Prophecies•
on May 19th, 2012•
I see an army of God’s chosen vessels. I see a picture of an army of the unashamed marching through the heavens. I see a picture of spiritual warriors, an army, led by the King of kings and the Lord and lords. I see an unashamed company of people from every tribe and every kingdom, every tongue, every colour. I see men, women, and children. I see them from every corner.
They have joined the ranks of those who have overcome. They have joined the ranks of those who are following the King of kings and Lord of lords. They have been picked and chosen people. They are chosen because their spirit is yielded to the living God. They are those who are a part of that great army of God. They listen to one Master. They respond to one beat. They are not distracted. They are not caught up with anything else. They move as a company.
I see a spirit of dread. I see a spirit of dread. I see a spirit of dread over them for the enemies of the Lord thy God is running because the unashamed are coming together. I see a company of people who are fierce, bold and determined to fulfill the Master’s call, and God is choosing them from across the nations. They will not yield! They will not die! They will live!
The Spirit of the Lord is saying I am here. Will you join My beat? – Apostle Anthony Nelson
Rhema Word•
on April 2nd, 2012•
Last week JetBlue Flight 191, departing from New York and bound for Las Vegas was privy to a new experience. The pilot was locked out of the flight deck and not allowed to return. He had been acting strange and the co-pilot decided that it was in the best interest and safety of the passengers and crew not to allow him back into the command position.
In the ensuing melee, the captain was subdued by passengers and the flight crew while he ranted and raved in the passengers’ section. It was agreed by all that the hero of the day was the co-pilot. It does take courage and determination to do what you have to do. He decided to do something that is not easy to do and not a common thing in a flight deck.
1 Cor 16:13-14: Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Do everything in love. NIV
He started the flight as a co-pilot, not knowing that in the midst of it he would be the one in charge. The Christian life is like that sometimes. We started out believing a whole bunch of stuff that was taught to us or we just took for granted. But along our flight of faith in God, we begin to realize that something is not right about what we believe. The Spirit of God and His Word begins to stir our hearts and our discerner begins to get very uncomfortable.
James 1:2-3: My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. NKJV
There is a definite problem brewing in your flight deck and you have to do something. This relationship has become very toxic to your faith and walk with the Lord and you don’t know what to do. They are senior to you in the faith; they have been there for you all the time and have given you counsel and a sense of security. It’s not easy and not a decision to be taken lightly, but like Paul says we have to lay aside some weights to run our race. You are going to have to shut some doors and decide to trust that God has another plan for your relationship.
2 Cor 1:9-10: Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead NKJV
Martin Luther, a German monk, of a past generation had to make a very courageous decision to trust what God’s Word said and shut out the organized religion of his day. It meant he could no longer teach in their schools and that he was excommunicated from fellowship forever. But he became the father of the reformation and saw many others come into a new relationship with God and Christ because he dared to shut that door and trust God’s Word for his life.
Heb 2:13: And again:”I will put My trust in Him.” And again:”Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.” NKJV
Sometimes the door you have to shut is your past experience with God and with people. We don’t live our Christian life in a sterile environment where nothing of the past comes in. We all have a past, good or bad and sometimes we depend on it too much to define our future. It might have helped you before, but at approximately 30,000 feet the co-pilot suddenly had to decide to make a decision that had nothing to do with his past. When God gets ready to move in your life, you have to trust him for the future and shut the door to the past.
You might think you are not qualified to make a decision for your future and the lives of those you are trusted with. That’s where faith in God’s Word comes in. It’s true and can be trusted with your future. It may be that you think your experience and knowledge are enough, but not when nothing is under your feet and you have to truly walk by faith and trust what God is saying to you.
Heb 10:38: Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.” NKJV
Some of you, dear friends, have been pilots over your life for far too long. God is in the flight deck, but He is not in control of your finances and future. You panic when the bank account drops below a certain amount; you have fear of disaster when life sends a little turbulence your way. You are deluded into believing that somehow you really are in control of this life that God has given you and get very nervous when you are not in control of your future.
