Our Mission and Vision

“And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: (Eph 4:11-12 KJV).

We purpose to build disciples of Jesus Christ by empowering people to walk out the Gospel and impact the world around them. Our vision is to gather, shepherd, encourage, confirm, and release into ministry those individuals God joins with us, as well as to develop, establish and oversee foundational expressions of Christian worship, training, prayer, and service.

Monday, November 25, 2013

"The Iron and the Clay" by Janice Bowman

NEWS FROM THE THRONE ROOM FOR YOU.   I am going to share something here that will get you thinking. In the year 1960 at the United Nations General Assembly for decolonization of the nations, we see both Nikita Khrushchev, the Russian prime minister for the cause of communism, and the president of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower.  Now Khrushchev’s name interpreted means clay. Eisenhower’s name interpreted means iron.  If we go to the book of Daniel we see the image the prophet Daniel sees during his position with King Nebuchadnezzar. In the book of Daniel, chapter 2, starting in verse 31 we see the prophet Daniel describing a great image he saw in a vision and he is describing to the king what he sees.  He describes all the body parts of this image which represent nations and kingdoms of the Earth. I am going to skip down to the feet now. Daniel saw a mixture of Iron and clay in the feet of the image and says the iron and the clay do not mix. Saints they did not mix any better than Khrushchev ideas did with Eisenhower’s, than communism and democracy.  So next Daniel sees a rock cut out of the mountain, not made with hands, and it is coming faster and faster towards the feet of this image. The rock keeps gaining momentum, it comes faster, and faster, and it smites the image on the feet, and down comes that image. The image becomes powder scattered in the wind, and only that great rock is left standing in the earth. That rock represents the church of the living God with Jesus Christ as her chief corner stone.
The apostle Peter reminds us that we are all lively stones built into the church of the living God. Jesus is that rock cut out of the mountain, made without hands, and all along the way while this rock gains momentum and becomes more and more massive, the Holy Spirit gathers lively stones, stones that He grafts into that rock cut out of the mountain. That rock becomes bigger and bigger as it picks up greater, and greater speed, becoming weightier, and weightier all the time. This is in type and shadow depicting the very heavy weight of glory that is headed towards the earth, and not all here in the earth will be blessed by that rock saturated in weighted glory!! Jesus said if men won’t fall upon this rock, Jesus Christ, then it will fall upon them!!!  The church will have in these last days a weight and a holiness that comes against all that is false, both in the church and out, and judge with righteous judgment all that is in darkness.  All those that know their God shall be strong and do exploits!
 We are, and have been since the beginnings of our nation, in the foot stage of that image that Daniel saw in his vision. That iron that is still in this nation is not going to mix with the clay of the anti-Christ doctrines that surround us on all sides!  However, notice that the rock cut out of the mountain destroys the strength of the iron also. It is time we, as Christians, stop bragging about the strength of the iron in this nation, and get our eyes back on the Rock. Neither the iron nor the clay was good enough to stand in the holy eyes of God. While we blame bad government, it is the enemy’s strategy to get us in wars and political arguments and scandals that don’t matter! As long as slew foot can get us involved in the wrong war, and paying attention to all the scandals around us, we continue ignoring the scandal of the cross. Then he has us! 
I have heard many people say they just want government back the way it was. Many people fail to realize the way it was, as much as  of us enjoyed it, was not good enough for God. God will uproot and blow away not only the clay among us but also the strength of the iron because there was too much bragging about it in the first place. It is long overdue that the people of God in this nation want a perfect government that will rest upon the shoulders of Christ and not our favorite politicians. Even our forefathers that we so like to brag about, and as good as some of them might have been, fell short of God’s greatest desire for a more perfect government made without hands. His servant Daniel was faithful to show us how all government will be smashed into powder.  Yes, even this government in America that we cry for to be restored to her past glory! God is telling us to let go of what we once had and stop fighting to gain back what he has rejected to usher in something far greater than what many of his people won’t let go of. The church must come into unity with the mind of Christ at this moment in history. As she joins hands with the Holy Spirit and all of creation in deep groaning and travail to herald in the kingdom of God, under the canopy of Christ Jesus, who shall rule and reign forever and ever. Too many are still whining and crying and grieving the very heart of God as they ask for the leeks and the cucumbers of what they want America to be again. It will never be that again. Let go of what you want back from the past and strive for what God wants in the present and in the future.
We are in a revolution; we are in a spiritual war.  We may lose a battle from time to time, but we will not lose the war if we listen to our general in the heavens.  There will be some very hard times, as both the iron and the clay are destroyed.  That iron we have all loved so much, that strength that we all admired in this nation, that good part will also be destroyed simply because it has not been good enough for God. God always wants the best not just what is good.  Good, better, best.  God will never rest until the good gets better and the better gets best!  That might not be our standard but it is the standard of the God we serve.  If so, then let us not be afraid to let go of the past and let go of all fear and come into perfect agreement with God’s standard and not what we have been comfortable with. That great and mighty rock cut out of the mountain, without hands, needs to be the revelation of the church at this time, especially in this nation where the iron and the clay struggle against each other in ever increasing ways. Let it all go!

 He who can hear what the Spirit is saying to the church, let it all go. Every nation struggles inside of His womb to bring a many membered body into the fullness of the mind of Christ. People yearning for the good ol’ days of the past are going to miss the next and final and greatest blue print plan for the church in these last days.  We are being called to a war but not for what we had in the past. You that hear what the Spirit is saying to the church will catch this but all those who hope for what once was will miss the next and greatest move of God, which is the full measure of the mind of Christ.  We won’t find it in the past. The kingdom of God is at hand.

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