Not Ahead of Me, Not Behind Me, but Alongside Me

You should not perceive yourself to be so elite, so intelligent, so talented, so gifted, so smart, so financially well-off, so connected, so known, and so untouchable that you neglect the guidance of God in ALL that you do.  You may have gone to a HBCU, Ivy League University/College, or have come into a six figure salary, but you are able to fall.  You should not be so arrogant that you trust your decision making skills.  You may live in a nice home with a garage or two, you may know a few superstars, lawyers, doctors, and politicians that hold power to make arrangements and adjustments that would not normally be made, but even their power is not everlasting; and it can only go but so far.  In fact their power is limited and has a time constraint.

It is dangerous, life-threatening, and detrimental to your life for you to continue to believe that you can make it on your own.  It is dangerous and life-threatening because the Lord says that, "what resulted the last time you encountered a similar situation, such as this one, but with new faces to add to the spectrum, was not what I wanted to manifest."  The Lord says that, "You cannot afford, at this stage in your life, to walk away from this conflict, this test, this situation that you have, once again, found yourself in, the same way you walked out of the last one.  You must handle this stage in your relationship with him/her with deeper understanding that I, the Lord, want to perform a miracle that you perceive to be impossible.  In other words, I, the Lord, want to make what you think is impossible possible.  What is holding you up is your flesh and the desires of your flesh,"says the Lord.

Your anger, your attitude, your arrogance, your pompous, the deception that is fooling you, the thoughts that do not represent the thoughts of the Lord are causing you to find yourself directly where you found yourself before.  "You have not progressed," says the Lord!  You have not gained anything!  There is no new understanding, no new people in your life that girds your legs and mind in Jesus Christ, in fact, most of the people in your space are talking about the latest issues on the streets, or in other people's lives.  They are talking about their new houses, new shoes, purses, boyfriends, girlfriends, their husbands and wives, their clothes, but they are not telling you what you need to hear from the Lord.  The Lord says,"How much longer are you going to remain stagnant?  How much longer are you going to tolerate the same songs being sung, the same prayers being prayed, the same sermons, the same jokes, the same conversations, the same traditional ways of thinking?"

The Lord says, "I transform lives! Since when have you known Me to allow life to remain the same?  When have You not witnessed Me create new days?  When have you not witnessed new winds, new atmospheric changes that are out of season?  I have gone against the predictions of the meteorologists, astrologists, the horoscopes, the soothsayers, necromancy, and all of the fortune tellers!  When have I allowed wickedness to prosper in your life?  I let it prosper when you left Me; when you denied your belief that I could not change the situation; when you neglected to be patient is when I let wickedness prosper," says the Lord!

The Lord says that, "when you want change, you will call out My name, and I will show you patience like you knew you could possess!"  The Lord says that, "you want everything to come unto you so fast, but what I have for you is not until down the road because there are some things that you have lost along the way that I have to restore and I am the ONLY Person that can restore what you need to become FREE.  What you want, you cannot find in a job, in a television show, in a song, or in a sermon, but you must seek MY face and call out MY name and I will come unto you!"

The Lord says that,"this time when you see him, when you see her, when you talk to them, when you apply for this job, when you write this book, when you dance, when you pray, when you minister, when you go out, you will walk in with a different anointing and with an understanding that you cannot do this one without Me.  I will be with you and you shall be confident that I have not left you; but this time, do not leave Me, says the Lord!  Do not leave Me, and do not walk behind Me, but walk next to Me!  Walk next to Me, walk with Me, walk alongside Me! For I have walked alongside you even when your heart left Me!

“Inasmuch as these people draw near with theirmouths, and honor Me with their lips, but have removed theirhearts far from Me, And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men,  Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work among this people, A marvelous work and a wonder; For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,  And the understanding of their prudent me shall be hidden.”  (Isaiah 29.13,14 NKJV).   

       I pray that you be Spirit-filled and be led and driven by the Holy Spirit that Matthew 4.1 , Luke 4.1, and Mark 1.12 describes how Jesus entered into the wilderness.  Jesus was led, driven, and was alongside of the Holy Spirit as He entered into the wilderness.  This situation for you, if you are led, driven, and is walking alongside of the Holy Spirit as He walks alongside of you, will find you in a wilderness like situation.  You will have no one call on except for Christ; that is only if you want full and true victory and do not want to cut corners on the road to accomplishing the work of God.  


