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The Battle Is The Lords

by Betty King July 13, 2022

written by Betty King

We are halfway through the year, and there is such a tangible sense of excitement and expectation about what God is doing. However, as the plans and processes of God unfold, there can at the same time be an overwhelming anxiety around what is yet to come and what has not yet been achieved. The enemy wants to take advantage of this and ambush you in the area of your emotions, in order to overthrow the faith that you have stood on for so long. I want to encourage and strengthen you as you pass through this, with some guiding principles from 2 Chronicles 20.

En Gedi, a place where leadership is defined

In the prior chapter, King Jehoshaphat had begun to move in the right direction and restore order to the nation by setting judges and priests in place to govern. At the start of chapter 20, however, we learn that the Moabites and Ammonites had come to make war on Jehoshaphat with a vast army. The attack seemed to have come out of nowhere and was nothing less than an ambush set up to destroy the nation. By the time that Jehoshaphat learned of it, the enemy army was already in En Gedi.

Now, En Gedi is an important place with a strategic history. It was at En Gedi that David’s leadership was truly defined. In 1 Samuel 24, while Saul was hunting David to kill him, Saul had entered a cave in En Gedi to relieve himself, not knowing that David was already hidden in that same cave. Saul was completely at David’s mercy, and David had a choice to take Saul’s life with his hands or to leave it in God’s hands. David’s emotions would clearly have been stirred up at this point, and it would have been all too easy for him to act out of fear, frustration, anger, ambition or revenge, and to kill Saul there and then. Yet David had a deeper insight than to act in this way, and let Saul live, recognising that Saul was still God’s anointed.

David made a godly decision that day and modelled what it looked like to rule from God’s perspective rather than from a place of flesh, emotion and personal desire. David knew the justness of God, and that he wouldn’t get away with doing wrong, even if he felt like he could justify it emotionally and even if those around him agreed. He knew that his own leadership had developed and flourished in Saul’s kingdom, and that the growth of Saul’s kingdom had been connected to his growth. He knew that he couldn’t build his own inheritance while destroying Saul’s legacy.

En Gedi therefore represents a place where leadership is defined, where godly choices must be made, and the righteousness and values of the kingdom of God must be expressed. In 2 Chronicles 20, the people of Judah and Jerusalem found themselves in a place where such decisions needed to be made, and in this season you must also make the right decisions, regardless of the emotions that arise.

Conquering the spirit of compromise

Before the attack, when things were well, Jehoshaphat had begun to implement reforms to bring about a godly order. The question now was whether he would still trust God to come through when he was under pressure and faced with overwhelming circumstances.

The Moabites and Ammonites represent a spirit of compromise, and this situation was intended by the enemy to cause Jehoshaphat to compromise, just as David had been tempted to compromise when Saul came into the cave. In our times, the enemy is still looking to derail the building of God’s kingdom by a spirit of compromise, and this is a temptation that you must be alert to and conquer.

One of the ways that the spirit operates is by finding and twisting unaddressed bitter roots within the heart, such as express themselves through pride, ingratitude, self-entitlement, an overinflated estimation of oneself and so on. These manifest socially as comparison and competition, and turn into temptations when the opportunity comes to further one’s own interests by cutting a corner or overlooking an important spiritual value. Very often, the person who succumbs to this does not do so intentionally, but in ignorance, because of the emotional nature of the situation and the pressure of the circumstances in which they are in. Being alert, and intentional about our decisions and actions is therefore key. In this season of pruning, all the bitter roots of the heart must be cut out, and the old wounds and pains must be healed.

Leading from a place of purpose, promise and prophetic insight

Jehoshaphat resolved to enquire of God and seek His help. He called a fast, and gathered with the people at the temple. When he called on God, he didn’t begin his prayers by talking about his personal situation or what was happening to the nation on that day, but first brought before God the history of Israel and the purposes to which the temple had originally been dedicated. When he did then pray for help, the prayers were building on certain purposes and promises of God that had long been established.

Prayer works when it is built on the true purposes and promises of God.

Jahaziel, a descendant of Asaph and a Levite then prophesied by the Spirit of God about how the fight would be won. He declared that the battle was not Judah and Jerusalem’s to fight, but was God’s! Jahaziel, with his specific heritage, represents the voice of godly legacy speaking in the present. This is the power of God’s established promises and purposes influencing today’s outcomes, and the voice of experience and understanding giving insight and direction.

When you go before God to pray in this season, make sure you are aligned to His purposes, and to what He has said to you and told you to do. When the circumstance is covered by a promise already given, the battle belongs to God. He will let you know exactly where to go and what to do.

Be alert also to the voice of those who have real insight. Jahaziel came from a family background where there was a richness of prophetic experience, and he was able to speak accurately into the situation when the Spirit of God moved. Know who in your midst has the experience to hear and communicate the voice of God in critical moments. Believe the prophets and prosper!

Breaking the cycles and moving forward

Jehoshaphat’s political alignments with wicked kings before and after this time were an opening for the enemy, and created inroads for the ambush. As well as pruning your own heart in this season, be careful to also prune any ungodly relationships and alignments that could take you down. If you have been taken down in this way in the past, be doubly careful. You cannot allow these things to come around again. Repeated cycles must have an expiry date in this season.

Check in with God before you move, and be careful to make sure that you are acting out of godly values and not out of emotions or a personal agenda. Proverbs 14:12 says that ‘there is a way that appears to be right, but it in the end it leads to death’. The lives of many are at stake, so think seriously and with righteous judgement, and defend against compromise in all its guises.

The Church is a sanctuary and a site of God’s mercy. It is a place of deliverance and intervention and of His speaking. Remember His goodness, and with gratitude return to the place of worshipping Him for who He is. His best is yet to come in this season – be intentional and don’t miss it!

Adored
Rev Betty King

July 13, 2022 0 comments

Faith

Authentic Alignment To Heaven

by Betty King February 28, 2022

written by Betty King

In Jeremiah 1, the Lord declared to the prophet Jeremiah that He is continuously watching to see that His word is fulfilled (Jeremiah 1:12). We are entering a vital season in the leadership dynamics of the global Body of Christ, as the Lord looks to raise up leaders that will genuinely fulfil His word and lead His Body into the fullness of the maturity to which He has called her (Ephesians 4:11-13). The prophet Samuel is a key prophetic representation of all this, as a transitional leader who restored the Word of the Lord to Israel at a time when it was rare, and as someone in whose life the Lord’s word always came to pass (1 Sam 3:1, 19). Today I want to share some keys with you that will enable you to understand the dynamics of this coming season and position yourself for the life-changing anointing that He is about to pour out.

Our key Scripture reading is 1 Samuel 2-3.

