and IMPACT than the testimony of WHAT HE HAS BOUGHT YOU TOO.. Ministry birthed in the manger is far more effective then that birthed in elegant surroundings with a silver spoon in ones mouth..

Moses had to be IN the wilderness with the people to be EFFECTIVE in leading them OUT of the wilderness..

When you have lived in the gutter, fought for survival in the trenche, dug for food and panted for water... you will go into those same gutters and trenches and pull others out. You will feed the hungry, clothe the naked and provide shelter to homeless... AND you will do it with enthusiam.. with passion.. with fervor  ... WHY????  Because you have been there, you remember,  and you are GRATEFUL for God bringing you out and you desire to see others healed and set free!!!!!

When you have been delivered from sin, adultery, fornication, pornography, abuse, drugs, alcohol, lies, deceipt, gambling, gossip, fraud, poverty.. you will have far more understanding and compassion for those entangled in these yokes of bondage.. you will find it easier to love them and instead of pointing a finger, you will readily extend the right hand of fellowship and help a brother or a sister up and out of the gutter. You will cover them with your own garment of love and help them to stand in the face of shame and adversity.. In fact you will count it a priviledge to stand with them while they are still covered in stink.. and you will put your arm around them as others look on in disdain as you declare that God's grace is sufficient and His hand is ever there to receive and deliver.. because you know..

Let us remember Moses' ministry was birthed in the bullrushes...  Joseph's ministry was birthed in the pit... The ministry of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was birthed in a  lowly manger.. All are deliverers...

Let us not depise our own manger experience but count it all joy.. God's best is produced from the manger..

Let us protect ourselves against deception.

by Johnette Moore 

How can two (or 3 or 30 or 30 million) walk together except thy are agreed.. The agreement that God is calling us to is not one with the other but agreement with HIM, His will, His word, His way.. There is coming another major shift.. with each shift there is a major falling away.. The Antichrist has long been present and presenting false doctrines, deceiving the people of God for some time. Except we be rooted and grounded IN HIM we ourselves stand the chance of being carried away with every wind and doctrine.

The world has become power hungry and sadly enough, so has the church.. God's Kingdom is not a place where we should be aspiring for positions for the purspose of bringing recognition to ourselves. To be Kingdom minded will show us having a mind and heart that is all encompassing of every truth of God..
Let us stop pointing fingers at who is or is not doing "it" right. The enemy is subtle and by casting judgement loosely we cause division and give way to the enemy.. giving him legal right to wreak havoc.
Instead let us individually and collectively press toward the mark of our high calling in Christ Jesus.. A calling that promotes oneness with Him.. as we become one with Him individually we will find that our hearts and minds.. our desires and objectives mirror one another.. God will supernaturally and divinely begin to connect us one with the other as we find our way into the deep recesses of His heart.. Deep is calling unto deep..
You see as we each find our way into the deep of HIM we will agree with the deep of each other.. no longer following after the dictates of the flesh.. no longer drawn away by fleshly desires. All this will fall away as we come closer and closer into the deep of His heart.
Deception will cease as discernment will increase.. Let us seek to see the will of God fullfilled as we answer the call to holiness that we might come into oneness with God and oneness with each other forming God's Ramnant, His Army, His Kingdom.. a mighty force to be reckoned with.. God's Army is Marching.. Selah


Jesus is about to walk the earth with signs and wonders following.. Let us not be deceived by the counterfeit works of the Prince of darkness. Let us Know our God and do exploits in HIS NAME for HIS GLORY.. Remember.. the devil is a liar and JESUS IS LORD!.. AMEN..

... for ye have not passed this way before.. Joshua 3...

by Johnette Moore

And they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests, the Levites, bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it. Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.” And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”
Joshua 3:3-5

As Joshua waited by river bank for instruction from God on how to get to the other side of the Jordan.. He was committed to do whatever God would instruct him to do no matter how crazy it sounded.. He told the people before giving the instructions;

“So Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of the Lord your God.” And Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites: Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is crossing over before you into the Jordan."....
So He gathered the twelve priests, one from every tribe, and spoke what He heard Our God say.. "And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come down from upstream, and they shall stand as a heap.”Joshua 3
and the waters that came downstream stood still and the people crossed on dry land.. WHAT FAITH.. It is important to know that the ARK OF THE COVENANT went BEFORE THE PEOPLE.. God instructed them to stay back 200 cubits, about 1,000feet.. so that they could keep the ARK.. the WORD in full view.. and KNOW which way to follow..

Are we prepared to put our feet into the Jordon.. and wait for God to hold back the waters? Or are we waiting for the waters to stay BEFORE we step from the river bank? God has sent His word ahead of us..  that we would see the vision come.. though it tarry it will surely come.. IT WILL NOT TARRY.. PRAISE BE THE NAME OF THE LORD..

Ours is not to question the word of the Lord but to heed His word and step into the Jordon.. God is calling us to ABSOLUTE OBEDIENT FAITH.. Great faith is no longer good enough..
Can we trust the God we say that we serve???

God wants to bless you, the question is "are you in position to be blessed?"

by Johnette Moore

"God wants to bless you, the question is are you in position to be blessed?"

A friend of mine posted this question and when I read it, I immediately envisioned a pilot ready to take of and doing all the necessary checks.. Unless everything is working accurately.. that aircraft simply will not take off. 
Likewise with sound checks.. the technical staff will check every microphone and location, every speaker... over and over.. "testing" "testing" "testing"... until each one is marrying with the other.. BEFORE the curtain goes up..