I pray that you understand that your life is NOT about you, NOT about your feelings, NOT about your wants and desires, but it is about God's glory.  For whatever it is that you do, whether you are drinking or eating, do all to the glory of God (Col. 3.17; 1 Cor. 10.31)!  When has God told you that His work has everything to do with you; when has God told His Son, Jesus Christ, that being examined, questioned, accused, and death was about Christ?  God never, did for Jesus always spoke of Himself accomplishing the will of the Father!  DO NOT BE DECEIVED (Gal. 6.7a).  Evil company corrupts good habits! (1 Cor. 15.33)  I pray that you walk alongside of the Holy Spirit as you go through this situation!


The Blood of Jesus Christ,
Servant of the Lord,
DWWII

Walk in the Love of Jesus Christ: I am against Valentine/Lupercalia

Valentines Day?  Valentines Day?  Valentines Day?  Are you serious?  Love day?  A day to love out of every other day of the year?  One day to love out of 365 days!  Today, by the world's standards, but not by Christ's standards is called Valentine's Day, and most of the world has made the conscious decision to purchase a gift that will probably put some people in debt, purchase some chocolates that is loaded with caffeine and could cause heart palpitations, purchase a card which is maybe a nice gesture, and the restaurants will be selling out of wine and champy because everyone wants to be a little tipsy before they get their intimacy on tonight.  Out of all nights of the year most of the world chooses this day to sacrifice time and money on someone they love.  For some it may not be a sacrifice, and for many it may be a sacrifice.  However, those that are celebrating this day that the world calls love is celebrating because the world or someone in the span of history has said, "Every February 14, in the United States and everywhere else, love will be the theme of the day; everyone will treat each other nice, couples will grow intimate, they will eat chocolate covered strawberries (as if there are no other fruits that exist), and it will just be a lovely day."  I guess the angel/cupid that initiated that day is supposed to be the cupid that we see on advertisements and other media outlets on Valentine's day.

I am not against love!  I have a beautiful wife and I am her number one fan!  Life has actually become more fun and better since I got married.  However, Christians should not allow the world to dictate to them as to when Christians should love.  As a Christian, participating in Valentine's day is partaking in the mindset and mission of the pagans that have created Valentine's day; Valentine's day is a pagan holiday.  The Bible says, "to be friends/lovers of the world is to be at hatred/enmity toward God" (James 4.4 NKJV).  "You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons" (1 Cor. 11.21).

So why am I posting this?  First of the all, the Lord instructed me to help Christians understand that we cannot behave and be led by the standards, ideologies, methodologies, and manner of the world and remain to deem ourselves Christian.  The Lord told me that Christians do not know that Valentine's day is a pagan holiday and that the pagans perform pagan rituals that do glorify other gods; Lupercalia is a pagan cult.  Lupercalia was what Valentine's day was formerly called, but Pope Gelasius I established Valentine's day as a day where Catholics would celebrate love.  It would make sense that if an organization is founded and established on Jesus Christ then there would be no need to make a special effort to observe love, but I guess that is not the case for Catholicism.  Catholicism, I am starting to notice shares common practices, beliefs, and rituals that coincide with satanism and paganism; if you do not believe me ask yourself why is there so much pedophilia running rampant in the Catholic church.  Christians do not have the power and authority to deem something that is pagan or demonic as holy; Christians just do not have that right!  I am sorry!

The second reason why I am posting this blog is for those Christians that are aware that this holiday is pagan, but refuses to honor Christ and abstaining from the fruitless deeds of participating in this pagan holiday.  Am I judging?  Perhaps I am; but by the Word of God!  The Word of God is the Christian ruler/ measurement/ canon of how Christians must live.  Therefore, I have the authority and permission to use our Bible for reproof, correction, judge, evaluate, and present Truth!  I also believe I have a right to judge based on what the Bible teaches because pagan love does not tell Christians to go to your enemies and share the love of Jesus Christ with them.  Lupercalia promotes love between individuals that love each other or that shares a common level of love; Lupercalia/Valentine's day is only a day and Christ's love is forever!  Christians that participate in Lupercalia/Valentine's are not going to their enemies and taking them out to dinner, nor are they purchasing gifts for their enemies.