The changing of the guard

In this chapter, the young Samuel is serving in the house of God in Shiloh under Eli the priest. At the time, the administration of the priesthood under Eli’s leadership had already fallen into a deep decadence and disrepute. Eli’s sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were known as scoundrels with no regard for the Lord, and for treating the Lord’s offering with contempt (1 Sam 2:13,17). They also slept with the women serving in the tabernacle and refused to change despite Eli’s rebukes (vv. 22-25). From Aaron’s time until now, the priesthood was always supposed to pass from father to son, but the Lord was determined that Hophni and Phinehas would not inherit the priesthood because of the extent of their sin and disrespect. A prophetic word came against Eli and his family, decreeing that their priesthood would be cut off, and that a faithful priesthood would be raised up in their place (vv.27-36).

Meanwhile, the young Samuel was serving God faithfully and diligently, and growing in favour with God. When he reached a certain age, the Lord called him one night while he was lying down. Samuel ran to Eli thinking that it was him calling, but Eli told him it was not so. The Lord called again, and Samuel ran to Eli again. This time, however, when Eli speaks to Samuel to tell him that he has not called him, he first addresses him as “my son” (1 Sam 3:7) before telling him to lie down again. When the Lord calls Samuel for the third time, Eli finally discerns that it is the Lord calling Samuel and instructs him on what to do. Samuel hears and responds to the voice of God and begins his journey as a prophet who restores godly leadership to Israel and order to the house of God in Shiloh.

The relationship between Eli and Samuel, and Eli’s recognition of Samuel as a son here is a key to all of this. Although Eli’s sons Hophni and Phinehas were disqualified from inheriting the priesthood, Eli had found another son in Samuel, one who was fit for the priesthood and whom God was pleased to call and anoint. The priesthood could therefore pass from Eli to Samuel. Through service and relationship, Samuel became the landing strip for the will of God when the old way of doing things had failed.

There are places in the Body of Christ today where the old way of doing things has failed. There are environments in which the fear and reverence of God has given way to a culture of self-service, and places where the resources of the Body have fallen into the hands of entitled people who have embedded themselves into the structure of the Church and yet feel they have a right to do whatever they please without repercussions or consequences. The prophetic declaration of this hour is that this is all coming to an end as the Lord is watching over His Church to see His word fulfilled!

The clarion cry from Heaven therefore is for today’s leaders to raise up those that are true sons and daughters, who can inherit the purposes of God and become the landing strips for His will, so that what is old and no longer works can be cut off and removed. If you are a leader, this means implementing true discipleship and not just gathering crowds. A mere crowd cannot inherit the purposes of God, but a true son or daughter can. It is through these ones that the Lord will bring about a refreshing and restoration to His house and Body, and a preservation for future generations of the good that has come before. Like Eli, as you identify the true sons and daughters, you will be able discern what the Lord is doing in their lives and lead them well.

Authentic alignment to Heaven

Through what took place, the priesthood transitioned from Eli’s house and leadership to Samuel’s. The need for the transition was simply to restore authenticity to the office. Eli’s house was no longer an authentic witness to the voice and purposes of Heaven on earth and so the nation lacked spiritual leadership and authority, so much so that the Ark of the Covenant was captured and taken away by the Philistines in battle (1 Sam 4:11).

This severe and dramatic loss on the battlefield was a manifestation of something that had begun a long time earlier, in Eli’s family’s running of the house of God. Losing the Ark of the Covenant was a public sign regarding the spiritual condition of the nation, but the original damage had already been done behind the scenes as Eli’s sons treated the sacrificial offerings with contempt and defiled themselves and the servants of the temple.

Samuel, growing up in the temple with a pure heart and eyes would have seen all of this, and we can tell from Scripture that it made a powerful impression on him. Eli’s failures were his lessons. He knew that the welfare of the nation, and its spiritual strength and authority, came from the acts of obedience by its leaders and through honouring the things of God. Similarly, he knew that failing to obey the commands of the Lord, and failing to observe the proper protocols around the priestly offerings to God, were roads to destruction. Therefore, in Samuel 13, when Saul had rashly made a burnt offering to God with his own hands, Samuel immediately rebuked him saying “you have done a foolish thing” (v. 13) and counselled him that his kingdom would not last. Samuel had already seen what happened to Eli and his family when they misappropriated the sacrifices of God, and saw that the same thing would now happen to Saul and his family.

Samuel also knew that spiritual authority comes with serving God, and not with self-service or self-interest. He had seen for himself how allowing the things of God to become subject to the manipulations of entitled people had led to the downfall of the nation. When it was time to anoint David therefore (1 Sam 16), Samuel acted decisively despite the politics of the surrounding environment. When God led him to David, who would be a man after His own heart (1 Sam 13:14), Samuel anointed him knowing that this is what Israel needed for its future – a person concerned first with God’s thoughts and feelings. It was precisely this ability to hear and respond to God’s thoughts and feelings that had been missing in Eli’s house. Samuel’s ministry, in contrast, had begun with him saying ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening’ (1 Sam 3:9). When a leader can hears God’s voice and responds to it with a servant heart, they are able to identify what has been ignored, overlooked or tolerated and address it, so that what remains in place is an authentic witness of Heaven’s purposes.

In this season, God’s call is for all His people to return to a focus on being authentic witnesses for Heaven. In recent times, there has a lot of noise in the atmosphere, as the true voice of the Lord has been mixed in and made to contend with personal agendas and interests of various kinds. However, just as God raised up Samuel and restored a true prophetic voice to Israel when it was sorely needed, so will we see in the days ahead an appearing of an authentic form of the prophetic that many have longed for.

Along with this will come tremendous breakthough. When true prophetic permission for change comes from God, so do the resources that are needed to bring it about. We are coming into a new season of the prophetic permissions of the Lord. Real, authentic shifting words are about to land. Your part is to become His landing strip. So, prepare your hearts, open your ears, and devote yourself afresh to serving Him and Him alone, because it’s all about to happen!

Building together towards real maturity

There will be those who feel like or even recognise that their ministries were at some point overtaken by some of the same issues and mistakes that caused Eli’s house to fail. Yet, they will see what is taking place in the new season as sons and daughters are being raised up and the house of God is restored, and will want to align afresh with what God is doing.

Despite the failures and inadequacies of the past, because of the blood of Jesus and His redemptive plan, there is always hope. As Job says in Job 14:7-9, “there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.”

The fresh flow of the Spirit of God will be like the scent of water to these ones, and they will seek to align with the new guard. Yet wisdom is needed on both sides for this to work.

When Joshua rose to power and it was clear that their old system was failed and gone, the Gibeonites decided to do what they could to align with Joshua, and approached him to make a treaty (Joshua 9:3-6). However, in order to persuade Joshua to make the treaty with them, they pretended to have travelled from a distant land, and disguised themselves with worn-out sacks and wineskins, old patched clothes and shoes, and rations of dry and mouldy bread. They put themselves across as having come much further than they really did. The temptation for those who were long ago right in the midst of what God was doing, but now want to align with those leading in the new season, will be to pretend that they are more matured and seasoned than they really are in order to get themselves a better bargaining positioning in the alignment.

