From the desk of Steve Shultz:
A world shaker can be someone with great influence. Yet with God, more often than not, the least "able" person – at least in the minds of men – will be God's choice.
Look at your own life. Can you identify some of your weakest areas? It could well be that, based on sin or just your own lack of talent in a given area, this weak area is about to become an area of your greatest strength so that you can change the world around you at the moment God calls you forth.
Read Kim Clement's prophetic article about the destiny-call on your life.
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Kim Clement:
Are You A World Shaker?
During our lives we tend to become focused on our own set of circumstances, so much so that we lose sight of our election on this earth. Each person is as much as he knows. What do you know of yourself that could possibly make you a world shaker?
A Samaritan Woman
Jesus shook the world of a woman who had been used and abused, gone through multiple husbands, and the man that she was living with was not even her husband (see John 4). This was pretty risky for a woman living in Samaria. Jesus shakes her world with one simple request, "Give Me some water." This shook her world of laws, traditions, legalism, and especially her world view. Why would a man, a Jewish man at that, speak to her with such a strange request?
We think of being world shakers as having fame and fortune and millions of followers on Facebook. No doubt these features can help persuade human beings one way or another, but in the real world millions of people will not have that influence. So let's go back to a woman at a well and the Son of God. She is not convinced that Jesus is a prophet or that He has the power to release the living water that she had long forgotten was inside of her. That well had been stopped up by the soil, mud and filth of heartache, disappointment, religion, bias, control and life in general.
However when Jesus travels deeper into her world by revealing her deepest pain, she suddenly accepts that He is a holy man. Only once He displays an unusual grace and compassion, does she break down and run into the city declaring, "Come and meet a Man who told me everything about my life." It was everything to her, but nothing to anyone else. What a lovely demonstration of a true "world shaker."
WORLDVIEW: (A Wide World Perception; The Framework of Ideas And Beliefs Through Which An Individual, Group Or Culture Interprets the World And Interacts With It.)
Most people have a distorted worldview. They don't understand how their culture interprets things and interacts with them. Most Christians are in mortal combat with the culture they exist in, treating their neighbors as enemies unless they completely agree with their "point of view." Due to harassment and the blows life serves us, we tend to focus on our "crisis" and forget about the rivers of living water inside of us.
Take King Saul in the Bible: His crisis was that his father's donkeys were lost and his dad had commissioned him to find them. Saul spent days searching for what was lost, and in the process found his destiny in life. By the time he reached the land where the prophet Samuel lived, he was weary of searching and ready to go home, even without the donkeys. Saul's servant mentions that there is a prophet who carries God's word living in that region: "Look now, there is in this city a man of God and he is an honorable man; all that he says surely comes to pass. So let us go there; perhaps he can show us the way that we should go."
Saul is excited at the prospect of getting a "word" about his crisis – not the crisis of Israel or the world. Most people want a word from God about their crisis, not their purpose or destiny in life. Crises control our perspective. It also steals our faith and fills our plate with unbelief, which is a foul dainty. Saul also understood a very important spiritual principle and says this, "But look, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread in our vessels is all gone, and there is no gift (offering) to bring to the man of God. What do we have?" Most of us do not even think of how the offering honors the prophetic word and draws our destiny towards us.
Unbelief steals time and forces you to concentrate on your lost assets. In other words, your trust is in recovering your assets. Samuel the prophet already knows that there is a man from the tribe of Benjamin who will come to his land and that this man is the chosen King of Israel. Saul doesn't know it, and has to be persuaded. How will God persuade Saul that he is more than someone running after his assets, but rather the King in God's kingdom of Israel?
The Prophetic and Your God-given Destiny
Let's look at the story in 1 Samuel 9. Samuel prophesies over Saul and says: "And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on you and on your father's entire house?"
When you are in the presence of the prophetic you will firstly hear about your destiny, and once this has been presented to you, your assets will be recovered/restored. Notice how Samuel tells Saul that he is not to be anxious because his father's donkeys have been found. The fact is that God assures you that your crisis is over (even if you don't know it or hear about it literally) so that you can concentrate on your biggest asset – your God-given destiny on earth.
However, you have to receive it, and (believe it or not) that may be one of your biggest battles. Saul struggled with the reality of greatness. You may say, "How could anyone possibly struggle with the idea of greatness?" Look at what Saul says to the prophet Samuel after receiving this great word... "And Saul answered and said, 'Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak like this to me?'" (Photo courtesy: Worship Ministry)
Another lesson here: Saul's focus now is not on his needs or his asset crisis, but rather his identity. Do you struggle from self or internalized prejudice? It consists of vanity, low self-esteem, narcissism, egotistic views, arrogance, etc. Prejudice in any form, whether racial, social, or self is destructive and costly to the Kingdom of God and to society. It kills motivation and increases self-esteem through control.
Saul's only way of leading while struggling with an inferiority complex is to use command-and-control leadership. To him, control is more important than getting the job done. One of the ways of coping with low self-esteem is to degrade other people. When these kinds of people feel bad about themselves, they can denigrate other people and that makes them feel better about themselves.
As I said, one of the enemies to receiving and living the purpose that God has for your life is internal prejudice. This can easily be removed by the power of the Holy Spirit and a life of practicing awareness of the subtle beast that often controls our perception and our worldview. God wants to draw the living water out of you, and He starts by asking you to give to Him. As most people do, like the woman at the well, they seek reasons not to enter into a deeper relationship with God by prejudices. He wanted to release the living water in her by allowing her to give Him water. She argued.
Saul, the Son of Kish, understood the importance of giving an offering to God before hearing the word of the Lord and he immediately had an audience with destiny. What a perfect opportunity for you to take a moment and give an offering to God and to receive the many blessings that immediately follow. Take action and break the prejudices that have hindered you from grasping your destiny.
LET'S BE WORLD SHAKERS!
Kim Clement
Prophetic Image Expressions
Email: hope@kimclement.com
Website: kimclement.com
Kim Clement: The life of Kim Clement is an expression that has defined "the prophet" for the modern era. This has made his journey unique; a journey that has taken his inspired message to schools and colleges, churches and synagogues, alleyways and prison cells. Kim's prophetic gift is a magnet that has drawn a broad audience, as he has whispered to kings and inspired prisoners; his path through life continues to be an exciting adventure. His diverse and extemporaneous perspective has gained him notoriety that transcends culture, race and religion, placing him onto a world platform. He has performed at the Rose Bowl Stadium in California, Times Square in New York City, Mt. Carmel in Israel, and even the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
