Jill Austin: "HIGH ADVENTURE AWAITS GOD'S MEDIA ARMY AND DREAM TEAM--AS THEY INFILTRATE AND REDEEM OUR CULTURE"

"God is raising up men and women who are like a dream team, ones who move in hearing the voice of God and creating world trends."

God's Media Army: Global Changers and A Holy Mafia

Because I am an artist and I was born and raised in Hollywood, clean and decent movies have been a way for me to relax and have fun. There are some great films being released! I love movies like: The Passion, Braveheart, The Guardian, The Ultimate Gift, Chariots of Fire, The Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe, One Night with the King, The Unfinished Life, and many more. I have a real passion for the movie industry, but the contents of many movies today are very evil, perverted, violent, and subtly laced with the occult.

But the other side of the coin is that we don't want to just throw everything in the electronic age out the window! We need to wake up to the power of communications and the media! They are going to be powerfully used by the Lord to harvest whole nations. Dreamer God is on the move!

Being an artist myself, I love the theatre, music, movies, and the dance! It makes me fully alive and in touch with my God, who is very colorful and creative! I have such a heart for the arts!

Part of the war is because these are global trendsetters who will significantly affect all of society. We need to be the forerunners who move with excellence, are on the cutting edge, and we need to produce the best of the best in all of these fields. This is one of the most strategic battle fronts we face because it affects the minds, hearts, and passions of the masses.

The Church should be actively empowering and cheering on the "Bravehearts" who are gifted in these arenas, instead of judging and dismissing every one of them as "evil," which is ignorance. Because we've been religious and critical, we've lost control of one of the most influential avenues of evangelism in the 21st century! We really need to repent, take back the territory we've lost, and infiltrate all of these ranks...for Jesus! Let's redeem the arts together!

If Jesus were literally walking the earth today, I know He would use the media because it has global impact! He was a Master story teller and the Bible is full of parables that are prophetic and carry hidden truths. They are like time capsules of revelation that are released over the centuries. Every movie that is released in Hollywood has cultural influence--for the good or for the bad--that impacts the world and the generations to come. God needs to capture these influential avenues of communication again!

We are up against evil powers and principalities as we contend to take back what's been stolen. This is heavy spiritual warfare and we need to move with the power of the Holy Spirit, asking for strategies, revelation, keen discernment, and wisdom for these battles. We must use "The Sword of the Lord," which I talk about in my new book, Dancing with Destiny: Awaken Your Heart to Dream, to Love, to War (will be available in May, 2007).

God's Dream Team: A Holy Mafia

High adventures await us as we become culturally relevant to impact the world with first class, top-notch, extraordinary performances in all of these avenues! I feel that the Holy Spirit is prophetically downloading fresh scripts to screen writers for theatre, film, and drama. He is positioning actors and actresses, along with musicians, singers, and dancers, to speak the heart of God to the masses through every form of art.

Today, Jesus "produces" movies by influencing others in these areas. He also challenges and inspires financiers, marketplace advertisers, and entrepreneurs to help bring Biblical truths to humanity. Jesus moves with excellence, and He wants to draw the world back to Himself, using the very best plays, movies, music, and dance that would astound the world with extraordinary giftedness! Why not!!!

I feel that God wants to give dreams, visions, and fresh revelation from Heaven for these forms of media, the arts, and communication. Inspiration and revelation with application, must accompany these tangible earthly projects. Many people talk about what they want to do but so few actually DO it! This is a call for action! Let's storm the gates and take the world by storm!! We must put "shoe leather" to our visions and dreams because they will be strategic to awaken peoples' destinies and callings.

As we are dealing with these areas, we must pray that God will give us the brilliant ideas of the entrepreneurs, the creative imaginations of gifted people in these areas, and the financiers to fund these radical projects. God is raising up men and women who are like a dream team, ones who move in hearing the voice of God and creating world trends.