Joshua’s people tried the stale bread for themselves to test it but did not inquire of the Lord about the Gibeonites and so were deceived by them and granted them the treaty (Joshua 9:14-15). However, when Joshua found out what the Gibeonites had done, he appointed them permanently to duties as woodcutters and water carriers in service to Israel.

For those that God has raised up to lead in the new season, there must be a new level of wisdom and discernment as to what alignments to make with who and how, and to be aware that there are those that might not be fully transparent about their journeys because of what they hope to get from aligning. Be sensitive and don’t take everything you hear at face value, or rush ahead and make agreements without inquiring of the Lord. Although you may be told stories of times past to convince you, remember that it is fresh, daily bread that the Lord gives us for our journey and not yesteryears’ bread. Look for the present fruits in the lives of those that you align with.

For those who see the hope of life being restored to their ministries by aligning with the new, put away the old wineskins and patched garments. Jesus counselled that old wineskins cannot be filled with new wine without being ruined, and that patches from old garments do not match the new (Luke 5:36-38). This means having a willingness to think in new ways and adapt to what God is doing now, rather than carrying an intention to take things back to an old way of operating that God has moved away from. If you want to make it work, come in with the intention to build, to serve and to enhance what is happening now, rather than to contend for a memory.

If things are done right, and the relationships are built well, the golden oil will settle and there will be a blending of strengths. There is a place for everyone, but true discipleship, the authentic voice of Heaven, and a willingness to build together must be the defining characteristics of the pattern.

Great things are about to happen, and a fresh anointing is about to be poured out! Prepare your heart and take your position!

Adored

Rev Betty King

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The Church Is Not A Minority

by Betty King January 21, 2022

written by Betty King

I feel this burden to approach the subject of minorities. There’s a subtle attempt in our world to make the church a minority and so silence our voice. In the scriptures we’re told Abraham was called by God to leave his father’s house, his comfort zone, into a land that was already inhabited by others. As he took these steps he thus became a minority in this land as there were more people in already inhabiting the area.

Firstly the majority in these lands tried to use intimidation to deter him. They then used misrepresentation, misunderstanding and fear tactics to ensure the promise and the authority on him would not grow.

You fast forward to the times of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord and his disciples were certainly the minorities. This was evidenced by the persecution, rejection and vilification they endured. Yet them being the truth that would change the world and bring revival would not wane.

There’s been so much that has gone on with minority groups. The seemingly prevailing group in wanting to enforce some sort of hierarchy and subjugation, label the other a ‘minority’. In Christ this is a different story, or should I say it should be a different story. Father through the grace of Jesus expressed through the Holy Spirit gives the power to defeat these notions and mindsets.

Let me explain further. Whenever you walk in a pioneering and forerunning spirit in taking ground in a new place and there maybe ‘more’ people than you, it would look like they have more authority and there will be push back. The old adage goes that ‘there’s strength in numbers’. In most cases this is true. But yet scripture amplifiers a truth through Prophet Elisha that ‘Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them’ (2 Kings 6:16), when he prayed for the eyes of servant to be opened as the were outnumbered in the physical. Just like Elisha, the time is now for us to move in the promises held out in the word of God; the most powerful and efficacious weapon in the world. We all find our sustenance through the Bible. It is the very foundation of our lives and all that emanates from us; our guiding light. It really works. If it thus says ‘for those who are with us are more than those who are with them’, then we need to engage with the Holy Spirit to get the strategy to take dominion.

This leads us to another most pivotal point, our inward fortification. The scriptures again exhorts us to renew our minds and put on the whole armour of God. It’s high time we move in this instructional promise, so as we strengthen ourselves, when the resistance winds attempts to move us backwards we stand after doing all to stand, in the word of God. All this so we become the majority not the minority.

If it’s not for the endurance and the steadfastness of believers the whole world would blow up and cave in. If we now understand this authority we carry through the word and God’s promises, we’ll begin to push back in this season.

All this goes with culture and ethnicity. When one feels marginalised and labelled as a minority, the annoyance and disappointment levels reach a peak. The very thing you’re strong at, the enemy will use different voices to label you and declare your redundancy in that area. The travesty! Yet when the people groups, if it be a representative, understand that this is a ploy to exploit and highlight weakness instead of strength, harness the truth of who you know you are and manifest that in front of everyone, the truth of the scriptures come alive that says ‘foreigners shall be your vinedressers’ (Isaiah 60: 5).

Every tribe and tongue has a part in God’s great tapestry of building the nations. No tribe or ethnicity has a monopoly on building, planting, plowing and reaping. There’s no place that this truth is more elegantly highlighted than God’s bride, His church, were the ecclesia has called to be the glory in the midst.

Push back in humility! Push back in truth! Push back in the word of the Lord and in spite the majority holding sway, there’s an end. Because the scripture says ‘in Him we live and move and have our being’ (Acts 17:28) and ‘Christ in you, the hope of glory’ (Col. 1:27). If the lepers who were the minority when Elisha gave his prophetic word about a divine turnaround, recovered spoil of silver, gold and had their hunger stilled as the great Aramean army in their thousands that besieged Samaria fled in haste, recorded in the Bible, then God’s word must be true today as it was in the ages. We thus need to move in that reality in this season, so that the church, the minority will become the majority.
Isaiah 60:22 The tiniest group will become a mighty nation.

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Rev. Betty King.
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choose the right fight this year, Fighting The Good Fight

Faith

Choosing The Right Fight

by Betty King January 11, 2022

written by Betty King

Hearing and seeing Him accurately in this season will make sure that there are no unnecessary casualties of spiritual warfare this year, and that the Church is powerfully positioned to shift the nations. My prayer for you as you read this is that the Lord will open your eyes and ears to what is ahead, so that you will lead and influence well, and make the right decisions with conviction.

The reign of King Josiah

The books of Chronicles and of Kings contain valuable lessons and instructions that apply to decision-making and leadership in every season. In certain seasons, however, there are particular aspects and accounts within them which are key to leading and navigating well in that season. I believe that the account of King Josiah’s reign in 2 Chronicles 34 and 35 is key for this season.

Josiah was a godly king who walked in the ways of King David (2 Chronicles 34:2). He purged the nation of idolatry, rebuilt the house of the Lord and renewed Israel’s covenant with God. He restored the structures of faith and worship, and led the nation to observe the Passover in a manner that had not been seen since the days of the prophet Samuel (2 Chronicles 35:18). From his own possessions he provided thirty thousand sheep and goats and three thousand cattle for the people to celebrate the Passover, inspiring the leaders and officials of the nation to sacrifice likewise and the priests and Levites to serve in an unprecedented way for his time.

His achievements were remarkable, and through his sacrifice he lifted the land out of idolatry and apathy and into obedience, worship and devotion. There is much in Josiah’s life that provides a pattern for today, highlighting the power of godly leadership to bring about transformation, restoration and revival for a nation.

However, there is more. Even after all he had done and despite the transformation he had brought to the nation, Josiah somehow soon became a casualty of war, dying unnecessarily on a battlefield with no gain for himself or his people (2 Chronicles 35:22-24).

