From the desk of Steve Shultz:
Some words are so full of meaning and teaching and the prophetic that it's hard to title them. This is one such word.
For instance, is this article about the Lord "moving," the Lord's "GLORY," or is it about having a "Dangerous Shadow?" Or something more? Well, the answer is all of the above, but especially, THE GLORY. Lately, it's hard to stay away from the topic of the Lord's GLORY. There's only one "PERSON" who loves the GLORY more than you and I do...and that's the LORD HIMSELF.
I cannot help but be reminded that 10 years ago, I was given an amazing dream-experience where the GLORY OF GOD was so tangible, that I could walk within it and it felt simply beyond wonderful! I pray we will ALL walk in it TANGIBLY and very, very SOON!
Here are some books by Jill that are amazing to read. My wife, Derene, LOVED THEM! She couldn't put them down.
Blessings,
Steve Shultz
Jill Austin:
"THE LORD IS ON THE MOVE! HE WANTS TO BRING THE GLORY TO YOU!"
God is "redefining" churches and nations!
The Lord is taking His finger and He is not only redefining the borders of nations, but also the Church. He says, "I am going to redefine even how you see My presence. I am going to take the walls down between different denominations and give you a hunger and fire for one another; a jealously for each of you who love the Lamb of God and have that fire for each other."
It is as if you were up in the Heavens looking at the earth and you see that certain nations are full of different amounts of the glory of God. There are prophetic time clocks on different nations, according to His sovereign purposes for radical revival.
Do You Want a Visitation Or An Inhabitation?
Our cry is that we don't just want to say, "Come Holy Spirit"; we want to say, "Stay Holy Spirit!" We don't want just a visitation, we want an inhabitation! I feel like the Lord is asking, "Are you willing to be radical for Me? Are you willing to let Me use your hands, your feet and your mouth to be radically on fire for Me? I am calling for a new militancy, a new passion, a new revelation of the Cross."
The Lord says, "As you receive more and more and come into the fullness of the revelation of the glory of My Cross - of Who I am - the more of My glory and more of Heaven will kiss the earth."
There needs to be a cry in you that says, "Kiss the lump of earth, Lord. Let Your fire and presence consume me!"
IS YOUR SHADOW DANGEROUS?
Acts 5:12-16, "The apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders among the people and all the Believers used to meet together at Solomon's colonnade. No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number.
As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on the beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as they passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem bringing their sick and those tormented by evil spirits and all of them were healed."
Acts 19:11-12, "God did extraordinary miracles through Paul so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them."
Is your shadow dangerous? How much fire do you have inside of you? Have you ever prayed for your shadow to be anointed and dangerous? In II Corinthians 4, it says that we are earthenware vessels, but the glory, the treasure in us, is the Lord. In other words, there's a mystery. We are fragile earthenware vessels, but the glory, the fire inside of us, is the Lord.
CARRIERS OF A RADIUS OF HIS GLORY
You know the song, "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine"? It makes it sound like Christianity is so puny and you hope God has lighter fluid to fill you up again. How many of you would like to have a radius of His glory inside of you like a nuclear reactor? Or would you like even more?
Do you want an anointing so that when you walk into a restaurant, the glory of God starts to move through you to confront the darkness because you have so much of the resurrection anointing? How much fire do you want? How dangerous do you want to be? Really?
How many of you would like to see the glory of God rest over your house and as people drive by, they see angels of revelation camped over your house? How many of you would like to walk into work and suddenly, the glory of God just explodes out of you? Your boss comes up to you to shake your hand and all of a sudden, he is thrown up against the wall, falling to the floor and crashing with the anointing? He slowly stands up, walks back to you again, and says, "Thank you. I feel better now."
IMPACTING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
Let's go back to your neighborhood. Let's say a wife is bringing her husband home from the hospital and he is dying of terminal bone cancer. The children of the sick father tell their parents that they keep seeing angels of the Lord at your house and they believe that your prayers could heal him. The wife comes in, calls you and tells you that her husband has twenty-four hours left to live. She also tells you that they understand that you are followers of Jesus, that you love the Bible, and that you should pray for him and see that if what you preach is true.
So the neighbors come, put the husband on a blanket and carry him down to your house. They knock on the door, you open it and they all come in - the family and other neighbors. Everyone is there - maybe twenty people - watching to see if Jesus is real.
Can we pray for the sick? Will He heal cancer? As you begin to pray, with all the neighbors looking on, color begins to come back into the man and the spirit of death starts to lift off. He sits up and says, "I am hungry" and the Lord starts to heal him.
How many of you would like to have those in your neighborhood come and knock on your door for you to pray for them? The glory of the Lord will start to move through your neighborhood. How many of you would like to have ambulances parked outside of your door because people hear that the miracle power of Jesus is starting to move?
How many of you would like to have hearses at your door as Jesus raises people from the dead? Even if they've been embalmed, God can give them blood! But there's a radical cry in you where you start to say that we have a God who moves in our midst.
HE WANTS TO BRING THE GLORY
With the Welsh Revival, the glory of God moved all over the streets in the business sections, the bars and so forth. As ships approached the nation of Wales in 1906, for six miles out to sea, the glory of the Lord would meet the ships. As the ships would come into the nation, people would start to fall to their knees and cry out for mercy. They would have visions of Heaven and hell and would instantly get saved. Others were healed of blind eyes and deaf ears were opened to hear as the miracle power of the Lord started to move.
