PERFECTED UNDER PRESSURE By Olufunso Joseph Omidiran www.livingsword.org

Hebrews 5:7-9   7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;  9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Today God has a special mission on earth and goes to find raw materials to achieve His aim. Human instruments (men, women, boys and girls) are His main raw materials.
Pressure!


God’s instruments are permitted to be tempted and pressed ─put under pressure. Pressure can come from
-God Himself when He purposely tests us (e.g. Genesis 22; Hebrews 11:17). Just like a school teacher, He is often quiet while the test is going on!
Hebrews 11:17 17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, OFFERED UP Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son
Abraham was tested by God; he was put under pressure by God, so to speak. In divine estimation he was found worthy and it was adjudged that Abraham had ALREADY offered his son as a sacrifice to God. God blessed and gave Abraham a pass mark. We are also able to receive a blessing and a pass mark from the One who called.


-Self. Pressure from self is all because of our own selfish ambition/target, self-indulgence as well as personal aim/agenda/pursuit. This is a ‘cross’ created/designed by you and for you! When Jesus says “carry your cross and follow Me”, it’s all because He already has a cross designed for you by Himself. You may put your spirit, soul and body under pressure because of a burden/problem you decided to carry on your own. This is awful and ridiculous ─ don’t put the blame on God, but on yourself when your expectation fails. God will not back what He has not started/created/initiated.
-Devil/Enemy. Adversity abounds around us, even when we have chosen to do God’s will. The devil and his agents will do all they can to frustrate us and hell could be let lose, so to speak. The good news is that God will still keep/stand by us. He strengthens and fortifies us against all adversity (Hebrews 5:7-9). It should be expected that there will be resistance or opposition to God’s will from the camp of the devil. This is simply logical, isn’t it?


What Jesus did while under Pressure (Luke 22: 39-46)
Jesus is the Brightness of His glory and Express Image of the Invisible God (Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:3), the Perfect Picture of how a man should be and what we ought to do. The most acceptable and honourable man before God is the one who is like Jesus. He also taught us to take His yoke upon us and learn from Him (Matthew 11:29, 30). See what He did while under pressure:

    He prayed, prayed, prayed and prayed! (v 41).
    He still had the time to carry His disciples along. He took them with Him to Gethsemane (v 39).
    He still had the time to teach/admonish His disciples. He told them to watch and pray (v 40).
    He did what He preached and taught, while still under pressure─ He did watch and pray! (vv 41-42). How many teachers and preachers of the Bible DO what they preach today?
    Submission ─ “not My will but Thine”. He chose the path of the cross, chose to die (v 42).
    He received the ministry of angels having made up His mind to do the Father’s will (v 43). God’s angels only work for and respond to those who do the Father’s will. They only act in obedience to God’s instruction (Psalm 103:20; 91:11-12).
    He remained focused on the journey and assignment before Him. He was focused on the cross! The cross is a symbol of death, sorrow, punishment, reproach, sacrifice, pain, distress and curse. Nevertheless, our Lord pressed on with it because it was His mandate from the Father. Are you only concerned for the “Christianity of convenience?”

We’ve got to learn to be like Jesus and walk with Him very much every way. He is our Perfect Example to follow. The consistency of His character was never diminished or abated, even while under pressure. What has pressure done to you? Shalom.



IN HIS HOUSE,

REV. OLUFUNSO J. OMIDIRAN
LIVING SWORD MINISTRIES INT'L
(Healing unto the Nations)

5/17/2013 Word of the Lord. ~IT'S GONNA RAIN~ Jo Ellen Stevens

I have been watching the Prophetic Words of Jo Ellen Stevens for a while. I have written a note to her from time to time. I am careful who I endorse as a Prophet. Yet she is consistent and truly hears from God. This is a deep rich word of the Lord. I am proud to endorse her.

A lot of my church will believe Me for healing and deliverance in some forms ,but they have not even begun to see the signs ,wonders, and miracles that I am about to do in their midst if they will believe that I can do anything!! I am coming in this hour as the God of Moses, Elijah, Daniel,Esther, and David!! They will know I am the God of those that hunger for My Glory!! Believe me for the miraculous, be not afraid as they were at the mount of My presence ,but welcome Me in!! Allow Me to come in the way that I long to come with all of my weighty Glory!! Cry out for Me to do what is in My heart to do and I will come in magnificent power in a magnificent display of splendor!