I have come to encourage you to shut the door to fear, panic and anxiety. He who keeps Israel will not slumber neither will He let you fall. We may have started out as the pilot, but it’s time to let the real Pilot take over our life and ministry. Let’s trust Him and His word in every area of our lives. He really is more than able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond our wildest dreams. So have a great flight and relax! He is in control. – Apostle Anthony Nelson
Rhema Word•
on March 15th, 2012•
I don’t know about you, friends, but I am convinced that some of my dear brothers and sisters have been blessed with the anointing to stay put. It seems no matter what is happening around them, they are not moving on in God and His will for them.
I call them the frozen few, the petrified prayer party. They have this ability to tell you everything that is wrong, point out the situation as they see it, and leave you thinking all is lost. They seem to think that God has given them special discernment of your situation and they intend to let you know that how they see it, is how it is.
They carry a bucket of cold water around and throw it on your flame of hope, bursting in the heart of God’s people. They believe that doing nothing is tantamount to waiting on God. They don’t know what to do, but they sure know what won’t work. Have you met anyone like that in your Christian experience? If not, I guarantee you will and knowing how to respond to them is critical to your survival.
In the book of 2 Kings 7:1, 2, we see Elisha facing a frozen chosen one who was an officer of the king. The man of God had just spoken a word of hope and life to the situation. But this officer quickly makes ridicule of the word spoken and rejects the man of God’s word. Elisha’s response was not silence, but another word to contend and override the negative word of doubt and unbelief.
Overcoming Principle #1: There is a word that proceeds every situation in your life. When you know it, speak it in faith, and watch what God will do.
Right now you might be facing a no-win situation and every door seems shut, every road seems to lead to a dead end, and you feel hopelessness creeping up on the inside of you. I want you to hear me right now as I share this truth for your life: YOU DON’T HAVE TO STAY WHERE YOU ARE AND DIE WHERE YOU STAND!
The four leprous men in 2 Kings 7 read their situation right and made a choice to move towards where they knew provision was. Too many of us are not willing to rightly discern our situation and with faith in a great God, move out and trust Him to do what only He can do.
Overcoming Principle #2: Rightly discerning your situation is the first step towards victory.
If you allow hopelessness and others to share their doubt and unbelief in your life, then their reality will become your reality and you will die sweetly saved in the same place that you started from. But not me! Like Paul the apostle, I believe there is more in God than what I have attained, and I am willing to move from this place to receive it.
Overcoming Principle #3: Where there is no faith-filled action, God has nothing to use to move on your behalf.
You see, saints, I would rather be one of the four lepers that were cast out, willing to face death and move from where they were than to sit in the company of spiritual and physically starving people who just don’t believe that in one day God can turn the situation around. So I am learning to choose my company more wisely today than I used to.
What about you? Are you willing leave the frozen chosen and enter into a new place in God? I know I am, so let us leave this place and change our place of rest.
Deut 28:8-11: The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you. And the Lord will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.
- Apostle Anthony Nelson
Rhema Word•
on February 28th, 2012•
I feel the Lord impressing me to say to the Body of Christ that this is not the Promised Land. This is not the place of His promise of eternal blessing. Where you are is not why God sent His Son to die for you and me. His love for you far exceeds what you are experiencing right now.
There are times when we can be easily deceived by our present situation and place spiritual labels on specific situations in our journey with the Lord. Like the children of Israel in Ex. 15:22-27, they left Egypt but Egypt did not leave them. Their cry was “What shall we drink?”
Uppermost in the minds of the Israelites wasn’t how to please God but “What shall we eat?” and “What shall we drink?’” According to Jesus, these questions reveal an anxious heart, not a trusting heart (Matt 6:21, 25-33), and this can lead to all kinds of problems.
A single day in the wilderness without water would be tolerable, two days would be difficult, but three days would be impossible, especially for the children and animals. And then to be disappointed by finding bitter water would only have made the situation worse. (The word “Marah” means “bitter” and is related to the word myrrh.) But God was testing His people, not because He didn’t know their hearts, but because they didn’t know their own hearts. People often say, “Well, I know my own heart,” but they forgot that “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jer. 17:9)
The Lord tests us to encourage spiritual growth and bring out the best in us, but the devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us and to encourage spiritual immaturity. The attitude that we take toward our difficulties determines which direction life will go, for what life does to us depends on what life finds in us. If we trust God and obey His Word, we’ll pass the test and grow; but if in unbelief we complain and disobey the Lord, we’ll fail the test and remain immature (James 1:12-18; Heb. 12:1-11).