I feel like the Lord is saying that He wants to bring the glory of the Lord - the fire, the presence and the revival anointing to you AND your city. He says that passing out tracts is too small.
Sometimes you might be with a group of people who go out on Friday night to a bad section of town, but this might only happen once or twice. Or we might go and pass out tracts on a street corner, but after you mechanically pass out tracts to many people, don't you wonder where the life is in it?
There was an anointing in the 60's and 70's, and some in the 80's in passing out tracts, but you see, now in the 90's and 2000's, the Lord is using more than that. He wants YOU to be a living tract!
He says, "I want to use your hands, your mouth and your feet to be carriers of the anointing. Will you be like radical walking flames of fire? Will you be like Olympic runners full of My glory and full of My fire, setting ablaze My nations, cities and neighborhoods for My glory?"
A STADIUM MENTALITY
It's not enough just to move on a platform or an altar area that's ten feet by thirty feet. His glory wants to invade entire churches, cities, regions and nations! He wants all of this to be an altar for His glory and anointing to come.
At the University of Oregon in Eugene, there is a facility that holds 54,000 people. Let's say that you are there along with many others to be on the prayer team. Others could come and bring their loved ones and friends, but all of you are the prayer team. How, as a prayer team, are you going to pray for 45,000 people?
I know many of you have been trained to pray at the altar of your church, and if you move fast, you might pray for three to five people. Even if you prayed all night you might pray for several thousand people, but what are you going to do with the other 50,000? In other words, our whole way of thinking is going to have to be different. God wants to impart to us a gift of faith. We need a stadium mentality instead of a church altar mentality!!
I want you to think of that stadium! You are there and you're asking the Lord, the Glorious Intruder, to come and invade the stadium! The glory cloud of the Lord begins to move throughout the stadium and, as the glory cloud of God starts to move, people are being delivered because Jesus, the Son of the living God, has come and is setting people free by breaking off torment, insanity and spirits of death by His power and His presence.
As the Lord begins to move, there's a radical anointing. People start coming out of wheelchairs. The miracle anointing of signs and wonders begins. Literally people with no eyes, only sockets, start to have eyes appear. People start to hear. Those with skeletal diseases who are crippled and deformed, start to hear crunching in their bones as hands and body parts start to come together. People in wheelchairs begin to get out of them and start running.
Jesus starts healing cancer, aids and mental illness with His resurrection anointing. You see people, it isn't just power, it's a resurrection anointing that was birthed from the Cross.
THE APOSTOLIC ANOINTING
How many of you would like to have an apostolic anointing? Let's talk about the apostolic anointing. The apostolic anointing in Acts 2 shows us that the Holy Spirit came like a mighty rushing wind. At 9:00am, a crowd of more than three thousand people gathered and accused the Christians of being drunk.
Immediately Peter said, "They are not drunk, as you think." He spoke with an apostolic anointing, preaching the crucified Christ, the glory of the Cross, that all are sinners needing to repent and that Jesus is the Messiah! As he preached the glory of the Cross - the crucifixion and the resurrection, three thousand people were saved.
Why isn't everyone moving with an apostolic anointing where you work, go to school, gas stations, grocery stores and wherever you are? There needs to be a place in you where you say, "Jesus, give me that fiery anointing. Lord, use me to powerfully touch my world."
We, as a Church, have abdicated our posts!! We've said yes to sending out missionaries, itinerants and others, but the Lord says, "I want YOU! I want you to be My hands and My heart. I want you to be My mouth and My eyes. When you see people, I want you to look at that person and ask Me what I have for that living soul."
BEING NATURALLY SUPERNATURAL
You will start seeing people as living souls and God will begin to give you words and other things they need. If you don't get anything, you can always ask them to get a cup of coffee with you. Be naturally supernatural. Be real. I feel like the Lord is trying to break religious evangelism.
He wants to start working with prophetic evangelism where you are naturally supernatural - being real people who love a real God! Then you can be one who goes through real life situations with a God who is with you in the midst of all your situations and you can share that with others!
Do you want to be a carrier of the anointing? How much fire do you want? When people reach out and touch your clothes, are you so saturated with anointing that people are instantly healed? Have you even prayed for that? "Lord, let Your anointing and Your glory seep out of me." May it be that we don't even know when it happens because it is so naturally supernatural.
YOUR COMMISSIONING - THROW OUT YOUR NET
Is there that cry in you that says, "Lord, I want to see people radically touched right where I live, where I walk, and where I live real life." The Lord says He wants to bend the walls of the church and take you to the world so that you can be His hands, His heart and His feet.
If you are waiting for someone else to do it, He says to forget it! You are it! He wants to give us fishing nets. For years He has been healing the holes in the nets so that we can throw out our nets into the dark sea of humanity. As we throw our nets out, the Shekinah glory will come as the nets hit the water and the fish will see the nets and come running. Jesus says that He is going to bring in such a great harvest that many of you will have to team together to bring in His fish.
Can you say, "Here am I, send me!" That is sweet music to His ears! This is part of why He gave His life on the Cross!
Jill Austin
Master Potter Ministries
Email: info@masterpotter.com