Understanding all of this, and what it caused to happen afterwards is key for this season.

Choosing the right fight

2 Chronicles tells us that after Josiah had set the temple of God in order, he marched out to fight with Neco, the king of Egypt. Neco, however, was not interested in fighting with Josiah, and said to him clearly by the inspiration of God “It is not you that I am attacking at this time, but the house with which I am at war” (2 Chronicles 35:20-22). While it was true that there had been a history between Israel and Egypt, and that there had been many times at which Israel and Egypt were opposed to one another, now was not one of those times. And this being so, God spoke to Josiah even through Neco, the king of a heathen nation, to let him know that this was the case.

Josiah, despite all that was great about him, did not discern and did not listen. He knew that he had conquered idols that had plagued Judah and Israel for years, that he had restored the temple of God from its ruins, and that he had brought about a restoration of the Passover that no king before him had matched. He had conquered certain strongholds of Israel’s past, and now he felt emboldened to take on Egypt, one of Israel’s ancient foes. He wanted to see Egypt crushed, and moreover, he wanted to be personally involved in making it happen.

Josiah’s failure to listen to God was disastrous, first for him and then for the nation that he had laboured to restore. He disguised himself, went onto the battlefield and was soon wounded fatally by archers. After his death, the people of the nation took his son Jehoahaz to be king, but his reign lasted only three months before the king of Egypt came to Jerusalem, dethroned him and chose another new king. Once Josiah was gone, first Egypt and then Babylon plundered Jerusalem’s wealth and a new line of kings, chosen by their enemies led the nation back into disobedience and idolatry.

Josiah’s mistake was in not discerning what the Lord was using to bring about the next degree of deliverance and breakthough for the nation. Through his obedience, Josiah had overcome powers of darkness within the nation. God had now set in motion a series of events to break the powers of darkness in the surrounding nations, but Josiah didn’t need to be personally involved. God was going to turn the strength of those nations against each other to break them, and Josiah only needed to watch and see what the Lord would do. Instead, he put himself in the crossfire and died. He lost his life and Judah lost the godly leadership that it needed.

Josiah was not the first one in Scripture to make this kind of mistake. Lot, not discerning where he was, pitched his tents near Sodom (Genesis 13:12). When the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboyim and Bela rebelled against the king of Elam and his allies (Genesis 14), Lot was caught in the crossfire and kidnapped along with all his people and his possessions. Like Josiah, Lot was wrongly positioned in the middle of a fight which he didn’t need to be a part of.

Nonetheless, there are those in Scripture who were able to recognise what God was doing and get it right. In 2 Chronicles 20, when the Moabites and Ammonites came to make war against Judah, king Jehoshaphat was told through the Spirit of God “the battle is not yours, but God’s…you will not have to fight this battle” (2 Chronicles 20:15, 17). The next day, the armies that had gathered against him turned on one another and destroyed each other without Judah having to get involved. Likewise, when God sent Gideon against the Midianites, He caused the Midianites to turn their own swords on each other and they were defeated (Judges 7:22).

In 2022, the Body of Christ needs to learn from these Scriptural lessons and be positioned for what God is about to, so that leadership will be effective and so that there are no unnecessary casualties. Let me explain.

The clashing of world powers

Over the last two or three years, the world has struggled with unprecedented issues and the familiar structures of faith and worship have been under attack in many ways. Like Josiah, brave and godly leaders have stood up and reinstituted godly patterns, sacrificing of themselves to strengthen and build the Church. They have spoken life and healing to many, reinstituting the principles of Passover and marking the doors of the Church once again with the blood of the Lamb in intercession and prayer so that the spirit of death passes over. Many have drawn closer to God, and as the world emerges from these challenges, they are prepared to take on new fights and battles.

However, to be in the prophetic means to discern the unseen, and more has been going on in the world than many have realised. It is not only the godly that have made sacrifices and set things in order. Even the demonic principalities and powers have recognised the unusual nature of the times, and they too have been strengthening themselves and their peoples through sacrifices and preparations. The level of sacrifice all around means that there are serious levels of spiritual power waiting to be exercised, and in 2022, these forces will be seeking the rewards of their sacrifices. There is a clash of powers coming. The kings, giants and superpowers of modern times are heading into a time of war and contention, and an unprecedented power struggle.

What is key for us to recognise is that the intentions of these forces, of the world and of darkness, are against each other at this moment and are not all against the Church. According to Scriptures such as those we have just studied, there are times when the forces of the world and of the enemy devour each other, and this is the means by which God brings about the breakthroughs needed for His will to be done in the nations.

Put simply, the powers are going to fight among themselves, and we don’t need to be caught in the crossfire. Rather than fighting unwarranted fights and incurring unnecessary casualties of war, now is the time for the Church to humble itself under the hand of God and prepare to be the governing power that the world will need when the dust settles.

Governmental anointings and alignments

True biblical rulership comes through the golden oil of God’s anointing. This means partnering with God to follow His will and being led by His Holy Spirit. This level of leadership requires God’s people to see the means that God is using to fight for His Church and for His purpose, and to not, like Josiah, make decisions based on human ambitions and ideas. As the Body of Christ, the government of God should be on our shoulder, meaning we carry his decrees and build according to His patterns, even where they don’t suit the stories we want to write for ourselves.

There are some fights that belong to the Church and God gives her the victory where this is so. There are other fights where the forces of the enemy will turn on themselves and there is no need to be involved. When leaders discern the right fights to be in, they won’t be unnecessarily wounded, and the Church will have the sustained leadership it needs to continue on a path of revival and transformation. King Josiah’s death left a gap in leadership that was filled with a person of the people’s choosing, and this created a weakness in the government because the one appointed was not God’s chosen. No revival starts or is sustained by popularity. It begins and continues with recognition of and devotion to the will of God. The place of government cannot be a fan club.

Therefore, in this window of preparation that we have, there must be a realignment to the voice of God rather than the voice of popular opinion. Those who are gatekeepers and forerunners must know and flow in the mind and emotions of Christ, and not be deterred or swayed by the emotions and agendas of the people.

Unity must also be lifted to another level, because the oil flows whether there is a dwelling together in such unity. While we all belong to Jesus, it is true that there are certain people who are skillful in what they do and will be lifted up because of God’s purpose and what they are called to achieve. There can be no place for the envy, jealousy or competition that has hindered such ones in the past. It is also true that there will be some cultures and people groups that carry particular mandates and are able to excel in a given season, because of their foundations in specific aspects of biblical relationship and character such as loyalty, consistency and humility. There can be no place for racism or prejudice in this season, and we need to be careful not to judge or contend with others because we want the blessings that come with their callings or anointings. If you cannot unify then you may miss your place and timing in this window.