You see friends, the children of Israel received fresh water and were led to a restful spot with twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees and they camped there. It was a wonderful place but it was not supposed to be the end of the journey. I wonder how many of us have prayed and cried to the Lord and He provided for us a pit stop. Instead of thanking the Lord and setting our sights on His plan, we camped out right there. No more fresh revelation, no enemies, no Egyptians. I can hear us say now “I am blessed; He loves me and I have all I need. But you feel the stirring in your heart as the Lord reminds you that this is not your final destination. There is more for you than this. I have a place of inheritance that requires more of Me and less of you. Is your heart open to leave the springs of that teaching, that great fellowship and move on in your spiritual journey? Do you love comfort and ease so much that you will disqualify yourself from the rest of your blessing?
“The people of Israel were experts when it came to murmuring and complaining (Ex. 16:1-12; Num. 14:2,27-29; 16:41; 17:1-10; Deut. 1:27; Ps. 78:17 ff; 106:14). While God was testing them, they were tempting Him by their attitude and their words. To tempt God means to deliberately adopt a disobedient posture and dare Him to do anything about it. On more than one occasion in their wilderness wanderings, the Israelites invited the judgment of God by their obstinate attitude and their persistent grumbling. Our Heavenly Father is long-suffering and gracious, but sometimes He has to “spank” His children to teach us how to behave.” (from The Bible Exposition Commentary: Old Testament © 2001-2004 by Warren W. Wiersbe. All rights reserved.)
Remember He is our Father and we are His children. Where you are is not where God intended for you to stay. Get up from that place of spiritual ease, pack your bags and be prepared to move on and if none go with you, go any way. If none in your family and church decide to go further God will provide some group just like yourself who are on a journey to go deeper in Him.
Have a wonderful journey with Him. Why? Because the best is yet to come. - Apostle Anthony Nelson
Prophecies•
on February 2nd, 2012•
What you speak from your mouth is what will become of you. It’s not what goes into a man that defiles him, but it’s that which comes out of him. What is it that you are saying My children? What is it that you are saying, My son and My daughter. What is it that you are saying that I have said over you that you’re decreeing and that you’re believing even now in the situation, in this circumstances that you find yourself in for I am your Strength.
I am your Exceeding Great Reward. I am the Glory and the Lifter of your Head. I am the One that takes you from and takes you through and takes you to for I have called you to become. I have called you to become. I have called you to become and so as you become, My children, what you speak is what you will become because My life is in you. My life is in you, but I need to come out of you.
Speak My Word! Sing My Word! Decree My Word! Live My Word and you will become like Me. I overcame. I overcame through My Son. Will you allow Me to come out of you so you can overcome as My children? – Prophetess Cheryl Nelson
Rhema Word•
on February 2nd, 2012•
Have you ever realized how wrong we all can be about something we all thought we knew was right? Well, like the ancient Israelites in 1 Sam. 4:1-11 after their defeat to the Philistines, they thought that by bringing the ark of the covenant into the war camp they would have certain victory. But it didn’t work for them. The Philistines were afraid of what they they thought was a new idol of sorts among their enemy and that surely they had no hope against this God of the Israelites. But they still rose up and defeated the Israelites soundly.
We Christians can be just as wrong as the unsaved if we think attending church services and singing songs is going to somehow take the place of a true relationship with the God of the universe. This is the wrong idea for if it never worked in the past, it will not work for us today. Using Christian cliches and bringing out our symbols of faith will never take the place of the true surrender of a son of God who seeks to walk in constant obedience to the Most High.
Like the children of Israel, I believe you and I are in the midst of not only a cultural war, but a spiritual conflict that requires no props, symbols, and religious practices. What we need are real, live instruments that when applied will do damage to the enemy and advance the Father’s kingdom. I intend to win the battle in Christ’s name. What about you?