The Holy Spirit is loving His enemies, and the Holy Spirit is a person; therefore you cannot beg the question if Christ were living today would He celebrate Valentine's day!  Christ lives and Christ's love does not fade away!  Christ's love lasts forever.  Yesterday, I had to go to a place where I proclaimed I would never go again because of false and true rumors that were spread about me.   I also believe that the people that congregate at this place do not worship God, but I believe they worship the leader.  I do not blame the people, I blame the leader because the leader should have put an end to the people's idolatry.  I also left the place because the Lord told me to move on, but I had to go back to support my godson's dedication and blessing into the body of Christ.  However, I had so many built up bad feelings for the people at this place, but before I went the Holy Spirit reminded me of His love.  The Holy Spirit said,

"I loved you when you had a stench of sin and you worshipped me.  I loved you when you fornicated, smoked weed, attempted to commit suicide, and put yourself in nasty drunken stupors.  I did not stop loving you, but my love grew because I had and still have a mission for you to complete for My glory!  You must love your enemies; yes, those that put out false rumors and true rumors about you; those that lied on you; those that made fun of you behind your back and in front of your face; those that shook your hand, but that did not like you; those that did not like you you must love them and genuinely portray and show My love.  It will not be you that walks in that building and looks at these people and speak, but you will follow My Spirit.  You will be led by My Spirit because you are too weak to do this alone" says the Lord!

I did exactly what the Lord showed me and told me to do, and as a result, the Lord restored, even long before I knew it, my perception of myself; my confidence was strengthened; I walked away from insecurity and walked into security; I walked into the situation healed and not broken; I walked into the situation smelling good and not smelling bad with the stench of sin unto the nostrils of Christ; I walked into the situation delivered and set free from porn, lust, lying, and plotting evil; I walked in saved; but most of all I walked in the spirit of forgiveness!

You cannot function at your best until you forgive and walk in the love of Jesus Christ!  You will never function at the full capacity as you are supposed to function until you let go of un-forgiveness.  You will never be confident until you bind the spirit of insecurity, un-forgiveness, and self-pity!  "You are forgiven and loved," says the Lord!  You will be at your best when you let go of the fashions, the ways, the understandings, the ideologies, and methodologies of the world.  You will be your best and operate best for Christ when you forgive and love!

I challenge you today not to participate in Valentine's day; instead pray with your loved one to ask Christ to show you all how to love!  I prophetically challenge you to cancel your plans and consecrate your relationship to/for Christ!  I prophetically challenge you to call your enemies up, shoot them an email, or pray for them and let them know in the Holy Spirit that you love them!  If you truly want to be delivered from insecurity, you must forgive and then love like Jesus Christ; unconditionally!  Love your father that left you when you were a child; love your mother that abandoned you for a boyfriend; love the person that molested you; love the person that raped you; love the man that got you pregnant and left you and your child father-less and husband-less; love the woman that denied you; love the teacher that was racist toward you; love the system that impoverishes you; love the person that gave you a STD; love the person that shot you; love the person that stole your money; love the person that slept with your husband or your wife; love the person that called you ugly; love the person that called you fat; love the person that told you that you would not ever accomplish success; love the person that hates you!

I pray for you today that you walk in Christ's love and turn to Jesus!  I pray for you today that you do not participate in Lupercalia, but make a life long relationship with Jesus Christ; remember He wants access to you more than you want access to Him!  He is waiting with great expectation to hear you say,"Lord forgive me, and Lord I love you , and Lord I want to forgive my enemy and love my enemy;" you will come out of bondage of hate and walk into so many riches in Christ Jesus!  I dare you to step out on faith and walk on water with Christ!  Watch what would happen if you do this!  Celebrate Christ's love with your wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, son, daughter, husband, father, mother, uncle, and enemy forever as Christ celebrates His love for you forever!

Remember Lupercalia/Valentine's day is only one day, Christ's love is forever!