Where are the people who desire My presence more that their own life? Where are those that want Me more that their reputation? Where are those that are willing to lay down their life to see My Glory come into the midst of their congregations? Where are the Brave and the bold ones who do not care what others think when I show up in a display as the one who owns it all!! I own all of the gold and silver.So why do you not believe me for these things. If you do not I will take it to another people who are hungry and thirsty for my presence!!

I tell you India you are about to see your prayers answered!.You are about to have an awakening of the presence of God and His power, and his healing, and deliverance such as you have not even heard of! People will throw their Idols behind them saying be gone!! My Glory is about to invade you India!! Shout for your King is coming in Splendor and Glory and a great harvest will come forth from those that have sown into you and those that have wept for India!!

Ishmael oh Ismael .I gave your mother living water in the desert to cause you to live, I am coming to you as the rain!! I will save many from the darkness of the night out of Ishmael. They will turn and turn many to righteousness that have not known my Name!!

France , you have some that have been turning the tide of the tidal wave of evil through their prayers. I am coming to reverse the curse of the last decade..I am coming in for my people in you that have cried out to me day and night saying "Do not allow this to take hold of our nation" I have heard the cry of the remnant that have not given into compromise. Rejoice for I am reversing in this hour and out of the seed of the remnant I will bring forth a great miracle working Church!!

South Africa .I am going to show you my miracle working hand in your affairs!! You are the land of the living water. You are the land that has given me many great and mighty hidden ones who have not given into the religious that would deny you of my power and My glory to only control the outpouring of My Spirit .You can not control Me says the Lord .For I will come for the sake of the destitute and those that have cried for my presence!! I will come!!" I am coming as a Tsunami of my Spirit ..

Australia , Land of beauty and land with a heart that runs deep, your waiting days are over and I will once again bring those that have a heart on fire to say no to them that would put you in bondage again.!! I will bring you justice once again" The secular and the non believing shall not prevail to change laws and times!!

America ,America .I have heard your cries of Justice and I am is bringing justice again! What has been whispered in secret shall be revealed. You have cried to Me from the depths to restore your children. I am coming to save them from the scourge of drug addictions and Baal worship!! I am coming to bring about some things in the natural realm that will cause an Awakening from the West to the East. I have heard as I did Elijah many saying that we are becoming so few .We are the only ones .What can we do?,but I say that suddenly an awakening will come and a sleeping Giant will awake .Even in the Ruins of Religion I am going to shake and awake!! Foundations that were not built on me will begin to come to an end!! I am shaking the religious world and provoking them to jealousy through those that call themselves lover's of God ,because I am going to make a difference. Those that have their wicks trimmed and their lamps filled will be they that others will run to to get some oil!! Pour out my friends and I will keep your cup running over to reach the masses!! This is your hour America . I am bringing my Favor to those that have been hidden in me so that they will be a shelter from the storm for all those that call on my Name!! I said All that call on my Name shall be saved!! Rejoice and be Glad all you lands ,because the Lord is coming as the rain and He shall pour out His Spirit on all flesh and they will have a choice as they see the works that I am about to do through my lovers to either accept or reject me as "The God Who Loved Us and gave Himself For Us!!"

Decree ,decree,decree My word in this hour .Pray,pray,pray in the Spirit.. believe me for the miraculous and If you will I will watch over my word to perform it!! Watch for I am doing a New Thing in this hour and it will not look like what you have known in the past so Prepare ,prepare ,prepare your hearts to receive what I am about to do through and in my people that have sought me!!

Joe 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month].

Pro 16:15 In the light of the king's countenance [is] life; and his favour [is] as a cloud of the latter rain

Zec 10:1 Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain;

Jam 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

The Father Says Today: May 15th, 2013 by Russell Walden

The Father says today that the time of veils and secrets is past and the hour has come to remove the cloud of unknowing. This is a day of clarity and assurance. I assure your heart this day says the Father. Fear NOT the scourge of the enemy or the threats of the dark ones. They are impotent to penetrate the blood line I have drawn around you. I have sprinkled every possession and relationship and you entire environment with the enabling and empowering blood of the son.

I have set My seal upon you this day that you might think My thoughts and know them as your own. We are one and I am synchronizing your spirit with My Spirit and causing you to experience the RANK wherewith I am ranked for you are IN Me and I am IN you and it is time to experience the COME UP HIGHER enthronement of My purpose in grace in your life.

SELF as an Enemy

I was spoken to clearly today.  It is for me, but for many also:

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.  Romans 12:3

I am saddened by the self aggrandizement I see in the body of Christ.  It's not just the titles, the robes, the overbearing luxuries at the expense of those who give to God, it's the sad pretense that makes me shake my head in wonder.