It’s time to crouch

God will take his prepared and unified Church to bring about a powerful shift in the nations. Chosen men and women will be sent into selected territories and will connect with the right people to bring about vital changes. Because the world powers will have been busy violently contending against each other, it will seem to them as though these people have appeared from nowhere. When Elijah appeared in Israel it seemed to king Ahab as if he had appeared from nowhere, but the reality is that Elijah had long been anointed with God’s golden oil and prepared in a place out of sight.

Some of you reading this now are among those called to be sent. As you meditate in this word of the Lord, shift yourself mentally and emotionally and realise that things have changed. Come out of your entanglements and the situations where you have felt the need to contend for popularity. Creation is waiting for the sons of God to manifest.

Discern God’s voice and which fights are yours and which are not. When you have found the clear voice of God then it is time to crouch and birth the next move of God, just as Elijah crouched after the victory on Mount Carmel and prayed until the rain came. Raise up people around you that will press in and crouch with you, and that will watch with you until the breakthrough comes. Retain the ones that will keep pressing in with you until the good report comes, because they have heard as you’ve heard. Don’t keep the ones that are quick to believe a negative report. Look for the ones that God is raising up, not the ones that are simply popular with the people.

Prepare now, while the world powers clash. The time is coming when the dust will settle and you will be caused to appear before the nations to bring about the long-awaited change and transformation.

May God be your strength, life and peace this year, and give you the discernment you need for destiny and victory!

Adored

Rev Betty King

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Dealing With Criticism

by Betty King December 16, 2021

written by Betty King

We really need to talk about how to deal with criticism. Many people don’t take criticism well because they truly don’t know how to look at it in the right way. But when you have the right understanding, you will use it as fuel for your growth and never allow it to drain your strength again! Today I’ll give you some of the keys that you need to handle the various criticisms that come your way.

One of the keys you’ll need in dealing with criticism is to recognise and be THANKFUL that someone sees your value enough to want to inform you, in their own way, as to how they see you. If you didn’t have value, you really wouldn’t attract the attention. It doesn’t matter what is said or how it’s done. If you can take it well, criticism will actually get you to recognise and realise your value. Sometimes criticism comes so that you can see that what you do and how you do it means something to someone. The Scriptures say that we enter His gates with thanksgiving, so bring it all, with thanks, into His presence. He will show you the meaning and purpose of it all and why it has come at this time and how it fits in with what He wants you to see. Respond in the Spirit and not in the flesh.

Another key is to recognise that sometimes God is using your life to tell someone a story that they need to hear in order to WAKE UP. When people are nit-picking and criticising you, they are also watching you. You’re living out your dreams, moving forward in life, and God’s story is unfolding for you while they only sit and observe and comment. One day they will eventually realise they have been living off crumbs that fell from the table that the Lord was preparing for you right in front of their eyes. They were feeding on the goodness of God in YOUR life, forgetting that they too need a table of their own to eat from. Your life will be a witness of God’s goodness and glory to them, and what it looks like to journey well with God, even if at first they were looking only for the wrong reasons.

And finally, sometimes you just need to hear what your enemy is saying. If it were not important, then God would not have told Gideon in Judges 7:10-11 to go down into the camp and hear what the Midianites and Amalekites were saying. After Gideon heard their words, he worshipped God! From his enemy’s own mouth, he understood their weaknesses and discerned how God was about to move. His enemy had recognised his value and yet was still choosing to attack. And God turned the whole thing around, exposing the truth.

Sometimes people may attack you, but the reality is that they are just intimidated by your growth, and the only way for them to feel good about themselves is to come against you anyway. So just worship and advance! Listen carefully to what you hear so that you can discern the true nature of the battle and pray effectively. God sent Gideon down with one other person, so identify who God has put with you for this season and move forward. Just as God spoke to the Midianites and Amalekites after they had gathered against Gideon, so will God speak in due time to those who criticise and oppose those who live for Him today. For now, be thankful for the affirmation that comes through criticisms and for the strategies that come along with them. In ALL things be thankful, and SURGE ahead.

HALLELUJAH!

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Rev Betty King

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Breaking The Power Of The Category Spirit

by Betty King July 2, 2021

written by Betty King

Greetings and blessings to you in Jesus name! It is clear that in this season our Lord is initiating a great move to restructure the Body of Christ for victory and freedom, and to fulfil His plans and His purposes. In this message, I want to share with you a few things that the Lord has shown me about the ‘category spirit’ and to give you vital keys for breaking its power so that the Lord’s restructuring can take place in His Church.

Breaking the category spirit with the keys of David

Saul was anointed and appointed as the first king of Israel through Samuel the prophet. Saul’s kingship had come to him supernaturally through the Spirit of God, but over time he began to disobey God and to show clearly that he was unable to walk with Samuel and align with God’s word. This disobedience eventually cost him his kingdom and his anointing left him, but for a time he still held his position as king.

David was then anointed by Samuel to be the next king of Israel. A key moment in David’s journey towards kingship came to pass when he was sent down to the Valley of Elah to carry mealtime provisions to his brothers who were there with the army of Israel facing off against the army of the Philistines.

For forty days, the Philistine giant Goliath had stood and openly defied the army of Israel. Israel was literally being resisted by a strongman, and instead of fighting the enemy army they were only managing to infight among themselves. When David came and saw what was taking place, his own brothers told him that he didn’t belong there, and categorised him as a shepherd, and as a conceited and wicked person. However, by the time that all was said and done, David had taken the head of Goliath as a trophy and given Israel the victory in battle. From this victory, David was given a place in the house of Saul. He had come to serve his brothers, but ended up serving the whole nation. He had stepped forward to challenge Goliath initially for the sake of his own ambitions and to claim the rewards that Saul was offering but ended up in the place where he would learn vital lessons about kingship.

At the Valley, David broke out of the category that he had been placed in and came into victory and destiny. This is an aspect of what the Bible calls the Keys of David, and it is important for us to study and understand the characteristics of David that enable this breakthrough.

The godly principles of David

David had to continue to break the category spirit. David went into Saul’s house as a worship warrior, and God used his skill in music to bring peace to Saul’s spirit. Through the victory over Goliath, David had also received wealth and Saul’s daughter’s hand in marriage and had become part of the king’s household. David served in Saul’s household and army faithfully. However, David’s victories and successes caused Saul’s issues and insecurities to stir up badly, and Saul looked for a way to kill David.

Saul categorised David as a troublemaker, and as a king and man of great influence, many people believed what Saul had to say about David. This reinforced the category that was being imposed on David by Saul, and David was pushed out of his place in Saul’s house. He had to escape for his life, and eventually came to the cave of Adullam (1 Samuel 22). Although this was a difficult time for David, God was using what was in Saul to push David into his kingdom and Saul succeeded in this.

The Scripture tells us that while David was at Adullam, a lot of distressed, indebted and dissatisfied people gathered around David. Among them there would have been thieves, people with anger issues, and all sorts. Yet out of this situation, and what David carried within him, an entirely new kingdom was being birthed.

This was taking place because in God’s sight, David was walking according to a different set of principles to Saul. David feared God and was walking according to godly principles.