Covered by the blood of Jesus Christ!
Servant of the Lord,
DWWII

"Eyes to See, Ears to Hear"

“Eyes to see, ears to hear”

This Tuesday morning, in between the hour of 9:00, on February 8, 2011, the Lord released a word unto me that I was commanded to sit on, rest in, and delve into with my spirit for the remainder of today.  The Lord clearly said to me, “eyes to see, ears to hear.”  When the Lord gave this word to me, He told me that this is what He has given us, but we have not received the impartation.  I am not going to let this impartation be stolen because that is what I have allowed to happen with other prophetic words that the Lord has shared with me.  The Lord said, in addition to having “eyes to see, ears to hear” that we must guard and screen what we see and hear, because what we see and hear, for at least the immature Christian, has re-directed from the path of Christ to down the wrong pathway; therefore their conscious and concentration are on the wrong things and not the things that the Lord wants. 

“You must watch and pray, and pray and watch, have eyes to see, ears to hear.  I am strengthening your vision beyond the extent where you are able to recognize what is taking place in the supernatural.  What you see will have a sound that will be released into the supernatural realm and the natural realm.  The supernatural will penetrate and will cause you to see obvious earthly signs and wonders that are performed from My design.  What you see will have a sound that will be heard through the reactions and reports of the media; and that sound will have to be judged with discernment from the righteous.  Consecrate your eyes, your mind, and your ears, so that you will be alert for what it is I am currently doing and causing to happen.  Your salvation and relationship with Me is contingent upon how you respond to what occurs.  Your response will separate the elect and the remnant because not all elect are apart of the remnant.  The elect has the eyes to see and ears to hear but the elect are not utilizing eyes and ears; the remnant are the ones that possesses the anointing of the sons of Issachar; seeing the signs and understanding the times and knowing what to do.  The remnant will know what to do and have the correct response to what they see and hear, says the Lord.”

Everything must be ushered and brought in on the wings of prayer.  Whether it be prophecy, revelation, prophetic song, dance, prophetic poems, and praise; it all must be brought in on the wings of prayer.  At this hour, everything that you do must be done and brought in by prayer, if not it will fail and shall not prosper.  We are experiencing in an hour where certainty is not certain.  You have the obligation and duty of making sure that your salvation is certain and that is the most powerful attribute that you will have that will forever be certain.  I guess that explains why the Apostle Paul tells the Philippian church “to work out their salvation with fear and trembling.”  This godly admonishment is not one time, once a month, twice a week, once a year, or 3 weeks out of a month ordeal; this is a daily life-long act that all Christians must obey.  The working out of your salvation is necessary for you to understand the signs of the times and to know what to do.  Discerning, knowing, and understanding the signs of the times are important to Christians on a personal level, relational level, earthly level, and heavenly level.  These four dimensions are consistently being shaken by the sound of God speaking into your life about you, about your family, spouse, partner, co-worker, church, barbershop and hair salon, Wawa, 7-eleven, mall, movie theatre, lounge, and in the portals of the heavens.  God is speaking in every corner, on every spectrum of the earth and it involves and concerns you; you cannot let this pass you by because you will and can be left behind.

Someone wrote a song, “Lord, whatever it is that you are doing, do not do it without me, don’t do it without me.”  All of us show plea God’s mercy this day to not be left behind.  God is doing a lot at this hour and on this day, and your eyes must be open to the days, weeks, hours, minutes, seconds, months, and years that are ahead.  Do not be left behind, says the Lord, but be at the place where His hand will reach out for you when it all comes to an end!

Know Who You Are in Christ

One major issue, in the African-American church, is the personal struggle of insecurity.  Of my 29 years of living, I have noticed that, within the corridors of the church building, there is a melting pot of hurt Christians and wounded Christians currently struggling with power struggles that is because of insecurity.  I noticed that church people are covetous for other people's spiritual gifts, economic status, occupational position, and outward appearance of fashion creativity.  I also noticed that African-American families compete against other families in the African-American in the church to send their children to the best schools, wear the best clothes, and to compete in sports.  Now this happens everywhere; not just the church.  Everyone competes, but why are these things occurring during the time and place of worship?  Some would call it the devil, and I would not be against that answer; but some would say that what I am discussing is inevitable.  Well, I would say that it may be inevitable, but I think awareness should be raised and that this issue should be exposed.  It needs to be exposed because of what results from this type of behavior within the Christian relationship dynamic.