See you at the finish line! Apostle Anthony Nelson
Rhema Word•
on January 19th, 2012•
The future God has ordained for you will never be materialized or received by you as you are right now.
Those are strong words, but they are one of the truest words you will ever hear this year of your life.We are creatures of habit and routine and in these set ways we have defined not only our existence, but our success in life. It’s like finding a snake that’s been wounded and because we habitually care for things, we pick it up, only to have it bite us. We often find something that works for us – a calling, a church, a hobby, a career etc, then we spend our days living around what we have defined.
But that is not what the Father has called us to this planet to be and do. His ultimate purpose for us was never to be conformed to this world, but to be transformed into the image of His Son. It is not easy because if it was, more people would do it. The road to deep spiritual awareness is narrow and few will make that choice.
My friend, for you there is no deeper spiritual engaging without a redefining of who you are by the renewing of your mind. This is a year I believe the Lord is calling us to trust His extreme makeover plans for us.
In order for Him to lead you into a year of victory for you and to live full of His power and grace, there must be:
1. A removing of your garments like blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46, 47).
2. An overcoming of fear to face your enemy as Gideon did (Judges 6).
3. A throwing away of emotional crutches like the man at the Gate Beautiful (Acts 3).
We must, by His power and grace alone, work through our willing spirits and determined wills to seek His face and His heart now more than ever. Some of us are going to make it while others will only wish for more of God’s power in our lives. But we are unable to put our flesh to death and embrace the life of God.
Like Elisha there will be mantles to be received on this battlefield called earth. But few are willing to pay the ultimate price in order to carry them. It’s a year of new levels of fear, distrust in every aspect of our generation. Nations will struggle more and economies will no longer be defined by their traditional productive sectors. Knowledge will increase but more and more people will be displaced and the lives of many will be at the mercy of a few.
But there are a few souls, I believe who are learning to redefine their language, speech and behaviour. In these souls, their Father will give incredible provision to share the message of His kingdom and the teaching of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
We, at Faith Five, are more committed than ever before to be right where the Father wants us to be and to stay with our main focus. We are an intercessory body, a prophetic house and an apostolic people.
We love you and thank God for your prayers. It is our desire to be everything God has called us to be and to do so that those of you who are a part of this flow of God will be richly blessed and challenged.
Behold, God is doing a new thing! – Apostle Anthony Nelson
Rhema Word•
on December 13th, 2011•
We are entering the season of Christmas when many of us will be deciding what gift to give loved ones and those who we do not love so much. It’s a time when stores will be vying for our attention and websites will be showing us various gifts to buy.
It seems that gifts are what we all would like, but many times, don’t get the ones we prefer. But we get the ones that others give us in the spur of the moment or based on their pocket, they give you what they can afford. After all, when Christmas is over, we still have to live.
But over the years as I walk with the Lord, I have begun to understand that God’s gifts to us are always what we need and filled with the potential to challenge our lives to grow and develop into what He wants them for. He does not give you seasonal gifts, but lifetime gifts. There is a verse we all know quite well that endorses this statement.
John 3:16: For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
In this profound statement, we see the heart of God our Father to us in that His love for us, His creation, would not allow Him to stand by and see our demise. He knew before the world began what He intended to do for man’s condition of sin, so He freely gave His greatest gift to us. He gave us the opportunity to have life more abundantly through His Son as we believe and receive Him in faith.
But this gift gets better. The Father in His loving wisdom wraps this gift in the form of His Son who grew up among men who did not know Him and at the time of His unwrapping most of those living still did not see Him as who He really was.
The leadership was threatened by Him, while the common folks loved Him. He was Immanuel, high priest, Saviour and Redeemer wrapped in one. He was the greatest gift the Father could ever give to His creation. In his book Wishful Thinking, author Frederick Buechner puts it this way:
”The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It’s for you I created the universe. I love you. There’s only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you’ll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.”
