January 4, 2008
JILL AUSTIN:
I feel there are many of you who are working in the marketplace, and you are full of creative ideas that have not been fulfilled yet, so I am sharing more of this with you today.
In short, this message centers around the point that Moses is dead and the Lord is releasing a Joshua Generation. Please read the following Scriptures:
Joshua 1:2-3, "'Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land which I am giving to them--the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses.'"
Joshua 6:1-2, "Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. And the LORD said to Joshua: 'See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.'"
A Church Without Walls
I feel that the Lord is releasing many new movements on the earth and one of the movements is called "The Third Day Movement." I feel the Lord wants to release a Church without walls. He wants to mobilize the men and women to do exploits in the name of the King. There needs to be a cry inside of us that we will be ones who will do exploits for the King of Glory. Amen?
When we remember Moses, it says he lived to be 120 years old. His eyes were not dim, but because of his disobedience, he was only able to see the Promised Land and not go into it, but he prayed for Joshua and gave him wisdom.
Are You a Giant-killer or a Grasshopper?
Now, I want to go back into Moses' time a little. We all know the story about the twelve spies. We know how they went into the Promised Land, and they saw the giants. They came back and they said, "There are giants in the land--and we are like grasshoppers." The only ones who "had faith" to go into the land were Joshua and Caleb.
I feel that the Lord wants to stir faith inside of us that we are not grasshoppers. I think there is something in us that says, "The giants are so big, and the strongholds of Jericho are so huge. Would God ever give us divine strategies to take down these strongholds in our lives, and in the lives of our families and friends?" There needs to be a switch to something inside us faithfully saying, "Lord, You will give us divine strategies. We just have to take one step at a time."
Do You Have the Faith for the Radical Things of God?
You see, they weren't able to go into the Promised Land because of their unbelief. They wouldn't believe their God, so they were willing to continue in the wilderness and in a place of familiarity. Often in the Church, we are used to what is comfortable and familiar. I feel the Lord is saying, "I want to use fresh strategies and fresh impartations of My Spirit. I want you to break out of My old familiar wineskins."
There needs to be a cry inside of you that you are willing to be forerunners--revolutionists--willing to take the glory of the Lord outside the walls of the Church into the educational and political systems, the music industry, entertainment, the marketplace, and that you are willing to move in the radical things of God.
Do You Cry for a Visitation?
There needs to be a cry in you that says, "Lord, I want You to break out in the marketplace." I feel that the Lord is saying, "Are you willing to move in the times and the seasons like Daniel, like Joshua?" Is your cry, "Lord, I want to get the fresh strategies in our world for what You are doing in our lives." There needs to be that cry that says, "Lord, I want more of You."
Those before us were willing to live in the miracles. Moses had radical 40-day and night visitations. There needs to be a cry in you that says, "I want those visitations. I want an encountering and a gripping. I want to meet my Jesus, face-to-face."
There needs to be a cry in you that says, "Lord, the platform of the Church is too small; but Lord, where can You radically use me to impact my world in everyday life, as a prophet, evangelist, teacher and preacher with prophetic words and words of knowledge that can impact my world and bring a shaking of the Kingdom of God?"
Be Fearlessly Radical Among the Rich
I want you to not only be able to move in the Church, but be able to have "suddenlies" of the Lord--be able to have sounds in the secular world that can start to bring the presence of Jesus Christ into stadiums for the purposes of God.
Why not have a dream? Why not develop radical inventions? Why not move in the medical community with radical intelligence to bring cures of leukemia and cancer? Some of you have been gifted in the medical field; you've been gifted in science; you've been given a sharpness.
I think so often in the Church we say, "Yes, Lord, we should get everyone ministering to the streets." We talk about the inner-city, and I feel that the Lord says, "It's not just the inner-city. It's not just the poorest of the poor. I want you to be able to go to the rich. I want you to be able to go to the influential. I want you to be able to go to the educational and political systems and impact your world, radically."
Why Not Dream Big?