This isn't all.  There are many who I know who are very clear on who they are.  They are self aware.

But some stain the Body of Christ by their self appointments and self aggrandisement.

The Lord told ME to be very careful of this.  To think of myself no higher than I ought.  That I need to be aware by faith of those things that could make me stumble.

I am saying to anyone who reads... know who you are, but not more than what you really are.  That's what Paul wrote to the Romans...and now two millenia later I hear him speak it again.

Samuel Chose the King...or did he?

The story of Samuel choosing the king of Israel from Jesse's sons is instructive.  1 Samuel 16:1-13

God had a man to lead Israel.  One who experienced much, was prepared in the secret place, one who had an encounter with the true and living God.  It was that one, the one overlooked by Samuel's flesh that God chose.  If you read the story carefully you will see that Samuel wanted to anoint others who looked better, had better credentials, had leadership quality.  He also didn't want to do this, he was certain that Saul would kill him.  All in All it was the Spirit of God in Samuel that drove him.  This is and was always God's plan. 

Prophets are appointed by God to identify and anoint for service those who God has chosen to lead his people. 

We don't do that any more. 

Apostles appoint and anoint themselves.  Or they find another friendly apostle to lay hands on them.

In some denominational churches leaders are chosen by a search committee.  I have been part of that.  It's not God's way.  God never worked thru committees.  Flesh cannot accomplish what God ordains.  Flesh can only recognize what God has already done if it can put aside it's fleshly influence as Samuel had to.  Prayer isn't enough.  Samuel didn't pray, he heard.  

The real kings who are to lead are chosen by God alone.  You can't find God's leader by resume. 

Ishmael is usually the result. 

I won't name names but there are several men and women of God over the years that God has sent me to anoint prophetically for service in the kingdom.  I was with one such this last weekend.  Years ago God told me how he would be used.  What his place in the Kingdom is.  Like David in that day, once the prophetic anointing took place the Spirit of God moved GREATER on him.  1 Samuel 16:13

We need to get back to true prophets of God anointing true leaders in the Body of Christ or we will continue to lurch from crisis to crisis of false leadership.  When man tries to "HIRE" a leader, he usually ends up with SAUL. 

That of course will require true Prophets.... that's another story.

Kathie Walters: The Story of The Ring: Simply Believe

I was at the computer and noticed that on my right hand there was a ring missing from my pinky (I am a ring person).
It was a lovely dark blue tanzanite with diamonds. I was distressed for a minute, but then I thought, "It has to be in the house somewhere or I would have missed it before." My first thought was to call my dear friends, Lynn and Brian (my twin friends from Oklahoma City). These guys are great spiritual "locators." They are the guys that located my cell phone when it was dropped in the nighttime in a puddle. And God has used them in wonderful ways to "find" other lost things.
Then I had a thought, "I will search the house thoroughly and then I will call the twins." God spoke to me right away and said, "Well, why don't you call them now?" So I thought, "OK then," and I called them. They "located" the ring (by the Holy Spirit) in about 20 seconds and told me exactly where it was...in detail.
I went and looked, found the ring, and called them back. We laughed! But then afterwards I realized that I had at first thought, "I need to DO SOMETHING first (in the way of searching)" before I called them to do the easy thing.
Just ask.

Yield To Him

I then wondered if we go through all kinds of hoops unconsciously before we just simply ask and let God do it... It must be the remains of old works theology.
Funny how it keeps popping up now and then. I am not at all into "working for Jesus." He doesn't want us to work for Him. He wants us to yield to Him, and He will work through us. It's much easier that way, and MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE.
It's ALL HIM. 100%. We get to do the yielding – not the trying. Trying can be very trying. His right hand and His Holy arm have gotten the victory. Religious spirits always make us try and do what only God can do.
He (Jesus) is the one who is going to "present [us] faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy" (Jude 24). He (Jesus) is going to do that. It's His prerogative. Not your prayer partner, not your mom, not your pastor, not your husband or wife. You are His trophy. He is going to present you faultless. He is going to get all the glory because He did all the work.
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior; that being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:5-7 KJV

Chill Out – Take a Break

There is no striving and trying and working at it in the Spirit realm. Remember, your first calling is to enjoy God, and then out of that you can serve Him as you are led by the Spirit. It's funny, sometimes we will do anything except simply believe. We fast, pray, etc. But when it all comes down to it, it's simply trusting Him to do what He said He would do. "Casting ALL your care upon Him, for He cares for you" (1 Peter 5:7, emphasis mine).
For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. 2 Corinthians 1:20
Kathie Walters
Good News Ministries
Email: kathiewalters@mindspring.com
Website: kathiewaltersministry.com

