A Prophetic Release to Prisoners (Sept. 2014)

Why the Way Up Is Down

The Lord has been dealing with me for a while again about the insight that I am about to share here.  It's no new revelation, nor is it a mystery.  It is simply divine order established in Jeremiah 1:10 "See I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant."

Whenever I am commissioned to share this insight, whether individually or corporately, the process of bringing down in order to raise back up properly begins in numerous ministries, Churches, businesses, and in the lives of God's people.  Twenty-five to thirty years ago, when I began to try to forge my "ministry" forth in the media and in various parts of the country God kept saying to me "The way up is down, daughter."  It seemed as if He was contradicting His gifts and anointings in my life, but little did I know that He was after securing my safety and my purity in Him.

I had to realize as many of you have and others will, that God cares more about relationship and intimacy with us than about our ministries or our work because the gifts will work even when you aren't in sync with your Christian walk because our gifts and anointings were given for the Body to be blessed through.

So often, the manifestation and operation of your gifts can deceive you concerning your walk.  You might preach, sing or prophesy very well, but your heart is impure, not humble, bitter towards your enemies and others and simply needs healing in many areas.  If you don't continue to draw nigh to God and allow Him to do a deeper work in you, eventually, your ministry will become defiled which will then become obvious to all that something is amiss.

Here, I'll share a portion of a word that one of my Facebook friends shared from Prophet Delisa Lindsey.  "Many like to use the term, Ichabod, to denote the glory of God leaving a church but there is more to Ichabod than that.  Ichabod can also mean the glory of God leaving your life.  -  Ichabod can take place in your marriage, your health, and your relationships.  Just like you won't stay in a relationship when you are being abused and mistreated, neither will the presence of God stay where He is unwanted either."

So many negative and unproductive situations in your life might not be the attack of the enemy, but they could very well be the result of your rebellion and lack of humbleness and lack of yielding to the will and ways of God.

Don't be afraid to find out about yourself.  Just crawl up on the altar and allow Holy Spirit to help you examine your motives and your attitudes concerning life and ministry.

Sometimes, you hide or just don't acknowledge people that God used to get you to a place in your spiritual growth that you would not have reached alone.  Sometimes, you refuse to ask for the counsel that you need from an elder in the Lord.

You prefer to sacrifice and run all over the country to conferences of "celebrities" who you will never be able to have a personal encounter with instead of submitting yourself to vessels whom the Lord has commended and made available to you.

Sadly enough, I have watched people lose blessings or deliverances that they accredited to someone or to someplace other than who the Lord actually used in their behalf.

It is absolutely shocking and amazing that our name brand and celebrity worship crossed over into the "Church."  So many of you prefer to say that God blessed or delivered you through a well known person instead of the prayer warrior at your Church or by an anointed vessel over the phone who you have never even seen.  Now, I have had that last experience many times without a hello, thank you or even a public mention, but then this is how God can even test our motives and intentions.

To get a greater insight into this discussion, study the Kenosis of Jesus in order to understand the necessity of "taking it all off" in order to be raised up in the Kingdom to your full statue. 

"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. 10. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you" I Peter 5:6,10.