Why do we only sanction taking "a tract" and going to the street corner, when many of us are so gifted? You need to move in your gifting and use your education to activate radical strategies that will break open the King of Glory to move in your midst.
You Have More Than You May Realize!
You see, some of you are saying, "I don't have anything." But if you have a word of God, it will open up doors, and you can go into the courts of kings. The Lord is going to change how the prophets are used. We have gotten into a conference mentality.
More and more, the most radical prophetic voices are going to move almost like invisible men and women behind the scenes to go and talk to kings, prime ministers and leaders in the world. Many of them you would never know on the platform of a Church, and many of them you would never see on a conference itinerary, yet, they are used radically as brokers for the King of Glory.
It Is BIG
Whatever your gift is, the Lord will use it. Whatever your talent is, the world will use it. Many times, the fivefolders have sinned against the business and education system. They've said that the only place to use your gifts is from the platform instead of empowering you to sit at corporate board tables as stockbrokers, as educators--where you can give the prophetic word of the Lord and change the course of an entire corporation for Jesus Christ.
We need to stop being envious and pining away for the Church platform and start being about the business of Jesus Christ. "Arriving" does not mean standing on the platform of a Church. We are in a prophetic journey our whole lives. We need to carry the presence and love of Jesus wherever we go. In one place, you will give a word, in another, one person will get saved, and in another, delivered. That is part of moving in the Gospel of Jesus. We need to bring the Kingdom of God into everyday life. It is not enough to just sit in conferences.
If You Give It Away, He Will Multiply It Over and Over Again
When did you last dream and ask for prophetic revelation of inventions that would change the world trends in music? How about songs that would change history? How radical do you want to be? How entrepreneurial? In everyday life, are you radical for Jesus? Is your cry, "Lord, let me see the broken, let me see the weak, let me see the despised." You have to be willing to let God customize your own death. Now, when Joshua was going to go into Jericho, he sent two spies. They went into Jericho and they met Rahab, a prostitute.
When you go into the music or computer industries, you are going to meet Rahab. You are going to meet the gentiles. You are going to meet the prostitutes. You are going to meet the ones who say with terror in their hearts, "I heard about your God," and you are going to bring salvation for their whole generation. Did you know that Rahab is in the line of Jesus Christ--she is the great, great grandmother of Jesus!
Are you willing to meet Rahab? Are you willing to meet the prostitutes? Not just the prostitute on the street corner--that radical gentile, that sexually perverted person in the music, entertainment or computer industry? Is there something in us that says, "Give us a radical word in season that will break open their sin, bring deliverance and bring them to Jesus Christ?" You see, if you really loved Him, you would give Him away. If He is your first love, what else would you do but talk about Him?
For Joshua, the Jordan was in flood season. They had to believe for a miracle. Many times when God breaks you out of the old familiar things and brings you to the new, you have to go through the flood waters. There were wild lions around the river, there was a cry for strategies. But after three days Joshua gave the word of the Lord saying, "And as soon as the priests who carry the Ark of the LORD--the Lord of all the earth--set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap." Joshua 3:13
The Ark carried the glory and the presence of God. There needs to be a cry in us that as we start to transition from the old to the new, we carry the glory and the presence of God. There needs to be a cry in us to press into the face of Jesus with hunger and passion, no matter what crosses our path.
How hungry are you? You can't do it without Him. The Jordan symbolized death, the Lord is going to kill a lot of old wineskins. It is not enough to just remember the miracles of years past. Are you moving with signs and wonders now? Are you moving with a fresh anointing of the presence of God now? Are you seeing people healed and saved? Are you crying out, saying, "Lord, I want You?"
Or Are We Barren With No Salvation?
You see, it is not enough to just have a fire party. The presence and the fire of God comes to grip us with that radical first love so that everybody will be healed, saved and delivered. There is an empowering fire, and it is not just for you.
See, the Lord is saying, "Wake up Bride." I want the sleeping giant of the Church to wake up. Come on. "Arriving" is not the platform of the Church. If you just look up at people there and don't take what they're offering to be equipped and do the things of God, it is idolatry.