I will start with saying that Jesus said that "the greatest of these are actually the least of these" and that "the greatest in the Kingdom of God is the servant."  The word servant that is used in the Bible is the Greek word doulos which is the English transliteration word for "bond-servant" and what doulos refers to is one being bound to another.  The Greek word diakoneo is where we get the word deacon and it means to be a servant, attendant, helper, or minister.  There is a problem that African-American Christians have, but I would like to put an end to this false ideology at this juncture and that is:  HUMAN BEINGS THAT ARE AFRICAN-AMERICAN/BLACK ARE CHRISTIAN BEFORE WE ARE AFRICAN-AMERICAN/BLACK.  Because of the history of African-Americans, African-Americans have an extremely difficult issue with adopting the idea of being a servant/slave.  Acting as a slave means, to an African-American, that one must take orders, accomplish the duties of completing dirty work, and at most times, be looked down upon.  The problem is that black people did not fight to abolish slavery and fight for civil rights to re-visit slavery; let alone to a person that is portrayed as a white male with blue eyes.  It is the worldly perception of slavery that has caused black people to reject the idea of becoming a servant of and for Jesus Christ.

So you ask the question, "what does this have to do with coveting spiritual gifts, anointings, economic and occupational positions, and the outward appearance of one's creative fashion sense?"  Christian servanthood lifestyles and living is strongly important and significant to these evil behaviors because it stems from jealousy, hatred, self-pity, self-hate, and the lack of being aware of self-worth.  African-Americans want so much, and want freedom so bad that some African-American Christians have yet to understand and truly believe that there is freedom in Jesus Christ.  "Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2 Cor. 3. 17).  Although we are servants and bond servants for and of Jesus Christ, Christians remain and maintain freedom to live without the chains and bondage of jealousy, covetousness, and the lack of being aware in self-worth.  When Christians remain to struggle with these listed issues, and other issues, then one has not fully come into complete maturity in Jesus Christ.  It is when Christians are able to stay in their outlined lanes, minding their own business and taking care of their own personal issues that the church can smoothly flow in an apostolic-prophetic anointing that the Lord has ordained for the body of Christ.

Another issue that African-American Christians struggle with that inhibits them from knowing who they are in Christ is the issue of power; slaves do not have power.  What servant do you know has power and authority?  When Christians are called and not only called, but upgraded, into the eschaton of Christ's divine plan of us walking in servanthood, it is at that point when Christians will be able to confidently walk in power and authority.  This authority and power can only come from Christ; unfortunately not man.  Although man can give authority and power to people whom man feels deserve an amount of power and authority, that authority and power is limited to exercising the duties, responsibilities, and obligations of an organization.  Unfortunately, that power and authority, that is given from man, does not run demons out of regions, does not heal the sick, does not prophesy, nor does that limited authority and power have the foundation of love and grace; because it is not Kingdom authority and power.

One that is called by man, and not called by God has to consistently plea that they have been given a position by a man; I call these persons name droppers.  These people drop names so that they can be validated; but God does the validation and activation.  Many Christians are insecure because they have not been called, but they claim they have been called by God; but truthfully have not been called.  I have noticed that the true servants are the ones that are always in attendance for prayer; cooking the food, setting the tables; cleaning the bathrooms; and driving the people home from church because those people do not have transportation.  These servants are the ones that are most secure.  In addition, the true servants are the minstrels, pastors, and bishops that are not on television, that do not have a team of armour bearers when David only had one amour bearer.  These servants are the ones that are delivering people from demons in a small church that has less than 20 members.  These are the servants that live all the way in the back of the woods; these servants are the ones that are not looking to prostitute their gift  by going here and there to perform; these are the servants that are living in holiness and righteousness; these are the servants that are secure and do not want what the majority has.  Lastly, these are the servants that know who they are in Christ.

Christ wants us to know who we are in Him!  We must be focused on what Christ wants and not focused on what other people have, what other people accomplish, and what other people's gifts are.  I remember in Scripture, that the Apostle Paul, a bond-servant of Christ, says that we should not "despise prophecies;" he says, "abstain from every form of evil" (1 Thess. 5. 19-22).  There is a way that seems right unto man, but the end thereof leads to destruction (Proverbs 14.12).  There is a rise in a new paradigm of Christian leaders that are secure and not insecure and the Lord wants to break all yokes and all forms of bondage.  Please, be open to what the Lord has to say so that He can continue to transform your soul; our soul should he anchored in the things of the Lord!

God bless you!

In the blood of Jesus Christ,
Donnie