Kim Clement: Now Suffocation Is Coming To An End

Prophesied and Transcribed from April 24, 2013

Free From Suffocation

April 24, 2013 - From The Matrix:
We're going to start the whole month of May, which is a week from now (spoken on April 24), as we end the 70th day, after the prophecy that I gave in November about January 21st, between 70-100 days, the python would be destroyed (read on The Elijah List).
I gave a prophecy in November 2012 about January 21, 2013, that between 70-100 days from then, the spirit of python would be destroyed, which is now, in the month of May (read on The Elijah List).
If you've been suffocating at night, if it's been difficult to breathe – how many would relate to that? If anybody has found the last few nights that you've had bad dreams, nightmares, you find it difficult to breathe, you woke up anxious...I want you to know it's the end of an era of the spirit of pythos. If you have had bad dreams, if you've had suffocation or you feel like you're suffocating and you've woken up anxious, very anxious, don't worry. It's the force that is desperate, trying to control your finances, your love, your relationships, your children – and that spirit of pythos is coming down. Not only do I say it with faith – I prophesy it, because we spoke it a few months ago, and I want you to know that that is what is happening.
If you've been experiencing this (I experienced it last night...I woke up battling to breathe), if it happens to you, don't worry about it. You have spiritual warfare and you have the power to overcome this thing, but you also have a prophetic word about what's going to happen at the end of this hundredth day. You're going to sense the presence of God and the end of pythos, which means we're entering into the month of May free from suffocation. Believe it or not, take that as a word and a sign for you – summer is coming!
I want you to know, there's a global outpouring about to take place, and God looks at the Church, ecclesia, to see what they are doing. Judgment begins in the house of God, then He decides how He's going to deal with the nation; [but] He looks at the Church first.
We've got to stop these silly pity parties, because it just takes you to a place of no vision, and that is what the prophetic is for – to give you insight and vision as to what's about to happen.
Everything we spoke about since November of last year is coming to pass – even tragedies that are happening; [but] "out of the bitter will come something sweet." We're coming to the end of this 100-day period where He promised that the eggs of the python would be destroyed and that we would be entering into a new era of economic growth and spiritual growth first of all – and watch what happens. It doesn't matter if you don't like Obama and his administration. God said, "I'm going to take charge because of what My people dictate, what My people say. If My people say blessing, I will bless. If My people say cursing, I won't curse."
There you go. God wants to bless, but He's looking for an occasion to bless and the occasion of the people of God that have prophetic insight who speak it out. It's not just a matter of being positive. It's a matter of saying, "This is what I have seen and I refuse to say anything else than what I've seen."

It's the End of a Season: Rejoice! Breathe Deeply!

The Spirit of God has just said to me that, "The people that are watching need to understand that I cast a mantle upon this generation. I've cast a mantle of truth upon these people that would say yes to the Spirit of God. It is time for you to realize that the strangulation is not against you but against the spirit of pythos, which is divination."
What is that spirit?
There are spirits, there is darkness that is endeavoring to cover the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Europe, and all over the world...
And God said, "It is not possible for it to happen if My people would rise up and take charge against the spirit of divination, which is lying – telling a lie about Me. It is misrepresenting Me. I am strangling it Myself. As the people of God realize it is the end of a season, I want you to rejoice; I want you to take a deep breath now."
This is the word of the Lord – now. Take a deep breath! Blow it out!...
...This is a spiritual action; this is a prophetic action. You're doing it like the prophet who lay on his side; the prophet who ate the scroll. Do it now! Breathe in three times and breathe out. This is the word of the Lord. We didn't know what was going to happen because He didn't want to tell me first.
The power of strangulation, the power of suffocation is coming to an end. You say, "Kim, I've heard that before." But those who believe it, those who believe it, shall have it.
How do I strangle this force? By saying the word of the Lord that has been spoken: It is your end; it is your end. I am going to breathe. My finances will breathe, my relationships will breathe, my spiritual life will breathe, my soul will breathe. I will breathe, my family will breathe. We will breathe freely because the breath of God is upon us now. Now Lord, I take authority over that one more time. I want you to breathe in – take a deep breath, everybody. Now breathe out!
Like Jesus said, the wind blows where it wants to. No man can predict and say where it should go, which direction it should go.
Wind of the Spirit, come, breathe, because that is what you came to do. There was a sound of a mighty rushing wind on that day of Pentecost, the day we approach, where once again the Spirit will breathe upon His people. Now, Lord, free every person that has sensed a force of suffocation.
Today I release them from that suffocation. You may say, "Kim, I've got lung problems." Take it now; if it's physical, take it now. I mean this. I'm ministering a word from the Holy Spirit to you. There is breath available; it's around you, it's in your house. I told you there would be a sign. There will be wind blowing outside. You'll sense something now. I'm not making this up. Raise your hands; close your eyes. For every person that has suffered some time of suffocation, strangulation, battling to breathe in whatever area it is in their lives – barrenness, whatever it is (this month of April), You promised us You would open it up.
As we come to the end of it, Lord, open up the spiritual lungs, the lungs of the soul, and breathe now. Close your eyes. Breathe upon each one right now.