Idolatry Is Self-seeking, It Is Not God-seeking
So, Joshua and the Israelites arrive to the other side, and their enemies are afraid. The Lord could have said, "Joshua, now is the time to take out Jericho." But instead, God had him call a meeting with all the warriors. And Joshua called all the men forward and took a flint knife and circumcised them!
Ladies, we can relate to this because the Lord circumcises our hearts, too. Why would the Lord take a whole army and put them in a place of radical weakness and dependability on the King of Glory? They could have gone on their own strength.
In approaching Jericho, the men of war were already terrified. They had terror because they remembered the miracles that took place with the Red Sea. They knew that the God of Jehovah was in their midst. He wanted them circumcised. He wanted a fresh covenant because they were moving into a holy war.
Will You Let the Lord Circumcise Your Heart?
I believe the Lord is saying, "Many of you need to be circumcised with a fresh anointing and a fresh repentance to move into that place of a fresh covenant; to move into that place of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and to be able to go in and take the land."
Joshua is on a faith journey; it is not any different than ours. Suddenly, we have the flood waters. We have to follow the Lord. There is nothing else that we can do besides follow the Lord. Then our hearts are circumcised. The enemy could have come in and wiped them out, but from a great place of vulnerability and for weeks in recovery, they had to trust in their God.
From a Place of Humility, Visitation Comes
Then the Lord came with a divine visitation. The Captain of the Hosts showed up, and He gave them divine strategies to take down Jericho. How does He give you strategies to take down the strongholds in your own life? Do you ask the Lord for divine visitations and strategies or is your knowledge of the Lord simply, "If He comes, I will get into the river."
I tell you people, getting in the river is not enough. Getting a little warm feeling is nice, but it is not enough. There needs to be a radical gripping of God. A gripping in the depths of who you are. No one can make this happen because there is a sovereignty of God that can only make it happen. There is a place that you can position your love and your hearts.
Each One Of Us Is Moses!
Each one of us is used to moving in the old familiar ways. We are in a season where the Lord wants to break us out of our old familiar paradigms and break us into a place to be a militant "Joshua Generation." Each one of us is at a crossroads of the Jordan. God is inviting us to die.
The Jordan represents the Cross. We die to our selfishness; we die to just us receiving and not giving away. You want a multiplication of the prophetic, you need to start prophesying. You want a multiplication of the gift of healing, then pray for the sick. You want a multiplication of moving in wisdom to counsel people, then ask God to give you wisdom and strategies for others' lives. If you start to move into the Kingdom, He will give you more. If you just go home and say we had a radical, wild conference, but you are not on fire, starting to give away Jesus, then you missed it.
Is Moses Dead?
I ask you again, are you just a little grasshopper? Or, is there something in you that says, "We have a big God. We have a God Who can take down giants. We have a God Who can take down every city and every stronghold. We can go before Him. We have a God Who can move on our behalf."
This is a word of freedom. It is a word to make you mobilized. This is a word to cause us to say to ourselves and others, "Go for it! Move in God! Go for it! Be radical, fiery Brides for the King of Glory! Take the land! Take the territory for God."
I want there to be a jealousy--a holy jealousy, so you say, "Why not me? Lord, You could use a Gideon, why not me? Lord, You could use a David, why not me? Lord, You could use a little girl named Esther and make her a Queen. Lord, why not me? Lord, You could use my life. You used a Mary, why not me? Why can't You use my life?"
You See, He Can Use YOU!
Are you a Moses? Or a Joshua?
Ladies, are you grasshoppers and think only the men can be generals? Do you think you can hold things in the Spirit? Can the Lord use you to move armies and come up with radical strategies for the King of Glory? Or, is it only the guys, and we get to be their shadows?
And guys, are you saying, "This little light of mine, a little flicker?" Or are you a blazing torch?
There needs to be a cry that we are willing...
Jill Austin
Master Potter Ministries
Email: info@masterpotter.com
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