Christ came as the grace of God to us and the full embodiment of what the Father wanted for us all. This grace of God is invisible, but has a very tangible ability to deal with things that most of us could not handle. But because of the Lord, we can overcome those situations and still carry a smile on our face and a deep joy in our souls.
That’s the gift I wish for you in this season when so many will be struggling with bills, absent loved ones and health issues. The greatest gift I could pray that you receive would be the grace of the Lord and His incredible peace as you share with those God has given you in your life.
The Apostle Paul puts is so succinctly when he says,
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 2 Cor. 12:9
May His grace be yours in a deeper way this season as you become more deeply aware of His love for you and how far He came to reach you and I so that we by faith can receive His Grace for all of the seasons in our life.
Remember if God can only give good gifts and you are from Him, then you are also a gift to someone’s life. From all of us at Faith Five Fellowship Of Ministries, we pray that you and your family have a new-year filled with the Grace of God. – Apostle Anthony Nelson
Rhema Word•
on November 25th, 2011•
I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it (Ps. 81:10)
Your mind is still trying to solve things and get out of things and by the time you go to bed, your brain is still working, so all when your mind should be resting, you are still running through your mental process. But your brain is not reset yet. You can read the Scriptures all you want, and sing some songs, but your brain needs to be reset. What God has given to us to reset our minds is worship. And something in our lives is going to give – either the situation or you. If man can tell us to reset ourselves with Daylight Savings Time, how much more God! Worship resets us to God’s time. We are worried about many things like where we are going to live, what we’re going to do, but that’s the business of our heavenly Father. We don’t think that way, though, because our minds have not been reset.
Worship is the primary way to reset yourself. You may say I don’t clap my hands. I don’t raise my hands. That’s alright, but I guarantee you when you walk into a new revelation of God, your whole body will get free from your mind.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God (Rom. 12:1,2).
In this nation, we are filled with our minds and with our reasoning. But if you are going to survive, break out in worship. The moment the bill comes to you, don’t think about it. Worship your God! Are you going through a hard time, a difficult time? I’ve been there, and I’m still seeing some things around me. But as long as you live, something will always want to challenge your life. As long as we are on this planet, things will always come at me to disturb my peace, but I will worship my God and He will be my refuge.
What God said alone will never defeat the enemy; it’s what’s coming out of your spirit man. God said He looks for those who will worship Him in spirit and truth.
If you don’t come to a place in your personal worship, you will counsel that thing for the rest of your days. We are counselling demons and we are writing books for people to gain more intellectual understanding because we have become masters of our own heads. We have fooled a whole generation to become masters of their heads. Now we have fatheads, but weak spirits. How can we be counselling people for 15 years? But in a moment Jesus met the woman at the well and she had an encounter with Him. We would have counselled her about her parents, the men in her life, but she just needed Him.
We don’t need a building to worship God. We don’t need statues or crosses. We need an open mouth that is filled with praise. For every situation that comes to you, reset your mind before you respond to it.
I am here because of worship. How are you going to win? Don’t ask God to deliver you. Ask Him to empower you for worship. - Apostle Anthony Nelson. Taken from the Apostolic Training Center, Sun. Nov. 2011.
Prophecies•
on November 8th, 2011•
Re: Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi’s death:
Gaddafi said don’t shoot, but they grabbed that body and threw it down. Every single physical man, governments, nations are being shaken because there’s always a man on the planet that is a carrier of an ancient spirit. He’s a definer of that principality, so even in Libya we see shaking, in Turkey too and all across the earth.
The earth will open up, so that the kingdom of God will come and those that have been sent with the message of the kingdom will be able now to come to places where they normally couldn’t go and bring the Father’s glory to the earth not to bring church, but to bring the kingdom of God where normally it couldn’t go. Certain nations are going to fall, and I believe the kingdom of God is coming, so there’s a pressing in financially, physically, emotionally, mentally. But there are a certain people on the planet that are literally known as the sons of God. Now we know not only are they going to move, but everybody is going to move. The truth is that God is calling you, but the enemy will send his people too. Everybody’s going to move, but stay focused and keep the Prince of Peace in our lives. – Apostle Anthony Nelson, Oct. 25, 2011