This brings us to a point which is important for the Body of Christ right now and which we need to address. Today, there are many people who are calling others ‘Saul’, but they themselves are not walking according to David’s principles.

David was not purposely trying to undermine Saul’s kingship or even to use his own giftings and favour to take advantage of Saul’s situation. Today, however, there are some whose ambition, whose unwillingness to accept correction or direction, and whose pride in their own giftedness, leads them to label others as Saul with the purpose of undermining them and taking advantage. They go around in this immature state, and through what they say and write, point people more towards confusion than they do towards Christ. Their labelling and categorising of others in this manner breeds suspicion in the Body of Christ, and causes others to begin to see things according to these false categories rather than by the Spirit of God.

On the other hand, there are clearly also leaders that need to deal with their fears and insecurities so that they can find a way to work with the younger ones and see them released into the purposes of God. All this now has to be addressed, because with so much categorisation, labelling and infighting going on, the real enemy is getting away with it.

The key to it all is to return to the mindset of a servant. David became who he was because of the victories he won as a servant. He came to the Valley of Elah as a servant and walked away with the head and sword of Goliath as his trophies. Nowadays, we see many who want platforms to preach and to do different things, but they have no trophies of servanthood. A person’s gifts are to serve the Church. Somehow, some have become so distorted in their thinking that they think the Church is there to serve their gifts. When are you in this mindset and you come across leaders who resist your errors and provide correction, you interpret this as the spirit of Saul. God is looking for people who will come into the Body of Christ to build in whatever capacity, not to promote themselves in any way that they can. It’s time to move away from thinking about being a superstar, and back to thinking about serving.

Transformation in Adullam

The people that had gathered around David were clearly categorised in certain ways. Even the way that the Bible describes them shows that. However, they came around David, and clearly being a man of God, he used the principles of the kingdom of God to lead them and broke the categories that had defined their lives, so that they became people of great renown and honour. He knew he needed to bring in a new kind of kingdom and he led in a way that brought this to pass.

I believe that this type of transformational leadership is what God is calling the Body of Christ into now. To break the category spirit from around us and the Church, we need to truly stand in the ways of God. The people around David, being distressed and discontented, would have being demanding instant justice, and making other demands based on their situations. That is where the Body of Christ is today. The only leaders that will bring about true transformation in people’s lives, as David did, will be those that maintain the principles of God rather than being easily influenced by the demands of the people. People will be coming into the Church with categories from their pasts that God wants to break, such as singleness and poverty. The anointing of God will fall on the one who can build the kingdom of God and stand for the promise over the Church which is kingship and rulership.

The journey starts by simply recognising what is being sent to compromise you and taking the stand in Christ to cancel out what the enemy is using to categorise you. If you are a person that finds yourself moving from church to church, you need to be aware of what has happened in the past and of your past mistakes, and do what it takes to make sure that those cycles do not repeat. When you go to a new place, don’t do those things that are going to reinforce an old category that you need to move on from. Many people, when they can’t take correction or work in a team, leave a place and then label it as ‘not loving’ or with some other label, when the reality is that they don’t know how to get on with others or are too stubborn to change, being puffed up because of their own giftedness. It is not giftedness, but rather the character of Jesus that builds the Kingdom. If you do not change, you may find next time around that the locks have been changed, and while you may have a position and a few people that walk with you, you won’t have access to what you once had, as the Lord needs to preserve the Upper Room for those who will change so that they can become hosts for a move of God.

Leaders also need to be very much aware that in this season, where many people are transitioning from one place to another, that it is not all about about the giftedness of whoever comes to the Church. There are those that through whatever they are given to do, be it even an opportunity to play a drum or guitar, will bring about division. Don’t be so desperate to grow your church that you allow such things to happen. Don’t pursue growth out of desperation, but by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said that He will build His Church and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. And His ways always win.

Such people may come in bitterness to make you bitter but rise up and trust that the lord will deal with that. The healing and reconciliation taking place in the Church at the moment needs to be maintained and reinforced, using the keys of David. It is time to go back and study Isaiah 22:22 again, and to use the keys properly, not refusing to change our ways or to partner with the Holy Spirit, and not expecting to use our gifts without the proper foundations of character in place. The movements that we all feel, the expectations that we are all feeling, and the things that God is doing that we can see in the physical and in the Spirit, all need to be maintained for the transformation to take place.

Change is in the air

By the end of the story, the people that were around David were no longer categorised as they once were, because he did not compromise. In the New Testament, after three years with our Lord, the Sons of Thunder became lovers of Jesus, Matthew the tax collector became an apostle, Mark the spoiled son of a Greek widow had become an author of Scripture, and Saul of Tarsus had become the Apostle Paul. The presence of God and the access to God given to us through the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit will bring about transformation, and we must fight for that. To see change, we must change.

And change must come. Some due to pride, have refused to change the many twisted things that they know need to be corrected, only to find themselves dancing in sorrow in front of the Leviathan spirit (Isaiah 41:22), and so my prayer is from Isaiah 27:3, that the Lord will water and preserve that which is His. He’s not angry, He’s just getting His Church to awaken to the fact that change is in the air.

I am His delight.

Rev Betty King

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The Providence Of God On Behalf Of Those That Seek Him

by Betty King November 2, 2020

written by Betty King

The story of Ruth the ‘former’ Moabitess is a remarkable on so many levels. It accentuates ever so clearly the providence of God on behalf of those that seek Him in truth.

The Negotiation
When we arrive at Chapter 4, we see a woman matured into a place where through gleaning and service, negotiations was going on on her behalf at the gate. This brings me to my first encouragement. Which is, that take heart God is working behind the scenes. Never let discouragement, doubt, fears or pride slow the hand of the One orchestrating your elevation and breakthrough. By righteousness a nation will be exalted. And so by believing in God we will be exalted at the proper time at the gate.

The ‘Goel’
The purpose of the Levirate law was to perpetuate the name of the dead which was laudable yet as it is, God had a far bigger plan. The beginning of this grand plan saw the ‘goel’ (Redeemer)Boaz step in from stage left and in essence pay the bride price for her in place of the ones that didn’t want to lose their own inheritance and name, thus forfeiting legacy. The elders saw her value during the exchange that they spoke into her spiritual womb by invoking the names of Leah, Rachel and Tamar. What impartation! Let’s explore these women and their place in the narrative that I want to highlight.

The Womb
The women all had some sort of injustice perpetrated against them notwithstanding their unique backgrounds. Like them we may have been on the receiving end of acute injustices of all kinds, with dire words being spoken over us. Yet negotiations have been done at the cross which has released fresh words of increase and multiplication. Along with these words, there has been directives to glean. The Lord has used this to teach many of us to know His will, humble ourselves and put certain things right. All the Holy posturings are to empower decisions and negotiations being done behind the scenes for us.