I love the internet! We live in the 21st century and the electronic age where almost anything is possible and limitations are no longer an excuse. It is amazing because the internet brings an instant platform that touches the world. Computers are in most homes and schools. The world is connecting in internet coffee shops, Muslim and Communist nations, as well as remote third world nations. With the internet, you are not limited by your education, gender, nationality, age, or finances because almost everyone has access to it. Boundless opportunities for learning are at our finger tips!

Not only is the Lord raising up people in entrepreneurial areas, but He is also moving creatively through stay-at-home parents, retired folks, internet bloggers, savvy yuppies, bed-ridden people who have access to computers, the techie twenty-somethings, and even little children who can travel through electronic windows and electronic highways of the world.

Staying Clean: A Movie Adventure

We cannot take the Holy Spirit for granted and assume that He will move through unclean vessels. Many times we think we get away with watching immorality, violence, and profanity on TV or at the movies, but the Holy Spirit is right there with us telling us He is being offended. We are not filled with the Holy Spirit only when we witness to the lost; we are modern-day Arks of the Covenant wherever we go, all the time.

A number of years ago when our ministry team was in the Midwest, a couple took me and one of my associates to a movie. After five minutes, I began to "see" in the Spirit--demons were coming out of the screen and were filling the theatre. I realized that I should leave, but I was so looking forward to a relaxing time since it was my first night out after holding meetings all week. Besides, would it offend our hosts?

I was wrestling with all of this, but the Lord kept telling me to leave. He told me that I would be ministering to His people the next day, and He wanted me to be clean. He did not want me to watch that movie. It was not okay for me to get slimy at the show when He had told me to leave. I could not become covered with all kinds of filth, and then say, "Forgive me, God. Amen." I would not have been a fit vessel for Jesus in the meetings if I had stayed.

I leaned over to my associate and said, "Do you see anything coming out of the screen?" She said, "Oh, no, Jill. You mean we have to leave?" I whispered that we would be in trouble if we stayed. We both knew it would not be worth it. I explained to our hosts that the Lord was not allowing us to sit through the movie (immorality and violence started in, so we knew we must leave). They said, "Well, we have paid our money. If you want to wait in the lobby, that's fine."

My associate and I plopped down on benches in the lobby for the next hour and a half. The best part was that God moved powerfully the next day in both of the services. I knew in my heart that I was clean before the Lord and obedient to what He wanted.

Guarding Your Eye Gate

I've had people tell me to see a certain show because it was "so prophetic" and when I went, I had to walk out! We can't afford to wade through 90 minutes of all kinds of filth to capture a few "prophetic" scenes in a movie! Our hearts and our eye gates need to be sanctified and pure.

The war has increased because we are being infiltrated with the electronic age of television, movies, computers, the internet, radio, video games, cartoons, etc. Written words in the world also affects the eye gate with immoral magazines, books, newspaper ads and articles, comic books, etc.

We are being bombarded with constant onslaughts and inroads of visual evil, and the danger is that we can become so culturally desensitized, that this seems "normal" because it's so familiar. The line between Biblical truth and cultural acceptance becomes fuzzy after awhile. The enemy also helps us justify and rationalize our behavior when we see other believers going to movies--so if it's ok for them, then it must be ok with us.

Visual images stick in our memory bank and that is why visual immorality is so destructive and imprisoning. The visual pictures come back, a path is created, and the more you go down the path, the wider it gets and the easier it is to enter it. It seems "normal" but soon people have no conscience. What you give yourself to, takes you.

There are many battlefields we fight in spiritual warfare: One is the most powerful weapons of the enemy is to pollute our eye gate, which opens us to that whole seductive realm in the spirit. Another deceptive weapon of the enemy involves an anti-Christ spirit that wants to kill and manipulate our passions through various perversions, moral failures, and addictions to alcohol and drugs and many other things!!

We desperately need discernment and wisdom. We must be watchful and let the Holy Spirit speak to us about what to do and what not to do! And then, obey Him!

The enemy has anesthetized us and we may not even recognize the compromise in our own lives. It is important that we humble ourselves and repent where we have sinned. Repentance and humility breaks the power of the enemy's strongholds in our lives.

Jill Austin
Master Potter Ministries
Email: info@masterpotter.com

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