It's On Its Way!

He sprung a surprise on me and started giving me the word about now suffocation is coming to an end. I've said that before in my teachings, and it has in individual's lives, but this is more of a Kingdom word, a national word, a global word for the people that have been struggling and suffocating, if you wish. That's the spirit that we're dealing with now. God sent His word, but He's gone through all these different things to you. If somebody sends a package from Europe to you and there's a storm, and the flight has to be delayed – you might say, "How can you relate that to God?"
Why not? The angel had a word for Daniel, and the angel came 21 days after Daniel had fasted; the angel got there on the 21st day. But he said to him, "From the day that you set your mind to understand and to pray, the Lord heard you." That was 21 days prior to that, [but] the angel got there 21 days later. I feel a word coming to me about this – that that word, that desire, that promise, that thing that you've prayed for is on its way. But the angel said to him, "The Prince of Persia has been at war with me and I've overcome him and now I have to go and fight the Prince of Greece." So, I just want you to understand we don't know what's happening in the Heavens. Keep praying, keep thanking – it's on its way. Everybody say, "It's on its way!"

The Season of the One Hundred Fold

April 27, 2013 - From The Den:
God's Spirit says, "Listen; hear Me now. I have set aside a season during the summer which shall be called the season of great harvest – which shall be called the season of the one hundred fold. It shall be called the season where people went out and they picked of the fruit of their labor.
"This is a season, a time, where there will be a great harvest," says the Lord, "where summer camps will be invaded by My Spirit, where summer schools will be invaded by My Spirit. I have set a time aside to invade schools and homes of children. I will raise them up, wipe their tears away, take away spirits of heaviness, and replace it with garments of praise, give them oil of joy for sadness, and to give them healing. This is a season during summer where I will bring a hundred fold upon My people who receive it and who declare it and who live it. I shall do it during the summer," says the Lord.
"Out of the bitter shall come sweet; out of the bitter shall come sweet. Out of the wrong shall come right. Out of the evil shall come good. There is no loss in the Kingdom. That which has been taken from you, I will give back during summer. Listen to Me. I will give it back to you, but I shall not hand back what was stolen two times, three, five, or ten...but 100 times. If you can receive it, then do. If you cannot, then you will not receive it, for that which was stolen from you, I wish to restore 100-fold."
I know there are literally hundreds of thousands of people that will hear this that will suddenly say, "Yes!" And if you've heard it before and you say, "I've heard that before," remember that there are times that God sets aside to restore. That's right, a time for war and a time for peace; a time to die and a time to live. There is a time for everything. Now you're entering a time of restoration of your goods, your financial property, your homes, your relationships that have been stolen. "I will restore," says the Lord. Now everybody all over the world, lift your hands and say, "I receive it! The thief came to steal, kill and destroy, but today I receive the life and the word of the Lord!"

China Is Going To Be Filled With Light

Talking about going to China: We're about to leave for China, and whenever God sends us on a mission there are moments of despair, especially when you are a prophetic voice, because you know that you have to deliver something. Bob Cathers came here and told me, "God's not sending you there to adopt another child, or another two children only – or to visit the orphanages or the healing homes that you support. He is sending a prophet to China as a statement to do something."
It's what He does. You don't have to say a word; it's the presence that God sends to a nation – forerunners. John the Baptist was a forerunner. I see that China is going to be filled with light. I have prophesied that for a season the United States of America and China shall be in agreement and in a pact. No, don't look at me and say it's not in the Bible... (Kim goes on to discuss this. See Genesis 26.).
By the way, this is one of the things He said to me today while I was praying: "I want to restore visions, and dreams, and signs back to My people in fullness." Many of you watching are going to receive signs from God if you believe it.
Kim Clement
Prophetic Image Expressions
Email: hope@kimclement.com
Website: kimclement.com