Tamar
What is it that’s bigger than Father God preparing the dead man’s being remembered and honoured? Let’s look at Tamar. Tamar had gotten married to the son of Judah, the one who is praise. We’re not privy to what had gone on behind the scene but the Bible clearly indicates Er the first sone was wicked. Certainly not a man after God’s own heart.

Every intimate coming together within marriage has got to lead to procreation, more so in this case with Tamar and her men. This is the same for the body of Christ when we come together. It must be for God’s ultimate purpose, and that is to give birth to something Holy and effective for our world. To the one that is pure everything is pure.

Er’s intention in the marriage didn’t align with God’s wonderful mosaic of reproduction and increase. This has been mirrored by many who have perpetrated injustices as they have aligned with movements, marriages, churches, organisations or cliques, not bringing growth, productivity or increase, but hurt and trails of broken promises and broken walls. The alignments haven’t produced for the many who have waited with baited breaths for something new. As such many have wallowed in tears seeking for the true God and if He’s actually there.

God KNOWS!

Ornan the one that was meant to be the ‘Kinsman-Redeemer’ proved to be one that came to defile and destroy. Under false pretences he entered into union and then denied her of what the law required. What a sad state for one person to be so wronged by two prominent figures. Invariably the masses would think something must be wrong with Tamar and believe the louder narrative. The lips of many also spreading stories which the so called ‘powerful’ and ‘known’ have validated being believed. All this because you want to carry what God has for you to birth. Intimacy would also expose vulnerability that these figures wouldn’t want to be seen.

Garments
You maybe in that position where you’re crying out, but take heart God does know what is going on behind the scene. If God didn’t have this by His providence He wouldn’t have allowed the horrors of what these two men did to be recorded. That’s how the false alignments work. You’re only good for what they can get out of you but not good enough in their eyes for them to validate you by causing you to carry the purpose of God on the inside.

Right now the whole of creation is groaning for change. It’s palpable with many harrowing voices saying ‘what about me?’. The reality is God doesn’t want us nor need us to adopt any false personae to get what is rightfully ours. He doesn’t need us to dress up as spiritual nor physical prostitutes, wanting to get even. We need to put on Christ with garments of righteousness, yield and like Ruth, keep gleaning until we get our audience at the feet of the Redeemer ready to intoxicate Him with our wine of adoration.

God’s Womb
What is inside of you that needs to come out of your spiritual womb is a special seed that needn’t be handled with defiled mind, hands or man conjured strategies. The praise that is going to come out your womb and the breakthrough from your spiritual womb is far bigger than you can think imagine.

So I want to encourage everyone reading this to put on your ‘yet praise’ not a counterfeit fake praise. Do not manipulate the praise! Rather praise till something happens. From that place with humility, you’ll find your twins of Perez (Breach and Burst forth) and Obed (Worshipping and Serving). Your endurance will bring the breakthrough so kings and queens may come to you rising to serve you.

So let’s prepare our spiritual womb for the authentic and real that carries the next generation.

It’s all meant for your good if you can see it. Stop tracking your seed and start watering it instead.

SELAH

Adored,

Rev. Betty King

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Now Is The Time To Come Into Your Promises

by Betty King September 14, 2020

written by Betty King

I want to highlight something that the Lord revealed to me and which it is key to be aware of during this month of September. Apostle Chuck Pierce brought a word to our church recently in which he spoke about the importance of knowing the timings for things, and the importance of unblocking the flow of God’s promises in your lives by addressing the hidden issues that have somehow managed to remain. In this message I want to share keys for unblocking the issues that have hindered breakthrough. Now is the time to come into your promises!

Many of the Lord’s people have put in an effort to pray consistently and have been disciplined in seeking breakthrough, and yet they still feel like they are stuck. I want you to know that this does not mean that breakthrough is not coming. Rather it is a sign that it is time to learn the patterns of breakthrough and what it looks like from beginning to end.

Understanding Resistance and Breakthrough

It is vital to recognise that whenever new ground and new territory is being taken, there will be a time of resistance. This may manifest as a moment in time where it feels like your strength is gone, and as though your power has been sapped by some sort of Kryptonite. It is in this very moment that you need to push through and aggressively pursue God and look for the stirring of a fire inside your spirit. This fire will focus you for purification and consecration and propel you again before God. If you haven’t been to this place before it may feel unusual at first, as it is a place in which your spirit sees something happening that has not yet shown up in your circumstances. However, as you embrace this fire of God and allow yourself to live within it, you will find yourself changing and becoming more sensitive to the things of God. You will begin to see more clearly the signs that God is using to point you in the right direction, and notice the smaller breakthroughs along the way that He is using to strengthen your heart and your resolve, and to guard you from deception and discouragement.

Discerning the Moment of Resistance

Our example comes from Exodus 31:18 and 32:1-2. Moses had gone up to the mountain of the Lord to receive the Law. In a Divine encounter, the Lord was handing to Moses the blueprint for the nation of Israel. The people at the bottom of the mountain, however, did not see this, nor did they appreciate what was taking place. The people had an expectation for the time of Moses’ return and when that time had passed ever so slightly, the children of Israel allowed the mindset and culture of the Egyptians that had tagged along with them to rise up in the form of a voice demanding a god to worship. They went to Aaron the priest with the demand, and straight away he had an idea in mind as to how to create one for them! This is shocking, but let’s explore it and see what went wrong.

The moment of delay in Moses’ return and the uprising of the people with an inappropriate demand was the moment of resistance. It came just as a historical breakthrough for an entire nation was about to be revealed! Aaron was the rightful priest and was called to his office, but he did not recognise the meaning of the moment or what to do.

God had brought the Israelites out of Egypt supernaturally with signs and wonders, and these had been given to the people to assure them of God’s plans and promises and to ground them in His truth. At this point, Aaron was meant to have discern the moment, and point the people back towards the truth of God, reminding them of the signs He had given and of the help He had given them this far. He was meant to bring alive the testimony of their nation to them anew, to strengthen them, and to bring their minds back to the words of Moses and to the instructions given to them for their period of waiting. However, Aaron buckled in the face of the demand and gave in without any argument. It was as though his strength was gone. His mind was drawn into what was immediately before him and he was distracted from the big picture. Rather than allowing the fire of truth to stir in His spirit, he sided with his circumstances and became ensnared in an idolatrous scheme in which a different kind of fire was used to melt the gold of people to produce something abhorrent.

Validating Truth

The pivotal moment came when Aaron used his voice to validate the voices of untruth that had risen up around him. What does this mean for us in this season? I believe the Lord is really warning us not to use our priesthood to validate any voice that is contrary to His voice or truth. Jerusalem shall be called the city of truth (Zechariah 8:3). We need to know clearly what the Lord has spoken in this hour to each and every one of us and hold to it.

