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"Skydiver's
Desperate Prayer Answered -- Feels God's 'Embrace'"
August 17, 2005
26-year-old, first-time skydiver Daniel
Levi Cave was attempting a static line jump -- in which the skydiver is attached
to the plane with a tether that automatically pulls the rip cord -- at the Bremerton
airport near Seattle, Washington, when his parachute failed to open properly.
He survived the 3,500-foot plunge with only a broken leg, broken jaw and some internal
injuries, having experienced extraordinary comfort as he prayed on the way down,
according to a report in WorldNetDaily . . .
by Teresa Neumann : Aug 17, 2005
: WorldNetDaily
Read full story . . .
http://www.breakingchristiannews.com
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August 17, 2005
"Do You
Have the Faith for the Radical Things of God?"
by Jill Austin
Master Potter Ministries
www.masterpotter.com
info@masterpotter.com
 This
weekend, I spoke at Jubilee Church in Camarillo, California, and shared about the
new generation the Lord is releasing -- the Joshua Generation. 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.
Please read the following Scriptures:
Joshua 1:2, 3 "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 -- that you are 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?
Are You Willing to Live in the Miracles?
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."
They 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 Even Among the Rich
I want you to not only be able to move in the church, but to be able to have "suddenlies"
of the Lord -- to 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 that we take a tract and go to the street corner, when many
of you 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 five-folders 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 stock brokers, 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 -- but 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. And the Lord said, "On the third day,
have the priests carry the ark. Where their feet touch the water, the waters will
recede."
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 come to grip us with that radical first love so that everybody will get 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 get equipped and do the
things of God, it is idolatry.
Idolatry is Self-Seeking, It is Not God-seeking
So, they get to the other side, and their enemies are afraid. The Lord could have
said, "Joshua, now is the time to take out Jericho." What did He say? "Now is the
time to 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. We get
the easier deal on that one. 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 I come, 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. There is a place that you can position your love and your hearts.
Each One of Us Is Moses!
Each one of us is moving in the old familiar ways. We are in a season where the
Lord wants to break you out of your old familiar paradigms and break you into a
place to be a militant Joshua Generation. Each one of you is at a crossroads of
the Jordan. God is inviting you to die.
The Jordan represents the cross. We die to our selfishness; we die to just us getting
it and not giving it away. You want a multiplication of the prophetic; you need
to start prophesying. You want a multiplication of the gift of healing, then you
need to pray for the sick. You want a multiplication of moving in wisdom, then you
need to counsel people and to ask God to give you wisdom and strategies for their
lives. If you start to move into the kingdom, He will give you more. If you just
go home, and say that we had a radical, wild conference, but you are not on fire,
starting to give away Jesus, then you missed it.
Is Moses Dead?
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 get you mobilized. It is a word to get
you to say, "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 made 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? Do you think only the
men can be generals? Do you think that 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?
Are you guys saying, "This little light of mine,
a little flicker?" Or are you a blazing torch?
There needs to be a cry that you are willing . . .
by Jill Austin
Master Potter Ministries
www.masterpotter.com
info@masterpotter.com
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Jill Austin's Upcoming Itinerary:
August 17-21, 2005
Building The Church Through Signs and Wonders
Speakers: Che Ahn, Roland and Heidi Baker, Todd Bentley, Cindy Jacobs, Bill Johnson,
Peter Xu
Ambassador Auditorium
131 S. St. John Ave., Pasadena, California
http://www.harvestrockchurch.org
September 11-14, 2005
Way of the Watchmen: Advancing the Kingdom in Days of Conflict
Speakers include: Paul Keith and Wanda Davis, Jill Austin, Lila Terhune,
Prophetic Worship from Israel and more
California Prayer Watch
Hosted by Canyon Hills Assembly of God
7001 Auburn, Bakersfield, California 93306
t: 661-716-0034
info@californiaprayerwatch.org
http://www.threestrandedcord.com
September 23-25, 2005
School of the Prophetic
Jill Austin and more
Jubilee Church
1169 Calle Suerte, Camarillo, California
t: 805-482-5424
jubilee@jubileechurch.org
http://www.jubileechurch.org
Jill Austin moves in a catalytic and prophetic
anointing to release the fire of the Holy Spirit. Her child-like faith, fiery tenacity,
and commitment to scriptural teaching have made her a popular conference speaker
for over twenty years. She ministers with powerful corporate and personal prophetic
words, imparting fresh hunger for intimacy with Jesus and demonstrations of signs
and wonders.
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