When God asks the question through His servant "are you in position"?.. it is because HE KNOWS that we are not in alignment with His word and His will .. somehow. What He is actually saying is:-

Step up your prayer life..
Spend more time in my word..
Worship me like you never worshiped before..
Praise me till you drop.. unihibited praise like David praised.....
Trust me even when you can't trace me...
Love me with all that you are..

Give until it hurts..
YIELD TO ME..... relinquish your rights to yourself so I can use you..
OBEY ME.... TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY..
PROVE ME... GIVE YOURSELF AWAY..

He wants us to do our own sound checks.. If you readily answered yes to the question, chances are, you are really NOT in position..  

When God asked,  "Adam, where are you?" It was not because God didn't know where Adam was, but because God wanted Adam to assess his own position..

And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”
So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.” Genesis 3:8-10

Kingdom Dwelling is a Choice.. Can we Comprehend and Know...

by Johnette Moore

I am sitting here pondering over the fact that we as a people, cannot seem to COMPREHEND AND KNOW .. to relevate and assimilate .. to associate and affiliate with the concept of KINGDOM CITIZENSHIP.. Could the fact that we are raised and trained under the order of DEMOCRACY.. Could freedom of opinion and speech be contributing factors or even the cause? Could it be that our being accustomed to having the right to choose and opinionate, is making it increasingly more difficult for us to Let Go and Let God?

Maybe this is why the word of God admonishes us to be TRANSFORMED by the renewing of our minds.. to do away with stinking thinking. Old mindsets (Principalities) must be abolished, torn down, uprooted and irradicated so that Kingdom Principals and Concepts can be installed, activated and implemented..

A Kingdom is governed by a King.. One King.. One Supreme Ruler. Everyone else is a subject and subjects don't have the right to be opinionated... they simply dont have rights. They simply adhere to the laws laid down by the King.. the Sovereign Ruler.. My Pastor defines kingdom like this :-

"The kingdom of God is the sphere of God's influence & power. He alone reigns & rules... Every other will or way is subject to His authority."

God is a gentleman and He will not force us to become a kingdom citizen.. He presents us with the conditions and stipulations laid down in His word and gives us the FREEDOM to choose.. once we ACCEPT the invitation, it is now our responsibility to report for duty and SERVE in the Kingdom for the purpose of advancing the kingdom.

I want to see Jesus...do you?

 

by Johnette M. Moore

We are admonished all through the New Testament to keep our eye on Jesus who is the Author and finisher of our faith.

Keeping our eye stayed on Him keeps us in perfect peace.. thus enabling our spiritual sight and hearing to develop and increase... The clearer our vision and the sharper our hearing.. the deeper we will seek HIM .. The deeper the revealtion of Him.. the more obvious the evidence of the TRANSFORMATION will be .. as we are made into His likeness..

There is an undeniable reckogning with Christ that distinguishes us from the rest.. KNOWING Christ EMPOWERS us to TRUST Him implicitly. This KNOWING (relationship) and TRUSTING (absolute faith) EQUIPS us to be used by HIM that He might do EXPLOITS  and DRAW unto Himself through us..  for His Glory..

It is not enough to attend Church and church  events.. Personal intimate and intricate relationship is imperative to bring about the neccessary transformation that will see the old man dead and the new man reflecting the image, the character and the Glory of Him who has called us into His marvelous light..FOR THE SAKE OF HIS KINGDOM.. Letting go of self is the first step to embracing all that is God.. Let us let go.. and let God..

Living a righteous and holy life is attained simply by adhering to the word of God.. Hearing, believing, obeying.. BECOMING.. "Be ye holy as I also am Holy".. in short.. LIVE LIKE ME!!!(Jesus)

Jesus is coming for a bride without spot or wrinkle.. Not for those who are ashamed of Him or for those He is ashamed of..
"Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15 NIV
"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will." Romans 12:2 NIV
" But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord." 2 Corinthians 3:18 NKJ
 "And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate[a] the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." 2 Corinthians 3:18NIV

God is looking for those who will worship Him, and worship in spirit and in TRUTH. ..

by Johnette Moore

God is calling for those who will pull up stakes.. pack up and MOVE.. It is time to move OUT OF THE CHURCH .. and .. INTO THE KINGDOM.. Are you ready to lay it all down at His feet and move into that better place in Him?

Our thoughts.. our mindsets.. our way of thinking.. are developed and shapen according to our beliefs and cultures and these help to frame our concept and precepts of the scripture.. Our culture governs our behavior and its influence impacts our thoughts more than we know.These are principalities and must be torn down.. destroyed.. inialated by way of the renewing of our minds..

Our democratic culture has influenced our thinking to the degree that we believe we have the right to conform the word of God to our own lives and circumstances when in actual fact we need to adapt the mindset and culture of KINGDOM where SUBMISSION is the chief characteristic of the subject (us).. When we learn to MOVE AWAY from the democratic mindset.. (freedom of choice) relinquish our rights to self.. submit and yield to the Sovereign rule of the KINGDOM as A SUBJECT.. we will now begin to see and KNOW ... with UNDERSTANDING.. because we will have become TRANSFORMED.. by the renewing of our minds..

Let us remember that a Kingdom has one Sovereign Ruler.. Everyone else is subject to that ruler.. God is calling for holiness in the inward part.. Let us lay down our erroneous mindsets and be tranformed out of darkness and into HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT. by the renewing of our minds. Let us put away cultural differences and adapt Kingdom culture.. thus we will walk in agreement with other Kingdom ciitizens.

Note: Culture is defined not only by country, colour and creed.. what ever governs our minds, thoughts and actions has shapen and formed us to its culture..