The priesthood in us needs to discern the moment we are in, and if there is a delay in the breakthrough we are praying for, we must be careful not to validate whatever voices of untruth are present in our surroundings. The Egyptians in the midst of the Israelites represented those that have attached themselves to the move of God, but without commitment to the purpose of the journey. In life there are those who latch onto the move of God in another person’s life but are not themselves committed to the godly character that is required to sustain the move. In their impatience they simply want to see something happen and to have another one of their needs or demands met, whether it preserves truth or not. If you as the priest and person of God are not strong enough, you may give into their demands and give permission for an idol to be created. You must avoid this by all means. An idol may momentarily take away the need to wait on God and so offer temporary relief, but in return it will make you wait forever for a real breakthrough, as this is not something it can provide. God shapes us and gives us His strength, but idols take our strength to shape them. Idolatry will substitute the truth of God for whatever ideas you are able to come up, and His glory for whatever you can create by your own means. After all the Israelites created the idol using their own gold and craftsmanship, but it could do nothing for them in return.

It is also important to understand the dynamics amongst the people that led to the situation. When fear or anxiety or any other emotional torment grips a person, they want to make it corporate. They do this by looking for others with similar fears or anxieties to align with. When this happens, a kind of cabal is formed, and that cabal can become a voice calling for something that is completely contrary to the mind of God, because it arises from a wrong spirit. If this voice is allowed to prevail it can bring progress to a halt. This sort of coming together is not an agreement for change or for transformation. Rather, it’s an agreement for false comfort, for shelter from unmanaged emotions, or even for revenge against someone or something that has caused wounding. Be careful not to be drawn into such relationships that are about affirming your negative emotions or experiences. These things create chains rather than break them. If you really want to break your chains, draw close the fire of God! Do not cleave to crowds that reinforce your problems, but press into God and through your personal Gethsemane, so that you can move forward to occupy His promises.

Service unto God Alone

Our service is unto the Lord and He is breaking idolatry out of His Church right now. This includes the idolising of the things of our own strength, of our giftings and the things we are able to do. The purpose of the Church is to be found in serving the Lord, not in grouping around giftings or giving voice to the hearts of the wounded who are too impatient to see God move in truth. It isn’t about appeasing people with our ideas and skills, but rather pointing people towards the signs of God’s work and the burning mountains of His revelation. Every gift and talent needs to be laid at His feet and we need to be careful not to create idols of people. Such things provide a kind of empty satisfaction but not the revelation that brings freedom.

The priesthood is called to validate truth, and although that truth will sometimes be hard to swallow, the journey you have taken with God should give you the confidence to stay the course. As a priest, your purpose is to point people towards all that God has done so they can enter into that same confidence and lift their eyes towards the One that can really help. Delay does not mean denial. Stand in your office and teach those around you about the fruit of the Spirit instead of allowing their impatience to move you into building something that is in complete opposition to the blueprint of Heaven.

In every movement of God there will be people that feel pulled by their own circumstances or wounds. In recognising the authority that God has placed in your life, they will gather around you and look for you to validate their needs and demands. You need to make sure that you do not yield to their dysfunctions, but rather help them to break free from what has enslaved them. If you don’t, you may find that you yourself are entrapped by their mindset and their ways, and that the movement becomes hindered. If we serve God, then the anointing breaks the yoke. In this day, God is raising up a company that will not validate dysfunction but will rather move in the authority that can shift nations. Look for the fire that brings transformation, as that is what this hour requires.

Prayer

Lord, I pray that Your people will be stirred by the fire of truth that brings about purification, consecration, and breakthrough, and never again go towards a strange fire that makes idols of their own wealth and giftings! Let Your Body be a kingdom of priests that ministers to You in truth, laying down its gifts to adore You in worship, and never taking those same gifts as objects to be worshipped. Let idolatry be removed from the midst of Your People! Let Your priests always validate Your voice and Your Word, and never again validate an ungodly voice that causes compromise. In Jesus’ mighty name!

Adored

Rev Betty King

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An Important Word For The Prophetic Movement In 2020

by Betty King October 17, 2019

written by Betty King

Dear Saints,

I want to release to you an important word for the prophetic movement for 2020.

As we move forward in this new era, I feel it is important to talk about the present position of the prophetic movement. This has come on the back of a conversation I had with someone who felt that the spirit of revelation has been blocked and that some people are not hearing from God as accurately as they should.

As I prayed and inquired of the Lord about this, the Lord reminded me of the place where it says that He does nothing without first revealing it to His servants the prophets (Amos 3:7). However, an issue has come in whereby some within the prophetic movement have gathered too many lovers to themselves. What I mean by this is that they have become part of a grouping of people which endorses each other’s words and use this as their main source of confirmation instead of purely bringing words out of a place of intimacy and friendship with God. It will seem for them at times as though the heavens are like brass, because they are waiting for approval from a crowd before they speak the Word of the Lord. God speaks, but if the group doesn’t like what is said, the person loses confidence in what they are hearing from God. The result is that they are wooed away from friendship and intimacy with God.

Habakkuk the prophet had come to the point of frustration and felt like nothing was coming out of his prayers and relationship with God. Yet God spoke to Him and instructed Him to write the vision and make it plain, because He would certainly bring it to pass in its time. The words He gave to Habakkuk have stood the test of time, and we are still reading them even today! This is because they were words birthed from a place of friendship and intimacy.

The Holy Spirit reminded me that a word from God can be for one, for two, or for a multitude. Yet in this day where social media is such an obsession, people think that if a word doesn’t receive enough ‘likes’ then it is not from God. We should remember that in history God has bypassed the crowd to give a word to the person in the desert. If we can return to His perspective and see things from that viewpoint, we will not be waiting for the applause of others to know that He has spoken.

He is speaking to His people more now than he has ever done. There is nothing wrong in belonging to a group, but if it is the group that assures you of your identity in Christ and validates your friendship and relationship with Him, then actually there is no relationship. The prophets of old often just appeared from a place of intimacy with God and challenged the status quo and all that was taking place. If we are not careful, we will trade intimacy and true friendship with God for the nods and likes of a crowd and only produce noise instead of a clear sound.

Ultimately, we must find our identity in Him. That does not mean that there is not value in the grouping. God does bring together prophetic alignments, as when He sent Elijah to Elisha. This is done to to fulfill a purpose, and God knows who to call together and how so that the purpose will be fulfilled. God also gives us people to be a safety net for us, and for us to do life with. We should recognize our prophetic alignments, and pray for them, honor them and respect them, but remember where our identity ultimately comes from.

There is also prophetic mentorship and discipleship. Those who have others that they call spiritual fathers and mothers should respect the authority and the covering that comes with that. For some reason there are people that are gifted but feel that they are more gifted than those covering and sending them. This is not as it should be. If you can’t be led then you can’t lead, and humility is forever a key in the Spirit. Recognize those who are leading and mentoring you so that pride will not overtake you. With mentorship comes familiarity but be careful to recognize it for what it is and how to handle it.

When the sons of the prophets know what to do, the leader has the peace to give clear instructions and pursue the higher calling. This is what the world needs, as from this place solutions to problems can be released. It is from a culture of unity, submission and humility that the senior prophets will go in to the key places and decree.

Love will cover everything.

Adored,

Rev. Betty King

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